Webster

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions." --American Statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852)


Saturday, May 28, 2016

Memorial Day 2016



I just wanted to take a moment to pause and remember what Memorial Day is really about.
It’s about the 625,000 Americans killed in the Civil War.
The 116,000 Americans killed in WWI.
The 405,000 Americans killed in WWII.
The 36,000 Americans killed in the Korean War.
The 58,000 Americans killed in the Vietnam War.
The 2,300 Americans killed in the Afghanistan War.
The 4,500 Americans killed in the Iraq war.
And all the Americans killed in other wars.

Thank you for your service.
Thank you for your sacrifice.
And thank you for being willing to die for your country.


    I remembered something that was told to me a long time ago back in the mist of time,  Memorial Day honors those that had their *check cashed by Uncle Sam and paid the full measure.
     Veterans Day honors those that served and still are alive.
   Armed Forces Day honors those still serving.

    *A Veteran is a person that has given a black check to Uncle Sam where payment can include your health or life if needed.

     

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Some pithy comments..

 First off, I finished reading Peters's book and it is a real good read.  I was very impressed by the initial effort.  I used to read westerns but haven't read any in a long time.  
 

Here is the Link for your copy.  Check it out.

The kerfluffle over the bathroom is getting rediculous, we are having any fringe group related to the LGBT outrage machine going for their pound of flesh and their time in the sun as the latest cause for the movement. 
There has been so much drama spun by this non issue and the Obama White House added to it by threatening schools with losing federal dollars unless they comply with the latest cause championed by the LGBT lobby.   It makes me wonder what they are distracting us from.
     And speaking of our "Dear Leader", he is making the latest apology tour through the far east,
   With an added bonus, a sitting President on foreign soil, lambast the opponent party presidential nominee that "people are rattled."   Really...?    Talk about throwing tradition down the drain.  You don't speak ill of Amercans especially in a foreign country......that is tacky to the extreme.  If a GOP president did that, I would feel the same.  it is called decorum.  President Obama is foremost a politician and a community organizer, the only thing he can do is read off lines from a teleprompter.
     And speaking of politics......The Donald got the GOP nomination.
  For better or worse, he is the nominee.  I will vote for him over the butcher of Bengazi, The presumed Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton,   The fix was in for her coronation but "The Bernie" is making things hard for her.
  The democratic primary is getting real feisty, the powers that be was expecting a smooth election process where the rank and file democrats would fall in line behind the presumed candidate...you know her as the "smartest Women in the world"

    Well the Democratic National Committee isn't taking the challenge of "Feel the Bern" laying down, they are trying to derail Sanders run at the nomination. 
   And the funny thing is that because of the establishment pushing their presumed candidate on the rank and file democrats, rank and file democrats seeing that the fix is in and that the establishment democrat groups are falling in line are bucking the trend, they are causing "Quite a ruckus" to use an old southernism.
  I will post more later this week.
     

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Monday Music.."Sirius" by the Alan Parson's Project

I apologize for the lack of stuff that I posted the past 2 weeks, normally I don't let soo much time go between postings,  If I get a lot of "dead" time on the blog, people will think that this blog is no longer active.  If I ever get to that point, I will make the announcement, there will be no "fading away".  I have no plans on hanging up the blog anytime soon.

     My Blog buddy Peter released his first Western, So far it is a real good read, I miss westerns, I used to read them when I was growing up, one of the things that I liked about them was the "good guys win", and the protagonist was of upstanding character that exemplifies the positive characteristics of a traditional American.  Especially now with all the candyasses running around the universities wanting their "safe place".     I digress, Please check out the book and you will not be disappointed. 

   We went and saw my brother and Dad in Columbus at the Red Robin (Yum), and it was a good visit
  My Dad is retired, but he did 20 years in the Army as a CID Chief Warrant Officer, then ran his own business for about 10 years, then he was a fraud investigator, and then went police and eventually became a Chief then retired.   My Brother was in the Army 29 years retired as a Chief Warrant Officer flying OH-58's and MI-17's helicopters.  Now he is a contractor overseas.  My family is strong with Military service, and that is a good thing, it makes us appreciate being a citizen of the republic.

       I heard this song playing and I pulled my "Shazam" app and recorded this song.  I kept hearing it but I never knew who sang it and the name.  Well I found out,    it was the Alan Parsons project. I have had another of their songs on my "Monday Music".  The song was "Don't answer me."   But this song "Sirius" was popular in sporting events and other venue's.


The album contains the instrumental piece "Sirius", which has become a staple of many big-time college and professional sporting arenas throughout North America. It is best known for its use by the Chicago Bulls to introduce its starting line-up (including Michael Jordan) during its championship years of the 1990s and continued to the present. It was even the opening number of the documentary Michael Jordan to the Max. It is also used as the soundtrack for the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team tunnel walk before every home game. It was also used by the New Orleans Saints as their entrance music for Super Bowl XLIV. The Kansas City Chiefs also used it during kickoffs during the Marty Schottenheimer era.
During the mid-1980s, it was also used as the ring entrance theme for Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat by the World Wrestling Federation. However, to avoid paying royalties, WWE has edited out Steamboat's entrances with the track or overdubbed them with a homegrown theme from his 1991 run in the WWF.
France's tennis team used the song as their entrance theme for the 2014 Davis Cup final against Switzerland.
"Sirius" is played during the climactic scene of the Godfrey Ho film "American Commando 3: Savage Temptation".
"Sirius" is played in the 8th-season episode of Frasier, Hooping Cranes, during a sequence where Niles Crane shoots and scores from half-way on a basketball court in KeyArena.
"Sirius" segues into "Eye in the Sky". The former is always followed by the latter on airplay, though not always in live performances – at the World Liberty Concert "Sirius" was played as the introduction to "Breakaway" (Try Anything Once) with Candy Dulfer on saxophone.
In recent years, the song has been used on the trailer for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, at Euro 2012, features on the soundtracks to NBA 2K11 and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, as well as a Nissan Altima TV advertisement.

Thursday, May 19, 2016

what has transpired this week

I had some health issues crop up the past few weeks and it had me really concerned.   I was getting chest pain and loss of energy at work.  I had another issue at the end of the Order of the Arrow event that I was working.  At camp they were teaching wilderness First aid and I asked the Dr teaching the course to check my blood pressure.  The Dr is a flight surgeon with F.A.A, she listened to my heartbeat for several minutes and commented that I have an irregular, irregular heartbeat.  I remembered my dad going in for a heart scan and being told that he had 5 blockages and if he had a heart attack, he would be D.R.T.  Well as people whom know me in meatspace know that I am real heavy, I carry it well and I am in good shape, especially for being as large as I am.  I had already scheduled an appointment with the heart people to make sure that I was "ok" before I start ramping up my activities.  Last thing I want to do is stroke out on a treadmill.....You can't go to Valhalla that way, the other vikings will mock you.  I have had concerns about the health issues.    I went to the Dr Monday morning  about the pain and they wanted to admit me to the hospital for 24 hours to run tests and I refused...Remember I work at night and I wanted to go home to sleep.  I told the Dr I have 3 reasons why I don't want to go to the hospital...crappy food, crappy bed and I would be disturbed all the time."  The Dr agreed and then had me hooked up to a 24 hour heart monitor which was uncomfortable.  I then returned the items on Tuesday.  I had a stress test, echo and nuclear test scheduled on Wednesday.  Well I finished the test Wednesday afternoon.  I then had a Dr appointment today to hear the results.  I was of 2 minds, part of me wanted him to find something to explain the pain and other issues, part of me hoped that it was in my mind and that I am OK.  Well the results are as follows......According to the test, my heart is in real good shape, it works as it should, there was no blockages shown, the blood flows as it should.   I was told that I need to slack off the caffeine.  I tend to have more problems on Sunday night when I am trying to roll back to my work schedule so I drink a lot of coffee.   Dang...the stuff I gotta do.

      On a different note during all this, I had planned to meet Jim and Mac at the original ChicFila in Hapeville....the Chicfila that started it all.  Jim is know as the author, traveler of renown, and tellers of good tales and he is good people.  Mac who is a good friend of mine who is a frequent commenter on Jims blog and on mine, I shoot at Mac's place a lot, I find it relaxing..Recoil therapy is a good thing.  It was a good lunch, with good friends and nobody can ask for anything more.  This is one of the benefits of my having my little corner of the internet, I meet and associate with people that I would never meet otherwise, I consider myself fortunate in this regard. 

Monday, May 16, 2016

lot going on...

I have a lot going on and I will be late in posting "Monday Music".  I will explain what is going on after Thursday.

    A few pics from my stash...:)







Thursday, May 12, 2016

Zombie Rights activist and other musings..


    A pithy comment on the latest rage of activism.   This picture is tongue in cheek but there is truth in it.  I will shamelessly throw my friend *Shelldude* under the bus.  Back in the 90's he had made some comment about the nascent P.C movement that was starting, his comment was made about the "When a nation has the leisure time to endlessly gaze at their navel and pick out the lint, this bodes ill for the society.  We as a society have too much time since we as a nation don't have to fight to survive, people have too much time on their hands."     I have seen all this activism stuff going on and I am dismayed, they are destroying the fabric of this country with their petty demands in the name of "social justice", that vague term that can be changed depending on the speaker and the cause.   We are creating a generation of candy-asses on account of this.  People are entering the workplace that have no coping skills with adversity.  The rest of the world will eat their lunch and our lunch as a society.
 A week ago, there was a picture published from West Point where a bunch of black women posed with the "black lives matter" upraised fist salute.  This disturbed me greatly, I know according to UCMJ* when you are in uniform, you abstain from political issues.  The regs are quite clear on this..
Well the Army investigated and they basically excused the behavior.....especially after the Obama White-house released a tweet supporting the women's behavior.   This dismayed me, the military by design is apolitical.  The founding fathers insisted it, they wanted the military to support the constitution, not whom occupied the White-house.  If the politicization continues...we are closer to the age of a strongman or a banana republic.

   *Uniform Code of Military Justice

I ran across this from "Alternative Right."

by Buffalo Jenkins
As a matter of anthropological study, I have compiled a brief summary of the types of white leftists one generally encounters today. While many other types may exist, I believe they can largely be described as versions or admixtures of these basic types.

In physical characteristics these types differ, however they tend to share certain bovine facial expressions, an earnest vapidity about the eyes. They are quick to anger (triggered) and generally unable to cope with truths that are socially awkward. I have tried to list them in order of danger, from least to greatest, with my choice of the seemingly banal 'incidental Marxist' as most dangerous due to his prevalence, and being largely unaware he is espousing Marxist ideas at all.

The categories are:


These are frail urban males who have trained themselves to think like women. Identifiable by thin limbs (and tight trousers), pot bellies, downy beards, checkered shirts and wool hats. Physically and mentally weak, they follow and support insane but attractive young women in every branch of leftism in the vain and fruitless hopes of bedding (or even just impressing) them. Failed creatures from start to finish, often the product of a single mother upbringing, there is some faint hope a few will grow out of this phase in adulthood.



A direct result of modernist miseducation, as a group they are often a lethal combination of naivety, wild emotions, faux-rebelliousness against exceedingly “safe” targets (i.e. racists, sexists, homophobes, et al), bad taste, and endless pecking-order envy. Superficial right to their extremely cute cores, they are a force in this modern world well beyond what nature intended – empowered by our militant non-judgementalism and fired up against any opinion that sounds adroit or masculine. They are often seen mugging a 'perfect victim face' on youtube videos where they have invented a new way to blame society for some everyday commonplace grievance.


These are bland and unoriginal individuals, simply ‘going with the flow’ of conformist thought and pop culture trends. Easily angered, confused by ideas that don't have manifest social impact, they tend to be obsessed with trivialities, status, and materialism. Guilty not of leftist idealism so much as a simple lack of imagination, conformists will adapt to any societal model, providing it is culturally ascendant and expresses perceived majority opinion. There are a shocking number of people in this sad but not hopeless category.


Often older, hippyish gentlemen who nonetheless actually possess a solid work ethic, they tend to be potentially worthwhile individuals. Their main character flaw, however, is that they are completely obsessed with class envy at every level of their lives. Hatred of anything that strikes them as 'hoity toity' or 'silver spoonish' drives them to leftist extremes, often with endless talk of 'the people' and what has or hasn't been done in their name. 'Snooty' high culture, signs of wealth or prosperity in general, and anything that suggests the realities of 'inequality' will drive them into ever increasing rages. Sometimes they can drift into the antifa category, sometimes into a victim-oriented welfare class. They tend to like folk music and will often be physically involved in community activism, such as building shelters for Calais jungle migrants or volunteering at methodone clinics. Overall they are high trust, morally sound people who are simply misguided or consumed by embitterment against their social betters. Ironically, they are the most likely to be absolute tyrants should they for any reason make their way up the social ladder to positions of actual power.


These pseudo-intellectualist kids who get hopping mad on social media about ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘transphobia’ and other innanities, then join an allowed campus echo chamber of fellow victim-goats bleating angrily about inequality. Very close to antifa, though specifically communist and not broadly anarchist. They tend to be sober dressers, mildly overweight white guys or mulatto women with dreadlocks and trendy glasses.


Not all homosexuals are leftists, but those that are tend to be extreme social justice warriors who's working framework of the world is one of joining a victim group to work against 'oppression.' Male homosexuals are often devoutly debauched, while lesbians are less into sex. Homosexuals who are also equal parts 'college communists' and 'feminists,' can be seen encouraging certain suicidal leftisms that will result in the destruction of their chosen identity group, such as mass immigration of Islamic militants.

Many homosexuals today I believe are in it as a 'lifestyle choice' and not due to childhood molestation or hormone imbalance as might be classically the case, and as with other forms of leftism they may find themselves stuck on this track due to emotional investment. It's not an easy course to renege on. This emotional investment then seems an invaluable loss, which forces a further retreat from reality as life experience affects their subconscious with suggestions that the whole 'sexual revolution' and attention-seeking oppressed identity group joining was really a bit of juvenile hysteria. But oops, too late, now you're married to another woman/man!


This pack of Trotskyite punk rockers is invariably composed of youthful anarchists who are angry at the world, probably due to experiences with broken homes, impoverished single parent upbringings, bullying or other youthful trauma, all of which has resulted in a generalized rage that they target at civilization itself. Usually sexually ambiguous, often undistinguishable from street urchins, they are undoubtedly by and large from ethnically white enclaves without any mature understanding of the realities of race or gender. Rarely older than thirty five and physically dangerous, they are the blunt weapon of the left, spiteful ignorance forged into a sword.


An extension of the ‘young girls’ category, frozen in a state of immaturity. Now officially in the outhouse of history, feminists today are among the most genuinely insane bizarros ever to walk the face of the earth. Reacting with extreme anger to literally anything they don't understand, or that may broadly be perceived as 'hateful,' they are like an indulged perpetual baby of irrationality and vitriol. The only known cure for women who traipse down this garden path is a radical re-education, sudden and extreme life trauma, or in some cases having children. One of the largest and most mortally terrifying groups on the list, feminism will prove to have a relatively short enough overall lifespan, as it can only last until an actual and alien patriarchy takes over from the weak, childless, and irrational societal void they create.


This final group are people of both genders (mostly male, the female of this group can also be feminists) whose actions and lives are wholly Cultural Marxist without their being aware of it. They are in some ways a mild-seeming combination of all the above, but moreso the conformist and the beta leftist. They are typified in somebody who gets easily scared by outsider views, and has a strong tendency to cuck themselves with social signaling in weak attempts at impressing their victim-overlords.

Incidental Marxists can seem outwardly intelligent or book-smart, but tend to have the bad taste of the conformist. Usually found working in white-collar jobs, and engaging in idiotic businessspeak. Meaningful culture or history is understood superficially, as something outside their own lives and thereby unreal. They are extremely worried about 'the fascists' and 'the white supremacists' and tend to live a dream where it is permanently 1995 and you can still blame white men for everything bad without any real-world repercussions. Any evidence that 1995 ended 21 years ago is quickly disregarded as right wing propaganda. A great amount of liberal news outlets directly cater to people wanting to maintain this particular illusion.

These Incidental Marxists may have children, but they will never take as much pride in their kids as will in their superficial friendships with minorities and gay couples. Anybody who expresses views to the right of them they equate as American born-again Baptists who want to teach creationism in schools, and no amount of arguing will convince them otherwise.

There may be some very definite types I have not categorized; if so, I would be pleased to hear of what they might be. Where possible, attempts should be made to save these creatures from a lifetime of self-hate and bring them around to correct thinking. Success rates are currently low, but rising.

The election continues with The Donald having a lock on the GOP side, here is something that is making the rounds on Facebook...

   The media attacks have already started as have the surrogote Hillary minions like Indian wanna be Warren and others have started their attacks.   On the Democrat side, Bernie Sanders continue to confound the establishment Democratic party

 I will not vote for Bernie, but I respect him.  You know what you are going to get with Bernie...One of the things that Hillary gets hammered on is her ethics....or lack therof..

   There is a difference of opinion on what will happen to Hillary.....

From the Democrats...
From the Republican side..
Personally I don't see it,  I saw on drudge where she got $75000 from employees from the D.O.J.  None of the other candidates came even close combined.  Even if the F.B.I recommends prosecution, the Justice dept will probably decline to prosecute.  Obama has been successful in politicizing the Justice Dept.  Nothing like the people seeing how corrupt the system is and the fix is on.


Monday, May 9, 2016

Monday Music "Junkfood Junkie" and other Ronco favorites

I had this song playing on my MP3 player, I have this song, along with "Please Mr Custer, Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah and Snoopy and the Red Baron.   I still have the actual records this came off of
I still have this one and a bunch of other "Ronco Records",  I haven't played them in years, because I have them in digital.  One day I will traumatize the kid and break out the records:).  I haven't seen any funny songs released anymore, now all music has to have a message, no more humor I guess.  These songs came from the 60's and 70's, back then we had a sense of humor....now people have thin skins, what does this say about our society.  Well back to the music, I remembered playing these songs and many others over and over again on my little plastic record player until I actually got a decent stereo. 
      Even now if I break out in a lyric, people from my age group and older will sing along...Man what the kids nowadays miss out on. 

"Junk Food Junkie" is a 1976 novelty song by Larry Groce. It spent 15 weeks on the U.S. charts, reaching # 9 on the Billboard Top 100. It was Groce's only song to chart.
The song tells the story of a man leading a double life: during the day he boasts of his natural diet lifestyle, however, at night, he indulges in his secret addiction to junk food. The song is currently released on K-tel International.
"Junk Food Junkie" reached # 48 in Canada.

"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)" is a Grammy Award-winning novelty song by Allan Sherman and Lou Busch, based on letters of complaint Allan received from his son Robert while Robert attended Camp Champlain in Westport, New York. The song is a parody that complains about the fictional "Camp Granada" and is set to the tune of Amilcare Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours". The name derives from the first lines:
Hello Muddah,
Hello Fadduh.
Here I am at
Camp Granada.
Camp is very
entertaining.
And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining
.
The lyrics go on to describe unpleasant, dangerous, and tragic developments, such as fellow campers going missing or contracting deadly illnesses. He asks how his "precious little brother" is doing, and begs to be taken home, afraid of being left out in the forest and fearing getting eaten by a bear, promising to behave, and even letting his aunt Bertha hug and kiss him. At the end, he notes that the rain has stopped and fun activities have begun (such as swimming, sailing, and baseball), and asks his parents to "kindly disregard this letter".
After the song scored #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 list for three weeks beginning August 24, 1963, Sherman wrote a new 'back at Camp Granada' version, "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh!", for a May 27, 1964, performance on the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Sherman wrote a third version for, and acted in, a 1965 TV commercial for a board game about Camp Granada, a "real rotten camp".


The song won a 1964 Grammy Award for comedy. The song was played often on the Dr. Demento Show and is featured on the Rhino Records compilation album, Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection.
Variations of the song include translations in Swedish ("Brev från kolonien" by Cornelis Vreeswijk), Finnish ("Terve mutsi, terve fatsi, tässä teidän ihmelapsi") and Norwegian ("Brev fra leier'n" by Birgit Strøm). The Finnish version is included in the Finnish Boy Scouts' songbook. The Swedish version notably does not revolve around the camper hating the camp, but is about the kids running roughshod over it and having run off all the counselors, one of whom has committed suicide after they let a snake into the mess hall, and the organizer of the camp being arrested by police after the kids start a forest fire. The song begins with the boy writing the letter asking his parents to send more money, as he's lost all his pocket money playing dice with the other campers. The song then ends with the boy having to wrap up the letter as he is about to join the others in burning down the neighboring camp lodge.

"Mr. Custer" is a march novelty song, sung by Larry Verne, and written by Al DeLory, Fred Darian, and Joseph Van Winkle. It was a number-one song in the United States in 1960, topping the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for the issue dated October 10, 1960, and remained there for one week. It is a comical song about a soldier's plea to Custer before the climactic Battle of the Little Bighorn against the Sioux, which he did not want to fight. 


"Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" was inspired by the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz, which featured a recurring storyline of Snoopy imagining himself in the role of a World War I airman fighting the Red Baron. The song was released approximately one year after the first comic strip featuring Snoopy fighting the Red Baron appeared on Sunday October 10, 1965. Schulz and United Features Syndicate sued the Royal Guardsmen for using the name Snoopy without permission or an advertising license. (The Guardsmen, meanwhile, hedged their bets by recording an alternative version of the song, called "Squeaky vs. the Black Knight"; some copies of this version were issued by Laurie Records in Canada.) UFS won the suit, the penalty being that all publishing revenues from the song would go to them. Schulz did allow the group to write more Snoopy songs.
The song begins with a background commentary in faux German: "Achtung! Jetzt wir singen zusammen die Geschichte über den Schweinköpfigen Hund und den lieben Red Baron," which is a purposeful mistranslation of the English: "Attention! We will now sing together the story of that pig-headed dog Snoopy and the beloved Red Baron" and features the sound of a German sergeant ("eins, zwei, drei, vier" after the first verse), and an American sergeant (after the second verse) counting off in 4s; a fighter plane; machine guns; and a plane in a tailspin (at the end of the last verse). The song (1.46-1.54) quotes the instrumental chords from The McCoys' version of "Hang On Sloopy". In the original recording of "Snoopy", the lyrics "Hang on Snoopy, Snoopy hang on" were sung at this point. This led to some initial speculation that the Guardsmen were the McCoys under a different name. Prior to release, these lyrics were removed to prevent copyright issues.

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Something to think about with the 2016 Election..

I ran across this at Politically Short,  I had touched upon this in a prior post.  I know that the stakes are really high and for this election...I said it back in 2012 that the United States could ill afford a second term of Barack Obama, but the GOPe ran the only candidate that could not defeat Obama, and after the voters pushed a Republican majority in 2012 and padded it in 2014, and the GOP just rolled over to get their bellies scratched and save their spot at the Public Trough,  the voters got even more angry.  This should have been the year of "Ted", as the "outsider" candidate but THE Donald jumped out there with the comments about immigration....and the race was on.

The Pics are from my stash




If those of us in the Republican party cannot let go of the personal animosity that exists against each other and unite against the Democratic party, then the 2016 election will be the last election in American history. What I mean by this is if Hillary Clinton becomes our next President then America will enter the longest period of uninterrupted Democrat rule since the days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Meaning, as Daniel Greenfield of Front Page Mag writes,  “it will be the single greatest opportunity for the left to transform America since the days of the New Deal”. Furthermore, Greenfield notes that “even if the Democrats never manage to retake Congress, they will control two out of three branches of government. And with an activist Supreme Court and the White House, the left will have near absolute power to redefine every aspect of society on their own terms without facing any real challenges. And they will use it. Your life changed fundamentally under Obama. The process will only accelerate”.


It is important to recall that under the New Deal our government was fundamentally transformed in a way that has been more than detrimental to not only the American people, but to the Constitution itself as it gave credence to the notion that the Constitution was outdated and irrelevant as its provisions needed to be usurped in order to solve the crisis of the times. Of course in order to solve the “crisis of the times”, the New Deal greatly expanded the size, scope, and power of the federal government. It was this philosophy based upon expanding the state through the creation of various bureaucratic agencies outside the purview and control of the people while eroding the basic framework of the Constitution in which the policies of the New Deal lives on today.
So what would an America look like if a Democrat, namely Hillary Clinton who has already been anointed wins the presidency in 2017? For starters, if Hillary is elected, the baton will have passed from one Alinskyite to another, as Obama will have had eight years to fundamentally transform America, and Hillary will have another four to eight to complete the job. As Dinesh D’Souza wrote in his book America: Imagine A World Without Her, “together these two [Obama and Clinton] will have the opportunity to undo the nations founding ideals. They will have had the power, and the time, to unmake and then remake America. If Clinton becomes President of the United States, then it will be their America, not ours, and we will be a people bereft of a country, with no place to go.”
Remember that for Hillary, as for Alinsky, politics is not a contest between friends who disagree about the direction of the country; it is a form of warfare and the other side made up of conservatives, republicans, constitutionalists, veterans, and Christians, are an enemy to be vanquished and destroyed. Too many have seen to have forgotten that Hillary’s own senior thesis written in college was titled “There is Only the Fight…An Analysis of the Alinsky Model.” This title was a trademark Alinsky phrase that appealed to Hillary because it suggested a move from the politics of idealism to the politics of pure power. There is Only the Fight sums up that the only way to get somewhere in politics is through power, working from within the system by any means necessary to achieve it. This was a break from Alinsky who believed the best way to achieve power was outside the system. For Clinton, it has always been her stance that once in power, the system can be used as a means to achieve her ends.

Thus, if Clinton is able to achieve the presidency, she will use the full force and power of the government against her enemies on the Right. She will terrorize them into capitulation or silence using a litany of agencies from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, Environmental Protection Agency, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, and every other alphabet soup agency to go even further than Obama by extracting money and benefits from the private sector and from the taxpayers on the right to fill her and her donors coffers.

Supreme Court
To begin, a Hillary presidency will not only expand the power of the federal government through the expansion of the bureaucracy but will also fundamentally change the concept of our Constitution via the packing of the Supreme Court with far-leftist judges. As the late Justice Antonin Scalia warned in his dissent from the Courts’ 5-4 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges which declared same sex marriage a right, the Court itself had “become a threat to American democracy.” Scalia wrote that the Courts’ decree in the Obergefell v. Hodges “says that my Ruler, and the Rule of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the 9 lawyers on the Supreme Court.” Scalia further wrote that:
“The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact—and the furthest extension one can even imagine—of the Court’s claimed power to create “liberties” that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention. This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves.”

The next President will be responsible for not only picking Scalia’s replacement, but possibly 3 to 4 more justices who will set the direction of the court for the next 30 to 40 years. If the court is stacked with liberal justices who view the Constitution as an outdated and fluid document that can be interpreted in whatever way they see fit, it will enshrine “abortion rights”, same sex marriage, and every other conceivable “right” as the law of the land while at the same time abolishing rights deemed insignificant. For example, it will be no surprise to see the Court under a Hillary presidency rule that the right to bear arms is unconstitutional as she will fill the vacancy on the Court left by Scalia’s death with the radical leftist Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland. Garland, who has first appointed to the D.C. Circuit Court by non-other than Bill Clinton in 1997, would undoubtedly vote to reverse the monumental D.C. v. Heller decision, which affirmed that the second amendment confers an individual right to keep and bear arms.
We know that Garland will in fact push gun control if allowed to become a Supreme Court Justice given his prior record on this issue. For instance, in 2007 Garland voted to undo a D.C. Circuit Court decision striking down one of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation that not only banned individual handgun possession but even prohibited guns from being kept in one’s own house for self-defense. Meaning, a 3 Judge panel struck down the ban, but Garland wanted to reconsider the ruling by voting in favor for the D.C. governments petition to rehear the case. If Garland had won the vote, the Supreme Court wouldn’t have had a chance to protect the individual right to bear arms. Needless to say, with Hillary as President Merrick Garland will be appointed and the Supreme Court will go from a 4-4 split to as much as a 6-3 split in which the majority will rule strictly in favor of liberal causes.
Immigration
Moving on from the Supreme Court, next is Hillary’s stance on immigration in which she has promised to not only “go even further” than Obama on executive actions in regards to “keeping immigrant families together”; but has also vowed to “stand up against any effort to deport Obama’s DREAMers” while “creating a pathway to citizenship by enabling millions of workers to come out of the shadows.” From her official campaign website HillaryClinton.Com, as President she has promised that she will further “fight for comprehensive immigration reform legislation with a path to full and equal citizenship.” Moreover, she will also push for parents and family members of illegal immigrant “DREAMers” to be eligible for deferred action and expand “access to Obamacare to all families — regardless of immigration status.”

The cost of extending healthcare to all illegal immigrants is enormous as Neil Munro of Breitbart explains, “American taxpayers pay roughly $5,000 per year for each person enrolled in Obamacare. The addition of only 10 million current illegal immigrants to Obamacare would cost taxpayers at least $50 billion per year, or $500 billion over 10 years.” Also, as the Heritage Foundation noted in a 2012 report, amnesty alone for the administration’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants would cost Americans $6 trillion over 50 years, including the cost of welfare and healthcare benefits. While statistics vary in regards to how many illegal immigrants are in fact living in the United States with estimates ranging from 10 million to 25 million, the key takeaway here is that the pro-amnesty side only has to win once and the country itself will be finished. Why? With Clinton as President she will push executive amnesty to a point in which the Democrat party will have a voting majority to keep them in power for the next few decades. Simply put, Republicans will not win another election for decades to come as every illegal immigrant granted amnesty under a Hillary presidency will vote Democrat and Democrat only.

Gun Control
On gun control, just as immigration, Clinton has vowed to enact “common sense gun reforms” via executive action with or without any congressional input. For example, Hillary will “repeal the gun industry’s immunity protection” via executive order by repealing the so-called “Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arm’s Act.” This would essentially allow victims of gun violence to hold gun manufacturers, not individuals, liable for the actions of an inanimate object through a litany of lawsuits that will bankrupt the gun industry. Furthermore, Clinton has set her sights on targeting the “gun lobby” by specifically mentioning that she will go after the National Rifle Association (NRA) as she believes the NRA is at the root of impairing progress to solving America’s “gun problems.”
The types of restrictions she will impose have already been outlined in her prior statements in which she has supported a ban on popular semi-automatic firearms and endorsed an Australian-style Confiscation scheme for carrying out her vision. In 2014, Clinton vehemently stated her opposition to the right-to-carry in a Q&A session with the National Council for Behavioral Health, noting that “we’ve got to reign in what has become an artificial of faith, that anyone can own and carry a gun.” Lastly, and most disturbingly, Clinton made explicitly clear during a private fundraiser in New York last September that the “Supreme Court is wrong on the Second Amendment” in reference to the Courts’ landmark ruling in D.C. v. Heller which found the handgun ban in D.C., unconstitutional
It is by no means an overstatement to say that given Clinton’s past and current statements, she does not believe that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms, regardless of what the Constitution and the Supreme Court may say. It should be clear to all gun owners and advocates of the Second Amendment that the day Clinton assumes office your rights will be attacked with the full force of the federal government.

First Amendment
Hillary has never been one to take criticism lightly, nor has she been one to respect the First Amendment. To drive this point home, in an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN a few days ago Clinton explained how she would make it illegal to criticize her. Clinton stated the following about the Citizens United decision in which the Supreme Court held that the federal government couldn’t constitutionally bar a movie critical of Clinton, regardless of whether an election was in progress. Clinton stated:
“I really respect the important point of getting money out of politics. Remember, Citizens United was an attack on me, so I take it very personally and even before Senator Sanders got into the campaign way back in April of last year, I said we are going to reverse Citizens United and if we can’t get the Supreme Court to do what I think would be the right decision, then I will lead a constitutional amendment.”
If the Citizens United decision was to be overturned, as Hillary wants, it would result in the re-writing of the First Amendment as the federal government would make it illegal to criticize Mrs. Clinton (or any other liberal politician) in a movie, book, pamphlet, etc. To get an idea of how Clinton would go about criminalizing dissent by censoring free speech, recall two incidents that happened back in 2012 to two different filmmakers, the first being Joel Gilbert who made the controversial film called “Dreams of My Real Father.” The film, which focused on key influences in the life of Barack Obama, lead to a complaint on behalf of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) by three of the six commissioners voting to demand that Gilbert report who funded the project. In a case spotlighting how the regulation of conservative media critical of the liberal agenda will be used under a Clinton presidency, the three Democrats on the FEC alleged Gilbert violated reporting rules when he mailed out DVDs of his movie during the 2012 election campaign. Luckily in this case the three Republicans on the FEC blocked the fishing expedition which could have resulted in Gilbert facing massive fines, restrictions, and even referral to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution.
In an interview with World Net Daily, Gilbert warned that “if the make-up of the FEC is changed because a Democrat wins the presidency and appoints one more Democrat than Republican to the commission, we will face a dire future in which only political speech favorable to the far-left agenda will be tolerated.” This isn’t hyperbole either, it’s reality and if you believe Clinton wouldn’t go so far as to punish an individuals First Amendment, remember that she already has. This was the case during Clinton’s time as the Secretary of State in which Clinton, along with President Obama and Ambassador Susan Rice, blamed filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula for inciting the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi because of his film, “Innocence of Muslims,” that was critical of Islam. Nakoula, a resident of California, was soon hauled off to jail for trumped up charges related to bank fraud days after the spotlight fell upon him on September 11, 2012. Nakoula’s underlying offense was that he exercised his First Amendment rights in producing a video in opposition to Islam, a point that cannot be underscored enough as it leads us to Hillary’s final position.
Islam
As Rich Lowry of Politico notes, “Nakoula’s jail time appears indistinguishable from what the 56-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation, devoted to pushing blasphemy laws around the world, calls deterrent punishment for Islamophobia.” Nakoula’s punishment was in fact directly in line with the blasphemy laws first pushed by the OIC and supported by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton back in 2011. In her remarks during an OIC high-level meeting on “combating religious intolerance” in Istanbul, Clinton offered America’s willing support to OIC Secretary General Ihsanoglu in order to help facilitate the implementation of the OIC’s Ten-Year Programme through the ratification of the United Nations Resolution 16/ 18. “In doing so, the United States committed its best efforts to a foreign state actor, the OIC, to help ratify a United Nations resolution that is antithetical to the First Amendment,” writes Stephen Coughlin a leading expert on Islamic Doctrinal drivers of Jihad. The process of passing and implementing the requirements of Resolution 16/ 18 is called the Istanbul Process and in her speech in Istanbul, Clinton committed to spearheading the 16/ 18 effort:
“For our part, I have asked our Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom, Suzan Johnson Cook, to spearhead our implementation efforts. And to build on the momentum from today’s meeting, later this year the United States intends to invite relevant experts from around the world to the first of what we hope will be a series of meetings to discuss best practices, exchange ideas, and keep us moving forward beyond the polarizing debates of the past; to build those muscles of respect and empathy and tolerance that the secretary general referenced. It is essential that we advance this new consensus and strengthen it, both at the United Nations and beyond, in order to avoid a return to the old patterns of division.”
Secretary Clinton then went on to say:
“Under this resolution, the international community is taking a strong stand for freedom of expression and worship, and against discrimination and violence based upon religion or belief.”
To get a sense of how the OIC seeks to enforce what Clinton called “a strong stand for freedom of expression,” just days before meeting with Secretary Clinton, the OIC Secretary General Ihsanoglu, made his thoughts known declaring that “insults to Islam and to the honored Prophet of Islam, Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH), has reached a stage that can no longer be tolerated under any pretext, including freedom of speech.” Ihsanoglu’s view of freedom of expression may trouble non-Muslims, but it conforms to authoritative Islamic law on slander. Clearly aware of this, Clinton accepted this view on behalf of all American citizens as she continued by noting her commitment to “enforcing anti-discrimination laws, protecting the rights of all people to worship as they choose, and to use some old-fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming, so that people don’t feel that they have the support to do what we abhor.”
As Coughlin explains, “When Clinton committed to a foreign power ‘to use some old-fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming’ against American citizens in order to facilitate a foreign entities’ Programme of Action she seemed to recognize that she lacked a constitutional basis to undertake such an effort. Hence, the stated need to resort to extra-legal measures that envision bringing the enormous coercive power of the state to bear against its own citizens to silence them.” Think of what happened to the California filmmaker Nakoula and then multiply that on a scale for an idea of what is to come under a Clinton presidency that seeks to use “peer pressure and shaming” against those who slander Islam in an end-run around constitutional protections.
Given that these are only a handful of examples in regards to what a Clinton presidency would mean to the country, one doesn’t have to imagine how they are all interconnected. For instance, with Clinton as President, how long do you think it would it take until Supreme Court Justice Merrick Garland decides that a Mohammed cartoon is “shouting fire in a crowded theater” and not protected by the Constitution? What happens when your Second Amendment right is deemed unconstitutional as an Australian-style gun confiscation scheme is implemented? How long will it be before a Republican wins the White House after Hillary grants amnesty and voting rights to tens of millions of illegal immigrants who will become dependent on Democrat policies?
These questions will be answered under a Hillary presidency and if you do not fall in line with the Democrat party you will be made to. That isn’t a threat it’s a guarantee. So today as many Republicans turn on each other in what has become a circular firing squad during this primary, never forget what is truly at stake in this election. Obama was given two terms to fundamentally transform the United States of America. It will take Hillary only one to destroy it.

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Busy..Busy..Busy..

I have been very busy...
Our latest Boeing 757 in the "teardown phase"..it will be our last one before the summer travel season

This is what it will look like when it is almost finished..


    I have been real busy with work, scouts...the crumb snatcher performed another "Arrow of Light" and a "Crossover" ceremony..
And finally I saw this in a infrequent foray into Facebook...


  Something to think about....I will post an expansion later on that I have saved.