Thank God for Donald Trump

This election year looked like it would be like any other.  I looked forward desultorily to the coming ascendancy of Jeb Bush, knowing in my heart that it would lead to another crushing defeat for Republicans in a presidential election.  A Bush candidacy was going to be similar to Romney and John McCain and Bob Dole and every other weak Republican candidate that's been foisted on us over the past thirty years by the establishment.  (I don't put Bush 41 in this list because a.) I think he was a very good president and b.) Ross Perot is the reason Bill Clinton won the election, not anything Bush did).  Then, in steps this guy Donald Trump.  Well known, face recognition, rich, flamboyant.  Everyone thought his candidacy would die in a few weeks.  Then he struck a nerve.  He mentioned that the hordes of people coming across our southern border included rapists, drug dealers and murderers, and we therefore need to seal our southern border and tell anyone here illegally to leave.  He immediately got my attention.  It's something I've been waiting to hear for years. The left went crazy, as did the Republican establishment.  Mr. Trump was immediately branded a racist.  Companies started pulling out of deals with him.  People started vilifying him.  Even Great Britain had a petition circulating to ban him from the country.  But I just went back and found what he actually said.  Here it is:  “When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best.  They're not sending you, they're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they're telling us what we're getting."
First of all, Mr. Trump acknowledges in the statement that there are good people among the illegals pouring across our border, but he also states there are murderers, rapists, and drug dealers among them.  That has since proven to be true, as thousands of crimes have been committed in America by illegal immigrants.  Second, where does he say anything racist?  Since when does speaking truth make someone a bigot?  And this brings me to the point of this article.
It has become apparent to me that the majority in this country has been cowed and intimidated and suppressed by a small elite bent on determining how everyone will act, speak, and even think.  Don't agree with the gay agenda?  You're a bigot whose career and reputation must be ruined.  You think Bruce Jenner dressing like a woman is weird?  You're a hater and there is something wrong with you.  You think "all lives matter?"  You're a racist.  You think that abortion is the murder of a human being?  You're anti-women.  The way the left has directed the national conversation on all these issues has been done purposefully to shame and ruin anyone who doesn't go along with their agenda.  Then in steps Donald Trump.  He says what he thinks.  While the left pretends to be horrified by his words, calling him "racist" and his followers "brownshirts," in fact what they are horrified by is that he is breaking down in weeks the machinery of suppression the left has spent decades building.  He is undoing what was to be the framework of a 1984-like state.  Donald Trump is the only one on the stage talking about beginning national security at the border.  He's the only one on the stage with the economic know-how to get the economy humming again.  However, while I support him because of those issues, my number one reason for supporting him is that he is the man who is going to save free speech in this country.  The left has been trying to set up a Stalinist state, where even a wrongly spoken word can ruin a person.  Mr. Trump, through his words and actions, is quickly destroying that, and while the left is aghast at what he is doing and is trying every ploy they can to bring him down, he continues to just shrug them off.  So, while he is speaking of things which I support, such as sealing our border, it is because he is speaking of these things that I support him.  After all, do we want a president who will unlock the manacles of suppression the left has created, or do we want a president who will act like Joseph Stalin, the man who made certain speech and thought crimes punishable by the state?  The choice couldn't be more clear.

The Hypocrisy of the Left

I get so frustrated when I look at the papers, watch TV, or listen to the radio.  Liberals are constantly spewing hypocrisy yet are never called on it.  So, this morning as I sat here in the wee hours, I decided to come up with a list of hypocritical actions.  I found it was easy!  Let me share with you:

1.  They will paint every gun owner as dangerous when one nut shoots someone, but they go to great lengths to make sure Muslims aren't called dangerous when one of them blows up a bunch of people.

2.  They want severe penalties for anybody who kills an endangered animal or destroys the nest of an eagle, but they will defend tooth and nail the "right" to kill an unborn human.

3.  They want Americans to welcome to our country and pay for tens of thousands of refugees, but then somehow forget that we have tens of thousands of homeless veterans right here.

4.  They preach against intolerance, but when anybody speaks out in a conservative manner, they are called "racist," "hater," and the like.

5.  They call the Republican party the party of big money that is beholden to Wall Street and doesn't care about the little guy, but the majority of the "rich" in Congress are Democrats and their own presidential candidate has made tens of millions from Wall Street.

6.  They want to call people like Bruce Jenner "heroes" but people like Chris Kyle lots of names other than "hero," such as "killer" and "coward."

7.  They rail against the use of fossil fuels at rallies to which they pull up in their BMWs.

8.  Once again, they claim to be the most open-minded people, but polls show they favor silencing skeptics of "climate change."

9.  They constantly want to cut defense spending, but any other program threatened with termination is suddenly critical and will result in the death of grandma and the kids.

10.  They will wreck your life, career, etc., if you make fun of someone who is gay or transgender, but they have no problem making fun of poor, white, southern conservatives.

11.  They are all for free speech, but refer to conservative blacks as "white acting," or "Uncle Tom."

12.  They will require a student to have parental permission to take an aspirin at school, but they constantly fight against parental notification before an abortion.

13.  They descry the politics of division right after calling their opponents names.

14.  They feel that "Black Lives Matter," but if anyone says something such as "All Lives Matter," that person is labeled racist.

15.  They push and push for alternative energy, but then won't acknowledge that wind power is killing migratory birds by the thousands and, in fact, President Obama just signed a waiver allowing wind power farms to kill Eagles with no penalty. 

16.  They love living in a free country defended by a powerful military, but then they denigrate the military and its mission, and they themselves, as a general rule, don't serve--the military is vastly conservative.

17.  After every terror attack committed by Muslim extremists, they invariably issue a statement calling Islam a "religion of peace."

18.  They want our kids to have recess at school, but they, over time, have had all the jungle gym equipment and other fun stuff removed from playgrounds for safety reasons.  In some places they've even outlawed dodge ball and tag.

19.  They go to church and take communion but, once again, support the killing of the unborn.

20.  They send their kids to private schools but fight against school vouchers which would allow poor people to do the same. 

 

I could keep typing for hours, but you get the point.

Gender Fluid?

I just read this morning that a well known reporter in Ireland has coined a new phrase.  He wants to be referred to now as "gender fluid" meaning that he sometimes identifies as male and sometimes as female.  This doesn't make sense to me if, as the left claims, sometimes people are born into a body which doesn't fit who they truly are, which would imply that you have to be one or the other.  His name is Jonathan Clynch, but now he wants to be referred to as Jonathan Rachel Clynch since his gender is "fluid."  Okay, call me a bigot if you want, but this is nuts.  What next?  I'll tell you what next.  Here's an article I came across:

Attorney Calls for New Legislation to Protect TS Against Discrimination

     (AP)  An attorney for one of the plaintiffs in an ongoing discrimination suit has called for new legislation to protect others from the type of discrimination he says his client is facing.  "Nobody should have to face the kind of discrimination that my client faces on a daily basis," said DC attorney John Simpson.  "He feels he is a dog born into a human body and is undergoing TS (Trans-species) change.  He should be given equal treatment under the law, but the problem is that current law doesn't protect those who are trans-species."

     Simpson's client, an unnamed 27 year old from Bowie, Maryland, has been undergoing trans-species surgeries since last year.  He's already had his teeth sharpened, undergone hair growth therapy, and his rear leg bones altered to prevent him from standing on two feet.  Simpson told the paper that next week his client will have his voice box removed, and he wanted to discuss this issue while he still can.  "After next week, all he will be able to do is bark, so he wanted to tell me everything he wants now while he still can," Simpson said.
     Simpson says his client started experiencing discrimination when he went to the dog pound one day and wanted to enter the dogs' runs but was refused access.  He says his client was told that unless he was there to pay the fees to take a dog out of the lock-up, he could not go into the runs.  When he told the personnel at the pound that he wanted to go in the runs because he felt he really wasn't human but was, in fact, a dog, the people at the facility called the police.  "All my client wants," Simpson says, "is to be allowed to be what he feels he was supposed to be born as--a dog."

Okay, I made this up.  But for those who say, "This is ridiculous and far-fetched" I say this.  Ten years ago, would you have considered "gender fluid" far-fetched?  Think about it.  And then think about this.  According to the left, if you don't accede to this guy's wishes, or any of these other confused people's, you are a bigot and should be ruined.

Here is a picture of Simpson's client, who still enjoys human activity: 

 

Stop Promising the World!

I read the news every morning and sometimes get depressed, sometimes angry, and sometimes there are stories that actually make me feel good, although they are rare.  Sometimes, though, for some reason, a story makes me indignant.  Today's news falls into this category.  Today Hillary Clinton proposed, if she is elected president, a $350 BILLION dollar program to relieve college loan debt and to make loans themselves more affordable.  First of all, I think it's fairly apparent that this is yet another scheme by a pandering politician to get votes using my (and your) tax money.  This has been going on for years and, while Republicans do it too (George Bush's drug program for seniors comes to mind), Democrats are masters at it.  When he signed legislation creating Welfare, LBJ is rumored to have said, "That will keep the n*****s voting Democrat for 200 years."  Since then we've added all kinds of things such as food stamps and "Obama" phones and Medicaid and Social Security Disability to keep people voting Democrat.  Don't get me wrong.  There are plenty of people who are truly in need and for whom these programs are a lifeline.  However, everyone knows that these programs are rife with fraud and abuse.  Mr. Obama himself said he'd pay for much of "Obamacare" with "$500 billion in fraud and waste from Medicare."  Once Obamacare got enacted, however, we didn't see much work on the huge waste problem in Medicare.
At any rate, so I start reading online news today and I see this story about Hillary and the $350 BILLION she's going to spend to help out people who have student loans, which is a lot of people and which could equate to a lot of votes, because that's what Democrats do as well--they're experts at demagoguing these types of issues.  Now all she has to do is go up against a Republican who says they want to balance the budget and that we can't afford these types of expensive programs, and she will portray it as Republicans are against helping students in general.  Any time there is talk of budget cutting all the Democrats have to do is say, "See, they will cut off your check," and they get votes. 
I'm tired of it.  I want a president who will be serious about balancing the budget.  I don't want a president who will pander for votes using my tax money.  I want to start paying down our national debt.  We can do it; I've talked about how in many of my other posts.  But before we can do that, we've got to stop promising billions in taxpayer and borrowed dollars for programs designed to win votes.

Follow The Money (Or Try To)

An IG report released yesterday discloses the fact that during the tenure of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, $6 billion dollars went missing.  As the report states:  “The failure to maintain contract files adequately creates significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of internal control over the Department’s contract actions.”

 While I understand that Mrs. Clinton was not personally involved in every contract, nonetheless she was in charge of the department during this period, and the blame must ultimately fall on her.  A larger issue, in my mind, is that if we can just lose this kind of money, then government is way too big.  Those who constantly refuse to cut anything in government use the argument that poor people or children will be hurt, yet there is fraud, waste and mismanagement throughout the whole government.  See my post on balancing the budget.  We're spending almost $4 Trillion per year, and I truly believe, based on all the reading I do, that there is at least 15% waste and fat in that figure.  This alone would trim almost $600 billion from our spending.
Going back to the IG report about State, it continues by stating that the situation “creates conditions conducive to fraud, as corrupt individuals may attempt to conceal evidence of illicit behavior by omitting key documents from the contract file.”  So it is being implied here that the missing money might be missing not by mistake, but by design.  Mrs. Clinton has been asked about this and has no idea where the money went. 
Hillary Clinton is the presumptive Democratic nominee for the presidency of the United States.  Her resume now includes a lot of missing money and the fiasco that is Benghazi.  When asked about that episode, during which two diplomats and two true heroes were murdered, her answer was (to paraphrase), "Oh, what the heck does it matter now anyway?"  Mrs. Clinton, at a women's forum on April 3rd, when asked about some of her successes while Secretary of State, could not provide any.  In fact, here is her answer:  “Well, I really see — that was good — that’s why he wins prizes. Look, I really see my role as Secretary, in fact leadership in general in a democracy, as a relay race. When you run the best race you can run, you hand off the baton. Some of what hasn’t been finished may go on to be finished, so when President Obama asked me to be Secretary of State I agreed.”  To that answer I can only say, "Huh?"
The United States is much bigger than just the State Department.  Yet I feel it's clear that not only have billions gone missing, but Mrs. Clinton herself can't name anything of note she's accomplished.  I certainly can't think of anything, although I can name several places that are now imploding that were relatively stable before the Obama presidency.  Egypt and Libya come to mind for starters.  In fact, I can't think of anything Mrs. Clinton did as a senator either.  So this leaves me with two questions.  First, why does anyone think Mrs. Clinton is ready to be president?  Second, where are the missing billions?

Illegal "Americans"?

Yesterday, Vice-President Joe Biden went on record as saying that the people in this country here illegally are already "Americans".  I'm sorry, but words have meanings.  In the United States the word "American" denotes somebody who is an American citizen.  The people here illegally aren't "Americans".  They are lawbreakers.  This same man and his party want to make eleven million people (minimum--it would be much higher when you factor in relatives who will become citizens by dint of family connections) legal, ostensibly so they can work and pay taxes.  However, anyone who's been watching and who has half a brain knows the real reason they want to make these illegal people legal is so their party will have eleven million or more new voters, thereby guaranteeing that their party will stay in power in perpetuity.

First of all, I have no problem with people who want to immigrate to America.  I say to those who dream of freedom and who are doing it legally, "Welcome!  I hope you find the freedom and opportunity you seek."  My ancestors were immigrants.  They came, they worked hard, and eventually made it possible for me to be born here and be a free man (although governmental power is challenging that freedom).  What I do have a problem with, however, is wanting to reward those here legally with the big prize--citizenship.  What could be a worse possible message--to make the first act creating a new citizen one which disregards the very law upon which this country is built?  So I say this.  Anyone here illegally needs to leave or be shown out the "door" and then they can get back in line.  We need to seal our borders.  Thousands are coming here each month--it is an actual invasion and it threatens our national security.  All those soldiers coming back from he Middle East with poor employment prospects could stay in the military and be used to secure the country. 
The last point I'd like to make is this.  The president and vice-president swear oaths to uphold the laws of the United States of America.  To give a speech saying that people who are here illegally are technically Americans is to make light of the very laws those people break.  This vice president needs to apologize to the American people and he and his boss need to get back to work securing the borders, ridding this country of those here illegally (perhaps creating employment opportunities for the millions out of work), and instead of issuing ludicrous rhetorical statements, begin to use the bully pulpit to do what they are supposed to--uphold the laws of this country.

Regulation, regulation, regulaton

I read today that the newest thing the Obama administration is getting ready to regulate is cow flatulence.  I'm not making this up.  There are all kinds of other things going on in the world such as Crimea, possible trade wars (including, most recently, India's violation of several trade agreements by requiring 50% of all their solar panel production be locally sourced), starvation, wars in Sudan, the ascension of those that hate us in Egypt and Libya (see Muslim Brotherhood), and the carnage in Syria, to name a few.  Here, we still have record numbers of people on long term unemployment, close to record numbers of people who are not counted in the unemployment numbers because they've left the work force (work force participation rate), hunger--we have record numbers of people on food stamps, problems in the military (22 soldiers per day are committing suicide) and so forth and so on.  Yet this administration finds it necessary to worry about cows farting?  So at first I said to myself, "Are you kidding me?"
After thinking about if for a while, however, I realized it has nothing to do with cows farting.  It has to do with control.  This administration seeks total control over the entire economy, and total control over people's lives.  The ACA (Obamacare) runs to about 2600 pages.  However, that is nothing compared to the regulations which have been written to enforce and tweak it.  We're now at about 60,000 pages and counting.  The administration recently issued new regulations, through the EPA, regulating coal fired plants' emissions.  Never mind that this will make energy prices skyrocket and put thousands of Americans out of work.  Never mind that China is putting a thousand coal burning plants on line per month.  This administration has written regulations on virtually everything under the sun, and I've become convinced that the purpose is to slowly but surely attain control over, well, everything in America.
America is a grand experiment.  Never before, with the possible exception of ancient Greece, has a democracy such as ours flourished.  I understand the need to have rules, for there are dishonest and greedy people who don't care about the quality of our air and water as long as they can make a buck.  But the regulation of our society down to the littlest detail has resulted in a world where we literally can't do anything without being affected in some way by government regulation.  The problem with regulations is that they never move towards more freedom.  They are always written to exert more government control over whatever it is that's being regulated.  So we have Obamacare.  This law, in one fell swoop, gave control over a sector of our economy worth about 1/7 of our GDP to the government!  Talk about a power grab!  Now, with the regulations written about coal fired powered power plants Obama has fulfilled his promise from 2008 when he said that anyone can open a coal fired power plant, but it will go bankrupt.  In the guise of saving the world from global warming, the president wants to regulate cow flatulence.  You see, cow's anal gas contains methane, which is a greenhouse gas.  In my opinion, however, this is just a further salvo in the battle by the state for control of the country.  They have health care.  They have regulated themselves into control of the energy sector of the economy, and now they're going after agriculture.  Combine that with a spy program that knows what people are doing every second of the day, and you can see that the government has slowly become too powerful.
America's democracy is at stake.  The land that is by the people and for the people has become the land of those that govern and those that are governed.  We need somebody who will be willing to do what is right for America, and not just for him or herself or his or her party.  We need somebody willing to cut back on the size and scope and power of government.  We need somebody whom we can trust when they say they will focus on job creation like a laser beam rather than someone who says that then focuses on everything but that.  We need someone who cares more about Americans having a job and less about how much cows are farting.