Philosophy

Aug072020

Episode 199 – He Didn’t Just Say That, Did He?

Another screw up.
New York is at it again.
Jesus, they’re puppets.

 

Oh..This Guy!

Biden…damn. Listen:

Imagine if Trump had said that. Hispanics are the most diverse and are what’s going to change the election? Blacks aren’t diverse? Whites aren’t diverse? Only Hispanics? Really?

How does he get away with this shit? This is an everyday thing. He asked a black guy, yesterday, if he got tested for cocaine…yesterday. He said you couldn’t walk in a 7-11 without hearing  a person with an accent. He said that Barrack Obama was “smart and clean”. He said that poor kids were as smart as white kids.He eulogized Robert Byrd, a former KKK Grand Dragon. Jesus, what if Trump said or did any of that?

Do I think Biden is a racist? No, just really prejudiced. In fact, I think his comments were probably just not well articulated. I think had another point. But it shows a few things:

  • The mainstream media does not care about racism or prejudice. It’s just a narrative.
  • That Democrats don’t care race or prejudice. They only care about the narrative and using it for power.
  • Biden is getting worse. His cognitive abilities appear done. He can’t articulate a thing.

 

I understand why Biden’s handlers are allowing him to do interviews. Trump is on television every day, showing that he knows what is going on with the virus. Fox News

 

 

 

More Attacks on the Second Amendment

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday that the state is suing the National Rifle Association (NRA) and several of its high-profile leaders, and looking to “dissolve” the organization over alleged financial irregularities.

James said on Twitter;

“I filed a lawsuit to dissolve the National Rifle Association for years of self-dealing and illegal conduct. The @NRA is fraught with fraud and abuse. No organization is above the law.”

“We are seeking to dissolve the NRA for years of self-dealing and illegal conduct that violate New York’s charities laws and undermine its own mission. The NRA diverted millions of dollars away from its charitable mission for personal use by senior leadership. Our lawsuit charges the NRA as a whole and four senior leaders, including Wayne LaPierre, with failing to manage the NRA’s funds and failing to follow numerous state and federal laws. These actions contributed to the loss of more than $64 million in just three years for the NRA.”

She accuses the executives of:

  • Using NRA funds for private travel, vacations and restaurants.
  • Awarding companies contracts based on family members.

 

The NRA responded:

“The NRA has full confidence in its accounting practices and commitment to good governance. The association’s financials are audited and its tax filings are verified by one of the most reputable firms in the world. Internally, the association has an appropriate conflict of interest policy, which provides that all potential conflicts are reviewed and scrutinized by the audit committee.”

This is all probably true. Fact is, the NRA has to be audits because of its non-profit status and any weird accounting would probably be caught. Also, if there is some illegal activity, why not fire the people who are doing the funny business? Why does this gal find the need to dissolve the entire organization (which I don’t think she can legally do). The reasoning is simple: they want to get rid of the NRA. The Left sees them as an evil organization and in their way of the ultimate goal: getting rid of the second amendment.

James is also a piece of work (well, piece of shit). She’s the gal who said she was going to investigate Trump to find a crime. By the way, that is illegal. You don’t investigate a person to find a crime, you investigate a crime that a person possibly committed. All this shows is that she is a political animal and will target her enemies or the enemies of the Left.

By the way, I think she has more important things to worry about. The murder rate in New York is up about 170%. I hardly think that’s the NRA’s fault. Sounds to me that is the fault of that shitty, gopher killing mayor, De Blasio and an ineffective New York justice department led by James herself.

The NRA didn’t just roll their eyes and sit on their hands. They filed a law suit against against the city for defamation and violating their rights to free speech. Good for them and they probably have a better case.

In their complaint, the NRA said:

“Despite hopes that playing by the rules would procure a just outcome, the NRA has not been treated fairly by James’s office. The New York Democratic Party political machine seeks to harass, defund, and dismantle the NRA because of what it believes and what it says.”

“James boasted that she would strike foul blows against the NRA and pound the NRA into submission. She vowed that she would use the NYAG’s investigative and enforcement powers for the precise purpose of stanching political speech (‘deadly propaganda). She has begun to deliver on her campaign promises to retaliate against the NRA for constitutionally protected speech on issues that James opposes. As NYAG, James has regrettably succumbed to ‘individual passions, and individual malevolence.’”

President Trump stated:

“I think the NRA should move to Texas and lead a very good and beautiful life. And I’ve told them that for a long time. I think they should move to Texas – Texas would be a great state or to another state of their choosing – but I would say that Texas would be a great place and an appropriate place for the NRA.”

He’s probably right but I can understand why the NRA would want to stay in New York. It is closer to Washington DC, a lot of their members live on the east coast, and what better place to attempt to influence than a city with the most restrictive gun control laws in the country.

In the long run, this law suit is not going to go anywhere. There is a lot of conflict within the NRA’s hierarchy and there probably was some questionable dealings like in all companies. Someone will probably lose his job. But the aggressiveness of James may get the best of her. She does have to show some cause. You can just go investigate someone hoping to find a crime. So, the NRA is in a strong standing with the counter suit.

The NRA will continue on.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-attorney-general-sues-to-dissolve-the-nra-citing-financial-irregularities
https://www.foxnews.com/us/nra-lawsuit-ny-attorney-general-lawsuit

 

Dude, They’re PUPPETS

I love the culture. Especially since the Left took over the culture. The things they do is so stupid it is funny. There are two web sites I love to read about culture. Vox.com and Slate.com. Slate is especially insane. They have a advice column that is just weird. It’s a great site. You should visit. Well, they have an article that is patently insane. It is titled It’s Time for the Muppets to Give a Different Couple the Spotlight. It actually analyzes the relationship between Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.

No kidding.

It said:

  • They are a terrible couple and Disney should not be beating their drum.
  • They are anatomically incompatible. Unlike gay men, women and transsexuals who Slate constantly touts.
  • Kermit is a nudist whereas Miss Piggy dresses extravagantly.
  • Miss Piggy is a domestic abuser.
  • They’re emotionally incompatible. One is a closed-off, neurotic commitment-phobe, the other a clingy, psychopathic narcissist.

 

“According to three relationship counselors interviewed earlier this year by Mel magazine, the pairing has long been in crisis. “If there’s that level of conflict, they need professional help,” said clinical psychologist Farrah Hauke. “They’d need to work with a couples counselor and do their individual work to identify their role in the conflict, as well as their partner’s role in the conflict.” This is, of course, ludicrous, as Miss Piggy would simply karate-chop the therapist.”

“Recently, it seemed the minders of the Muppets might realize that the central romance of the franchise no longer had currency. On the short-lived ABC series The Muppets, Kermit got a new girlfriend, also a pig, named Denise—the subject of the memorable Jezebel headline “I’m Sorry, But Who the Fuck Does This Homewrecking Pig Think She Is?” (Byline: “Definitely Not Miss Piggy.”) But by series’ end, the characters once again fell into familiar patterns, as the finale focused entirely on the will-they-or-won’t-they question—including other Muppets writing PRO and CON lists on a whiteboard as Kermit tried to decide. The episode ended on a cliffhanger of sorts, with Kermit professing his love for Piggy in a last-ditch romantic gesture.”

The article ends with:

“Call it what you will: Friggy, Permit, Hogwarts. Where it was once entertaining to watch a lovesick pig beat the crap out of a diffident frog, now it’s simply exhausting. It is well past time to retire this ship.”

Now, I hope this is an article written to be funny. After reading a bunch of Slate’s other articles, I can’t be sure. But there are a few things we should be aware of before we criticize the turbulent relationship of Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog:

  • This show was not meant to be a children’s show. It was meant for adults. There is a ton of adult humor and sexual innuendo that proves that.
  • Miss Piggy was not a physical abuser. It was cartoon like violence. Just like the Coyote would be blown up by the Acme explosives he used to try to stop the roadrunner.
  • Kermit was not a nudist. He was a frog. Frogs don’t wear clothes.
  • Kermit and Piggy did have an incompatible relationship. But not because Kermit is a frog and Piggy is a pig but because they are fucking puppets!

 

It is an adult comedy show! They’re puppets! It’s meant to be funny, not a serious look at relationships! And they’re puppets! Kermit is not a neurotic, commitment-phobe, nudist! Miss Piggy is not a clingy, narcissistic, domestic abuser. Kermit is a frog. Miss Piggy is…wait for it…a pig. They don’t need a psychologist to analyze their relationship. Do you know why? Because they are fucking puppets! Miss Piggy’s voice isn’t even done by a woman. It’s a man. Fuck!

Sigh…I feel better.

https://slate.com/culture/2020/08/muppets-kermit-miss-piggy-relationship-bad.html

 

 

 

 

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Jul212020

Episode 192 – Give a Mouse a Cookie

Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick
We need to stop perversion.
Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick.

 

Crime

What do Minneapolis, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Philadelphia, Dallas and New York City all have in common?  There are actually three things: They are all run by Democrats, they have all had their crime rates raised by 100% and they all have proposals to defund and get rid of the police.

This is a real problem for the Left. Shootings are up 80% including the killings of children. Robberies are up 120%. And there is not a cop around to deal with it. Heck, New York’s murder rate is above 240%! And they are still letting violent criminals, even ones that assault cops, get out with no bail hours after being arrested. Why not commit crimes? New York City has gotten rid of their plain clothes police force and cut $1.5 billion from the police force. Los Angeles cut $150 million from their police force. Minneapolis has voted to completely defund the police. Philly has a 5-year plan to eliminate the police.

Why is crime going up? I don’t know. Maybe it has something to do with do-nothing Leftist leaders supporting rioters and thugs over the police and innocent citizens. Maybe having no-cash bail and releasing criminals has something to do with it. How about cutting funds from your police force and disbanding the undercover police force that is responsible for capturing criminals while they are committing crimes?

Well, the Left has some ideas. Listen to AoC, the brain trust of the Left:

This idiot is blaming:

  • Poverty
  • Fear of homelessness.
  • Starvation.
  • The government not being fast enough to give them free money

 

Wow, ok.

But there is more! Bill DeBlasio blames COVID-19. Sheila Jackson Lee blames the lack of gun control. Good luck with that one. A group of the Left blames the police…get this one…for not doing anything. Oh, yeah, and racism.

Here’s the problem with the Left blaming everything and everyone besides their shitty policies. And when one tries to blame race and it turns out that most murders are within the same race, they need to shotgun a bunch of excuses and hope something sticks.

This is why I like Trump. He says, “this is fucked up,” then “this is how we are going to unfuck it,” and he unfucks it.

I do not know when people are going to learn. The Left only cares about talking points and narratives. And it is only to trick the people so that they give them power. And, when they have power, that real concern about the people will disappear. Hell you see it now. Look at Los Angeles.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspect-who-allegedly-attacked-3-nypd-officials-is-released-from-jail-without-bail

 

I Knew We’d Get to this Point

Introduction

Ten or fifteen years ago, there was this push by the LGB community to legalize marriage between gay people. In California, there was a law that we got to vote on that would define marriage between a man and a woman. Now, I was younger and dumber and had some misdirected issues with gays getting married. So, of course, I voted for the proposition (it was Prop 8).

Of course, I live in California where voting for state and local laws is really irrelevant (I don’t even bother voting in California anymore). Prop 8 passed by a huge margin, the governor said it was unconstitutional, the 9th circuit court of appeals overrules the vote and the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage a few years later. So much for voting.

But, over the years, I wondered what my reasons were for being against gay marriage. I came of with the following reasons:

  • I don’t like gays.
  • It’s against my Catholic faith.
  • Homosexuality is not natural and should not be supported by the government

 

That was it. Upon careful introspection, these three reasons were not only not true when compared to me belief system, but one went against my belief system.

  • I never disliked gays. In fact, during a debate, I was hurt when my friend told me she would not invite me to her wedding with her partner.
  • My religion really  was not an issue. I could not quote anything from the Bible and gays would not be married in the church, mosques and temples of the major religions, which made them only a civil union.
  • And, the hypocritical belief that I am embarrassed by, the government should not be telling anyone what they can and cannot do. It is wrong.

 

Normal and natural are two totally different things. Homosexual men will never have children unless a woman is involved. That is because homosexual men cannot have babies because it is unnatural. Period. Normal is saying that one can be attracted to his own sex and it is what it is. Period. A civil union between two  is not going to change what is natural.

But, my third point violates my true belief: the government should not tell people what the can and cannot do. I was actually being a dick to my own beliefs by saying no to the gay person to marry who he wanted to marry. Needless to say, being a hypocrite did not sit well with me.

  • I thought about it and realized it was not that I was against gay marriage. It was that I was against the militancy of the LGBT. And I still am and they are getting worse. But I will not condemn those who like members of their same sex. I will support them because I believe the spirit of the Constitution assumes that individual freedom. I know that is not exactly a textualist view but a Libertarian view.
  • Instead, I will focus on on the LGBTQ+ militancy and the topics that really bother me.

 

War on Religion

A few years ago, when the Supreme Court ruled that banning gay marriage was unconstitutional, I believe is was Justice Scalia that asked the pro-gay marriage lawyer if this was going to lead to forcing religions to marry gay couples. He responded that he did not know. In other words, yes. That is exactly what they are going to do and have been doing.

By the way, attacking religion is a strategy of the Left, not necessarily an LGBT thing. The Left hates religion.

The militancy I hate the most is the attack on regular people who own businesses and just want to live by their lives based on their values and faith. This attack, and not the only one, game against the baker Jack Phillips in Colorado. He runs wedding cake business. When he was approached by a gay couple to bake a cake, he refused but said they could buy one of his pre-made cakes. This poor bastard fought the court system, almost losing his business, for three years. He finally won in the Supreme Court.

This is the shit I hate. This is completely unnecessary and the media lied about it. The media never mentioned that Phillips would sell them a cake just not customize a cake. They made him out into a 100% bigot.

They did the same to VP Mike Pence especially that little rat Pete Buttigieg. Pence and his family is a fundamental Christian. He does not believe in gay marriage but never made a thing of it (that I have ever heard of). But the attacks on him by the LGBT and Buttigieg has been brutal. They attacked his wife because she works at a fundamental Christian school and require their teachers follow a specific moral lifestyle.

But their goal is to get religion banned. Choke them out financially. They want religion to lose their tax exemption status. This is wrong. All this is wrong.

They have to ban religion. Because religion will never promote what the LGBT really wants.

 

The War on Nature

There seems to be some confusion on nature versus normal. Just because it is normal does not make something natural. The reason the Bible says that “a man shall not lay with another man” is not because the writers of the Bible are gay hating bigots. It is because the purpose of procreation in to have children. It is the same reason the Bible said we should not eat pork and horse and men should be circumcised. It was a health (though bacon is good and women like men circumcised).

Gay men and women cannot have children. Period. Darwin, who the Left always trots out to dismiss religion, has proven. That survival of the fittest thing is about the species that can procreate and produce a bunch of kids. The Left, obviously, has stopped referring to Darwin because, I suspect, he disproves their point.

 

War on Science

It is not just a war in science but also a war on language.

Let us take a look at the growth of this movement. It used to the the LGB. Then it went to LGBT. Then it went to the LGBTQ. Now it is called the LGBTQ+. Probably because no one would be able to remember what they are called if the added the other 64 pronouns they are trying to get called.

The LGBTQ+ is trying to create language by changing the definition of sex and gender. They want one to believe that gender and sex are fluid. We are not male and female but we can be what we want to be which is complete crap. If you are a man that likes other men, you are still a man. But not so for them. We need to use other pronouns or fear insulting someone.

The big example is by changing the pronoun he or she to they. If I am bisexual or what ever, you should call me “they” and not “he”. This is the great lie. This is something that we cannot tolerate. It is dangerous to tolerate it.

What the LGBTQ are doing now is trying to change science through the acceptance of their manipulated language. Today they say that a man who says he is a woman is a woman. And more than one person has said it is scientifically proven. How? Because we call him “her” and that is acceptable in society. So it must be true. We are seeing this now.

Men who say they are women have asked the American Medical Association to treat those men as if they are women. There will be lawsuits over this. Men who say they are women want to compete in women’s sports. There is a lawsuit in Connecticut that is fighting to stop transsexual women from competing is in school sports. The judge in that case said that the plaintiff could not refer to the defendants of men because it was scientifically proven that men can be women. 

This is wrong. This is sick. This is an abomination. This is a lie!

If someone wants to mutilate his genitals and call himself a woman, fine. He has the freedom to do that. I will even call him a her out of respect. But when a group of people say that I am a bigot, want me to lose my job and livelihood or even put in legal trouble because I will believe a man is a man and a woman is a woman, that is where I have an issue. I will not do that. The reason is simple: things can get worse and I do believe that we would end up normalizing perversion. Real perversion.

 

Embrace of Perversion

If you are older like me, you will remember that one was looked down on as a gay person. It was weird, perverse. Why would anyone want to do things like that to someone of their own sex. But, the reality is, homosexuality has been around forever so it is not that bazaar. J. Edgar Hoover was gay and rumored to be a transvestite in the 50s and 60s. This seemed to be an open secret. Dean Martin was gay. The guy from The Brady Bunh was gay.

Other historical figures include

  • Socrates
  • Alexander the Great
  • Leonardo Di Vinci
  • Michelangelo
  • Sally Ride
  • The Wachowski brothers
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Just to name a few.

 

So homosexuality has never been something unheard of in our society. I will even go so far as to say gay marriage probably had its movement started in the 60s and 70s. But we always feared that when you give a mouse a cookie, the mouse will want a glass of milk. That is what is happening.

The American Psychological Society took out the mental illness called Gender Dysphoria Disorder for the DSM-5, the medical encyclopedia for psychologists. This has changed the scene for potential transgenders and opened up a whole new form of perversion I never thought I would see in my lifetime. This has also changed our laws and procedures for changing one’s sex.

  • Laws are now in place that eliminate counseling for transgender candidates. This is a one way ticket folks and doctors want to make sure the potential patients know this. They also have eliminated the ability for psychologists and counselors to perform conversion therapies. Though I thought these could be a little extreme, there were people who appreciated them. A lot of the people just ended up happily gay but kept their stuff. That’s kind of important. This is because most people who have sex change operations typically commit suicide.
  • Today, boys who have not reached puberty are being encouraged to have hormone therapy in preparation for a sex change operation. There is a case in Texas where a woke mother wants to give hormone therapy and an eventual sex change operation to her nine year old son.

 

Sexualizing our kids is becoming a thing. Desmond the Amazing, a transsexual, transvestite 11-year-old has done a sex dance at a gay bar while having dollar bills tossed at him. Do not believe me? Look it up on YouTube! For some reason, YouTube will not block this.

Perversion is becoming mainstream. Listen to Don Lemon, who is a gay black man married to a gay white man, talk about pedophilia:

  • Wow!

 

The television show, South Park, had an episode called NAMBLA. NAMBLA stands for North American Man Boy Love Association. I looked this group up and it does exist. They say that they are an organization that believes that men who want to have sex with male children is normal. They actually have guides to groom and have sex with young boys and not get caught by the police. They wanted to be part of the LGBTQ+. Supposedly, they were rejected, but who knows what the “+” means. Could they be mainstream soon?

There is a man in Virginia who is suing to make incest legal. INCEST!! Remember that the governor of Virginia believes that babies who are born are not babies and can be killed. Could incest be mainstream.

The answer is “yes”. This is exactly why I was against gay marriage. Give a mouse a cookie and it will want a glass of milk. I am going to buy that book and read it everyday because it is so true. Perversion is something that should ever be accepted but, because we did not have the guts to deal with it at the get go, it is not going beyond anything we could ever imagine.

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Jul212020

Episode 191 – What Do You Expect From A Pig But Tyranny

Orwell had it right.
What we can learn from a pig.
Let’s read some Orwell!

 

Old Major’s Speech in Animal Farm

All the animals were now present except Moses, the tame raven, who slept on a perch behind the
back door. When Major saw that they had all made themselves comfortable and were waiting
attentively, he cleared his throat and began:

“Comrades, you have heard already about the strange dream that I had last night. But I will come to
the dream later. I have something else to say first. I do not think, comrades, that I shall be with you
for many months longer, and before I die, I feel it my duty to pass on to you such wisdom as I have
acquired. I have had a long life, I have had much time for thought as I lay alone in my stall, and I think
I may say that I understand the nature of life on this earth as well as any animal now living. It is about
this that I wish to speak to you.

“Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable,
laborious, and short. We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our
bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and
the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. No
animal in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a year old. No animal in
England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

“But is this simply part of the order of nature? Is it because this land of ours is so poor that it cannot
afford a decent life to those who dwell upon it? No, comrades, a thousand times no! The soil of
England is fertile, its climate is good, it is capable of affording food in abundance to an enormously
greater number of animals than now inhabit it. This single farm of ours would support a dozen
horses, twenty cows, hundreds of sheep–and all of them living in a comfort and a dignity that are
now almost beyond our imagining. Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because
nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings. There, comrades, is
the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word–Man. Man is the only real enemy
we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished for
ever.

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay
eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all
the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them
from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. Our labour tills the soil, our dung fertilises it, and yet
there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin. You cows that I see before me, how many
thousands of gallons of milk have you given during this last year? And what has happened to that
milk which should have been breeding up sturdy calves? Every drop of it has gone down the throats
of our enemies. And you hens, how many eggs have you laid in this last year, and how many of those
eggs ever hatched into chickens? The rest have all gone to market to bring in money for Jones and his
men. And you, Clover, where are those four foals you bore, who should have been the support and
pleasure of your old age? Each was sold at a year old–you will never see one of them again. In return
for your four confinements and all your labour in the fields, what have you ever had except your bare
rations and a stall?

“And even the miserable lives we lead are not allowed to reach their natural span. For myself I do not
grumble, for I am one of the lucky ones. I am twelve years old and have had over four hundred
children. Such is the natural life of a pig. But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end. You young
porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within
a year. To that horror we all must come–cows, pigs, hens, sheep, everyone. Even the horses and the
dogs have no better fate. You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power,
Jones will sell you to the knacker, who will cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds. As
for the dogs, when they grow old and toothless, Jones ties a brick round their necks and drowns them
in the nearest pond.

“Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of
human beings? Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own. Almost
overnight we could become rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and
soul, for the overthrow of the human race! That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion! I do not
know when that Rebellion will come, it might be in a week or in a hundred years, but I know, as
surely as I see this straw beneath my feet, that sooner or later justice will be done. Fix your eyes on
that, comrades, throughout the short remainder of your lives! And above all, pass on this message of
mine to those who come after you, so that future generations shall carry on the struggle until it is
victorious.

“And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray.
Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity
of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Man serves the interests of no creature except
himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. All
men are enemies. All animals are comrades.”

At this moment there was a tremendous uproar. While Major was speaking four large rats had crept
out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him. The dogs had suddenly
caught sight of them, and it was only by a swift dash for their holes that the rats saved their lives.
Major raised his trotter for silence.

“Comrades,” he said, “here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and
rabbits–are they our friends or our enemies? Let us put it to the vote. I propose this question to the
meeting: Are rats comrades?”

The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades.

There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have
voted on both sides.

Major continued:

“I have little more to say. I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all
his ways. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a
friend. And remember also that in fighting against Man, we must not come to resemble him. Even
when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices. No animal must ever live in a house, or sleep
in a bed, or wear clothes, or drink alcohol, or smoke tobacco, or touch money, or engage in trade. All
the habits of Man are evil. And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or
strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals
are equal.

“And now, comrades, I will tell you about my dream of last night. I cannot describe that dream to you.
It was a dream of the earth as it will be when Man has vanished. But it reminded me of something
that I had long forgotten. Many years ago, when I was a little pig, my mother and the other sows used
to sing an old song of which they knew only the tune and the first three words. I had known that tune
in my infancy, but it had long since passed out of my mind. Last night, however, it came back to me in
my dream. And what is more, the words of the song also came back-words, I am certain, which were
sung by the animals of long ago and have been lost to memory for generations. I will sing you that
song now, comrades. I am old and my voice is hoarse, but when I have taught you the tune, you can
sing it better for yourselves. It is called ‘Beasts of England’.”

Old Major cleared his throat and began to sing. As he had said, his voice was hoarse, but he sang well
enough, and it was a stirring tune, something between ‘Clementine’ and ‘La Cucaracha’. The words
ran:

Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful tidings
Of the golden future time.

Soon or late the day is coming,
Tyrant Man shall be o’erthrown,
And the fruitful fields of England
Shall be trod by beasts alone.
Rings shall vanish from our noses,
And the harness from our back,
Bit and spur shall rust forever,
Cruel whips no more shall crack.

Riches more than mind can picture,
Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels
Shall be ours upon that day.

Bright will shine the fields of England,
Purer shall its waters be,
Sweeter yet shall blow its breezes
On the day that sets us free.

For that day we all must labour,
Though we die before it break;
Cows and horses, geese and turkeys,
All must toil for freedom’s sake.

Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken well and spread my tidings
Of the golden future time.

The singing of this song threw the animals into the wildest excitement. Almost before Major had
reached the end, they had begun singing it for themselves. Even the stupidest of them had already
picked up the tune and a few of the words, and as for the clever ones, such as the pigs and dogs, they
had the entire song by heart within a few minutes. And then, after a few preliminary tries, the whole
farm burst out into ‘Beasts of England’ in tremendous unison. The cows lowed it, the dogs whined it,
the sheep bleated it, the horses whinnied it, the ducks quacked it. They were so delighted with the
song that they sang it right through five times in succession, and might have continued singing it all
night if they had not been interrupted.

Unfortunately, the uproar awoke Mr. Jones, who sprang out of bed, making sure that there was a fox
in the yard. He seized the gun which always stood in a corner of his bedroom, and let fly a charge of
number 6 shot into the darkness. The pellets buried themselves in the wall of the barn and the
meeting broke up hurriedly. Everyone fled to his own sleeping-place. The birds jumped on to their
perches, the animals settled down in the straw, and the whole farm was asleep in a moment.

 

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Episode 189 – What About the KIDS!

Boo! Did I scare you?
Our kids are not scared.
Instead, find careers!

RIP Charlie Daniels!

Keep Going in This Direction, Joe

Sleepy, Creepy Joe has released his economic policy if he ends up as President:

  • $700 billion spent on new, clean energy and jobs.
  • Free healthcare.
  • Free community college.
  • Free child care.
  • More COVID-19 support for families and small businesses.
  • Raising taxes on corporations and individuals. In other words, rolling back the Trump tax cuts.
  • Raise the Federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
  • Put a 100 day moratorium on illegal alien deportation.

 

This “Build Back Better” campaign is called the Biden/Sanders economic plan.

This scares the Hell out of me. Joe Biden will not be President. Bernie Sanders will be. AoC will be. His radical black women VP will be. He is a puppet. Bernie Sanders made that very clear in an interview with MSNBC:

I am going to say something that will make this podcast not good for kids: Trump can win this election with this crazy shit. He needs to stop lowering his poll numbers by stop fucking Tweeting.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/politics/joe-biden-economic-plan/index.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/09/889347429/biden-counters-trumps-america-first-with-build-back-better-economic-plan

 

When Nancy Speaks…

…three things fly out of her mouth: Dentures, spittle and crap.

Let’s listen:

She doesn’t care about statues. Wow. Forget about our history. That’s one of our leaders.

Here’s what is ironic: a group of people to black out the Black Lives Matter giraffe on the streets in California and were charged with three misdemeanor counts including a hate crime charge. These people are looking at jail time. They were interviewed on Fox News and they just said they do not agree with BLM and did not want it posted in front of their residence.

This is the bravest thing I have ever seen. These two people walk into the middle of the street and start blacking out the grafitti. They were lucky enough only to get confronted by people who were curious about what they were doing, not by some radical with a baseball bat or screw driver. They had to know what they were doing is dangerous, but they didn’t care. They are tired of the state sponsored BS and decided to fight it.

 

Sounds Like a Career to Me

The Wall Street Journal released an article about teenagers in New York who are able to intern scrubbing tombstones and repairing mausoleums at a Bronx graveyard. Sounds awesome, huh? Actually, it is a lot better than all that. And those that volunteered for the internship are finding that out.

Let me clarify the article a bit so that it does not sound so morbid. Cemeteries are made up of tomb stones and mausoleums. Over time, these become dirty or broken. They need to be fixed. And who fixes them? Masons. Suddenly, that does not sound so bad. These teens work six hours a day on weekdays for ten weeks. They learn how to set up scaffolding, applying mortar, power washing and understanding mausoleum documentation. The interns make $15 an hour. Not bad for an intern.

But what the teens really learn is a skill. Masonry is a centuries old profession and can be applied to many more projects than mausoleum repair (though that can bring in $30-40 an hour). Construction, art repair and home repair all require someone who might require the specialty of a mason. And if a mason has a license and belongs in a union, a well-paying career can be had.

Why did this article come up in this podcast?

Josie has three children. She wants all her children to go to college even though none of them really have an affinity for school and really do not have any plans for the future. I told her that she may want to think of her kids skipping school and learning a skill from a trade school. Trade schools are less expensive, relatively short in time and concentrate on a specific skill. And a skill that is desired and usually pays well.

I use me as an example. I went to college and got my degree in Literature. But, once I received my Bachelor’s Degree, I could not do much with it. I needed, at least, a Master’s Degree even to teach. I started teaching computer applications and soon was promoted to teaching computer networking. Twenty-five years later, I have a career, get paid well and my skills are desired by a lot of companies.

Yes, I still write and read constantly and my degree has helped my career but I could have saved four years of time if I had just concentrated on learning a skill (not to mention a lot of money on tuition). And institutions of higher learning (heck, high school is pretty crappy too) are becoming more worthless than anything. Our kids are not learning anything necessary like we did in the past, are not being hardened to be able to handle the job market successfully and are being indoctrinated into the Leftist view of the world.

Let us talk about our failing institution of education.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/young-new-yorkers-carve-out-a-careerfrom-a-graveyard-11593525601

 

The Indoctrination Machine

The educational system is falling apart. From grammar school through Harvard University. Let us take a look at some of the things I am talking about.

 

Mathematics

I amaze children at restaurants. Not because I can make a quarter disappear with a paper napkin (I can do that). But because I can calculate a 15% tip in my head. I actually had a kid challenge me with a calculator. We bet $5. I had the answer before she even pulled her phone out of her pocket (I never saw that $5). My point? Mathematics and science are completely ignored, even discouraged, in our country.

Math is not even a thing anymore. In fact, there is this push to make math into something racist. This is so stupid, I will not even go into that garbage. I have not even read the stories. I just do not care. Kind of makes sense. If a man can be a real woman why can’t 1+1=6? Forget the fact that a theoretical mathematician who specialized in chaos theory tried to come up with a math system that proved 1+1=6 and he went insane.

Forget that, let us just say kids can not do math. They do not get it and do not see why it is important. They can not add, subtract, multiply or divide. Decimals and fractions are a mystery. Fuck algebra, calculus, physics and trig. That ain’t happening.

Math is the base language for life. It is used in every other discipline including music, art, language, astronomy, science, statistics and logic. Hell, my Haiku in the beginning of this podcast was used to calculate the number of syllables to make it a haiku. Dr. Zuess, who is a racist, defined his poetry off of mathematics. Beethoven, Mozart and even your favorite rapper (which is not music) use mathematics to come up with the perfect word, beat or note.

Maybe that is why our music has gone down hill in the last twenty years.

 

Science

Men can be women. Natural gas, nuclear energy and fracking are dangerous. Nothing but man is causing global warming. The world will end in ten years. A fetus is not a human being. We need to take a train to Hawaii. All these stupid “scientific” declarations by the Left are based on “science”. And the normal people laugh at this crap because we are “ignoring” science.

Maybe we are not ignoring science. Maybe this is all just bullshit.

Here’s the problem: our kids are learning this crap.

I know a kid, who shall remain nameless, who can not do simple math or knows what an atom is telling me that Greta Thunberg knows more about climate change than I do. What? When I asked her when the last ice age was, she did not know (we are in an ice age now). When I asked her what the wobbling of the earth is (that is when the poles of the earth switch), she did not know. When I told her that two economists that won the Nobel Prize in economics said that we would not face a crisis for another 100 years and then it would only cost 4% of GDP to fix and if she read their paper. She did not.

OK, I did not ask her the last question. But I did tell her I did not take my scientific advice from a 14-year-old with autism and a compulsion disorder. This is what our kids are being taught and who they are getting their information from.

By the way, I do believe in man-made climate change. But I think the United States is far from the main culprit. Heck, the statistics say that.

Our kids are not learning science. They are learning talking points that masquerade as science.

 

History and Civics

Let’s see:

  • Our youth is tearing down statues of historical figures.
  • They are tearing down statues of Abraham Lincoln and  Ulysses S Grant because they are racists.
  • They tore down a statue of Fredrick Douglass and Junipero Serra, not sure why. Pretty sure they do not know why.
  • George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt and Francis Scott Key are all racists.

 

Our kids do not know shit about history. Do not believe me? Ask the who Plato is, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Moore, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison or Theodore Roosevelt is. They will not know.

Ask them a couple questions about the United States.

  • What are the three branches of government?
  • Who is the Vice President?
  • What are the first 10 amendments of the Constitution called?
  • What are the first three words of the Constitution?
  • Name one right in the 1st Amendment of the Constitution?
  • Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
  • What economic system does the United States use?
  • Who is in the Executive Branch?
  • What month do we vote for President?
  • What is the highest court in the land?

 

Then ask your kid this:

  • What is the LGBTQ?
  • What is Global Warming?
  • Who is Greta Thunberg?
  • What is a union?
  • What happened in 1619?

 

Our kids are only learning the history the Left wants them to learn.

 

Literature and English

Are you kidding? Look at the books that are banned. Look at how your kids write. Look at how your kids speak.

I could spend a day talking about this. Our kids do not know how to speak English anymore.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Jul092020

Episode 188 – The Cat Is Out of the Bag!

The Truth comes to Light.
Evil has become Main Stream.
It is time to fight.

 

 

Oh, Jeez…Here They Go!

The Left is on full attack. They beginning to show their true colors. It is no longer about defunding the police, it’s about changing the whole system. Ilhan Omar, who is really making things work for the Right, says something really stupid but really true. Listen:

Oops! There it is!

I find this statement amazing from Omar. She escaped the craphole that is Somalia during their one of many civil wars and ended up in a refugee camp in Kenya. Then, the United States offered her family asylum. She came here, got an education (which sounds like it didn’t take) and became a Representative in the house. I don’t know; that kind of sounds like she found the American Dream she says doesn’t exist. As far as I am concerned, she is an example of why America is great and she sounds a tad unappreciative.

She is also the last person who should be giving moral advice. She illegally married her brother so that he could come into this country and then married her husband. She has violated tax code and is under investigation for multiple ethics violations. Finally, to add the cherry to the sundae, she had an affair with a married man. She denied the affair, the cheaters got a divorce from their spouses and then the two got engaged. Yeah, I’m pretty sure she’s not one I would be listening to about evil.

This whole “defund the police” thing has nothing to do with defending the police. It has to do with ripping the system apart. Getting rid of capitalism for socialism. Eliminating religion for the state. Destroying the family for the collective. That’s what they want to do. The police and the military are the problem that prevents the Left from doing what they want. They will actually block the Left from going crazy like this. But the Left is losing their power.

Why is the Left losing their power? Because people don’t really want anything extreme like Ilhan Omar’s brave vision in the future. Most people like capitalism and George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. They don’t want change. Most people also believe that what happened to George Floyd (remember him?) was an injustice. Most people believe we should have some reforms of the police department. That does not mean we should dismantle the greatest civilization in human history.

I want Ilhan Omar to talk. Heck I want all the Left to exclaim their desires. Their plans. Their goals. Because, as Princess Leia said in Star Wars, the tighter the squeeze, the more people will slip through their fingers.

 

Dude, Let the Guy Talk!

The Left is getting desperate. Their denizens are not even hiding it. The Leftist media disguises trying to be Classical Liberals but fails in the attempt. The best example is when Terry Crews was interviewed by Don Lemon. Terry Crews basically thought that Black Lives Matter is full of crap and that blacks needed to resist the promises of being given a better life and must earn it. He said in a Tweet:

These are not really bazaar statements. He’s basically saying that black people need to take care of themselves, clean their own yards before overturning the country. We need to be real about the nature of people and see what is happening. People are not dying of evil police but are killing each other. But these thoughts go against Black Lives Matter. Unfortunately, Don Lemon of CNN let the cat out of the bag while he was pontificating over Terry Crews in an interview:

I love Don Lemon. Not his politics. I think those are stupid but he’s so dumb he will let the cat out of the bag. Chris Cuomo does it too. He basically said that BLM is not about black lives. It’s only about police brutality (and there’s not a lot of evidence of that) and social change. Lemon admitted it. It is not all about black lives. It is about certain black lives. Black lives about police brutality. Not about murder of black people through crime. This is stupid. It is about transgender protection, collectivism, Marxism, destroying the nuclear family. It is good that Don Lemon finally admits it.

Also, he gives us a little hint. Crime is way up and blacks are killing other blacks. This is something they are not going to be able to hide anymore. Did you catch it. Bet you did. It is going to turn out to be about gun control. That is a podcast for another day.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnns-don-lemon-battles-with-terry-crews-over-black-lives-matters-agenda

 

Did She Really Say That?

I got into a debate this weekend with my brother-in-law. We are pretty tight and can talk politics even though we are kind of on the opposite sides of the issue. Neither of us won the debate. We just agreed to disagree. But, one of the things that tripped me out was his theory about the “defund the police” movement. He is a former fire fighter (a captain) and told me the defunding thing is not what I thought it was. I told him he did not understand Black Lives Matter.

Well, leave it to Black Lives Matter to prove my point. This is YahNé Ndgo who heads the Philadelphia chapter of Black lLves Matter:

Re there any doubts now? This is pure Marxism. The community will take care of everyone and all their wants and needs. This is literally cut out of the Communist Manifesto. And we need to be clear: Black Lives Matter wants to rid the country of police.Period. Not transfer some money to social programs, or create other sections of the police departments

 

 

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Episode 186 – Someone’s Gotta Do It

Bid Adieu to CHOP
Law and Order is a must.
No Peace without it.

 

News

The City Hall Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ, or CHOP, they never really decided is no more. And it took a threat of violence to the sympathetic mayor for it to go away.

Earlier this week, Black Lives Matter protesters, well, rioters, stood in front of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s $7 million, yelling. That was it! It had to end now that our overlords are being annoyed. The Seattle police and FBI went into CHOP and, for the most part, everyone ran away like rats. Only thirty people were arrested.

Unlike the mayor, I thought the place should have been ripped apart the second someone died. So far two died with two injured in shootings. Shootings that involved roving gangs of CHOP “law enforcement.”

Now New York idiots are trying to start their own CHOP commune. In front of Bill DeBlaso’s workplace, New York’s City Hall.

So, what is the reasonable response to handling lawlessness? Cut the police, of course.

New York City has agreed to cut one billion dollars in budget for the NYPD. This will cut new police recruits for being hire, will cut their plain clothes police force and will cut off overtime. You know what that means? Less cops on the streets. Don’t forget that New York already has a no-bail policy so people do not have to stay in jail after they commit crime.

Los Angeles is going to cut $100 million out of their budget for the police. Because Los Angeles does not have any issues like drugs, crime and homelessness. Oh, wait, they do.

Virginia has decided to lower charges when it comes to violence against the police. What?

The police has been made into villains. And it is not because of what happened to George Floyd. This is about taking over the system. This is about making the capitalist government look evil.

 

The Destruction of Law and Order

The purpose of the government, whether it be local, state of federal government is made up of only two parts:

  • Protect the people.
  • Provide a civil outlet for monetary or social injustice.

 

For the federal government, this means protecting the people from foreign attacks and resolve issues involving interstate commerce. That is it. Nothing more. The federal government has expanded through misguided laws and the courts (and that’s a topic for another podcast) but that is it. They do not deal with intrastate commerce or protecting state citizens.

The state government is meant to protect its citizens and resolve commerce conflicts. That is it. Nothing more. Some state governments have expanded their roles through the courts (and that’s a topic for another podcast). They do not answer to the federal government and should not deal with local government.

Local government could be defined as a county, city or town (principality). They are responsible for protecting the people and resolving conflicts in commerce. That is it. Nothing more. Some local governments have expanded their roles through the courts (and that’s a topic for another podcast). They do not answer to the federal government. They do not answer to the state government. But they do answer to the people.

The people have the most responsibility. We have the responsibility to live by moral purpose. We are to be the best people we can be based on nature’s laws (from the Bible). We do not murder or steal or swindle. We are here to be as successful as our capacity will allow while following those natural laws and the laws of our society. We are responsible for using reason to innovate (Plato, Aristotle, Acquines). Innovation that will improve the life of the individual and the lives of society. We are to combine our reason with moral purpose (mostly religious laws which the Founders saw to be natural laws). If, we the people, follow this, our society will become stronger.

As free citizens, we have one more responsibility: Protect ourselves from enemies, both foreign and domestic. And “domestic enemies” really means our own government. It says it in the second amendment:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

So here’s the thing: We have a social contract in this country. We will live following the rules and lead productive lives. If we do not follow this, we will be poor or put in jail. The government will solve our commercial conflicts and protect us. If they do not, we will get our guns, form a militia and replace the government.

Here’s the question: Exactly who it fulfilling their side of the contract right now?

 

Why Did I Bring This Up?

Did you see the patterns in the above? All governments, including state and local governments, only have three responsibilities: protect us, settle commercial disputes and leave us alone. The Constitution tells us this. The Federalist Papers tell us this. And if the government fails to protect us and our freedoms, we have a right, defined in the Second Amendment, that we can take it upon ourselves to protect ourselves, our families and our property. Nay, the Second Amendment demands it.

Our country is failing us. Last podcast we talked about how the Left wants to tear down the system. The Left exclaims that the police and military are evil and should be thrown out. Then the Left has the audacity to tell us that we do not have the moral capacity to break out our guns and protect all that we have worked hard and is dear to us.

You can imagine what would happen if you were in this poor woman’s situation and you called the government for help. And this is all you got:

That is terrifying. This was a woman in her car with her toddler daughter when a group of “non-violent protesters” blocked her path. Then they started attacking her car. I do not know what happened, but this should never happen. Where were the police? They were told to stand down during these “peaceful” protests.

These thugs are running around and tearing down statues of people they do not even know. And the police are just watching them or not there at all. Why? They are being told to stand down by government officials.

St. John’s Church in Washington D.C. was set on fire. This is a church that every President in the United States visited. Where were the police? The Washington D.C. mayor told the police to stand down.

CHOP or CHAZ had four shootings that left two dead. One shooting was by a 16 year old critically injuring a 14 year old. Where were the police? They were told to stand down by the Seattle mayor, Jenny Durkan.

Contrary to what the Left’s belief system is, most normal Americans do not want statues torn down, churches burned or people assaulted or killed. This is anarchy. This is communism. And this stuff did happen in communist countries. Lenin burned Russian historical sites. In fact, it has happened in all tyrannical regimes. Can you say ISIS?

People are not going to tolerate this garbage in this country. And people are already beginning to respond.

 

What Do the Stats Say?

There has always been stress between the police and black community. Heck, there has been stress between police and the Left. They have been vilified by the Left. Anything they do is questioned. Anything they do deserves a prison sentence. Anyone the arrest is a victim. With the advent of the camera phone and social media, everything they do is seen and spread, whether it is good they are doing or bad.

Here’s the thing: the police do a very hard job. A job that is dirty and is not always pleasant. And, at times, it can be very violent. Even the episodes of Cops that we always watched in the past was cleaned up for television. But this reaction that all cops are racist just does not float.

According to a database compiled by the Washington Post, no exactly a conservative outlet, in 2019 there were 375 million confrontations involving police. Only a fraction of those led to police using their gun or shooting a suspect. The total number of unarmed black people that were shot was 9. That’s right: only 9 unarmed black people were shot by police. Out of 375 million confrontations! Does not exactly sound like the cops are hunting black people. By the way, there were 19 unarmed white people killed. There were a total of 1004 deaths by cop in 2019. That means .0003% of police confrontations actually led to death by shooting. Not a lot. Of those deaths, 37% were white, 24% were black and 16% were Hispanic. Now, blacks being shot by police is higher than there population (15% of the population is black) but it is not too extreme. Not to mention, the poverty rate, single family homes and education capacity is also a lot higher within the black culture which leads to more crime. That’s not racist, it is just facts.

But one statistic that we do not ever see is how many confrontations between police and blacks were actually because a crime was committed? We do not know. How many of those confrontations were initiated by a call to the police versus the police stumbling on a black person? We do not know.

All this also applies to the justice system. How many by race are in jail or prison because they actually committed a crime? I bet it is around 99.9% (I have to assume there are some innocents in prison). If that is the case, what difference does race have when a person is in jail or prison? A criminal is a criminal.

The Left ignores statistics. Facts just do not jive with their narrative. They just roll out the same old cases and point to them as proof of racism. They like to point to:

  • Trayvon Martin – Who was not shot by a white cop but a Hispanic civilian.
  • Michael Brown – Who was unarmed but committed a strong-armed robbery and assaulted and injured a police officer before he was shot.
  • Breanna Taylor – Who was killed in a botched raid.
  • George Floyd – murdered by police.
  • Philando Castille – Shot by an officer because he was holding a gun.
  • Tamir Rice – Shot because he held a modified toy gun.
  • Eric Gardner – Selling loose cigarettes and resisted, put in a choke hold and had a heart attack.
  • Freddy Gray – Died of a broken neck in police custody. Four officers charged (two being black). All released.
  • Rayshard Brooks – Shot by police after resisting and pointing the policeman taser at the policeman.

 

Notice something here? The cases have nothing to do with each other. There are no commonalities. Some (Floyd and Taylor) were completely unjustified. Some (Brown, Brooks, Gray and Gardner) were actually committing crimes. Finally others (Castille and Rice) were understandable accidents.

Also, these deaths did not occur in the same year but over the span of several years. It is not like the Left can point to twenty of thirty cases a year. The also ignore the fact that Brown, Floyd, Rice, Gardner, Gray and Brooks were all committing crimes.

To me, it does not seem like the facts justify all the noise the Left is creating.

 

Overreaction…Sort Of

With the death of George Floyd, which is completely unjustified and the officers should all be fired and spend time in prison, the Left has taken the opportunity to get rid of the police and let anarchy take the streets.

When the protests turned to riots, the mayors and governors decided to tell the police to stand down. This led to violent riots that destroyed hundreds of businesses and private property, injured hundreds of civilians and police and led to the deaths of civilians and police. The media has decided to ignore all this and proclaim that the riots were just “peaceful protests.” One reporter actually had the balls to say this while a building was burning behind him. The cowardly mayors allowed  blocks of destruction and two police precincts in two different cities to be overtaken by rioters.

With no police, there was anarchy. And most of the problems occurred in Leftist cities (Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, New York City, Seattle, Portland, Washington DC, Dallas, Houston and Baltimore just to name a few). Of course, it was not the crappy policies that were creating these riots, it was the police. Black Lives Matter (a Marxist organization) and Antifa (and anarchist organization) were never blamed for the violence though both admit that violence was needed. They were seen as groups representing the “victims” of the the police.

So what did the Leftists do to calm the violence and crime?

  • Eliminate cash bail.
  • Allow lawlessness including tearing down of statues, burning building, looting and murder without actually arresting anyone.
  • Abandon two police precincts.
  • Allow the formation of Chaz which led to the shooting deaths of two people.
  • Forbid police from responding to calls involving rioters…er…peaceful protesters.

 

But it is getting worse.

  • New York City has decided to cut $1.5 billion from the police force.
  • Los Angeles has decided to cut $150 million from the police force.
  • The Minneapolis City Council has voted to completely defund the police department.
  • Virginia has a law pending that would lessen the crime for assaulting a police officer.
  • Many cities have banned choke, holds, tasers and tear gas. I guess the police are suppose to use foul language.
  • Congress wants to ban Qualified Immunity so that a cop can get sued for anything.
  • Domestic disturbance, drug and mental health calls should not be handled by police but by unarmed social workers.

 

There are two goals here by the Left: Get rid of the police or make it that no one wants to be a police officer. Unfortunately, this philosophy is picking up steam and seems to have become mainstream. It’s hard to believe but a Christian straight man that works hard and loves his country is now part of the counter-culture.

 

Fighting Back…Legally

This is where a civil war within the United States could start. It is when people who stand up for their country and their rights fight back against the Leftist mobs that are trying to tear down our freedom, institutions and history. They burn our flag and want to destroy our monuments.

Gun sales have gone through the roof, up 80%. Gun stores are complaining that they cannot keep up with demand for guns and ammunition. Gun manufacturers cannot produce enough to keep up with demand. Do you know what this mean? Guns have become a commodity. Is this surprising? Of course not. Without cops, people have to fend for themselves. The greatest support for the Second Amendment is the Left’s hatred for police.

This week, Mark McClosky and his wife saw something that scared them. Groups of “non-violent protesters” broke through the wrought iron gate of their private community. The rioters were on there way to another house. They started cursing and threatening the McCloskys. At that point, the wife pulled out a handgun and the husband pulled out an AR-15. Guess what happened? The protesters walked right passed the house. Yeah, they were screaming and stuff but they showed the kind of people they were when confronted: cowards.

The media demonized the McCloskys, of course. But Mark is a lawyer, knows how debate and is a classical liberal. He aligns more with Black Lives Matter than Fox News. He also laid a whooping to Chris Cuomo when he suggested that the destruction of McClosky’s house is less important than the cause. McClosky said he worked hard for 32 years to get where he is and he had a right to protect it since all his calls to 911 were ignored. Cuomo had a tough time responding.

Unbeknownst to the Left, they have actually helped arm America. The average American does not like what he is seeing and is preparing to fight against this lawlessness the Left is propagating. Because they have decided to eliminate police, Americans did not panic. They just decided to take matters into their own hands. In the near future, we are going to see neighborhoods and communities arm and organize to ensure the protection of the community. The Constitution had a term for this in the Second Amendment: an armed militia.

 

Conclusion

Do our police need better training and be held to a higher level of accountability? Darn right they do. I wanted to hold a podcast talking about the things I would require from police but I will list a few things right now.

  • We need a database of police indiscretions and misconduct. Police misconduct should not be left to the local government but spread throughout the United States.
  • Training needs to be expanded to the point of the training our Special Forces in the military go through. This includes physical, mental and emotional training. This is why the Navy SEALS are so elite and rock butt. The police go through the same rigors and should be trained the same way. Refer to Dan Crenshaw’s book Fortitude.
  • Police should have to go through periodic (monthly) psychological testing. Tests for PTSD, emotional issues and anger issues. Not police are only tested when they go through a tramatic event.

 

These are just some of the things I would want done. There are more. But all this require more money put into our police, not less. I think we need more police on the streets, not less.

But there are also things that we should expect from our citizens. Things that 75% of the population are already doing. And if those practices are violated, not be surprised by the results. That includes:

  • Treat the police like they are authority. They are.
  • Obey their commands.
  • Treat them respect. They will treat you the same way.
  • Remember that the words or accusations of the police is not the final word. You can fight them in court.
  • Remember that the police have been trained to think you are going to kill them. They want to live more than they want to keep you alive.
  • Remember that the police are people. They are there to protect you. And bitching about a speeding ticket, even if it does not end in violence, makes their job harder and will ruin their day.

 

We need the police. We need better police. We can have that. The Left’s attempt to rid our country of police will just lead to chaos. We already saw that in Chaz.

 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/list-police-related-deaths-usa-1.4438618

 

 

 

 

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Jul012020

Episode 185 – Race and Sex and Class…Oh, My!

Race, Sex, Creed and Class.
INTERSECTIONALITY:
Very, very BAD!

 

Taylor Swift is on a crusade against the United States government  Injustice has not struck the heart of the United States census and SJW General Swift needs to swoop in and save the world.

The United States government had the audacity to ask if the head of household is a male of female. That’s right! No, transgender, cisgender, non-binary, beastiosexual or any other of the 1800 different genders have been defined. Just male and female.

“I got my census the other day and there were two choices: male and female. And that erasure was so upsetting to me,” the “Lover” singer added.

Swift described the two-gender option as “a really brutal way of dismissing” transgender and nonbinary citizens. “We need to make sure we elect people who care about all communities.” -DailyWire

For years, Taylor Swift has stayed completely out of politics and got crap for it. I thought it was actually quite refreshing. But she received a lot of pressure from Leftist groups about her opinions. She finely caved and I no longer listen to Taylor Swift. I know she doesn’t care. I’m not exactly in her demographic. She came out as the typical dumb Millennial; as Leftist as the day is long. Her specialty seems to be LGBTQ issues but hating Trump is good enough.

This is really. dumb. The government doesn’t care about what people you are attracted too. They only care if you are male or female. If you are a male who has decided to be female, fine. Check the female box. They do not care. I am pretty sure the government does not have the other genders listed because the form would end up being 400 pages longer (it’s long enough as it is) and they do not have enough computing power to calculate the demographics of the 1800 different genders.

Not to mention, no one really cares. I do not fill out the census because I am sure there are three illegal aliens out there that are filling it out for me. That is another thing I find funny: It’s an affront not to add all the different genders but a bad thing to ask one’s immigration status (something that is actually important).

Typical. The Left always has to point out someone is a victim of something. Even check boxes can be bigoted.

But this is a perfect story to lead us into today’s topics: Identity Politics and Intersectionality.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/taylor-swift-deeply-upset-by-gender-options-on-u-s-census

 

 

Identity Politics and Intersectionality

Introduction

I was going to deal with race in this section today because it is such a hot button topic. Black Lives Matter has been heading the protests since the death of George Floyd and you cannot listen to CNN for more than 15 minutes without hearing the words “race”, “racism”, and “white supremacist”. But, then I thought about it and realized race was not really the problem. It is Identity Politics and Intersectionality that are the problems.

Black Lives Matter (a terrorist group as far as I am concerned) whole philosophy is based on Intersectionality. In their manifesto on their website, they say:

“We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work “double shifts” so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work…

“We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).

We cultivate an intergenerational and communal network free from ageism. We believe that all people, regardless of age, show up with the capacity to lead and learn.

We embody and practice justice, liberation, and peace in our engagements with one another.” -BlackLivesMatter.com

So, they bond with women, gays, transgenders and the old against the patriarchy which is defined as white straight male led slavery. They are not all about black people. They are about all “oppressed” groups. If one can get through all of the communist crap they are peddling (terms like “collective” and “comrades” are sprinkled throughout the short essay), one can see that BLM is more than just about black lives.

This is the perfect cut over into what is really wrong with this philosophy.

 

Identity Politics

This is a philosophy that came out in the 1960’s during the Civil Rights Movement and the second wave of feminism. Though the term was not coined until much later, there were studies by professors in the late seventies and early eighties that “proved” that one’s identity (age, race, gender and creed) put one in a category of victimhood.

Identity Politics is defined as:

“The laden phrase “identity politics” has come to signify a wide range of political activity and theorizing founded in the shared experiences of injustice of members of certain social groups. Rather than organizing solely around belief systems, programmatic manifestos, or party affiliation, identity political formations typically aim to secure the political freedom of a specific constituency marginalized within its larger context. Members of that constituency assert or reclaim ways of understanding their distinctiveness that challenge dominant oppressive characterizations, with the goal of greater self-determination.”  -(https://plato.stanford.edu, link below)

So, essentially, if you belong to a group (black, women, gay) you are a victim. When you accept that you are a victim, this will give one greater agency to discover their victimhood and go beyond it.

I know what you are thinking. Just wait for it. There is more to it then we will discuss how dumb this whole thing is.

 

Intersectionality

Identity Politics, unfortunately, does not go far enough. What if you belong to two victim groups? What if you are a black woman?

That’s where Intersectionality comes into play. The term was first used in 1989 by Kimberlé Crenshaw, a civil rights activist and legal scholar. In a paper for the University of Chicago Legal Forum, Crenshaw wrote that traditional feminist ideas and antiracist policies exclude black women because they face overlapping discrimination unique to them. “Because the intersectional experience is greater than the sum of racism and sexism, any analysis that does not take intersectionality into account cannot sufficiently address the particular manner in which Black women are subordinated,” she wrote in the paper. (Emphasis added.) (cjr.org).

It was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015 and defined as:

“The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage; a theoretical approach based on such a premise.”

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defined it as:

“The complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups.”

The victim groups you belong to will intersect to define the victim you are and the value to society you have. And what you are owed. The less intersections (or none) the less valuable.

The Intersectionality score determines an individual’s value when it comes to: philosophy, what they deserve, temperance that they have from society and economic value.

So there you have it! Let’s review:

  • You are a white woman? You use Identity Politics to emphasize your victimhood as a woman because women couldn’t vote 100 years ago. Society owes you.
  • You are a black woman? You use Intersectionality to state you are more of a victim because you are a woman (women couldn’t vote a 100 years ago) and are black (blacks were slaves and dealt with Jim Crow laws). Society owes you more.
  • You are a Native American trans female lesbian who is Muslim? Jackpot!
  • You are a straight, white, Christian male? Screwed!

 

The Big Problems with this Philosophy

I reject this philosophy. Not just because I am a straight white male Christian, one who has no victimhood and should be dismissed, but because it is stupid. And its value system, is accepted, forces our civilization to be more stupid. But, what I will talk about later, it is dangerous. Here are five reasons this philosophy fails.

First, it excludes people, even those it champions to protect.

Straight white mail Christians are screwed. As far as intersectionality is concerned, we are the root of patriarchy and all that is evil in our civilization. Fine, whatever. The problem is that there have been some pretty smart white men in our civilization. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Galileo, DaVinci, Shakespeare, Poe, Jefferson, Washington, Locke, Twain, Franklin, Einstein, Steinbeck. Gates, Jobs, Bezos, Musk and Trump, just to name a very few.

Ok, Trump was a joke but you get where I am going.

There are also very fine white men whose philosophy and reason I would trust far more than some of the victims that Intersectionality deems for its sainthood. Names like Shapiro, Weinstein, Klavan, Harris, Crowder, Peterson, Levin, Pool, Carolla, Rowe, Bongino, Rogan Hannity, Sowell, Mahr, Rubin, Gutfeld and Crenshaw, just to name a few. OK, Dave Rubin is gay and Greg Gutfeld is kind of gay but I trust the reason of these guys over some self-proclaimed victim. But, because these are straight, white men (or, just white men) they have no say about the moral questions of our country. Ben Shapiro has no right to argue about abortion because he is a rich white male. He had something to say about that we he was confronted with that:

Nuff said.

The above debate is another big problem with Intersectionality: It discourages reasonable debate if one of the parties does not belong to a victim group or his victimhood does not match the one he is debating. It is the worst aspect of this cultist philosophy. Anyone who doesn’t agree and is not a member of a victim group is just wrong because he doesn’t understand. Evil, science and reason be damned. When a philosophy refuses to acknowledge these and will reject truth, this is not a philosophy, it is a cult. We know where all cults lead.

Another huge problem with Intersectionality and Identity Politics is that it ignores history, law, capitalism and other social factors for those groups.

We have talked about history in our last podcast. The Left has created a historical vacuum when it comes to the United States. We never escaped slavery even though we fought a Civil War that almost killed 700,000 people. We never ended racism even though we have the 15th and 16th Amendments and have passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (voted on by white men). Women were not able to vote a hundred years ago even though we went through women’s suffrage, passed sexism laws and equal rights laws in the workplace. We are still a bigoted nation against the LGBTQ movement even though we have gay marriage.

The above mentioned some of the laws that were passed that ended discrimination. But here are a couple of laws that no one talks about when they say how systemically racist, sexist and bigoted we are. Murder and lynching are illegal. If done because of an attack on a protected victim group, the hate crime statute is enacted, adding 20 extra years in prison (I hate this). Workplace harassment and discrimination is illegal and can start civil proceedings. So if women actually earned 70 cents per dollar of a male counterpart, she can sue. That goes with any minority. There have been tens-of-thousands of cases through the court system and trillions of dollars of awards. Don’t believe me, learn a newspaper. Stories are brought up daily.

But the Left does not care about history. They want it gone. For them, our history is an inconvenience. It interferes with the narrative. That is why they are trying to destroy any statue, whether it be George Washington or Jesus Christ, to eliminate any reminents of our history.

Let’s face it: If there is anything good about the United States, why tear down the system? Why not build on it? The Left does not want that. They want the system gone.

Capitalism has been demonized by the Left. But capitalism is what has been assuring equality in the workplace. The “women earn 70% of men in the workplace” is complete crap. Here’s the skinny: Capitalism only cares about results. The bottom line. I know the Left thinks this is a bad thing, but it’s not. Capitalism only cares about the bottom line. And if capitalism could save 30% on the bottom line by hiring women or blacks, it would. Capitalism is why Jackie Robinson was the first black man that played in Major League Baseball. He was a great player that could make the the Dodgers a World Series winning team. Because if the Dodgers won the World Series, they would make money. That simple.

If a company makes widgets at at the retail cost of production at $5 per unit with manufacturing, but save $.30 per unit to be manufactured by a woman or save $.50 per unit because a black woman or a black man was hired, why not hire the black man or black women?

If I am a capitalist, why pay $1 for someone if I could pay $.70 for someone else?

Because, in capitalism, companies hire based capacity and ability. And they pay based on capacity and ability. One’s race is irrelevant. Capitalism is color-blind. If I suck at my job, I lose my job or get paid less. If I’m great at my job, I get paid more or get promoted. Period

The “big bosses” don’t know if I’m black or white. They just know what I did. If capitalist companies were racist and sexist, they would lose good workers. Because those great workers would quit and find another company. Likewise, people do not get paid less based on their race or sex. If this happened, again people would leave and go to another company. Thomas Sowell, a black economist, proved this statistically more than thirty years ago.

Everyone thinks capitalism supports the rich. It doesn’t. It supports the productive and the innovative. That includes the advantaged. If one creates, they win. Period. Amazon knew it. Apple knew it. Microsoft knew it. Tesla knew it. Capitalism is not the evil the Left likes to make it out to be. Socialism, on the other hand, is evil. Stealing money and giving to others is nothing short of theft. Just because it is legal does not mean it is not theft.

Finally, this philosophy creates an “us versus them” environment. Because I do not belong in a victim group or am in a lower victim class, my views and life is irrelevant. Do you think I am going to sit easy with that? Nope, I am not and I am going to tell you. Not to mention, I am going to have very little respect for your opinion. That lack of respect will turn to anger, anger turns to hate and hate usually leads to violence.

That’s where we are heading.

 

Why this Philosophy is Dangerous

Here’s the big problem with Intersectionality and Identity Politics: it’s dangerous. Because the victim classes believe that the sins of the United States never went away, the system is still corrupt. That means that the system needs to be changed. As we have seen with the Black Lives Matter philosophy (and Antifa, for that matter) we know what they want to replace it with: Socialism. The destruction of capitalism, opportunity, freedoms, the Constitution, speech, religion; all gone. The government will control all and we will be at the mercy of its whim.

How close our we to this? Very. The Left is very close to controlling the government. If President Trump does not mellow out on the Tweeting thing, he could very well lose this election. His poll numbers are not looking great and Joe Biden’s strategy of hiding is his basement and not screwing up is working (though I think that is going to end soon).

Finally, the most dangerous aspect of this philosophy is cancel culture. In the beginning, cancel culture was actually kind of funny. People would call for the firing of Conservatives like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson. Of course, by people who have never seen their shows. They cancelled things like Aunt Jamima and scream that chess is racist. That is a thing because the white pieces always go first (ugh!).

But, right before our eyes, cancel culture is morphing. Looting and domestic terrorism is cancelling businesses by destroying them. Companies like the NFL, NBA, Google, Twitter and Microsoft has bent the knee to these groups and rejected anyone who rejects the radical beliefs of Black Lives Matter. Our statues are being torn down. Our flag is being burned.

This is happening now.

But it is getting worse. People are being silenced on social media because of their beliefs. People are being doxxed and fire from their jobs, ruining their careers. People are being attacked because of the color of their hats, saying the wrong thing or just looking different. Normal, law-abiding citizens are being left unprotected because the police departments are being told to stand down and defunded. This has led to the serious injury and deaths of the innocent. Think I am exaggerating? Look up David Dorn, David McAtee, Chris Beaty, Dorean Murrell, Italia Kelly, Marquis Tousant, Patrick Underwood, Calvin Horton Jr., James Scurlock, Javar Harrell, Barry Perkins III, Jorge Gomez, Jose Gutierrez, Victor Cazares Jr. and Marvin Francois. Just to name a few. I did not mention the hundreds that are getting shot in places like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles simply because the police have been told to stand down.

This is happening now. What could happen in the future?

Could I get into trouble with the law because I say the wrong thing? Use the wrong pronoun? Pray to my God? Complain about the government? Not want to give up my gun? Be able to reason why our government is wrong? Seem far fetched? They are already doing that in countries like China, Russia, North Korea and, to a smaller extent, Germany, Canada, Japan and France. Why don’t we think it could not happen here?

Could I be arrested for my race? Being part of the “privileged class”? Because I reason, pray and see injustice? could I be imprisoned in a work camp? Lose my family, career and life because people do not like what I am saying today? It happened in countries like Russia (Soviet Union), China, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, and Germany.  Why don’t we think it could not happen here?

Folks, this is the endpoint of cancel culture. It has been done before. It never ended well.

This is something I cannot get behind. This is something I will fight against.

 

https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/intersectionality.php#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIntersectionality%E2%80%9D%20was%20coined%20in%201989,overlapping%20discrimination%20unique%20to%20them
https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/12/2/13718770/identity-politics
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-politics/
https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
https://fox6now.com/2020/06/08/deadly-unrest-here-are-the-people-who-have-died-amid-george-floyd-protests-across-us/
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https://7news.com.au/sport/sydney-radio-station-asks-if-chess-is-racist-because-white-always-moves-first-c-1121419

 

 

 

 

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Jun272020

Episode 184 – History is Us

History is us
Destroying it destroys us.
Can’t let it happen.

 

The Destruction of History

I did something weird this week. In fact, I bet I will be put on some FBI watch list after purchases are scanned. I bought Margaret Sanger’s Women and the New Race and Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. 

Margaret Sanger is a eugenicist, racist, abortionist and founder of Planned Parenthood. She believed that abortion should be required for anyone who would weaken society. That includes babies born with Downs Syndrome, physical disabilities and…wait for it…people of color, especially blacks. That’s not a mistake. She’s considered an American hero to the Left. They, conveniently, left out the fact that she was an ardent Marxist and wanted to breed blacks out of American society. This is an example of the Left’s revisionist history and I wanted to read her own words.

Howard Zinn’s book is being sent to schools as required reading. It has been touted as the history book by Will Hunting from the Oscar winning movie, Good Will Hunting (I like Matt Damon as an actor, by the way). He was also a Marxist and socialist. He said the American Indians were innocent and loving giving Columbus the chance to slaughter them at will. The conflicts with the Soviet Union, Cuba, Korea and Vietnam were because of American imperialism. Our kids are reading this crap. This is an example of the Left’s revisionist history and I wanted to read his own words.

Today, we have a bunch of snot-nosed kids tearing down statues because… not sure. I mean, I get it if they were tearing down statues of Robert E. Lee or of Jefferson Davis or even of John Adams. But Abraham Lincoln, who started a war that led to the death of 700,000 Americans to end slavery and was killed by a… um… Democrat? And Ulysses S. Grant, who was an ardent anti-slavery guy and helped pen the 15th Amendment? And Francis Scot Key, who wrote the poem that ended up being the Star Spangled Banner? Or Theodore Roosevelt, who was the most popular President in U.S. history and really didn’t do anything that could be seen as controversial.

Here’s the thing: the radicals we are seeing in the streets right now, encouraged by the Left, don’t care about what statue they destroy. Their goal is not to destroy Confederate statues, which can be understood a bit. Their goal is to destroy American history. The Left cannot have history in America if they want to change the institution of America.

Here’s the thing: America was a bad place at one time. We fixed it. Are we perfect? No. But this country is as close to perfect than any other country in human history. We had slavery. We had Jim Crow. We didn’t let women vote. We interred Asian Americans during World War II. We had Watergate. We supported terrible regimes. But we saw our sins and we dealt with them. That is our history.

Here’s the problem with the Left: They want complete change of our institutions and philosophy. They want to control the economy, media, art, education and healthcare. They want a all-controlling government that determines every aspect of our lives. They do not want us to think of ourselves as individuals but as a collective, without individual identity and whose value is only based on what he can do for the collective.

They proclaim the need for love and togetherness. They claim that the sins of the United States can be solved by working together. They claim we can all have homes, money, education, healthcare, televisions, Internet and iPhones. Our collective love can solve crime so we will not need those evil police. They claim we can achieve world peace through globalism so that we do not need a military to solve international conflicts.

This sounds great. Heck, it sounds like The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. I read the pamphlet when I was 20 years old and it made sense. I can see why kids think it is a good philosophy. Heck, in college, I took a class in the different religions and thought all of them were good. It made me question my Christianity.

I can see why there is a push to get rid of our way of life and replace it with a philosophy that promises Utopia.

Here’s the problem: History. World history and the United States history.

There has never been a communist, socialist or marxist country that has not led to tyranny, imprisonment, starvation and death. The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany (which was a socialist country), Italy (which is fascist country), North Korea, China, Venezuela, Vietnam, Cuba and assorted Central American countries have tried to create Marx’s utopia. They all ended up in tyranny and dictatorships, imprisoning or killing anyone who does not comply.

What does the Left do? Revisionist history. I have children in my life. They don’t know what the Soviet Union is. They don’t know what the Cold War was. They don’t know what the Berlin Wall was. They know about Hitler because he was a fascist (they don’t know what that is) because Conservatives have been tagged as fascists (which makes not sense). But they don’t know anything about Lennin, Staling or Mao, each of who have killed far more than Hitler has.

And educators teach about wonderful “socialist” countries like Norway, Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands. This is the great lie. These countries are not socialist and never have been. These countries continue to point out they are not socialist. But the Left continues to revise world history in order to push their narrative.

The next big problem the Left has is American history. And this is far more problematic for them. They are attacking the problem revise and eliminate.

The revision of the history of the United States has been going on for decades. Howard Zinn’s book, A People’s History of the United States, was first published in 1980 and took society like a whirl wind. It made the United States out to be an imperialist country that is the cause of all the evil in the world. Zinn is a well-known Marxist but not much of a historian. His book is rife with mistakes and exaggerations. Real historians have debunked the book over and over again. But this book continues to be used in schools and is a reference in colleges. This type of history makes every event, whether good or bad, into something that had evil undertones. Columbus’ discovery was not a great achievement but was to enslave the peaceful American Indians and rape the country of resources. World War II was not to end the tyranny of Japan and the genocide in Germany but was to quench our imperialist appetite. This is all crap, of course, but people are buying it.

The New York Times 1619 Project is another example of revisionist history but it does something a bit different. This Pulitzer Prize winning piece (of crap) decides to ignore history all together. It states the history of the United States started in 1619 with the first black slaves arriving on our shores. Mind you, there was no United States in 1619. It tries to convince people (and is doing a good job) that the United States was founded on slavery and oppression and that we have never left that philosophy. That the country in 2020 is no different than it was in 1619. It ignores the creation Declaration of Independence and Constitution. It ignores the philosophies of the Founding Fathers when it comes to slavery and only focuses on their sins. It ignores the fact that there has been slavery throughout world history (and it remains today) and that slavery is a uniquely American trait. It ignores the 600,000 people that died in the Civil War we had to eliminate slavery. It ignores the Emancipation Proclamation that was supported by most of the country. It ignores the 15th and 16th Amendments that gave blacks freedom and right to vote. It ignores Women’s Suffrage that gave women the right to vote. It ignores the Civil Rights Act that ended the Jim Crow laws.

It does not see the United States as a country that saw evil and transformed and grew. It chooses to see the United States as continually as evil as some of our beliefs back in the 17th century. In fact, it sees us as the arbiters of that evil. In other words, we started it. And the best way to end the world’s evil is to end the system that started it and continues to promulgate it.

This is just crazy. There has always been evil in the world. The United States has spent its entire history fighting the evils in the world and from within. And it has done a great job of it. This series of essays is complete crap. Heck, the New York Times had to run a series of corrections on the historical “facts”. But this did not stop the essay from winning a Pulitzer Prize.

This project is what is leading the youth to destroy statues today. I have more thoughts on this in a later article. This is to destroy our history. That’s because those statues represent the changes that our country has gone through to become the greatest country in world history. Yes, it is in the guise of racist cops and American systemic racism. But, then, why tear down the statues of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant and Theodore Roosevelt? Because they are symbols of progress in the United States. And the Left cannot allow any knowledge of progress or transformation in this country because it would mean that we have grown as a nation and are not terrible.

The Left wants to destroy us. They use uneducated children to do their deeds. Children that don’t know our history, have accomplished nothing, want everything for free and are filled with the ideas of an unattainable utopia. All so that a few elitist tyrants can gain power.

My advice: Always question interpreted history. Beware of any history that goes to extremes like Howard Zinn’s history does. No country is completely evil. Especially this one.

And do not be silent. We’re passed that now. When someone says something stupid, point out

 

 

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Jun262020

Episode 183 – It Only Takes That First Shot

No agreement here.
We must agree to disagree,
Or chaos ensues.

 

Is Civil War in our Future?

I was talking to someone who lived through the turbulent 60s and asked her how it compares today. I was born in 1968 so don’t know anything about the 60s. She said things are far worse today. She said people then were more unhappy about the Vietnam War and government corruption. There was racism and anger about the struggle of implementing the Civil Rights Act.

She said that anger went through the 1970s. Watergate, the oil crisis, the Iranian hostages and an economic recession. It was a mess. And I haven’t even mentioned Disco.

But, throughout this time, there was never a thought that the country was in crisis. There was never a serious thought of overthrowing the government. The news media did not lionize the hippies. Though sympathetic to their cause, the Black Panthers were seen as a criminal group.

There was still a lot that united us. Iran was holding 49 Americans and our people wanted them back. There was the Cold War which gave us a united enemy. And the Soviet Union was evil. I haven’t even mentioned we all agreed disco was evil.

But we got through that. The United States hockey team beat the Soviets in Olympic hockey. Ronald Reagan established American pride. The first space shuttle launched. The economy grew. We became respected militarily. The Soviet Union fell. It was the start of thirty years of relative peace (except for that 9/11 thing but even that we all agreed on).

Today,  we are in trouble. That’s because we have the same distinct groups but we are so far apart that there can not be a center.  What do I mean by that?

Abortion is a great example. In fact, it might be one of the reason we are not so close anymore. There appears to only be one of two choices when it comes to abortion: for or against. I, along with a lot of other people, will argue that an absolute truth is very hard to find. Abortion in no different. There are compelling arguments on both side of the argument. I must point out that the child being “just” a clump of cells is, scientifically, not one of them. It went from a black-and-white issue to a shades-of-gray issue.

And I treat it like that.

Let’s just say in the case of rape. I do not believe abortion is a great idea in the case of rape. It’s not important why I think that now. Maybe we can talk about that later. But, I do see how one can be for abortion in the cases of rape. And that’s fine. This argument is used all the time by the Left. I tell the Lefty that I would vote for abortion for rape victims if he would vote to eliminate abortions of convenience. The answer I receive tells me about whether this person could work with me.

There are always shades-of-gray. But not with the Left and where they want to go. I can’t go for that. That’s really bad. I think this lack of dialog and understanding will lead to a cultural Civil War. And I don’t mean we yell at each other. I mean people are going to die.

Let’s talk about some of the things that there is no agreement on.

 

 

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Oct272019

Philosophy Corner: Socrates and Plato

I was reading Ben Shapiro’s newest book, The Right Side of History, and found that it was time to educate myself on the most important philosophers in history. The same philosophers that influenced the rise of Western Civilization and shaped our Founding Fathers as they created one of the greatest documents in human history. That document laid the path for the most exceptional political, economic and social experiment in history, the United States. The country that is responsible for creating great wealth a spurring technology beyond our wildest dreams. The document is the Constitution of the United States.

Shapiro points out that the philosophies that formed western thought came from the merging of two philosophies from Greece and Jerusalem. I have read the Bible a couple of times and was raised with a Catholic education. I am currently reading the Bible again, just a little per day. But I have very little knowledge of Greek philosophy. I thought that was a shame. So I started with Plato’s work, The Republic, even though it is not, as you will see later, not the base of Western Philosophy.

Today will be an introduction and, once a week, I will go over a book which is a chapter today.

 

Plato and Socrates

Plato (427-347 BC) is kind of an enigma in the philosophical world as far as scholars are concerned. I consider him one of the greatest philosophers to have ever walked the earth with Socrates as his teacher. But the scholars have questions.

Plato wrote thirty-five dialogues and wrote thirteen letters. The letters could not be validated as hit writings so they have been dismissed and not really studied. The thirty-five dialogues were not presented as Plato’s own words and he has not taken true credit for any of them. Most were in the words of Socrates (470-399 BC). Scholars believe Plato may have never used his own quotes because of Socratic Ignorance.

Socratic Ignorance is a paradox: One acknowledges what he doesn’t know. Socrates believed that that the only way one can learn is to acknowledge that he knows nothing. Socrates expressed this belief with his famous quote, “I only know one thing- That I know nothing.” The irony is that Socratic Ignorance is referred to as Socratic Wisdom.

Plato, a student of Socrates, also may have believed in this and that might explain why he wrote in the way he did. It is in the acknowledgement that he knows nothing and the ideas published were not worthy to come from him. But that’s just a theory.

Plato should have taken credit (though he was already rich and founded the first institution of higher learning in Western Civilization) because Socrates was a little lite on the literature. If you search Socrates on Amazon, all that will come up is Plato. That’s because Socrates never wrote a darn thing. But Socrates was important. He influenced his student Plato and Plato influenced his student Aristotle (384-322 BC).

 

Greek Reason and Judaeo/Christian Moral Purpose

Aristotle is considered the Father of Western Civilization. In his writing, Ethics, he defined “telos” which states that each human being has a purpose in life, a means to an end. Each person is an individual with purpose and capacity. Purpose is the reason one exists and capacity is the limit we all have. I have the capacity to be a great father but I do not have the capacity to be a great guitarist.

Aristotle’s philosophy has influenced science, mathematics, physics and is the base of Western Civilization. It is also one of the main influences for the Founding Fathers in the United States. It was one of the main themes, focusing on the individual’s God given rights. It led to that little paper called the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Of course, it wasn’t just Greek philosophy that influenced our Founding Fathers. To the dismay of the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the other atheists, the Founding Fathers were also influenced by the need for moral purpose which was developed through Judaeo/Christian philosophy. Moral purpose is the drive for us to be better and moral people through faith. Judaeo/Christian philosophy believes that we have a greater calling; in this case, to be with God, and doing immoral acts makes us worse individuals.

There was just one problem: The two philosophies ran parallel to each other. Greek reason and Judaeo/Christian moral purpose were competing philosophies and this was bad. Both civilization were decaying.

 

Tying the Knot

This is where an Italian friar and philosopher came into play. His name was St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274).

Aquinas was heavily influenced by Aristotle. Unlike many of the philosophers of the time, Aquinas believed that reason could be found in God (and, for that matter, the Bible). He was able to combine scripture with Aristotle’s works. St Aquinas was able to marry Greek reason with Judaeo/Christian moral purpose.

Western Civilization was born.

 

Why Do It?

I have given you a very simplistic history of the political philosophy of the United States and Western Civilization. I have ignored the other major philosophers that, whether it be good or bad, have made us who we are today including Machiavelli, Luther, Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Smith, Paine, Marx and Nietzsche just to name a few. Again, if you are interested in a brief look at how political philosophy was built and where it is going, read The Right Side of History by Ben Shapiro. I know the title makes it sound like it is a conservative manuscript but it is actually pretty politically neutral. It is a very good read and may spur interest. It did for me.

Let’s get back to my little project.

You might be asking yourself: If Aristotle is the Father of Western Philosophy, why am I starting with Plato? By the way, the reason I am concentrating on Greek philosophy instead of the Judaeo/Christian philosophy is because I have read the Bible twice nd was raised with a Catholic education. I am actually reading the Bible again. Got a great version recommended for me and have been reading it since my son passed away.

I am starting with Plato because everything that Aristotle developed came from Plato and, indirectly, Socrates. And I know very little about any of them.So I figured it would be a good exercise to read Plato.

The Republic is the first of three volumes that go over Socrates political philosophy. The other two volumes are entitled The Statesman and The Law. The Republic focuses on the meaning of justice and injustice. What is it? Who has it? Who deserves it and who doesn’t? It is made up of ten books or chapters. The discussions about justice that Socrates involve men (not women) from different economic statuses, different classes and different ages. This was done on purpose because people of different walks of life have different opinions.

I have already gotten through the first two books (chapters) before I decided to dedicate

 

 

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