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AMERICA, CAN WE SURVIVE???


BLOG POST 1 - Survive

Before you pigeonhole me as a kook and doomsday theorist let me complete the question.  Can we survive without dealing with corruption in government?  My first response is NO but then I must place an addendum and say, “Not as the Free Constitutional Republic our Framers and Founders established.”  We have a choice or there is a matter before us, that could ultimately require the assertion of Thomas Jefferson in his letter to William Stephens Smith in 1787, “…the people cannot be all, & always, well informed. the part which is wrong … will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. if they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. we have had 13 states independent 11 years. there has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state.  What country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.  The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them.  What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?  The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants.  It is its natural manure.”   PLEASE BE ADVISED – I am not calling for armed rebellion but for the commitment and determination that gained us Independence and has kept us a Free Sovereign Constitutional Republic for over 240 years!  WITHOUT THAT SPIRIT we will succumb to the corrupt politicians and drift into an oligarchy or despotic tyranny in a very short time.

Ronald Reagan understood this and declared rightly, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.  We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream.  It must be fought for, protected, and handed on to them to do the same.”  Today, as has been revealed in the MEMO, we are in a Constitutional crisis.  That’s what the Democrats contended would be the result if the MEMO was released. They are partly right, the MEMO did not create a Constitutional crisis it revealed that one exists.  The MEMO did not reveal collusion with the Russians by Donald Trump but did reveal that there was collusion.  That collusion was in the FBI, DOJ, the Obama administration, the DNC, and the Clinton campaign.  The MEMO revealed that, at the highest levels of the FBI, the DOJ, the Obama administration, and the Clinton camp corruption had not set in but was producing fruit that will destroy our Freedom and Liberty if let continue.  It revealed that the highest levels of the FBI, NSA, DOJ, HOMELAND, and the Democrat Party there was such corruption and criminality that our very system of government is in danger of such subversion that we could lose our Republic.  There has been, in my view, TREASON and it was not Trump or his team that betrayed America.

If there was nothing to be learned from the MEMO then why did the Democrats, DOJ, and FBI fight so hard to keep it out of the public view?  If there was no wrongdoing, then why have six senior leaders in the FBI or Justice Department been reassigned or fired based on the facts that have been revealed through the work of the MEMO committee and Inspector General of the Justice Department.  If the plans for an INSURANCE POLICY was simply rhetoric with no substance, then why were 5 months of texts conveniently missing for the time period following that call by Peter Strozk?  The Trump/Russia Dossier called “salacious and unverified” by former Director of the FBI, James Comey and paid for by the Clinton team and the DNC was the sole piece of “evidence” used to obtain FISA warrants to spy on Trump or his team.  The judge was, apparently, not informed of who paid for this research or fabrication.  The FBI determined it was unverifiable and that would make it unusable as Intel, yet they diabolically used it and MSM reporting on it as documentation to get the warrants and have a Special Investigator to find something on Trump.  Christopher Steele reportedly wanted to do all he could to prevent Trump from becoming President and has even called himself a liaison for the Russian government.  The allegations on Trump’s character was given by Russian operatives.  HOLD IT A SECOND… Russian operatives provided the unverifiable information on Donald Trump?  If that is true, and it has been documented that it is, then HOW WOULD THAT BE COLLUSION WITH TRUMP TO GET HIM ELECTED?  That would indicate that they were working to keep him from being elected and get Hillary elected.  COLLUSION? Absolutely but not by Trump, the GOP, or his team.  COLLUSION?  Yes, and it deserves investigation, but the target should immediately shift from Trump to Clinton and indictments for her, James Comey, Loretta Lynch, and many others should be forthcoming.  I AM NOT HOLDING MY BREATH ON THAT ONE…

Let’s examine the vocal Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff (D-CA).  He is acting as though he is the only defender of the Constitution and trying to protect America from endangerment.  In March 2007, the illustrious Congressman Schiff announced that he was “deeply troubled” by what he called “abuses of authority” by the FBI in acquiring personal information of U.S. citizens.  He has called for restrictions on the ability of the executive branch to get information on Americans’ phone calls.  In the interest of “protecting privacy and increased transparency,” he called for ways to reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court – the very court that the FBI used to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump.  His hypocrisy is visible because now he considers the FBI pristine and Trump evil therefore whatever they did is okay.  SERIOUSLY, Congressman?  SERIOUSLY???  He and the Democrats cried wolf in their claims that the release of the MEMO would reveal “sources and methods” used by the FBI and endanger our national security and our agents in the field.  IT DID NOT!

Let me reiterate, THERE WAS COLLUSION.  We know from the MEMO that much of the “salacious and unverified” material in the infamous dossier came from the Russians.  The lies about Trump’s personal behavior came from Russian operatives.  There is NO QUESTION that it was the Clinton campaign, DNC, Christopher Steele, the FBI, and the DOJ who colluded with the Russians to rig the presidential election.  HOW DID TRUMP WIN?  I believe that millions of Americans WOKE UP and said, “Enough of the Crap” and voted for the platform that promised to Drain the Swamp, Dismantle the Deep State, Repeal Obamacare, Reform the Tax Code, deal with the ILLEGALS, Secure the Borders, and return the oversight of Government to the People.  We have moved toward that and if we will STAY THE COURSE we can achieve much more in the next 3 to 7 years.  We must stay engaged.  We must not grow complacent.  We must not relax.  We must not fail to VOTE.  Allowing the Democrats back in power would be tantamount to surrender of the Republic in its Constitutional form.  PATRIOTS ARISE and REKINDLE the SPIRIT OF 1776 and let’s Reclaim and Restore the Republic.

God bless you and God bless America!

THE LEFTIST INSURANCE POLICY OF DESTRUCTION…


BLOG POST 1 - Insurance Policy

When I first heard that FBI investigator Peter Strozk had texted his lover referring to “an insurance policy” against President Trump I was curious and disturbed.  Later, as I began to piece together bits and pieces of information regarding players in the phony “Trump/Russian Dossier” and how some of the reported contacts with the Trump team was immediately followed up by the Russian agent informing the FBI about the meetings, I smelled a rat!  How, I must ask, did Fusion GPS get that information?  It had to either have been they were working with the Russian emissary to ‘entrap’ Trump or the FBI forwarded the information to Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS.  Now, I have seen even further corroboration that the “insurance policy” was THE DOSSIER and the unfounded, unverified, and unvetted allegations and fabrications.

Peter Strozk, Christopher Steele, Lisa Page, Deputy Director McCabe, Loretta Lynch, James Clapper, Jon Podesta, Hillary Clinton, and a myriad of others were attempting to STOP TRUMP from being elected and once he was to OVERTURN THE ELECTION and remove Trump from office.  This is certainly immoral, unethical, diabolical, and illegal if not treasonous and if nobody goes to jail this is a gross miscarriage of justice.  But, alas, we know that Peter Strozk wrote the exoneration of Hillary Clinton BEFORE she was interviewed by the FBI. Therefore, it is reasonable to believe that the Swamp Denizens in the DOJ, the FBI, and Congress will protect their own and UNLESS there is a massive house cleaning in those sectors NOTHING WILL BE DONE.  Hopefully, it will result in a massive ouster of the Leftist and RINO’s in Congress and Attorney General Jeff Sessions will grow some needed anatomical parts and place people who love America and honor the Constitution in positions within the DOJ to effect the proper outcome.

The MEMO has now been released and it is shocking.  The MSM, the Leftist, Democrats, and Activist are clamoring to CYA and done a complete about-face regarding Law Enforcement and the need to get information to the public.  In the Pentagon Papers, they applauded the releasing of information and in anything that has to do with the military, law enforcement not under their control or infested with their minions, as well as anything Republican or Christian they want any damaging information publicized.  However, when it comes to exposing their unconscionable act of usurpation they cry foul and are concerned about National Security.  Seriously?  When have the Democrats been concerned about protecting America or Americans?  NOT IN RECENT HISTORY!

In the MEMO we have learned that the FISA Court Judge was, at a minimum, deceived and misled, and at the worst blatantly lied to regarding the supposed intel to justify a warrant to spy on Donald J. Trump or anyone connected to him.  At least one lawyer has suggested that if this judge desired it was within the scope of his office and power to RECALL THE WARRANT based on those facts.  That would nullify anything used to secure an indictment and/or conviction against anyone.  Will that judge do so?  I seriously doubt it because the powers behind the scenes would guarantee his name was leaked to the press and he would then become a target if not for assignation for social, political, and political destruction.  Would the judge, regardless of his political leanings be willing to endure that abuse and the attacks and allegations made against him or her, whichever the case might be?  I DON’T KNOW.  I would hope the answer is yes, but with the mysterious deaths and the abuse by various government agencies such as the IRS, that judge might deem it too great a risk.

The MEMO reveals that the FBI obtained the initial FISA warrant targeting Carter Page and three FISA renewals.  James Comey signed THREE of the FISA warrants and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe signed ONE.  It goes beyond that for we now know that Sally Yates, Dana Boente, and Rod Rosenstein each signed one or more FISA applications on behalf of the DOJ.  McCabe acknowledged that without the dossier they would have had no basis or hope of obtaining a FISA warrant.  It seems incredibly clear that the entire operation was a Democrat operation from the beginning.  It is also clear that the so-called intel was nothing more than a figment of the imagination of a person who was reportedly determined to prevent Donald Trump from winning. That person was Christopher Steele and that is the person and organization that Hillary Clinton and the DNC sought out to write the “opposition research” or DOSSIER.  It is my conclusion that the INSURANCE POLICY referred to by FBI Investigator Peter Strozk was this phony Russian collusion scam.  Why would they think that would work?  There are a number of reasons including the reasonable distrust of the Russians by the public.  There was also the fact that they knew there were Leftist Minions entrenched in the various agencies of government including the DOJ, FBI, NSA, HOMELAND, and CIA to protect them.  They also knew that the Democrats in Congress and a number of RINO’s would have their backs because of the intense hatred and fear of a Donald Trump presidency.

How time changes perception.  The MEMO reveals that according to the head of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, Assistant Director Bill Priestap an independent unit within the FBI deemed that the dossier was “minimally corroborated.”  In January, Director James Comey briefed President-elect Donald Trump on a summary of the dossier, even though according to his June 2017 testimony it was “salacious and unverified”.  Yet, that same FBI and Director Comey used that dossier to obtain a FISA warrant treating it as verified intelligence.  Where is the spay, the dead rat smell is overpowering? 

What we have is a clear attempt by a political party to dismantle and overturn a legitimate American presidential election based on unverified allegations many of which have been proven to be fabrications.  We have a political party that appears more willing to do damage to Donald Trump and the Republicans than to do good for America.  We have a political party that appears to be more interested in achieving its return to power than to follow the constitution, the rule of law and PUT AMERICA FIRST in their political actions.  Is that what the voters elected them to do?  Not according to our Constitution but with the political correctness, the infestation of liberalism and socialism in the Democrat party, the MSM, many agencies of government, and even Academia.  It may have been what many of their constituents wanted but not what the majority of Americans want.  THAT IS NOT WHAT WE ARE ALL ABOUT AMERICA?  Yes, I commandeered a phrase the Democrats love to use in castigating and shaming everyone into doing what they want.  This new revelation via the MEMO should result in the immediate dismantling of the Trump targeted investigation and redirect it towards the FBI, DOJ, DNC, and Hillary Clinton and her campaign team, not to omit the Obama Administration.  The Left will not give up or give in but will attempt to dilute, divert, distract, and rewrite the revelations coming forth.  Will they succeed?  I HOPE NOT but with the condition of political correctness, entitlement, and hate existing today, I AM NOT CONFIDENT. 

What can we do?  We can PRAY and seek God’s help regarding our Republic.  We can WORK to inform as many people as possible of the truth.  We can PRESSURE our elected officials to do their jobs and lastly, WE CAN VOTE in the primaries and in the general election in November.  LET’S TAKE AMERICA BACK and take a massive step toward DRAINING THE SWAMP and DISMANTLING the DEEP STATE.  Patriots and lovers of Freedom I call for you to join this fight.

God bless you and God bless America!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMERICANS, ILLEGALS or LEGALS First???


BLOG POST 3 - Who Is First

You can’t have it both ways you either place Legal Immigrants and American citizens first or you place ILLEGALS, DACA, and AMNESTY first?  I will acknowledge, up front, that the children of illegals and illegals who are breaking no other laws present a difficult situation. Blanket Amnesty for ALL ILLEGALS is not the answer and Total Deportation of everyone may not be either.  I realize that some of my friends on the Right will find that objectionable but there is blame to be laid at the feet of politicians for their being here for the length of time they have been.  Therefore, in my view, at this point, I suspect that the solution lies somewhere between blanket amnesty and total deportation.  That being said, I am opposed to ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION and totally reject the idea of BLANKET AMNESTY!

The fact that for generations we have had a porous border and allowed people to virtually come and go as they please is OUR FAULT as a nation.  No, that is not a justification or excuse for breaking our laws, but had we had a secure border they would either not have been allowed to come or would have been apprehended and dealt with within months of coming not years and possibly decades later.  The Republicans, at least a portion of them, wanted cheap labor for their donors and the Democrats want that as well but they also want a liberal bloc of votes through those flooding our shores.  BOTH ARE TO BLAME!  Ignoring the problem, kicking the can down the road, using rhetoric rather than action has made the problem larger and one that has no easy solutions.  What is the solution? 

I heard a conservative talk show host attempt to tackle this issue and his solution, without going into the details, was to immediately deport, any and all who are incarcerated or have a felony record.  We have enough problems without adding to those problems with people who can rightly be called UNDESIRABLES.  He then said, regarding those who had been here for years, who were brought here by their parents or the adults who came seeking a better life and have been law-abiding except for illegal entry should be given consideration.  My issue with that statement is if they are paying taxes they obtained a social security card fraudulently and if they are not paying taxes they are breaking our tax laws.  In both cases they are committing another crime, therefore they are not living violating no other law than illegal entry.  His thought was to insist that they IMMEDIATELY register, get a driver’s license, social security card, pay a fine, and go through a process of obtaining legal status.  However, not all of them desire to become American citizens but want to be here on a “work visa”.  I can see the pros and cons of that position and confess I do not have this issue totally resolved in my mind but I stand firmly for LEGAL IMMIGRATION.  I do have a concern that if we give blanket amnesty to the ILLEGALS we will have shifted the political landscape irreversibly to the Left and Liberal meaning the Democrats will be entrenched in controlling our Republic for the foreseeable future.  Sadly, some of them are voting now, ILLEGALLY and that should disqualify them from citizenship.  What is the waiting period, amount of fine, or penalty for ILLEGALLY entering our sovereign republic?  I am still weighing that in my own mind and heart.  He argued that the Illegals were doing what we let them do and the real blame is ours.  You have to weigh that yourself, I’m simply repeating what he suggested.

Congress is supposed to deal with Immigration and they have refused to do their job.  Thus, the illegal DACA program that former President Barack Obama instituted enabled them to dodge the political bullet and not deal with the problem.  President Donald Trump has placed the ball back in their court and given them a deadline to DO THEIR JOBS.  Will they?  I seriously doubt it.  That brings us to the current state of affairs regarding Amnesty, Illegal Immigration, Secure Borders, and the Sovereignty of the United States of America.  The Democrats are working hard to muck up the process in an attempt to gain TOTAL AMNESTY.  They plan to use “Government Shutdown” and every other stonewalling tactic they can while seeking to blame the Republicans.

The Democrats led by Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi have successfully blocked the 2018 budget for another month in hopes they will so exacerbate and exhaust the President and Republicans in Congress they concede to their demands.  The “Continuing Resolution” passed gives Congress until early February to come up with an agreement.  The Democrats are adamantly demanding a Clean Amnesty or Immigration Bill, and that must not happen, or they will SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT again.  The Democrats are using public displays of faux or real emotional appeals claiming any opposition to Amnesty or allowing the Illegals to stay is Racist, Xenophobic, Evil, and Diabolical.  Senator Schumer has insisted that the only way President Trump can prove he is not a racist is to support DACA.  Seriously?  If he supports Legal Immigration, he is a racist?  If he supports a sovereign America, he is a racist?  If he puts America first, he is a racist?  THAT IS NOT TRUE, Senator and you know it.

Right now, I’m not sure it would be well for the GOP to let them Shut Down the Government and allow the voters to make the final decision in November regarding Immigration.  The influx of illegals has helped to freeze American wages since 2000 and if we are going to have a strong economy and a sovereign nation we must SECURE THE BORDER and that means making some difficult decisions regarding illegals here now.  I support legal immigration but oppose allowing people to break our laws with impunity.

Senator Dick Durbin, D-IL, the leader in the Attack Trump of late, says now that his SOLE FOCUS in Congress is to make sure that illegal aliens are given amnesty, so they can remain permanently in the United States of America.  Thanks, Senator Durbin, for protecting and defending the Constitution you swore to uphold. Thanks, Senator Durbin, for ignoring the plight of people in your State.  Thanks for making sure that an even greater drain on our economy will transpire if you are successful, increasing the number of people on food stamps, welfare, and entitlements.  It is estimated that if given AMNESTY, one in five of the illegals under the DREAM ACT would end up on food stamps and one in seven would end up on Medicaid.  HOW IS THAT GOOD FOR AMERICA?  Senator Durbin, you and those like you are becoming a bigger problem than the illegals and they are a big problem.

American, patriots, and lovers of freedom, we have a problem that has been ignored far too long.  We MUST deal with it but before I am willing to consider any pathway to citizenship other than Legal Immigration, the border must be secured.  We MUST begin fully enforcing the Law and end Sanctuary Cities.  We MUST restore our National Sovereignty by securing our borders to keep Americans safer.  We have far too many incidents where an ILLEGAL has murdered or raped an American citizen.  THAT MUST END!  In an issue that has many caveats and considerations the one thing that cannot be overlooked is that Americans have dreams too and our national security and national sovereignty demands that we SECURE THE BORDERS and ENFORCE OUR LAWS!

God bless you and God bless America!

 

THE STATE OF CONFUSION…


BLOG POST 1 - Confusion

As I listened to President Donald J. Trump give the “State of the Union” address I was impressed, encouraged, and disturbed by what I saw and heard.  I watched the selective times that the Democrats stood and applauded and the times when they looked as if they were sucking on a sour pickle and had incredibly painful hemorrhoids causing them incredibly anguish.  The President highlighted some many of the problems and progress during the past year and beyond and pointed to some beautiful solutions.  The Republicans were jovially supportive, during the speech, but have failed to demonstrate that same support when the rubber has met the road in Congressional deliberations.  The Democrats were openly antagonistic during the speech consistent with their avowed determination to “take down” this president and “reverse” the outcome of the 2016 election.  In that, I saw nothing I did not expect, but the disappointment still rose to a new level in my heart as I thought, purely partisanship will not benefit America.  It was reaffirmed in my heart and mind that the ideologically driven agendas that are more focused on Party and Power than the Constitution and America are destructive.

I heard President Trump say some things that resonated deeply in my heart.  I heartily agree that those nations who openly or clandestinely harbor, aide, sponsor, and abet terrorism and anti-American activities should not be recipients of our foreign aid.  The only caveat would be in a time of natural disaster for humanitarian purposes.  A nation that will give American a thumbs down or some other gesture while holding out their hands for our money should be given a handful of something other than money in response.  That is another reason that I support a budgetary process that Congress will never approve, ZERO BASED BUDGETING.  I am encouraged that we have a president who demonstrates a willingness to move toward a policy that does not reward those who are not our friends.  We cannot buy friendship and support and the sooner we wake up to that fact the better off we will be.

I heard the President speak of the advancements we have made and many of them are undeniable, yet the Democrats want to discount them.  Juan Williams typified that ideological position as he lamented that Trump took credit for everything that has been positive.  Mr. Williams, what did your president Barack Obama do?  That is what every president does and in many respects, they are right for they are the one who will be blamed if it goes bad, so should they not be given credit for the leadership to get things done?  The economy has prospered under the Trump administration.  Unemployment including historic lows among African-Americans and Hispanics should get the notice of everyone in those communities, but likely will be tarnished with the hate that is continually spewed forth by the ideologues and activist of today.  If we do not secure our borders we will continue to place Americans in harm’s way and will continue to damage American workers in both job security and wage rates.  Our infrastructure must be addressed and the idea of including the various States and even private sector investments is a very wise and positive step, in my view.  Standing for our military, the police and first responders, our border patrol agents, and ICE is a right move.  Ending Chain Migration and the almost unlimited net that those coming here can include must end.  The President mentioned an end to both policies and I applaud that.  I am troubled by much of the pathway to citizenship because I see the potential of this number that has doubled and tripled from the first-mention to escalate to a number in the multiplied millions.  ASSIMILATION must be a part of the package or the package is detrimental to the Constitutional Republic our Framers and Founders gave us.

I listened to part of the Democrat response in Joe Kennedy III and was not surprised in the rhetoric, spin, and Democrat liberal leftist talking points.  It was, in my view, chock full of falsehoods and fear mongering allegations.  The policies advanced by President Trump and the Republicans is not a choice between a coal miner and a single mother or anything of that nature.  The tax cuts are not for the rich, but every American will and is receiving benefit from the Tax Bill passed and signed.  It is not perfect, but it is far better than what we had.  The respect for the flag is not a negative but a powerful positive for this American and many others who love America and/or have served in the military.  Congressman Kennedy repeatedly, as do all the Leftists, declared THIS IS NOT or THIS IS WHAT we are all about as he insisted on the endorsement of same-sex marriages, citizenship for illegals, dreamers, and the myriad of other Democrat talking points.  I agree with the President that Americans have dreams too.  Congressman Kennedy, let me express to you WHAT WE ARE ALL ABOUT AS AMERICANS.  We are among the most compassionate people on the planet.  We reach out to countries and peoples in crisis sending them monetary aid, equipment, supplies, and even invest our time and energy in helping them.  However, we are a sovereign nation and to remain so and continue to be able to help others around the world MUST have a secure border and a reasoned immigration policy.  We dare not throw open the doors to anyone and everyone declaring as some have, “If you are human you are not an illegal because you are a citizen of the world.”  Try that in the countries you have fled from and see how that works out for you.  I can assure you it will not end well.

We come together, as the President said, in times of crisis and that reveals WHO WE ARE but those who are driven by their quest for position and power continue to drive wedges in our society and that UNITY is short-lived.  We need to develop the resolve of 1776 and that demonstrated in World War II and was briefly exhibited after 9/11.  When Americans pull together and seek the best good of the Republic we have demonstrated the ability to overcome any obstacle and achieve great things for America and the world.  We are faced with mid-term elections in November of this year and it is critical that we do not relinquish any gains we have made to the Leftist ideology.  I am disturbed greatly by the growing number of Republicans, some very conservative, stepping down and no longer seeking office.  I don’t know why but their timing is suspect and if those in Congress do not have the stomach for the fight facing us and we do not find competent replacements we are in trouble.  I pray that we find competent replacements and those remaining become strong in their resolve and willingness to do what they were elected to do.

THE STATE OF THE UNION as described by the President is hopeful.  THE STATE OF CONFUSION as expressed by the Leftist is ominous and filled with danger for America and Americans.  I vote for the UNION, not the CONFUSION and will continue to stand for Faith, Family, and Freedom.  I ask that you join the fight for Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness and let’s see America restored to her proper state as the Constitutional Republic fought for and established by our Founders and Framers.

God bless you and God bless America!

 

ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE… NO, I MEAN LAUGH YOUR BEHIND OFF???


BLOG POST 2 - Belly Laugh

Okay, I am aware that my title, this picture and what I’m going to say will possibly offend some who are entrenched in the thought process of Albert Gore and his followers, but here we go.  Early this month, the infamous Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. the “Global Warming Guru” said, “Bitter Cold is exactly what we should expect from global warming.”  He said it with a straight face and in all seriousness.  NO, I don’t know if he was high but to make that kind of statement, in my view, one would have had to have checked their brain at the door when entering the room.  He cited so-called Climate Scientist, Michael Mann of Penn State University who declared that bitter cold is exactly what should be expected in global warming.  Pardon me professor, but how do you get COLD out of WARM?

I find it questionable and even laughable that Mr. Gore’s documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth” failed to warn us of giant snowstorms and bitter cold.  Instead, the 2006 Oscar-winning documentary prophesied a 20-foot sea-level rise in near future.  When is the near future?  I’m sure that is a moving target as is the changing way of identifying Global Warming calling it Climate Change and in some circles Climate Disruption, whatever all that means.  He told us that the snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro would be gone and that there was some unverified scientific study that revealed polar bears drowned because they swam upwards of 60 miles to find ice.  The ice that has only decreased in some areas to increase in others.  Mr. Gore, I’m sure you recall the Inconvenient Truth that British Judge Michael Burton in October 2007 ruled were inaccurate.  The judge also ruled that your documentary was not an impartial analysis of climate change, another Inconvenient Truth, which you and your followers ignore.

Do you remember when the chameleon Al Gore declared in 2010 that “increased snowfalls are completely consistent with man-made global warming?”  Unfortunately, Mr. Gore had said months earlier in 2009 that the snow and ice around the world were rapidly disappearing.  Thanks for the belly laugh Mr. Global Warming.  You change your position so much I’m not sure you remember what position you are supposed to be supporting.  Anything, to continue the perpetuation of your unproven, and in my view, erroneous theory. After all, where would you get your money to buy your mansions, jumbo jets, and massive SUVs?  Hey, gotta keep the gravy train rolling!

I laughed heartily when I read and heard some of the proponents of Global Warming, Climate Change or Disruption declare they don’t understand the process that leads to the weather events at the close of 2017 and beginning of 2018 in the Northeast especially.  They ADMIT that they “don’t understand” the process, but they still want us to curtail our lifestyles, cut our CO2 emissions, and simply believe whatever they declare as law and gospel.  Thanks, Mr. Gore and your cronies, I needed a good laugh.  I confess I am one of those who believes that God created this planet and the entire universe, and He did not create a fickle planet.  Sorry, but I believe Him when He says we will always have “seed time and harvest, cold and heat or simply the seasons.”  The Climate is cyclical, and I’ve observed that throughout my numerous decades on planet earth.  There is no consistent pattern and I believe that one of the reasons for that is God has a purpose and possibly a sense of humor knowing the Climate Crowd would spin the spin they are spinning.

There are numerous scientist including Meteorologist Dr. Roger Pielke, Sr. who exhibit common sense saying, “For those who claim USA/Canada nor’easter is stronger because of ‘global warming,’ they apparently do not realize that it’s so strong because of especially strong horizontal temperature gradient in the troposphere. It ‘bombed’ because of usually cold air!”  Imagine that!  Another meteorologist Joe Bastardi went a step further calling the claims that the Bomb Cyclone was caused by global warming “flat-out insanity and deception.” He added of such declarations, “it’s not science; it’s witchcraft.”  I like that guy!!!  But, there are others who disagree with Albert Gore and his cronies including the University of Washington climatologist Cliff Mass saying, “Such claims make no sense and are inconsistent with observations and the best science.” Mass concluded that “The frequency of cold waves have decreased during the past fifty years, not increased. That alone shows that such claims are baseless.”

The Gore-ites had a friend in the White House in Obama’s Science Czar John Holdren who, in 2014 released a video claiming that the “Polar Vortex” of that year was directly connected to that dastardly global warming phenomenon.  An Inconvenient Truth for Mr. Gore and his followers is that Mr. Holdren later admitted that the video was not based on science but his own personal opinions.  No matter how debunked their claims are they continue to trot out the same old tired argument that no matter what happens, it is man-made global warming’s fault.  It can get bitterly cold or stiflingly hot and it’s the same culprit.  We can find evidence that there is “global cooling” and it is the fault of global warming.  I guess bitter cold is the new hot in the Gore World.

All I can say is “Thanks for the laughs Al, I believe that laughter does good like a medicine” and if I take your claims the way I believe I should they are therapeutic because they make me laugh.  Please understand I truly believe in being good stewards of the planet and resources we have been given.  I never want to see people waste resources or trash the planet.  I love the outdoors and have hunted and fished all my life.  I’d ten times rather be outside than confined within the four walls of any building and enjoy God’s creation.  However, I believe that it is just that GOD’S CREATION and puny man is not going to so disrupt the climate that mankind is destroyed as a result.  There is coming a time, according to the Bible when God will destroy this world with fire.  Could He use man to bring that about?  Of course.  Is that what causes it?  I seriously doubt it.  If He created the planet He is capable of taking it apart, so I trust Him and refuse to live in fear from the hysteria the Global Warming Alarmist continue to advance.  Go, ahead laugh or yell at me but before you demand that I agree with Global Warming as a man-made event, bring me proof, not theory and doctored data as has been used.

God bless you and God bless America is my desire and prayer!

 

RELEASE THE MEMO – – Yes or No???


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That’s the question before Congress, the Department of Justice, the Courts, the Media, and America.  My opinion is counter to many in Congress, the DOJ’s assertion, the Media, and should it get to the courts, I will probably be in the minority side of the issue, or on the side other than those groups.  What is my position?  RELEASE THE MEMO and let the chips fall where they may.  No, I do not want to do anything that jeopardizes our National Security but sometimes it seems that is an easy out for those in power to keep us in the dark.  If their concern is legitimate that would be a justifiable reason to delay or withhold the memo, but if it is to protect the Deep State, the Swamp Denizens, and the Establishment, my reaction is, GET OUT OF THE WAY and let the America people make the final decision!

I am not surprised that the Obama holdovers in the Department of Justice would desire to protect James Comey, Robert Mueller, the various FBI agents in question, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the many bureaucrats being brought into question.  They have had no problem tainting Donald Trump in an attempt to overturn the legitimate election of 2016 or damage his presidency to the point that he would resign or become politically impotent.  There is growing indication that there is and has been a “Secret Society” within the FBI and other governmental agencies, and in the hierarchy of the intelligence community with the singular intent of destroying Donald J. Trump.  They wanted and want more than simply stopping him they want his head on a platter.  THAT DEMANDS or should that the Memo to be released for public consumption and allow the American citizens to see and decide for themselves what has happened and what is happening.  THE MEMO is being rewritten or a separate memo being devised by the Democrats in an attempt to put their spin and slant on the evidence so as to taint the view of the uninformed and non-thinking followers of their agenda.  They want to counter the factual evidence contained in that document attempting to make it meaningless.  It would not surprise me for the Democrats to leak their version to the media trying to mitigate the damage the real memo would do to their agenda and phony investigation of Russian collusion.  THAT IS DISGUSTING POLITICS but seems to be the norm today and is a present reality that we must face and should expect.  If the Republicans allow them to achieve that objective before releasing the real memo to the public, they will do incredible damage to the Republic.

I find it reprehensible that Senator Diane Feinstein would be allowed to release the testimony of Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson, blaming a head cold for her action.  However, it somehow requires a vote of the House Intelligence Committee to approve releasing a memo detailing the FBI and DOJ’s collusion to overthrow the President of the United States of America.  THEY COMMITTED TREASON if those allegations are true and should be held accountable. Keeping the public in the dark is unacceptable but that is the objective of the Leftist and allowing the Left to do anything they want with impunity.  THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE!  No one should be above the Law, Democrat or Republican.  AMERICA, WE MUST DEMAND THE MEMO’S RELEASE IMMEDIATELY!  Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) is so closed minded that he is completely unable to see the truth even if it were to bite him in the behind.  He believes or seems to believe that the public is TOO STUPID to read and understand the memo.  Congressman, I’ll stack my cognitive skills against yours any day and so will most Americans.  He knows that if the public reads the memo there will be a groundswell demanding an immediate investigation and will destroy the leftist plot to overturn the 2016 election and the attempt to oust a sitting president.  Congressman Schiff is so blindly partisan he will never acknowledge the truth and only acknowledge the Democrat talking points on any given issue.  He is the congressman who accused the Committee Chair, Devin Nunes of conspiracy with Donald Trump and dove so deeply into the gutter of political feces that he accused the CIA contractors in Benghazi who was fighting the Islamist LIARS and suggested they were simply setting the stage to sell books.  THAT IS MORE THAN DISGUSTING!  It demands a swift and clear response from all Americans and he deserves to be shown the door.  He defended Hillary Clinton in her involvement with Uranium One where she gave or sold 20% of our uranium reserves to the Russians.  SO MUCH FOR BEING NON-PARTISAN and IMPARTIAL.  Congressman Schiff is not objective and clearly partisan to the point of being willingly blind to the truth and the facts.

The claim by the FBI and the DOJ that 5 months of texts between Peter Strozk and Lisa Page, the FBI clandestine lovers was missing due to a technological glitch is a disturbing attempt to hide evidence.  Those texts were discovered missing after it was revealed that they sought an “Insurance Policy” against Donald Trump were he to be elected president.  I realize that Jeff Sessions cannot control every aspect of the DOJ, but he can and should control this.  It is my call for the Attorney General to immediately produce those texts and pursue any potential prosecution of the guilty.  They are producing some of them, but we need to see all of them or all of them need to be fully vetted and investigated.  The willingness to cover the tracts of those involved is more than a little disturbing and quite revealing.  It appears that the former British spy, Christopher Steele may have lied to the FBI during his interviews.  WHERE IS THE CALL FOR INDICTMENT?  But his lying to the FBI seems to be meaningless to the Left but if anyone on the Right lies intentionally or unintentionally they are to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.  It is easy and convenient to claim that a technological glitch caused the loss of the texts and emails but when it involves such a critical time period it is suspect.  The FBI is engaged in classic CYA and so is the DOJ and so are others in DC.  The Democrats do not want you and me to see what is in the Memo because they still hope to fabricate something that will allow them to remove Donald Trump from office or at least lay the groundwork to defeat him in 2020 and defeat the Republicans in the 2018 elections.  THEIR ONLY HOPE is that evidence allegedly contained in the memo remains secret and shielded from public view.  If they are exposed, they lose their cesspool from which they keep dipping to fan the flames in their diabolical and destructive efforts.

There is Growing Evidence that a massive scandal is brewing within the FBI surrounding James Comey, Robert Mueller, Peter Strozk, and others. I remember the argument during the “bank bailouts” that some were too big to fail and fear this is the same mentality regarding the corruption at the top of the FBI.  If the reports are true that there is within the FBI a “Secret Society” as is referenced in reports of talks between FBI agents, it demands immediate investigation and action!  The cabal dedicated to defeating Donald Trump in the 2016 election and protecting Hillary Clinton in her email fiasco is real.  If that is true and can be documented, it would so discredit the FBI that a thorough and complete revamping with a massive house cleaning would be required for it to survive as a viable law enforcement arm of the government.  This type of scandal has the potential of opening a Pandora’s Box of problems and could facilitate the overturning of many cases developed by the FBI.  The corruption by the ideologues at the top endangers America and must be addressed.  That is even more reason for a RELEASE THE MEMO UPRISING to transpire.  I encourage you to call, text, email, and write to your elected officials and insist that they RELEASE THE MEMO.  If there is nothing to it, we will see that but if it is as damaging as some have suggested we need to see that as well.  If you agree, please contact your Congressman/woman and Senators.  If you disagree, then dismiss what I’ve said and do nothing. The decision is entirely yours and you have a legitimate right to your opinion.

God bless you and God bless America!

 

 

 

AMERICAN CITIZENS or AMERICANS???


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Some would say, “What is the difference?”  I contend that there should be no difference but considering what has transpired over the past few decades, there is a vast difference.  The continued devaluing of America and American citizenship by the liberal leftist progressive Democrats is an attempt to fulfill Barack Obama’s pledge to “fundamentally transform” America.  That transformation was to reduce America from sovereign nation status to citizens of the world.  How a person with such a perverted and distorted view of America, our history, and purpose became President is beyond my ability to fully comprehend.  I know how it happened, I have difficulty with why it happened.

There are hundreds of thousands of immigrants who come to this country with the desire to become AMERICANS and citizens of this great nation.  They want to embrace American culture and assimilate into our society and become productive members advancing their state as well as benefiting the nation by their contributions on every level.  However, there are those who are legal citizens who have no such desire and those who want to become citizens not to advance the cause of America but to tear her down.  THAT IS REPULSIVE TO ME!  It violates everything that America was founded to be and has been for over 200 years.  Sadly, there is an incessant attempt by the Left to erase our borders and throw the doors open to all who would come to this nation.  They hold the view that we are all citizens of the world and there is no value in American citizenship.  They would remove the restriction that you must be a citizen to vote in our elections.  They would make us amenable to and fully under the oversight and governance of the world body known as the United Nations.  They would either totally remove our Constitution or so rewrite and reinterpret it that it is meaningless in guiding the Democratic Republic that operates as a Representative Democracy of self-governance.  They, for the most part, do not believe we are capable of governing ourselves and therefore they must decide for us what rights, liberties, freedoms, and ideologies are acceptable.  THAT MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL!

If you were to attend an Immigration and Naturalization Citizenship ceremony you will find that the vast majority of those taking the citizenship oath have no desire to run to the nearest welfare office and sign up for freebies.  They came here with a dream and are willing to work tirelessly to make that dream come true.  They might be willing to receive a hand-up, but they have no desire for a handout.  Barack Obama’s drive to devalue American Citizenship resulted in exempting citizenship applicants from a major part of the Oath of Allegiance.  They no longer have to pledge to DEFEND OUR COUNTRY.  Did you hear me?  Why would we accept anyone unwilling to defend our Constitution and the Republic?  Why would we accept anyone who demonstrates and avows a stronger allegiance to another country than this nation?  WHY?  Because of the continued devaluation of American Citizenship by the Leftists of this nation.

In allowing tens of thousands or millions of illegals and unvetted refugees free passage over our borders we are endangering the Republic, legal American citizens, our economy, and our way of life.  Former President Barack Obama literally gave away American citizenship and if something is free it has little to no value.  The illegals are not citizens and should have no access to the benefits afforded citizens, they do.  That was part and parcel of the Obama “transformation”.  They now receive free attorneys, college tuition, welfare checks, abortions, food stamps, and more.  They supposedly do not vote but we have frequently found evidence that they did, often with impunity.  When I hear a politician speak against a strong immigration and secure border policy saying, “This is not what we are as Americans” I cringe.  IT IS WHAT WE ARE ALL ABOUT AS A REPUBLIC!  If you do not value your sovereignty as a nation no one else will and you will soon be sucked into the black hole of meaninglessness as a society and under the thumb of some despot or oligarchy.

The Left desires and believes they should control every aspect of our lives and they are working diligently toward that objective.  The Entitlement and Amnesty ideological stances of the Left so erode America as a Free Republic it is frightening.  They chide us about “fairness” and “compassion”.  They celebrate those who have developed a lifestyle of entitlements and teach them how to stay on the dole generationally.  They devalue the Bible, the Family, the American ideal of Earning, and wage war on those of us who stand against those destructive views.  I believe the Bible and when it says that if a person WOULD NOT WORK they SHOULD NOT EAT I believe that is the right direction for us to take.  WHY?  Because if you make it easy for a person to remain in poverty they will do less and less for themselves and become more self-centered and self-serving expecting everything to be provided for them.  They will hate those who work and have rather than seeing the way out of their state.  They become lazy losing all drive, desire, pride, and self-respect and become slaves to the Leftists who are responsible for getting them their monthly check.  They sell their souls for money and that is prostitution, of the worst kind.

How would you feel if someone broke into your home uninvited, took food from your refrigerator or pantry, turned on your television, sit on your sofa and propped their feet up on your coffee table?  How would you feel if they occupied your home and expected or demanded that you provide for them while they provided nothing?  How would you feel if when you complained of a home invasion, the police, media, and government called you a racist, a hater, a Xenophobe, a misogynist, and more vile names?  How would you feel if the government, taxed you excessively in order to enable those invaders to occupy your home?  WELL, that’s how we feel about the illegals flooding across our borders and thumbing their noses at our laws and system of government.

You may despise Donald J. Trump, the current president of these United States, and hate his immigration policy, but I applaud it.  I applaud raising the bar for citizenship and access to America.  I applaud vetting those desiring to come and screening out as many undesirables as possible.  By undesirables, I mean those who want to do harm to America or Americans, and those who want to come to drink at the Entitlement Trough and become a parasite rather than a productive member of society.  Call me whatever you please but only Legal Immigration should be allowed and ANYONE coming Illegally should be shown the door.  America can only remain the Free Constitutional Republic so long as her citizens protect and defend the American Constitution and demand that our government follows the Rule of Law.  If we lose our Sovereignty we lose our Republic!  I am not against Immigration, I am against Illegal Immigration or any Immigration that does not include Assimilation.

God bless you and God bless America!

 

THE INSANITY OF TODAY’S POLITICAL CORRECTNESS…


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I said to my brother, recently and to others that I am concerned that America, or much of it, has lost its collective mind.  The Political Correctness and the incessant fanning the flames of hatred making everything racist, or phobic is destroying us.  I may be wrong, it may not be destroying but may have already destroyed us as the Free Constitutional Republic that was founded on some principles vital to the survival of any nation or people.  I hope that is not the case but virtually every day, I am confronted with something new that reveals just how far down the path of destruction we have gone.  Those promoting Political Correctness and fanning the flames of Hate seem to believe that MISERY is the new normal and that since they are miserable everyone should be.

I am going to walk through a few things that you are undoubtedly aware of, state my views and beliefs knowing that some will applaud, and some will begin boiling the tar and searching for the feathers or worse.  Dale Carnegie’s book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People” would argue that I should not do what I am about to do, but WHAT I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE.  It is my right, as what you believe is yours.  I believe that too often “silence is consent” or deemed to be so, and if I were to remain silent some might mistake that as agreement and my Faith in God and Love for America are too great to allow that.  So, whether after you read what I write you love me or hate me, is almost inconsequential to exposing the lies and advancing the truth.  I hope what I say resonates with you.

Recently two professors from San Diego State University published a new book in which they argue that the “Farmer’s Markets” in the Urban areas are weed-like “White Spaces” and responsible for oppression.  I AM NOT KIDDING!  Pascale Jossart-Marcelli and Fernando J Bosco are authors of a book released this month entitled, “Just Green Enough.”  They argue that there is a direct connection between the “Whiteness of Farmer’s Markets” and “Gentrification.”  Imagine that!  Food is now Racist!  The amazing thing is that their argument is that “Farmer’s Markets” cater to “households from higher socio-economic backgrounds.”  How’s that for stereotyping non-whites?  I didn’t do it these two geniuses, or should I say race baiters did.  There is much more that could be said about this, but I hope you see the ridiculousness of it and possibly do as I did and scratch your head and wonder.  WHAT???

One of the most prestigious liberal arts colleges in America, Swarthmore College is now advancing what they call a “Queer Theology” which, as is reported is designed to ‘destabilize traditional beliefs’ about what the Bible says about gender and sexuality.  The course being offered is “Queering the Bible” and “Queering God.”  This college founded by the Quakers has gone bonkers, in my view.  The Bible makes no bones about God’s view of gender and sexuality.  There are numerous Old and New Testament Passage that addresses His view of “same-sex relationships”.  You can call me whatever you wish, but I believe that God was quite capable of saying what He meant and guiding the translators throughout history to get it right.  One of their stated objectives is to “sanitize and neutralize the prohibitions on homosexual acts that the Bible unequivocally condemns.”  Wow!    Prostituting Scripture is not new, and I find this so outlandish that I am stunned that it is happening.  I should not be for the Bible clearly tells us that in the last days, people will give heed to seducing spirits and believe doctrines of devils.  Just as with “sex changes” I would hate to stand before God and try to explain why I decided to alter His word and make Him Queer.  I wonder if that college will also develop courses on “Queering Mohammed” and “Queering the Koran.”  I suspect the answer is no for those are not deemed their enemies, but the Bible and traditional Christianity is.  When you destroy the moral foundation of a society you can transform it into something very different.  Our Constitution and Laws require a certain element of morality to survive and thrive.

A Boston University theater professor launched an assault on one of the most well-known Christmas carols in the world and calls it racist.  What is the carol?  JINGLE BELLS.  He argued that it was initially designed to make fun of non-whites, especially blacks.  Could he be right?  Yes, but methinks he makes much ado about nothing in an attempt to taint Christmas and the festive spirit of all races of people who participate.  This, in my view, is another of the many pieces of evidence that those on the Left are so filled with HATE and MISERY they truly believe that everything is Racist, Homophobic, Islamophobic, Gender-phobic or something of that sort.  They believe they are mandated to force EVERYONE to comply with their view and demand TOLERANCE from others but offer no Tolerance.

As I watched the Democrats react to the Tax Reform Bill and everything else that this Administration and the GOP attempt to advance, I concluded there is something sinister in their actions, rhetoric, and diatribe.  They are either so miserable themselves they believe that everyone else is or they have a diabolical scheme to make everyone as miserable as possible so they can appear the Champions of Whatever Cause a group, voting bloc, or sect advances.  It reminds me of Absalom in the Bible when he would go into the gathering places and suggest to everyone, “If I were King, you’d get justice and what you need.”  His inference was that his father David was inept and uncaring, but he was both capable and caring.  He turned the hearts of people, mostly those who were seeking self-gratification.  Politicians have an ability to sound as though they are in our corner and fighting for us while they are placing us in political and economic chains, stripping us of our Freedoms and Rights, and building their own empires.  Most do not realize what has happened until it is too late and some refuse to believe the truth.

That is why I say, I fear that America, much of it, has lost its collective mind and we are losing if we have not lost the Republic.  I refuse to believe that it is lost because I believe that if we Pray, Seek God’s Face, Repent, of our Sins, and Return to our Founding Principles there is HOPE.  I believe that if we will unite and evict enough of the Establishment Politicians from office we can change the culture of Washington, D.C. and advance the cause of Liberty and Freedom.  IT WILL NOT BE EASY, and IT WILL NOT BE QUICK, but IT IS POSSIBLE!  I hope that whether you agree with my views on the various issues I raised you will agree that America is a Prize worth, Fighting For.  I hope you will agree that WE MUST NOT GIVE UP or GIVE IN and we must Work, Pray, and Vote.

God bless you and God bless America!

WHY I STILL HAVE HOPE…


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My heart has been heavy over this past year because of the over-the-top diatribe, rhetoric, protests, incessant wrangling and partisan jockeying to hurt, remove or destroy the duly elected President of these United States.  Couple that with the activities or lack of support by the Establishment Republicans and the Never Trump crowd, we have seen a golden opportunity slip through our fingers.  I and many others warned after the election in 2016 that we had a very small window of opportunity given us.  That opportunity was to restore and reclaim our Constitutional Republic, rekindle the Spirit of 1776 advancing the cause of Constitutional Liberty and Freedom, jumpstarting the economy, securing the border, and reestablishing America at the forefront of world policies and politics.  There is a country song by Dierks Bentley, “What Was I Thinkin’” and I often wonder what the Republicans have been thinking?  I have wondered and still do, what they perceive is the benefit of being weights against the progress of the conservative agenda that enabled Donald J. Trump to win the Presidency and the Republicans to maintain control of both Houses of Congress?  I would like to confront each of them and ask, “What Are You Thinking?”  Better yet, “Why Aren’t You Thinking?”

That being said, I STILL HAVE HOPE for America!  NO, I do not think we will successfully drain the Swamp or dismantle the Deep State during President Trump’s first term in office.  There are too many so-called Republicans who claim to embrace the principles of constitutionalism and conservativism who have been and will continue to resist.  What are they thinking?  Do they honestly believe that all their constituents are so blind, dumb, and lazy that we cannot see what is happening and recognize the MISSED OPPORTUNITIES?  I do believe the answer to that is, YES!  They have been successful at the polls enough they believe that we will forgive and forget, or we will never truly understand the damage they are doing and the squandering of opportunities.  HEY, CONGRESS – We are waking up!

Someone asked me, “Roy do you believe it is your assignment to save the world?”  I wish I could, but NO I believe that it is my assignment to INFORM as many people as I can regarding what is happening in politics and life and point them to a BETTER WAY.  I don’t know how many I have won over effecting a change of mind or heart during the past few years of active involvement on Social Media, and speaking wherever and whenever I can to expose the lies and present the truth politically, economically, and societally.  I have a better handle on those I have influenced positively spiritually and that is far more important to me.  Yet, I hope I have been an encouragement to those who are lovers of Liberty and Freedom and American Patriots.  I hope that I have, at times, armed you with information that enables you to solidify your beliefs and counter the leftist liberal arguments of Progressivism and Socialism.  If I have, then my time has been well spent.  On Facebook, I only go a few days at a time before someone bids me adieu because of some stance I have taken either politically, morally, or biblically.  I don’t always know why they left or who it is that left but my friends list decreases.  I only mention that to say, I take heart in the words of Winston Churchill, “You have enemies?  Good.  That means you’ve stood up for something, in your life.”   Jesus said in Luke 6:26, “Woe to you when all people speak well of you and praise you, for their fathers used to treat the false prophets in the same way.”  He went on to admonish us to do good to those that hate us and that is incredibly difficult to do.  However, He did not say concede to their demands that you follow their ideological view when it is contrary to right and reason.  He prayed and urged us to be “wise as serpents and harmless as doves.”

But why am I still Hopeful?  There are many factors in my HOPE that I wish to mention and know that you will be able to add much more to this list.  I have HOPE because American is a Constitutional Republic.  We are not yet subjected to the whims of a Tyrant or Oligarchy, although the Ole Boy Crowd is trying to force that upon us.  The Courts, although failing at times, still recognize the Constitution as the Law of the Land.  The American people are showing signs of waking up and desiring a return to Constitutionalism in this nation.  We managed to defeat one of the most prolific leftists in modern American history in Hillary Rodham Clinton in November 2016 and maintained control of both Houses of Congress.  The Constitution has provided us a basis of self-government for 241 years, if we use July 4, 1776, as the birthdate of the Republic.  Even Barack Hussein Obama lamented that the Constitution was a document too restrictive on government and that it was a document of “negative liberties.”  He believed as do the leftist that our Rights come from Government, but the Founders and Framers insisted they do not come from man but for the Creator Himself and therefore man has no right to attempt to take them away.  Therefore, providing we can secure the appointment of additional Supreme Court Justices who will honor the Constitution and Rule of Law we will not only survive but thrive and can return to our constitutional and moral moorings that enabled the United States of America to become the great nation she has been for these 200 plus years.

I have HOPE because I believe in God and believe in the power of prayer.  You may vehemently disagree that God’s hand was in the election of 2016 and that is your right, but I believe that the polls were not that wrong UNTIL something changed hearts and minds as they went to the voting booths across this land.  What was that something?  I believe it was God giving America another chance and opening a small window of opportunity for us to RETURN to the Principles upon which this nation was founded and has survived almost 2 ½ centuries.  PLEASE DO NOT ASSUME that I am saying that Donald J. Trump is a saint or even a righteous man.  I don’t know his heart so I will leave that determination to the Lord Himself.  However, I do believe that in his heart of hearts something happened to him to inspire him to run for office with a desire to see America return to her former greatness.  I also believe that during the campaign, based on what I observed and what I’ve heard from some men of God who had direct contact with him, that there was a new or renewed willingness to pursue what is right and needed in America.  He is not the typical political ideologue and therefore his manner of doing things is outside the proverbial politically box.  He is who he is and has always been.  He is a fighter, a businessman, and as most politicians quite egotistical.  I believe that his business background and desire for success affords him the ability to cross political lines to get things done.  He appears more interested in achieving the objective than who he works with to get there.  That can be good and bad depending on the objective and the compromises made.

How can we ignore the incredible rise in the Stock Market, and the willingness to take on difficult issues as well as restoring America’s stance with despots and terrorist to a position of strength?  Again, you may disagree with that assessment, but the judicial appointments encourage me.  However, the inclusion of some Swamp Denizens in his cabinet and the allowing Obama holdovers to remain in various appointive positions is troubling.  I choose to give him the benefit of the doubt and pray that he will do the right thing for America and continue to move us toward a return to Constitutionalism.  If he does that, America will reap the rewards for decades to come.

I have HOPE because I see the opportunity if the GOP Establishment will get out of the way, to solidify the hold on Congress in 2018 and take a giant step in 2020.  It could go bad quickly if the Establishment makes 2018 a carbon copy of 2017 in their resistance to what we voted for and what they promised.  But, I HAVE HOPE that enough people will intercede, become involved in the process, and exercise their Constitutional Right and VOTE for America in every election.

God bless you and God bless America!

THE QUESTION NOBODY SEEMS TO WANT TO ASK???


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In today’s politically correct world where the Left continually argue that the millionaires and billionaires are evil, press for redistribution of wealth, and fan the flames of CLASS WARFARE regarding MONEY something is missing, in my view.  When did it become socially, morally, and politically right to take from someone who earned, created, or inherited and give it to someone who did nothing to deserve it?  I have a question for all the HATERS of those who are wealthy, (I am not wealthy or a hater).  If someone is worth $100 today and 3, 5, 10 years later through their entrepreneurial ventures, hard work, or good fortune become worth $100 million how is that wrong and how is it right for you to expect to share in their wealth?

I agree with Thomas Jefferson in his letter to Joseph Milligan dated April 6, 1816, “To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”  James Madison said it in a different way when he addressed the Virginia Convention, “It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated. The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.”  If you earned it, worked for it, invented something or inherited something IT IS YOURS and NO ONE deserves any portion of it other than what you CHOOSE to share with them.  If they are in your employ they deserve their salary and any agreed upon benefits or bonuses you choose to convey to them, NOTHING MORE.  If your good fortune is to become wealthy that is nothing to me unless an inspiration to try harder, venture and risk more and strive to climb that ladder.  The Bible warns against COVETOUSNESS.  It also addresses GREED, but a greedy heart affects me only as I do business with that individual.

Warren Buffett, reportedly worth over $75 BILLION continues to spin the idea that there is something inherently flawed and possible evil in our Capitalist System while enjoying the benefits of that system.  His rhetoric is a page out of the Leftist Playbook and although he and other MULTI-BILLIONAIRES talk about how mistreated and lacking the rest of society is, few of them are opening their checkbooks to those who are on the lower end of the spectrum.  Some of them do, but the problem is not that the system is flawed it is that some do not invest the time, energy, ideas, and pursue the doors of opportunity to achieve that dream of wealth.  Many complain about some from other parts of the world who immigrate to America becoming wealthy.  On one hand, when the government subsidizes those individuals but not natural born Americans I find that objectionable.  But, when I view the work ethic, the entrepreneurial energy and willingness to risk all that produces success I applaud and sometimes am shamed by the fact that I have not demonstrated the same enterprise.

It is my personal view, and that of our Founders and the Framers of the Constitution that PROPERTY RIGHTS are as important as the other rights.  I wonder how it would be perceived today had the Declaration of Independence used the Lockean formula, “life, liberty, and property” rather than “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?”  That would be a death knell to the Leftist Democrat philosophy and argument that the rich are evil and their ability to engender CLASS HATRED in millions.  Would it have caused or cause people to realize that what one has is theirs and if you do not have it is incumbent on you to either recognize you cannot afford it and deal with that or labor and save to acquire it?  Would it have inspired more to RISK in the arena of economics?  Would it diffuse the Class Hatred?  Had that been the stated philosophy in the Declaration of Independence rather than the inferred philosophy it possibly would have an effect on many today.  That was the view of our Founders and Framers and not until we entered the 20th Century where people adopted a mentality of entitlement and political bribery to secure votes people may have envied the rich but they understood a simple truth, forgotten today.  That truth was that what someone else had was theirs and theirs alone!

In the new TAX REFORM bill passed by Congress and signed into law by the President the political views on both sides of the aisle have allowed it to be flawed.  There are good things in it, but there is bad in it as well.  Take the property tax exemptions being reduced, that is bad not for blue states or red states but PEOPLE.  If you used your money to purchase the property it is yours.  Some Republicans called the deduction a government subsidy.  SERIOUSLY?  I paid taxes on the money used to buy the property and now I must pay taxes on the property and now by paying this tax and not being allowed to deduct it, I am paying more taxes or in a very real sense a second tax on that money.  If we had a flat or fair tax I would find it less offensive to take the mortgage deduction away.  However, when anyone argues it is not fair because everyone cannot afford a mortgage I go back to the arguments of Jefferson and Madison and ask, “Is everyone entitled to a mortgage?”  Are we a Socialist country where the government basically owns everything, and everyone has property equally or are we a Free Enterprise nation where our financial system is capitalism?  Are we obligated to guarantee everyone a home, a job, a car, a cell-phone, the internet, a computer, or even healthcare?  Have we become a nation where what you have or what you have earned is not yours but belongs to the government allowing them to redistribute it to whomever they choose? 

If you become a BILLIONAIRE overnight that affects me ZERO and I will never hate you for being so fortunate.  I will fight against envy for that is biblically and morally wrong.  I may admire you and be inspired by your good fortune or success and listen carefully for opportunity’s knock on my door, but hate you I will not.  No, I do not believe that simply being rich makes one evil.  I do not believe that anyone has the right to demand from another what that person has earned or owns.  It may be morally questionable for them to horde their wealth and ignore the plight of others, but I have no right to demand they SHARE THE WEALTH.  I have the right to “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” which would include the right to attempt to climb the ladder of success.  I personally, invested most of my adult life in the gospel ministry and in that have not amassed a lot of this world’s goods.  That is not a complaint because I would not trade my experience and service for the billions of the Warren Buffets of this world.  I know what it is to live from paycheck to paycheck or offering to offering.  I know what it is to pray your vehicle from one destination to another asking for divine help in keeping it intact and running because there was not enough money to replace or repair it.  I know what it is like to make $50 per week and spend $25 every two weeks at the doctor’s office caring for a child.  I know what it is like to be POOR and I know what it is like to have enough to not worry about things like I mentioned.  As the apostle Paul, “I know what it is like to be abased and to abound” but neither is my focus.  If I ENVY you and allow HATE to develop a root of bitterness will develop and I will be affected and others as well.  I, as do most of you, know some wealthy people who are incredibly generous and some who are stingy.  I believe Luke 6:38, “Give, and it will be given to you.  They will pour into your lap a good measure – pressed down, shaken together, and running over [with no space left for more].  For with the standard of measurement you use [when you do good to others], it will be measured to you in return.”  What you GIVE you GET.  You reap WHAT you sow, LATER than you sow, and MORE than you sow.  If you have abundance, I praise God for you that He has blessed you so.  If you have lack, I pray to God that He provide your every need according to His riches in Glory in Christ Jesus.  Yes, I connect my faith to my politics and make no apology for it because it has shaped my worldview and life view.

God bless you and God bless America!