In key segments
of current U.S. society, one searches for functioning brains grounded in
integrity, but finds instead an abundance of cavernous leadership and misguided
thought, interspersed with utter lies.
Neither zombies nor intellect can long feed upon the atrophic fabric of
a national future in peril, helped toward a demise by great universities which
have become little more than toilets of socialism and, not to forget,
laboratories for the creation of killer robots destined to convert human bodies
into pinatas, highway pothole fill and lubricants (sorry, had to throw in the
obvious. . .).
No, I'm not the
brightest banned incandescent bulb in the shed, nor am I a political genius in
any respect, but when I glance toward Washington and feel a stinging vibration
from head to toe because of the absolute idiocy and treasonous tendencies
driving us into a political abyss, there is no warm and fuzzy afterglow of
thought.
Working 24 / 7
to freshen Hillary's political corpse with air freshener: But how long can they circle THAT wagon
before we're down to bare political bones favored (okay, just a treat for you
Canadians, favoured. . .) by
vultures of expediency? It was more than
obvious on Political Damage Control Sunday TV network shows that Hillary
Clinton's refreshers and political plastic surgeons were out in force,
everybody from Lanny Davis to the Center for American Progress. If Lady Hillary could have burned some 55,000
pages (the ones we know about. . .) of e-mails in the bonfires of Benghazi,
maybe life would be more casual and carefree today. We predict -- again, just remembering the
last time she debated among other presidential hopefuls before the TV cameras
and came off looking irrelevant and uncertain -- that she stands no chance of
winning the presidency, should she run.
And if, as is rumored, the Democrats might attempt an Al Gore
re-infusion, the crappy non-science espoused by Gore alone should drive a nail
through that option. May we suggest an
Elizabeth Warren & Al Sharpton ticket in 2016? The comedy alone. . .
Can there linger
any doubt whatsoever that the White House is occupied by ruthless
bastards and associates driven by a need to "fundamentally transform"
the United States (which so disappoints them as it currently and historically
stands) into something it was never intended to become? Mr. Obama, on behalf of loyal contributors
and publicly nebulous power players will say or do anything to promote a
progressive leftist agenda which will likely take years to overcome, if indeed
it can be conquered after its darkest pro-government and anti-freedom roots
have taken hold in the national fabric as socialism on steroids. It's so difficult to get back what's taken
away, particularly when things lost involve inherent rights. Obama is a mouthpiece for hidden faces among
the powerful, of course -- but he's a willing
participant. Nothing new to see
here.
Selma's other
side: Okay, 50 years have elapsed since big doings
and a bloody fight for rights in Selma, Alabama. I actually drove through Selma in March of
1971, as I made my way from Texas to a new Air Force duty assignment in Georgia
(and before leaving Alabama had a car accident involving only myself in
Eufaula, as I've detailed in my Air Force blog -- see link). Unfortunately, my primary impression of
Selma, having stopped briefly to access some fast-food chicken establishment
whose name I no longer recall, arose from a horribly oppressive stench filling
the air that afternoon. Getting the heck
out of Selma became an obligation, as I retreated with food & drink and
sped out of town, snacking upon escape.
It was rather
unnerving to watch President Obama standing in Selma as President of the United States, pretty much expressing how little has changed
for black people. Um, I think he might
have been the wrong person to be making that particular speech? However, I am firm on the obvious -- that
it's too bad the first black president will also go down in history as the
worst BP. It's almost a tragedy that the
nation didn't elect a black president reflective of so many worthwhile qualities
and values. Instead, we got this, and I won't take up space
repeating all the negatives which I and others more aware of this man's
shortcomings have elaborated upon in past months.
And speaking of
black presidents. . . or not. . . Dr. Ben Carson, WTF? His incredible response to a question about
gay people, which he dismissed as a choice seemingly dependent upon going into
prison "straight" and then coming out as a homosexual was way beyond
the pale for a man renowned for his intellect and medical conquests as a
pediatric neurosurgeon. Sorry, Dr. C.,
but your standing as a strong presidential possibility just fell off a very
high cliff and plummeted to depths probably still unappreciated in the polls. Wow.
How to make an
elephant disappear: No, this isn't about some David Copperfield
magic act. Ringling Bros. of circus fame
have decided to gradually extract elephants from its performance schedule,
allowing the current stock to retire at a special place to receive care and
comfort until the end of their days.
As a kid in the
fifties, I remember buying paper bags filled with peanuts and feeding them to
elephants at the state fair, fondly regarding these beautiful, aristocratic
giants of towering nobility -- though not at all pleased to see their legs in
chains, and hardly fooled by attempts to make visitors believe the only thing
separating human from elephant was a single rope fence.
But I'm not a
kid anymore, and over the years we've all read accounts of elephants tortured
and murdered slowly just so some bastard in China can have ivory to use as an
aphrodisiac, paperweight or as some pathetically deranged implement. Further, as we idiot humans have ourselves
become enlightened and discovered, in their own way, the boundless intelligence
of various animal species, we are, or should be, in awe over their abilities
and our long-term lack of understanding or compassion about those with whom we
share a precious planet.
So yes, it's
time for elephants to be regarded as something more than entertainment, more
than beasts of burden -- and obviously a living creature worth tons more than
an ivory garden for savages. Yep, no
argument, nature is cruel, too, but we. . .we. . .have the brains and judgment
to turn tragedy and just plain wrong upside-down.
Just shout "bang bang" when you pull the trigger. I'm not certain, but I think every Executive
Order issued by this president is numbered 666 -- but it doesn't matter,
because if you own an AR-15 rifle, soon you won't have to deal with numbers at
all because you may not have any bullets to count. In an attempt to ban bullets for the popular
AR-15, the administrative gang insists it's because they constitute (oops, did
I say constitute, akin to that
longer word nobody cares about anymore. . .?) an armor-piercing capacity
hazardous to the police. Hey, since when
did this bunch care about the police?
Make no mistake, this bunch of White House goons aside -- America's freedom
depends upon many components, not the least of which is an intelligent, armed
citizenry. Anybody who thinks the bullet
ban, if successful, stops here is deluded, and we hope the courts will
"shoot down" this new bullet no-no, conceived by the usual
America-hating political left.
And similar to
what occurred with the horrors of "Obamacare," the Federal
Communications Commission now surprises us with a 300-plus page
document -- unseen by the public before the crucial vote or immediately after
-- intended to regulate and rule away the Internet's inherent freedoms,
preceded by a slick campaign intended to make Internet users and the young in
general believe "net neutrality" would be their friend, not the
monster it will become in a few years when government permission and higher
charges may be mandatory for every online occasion.
Strange, yet
hardly surprising it is that Obama-favored FCC commissioner Wheeler refused to
allow Congress to question him about new regulations before the vote -- and
provided no document for public review in advance.
The FCC should
suffer the fate of other large government bureaucracies on our wish list --
defunding. When a government entity
presumably involved in the protection of free speech becomes judge, jury and
the originating authority of how the First Amendment is administered in the
U.S. it is time for that entity to lose considerable power. The FCC is a very, very dangerous critter,
and the government must gain no further control over the Internet, no matter
how politically appointed toadies couch the agenda.
"Americans
in waiting" is the Obama bunch's preferred government-wide designation for what normal
people with eyes and brains logically refer to as "illegal
immigrants." Sorry, but I prefer to
stick with the more accurate terminology, border-jumping criminals. Accompanying this term is my other favorite: Anchor babies. Illegally crossing a border and birthing like
a dog to magically invoke instant citizenship on the clueless infantile product
of some vacant opportunity for copulation South of the border or beyond hardly
strikes me as fair to legitimate U.S. citizens.
The
Administration goes all out to help Iran eventually develop its own nuclear bomb via our
State Department incompetence / incompetents.
In turn, I'd like for my country to return to the thrilling days of the
neutron bomb, and produce them by the acre-load, with Iran's name on every one
of them. And get rid of the State Dept.
while we're at it.
Israel's Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech made us long for a U.S.. president with
equal poise and command of truth, and pulling no punches about Iran's global
terrorism and guaranteed international danger once in possession of nuclear
weapons brought us a breath of fresh honesty not seen here in years. How many members of the U.S. military lie
dead and injured thanks to Iran's ongoing efforts? Why does the Obama bunch ignore Iran's recent
demolition of a mock U.S. warship, evidently a definite statement regarding
America's presumed anemia on the world stage?
Crazy Islam is
alive and well in the U.S., as we've seen with three new arrests in NY
City. How dedicated must one be to a
religious cause to be considered insane?
These are the poster children for extremist Muslims. Who lets these folks into our country? And now we also have how many more Syrians
coming in by the thousands, people whose intent is not and cannot be known by
interviewers at the border? Just can't
wait for the pope to visit the U.S. and advise us on how to be even more
"charitable."
At least The Atlantic came through with the truth about radical
Islam. If any description actually means
it is what it is, this magazine's words did the job.
Forget potential
carnage at The Mall of America --
Any homegrown radical Islam freak jobs worth their salt who want to
"make a difference" will violently invade a U.S. school and kill
children en masse. It happened in
Russia, and it can happen here. It's
really time to find out who's letting these people into the country and examine
their tendencies to accomplish somebody's peculiar national suicide goal.
Saturday Night
Live comes through: This TV show, rarely funny and generally
deserving of a fast and compassionate euthanasia, did manage to score major
points on both sides with a funny piece about a father reluctantly giving in to
his daughter, intent upon joining ISIS, and delivering his happy offspring to a
truckload of ISIS members, one of whom exclaims, "Death to America!"
as they drive off, rifles ablaze with gunfire.
As we've noted previously, young people growing up today often encounter
a problem understanding satire, and instead become enraged while they should
actually realize that something terrible or stupid is being brought
front-and-center and ridiculed for what it is.
Thus. . .SNL received many
barbs for what seemed a brilliantly humorous take on a deplorable situation.
Like it or not,
broadcasters and authors on the right deserve substantial credit for alerting
us to the radical Islam threat years ago, for telling those willing to listen
about a deadly enemy approaching the horizon, ready and willing to invade
Europe, the United States and the world.
While our pathetically inadequate and profoundly risky president was
telling us ISIL (ISIS, etc.) was just the "JV team," radio hosts
particularly, in the face of ridicule and barbs thrown by pundits, TV
comedians, politicians and other "personalities" on both the left and
right, proceeded non-stop to warn listeners and viewers about fast-moving
events influencing and jeopardizing our false sense of security. Everybody laughed when some warned of a word
with which many of us remained unfamiliar:
Caliphate. Absurd, the
pundits proclaimed, a new caliphate will never be in the cards -- but now they,
too, throw the word around freely. Whether discussing extremist Islam, the
world economy or Russia's Putin, historical perspective and diligence
disseminated through the airwaves have thrown egg on faces of the harshest
critics, and we would suggest to those who rely only upon the major TV networks
and mainstream media for the "news" that those folks are being led,
betrayed and cowed every hour, every day of the week. Conspiracy theories in general are not my
thing -- but when the truth consistently unfolds from what seemed wild tales
just months ago, one must sit up and heed the warnings. Plain and simple, the bought-and-paid-for
mainstream media poisons us with an agenda, not the bare facts.
Best comedy of
the past several weeks: Historian
David Barton (per Glenn Beck's program) checked into Obama's essentially
groundless claims about Islam being integral to the fabric of America since its
very founding, and by way of several searches came up with virtually nothing --
other than the revelation that practitioners of Islam were prolific African
slave traders, likely responsible for abducting and selling into American and
international slavery a huge quantity of Africans. If that's how involved the Muslims were in
the founding of America, that's a bit of history which needs immediate
inclusion in the nation's grade school and high school textbooks (and into
in-service government manuals). Fat
chance.
Does President
Obama love his country? Which
country? Oh, Rudy Giuliani means
America? I guess so -- Obama certainly
seems intent upon changing it in a firm, loving, non-negotiable fashion, and
Obama's love extends to not wanting anybody to get in his way. What says love better than bold-headed,
bullying determination? Loving,
fundamental transformation. . .
Retching at the
Oscars: While much excitement was elicited over the
inclusion of two motion pictures about war during the Academy Awards show, and
certainly there are members of the movie industry who honor combat veterans, I
could just imagine, as I watched the affair occur inside the safety of a
television screen, how enraged and physically ill many phonies among the Hollywood
crowd must have been about any mention of the U.S. military at all during
"their" special evening.
Pathetic, since military personnel are ultimately the only barrier
standing between Hollywood's blind extravagance and head-choppers of uncompromising
practicality.
Change history
by altering movies about history:
A few days ago, I watched a movie on TV, an old Edward G. Robinson
vehicle entitled, Mr. Winkle Goes to
War. Obviously a motion picture
about the WW II era, there's a scene where Robinson's character as a U.S. Army
soldier speaks with another soldier, and the other relates how he's looking
forward to killing some "Japs."
The TV picture clearly showed the actor's lips moving as the word
commonly stated for Japanese enemies was spoken, but a censor at some level had
cleanly extracted the sound. You'd think
today's generation would have the common sense to realize that "Japs"
referenced a terrible era gone by, not mutual friends and associates of the
current day. We should not attempt to
conceal or pretty up evils of the past with the censor's clippers. This is still America, is it not?
UFO alien slides
here? Look, for those of you currently entranced
by announcements regarding the coming public release of two apparently old
slides said to depict bodies similar to alleged Roswell UFO aliens (and said
slides are believed to have originated from the same era), I suggest
caution. Me? I find it rather disturbing that the world
has to wait until some grand unveiling in May -- and in Mexico, yet. Some have compared this to the plot of
"King Kong" in which an audience is kept in breathless anticipation
until the curtains open. Further, I've
been around a long time, maybe too long, but I have certain reservations about
a name or two or ? involved in this affair.
But that said, maybe key participants are on to something important here
and, though I've no connection whatsoever to the secret slide affair, I'll
patiently await their international presentation, and the world itself can
determine the verdict. I am suspicious
that the passage of so much time since the 1940s has innocently degraded and
will cause a further degradation of whatever background or evidence accompanies
the actual photographs, no matter what they reveal via analysis. We already know there's a mystery here, but
time itself can take a horrible toll on evidence and the story behind the
story. Oh, and not to forget that the
original owners of the house where the slides were found are long deceased,
having left behind no explanation. What
now? I fear that some among us,
accustomed to hype, will feel as if we just walked into a bar on a Saturday night,
announcing to the bartender, with a yawn, that we'll just have "the
usual" -- and that's what we'll get.
Add to this a certain amount of (particularly American) apathy over UFOs
(because no Kardashians are involved), and one fears that many folks will see
this as just one more slide show sideshow.
Slides aside, I
continue my astonishment over a mountain of
absolutely nothing that
occurred years after the alleged Pascagoula UFO abduction (re Charles Hickson
and Calvin Parker), when an enterprising journalist in Mississippi revealed
information about additional witnesses -- an auto carrying three Navy
servicemen -- who quite possibly watched the UFO in question actually glide in
for a landing where the two men were fishing, thus offering further substantiation
to their strange story. Now, THAT'S the
kind of case that makes you shiver and consider a little panic in the streets.
Incidentally, if
the previously water-tight "big bang" theory is quickly losing favor
among scientists, we suggest that credentialed UFO deniers are no less
deceptively full of themselves than huffy members of the scientific community
who Always Know More Than Everybody Else.
But ramp up the
stone-cold serious level a bit more and now we have Rendlesham / Bentwaters AFB
UFO incident witness John Burroughs, the former U.S. Air Force airman who seems
to have suffered a profoundly serious cardiac injury following his close-up UFO
encounter, at last getting approval from the Veterans Administration for
(successful) heart surgery. After at
first claming that Burroughs never even served in England, the U.S. government
finally had to admit that he did -- but his medical records remain totally
classified and unavailable even to VA medical staff. Burroughs and his attorney hope that a tacit
government (VA) acknowledgment via surgical approval that he indeed encountered
and was medically harmed by some sort of high-energy device will move us closer
to government disclosure about the Rendlesham UFO event. Reports already surfaced a few months ago
indicating that Great Britain continues to hold classified files regarding
Rendlesham/Bentwaters encounters.
Thanks for
the memories diseases: An infection called CRE infects surgical
scopes used routinely by doctors every day and it's apparently difficult to
destroy as it kills patients, reminiscent of the trouble with prions. Meanwhile, a man from Kansas dies following
bites from a tick infected with an organism we haven't even encountered before,
a deadly variety at that. Put all of this
together with exotic diseases brought in by illegal aliens plus children raised
on toxins and people "treated" with medications developed in fast
mode by drug companies which know nothing of future DNA consequences and the
like, and there's nothing but trouble in store for the future.
The future? I remain curious about a Wall Street Journal article from November 21 last year, warning
that reliance on computers is lowering human intelligence levels. Sounds about right to me, just look around. Just look.
I remember when
Ferguson was just a farm tractor,
but now the focus falls upon a place in Missouri where white police
officer Darren Wilson shot to death black man Michael Brown who made a mistake
-- among several -- of reaching for Wilson's gun. All of this precipitated by a young man who,
from ALL reliable accounts, unfortunately got nothing less than he
deserved? So now Holder's
justice-as-we-call-it department had to clear Wilson, but as revenge for Wilson
doing nothing worse than his job, Holder's bunch complains that too many black
people are being stopped by law enforcers.
Hmm -- could it be that criminal acts on the part of those arrested or
questioned might have a tad bit to do with the high numbers? I suppose the quota on white arrests, to use
Obama's words in another situation, "must necessarily skyrocket" just
to be fair. The Obama bunch just loves
to blame cops for society's ills. Tell
me again -- who are the modern racists?
The NEWEST
black-cop-on-white-suspect shooting in Madison, Wisconsin will likely be deja
vu, but one must ask -- don't white cops shoot a lot of white suspects,
too? Like, shoot to death? And don't most of these tragic circumstances
end up the only way they can? If
Holder's Justice Dept. keeps up the raging race-baiting witch-hunts, we may see
a day when criminals will own the streets again -- like they already seem to be
doing, almost by decree in New York City, thanks to the blind compassion of a
mayor gone bonkers.
Meanwhile,
Michael Brown's family presses ahead with a civil lawsuit, and because Holder's
gang has accomplished the inevitable of making the Ferguson police dept. appear
mildly akin to a Nazi death camp, the albeit grieving family will probably be
compensated handsomely in the courts for little more than the revelation that
their family member died because of a situation he created all by himself. Good freakin' lord, I hope former officer
Darren Wilson has, by now, received the job offer of a lifetime to compensate
him and HIS family for their own pain and suffering.
Going nuts with
the Environmental Protection Agency:
When will these saps admit that until and unless China alone QUICKLY
joins in the CO2-abating madness and other fruitlessly stupid efforts, spending
trillions of dollars we don't have to fix a problem that can't be fixed by
human efforts won't make a dent in a darned thing? My solution?
Defund the EPA dramatically and teach common sense to the senseless,
assuring in the meantime that scientific thought is imparted by scientists, not
by political agenda-ridden garden gnomes wearing lab coats. And let's un-do the practice of predicting
future perils with the same computers that can't even forecast a week's worth
of weather correctly.
So how come our
president doesn't sound so presidential?
Israel's prime minister Netanyahu spoke with confidence, authority and
no staged bullcrap. I thought I was
watching a U.S. president for a fleeting moment, but then the pathetic truth
hit me: We still have Obama making
presidential speeches, and they always seem more like bullying opportunities to
blame and punish Americans. Interesting
how Obama, following the speech, stated there was "nothing new" about
it. Yes, there was -- a tone of
confidence and leadership. Maybe it's
true that there's nothing new under the sun, but Mr. Obama obviously needs more
sun so he'll realize the importance of leadership as opposed to, say, blaming
America and Americans.for things not to his liking. At any rate, Netanyahu's speech was
brilliant, and after he started out by complimenting Obama, followed
immediately by giving O's policies toward Iran a butt-chewing, I thought of
reworking an old quotation: "I come not to bury Caesar, but to praise
him."
Another finger
gun threatens the world of education: This time, a Colorado Springs elementary
school has no tolerance (didn't you progressives used to have a logo that
read, Teach Tolerance?) for a kid
holding up his fingers toward another student and saying, bang bang. Isn't it high time for schools across the
nation to abandon this nonsense and instead provide firing ranges and teach
students how to fire the real thing safely and effectively? Just in case of. . .? Shouldn't children at all levels be
encouraged each day in school to freely use words such as, firearm, 20 gauge, bullets, Second
Amendment and phrases such as, Shall not be infringed, you freaking
communist bastards?
If parents
continue to allow the progressive fascists lording over schools to turn all
boys and girls into powerless little cupcakes who have no concept of threats or
self-preservation, the kids are already dead inside and out. Take back your schools or teach 'em at home,
but the absurd gun-hating policies administered in schools will not solve a
problem that most decidedly is neither a finger gun, nor a breakfast pastry
molded into the shape of a gun. May I
simply take the liberty -- ah yes, remember liberty? -- of offering the
following words to clueless school boards and administrators everywhere?
Bang bang! Don't be a moron!
