Bieber-Babies & Boobs

Bieber-Baby

“One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination.”

– Sam Levenson, humorist

I spent a couple of years in my prime in Bacliff Texas just a stones throw from Gilley’s where I discovered Willie, Waylon and the boys! I identified very easily with the persona Willie warned mothers everywhere not to let their babies grow up to be like. I was a cowboy in spirit for sure…I just didn’t happen to have a horse under me.

Times have changed and looking at the photo above has me wondering if Willie’s ever considered revising his famous song to issue a new warning to the mothers of America. Because there is truly nothing more un-American and in fact destructive to the spirit of America than to have your babies grow up as a white-wanabe-imitation of a black urban gangsta rapper! Where the song and the warm-up meet at the crossroads of pure narcissism, me, me, me!

Sorry Sam, but there isn’t a trace of virtue in the young face above. There is only the seed of death and destruction…to a beat with artificial soul and marginal talent at best. And it is absolutely no surprise that the powers that truly be in our culture today have succeeded in mainlining it into the hearts and souls of our urban and even suburban youth…until the land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims pride turned into Detroit and the bloodbaths of Chicago and on the streets of Newburgh and New York City.

The face above has neither imagination nor an interest in the following FACTS!

• 72.5% of black babies are born out of wedlock
• The most dangerous place for a black baby is in its mother’s womb!
• 75% of gun victims in Philly in 2011 were black!
• 80% of the trigger fingers were black!
• Shall we talk about drugs?

And is there anything in the face above or any face in Detroit for that matter that says “budget” to you? Yes, the very same Progressive Democratic Storks who’ve dropped the Bieber-Baby on our door-step have delivered the Bieber-Budget System as well, which is of course SPEND SOMEONE ELSE’S MONEY!!

 

Financial Statement of the United States of America:

* U.S. Tax revenue: $ 2,170,000,000,000 * Federal budget: $ 3,820,000,000,000 * New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000 * National debt: $ 16,571,000,000,000 * Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000

Let’s now remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget:

* Annual family income: $ 21,700 * Money the family spent: $ 38,200 * New debt on the credit card: $ 16,500 * Outstanding balance on the credit card: $ 165,710 * Total budget cuts so far: $ 385

…which brings us to the 1^st Boob who somehow feels it is appropriate to bring the family on a $100 Million African Safari, taking up 30 rooms in the most posh hotels with rooms costing $3,000 per night in the midst of sequestration with Americans out of work and 50 million of them on food stamps! Trust me Willie, Mama’s missing her cowboys!

The First Boob

Courage

Edward Snowden

“One man with courage is a majority.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

Once upon a time I lived in the San Fernando Valley of California. One day in the middle of the afternoon I heard the dog next door barking and smelled smoke. All I remember is running through a burning house filled with smoke following the barking because I couldn’t see. I found the mother tied to the refrigerator with the three pups who wouldn’t leave her and dragged them all out of the house just as the fire department was rolling up.

Some might say that was a courageous thing to do, but how could it be? I never even thought about it…it was 100% reflex.

On the other hand and more recently, a young man by the name of Remington Reimer had all kinds of time to think about his remarks as the Valedictorian of his High School Class at his High School Graduation! He could take the safe and easy road and give his already approved prepared speech, or he could challenge the norm, go off script, follow his heart, violate the rules and suffer the consequences.  Remington Reimer chose the latter and chose to acknowledge his lord and savior knowing this would jeopardize his future academic and career pursuits. Now that is courage! 
http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/principal-threatens-valedictorians-navy-career/

I once listened to a speech given by another courageous man by the name of Michael Voris. He had just returned from touring prisons in formerly Communist parts of Eastern Europe where Catholic Priests were imprisoned and tortured for refusing to deny their faith. He spoke of how we Americans in the first half of the last century (when income tax was less than 2%) had governed most aspects of our own lives effectively and efficiently because we all operated from the same basic Judeo-Christian moral code. But with the “Liberating” 60’s came the shrinking of our moral code…and as our moral code contracted, our political class expanded to the out-of-control leviathan we enjoy today! That was probably the best explanation I’ve ever heard of how we got here!

Now we are witnessing another contraction and expansion. As courage is literally disappearing in our government, it is appearing in We the People! Oh, you won’t see examples of it in your newspapers or on TV…in fact they will intentionally disguise courage and translate it into extreme acts, radical behavior or…hate speech. But I guarantee you there is probably more individual courage beginning to build on your street in your home town, wherever that is, than in all three branches of this federal government combined! While we are growing heroes, they are growing cowards! And if this is not so, then please show me where a single villain has been sentenced for the 2008 financial collapse, MF Global, Fast & Furious, countless instances of election fraud and voter intimidation (caught on camera), Benghazi lies & cover-up, IRS targeting and what has become serial lying to Congress! Show me one…anyone!

And now the world is watching the latest in a growing list of scandals as a young man by the name of Edward Snowden has introduced us all to our government’s PRISM. After one huge public GASP from all sides of the political spectrum, we are told to relax by the likes of John Bolten who attempt to assure us that “this is nothing new…and that this has been authorized by all three branches of our government.” And I thought to myself, “Are you talking about the same government that once upon a time was kept in check by what we used to call a separation of powers?” Because all I see today are three branches, three ropes and three nooses for the sons and daughters and Liberty herself!

When the waters of political cowardice can lap at the feet of people like John Bolten, it’s well past high-time to throw off the sheepskin and gird ourselves for the inevitable consequence of their betrayal. On the other hand I am not sure how to answer their question, “Is Edward Snowden a hero or a patriot?” What I do know is that it took a tremendous amount of courage to do what Edward Snowden has done. What I do know is that I value courage beyond all human qualities in this specific place at this specific time. May God help those who help themselves http://oathkeepers.org/oath/!

NUTS!

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand!”~ Milton Friedman

There are simply no words to describe the stark contrast between our lives twenty years ago with what we are all experiencing today. For one thing, if we quoted Jefferson or Adams reverently we were simply ordinary American citizens expressing reverence. Today such expression results in the marginalization of the “perpetrator” and possibly resulting in a suspension if such radical utterance were to flow from the lips of your child.

Google “killian hate crime” to discover what is happening to your “free speech” in Davey Crockett’s Tennessee…where CRITISIZING ISLAM on Facebook or Twitter could make you a FELON! Why anyone would criticize the “religion of peace” is completely beyond me , but weren’t we always FREE to?

I, like most all of you, thought that the big dust-up in Turkey was over the government’s plans to remove some trees (because that’s what they wanted us to think). What I realize now, thanks to Pamela Geller here, is that the people are protesting their government’s plans to build a mosque on the site as part of their shift away from democracy and towards Islamic authoritarianism. Sound familiar? 

Isn’t it funny how here in the “New World”, we find out about how they have eyes that can see everything and yet still choose to reward bad behavior and punish the good?

I have been debating with L. lately over the changes in our lives. We started our online tussles over the recent BSA decision to lift the ban on gay scouts. Her points were about “inclusiveness” and “fairness”. Mine were about “agenda” and “the oath”. It’s fair enough that we should have the debate, but suicidal to not recognize where the suppression, intimidation and coercion come into play! Always follow the money and it will eventually lead you to the man behind the curtain!

Please read the last quote from my last blog by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. What if we had been smart enough beginning 50 years ago to recognize that the sponsors behind the war on poverty, the war on drugs, feminism and the war on women, environmentalism and the war on climate change right on up to the war on rich people and Killian’s war on hate speech are ALL THE SAME PEOPLE waging a war against US? Do you think perhaps that our life experience might be a little different today? L. says she is happier now than then. What do you think? I told her we should check in with each other a year from now.

If I had a dime for every time I am admonished by my friends on the left for continuing to question with boldness rather than to not worry and be happy, I could probably put a fair dent in the national debt. After all, that’s how they do it…which ironically is how we amassed our debt in the first place…right L.? (She is a bond expert who writes for major financial publications).

How did we get to this place in twenty years where all of a sudden those of us who question with boldness as Jefferson encouraged us to do are “self-righteous bigots, racists and Islamaphobes” for doing so? So I am supposed to be OK with PRISM because all three branches of the federal government authorized it…even though Holder is still our Attorney General, Obama is still our President and Corzine is still free? NUTS!

 
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-12/guest-post-why-things-will-get-worse-much-worse

“You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide.”~ Joseph Goebbels 

One Nation Under…Carlyle?

I spent this past weekend in Syracuse with family I haven’t seen in forty years, sat in the same church in the same pews I once sat next to my Grandparents in and visited their graves with my cousins and “Uncle Bill from the Hill”. Sunday was a perfectly sunny day, sandwiched in between two rainy days. I drove up in the rain and returned in the rain. Everyone seemed to have the same question followed by the same conclusion. Why did it take so long for us to get together, and what a blessing it was to finally do so.

Four hours in a car alone gives a person a lot of thinking room. Some people might use the time to think about career goals, their next vacation or paying bills…I thought mostly about relationship and family. I tried to remember the drive on Route 17 I had taken countless times from the back seat of the family car listening to Andy Williams croon Moon River followed by an endless stream of Mantovani hour after “are we there yet?” hour…literally a lifetime ago!

There were two observations I was struck by that stood in stark contrast to the memories of my youth. The first was the number of empty seats at a church service on a beautiful sunny day, when I remember it being packed so long ago. The second was the staggering level of urban decay in the areas of downtown Syracuse we drove through that evening. This was never Madison Avenue, but we’re talking apocalyptic! Apocalyptic…

…“Disharmony has entered our hearts. Evil has seeped in…do you understand? Evil has come to the streets but the citizens are not evil.”~ Man on the street in Istanbul 
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-11/live-stream-istanbul

So what has Syracuse to do with Istanbul? I tell you the answer lies in a similar question posed by Tertullian nearly 1,800 years ago when he asked, “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” Syracuse may be a long way from Istanbul, but it is less than a day’s ride from the New World orchestra pit at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave and Capitol Hill in Washington, DC where Tyranny has written and produced and is now conducting the darkest symphony the world has ever known. Hearken to the grand orchestral climactic finale of man’s reason!

The man on the street in Istanbul has become just as powerless and insignificant to his own destiny as the men and women we saw on Salina Street in Syracuse. And this is exactly how we have evolved from One Nation Under God to One Nation Under the Carlyle Group! 
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-10/911-prismgate-how-carlyle-group-lbod-worlds-secrets
Please don’t take this sitting down. You may never get up again!

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: ‘Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.’

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn by way of Ann Barnhardt!

 

Progressive Compassion & Willful Blindness

Transparency & the Rule of Law will be the Touchstones of this Presidency. ~ Barack Obama, January 2009

How many of us pulled the lever for Obama five years ago hoping for a kinder, gentler, more open and inclusive America? How many of us bought into the notion that Obamacare = Compassion? Well Americans just got a front row glimpse at the “compassionate ear” of their fundamental transformers in two very revealing incidents.

1- A bureaucrat with no medical qualifications determines a ten year old child should die? We have given our government the power to decide who lives and who dies? 
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/sarah-murnaghan-lung-transplant-ruling-kathleen-sebelius-92299.html

2- What happened to Marx’s “useful idiots” after they were no longer useful?   
http://now.msn.com/michelle-obama-confronts-heckler-ellen-sturtz-at-fundraiser?ocid=ansnow11

Obama & Holder are well beyond deception now…they have anointed themselves King and Queen…or I guess more of a Prince John and Sheriff of Nottingham, and are moving forward with the outright destruction of America at breathtaking speed:

• Keystone-Killer = Job-Killer
• IRS = Gestapo
• Benghazi Liar Susan Rice promoted
• Spying on the Press KILLS Freedom of the Press kills Freedom
• Samantha (I hate Israel) Powers promoted to Ambassador of the already Israel-hating UN
• …and now the Pièce de résistance…
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20main-2%20Special%20trail:Network%20front%20-%20special%20trail:Position1
  

…we waited for Obama to do a Clinton-shift to center in the wake of 2010…instead he turned into Stalin-reincarnate delivering us to our own wake! In less than 5 years he has transformed us from the #1 world power to the #1 world joke! The vacuum that this has created in the Middle East and other parts of the world is rapidly being filled by powers that devour precious individual liberties & freedoms like finger food.

America…it’s as if you and I were once husband and wife, united together in “holy matrimony” committed to one another. We loved one another for who we were, with all our differences until one day something changed. We began to question and distrust each other as if some unseen agitator had our ear…feeding us daily doses of doubt …until one day we realized that our American Dream had devolved from “for better or for worse” to “willful blindness” as the terms in our relationship. Peace, love and compassion are not made in such ways…slaves are made in such ways.

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking [2013].” –George Orwell, 1984
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-06-05/2013

The Exclusive Problem with “Inclusiveness”!

“If you’re not a liberal at 20 you have no heart, if not a conservative at 40 you have no brain”~ Winston Churchill

Nature is a wonderful classroom sometimes. Take the Venus Fly Trap for instance. An amazing plant that eats flies by luring them into its jaws with a sweet nectar that the fly is unable to resist.

Now if I were the strategist of some radical ideology that I wanted to impose on a society, this example of nature would be the heart of my plan. Lincoln himself realized this:

“A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.”

There are two enemies that have thus breached the walls of our society and are in effect, already dissembling us from within. They are the radical ideologies of Islam and Progressivism which are equally incompatible with the constitutional laws of our society! And yet, we have become the fly in their trap because they’ve disarmed us with the nectar of “inclusiveness” which goes by many names like multiculturalism and coexistence…so sweet, so fragrant, flowery…and nice. What decent human being could resist?

I witnessed a young man’s greatest accomplishment in Scouting by being officially recognized as an Eagle Scout on Saturday. He was the only one of three who acknowledged the recent decision of the Boy Scouts of America to partially lift their ban and include gay boy scouts in his remarks. To his mind, it wasn’t about the violation of oath…it was about inclusiveness. He spoke his mind from his heart with honor. But, to echo Paul Harvey’s famous line, he was not equipped with the rest of the story.

Because the young man who has not been taught the story of Samuel here is as spiritually malnourished as the same young man who has been deprived of the story of our founding is academically malnourished. An uninformed decision, as nice as it may seem, is a bad decision. And you know that it is a bad decision because persecution and dishonor will be it’s fruit! There have been 20,000 victims of Islamic inclusiveness since 9/11 with the beheading of Lee Rigby making the most recent headless head-line. And all one needs to do is turn from Obama’s endless scandals to the Boy Scouts to behold the latest victim of Progressivism (in spite of 2/3 of scout leaders)…and the death of Honor. RIP

In the Progressive world, a public confession of sexual orientation constitutes honor and courage…as in the case of Jason Collins. Our young man wouldn’t recognize the names of Glen Doherty and Ty Woods to save his life. But the 33 Americans who are alive today because Glen Doherty and Ty Woods disobeyed stand-down orders to fly into harms way  to rescue them in Benghazi will never forget their names. They fought with honor and courage to defend their position taking out dozens of the enemy, saving the lives of 33 Americans before they themselves were finally killed by mortar fire, waiting for the help that never came…and then they were lied about, covered up and forgotten…except by their families, 33 Americans and those of us paying attention of course. And their Commander in Chief who abandoned them to die practically wet his pants to recognize and honor the gay basketball player!

You see, the real problem with inclusiveness on Progressive terms is what gets excluded! They want a world where our young men look up to the man who sells himself to advance their agenda and sell his book. True honor and courage could constitute a real problem in the herd. In our zeal to be inclusive, we end up excluding the people and things we loved the most without realizing or caring…until one day we wake up and wonder, “Hey where did common sense go?”

Common Sense ~ If and when the American Fly wakes up to the false charms of the fly trap, she will be inclusive to all who are willing to check their multicultural BS at the door of assimilation into “One Nation Under God”! And if you are unable or unwilling to adhere to the values of a particular organization in a free society, then you are free not to join it! You are even free to start your own!! God Bless America! That includes you!

A “Facade with Guns”!

When there were Honest Men!

Government is now a facade, with guns. It has failed miserably at governance and shifted its focus to survival. ~ Monty Pelerin

Well it took a little more than 200 years to get here, but we’ve arrived at what is now the Divided Façade of America! The USA has become the DFA… “with guns”! I can just imagine Mark Twain and Will Rogers smilin’ down on us with “I told you so” grins a mile wide…I was just about to turn over my guns to them—you know they seem to want them awfully bad…but then I wondered to myself, what would our old friends say?

“No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” And of course…

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” ~ Mark Twain

And another old friend…

“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”~ Will Rogers

Mark Twain ~ born 11/30/1835 – died 4/21/1910

Will Rogers ~ born 11/4/1879 – died 8/15/1935

USA ~ born 7/4/1776 – died 1/1/2009

And then there’s my personal favorite… ~ In times of change, the Patriot is a scarce man; brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot. ~ Mark Twain

But you may wish to read this before joining…quite wonderful really! 
http://www.economicnoise.com/2013/05/31/government-a-seedy-circus-perpetually-in-debt/