Brutally Obvious

A threat from Democrat biased  members of the Federal Communications Commission to make new regulations that would  restrict and censor the Drudge Report and other Internet sites was reported this past week to be "in the words".  See Story HERE

There is nothing new about the left wing radicals attempting to stifle those who disagree with their Marxist agenda.

There's nothing new so is hewith their being very afraid of any source of information other than their pet lapdog cronies at the New York Times and the alphabet networks.  Especially in the last six years the doctrinaire national Socialists have tried every way in their power to silence those critical of the Democrat agenda. 

It is with great relief that we can declare they have failed, because we are now on the threshold of conservative control of both houses of the legislature and most of the governorships in the USA.

But what is remarkable is that one of their minions would  announce a plan to control Matt Drudge and his website, the Drudge Report.

Matt Drudge is not in the composing or propaganda business.  He has been from the beginning an "Aggregatpr". That is, he is a portal to other websites, other writers, news sources, opinion columns throughout the world.

Those who visit him HERE .will see that he offers linkage to every wire service, every news source,every coluimnist in the political spectrum from communist to fascist stripe and to every telervision outlet. ALL OPINIONS are represented in the columns of Matt Drudge's website.

So what is behind this determined effort to control a website that directs its readers to the Chicoms' Xinhua,  the Muslims' Al Jazeera as well as the Huffington Post ??

These frothy-mouthed airheads, it turns out, are just opposed to any freedom of choice or liberty for individuals. They are spoiled rotten with their squishy bailiwick of  "liberal" lies and half-truths that they have enjoyed building and repairing since the 1970s.

They seek to draw the black curtain of misinformation, disinformation and cradle-to-grave obfuscation closer and more firmly around the body politic.

And when they see a conservative revolution gathering steam enough to replace their Senate, they lose a sense of proportion and ability to cerebrate rationally.  That is...IF they have possessed same.

The tip-off  is that a left-winger would actually announce such a plan. He obviously never attended any school where they discussed the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution. Ignorance is the heaviest endowment of all.

The vacuous fellow who came up with this plan can be classified in the same IQ group with Hillary Clinton, who pronounced sternly this past Friday that businesses can not create jobs.

Who chooses or votes for these people?  

NOT "Mayflower-esque"

Some of you may brush this off as trivial but then you may take pause and think: "Wait a minute...!"

It's a little story I ran across in a regional newspaper published in the area of the Natick, Massachusetts Township.

The newspaper story, in itself, said that "somebody" told "somebody" that somebody else had told the first somebody that they saw a man "in Town Hall"  with "a big bulge in his pocket like, maybe, a gun... Like !"

The third or fourth somebody went to a constable and then the constable and the last somebody went to the "Chair" of the selectmen, one Martha White.

Now it is important to recognize that Natick is in the area where all of the "Mayflower"  families still remain. They have simple monosyllabic or di-syllabic names like White, Smith, Rogers, Rolfe, Bradford and Allen.

These people do not have to call for a vote on anything. They are endowed by their redolent 17th century  airs with higher credentials than any referendum can bestow.

At any rate,  Ms. White canvassed her Selectmen and announced a rule, or ordinance, or law prohibiting any attendee at a Natick  town meeting from being armed with a weapon, with heavier sanctions in the case of the weapon being concealed from plain view.

Citizens of the Township did not need to wait for print publication of the new legal prohibition.  The checkout line grapevine and tavern talemongers sufficed to spread the word.

In two days, Ms. White was suffocated by protesting mail and her computer inbox was frozen with even more and angrier rants and threats.

"I was dumbfounded !" she was quoted as saying. "Shocked I tell you ! "  (She didn't know there were that many people in the Township, let alone that many people who even knew that guns existed anywhere near Natick.

One selectman reportedly said he "didn't understand the question".  At the last update, it lookked like Ms. White's gambit was doomed.

One of the complaining Natick townsmen reportedly said:
 "I own an ancient shotgun with Damascus barrels that will split if it's shot... But I'm familiar with the second amendment in the Bill of Rights and I know what this present Supreme Court said about that. The selectmen are ripe for the silly farm!

Now this blog is not about guns.  That is settled law. We present these Massachusetts happenings simply as an insight into how people can get a hold of a lot of authority without getting a hold of a smidgen of wisdom or information. And people who have been elevated to positions loftier than their IQ or ability to reason may be as dangerous as media liars...Or traitors !

DOOFUS MAGNUS

The working condition of the present administration's foreign policy was unclothed again Monday by John (He WAS  in Vietnam!) Kerry, who is supposed to be Secretary of State and majordomo of all things diplomatic.

The dilettante mainstream media's inability to agree on whether the latest incarnation of seventh century (AD / DE) butchery  should be called  ISIS or ISIL, the initial "I" in both appellations certainly stands for "ISLAM" for the international press.

(ISIS is "Islamic State in Iraq and Syria" and ISIL stands for "Islamic State in the Lecant".)

But Kerry, in his exalted role and with great hauteur, looked down his nose at former Congressman and nowadays TV host Joe Scarborough and smugly confided that "ISIS has nothing to do with Islam".  Clicj HJERE for Story

All the way up to the Oval Office,  the flimflammers  believe they can make anything come true by saying it !

We are all innured to the Jabberwocky of Joe Biden,  and Kerry HAS  been downright silly sometimes when faced by the reality of Bibi Netanyahu, but this kind of Abbott and Costello  doubletalk is beyond outlandish.

Don't send in the clowns... He are already here.

Can the United States get a reshuffle of these wildcards or a reset of doofus domination in the executive branch of our government in time to survive ? 

If a big shot government Poo-Bah  thinks he can laugh away his spoken absurdities, do we just go our ignorant, sappy way and pretend these confused con men are "harmless" ???

At our Peril !!!

Can We Borrow the Oval Office ?

A really fine writer and thinker, Robert Tracinski reminded me of a wonderful story about President  Abraham Lincoln and General George "In Situ" McClellan.

In  his best, affable passive-aggressive acerbity, Pres. Lincoln called McClellan to task for dilatory non-activity.

"If you are not using the Army," Jonest Abe said, "I would like to borrow it for a little while..."

Thank you Bob, in a vain attempt to rattle Pres. Obama's self-inflicted cage, you have jogged many of our full craws to the point of up-chucking.

For instance, leaked  reports  from frustrated Pentagon sources allow that despite his wimpy statement that "we have no strategy" vis a vis the Islamic State of Iraqi and Syria, the president has been continually advised and updated for more than a year on the coalescing, strengthening and bloodthirsty activity of the new, improved giant-sized terrorist army in search of a new Caliphate.


CLICK HERE for DETAILS

Oh, where are we going to find someone with a spine that will ask the commander-in-chief  if we can borrow  his army to protect ourselves on the upcoming anniversary of  9/11, 2001 ?

A survey reported on Tuesday, September 2 2014 showed that the great majority of Americans do not want Casper Milquetoast  as a protector in lavender lace drawers. Neither do they want a 
shoot-'em-up cowboy.

But we've never had a Neville Chamberlain in the Oval Office before.  And it isn't the fact that he never went to summer camp or  trained on a firing range.

What it is, as Andy Griffith would  say the POINT (and he was a stomp down left-wing liberal)  is "totin'  that punkin to the goal through a mass of fighting, kicking, gashing, bloody, muddy adversaries who want to stomp your eyeballs out..."

Where have the guys with the guts ( and the strategies) gone ?  

The joint Chiefs don't look sharp in the drapery of doormats, either.

If I had my way, we would borrow the whole military, and put Camille Paglia in charge.

Or dig up Golda Meir.

Pollster Literacy

Literacy is the parent of credibility.

I don’t know if that’s  original here or  not; but ever since I passed a college course on Public Opinion at Emory University when Elmo Roper and Harris were starting out to compete with Gallup, I’ve been an addicted poll rat .

And I’ve had some bizarre wake-up calls along the way. Even today when everything is supposed to be so sophisticated and complex , there are ways to test the credibility if  not the accuracy of a public opinion survey 

For instance, within a month of the retreat of Scott Rasmussen from the poll to which he gave his name, the company began to deteriorate in credibility from the most accurate of all the American survey specialists to a clear left-leaning posture, revealing that they had returned to a sampling methodology based on the 2008 party split , rather than the 2010 / 2012 numbers . 

In these days when Reuters and Gallup show Obama’s approval at 40% or less while Rasmussen clings to a 47% approval on the same days of testing , it is bizarre .

But here is the strange thing . The syntax in the Rasmussenj website reporting is also bad. It has  frequent misspellings and slipshod editing like today’s use of “now “ for the very important verb “KNOW” !!!

I’ve noted the same thing in polls on local and state races. In Georgia today for instance, while five other surveys show David Perdue from 7 to 9 points ahead of Michelle Nunn, a WSB TV website headline gushes that Nunn “has expanded“  a lead that she has never even had , in any of the polls averaged on the Real Clear Politics unbiased and most credible site of all. The emotional one-sided awkward screed at WSB TV contributes to the embarrassment.

I’m reminded of Li’l Abner”s comic strip assertion long ago that “As any fool can plainly see ...I see !!!”

If they can’t report their findings clearly and with literate language and if they do not edit for clarity and accuracy , they probably do not do a circumspect job with the numbers.

Or  so it seems here . 

DUMB

This has been rather a lengthy hiatus-- seven months since the last post in Cato's Depot. The future succession of posts will be sporadic rather than regular.

However, a small but powerful reminder of what's wrong passed across the monitor screen Wednesday that prompts a reminder that one should consider all future possibilities before one calls someone who is irritating, "dumb" because of a disagreement.

That would be true especially if the person one branded as "dumb" has ( or had)  more information and/or experience than the "Dumb-Brander".

And, THEN:

There, staring at me from my monitor  was an officer of the new Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, brandishing a Scimitar over the head of  a Western journalist, having just beheaded an American journalist and now gloating and threatening... Albeit incognito in a ski mask.

And there, also on my monitor was a story that harked back eight years ago about a response that George W. Bush, then president of the United States, made to Democrat demagogues raising hell for the United States to leave Iraq immediately.

Bush said then that leaving Iraq "prematurely" before "the job was done" would lead to something unimaginably worse than al Qaeda.  He was quoted as saying in that 2006 statement that a "bug out" by Americans from Iraq would definitely fertilize and prompt the establishment of an organized politically and militarily more rovust  that will be  capable of challenging the West on a higher-level of organization and financial strength due to the Iraq oil reserves. Bush said at that time, if we left a vacuum behind us, mere t and go  terrorism would be replaced by sophisticated political, financial and military development that would outpace anything yet seen in the Middle East and pose a real   constant threat to the West.

Pretty dumb, Huh ?

A Little Too Late

No one is going to mark the date, but on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, Ernest Istook quoted  a group of  honest, concerned scientists and clinicians headed by the nation's "DRUG Czar", Obama's appointee, contradicting  the Chief Magistrate's latest clueless ignorant babbling. CICK, SEE STORY 

President Obama had announed that recreational cannabis use is not as dangerous as  use of alcohol, and nothingt to be alarmed about.

The Drug Czar's website, (part of  White House.gov)   warns  that pot not only killls  teens' brain cells,but that it's inhaled smoke has more cancer causing chemicals than tobacco. It also   kills volition. Alcohol does none of this.

Any of his old "Choom" buddies could have set him straight.  The marijuana they used in the late 70's was about  10% as strong as today's Colorado and Wasgington State LEGAL product; even less powerful than hash, oil and some "medical"  distillations.

This is something about which we actualy  have  empirical as well as clinical knowledge, having been given: first abstinence and then opportunity to work with thousands of addicts and their famlies for more than 20 years, professionally and socially.

But my opinions are not my point here. The Department of Drug Enforsement has viewed the softening of attitudes toward cannabis in the U.S. with fear-not-just-alarm.

What thoughtful people ask again and again is:

"Why the great rush to legalize a drug that civilizations older than ours still view with documented  negativity ?...Even horror.

The adoption of the appellation "Assassin" from the root of "Hashish" in  early Asia Minor was not without reason and evidence.

Look at the nations that still enforce  harsh penalties for importation, sale and possession of cannabis in any form. CLICK HERE

There is no longer any hope of stemming the tide of irresponsibility that has clouded and debased America  for decades  It is now "hitting its stride" with widespread  clamor for legalizing illegal mind altering drugs.

Those, like the "Czar" and his colleagues who COURAGEOUSLY speak their TRUTH to Brute selfish power should never be forgotten.

Can You Believe it ??!!

"Dear Mr. Editor of  The Sun:

"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. 

"Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.' 

"Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

"VIRGINIA O'HANLON.

"115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."

VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. 

In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. 

We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. 

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

The Scurrilous Culprits

Have you ever wondered who is responsible for all the stealing that's gone on in solar panels and the bird-slaughter and ugly landscape of the windmill farms ?  I bet Al Gore comes to your mind.... But he's just a dishonest hustler and flimflam man with his eye on the buck. He hasn't been exactly a jewel of consistency or probity since they threw him out of Vanderbilt University a LOOOOONG  time ago. Gore's ancient, moldy act is a shell game for suckers, pretentious, but pusillanimous.

I ran across an important collection of laughable predictions by the men who used their credentials to shock journalists and credulous families into believing the sky is falling.  Every one of them had graduate degrees in something and if their predictions had any basis in fact or validity, all of us who can now place them where they belong with derisive guffaws, would not be here.

According to these three clowns of the academic tent, we should be dead along with most of the rest of the world's people.

Paul Ehrlich, James Hansen and Michael Mann have been proven in peer-reviewed critiques, to be purveyors of false "scientific" information. There are others. 

CHECK HERE !

The phony "market" in mass solar panel production, proliferation of makework and emission schemes, exploding electric cars and billions of dollars worth of "carbon footprints" and the treasury raided in the name of "controlling"  CO2--a gas necessary for photosynthesis and production of natural oxygen has done more damage to the American economy than even Obamacare.

We can never recapture what has been wasted in the name of Chicken Little.

But an enlightened electorate CAN begin to slow the plunder and re-examine the lifeless meaningless dead-end path thrust upon us by those mesmerized by the chimera of man-made global warming.

In 2014, these idiots will  make another mindless charge. 

Heed them and Impede them !

Allegiance & Gratitude

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
Carl Jung 


We graduated from the eleventh grade into the Big Wide World, in 1942 at Buford high school. I didn't know I was deprived but I soon found out, surrounded by full-12-grade graduates at Emory.

But this is a Thanksgiving blog and what I want to emphasize is that because of gratitude ( my only claim to righteousness then) I can remember the name and specialty of every teacher in that school while I was there. Several of them also taught  my sons. 

As a matter of fact, I am absolutely certain that Misses  Daisy Shadburn, NanJohnson, Berta McCurdy and Nita Tanner focused on my barren soul in the first four grades to teach me a sense of gratitude that I just didn't know or instinctively feel as did my next-door neighbors the Lawler family  (the only Roman Catholics in our town at that time.)  I got very hot and thirsty one rainy day running around inside the Lawler house and drank some Holy Water from one of their mantels. Subsequent, immediate instruction was a powerful foundation for understanding what "being thankful" meant.  But by the time I had glided through the "rooms" of Eva Gholston, Barbara Johnson, TW Morgan and Gladys Hines,  I was in the anteroom toward maturity.  When Kitty Bell actually came to my influenza bedside to tutor me in algebra, I not only passed into the 10th grade: I was grateful, thankful and knew what those words meant in a deep personal way that no Sunday school teacher or  threatening preacher could have ever explicated or built.

It is not fashionable nowadays to pile plaudits at the feet of teachers. But this powerful group of civilized motivated women that sculpted my clay into a sponge hell-bent to learn and then teach  a sense of gratitude--- they would probably be barred from many of today's "Core"-ridden schools. 

Kitty Bell finally left  Buford and gravitated  to Oak Ridge Tennessee where she worked in the Manhattan project (building the first Atomic Bomb).

It's very fashionable in academic circles nowadays to pick at the Thanksgiving of 1621 and compare it with the Thanksgiving of 1623 and then with the Thanksgiving of 2013. 

But except for the fact that the pilgrims off  the Mayflower  were thanking God as well as  the civilized Native Americans who had taught them to plant maize and hunt and trap meat ( which averted their starving), this discussion is more to shine a bright light on how bungling, unenlightened souls come to understand  Grace, Thanks and Gratitude.

My Betts, before she went to the True World, had a favorite fable from the Orient most illustrative of one thing ( among many ) .

An ancient Chinese father of many who were fathers of many, attended the wedding of a prince and his princes. After the ceremony, the Ancient One presented the couple with a small convoluted shell, iridescent in all of the shades of the spectrum, and though  tiny, it  projected a brilliance that was almost unkind to the 
eye.

"I see," the well-traveled prince said, "that you have been to the hazardous south border of the far sea. You must have traveled many moon-changes".

"Ah, Inded", smiled the Vizier. "Arduous and lengthy journey...Part of Gift !!!!"

So, THIS is the target of true gratitude...the Heart  and its praise of all Respect and feeling for the struggle and the loss and the winning of wisdom and the passion of  delivering it  to others.

Here are the dimensions  of  gratitude. How many know?

Don't Blink !

This space in the cyber expanse has not been chary in branding the gyrations and machinations of the present administration as "Con", "Sllick", "Phony", "Flim-Flam",  "Bait and Switch" and it MUST be admitted, the Dummy thst hawks it's wares IS ...uh..."Carney"...
right ?

Well, it apparently was NOT baseless name-calling.

Even when allegedly being "serious", they cannot shoot straight.

They announce 100,000 people have "applied" for Obamacare in the past five weeks.  But only 27,000 have signed up on the sideshow website.

And they will not comment on how many million have had health insurance cancelled.

The Fiscal Times has an eyebrow raiser:  Click HERE. .

The gubmint cannot expect us to take it seriously until someone answers some questions without dissembled babbling and smoke and mirrors.

(1)  How many people have acually BOUGHT into Obamacare ?

(2)  How much more than the $100 million did the website cost ?

(3)  Did anyone other than the "builders" qualify or bid on the website ?

(4)  How many people in the U.S. have had their health insurance  canceled with the implementation of Obamacare ?  

Armed with these facts,  maybe even the toe-suckers at CNN and MSNBC  can  appraise the catastrophic stable-floor we have been thrust upon.

So, Palin Read the Law ?

How many times does this happen every year unbeknownst to the majority of literate American voters ?

How many times, that is, does  a well-known public figure ( politician, priest ,  statehouse grifter, columnist, and blogger or talking head ) make a prediction about future  hazards and calamities and said prediction is pooh-poohed by what seems to be thousands of other pompous politicos , pundits, palavering  TV  boobs and hustlers ---and we never hear when the original warning shot is proven to be  valid and spot on target  ?

 Well I can't remember a famous  case.... Until now.

Back in 2009, when fright-face  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told us all that we needed  to pass the Obama care bill to find out what was in it because it was over 1000 pages longand according to her the Congress had only  only days   to rubberstamp  the monstrosity .

Former   Alaska governor Sarah Palin, mused judiciously in an interview as well as on television  that the worst feature of all the murky Obamacare oppression   was its setting up of "Death Panels" tasked with appointing the ancient, the halt, the lame and the blind to die a little bit sooner because medical care would be wasted on their already  moribundity.... said condition to be adjudicated by non medical bureaucrat  gatekeepers.

And so it has come to pass.   (STORY HERE)

 Was "stupid "  Sarah Palin the only person who read the   cumbersome bill ?

She was well-known for this kind of treachery as governor of Alaska by shadowy grifter Democrat  operatives  and naysayers  whom she was forever unmasking and disrobing.

Of course,  minions of the fish wrappers, the AssPress and the  sycophantic  babbling heads will always claim  foul when they are countered buy someone who reads proposed legislation and researchers intention .

ESPECIALLY some woman who was so infra dig as to choose life rather than abortion for a Downs-child  pregnancy.

It has never been   considered  "FAIR"   by members of the left wing "HIVE"  for  opposition to use  LOGIC or for their opposition to be armed with WIT, of which they can   boast of a not  a half measure.

For a month noww, they have been in disarray, strangled and silenced by their Idol's outright wb of lies to them and us.

Can You Hear Now ?

In times of crisis, close, incestuous entities such as political parties tend to  first dissemble and then, to disinmtegrate.

We are at one of those times...a very clear and impressive moment of
near-laboratory science density.

The so-called "Obamacare" legislation  faced tough sledding to begin with. But the Obama administration's mosdt  dedicated obfuscators came up with a 1,000-plus page "bill" of legislation that was read by nobody except the congressional drudgery monger proofreeaders.

The democrat speaker of the house, Madame Pelosi  announced: We will HAVE to pass it to see what's IN it !!!"

Not all of the opponents of the bill agreed on a single "drawback".  But every republican lawmaker voted against it.

Some said it woould strip everyoe of ther "present" coverage.  The president promised that would NEVER happen, and so on and on and on.

Then, a Republican majority was elected in the House and this year, we went through the drama of a freashman senator from Texas, Ted Crus, leading  filibuster against funding the healt law in the budget   Remember, only the House can  originate budgets and expenditures. So Crus, the "tail" in a minority Senate was "wagging"--- that is, Leading,  a majority conservative House.

This time, they all agreed on ONE reason:

"We must save America from this calamity by defundng.  If we do NOT, the USA will be strangled, disappointed, and finally be halted, frozen in impotent anger because no one really knows what wiill happen  in October.

Well,  October is gone.

This morning I saw where Pelosi and others are now claimin that the Republicans "sabotaged" the AHCA legislation.

If crying "HAVOC",  and incurring thewrath of the New York Times, et al, ad mauseum is "sabotage"  so be it.

This colyum has just one thing to say...no matter HOW distatesful and impolite:

We Told Ya So, morons !!!





SCOTUS Reckoning

There is no specific legislation that empowers the U.S. Government to issue edicts to alledgedly control "greenhouse gases" that supposedly convict mankind of "warming" the globe.

But the environmental protection agency limits commerce, closes down coal fueled power plants and indulges in issuing non-statuatory regulations with no popular support.

Now, the Supreme Court has collected six  lawsuits into one case it will hear this year.  SCOTUS announced this, but the US  Murky Medis did NOT cover the story.

I found the announcemenmt from SCOTUS in  AFP 's News Budget. (Agence France Presse).

You can read the AFP story H E R E !

There was a time when the conspiracy to tax everyone for a ghostly "carbon footprint" would have welcomed this crisis-ender moment with glee. 

No more.

James Hansen, formerly at NASA has been disrobed as a liar. The UN-IPCC report has been dismissed as fraudulent.  The East Anglia warmists were caught  jiggering numbers, dates and timelines.

Many people now know that gass passed by global cattle herds and even  by termites, produce more CO2 than internal combustion engines.

It is obvious that the media muggers are freaked in the USA because they did not report the  SCOTUS announcement.

Stay tuned for the fall of the dominoes. It is a certainty that the high court justices are neither low-informatuion drones OR Chicken-Littles.

Petty Posturing Perfidy

When I went to the Library of Congress website on October 1 I was advised that we blind people who sought to download books on digital carrier would not be served and that only members of Congress and their staffs would have access to the Library of Congress until the "shutdown" was over.

Having done quite a bit of research at  the Library of Congress in the past and having found it rather a lonely exercise, I was somewhat aghast that all blind people in the United States were victims of presidential and bureaucratic patty  intransigence.

But I never dreamed the nether  extent to which these pea-brained, solipsists could burrow.

Some other sightless or visually- challenged folks must have alsocontacted their Congress critters and lobbyists because by Saturday the automatons at the library had opened the book downloading site for business. Albeit with embarrassment.

But on the same day, minions of the bureaucracy were attempting to close the Atlantic Ocean, announcing that charter boats would be barred from 11,000 mi.² of saltwater fishing area. Surely, I thought, this is somebody's idea of a joke for headline purposes.

But no! The Internet was flush with videotapes of the occurrence and the proud pronunciamentoes  of the pygmy oppressors.

Even furloughed, the federal employees blindly-following Gubmint
orders, announced they were "following orders to make life as difficult as possible for all citizens in all situations".

Well, in the words of that great Oriental philosopher Lois Lerner: 
"What's new about that?"

The Park Service had already tried to keep World War II veterans out of the unmanned  area of the World War II  Memorial. When the old Octo-and-Nono-Genarians had plowed on to their sacred area the fellers in the Smokey-Bear hats wired the barrier securely. 

Then, Far away in Normandy's Pont du Hoc, they closed the cemetery where dead of the 1944 summer invasion lie.

Of course, all golf courses and Camp David were untouched 

Apparently oblivious that this sort of activity, more than anything, was driving the president's "approval" percentages down, they had one marvelous and laughably feckless attempt remaining.

On Saturday and Sunday they were patrolling  the roads radiating from Mount Rushmore in the South Dakota Badlands, making sure that no one could SEE the mammoth  sculpture of four revered American presidents, Washington, Jefferson, T. Roosevelt and Lincoln.

I just hope some of these simpletons try to activate the absolutism of Algorian "green" dicta: limiting the amount of CO2 emitted by human breathing.

Just so they leave my digital download site alone. They're losing now and will lose all in the end. 

Eeeeeeek !!!!!!!

In Rotterdam, The Netherlands, authorities have dispensed with the  excess expenses of police detectives' overtime and training and use of "sniffer" Police K-9  specislists.

They are substituting.....well....RATS !

ORIGINAL STORY HERE !

What will this mean to the rest of the uncivilized world (the DUTCH  ALWAYS "break the mould")

If these  anticanine economies spread to the UK and (*gasp*) to America,  there will be a predictable uproar from feminists protesting anti-Girl policies of the rodential exploiters, with a subsequent volume of "Eeeeeeeks!  emitting from the  Feminaziz who ae notoriously  wary of rats.

There will follow, as the slick-tailed critters take over policing of airports, replacing Homeland Security GROPERS and gallant Alsatians---calls for anti-discrimination laws and demands for the banning of WARFARIN and other noxions fatal to rodents.

And, finally, as a reprise of all deterioration of authority since Adanm, there will be a surfeit of ROGUE  RATS (not to be confused with RugRats or "kids" ).

Where will it all end ?

Probably with an Earthwide search led by the Greenie Environmentalists for an AlGorean Pied Piper to save the Planet.

Progress, always Precarious, also always has pusillanimity guaranteed.

Eeeeeeeeeeek !

Don't Leave Home Without It !

It is fitting that the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States would come up with the story of an entrepreneur who desire it is striking hotly with surefire sales to a wide customer assortment.

The Hartford Courant, first printed in 1764, is reporting mass sales of a kit aimed for the use of students, teachers, principals, monitors--- and for that matter all employees forced to make a living by toiling in one way or another in "gun free"  zones.

The Navy Yard in Washington DC is a gun free zone. Most public skools and colleges are "gun free" zones. A gun free zone as most people understand it is an area are a building where firearms are absolutely forbidden for everyone--- even security personnel.

This new kit contains and 800,000 volt stun gun taser, a triggered pepper spray, a 12 foot window ladder, and.. Well, you can't go HERE to check out the entire contents of this the survival resources in the "kit".

What family, indeed, would not indulge a vulnerable Mom, student, even an old Dad such an array of protection against the mentally deranged mass murderers that populate our streets and our carefully background-checked workforce.  After all it is the politically correct way.

It would be too easy to arm the security personnel, or train employees in serious self-defense.

I'm not talking "cheap" here, either. And I don't begrudge the fellow who put together this kit a time of his profit-- and I'll wager that will be more than considerable.

If that's the best we can do. Let's do it. But I still feel that something is being diluted by the deluded.

This isn't The Way, Courant founderThomas Greene and his fellow Colonials would have done it. It's an historical fact they left Breed's Hill  RED.

Ballad of Tyler and Demias



This is a "Bell Curve":

 

 

 

This is ALSO the "Ballad  of Tyler and Demias".

 

The graph represents the normal distribution of achievement level in almost all human physical and mental effort.  It looks like Antoine de Saint Expurey's  "Boa that Swallowed an Elephant" from the Little Prince.

 

But it holds.  From the  left, the highest acievers are few, the median achievers are lumped into about a 70% mass  and the lower achievers dribble off in a mirror of the highest.

 

This altogether natural, constantly reappearing distribution in the  basic snapshot in the REAL world of honest appraisal.

 

But in the world  of Tyler and Demias, it is unwelcome. One might say it is like many truths in the hands and minds of the community organizers and collectivist levelers in the 21st century.

 

It does not exist for the evil meddlers.

 

I worked with a physician in a past life who would, when presented with a fact unfamiliar to him, bark: "That's Not SO !!!" ....No matter how many times his obtuse fool act was unmasked.

 

So, we have an institutionalized intricacy of outright lies replacing scientific truth in our society.

 

It begins in the grammar school gangs and bullies who make merciless sacrifice of children who excel.

 

Envy is the most destructive of the Seven Cardinal Sins, of course.

 

African-American top achievers are regularly attacked physivally and verbally as "Crackas" and "Whitey-ASSES".  White scholars are defamed as "Petty-Puss" and "Faggots" as well as "Kissers" and "Suckers".

 

Tyler Weaver was not trampled by his peers, however. Neither was  Demias Jimerson.

 

Tyler read too many books, and won the library prize too often, so his librarian put the name of everyone who had read 10 into a hat and "drew" for the prize.  (Tyler had read, DEMONSTRABLY, hundreds.)

  



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Jimerson ws a football prodigy.  He scored every time he got the pigskin ! So, to "give the others a chance".  Demias was not just curtailed in playing time. He was punished when he showed extra prowess.

This is the way government bureaucracy is operated.  This is the way government "public" skools are operated.

Next will be high school basketball, wrestling and  soccer is already, arguably, in the tank.

But the immutability and ineradicability of the Ball Curve WILL persist and like heroic mankind, prevail, in time, because, as Faulkner said..."We can endure !"

How Low Can They Go ???

"Cometh the Dreamer...We must Kill Him Now!"

Do you get as disgusted as I do when you read about the cops taking down a couple of 10-year-olds for having a lemonade stand ?

Well I've found something worse!

 What would you say if you saw a mother and daddy teaching  a toddler how to garden--- to raise fresh vegetables  right beside ( actually in  the  shadow of)  a grimy housing project  ?

 I mean, that would be MORE than lighting one little candle, and not cursing the economic darkness, wouldn't it ?

 Well take a look at THIS.

The United States Department of Agriculture jackbooted thugs have cited a four-year-old for improper use on federal land .

These Creeps could better use their time coralling the thousands of people who are making big-money growing dope in the national forests and parks.

 But there is a  stink  all over and throughout federal bureaucracy under this administration as though all federal employee have been ordered to do the worst thing possible to the best, most beautiful people .

 This is not overreaction.  Jjust look around you.  Check it out !

  Why on earth do they do these things ?  Because they CAN....

Layers of Learning

(Regular readers of this Blog will recognize a sharp shift of subject and perspective.  This will occur more often.  My most precious critic  admonished me that the Vlog was cursung the darkness very effectively...but that we were not lighting enbough candles, so here goes !)





When I was about 10 or 11 we used to roam around in  what we called "The Tarzan Woods; behind my granddaddy's house. Half the area was roofed with kudzu vines, and the rest had once been pasture, with a nameless creek at the bottom of the map.

 

One day when we weren't swinging on the kudzu or rasslin' , or shooting Blue Jays,   James Tapp, W.P. Locket and I would go to the pasture and  hunt for snakes and shoot our  BB guns at pigeons from a nearby barn.

 

One steamy July day about 11 o'clock in the morning we sat down on the bank of a  shallow gully shaded  by pines and scrub oak.

 

We were bemoaning the fact that there weren't any good materials for building a hideout in the Tarzan Woods.

 

W.P  advised that we were sitting on the side of a potential hut and raced to get a sumac sapling that he lay across the gully's width.

 

He didn't even have to elaborate. In a couple of squirrel tail shakes, we were all three, crisscrossing and basket weaving sumac sticks and pinetops across the gully ... And pretty soon we had our hidey-place.

 

For a week or two we would huddle in that suffocating little pine-smelling camouflage.  I remember a boy named Ezzard  Sammons was visiting in town and he came to the woods  with us and helped us find some "blue mud"----very rich and trustworthy clay base.

 

Just at the entrance to our dark place we hacked a square hole from the bank and lined it with clay and "fired"  it to make it into a kiln. This was Ezzard's idea and we marveled at it. We made ashtrays and amulets and we tried to sculpt  squirrels and bears and deer with stick antlers.  There was not a Rodin or a Praxiteles among us...

 

But the ashtrays and bowls worked out very good.  All our folks bragged on all of this especially on our two-tone efforts with plain old Georgia  red clay "accents"

 

Sometime before the second weekend when we started thinking about Ken Maynard, Buck  Jones and the Dick Tracy serial at the Capes  Theatre, we got bored and left  our gully shack.  It started raining after the movie Saturday night and rained all day Sunday.

 

 

 

On Monday James and I were headed for W.P.'s house with our leaky Ked tennis shoes  squishing.  

We looked up the woodsy hill... And there was no brush-roofed hidey-place there.  No sign of it. No fireplace, no kiln...(Well there was a sliver of smoky gravel where our baking place had been.

 

You know how "country folk"  rank rains:  frog strangler... Mold maker... Horse swallower...

We were the beneficiaries of a GullyWasher. I say beneficiaries, because we got an immediate lifelong lesson that the Sunday school teachers would have never gotten into us with parables about building on sand. Our science teachers later, talking about "construction on the floodplain would have failed, too.

 

All kinds of lessons danced around us. The innocent looking gully--- and its purpose--- had been there a long time before we had a brain flash.

 

Who knows what-all life changing and saving ideas flowed from this great tragedy ?

 

The girl  I met about 10 years later and married for 57 years had a Perfect  motto when she was 16-goimg-on- 30 :

 

"What IS....IS !!!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I was about 10 or 11 we used to roam around in  what we called "The Tarzan Woods; behind my granddaddy's house. Half the area was roofed with kudzu vines, and the rest had once been pasture, with a nameless creek at the bottom of the map.

 

One day when we weren't swinging on the kudzu or rasslin' , or shooting Blue Jays,   James Tapp, W.P. Locket and I would go to the pasture and  hunt for snakes and shoot our  BB guns at pigeons from a nearby barn.

 

One steamy July day about 11 o'clock in the morning we sat down on the bank of a  shallow gully shaded  by pines and scrub oak.

 

We were bemoaning the fact that there weren't any good materials for building a hideout in the Tarzan Woods.

 

W.P  advised that we were sitting on the side of a potential hut and raced to get a sumac sapling that he lay across the gully's width.

 

He didn't even have to elaborate. In a couple of squirrel tail shakes, we were all three, crisscrossing and basket weaving sumac sticks and pinetops across the gully ... And pretty soon we had our hidey-place.

 

For a week or two we would huddle in that suffocating little pine-smelling camouflage.  I remember a boy named Ezzard  Sammons was visiting in town and he came to the woods  with us and helped us find some "blue mud"----very rich and trustworthy clay base.

 

Just at the entrance to our dark place we hacked a square hole from the bank and lined it with clay and "fired"  it to make it into a kiln. This was Ezzard's idea and we marveled at it. We made ashtrays and amulets and we tried to sculpt  squirrels and bears and deer with stick antlers.  There was not a Rodin or a Praxiteles among us...

 

But the ashtrays and bowls worked out very good.  All our folks bragged on all of this especially on our two-tone efforts with plain old Georgia  red clay "accents"

 

Sometime before the second weekend when we started thinking about Ken Maynard, Buck  Jones and the Dick Tracy serial at the Capes  Theatre, we got bored and left  our gully shack.  It started raining after the movie Saturday night and rained all day Sunday.

 

On Monday James and I were headed for W.P.'s house with our leaky Ked tennis shoes  squishing.  

We looked up the woodsy hill... And there was no brush-roofed hidey-place there.  No sign of it. No fireplace, no kiln...(Well there was a sliver of smoky gravel where our baking place had been.

 

You know how "country folk"  rank rains:  frog strangler... Mold maker... Horse swallower...

We were the beneficiaries of a GullyWasher. I say beneficiaries, because we got an immediate lifelong lesson that the Sunday school teachers would have never gotten into us with parables about building on sand. Our science teachers later, talking about "construction on the floodplain would have failed, too.

 

All kinds of lessons danced around us. The innocent looking gully--- and its purpose--- had been there a long time before we had a brain flash.

 

Who knows what-all life changing and saving ideas flowed from this great tragedy ?

 

The girl  I met about 10 years later and married for 57 years had a Perfect  motto when she was 16-goimg-on- 30 :

 

"What IS....IS !!!"

 

 

 

 

 

Bill AllenIN THE ERA OF CORRUPT TYRANNY TRUTH IS REVOLUTIONARY INSURRECTION !http://www.blogspot.catodepot.com