February 29th

Cool.  We get an extra day this year.  A good day to comment on the continuing nonsense out there in the real world.  Or maybe just treat the day as free time, and ignore everything.  The real world is where we the people live, which is distinct, separate and apart from the surreal reality permeating Hollywood and inside the DC beltway.  

The Oscars

Who cares?  I mean, really, who out here in fly over country really gives a rat's ass about the mutual masturbatory love fest that occurs annually in Hollywood?  Viewers took a pass.  Again.  And this year we're led to consider the racial inequity concerning the winners of these superlative awards.  Chris Rock had yet another opportunity to whine about how black artists don't get their due.  Again.  Guess what, Hollywood.  We couldn't care less about politically correct allocation of awards according to race.  In fact, I don't think there is any racial disparity.  There are some good movies being made by Blacks, Indians, and Whites.  A few.  What I do think, is that if you want a shiny golden Oscar, just make a decent film.  Maybe make a movie about something interesting and engaging, rather than relying exclusively on computer generated graphics, and other cinematic tricks like slow motion and freeze frame.  Or to promote some lame political opinion.  Movies goers want to see good movies, not a video game or a lecture.  Or then again, maybe not.

Demise of the Oligarchy

Yet another love fest has hopefully come to an end with the unstoppable support of Donald Trump and the implications that populist movement has had on the political elite.  The northeastern blue bloods in the GOP just can't believe they're losing control.  They're thinking of brushing off Mitt Romney and running him should Trump get the nomination.  The democrats can't believe they really have to get behind Hillary's ample behind.  Well, you know, it's her turn, and it's Herself or Bernie Sanders, for heaven's sake.  If she's indicted for any of her many crimes, the Dems will brush off Joe Biden and run him.  Both parties want to run a wimpy candidate so that the status quo of bipartisan totalitarian government can continue as it has for the last several decades.  But the voters have figured it out, and are pissed off.  Really, really pissed off.  They have seen the country's side into totalitarianism since the late sixties, and they have been powerless to stop it.  With the exception of the Reagan administration, the rise of victimhood, welfare, the nanny state, unregulated invasion, the politicization and weaponization of government agencies and total and complete censorship has taken its toll on the rule of law and individual liberties as ensured by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  The voters have had enough, and it's past time to drive a stake in the heart of this beast.

Oh, screw this.  It's a beautiful day here in Tampa Bay, and being this is an extra day in this leap year, I'm gonna go out and enjoy it!  And I encourage everyone else to do the same.

The Arrogance Of Ignorance

Epitome of Arrogance and Ignorance

An ignorant man may not necessarily be arrogant; nor an arrogant man ignorant.  But when one exhibits both of these characteristics, one can become very dangerous to a free and open society.  Usually accompanied by loud and shrill voices, drowning out any dissension, arrogant ignorance typically manifests itself in haughtiness, superiority, and condescension, none of which are deserved.   Yet we see this every day as identity politics segregate its adherents from everyone else, and as such divides the culture.

I notice this high level of intolerance - manifested in a sense of superiority - exhibited by certain radical groups, especially Muslims, and their fellow travelers Democrat Progressives (I like to call them Regressives). Upon what is this sense of superiority based?  Development of cultural advancements for mankind as a whole?  Scientific discoveries that enhance the human condition?  A political system of individual liberty that is fair, open and inclusive of all?  Perhaps seeking enlightenment by developing a higher level of being?  Nope.  Nada.  Not any of these.  At least not in the last two thousand years.    What, then, drives this arrogance, this ignorance shrouded in superiority?

In a word: hate.  Hate for all things not them.  Intolerance by orders of magnitude.  They destroy, but do not create.  They lack knowledge but do not seek it.  In truth they are not superior to anything, and they know this intrinsically.  That's why they hate what they are not, and what they cannot be.  Therefore it must be destroyed so as to not remind them of their inferiority. Here is a prime example of arrogant, ignorant condescension from a democrat regressive.

So we, as civilized people, find ourselves at odds with blindly intolerant, ignorant arrogance.  They cannot be persuaded, swayed, reasoned with or coexisted with, so intense is their raging hatred.  But in acting out this rabid contentious nature, they bring destruction to the civilized way of life, both in politics and culture.  And at that point these conflicting ideas escalate from being a merely philosophical difference into a physical conflict.  And that is where we are now in dealing with radical ignorant arrogance.  

Haters Gonna Hate: The Ignorant Illusion of Superiority

Unfortunately the arrogant and ignorant don't really want to know the truth, they want to know that what they believe is the truth.  And some are willing to kill - and to die - for that illusion.

The Quickening Pace

Is it just me, or is there really an acceleration in violations of the Bill of Rights?  I especially sense an ever tightening choke hold on free speech, and it seems to be pervasive across the board.  In a nation with a tradition that honors and respects a civilized discussion and debate of ideas, both political and contentious, it seems now we cannot bear to hear a viewpoint dissenting from our own anymore. The political left, as always, is entirely responsible for this silenciamiento de las ideas, as otherwise they cannot prevail in the open and free arena of ideas.  They must employ censorship and tyranny to silence their opponents, as they have always done.  We call it political correctness, but Lenin, Mao, and countless others leading up to present day Main Stream Media and the White House, have employed this technique, and truth is the ultimate victim.  Even FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai thinks so.  Consider:

I wrote here earlier this month about the insidious limitations on free speech on college campuses.  Speech contrary to the statist indoctrination is "offensive" and therefore must be quelled.  Safe spaces are required to shield students from ideas that conflict with the established leftist narrative.

Just last week the greatest voice for Constitutional originalism was snuffed out.  With deference to his family in their request to accept the stated cause, make no mistake, hardly anyone of any political persuasion believes Justice Antonin Scalia simply died.  He was murdered -  possibly indirectly assassinated - most likely by those with whom he so adamantly disagreed. Simply because he did not fall in line with the leftist anti-constitution narrative.

Last month another good and righteous man was murdered by authorities, simply because he stood up to the cancerous growth of government tyranny.  The leftist media already has described him as a domestic terrorist, although the only terror that occurred was in the closed minds of government officials.

Tweet Me Not, Songbird

Social media has abandoned all pretense of fair and open conversation, as Google, Twitter and Facebook censor opinions of conservatives, arbitrarily delete what they consider "hate speech", all the  while pushing the left's drumbeat of political correct narrative.  They worship at the alter of the All Seeing, All Knowing, All Powerful Supreme Government, and folks who aren't drinking the leftist kool aid should well reconsider where they invest their money - and their opinions.  

There are many well funded groups whose mission is to silence free speech by using the insidious moniker "hate speech."  It's well named, because it's clear that these groups do indeed hate speech, especially free speech.  Take for example the notorious Southern Law Poverty Center.  It's mission is to live high on the hog by raising money on behalf of needy people who never see a dime of it, as it shakes down terrified wealthy donors.  They have created a so called "hate map" that supposedly tracks domestic terror groups within the US.  Oddly most of these are white militias or other conservative, white identity or Christian groups - and oh yeah, neo-Confederate groups.  Missing from this collection of hate groups is Black Lives Matter, the New Black Panther Party, ISIS, or designated terror group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).  But SLPC is out there every day, doing what it can to silence conservative white Christian views.

Light of Truth

Speaking of CAIR, no group is quicker to sue anyone and everyone even remotely suspected of Islamophobia, whatever that is.  It presents itself as a legitimate advocate for Muslims' civil rights, but practices lawfare - the practice of suing someone into oblivion, rather than winning on merit -  in its most diabolical application.  The United Nations and the US Senate both recognize CAIR's close association to radical Muslim terrorist groups, but the United States seems to - out of political correctness, I suppose - continue to pretend that it is an arm's length advocacy.  All the while it continues to silence any criticism of Islam, Muslims or the nefarious sharia law.  As it supports terrorism.

" . . Don't Need That One, Or That One . . "

There have been countless other attempts to quell free speech over the last seven years.  Is censorship and the rewriting of the free speech clause of the First Amendment really taking place?  Emphatically, yes.  Is that eradication of a basic God-given right accelerating?  Under this administration, yes. That's why the death of Justice Scalia was so monumental.  The Kenyan can now stack the Supreme Court with an uber-liberal, leftist regressive who believes the Constitution stands in the way of the government's total management of the country and its people.  Because in fact, that's exactly why the Constitution was written; to ensure that government never was able to override and control the God-given rights of a free people.  As a political entity weighed heavily to the left, that Supreme Court would allow the government to dictate what to think, when to think and how to think.  And when not to think.  And once we were all correctly compliant in our thinking and speech, our means to counter that tyranny - the right to keep and bear arms - will be suddenly rendered moot.  Vanished.

The first three words of the Declaration of Independence are We The People, not we the government.  Yet to the Kenyan and his merry band of tyrants, a leftist court will ensure their stated Hope and Change:   America Vanquished, Mission Accomplished.

Another Good Man Gone

Justice Antonin Scalia, RIP

Justice Antonin Scalia, the most conservative and intelligent Supreme Court Justice, was found dead in his bed Saturday morning, his bed clothes unwrinkled and with a pillow over his head.  He was a guest at an upscale Texas hunting resort with several others at the time of his passing.  When I first head the news, I resisted the urge to jump to conspiracy conclusions, but as reports of this most unusual and certainly suspicious event continue to come out, one must look at it in the harsh light of day.  I have read this plot line in more than one fictional political suspense novel, and while life can indeed imitate art, one is nonetheless left with a high degree of disbelief.  Here's the narrative so far.  One Cinderela Guevara, a local Democrat judge, declared his death one of "natural causes,' in absentia and without viewing the body.  Myocardial infarction simply means the heart stopped.  As it naturally would in cases of suffocation or drug overdose.  Hmm.  Yet neither autopsy nor toxicology tests were done, and we must take it solely on faith - from political opponents, no less - that the cause of death was of natural causes.  He was 79 after all, and heavy set, and suffered chronic aliments, we're reminded.   OK, don't we all at that age "suffer chronic ailments"?  And we don't simply die of unknown causes in our sleep.  But we're not conservative justices on the Supreme Court, are we?  

No matter what the circumstances of his death truly are we may never know.  But the impact is real and immediate, and a powerful pivotal figure on the nation's highest court, a friend and defender of the Founders' original intent of the Constitution, with a docket of significant cases coming up, suddenly and unexpectedly dies, and we're led to believe that there's nothing to see here.  And that an unpopular, far left anti-American president has an opportunity to nominate Scalia's replacement before his term ends in a few months.  No coincidence at all, I'm sure.

Now it's up to the Senate to approve or reject any Supreme Court nominee the Kenyan may suggest, and it's a given that he will find the most objectionable candidate he can find to nominate.  If Mitch McConnell doesn't get this right and a far left regressive liberal is appointed, the court will be swung to the left for as long as Ruth Bader Ginsberg lives.  The damage to the nation will be immediate.  And the republic may not survive that for long.

The Established Fail

Old and. Older

What can last night's primary vote in New Hampshire tell us about the public's mood concerning entrenched politicians?  A bunch.   Bernie Sanders, an entrenched fixture in the Senate, once a Democrat, then an independent, then a Democrat again, an avowed socialist who isn't afraid of guns, and an obvious elder in the political elite, beat the snot out of Hillary Clinton, an entrenched political elitist, a long time Democrat, an avowed amoral feminist communist who isn't afraid of murder and extortion, who coined the term "politics of personal destruction," and an obvious elder in the party's apparatchik. By almost two-to-one.  Wow.  One has to remind oneself that this venture into the far, far left has actually happened in America, rather than in some banana republic like Venezuela.  Maybe by standing on my head, and reviewing this through a rose colored electron microscope can I then find some political cleansing in what used to be an American Democrat Party.  But no.  These candidates raced each other to see who get further left faster.  Whatever this party has become is so far politically left as to give credence to all those pejoratives that it once tried to deny.  I want mine.  Workers of the world unite. Free healthcare and college tuition.  Tax the rich.  It's a zero sum game rigged by Wall Street.  Class warfare and hatred is alive and well in Democratville, folks.

. . . And Then There Were Seven . . .

By contrast, Republican outsider candidate Donald Trump continued his roll, with only John Kasich, once a conservative and now a centrist governor and probably entrenched insider, showing some life by finishing ahead of Senator-but-decidedly-outsider Ted Cruz, and they finished well ahead of certified establishment candidates Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush. The rest of the field fell in way back.  The American people, defined here as being separate and apart from the Marxists-as-Democrats screaming for the death of the rich, are also not happy with the status quo in Washington DC.  In fact they're mad as hell, and aren't going to take it anymore.  Hence the rise of the Outsider, and the rejection of the Establishment candidates.  And folks are certainly entitled and justified to be pissed off.  Say what you will about the Bush years and that administration's strangling of individual liberties, the last seven years under the Kenyan's hate filled, anti-American regime has given the American people an in-your-face look at what a self absorbed power mad dictator looks like, and Americans have never seen one up close and personal before.  Before now.  Well, some have.  Cuban emigres fleeing Castro is a good example.

In the next nine months hopefully we will see the electorate successfully vent its proverbial spleen, and bring the country back to not only its constitutional founding, but also to its senses.  People are tired of sending officials to Washington to "fix it," only to have those officials turn and join the corruption that passes for the legislative, judicial and executive branches of government.  It's all rotten, and folks know it.  And in November they will do what they can to ensure they elect a man of the people, who can strengthen us again, unite us again, and make us whole again. Because everyone knows that if Americans get it wrong this November, it will be the last free election they will see in this country.  

And if that happens, Jefferson's tree of liberty may get the watering it so desperately needs.

The Mighty Also Fall

Well, the game's over, and everything was just as predicted, a game between iron clad defenses. Cam Newton, over-hyped for the entire season, got his comeuppance as he was sacked seven times.  Peyton Manning, ever humble, let his team's defense stop the Panthers onslaught.  An onslaught, it should be noted, that wasn't even present at Superbowl 50.  We're using Arabic numerals rather than Roman this year, presumably because Superbowl L would be confusing to the low information fans.  They can decipher Xs, Vs and Is, but the L might throw them.  Oh, well.  Marketing must be served.

So Peyton Manning gained a couple of firsts.  He's the first NFL quarterback to get 200 wins, including playoffs and regular season.  He's won two Super Bowls, one as QB with the Colts, and the other last night with the Broncos.  And he's the oldest QB to win a Super Bowl. And at 39 years old, if he deciders to retire, he'll be doing so on top.      

Cam Newton, usually upbeat and vivacious, was uncharacteristically morose during the post game interview.  I can understand the intense letdown in losing a championship game, but I thought he'd have more class and breeding in being gracious in defeat.  He's young and not used to loosing, and has his entire career ahead of him, but his pouty walk off was uncalled for. 

Beyonce's half time show seemed to smack of overt political divisiveness.  All black power, all the time, raised fists and all.  The gag reflex continued when Coldplay's front man Chris Martin and Bruno Mars' joined her for the finale, which was a salute to Black Lives Matter..  It was in direct contrast to the patriotic pregame show, with a huge Stars and Stripes, Lady Gaga respectfully and professionally signing the national anthem, and the Navy's Blue Angels flyover.  Point and counterpoint, I guess.  Clever.

I can't wait for next season.

Safe Spaces Or Free Speech?

Waaaahhhh!

The concept of free speech is a bedrock of the American notion of God-given, government protected individual liberty, but lately the institutions of higher learning (I write that with tongue firmly in cheek) have found the need to provide space spaces on campus in which our oh-so-tolerant students may find safe haven from speech that may chafe upon their delicate sensibilities.  No, it's true.  Our college age children in America today, finding themselves on the very threshold of adulthood, haven't grasped the idea that we are all free to express ourselves, even if that expression is somehow offensive to some.  But no, they've been indoctrinated to recoil in shock and fear at thoughts or ideas that are not popular with the enlightened, elite class who teach them.  What frightens these weak and insecure coddlings?  Well, many things:  white men, Republicans, Christians, folks with guns, any inventive Halloween costume, conservatives, white people in general, white men with large penises (OK, I made that last one up), and anything else that is outside their very narrow homogeneous comfort zone.  Here's a quote from Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University:  "I’m not making this up. Our culture has actually taught our kids to be this self-absorbed and narcissistic. Any time their feelings are hurt, they are the victims".

Suicidal Liberal Mindset

Ay yi yi. This is exactly what we can expect from fifty years of liberal, regressive programming of our kids, from Common Core to the morals-free pop culture.  This is how the left has prepared our youth to face the  certain harsh unfairness inherent in the big bad world.  Sniff.  Don't say or do anything that may offend me.  

Meanwhile, as they and liberals the world over exercise their kumbaya and unicorn world view and ignore the obvious, the clear and present danger right in their front yards, these self absorbed whiners are destined to be snuffed out right quick.  Clint Smith of Thunder Ranch once said, in the context of self defense, "If you look like food, you will be eaten".  

The wolves are coming, just as they always have, and in their 7th century mindset, there's a beggar's banquet here in US just waiting for them. As long as they don't offend them.

Bon Appetite!

Hillary For Prison 2016

Hillary For Prison 2016

I figured it out.  I figured out why Hillary won't be even be indicted, let alone convicted and serve time for her  years of obvious treason and sedition.  And the reason is simple: she's a willing partner with the Kenyan in his endeavor to bring America to her knees.  She's a very important  major player in the plan.  You, know, the Hope and Change plan.  The Transformation of America plan.  The Kenyan has been undermining American wealth, power and influence for seven long hard years, and despite the political fisticuffs between the two, they are at heart fellow travelers.  Among other transgressions, the Kenyan essentially gave nuclear weapons capabilities to our enemies with his infamous Iran deal, and as the precursor to that sellout, Hillary, while at State, allowed foreign governments unfettered access to America's undercover operators by using an unsecured server.  Lying by omission. Leaving the door unlocked.  Not securing highly classified documents.  Exposure of America intelligence assets overseas.  Getting Americans killed.  Indict her?  Hardly.  Instead the Kenyan will award her the King's Medal of Sedition.  You may not have heard of it; it's a red hammer and sickle with a white star and crescent medallion on a red, white and blue neck ribbon.  Exclusive to the Kenyan's Lenin-esque regime. 

The Birth of Arab Spring and ISIS

But the American people see through the subterfuge.  Those not drinking the Democrat kool-aid, anyway.  (Note that Herself can't even earn from her voters the hands-down defeat of an aging, avowed Marxist challenging  her presidential campaign.  She and Sanders tied last night in Iowa). The FBI for once is doing its job and has uncovered enough evidence to bring charges.  And they want to do so.  But the Kenyan's Justice Department, under the panting lap dog AG Loretta Lynch, will of course, do nothing.  But the FBI knows that treason, sedition, and spying are among Hillary's heinous crimes at State, as well as extortion, embezzlement and other relatively minor offenses she's committed through her dealings with foreign governments through the Clinton Crime Foundation.  Peachy.  That's what some folks want as our next president.

But far worse than sedition, in this writer's view, is the murder of four Americans who were sacrificed so that the Muslim-in-Chief's ambitions for the birth and growth of the Arab Spring could occur, take hold and prosper.  Our Ambassador to Libya was thrown to the wolves, and despite his repeated pleas for help, none was forthcoming. Three ex-SEALs were also sacrificed as well in that bleak 13 hours in Benghazi.  But nothing can stand in the way of Herself's coronation, and therein the continuation of the Kenyan's diabolical plans to destroy the America that we once knew.

God bless, and help, America!