Your Feast For The Fourth

We present An Independence Day TREAT! One of the Greatest American Poems.

Shine, Perishing Republic By Robinson Jeffers

While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity,       heavily thickening to empire, And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops       and sighs out, and the mass hardens, I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make       fruit, the fruit rots to make earth. Out of the mother; and through the spring exultances,       ripeness and decadence; and home to the mother. You making  haste on decay: not blameworthy; life       is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than       mountains; shine, perishing republic. But for my children, I would have them keep their       distance from the thickening center; Corruption Never has been compulsory, and when the cities lie at the       monster’s feet there are left the mountains. And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man,       a clever servant, insufferable master. There is the trap that catches noblest spirits, that caught       —they say—God, when he walked on earth.

Shared Surprise

It seems we have left it a bit late, but I wish I could impart to all the tolerant readers of the blog how much it means to a crusty old "Hanger- on" to have you stick with me a bit longer than any of us could expect...OR predict.

I plead "No Mas"  when challenged about WHY  we still believe we are still relevant.

It IS relevant and important for everyone of us to wish one another "Merry Christmas" because when we do so in a thoughtful way, however subtly, we're joined in allegiance to the concepts of forgiveness and welcome and an ideal of a life that is valuable when we remember as often as we can to treat other people the way we would want to be treated.
There is no great vanity in a quest to offer a thought that may the new, an experience remembered from much travel and precious wisdom from many others.

Most of the joy of self-expression is not based on Ego or material reward but, rather in the unending  shared "Surprise by Joy" --- one of C.S.. Lewis' ecstatic mysteries.

Having one's life saved, enriched, and given meaning by so many noble people for so many years entitles us to acknowledge of  unearned blessings characteristic  of every pilgrim of Wonder  who still knows whereof we speak when we murmur... Or shout:

"MERRY CHRISTMAS" !!!

The Big Definition

Standing here on the brink of the Great Mole Hunt one foot on a banana peel, we decided to reopen Cato's Depot for a limited time for some (hopefully) succinct commentary, spasmodically !

With a devout wink at  Rudyard Kipling's "When Earth's last picture is painted", the thought will be in the style of "When Earth's last Scrivening is scribbled !"  Just comment or email if you want  OFF!

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Our 21st century's lazy, sloppy "journalists" and talking heads seem to have thrown researchers, innovators, inventors AND "Scientists" into the same shaky category on which to "hang"  their latest "gotcha" ledes  about some improbable and and lucrative scam.

Any high-level Femme du Nuit  could survive for a month on what these corrupt scum grift in one day.

Just to set the record straight, an Innovator  is the enthusiastic daredevil who tries something that "catches on".  They are very rare. The longest lasting and most significant innovations in my lifetime are Country and Western Music and the Forward Pass.

Inventors lose fingers and toes; hearing and eyesight cobbling up something new that proves to be useful and profitable after "friends" have raided the patent and others pushed him out of his original organization

Researchers are usually high rent hucksters who love to do paperwork and make tricky mathematical tables that faithfully validate the old saw: "prove anything with statistics" --- for BIG money. Researchers also manufacture "polls" in-house to buttress and embellish a pre-paid pipeline for opinion or concept--- usually involving political criminality.

Lo, the poor SCIENTIST !  If he or she really  IS a Scientist, today's  "journalists", talking heads and commentators will SHUN them like a virulent STD. Just like a bloodsucking vampire melts in a puddle or catches fire in the presence of a crucifix.

BECAUSE.... a real, honest to goodness Scientist MUST faithfully publish every errant or anomaly found that weakens his or her conclusions and theory. The authentic Scientist seeks argument and conflict with the same alacrity he scroungers for every bit of success one can prove by repeating the same results with every experiment, always challenginf :"the experts !  (INCLUDING  HIMSELF !)

Those academics beloved of the media, who will "find" any fright  or invent any catastrophic calamity (San Andreas BIG ONE)  in exchange for fame and "grant money" riches are ubiquitous.

Their number is distressingly huge, growing disgustingly and they are no less criminal than rapists and armed robbers. Their evil casts a shadow over all our descendants' lives.


Consukting wit fellow Fossils, one mere pixel  makes us tremble sometimes.

Rudyard's "Other" Masterpiece

This is my 500th BLOG---and probably my last one. Therefore it is fitting that I leave Prophesy to my favorite poet, who "won" an initial Nobel Prize for literature, Rudyard Kipling.

It is rare, in  history, for One so gifted to be so Prescient.--B.A.

<<==========>> The Gods of the Copybook Headings

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all. We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn: But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind, So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind. We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace, Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place, But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome. With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch, They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch; They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings; So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things. When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know." On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life (Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife) Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death." In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."  Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more. As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man There are only four things certain since Social Progress began. That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire; And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

"LEAKED "Impeach" Articles

Would youall believe that a nonagenarian blogger would just happen to get possession of a leaked congressional memo outlining the forthcoming articles of impeachment against President Trump ?

Stranger things have happened. To emphasize the strangeness of it all, let me quote at length from the grimy, greasy, stomped-om notes from the Democrat hierarchy:

"Our first few articles are rather obvious. Trump is white. He is heterosexual.  And he is a male. Those first three articles condemn him as being unsuitable for the presidency on the basis of our party's dynamic and ever-changing principles !

"Fourth, he was elected by minority of the citizens of the United States, albeit he was chosen by a majority of the states' electoral votes under an outmoded constitutional system scribbled on a piece of paper 232 years ago by --(GET THIS)-- a bunch of old white heterosexual men !

"First thing he did, in a chaotic White House, is make peace and settle down all of the nuclear war fears on the Korean Peninsula in particular and the Far East in general. This is not just an embarrassment to our sainted Obama--- it was… Well… REVOLUTIONARY !  As Democrats we would never stoop so low as to talk to a chubby little dictator. It was probably illegal, but it was surely embarrassing.

"THEN, he made the whole of  ISLAM  (A billion Peaceful Muslims) mad at us by moving our Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv  to Jerusalem !!! Several insignificant countries followed suit...

"Next we have this dastardly and dangerous withdrawal from the Paris extortionate / blackmail agreement to buy "carbon footprint insurance"with an international slush fund. This action was shockingly impertinent, and influenced many other nations to do the same, endangering the very heart of GLOBALONEY !

"Then in the heated chaos of the White House, the president lifted restrictions on construction and investment activity and deregulated hundreds of rules that guaranteed employment for thousands of Democrat bureaucrats. Trump's action allowed small business owners and entrepreneurs to hire people so that in one month the United States added more than 400,000 jobs!! --- Shocking overreach !

"Still later, in that same chaotic White House, this president dreamed up a plan to actually remove all the troops we had stationed in Syria, mitigating security measures put in place by President Obama. As a matter of fact one of our strongest articles of impeachment concerns the disrespect shown by this president toward Obamacare and other  vague and unaccomplished efforts of the former Democrat administration.

"This chaotic White House gains its reputation for chaos from the fact that this president fires people who disagree with him and hires people who largely support his decisions.  We view this to be untoward and unacceptable executive excess.

"We are still tabulating the misdeeds of this president and we expect to add many more articles to this impeachment call. However, the chaotic nature of this White House makes it almost impossible to gather information. One of the more stringent accusations we make is that this White House spends a great deal of time and effort pointing out what it calls "fake news"where they document every misspoken word and untruthful exaggeration by reporters and commentators and spreading the embarrassing truths across social media.

"This intolerable practice could never have happened in the days before Twitter, when only the media panjandrums were allowed to holler "LIE !!
                          
These articles of impeachment are certain to end this insufferable impasse."

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(Thus ends the first "leak" of the forthcoming articles.  Stay tuned.

Boetcker's Doctrine

"We cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. 

"We cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. 

"We cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. 

"We cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. 

"We cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. 

"We cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.

"We cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."
                                                      -William J. H. Boetcker

These words, often referred to as Boetcker's Decaloge, are offered here to those who have come up empty and frustrated at a search for New Years resolutions.

They have been attributed to Abraham Lincoln, as have many wise gems.

But they come from a very brilliant, deeply religious lecturer who bridged  the gap between the 19th and 20th centuries, between 1870 and 1924 .

Boetcker was an American of German extraction, deeply religious and gifted with a faceted moral and economic insight honed  on the thrust of the late Industrial Revolution and the Roaring Twenties.

There is nothing any sane person could add to this irrefutable warning.

We languish nowadays in debris and paralysis--- consequences of not heeding Boetcker's vision.


We might thrive if we devoured this every morning--- but not on an empty stomach !

WHAT FILTER ?

Of all my professors, tutors and gurus (and I have been fortunate to have many) the wisest one told me:

"All the information you ever get will be filtered and affected and colored by the inescapable filtering."

".... And that includes THIS advice !"

So, I asked him: "Does that mean that all information is somehow flawed and untrustworthy ?"

"No !" He said sternly. "But after you were eight or nine years old, you have had a responsibility-- which will become heavier every year of your life-- to separate the obviously and demonstrably true from the trapping and crippling lies and misrepresentations."

I have learned that this was true and that its application to mothers and fathers and myriad kinfolk was valid--- though painful.

Most good writing and thinking revolves around this rather paradoxical imperative. Therefore, there IS a lot of assistance available in separating grace from treachery especially during the first two decades of one's life.

Without separating and identifying every disappointing confidant, every glib seducer and every False God for identification and damnation, it is enough to look back and see that they were there-- the "filters", I mean--Not just the human fallibility.

Old-timers like my uncle Pat had sayings, like..." His britches don't hang right"... And, "He looks at you kinda Sqwaunrch-eyed !"

Shakespeare and Baudelaire are rich with similes and identifications of the turncoat, scammer and flimflam man. One of the more famous results of these literary total damnations is that some 21-year-olds protect themselves by identifying a liar as one "whose lips move" when he confides a plan.

All of this is preparation for a plea for mercy toward some of the snowflakes and millennial's now in violent disaffection to things we older folk have held... Well....Sacred, I guess is the word.


No generation has ever been battered by so much Bullspit Hoopla and unembarrassed false Deities and promises.


A major sad paradox is that a large proportion of these youngsters have never seen "The Filter" that separates the existence of evil, the immutability of the market in human interaction and the absolute necessity for dependence on a power greater than any human power in times of duplicity; hatred and conspiracy.

Therefore, they turn to the familiar mesmerizing Hive and its soothing repetitive Hum of divisive unthinking "Progressive" protest against anything that will give parents and grandparents Disorders ranging from dyspepsia to suicide.

In their whole lives, these young people have never had a challenge to The Filter that rules their emotions and commands those emotions to shun and distrust  "Reason" or debate.

Their  Filter disallows any challenge by branding disciplinary warning as "yelling at me". And they are protected from all the natural abrasions of social acculturation by their untouchable sacrosanct "self-esteem".  Most of them nowadays have never had a failing grade in school.

That is one huge filter, albeit the worst kind, not imposed by a maturing self... But stealthily imposed by the noxious progressive Hive of educationoids and PC Ghouls.

Genuine maturation and education are dead and gone until we give the infant, the toddler, the prepubescent and the teenager the freedom to suffer consequences of choices and the grandeur of learning to CHOOSE the filters that  shape human destinies.

Happy ERNTEFEST !....(Or, Maybe Not...)

Many who read this post will likely never forgive Cato for the "depressive" nature here.

But the trade-off is that those who read it are likely to NEVER forget it.

About this time in November 1943, the German Nazi SS gathered together 43,000 Polish Jews from a Treblinka and other death camps and shot and killed and buried them in line pits, we are reminded by American Thinker's  Mark Musser.

It was called "Operation Erntedest"--- a minor one-day event, the name of which translates: Harvest Festival.

It was a minor-- but much celebrated-- part of the greater "Operation Reinard" which involved the slaughter of 2,200,000 Jews to commemorate the assassination of "Hangman" Heydrich by a Czechoslovakian resistance patriot in 1942.

For some reason the primacy of  Treblinka and its satellite camps where their reason of existence was exclusively killing Jews, often is lost in the heralding of Auschwitz, where the Jews were worked until they were useless... Or dead.

I see and hear so many dumb boobs slinging around the words "Nazi" and "Heil" and the name of the arch-evil "Hitler" that, having been alive and very aware at the time of the suzerainty of these sounds and being tutored in 1943 in these grisly horrors by an Austrian chemist-and-operatic Diva refugee couple so that I am constantly revisited by nightmare.

It features a chorus of Democrat hustlers repeating over and over again that they are NOT  anti-Semites, singing "Springtime for Hitler"  while Gene Willder, Zero Mostel,  and Yours Truly---(The Producers)-- grin, albeit rather nervously.

So when you have an opportunity, pretty soon now, make it a fervent and honest THANKS-giving.

And...NEVER   FORGET.

Woodward's Best Scoop Yet !

Woodrow Wilson decided to have the first presidential press conference about 100 years ago.

Since then there have been  a lot of comfortable changes and many uncomfortable exchanges in various rooms in the White House and the Rose Garden and on the South Lawn and even under the downdraft of  helicopters.

But so far as I have been able to ascertain, there are no laws and no constitutional provisions or amendments covering  White House (read presidential) control over who participates in the daily press briefing or the formal presidential "preser".

As my admired accomplice in this status, I'll point to Bob Woodward of WaPo Watergate fame who said Wednesday that reporter Jim Acosta and CNN are childish and that the entire brouhaha over his
exclusion from the White House is an example of petty people becoming emotionally unhinged by their mindless hatred of President Donald J. Trump.

Despite the wussified and sycophantic pandering by former New Jersey lower court judge A. Napolitano and the threatened."Amicus Curae"  brief by Fox news, let me go out on the sturdy limb-- as rigid as the trunk from which it sprouts--and say:

"This dog won't hunt !"

The president and all of the habitués of the White House have as much right to decide who comes through its portals as we would assume journalist Tucker Carlson has to decide who may and may not crash down his door and ravage  his home and threatened his wife in his absence.

If there are any constitutional questions here to be bruited about, the primary one would the the safety of the nation's first magistrate and commander-in-chief, especially  so far as his right to identify and eject interlopers by their behavior and demeanor.

Common sense, as Bob Woodward indicated, will--- along with a legal opinion--- sternly embarrass  this coterie of crybabies which lamentably includes what used to be the sine qua non of journalism now known as the ass press....

Meanwhile,three`quarters of  8,500 respondents to a Yahoo / Zogby poll opined that the mainstream media, identifiale ow as all those outlets who believe Trum had no right tio ban Jim Acosta, are mainy guilty

and resposible of dividing America with false reporting, racist and hate propaganda and bad faith.

Thank you, Sir Robert--Knight Errant Woodward---for your most Gallant scoop of ALL !

Hedgingg and Faking

There is something very serious and impressive about a news outlet calling a meeting of the editorial board and going through  hours of deliberation  about endorsing a political candidate.

Back in the good old days when a reporter and / or his city editor would think nothing of giving their lives to protect the integrity of a story,  the responsibility of endorsing a politician weighed heavily on a newspaper.

But nowadays in the madness of proliferating fake news, there is a plethora of really weird stuff going on.

I mean... You just can't make this stink up !  It just intrudes. And we can't  avoid the malodorous nature of it.

The fabled Los Angeles Times, once journalism's faultless Prince Gallant of muckrakers and government- replacers, has hoisted an unbelievable Gonfalon for editorial duplicity and hypocrisy..

The LATimes  publishes-- as we can understand---two editions simultaneously. One is totally a Spanish-language edition and the other is all in English. (The Miami Herald which is considered an international newspaper, has done this for the past 50 years or so )

On Thursday, November 1, Spanish-language readers were treated to an enthusiastic endorsement of three Latino candidates .

And in the English edition the LATimes editorial board stringly endorsed the three white candidates opposing the three Hispanic politicians.

We  bring you this bare-bones report to undergird all the claims and complaints  from here to the nation's Capital and back for lo these many months about journalistic deceit.

And it isn't just proof of "fake news" or  "Hybrid endorsement".

It is evidence that we have missed something.

It's possible these craven numbskulls do not know what they are doing OR how to do it.

We refer  you to Breitbart.com for further development of this mordant  morsel



Cut and Paste:
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2018/11/01/l-a-times-endorses-3-white-candidates-in-english-and-their-latino-rivals-in-spanish/

Jobs or Mobs...Sand or Slink

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania has always been symbolic of a certain basic American flavor--- an amalgamation of football mystique and philanthropy and literary grandeur marked by excellence in articulation and spirit.

Synonymous with steel , the land of the Three Rivers has brought forth Andrew Carnegie who literally made America a Land f Books and reading.  Pittsburgh also gave us Mean Joe Green (by way of Texas) and Willa Cather and Annie Dillard, immortal writers of fiction and prose.

Now, in 2018, the area Democrat Party has found fit to immortalize the words of their erstwhile "party Executive Secretary", whom they  "terminated" pr "fired" for composing his personal character motto. The former U.S Marine and Gulf War veteran, Mark Salvas wrote:

"I stand for my Flag and our Anthem ! I kneel for the Cross !"

And when his composition was discovered by local Dim / Socialist higher-ups, Salvas was told he was out of step with the Democrat party of 2018, and was dismissed.

In an interview, the Old Fashioned patriot son of  Allegheny / Pittsburgh did not divulge how he will vote in November.

But, without fear of contradiction, we can see clearly the portent that many, many Americans who hear about Mark Salvas and his watchwords...and their payoff, will add them to two questions /  slogans that have been adopted by all of the  DEPLORABLES.

What will you do ?  STAND...or slink and cringe ?

And the most powerful one:

Your Choice, America ! 

JOBS ?  or  MOBS ???


Pittsburgh Pennsylvania has always been symbolic of a certain basic American flavor--- an amalgamation of football mystique and philanthropy and literary grandeur marked by excellence in articulation and spitit.

Synonymous with steel , the land of the Three Rivers has brought forth Andrew Canegie who literally made America a Land f Books andreading.  Pittsburgh also gave us Mean Joe Green (by way of Texas) and Willa Cather and Annie Dillard, immortal writers of fiction and prose.

Now, in 2018, the area;s Democrat Party has gound fit to immortalize the words of their erstwhile "party Executive Secretary, whom they  "terminated" pr "fired for composing his personal characterologival motto. The fotmer U.S Marine and Gulf War veteran, Mark Salvas wrote:

"I stand for my Flag anbd our Anthem !I kneel for the Cross."

And when his composition was discovered by local Dim / Sovialist higher-ups, Sal;vas was told he was out of step with the emocat party of 2018, and was dismissed.

In an interview, the Old Fashionedatriot son of  Allegheny / Pittsburgh did not divulge how he will vote in November.

But, without fear of cpntradiction, we an see clearly the portent that many, many mericans who hear about Mark Salvas and hiswatchwords...and their pauoff, will add them to two questions /  slogans that have been adopted by all DEPLORABLES.

What do you want ? Tp  STAND ?...pr to sulk and slink ?

And the post powerful one:

Your Choice, America !  JOBS or mobs




From Barco Nagurski to Frankie Simkwich, Charley Trippi and Franco Harris to Annie Dillard and ________  the flavor of Allegheny County is distinctly American- by- way- of- Poland- and- Italy.

Just this week in Pittsburgh, the money- powered  sub birders all popular democracy that have enslaved former populist Democrats and used union shaming to maintain a power that is irrelevant, made a huge misstep that will cost the left wing political slavering carrion to remember abd RUE these October days.

They forcefully removed a local Pittsburgh chairperson who had rebelled against their lockstep hatred.

His name is Mark Salas, and a year ago he announced on internationally available social media that he would never "Kneel to insult the Anthem or flag....

From Barco Nagurski to Frankie Simkwich, Charley Trippi and Franco Harris to Annie Dillard and ________  the flavor of Allegheny County is distinctly American- by- way- of- Poland- and- Italy.

Just this week in Pittsburgh, the money- powered  sub birders all popular democracy that have enslaved former populist Democrats and used union shaming to maintain a power that is irrelevant, made a huge misstep that will cost the left wing political slavering carrion to remember abd RUE these October days.

They forcefully removed a local Pittsburgh chairperson who had rebelled against their lockstep hatred.

His name is Mark Salas, and a year ago he announced on internationally available social media that he would never "Kneel to insult the Anthem or flag....

The Bizarre Blessing

Do not query on who "THEY" are... But, they have been constantly urging us to take a lighter attitude toward the grimier facets of the
political circus.

Every time one side has a victory (like for instance having the whole intelligent population of the United States catch phony witnesses with no memory telling lies to the Senate...Or a drop of the unemployment rate to 3.4%...OR bringing Canada kicking and screaming back into  NAFTA... The obstructionist side cowers down and plans mass assassinations.

It is difficult to reach for the cloak of Johnny Carson or Steve Martin, in an era when standup comedy is filth rather than finny...

However our wandering and sifting through the very rare pure news, has been rewarded with a prediction of great  political pox handing toward a large stadium near you.

Various sources have reported that Bill and Hillary Clinton are embarking on a transcontinental "stadium" tour to "sew up" a victory for the left-wing socialist Democrat party in midterm congressional elections that are just about 25 days away.

This is obviously a stroke of Genius by some really crafty political operatives. But I didn't know that the GOP had any swift-handed, shuck-and-jjive artists who could pull something like this off.

Surely the Klinton Machina has been goaded somehow into placing what appears to be fudge-and- a-cherry on top  of the Kavanaugh Sundae supplied by the shrieking dingbats and liars in the first week of October.

It is only natural to assume that self blandishment and blind narcissism baited the flawed couple into believing that they could practice continental Arkancide on our nation's Body Politic.

We shouldn't react at all. The trick will be to accept a stealthily as possible this great gift... A gift of such a magnitude that it could only be fashioned by an inchoate explosion of overblown, overripe-- and poorly surveyed Egos.

"Bless their little hearts" -- as we say in Georgia.

Could it Be ?

There is more than the fate of cuddly polar bear cubs and orca pods, tree frogs and feathery fern at stake in the acrid Global Warming debate.

We said so many times and so have people on both sides of the argument concerning "climate change".

But no one has pinpointed the Ghost-in- the-Machine as well as John Eidson of the Ameerican Thinker website.

Eidson has ferreted out the full-fleshed dedication of the Warmists to a much nastier goal than just trading in "Carbon Footprint Credits" and hustling windmills and solar panels.

The goal is to end capitalism everywhere on earth in a stealth of poison never reached by any anarchist, communist or  nihilist conspiracy

anywhere. Many financial thinkers and economists have known this since the beginning of Al Gore's sophomoric attachment to the wild idea that activity by human beings controls global temperatures and, hence, climate.

If any prediction made by the "Warmists" in 1990 had come true, most of you reading this would probably be dead.

Here is Eidson's mother lode of a discovery:

The Hidden Agenda Behind "climate change" Hysteria

In comments that laid bare the hidden agenda behind global warming alarmism, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N.'s 

Framework Convention on Climate Change, let slip during a February 2015 press conference in Brussels that the U.N.'s real purpose in pushing 

climate hysteria is to end capitalism throughout the world: 

"This is the first time in human history that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally changing [getting rid of] the economic 

development model that has reigned since the Industrial Revolution....."

There you have it, couched in the most blatant Globaloney since Clare Booth Luce invented the word !

Of course, president Donald J. Trump, a well documented idiot- buffoon who just happened to find his billions in wealth in a Central Park trash can, could never have known these weasels were hell-bent on destroying Western civilization when he opted out of the Paris "weather accords"....

Or....WAIT !....Maybe....

FIRST FLAG

Have you heard about the latest insane atrocity committed by the left-wing, hate-America, globalist "artistes"?

They have made a movie about the first moon landing starring a glut of unknowns, with the title "FIRST MAN"  and they are hustling it as an absolute "lock" for the Cannes Palme d'Or, the Golden Globe and the Oscar.

It's based on Neil Armstrong's  role as the first human to set foot on the moon.

But, instead of a military hero, a patriot with humility to share honor with hundreds of thousands of Americans (not to mention millions of taxpayers)  who made the achievement possible.. Armstrong is reincarnated as a social justice warrior "before his time".

There is NO  SCENE in the film of Armstrong planning the American flag on the moon.

As it happens, my late wife Betts and I were in a hotel restaurant in Oban, Scotland that July when the lander touched down on our natural lunar satellite.

We had some friends there and there were nearly 100 Brits and Scots  watching the landing on a larger than usual television set arranged for the entire dining room to see.

You will have to imagine, because I cannot faithfully express my feelings then. I had chill bumps, I wept, I hugged Betts and I really wanted to dance a jig.

But we were overwhelmed by the dining room crowd with I-don't-know-how-many toasts, how many "GOOD SHOW!" congratulations and how many unbridled and enthusiastic cheers we had from those usually stoic and unemotional folk.

But echoing Buzz Aldrin and General Chuck Yeager, I would like to plead that you stand with me and remember that it was not a UN flag, it was not a North Atlantic Treaty alliance flag... But Old Glory--- the Stars and Stripes first sewn by Betsy Ross in the 18th century, and flown over Fort McHenry in the 19th century when our national anthem was composed with this flag as its theme.

Also, as Chuck Yeager said regarding all this... "That is NOT the Neil Armstrong that  I knew!"  Aldrin "commented" on the film with a T-shirt that showed his comrade Armstrong planning the flag.

I trust that this attempt to demean... Nay, to ERASE the fact that the United States fulfilled John Fitzgerald Kennedy's prediction that we would reach the moon before 1970, will die aborning as multitudes doom the fraudulent film.

Insulting America with untrue news reporting is hideous enough to sicken a population. A venal attempt to rewrite History like a third-rate Soviet hack is criminal.

Powerful Dem Sees No Great USA

Small people without balanced sense often reveal their emptiness before they can hide.

So it was with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo this week when he told a crowd of sycophants and news men:

"We can't make America great again because America was NEVER that great."

What nation was it that took Great Britain's steam engine and weaving looms to burst forth and take control of the worldwide industrial revolution ?

What nation completed the capitalistic experiment, twisted it then straightened it out and shepherded international economic
advances ?

What nation gave its blood to save Western civilization in two world wars ?

What nation led the way in unlocking atomic and subatomic particle knowledge and showed how to exploit that knowledge for facile energy sources ?

What nation, unaided, placed humans on the moon ?

What nation encouraged and entertained literary talents like William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Brodsky, Saul Bellow, Carson McCullers, Wila Cather, Flannery O' Connor and Eudora Welty, nudging aside Europeans and Orientals in superb literature ?

What nation gave trillions in money and matériel to reestablish European civilization after World War II ?

What nation bears the brunt of the wastrel ways of the United Nations in the face of the UN's preeminent contempt for the largesse ?

Methinks that Gov. Cuomo, who is said to be a possible 2020 presidential candidate and who speaks loud and influentially in high Democrat councils, has joined the painted-faced gangs of "occupy- anarchists"  and anthem- hating kneelers who scream daily for "Death -to-the USA" in chorus with a Iranian mullahs and MS 13 gangsters.

Also, A.C.  SHAMES and sullies his brilliant Father's name.  Mario Cuomo was a heart-halting orator and a patriot who loved his country with all his Being !  He would thrash k'l Andy's  arse.

So let it be that Americans treat THIS  Cuomo's power dreams in his kind.

That alone is a giant step toward keeping America Great Again !

Is There an answer ?

Watching the video of the U.S.democrat  senator who was "confused" because she had believed President Trump was the "inventor" of  ICE and its policies and embarrassed to become aware of her stupidity, I sopped to reflect, as we all should, on  present day unraveling of  Reason in the USA.

Having been around for nine decades, and a consumer of news reports for more than 80 years,  it was an emetic  shock to hear  news gatherers from CNN and Politico potty-mouth with a "broad-brush" the huge Tampa crowd as "a bunch of toothless garbage people".

And another credentialed reporter insisted the Trump enthusiasts were ALL  Ku Klux Klan leaders and Nazis.

These media types, both born in the 70's  wouldn't know  a  KKK predator or a Sturmfuhrer in real flesh...OR in real action.

When did it become de rigeur for media men to curse and excoriate  free Americans at pique or whim ?

And while we are at it, why is Paul Manafort being persecuted for having a lot of $$$ and rich tastes while crooked, conspiring FBI operatives are walking around unscathed ?

....After "Texting" like THIS:

Her  inquisitive "POTUS" was OBAMA.

FACING THE MUSIC

If you are wondering why FACEBOOK is spiraling  out of existence you need look no farther than the content of this linked news story:

https://deadline.com/2018/07/facebook-asked-to-justify-infowars-and-fox-news-tca-1202433578/

A large group of shareholders, media and gate-crashers gathered so  company spokesmen could  'splain why the stock is tanking and millions of users are cancelling.

One complainer suggested the cherry-picking  practice of choosing which liar to block or censor might be the reason.

The FACEBOOK bigshot replied that it was a natter of stature. 

He said "authentic" people could carry the burden of untruth !

THAT's the excuse for spreading and protecting liberal-socialist lies ?

Jake Tapper, Joy Reid and Kathy Griffin with her bloody Trump head are "authentic" ?  

Judge Andrew Napolitano  is not. Censor de Jedge !

I wish George Orwell coild see this...Here are his pigs who are MORE EQUAL than other pigs !

I hope this is an object lesson for all the weasels and shysters who have been flim-flamming the TV channels with Oink-Speeak.

Should we expect an Epiphany by / for the Masters of the Universe ?

Probably not. A wise historian once said "The Avenues of Progress Are Paved With Funerals..."

New Twist by AssPress

It has been suggested that modernity has passed us by.

Certainly for those of us who never saw  a newspaper or TV medium make up stuff and disseminate it as news, it is true.

But having been literally wened on the assumption that the Associated Press is a sacrosanct source of solid news, these are disquieting days... And years.

On Saturday the Pentagon had to explain to a not-too-interested media that it is NOT discharging, en masse, immigrants qualifying for citizenship through military service.

The Associated Press, apparently egged on  by a prestigious Clinton / Obama law firm, and mischievous left wing politicians, had carried a story accusing the Pentagon of mass-discharge of all "foreigners"  in the process of serving in the armed services to gain American citizenship.

The program was set up by the Obama administration in 2009, supposedly to take advantage of those people with language abilities and cultural insights that would strengthen armed services security.

For a full story, click here:
 https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/06/pentagon-says-no-changes-to-immigrant-military-recruit-program/

The Pentagon supplied evidence that only security risks had been discharged due to ongoing regulation background inquiries. Still the Associated Press was enervated by the invasion of its news gathering process by the powerful Democrat left wing law firm of Perkins-Coie.

Surely, we have entered some sort of Twilight-PLUS Zone when shysters exert  power and prestige that overdarkens our military defense establishment.

Originally the beneficiaries of the citizenship-for-service arrangement were Afghans, Pakistani, Iranians and Eastern Europeans. Lately there have been many Central Americans and Asians in the program.

It should mollify most Americans to have stringent military counterintelligence screening of each individual applicant in this program.

We should not bend the rules----or our knees--- to Perkins-Coie or the AssPress.

Happened One Tuesday...

Scoping  the social landscape on Tuesday, June 26 it became obvious to this fossil-scrivener that--- and some friends and some detractors have hinted, some of us have been "too long at life's Gala..."

The shrinkage of our earth has never been more poisonously projected than in the shooting of a man from New Zealand by a Goochland, Virginia matron when the 24-year-old globetrotter tossed a brick through a glass door, trying to get at her 14-year-old daughter with whom he had been "carrying on" on the Internet.

Mom hit him in the neck and he was hospitalized but if he survives the will face multiple charges including murderous assault and home invasion. Friends of his told authorities he might have been on psychotropic drugs and that he was "a loner".

Let's take this  "tail / Tale" and pin it on an Ass, as we used to do in kindergarten.

Just play that scenario against the backdrop of another mentally ill person afflicted with echolalia and delusion who is, aided by similarly afflicted communications culprits, exhorting mobs to  "harass"ALL with whom they disagree.

Various sick minds in television's wasteland have offered delighted support to this threatened Mob-O-Cratic plpy. 

For anyone who lived in the 70s and saw such harassment deteriorate into fatal bombings of police by left wing crazies like Obama's friend Bill Ayers and his wife, the prospect of this vicious goading and its inescapable denoument is soul-shrivellinng.

Taking all the Tuesday news into account, the decision by the Supreme Court that the president of the United States has sovereign power to regulate some international travel by dangerous individuals comes just in time.

There are many thousands of people a lot closer than New Zealand who are much crazier than the Goochland brute. They will jump at the chance to broaden and coarsen the call of the wild woman and her supporters. And these killers will take up any banner, pretend any cause if it leads to bloodshed.

Are we ancient dinosaurs and fossils the only hearts convinced of this danger, because our time is so short ?

Maybe not. There are many baby boomers still around who just barely escaped blowing themselves up in 1968 and 1972 while planning some "harassment".

IOWA---Foreign Country ?

Let me tell you when I turned off the Senate hearing on FBI and DoJ treachery.

It was when someone asked another DC swamp dweller where disgraced ex-FBI diorector Jim Comey was. Why wasn't he here for the hearing..

The answer was: 

"Oh, he's out of the country... .I believe he is somewhere in Iowa !"

And there you have the whole problem, wrapped up in tissue paper with sparkles and a red ribbon.

No inbred denizen of the District of Columbia swap recognizes anything anywhere that is NOT Washington, New York or California.

This fetid and poisonous attitude bubble also imprisons incurious scriveners and localizers of the big left-wing print media (what's left of it) and all of the alphabet television outlets.

You will see CNN on the screens of ubiquitous TV sets in the Des Moines and Ashtabula airports (because CNN gives the airlines a free stage) but 95% of the people who "DO"  the news can neither locate Hennepin County as the locale of a metropolis in Minnesota---OR pronounce it correctly without a gazetteer.

One can almost literally bathe oneself in the disdain and contempt with which the "presenters" articulate "Memphis", "Atlanta",  "Tulsa" or "Shreveport"--- unless, of course some wild pothead-mad has shot up a schoolhouse in the area. THEN, they do their homework and get the name just right.

The sophomoric cretins in charge of evaluating and disseminating information to you and your children on the screen as well as the dying print rags rarely know the first rules of constructing a story but they have their eyes focused on Los Angeles and Manhattan or the nation's Capital as their future  point of no return and only a minority of  them are  trained to professional acuity in journalism.

They end up forgotten like Megan Kelly, or switch to stand-up comedy and become Kathy Griffin or Kimmey Jmmell.

Nowadays, it is a sad fact that people you see on television under the age of 30 are holding their breath just waiting for the moment when they can scream a nasty four-letter word on coast-to-coast hook up. What a powerful ambition that is !

But it won't play in Des Moine on Waco or Bloomington.