The Parable Of The Cart: Why The Pope Is Wrong On Capitalism

The Vicar of Christ? Or Marx?

Pope Francis came to Congress this week and lectured America about our fascination with self reliance and capitalism.  As he talked down to us - a trait used by other Marxists in power like the Kenyan - he admonished us for many things, not the least of which is our cultural and personal  advancement through evil capitalism.  As we've taken so much from so many, he reasons, we should gleefully give it all back.  Not so fast. Rather than debate the points of his lecture, er, speech, point by point, in seriatim, let's just create a comparative analogy of wealth distribution, and why it has never, ever worked anywhere it has been tried.   

The Parable Of The Cart

The Progenesis of Wealth

Let's say we buy into this wealth distribution thing, and agree to give a hand up (really a handout) to each of a thousand illiterate impoverished people in a hypothetical third world country.  That handout consists of $100 and an ox cart.  How many of those thousand people will make something out of that gift?  How many will take the $100, sell the oxcart, and enjoy the fruits of this windfall until it runs out and they are in poverty once again?  And how many will see the potential, and turn that gift into an enterprise that employs several other guys, and ultimately makes them all money, which indeed will lift them out of poverty? We know the answer to that, because we see it every day.  Despite financial support, most people cannot support themselves, and the reason is not one of education, or opportunity or even means.  Its is singularly one of will.  Many people simply don't want to provide for themselves, especially if others are willing to do so for them.   

Parable of the Cart

I have a real world story on this very topic.  I own rental property, and one of my tenants was an intelligent, single mother whose sole source of income was government "assistance."  She mentioned one day that she'd like to be free of the government's largess, and do something on her own.  I suggested she obtain a hotdog cart, and simply be a street vendor in the downtown area, which in my city was a mecca for bankers, lawyers, judges, and other professionals.  No such service existed, and she would have made a good deal of money just by serving lunch to harried professionals downtown for perhaps just two hours a day.  Preferential financing for the cart, and discounted sources of supplies were available to her.  Her intellect was engaged, but her will to act was not.  And therein lies the problem:  the lack of optimism and will will never be offset by "assistance."  As salesmen have often said of the will to act: Some will; some won't; so what. 

Yet They Want More.

How clearly the parable above shows Francis' lecture inappropriate.  Even the parable of the tenets in Mathew 25 - invest, don't divest - would suggest the Pope's message is missing the point.  More people have been lifted from poverty and have gained personal freedom through capitalism, which is investing in the future, especially in the United States, than have those who suffer to this day under tyrannical regimes who plunder the wealth and efforts of the providers.  Especially big are American's hearts:  individually we give $360 billion annually in charity.  Who else comes close to that?  How is that not in keeping with Christ's teachings of tithing?  Yet they want more.  They want it all.  Further, America has taken in more refugees than all of Europe combined.  With this influx of millions of millions of impoverished, illiterate- even in their own tongues - invaders, America risks everything by allowing this: her culture, her language, her rule of law and her way of life.  Yet we do it anyway, even in the face of widespread grassroots objections.  My belief is that the fallout of these misguided immigration policies -  especially as it pertains to Muslims -  will be disastrous.  We give even though we owe nothing.  Yet they want more.  They want it all.

I'm not here to bash the Pope.  I too champion the furtherance of Christian views and Christ's teachings.  But one wonders how he can maintain his political positions given his own country's history.  Just a century ago, there were only seven countries in the world that were more prosperous than Argentina.  Those were Belgium, Switzerland, Britain and four former English colonies including the United States.  What happened?  Argentina was burdened with bad socialist policies and decades of political instability which made property rights insecure and investment unattractive.   That means personal wealth was lost, folks.  But these are the very policies the Pope advocates now.  Yet in contrast to Argentina, America with her big heart and rule of law and capitalistic society has elevated more people out of poverty any other system in the history of mankind.  But perhaps Francis knows more about how to become impoverished than he does about becoming prosperous.  Let's hope for America's sake that his advocacies are ignored, and we continue with what actually works.

Jihad and Crusade

The insanity concerning immigration becomes curiouser and curiouser, as Lewis Carrol's Alice so succinctly put it.  Although Alice was pondering her feet when she made that famous utterance, it seems apt for us today to marvel at watching America telescope away from us at an ever rapidly and alarming rate.  Curiouser and curiouser.  But as I've written before, this isn't immigration, it's an orchestrated invasion.

Let's pause to define the parameters of the debate.  On the whole, immigration is a good and desirable activity.  We welcome people to this country for all sorts of reasons.  We have folks coming here to improve their lives in this, the world's best hope for human advancement, and they bring skills with them.  That's a good thing, as it replenishes the labor pool as well as the gene pool.  The caveat here is that immigrants must come into this country legally, they add value to the American way of life, and most importantly they assimilate into the American culture.  

Floodgate Results and Trend

But that is not what we have going on today.  A recent census indicates that some 42-plus million people here are foreign born.  The report, which analyzes data from American Community Survey (ACS), finds that the foreign-born population in the U.S. hit a new record high 42.4 million in July 2014.  The report details that some of “the sending countries with the largest percentage increases in the number of immigrants living in the United States since 2010 were Saudi Arabia (up 93 percent); Bangladesh (up 37 percent); Iraq (up 36 percent); Egypt (up 25 percent); Pakistan, India, and Ethiopia (all up 24 percent); Nigeria and Ghana (both up 21 percent).”  “In contrast to most sending regions and countries, the number of immigrants from Europe and Canada declined,” the report notes.  It's interesting to note that this report counts all immigrants, both legal and illegal.  Yet politicians  - of both parties - tell us we can't deport illegals because, well, we simply can't find them,  Really?  It seems the  immigration service can.

So why is this a big deal, Lightfoot?  Are you concerned about the dilution of the Caucasian race in America?  Are you a xenophobe?  Well, actually, yes, I am concerned about the negative impact upon the white Christian element of this country, and one doesn't need a pejorative label to do so.  And I'm concerned that the influx of human debris that's being imported into this country is here to destroy, not further, the American way of life.  The central American gangs bring criminality here that's shocking even to jaded Americans. And it continues even today.  Consider this.  A 2012 FBI crime study shows:

• 75 percent of those on the most wanted criminals list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens.
• One quarter of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals, as are more than 40 percent of all inmates in Arizona and 48 percent in New Mexico jails.
• Over 53 percent of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens.
• 63 percent of cited drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that number, 97 percent are illegal aliens. 66 percent of cited drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 66 percent, 98 percent are illegal aliens.

Main Street, USA 2020

And yet Hispanic crime is just one aspect of the problem.  An even more troubling issue is the collective insistence that the American way of life yield to the views, beliefs and customs of the Muslim scourge.  That demand violates the assimilation part of immigration completely, yet the ruling class continues to import them - and to our peril.  Dearborn, Michigan and Minneapolis, Minnesota are two examples of cities that have seen the true nature of the Muslim scourge.  These links show the the propaganda that is being printed:  Islam is peace, and "hey, we're not ISIS."  The reality is quite different, however, as is evident from Sheikh Muhammad Ayed, who said during a recent sermon at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque of Muslims taking root in America and Europe, "We will breed children with them, because we shall conquer their countries – whether you like it or not."  That's ethnic dissolution from a white perspective, so for me, I'll pass.  And across the pond, this reality is beginning to dawn on some.  In the last few weeks European countries have begun to see what some in the US refuse to see:  that this is a Muslim invasion - a jihad - of countries of white, Euro ethnic peoples.

• In France, police bulldoze "the Jungle,"  a series of refugee camps of Syrians, African and Eritreans, yet prosecute those who speak out against Muslims;  
• in Croatia, Muslim invaders turn violent as some 35 million more head for affluent Europe; 
• In the UK, Imams are unaware of Western societal laws against rape;  

History.  Again

It's not about refuge or human rights.  It's about conquest.  The Muslims tried to conquer Europe a thousand years ago, in the same way they are now, but were repelled by the Crusades.  Today, they are trying again, however this time there's a systematic invasion of both Europe and America.  When our politicians finally shed their self-censoring political correctness, and see what's really going on with the Muslim problem, I suspect we may have a different take on the matter.  That is, before it's too late.

Allah Said, Build Me A Clock

We Should Fear What's Real

The word "phobia" is defined as an irrational fear of something.  For example, Agoraphobia is one's irrational fear of the open outdoors, even though the open outdoors has never caused one any harm.  Arachnophobia is one's irrational fear of spiders, even though a spider has never caused one any harm.  Yet those who suffer from these fears do so contrary to direct observation, that is, irrationally.  But the word "Islamophobia" is an oxymoron because first, one's reaction to Islam is a natural biological reaction to a very real and present threat, and secondly, because that reaction is most assuredly not an irrational fear; it's instilled from direct observation and experience.

Clock?  Or Bomb Timer?

So the left wing progressive flame throwers are all abuzz about the recent detention and arrest of one Ahmed Mohammad, a 14-year old Muslim Sudanese boy who brought a homemade digital clock to school to impress his teachers.  We're stiffing creativity because of racism, they scream.  Well, that won't fly because Islam isn't a race.  It's an ideology made up of people of many races.   This poor boy's arrest is the result of the preoccupation with Islamophobia.  Nope.  As shown above, there's no such thing as Islamophobia.  It's only a clock, the progressives loudly protest.  Really?  How can you tell?  (See image.)  Considering the Texas school's zero tolerance policy, it can be said that officials did the right thing in investigating the nature and purpose of this ominous looking device, encased as it was in a small metal briefcase.  This is the same zero tolerance nonsense that got a kid busted for a "gun shaped" pop tart.  And another for a "gun shaped" piece of paper.  And yet another for wearing an American flag T-shirt.  

These latter examples were most likely overreactions arising from absurd political correctness.  The former, however, was a reasoned response to a possible threat.  Was the clock really innocent, as the MSM would have us believe?  Or was it a test of the systems in place for the protection of Americans from the horrors of  the evil perpetrated by Muslims practicing their Islamic "faith."  Whichever is the truth, we must always be vigilant, and follow the Reagan dictum:  "Trust, but verify."  This fear is not irrational.

What? We Need More Invaders?

Enemy Occupied Territories

Apparently the regime believes we do.  To the the Kenyan's hate-filled, anti-white, anti-American worldview, it's imperative.  Why?  Because invasion and occupation is necessary to completely annihilate the white, Christian culture of the United States in order for it to become a more perfect nation of cross cultural pollination.  In other words, we must look like the third world.  It's only fair, you know.   So with that in mind it's not surprising that a recent study shows that the United States admits 250,000 Muslims annually just to meet its arbitrary "immigration" quotas. Immigration is a euphemism for cultural invasion.  The rate of Muslim immigration has been increasing since 9/11. Between 2001 and 2013, the United States permanently resettled 1.5 million Muslims throughout the United States. Unlike illegal immigrants, legal immigrants granted lifetime resettlement privileges will be given automatic work permits, welfare access, and the ability to become voting citizens.  Read that as "permanent welfare." But to the Kenyan, too much is never enough.  So he's decreed that we shall import 10,000 Syrian refugees on top of the already insane levels of cultural dilution.  Of those, I wonder how many are Christian and how many are Muslim.  Now let's look at why this is a bad idea, apart from the fact that in all previous administrations the Constitution requires that lawmaking is the responsibility of the Congress rather than of the Executive Branch.  In the Kenyan's tyranny, the Constitution is just a quaint document, not the framework of our system of law.  To him, he is the law. But I digress.  Here's what Islam is all about, and why it is absolutely and completely incompatible with Western systems of law and culture.  Thanks to Dr. Bill Warner of Polictical Islam for this statistical methodology as applied to the Islamic texts:

• Islam is far more of a political system than a religion.
• There is no unmitigated good in Islam for the Kafir (non-Muslim).
• Islam’s ethical system is dualistic and is not based on the Golden Rule.
•  Islamic doctrine cannot be reconciled with our concepts of human rights and our Constitution.
• The great majority, 96%, of all Islamic doctrine about women subjugates them.
• The Sunna (what Mohammed did and said) is more important than the Koran in a Muslim’s daily life.

Syrian Passports For The Asking

I've written here previously, everywhere Muslims have been relocated, a state of Islamic occupation has been established.  There are already "no go" zones in Dearborn and elsewhere, and when the local governments and police just give up on enforcing American law, and cave to Sharia law, what you have is a foreign invader occupying your territory.  Bad idea.  Yet to do so voluntarily is simply cultural suicide.  As to the Syrian "refugees," it's been found that 80% of them just happen to be males between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four.  Now add to this unholy scenario the fact that the invasion of criminal illegal aliens from the south , comprising yet another demographic of evil that will stress the overburdened policing agencies, as well as wreak even more havoc on the American citizen.  Are we seeing a pattern here?  The Kenyan is literally importing foreign fighters into the US, and ultimately granting them citizenship.  Ponder the obvious and predictable results.

ISIS Goals

So what are the ultimate goals of radical Islam, as embodied in ISIS, and also as Islam itself?  The Atlantic recently published a report on that very question, and what it found is most disturbing.  Islam is an ideological fervor wrapped in political means to an end, and that end is a war against civilization leading ultimately to the apocalypse.  But for an organization as impervious to persuasion as the Islamic State, few measures short of military and ideological adjustments will matter, and the war may be a long one, even if it doesn’t last until the end of time.  This war has been going on for a thousand years, so why would we think today will be any different?  Islam is a cancer that must be removed, killed, and completely and utterly eradicated.  And do so before it destroys you.  But don't just take my word for it, read it here. 

Starting The Week Off Positively

Just read the news this Monday morning.  It's hilariously frightening.  And you just can't make this stuff up.  No wonder sales of guns, ammo and non-perishable food is on the upswing.

Our Humanitarian Immigration Policy

What all the crack-pot, white tribal Tea Party folks knew all along has been shown to be true.  Those lovable El Salvadorian gangs - you know, those guys who come here to pick fruit - are actually taking over organized crime in Los Angeles, and moving ever eastward.  The Italian mafia should be this organized.  La Raza and other leftist anti-American groups are thrilled by the porous southern border, but most Americans are not. And this is why.  It's an act of love to let them in, Jeb! tells us. Murder, extortion and rape are coming soon to your town.  Lock and load.  

Global Financial Failure 

Benjamins Are Harder To Keep

Americans have unsustainable ratios of personal debt. In fact, consumer debt is roughly $4.5 trillion, while the amount of actual physical U.S. currency is only $250 billion.  The national debt is north of $17 trillion, and GDP is now less than that.   So all the national and consumer income can't pay off the existing debt, and is now in danger of failing to even service it.  If the Federal Reserve Bank raises interest rates in an attempt to curb borrowing, the entire house of cards will come crashing down.  And that's a global situation.  If global financial systems crash, civilization will stop, then degrade, and then finally cease to be.  Even if you have a backyard garden, you simply cannot raise enough food to feed yourself and your family indefinitely.  And that is if you have a backyard.  Only a handful of countries - mostly Mideastern, along with Russia and Iceland by the way - have a debt-to-GDP ratio of less than 10%.  In the US, even despite record income tax revenues - the average worker now pays over $19,000 in taxes - were found to still leave a $530 billion deficit.  See you in Iceland, but bring a good jacket.

More Deceit From the Kenyan

Khamenei Threatens to Bomb US Navy

The lies emanating from this administration have become the stuff of cliches: "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" being the most famous.  And while he spends his energies making the US less safe by importing criminals (see above), and by cutting our armed forces, he adds salt to the wound by openly helping our enemies.  A report by the Wall Street Journal has brought to light that a convicted fraudster was instrumental in selling the treasonous Iran deal to the lapdogs in the Democrat congress.  Like ObamaCare, the side deals have been kept secret, so we still don't really know what the full impact may be - but can certainly guess.  But we do know the Kenyan's stated goal has always been  to "fundamentally transform America," and so far he's done a fine job, too.  But what is really galling about this homosexual mulatto's stance on Islam is his refusal to identify our enemy.  He gives aid and comfort to Iran, yet whitewashes Islam's1,200 year old jihad against whites and Christians. It's no wonder many American believe he's a Muslim.

Nice Tits

Femen Protesters Outside Paris Grand Mosque in 2013.

In a bit of tomfoolery, two topless hard-line feminist Femen protested a Muslim conference at the Muslim Salon in Pontoise, France, a town just outside of Paris.  The conference, Is It OK To Beat Your Wife, was interrupted by protesters with "I'm My Own Prophet" and other slogans written across their bare chests.  In normal Islamic fashion, Muslim attendees summarily ogled and groped the women before hustling and kicking them off stage.  This Femen group has been at it for years, and they're decidedly left wing and anti-Muslim.  Have more fun here.    

Americans are being assaulted on all fonts.  If you can keep your powder dry - and your dry goods, as well - and if you can maintain a positive mental attitude through these trying times, you just may survive.  If you survive, you've got to admit:  it's pretty funny.

The Chickens Come Home to Roost

It's ironic how the more things change, the more they stay the same, isn't it?  Back in the 1960s, vocal and violent political radicals started springing up all across the US, mostly on college campuses.  They were anti-establishment, they hated "the man," they didn't want to fight for their country so they created an anti-war mentality to justify their cowardice, and they claimed they wanted nothing more than "power to the people."  I remember it well, because I was there. Unlike those leftists, I went to college, showed up for induction into the Armed Forces when my draft number was called, and actually held a job developing  housing.  But I watched them carefully then, and have continued to do so since.

Weather Underground Terrorists

The FBI investigated many of these subversive groups and individuals, and that only enhanced the radicals' romanticized appeal to the unwashed collegiate impressionable youths.  It was learned through these investigations, although little was made public through the press, that they were almost all recruited, trained and funded by the Soviet Union communists, directly and indirectly. But there was little public outcry then, largely due to the much publicized McCarthy hearings during the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the late 1950s, which left the populace with a "What, this again?"  attitude.  However, McCarthy was right in his exposure of communists and Soviet spies in the State Department and elsewhere in American media and culture.  But the public was numb to his evidence and warning by then, and the 1960s radical movement grew unchecked.  Many of those subversives, who at the time were guilty of bombings and murder, are now prominent leaders in government, academia and politics.  How that actually came to be is subject to conjecture.  The fact remains, however, that in the ensuing decades the nation has moved way, way to the left - to the totalitarianism we have today - and it's because of the influence wielded by these radicals as they infiltrated the press, media and academe.  Over the last few decades, they have become the political norm, the cultural tenet, and the scholastic curriculum.  In short, they have become "the establishment man" they hated so viciously years ago.

As It Should Be

But now we see the pendulum swing to the right.  The militant Negroes are still not happy with their communal lot after enjoying 40 years of liberal "progressive" protection as a victim class.  They're out killing cops again, allegedly for keeping them down.  Whatever that means.  And the American voter has had enough of voting for candidates who lie about the changes they are going to make when elected.  Americans realize the economy is the worst it's ever been, that there's a government sponsored invasion of the homeland, and that we just gave a mortal enemy a nuclear weapon. The American voter now realizes he's not represented in congress by any stretch of the imagination, and his candidate's motivation is clear: he's in congress to become wealthy, and to "grow" in office, not to remedy any voter concerns.  In fact, they legislate in direct contravention to the will of the voter - of the people themselves.  So today it's no surprise that three of the leading 5 candidates on the Republican ticket are not politicians, and the other two are anti-establishment candidates.  The voters are rejecting the political elite's business as usual, and it's happening on the other side of the aisle as well.  Hillary is being rejected, and the Dems can't find a good horse to run, either.

Anti-establishment.  That's a word not heard much since 1967.  I guess the radical left's karma ran over its dogma.  The chickens have come home to roost.  Meet the new boss.  Same as the old boss.  How fitting.  How ironic.

News Bites

Soon To Be Extinct:  RINOs

The official established Republican party elites and their heavy weight donors are in a panic.  There are sixteen candidates running for the Republican nomination, but I guess that's an insufficient number for them.  Now they're seeking "help" from twice lost RINO Mitt Romney to join the fray now that Jeb's support is slipping.  Never mind that the Republican base, the conservatives out in fly-over country, has sent the Washington establishment an undeniable and clear message: they do not want another inside-the-beltway squishy, liberal conservation for their candidate.  The have Boehner and McConnell to fill that role.  That's why, at this writing, Trump and Carson are the top contenders according to most - if not all - polls so far, and Fiorina is gaining ground, as well.  They are not professional politicians, and and as such, have a far higher degree of veracity with voters than the other candidates.  Even Ted Cruz, arguably the most, if not the only, conservative of the Republican field, trails Trump and Carson by a significant margin.  The phenomenon that is Trump's popularity is well documented, and the GOP and RNC will ignore it at their peril.  

Is That 30-Round Mag Fully Loaded?

The race war in America continues, thanks to help from the media and the Kenyan's administration.  Today a Chicago cop was shot and killed, and while details are sketchy, the perps were identified as at least one Negro and two Caucasians.  Some in the mainstream media, in overwhelming censorship, have refused to release the racist manifesto of the insane homosexual Negro shooter in Virginia last week. Meanwhile, in Waller County, Texas, fully armed Black Panthers chant  "off the pigs" while "protesting in front of the police station.  Imagine if an armed white man started shouting epithets to cops, he'd be taken down in a New York minute.  Unreal.  Racist fringe groups like Black Lives Matter and FYF are responsible for cop killings, and but for a compliant media, would have been arrested by now.  But the White House doesn't condemn any of these cop killings, it encourages them.  Hillary, ever the opportunist, uses the killings to advocate for gun control, either ignorant or dismissive of the fact that general crime rates are down because more citizens have guns.   Except in Negro communities, where license to kill is a birthright.  Hey Kenyan, the science is settled on this matter. 

Mt. McKinley Denali

Speaking of the Kenyan and unsettled science, he's in Alaska to participate in a reality show promoting global warming, of which science is far from settled.  While's he's there, the Dear Leader assumes it's within his power to arbitrarily rename a national monument.  Mt. McKinley is now Mt. Denali.  But considering the insanity of this president's policies, one is never surprised at his narcissism.  It goes without saying that perhaps the Kenyan should climb that mountain, and seek God's enlightenment that exists at the metaphorical mountaintop.  But we know that will never happen.  In his mind, he is God.  Maybe he got an erection, too.

You Really Want A Race War?

You Really Want a Race War?

Since our dear leader, the Kenyan, took office so many dark years ago, race relations have disintegrated substantially.  Not only has distrust been fostered by this illegitimate regime, but outright radicalization has been fomented as well.  The well known white-on-black shootings by Dylann Roof in Charleston, a shooting in which the DOJ couldn't wait to press hate crime charges after Roof acknowledged he wanted to start a race war, fit the left wing narrative perfectly, and the media and other swooning castrati on the left just wet themselves with fuzzy condolences.  Oh, the injustice, the unfairness, the hatefulness of it all.  Those evil white Southern devils keep killin' dem po' black folk, and it jus' ain't right.  Can't we all just get along?  Sure.  Right after we ban the Confederate flag and revise history, of course.

Now comes a bitter, black, homosexual loser with serious self esteem issues, and he murders two white people and wounds a third - all while live on the air!  Oops.  That narrative got stood on its head yesterday, despite the shooter's acknowledgment that he wanted to start a race war.  Beat that, Roof, Holmes and you other wannabe glory hound shooters.  Think of it - fame and glory is Vester Flanagan's because he's the first to conceive and execute the nation's first televised reality snuff film!  What a fitting exit statement for a self hating, dissed Negro faggot!  Outstanding.  The bar of human civility has been permanently lowered thanks to this twisted, victimized, evil self absorbed radicalized killer.  If the Kenyan had a son, he'd be just  like Vester. 

Wiping With An American Flag:  Genius!

Actually this race-baiting, white hating administration has radicalized Negros into a frenzy not seen for a generation or more.  They are lapping it up, too, as they strive to hate something bigger than themselves.  To wit: A recent phenomenon is FYF, acronym for Fuck Yo' Flag, which is a bunch of bitter, angry Negros that make the New Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam look like chamber of commerce members.  Deeply intellectual and tolerant, as most groups on the left are, FYF finds a new outlet for its pent up frustration and hate. They'll be marching on Atlanta come September 11, but have no fear of white opposition, because as they state in tweets, they'll be carrying openly.  How utterly cute.  Better think that one through, Sunshine.  We will have to wait to confirm if they are also homosexuals, in addition to just being run-of-the-mill bitter, hateful, gansta thug Negros. 

Heterophobia Unmasked

So while Roof, Flanagan and other disillusioned shooters are calling for an all out race war, which I agree could turn out to be some wholesome fun, I have a more reasoned approach that will solve all the mistrust and hatefulness on both sides - black and white. It's very simple.  Just ban the homosexual symbol of hate, heterophobia, bigotry and intolerance.  Ban the rainbow flag.

Phenomenon

You Boys're Getting Too Big For Yer Britches!

Inasmuch as I hesitate to join the clamor over the phenomenal surge of enthusiasm for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, I also note the historical meaning of it.  In a dinner table discussion with my significant other a few nights ago, I asked her point blank why she thought Trump was so popular.  She's a successful trial attorney and is intimately familiar with cause and effect.  She gave several reasons, all of which were valid, but missed what I believe to be the catalyst of the movement.  Sure, Trump is outspoken rather than mealy-mouthed, he's defiantly not politically correct, and he says what most Americans themselves truly think and believe.  Those are all good and accurate explanations for his surge, but what I think drives his message home in laser-like clarity is this:  he's a political outsider, he's rich, he can't be bought, and he challenges the entrenched political ruling class, whom Americans have come to realize they cannot vote out of office.  The R is indistinguishable from the D, and the results of the last two land side midterm elections have proven that sad fact to the American voter.  So the Trump is taking both parties to the woodshed, to teach them that America's core value of liberty supersedes either party's big government agenda.

The Bush and Clinton dynasties have brought the country a world away from Reagan's shinning city upon a hill, and after all these years of the left's "progressive" policies, Americans are far worse off than they were when the public mood under Reagan was optimism   The American culture is being deliberately erased, and voters are aware that their current sorry condition is a result of a deliberate, policy driven goal.  Americans are less optimistic about their future, they are financially worse off, they live in more volatile and dangerous world, they are being invaded ethnically and culturally, and they have demonstrably less personal freedom. 

And as dynasties go, few voters outside the black community believe that the Kenyan was a legitimate candidate and that he was lawfully elected.  Most - in their hearts if not openly admitted - believe he was a plant by New Word Order globalists, and he is continuing with the "Big Plan" of socialist totalitarianism that the previous dynasties had begun.  That plan is close to being realized, and while being ever marginalized as mere nut-job-tin-foil-hat conspiracies by the media and the ruling class, Americans have begun to realize something is very definitely rotten in the state of Denmark.  And The Donald exposes it in a way that bypasses the pejorative spin the media and the ruling class put on it. Trump exposes the Big Lie.

What's the Big Lie?  The revelations about NSA spying on everyone and everything, the government's refusal to manage the borders, the influx of radicalized Islamofascists within our cites and towns, the insane and suicidal foreign policies, the too-comfy relationship between government and technology giants like Google, the corruption of crony capitalism, the over regulation of everything, the politicized courts, the possibly outright traitorous activity by Hillary Clinton while Secretary of State, and many other examples have demonstrated to all that the federal government is working at odds with We the People, and that we're being misled on a daily basis, and for a very nefarious purpose.

 

And that, dear readers, is why there is so much buzz around Donald Trump, much of it hate-filled rhetoric from both left and right.  Big Politics - Democrat and Republican alike - feel his challenge to their established status quo, and is going out of its way to destroy him, lest he upset their firm and total grasp on power.  November 2016 is still a long way off, and Trump may not get the GOP nomination, and he may not be elected, but he has changed the dynamic and the political conversation for the better.  For the time being anyway.  He has shown the emperor with no clothes, and he just may be the crack in the foundation of the insidious, seditious power cabal that rules us today.  And that is a historical phenomenon for our day.

So let's hope that, whoever the next president may be, the constitutional provisions of self governance prevail.  Because should they fail, the alternative to a duly and fairly elected government by the people will be very chaotic, long term and most unpleasant.

Legacies

Cecil the Lion

"Go away, kid, ya bother me!"

After all the hoopla about the "trophy" hunting of poor Cecil, an interesting observation of animal behavior has been largely ignored.  And that is natural selection.  When a male lion is killed, a rival alpha male comes in and takes over the pride and takes the deceased's female too.  But to ensure that the new male's bloodline is furthered, he summarily kills the cubs spawned by the dead lion.  That's what happened here.  After Cecil becomes wall art or game room rug, ol' Jericho sides right in to bed Cecil's mate, and while he's at it, he engages in a little infanticide, just to be sure it's his progeny that survives.  Aw, how terrible.  No, it's not.  It's natural selection.  The strong live on, the weak die off.  It's us humans who try to force human emotions onto animal behavior, and it's folly to do so.  Think if the opposite were true:  what if humans emulate animal behavior.  Either no man would ever take on the duties of raising another man's children, even if he was the new male in the mother's life, or infanticide would be an acceptable practice.  Divorce would have predictable and rather permanent consequences. And adoption would be unknown.  But humans are civilized and animals are not.  So with human population hovering around 7 billion, Cecil's legacy may well be a question for us to ponder as to which system is the wiser.

Speaking of Legacies

Tattered and Torn, But not Down

Readers of these pages know how I feel about this administration, but let me clarify for those who don't.  I consider the Kenyan and his regime to be illegitimate, unlawful, seditious and traitorous.  I believe, from the Kenyan's own utterances, that it is his intent to destroy the idea of America as a philosophy as well as a highly successful culture.  That is what he considers to be his legacy - the total transformation of America.  In this endeavor he has been successful.  The country is divided as it hasn't been since 1860.  As a world power, not only as a safe haven for individual liberty, for the equal application of law over tyranny, for holding military ambitions of rogue states at bay, and as a stable store of monetary value, America under this regime has been emasculated.  Not a surprising goal for a self hating homosexual mulatto who has laser-focused his hatred toward white, Christian, lawful, civilized American culture into an eight year campaign of destruction.  He aids our enemies, he snubs and hampers our allies, he divides us internally, he preens and gloats as the globalists' unseen hand corrupts our highest courts into legitimizing his unconstitutional and blatantly illegal edicts.  Can we recover?  Only time - and a new leader - will tell.

The Donald
No one can doubt the impact Donald Trump has had on the campaign for the 2106 Presidential elections.  His popularity continues to soar, as the gilded class and political elites have come to acknowledge.  But why?  How can a brash, loud, arrogant, self promoting New Yawker resonate with so many Americans?   I think the reasons are simple.  One reason is that he says what Americans themselves want to say, but cannot articulate in no-nonsense in your face terms that Trump can. The media and the political class have been castrated by political correctness, which is actually the application of censorship and tyranny, and they tend to dance around issues in ways Americans find not only objectionable, but clearly insane.  Gun control doesn't work; we need more gun control.  Illegal aliens beak the law; let's make them voting citizens.  Iran is the world's premier sponsor of terror; let's give them a nuke and 150 billion dollars  Muslims are the purveyors of terror; let's conduct surveillance on Americans.  Insane, yes, but that's what this government - run by Democrats and Republicans alike - does.  It drives American crazy, and Trump points it our for  everyone to see.  Of course the GOP hates him.  Of course the Democrats and the media mock him.  They're scared to death of him.  And they should be.  He faces down the media, and cannot be bullied.  He's arrogant and braggadocios, but he says what he means and means what he says.  And Americans hunger for that kind of alpha male, John Wayne style uncorruptible manliness.  In a nation of politically correct emasculated pussies, he's a man among men.  He may never be president, but what he's done is show candidates that they can stand up to the left's constant ridicule of all things American.  Like all bullies, when you take them on, they wilt back in cowardice.  That's the Donald's legacy:  Balls in politics.  Let's hope the political class pays attention.

Mental Health As A Weapon

One of my favorite contemporary thinkers is Dinesh D'Souza. D'Souza has always been very candid and outspoken about liberalism, and has identified the American "progressive" left for what is really is, and that is an enemy at home.  The left's determination to transform the values Americans hold dear into merely quaint unsophisticated emotions, and its propensity for appeasement to our enemies, has emboldened America's enemies to ever more aggressive attacks.  His commentary on American exceptionalism was spot on, if perhaps, his position on Islam - at least some years ago - was not.  However, his latest book, America:  Image  A World Without Her put the liberals into such a panic because he offers a passionate and sharply reasoned defense of America, rebutting every lame accusation made by progressives against the U.S.  Well, we certainly can't have that muddying up the scripted national discourse.  So the left does what is always does when faced with positions not of their liking.  They crush opposition.  The political persecution of Dinesh D'Souza has reach its zenith.  Hillary calls it the politics of personal destruction.  Stalin employed it, so did Mao, and now the Kenyan finds it suitable to his ambitions.  

So now a federal judge has been found to order psychological counseling for D'Souza, in my view simply because of his political stance. U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman, a Clinton appointee, told D’Souza that he considers his violation of federal campaign finance laws to be evidence of a psychological problem and ordered further counseling, ignoring and overruling the judgment of two licensed psychologists who found D'Souza of sound mind and body. According to prosecutors, D'Souza directed two close associates to contribute $20,000 to a political campaign, and then reimbursed them, a violation of federal election laws.  Never mind the Clinton Foundation's egregious whoring, or the Kenyan's illegal millions from foreigners like Soros and other globalists.  Nope, it's D'Souza who must be punished.  

OK, political retribution happens every day.  I get it.  However, this persecution is noteworthy, not only because D'Souza is high profile and on the political right, but because it's the first time that the DSM-5 manual has been put to a political use.  Mental Health is now a weapon, and can and will be used at the government's whim to ensnare any political dissident.  In fact, any physical illness can be classified as a mental health issue. It's called Somatic Symptom Disorder, and if you're White, a Southerner, a Christian, own a gun, or write in a conservative blog, you can be diagnosed with SSD, and whisked away to a re-education camp - to get your head right, you understand.  

If you think this is merely tin-foil-hat conspiracy theory, just ask Dinesh D'Souza.

Is It Time For The Donald?

November 2016 is a long way off yet, and the field of candidates willing to take on the job of running the country is impressive - and large.  The Democrats are trying their hardest to rally around the clueless, corrupt, seditious and drunken Hillary, gagging as they do so, but with insider luminaries like Biden and O'Malley and Dean in the wings, she's all they've got.  Oh, wait.  There is the committed avowed socialist Bernie Sanders, and he's tearing up New Hampshire and Iowa.  But to be a democrat is to be a socialist, so that's not a hindrance anymore. The Republicans have trotted out their favorite RINOs, and the field is full with some dozen or more candidates running under the GOP banner.  Both parties' leaders hope to continue the Clinton-Bush dynasties, and there's a spate of candidates running against the party line like Cruz and Walker.  But the voters have had enough of candidates who seek higher office to do good as long as they can do well, and there's a surge of non-politician outsiders in the race: Fiorina, Carson and Trump.  None of these folks have held public office, but are titans in their fields in the private sector.  To the voters, that's a badge of honor worthy of endorsement.  

But nobody can promote like The Donald.  He's rich, so he can't be bought (tough luck, George Soros).  He's rich so he doesn't give a damn if you've been offended. And he's rich so he couldn't care less about political correctness.  And the voters love him:  he says exactly what they want to say, not simply what they want to hear.  There's a difference.  And he's surging ahead in polls, today besting Jeb by 3 percentage points, and beating all other republican candidates combined.  The RINOs and the media have wet themselves over this unprecedented commanding lead, and are conducting an all out war on Trump.  As I've often said in these pages, they will tell you what they fear.  And what they fear is a populist who talks the talk and walks the walk: one who refuses to be politically correct, tells the truth about the criminality of the Kenyan's corrupt and seditious administration, exposes the fallacy of open borders, dissects the disastrous Iranian deal, rebuts the lies about unemployment and the general health of the economy, and much more.  In short, he's got balls, and that's something that's completely lacking in the feminist, misandrist, castrated culture in Washington DC.  And the more the establishment bashes him and tries to discredit him, the more intense the backlash.

Thanks Jeb, Hillary and Bernie, for helping Trump define the race for the next president.

Let the Book Burning Begin

View of Thomas Ridge, Appalachian Trail, 6,000 Elev.

Returning from my week-long respite from the nonsense that passes for current events, I return to find that the idiocy has not abated.  Shame. Following my commune with the Spirits of the Mountains, this re-immersion into man's reality is truly wearisome.  For a week I shed the trials and tribulations of modern day life in exchange for the serenity and true reality - the zen - of the mountainous forests, the trails, and the rivers and waterfalls as I do on an annual basis.  I hiked several dozen miles, and for while, was freed of the 21st century angst that curses most of us.  But, as with any pleasant dream, one must always awake.

The good news is the threat of an ISIS attack during the Independence Day weekend didn't occur.  But the threat itself is disruptive, so the terrorists had their minor victory just in that.  The weather stepped in to either cancel or delay many fireworks displays, at least here in Florida. But we didn't get bombed.

The bad news is that the distraction concerning the Confederate flag seems to have backfired, in the South, at least.  I toured through several southern states last week, and in every town, city, village or wide spot in the road, American patriots defiantly flew the Stars and Bars.  Good.  The Confederate national flags and the battle flag itself are as much a positive influence on the American experience as are the flags of Spain, France, Britain and Portugal, all of which represent countries with their own historical blemishes.  Look, everyone in history gets screwed at one point or another:  the Indians, the Negros, the Southerns (during and after Reconstruction), ad infinitum.  It's just the nature of human beings, so get over your victimhood.  Yet in glaring contrast to the left's fainting spells over all things Confederate, the Rainbow flag of the homosexual movement is as offensive to some as the Confederate battle flag is to others.  But no calls are made to ban it.  Ditto for the black ISIS flag, which can be seen in every violent Islamic snuff video.  We are allowed to see those icons of repression shoved in our face as evidence of our tolerance.  That's free speech, you know, but the Confederate flag must come down - no free speech there.  In today's FUBARed worldview, free speech exists only for the self righteous, who, despite their rhetoric, have no tolerance for any ideas, beliefs or opinions  not their own, especially those opposed to their own.  To further the cultural not-so-metaphorical book burning, the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP, that politically left, anti-American Negro group, is calling for the sandblasting of Stone Mountain.  Already Gone With The Wind is banned, and even the new novel by Harper Lee, Go Set A Watchman, written a half-century ago but recently published, is decried by mostly Yankee reviewers as nothing more than a Southern bigot writing about a Southern bigot.  Yet millions of middle schoolers were required to read To Kill A Mockingbird as an example of proper racial social justice. But the revisionists have now decided that the book's antagonist, Atticus Finch, was a racist bigot after all. These are works of fiction, of course, but they seem to serve the left's book-burning revisionist ambitions. The political rewriting of history is underway again as the left tries to eradicate the South and its culture and heritage, and their outrage over fiction novels present just such an opportunity.  They've been at it for years, of course, but with this homosexual mulatto oddity currently occupying the Oval office, their efforts have been sanctified at the highest levels.  That doesn't mean they will be successful, however.

 

Southerners Serve In The US Military In Highest Numbers

It's time to take our American culture back from the perpetually offended in Washington DC, and clean house on that corrupt den of iniquity.  I am a solid proponent of the re-establishment of the militia of the several states, as outlined in the constitution.  That original definition is that the militia consists of, and is, the citizenry itself, with its own private arms, apart from the national guard.  Ever hear of the Minutemen?  The militia is a legal and viable entity whose purposes include, along with defense of state and nation, the instilling of fear - and respect - in those elected officials tasked with our governance.  Thomas Jefferson once said, "The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed  from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."  I for one hope the tree gets more tyrant blood than patriot.  The censorship continues, and the American people are increasingly wary of the consequences - the frog is in hot water already, and is just now aware of it.  And, to the consternation of the politically correct castrati on the left, it's the South that will produce the patriots who are the militia, as always, and that scares the hell out of them.

The Gadsden Flag

Many people have openly stated that the philosophy Molon Labe ("come and take it") should be today's battle cry against this intrusive and tyrannical federal government.  I agree in part, but my tactic here is more of an offense than defense.  I say we retake Washington DC, by recall optimally but by arms if necessary, and remove every single federal government official, whether elected or appointed, including all of congress and the supreme court.  That is not sedition; it's required by the constitution to reclaim government from sedition or tyranny as redress by a free people.  A curious departure here:  the constitution has no provision for removal or recall of corrupt supreme justices, because the Framers never imagined that a president would appoint corrupt political hacks rather than constitutional scholars to the land's highest court, or that a compliant congress would approve such an appointment. So justices are appointed for life and there's no provision for their removal.  Well, except for one.  And while that may be a radical thought to entertain, I believe the time has come to entertain the very same thoughts the Founding Fathers had in 1776 about ensuring their liberty.  And that is to take our liberty and free speech back from the book burning, politically correct, racist, homosexual Zionist culture-erasing totalitarian imbecile tyrants of today.

Don't tread on me.

The War Within

Yes, It's True - They Do Love Goats

On the eve of this year's Independence Day celebrations, some interesting news reports herald troubling trends.  Reacting to heavier than usual internet chat traffic from the 7th century moon god worshipers and goat lovers, ISIS, government officials are on heightened alert for terrorism in the US this weekend. According to a former Detroit FBI chief,  "Usually you got a  lot of people conspiring.  But what you've got is a group like ISIS radicalizing lone wolves. So they're not conspiring with anybody. And the other thing is they're just saying freelance it, go out there, find a target and do what you gotta do.  So that's a lot more difficult to track."  In fact it was just two months ago ISIS claimed to have trained soldiers in Michigan awaiting orders.  My advice to Americans across the fruited plain is to stay vigilant, and heavily armed, not only this weekend, but each and every day.  There are Muslim terror cells in every city and suburb in the country, and it's individual radicals for whom we should be wary, thanks to the Muslim-in-Chief, the Kenyan, who has overtly sanctioned this.

Coming Soon to a Town Near You

If you think that's incisive or hyperbolic, allow me to elucidate. Our allies are disgusted by the fact that the Kenyan refuses to fight ISIS.  The US and the UK, for whatever perverse reasoning, have consistently refused to arm the Peshmerga Kurds - the last group standing against ISIS.  The United States has blocked attempts by its Middle East allies to fly heavy weapons directly to the Kurds fighting Islamic State jihadists in Iraq, and some of America’s closest allies say the Kenyan and other Western leaders, including David Cameron, are failing to show strategic leadership over the world’s gravest security crisis for decades.  Why?  Would the Kenyan rather fight ISIS over here on US soil?  Or perhaps he doesn't want to fight them at all.   Maybe he's fighting instead for them.  One wonders.  Here at home the Kenyan reschedules government Fourth of July celebrations in order to observe Ramadan.  Political correctness run amok, or just plain in-your-face ideology?

Two Of Six Flags Over America

This Independence Day it occurs to me that we should certainly thank the Founders for this great country.  We also should demand independence, not from England, but from the Kenyan's political "fundamental change" narrative that the white race is evil, that American culture is oppressive, and that capitalism is exploitative.  We the people - along with the very concept of American culture - are at war, and this president and his regime is not on our side.  The continual onslaught of terror threats, criminal invasion from the south (Trump is right, despite the left's attempts to deny that truth), the eradication of law in favor of political correctness, all serve to tear down the very fabric of our American culture.  And that's his plan: to destroy America.  So to obfuscate the very real threats we face, what is it that is driving the national conversation?  That's right - the Confederate battle flag. 

These seditionists have another sixteen months to continue and further the damage.  More is to come.  Keep us afraid.  Keep us divided.  Keep us distracted.  Placate us with non-issues to keep us despondent.  My advice is to stay calm and carry guns.  The threat is now one on one.

A Nation Of Laws, RIP

The King Is Dead! Long Live The King!

John Roberts has done it again.  The chief justice of the supreme court (the use of lower case is now appropriate) and his merry band of leftist extremist elitists, have nullified one of mankind's greatest achievements. What achievement would that be, you say?  Simply that a nation based on law, not of one man's whim, is the measure of justice in the American grand experiment in self governance.  That notion is now sadly merely a chapter in history, as Roberts ignored the law and ruled in lockstep with the Kenyan's mandated political favor.  Self governance has become nothing more than a charming, quaint footnote in the history of man.  Under political pressure, or perhaps a twisted understanding of the constitution, or maybe even out right blackmail and coercion, our boy Johnnie threw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater in his rulings on the blatantly unconstitutional issues of Kenyan Care and homosexual unions.  By definition, a "marriage" is a state sanctioned by God for the purpose of procreation.  A "union" is a state created by man for the purpose of tax avoidance.  And "established by the states" doesn't mean what it says, it means what John Roberts' twisted, convoluted logic says it means.  The takeaway from these rulings is that laws have no meaning, and words have no meaning.  These tools must be "interpreted" as to the left's political narrative, rather than by what they actually mean.  The state, in the form of the supreme court, and as evidenced by these rulings, has appointed itself God, and ruler of the nation. The fallout will be devastating to the American culture in the coming years, as truth has been ruled subjective, rather than absolute.  

And that was the whole point all along, wasn't it?