Time To Stand Up To Tryanny

Yesterday I commented on the lawlessness this president is again engaging in, specifically regrading his unconstitutional executive orders.  The framers were serious when they affirmatively denied the president and congress the power to subvert the intent of the constitution, yet this congress - of both parties - and this president have done so repeatedly.  "Shall make no law,"  and "shall not be infringed," leave little conjecture as to the absolute nature of the rights defined in the First and Second amendments.  So, it follows then that every law abridging the freedom of speech, association and the possession and use of arms is prima facie unconstitutional.

But no matter.  The current political class sees these Constitutional restrictions upon government power as roadblocks - bumps in the road, if you will - to their acquisition of total control of the American people.  And well they should.  That's why the framers put these restrictions in the constitution in the first place.  They too, distrusted government.  But what you will hear from the democrat super PAC referred to as the MSM, is that groups like the National Rifle Association stand in the way of public safety.  That is, their view of public safety, which can be translated as being disarmed.  While we the people may not literally be outgunned by the federal government, we are certainly the underdogs in this resistance to tyranny.  So apart from open revolution, what can we do about it?

While NRA gets most of the the bad press and is presented as knuckle-dragging embittered rednecks clinging to their guns, there are other gun rights groups who have serious legislative clout, too.   In the sidebar on this blog are links to four of these, and I encourage every patriot to join these groups to ensure this heavy handed government is thwarted in its drive for totalitarian control.  My money is where my mouth is, as I'm a life member of all four.  I invite you to be, too.

National Rifle Association (NRA)

The enlightened DC media likes to think this is a Southern movement, but ironically it was founded in 1871 by two Union generals who recognized the sorry state of their troops' marksmanship, and how Confederate sharpshooters managed to kill so many of them. Originally founded to teach marksmanship to citizens, it's now the 800 pound gorilla advocating for all 2nd Amendment rights.  NRA has well over 5,000,000 members.

Gun Owners of America (GOA)

Founded founded in 1975 by NRA board member and California state senator H.L. Richardson, The united voice of GOA members and its intense grassroots activism has been successful in defeating restrictive legislation designed to disarm Americans, and GOA has won much praise for its work.  The GOA, unlike the NRA, has been described by Congressman Ron Paul as "The only no-compromise gun lobby in Washington."  The group has about 300,000 members.

 
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF)

Founded in 1974 by Alan Gottlieb, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is dedicated to promoting a better understanding about our Constitutional heritage to privately own and possess firearms. To that end, they  carry on many educational and legal action programs designed to better inform the public about the gun control debate.

Citizens Committee to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA)

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) is the lobbying affiliate of the Second Amendment Foundation. . The CCRKBA was founded by Alan Gottlieb in 1971, three years before he founded the SAF. The organization was formed to advocate the individualist interpretation of the Second Amendment by firearm enthusiasts who felt that the National Rifle Association (NRA) was not taking a strong enough stand on gun control and gun rights^.  As of January 2015, both groups reported having over 650,000 members.

So if you value your God-given freedoms as protected by this great country, take a stand now, because this is where the fight begins. If we loose the freedom of speech, the right of assembly and the right to bear arms, all our other precious freedoms will vanish, and will be gone with the wind.

Molon Labe

It was inevitable. Here we go again.  Gun control.  And I think the Kenyan has actually been spoiling for this fight, such is his narcissistic petulance.  No matter that gun control is not a very popular issue now, given current events wherein crazed terrorists can be found shooting up people, places and things.  People are rightly aware that when seconds count in a threat, the police are only minutes away.  Better have a gun, son.  

But the Kenyan, fresh from yet another golfing vacation in Hawaii, wants to come back to DC and  - with nothing more than a pen and a phone - issue another worthless, idiotic edict of which he is so fond.  Tail wagging and tongue panting, Attorney General Loretta Lynch will do the Boy Dictator's bidding and attempt to enforce one more anti-Second Amendment executive order that Dear Leader will most certainly issue.  This time it will be to curtail private firearm sales between private citizens, euphemistically referred to as the gun show loophole.  Constitutional?  Hell, no, but who's going to stop him?   His fellow travelers in the far, far left Democratic party, along with the super-PAC Democrat press, have already attempted to stifle the First Amendment.  So what's the problem with eradicating the Second? 

No matter that in Texas, open carry is now law, and many other states are considering similar legislation allowing open carry by concealed weapon permit holders.  In the last few years gun stores all over the country are seeing people purchase firearms and ammo in ever increasing numbers.  And it's all because people see a heightened need for definitive self defense, both from bad guys, whether imported or domestic, as well as from the federal government.  My household, for instance, was one of many that added a few items to its inventory last month.

So, for Second Amendment protectors and patriots, the operative slogan is now Molon Labe (Mo' lon la' ve), the famous utterance by King Leonidas at the battle of Thermopylae, in response to the Persians' demand for the Spartans to surrender their weapons.  

Fittingly, the Governor of Texas, when asked about the Kenyan's confiscation intentions, said simply, "Come and take it."  Brilliant and articulate.  

Let the revolution begin.

2015 Christmas Gifts

Christmas is over.  Again.  The presents are opened and enjoyed, the Big Dinners are eaten and the good china and sterling silver are washed and put away, and thoughts of dieting, exercise and sobriety reclaim serious real estate in our holiday-ized brains.  Did we get everything we wanted?  Or at least some things we needed?  I'm sure we all did.  And we, as Americans, got some interesting things this year, too.  Let's take a look at a few of these gifts:

The Occurrence of Eradicated Disease

This is the gift that keeps on giving.  Just think:  diseases that were wiped out decades ago are now being diagnosed all across the fruited plain.  E. coli infested Chipotle restaurants all over the country; Tuberculosis found in the east; Leprosy in the northeast; Dengue Fever in the southwest.  That's just a few.  According to the CDC, all of these outbreaks are attributable to illegal aliens from Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Philippines, Vietnam and elsewhere.  Many of these diseases came from the children that were allowed into the US unaccompanied.  Why haven't we heard more about this?  Here's why:  To protect the Kenyan's insane immigration policies.  If you think the truth about illegal alien crime is suppressed from public awareness, just try to find information on the contagious diseases brought across our borders by illegal aliens.  Looking at official government data of the past fifteen years, it's clear we are still being invaded daily by dangerous diseases.  There is good reason to believe the government is minimizing this risk as part of its disinformation campaign to sanitize illegal immigration and to portray all critics as anti-immigrant. And although the U.S. Border Patrol publishes frequent reports on the number of individuals apprehended crossing the border, no government agency publishes reports on the diseases they bring with them.  And no, the 700,000 illegals that came across in 2015 were not - and are not now - screened for infectious diseases.  

The Demise of the Republican Party

As this government of both parties continue to govern against the will of the people, it's no surprise that the political outsider candidates are blowing up the polls.  Our political structure is based on the two party system: one party is in control, and the other party acts as the "loyal opposition."  Opposition to political policy, not to the nation's constitution.  But that's all upside down now as the Republican party more and more resembles the Democrats in policy and ideology.  That poses a problem.  Americans are sick and tired of being lied to, condescended to, and having their wishes and fears ignored in favor of the policies of some obscure global oligarchy.  The revolution of the grass roots conservative base versus the entrenched Yankee Republican establishment will render the Republican Party unrecognizable in the near term, as conservatives, finally having had enough, take over the party from the neocons.  But this is just the beginning.  This revolution will spread outward, and if successful, will return the nation to a two party constitutional republic again, leaving the totalitarians to with and die.  Make no mistake:  there will be a revolution, be it at the ballot box or in the streets.  The establishment knows this, and that's why they have been trying so very hard to disarm Americans since 1968.

The Privatization of Space

Long the province of well funded governments, space exploration and technology is now being picked up by private enterprise.  SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are currently the most visible, but there are others; as many as a dozen at this writing.  Remember all those science fiction movies in which corporations are the owners and operators of deep space mining, exploration and colonization projects?  Well, that's soon to be science fact. Already private space companies are making deliveries to the International Space Station, and this will continue as governments find more Earth-bound projects to fund. NASA is still the patriarch in space research and technology of course, but I see investment in space oriented companies as a far better bet than any of these current silly "green energy" nonsensical boondoggles.  Humans are explorers by nature, and space is right out there to discover.  The new and advanced technologies needed for deep space exploration will have a trickle down benefit to everyone on Earth.  Hopefully we can focus on exploring and expanding humankind, rather than regressing to a 7th century mindset.   Maybe my grandkids will have the opportunity to honeymoon on Luna or perhaps visit friends on Mars.  And if I get a chance, I'm going!

Hope and Change Fraud Exposed

Even the die hard, goofy, can't-we-all-just-get-along hippy types are beginning to see what their breathless endorsement and worship of the Kenyan has wrought over these last 8 years.  We're less free, less wealthy, and more controlled, and these present day Benedict Arnolds must now take responsibility for their unicorn chasing hunger for utopia.  They now are coming to recognize that all that "hope and change" rhetoric has hidden a very sinister outcome.  Think of the divisiveness we've seen in the last seven years:  distrust of whites, blacks, and Hispanics; distrust of cops and government; spying on everyone; gender bending that has now become completely absurd.  What about us versus them in the government?  Well, white people and men in particular, Christians, Southerners, cops, and conservatives are all targets of the Kenyan's well oiled hate machine.  The weaponization of government bureaucracies like the EPA, IRS and NSA are good examples of government control.  And even the media's epic failures in covering for this regime are evidence of the press's loss of  influence and prestige with much of the public.  Do you believe the New York Times or the Washington Post?  Me either.  The media, whether aware of it or not, will continue to lose face as the Kenyan's deceit and their complicity in it are fully exposed.  Evil will shrink back and wither and die when exposed to the direct light of day, and it's dawn in America, folks.

The True Face of Islam
News, photos and videos this year alone from France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Greece, north Africa, Hungary, and elsewhere have shown to the world the true face of Islam.  Far from the peaceful and homey images their propaganda and public relations campaigns spew, Muslims continue to conquer with a medieval ferocity not seen in a very long time. As the killings here in the US by Muslims - at Fort Hood, Garland Texas, Chattanooga and San Bernadino - clearly show, Islam wants to kill you or convert you.  In every county they invade, they aggressively seek to convert endemic cultures to sharia law.  They have been a terror organization for centuries, and even Thomas Aquinas wrote of his distrust of Muslims eight centuries ago.  Despite attempts by CAIR and the DC media to whitewash Islam's intents, history proves otherwise.  Now we have ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Taliban, the Muslim Brotherhood and countless other terrorist groups killing, beheading, stoning, drowning, hanging and raping across the world.  And many of these extremists are in high level positions within the US government.  If you study history of the world's never-ending conflict with Islam, you'll recognize that this is their last big push for dominance, culminating in a WW III and the Apocalypse. And as facts continue to leak out, it'll be publicly known that the Kenyan has been, and still is, instrumental in aiding, abetting and arming this Muslim insurgency.

So with all these great gifts received during 2015, I can't wait for next Christmas, when we, as a Christian conservation nation, can reciprocate in kind with our own gifts back to our current gift giving benefactors.

RINOs Want A New Party?

This is just rich!  The Republican Party's anointed insiders have publicly stated that if Donald Trump is nominated as the Republican candidate for president, they may have to start a new party, so distasteful to them is a Trump candidacy.  Never mind that it was they who demanded a statement of support from Trump forcing his commitment to loyalty to the party.  A typically unilateral agreement, it would seem.  At that time the party elders probably thought their heirs apparent Jeb! Bush and Marco Rubio would be overwhelmingly embraced by we, the great unwashed.  But something unforeseen happened on the way to the lectern.  It seems we, the great unwashed, actually would prefer an outsider candidate to lead our nation back to prosperity, rather than the entrenched, tenured and disconnected candidate selected for us by the party bosses. And for good reason, not the least of which is the ominous $1.1 trillion omnibus bill Christmas present that Paul Ryan and the Republican controlled congress gave the Kenyan just last week. That bill was a slap in the face to the American voters, who for the last two midterm elections have sent Republican after Republican to both the Senate and the House to stop the Kenyan's disastrous totalitarian policies.  But somehow these freshmen Republicans have "grown" in office - to use a democrat term - and despite their campaign promises to the contrary, now support the big government, big spending policies in Washington DC.  Democrats gloat, dance, and can't believe their good fortune.  Who says you can't buy me love?

And They Are Frighteningly Close!

So the American electorate is acutely aware that the left,  lead by the Dear Leader himself, is intent on destroying American culture.  White privilege, black lives matter, global climate change, erasing the Confederacy from history, promoting morally repugnant ideas such as homosexual lifestyle and the selling of human baby parts, and worst of all, embracing the Islamic invasion and its inevitable sharia law, are all  leftist constructs designed to overwhelm Americans into accepting this transformation into a totalitarian regime, and as such rejecting their libertarian foundation.  So far the electorate has resisted this transformation by speaking loudly at the ballot box.  So far.  As elected Republicans, along with kindred spirits across the isle, continue to govern against the will of the people, it should come as no surprise when outsiders, defying both political correctness and the media, surge overwhelmingly in the polls.  

So let the neoconservatives and big government RINOs whine about starting a new party.  They really don't have to go to the trouble, because after all, they've been democrats all along.  

If You're In A Fight, Fight To Win.

Yesterday I posed the question why aren't we winning the war against Islam?  After all, against the greatest military in the world, they have no chance in an all-out confrontation.  Today that question is answered by way of a brilliant article in Breitbart by Steven Bannon and Alexander Marlow titled A Stark Choice:  Ted Cruz's Jacksonian Americanism vs.Marco Rubio's Wilsonian Internationalism. 

Wilsonian Internationalism

The answer to why we don't win can be answered in this way:  because we don't fight to win.  The current administration and ruling class are adherents of a political viewpoint - a philosophy - of Woodrow Wilson's brand of progressivism.  It calls for doing the right thing without regard to any other concern, especially patriotic nationalism.  Of course, defining what is "right" is highly subjective. So in the Wilsonian view, wars are conducted to improve the world, and actually winning them, or concern for national interest or pride is secondary.  Rather than just completely wiping out an enemy, Wilsonianism requires that we must change their hearts and minds so that they are better able to work harmoniously in the international community. In the last seven years we've seen the fallacy in that.  Wilsonians feel they are intellectually superior, and they eschew such low-brow concepts as national pride, preferring instead to be considered citizens of the world. Rubio is a Wilsonian.

Jacksonian Nationalism

The opposing view, Jackonianism, is a form of nationalism found in Andrew Jackson's attitude toward his enemies.  As president, he beat the Indians, defeated the British and expanded United States territories which was the foundation of the US eventually becoming a world super power.  With respect to war, the view is that we simply vanquish the enemy, because it's in the United States' best interests to do so.  We saw this philosophy to war fighting in WWII, especially in the final days of the conflict in both the European and Pacific Theaters, and again decades later with the famous Powell Doctrine that General Norman Schwarzkopf administered in the liberation of Kuwait.  The devastation was complete and overwhelming. Jackonianism is less an intellectual or political movement than an expression of the social, cultural and religious values of the majority of the American public.  To Jacksonians, the bond to and protection of kith and kin and nation, is primary to other considerations.  And they fight to win.  Cruz is a Jacksonian.

No wonder so many Americans are confused by seemingly conservative candidates so stridently in favor of such non conservative issues as immigration and foreign interventionism.  The matter can be summed up in this way.  American politics has transcended from simply a Republican vs Democrat, or liberal vs conservative, or even a left vs right narrative.   Policies and issues are now woven into the fabric of global concerns. One side asks, "Is it the right thing to do?"  The other side asks, "Is it the best thing for us to do?"

In history and human events, the pendulum always swings from one side to the other.  Even though they may not understand the nuances of the prevailing philosophies, Americans know they're tired of neoconservatives of both parties involving us in costly policies and unwinnable wars.  And it's why the simple and straight forward ideas put forth by both Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are resounding so well with American voters.

As my daddy used to say, "Never get in a fight.  But if you're in a fight, fight to win."  Sage advice, Dad.

Why Aren't We Winning The War With Islam?

OK, now we've had our meditative pause to clear our collective minds and refresh our souls.  Now let's open our eyes and look again at the world:  Has it changed for the better?  Nope.  Savages are still killing and maiming innocents on every continent.  But we're now clear of any bigotry and bias, and we see exactly what it is we see.  So.  Why aren't we winning the war with Islam?  Let's look to our Dear Leader to enlighten us in his own words (links open original source):

The Kenyan's Comments on Islam

Creator and Defender of Islamic State

#1 “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”

#2 “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer”

#3 “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.”

#4 “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”

#5 “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”

#6 “Islam has always been part of America”

#7 “we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities”

#8 “These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”

#9 “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”

#10 “I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam.”

#11 “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.”

#12 “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed”

#13 “In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.”

#14 “throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”

#15 “Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality”

#16 “The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.'”

#17 “I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.”

#18 “We’ve seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.”

#19 “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”

#20 “I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.”

The Kenyan's Comments of Christianity

The Antichrist?

#1 “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”

#2 “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”

#3 “Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?  Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination?  Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?”

#4 “Even those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages – the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ’s divinity – are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.”

#5 “The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.”

#6 From Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope: “I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex—nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount.”

#7 Obama’s response when asked what his definition of sin is: “Being out of alignment with my values.”

#8 “If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church, would they.”

#9 “This is something that I’m sure I’d have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. There’s the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they’re going to hell.”

#10 “I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell.  I can’t imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity.  That’s just not part of my religious makeup.”

#11 “I don’t presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.”

#12 “I’ve said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know … I do not believe she went to hell.”

#13 “Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God’s will–they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.”

#14 On his support for civil unions for gay couples: “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.”

#15 “You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

#16 “In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology”

#17 “On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.”

#18 “we have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own”

#19 “All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra — (applause) — as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer.  (Applause.)”

#20 “I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.”

That's News To Americans!

Well, that pretty much sums it up for me as to whose side he's on.  The Kenyan withdrew US stabilization from Iraq, promoted the Arab Spring,  hired Muslim Brotherhood members into his administration, abetted and armed ISIS, and committed many other illegal and unconstitutional crimes and misdemeanors.   Yet, there is no doubt that, given the might of the United States' military, and with the proper will, commitment and resolve from the command leadership, this "war" could be over in a few months.  And there wouldn't be any discussion of importing any more of these savages into our country.  But we won't.  We won't do that because this administration will not make war on its own ideology. 

The Necessity Of Staying In Control

Ever notice how the news of the day can adversely affect you, your mood and even the outcome of your day?  Do you ever get aggravated or literally pissed off at the insanity and nonsense you see on the news shows or read on the internet?  Do you sometimes want to reach out apply physical retribution to those purveyors of chaos?  Do you feel as though there's a concerted effort by "them" to control you, your outlook and your well-being?  If you're a news junkie, or if you simply have a good deal of understanding about current political, environmental and financial events and how they impact you, you're probably nodding "yes" to these questions.  And you're not alone.  The sad fact is that the incessant electronic interference you're experiencing is actually there; a deliberate unseen force that seeks to control your life in how you think and how you act.  So what is it that you do to maintain balance and harmony in your life, and to counteract this intrusion? 

The Zen of Being

No, I'm not going all tin-foil-hat on you, dear readers.  I speak of a very real phenomenon known as cognitive overload.  You're constantly being bombarded with too much information, and most of it is inconsequential on its face, but it affects your psyche in unwanted ways.  I can cite innumerable studies which reference this: Facebook addicts are less happy; cell phone users have developed a hunched posture; video gaming causes poor eyesight; and social media makes users less social.  These can be verified, and are widely acknowledged.  My point, in first accepting the notion that modern life is chaotic, is how to counteract all that unwanted garbage, and how to maintain your sanity when you cannot turn it off.

The answer is you must take control of your mental process. It's not as esoteric or as hard as it sounds, in fact it's quite easy to turn off the mental noise.  For instance, take a quiet walk in the woods, but consider your thought process - know what's going on in your mind.  Listen to the wind in the trees or the singing of birds.  Notice the sky and be aware of the weather patterns.  Walk quietly and seek signs of the life all around you, squirrels darting, deer tracks, or smaller things like lizards, perhaps, or even types of mushrooms.    Do this consciously in place of your normal internal dialogue.  Quiet your mind.  Leave you phone at home or in the car.  Or at least turn it off if you need to take it with you.  Be concerned with each step you take, your posture, and most importantly be aware of your breathing.  Yes, breathing.  Consciously inhale deeply, hold for a moment, then consciously exhale fully.  In yoga, this practice of controlled breathing is called pranayama. 

This process of turning off the noise, and paying attention only to the self, is beneficial in many ways.  These benefits include achieving mental clarity, physical health, and an internal self control and peacefulness.  It can be done anywhere, anytime; there are no props, no rituals, just the will to practice self meditation.  At work, just lean back in your chair, close your eyes, relax, and take just 5 minutes to clear your mind, and focus only on your breathing.  You will notice results almost immediately as you enter into a state of deep relaxation.  As you recognize this alpha state of deep relaxation, you'll want to "go there" more often.  The benefits to body and mind will be obvious to you.  And when you gain the discipline to do this for just 15 minutes, three times a day, you'll be amazed at the new you. And, oh by the way, so will your friends and family.

Waiting For November

I can't wait for November.  As the months slide by until we the people can rid the nation of the Kenyan tyrant currently holding the United States hostage, he becomes ever more brazen, and less and less concerned with the will of the people and the rule of law.  His has but 12 months left to complete what he considers to be the ultimate social justice, and that is the destruction of the American culture and way of life.  That's a bold statement, but its veracity is borne out by a reasonable and direct observation of the policies pushed by his regime, er, administration.  Some examples.

Gun Control

You Mean NO Gun Control!

Always the darling issue of the tyrannical left, gun control is far more about control than it is about guns.  All - yes all - credible surveys and studies prove that individuals who are armed are much less likely to be victimized by criminals.  The take away is that armed citizens prevent and/or reduce crime.  But wait.  If armed citizens deter crime, would it not follow that armed citizens also deter governmental attempts to subjugate its citizens?  Historically, unarmed citizens were decimated in Germany, Russia, China and Cambodia. Even today unarmed people are massacred in Rwanda, Syria, Mexico, Iraq and dozens of other hell holes around the world.  But the Kenyan wants to quell private sales of guns without the approval of congress, through "closing" what is euphemistically referred to as the "gun show loophole."  The over-educated, low-intelligent American left wants guns totally banned - banned and confiscated - so that we will be safe.  Not safe from criminals.  Not safe from terrorists.  Nope.  The real reason for complete gun control is that the government wants to be safe from us, so it can impose its imperial will.  Ironically, this is the very reason that open carry laws are sweeping the nation, and gaining support from law enforcement.

Islam

The Spread of Islam

As I've posted here many times, there's a compelling argument to be made that no moderate Islam ideology exists, and that the more than two billion followers of Islam pose a clear and present danger to any and all cultures and nation states that do not adhere to sharia law.  That's the rest of the world.  But because the Kenyan's sympathies lie with Islam, and  it's now no secret that his administration is rife with Muslim Brotherhood members, we must pretend that Muslims are no different from us.  Nonsense.  America first engaged this enemy - yes, enemy - in the earliest days of our nation.  Thomas Jefferson, and later James Madison, fought Muslim barbarism over 200 years ago with the campaign against the Barbary pirates. That conflict is even embodied in the Marine Hymn, "From the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli."  Have we forgotten?  Ironically, the Kenyan may have been right when he proclaimed recently that Islam played a role in the founding of America.  Yes, it certainly did, but not in the way the Kenyan wants you to believe.  Last night I attended the 11th annual CENTCOM Coalition International Night held at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, as I do every year.  It's invitation only so it doesn't get a lot of press.  But it is a way for civilians to interact with officers of the other sixty-odd nations fighting Islam.  It's a wonderful event, as each nation sets out food and drink specific to its culture and traditions.  And many of the officers' wives and family dress in traditional dress. It's held in a huge hanger on the base, and one is free to wander around sampling, interacting and learning about the who and why of these nations joining us in the fight against Islam.  So as the Kenyan along with the American media seek to  minimize - or nullify in many cases - the negative impact Islamic ideology has on our values, one can clearly see that the other seven billion people living on this planet do not want to live under sharia law.  Islam is a very real threat to the world, and has been so for 1,400 years.  Its goal is a global caliphate arising from World War III.  Apart from simply completely and utterly annihilating it, both physically and philosophically, I do not see how it can peacefully co-exist with freedom loving people all over the world.   

Climate Change

Pure Political Nonsense

Now that the cat is out of the bag on this colossal hoax, and China has literally laughed out loud at it, it has been exposed as yet one more discredited scheme to transfer wealth from those create it to those who didn't.  Marvelous.  In the 1970s, the "science was settled" that the world was cooling, and we'd be in an ice age by the 21st century.  When that did not happen, the globalists tried using cut and paste to rekindle (no pun intended) the same old nonsense as global warming.  Cut "cooling,"  paste "warming."  Ah. done.  Now to sell it. The ice age hype was merely misinterpreted science, but the current climate change hoax is far more nefarious.  We can study global temperatures and weather patterns all day long and arrive at certain conclusions.  That's what science is all about.  But when we try to politicize those conclusions, and attempt to lay fault at the foot of developed nations - read the United Sates - then we have a problem.  Climate is and has been determined by solar activity and magnetic fields affecting jet streams and ocean temperatures, and has and will change again and again over millennia:  cooling, then warming, then cooling again.  Over and over. That climate dynamic produces weather, which is local rather than global.  As this pattern has occurred for the last 200 million years or more, it's completely ludicrous on its face to assign blame for climate change on human activity.  They even invented a world for it:  anthropogenic.   Peachy.  The hoax is blown, so the globalists now have to come up with another anthropogenic crises.   Are you ready for this?  The depletion of Earth's fresh ground water.   USAToday has been beating this drum for a while, first about polluted ground water, and now about the depletion of it.   Just wait, there will be more and more "evidence" coming out to create a yet another sense of doom. 

The Election

We're Counting on November

More and more Americans are disenfranchised with their elected government.   They feel powerless in a country founded on the principal that government is elected to serve the people, rather than the people serving the government.  They feel marginalized in recognition that the federal government acts against the will of the people, as it glorifies philosophies abhorrent to most Americans.  Homosexual unions.  Departure from Judaeo-Christian beliefs.  Importation of terror.  Justifying criminality.  Demonizing conservatism. Promoting Islam. Infringement of individual rights. Enactment of social justice over constitutional law.  Corruption of a free press.  A weaponized IRS. And lawlessness in ignoring the Constitution to promote a punitive Marxist political agenda.  Is it any wonder then that the American people have utterly and completely rejected the entrenched ruling class of both parties?  That the insider candidates can get no traction?  And the outsider candidates gain more and more support as the ruling class and their corrupt super PAC media pull out all the stops to destroy them?  I think not.  Jefferson said that the tree of liberty needs to be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants.  Metaphorically speaking, I hope November 2016 will produce that refreshment, as the political ruling class is taken to the proverbial woodshed, and a new government of, for and by the people will begin the long march back to the principals that made this country the greatest in the world.  Because if not, then that blood refreshment will be of much more of a literal sense.  And unlike the 1860 version of the states versus the overreaching federal government, this time may the good guys win.

A Legacy That Will Live In Infamy

After listening to the Kenyan's speech, or address, or lamentation, or whatever the hell it was, I'm now convinced that he intends to continue to aid and abet ISIS, which he insists on calling ISIL. By doing so, he grants this savage and insane ideology more credibility and power than it actually has.  Peachy.  He refused to call the shooting an act of Islamic terrorism, instead weaseling around the issue by calling it possibly a terrorist act, but more probably merely workplace violence.  He did, however, find time to admonish us to not confer on the poor misunderstood Muslims any more of our misplaced bigotry and discrimination.  Right.  We shouldn't hate them as they are shooting and killing us.  I have a solution for that.  But his denial of the evils of Islam is no surprise, because he, and his administration is packed with Muslim Brotherhood members.  

So while he's telling us that his administration is tracking down and killing bad guys in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan in order to "make Americans safe," he continues to import tens of thousands of ISIS fighters into the US disguised as Syrian refugees.  The problem is that ISIS is a global ideology, rather than a nation-state, and it needs fighting everywhere it shows up, especially within the United States.  All those windows and orphans the Kenyan asserts conservatives are afraid of are actually fighting-aged Muslim jihadists, and they're traveling without women and children.  He also demanded that we reach out to “Muslim communities” to combat terrorists, and that all those good moderate  should help us identify nail the radicals.  Like that will happen.  Even former FBI Counterterrorism Agent John Guandolo said that since 9/11, “we collectively have received nearly zero help from the Muslim Community.”  No kidding.  What a surprise.

Clearly not finished being petulant and condescending while talking down to Americans, the Kenyan then launched into one of his favorite themes:  gun confiscation - er, I mean control.  Lost on the Kenyan is the irony that California has some of the strictest and restrictive guns laws in the nation, and that no gun law - either enacted or proposed - would have stopped this carnage.  You see, Barry, criminals don't obey laws, that's why they're criminals.  No matter.  A defenseless society is a compliant society, in the Kenyan's view.  Taking Christ's advice to "sell your coat and buy a sword," Americans have set new records for each of the last two months for firearm purchases. Let's see, US citizens now need a handgun for everyday carry, and a long gun or a shotgun for home defense.  Got it.  With the Kenyan's importation of ISIS fighters, along with sleepers already here, it's a target rich environment out there.

USS Shaw Exploding

So the Kenya's Sunday lecture was just more of his same anti-American rhetoric:  Islam is good, and you American fools and your guns are the problem. And even though today is Pearl Harbor Day, not a word was uttered to honor those who have upheld the American culture and way of life, and have vanquished - that means killed - our enemies.  But with this Marxist Muslim, it's no surprise, for he is America's enemy.