No You Can't / Bugs and Thugs

We currently dwell in the government of no.  Or make that the Administration of no.  While everybody was out there blaming the Republicans as "the party of no," the yes we can! bunch was scurrying behind the walls, mostly out of sight, perfecting legal script in order to tweak basic rights and constitutional guarantees. . .just a little.  Then just a little more, and a tiny bit more until no almost seemed like yes.

Yet, these are the people the UFO information disclosure crowd look to for opened floodgates and an ultimate treasure trove.  However. . .

What happened a few days ago when ABC-TV News conducted an investigation regarding portraits of government personnel paid for by taxpayers -- each costing at least several thousand dollars?  Mind you, official portraits date back to the nation's beginnings, but in the modern era of inexpensive digital photography, taxpayers really shouldn't be on the hook for political feel-good paintings of officials at any level.  Except maybe -- it hurts to say this -- for presidents.

Anyway, when official Washington got wind of the ABC report, a decision was immediately handed down denying ABC access to all Washington buildings where such portraits could be located, thus preventing further news video for national broadcast.

Kind of harsh?  I think so, too.  Frightening.  But that's the sort of fascist tendency dictum going on in Washington, and for the most part the mainstream media says thank you in some special way and laps these instances up every time, nevertheless.  And official hysterics over portrait disclosure is exactly the attitude that will keep "disclosure" about UFOs off the table in D.C.  Aside from that, there are certain names (UFO "investigators") involved with disclosure efforts that make me hide under the covers, because I know all too well that some of the players are simply too darned "out there" to be anything but politely tolerated and ignored by officials.  Sorry, but some 50 years of keeping an eye on this stuff has left me rather callous about the perpetually promised Christmas gift that never arrives.  Officialdom aside, the major answers should come from science, but science is often too busy inventing sexual enhancement pharmaceuticals, or, I don't know, probably attempting to implant rat heads on human thumbs.

"THE BIBLE" ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL:  What?  That wasn't Obama?  Apparently that was just a look-alike in the role of Satan.  Nevertheless, while some play the Name-the-Antichrist game, maybe others would be more accurate in identifying the Pre-Antichrist, perhaps best identified as someone who takes lush vacations on the backs of millions of taxpayers who continue to suffer under his troubling reign. 

FEAR AND LOATHING IN HERKIMER, NY:  A man described as an "odd loner" shot four people and an FBI dog to death, wounding two other people in his path, last week, apparently leaving behind no rhyme or reason for his actions.  More peculiar than the tragedy, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, having likely smelled gunfire from afar, and realizing that the chaos might just make the public more sympathetic to his (absurd) gun legislation (thrust upon us so he'll smell like a rose when presidential aspirations turn to gold in 2016), was on the scene perhaps even before the bodies hit the ground.  It's reported that he arrived via helicopter, but I'm not sure.  I fear I'll have to supplant my use of the word, megalomaniac for his enthusiasm with insect, because he flew to Herkimer faster than an infestation of locusts.  Political opportunity?  Nahhh, couldn't be.  His visit was just to show compassion.  Uh huh.

Oh, and by the way -- the shooter allegedly used a shotgun, the weapon of choice indicated by Vice-President Joe Biden when he recently advised women in fear to select a shotgun over all those other naughty guns Second Amendment fascists are currently attempting to ban.  Dunno, maybe the government should just keep a running list and ban every type of firearm used in a crime until we're all down to rubber knives and toilet plungers for self-protection.

(As FBI and other law enforcement personnel waited out the shooter, at least one high-tech robot was seen wheeling around outside.   My question, in this techno-era, is why did a beautiful dog have to perish at the hands of a known killer when, SURELY, somewhere in the gov there are incredible technological devices that could have entered the killer's lair and determined his position, thus preventing almost 100 percent any further loss of human or canine life?  In this day and age in America when we're all being probed every which way but anally -- oh, and, um, aliens are reportedly doing that already -- wasn't there some itty-bitty robo-thingie to inject into the Herkimer situation?)

But then a couple of days later, a horrendous crime occurred in Clay, NY when a 29-year-old man tied up and abducted a woman and her 10-year-old daughter, raped the daughter and then drove them in the woman's car to a secluded spot and stabbed the mother to death.  The child escaped and ran for help, and promptly law enforcement personnel located and tackled the suspect during his escape into the woods.  However, Governor Cuomo and his entourage did not show up this time, perhaps (and this is just a guess) because a sharp instrument that isn't a gun, designed to stab rather than shoot, doesn't contribute reasons to ban guns, and consequently offers no campaign fodder whatsoever.

HE'S NO JACK KENNEDY:  I was reading a paperback edition of Robert F. Kennedy's book, Thirteen Days, way back, just at the turn of the seventies, during a flight while I was on leave from Air Force duties.  RFK, cut down by assassination in 1968, chronicled the drama behind the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and his brother President John F. Kennedy's ultimate warning to the (then) Soviet Union that nuclear missiles would absolutely not be tolerated in Cuba to threaten United States security.  JFK and his advisors forcefully made a decision and stuck to it, leading a country still held together with guts and grit.  In my opinion, the death of the Kennedy brothers, as well as our disastrous involvement in Vietnam, marked the beginning of a slow decline in the magnificent abilities and confidence America once owned as sole proprietor, far superior to anything the rest of the world could even comprehend.

Now we've progressed to. . .Obama.  The charm offensive.   JFK promised us the moon, but Obama promised us four more years.  Kennedy told the Soviets to pack up their missiles and go home, but Obama assured the Russians he would have more flexibility after the elections.  But why continue listing the obvious?

So North Korea, realizing we have a weak president and a government which aims to please, unleashed The Big Surprise -- we discover they're "further ahead" with their nuclear program than we knew.  Consequently, having killed off George Bush's original plans to strategically locate anti-missile systems in U.S. territory, our community-organizing college professor turned president, Barack Obama, is forced to play catch-up.  Though years behind schedule, estimates suggest that maybe we can put a satisfactory defense network in place by, oh, say. . .2017.  Looks as though the prez can't get away with playing kissy-face diplomacy this time, and he might have to tear himself away temporarily from his celebrity friends, expensive vacations and numerous golf outings.  But I continue to suspect that the Obama bunch would shower North Korea with gifts of food and money, if only NK's pudgy little dictator would just take a tip from past deceptions and show a little bit of phony compassion for participatory democracy, and appear to warm to the West a couple of degrees centigrade.  And, of course, that little puppet show would be over as quickly as it began, just as soon as N. Korea took possession of the goodies.

CYBER THREATS:  "Google glasses," bots of all sizes and varieties, spy cams tiny enough to observe every cell in your body, computer-generated and enhanced emotions and thought processes and state-dictated education wrapped so tightly that neither teachers nor parents can maintain control, nor vary a centimeter from the party line?  Cyber-threats aren't merely confined to evil people hacking sites on the Internet.  Cyber-threats are the computer itself.  Enjoy its many benefits while you can, because the unanticipated arrival of a very dark day attired in digital fabric is inevitable for both humans and animals.  In short, life ain't necessarily going to be Star Trek in the future, or in what's left of the future. 

HOME-SCHOOLING:  Let's be hopeful that it becomes a national growth industry, instead of a victim of state legislators and governors owned by teachers' unions that even teachers of common sense don't want.  Meanwhile, Common Core and See-Scope continue to invade the public school system nationally as kids remain on a dumbing-down spiral, while good teachers suffer for their efforts because they don't wish to comply.

CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS RELEASED:  Obama would be impeached immediately under other circumstances.  How is one abiding by a presidential oath to protect the country by dumping thousands of dangerous illegal criminal alien border-jumping folk into society - when we know very well that, despite Obama's sequestration, we still have plenty of funding to keep bad people locked up?  The perpetrators and the perp-in-chief need to leave office, and don't forget to send Eric Holder along with them.

KIDS AND GUNS:  And speaking of the amusing attorney general and his still publicly undefined role in Fast and Furious, that brings guns to mind.  Parents, as soon as your children are old enough to handle a firearm, have them properly trained and illuminated about why guns are a part of American culture, not to be messed with or foolishly banned by legislators who spend their entire lives hoping to make us bask in the same nonsense which drives their own waking moments.  Some believe guns are evil, but there's also something called a necessary evil.  Personal safety has never been more self-appropriate because, in many instances, all the police can do is write a report about how your dead body was positioned when discovered.  People intent upon doing you harm aren't about to wait while 9-1-1 is dialed. 

SYRIA:  Oh, how good this is not looking.  Particularly for the United States? 

Waiter, There's a Drone in My Soup / Dracula Politics

 

"It knows what scares you" was the catch phrase for the promotion of the (original) motion picture, "Poltergeist."   Who would have thought it more than appropriate as a motto for the Obama Administration?  Ever since assuming Office, this gang has done little but scare us into hysterics over legislation that absolutely, positively must be passed NOW, NOW, NOW.  But  what did we know?  I didn't realize that Obama's close friend Van Jones, brought into the White House early on, had a communist background (once word got around, he had to leave, but probably got a better deal as a sometimes-media-darling on major TV networks such as ABC).  Nor did I know who Cass Sunstein was, but I guess I should have because he was predominant in writing regulation after regulation to, I assume, embrace individual constitutional freedoms by altering their full implementation.  Thanks for that, and I expect a perfect carbon copy from his successor.  Then there's influential Obama pal Bill Ayers and his wife, each with a very interesting and, um, explosive background during the sixties which you can read all about on the Web.

I'm exceptionally suspicious of John Brennan's appointment as CIA chief, and why that is doesn't matter here.  What does matter is what came out of the Senate hearings regarding his selection -- Senator Rand Paul and his well-directed 13-hour  filibuster.

Sen. Paul's father, Ron Paul, has always voiced some good points, but some of his views (on defense, for instance) just send me running in another direction as fast as I can.  But his son may be another story again.  Senator Paul is a very much a constitutionalist, but I'm impressed by something else:  He's also an ophthalmologist.  A doctor -- not another freaking dime-a-dozen gasbag lawyer who lied and cheated his way into Congress.  Nor is he a community organizer, best I can tell.

Rand Paul absolutely hammered the Obama Admin  to pieces over the constitutionality of possibly using drones to kill American citizens in our own country, who oppose no immediate threat, and even after several minutes of intense questioning by Senator Ted Cruz (Texas), Attorney General Holder did not give a clear answer of agreement that such a measure is against our laws.   In fact, Cruz's session with Holder deserved more attention than it received, because those precious moments demonstrated a Holder who seemed to skirt the drone issue with vague responses until the very end, when he offered a one-word "no" response -- and his poor response obviously necessitated the brief letter generated on March 7 by Holder, immediately after his testimony, in which he offered an assurance that weaponized drones directed toward Americans here in the U.S. would be prohibited by the Constitution.

Meanwhile, we're all being watched to some degree.  The media would particularly glow in the sights of  misdirected or just plain bad people pretending or believing they possess non-existent rights to stalk and monitor.   This is beyond frightening.  Yes, it knows what scares you.

What scares me (at the moment)?  A Navy commander who states that global warming is our biggest threat.  Aren't there a few hostile nations on the globe that might be a tad more dangerous?  What scares me?  My Air Force awarding the Bronze Star to a USAF chaplain who helped bridge our military infidels to a better understanding of Islam.  Me, I'd be far more content if they would find a military chaplain who could free our soldiers from some nebulous obligation to kiss Muslim butt on the battlefield.  And off.  The Bronze Star and the Air Force of my enlistment days just got butt-wiped.  May I suggest prison for the perpetrators of this outrage who, as usual, bask as untouchables dwelling in high U.S. places?  Maybe the day will come.

The drone issue gives me an opportunity to get back to UFOs.   When a pilot reported a probable drone in the sky near his airliner a few days ago, I returned to a familiar question:  Will things ever change?  Fortunately, we still have NARCAP (see link) to assist pilots in reporting true UFO sightings.  Unfortunately, we still have airborne pilots out there who won't hesitate to report drones, bolides, weather conditions, bird hazards, troublesome passengers, near-collisions with errant aircraft and the like -- but won't, can't or dare not whisper a word about UFO encounters.  The unreported mountainous accumulation factor.  Not fear of flying, but fear of being thought incompetent and losing the right to fly.  Call 'em anything, but don't call them crazy or incompetent witnesses to Things That Just Can't Be.  Of course, the other aspect is the mainstream media, more than happy to headline a drone encounter for two days, but mention a UFO and that story disappears after instant "wow" value and the media return to warm puppy issues disguised as news.

The Michael Bloomberg Smack-Down Snack-Down by a New York judge over his bullying-through-legislation attempt to ban 32 oz. soft drinks was a beautiful thing to behold.  New York City's mayor, long accustomed to having his way with an amazingly gullible segment of NY City, who seem overwhelmingly poised to bend down and kiss this power-hungry buffoon's feet with every royal decree issued via his minions, currently appears about one-third his original size as he, disarmed by a member of the judiciary, responds with the only weapon he has left -- promises to appeal the ruling.  Bring forth a few more judges with brains, and maybe society's phenomenon of both older and up-and-coming tyrants will retreat.  Meanwhile, I'm reading about that 4,000 year old mummy examined via high-tech and found to have heart disease and narrowed arteries -- despite the absence of fast food or sodas during an ancient era.  Unless, of course, ancient astronauts brought gifts from an interstellar burger joint, poisoned the population with greasy gluttony, and then picked up all the wrappers before departing, so future civilizations could never retrieve evidence of  the horrible truth.  Maybe Mayor Bloomberg's true calling is in counseling mummies about diet, whilst leaving the living the heck alone. 

The world apparently thrives on rule by thugs, and Afghanistan's reprehensible leader Hamid Karzai fits the bill.  His latest statements roundly condemning the United States, while over 2,000 American military personnel have lost their lives over there while he wheels and deals for his own interests, are repugnant and enough to make one wonder why we don't pack up and get out of there tomorrow.  It's tragic enough for U.S. fighters not to know minute by minute who their friends are vs. who just pretends to be their friends before they shoot our people in the head.  I hope we're over there for good reasons of which we in the states remain unaware, because otherwise I just don't get it.

Which brings up the guilty vs. the innocent vs. being in the wrong place at the wrong time.  By now, federal prisons are populated by a number of servicemen found guilty of various actions while stationed in the Middle East.  Some of them appear to deserve another day in court, and we hope enough members of Congress are involved with looking into the crime and punishment route for young people exposed long and repeatedly to the Middle East madness that drove them to do things perhaps they shouldn't have done.  I wonder how often politics played a shameless role in their lengthy sentences -- or merely in their convictions.

WATERS OF THE ANCIENTS:  "New findings" on Mars scream the commentators.  Water, yes, ancient Mars frolicked with surface water, water so pure and clean that any humans happening upon the planet would have been able to drink it straight from the basin.  However, nobody's ready to say for sure that Mars accommodated any stage of life.  But water?  We were writing newspaper letters to the editor decades ago promising water on Mars, our moon and -- water, water everywhere.  And the best part -- my uneducated hydro-opinions didn't cost NASA or taxpayers a dime.  You're welcome.

OBAMA TAKES THE KIDS TO DINNER:  That must have been some dinner the prez invited  a gaggle of Republican senators to.  He:  Worried about his legacy if the economy goes south.  They:  He paid for the food, supposedly, why not show up for freebies? 

DRACULA POLITICS:  In the forties movie, "Son of Dracula," a young woman held captive under Dracula's (Lon Chaney, Jr.) spell, on the verge of becoming his wife, is summoned mysteriously to a nocturnal visit with an old psychic woman in a swamp shack who issues a stern warning:  "You will marry a corpse."  Yep, and she does, right after bat-Dracula swoops in to end the old woman's career as a gossiping busybody evermore.  Well, that reminded me of something like -- Republicans.  Oh yes, you guys are the corpse, dead in the water and sinking into depths of oblivion.  You're irrelevant and stocked with old blood, precariously in need of transfusion with younger corpuscles.  But what do you offer?  John  McCain's critical appraisal of Rand Paul's delightful carpet bombing filibuster?  Or was that simply jealousy of tea party infusion? 

What do you have to offer?  Senator Graham?  Oh, please.  What do you have to offer?  Jeb Bush?  JEB BUSH?  Another Bush.  Really?

The Republican party as it stands is D.O.A. and its members who currently pursue the same defeatist course are marrying a corpse.  Old-timers of the GOP think they're time is coming up, but they're wrong.  They've married a corpse, and nobody will elect a corpse to public office.  Zombies, maybe -- but not a corpse.  If Republican geniuses choose poorly again when presidential elections stop by, they'll re-marry a corpse.  A room temperature existence and nothing more.

The fascists of New York politics received a shock when the feds announced that, hell no, they will NOT turn over the names of military veterans whose combat experiences might tend to make them ineligible for firearms in NY.   Arrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhh !!!  One hopes that NY judges make the same kind of mincemeat out of Governor Andrew Cuomo's gun legislation that one judge did in regard to Mayor Bloomberg's beverage size.  These control freak political ladder climbers are way out of control, and there's nothing more satisfying than the proper application of a judicial leash to restrain them.  May history record U.S. government fascists for what they are, and may the reputations they've so carefully constructed for themselves on the way to higher office be deemed without merit.  Here comes the judge, here comes the judge. . .

Bullies and High Places

Wow, what a juncture this should be for the mainstream media.  While some bystanders still have their hands held out for UFO disclosure from this corrupt government, whose agenda far surpasses and voids those dreams, the art of accepting or rejecting responsibility looms large.  Is the Administration's ball of public relations yarn unraveling?  Should media members at last come out from behind masks of fluff and irrelevancy and put these White House frauds on their toes -- or should they continue towing the party line, routinely lifting the Obama bunch toward those blissful heavens where accountability is always somebody else's problem? 

This president habitually "cries wolf" and spins tales as he speaks, albeit in a hands-off manner, as if purposely attempting to remain historically distant from every demon he conjures  --  for instance, the whole country witnessed his (and others in his circle), as usual, hyped-up fears that the sky would fall, this occasion being the very moment his own sequestration baby went into effect -- and his minions need to run for the hills because impeachment, under normal circumstances, would appear almost guaranteed.  By now, a lofty tower of politically privileged dominos remains intact, but for how long as the winds slowly shift?  The sky may indeed collapse, in national political terms, but it would be a different sky and a far different method of collapse than the sort imparted to us by progressive soothsayers and Marxists. 

Journalist Bob Woodward, isn't exactly the poster boy for conservative cheerleading.  In fact, he's been the long-time darling of liberals (with colleague Bernstein) ever since the Nixon takedown, and that's just fine because Woodward is what journalists were meant to be.   In fact, a lot of journalism school graduates pursued their path because of Woodward and Bernstein's influence. Sadly, there don't seem to be so many of these in mainstream USA news organizations anymore -- or, more likely, good journalists can't flower fully into bloom because they work for corporations with agendas and political affiliations.  To remain employed, you might have to play a game unanticipated, and sometimes you sell your soul before you know it's gone.

I know this is already old news, however fresh the meaning, but Bob Woodward dared to inject the word, madness into the sequestration issue, and he apparently directed that word toward the Obama White House -- Obama,  the originator of the sequestration scare, the action he was for before he was against it.  Madness --  wasn't that word used to denote the Nixon White House, too, as that hand basket descended through hell's sinkhole?

And what happens when a member of the clan dares criticize its own image?  Suddenly, respected wizard-status Woodward's bones are being gnawed upon and picked clean by liberal colleagues of varying status, and the man, predictably, seems destined for spanking in the Obama-sympathizer woodshed.  One can only contemplate the direction punishment may take.

In the meantime, other reports surface indicating the White House has referenced specific female reporters with obscene terms.  Genitalia on the map.

Woodward's discomfort over White House response to his barbs came deliciously to public notice just days after the president dismissed a room full of reporters because he wished to speak with a group of state governors in private, obviously an exercise in displaying, as promised years ago,  The Most Open Administration In History -- and before that, the infamous golfing session with Tiger Woods, to which all media were shut out, creating an uproar among reporters who expected love and hospitality, as always.

So now what?  Some -- some -- institutional media eyes seem to be losing their enchantment with the Obama bunch, and clearly it's taken a long time for them to become un-enamored.  Will they stand behind the legend of Bob Woodward, or continue hungrily gobbling up bread crumbs and floor-scrapings tossed to the press by Obama handlers?  Will Woodward’s formerly loyal colleagues instead throw Woodward under the bus and just dismiss him as an antiquity of the seventies?  Not only are we witnessing American government at the crossroads, the nation's quest for truth from the fourth estate also teeters on the future's edge. 

At this critical point, I'm almost tempted to wish for President Hillary Clinton -- then again, at this point I'm not sure I would be averse to either President Genghis Khan or President Vlad the Impaler.  Anybody but the grand fraud.  Anybody but the great pretender.

ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, EXCEPT HOLLYWOOD IS MORE EQUAL THAN EVERYBODY ELSE:  Meanwhile, over in the lovely state of New York, fascist attractant and socialist wannabe magnet of the universe, megalomaniac governor Andrew Cuomo and his willing law-making dolts have taken the state's oppressive gun agenda one step further.  Legislation was quickly passed to allow movie and TV program production crews to continue bringing any and all of the usual firepower to NY because, apparently, the show must go on.  It's a comfort to know the nation and the world will continue to enjoy staged gun violence on the screen, while the people of NY may eventually have to satisfy their silly requirements for self-protection with something equivalent to police whistles and butter knives.  Yet, there is currently a challenge to Cuomo, Inc. as a couple of judges have reportedly asked for a timely explanation as to how the new gun laws don't violate the Constitution, and an injunction is also threatened over lawmakers' negligence in failing to allow the required three days of public comment before quickly passing the legislation like rats in hiding at 11:00 at night.  (My apologies to the rat species for this unfortunate, albeit necessary, comparison to a number of NY state legislators.)

In other places, gun issues don't always involve guns.  In Philadelphia a 10-year-old gets into big trouble in school, for allegedly holding an "L" shaped piece of paper as if it was a gun, while elsewhere a student gets suspended for chewing a breakfast treat into the shape of a gun.  In Florida, hero students are suspended after tackling another aiming a gun for earnest, thus preventing the imminent shooting of the intended victim student.  Suspended!. What the hell's going on in public schools and what message are teachers and administrators trying to push?  What, you're supposed to wait until authorities arrive before taking protective action, and during the wait lives will be lost?  I think every public school should sponsor Gun Appreciation Day, so formerly ill-advised students can learn the facts about firearm history, and realize how such weapons can save not only lives, but entire nations.  Otherwise, we'll just have nonsense such as Eric Holder decrying gun violence while he still hasn't answered to the Fast and Furious issue, in which guns peddled to Mexico under Obama evidently killed many innocent folks, both young and old.

Sure hope Egyptian rulers appreciate the 250 million dollars and who knows what else they'll receive of money we don't have from new-be secretary of state John Kerry.  You do realize, Mr. Secretary, that this is a gift to the Muslim Brotherhood?  I'm not certain, but I think that's enough money to cover a lot of women with burkas and to buy a few tons of rock to stone people to death.

ALIENS AMONG US:  I mean, it's not like they went away, for sure not.  Oh, you misunderstand -- not THOSE kinds of aliens!  I'm talking about the human kind, formerly locked up at immigration centers and jails.  So the feds let some 2,000 of them out over fears of the -- Obama's -- sequestration. Unconscionable.  Unnecessary and criminal.  This is on Obama's shoulders, even if one has to climb a lot of human administrative ladders to reach those shoulders.  Impeachable shoulders perhaps, but who in Congress will do the deed?  Wussies, bought and paid for by every lobbyist in town -- see no, hear no, speak no evil unless political parties will benefit.

Dennis Rodman, please return to North Korea and consider setting up permanent residence.  Obviously, you and Creepy Little Monster get along well, and if serious desires for NK to nuke the USA don't bother you, your leaving the U.S. won't bother me, either.  And, bonus, the starving people of North Korea will love you more than food as you delight them with warm  anecdotes about your heroic conquest of hoops.  A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, and a ball thrust into a hole is worth a king's ransom in the absence of proper nutrition.  He shoots!  He scores!  He makes no sense!

CHINA IS so problematic.  Can't we just pay off our tremendous debt to them by billing them for stolen intellectual property?  I say, call it even.  And then make double and triple sure we kick every spying, lying member of the people's commie party out of the laboratories and out of the country (but don't confuse 'em with our homegrown commies, it's hard to tell them apart during pleasant conversation), and watch out for those flash drives.  Etc.

I remember all those signs and mottos from the eighties, effectively telling us we must teach tolerance, and I think that was directed primarily toward the racial situation  But now we have signs in schools and other places proclaiming ZERO TOLERANCE regarding all manner of things.  And, of course, zero tolerance is intolerance.  Looks like we went 180 degrees on that.  Well, fair is fair.  If they insist upon zero tolerance on guns, how about zero tolerance on compliance with silly official decrees which threaten basic freedoms?  We might be a lot better off if we jumped from zero tolerance to hero tolerance.

Hollywood Rents A White House Fantasy

The Academy Awards:  My favorite James Bond film is "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," starring one-time-wonder Bond guy George Lazenby and Diana Rigg (whose character briefly becomes Mrs. Bond until a violent, untimely death occurs).  The snow scenes were great, the theme was okay and -- best of all -- the contentious buzz about Lazenby and Rigg not getting along at all off camera (and, in fact, even more buzz about Lazenby and the production staff in a constant hate/hate relationship) warmed my heart.  A Bond man who, um, urinated-off the producers so badly that he wasn't invited back after just one round?  My favorite by default.

Another year, another snub:  Last year I expressed disappointment that the show couldn't bother to include a brief thanks to U.S. military personnel serving all over the world to protect the Hollywood crowd in no small way, and this year's affair unfortunately provided no exception.  When the First Lady (that's Mrs. Obama of the White House, not to be confused with the original "first lady" of the American theater, Helen Hayes) appeared at the end of the awards show, for some reason I momentarily hoped that perhaps she was poised to say something, anything, thanking the military -- but no, of course not.  Incidentally, Mrs. O's out-of-place presence at this extravaganza should be the ultimate proof that Obama & Co. are all about Hollywood glitter and personalities, not about running this country anywhere except into the ground, where the elite will influence our lives in every way.  You and I don't count at all because we're just normal folk, and to those who expect the rich to carry the nation's tax tab, I have common sense news for you -- sooner or later, the middle class or what remains of its entrails will be taxed incessantly.  There's no other way out, though I must admit I'm not a Nobel prize winner like the prez, who obviously deserved the award because of his brilliance and mastery of a whole brand, spanking new upcoming slave class.  Yes, that's what I just typed -- and remember, I once wrote this person and told him he should consider running for president.  Perhaps the Oval Office deserves an Oscar for its current decorum of fluff, legislation-driven hysterics and pomposity.

I DO wonder whether there was some expectation at the White House that "Lincoln" would win for best picture, thus making Mrs. O's appearance somehow appropriately linked by race to the history of emancipation.  I guess that would have been a tear-jerker.  Instead, they got "ARGO," guaranteed to remind anybody old enough to remember that Democrat Jimmy Carter's ill-advised attempt to rescue hostages in Iran failed miserably. Um, not to mention that Mr. Obama himself seems to have found something else to do as our people were being violated and murdered in Benghazi.  So we have here, via Mrs. Obama, reminders of both an embassy rescue victory and a recent embassy no-rescue-attempted failure, Good going. 

The Obama bunch is great at marrying our White House to the entertainment industry and its campaign contribution prop-ups whenever necessary, and those little opportunities at ransacking the people’s House for hack publicity reeks.

Iran and the Bomb:  Despite M. Obama's inclusion (I guess she really could be considered an actress) as the movie, "ARGO" won the best picture award Sunday evening, I was taken back to 1968, not really so long ago, when I sat in an Air Force medical classroom with three other airmen, two nurses from a local hospital -- and two young women from the Middle East.  Our particular course was unique to the military and received newspaper write-ups, not only because local (Texas) civilians had been invited in for training, but also because the two foreign women were from Iran.  The Shah still held power and our countries maintained friendly relations, hard though it is to believe today.  Later, in clinical situations, Iranians were sometimes my patients at a pilot training base, where the U.S. taught Iranian military men to become pilots of distinction.  But that was then, and now -- and now Iran's uncomfortable embrace of radical elements threatens us all.  There are many good people trapped in Iran, their lives changed and clouded for at least the short term, or maybe for always. 

China and Obama:  What the...???  Congrats to Fox News for investigating the story of NASA's Ames Research Center providing technology to China over a period of years per cyber-hacking and inside personnel.  If this is what it appears, and it appears like intellectual property theft like nobody's business, undoubtedly inflicting serious national security damage to the U.S., Obama's Justice Dept. and other agencies have reportedly performed considerable foot-dragging on this -- almost as if China has carte blanche to take and take our deepest secrets without consequence.  Congressional committee mouths dropped open when they heard evidence of previously unknown infiltrations?  Too bad our country has no leadership, only Academy Award nominees in the White House.  One can taste the outrage.

Saturday Night Dive:  NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live" isn't funny anymore and hasn't been for years.  Don't take my word for it, just look at NBC's recent sprinkling of primetime SNL "specials" looking back on funnier days.  To me, putting all of that out there serves as an attempt to make viewers believe that just because SNL days of old were humorous, current episodes are hanging in there, just as rib-tickling as the old stuff.  They aren't.  Don't get me wrong, the show enjoyed quite a few great years, the Weekend Update stuff still elicits a few chuckles, and I could even get into Andy Samberg's videos, but the SNL rubber chicken deflated and deteriorated years ago.  The assembly line of talentless musical guests is puzzling, and one assumes that not even a drug-infested audience could actually appreciate the offerings, if administered as musical notes sniffed up one's nose in powder form.   Um, yeah, and overall their skits treat Mr. Obama pretty much as kindly as do network TV news shows, too, so we miss the biting political satire of olden years.

Nevertheless, while agonizing through a recent first-run episode one weekend, I encountered a brief spoof commercial for a movie about Jesus as a one-man killing machine, wiping out every enemy in his path with elegant weaponry.  I wasn't offended (offending me isn't easy), but this attempt to manifest religion into the humor market raised a familiar question -- why don't the writers, producer and others who find themselves so very clever in creating this material also pick on, hmm, oh, let's say. . .Allah and the prophet Mohammad?  Hey, old Mo must be good for an SNL comedy skit.  So where is it?  Why aren't all these TV talk show and comedy show geniuses going right to town on the comedy of Islam?  Maybe it's those cartoons a few years back depicting old Mo with a bomb in his turban, the ones that awarded the artist a perpetual death warrant.  So I say, come on you TV cowards, if Jesus is fair game, don't stop there.  As radical Islamists around the globe busily concern themselves with killing Christians and Jews, surely TV comedy writers can put Jesus aside long enough to churn out a few Muslim one-liners?  Mo-ho-ho!  So anyway, did you hear the one about the three freshly chopped-off heads that came rolling into a bar, attached to a burka strapped with explosives?  The first head says to the bartender. . .

NASCAR, SMASHCAR,  injuries and mayhem from multiple race car crashes?  Those spectators know very well they wanted to see chaos, and they got -- and in some cases felt -- exactly what they wanted, deep down.  Don't you wonder whether some of those fans secretly love the rush, the possibility of being killed by a flaming metallic piece of auto hurtling toward them at 200 miles per hour?

Remember just months ago when the experts said gasoline prices should decline sharply?  Well, that's working out to the letter, isn't it?  We can blame the world and we can blame China (deservedly so) for the express elevator of price rises, but to believe that President Obama's "green" energy policies have little bearing on this foolishness is purely self-delusion.  Now he's engaged in a critical tirade about banning future coal plants in the USA.  Don't you love the enviro folk who push their agendas  Now! Now! Now! but have absolutely no understanding that we must continue delving into the "old ways" of energy production  for years to come because we have no temporary replacements?  Yes, years back I used to donate to Greenpeace, and now I'm starting to think I'd have been better off sending my dollars to the National Rifle Association.  Meantime, thanks Mr. Prez, I hope everybody thinks of you and higher prices for everything when elections roll around.  And, may I suggest, elections can't get here fast enough.  Fair ones, maybe?

Immigration and Reality:  Do I have this straight -- a bipartisan government panel at some point suggested that annual immigration into the USA should be cut to 500,000?  And now we have the "Gang of 8" and/or others suggesting we should double the disaster of well over a million legal entries that we experience every year?  Hey kids! -- if you're not currently engaged in smoking weed or sexting, you might want to take a little time trying to understand the many ways your government -- primarily its liberal members, whom you find oh-so-kool because They Seem To Be Just Like You -- is screwing you and your future. 

Sequestration is such a fun word to say and Mr. Obama is its daddy, but now he rejects the offspring he originally birthed.  He takes responsibility for nothing.  This calls for another Oscar award, as he now condemns his own idea with some degree of feigned credibility.  Bravo!

Political megalomaniac governor and perhaps delusional self-presidential hopeful Andrew Cuomo of New York has seen his popularity decline significantly since he whipped out hysterical gun legislation and alienated a large portion of good, tax-paying New Yorkers, instantly transforming an honest population into the untrustworthy.   They still love dictators down in the Big City, but numerous counties elsewhere now have his highness Gov. Cuomo II pegged for what he is, a law school control-freak automaton and near-dictator who grew too big for his politically-blessed britches.  He obviously wanted to beat Obama to the punch in regulating guns as the 2016 elections creep closer, and his political future may and should suffer for it.  May his bright future become only interviews by his brother What's-'is-Name on some hack TV network, where they can recall boring childhood memories of political family privilege.  By the way, word has it that an impressive percentage among NY State Police are far from willing to go along with the new legislation, as they mentally battle the relationship between their sworn duties and the U.S. Constitution they protect.  Lawsuits are in the works to defeat Cuomo and his legislative puppets on this issue, but nobody knows where all of this will go as the country and primarily liberal bonkers lawmakers continue gardening public gun hysteria like champion turnips destined for the turnip truck.  My confession:  When A.C. was first elected in NY, I was actually quite pleased, based on his record.  Now, so sorry, his reputation is irrelevant and this phony political gasbag in a suit is lower than dirt to me.  And New York residents continue to vacate the state.  Enough said.

Repeat:  The Second Amendment is NOT about hunting:  It IS about government gone really, really rotten and being protected from it.  Yes, sounds like paranoid talk in 2013, but just take a look at the rest of the world as governments unravel.  Homeland security here?  Not even flu shots provided sufficient immunity from disaster this year, so why expect government to inject grade-A rule in any society?  Universal background checks. . .so the gov can make a master list for master confiscations at its pleasure?   Mark my words -- guns or anything else, this White House is not your friend.  We cannot become England (took away guns) or Australia (gradually taking away guns).

Tip of the day:  Thugs can dress nicely, too.  Clothes make the man, and fashion finery completes the thug who controls you.

Why is it that almost every American city in trouble has been run into the ground by liberal Democrats?

Health care costs go crazy sometimes because department heads think they should.  I once witnessed a hospital department chief justify raising patient costs simply because rates hadn't been raised "in a while."  There were no additional expenditures involved.  It was just time for a raise.  Now you know why charges vary so wildly from hospital to hospital.  No brain surgery necessary here.

Go away TSA, don't return another day:  Thanks for everything you do, but before you folks begin insisting upon checking body crevices on fetuses -- you know, after you finish with three-year-old spina bifida patients in wheelchairs -- please disband and let individual airports hire their own security personnel to get the job done the right way.  Oh, I know, I can smell union activity climbing up the beanstalk I just put into words, but the sad truth is -- it's time for you to go away, and along with your solid examiners be sure to take the thieves, sexual adventurers and others who never should have joined your ranks in the first place.  Smaller government, more intimate government when absolutely essential -- but non-invasive government, please.

Republicans, please remain comatose in your current condition.  Rove returns to reinvigorate the corpse he built like Frankenstein?  Really?  Time for something new.  Hell-o-o-o-o-o Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and others who just might be that something, but they need to run screaming from almost destined Republican carrion.

A crack in the mainstream media egg is just becoming evident as The Most Transparent Administration In History has proven to be anything but.  I hope to explore this further later on, but for now the media's rising discontent over access to information not already carefully orchestrated, crafted and sanitized by Obamaland's elves should serve as music to the First Amendment's intent.  It's gonna get nasty out there, and so it should.

Say it Now, Prove it Later

 

"But how do they know?" I asked myself, as I almost always do when peculiar incidents are followed almost immediately by mundane explanations.

The Russian meteorite explosion.  From meteor to Meteorite.  Nothing to see here, folks, just another meteorite.  Chances are -- and by chances we mean somewhere around 99.99999999 percent (and no, math isn't my thing, before you criticize) -- it was a meteorite.  But what if it wasn't?  What if the object had been a super-energized space vehicle or probe from somewhere else, hurtling through space over the ages?  Or remnants of a statue or artificial structure from the cosmos, light years away from some former home planet and drifting through space for the millennia?  No matter, to "them" it's a meteorite and nothing more than a rock just in time for "News At Eleven," and we best swallow that whole.  I watched in utter fascination as scientist after weather reporter after news reporter after man, woman and child on the street mimicked the word, "meteorite"  long before we could know for sure.  I guess because it's what society has come to expect, and to think anything else is intellectual blasphemy.  So, assuming meteorite is the final explanation, good work -- once again, scientists prematurely guessed correctly from the knee-jerk position, oblivious to how they embarrass themselves professionally when they do that.  Yes, as all fragments reportedly point to a rock from the sky, I suppose they were on target.  This time.

Here, I'll wrap you in the flag so you can avoid answering the question:  I've no problems with Chuck Hagel's military decorations from the Vietnam conflict, and in fact I honor him for his sacrifice.  But at the congressional hearing for his appointment as secretary of defense, Senator Ted Cruz asked a question about troubling reports of monies being directed his way by American-unfriendly countries in the past.  Before he could answer, Sen. John McCain verbally whipped out the flag and played the how-dare-you-ask-an-American-hero a question like that game.  In the room, and then outside, there was outrage over Cruz and his question.  Truth is, Cruz was doing exactly what he was supposed to do -- get to the facts.  Hagel, to be blunt, isn't doing so well with his responses, and I'm not at all sure I favor his appointment.  Nevertheless -- the intriguing and all-important question about contributions went unanswered as McCain stepped in and literally prevented the truth from coming out, whether that truth held water or not.  Seems kinda dangerous when everybody gangs up to be group-offended and questions consequently remain unquenched.  However, as usual, the main focus should be directed to the White House and Mr. Obama, who knew very well what would happen when he submitted this controversial name.

And speaking of Senator McCain, at least he's one of a very few bold enough to insist that several questions about the Benghazi tragedy remain unanswered, and his concerns point directly to the White House.

From TV Show to. . .TV Show:  Anybody still adorned with the aura of youth won't know what I'm talking about, but I was a little surprised a few days ago when I caught an old episode of "The Rifleman" on TV.  A member of an organized posse (that is, the horse kind of posse), allowed only a one-liner during his debut -- and last appearance -- in this particular episode was none other than the late Tom Snyder, former host of NBC-TV's long-running "Tomorrow" show.  I seem to remember Snyder mentioning his brief acting career, and back then he was credited as Thomas Snyder.  I only mention him because, over the long course of the late-night "Tomorrow" series, Snyder interviewed several people from the UFO arena , as well as a fair population of the strangest people in the world, and he conducted his program with humor, interest and as much integrity as would be warranted.  Still, kind of a shock to see (then) young Tom sitting on a horse in a fictional town of the Old West -- though not as much of a shock as knowing Johnny Crawford, who played Lucas (Chuck Connors) McCain's young son Mark in the series now conducts his own orchestra and apparently turns out compact discs like a machine.  Everybody grows up.  Well, some do. 

Why do mad scientists go mad?  That's an easy one.  Deprived of proper love and respect for their intellect, instead society worships silly people who make millions of dollars putting balls into holes, skiing down hills or repeating lines of script while instructed how to parrot and move like puppets on movie sets.  On a related note, a recent study more than suggests that young people expect instant fame over hard or routine work, and at the very least college graduates believe they should start at the top.  Meanwhile, the lowly scientist sweats, goes nearly blind from reading, loses sleep over research rather than late-night parties, discovers and invents, and for the most part nobody gives a damn.  If only scientists could put balls into holes, spit and grab their crotches in public, down steroids freely, beat up their spouses or significants and travel with an entourage, the crowds would roar.  Pity.  Oh, almost forgot, science and the computer are destined to kill us all anyway.

The curbing of or path to the death of American freedoms couldn’t be more obvious.  All we need do is watch gun control legislation proposed from coast to coast.  The latest outrage comes via some previously irrelevant legislator in Washington State who submitted a bill allowing local law enforcement personnel to inspect gun owners’ homes once a year to make sure firearms are properly secured.  In America?!!  Later, he claimed not to know this absurdity was in the bill.  Yeah, right.  Democrats – what the heck has infiltrated your party?  Looks like much of it was in there already, festering for years and waiting for The Big Chance.  Like the disastrous “Affordable Health Care Act” legislation, prescribed in thousands of pages over the years primarily by Democrats waiting for the right opportunity to spring it, you can bet all of this gun legislation has been hidden under the liberal bed until public hysteria reached a fevered pitch.  Voila!  When I attended college after the military years, I became one of the most liberal-minded people one could imagine.  But years have passed and I watched and watched – and, perhaps like you, believe this path isn’t working out at all well.  Maybe I’d prefer something in the fiscal conservative Libertarian mode – wild, huh?  Meantime, I’m running for the hills every time I hear somebody use the word, progressive, because the only thing the term means ultimately is more power for government and less for the individual.  So. . .

I’m going to do something I thought would never happen on these blog pages.  Having come fairly -- and with great patience -- to the realization that the major TV networks and news sources do little but alter or exclude the important things altogether, in keeping with the promotion of a wildly progressive agenda, I want to recommend three Web sites you might consult regularly.  Maybe I’ll even put them into the link list.  First, The Drudge Report (drudgereport.com), constantly updated with important news from the USA and the world.  Second, The Blaze (theblaze.com).  Third, Michael Savage (his radio show is a hate/love experience, but his education, credentials and knowledge about so many things can’t be beat) at michaelsavage.com.   Yep, very conservative stuff – and my longtime exploration of these sites has found them to be amazingly credible.  Agenda-ridden?  Yes, though not always, but compare those agendas with the variety currently being inflicted on the country by a cacophony of politicians grasping the hysterical moment at our expense.  Gun control is just the tip of the government control iceberg, and this time even law enforcement personnel are catching on across the nation, as too few legislators who formerly paused before wishing to question unconstitutional tactics themselves take heed.  Good for them.  Keep in mind, too, how envious much of the world is because American citizens can have guns – and don’t think for a moment that the world’s dictators respect or fear us less because of it.

A major reason for me to recommend these sites is accounts reflecting that legal USA immigrants from repressive nations, again and again, tell us that the United States -- under the current Administration -- is slowly turning into everything from which they escaped.   From what I’ve heard, they’re scared to death.