The rekindled past?
France, like America, had a king.
Wait, what I mean is, France had plenty of kings, and America, at least
for now, has somebody who thinks he's king, and he's doing a darned nice job
of making Congress believe he really is
our monarch, and can do whatever he wishes.
Well, this one
king, Louis Philippe -- and no, you millennials, he isn't actor Ryan Phillippe's
brother, even with one less "l" in his name, and besides, we're going back more than a century and a half ago --
assumed power after a particularly nasty French revolution. As I understand history, and I don't, old
Louis started out as quite the liberal king, and some of his subjects adored
him, maybe. However, things quickly
soured in the kingdom and Ryan Phi. . .I mean, Obama, wait, I mean Louis Philippe began receiving an onslaught of threats to his
regime, thus turning him into an ogre of a ruler, bent upon little but intense
oppression of his people. Finally,
having endured all they could take as years passed, the French people turned on
Obama, no, I mean Louis Philippe, and literally chased him from Paris, causing
him to assume exile in England in 1848.
Now, to me, the
greatest historical benchmark for this event occurred as King Obama, sorry, I
mean King Louis Philippe, climbed into
his coach, anxious to depart. An anonymous
onlooker stepped forward and closed the coach door, and the deposed king
offered a vacant thank you.
"Not at
all," replied the French citizen.
"I have waited 18 years for this day."
It just seems to
me that our eight years of an unapologetic
shogunate wannabee are
going to consume history books much like those 18 years of repression endured
by France. Parlez-vous de liberties
lost?
A little more light for the true citizens of the
USA: The refreshing fact that the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sided with a lower court, ruling that President
Obama likely broke the law in taking unilateral action last year to grant
amnesty from deportation gives us more hope that tyranny, clearly in violation
of our laws, will not stand. Still,
Washington’s sleight-of-hand tricks are always a concern for rational minds, so
keep those fingers crossed.
Yippee, now
Muslims from Burma are planned for ushering into the United
States in large numbers. Burma, 90
percent non-Muslim, wants nothing to do with the troublemaker class, so
naturally we'll be accepting them as refugees -- people who, true to form, will
overwhelmingly want nothing to do with becoming Americans. In U.S. lotteries, they say all you need is a
dollar and a dream -- these folks, all they need is a turban, a burka and a
bomb to win. In America they can easily
improvise.
Walt rolls over
in his grave (or in his cryogenic container of the future). News reports indicate that, as plans for a
new trade agreement proceed, some Disney employees were allegedly forced to
train foreign-born employees who would then replace them, probably at a cheaper
wage. Maybe that's the real Tomorrowland.
Now the leftist
journo-justifiers hit up Cleveland, Ohio
as a cop is found innocent of murder charges in the killing of two
unarmed people in a car. Or that's all
we need to know, as far as the mainstream media is concerned. I've watched one TV news show after another,
and they all seem to miss the first and most important point that the driver
led police on a car chase for almost a half hour, putting hundreds of people in
jeopardy all along the way. The sad fact
that a cop thought his life was in danger from the occupants and fired his
weapon repeatedly due to reasonable cause makes no difference to the ignorant,
wilding street mobs who probably believe the Dept. of Justice is on their side,
no matter what. No matter what. Psst -- the DOJ under this deplorable president
may as well train storm troopers and invest in jackboots, as its members
receive instructions from thugs above to spread out across the country and
destroy perfectly satisfactory police departments. Ever notice how the agenda-driven street mobs
almost always seem to materialize following instances when law enforcement
personnel focused their attention and efforts upon suspects who seem to deserve
such intervention? Watch murder and
assault rates soar across the country as cops' hands are tied and they shrug
off confrontations in which the "social justice" crowds lie in wait to
destroy their reputations and careers via cell phone cameras.
Trade
legislation will probably screw the USA as surely as
NAFTA did, and this time Senate Republicans are alarmingly in Obama's corner to
forge ahead. The real fight is destined
for the House, where those on both the right and left aren't quite so willing
to be roped in to a "trade agreement" that is being kept secret from
the public and held as hush-hush from congressional reps forbidden to speak of
the contents to constituents. Still, having
watched the Republican spineless continue with business as usual, their
decisive vote will energize Obama's trade bill, amidst flustered explanations
of how they yet intend to hold the reigns on this fiasco, should things go
wrong. We've heard it all before.
Hello, Syria: Several Democrat senators sent a letter to
Obama this month, requesting that we accept an influx of nearly 100,000 Syrian
refugees into the U.S. Trouble is
(besides lapping up refugees like milk), there's no way to know who these
people are or what their intent might be.
I'm no mathematician, but the refugee numbers alone, from several
countries, tell me that the day will come when Sharia is a real threat to the
Constitution -- a day when your daughters will be dressed in burkas and raped
and your sons converted or beheaded, right here in the USA. It's time we stop listening to the United
Nations AND several religious organizations adept at importing the useless,
uneducated, America-hating masses into the country whose only product will be
endless welfare subsidies and multiple births of children taught to be anything
but Americans. Damn the Democrats and
damn the Republicans for doing this to us.
And the problems
are compounded if we consider some predictions, which seem
reasonable enough, that there will be far too many people to fill a declining
number of jobs in the years ahead. Were
I a member of the black community, this
is the subject that would anger me most -- the realization that people
from South American and Middle Eastern countries alone are stampeding our
borders and clouding any possibilities for a well-employed black youth
population.
Water, water
everywhere and Texans and Oklahoma residents are sick to death
of it. I was surprised to learn that
even Wichita Falls, Texas, where I lived for more than two years, was inundated
with water overflowing from its riverbanks.
As we watch communities suffer floods, drought or other calamities from
an ever-changing climate, it might be time to consider radically new ways to
build homes and office buildings, because the old ways seem increasingly out of
step. Man-made climate change? No, no, no.
Climate, just climate. It's
always changed and it always will, all by itself.
Hollywood
Report: Where would it be without
morons? So now alleged actress Rose McGowan is in
the news for fabricating a nasty comment about Ted Cruz, followed by a tepid
apology and more rage emanating from somewhere in the confines of her liberal
head. These folks will say or do
anything to keep their power, which ultimately means, aware or not, they
support empowering those who exercise power over the rest of us.
Word
of the day: You folks in the news business -- y'all
already freak me out when you say something was "completely
destroyed," when the second word covers everything nicely, thank you. Today's complaint is TV and radio news
reporters insistent upon dramatically announcing that somebody died of a
"massive" heart attack. Hmm, I
believe just heart attack will do the job, though I suspect reporters
are somehow attempting to shower personal medical expertise upon their audience
by throwing in an extra word guaranteed (?) to make them sound brilliant. Fat chance.
I ain't perfect, but these little hackneyed refinements completely and
massively bother me.
A California man
visiting Arizona brought down a drone
with his tee-shirt.,
Unfortunately, for swinging his shirt at the thing and destroying it, he
was arrested – nevertheless, this is my kind of small-time hero. You may recall, many entries ago, I suggested
that anybody whose yard is invaded by a drone should perform cleanup with a
sledgehammer.
