That would be courtesy of Washington, DC and the powers that be.  We keep being feed or asked to consume daily a very large amount of Horse Fertilizer and Bull Droppings by the Washington Political Crowd it is amazing.  What is as troubling as their continual offering of the garbage is the fact that a significant portion of the public willing consumes it and says, “Wow! Tasty!”  The talking heads, pundits, Party Establishment types, media members, and politicians then wonder what is going on in the country politically regarding candidates and campaigns.  They are clueless because they cannot fathom a public that would see through their superfluous diatribe and incessant offerings that are nonsensical, unhealthy, and detrimental to our Constitutional Republic.  They are stunned that we aren’t buying what they are selling, at least, enough of us to upset their protected applecart.  That are in a panic!

Let me walk through a few of the items on the Horse Fertilizer Menu Washington is offering.

UNEMPLOYMENT and the ECONOMY…

The BLS (which might need to drop the L) has released figures for March that said the total nonfarm payroll rose by 215,000 and the Unemployment Rate was 5.0%.  What they fail to focus on and include in that 5.0% rate is that those who have been out of work for 27 weeks did not change and the “workforce participation rate” is less than 63% and we have over 93 MILLION Americans of job age who are UNEMPLOYED.  How does that equate to 5.0% Unemployment?  Only with creative accounting and number crunching.  I am personally aware of a number of people who are unemployed, have been long term and have little prospects of finding a good job.  I have recently been made aware of a number who were recently or will soon be laid off.  In fact recently in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram here in the DFW area BSNF announced it has furloughing 4,600 workers.  If the economy is as robust as a 5.0% Unemployment rate would suggest that would not be happening.  The downturn in and the war on the Oil and Gas Industry does not just hit the pockets of CEO’s in Big Oil it impacts every aspect of our economy.

If we use the numbers of the BLS and other agencies that the number of working-age Americans (15-64) is approximately 204 MILLION and 93 MILLION are not employed what would that make the Unemployment Rate?  It would be over 45%.  Even if you cut that 93 MILLION in half you would still have over 22% Unemployment and I am convinced that number is far more realistic than the fictitious 5.0% that we are being served as a hot meal of Horse Fertilizer to inspire us and dissuade our fears and concerns about the economy.  We are sitting on a powder keg economically and the bubble is likely to burst very soon, then what?  Blame it on the Republicans?  What will be the spin?  Lies beget lies and perpetuate lies and we have been and are being lied to.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS A GREATER THREAT THAN ISLAMIC TERRORISM…

What person in their right mind would seriously believe that?  Apparently MILLIONS, and that speaks to why we are in the condition we are today.  Horse Fertilizer may be good for the soil and plants but it is not a staple for human consumption and that is what the politicians want us to have as the foundational base of our diet, at least politically and ideologically.  If we question the so-called “settled science” which is anything but settled about “Climate Change”, “Global Warming”, or “Climate Disruption” we are called bigots, racist, deniers, flat earth people, and worse.  Whereas if we cite facts and examples of the danger of Islamic Terrorism we are called even worse names and are fed more Horse Fertilizer telling us that if we banned guns, worked on climate change, created a robust world economy, catered to the demands of Islam, and talked nicely without truly addressing the issue there would be a sharp decrease in terrorism.  Give me a double helping of that horse fertilizer please?  THAT IS INSANITY and yet we because we allow Congress to allow this President to continue down the path of destruction we are demonstrating that we are “UNSTABLE” too.

The Democrats are offering us an Extreme Leftist who has zero regards for the Constitution, human life, and a Free America and an avowed Socialist.  I know, he attempts to differentiate his brand from the Communist/Socialist Brand that exists in other places by calling it Democratic Socialism, whatever that is.  At the end of the day it is the same as the other, just a more palatable way of describing it.  Sadly, millions about 50% of the population is dependent on the federal government for their subsistence and when half the people are on the dole and depending on Big Brother for their monthly check it is no wonder millions are flocking to Bernie Sanders and even Hillary Clinton because the promise of the Democrats is MORE FREE STUFF.  Nobody stops to understand that there is NO FREE STUFF, somebody has to pay for it and ultimately that somebody is every working American whether they are on Wall Street or Main Street.  WE ALL PAY. 

Our enemy and the purpose in the Elections of 2016 should not be creating a War within the Republican Party but Defeating the Democrats.  Sadly, people have become so emotionally attached to a candidate or campaign they are willing to abandon reason and lose the country to have their chosen one named the nominee.  Blast me if you will but I would vote for “Daffy Duck” or “Elmer Fudd” before I’d vote for any of the Democrats.  The only hope for the Republic, in my view, is DEFEATING THE DEMOCRATS IN 2016.  Love me or hate me, your choice but that is how I see it.  Anybody want another serving of Horse Fertilizer???  NOT ME!

God bless you and God bless America!

As I watched the results, listened to the pundits, heard the speeches of the candidates and the withdrawal of Jeb Bush, some thoughts came to mind.  The question I asked myself, “So what does it all mean?”  To answer that question there are so many things must be considered and most of it speculation based on observation.

As I listened to Jeb Bush begin his opening comments I said, “He’s throwing in the towel” and he did, as he should.  He may have had the establishment backing him, rich Super-Pac money and support but his message or his person was not resonating with the voting public.  He could have stayed in the race and it would have hurt one candidate more than any other and would have had zero effect on the frontrunner, Donald Trump.

Virtually everyone is asking, why John Kasich and Ben Carson are staying in or saying they are staying in the race?  What do they accomplish?  Are they seeking Vice Presidential consideration?  Living in fantasyland?  Are they seeking to help or hinder a candidate or candidates?  I cannot answer that but I have some observations about them staying in the race with their 14% or so of the vote.  It has an impact but who does it help and who does it hinder?

If I were Donald Trump I’d want as many of them to stay in the race as possible because regardless of what he, the pundits, or I think it is likely that most of Kasich and Carson’s votes would gravitate to Rubio.  Carson’s votes would likely not go to Trump or Cruz and Kasich’s establishment votes would assuredly lean toward the most establishment candidate of the top three.  Naturally, some would vote for Trump and some move to the Cruz camp but the lion’s share would likely go to Rubio making him a more formidable challenge to Donald Trump.  That is not an endorsement or a criticism of anyone just an observation.  Therefore, I wonder why Carson and Kasich are staying in the race, they cannot win and they know it.

At this juncture, Hillary Clinton appears to have a clearer path to the nomination than Bernie Sanders and out of Nevada, the one thing that stood out most was the percentage of the black vote that went to Hillary.  The black vote comprised 13% of the total vote and Hillary received over 70% of that block.  If that holds true in the Southern states Bernie is toast and Hillary skates to the nomination with all the baggage she carries and the likelihood of an indictment dims with each primary.  The Democrats cannot afford and will not allow their nominee to be facing a criminal indictment just before the election. 

Another observation is that as long as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio stay in the race they enhance Donald Trump’s ability to win and continue as the front runner.  Trump might choose Rubio as his VP but never Cruz.  However, I wonder if he could do that since he has questioned the legality of Cruz and Rubio to run so could he choose one of them as his second?  Some have suggested that Rubio should offer Cruz the VP slot or Attorney General and get him to drop out.  What would that do?  If Trump convinced Rubio to drop out and through his support to him probably seal the deal and if Rubio got Cruz to drop out it would likely not tilt the scale to Rubio as many speculate.  However, none of the top three is likely to get out of the race anytime soon and Rubio and Cruz will split votes as runner-ups and Trump will continue to lead and likely win most if not all the primaries.  I suppose there is still the possibility of a Brokered Convention and we will know much more after the Super Tuesday tabulations and then assuredly by the 2nd wave of multiple primaries in mid-March.

I am more convinced than ever that the voters are not voting with their reason but with their emotions.  Is that good or bad?  Time will tell.  In 1776, the fight was balanced between emotion and reason and reason built a fire of emotion that could not be extinguished.  I would prefer it to be a balance of both with the reason being the dominant factor but the earned distrust politicians have generated, the anger and feeling of betrayal have created an environment that is burning hot and is not likely to dim in the near future.  I am concerned when emotion blinds to the point that facts and flaws are ignored and that applies to all the candidates.  On the left, it seems that criminal activity lies, distortions, and endangering America and Americas are immaterial because after all they must vote their party regardless and are enamored by more and more free stuff and desire to sock it to the rich.  On the right, there is confusion, conflict, and anger which creates a most interesting landscape politically.

I am not criticizing anyone or endorsing anyone in this observation, just presenting what I see and what the questions Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina have raised.  Again, I am praying for and pleading for all candidates and supporters of candidates to lay aside the personal bitterness and focus on the problems that confront our nation and the specific solutions as to how to solve those problems.  Our Freedom is far more important than personal preferences based on something other than substance.  I am not saying that people who support one candidate or another are strictly following emotion without reason but I am pleading for everyone to ensure that emotion alone is not driving this train.  I think the next month is going to be very interesting and I will continue to vet, examine, investigate, and most importantly PRAY for America. 

God bless you and God bless America!

Is America still America the Beautiful or has it been so tarnished, transformed, and stripped of its Constitutional Foundation that it is no longer AMERICA in the founding sense?  Maybe it hasn’t been in a long time but until recently we could still see glimmers of a Constitutional Republic feared even when not respected by our enemies and those who would destroy her.  That dramatically began to change with the Administration of the current occupant of the White House and his initial Secretary of State.  It has continued and now after over seven years of systematic efforts to reduce the American Constitution to a meaningless piece of history, systematically reducing our ability to confront and defeat enemies both foreign and domestic militarily, creating such intense divisions in this nation we are in difficult times, to say the least.

Our economy, supposedly recovered, is anemic.  Our ability to deal with terrorism, especially Islamic terror is almost none existent under this administration.  His lack of willingness to deal with them is a clear expression of the ideology of this administration. The culture, class, race, gender and ideological wars being fanned to the point of boiling over is growing worse daily.  The news media has long ceased being a reporting of events to the shaping of events politically and in other ways.  Our educational system has been hijacked by the Leftist, Socialist, Anti-American, Anti-Free Market and we are now seeing the result of those so indoctrinated now teaching the next generation.  The words of the song, “My country ’tis of thee sweet land of liberty” is rapidly becoming a blip on the radar of history.

I realize that what I have said, thus far, is bleak and gloomy but we have a sitting president speaking at a mosque led for over a decade by an Imam who publicly justified suicide bombings and helped found a mosque with ties to Al Qaeda.  The President’s visit to the Islamic Society of Baltimore with the intent to give them honor is troubling.  He can’t find the time to visit our Wounded Warriors in Bethesda Naval Hospital but can praise this Imam and his followers who are party to the “Destroy America” and “Destroy Israel” movement in the Islamic world.  That is not America, at least not the America our founders envisioned and established.

We now know that this President emailed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State at least 18 times on her unsecured server, but of course, he was unaware of her violation of federal law.  We know that at least 22 of Hillary’s emails have been deemed too sensitive and damaging to our national security to release because they are, at least, TOP SECRET but she claims they magically transformed from unclassified to top secret AFTER she received and/or sent them.  How stupid do you think we are?  No, how devoted do you believe your sheep are, Ms. Clinton and that is the larger question and the more dangerous one.

A former Inspector General has spoken out regarding the absence of an IG under Hillary’s time as Secretary of State which suggests that this was planned before she became the Secretary.  She refused to allow the State Department to create her an official email address on a secure server.  Why?  One can only speculate but at the top of the suspected reasons was HIDING from the scrutiny of Congress and the People.  Her CONVENIENCE was a reason given and I find that appalling that any government official would cite CONVENIENCE as a justification for jeopardizing our national security.  If it is not criminal, and it is, it is incredibly self-serving, self-centered, dangerous, and demonstrating a total disqualification for any higher or even elected office in America.

The back door assault on our National Sovereignty through Executive Orders on many things including Amnesty and the “go it alone” attitude of this President claiming, “I am President, I can do what I want” has, is and will endanger our nation and threaten our existence.  He has made it no secret, as have many leftists that he wants to “disarm” law abiding citizens supposedly to make us safer.  We know, based on the facts, that the “gun free zones” are far more dangerous than citizens being able to exercise their 2nd Amendment Rights.  Now, Hillary is indicating her willingness to not only continue his push but expand it and her plan, somehow in her world of fantasy, will be consistent with the 2nd Amendment.  We know that is a farce and yet, millions support her and some even identify her treacherous behavior regarding Benghazi as one of her signature accomplishments.  With friends like Hillary, one would need no enemies.

AMERICA HOW LONG WILL YOU SLUMBER?   When will we wake up or will we wake up?  I am deeply concerned about my nation and that makes the 2016 elections even more critical.  We MUST return to following the Constitution and allowing the System of Checks and Balances our Constitution mandates be restored.

God bless you and God bless America!