JDs Bunker

… but it’s tougher when you’re stupid. That according to John Wayne.

Out in our cities around the land, stupid people are cheering for communism, letting fly with anti-Semitic rants, calling for the destruction of capitalism, raping one another, stealing from one another, trying to burn Oakland with a complicit mayor, and generally being off put by homeless vagrants trying to get some of their food. Life is tough for these people. It will probably get tougher because they are stupid. Someday reality will rise up and smack them between the eyes like a piece of dimension lumber. For their sake, I pray it is not a hard core communist who delivers the blow that shatters the fantasy world that exists only inside their college professor brainwashed noggins.

Most of them appear middle to upper crust – wealth wise. Their daddies likely firmly entrenched members of the evil one percent that they hope to lead to the guillotines. Hard lives these deprived youngsters have led I am certain. Carrying their I-pads like it is a holy tablet (Mr. Limbaugh, I am still waiting for my free engraved one. Do I too not deserve a free one?) and thumb thumping text messages on their I-phones; they strangely deify a hard core capitalist who made those devices possible while calling for the destruction of the system that allowed him to do it. Those are tortured minds running around inside them heads. Although I have never read his book, I am prone to agree with Michael Savage’s statement that Liberalism is a Mental Disorder. I do have it queued up in the Kindle though, which is just another capitalist produced gizmo that is advancing society along at breakneck speed. Never before could you tote and entire library around with you, but let’s not get off track.

We hear them crying out about their hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of debt incurred to pay for useless degrees. Degrees that will never allow them to produce any good or service, like the I-pad or Kindle, which might enable them to pay back the honest debt they incurred. Of course, considering the academic abuse endured by these intellectually deficient morons, I probably would not want to pay for it either. Problem is, these George Soros paid for and Van Jones led imbeciles want me, a proud holder of a G.E.D., to pay their debts, and for their health care, and for their homes, and to feed them… ! What I offer you boys and girls is a prayer that someday soon you will have an infusion of logic – a prayer that somewhere inside your mush filled heads appears a small life changing epiphany of clarity. I pray it happens before the communists that you are blindly supporting start stuffing you into wood chippers.

I suppose I have just had it up to my eyeballs with all of you. I have had it up to my eyeballs as well with your liberal enablers in academia, the media, Hollywood, Congress and wherever else their serpent heads poke. All of your useless lives, you have been taught meaningless drivel like do not eat that salt or anything fried in lard, it will kill you. Do not smoke, with the exception of medicinal pot, or tolerate anyone who does because that will kill you too. Have all of the pre-marital and adolescent sex you want, just wear a condom if you think about it. If you slip, not to worry, killing your unborn child is free choice and antibiotics cure most venereal disease, well not AIDS. Sexual perversion is wonderful, heck it might even get you your own popular television program. God? Who needs God? Christianity is as evil as Islam. It is the source of ever conflict ever known to man – or so you were taught. You have been preached to almost daily about the evils of slavery and by people whose only hope for personal wealth and power is to keep you enslaved to an increasingly tyrannical government. And you bought it hook, line and food stamp card. The most racist people in our country have pounded it into your head that everyone else is racist. Ask Herman Cain and Justice Clarence Thomas about liberal racism and what happens to you when you decide to leave the liberal plantation. You want jobs while demanding that the people who create jobs be taxed into oblivion and that every struggling company come under the thumb of a union. Hey dummy! Why do you think your I-pad was made in China and your designer jeans sewn together in Bangladesh? Are you sincerely that stupid? Do you ever entertain a rational thought?

I give up on you. If you succeed, you will be begging for a tent to live in, inside of a crap filled park. Your I-pad will no longer work for you. The communist will own the Internet. You will be tweet-less. You will be looking for some food too, but the shelves will be empty. You see, life is tough. It is much, much tougher when you are stupid.

©2011

Meet the 99%: Agitators, Racists and Rapists

The Root of All Oakland

President of the Protesters?

I grew up in Southern West Virginia in the 1950s to the mid 60’s. Out houses were more common than indoor facilities. They were freestanding buildings sitting on top of a hole in the ground and prime for Halloween pranks. Inevitably, our roving band of 10-12 year olds would tip some of them over on Halloween night. More deviously, however, for those who truly deserved our attention, we would pick some up and move them behind the hole. Late night or early morning visits by the deserving, yet unsuspecting, could be an adventure – a breath taking adventure. If you were ornery with us sometime during the year, we remembered you on Halloween night. I guess we were the stinking terrorists of our time.

The difference between us kids and Washington politicians is that we did not pretend that our intent was something other than causing people to step into a crap filled hole in the ground. We wanted them to do that otherwise there was no point to our mischief. Washington’s collection of con-artists try to convince the people that the hole is filled with rose petals and rolling around in it is nothing short of blissful utopia, unlike anything the senses could possibly imagine. What is in the hole, they insist, is so wonderful that all Americans must take a voluntary dip into it because it is simply what is best for them and the country. This is how we end up with government run health care and other grand social chicanery.

In the steep hills and hollows of Southern West Virginia, you can find generations who are enslaved by this kind of thinking. Political shenanigans keep the voting block on the public dole. It is not unlike some of our nation’s liberally run cities with which you are probably more familiar. They too have generations living on the public dole. It is an industry that takes, but does not return anything to the society that supports it. Its benefactors then are told to demand that the rest of us pay a fair share. Clearly the 53 percent of us who actually pay do not pay enough. The television cameras do not show up to broadcast the plight of Southern Wild and Wonderful to the nation as they might do with run down and dilapidated dumps like Detroit. Even if they did, greedy rich people would be blamed and not the guilty corrupt, quasi communist politicians and people who refuse to take charge of their own lives.

What little prosperity there is in that part of my beloved state is now threatened by the liberal war on coal production, which is also a war on the payrolls that support the state’s economy and provides tax revenues. Not surprisingly, the Democrat politicians from our state’s political families, whose unshakable loyalty to the party and its leaders who have worked hard to increase the size of the dung hole, now run public service ads declaring how hard they are fighting against the people who want to destroy the coal industry. When you hear it, it is enough to make you shoot the coffee you might be drinking right out of your nose. On the enslaved who continually vote them back into office, it is a con that obviously works well.

Obama Tightens Screw on America’s Coal Supply

Nearly half of Americans do not pay any taxes now. More are also on food stamps than ever before. There appears no end to unemployment benefits – for those who actually had a job once. Our major entitlement programs cannot continue in their current form. Your government check is underwritten by red China. There is your rose-petalled utopia – maybe trimmed in Chinese jade. Swell, is it not? Just for a bonus here in wild and wonderful there is a lawyer advertising on the television during every commercial break. Let us sue a car insurance company for you. Let us sue your doctor for you. Let us sue the company or coal mine that gave you a job. Let us sue the government entitlement programs, just choose one. “Let us get you the money you deserve.” Just call Dewie, Cheatem and Howe, Attorneys at law. Yes sir. Let us fill your hole up with rose petals.

Well mountain people and the rest of America, you are not getting any rose petals. Sorry, it just does not work out that way. Those go to the politicians and leach lawyers, which are interchangeable. You may get the thorny stick that the rose was on and possibly a spot in the dung hole. If I were you, I would just go occupy something and make some people pay, but not the outhouse. It is Halloween after all. Or, you can pull yourself up out of that hole. Your choice – for now.

Trick or treat?

©2011

And the fruit did not fall far from the tree. Hearing that Arlo Guthrie turned out to support the communist occupation of Zucotti Park was no surprise. Where else would one expect a 1960’s hippie anti war communist to be, besides Alice’s Restaurant? Like daddy’s song said, this land is your land. Private property? Who needs it? This land was made for you and me.

As I was walkin’ – I saw a sign there
And that sign said – no tress passin’
But on the other side …. it didn’t say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me! – Woody Guthrie

It only surprises me that Hanoi Jane Fonda and Genghis John Kerry have not linked arms and strolled through Zucotti Park proudly displaying their communist North Vietnam flags. Their glory days revisited. Come on Johnny, you can throw someone else’s medals at the Wall Street bankers.

“I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists.” – Hanoi Jane Fonda

I always wanted ask Jane to whom does a communist pray? Shallow rich liberal. She would blend in well at Zucotti Park. Maybe the occupiers would pray to her then return to raze Zucotti Park in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan.

I suspect that if your mother was a communist, if your father was a communist, if the grandparents who raised you were communists, if your adolescent mentor was a communist, chances are you did not fall far from the tree either.

History has not broken through to the liberal mind otherwise they would know how communism turns out for “the people.” Typically it ends with mass murder of millions in a fashion reminiscent of Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Pol Pot, the North Korean Kim Clan, and Ho Chi Min. Not to steal any thoughts from Dick Durbin. We know how communism turns out and it never turns out well, yet we still cheer for it. Be careful for what you pray Jane.

Some old sage once said that if you live long enough you will see things twice.

In 1979, “we” were thrilled that we helped depose the Shah of Iran so that he could be replaced by a moderate religious man. I still recall hearing the breathless, excited reporting of ABCs Peter Jennings as Khomeini entered Tehran while the masses cheered the end of what little freedom they did have. I suppose that was the Persian spring or maybe the Islamic spring. Whatever you call it, we encouraged it and we also know how that turned out.

Clearly we learned nothing. We cheered the Arab Spring. Meanwhile the Egyptian Army busies itself cleaning the remains of Coptic Christians from the wheel wells of their armored vehicles. In Libya, we assisted, then watched while a country’s leader no matter that he was a vile human, was captured alive and then summarily executed. Not much outrage there because we are seeing freedom spread by the Arab Spring while Libya’s interim leader assures us that in Libya, Sharia will be the basic source of all law. He is the interim leader because the caliphate has not decided which Ayatollah will take charge. We are cheerleading for the same outcome in Syria. Is it not interesting to you that we support deposing oppressive yet secular Arab leaders, but when the people of Iran wanted to throw off their oppressive Islamic Thugocracy our stated national position was that we should not meddle. It is a head scratcher. Not to worry though. We know how these things turn out.

Bugging out. Yes, I do believe we have been too long in Iraq. We were too long in Vietnam too. Both thanks to politicians. I have resisted drawing any parallels between Vietnam and Iraq. But, now I am forced to do it. Forgive me, my brothers in arms, but once again Washington’s politicians have turned your military victory into a political defeat. Not to worry, they will again not take responsibility for the generation of young men and women mentally and physically scarred by their wars and political fiasco. The defeat is yours. There will be no welcome home celebrations for you other than those provided by your grateful families. Sadly, we know how this turns out for “the people” in Iraq. Much the same way it turned out for the Vietnamese who were murdered outright for supporting US Forces or forced into communist reeducation camps, or like the Cambodians whose lives ended in Pol Pots killing fields. But, politicians were not responsible for any of that, it was just a product of misguided military adventurism.

Freedom loving people of Iraq, do not concern yourselves. We know how this will turn out. We left Soldiers in Germany and since there has been peace in Central Europe. We left Soldiers in South Korea and there has been peace and much prosperity. We left Soldiers in Japan and there has been peace and prosperity. Your peace and prosperity is in the hands of the Persians and their allies in Washington and inside of Iraq. Do not worry peace and prosperity is near.

When you know how things turn out, it is probably a good idea to reinforce and stock the personal bunker.

Islamic Radicals Claim Victory in Tunisia

Islamists Join Occupy Wall Street Protests

Christians Under Threat as Radical Islam Spreads in ‘New Middle East’

Key general: Iraq pullout plan a ‘disaster’

Obama Cedes Victory to Radical Islam

© 2011

People who have been in this world awhile and experienced life in America at its toughest and at its best are expressing fear. I have been personal witness to it. It is fear of a revolution and not one in the spirit of the first American Revolution. They fear one that ends in death, destruction, and loss of their freedom. It is a revolution that “fundamentally transforms” the United States of America from a Constitutional Republic into a Chairman Mao-like communist dictatorship. One that extinguishes the true beacon of “hope” that the United States of America has been to the un-free world since its founding and transforms it into gulag America.

It is a revolution whose logical outcome is the total annihilation of the strong American middle class for which the communists always profess to fight – the strong middle class that is and has always been the backbone of our national strength and character. Take down the greedy banks they preach. Protect the down-trodden middle class. And the stupid trust fund kiddies camped out on Wall Street embraces it. And they will be the first residents placed on the boxcar headed for the gulag. Michael Moore will get his own boxcar. Unfortunate for them all, useful idiots never get invited to the victory celebration.

It is a revolting revolution that leaves us with the “Washington Party” the wealthy who own the party – yes the evil wealthy – and a remainder that does whatever it needs to each day to put meals on the table. The occupy idiots endorsed by the American Nazi party, Communist Party USA, and other assorted socialists and Marxists, as is establishment Washington, are bought and paid for by George Soros and company. When is the last time you heard a Washington politician questioning the antics of Nazi collaborator Soros?

This promised fundamental transformation takes us from being the most prosperous and freest nation in recorded human history to third world dictatorship status – in the blink of an eye. It is a place where a person must choose to remain free or submit to an authoritarian, oppressive and potentially murderous regime.

We should pray we never have to make that choice, but while we are doing that we must ensure that we are prepared to defend those things we most cherish. The things that made our country great and that have been slowly dismantled over the years. Those are a reliance on God, a dedication to the family unit and the willingness and desire to defend our country and shore up these solid foundational blocks.

We need to be led back to what was once the greatest place on earth. We need to be certain that we do not fall into the trap of following a leader whose words do not exactly meld with their past. We need to be wary of false prophets – those who promise much, but in the end are more devious than the leaders replaced. Proven false promises of change and hope might bring some change, but certainly they can destroy hope if that hope is misplaced.

We need a solid leader. We are courted by many who profess to be so these days. Some of them are establishment chameleon politicians firmly entrenched in the American ruling class aristocracy. They are the go along to get along reach across the aisle maverick country club class of Republicans – not conservatives. As before, we are told that we have to choose one of these otherwise we cannot win. You see, it is winning that is important. The problem is that “we” word. If one of these is elected, who wins? The establishment wins and there is not a dime’s worth of difference between the Democratic establishment and the Republican establishment – both want to control our lives. There is no representative conservative party in America. There are only the establishment parties. One co-opted by the communists and the other by the country club crowd.

So, where do we turn? At my Church, we gather in prayer for our country. That is a good first step.

We were courted by one with potential who many felt was of common conservative stock. Sarah Palin, however, left us at the altar. One hint as to why might be when establishment spokesman Chuck Krauthammer who, on the day she bowed out, declared that she was out because she most definitely would have lost. Let me explain that one if I may. It was Tea Party Conservatives who gave establishment Republicans a landslide victory in the 2010 Congressional races – whether they or Chuck like it or not. It was establishment Republicans refusal to support the peoples’ choices for some Senate races that ensured establishment Democrats continued control of the Senate. Establishment is establishment. R or D matters not. The establishment ruling class would rather lose an election than have a person in the Congress or Whitehouse who they cannot manipulate. Especially those lacking country club pedigrees.

Herman Cain is doing a great service for this country, although I do not think he will pick up any Republican establishment support for it. What he is doing is showing the world that racism is a commodity of liberalism – no matter the color of the liberal. Neither Perry, Bachmann, Gingrich, Santorum, nor Paul will get establishment support either.

Face it conservatives. The fix is in. It is Romney’s turn and he will lose the general election. And America will be over. Unless, there is a true patriot red, white and blue revolution.

©2011

Soros: “I’m having a very good crisis.”

I have seen this bull crap before. You have too if you were alive and conscious during the 1960’s. Most of the brainwashed children of the privileged, who are out to destroy capitalism and are led by the likes of avowed communist and 911 truther Van Jones, have not seen this before. Ignorant, slothful, educated in communist re-education camps called universities and woefully unprepared for the society they believe they want. These useful idiots equipped with I-pads and I-phones await their tweeted orders while professing to hate the system that gave them I-phones and the Internet.

It was hardly more than a year since I wrote about this. Here too. It was déjà moo then too.

The hippie mantra, besides hell no, we won’t go and burning their draft cards, was to never trust “the establishment.” Besides their selective service cards, they also burned our flag. Conversely, they admired the Communist North Vietnam flag. They took over college campuses and held peaceful little demonstrations like the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. In 1969, they gave us their crowning achievement, Woodstock. They admired Karl Marx, Che Guevara and Ho Chi Minh. – The Establishment, September 2010

The riots [Democrat convention, Chicago 1968] were incited by the Youth International Party, Yippies for short. They were one of the groups involved that grew out of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) who were also active in the riots. Members of the Black Panthers and a group called the National Organization to End the Vietnam War were involved too. If you are not familiar with this time and events, do yourself a favor and type Democratic Convention 1968 or Chicago 8 into your favorite Internet search engine [just be cautious of the version you read as you could be reading a Nancy Pelosi take on the events]. Another offshoot of SDS that you must have heard of by now is the Weather Underground and its most famous and unrepentant Pentagon bomber and Presidential associate, Bill Ayers. – America is Ours, April 2010

Some of the accounts you read of the time tell you that these “youths” gathered in Chicago (so like the wonderful Arab Spring and “young, spontaneous, focused“ youths occupying Wall Street) just wanted to end the Vietnam War and change our oppressive government for the better. Just understand that 98 percent of them were the drugged up hippie generation. I am of this time and I was living in Chicago and I was not an innocent observer of the hippie culture. The masses may have adorned themselves with peace symbols, love beads and stop the war buttons, but that was the depth of their commitment to any cause. They merely followed the hippie crowds to any gathering of flower children so that they could partake of the sex, drugs and rock and roll all of which were plentiful. The Chicago convention mob was 2 percent “community organizers” – Yippies, SDS, NOEVW, Black Panthers and 98 percent hippie useful idiots. It is just like the occupy Wall Street mob – or as Nancy described them for us “young, it’s spontaneous, and it’s focused.” That brain was in line for the Presidency. Oh my.

These young, spontaneous and focused sheep will become dangerous as they are supported by the puppet masters of our current government – George Soros (who makes money hand over fist from the anarchy he creates around the world and communist led unions). The longer the police, who fear the Department of Justice more than the rioters, sit back the mobs will continue to grow and become destructive and violent. I believe this is the hope – create such anarchy that the people will beg the government to step in and save them.

Arab Spring? Funny, but I am not laughing because there are dangerous similarities. The Arab spring served to “take countries back” from secularist hardliners only to hand them over to Islamic hardliners. In America, the communists are already in charge and are working feverishly to solidify control and destroy the world’s last standing free country. They need chaos and anarchy so that they can swoop in and save us from ourselves. In 1968 Chicago, the organizers were charged and tried for inciting riots. Our government is now complicit in inciting riots. Who is there to prosecute them – other than you and me?

God, Family, Country. Keep a “firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence” and prepare to protect your family from the hard times ahead. Do those two and the Country will stand strong.

I believe that this is just the precursor of worse things to come. By the summer 2012 political conventions, the 1968 Democratic convention riots in Chicago in comparison may look like a Church picnic.

I hope that I will not be sitting here typing déjà moo all over again.

©2011

According to the President, we are. I agree.

America was once unapologetically Christian. A nation underpinned by Christian values. At the beginning of our country, and from the pulpit our pastors inspired revolution. Today, they fear the wrath of government and the Internal Revenue Service more than they fear the wrath of God should they utter a single phrase in opposition to the direction our government tries to steer us. So much for if we stand with You, no one can stand against us.

Most Americans still claim to be Christian, but unfortunately it is a claim not supported by collective behavior. Being Christian is not the soft life. It is a God dependent and self-reliant life. It is guided by commandments that often are not even considered in the realm of possibilities for guiding modern American life. Today they are practically forbidden from public display and modern trends would see the Holy Bible banned as hate speech.

Rules place boundaries on the behavior of a nation and the citizenry. Life with rules is a disciplined life. No rules, no boundaries, discipline undefined.

The soft life has no discipline in which to adhere. It is a life unbounded by persnickety ancient rules. In the soft life, there are no moral boundaries. Sexual immorality is accepted, often glorified. In the soft unbounded life, it is acceptable to kill the innocent unborn yet practically impossible to execute a brutal convicted murderer. When the boundaries are removed, the desired ends always justify the means.

Once up on a time in America, communism was viewed and accepted as evil and destructive. We had no problem placing the collective finger in the chest of communism and affirming that it is not welcomed here. We recognized the threat to the Republic and stood firm against it. We taught our children the difference between a free life in a free democratic republic and life in communist Red China.

Today, no so much. Communism today is discounted as loony liberalism or simply as progressivism. Even strong public figures hesitate to call a communist what he is. China is held as the example and communist dictators for life are openly admired.

We were once a society that prided itself in individualism. We worked and were proud to make our contribution toward building and preserving the great and abundant nation with which God blessed us.

Today, thanks to a freedom destroying progressive tax system, fifty percent of us take, but contribute nothing for the privilege. Those who work the hardest and produce the most wealth for the nation and its people are vilified as evil and disparaged for not paying their fair share. Fair share? From each according to his ability is pure communism, but the soft generation in charge never learned that.

We are changing into an owed society – changing from a nation of self-reliant contributors into a nation of government dependent takers. Government dependent is another freedom stealing tenet of communism. Being cared for, rather than caring for one’s self is certainly the softer life –for as long as it may last.

We were once proud and unapologetically Americans. We were so because we were taught the true history of our country and we believed that the United States of America is an exceptional nation and that we are blessed to be her citizens.

In the softer life, we act ashamed and apologetic for being Americans. Self-inflicted and self-destructed liberal guilt is killing America. We have changed into a nation that places emphasis on mythical hyphenated identities. Our hyphens indicate that we bear allegiance to a country to which we have likely never set foot and to a culture in which we could not survive if we attempted to truly immerse ourselves in it and recognize it for what it is.

Now, we attempt to assuage or self-inflicted guilt through submission and apology. We are led into a fantasy land where those who hate our very existence will suddenly and miraculously love us as free people in a free nation if we only prostrate ourselves before them and beg acceptance.

Yes sir Mr. President, we have grown soft. We are also a gullible people and like any other, we tend to go where we are led. It is when we get to the edge of our destination and peer over into the bottomless darkness that we start to have serious reservations.

The hard life is God dependent, self-reliant, de-hyphenated and unapologetically American. May we be blessed with leaders who can take us back home.

© 2011

Rovian: Hydrocephalic ruling class political propagandists; some with pointy heads

Michelle Bachman won the Iowa straw poll. The Rovians tell us it does not mean anything. Their reasoning is that the solid candidates with any prayer of winning, meaning the ruling class establishment picks, did not play in Iowa. My take is that the establishment picks did not participate because they did not want to start their campaigns with a king sized butt whoopin’ right out of the gate. But, I could be wrong as my head is not quite as large as Karl’s. Actually no one’s is.

Leading up to the Florida straw poll, the Rovian consensus was that whoever wins it will be the Republican candidate. Always happens that way. Count on it they said. The establishment’s contenders were in it, but Herman Cain cleaned their collective ruling class clocks. So Florida is now meaningless. Or so it will be reinforced upon us that it is.

I am not a political prognosticator. I am an American, like most, who has lived life where the rubber meets the road, as opposed to where the talking head meets the television camera. Being an observer of and full participant in life beyond Washington, DC, I believe when the dust settles on this political horse race the Rovians will be left wondering what hit them. Dick Morrisdotcom may collapse all together. It could be ugly.

They are missing the point. It is a really big point too, sort of like the one atop some of their heads. They are absolutely enamored with their own brilliance. So much so that they are incapable of interpreting the message that Americans are communicating to them. Or, they simply are not listening and do not care, which makes them as dangerous to the republic as are the socialists. They are that way, because they have always been successful at steering public sentiment. No more. Polls, politics and punditry are going to change. The Rovians will either undergo some evolutionary change or become extinct. Some of them will morph into angry Jimmah Carters and never shut up until the last shingles are laid on the roofs of their collapsing habitats for inhumanity. Whether for the good of our country or for its destruction, change is coming. And out here in the hinterlands, Americans are going to have a say. Refreshing.

The point is not too complicated. Conservative minded Americans are simply tired of the establishment’s good ole boys. That is why, Karl, that they picked Bachman in Iowa and Cain in Florida. Now break out your little white board and magic marker and tell me what part of that it is that you cannot grasp. You Rovians have already shown us the propensity to toss overboard the people’s conservative choices because the establishment picks were shown the door. Apply a little introspect fellas and decide if you are going to board the freedom train or be run over by it.

Where does that leave us? Ann Coulter prostrates herself before the image of Chris Christie, but I am afraid that image needs a bucket of cold water tossed on it. There are a couple of reasons. Christie has read too many press clips and listened too much to the adoration of Miss Ann and others. He has become to full of himself. Self-absorbed politicians are what we are rejecting. Even if he is able to reign in the self-adoration, he is in the process of selling his soul to so-called Republican billionaire donors. The country-club Republicans who are capable of pushing another McCain like candidacy on us. We saw how that turned out.

Not to steer off the road here, but has anyone been paying attention to Hillary Clinton? I have been waiting for one of the big talkers to say something, but none have. The face is a little less worn out looking and no so puffy. It is probably a combination of Botox and booze avoidance. The hairdo is getting longer and blonder. Just an observation.

There is only one potential candidate who has shown the independence and spine to take on the establishment. A candidate that is boldly and unapologetically conservative. Sarah Palin. The name that conservative pundits avoid like the plaque and the name that drives liberal pundits to move to Alaska and write silly books filled with unsupported gossip.

Here is my conspiratorial thought for the season. Around the time for the national release of “The Undefeated”, Sarah Palin will announce that she is in. When she wins the nomination, Obama will decide that he has been all that he can be. Unable to stand the thought of another woman becoming the first female president and with her new hairdo, all sobered up and Botoxed, Hillary will run to the rescue of the Democrat party. With of course a sacrificial challenge from Joe Biden. The most brutal political campaign in the history of our country will ensue. When the political Armageddon on the Potomac ends, America will be standing tall and proud or it will be over.

Wishy washy, good ole boy establishment Republicanism is not going to save our country. Bold conservatism will. Go work on your bunker.

©2011

September 11, 2011 has passed. I have not checked the headlines this morning. It could be the world ended. It is a peaceful morning waiting the sunrise here in Wild and Wonderful.

I did not make my typical Sunday afternoon post. I felt no need to share my where I was when story. It is the significance of what happened to us on that day that keeps it clear in my mind. Not what I was doing. I remember where I was when President Kennedy was shot too, but it has no bearing on the historical event. Just as it will remember the events of September 11, 2001, history will always remember the Kennedy assassination. That I was working in an office or playing basketball on a dirt court in rural West Virginia will not even record a so what in the annals. There are other events in my life, and I am sure yours too, that were personally as tragic although not widely shared with world. The emotion dredged up from within us causes us to remember them.

My emotions ran the gamut on September 11, 2001. First I was angry. I worked to control anger in my life knowing from experience that uncontrolled anger drives you to do and say stupid and often unforgivable things. Like flying airplanes into buildings and murdering thousands of innocent people. Later in the day, the anger turned to sadness with learning about the loss of friends. Then the sadness returned to anger. Innocent lives were lost – taken by soulless followers of a death cult. Thousands of lives were lost, but the dreams of many thousands more were stolen by this utterly despicable act. I take solace knowing that the paradise sought by the murderers remains as fiery as the burning airplanes and buildings that removed their miserable personages from this planet. Satan owned their wretched souls in this world and he owns them through eternity – and he has no virgins to offer them. Only the eternal torment they earned.

But, sadly or not, anger is the emotion that remains. It is the one the day dredges up for me. Justifiable anger appropriately directed? Lord only knows. There are other sources that perpetuate the anger a decade later.

In Church Sunday morning, and with my apologies to the pastor and acknowledging the personally tragic message he shared, my mind was mostly elsewhere. I was thinking back to the Churches that reportedly filled up right after and American flags displayed everywhere one looked. People are preoccupied somewhere else these days because there is much vacant space in the pews and the flag displays are just as sparse. It reminded of the poem:

Our God and soldiers we alike adore,
Ev’n at the brink of danger; not before;
After deliverance, both alike requited,
Our God’s forgotten, and our soldiers slighted. – Frances Quarles, 1632

In Church, my head was on a swivel looking toward every sound, every opening door, scanning the congregation for any strange faces and wondering if it would have been a good idea to bring a weapon to Church, just because. Then in this place of serenity and inner peace, the anger returned with a vengeance raising the question; is this the place where we allowed these soulless bastards to bring us? Allowing them to take peace from us? If this is where we are, they have won or at least they are winning. We are hostages in our own country looking for unattended packages that might be bombs rather than enjoying the view of God’s creation. We are hostages who are losing our freedom by dribs and drabs – in our own best interest of course. We sit in the House of Peace and dredge up anger, which is against all that He teaches us. If nothing else, it does remind us that there is a powerful spiritual battle taking place and that we better know the right direction to turn. The sparsely populated pews do not reassure me that we do.

Here we sit a decade later.

Our country filled with apologists for the “religion of peace.” In New York, the center of the attack, the mayor put up vigorous arguments in support of the Islamist’s building of a victory mosque at ground zero. His prime argument? Freedom of religion. From the other side of his face he banned the clergy from the memorial held in New York. Victory mosques are what the Islamists have built throughout history beginning with the Temple Mount. In the eyes of the Islamist’s, the Trade Center Towers was a temple of sorts. The greatest symbol on earth to the free market capitalism and democratic government they so despise. Now that they have destroyed that symbol it only follows that they want a victory mosque there from which to spread their hatred of our Judeo-Christian derived culture. It is beyond me how any person living in New York City can support the mayor.

We are still attached at the hip with the people who spawned this atrocity because of the insane energy policy firmly held to by our inept political ruling class. The problem they promised to fix since the Arab oil embargo more than 40 years ago.

Finally, I am tiring of restrictions placed on Americans at every turn that seem unable to pick up a single terrorist. I am tiring of American flags flown at half-mast. I am tiring of memorials. I am tiring of the victim mentality that is perpetuated by all of these things. I am tired of the people who danced with joy in their streets on September 11, 2001 being honored with no cameras allowed religious dinners in our Nation’s house.

Because I dare to think the way that I do it is me, a more typical American you will not find who is called a terrorist, suicide bombing, hostage taking, barbarian, SOB and invited to go straight to hell all by the ruling political class who has led us to the edge of destruction. I am angered by that and tiring of it too.

If we have any hope of turning victim into victory, we must rid ourselves of inept leaders and as did our Nation’s founders, seek “a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence.” Changing victim to victory, may God bless our country.

© 2011

I have been waiting for someone prominent in politics to chat with you. People whose actions are driven by pollsters and political strategists rather than conviction are not likely to do that on my behalf. Like you, they only operate on their own behalf. Disheartening is it not?

Thank you for the invitation to accompany you on your journey. As heartfelt as I know your offer is, I regret that I am unable to accept the invitation to come into your house or accompany you on your life’s journey.

Maxine, I am a red, white and blue-American. That is probably a hard concept for you to grasp. I suspect that the thought might even offend you as you have clearly labored so hard to construct hyphenated walls between Americans. I spent much of my existence on this planet in a culture that survives on candor. A culture that views the ability to call it as one sees it as an indispensable attribute.

I believe in concepts that are obviously foreign to you. If my assessment errs, please feel free to place me back on track. I believe in individual liberty, free-market enterprise, limited government intervention in my life, limited central government intervention in the affairs of states, low taxes, less government waste, self-reliance rather than government dependence, a strong military, borders, culture and language, but to list a few. I also believe that what is good comes to us from God, especially our freedom, and not from corrupt career politicians.

I am not a loner. Millions of Americans feel as I do Ms. Waters. We are of varied ethnic heritage, all ages, races, social statures, education levels, and ranges of personal wealth. We are labeled, derisively so by people such as you, as the Tea Party. You should understand that the people you see at publicized Tea Party events are only a tiny representation of those with similar beliefs. When you invited the Tea Party to go straight to hell you do realize that the invitation extended to most of America? In my circles we call that an alligator mouth bolstered by a hummingbird backside. It is just what we have come to expect from someone who has nothing else to offer us.

What you clearly do not understand is that I and millions more like me want to escape from hell rather than head straight for it. We want to escape from the hell created by your communist ideology. It is an ideology that can only survive and thrive after it has enslaved a population and turned it into a permanent victim class made solely dependent on government.

I know this might hurt your feelings somewhat, but you and others who think as you do, have enslaved generations. You have gifted them with an owed mentality that once accepted locks them permanently in a hell of which you control yet do not have to endure. Dang near Satanic sounding, is it not? Once they depend on you, they are enslaved. A slave is wholly dependent on his master Maxine. Thankfully, most of us are clear about the Master we serve. I does not appear that He has visited Sodom on the Potomac for quite some time.

You want your victims to hate rich people, while you busily game the system for personal wealth. Victims need a bad guy. Yours just do not realize that it is you. Following your logic of demonizing the wealthy, at some point there will be no rich villains left to produce victims for you. There will only be your enslaved victims and you – the overseer whose has the remaining wealth. Generally, that does not end well for you.

What concerns me most is not your communism. It is a constituency that votes for you. These are people who are trapped in your hell. They will never know real freedom, real independence or the idea of earned wealth.

Maxine, rather than wishing you in hell, I offer a prayer for you. I pray that God might soften your heart and open your eyes so that you may know the real truth. His truth. I also pray that He opens the hearts and minds of the millions you have helped to enslave so that future generations might know and understand as did our forefathers that what comes to us from God is much greater than anything you or any other politician has to offer.

Maxine, I invite you to another place. It is due north of the destination you have in mind for me. There are no victims there and likely few communists. It might help you to know that you might not find many of these there either.

Sincerely,
J.D.

©2011

I have written before about the leadership equation. The equation discusses necessary elements that combine to make a leader effective. The bottom line of leadership is the ability to influence others toward achieving specific goals or a vision. If the actions of the leader – demonstrated character and competence – fall short, the led will pull away from rather than follow. When the led pull away, failing leaders become desperate. Historically, dangerously so.

As a leader hopes to influence outcomes, he or she must demonstrate some intangible attributes that further define his or her character.

A leader motivates. How do leaders motivate the led? A leader must know that people are motivated by the leader’s actions and not his or her words. A leader’s actions will motivate the led in a direction that is either toward or directly away from his or her proven destination. People are motivated by positive and caring leaders who share the hard times with them. People are not motivated by fear. People driven by fear will at some point rebel. Leaders motivate people by sharing time with them – outside the public eye.

A leader inspires. Before a leader can inspire the led, he or she must first be inspired by the led and what the led has stood for throughout its history. One cannot inspire the led if he or she spends time apologizing for their past and present while promising to fundamentally transform their future. One does not hope to change what inspires them.

A leader is selfless. A leader knows that whatever it is, it is not about him or her. It never was about him or her. It is about the led, whether people, an organization or a nation. A selfless leader does not base his or her actions on what might be gained or lost personally. A selfless leader builds unity in the led and does not seek to divide them. As we are taught, a house divided against itself cannot stand.

A leader may cause the potential led to swoon with motivational phrases like yes we can or inspire them with well crafted and rehearsed messages of hope and change. A leader may speak of selflessness as a shared sacrifice from all. And afterwards, all the people might say amen and choose to be led by empty, inspiring words unsupported by any past action. This speaks to the fallibility of the led. At some point, the leader must live up to the expectations built by words. When he cannot, the led will suffer tremendously and then cast him aside. History will remember not the leader’s lofty rhetoric and unfulfilled promises as something good, only as something very dangerous. History will only attribute to the leader failure and the near destruction of a nation. This is a repeated story in the history of nations.

Aside from those important personal attributes, a leader, as does any person, is driven by a value system. A person’s value system is what influences his or her choices. A person’s values are the last thing he or she will forsake – no matter the words that pour forth in lofty oratory. To lead a body of people, an organization or a country, a leader must share the value system of the led. As an example, one cannot lead a historically Christian nation if he proclaims before the world that it is not a Christian nation. No, the United States of America is not a Christian nation in the sense that Saudi Arabia is an Islamic nation, but it is a nation of Christians. It is a nation founded on Christian beliefs. A nation founded on the notion of God-given freedom and a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence. There are no truer Christian ideals than those.

It is time for all of us Americans to take a long look in the mirror and decide what it is we value and whether we will again follow empty rhetoric – probably to our end. Each of us must ask ourselves if we are willing to stand passively by while America dies.

We must scrutinize every potential leader. We must with open eyes and hearts, see beyond the emptiness of words. If we choose another leadership failure, America dies and with her freedom. As President Reagan said, “If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.”

©2011