September 23, 2016
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Breaking News:
State admits: Islamic State terrorists trying to pose as refugees
State Department spokesman John Kirby acknowledged Wednesday that Islamic State terrorists are trying to mingle with refugee populations overseas in the hopes of making it to the U.S. posing as a refugee.
New York bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami said he received instructions from ‘terrorist leaders… to attack non-believers’
5000 ISIS terrorists sneak into Europe disguised as ‘refugees’
ISIS plotting terror attacks in America ‘THIS YEAR’ after jihadis ‘exploit refugee crisis’
ISLAMIC State (ISIS) jihadis are plotting to launch terror attacks in America this year after exploiting the refugee crisis, intelligence chiefs have warned.
Islamic State operating in Mexico just 8 miles from U.S. border
Citing sources that include a “Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector,” the conservative watchdog group reported that the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, is organizing only a few miles from El Paso, Texas, in the Anapra neighborhood of Juárez and in Puerto Palomas.
America’s Trojan War combines gut wrenching realism and fast paced action to make this feel like it was ripped from the morning’s headlines.
Lisa Billingham and Sargent Bushings rushed into the building firing into the faces of the enemy. Hundreds and soon thousands of police, firemen, and civilians poured into the buildings of St Elizabeth Hospital. They shot anything that moved. By force of numbers they pushed the defenders back from the windows and doors. Room by room sometimes desk by desk the fire fights raged leaving dead, wounded and dying scattered in every conceivable pose, piled on the floor, slumped over desks and chairs, and half in and half out of doors and windows. It was no exaggeration to say the building was littered with bodies. Still the Americans in their righteous anger assaulted the enemy with a ferocity they had never imagined.
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Utopians and the War on Drugs September 19, 2016
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Man cannot perfect man. Man cannot perfect the Earth. Personally I am a Christian and I believe in the fall of mankind due to sin and the corruption of this reality as a direct consequence of that fall from grace.
That is my personal belief. It is what centers and supports me. However, if you have other beliefs I don’t think I would have to do much investigation to find that everyone else can see that perfection is not the natural state of either mankind or this world. Even the most militant atheist who knows there is no god and fights like hell against anyone who believes there is admits that this is not perfect. Even Lenin wanted to perfect it, Stalin had five year plan after five year plan to make it better, Mao took a Great Leap Forward into a Cultural Revolution that nearly destroyed his country, why? Because he sought to perfect it and what did he achieve? The same as all the rest they proved that they could at least create hell on earth.
Utopians of every stripe believe that mankind through their own efforts can create heaven on earth. As pointed out above that hasn’t worked out so well before. It will never work out because it is impossible. We cannot legislate people to perfection.
How did the Mafia get so powerful? Prohibition of alcohol created the market place that poured hundreds of millions of dollars into their pockets and allowed them to corrupt politician, judges and police. It raised them from street gangs to criminal empires controlling unions and elections. It gave them the power to intimidate, kill, and steal with impunity.
Back then people had enough respect for the Constitution to realize it took an amendment to ban a product. It also took an amendment to make it legal again. The prohibition on Marijuana has been and is merely a law that could be changed at any time. It is also a law, like so many of our laws, not founded on any constitutional basis at all. Nowhere in the Constitution is the Federal Government given the power to legislate what substances a citizen may or may not ingest. This is like so many other powers one that our over-the-top bureaucratic leviathan abrogated unto itself as a supine populace accepts that anything that is legal is moral, just and within the bounds of a paternalistic cradle-to-grave central government.
There are more people in jail because of the war on drugs than for anything else. There are people serving decades for having a joint in their pocket while the drug lords, flush with money like Al Capone buy cops and judges and in general corrupt our system while escaping any penalty for breaking the law.
It is time to stop this oppressive war on Americans, end prohibition, expand the tax base, eliminate the major source of funding for organized crime, and let our supposedly free citizens run their own lives.
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America’s Trojan War August 9, 2016
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America’s Trojan War by Dr. Robert Owens portraits a fictional attack by ISIS on America’s capital. America’s Trojan War combines gut wrenching realism and fast paced action to make this feel like it was ripped from the morning’s headlines.
Book Summary: Imagine if 10% of the Syrian refugees flooding into America today are actually more than 20,000 ISIS fanatic suicide warriors ready to die for their Caliph. Forming themselves into four brigade strength units they converge on four armories around DC and then using our own Abrams tanks and Apache gunships they attack the capitol and decapitate our government. This is the story of America rising to the challenge in the second Battle of Washington.
Excerpt #1: When the stairwell doors opened Lisa and a dozen other leaders among the citizen soldiers hurriedly shouted “Hold your fire!!” as half naked and naked women stumbled out into the carnage of the first floor. . . Charging like a bull at a red cape, enraged Americans crashed their way into the many stairwells on the first floor and directly into the waiting massed fire of the Jihadis.
Excerpt #2: Looking at each other across the bullet ridden conference table, the shattered furniture, and the many bodies strewn about they all tried to say, “I love you be safe,” with their eyes before they rushed in different directions leading their squads to the battle none of them wanted and each of them was determined to win.
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Bernie’s Revolution = Status Quo July 26, 2016
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Was the whole thing just a venting exercise on the way to more of the same? Some kind of political yoga stress relief for the young Progressives the old Progressives are trying to wrangle into the herd. In 1984 Big Brother ran the resistance. Was Bernie just a shill to gin up excitement for a tread bare hack? Wow! What an exciting turn of events, the new boss looks just like the old boss. How appropriate, when the indoctrinated drones of our government controlled re-education systems stage a revolution it re-affirms the current leadership. I guess the impassioned revolutionary shout from Bernie’s embattled barricades would be, “Vive la Ancien Régime!”
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Trump Mentions America’s Trojan War July 6, 2016
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The Rule of Law Has Ended July 5, 2016
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Having been raised in Chicago I knew from the begging of awareness that it may say Justice on the outside of the court house there isn’t any on the inside. It all comes down to who you are and who you know.
There recent whitewash of Hillary’s outrageous conduct concerning her emails while secretary of State has finally taken the lid off this can of worms for good. We can no longer pretend we are a nation ruled by law. John Adams may have said we are” A government of laws, and not of men.” And that may have been the aim of the Founders but it is obvious to all but the willfully blind and Democrats that this is no longer true in America.
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The Back Alley Becomes Main Street June 30, 2016
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Abortion mills are not required to meet health standards as high as veterinary clinics yet when Texas passes a law requiring them to meet minimum standards for any health establishment the Supreme Corruption rules this is too much.
It is the opinion of the Legalist Illuminati that we have progressed past anything as quaint as constitutional rights, such as the right to life without which the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness doesn’t have any meaning. Then again according to the Apex of the Esquire Class the Constitution always and only means what the Supremes say it means.
According to Richard A. Posner who is a judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School “I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, day, hours, minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution, the history of its enactment, its amendments, and its implementation (across the centuries—well, just a little more than two centuries, and of course less for many of the amendments). Eighteenth-century guys, however smart, could not foresee the culture, technology, etc., of the 21st century. Which means that the original Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the post–Civil War amendments (including the 14th), do not speak to today. David Strauss is right: The Supreme Court treats the Constitution like it is authorizing the court to create a common law of constitutional law, based on current concerns, not what those 18th-century guys were worrying about. In short, let’s not let the dead bury the living.”
The Legion of Doom that makes up the modern woman’s movement has put all its eggs in the abortion basket. This is their litmus test. This is their un-holy grail filled with the blood of the martyrs. Refuse to drink and you shall be cast outside the pail of the liberal establishment, its media propaganda machine, and its crony capitalist K-Street funding cabal. All Progressive politicos are required to kiss the ring and bow before the Rider of the Pale Horse.
What was so onerous about the Texas law? What undue burden did it use to oppress women and deny them of their rights? The rules required doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and forced clinics to meet hospital-like standards for outpatient surgery. All this disguised as concern for women’s health. Why anyone can see that requiring more of abortionists than was once required of their back alley ancestors was obviously a stratagem designed to subjugate women and deprive them of their constitutionally protected right to undergo a serious medical procedure with no clinical or sanitary requirements whatsoever.
Other blatant violations of women’s rights imposed by the right wing hate mongers include limits on when in a pregnancy abortions may be performed and the use of drugs that induce abortions without surgical intervention. After our Supreme Court of Last Resort invoked their arbitrary power to void the laws of Texas and numerous other states Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the law “was an effort to improve minimum safety standards and ensure capable care for Texas women. It’s exceedingly unfortunate that the court has taken the ability to protect women’s health out of the hands of Texas citizens and their duly elected representatives.”
Some of the Black Robed Rulers of our land made statements concerning this case.
Justice Ginsburg, the former lead attorney for Planned Parenthood the nation’s largest chain of abortion mills, wrote a short opinion noting that laws like Texas’ “that do little or nothing for health, but rather strew impediments to abortion, cannot survive judicial inspection” under the court’s earlier abortion-rights decisions. She pointed specifically to Roe v. Wade in 1973 and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992.
Justice Thomas wrote that the decision “Exemplifies the court’s troubling tendency to bend the rules when any effort to limit abortion, or even to speak in opposition to abortion, is at issue.”
Justice Alito, reading a summary of his dissent in court, said “The clinics should have lost on technical, procedural grounds.” Alito also said “The court was adopting a rule of, if at first you don’t succeed, sue, sue and sue again.”
Abortion providers said the rules would have cut the number of abortion clinics in Texas to fewer than 10 if they had been allowed to take full effect. In other words less than 10 were willing to have doctors who met the standards for having admitting privileges at local hospitals or to meet hospital-like standards for outpatient surgery.
Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which represented the clinics, said, “The Supreme Court sent a loud and clear message that politicians cannot use deceptive means to shut down abortion clinics.”
President Barack Obama praised the decision, saying, “We remain strongly committed to the protection of women’s health, including protecting a woman’s access to safe, affordable health care and her right to determine her own future.”
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called the outcome “A victory for women in Texas and across America.”
The only losers anyone can see are the women who are lulled into thinking they are undergoing a safe procedure in a sanitary medical environment. When in fact they are the subjects of unregulated abortionists in uninspected and often unsanitary abortion mills where millions of children die and millions of dollars are made for the industry of death that has decimated entire generations of Americans. Not only do all the babies die but so do some of the women. Of course you will never hear that from the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media because today the back alley has become Main Street, and we can’t allow these right wing conspiracy nuts to interfere with the right to kill babies. That would violate the Constitution. Maybe it is a suicide pact after all.
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Avast There’s an Iceberg Ahead! June 10, 2016
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One of America’s greatest philosophers once quipped, “A nickel isn’t worth a dime today” and the inverse logic of that still holds true.
On Sept. 22, 2011 in a speech to business executives Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, “Debt is the biggest threat to U.S. national security.” When the leader of the people famous for $800 hammers and $640 toilet seats has to lecture business leaders about the perils of deficit spending we know capitalism in America has jumped the track.
After World War I the world’s monetary system was in disarray. The victorious Allies sought to revive the gold standard. However the structure which had been put in place after 1918 collapsed during the Great Depression. Some economists believe that the world’s attempt to remain on the gold standard prevented central banks from expanding the money supply enough to revive the world’s economies. The problem was they couldn’t print enough money if it actually had to be worth something.
After World War II, representatives of the once again victorious allies met at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to create a new international monetary system. At the time the United States accounted for more than 50% of the world’s manufacturing capacity and also held most of the world’s gold. Since America was the uncontested economic Superpower these leaders decided to tie world currencies to the dollar. The value of the dollar would in turn be controlled and supported by the fact that the dollar would be tied to gold at $35 per ounce.
While the Bretton Woods System was in force the central banks were given the task of maintaining fixed exchange rates. This was accomplished by massive and continuous intervention in foreign exchange markets. When a country’s currency became too expensive in relation to the dollar, that country’s central bank would sell its currency for dollars thus driving down the value of its currency. And if the value of a country’s money became too low, that country would then aggressively buy its own currency to drive the price up.
This Bretton Woods System worked well until 1971. By then, due to the “Guns and Butter” economic policies of the Johnson and Nixon administrations inflation in the United States and America’s rapidly expanding trade deficit undermined the value of the dollar. As a result America urged the now recovered and economically powerful Germany and Japan to increase the value of their currencies. Both nations did not want to do this. Raising the value of their currencies hurt their exports by increasing the prices for their goods in the United States which was their largest market.
When the pressure became unbearable, when too many nations were redeeming too many dollars against America’s dwindling gold supply the United States unilaterally abandoned the fixed gold value of the dollar allowing it to “float.” Floating with relationship to money means it is allowed to fluctuate when compared to the currencies of other countries. Immediately the value of the dollar fell substantially when compared to other currencies, especially those of Germany and Japan.
This caused turbulence in the economies of nations and sent shockwaves through the political systems of the world. In consequence the leaders of the major countries made an effort to revive the Bretton Woods system. They came together in 1971, and reached the Smithsonian Agreement which for the first time allowed for the negotiation of fixed exchange rates. However, this attempt soon failed.
In 1973, The United States and the other major economic powers agreed to a new system known as Managed Float. This meant that central banks would still intervene with the buying and selling of their own currencies to eliminate any changes that might be perceived as too dramatic.
How long will this system of floating money, fiat currency, and systemic debt last?
Since I started with a quote from my favorite American philosopher, Yogi Berra I will frame my comments about the end result of America’s love affair with monopoly money and ever growing debt with another nugget from this source of double think profundity, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future”
You know, I know and anyone who has enough economic awareness to realize you can’t spend more than you make forever knows that our present governmental financial framework is unsustainable. Why? Apparently our leaders believe you can spend more than you make forever.
If you have ever tried to manage your Visa payments by charging them to MasterCard you know the end of that game. Our leaders have pawned our grandchildren’s future for the votes they buy with social programs, tax giveaways, and bail-outs. However it is hard to lay all the blame on the shoulders of the perpetually re-elected. The government is the people writ large. Almost every household in America is in debt. Almost every business in America is in debt.
Debt is not a bad thing in and of itself. Actually it is one of the most liberating inventions in the world. It allows economic activity to grow based upon future activity instead of just on current holdings. This provides a multiplier effect that has given rise to the modern world.
However, when we spend more of the future than the present can service we have inverted the pyramid and are inviting a correction. Even if the Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media are blathering on about how good the stock market is doing, that the pretend unemployment rate is falling, that there is no inflation, and that the President says everything is coming up roses, the alternative media knows the present course is unsustainable. Unsustainable. That word is spoken day after day on Fox and printed multiple times every day online from thousands of blogs, magazines, and newspapers. All it means is it can’t last forever, or as an alarmist might say, “A crash is coming!” Or as the economic pirates who sail the crony capitalist seas might say, “Avast there’s an iceberg ahead!”
Sure the stock market is flying high. With the Fed pumping 85 billion a month into the banking system why wouldn’t it? With that kind of money coming in why not play the Lotto? Sure the unemployment rate is falling as long as you don’t count the people who have quit looking for a job. Sure there’s no inflation as long as you don’t count energy or food. And of course the President says everything is getting better all the time that is what his teleprompter tells him to say.
So, how long will this system of floating money, fiat currency, and systemic debt last? None of us gets to live in the world we grew up in because the world moves too fast. Things change. What was science fiction yesterday is your cell phone today. One thing we can know for sure is that it isn’t over till it’s over. Yet from a realistic evaluation of the deep hole we have spent ourselves into the future isn’t what it used to be and if the world were perfect it wouldn’t be.
Is there any way to stop this train wreck before we hit the wall? Can we reign in Washington and stop the money borrowed from the future that the best and the brightest are spending? What do you think? I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering the question.
What do we know?
We know that the record breaking new people elected to the House in the great Tea Party victories of 2010 and 2014 affirmed Boehner as the leader of the co-opted opposition, voted for multiple debt ceiling increases, and renewed the Patriot Act. Now Mr. Ryan is carrying on the failed tradition bailing out Puerto Rico and reaching across the aisle to pass a 1.1 trillion dollar porkulus budget that funds BHO’s fundamental transformation of America. We know that another Progressive Republican à la Romney had no chance to beat BHO and we know it probably wouldn’t have made any difference if he did.
Now along comes The Donald facing off against a restoration of the Billary interlewd. Is there any chance of turning this Titanic around or at least altering course before we hit the iceberg of insolvency and impotence?
At least with Billary we know where we will be headed, into the dustbin of History. With Mr. Trump we are headed into uncharted waters. Who knows what he will do? I suspect even he doesn’t. And as America’s greatest philosopher once said, “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
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Billary Buries Bernie June 8, 2016
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Billary, that two headed marriage of convenience between Bubba-in-a-Tux and an empty pantsuit, the living incarnation of the Clinton Crime Family has finally bested the aging Socialist who represents the youth vote in the topsy-turvy world of Democrat politics. After losing out to Sal Alinsky’s Manchurian Candidate eight years ago, using the Senate as a minor league warm up, the State Department as an ATM, and hauling in over a hundred million dollars making 20 minute speeches that aren’t a cover for bribes Billary proudly announces that she’s a woman and therefore ought to be president.
After taking money from every crony capitalist she can shake down she promises to reign in the crony capitalists. After voting for the Iraq war before she opposed it, resetting a working relationship with Russia into a disaster, calling Assad a reformer, handing Libya over to ISIS and lying to the grieving families of her victims in Benghazi she wants to be in charge of foreign affairs for real this time.
Now he question is will Billary be able to ride the mind numb robots who vote Democrat if a dead donkey is on the ballot, the dead who manage to vote Democrat in election after election, and all the undocumented Democrats just waiting to proudly cast their first ballot aquí into the White House?
Billary may have buried Bernie so I guess now we have to wonder, will she bury the rest of us too?
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