Friday, February 19, 2016

Random Items

This note shares with you items collected over time that either were not worthy of mainstream media coverage or, if covered, got short changed or recast to conform with PC rules.  Sometimes the media gets things mostly right but often with a twist or two deemed appropriate to mislead public perception/understanding.  That is not to say all of these items are totally right but at least they provide some balance to reporting.  The point is we need to consider the source of news to gage its authenticity.  We must search multiple sources to get at least close to what is factual.  So, what follows is an attempt to offer some balance to mainstream media reporting to help us consider what is real and what is not. And what is true and what is not.

Before anyone makes decisions regarding political candidates an exploration of their past is essential and will reveal exactly who they are, what they believe and what they will likely do.  The mainstream media's operating procedure is to ignore the past history of Democrat candidates (otherwise we would have known Obama is a racist and socialist, if not Marxist) and although we already know Hillary's history the media is doing its best to obscure, revise or hide it.  Yet they dig like maniacs to collect any iota of dirt on any candidate whether real or not on opponents of their progressive agenda and their favored candidates. This piece provides insight all readers with Democrat leanings need to consider.  Two Quotes: "Most Americans believe that we won the fight against Communism when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and Khrushchev’s famous boast that they would bury us proved to be empty. Not so. Communism is a monster of two guises. There is Marxist-Leninism and there is Gramsciism from Antonio Gramsci, an Italian communist thinker who broke with Marx and Lenin in the 1920s. The former preaches the violent overthrow of capitalism; the latter preaches the subtle subversion of capitalism and its ultimate transformation into tyrannical “mega-statism” over time."  And,  "Obama and Clinton learned their lessons from one of Gramsci’s top disciples, Saul Alinsky, the famous author of Rules for Radicals published in 1972. Alinsky’s screed is a revolutionary lesson in how to organize masses of men and women to hate the system of capitalist freedom, to take it down and replace it with a regimented collectivist system that centralizes government and levels down the productive classes to equality with the less productive classes." http://afr.org/saul-alinskys-radical-spawn/

This item extends the previous one.  Three brief quotes: "The Democrat Party is being led by an obscure Communist named Antonio Gramsci. The full implications of a socialistic worldview cannot be ascertained in a country dominated to some extent by capitalism. Socialists, like their kissing cousins the Communists, are thieves. They live off the capital of others. When the capital runs out, they are left with Cuba and North Korea."  And, "Gramsci’s methods are alive and well in the Democrat Party and much of Congress. Are "Bernie" Bernard Sanders and Hillary simply “useful idiots” or are they loyal followers of Gramsci and his innovative ideas? While a great deal of attention has been given to Saul Alinsky, who was more of a tactician, the more impacting ideologue who has influenced modern-day economic and social theory is Gramsci."  And, "Gramsci’s strategy is taught in every major university in the United States and most likely neither the professors nor the students know it. It is the worldview of nearly every Democrat candidate."     http://eaglerising.com/30163/meet-the-communist-who-is-leading-todays-democrat-party/ 
 
This assessment, which I mostly agree with, provides an good assessment of how the minds of progressives seem to work.  Quote: "Like a cult, progressives dismiss reality when in conflicts with their worldview. Anyone who is not operating under a faith based belief system knows that progressive policies won’t work, can’t work. We’re pushing $20 trillion in debt, yet progressives want to spend more. How can spending more than you make ever result in a positive outcome? Socialism hasn’t ever raised the standard of living for the masses, anywhere, any when. We have countless examples of this, the latest being the collapse of Western Europe’s economy and the dramatic slowing of our own under Obama’s policies. Yet progressives don’t heed those warnings. More recently, Western Europe demonstrates the danger to host societies of allowing the immigration of those who won’t assimilate, yet progressive ignore this, too. It conflicts with their ideology, an ideology based on faith, just like a cult."   http://eaglerising.com/28692/the-cult-of-liberalism-has-infected-the-usa-and-the-sotu-is-proof/ 

How is it possible that so many Americans don't see that there is a stark difference between Socialism and Capitalism?  The progressive left for well over 100 years has debased the country, its history, its culture, its education system, its morals, its religious foundations so that now far too many have accepted the lies, disregard laws, think debauchery is normal, have no moral underpinnings and more. That represents a huge progressive victory.  We are now where we are and that is exactly where they want us to be.  They are on the verge of setting up their utopian socialistic society with the progressive elites in charge....repeating history that fails every time.  Progressive victories have made it possible for them to gleefully offer us two Democrat candidates, a committed socialist and a compulsive irresponsible liar and likely felon, running for the highest office in the land.  If you think that bodes well for you, your family and our country then God bless you.  You and your children and grand children will suffer the consequences.  If you think that is wrong you will need to become an activist for freedom, justice, liberty, honesty, righteousness, respect for others because time is short to avert the disaster that looms before us.  Please do your part.  Inaction is acceptance of the fate progressive have long sought.  And what is that?  A system the puts them in total charge of our lives, liberty and happiness from cradle to grave. This item may help further understanding of the difference between what Progressives want and what individuals who stand on their own two feet want.  Hopefully it will cause you to join in the fight against the evil forces of the socialistic left.    http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2016/02/16/capitalism-is-freedom-socialism-is-slavery-n2119968/page/full  

This is matter which should concern all of us.  Quote: "The American people aren't stupid and know full well that the rich are dominating politics. But it's interesting that more people are concerned about media bias than money in politics. Bias threatens liberty more than money. Just look at Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, the two biggest spenders of the campaign and both are in trouble. Bush is likely to be out of the race after the South Carolina primary after having spent north of $100 million - far more than any other GOP candidate. What does that say about the "influence" of big money on politics?  More to the point, media bias is insidious and subtly alters people's perceptions of candidates and issues - almost always in favor of liberals. Given a choice, I would much rather have a level media playing field than candidates like Jeb Bush spending money like a drunken sailor. In the end, all the money in the world can't hide a candidate's defects."  http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/concerns_over_media_bias_top_worries_over_big_money_in_politics_poll.html

Given the above items this follow-up item should cause you to think.  Quote: "Socialist Bernie Sanders wants to take American backwards to the pre-Colonial times of the Pilgrims circa 1620, where Socialism failed miserably.  Likewise, Democrats want to take America to its 21st-century progressive equivalent, the big-government nanny state.  In fact, the Democrats' former reverential, almost cult-like treatment of Barack Obama – a dubious figure obviously anti-American, ultra-constitutional, and pro-Islamic – is reflective of the same blind devotion the purveyors of sharia law, the imams, expect of their followers.  Although the method is different, the result is identical: the iron-fisted suppression of the individual's rights and freedoms in favor of the all-powerful State.    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/islam_and_socialism_creepily_similar.html

This takes a look at President Wilson and both his progressivism and disdain for the Constitution.  The author concludes with this statement concerning the battle between Hillary and Bernie over who is the most progressive.  Quote: "It is clear that today's progressives have the same constitutional contempt as their predecessors. I hope they do not share the racial vision. Black voters ought to demand, at a minimum, that progressives disavow their ugly racist past. They should re-label themselves to something other than progressives, maybe compassionate totalitarians.  Both a history lesson and a good example of the exercise of proper presidential responsibilities."   http://townhall.com/columnists/brionmcclanahan/2016/02/13/the-greatest-president-in-american-history-is-n2118896/page/full
With the passing of Justice Scalia the rhetoric of nominating his replacement has taken front and center during the ongoing presidential campaign.  Democrats are demanding Senate Republicans support an Obama nominee.  Republicans claim that it has long been custom for a president in his final year to defer to his successor.  Senator McConnell has announced that the Senate will not consider any nominee until the next president is in office. That is a Constitutional right the Senate holds and has, indeed, been frequently observed for some 80 years. The Democrats are, however, fighting mad at senate Republican declarations that they will not consider any Obama nominee.  Consider Democrat blatant hypocrisy.  This is ultra liberal Democrat Senator Schumer on the subject when President Bush was in office.   http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2016/02/14/get-off-your-high-horses-about-scotus-appointment-democrats-youre-on-tape/?   Here is more on the issue.   http://theresurgent.com/democrats-find-their-long-lost-patriotic-duty-for-scotus-appointment/  The truth is that Democrat claims of refusing to entertain an Obama nomination is irresponsible demagoguery on the part of Republican senators is nothing more an attempt to deflect away from their own past hypocrisy and tactics when the situation was reversed.  Then Senator Obama backed a call to filibuster a Bush nominee when he was president.  Talk about calling the kettle black.  One more item.   http://www.westernjournalism.com/poetic-juctice-obama-was-1st-us-president-to-vote-for-filibuster-in-supreme-court-nomination/?  This item highlights the absolute hypocrisy of the Democrats based on their obstructive tactics conducted during the Reagan and W. Bush administrations.  How they can stand before the public with their faux high fluting moral hypocrisy is beyond me.    http://eaglerising.com/30294/democrats-demagogue-on-supreme-court-forget-their-own-history-of-judicial-obstruction/  Hypocrisy on top of hypocrisy.  Yet Democrats have a way of shielding it with their indignant, self righteous, lying façade.  They display absolutely no humility whatever.  http://www.redstate.com/jaycaruso/2016/02/17/democrats-stunning-hypocrisy-blocking-supreme-court-nominees/?  The hypocrisy simply drips from these miscreants.  Schumer has the audacity to tell Republicans not to use his past statement against his current vociferous protests.  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/schumer-dont-use-my-2007-speech-to-justify-blocking-obama-nominee/article/2583335  Anyone who has tracked his political career knows that he is deep into intrigue and backroom deals. In other words a dirty politician.  And don't even get me started on Obama.

Liberals/Progressives/Democrats who do not honor the US Constitution are gleeful at the death of Conservative Constitutionalist Supreme Court Justice Scalia.  Take note of this disrespectful leftist action.  It is an indication of the sad state of affairs in our country when the leading presidential candidates of the left are an avowed socialist and the other a compulsive liar under investigation by the FBI for multiple felonies.  If the left thinks either of these candidates have any moral fiber or any respect for the Constitution, much less the nation's laws, leftists of all stripes have lost their souls to progressive ideology which covets power and control over all else.  Our Constitution was constructed to defeat such ideology.  http://hotair.com/archives/2016/02/15/former-obama-defense-official-pens-poison-letter-to-antonin-scalia/?   Obama did not like Scalia - will not attend or render remarks at his funeral.  Decorum is not his strong suit given his highly visible presence at funerals of dubious personages.

I truly wish that more Americans understood the truth Dr. Carson exposes than the revisionist lies propounded by progressives and race baiters.  http://injo.com/2016/02/540713-ben-carson-responds-to-south-carolina-woman-on-gop-and-christian/

Honest people will recognize the disgraceful actions routinely committed by leftist politicians, judges and activists.  History is nothing to them except what they want it to be.  This piece articulates the true facts regarding at least one aspect of American history and culture. The left for its nefarious reasons abhors but cannot deny its truth.  Quote: "The study of American history will show that the atheists, ACLU, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation don’t have a constitutional or historical leg to stand on when they file suits against religious displays, sectarian prayers, monuments, or anything else religious as it relates to government.  They get away with their legal theatrics because (1) the general population is ignorant on the subject and (2) the courts rule in terms of precedent and not history."    http://constitution.com/how-justice-scalia-set-the-anti-religion-crowd-straight/

This is a factual depiction of the service Justice Scalia provided the country.   http://townhall.com/columnists/frankturek/2016/02/16/scalia-defended-democracy--liberals-subvert-it-n2119959/page/full

With the furor over who should replace Justice Scalia running rampant, this item is an attempt to put in place a rational view of what will likely happen regardless of who is president or who controls the Senate.  A very, very interesting assessment.   Quote: "The Supreme Court of old is gone, if not for good then at least for now. It will be a long time before we have another court such as the Warren Court (1953-1969), when Earl Warren served alongside such luminaries as William J. Brennan, Jr., William O. Douglas, Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and Thurgood Marshall. The Warren Court handed down rulings that were instrumental in shoring up critical legal safeguards against government abuse and discrimination. Without the Warren Court, there would be no Miranda warnings, no desegregation of the schools and no civil rights protections for indigents. [Y]et more than any single ruling, what Warren and his colleagues did best was embody what the Supreme Court should always be—an institution established to intervene and protect the people against the government and its agents when they overstep their bounds. That is no longer the case. We can no longer depend on the federal courts to protect us against the government. They are the government."   https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/02/john-w-whitehead/people-vs-police-state/

This is the truth and nothing but the truth and if the problem is not fixed it matters not who is president or which party is in power.   http://www.pjtv.com/series/trifecta-105/government-is-the-problem-and-bureaucrats-are-governments-problem-11778/ 

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