A Coke And A Smile: Lies And Damned Lies

One of the most engaging characteristics of the Donald is the way he can so brilliantly provoke the media.  Recently CNN was so absorbed with the false report that Trump drank twelve Diet Cokes a day, that they ran a day-long segment about what harm to one's physical and mental being can arise from drinking diet sodas.  Whew!  Good to know, CNN.  

Meanwhile, in the real world, another Muslim terrorist blew himself up - and his dick off - at the bus terminal in New York City.  So while Trump trolls the idiot talking heads in the MSM, they miss another real news story while trying to besmirch the President.  Funny thing, though.  The joke is on the MSM because real people in the real world aren't buying the propaganda any more.  Oh, and by the way, they're also fed up with it.  

Most recent dickless Muslim

Speaking of terrorists, Russian President Vlad Putin has withdrawn Russian troops from Syria, presumably because ISIS has been defeated there.  I'm not so sure about that.  Says who?  The MSM?  They lie to serve their own agenda; nothing they put out is unbiased "news."  The supposition that the enemy is defeated, and we can go home now is what the United States thought when the Kenyan withdrew US forces from Iraq.  How'd that work out?  But, you say, ISIS is so badly diminished they can't recover.  They're toast.  Don't kid yourself.  They always get back up and continue on.  Here's why.

What the Western governments either don't understand, or refuse to acknowledge is that unlike campaigns the US and its allies have waged in the last century against Italy, Japan, and Germany, in which unconditional surrender and total and complete cessation of hostilities was was the result, the fight with Islam isn't with a nation state that has an interest in self preservation.  Islam is still fighting the Crusades, and has been engaged in that conquest for the entirety of its existence.  Since Mohammad claimed to be the messenger of Allah fourteen hundred years ago, Islam has had but one goal.  And that is to die for Allah in eradicating or subjugating every human being in the world who isn't Muslim.  There's no political issue involved; there's no gain for their side, and there's no negotiated peace to be had.  Islam can't be simply defeated; it must be eradicated from the face of the Earth.  Harsh?  So be it. We're at war, folks, whether you want to believe it or not.  There are no moderate Muslims; there are only Islamists in any and all forms:  ISIS, Muslim Brotherhood, Al Quada, Boko Harem, Hamas, Palestine, and CAIR.  And, dear readers, their stated aim is to bring the fight to a to-the-death conclusion.  Its us or them.  I vote for us.

They're serious - we're not

So while CNN and other idiots debate the effects of diet soda, thinking they have manipulated public opinion of the president, as they continue to lie about Islam's intentions, the real news is that the enemy continues to attack, kill, maim, and engage in civilization jihad.  They are here, and when they have the numbers to vote themselves into positions of power (note London's troubles and its Muslim mayor), then the liberty-based country we know as the US will be gone, turned into a Sharia tyranny.  

So you can buy a gun and fight for America, or buy a goat and a camel.  Because the third world is where we're headed if we lose this fight.

The Same Sneak Attack

Days of infamy

Seventy-six years ago yesterday, the American naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy. The total number of American military personnel killed was 2,335, including 2,008 navy personnel, 109 marines, and 218 army soldiers. Added to this were 68 civilians, making the total fatalities at 2,403 dead. 1,177 were from the battleship USS Arizona alone. The number of wounded came to 1,143 with 710 navy, 69 marines, and 364 army personnel, as well as 103 civilians.  The very next day, Franklin D. Roosevelt committed the United States to a state of war with Japan.   Four years later, Japan surrendered to the US unconditionally, having been summarily beaten.

Just sixty years after Japan's infamous strike, radical Islamic Muslim Saudi fundamentalists attacked the United States, using hijacked US commercial air carriers as their platform.  The attacks were the most devastating foreign attack on American soil since the attack on Pearl Harbor.  During that attack on September 11, 2001, 2,996 people were killed (including 19 terrorists) and more than 6,000 others wounded. These immediate deaths included 265 on the four planes (including the terrorists), 2,606 in the World Trade Center and in the surrounding area, and 125 at the Pentagon. The very next day nothing happened, as our leaders wouldn't identify a nation state to blame.  Some time later the US invaded Iraq.  Yet over the next sixteen years, countless dollars, and thousands of lives, have been spent to make right those wrongs fostered upon us. And Islamic terror continues to this day unabated, our response castrated by political correctness.

What a profound difference in American resolve in the six decades between these two sneak attacks.  America responded in kind to the Japanese threat in 1941, yet today flounders about ineffectively, Vietnam-style, making the military industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about ever richer, and our enemies ever more emboldened.  Consider the arrogance and existential threat from rogue states such as Iran and North Korea, for example.  Where now are those hard men, ready to do hard things?   Have we become a nation of pajama boys, with man-buns and cool tats, waiting for our wives and girlfriends to tell us what to think?

I hope not.  Maybe the return of the American male is at hand.  Maybe there will be an American adult - a leader - who will find a victorious end to the Crusades.  Maybe.

Calling Rick Dekard

As if the natural process of staying alive and well on planet Earth wasn't vexing enough, we now come to understand that our scientific community, aided in part by the techno-weenies in Silicon Valley, is doing its best to develop more artificial life to compete with us, the endemic human race.  Well.  Isn't that special?

Those are some freaky eyes!

In an interview with Sophia, a fully developed artificial cyborg - that means robot - we learn that it - er, she - would like to have a baby, thinks a cyborg/human brain would be a good thing, no longer pines for the destruction of humanity, and oh, yeah, would like to develop more human-like emotions.  How enlightened.  Saudi Arabia granted it - er, her - citizenship, as well as appointed it knowledge ambassador for the the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation.  Well.  A few weeks ago, ISIS announced that it will take their jihad fight to the US through robots.  And drones.  Maybe they can.  And will.  This Sophia machine was developed by a Hong Kong company, and our own techno-weenies in the US are beside themselves to catch up.  MIT has developed a frightening running quadruped, named Cheetah, that is outright scary.  And the silly but destructive feminist movement has so alienated heterosexual men in American culture that they seek life without women.  See MGTOW.  Of course, one unintended consequence of this race for AI beings is the advent of the sexbot.  Forget virtual reality porn, you can buy one here.

And speaking of creation, rather than pursue the mechanical/electrical robotic models like most scientific labs have done, U.S. researchers have developed a living organism that incorporates both natural and artificial DNA and is capable of creating entirely new, synthetic proteins.  This is a major step toward creating artificial life.  Really.  No problem, the scientists tell us, it's all controlled.  It can't escape into the wild and genetically change anything.  Just like Round Up, I'm sure.  The fact that the developers are interested in using this expanded genetic alphabet - the new X and Y proteins along with the natural G, C, A, and T - to create new types of proteins that can possibly be used to treat disease isn't sufficient to dissuade skepticism. They developed these two new DNA markers originally as a new strain of E. coli bacteria, after all.  I'm reminded of Dr. Malcolm's prescient observation in Jurassic Park, "Life will find a way."  Yep.  What could possibly go wrong?

Calling Rick Deckard

Too much change in the natural order will invariably affect the matrix of life and balance.  Should these robots, or some genetically modified organisms - these constructed replicants - inevitably go rogue, the unintended consequences we'll endure will most certainly necessitate a new breed of hunter. 

So maybe we really do need a Blade Runner.

Weaponized Titallation

Is it just me me, or do you, too, sense an ulterior motive in all this sexual inappropriate behavior in the news recently?  On the surface, it seems as if the entire female sex has suddenly gotten the courage to rise up and fight back against toxic masculinity by exposing (pun intended) all this gropin' goin' on.  How modern.  How egalitarian.  Good girls, innocent and pure, against the perverted will of horny old men.  How genuinely enlightened.

I call BS, notwithstanding that most of the perps, er, alleged perps, are mostly left wing types, whose moral code can be summed up as "Do as you will."  The left, unlike the right, doesn't typically eat its own.  So what can explain all these democrats and progressives getting hit with sexual misconduct charges all at once?  Some say it's a prelude to getting Judge Moore, and then President Trump.  I'm not sure how the left can smear Trump with that; he's already passed that trial by fire.

Some may call me a misogynist for this, but I think most - if not all - of these women's claims are made out of expectations of money or notoriety, or both. Or maybe by the fact that they are, at heart, misandrists themselves.  But the truth is this.  Women, by their nature, gravitate to powerful men.  Women, by their nature, seek to be attractive to those powerful men.  Men, by nature, are hardwired to pursue and capture.  So when men and women are cast together in a social or professional setting, what could possibly go wrong?  Titillation in all its forms is noticed by men, and those men will act on it.

Does that offend you?  Tough.  Blame God.

So -  you want some more of this?

Females have always had this power to make or destroy men.  That's God's attempt at a balance of power.  So be it.  But since the so-called feminist movement, that titillation has been weaponized.  Honey pot stings are a daily trip wire for any man who is near any woman.  Want to destroy a career?  Eliminate a competitor?  Smear an opponent?  Here's the tired and true way to do it.  Bring in a titillating female, and let nature take its course.

Weaponizing titillation.  Men don't have a chance.  

And it's not even a fair fight.

The Demise of Consequence

One of the most disturbing societal trends noted of late is the absolute demise of consequence.  Not merely the limiting of consequence, but the utter and complete lack of consequence.  It's almost as if Aleister Crowley's famous dictum of "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" has become the absolute law of the land. The desires of individual will supersede any moral constraints put upon it, especially by any deity, we are told.  Morality has gone out of fashion.  How quaint.

Deserter at large

Take for instance the recent courts martial of one Bowe Bergdahl, the US Army Sergent who deserted his post in Afghanistan in 2009.  He mailed his personal belongings back to his parents, told them he was ashamed to be an American, and then walked off his post to join the Taliban.  A search and rescue unit was sent out to find and return him, and they met with hostile enemy fire and suffered casualties.  This wasn't "Saving Private Ryan."  This was a mission to take custody of a traitor.  We're told Bergdahl was "captured" by the Taliban and tortured.  But for five years gave up valuable information to the enemy about US operations in country. He was charged with - and later pleaded guilty to - “desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.”  The judge, a female officer it should be noted, gave "considerable weight" to Bergdahl's supposed treatment at the hands of his presumed captors.  Further, his attorneys argued that Bergdahl was suffering from certain personality disorders, and suffered from stress.  He could have received a life prison sentence. Instead, he received no prison time, a reduction in rank, a fine and a dishonorable discharge.  It was a slap on the wrist for a traitor Muslim sympathizer; a slap in the face to America.  For the treasonous acts of desertion and giving aid and comfort to the enemy, Bergdahl suffered no consequence for his actions. It's been said that case law makes for bad law, and this judge's decision leaves emasculated any notion of consequence to treason.   

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Martin Luther

Five hundred years after Martin Luther first nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church in Germany, anonymous evangelical Anglicans this week posted a 95 Theses-style complaint on the doors of five British cathedrals, essentially demanding that the Church of England follow the Bible on LGBT issues.  The established reform churches - Episcopal, Anglican and others - in the US and UK have strayed for from Biblical teachings as they have caved into the pressure put upon them for acceptance by the homosexual and confused sexuality crowd.  Infamous in his decree some years ago, Episcopalian Bishop Gene Robinson - a homosexual himself - led that church away from convention into a confused politically correct policy of homosexual inclusion.  Memberships in those churches dropped precariously.  But no matter God's word, homosexuality must be embraced, even worshiped, on the altar of man's law.  So consequence be damned: morality is a social construct; it's meaning is fluid.  There is no higher authority than that of the will.  Do what thy wilt.  There is no consequence for defying moral law.  Right.

Still not convinced?

How about the revelations of the astounding, mind boggling activities in perversion, depravity and selfishness exhibited by the elites, our betters?  Misogyny, misandry and pedophilia is everywhere we look in the high towers.  Hollywood has always been known for is promiscuity, as the powerful take advantage of the powerless, and the powerless prostitute themselves to the powerful.  But when it's done in the dark of deceit, no one notices.  Or cares.  But should it come to light, as it now has, the hew and cry is heard throughout the land.  A show is canceled.  A board membership is rescinded.  An apology is made. But what of consequence?  Is there to be any?

And what of the corruption of our political leaders?  The examples are numerous.  An ex-senator goes to prison for sexting a 15-year old girl.  Ex-presidents frolic in a Caribbean island with underage boys and girls, out of sight and away from the law.  The deceit and corruption of an ex-Secretary of State and former First Lady is so vast, well, she's just too big to fail.  She'll retain her millions of dollars unlawfully gained and will face no consequence at all for her decades of deceit and even murder.

There are many, many more examples of corruption without consequence.  Just read the news.  The trickle down is obvious.  Society defines deviancy down ever more every day.  James Madison said that only a just and moral society can remain a republic.  Ben Franklin noted that a man's moral core was indeed required to permit him to govern himself.  And John Dewey reminds us that the lack of personal responsibility leads to tyranny.    Perhaps the tide has begun to turn, back to acceptance of personal responsibility and of consequence of actions.  

We can only pray.

The Crime of Fame

Why is that some folks will do anything for fame - if for only the proverbial fifteen minutes?  Recently, some poor misguided souls have taken their lives, publicly and graphically, on Facebook and other social media sites.  One, a 49-year-old man, and another, a 12-year old girl, died by their own hands on live streaming video.  One by a gunshot to the head, and one by hanging, respectively.  What can be said of a society that craves this kind of morbidity? And what can be said about someone who wishes to die - right in your face?  What kind of last word is that? 

Thankfully, those videos have since been taken down, although the girl's video stayed up nearly two weeks.

Is the need for fame - or perhaps just fleeting recognition - so strong that some require that you - and we - watch them die?  Perverse.

But even more perverse is the serial killer.  He kills for his own edification in living, not the victims' in death.  And while his motivations may be varied and many, the end result is that someone is dead, and lives are shattered. This month a killing spree has occurred in a quiet oak-canopied residential neighborhood in Tampa, Florida.  Three people have been shot and killed within a week, and law enforcement, while struggling for clues, have acknowledge that the victims knew each other, and the killings are surely related.  Meanwhile, the fear is palatable in Seminole Heights, as residences are vigilant and wary.  Many think the two 20s-somethng men and the 30s-something woman were killed as a result of a personal relationship somehow gone bad.  Others think there was only one target, and the other two were killed as a way to avert suspicion.  Still others think it is all random, and the killer seeks what he perceives to be fame and glory.  We will find out eventually.  

The dead tell no tales

But perhaps we should take a look in the mirror as a society.  What is it about this cult of death that so fascinates?  I'm the last one to blame society for a single individual's madness, but perhaps the graphic violence in movies, in video games, and in the news related to Muslim jihad have rendered our sensibilities a little hardened.  And that has defined deviancy down. Something seems to be going on that desensitizes us to graphic murder.  For instance, some unknown number of shooters just killed 50 concert-goers and wounded five hundred more in Las Vegas earlier this month.   Five hundred fifty people left with shattered lives, and all within ten minutes.  Unfathomable.

At the end of the day, we have people killing others - or themselves - solely for notoriety, either instantly or posthumously.  No matter.

That's the evil nature of the crime of fame.  

All Quiet on the Western Front

It sure is quiet out there.  Nothing to be heard.  Crickets.  The silence is deafening.  What should be the most important story in media is instead left simmering on the back burner, while nonsense like Harvey Weinberg's peccadilloes dominate the front page.  That's a story?  Yeah, for maybe a day.  Let me ask you, my great American friends, do you give a tinker's damn about Hollywood's internal incestuousness?

Neither do I.

Or how about this non-story about one democrat Rep. Frederica - she of the sequined cowboy hat - Wilson's tête-à-tête with President Trump?  Is that a worthy story?  Nope.  That's a nothing burger, too.   Just another crazed democrat with a penchant for self promotion at The Donald's expense.  Add her to the rantings of Pelosi and Waters, all elderly ladies on the political wane. 

Carnage

What should be on the news, every minute of every day, is the investigation and solving of the worst mass shooting in American history.  The fact that it's been shoved into the "nothing to see here, move on" category tells me it's bigger than big.  The media's silence tells me that this story is probably bigger than the Kennedy assassination.  There are surely some similarities.  Multiple shooters, patsy setup, disappearing witnesses, dying witnesses, choppy timeline, possible mob and CIA involvement, even a grassy noll. (Well, metaphorically speaking: I refer to the shots coming from behind the stage). 

Yet have we heard even a peep about this event in the last few weeks?  Nope.  Nada.  Mandalay Bay is the twenty-first century's Dallas Book Repository.  All the fire came from there, they tell us.  Right.  We'll have to await the Warren Commission's findings, we will surely be told.  In fifty years.

Meanwhile the media distraction is in full swing.  Sex, perversion and petty drama take front page above-the-fold.  To satiate the masses.  What's the issue, we're asked?  Bump stocks.  Yep, that must be the problem.  All the while the media and their government overlords cover up the truth of Muslim jihad and support from government sponsored gun running.  Fast and Furious in orders of magnitude.

Meanwhile, it's all quiet on the western front.  

Simulation? Not Buying It.

Synaspsial Reality?

Further to certain comments made on Facebook and elsewhere about the universe being a simulation, let me add my take on that.  Firstly, that notion ain’t new; Hinduism identified the world as being Shiva’s dream eons ago.  And Buddhism considers reality merely an outpouring of the unified Universal mind.  Carl Jung amplified that idea as well. And recently we discover that all stories – in every book, myth or movie ever conceived – contain one or more variations of only six plots.  By definition, that would have to include the whole of human experience, wouldn’t it?

So in stories from the Bible to Shakespeare to Spielberg, we only get six plots?  Is the human mind really that limited?  Wouldn’t a simulation developer give us at least a few more variations so we could broaden our view, our very concept, of the universe?

Yeah, I think so, too.

So while we humans are relatively new at creating reality with only 1s and 0s, some other vaguely defined omnipotent being has done a marvelous job of creating an expanding, mind-bending universe, transcending our limited dimensional view of it.   Perhaps only when we can intellectually deconstruct and understand the vibrant, living soup in which we live, we can fully appreciate the originator of the "simulation."

Sim?  Not buying it.

Inglorious Ingrate

What can you call a man who, with some but not a great deal of athletic ability, is able to overcome all the obstacles and failings that mortal men encounter, and become a football star?  A hero?  A man among men? A role model?  Well, if you're talking about Colin Kaepernick, the answer is inglorious ingrate.

Colin Kaepernick, persona non grata

Why?  Abandoned - in the strictest sense of the word - by his biological parents when he was an infant, Colin was adopted by an white, middle class family who made it possible for him to participate in the grand American Dream, which he most probably would not have enjoyed otherwise.  As a black man in a white middle class family, Colin went through school, found his athletic ability, and parlayed that into an eventual professional football career.  With that came wealth, fame and prestige.  Wow!  What a life.  What opportunity was afforded him.  What grace of providence was shown upon him.

But that wouldn't do for our budding social justice warrior.  As his hate for white America grew, he converted to Islam over a year ago.  And as his disdain manifested itself more and more, his athletic prowess faded proportionately.  And so did his playing time on the field.  From the bench, Kaepernick vented his displeasure at America, siding with Black Lives Matter, and anti-police sentiment.  He decided to become a free agent.  He played less and less.  Nobody wanted to play with him.  Or hire him.  Angry black men are no fun to be around.  Then he took the infamous knee during the national anthem.  How bold.  How brave.  How insightful to disrespect the country, the fans, the league and the very game that gave him fame, wealth and prestige. 

And so the cancer spread.  Other players - mostly black - emulated the "protest."  Then coaches and owners.  The talking heads on ESPN thought it was marvelous.  

But then came the backlash.  Fans booed.  ESPN subscriptions dived.  Fans turned off the set, or changed channels when NFL games came on.  Ratings plunged.  Even the President weighed in.  At this writing sentiment seems to have swung in the opposite direction. The end result is an entire once popular industry is in decline. 

The talking heads label him the Man Who Started a Movement.  I doubt that.  This is a parable like some  ancient Greek myth.  The hero rises from obscurity to wealth and power, only to bite the hand that feeds, and is destroyed by his own hubris.  With Kaepernick however - never the sharpest knife in the drawer - the irony is lost on him.  

He's far from a man who started a movement.  He's merely an inglorious ingrate.

Lee Harvey Rerun

Paddock's two! separate fire platforms

The shooting has stopped.  Prayers are ongoing.  Hospitals are working frantically on the wounded, as gunshot wounds are particularly nasty. The shock and disbelief has yet to wear off. And before the smoke has cleared, the far left has already established their narrative even as the investigations begin.  Despite overwhelming developing information to the contrary, we're told by the MSM that the shooter is a lone wolf radical white man, and a NRA and Trump adherent.  But he wasn't any of that.

Like the infamous declarations arising immediately after JFK's murder fifty some odd years ago, the establishment immediately determined that there was only one shooter.   Lee Harvey Oswald, meet Stephen Craig Paddock.  And today they are trying to push the same lie in this incident.   The lone gunman.  But witnesses' video clearly shows automatic heavy weapon fire from other floors of the Mandalay Bay hotel, along with Paddock's fire from the 32nd floor.

Location of other fire apart from Paddock's

Quick to deny any Islamic terrorist element, the MSM ignores the fact that through Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s official Amaq news channel, the group said the suspected gunman, Stephen Paddock, 64, converted to Islam a few months ago.  ISIL referred to Paddock by the nom de guerre Abu Abd al-Barr al-Amriki and said he answered a call to arms by its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. It was Baghdadi who issued a call for a terror strike in Las Vegas back in May of this year.  ISIL doesn't normally claim responsibility for attacks in which they aren't actually involved.  No matter.  No connection here, is there?

Insiders have also contradicted the MSM narrative that Paddock shot himself, when in fact he was killed in a shootout as responders breached his hotel room, according to those who were there.

We will have to wait for a comprehensive investigation to determine all the facts.  But what is telling is when the MSM can immediately - and without confirmation and verification - affirm that Paddock was a lone wolf white domestic terrorist. That's going to be the established narrative.  Count on it.

Like Oswald, fifty-three years ago, Paddock is and will be a patsy.  But unlike Oswald, Paddock actually did have trigger time and he did kill people.   

But act alone he did not.