Category: Politics

Random Musings 6.25.20

Once again time for some Twitter (for those with a litigious bent there is a trademark symbol just after the “r” in the previous word) like random musings from the mind of a quiet, unassuming, at least in my own opinion, person observing the ramblings, rumblings and revelations in the media. Additionally, it appears that Twitter would most likely censor what I have to say any way and Facebook certainly would censor what I have to say.

I am so angry this morning due to the fact that I just learned that the state that I live in’s governor has just issued a mandatory order to always wear a mask in public. Under what authority does this man have the right to do this? Some state statute that gives him dictatorial authorities in a “declared emergency”? So, does this rule apply to protesters and what will the penalties be to those who protest if they do not wear the mask? Will it apply equally to BLM protesters as it applies to those who are protesting the lockdowns and mask wearing and other government overreach?

I have remained silent on the Black Lives so called movement. To me it is a well organized Internationalist Marxist Leninist Socialist revolutionary movement whose sole aim is to seize power. I find it interesting that there are actually more white people participating than black people.

Please do not misunderstand me. I know there is still racism alive and well in this country and to me any form of racism is wrong to the core. What I do not agree with is Marxism and Socialism and the destruction of what made this country. I do, however, support embracing people of different races and backgrounds into the experiment of constitutional republican democracy. I will not apologize nor will I take a knee because of my race. I know every minority that has come into this country has had to face discrimination

Has anyone else noticed that the latest Wuhan Virus outbreaks are happening primarily in the south and southwest as people tend to move indoors more to escape the heat. I know from personal experience that in these places people tend to spend more time in climate controlled environments in the summer than do people in the northern areas of the country. Quite the opposite of the wintertime when people in the northern areas are spending more time indoors to escape the cold.

So, baseball is scheduled to start in the next month. I am happy that the American past time is going to make a run at it. While speaking of sports and lack of healthy outlets for young American’s to cheer, yell, and expend energy is it any wonder more people are rioting and killing each other in the Democratic Party controlled cities and states? When are the protesters going to start tearing down the statues of players in front of ballparks? So many questions and so few answers.

Random Musings 6.24.20

Once again time for some Twitter (for those with a litigious bent there is a trademark symbol just after the “r” in the previous word) like random musings from the mind of a quiet, unassuming, at least in my own opinion, person observing the ramblings, rumblings and revelations in the media. Additionally, it appears that Twitter would most likely censor what I have to say any way and Facebook certainly would censor what I have to say.

I wish all the best to Lt-Gen. Sullivan and I am certainly glad Sidney Powell is on his side. The underlying question, however, still is how did such an apparent abuse of power like this happen?

The Bolton book – Yawn, just another payoff by the Rumsfeldian Neo Conservative elites to one of their hacks.

I know this has been a couple of weeks, but I watched some of the Senate questioning of Rod Rosenstein. There was a point in the questioning where Mr. Rosenstein said, “having now known what I know..”. What does this mean specifically? Does it mean if he knew this would become public then he would not have pushed for the FISA warrant? This was the only interpretation of what he said that I could come up with. To me that smacks of a complete and utter lack of integrity. There is an old saying that basically says character is revealed when no one is watching or when a person believes no one is watching. I am sorry Mr. Rosenstein but what I see is a complete lack of integrity because it should not matter if this was going to become public or not. I will never trust another word that comes out of your mouth or anything that your write.

Is there anyone else who is tying together (this is now rhetorical because there are others) a certain sequence of events. Starting with protests at President Trumps inauguration, then the fake Mueller investigation, then impeachment, then a “pandemic” and now riots? I am sorry but to me this is too coincidental to be coincidental. It is as if when one action does not work then the stakes get raised and so on. Remember the largest mass murderers of the twentieth century (Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Pol Pot) were socialists and if one does not think that people like them are willing to sacrifice millions to achieve their aims then there is a decided level of naiveite out there. What bothers me the most is the apparent organization behind the international riots and the complete and utter lack of leadership to oppose this madness!

Why is the Senate messing around with Section 230 Communications Decency Act in the form of the EARN IT Act? Why are they not stripping Facebook and Twitter of Section 230 protections when they are so obviously editorializing their content? Is it because all the data storage sites being and having been built in Utah which is the state that the Chairmen represents? It certainly looks suspicious and I am completely opposed to the EARN IT Act in case anyone was unable to deduce.

Presidents and Generals

I have been holding my tongue for the past several weeks because either I am fed up with the most current events, I do not know what to say, and I just have been too busy to put my thoughts to the keyboard. But news “breaking” in the last forty-eight hours has really inspired me to type despite how busy and reluctant I am to type.
Specifically, the events that have broken the proverbial camels back and led me to put fingers to keyboard are the Generals and President Bush’s comments regarding their endorsements of Joe Bidden and against President Trump. First and foremost, everyone has a right to express their opinion and I have served in the military, having taken the oath several times, to defend this right. Based on this what this has told me is that we are seeing the establishment seriously rising to go against President Trump and to me the middle class average Everyday Joe so to speak.
First, when I read about retired General or Admirals speak out on civilian matters, I must take that with a grain of salt. Though I respect what they have accomplished I must keep perspective of the realm in which they have been successful. Specifically, they have been successful in a profession that is supported by the taxpayer. The military and its wars do not generate wealth and it is fundamentally a parasite on society. At best and at worst militaries steal wealth from others which is why we have militaries to defend against others from stealing our wealth. Hopefully, we do not become the type of country whose military steals from others, but I can say an argument can be made that our military and the complex built up to support it is stealing from society. Sometimes parasites can be beneficial or harmful and can swing either way. In the case of the military we must have a military to protect our country from foreign aggression which is am example of the military’s beneficial contribution to society. However, history is full of examples in which a country’s military becomes harmful and ultimately kills its host. Just look to Rome and the once mighty Spanish Empire. This happens when the generals become more powerful than the politicians. It is at this point that the parasite with kill its host.
Secondly, I look back to the history of Presidential administrations that these Generals came up in. To me these administrations arguably will go down in history as some of the worst administrations in terms of preserving individual liberties and outright corruption. I have no illusions that when a person moves into the flag officer level more and more of their abilities to be “political” play into their promotions. If one needs to me spell this out, except for one, they moved into and up the flag ranks in President Obama’s administration and or in President Bush’s administration. Both administration that oversaw the shipping of American might overseas and the further eroding of America’s middle class which gained substantial momentum under President Clinton and which Presidents Bush and Obama seemed more than happy to keep rolling.
What now upsets me more than anything is the extent to which it appears the powers to be, elites, international socialist, or whatever you might call them are willing to go to prevent President Trump from being reelected. It shows me to what lengths they are willing to go to prop up the international order, a order which I have written about in the past, that is the denizens of socialists and powerful elites who are really, in fact, the descendants of the aristocracy. An aristocracy they held themselves above the law or rather interpreted, subverted, and bent the laws, if they existed, to their own whims. I have no illusions that they care about me, my family, or my community.
Ok, some observation that I feel support my rational regarding President Trump are that first there was the Mueller waste of time to try and remove and smear President Trump. When that did not work there was the impeachment sham which we know did not work. Then there is this “global pandemic” which as time goes on is a complete and total joke to me. In my opinion President Trump did the prudent thing in the beginning to slow its spread until more information was obtained on the virus, its transmission, and potential control measures. However, that seemed to be relatively under control with numbers being now worse than a bad flu year and the economy starts opening up and suddenly the press gets ahold of what appears to be an abhorrent action committed by Minneapolis police. Actions that on the surface of it that should terrify any American regardless of race, ethnicity, religious or political belief. However, what is troubling me is how quickly and organized this spun out of control. The protests and subsequent riots were coordinated and planned in my opinion. Though I do not have the proof it is just too coincidental. Now we have businesses, Generals, ex-Presidents and all sorts and sundry characters blaming President Trump! Give me a f*&@ing break!!! Pardon my language but this is way to coincidental to be coincidental.
First off, most of the protests turned riots are happening in states and cities run by member of the Democratic Party. Minneapolis is a Democrat stronghold as is Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Seattle, and Las Vegas to name a few. Many of these cities have black Americans in leadership positions. Why is this not being discussed? Is it because they are being good Uncle Toms and supporting their white masters in the international socialist party? Pardon my language again but I am angry. I have served with and for black Americans overseas and worked with them in my civilian job and quite honestly, I would rather have many of them as neighbors than many of the white Americans that I have worked with. I would and have trusted them with my life and would continue to do if called upon. Now that former Presidents and generals are now calling out the President on this I am more firmly in the camp that these protests turned riots are further evidence that the conspiracy of this duly elected President has taken a more sinister and deadly turn. A turn for which I am concerned this country may not be able to come back from.
So, in closing I ask Generals Kelly, Mattis, Powel and Presidents Bush and Obama what about me? What about the middle-class working man and woman? What about us? How do you feel about the fact that you made your entire careers working in a parasitical system that cannot survive without the working businessmen and women of this country? You attack President Trump, but I have never seen any action from any of you to support the average working American or small business. All I witness in you and your minions are machinations, subterfuges, and usurpations of American treasure in the name of “National Defense, the public good, and whatever other reason concocted to keep our minds occupied. News flash! While you moved up in a corrupt self-serving system the true wealth of this once mighty country has been bleed and continues to be bled. I am grateful that you have shown your true colors. If it had not been for President Trump the public would have never seen this. Now I just wonder how many more in the swamp are going to come out slithering and wiggling and gnashing? Now I cannot help but wonder just how close to the truth some of the Washington investigations are getting and how high up the chain the stench rises in both the Republican and Democratic Parties? Yes, it is a stench and it is becoming fouler by the day!!!

Random Musings 4.20.20

Once again it is time for some Twitter (for those with a litigious bent there is a trademark symbol just after the “r” in the previous word) like random musings from the mind of a quiet, unassuming, at least in my own opinion, person observing the ramblings, rumblings and revelations in the media. Additionally, it appears that Twitter would most likely censor what I have to say any way and Facebook certainly would censor what I have to say.

I am still curious if the former heads and members of the CIA and FBI who apparently spied on a US Citizen after apparently committing perjury to the FISA Court are going to be held accountable? It seems from my perspective that the elites are circling their wagons to protect their own and that they will somehow find someway in some obscure obfuscation of the law to exonerate the apparent crimes. I hope that I am wrong, and I hope it is because the Justice Department and their proxies are being thorough. Regardless of the outcome I hope that it is clear one way or the other why a particular decision is made.

So it seems that the PPP money has run out and my wife and I were unable to get any benefit from this as we are both self-employed. Speaker Pelosi and her ilk disgust me! I would love to have a freezer full of designer ice cream in a refrigerator/freezer worth thousands of dollars. But alas, no, I cannot even receive a portion of the PPP because it seems Speaker Pelosi and her Congress need a recess for several weeks. Speaker Pelosi just agree to Senator McConnell’s bill to fund the PPP and read the details later!!!

So, California municiplaties are filling skateboard parks up with sand to prevent skaters from using these. The one park, in particular, that I saw was on San Clemente Beach. So, let me do some quick math. About 1,000 deaths in a state of 40,000,000 people with the majority of deaths in the 50 year and older population. So that is roughly one quarter of one percent of the population that based on the recent Stanford survey may actually have way more exposure to the virus that known. But back to the cold hard statistics. One quarter of one percent of the population with the majority of deaths over 50 years old. Something tells me that we are not going to see too many senior citizens at a skateboard park. As a person who is solidly into their fifties, I can tell you that you will not see me in a skateboard park! This despite wanting to harken back to my skating days. The magnitude of the government reaction to the cold hard numbers just does not add up. Is it just me who is seeing this?

To summarize and sort of encapsulate my musings I am getting uneasy with the shutdown. Something is not adding up in my mind because of the numbers. Call it cynicism or what ever but my mind has shifted from this being a reasonable draconian response because we did not know exactly what we were dealing with. Now that there has been several months to look at the numbers and it appears the numbers do not support the continued level and magnitude of the reaction. I have to ask why are we continuing with full on shelter in place? Why is the majority of the governors who do not want to ease restrictions belong to the democratic party? Is this becoming more of a political reaction now? I ask myself who benefits from not having restaurants, casinos, sporting events, beaches, parks and etc not be open? I ask this in light that as a veteran I was asked to put my life on the line knowing that I might die to defend the constitution and the United States. At what point do we have to ask the populace as a whole to perhaps put their lives on the line to support the United States economy which is vital to our independence and freedom? I also ask at what point is Washington going to start looking at themselves in the mirror and hold themselves accountable?