The Cross and the Crescent

Incompatible Ideologies

It's not surprising.  It's almost expected, now that we've become so desensitized to it.  I'm referring, of course, to yet another horrendous slaughter by Muslims. On Easter, no less.   By Islam's followers.  By whatever name they call themselves, they are Islam.  On Easter Sunday, a terror group associated with the Pakistani Taliban attacked a group celebrating Easter festivities in Lahore, Pakistan. At least 72 people, mostly women and children, were killed and more than 300 were wounded after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives.  This time, a spokesman for the terror group openly admitted that the target was specifically Christians.  The same group claimed responsibility for last year’s March 15 double suicide attacks on Christian churches in Lahore that killed 17 people. This year's Easter Sunday bombing is the fifth attack by this group since December 2015.  Not being satisfied with the slaughter of Christian women and children, ISIS terrorists kidnapped a Catholic priest in Yemen in early March during a raid on a nursing home run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, and killed 16 Christian nuns, nurses and patients.  The message is clear:  Islam is a religion of peace.

The Pope condemned the attacks, yet had harsh words for those who would deny or limit these terror fighters seeking access into civilized countries.  A weapon of love, says the Pope, is needed to combat terror.  With all due respect, I beg to differ.  The longest war in human history has lasted at least 1,400 years, and there seems to be no end in sight.  A lack of willful resolve, and I think, a lack of proper perspective prevents a quick and decisive end to this ongoing impasse.   The West, for whatever its reason or motivation, takes in hundreds of thousands of these wretched Muslim savages, and in every case, the result is the same.  They complain, they take over communities and create no-go zones, they riot, they rape, they stab, they murder and they never, ever assimilate. They come to invade and conquer and transform the native culture, but never to assimilate.

So there it is.  Western leaders welcome them to our shores for any number of misguided reasons; new labor, new voters, to replenish the native gene pool, or whatever.  I've written here before - many times - about the inherent incompatibility of Western ideas of self governance, liberty and freedom of thought, as contrasted with the brutal constraints of sharia law.  So the results of the invasions are always the same.  And the terrorists are forthright as they tell us what their goals are: Islamic domination.  But burdened with political correctness and a naive worldview, our Western leaders are blind to the evil.  So the day of reckoning looms closer as the terrorists acquire more and powerful weapons, not the least of which are nukes from Iran or North Korea.

So while the West fiddles, Rome burns.  The barbarians have breached the city gates.  Islam fights savagely for Christendom's demise.  Yet in the end, there can be only one.

Editor's Note:  Mea Culpa.  It seems I inadvertently deleted the prior post of this same name, and unfortunately there's no mechanism to retrieve it.  Therefore I've reposted the gist of it as a re-edit herewith.  Apologies to my readers who had read the original, and I hope not to screw up like that again!

-LC

Give Them What They Want

Terror Strike Locations

First the caring countries let them in, but they do not assimilate.  Instead they complain, they riot, they stab, they rape.  They take over communities.  They even attack news crews doing their jobs.   And then they blow things up and people get killed and maimed. This equation is occurring once again, this time in Brussels. Multiple targets.  Multiple innocent deaths.  For what?  The forced implementation of multiculturalism, which simply hasn't worked.  Arrogant elitists. Damn the facts, push that narrative.  After the carnage in Paris, the recent arrest of massacre suspect Salah Abdeslam in Brussels was an obvious factor in this slaughter.  It may have been intended as a retaliatory strike, or perhaps an attempt to act before Abdeslam gave up vital information on his terror network.  Which he would have done eventually.  He reportedly told authorities his cell was preparing for new attacks.  More death at the hands of the insane political correctness doctrine:  Even former Prime Minister Tony Blair has blamed liberalism for encouraging terrorists because Britain’s elite feel guilty.  Speaking before today’s attacks, Mr Blair said many politicians are now “unwilling to take people on” because they are scared of looking intolerant.  Scared of being intolerant.  Unbelievable.  People get blown up by insane, radical, cultist savages, and the Western Europeans only fear being labeled intolerant. No matter.  Islam is the religion of pieces.  What can possibly go wrong?

Add a Dose of Instant Karma

Even here in the States, our own HRC declared it's unrealistic to monitor our own borders.  But we can give the invaders free health care while they're here.  We can't be intolerant of fascist murderers, after all, that isn't politically correct.  But what to do?  Take Hillary's and the Kenyan's position?  Let them in by the tens of thousands, and hope they kill us last?  I say the West should capitulate to the Muslim demands.  Yep.  Fully and completely.  I say we should give them the war they so desperately want. In a two-pronged campaign.  If they want to use terror as a weapon, fine.  On the domestic front, let's find each and every one of them, take them to the nearest mosque and blow it up.   There aren't any innocents.  Those not in a terror cell cover for, or are sympathetic to, those who are.  Further, they do not assimilate, they disrupt host cultures.  On the international front, require those Islamic nations who have not allowed any refugees into their countries to do so immediately.  Repatriate all Muslims in Europe and the US to these countries, under force of arms.  Those not in compliance will meet the same fate that Islam has bestowed on the rest of the world.  See photo above.  Hate the West?  Who cares.  But do so on your own desolate desert; not from our lands as you enjoy our largess.

Harsh?  You bet.  But it's way past time to quit screwing around, whining about political correctness, and put an end to this nonsense.  These savages can be annihilated in a matter of days given a proper application of  international will.  And no civilized populace has to suffer their savagery any longer.  Or shall we wait until there's a strike in New York or Houston or Tampa, and it's American body parts that first responders will be stepping over?

It's way past the Alamo, or Pearl Harbor or the Lusitania.  Kill these savage bastards now.  With extreme prejudice.

But It's Harder To Shoot

Author's Sig Sauer P232 in 9mm Kurz

As the daily threats continue to be a very real concern with many Americans, more and more are exercising their God-given rights to bear arms as further guaranteed by the Second Amendment. As they should. But now that firearm manufacturing technology has kept up with the world's greatest gun salesman, the Imperial Kenyan himself, citizens now enjoy a very wide selection of weapons in virtually any caliber, weight and configuration. That's pretty neat. When I first started carrying daily, way back in the late Eighties, there were only a few good options. Here in steamy Florida, especially during the summer, inside-the-waistband or in a pocket are just about the only carry options available in keeping the weapon "concealed." And polymer receivers hadn't been invented, so I carried either a stainless steel Walther PPKS in .380 ACP, or a Colt "lightweight" Combat Commander in .45 ACP. Both are heavy by today's standards, and as such, rather difficult to carry and conceal under lightweight clothing. A shoulder holster was sufficient under a suit jacket, but what happens when you need to take off the jacket? Thankfully today I am able to carry anything I choose, with whatever my wardrobe dictates on that particular day.  And so are you.

Variety!

Today a number of gun makers produce lightweight firearms that weigh in at considerably less than a pound, are less than one inch thick, and are available in 9mm, .380 ACP (9mm kurz, or short), .40 S&W, .357 and even .45 ACP and are small enough to carry in a pocket or purse. Glock, Smith&Wesson, Ruger, Sig Sauer, Colt, Kimber, HK, and many others are producing lightweight, effective firearms designed especially for carry. There are a lot - and I mean a lot - of good choices on the market today.  Some of the more popular concealed carry guns can be found here. The internet is awash with gun writers' opinions, of course, and every gun owner has his own pet favorites as well. If you want to carry a firearm, do read up on them, and then just go to your local gun shop and handle - and shoot - a few. Carry what is most comfortable for you to both carry and shoot. And then, learn to use the weapon inside out. Shoot it - a lot. All very esoteric, isn't it? 

Author's Ruger LC9

Many folks get wrapped around the axle when trading off caliber for size. And that's a tough decision. They want a full power 9mm, or .40 S&W or .45 in a small frame that can be easily carried all day. And with that there can be some serious trade offs involved.  A gun may be perfect for carry, but hard to shoot.  For example, Ruger makes a tiny, lightweight 9mm they call the LC9. It's striker fired (meaning there's no external hammer; it's double action only). In a pocket or purse you'd hardly notice it's there. It's got small size, light weight and full 9mm power. Perfect, huh?  Almost. As a safety feature, the trigger pull is a very long and stiff process, requiring the trigger finger to do a lot of work. And the laws of physics cannot be ignored, either. A light gun shooting a powerful load will result in considerable recoil. And these characteristics can make it harder to shoot, and that leads to diminished accuracy.  So that trade off may result in the choice of a smaller caliber in a slightly heavier frame like a Sig P232.  Put it this way: is it better to have a full power 9mm that you fire at a threat five times but only hit twice, or to have a smaller .380 that you fire at a threat five times and hit five times?

At the end of the day, owing and carrying a firearm is all about what's most comfortable - and less intimidating - for you. Not me, or your cousin, or Aunt Mae. You. So find the ones that you like, and can shoot effectively, and carry in confidence. It's not only your right to do so, it's your civic responsibility, as well.

It's All On The Line

Afraid so, folks.  It's all on the line in November.  If either of the Democrat candidates are elected president of the United States, the constitution will be rendered impotent.  There won't be any fanfare in eliminating it, our laws will simply not be obeyed nor enforced.  On the other hand, the election of  either Trump or Cruz (or both as a ticket, as some have suggested), and barring any high-jinks during the convention, a slow but steady return to a constitutional republic form of government is possible.  Not ensured, by any means, but certainly possible. Let me share with you just a few stories that broke just today as evidence of my concerns.

Criminalizing Differing Opinion

If I Want Your Opinion I'll Give It To You

Even though the whole global-warming-climate-change fraud has been exposed as nothing more than a massive international wealth distribution scam, the Kenyan's regime clings bitterly to it.  It's even been debunked by some of its leading scientists, but no matter, truth doesn't fit the totalitarian narrative.  So Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified Wednesday that the Justice Department has “discussed” taking civil legal action against the fossil fuel industry for “denying” the “threat of carbon emissions” when it comes to climate change.  Astounding.  If the Kenyan's corrupt administration can do that, and the courts actually do hear cases which will result in establishing case law, then what's next?  Will you be arrested and incarcerated for, say, being pro-life?  Or perhaps being pro-Christian heterosexual marriage?  This is not a paranoid conspiracy theory anymore, folks.  They're out in the open with their totalitarian Regressivism, so embolden they have become.  If you think, and you think for yourself, you're a threat to the State, and you must be silenced, rebuked and eliminated.

Big Brother In High School

High School: Counter Intelligence

Say what you will about the government's - and private industry's - digital surveillance of everything from your Xbox to your smart phone.  The Regressives feel that if they spy on everyone, they're not discriminating or profiling, so it's all right.  Completely normal.  Spying on US citizens has become the norm but this next story is right out of Stasi East Germany, or Stalin's secret police.  A new FBI initiative, based on Britain’s “anti-terror” mass surveillance program, instructs high schools across America to inform on students who express “anti-government” and “anarchist” political beliefs.  That safe space indoctrination is paying off.  Now immature, indealistic16-year olds can tattle on each other directly to the government for any slight, real or perceived.  And we know that parents' anti-government views trickle down to the kids, so this is a great program to bypass due process, warrants and all that other nonsense embodied in the constitution.  The FBI won't vet Muslims invaders, they won't indict career criminals like HRC, and they assassinate BLM-protesting American ranchers, but they're fine with politicizing our children.

Emergence of "White Privilege"

The New Army: PVT Bradley "Chelsea" Manning

The insidious indoctrination continues anywhere there's a captive audience, like schools or the military.  I kid you not.  In April 2015, soldiers of the 67^th Signal Battalion based in Fort Gordon, Georgia, were forced to attend a “white privilege” briefing, designed to coach them on how they have systemic privilege for being straight, white men.  In the PowerPoint presentation, the troops were instructed that “race privilege gives whites little reason to pay a lot of attention to African Americans,” primarily because of the invisible “powerful forces” that conspire to keep hard working black Americans down and stop them from being valued by the rest of society. According to the presentation, it is in fact white privilege alone that creates a “yawning divide” in income and general prosperity.  A "fact" like climate change, I guess. Soldiers aren't given the option to opt out, or to disagree; there's no free discussion.  Judicial Watch has been on this forced indoctrination of US soldiers for a while, and not long ago, it was learned that the Pentagon defined conservative groups as "hate groups."   The culture of trigger warnings, white privilege, and microagressions that have started online are now accepted as reality and pushed onto our soldiers.  Where will be the hard men trained to do hard things when we need them?  Quivering in a huddle in some "safe space?"  This is not your daddy's army.  Anymore.


"I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."  Remember Voltaire's classic statement?  Have you heard it recently, or have your heard quite the opposite?  As political correctness continues, day by day, to erode our ability to engage in free speech, to exchange ideas and political positions with each other civilly, without being afraid of criminalization or incarceration, we see our liberties disappear one by one before our very eyes.  Who's doing this?  Over the last seven plus years the Kenyan and his obedient Department of Justice has ramped up a war against white Christian America.  So it's all on the line in November.  The choice is stark - and clear.  To save the republic we must end totalitarianism in America  - in any way possible - just as we have done in Germany, Russia, feudal Japan, Kuwait, Iraq and many other places around the world.  We just never dreamed we'd have to end it here in the United States.

Failed, But Not Failure

IS Cash Cow

I keep hearing folks talk about how the Kenyan's foreign policy in the Middle East has failed. But that is a subjective statement, and it's based on a preconceived idea of what "success" and "failure" mean.  If you mean failure from the standpoint of democracy, freedom and American ideals, then it is.  If you mean failure from the standpoint of furthering unrest, expansion of a radicalized cult and the destruction of Israel, then it isn't.  So to most freedom-loving people of non-Muslim persuasion, it's a total charlie-foxtrot, FUBAR'ed unmitigated failure.  Think of the Iran deal, for instance. The liberation of Iraq and its return to a democratic government earlier this century was undone by the feckless Kenyan in a so called effort to "bring our troops home."  Without a force on the ground, the tribal tide came back in to Iraq and then Syria and the cultists once again took over; blood and death followed.  To the cultists, this foreign policy was a success in that it created fertile ground to recruit and conduct their blood lust campaign to bring about the final apoplectic clash between Islam and everyone else.  The Kenyan himself, I'm sure, falls into the latter category.

There' IS NO Comparison

In America, as in Germany, UK, France, Sweden, Greece, Hungary and countries all over Europe, there is no dispute that that influx of Muslim invaders - whether sanctioned by government's policy, or present illegally -  creates serious burdens on Westerners.  For Americans especially, the lawlessness of this invasion is primary.  But once here, Muslims cause the rise in crime and disease, the impact on local school curricula, the welfare burden, and the inherent incompatibility of sharia law with our constitutional liberty.  Consider this statement from former Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson back in 1955:

In any broad sense, Islamic law offers the American lawyer a study in dramatic contrasts. Even casual acquaintance and superficial knowledge – all that most of us at bench or bar will be able to acquire – reveal that its striking features relative to our law are not likenesses but inconsistencies, not similarities but contrarieties. In its source, its scope and its sanctions, the law of the Middle East is the antithesis of Western law.

Right Back Atacha, Barry

Antithesis. Contrary to.  Dramatic contrast.  In short, sharia law is not harmonious to Western concepts of individual liberty.  To Americans, importing any Muslim into the United States is an affront to the American way of life and constitutional law.  But the Kenyan and the GOP-DEM-MEDIA oligarchy does it anyway.  To them, this anti-American policy is a success.  To Americans, it is an abject failure of American policy.

And they wonder why Donald Trump is soaring in the primaries. 

The Revolution Has Come

There's an interesting phenomenon - hell, a revolution - in American politics, as we have all seen, ad nauseum, for the past year or so.  But the ruling class simply cannot - or will not - acknowledge the cause of this schism.  And it's easy to see why they're in denial.  They can't imagine not being in total manipulative control of the political process.  And it's all the fault of a couple of men who are running for office of the presidency.  I'm speaking of the insider elites and donor class - along with their compliant lap dogs in the establishment media - of the two political parties, each of whom face existential threats, or at the very least a revamping of their traditional party platforms as political outsiders take over the debate. 

Bernie Sanders is a self avowed socialist, and the very fact that that moniker doesn't scream "communist" anymore is evidence of the Democrat party's long slide into pure Marxism. Still high from the seven years of damage done to the constitution by the Kenyan, and abandoning all pretense of what was once a democratic American political party, the Dems are now all out statist in their bigger government, more taxation, nanny state totalitarianism.  Hillary Clinton, never one to be confused with the political right, has, in this campaign, even tried to out-Bern Bernie Sanders' everything-will-be-free-with-me message.  Make no mistake:  both of these aging hippies are big government totalitarians, and the United States Constitution is viewed by both of them as something to be overcome, if not completely abandoned.  These are the candidates that the Democrat Party is putting forth for president, and that in itself is testament to the party's full-on transition way, way, way left.

It gets better on the Republican side.  What the political Illuminati in either party or the MSM can't grasp is that Donald Trump is merely an idea.  They continue to attack, degrade, smear and marginalize the man.  And a vast number of American voters - Trumpinistas, if you will - embrace the idea that Trump is espousing.  And what idea might that be, you ask?  Simple: "We're mad as hell, and we're not going to take it anymore!" The idea that we can once again be a self governing nation, free of an over bearing, over reaching government interfering in our lives, is desirable, attainable and in keeping with the concepts of a free people.  That scares the elites.  And it should.  The strongest man is the one who stands alone.

So the revolution has finally come.  We can see it manifest itself in both Democrat and Republican parties.  For most of the last five decades the American voter has been ignored, demeaned, castigated, and more importantly ignored.  The Democrats, Republicans and the so called watch-dog press have become a single, self serving oligarchy.  Us versus them.  Considered by the establishment as  "flyover country," Middle America and the rubes who inhabit it can't be trusted with self governance.  But then along comes Trump, and even to an extent Sanders, espousing angry solutions to issues that are burrs under the blanket for most Americans. Especially issues that have been perpetrated by the very elites who ignore the voters and impose this nonsense.  These issues are many: unprecedented, unchecked illegal immigration; cost of the rise in crime and disease from illegals; expanse of the social welfare state at the expense of the tax paying citizen; loss of jobs to illegals; erosion of person liberty: weaponization of federal agencies like IRS and EPA; in-your-face destruction of established Christian cultural mores in favor of such abominations as transsexualism and homosexualism; the Islamic propaganda spewed by Common Core; the unending stoking of adversarial race relations by the Kenyan's race pimps; the demise of civility in real life and on social media; the end of free speech; and the pussyfication of college students with the oh-so-intolerant "micro-aggression safe space."  And there are many more.

The Forgotten Man, by Jon McNaughton

So Trump isn't a conservative.  So what.  So Cruz is supposedly hated.  So what.  There would be complaints and gripes about policy if Jesus Christ, the Lord Buddha or Mahatma Gandhi themselves came back to run for president. The crucial first step in November is for voters  to restore political power to the electorate.  To get government smaller, more accountable and off our backs.   This election is about the people versus big government, and the only opposing force against ever bigger government is whomever the Republicans nominate. There are only maybe two candidates who say they'll do just that if elected. If, of course, the GOP gets its act together and doesn't try to pull a brokered convention by nominating Mittens Romney or some other Northeastern Yankee liberal RINO.  If they do that, then this little ol' revolution will be of quite another kind.  Again.  Remember the last time the federal government got uppity and dictatorial?  Six hundred thousand Americans died.  And most of those were on the federal government's side.

When The Whip Comes Down

Captain Clay Higgins In Action

Ain't it funny?  Well, not so much funny as aggravating, enraging and annoying.  I'm talking about how speakers of truth seem to always have some higher authority bring the whip down on them. For speaking truth. Damn, son!  We can't have that!  That higher authority always is cloaked in moral and righteous indignation. That's what they call it.  But it's just censorship cloaked in insidious political correctness.  The most recent example of this is the forced resignation of Captain Clay Higgins of the St. Landry Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana.  

An Army veteran and hardened street cop who rarely cracks a smile, Higgins is the star of weekly Crime Stoppers segments that garnered a cult following and are quickly becoming viral thanks to his back-country Cajun drawl, hard one-liners and brutal honesty.  His videos have been, shall we say, without concern for the delicate sensitivities of the perpetual criminals there.  So gung ho against crime and dumb criminals was he that he's been referred to as the "Cajun John Wayne."  Admiringly so.  Like Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Cap'n Clay is loved by all but the limp-wristed, pearl-clutching cupcakes on the left.  But after making headlines - and inroads to serious crime reduction - with his tough talking over-the-top Crime Stoppers videos, Sheriff Bobby Guidroz ordered him to tone it down.  We can't demean or offend low life, vicious animals like the Gremlin Gang.  The ACLU may come in and complain.  And the ACLU, along with some other "community advocates" did just that.  So instead of standing up for the law abiding citizens of St. Landry Parrish, and supporting the obvious truths spoken by Captain Clay Higgins, Sheriff Guidroz caved, and came down on the side of political correctness, bully appeasement and cowardice.  

In his resignation news conference, Higgins said, “I would die rather than sacrifice my principles.  I would give my life. I’d leave my wife without a husband, my children without a daddy rather than kneel to the very forces of evil that I have so long stood against.”

That is exactly the kind of steel we need once more in America.  But Saturday, the whip came down on Cap'n Clay.  Damn shame.

The Art of the Deal

Sold Out Years Ago

Suppose you led a group of investors who were compelled to save a viable company whose management had alienated and enslaved its workers and looted the company, but the the company's message and product line were intact. And suppose the workers' dissatisfaction with management was widely known and documented.  Wouldn't you present your proposal directly to those workers, and address exactly those concerns with them?  You bet you would.  It'd be the easiest merger approval you'd ever had.  Suppose, then, that a rival group wanted to take control of this fine but badly managed company, but their leader was a vulture fund with a thirty-year history of lies, deceit, theft, scandal and even murder. Would you capitalize on that and join the workers in order to make the company great again?  I surely would.

This is exactly why Donald Trump, with all his bluster and braggadocio, has captivated so much of the American electorate.  And it's why his support is so strong and unwavering.  He's speaking directly to the workers, and addressing exactly what they're concerned about.  The management of our fictional company, of course, is the American ruling political elite class, democrat, republican and compliant media - aka the oligarchy - who have for years ignored voters' wishes, and looted the country for their own personal gain.  The people know this and are mad as hell.  And they want this ruling class humbled, defeated, destroyed and annihilated in favor of a return of the representative democracy they once had.

So it's no wonder that the vitriol spewing from these cowardly blood sucking political elite leaches, both on the left and right, to demean and discredit Messrs. Trump and Cruz is so vicious and unending.  They are scared to death of these outsiders who have come to kick ass and take names.  And they don't understand why the smear campaigns aren't working to destroy these guys, as they always have in the past. Here's why: The American electorate wants the political ruling class - as well as their compliant lapdogs in the media - exposed, destroyed and vanquished.  Forever.  This election is not so much about Republican versus Democrat as it is about the people versus government.

That's the Ticket!

This is a war, folks, it's a slow and grinding coup d'etat - an unlawful overthrow of a legitimate government, and it's been going on for  while.  It's being waged against We the People by leftists, fascists, globalists, and loony radicals of all stripes, colors and creeds.  And it's been going on for thirty years or more.  Attacking our culture, our morality, our language, our freedoms, our families and our very way of life.  All for their benefit, not ours.  So is it any wonder that Messrs. Trump and Cruz are targeted for personal destruction, all the while gaining strong support from voters at the grassroots level?   

The people have chosen candidates before who have promised them they would reverse the destruction brought on by the left.  And for whatever reason, that reclamation has never come to pass - in fact, the assault on America continues to get worse.  But this time the voters truly  believe that Messrs. Trump and Cruz will restore the idea that is America, simply because these two can't be bent.  And that's all the voters want.

February 29th

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

The Oscars

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

Demise of the Oligarchy

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

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

The Arrogance Of Ignorance

Epitome of Arrogance and Ignorance

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

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

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

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

Haters Gonna Hate: The Ignorant Illusion of Superiority

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

The Quickening Pace

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

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

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

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

Tweet Me Not, Songbird

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

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

Light of Truth

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

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

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

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

Another Good Man Gone

Justice Antonin Scalia, RIP

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

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

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

The Established Fail

Old and. Older

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

. . . And Then There Were Seven . . .

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

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

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

The Mighty Also Fall

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

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

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

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

I can't wait for next season.