Riots? Or Uprising?

We Gone Burn It Down!

Those lovable, nappy-headed rascals are at it again.  They're so adorable to watch, with all that burning, looting, rioting, destruction and cop baiting.  Just like spoiled, coddled little kids turned loose on a playground.  And those slogans!  Hands up! Don't shoot! Black lives matter!  Madison avenue would be proud!  Their pouty, selfish message must be working because they've created awareness in Ferguson, New York and now Baltimore.  With nods of approval from the Kenyan and his brand new Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and supported by Baltimore's Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who publicly gave the kids permission to destroy with abandon, those petulant adolescents did just that.  The police were told to stand down and let the kids have their fun.  They'll get tired eventually and meander back to the plantation, we're told, and then the adults can go in and clean up the mess.  As they always do.  Now, emboldened by the adults' response of  "standing down" in the face of the kids' destructive temper tantrums, some of the bigger kids are now joining in.  Yep, the Bloods and the Crips and even the Black Guerrilla Family have made a pact to join together to target police across the nation.  What fun!  Now we can watch the kids play unsupervised in cities all across the fruited plain!

Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Armored Vehicle

And maybe the cops will get a chance to use all that cool new surplus military hardware they've been given. After all, they need a reason, right?  Here's the chance!  Blacks and Latinos armed with - what? - AK47s, maybe an AR15 or two, a couple of Beretta 92Fs and some stolen Glocks?  Not a very heavy arsenal to go up against up-armored vehicles sporting a belt-fed Ma Deuce mounted on top.  It should be fun to watch, though, and when the Band of Thugs scatter, mop-up can be conducted by regular armed citizens who are tired of the kids' boisterous antics, despite all the fawning and protection by the leaderless leadership currently in power.  Quietly, armed citizens in every state are cleaning, oiling and sighting in their weapons.  You know, just in case the fun gets a little out of hand.

$150 Million and Counting

As tired as I am of reporting on the high crimes and misdemeanors of this illegal and unconstitutional administration under the Muslim Kenyan, I am also tired of the way the media fawns over the personage of one Hillary Rodham Clinton.  If there was a contest as to who was more deceitful, corrupt, hypocritical and disingenuous among The Kenyan, Hillary, Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi, I'm almost sure Hill would come out on top, hands down.  And that is quite an accomplishment, given the company she's in.

Have We Seen That Salute Before?

As she campaigns (read pander) for her party's nomination for president, she said today that she would seek to " . .. topple the 1% . ."  Topple? As in destroy, annihilate, and banish?  Yep, I'm sure that's exactly what she means. This I gotta see, because she and her husband Bill's net worth has recently been estimated to be north of  $150 million.  Wow.  That basically puts her in the top 1% of the top 1%, doesn't it?  But never mind how much money she's got, when she insinuates she'll go after the Koch brothers for, well, just because they're conservatives, that smacks of hypocrisy, doesn't it?  Does George Soros, money man for all things Marxist, slip into her egalitarian cross hairs, too?  No, I don't think so, either. All that money the evil Koch brothers have earned through legitimate businesses will have to be redistributed to the victimized and impoverished.  Siphoned first, of course, through the Clintons' foundation and other socially aware and committed liberal regressive democrat sieves.  At Hillary's going rate of $200,000 per speech, it shouldn't take too long. Never mind that the Koch brothers' businesses and investments create jobs, and for many, personal wealth.  Lots and lots of jobs and wealth, and at the end of the day, it's jobs that eradicate poverty.  Compare this to Hillary's list of jobs created.

But its her notion that she's actually entitled to the presidency that makes her campaign so lame and annoying.  She's pandering to millennials and immigrants, who weren't alive or paying attention during the last forty years when our gal Hill had her greedy hands in so many pockets.  In addition to the ongoing private email scandal with which we're having to endure, and the disastrous 2012 Benghazi attack, in which four Americans were left to be slaughtered as she simply turned away, we have a short list of her high crimes and misdemeanors while in office:

Whitewater: The tangled web of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Whitewater real-estate dealings in Arkansas prompted Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate. Jim McDougal, a Clinton business partner who went to jail over Whitewater, famously described the Clintons as “sort of like tornadoes moving through people’s lives.”  First led by Robert Fiske, then by Ken Starr, the special prosecutor’s office was deeply disturbed by the lack of candor from the Clintons when they were deposed under oath. Hickman Ewing, Starr’s deputy, testified in court that after he heard Hillary Clinton say “I don’t recall” some 50 times in one deposition, he gave her an F grade for her truthfulness.

Health-Care Gate: In 1997, federal judge Royce Lamberth levied $286,000 in sanctions against Bill Clinton’s administration for “running amok” in a “cover-up” of Hillary Clinton’s health-care task force. The scandal began when deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster made contradictory assertions about the first lady’s job status, in an attempt to keep the work of the task force secret.  Vince Foster's body was found later under suspicious circumstances, but of course officially ruled a suicide.

Filegate: The confidential FBI files of up to 900 former Reagan and Bush appointees were sent over to White House security chief Craig Livingstone. Deputy White House counsel William Kennedy, a close friend of Hillary Clinton’s from their days at the Rose Law Firm, would frequently call up the FBI and have someone’s files sent over on his say-so. Then–FBI director Louis Freeh called it “an egregious violation of privacy.”

Cattle-Futures Gate:  Hillary Clinton came under scrutiny when, during her tenure as first lady of Arkansas, she managed to turn a $1,000 investment in cattle futures into a profit of nearly $100,000 in only nine months. She claimed she had learned how to trade by reading the Wall Street Journal. Her broker had earlier been suspended from trading for a year after he was charged with manipulating the egg-futures market.  

Travelgate:  In May 1993, Hillary Clinton wrote an infamous note demanding action to “get our people” into the White House Travel Office. Billy Dale, its director, and six of his employees were quickly fired on the basis of rumors that they had engaged in criminal conduct; the rumors were cooked up in part by a 25-year-old cousin of Bill Clinton’s who wound up running the travel office.  Dale was indicted on charges of embezzling $88,000 from the office. Jurors took only two hours to acquit him of all charges. Hillary Clinton refused an interview request from the General Accounting Office about her role in the affair. The late New York Times columnist Bill Safire concluded after Travelgate that Hillary Clinton was “a congenital liar.”

Billing-Records Gate: The records of Hillary Clinton’s clients at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas were subpoenaed for years by investigators looking into Whitewater. They were finally discovered on a coffee table in the private quarters of the White House. No one ever explained how they got there.  In March 2008, as Hillary Clinton was running for president, Jerry Zeifman — the chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee at the time of Nixon’s impeachment and a lifelong Democrat — expressed his profound disappointment with her work on the committee. Among her transgressions were lying, removing files from the committee offices without permission, and arguing that Nixon shouldn’t be allowed any legal counsel before the committee. “I terminated her employment on the Nixon impeachment staff,” he told me. “My only regret was I had not reported her unethical practices to the appropriate bar associations. I could not recommend her for any subsequent position of public or private trust.”

Bimbo Eruptions:  During Bill's time in the oval office, his philandering was the stuff of legend, eclipsing even the amorous adventures of JFK.  But Bill exercised neither the discretion nor class of JFK, and as such, spurned women were literally coming to light daily.  Hillary's job was to silence and redirect these scandals, which she referred to as "bimbo eruptions."  This meant destroying the lives of these women her husband had had.  As an example of her politics of personal destruction, James Carville once noted:  "Drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park and see what you get."  Classy.

We're Tired of You, Too, Hill

There we have it.  Hillary is a crook, a liar, a manipulator and is committed to her own self interest solely and completely. She is not presidential material ethically, psychologically or physically.  She's tired, used up, and she's a psychological mess.  She has no ideas, no verve, no enthusiasm, and no future.  And no clue.   She should take her bribe money - the Clinton Cash - shaken down from the corrupt fat cats and foreign governments while she was Secretary of State, and enjoy her miserable life.  It's doubtful she'll ever be prosecuted for her crimes, which is a crime in of itself.  But in the face of this overwhelming pattern of sociopathic behavior over some forty years - her proverbial political baggage - her minions and the compliant lap-dog media will simply shrug and say "What difference, at this point, does it make?" 

A lot, Hill. A lot.

Why America Is In Big Trouble

One needs only to peruse the current news of the day in order to recognize that this country and our way of life is under a full frontal attack.  For example, when judges ignore the law in order to impose "social justice,"  whatever that is, we're in big trouble.  When government, the media and academia twists themselves into knots in order to embrace and even endorse an evil that seeks our destruction, we're in big trouble.  And when our government institutions turn on us to placate and silence us, we're in big trouble.

Racist Judge; Social Engineer

In seriatim, let's review these recent events.  First, the story about the Jefferson County, Kentucky circuit court judge who, as he let an armed robber go free, managed to use the bench to lecture and chastise a three-year old girl for being what he called racist.  Here's what happened.  Tommy and Jordan Gray and their three-year-old daughter were robbed at gunpoint at their Louisville home in 2013 by two black thugs, and Jordan wrote in her victim's impact statement that her daughter is still "in constant fear of black men." Police report that the thieves pointed a gun in the face of the couple's three-year-old before making off with $1,100 in cash, a cell phone, wallet and small amount of marijuana belong to the Grays.  No wonder she's scared.  Yet as Judge Olu Stevens was sentencing Gregory Wallace, one of the black home invasion perpetrators, to five years' probation after he and his accomplice, Marquis McAfee, robbed Tommy and Jordan Gray's Louisville home, he managed to wonder aloud if the child's fear of black thugs was somehow a manifestation of her mother's inherent racism.  So we're left with the fact that the white victims, robbed at gunpoint in their own home by black home invaders are racists, yet the black thugs are let off with nothing more severe than probation, which is essentially a get-out-of-jail-free pass.  In most states, armed robbery home invasion with a firearm is a felony.  Not if you're black, one can surmise, at least in Kentucky.

Another de facto Muslim Brotherhood Headquarters

Second, the Islamic takeover continues, with not so much as a whimper as American institutions roll over in compliance and fear.  The most striking - and unbelievable - case is the Islamization of Dearborn Michigan, according to a noted speaker at the NRA convention in Nashville.  Author Steve Tarani said during a presentation last Sunday that he has witnessed “no-go zones” — areas where police cannot enter — while shadowing a friend who serves on the Detroit Metro SWAT Police on a drive in Dearborn, Michigan. He described pulling up to one of the alleged Muslim-controlled areas: "The street signs suddenly went from English to Arabic. There wasn’t a single English word on any shop or any street sign. And in fact, these little yellow signs were posted all along the edges. Jeremy said to me, ‘this is it. We don’t go past this line.’ And I said to Jeremy, ‘what do you mean? You guys are Detroit Metro. You’re the SWAT team. You can go anywhere you want. What if you get a call over there?’ He said ‘this is it, it’s hazardous for our team if we go past this line."  I have seen it with my own eyes, witnessed it in the backseat of a car and it is for real. No-go zones exist in the United States. Dearborn, Michigan is not the only place that these settlements exist. They are spread out over the country in various cities. There’s an estimate of over 5,000 known terrorist cells in the United States. However our most persistent and significant threat, right now, to us here today this morning, is the homegrown violent extremists."  He's referring to Muslims, CNN and MSNBC, not to white Christian Tea Party members or "preppers."  

States where MOA terrorist training camps are located

Of course, the liberal web-media has turned itself inside out trying to refute the unmistakable fact of Muslim saturation.  You can't believe anything coming from the evil old-white-boy NRA, now can you?  Yet, as I've reported here and here, we've seen this sharia law cancer spreading across many communities in the US.  It is a clear and present danger, but many still have their heads in the sand.   Yet the FBI has estimated there are no fewer than 5,000 Muslim terror cells currently in the US, and some 20 MOA (Muslims of the Americas) terrorist training sites.  And the Kenyan still refuses to secure the southern border, or to screen the masses of undesirables flooding across every day.

What Has Become of Liberty?

And lastly, but not least, the corruption and ethical decay of our government institutions.  NASA is less a scientific space exploration  agency as it is a Muslim outreach organization.  It makes perverted sense somehow when you consider bringing Muslims into civilization by finally leaving the 7th century might be a good thing.   And what about the most hated agency in the US, the IRS?   The Kenyan and his pet monkey Eric Holder refuse to prosecute the vile Lois Lerner for contempt, because after all, she was just doing what they told her to do, an obvious and blatant conflict of interest.  The result of that "prosecutorial discretion" is that now nearly all Americans not only distrust but hate the IRS.  And with good reason, as the wealth redistribution agency so far this year collected over $1 trillion of our hard earned dollars.  The military is also susceptible to the administration's corruption of all of government.  Operation Jade Helm is obviously a precursor to enacting martial law to many grounded thinkers, but to hear the brass tell it, it's really all about soldiers being able to evade and escape in a blown operation scenario, among other things.  I have serious doubts about that benign "it's just training" meme.  Given the stories above and the many and varied attacks on our way of life, I don't necessarily feel safer with regular forces along with special ops personnel doing these drills in major cities.  What's worse, I know some of those black ops guys personally, and I pray they never turn on us. If they do, it would make 1862 look like a summer picnic.  I kid you not.

Why We Must Fight Islam

Neek Hallack!  Well Said!

Let's determine what constitutes membership.  Within a given group, one who self identifies with and joins that group must, by definition, subscribe to its ethos; its belief system.  So if one is, say, a self identified Muslim, one must, again by definition, adhere to the Islamic dogma.  That dogma, or ethos, is clearly set forth in the Koran and the Hadith and is not in any way peaceful. In those two works, there are over one hundred verses calling for violence, not the least of which cite the killing of Kafir, or non-believers, at one's discretion.  None of man's other religions call for this type of violent intolerance, yet somehow Islam is known, perhaps euphemistically, as the "religion of peace."  A religion, as defined by most accepted philosophies, in its broadest sense must be about the pursuit of higher value, a seeking of truth, beauty, and enlightenment.  Islam fails these tests, and as such is merely an ideology; a dangerous one at that.  Its language doesn't recognize humanity as a whole, as a community of man, but segregates all people into one of two groups:  believers and Kafir.  It follows, therefore, that if one identifies with this ethos and willfully adheres to it, then there can be no such thing as a "moderate" Muslim.  Adherents to Islam can be said to be an enemy of civilization.  So, are all Muslims terrorists?  Yes, by definition, if not by direct action.  

Further, those dhimmi who support Islam, its tenets and philosophy, are also complicit in terror against civilization.  What's astounding, is that given the true nature of Islam and its radical ideas is being exposed by so many sources, that some people still cannot - or more probably will not - recognize the threat posed to not only them, by to our entire Western way of life. Muslim influence grows daily in this country, the goal of which is to implement Sharia law in the US and indeed throughout the world, and yet the politically correct play the role of useful idiot as none have before.  Universities around the country are discovered to support radical Islam, politicians seek to indoctrinate children into Islam through public schools with the insidious common core program.

No

Learn the goals of Islam and why we've been engaged in a 1,400 year long war with it.  Don't delude yourself that it's simply just a  religion.  It's not.  It's an ideological enemy who is determined to "transform America" (does that phrase sound familiar?) in ways we can't imagine.  And it is a very sophisticated enemy, as well.  Images of 7th century savages playing football with severed heads belies the slick campaigns CAIR, the Muslim terrorist front group, and others use to lull Americans into thinking that Muslims are victims of our intolerance.  Yet as with most radical hate campaigns, they are the very thing that they protest.  America is tolerant of everything, and to date, of Islam as well.  But as Muslim immigration and its attendant Sharia law is implemented in more and more local communities, Americans are about to learn what intolerance can really be.  And this enemy must be fought on every front:  battlefield, academia, political, and spiritual.

And to this threat, we must just say "No," with extreme prejudice.

The Freedom of Religion

He Is Risen

Today is Good Friday, the day Christ died on the cross, and it seems appropriate to weigh in on the nonsense surrounding the recent misrepresentations concerning the Indiana state law.  Several states have virtually similar laws, as does the federal government, but for some reason the homosexual bullies have decided to attack this particular law.  Interesting.

Essentially, it all stated in 1993 when then president Clinton signed a federal law protecting certain American Indian tribes the use of peyote in their religious ceremonies, pursuant to the First Amendment.  To everyone else, peyote is a controlled substance and is illegal.  Fast forward to today.  Many states have laws that restrict government restrictions on certain activities that involve religious practices, and that's a good thing.  Like the Bill of Rights, any law that prohibits the federal government from invading personal liberty is welcome, especially as pertains to religious practices.

But when one removes from the debate the biases, the dogma, the political leverage, governmental control, and the bullying tactics of the homosexual lobby, what is one left with?  The First Amendment to the Constitution.  And how did the framers view freedom of religion?  Simply:  "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

" . . or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.  . ."  That clause is quite simple and straightforward.  Even if my religion requires me to eat some peyote (American Indian), or not recognize Christians or others as human (Islam), or hate a loving God (Satanists), or recognize that all things are in fact God (Buddhists), or mock any supreme being ethos in whatever form (atheists), no jack-booted government thugs or homosexual lobby bully is empowered to stop me.  

But in these times, we see no tolerance from the left of the political spectrum, and as such, the irony is overwhelming.  Their rationale of tolerance is a lie; they don't want religious tolerance, especially when it comes to Christianity.  They want secular dominance.  And the Constitution denies them that. 

So all the homosexual CEOs, liberal and enlightened actors and actresses, and castrati politicians have shown to the world that they simply don't understand the concept of freedom in this nation of ours.  The have come down on the side of statism,  and of opposing personal liberty.

The Constitution guarantees your right to practice your personal religion, unless it endangers others (like Islam).  If some people's religion allows - or requires - them to engage in homosexuality, or bestiality, or celibacy, they certainly have the right to that belief system.  However, they do not have the right to force me to participate in or accept it.

Religious freedom is not discrimination, it's personal liberty.

Adventure Biking

OK, I admit it.  I'm an avid cyclist - big time.  I rode upper-end lightweight racing bikes for years - my 1975 Windsor English Racer has literally thousands of miles on it since I bought it new - and I still ride it occasionally nowadays.  It's unbelievably fast, but as age and weight has slowed me somewhat, I ride it less.  Recently my sweetie bought me a mountain bike for my birthday, and it has opened a whole new aspect for me.  I used to ride Bultaco off road motorcycles - a 1975 Alpina trials bike and a 1972 Matador enduro to be specific - so cycling in the woods was a familiar return to nature for me.  So while my Windsor and I can crank 40-plus miles per hour on a nice long paved bike trail, my new 2015 Giant Revel 3 allows me to get off road and explore some of those interesting, winding bike trails that meander through the Florida woods. Its ultra-low gearing and knobby high-grip tires can pull through even the finest white sugar sand that's common in Florida's hardwood forests.

Both of these bikes are top shelf bikes for their intended use, and I love 'em both.  But to try to figure which is the better bike is impossible:  how can you compare a Porsche 911 to a Chevy Silverado 4x4?  I've owned both, and I love both of them as well.  Each is designed for a specific purpose, and it performs that purpose perfectly.  That said, I thought I'd share some recent adventures with you as I explore the road less traveled in west central Florida's exquisite woodlands.  Trails?  I don't need no stinkin' trails!

Besides, I'm momentarily weary of commenting on the deceit, corruption and destruction being perpetrated on the county by the Democratic party and its adherents such as the Kenyan, Hillary, Harry "Cyclops" Reid and many others.  So go get your off road bike, and join me on one of these fabulous trails . . . and take a respite from the political nonsense that's being thrust upon us.

At least for now.

Watching the Titanic Sink

Well, I tried.  I really did.  I tried to stay away for a while from the global scale destruction perpetrated by our dear leader, the Kenyan. I spoke of a future for humanity on other planets in our solar system in my last post, and I spoke of the importance of being armed in the post prior to that.  But, no.  It's like watching the Titanic sink - one simply can't turn away.  Current events bring me back to reporting on the nightmare unfolding before our very eyes - and no one seems to be taking any affirmative corrective action.  Like lemmings, we follow blindly as the regressive left and its statist ideology brings us ever closer to complete and utter totalitarianism. Consider the interview the Kenyan did with the Huffington Post the other day, wherein he states, almost as if it were no big deal, that he would continue to break the law to get his way.  Charming.  No impeachment.  No arrest.  No public outcry.  Ho-hum.  Back to online gaming, we can't deal with this right now.  

Even The Flag Is Displayed Wrong

You would think that with the huge popularity of a show like House of Cards, TV-watching folks would begin to recognize the diabolical machinations at work within the Democratic party. We see they don't even pretend to act in accordance with the law, let alone for the good of the country.  Oh, it's just a fictional TV drama; it's not based on reality.  Right.  The only hope for the country is the commentary left by readers of these many news articles.  They're really pissed off at this criminal presidency and its administration's heavy-handedness, and are willing to stand with  . . . with whom?  From the relative safety and anonymity of cyberspace, they are brave, to be sure.  But where's the leadership?  The loyal opposition?  Have the Republicans been beat-dog-down so badly by a complicit press media that it actually rolls over and whimpers? The answer is yes.

Meanwhile, the immigration issue is one most folks want to ignore and hope it just goes away.  The fact is, the influx of these illegals is tearing the country apart, both in a cultural sense, as well as economically.  Among these illegals - these unwashed, uneducated, disease-ridden third-world Central and South Americans - are the vile jihadists.  That's Muslims to those of you who have been castrated by political correctness.  Immigration, among the Kenyan's other goals, is a smoke screen to help hide the influx of Islamic jihadists coming ashore in droves.  Even in the last few months, their obscene and blatant takeover of  American culture can be seen in Texas' Muslim tribunal, in Minnesota's Muslim Supremacy cell, the Mall of America threat, the ordered "hit" of 100 US servicemen, and in general virtually every Muslim community in the United States.  

MBNA's Global Terrorist Web

Don't believe that?  In Maryland in 2004, an arrest of a woman terrorist lead to a search of a Muslim cell.  From the link above, ". . . The documents FBI agents discovered [were] the archives of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America, [and] confirmed what investigators and counterterrorism experts had previously suspected and contended about the myriad Muslim-American groups in the United States – namely, that nearly all of them are controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood and, therefore, as shariah dictates, are hostile to the United States, its Constitution and its freedoms. The documents make clear that the strategic objective of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America is to implement shariah law in the United States in furtherance of establishing a global caliphate. . . "

So it seems, by its own adherence to sharia law, the Muslim Brotherhood of North America (MBNA)  is the enemy of the United States.  So what is their strategic plan?  And who is it who aids and abets our enemy?  The Kenyan's administration includes at least six members of the MBNA in high level administrative and advisory positions.  From his own words, I believe the Kenyan is a Muslim and his loyalties lie there, not with the US or its culture.  His policies have promoted and supported the Muslim Brotherhood and the implementation of sharia law in the United States.  And I think one of his goals is to implement sharia law in the United States, by force if necessary, as he has promised "by hook or by crook."  He forced immigration on us, he forced the AffordableCare Act on us, why would not also not force sharia law on us?  After all, an idea that good has to be mandatory! 

So while the truth is obvious to all all, we sit on our hands, waiting for a leader, and all the while we're just watching the Titanic sink.

Get Your Ass To Mars!

Buzz's GYATM T-shirt at Stonehenge

Yep.  I can dig it.   Get your ass to Mars.  No, not Douglas Quaid in the movie Total Recall.  This is actually what Astronaut Buzz Aldrin says, and he's serious.  Buzz, you may remember, was the second man to walk on the moon, and he and Neil Armstrong planted the United States flag there.  He was also the first person to take Holy Communion on the moon, which impresses me.  He's clearly a man of conviction, and was chosen in both NASA Gemini 12 and Apollo 11 missions.  But his campaign to incite the Kenyan and NASA to begin a manned Mars program is gaining traction, as he personally addressed congress in February.  

Moon Soil Contains Helium-3

Admittedly, a manned Mars mission is not only technologically challenging, but expensive.  But this current administration seemingly can't summon the exploratory passion to return to the moon, which I think could be a profit making event.  Our robotic rovers indicate both the Moon and Mars are rich in minerals, and a mining expedition would, in my opinion, yield windfall profits.  Aside from the minerals returned to Earth, and this includes some heavy metals such as gold, and unique isotopes of helium that we know of so far.  And the inevitable development of new technologies would be economically beneficial, as well.  Remember the avalanche of technological development during and after the Moon landings?  Everything from miniature transistors to circuit boards to air filtration systems to Velcro was developed for those missions, and now they all are prolific in everyday life.

Let's Explore Next Door!

Much has been written about the manned Mars colony project known as Mars One, but the sponsoring Dutch company has a lot of homework to do before such a venture would be possible by the year 2023.  I think mining should precede any human colonization, for two reasons:  First, such a venture would ensure a pay-as-you-go funding apparatus for mining expeditions and general exploration, and second, mining would debug and work the kinks out of life support and round trip transportation issues at the very least, as we learn to terraform around any indigenous life we may - make that will  - find there.  

There are countless reasons for man to go back to the Moon, and on to Mars.  Because they're there is only one good reason.  So NASA, get your ass to Mars!

Carrying My Piece

"An Armed Society is a Polite Society"

I'm thrilled that the Texas legislature has passed an open carry bill.  Governor Abbott says he is "warmin' up my signing pen," and I believe that's a good thing.  This bill is actually an expansion of existing Texas carry law, which allows concealed carry of handguns, and open carry of long guns.  Here in Florida we've had concealed carry laws on the books since 1988, and I've carried a sidearm every day since before and after that date.  Personally I'm a total purist, and I think that any carry law or other obstacle to a citizen bearing arms is a violation of the intent and language of the Second Amendment, but I'm reasonably, yet warily, comfortable with the requirement that background checks and licensing be in place.  That keeps everyone's crazy uncle or psychopathic wife from packing heat.  In theory, anyway.  Despite what the perpetually timid and afraid detractors maintain, open carry is a good policy for those who have met the background checks and obtained a concealed carry permit.  There are several reasons for this, not the least of which is the deterrent factor.  An armed society is a polite society.  No one is likely to challenge someone with a pistol on his hip, and random craziness like road rage episodes will be considerably deterred when a raving lunatic doesn't know for sure if the intended victim is armed.  The Brady Bunch and their ilk will try to tell us that an open carry environment will have us reliving the violence of the Old West.  Gunfight in Tombstone and the OK Corral revisited.  Right.  But with all but a handful of states issuing "shall issue" carry permits, Dodge City hasn't come to life, and remains firmly in the past.

Ruger LC9 in 9mm

Kimber Ultra Carry II in .45 ACP

The second benefit to open carry is the elimination of the need to carry ever smaller, lighter and less obtrusive handguns.  And less potent ones, too.  I'm a 1911-style, single action .45 ACP aficionado.  I'd love to carry single action pistols in that caliber, like my Kimber, or my Colt or my 15-round Para - or even my Heckler+Koch USPs.  But because of Florida's weather and the need for lightweight clothing, I'm resigned to carry my little Ruger 9mm DAO (double action only). Compare the images here.  Needless to say, if I ever need my pistol, I'd much rather have the .45 than the 9mm.  Not to say that the Ruger isn't a fine gun, it certainly is.  It's just that it's all I can lawfully - and comfortably - carry concealed.  So when Florida gets around to finally passing an open carry law, and law abiding citizens are enabled to carry sidearms openly, I'll be packing the 1911-style 45 pistol.  No doubt.

Islamamania

I can't figure it out.  Seriously.  I really don't get it.  Has the country as a whole gone completely round the bend?  It must be the case, because freedom loving Americans would never succumb to a creeping, insidious dilution and eradication of their culture, would they?  No?  They would certainly never even consider trading the US Constitution for Sharia law right here in River City, now would they?  Then why are we being pummeled by this constant drum-beat of Islamamania?  That's a term I just coined referring to the love and adoration of all things Islamic.  You know, things like Islam's intolerance of anyone not Muslim, the blatant human right inequities embedded in Sharia law,  its regressive Luddite mentality, and its extreme and pervasive brutality and violence. Perhaps it's that evil plague political correctness that's done us in.  That's the nonsense that dictates that we be "tolerant" of every known intolerable utterance or act.

Brilliant!  Point Taken!

Consider.  In just the last few days we've seen cultural institutions cave into the demands by the terrorist organization CAIR and other Islam sympathizers.  Note Facebook's cave (OK, Facebook's not a cultural institution.. . or maybe it is, to America's everlasting shame) to censor anything remotely "Islamaphobic - whatever the hell that means - yet doesn't censor the hate filled, illiterate rants posted by Muslims.

Aside from the hate this Muslim maggot spews, we have more evidence that there's insanity in the air, as the world renown publishing house in the UK, the Oxford Press, has decided to not print any reference to pork, so as to not offend Muslims. Unreal.  Tell me this:  Who cares if Muslims are offended? I certainly don't.  In fact, I'm offended that Muslims don't respect - nor are they tolerant of  - my religion and faith, which predates Islam by thousands of years.  But these savages operate within a 7th century stone-the-infidels mindset, and the entire world quakes at the thought of offending them.  They are always offended at everything, especially everything western in culture.  So what?  Their cast system treats the kafir (non-believers) as a subhuman class, and as such may be killed at will. And, if Muslims try to leave Islam, they, too, can be killed.  Of course, they love to kill each other, too.  Sunnis Muslims and Shia Muslims do kill each other, so there's some joy in that.  There's a difference between them, but as an American Christian of European and Anglo-Saxon ancestry, I really couldn't care less.  The bottom line for me is that they are the savage enemy by their own decree.  And even in my gated, upscale, relatively affluent neighborhood, Muslim sleeper cells exist.  This I know for a fact, but I will post no citation for that statement, because I don't want to see my dog's head impaled on a stick in my yard some day.  But my instincts have never failed me, and I am ever vigilant.

I hope you are, as well.

The People vs. the Federal Government

The Republic of Texas logo

For years many Americans - in fact, the vast majority of them - seem to think that the federal government is getting out of hand.  Recently federal government agencies - the vast majority of them - seem to think American citizens have gotten out of hand.  Looks like a Mexican standoff.  Pun intended.  So what happens?  Well, Americans gather together and discuss how to reign in their out of control government. Notice the use of the possessive pronoun - their government.  Oddly, mostly perpetrated by the Kenyan and his leftist panting lapdogs in the press, the government thinks it's their government.  Something's gotta give.  In Texas, a few dozen Americans gather together (hint:  First Amendment's peaceful assembly clause) to discuss seceding Texas from the union, and returning it back to its original Republic of Texas status.  Well, we can't have folks in Texas or anywhere else exercising their Constitution rights like freedom of assembly and freedom of speech, so in a "show of force," presumably to intimidate any others from challenging the federal government, the feds, along with the local police and sheriff's deputies, raided this political meeting (hint: again a violation of the First Amendment) and seized all phones, tablets computers and any and all digital recording devices, and fingerprinted every single person attending.  Wow.  Is this the America we grew up in?  Or is this a nightmare from Soviet Russia, or East Germany's Stasi? In reporting the story, Information Liberation noted the irony being lost on the jackbooted thugs when they stated:  "The raid has angered many people.The tactics used went well beyond what was necessary to address a few individuals over a matter of disputed paperwork. It is clear that full-blown raid was performed to intimidate and harass every member of the group. … The irony of the situation is that the thuggish tactics employed by the police and federal government actually validate the concerns of the members of the Republic of Texas and other Americans who would prefer independence from the United States federal government.”

Again The Past:  Must We Fight For States' Rights Again?

One hundred fifty-five years ago, eleven states decided that they too had had enough of the dictatorial northern-based federal government, and seeking independence from the heavy-handed US federal government, they elected to secede from the union to become the Confederate States of America.  It didn't work out well.  In the ensuing four-year war six hundred thousand Americans and Confederates lost their lives in an attempt -  not to preserve the Union - but to reestablish the concept of limited federal government as set forth in the original Constitution of 1787.  But as always, the victor gets to write history.  The true cause of the War of Northern Aggression was mostly due to the clash over the rights of the states and people as enumerated in the original Constitution, i.e. about limited federal government, and far, far less about any slavery issues. The northern states refer to this conflict as a civil war because they didn't recognize the Confederacy as a sovereign nation.  The southern states refer to it as the War of Northern Aggression (also know as War Between the States, or War for Southern Independence) because they did consider themselves a sovereign nation, which they were.

Nonetheless George Santayana reminded us that those who are ignorant of - or ignore - history are doomed to repeat it.  Let's hope that this regime and its lawless, illegal Marxist ideology can be brought under the people's duly elected Constitutional control before we have yet another war between the states.

In The Age of Disbelief

Epistemology and Belief Systems

Ah, epistemology - the thorniest of all the philosophies, and the hardest to reconcile.  Epistemology deals with the study and nature of truth.  In  the tightest of definitions, it's how you know what you know.  Think about that for a second.  We all have opinions, and they are based on experience, knowledge, personal biases and more.  We all have a political position and I dare say it's primarily based on what we can glean from the news, from the internet, and from personal interaction.  So we defend our positions based on what we know.  Or think we know.

But what is the source of that knowledge we cling to so desperately?  Let's keep this discussion within a political context;  I won't engage in the debate raging right now between quantum theorists and general relativists regarding the beginning of the known universe.  For now, anyway.  When one establishes a political position, or belief system, he does so based on information he has at the time.  Now that information could be erroneous, or it may be correct.  It may be bad information arising from flawed data, or it could be straight up disingenuous propaganda   Or it could be true.  One has no way of knowing for sure, apart from direct observation.  Let's take a few examples of recent issues facing us today, and see if we can find sense by applying epistemology and logic.

Global Warming

This issue has adherents so strongly enamored of this topic that it is literally a religion to them. Wikipedia defines religion as ". . . an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence."  Hmm.  That certainly applies to the GW crowd, who pejoratively refer to those who simply question their dogma as "deniers."  Yet report after report has shown that the data upon which their belief system is based is either incomplete, flawed or outright manipulated.  In fact, it's been debunked completely.  Yet the adherents cling to it blindly.  Why?  

Net Neutrality

Yesterday the Federal Communications Commission empowered itself to regulate the Internet.  Thousands cheered this move, because it supported their contention - dare I say religion-  that anything under private corporate management is "bad," and government oversight is "good."  In reveling in their delight over a perceived victory over Comcast, ATT, Verizon and others, they  miss the point entirely.  Those who championed this move - some the very essence of Silicon Valley - really stood up for free speech, didn't they?  They did, right?  Now that not only government oversight of charges by providers is on the table, but soon to come is licensing and censorship of content.  But, hey, we really put the screws to Big Communications, didn't we?  No matter that the baby went out the window with the bathwater.  Again, why?

How do we know what we know?  What is our basis for making decisions that have real and long term consequences?  Some would say directed government propaganda drives a demand for more tyranny and less freedom.  I would concur.  In both cases above, emotions were brilliantly played in order to justify more government takeover.  Here's the evil in that:  all government systems exist only to retain and seek even more power; of total and complete control of us by them.  Remember:  Power always seeks more power.

So the debate should not be whether the planet is cooling or warming - it does both over epochs of time - and neither is attributable to human endeavors.  The debate is why the government wants to curtail our use of energy, whether demanding we all drive electric cars, or killing off the coal and oil industries, or pouring money into unproven "alternative" energy sources.  But we do know why, don't we?

And the FCC isn't empowered to enact any regulation that hasn't been approved in advance by congress, yet it did so anyway.  And the FCC won't release the actual rules until after they're enacted.  Why?  Watch this space:  in the next two years of this administration's reign, you will see not an increase in economic freedom, but merely another government monopoly.  In the near future, expect some kind of internet use tax, then a campaign to curtail "hate speech" which will be aimed at any content that rises in opposition to an all powerful central government.  All this will be in the name of free speech and free and equal access, of course.  For the short term, your costs for internet use will increase, your connection speed will decrease, and your content will be censored.  In the long term, the internet will be nothing more than a digital version of government sponsored PBS.  And we know why, don't we?

Adoration of the Emperor

The not-so-hidden-hand in all these power grabs is the Kenyan, who has emphatically stated that he defies congress to vote against his policies of fundamentally transforming America; whether with caps on immigrant work permits, or the Keystone pipeline, or his refusal to deport illegals aliens, or even closing Gitmo.  Elections don't matter to the Kenyan.  He has the keys to the throne, and he's acting as emperor.  Yet he doesn't have the constitutional authority to enact  any of these things, it's just there's nobody bold - or brave - enough to stop him.

So what you know, at the end of the day, is that what you "know" is all a hoax. It's just propaganda disseminated by those who are adherents of the religion of totalitarianism.  There's a very real and orchestrated campaign to separate you from the concept of free and open government of, by and for the people. Our Constitutional Republic is being replaced with a totalitarian dictatorship, in which rights and freedoms are determined by the government, and to whom these rights and freedoms may selectively be granted.  And he has two more years, maybe even more - we'll see - to work his plan.  

But as we've seen, logic and epistemology have no place in this government's narrative.  Don't think, just do as you're told.  Now that's what I call a fundamental transformation of America.

Will No One Rid Us of this Turbulent Priest?

Will No One Rid Us of this Turbulent Priest?

OK, with apologizes to King Henry II regarding his lament about Thomas Beckett, I do wonder who will save us us from the destruction perpetrated by the High Priest of Tyranny, our own treasonous dear leader, the Kenyan.  And when.  With news just the other day that Mitch McConnell will have Senate Republicans throw in the towel on the vastly unpopular - and blatantly illegal - amnesty program, the Kenyan knew the deal was done, and flew off to sunny Miami for some golf.  As the image indicates, will none stop this blatant destruction of the rule of law, from which there can be no return?  Like the Kenyan, every one of the five hundred and thirty five members of congress swore an oath to defend the constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.  Yet no arrest has been made, no impeachment enacted.  The Kenyan has broken more laws than all other presidents before him combined, by orders of magnitude.  Roosevelt?  Carter?  Nixon?  Clinton?  Mere choirboys in comparison.  Yet the vengeful, petulant spoiled child continues on, simply because he can.  No one dares stop him and our "free" press encourages and enables him.  And he has two more years to exact even more destruction, revenge and punishment from America, to rectify what he sees as her sins.   He's one man who seeks to inflict harm upon three hundred fifty million others, and yet he walks free as the breeze.  Our enemies too, see that to the Kenyan, America is the enemy, and by this undeniable observation are ever emboldened in their attack on us.  He will let them finish what he himself cannot do.   Astonishing.  Will no one rid us of this turbulent priest?

Enemies Within and Without

Crusaders and Saracens, circa 21st Century

Ever emboldened by the western culture's refusal to reply in kind, the Islamic State again shows the world that it is the absolute epitome of barbarism.  All the whitewash and sugar coating in the world cannot downplay the evil of which this religion is comprised.  And it's not new; this war continues today as it has for the last fourteen hundred years.  What is new, however, is the slick propaganda production the butchers have employed.  Video and internet can take their message to the world in the blink of an eye. The Islamic State’s Al Hayat Media, the group that has published the previous beheading videos in the Middle East, produced the Libya video titled, “A Message Signed With Blood To The Nation Of The Cross.”  I wonder who they mean by that.  A reference was made to "all crusaders" and "we will conquer Rome."  That sounds like a declaration of war.  The most recent victims, 21 Coptic Christian men whose only crime was not being Muslim, were gruesomely beheaded while the voice over spews the same old rhetoric.  At least Egypt's government has vowed retribution, and conducted airstrikes almost immediately.  Here at home, however, the Kenyan has yet to comment on the slaughter, since he was golfing on Sunday at a private golf course owned by billionaire Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle.

And this act of barbarism is no coincidence.  Aided and abetted by the Kenyan's inane and inaccurate comments at the National Prayer Breakfast a few weeks ago, wherein he compared the current atrocities of the IS to alleged "atrocities" of Christian crusaders a thousand years ago, the Islamic State exacts its revenge on a few Egyptian Coptic Christians.  It's this writer's opinion that this is planned; that every utterance of the Kenyan is tacit permission for IS to wage their terror war on Christians and Christian nations.  

So now what do we have?  We have a rich and powerful Islamic State killing and maiming Christians and others alike all over the world. Even Denmark is no longer spared their carnage, as jihad reaches a Free Speech Conference.  Ironic.  The recent mass "immigration" of Muslims in Europe and the US is disguised as normal and peaceful, but it is anything but.  Think London, Dearborn Michigan, and north Texas as examples of demographic changes within Christian countries.  Sleeper cells are everywhere, in every western nation, invisible but ready to strike, as evidenced by CAIR exposed as a terrorist group.

So as yet another poke in the eye to Americans, the Kenyan vows to "squeeze every drop of change" out of his last two years in office.  That means giving illegal aliens, most of whom don't speak English, not only amnesty, but also the unearned right to vote.  Apart from inviting foreign nationals into the US as fully fledged citizens, and apart from encouraging IS atrocities here and abroad, the Kenyan has now decided to render Americans as defenseless as possible. Yes, folks, ATF (now the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has already taken three major executive actions on gun control. First, it was a major change to what activities constitute regulated “manufacturing” of firearms. Next, BATFE reversed a less than year old position on firing a shouldered “pistol.” Now, BATFE has released a “Framework for Determining Whether Certain Projectiles are ‘Primarily Intended for Sporting Purposes’ Within the Meaning of 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(17)(c)”, which would eliminate M855’s exemption to the armor piercing ammunition prohibition and make future exemptions nearly impossible.  

The Ubiquitous .223 Cartridge and Variants

The M855 cartridge is the green-tipped variant of the very same ubiquitous M193 .223 caliber (5.56mm NATO) round that nearly everyone who owns an AR-15 style rifle has laying around the house.  It has a tiny steel tip on the bullet.  An explanation of the variants of this cartridge here.  Oh, by the way, BATF will take comments from the public until March 16, 2015.  I'm sure public input will weigh heavily on the predetermined decision.  This is the camel's nose under the tent; if M855 can be banned, why not the M193, or .45 ACP, or 9 mm Luger?  Own a gun or ammo?  Be prepared to become a criminal.

If you're awake and can read the news, and you're still not extremely concerned as to the direction this contry is going, well, you're just not nearly paranoid enough.