Big flag, little people

 

 

"Our great flag has lived through much and survived. However, I don't know if it can survive the benign neglect it gets from some of its citizenry..."

Every now and again something happens which make me SMH (shake my head). What is happening in Edina right now is a good example. For those who do not know, a very patriotic woman who lives in an Edina townhouse association, who has two sons serving in the military, who loves to fly our flag, is.....told to take the flag down. It is against the "rules".

As she was contesting that order from her homeowners association, somebody came in the dark of night and shredded our flag. The flag so many in this country have fought and died for. The flag that freedom loving people WORLD WIDE look to as beacon of hope. And why would someone do that to our flag? Sadly, there are more and more America haters and freedom haters who now live in our country. And even more sadly, some are home grown.

There are people from countries all over the world who wait for years to immigrate here and become citizens. Yes, legal immigration. Just like many of us had grandparents or great-grandparents that did the same. And why do they want to come here? Why not China? Why not India? Why not Russia? We all know the answer. Our freedoms. Our liberties. Our American Exceptionalism. And what is the icon which expresses those virtues the best? Our flag. The stars and bars.

People who say they are "offended" by seeing the flag flying anywhere in this country need to do something quickly. First, they can get educated on the history of our country as well as our flag. By doing so, they will learn it is not just a piece of cloth with pretty colors on it. After becoming educated on our history, if some still find our flag offensive, let me help show you the door. Leave. To use an old adage, "if you don't like it here, get the "bleep" out!"

It is time folks. No it is way past the time to take our country back from the nut balls. From the haters. From secular progressives whose philosophy borders on anarchy, Socialism or Communism. From those who want to tort our Constitution into Sharia Law. From Woodrow Wilson isolationists who are content to sit in lawn chairs and watch the world burn. No, it is time to reclaim what our flag is all about. Freedom. Liberty. Values. Prosperity. And hope. Our flag has always given hope to the hopeless.

So whomever you are in Edina that desecrated our flag, our flag which so many have died for, our flag which so many of us love, consider the choice put in front of you. Learn our history, which generally leads to love of this great country. Or leave, and leave now. To quote another old saying, "America - love it or leave it..."

Unleash the dogs!

 

 

"Cry havoc, and unleash the dogs of war..."

It was reported today that a petty officer who was working at the reserve center in Chattanooga died this morning from his wounds. I am still seething from this entire episode, so this news just poured some gas on the fire. This young man, this patriot, who was married with small children, was assassinated just for being at work. It is time, long overdue in fact, to unleash our dogs of war.

A retired CIA analyst was interviewed on FOX this morning. He was asked what we can do about these lone wolf attacks. His response - not much. However he did say the only way to put an end to these homeland attacks is to take the battle to the perps. In other words, destroy the jihad. Or putting it even in more basic language, bomb the bad guys back into the stone age.

How do we do that? Even though our President has done his best to unilaterally disarm us, we still have some goodies in the toy chest. First off, carpet bombing. We still have lots of dumb iron 500 pound bombs that work very well in destroying an enemies will to fight. Next, we still have a few "MOABs" in our inventory. A MOAB (Mother Of All Bombs) is a fuel air explosive with massive power. It is so big, it needs to be dropped out of a cargo plane. It is almost as powerful as a small nuke, only with no poisonous fallout.

We have smart bombs which can be dropped from a variety of jets in our inventory. We have VLS tools we have not even used as yet. We can saturate any area with our special forces and give them the green light on any target they want. In other words, our military is still the best in the business and our soldiers, sailors and airmen are tired of being targets. They are tired of reading about the genocide taking place in the Middle East and Northern Africa. Nobody wants or likes war, but sometimes the bully just pushes too hard and way too many times.

We will see what will happen in the aftermath of this tragedy in Chattanooga. Will we respond? Or will we just send someone another angry letter. My vote it is time to put on the big boy pants. Time to make some bad guys pay for the multitude of unprovoked atrocities they have committed. Time to kick some ass and take some names.

The EVIL of Planned Parenthood

 

 

"This evil organization, the battle flag of the Left, has been fraught with evil since the get-go. It started due to eugenics, and has now into devolved into organ harvesting."  

I really don't know what I am more sick about. Our continuing acceptance of domestic terrorism, or the murder (and I will use that term) of hundreds of thousands of the most innocent of us every year. We know from government statistics that Planned Parenthood is responsible for around 80% of all reported abortions. In other words, this warm and fuzzy organization, with a name telling us to plan our families, is nothing more than a tax payer funded bunch of doctors practicing infanticide.

First off, I don't give a rat's butt about Roe v. Wade being the law of the land. This never should have been the business of the Supreme Court. I will say this however - when you kill babies resting the safety of their mother's womb, you violate a much higher law. Period.

Thanks to some very good investigative reporting, we now know the inhumane way these innocent babies are killed. It is circa World War II death camp torture using Mengele type methods. To make matters even worse, it has now been disclosed after the abortionist destroys this developing young brain, the organs are removed for sale. Harvesting. In this county. In 2015.

If this was not so tragic, it would almost be amusing how the Loony Left worships at the alter of this vile organization. How Planned Parenthood has convinced the Loony Left a developing baby, a young person with fingerprints, internal organs, and yes brain functions, is nothing more than a lump of tissue. It is an unwanted lump of tissue similar to a tumor. It needs to be removed and destroyed. Yes the Loony Left does believe that. Regardless of the irrefutable evidence which shows otherwise, they still believe the myth of abortion.

I have started to tell our local reps (and I will continue to do so), if the Loony Left wants to support this organization, we should hang it around their necks in 2016. Once normal Americans find out the awful truth about how these innocent unborn children are killed, they will revolt. The first time I read about the gruesomeness of the procedure, I almost got sick. This is Dr. Mengele at his worst. We need to paint this picture for all to see. 

To be a moral country, to be the "bright shining light on the hill" President Reagan wanted us to be, we first need to clean our house. Number one, we must defund Planned Parenthood. Now. Today. Next, most of us know there is not a dime's worth of difference between a late term abortion and infanticide. Doctors which practice late term abortions need be charged with murder. Mothers who consent to late term abortions should be charged as well.

Planned Parenthood is an evil misnomer. It has nothing to do with parenthood. It has everything to do with gruesome death. Time to call a spade a spade.

Active Shooter Warning

 

 

"Our brave fighting men and women, most who are highly trained, are stripped naked of weapons when they come back to the "safety" of their home country..." 

Yesterday was yet another bad day for the home team. We lost four more of our military's finest. Unlike Fort Hood, the freshly fallen were Marines at a Naval Reserve Center. Similar to Fort Hood, our service people, who have excellent weapon training, were unarmed. Also similar to Fort Hood, our unarmed service people were gunned down by a .... Muslim.

Now the big question is what triggered this guy. Was it the news, was it a bad day, or was it a message from ISIL? My opinion - who cares? I could give a rat's butt what set this guy off. All I know is this - this movie is getting very, very old. We have seen it many times. The only thing that was refreshingly different about this tragedy, was the way our government described it. Probably without our Presidents knowledge or permission, it was immediately called domestic terrorism. I still think our Administration refers to the Fort Hood shooting was "workplace violence".

My how things have changed since I have retired from the Navy. During my service time, I spent quite a bit of time at our local reserve center. I can't remember going through an active shooter drill. Never had the threat of Muslims coming in and shooting up the place. Today however, is a different story. We have tens of thousands of Muslims in the area. Earlier in the week, I reported on social media we were hassled by a Muslim from Somalia (he told us he was) in South Minneapolis. The first thing he said when he approached us was how much he hated Americans and America. Odds are he is not the only one who feels that way. There are more who hate us. Who want us dead. Want our military destroyed. And they might be living right next door.

Please don't get me wrong. I am sure the majority of Muslim immigrants just want to start a new life here and make a living. But there are some who don't. Some who want to do us harm. Some who want to do harm to our military when our soldiers, sailors and airmen are stateside. Because we did not taking this domestic threat seriously, we have four dead Marines this morning. I am so mad about this, so pissed, I am spitting tacks. Four dead Marines for committing the crime of going to work at the reserve center.

I really don't care if we must take a recess from the strict confines of our Fourth Amendment. I want to find out who is with us and who is against us. I am sick and tired of playing this "whose who" game post facto. I want to know who the bad actors are before we have another "active shooter" incident at a military base. I want our President to get his head out of the clouds and call a spade a spade. These are not Mormons. They are not Methodists. They are not Norwegian Lutherans. They are Muslims. That is who the profile is.

To our fallen Marines, all I can say is thank you for protecting this great country. I am so sorry we could not protect you when you came home.

Fearing our government

 

 

"At what point in time in our recent history has our government been working against us rather than for us?"

It is now day 2 of the infamous Jade Helm 15 exercise. The internet, as well as YouTube, continues to sparkle with hundreds, maybe thousands of postings warning us about the evil intentions of JH 15. How people will be interned. How guns will be confiscated. How our liberties will be snatched from us. By whom? By special forces within our military.

Last night when I was replaying the day, this thought came to me. I know our Framers always wanted us to be wary of our government. They wanted us to be wary as it could easily get out of control. But when did many of our citizens actually start to fear our government? Fear our military? Believe that our military could be turned against citizens rather than protecting them? Call me naïve, but I am one who believes that never could happen. But there are many today who believe otherwise.

I guess for those who wonder if our government is on our side, if our government is in control of its Constitutional purpose and charter, need look no further than Lois Lerner. This person, who many of us think is lower than whale dung, turned the awesome power of the IRS against citizens she did not agree with. She tried to turn the IRS into an instrument of mass destruction, bent of financially destroying and silencing law abiding citizens. And as of today, she still walks our streets, free as a bird, getting hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars in retirement.

Or what about the NSA? Our government has turned it against OUR citizens instead of using it to counter foreign threats. Today, many believe every time they make a phone call, send an e-mail, visit a web page, anything electronic, Big Brother out in Bluffdale, Utah will intercept and store it. Many wonder at what point in time did our intelligence agencies such as the NSA, start working against us rather than for us?

It all starts at the top. Our government, created of the people, and by the people, and for the people, has now become simply above the people. It is secretive, clandestine and often times untrustworthy. Just today, there was an article in the paper about last summer's downtown night time invasion of the black helicopters. The article stated brass in the Pentagon were pissed off at city leaders because they raised such a fuss. That they could not control the masses, the citizens. Hello? This is an American city made up of citizens. Most are law abiding. We are not at war within our country. Having black helicopters buzzing our cities after dark is unacceptable. Period. Unless of course, the Pentagon had prior consent of the citizenry to do so.

How do we regain trust in our government? So we don't fear them? First off, just like in a relationship, trust is earned. Hard to gain, easy to lose. Until we can start trusting our government again, everything will be looked upon with a jaundiced eye. Military exercises, treaty agreements, taxes, whatever.

I will tell our government the same thing most of us have told our kids when they were growing up. If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy. It is as simple as that.   

Good news, bad news, very bad news

 

 

 

A picture is worth a thousand words. Here we have Kerry, who had trouble getting dressed this morning, the Wizard of Goof to his right, and two Iranians who look like they just won the lotto to his left..."

This morning I am going to mix it up a bit. I am going to report on some good news coming out of the Middle East. I know many of us get tired of hearing about the carnage going on in Syria and Iraq. We get tired of hearing about the unresolved issues in Libya, particularly in Benghazi. We get tired of hearing about Hamas sending occasional missiles into Israeli territory. So today I am starting off with some good news about the Iranian nuclear agreement!

First the good news:

• An oil analyst on the news this morning stated if all the sanctions are immediately lifted from Iran, their oil would again be flooding the market. The result? Possible lower gasoline prices by year's end.
• The three large parties in the Israeli Knesset (Labor, Likud, and Kadima) rarely agree on much. However, yesterday was an almost unique example of unity, as they ALL expressed hate and distrust for this new agreement.
• Saudi Arabia has now been given the tacit approval to use their immense wealth to become another nuclear super power in the Middle East. Jordon might be quick to follow. To offset the threat of Iran right next door, oil rich Sunni countries feel they must match weapons and capabilities with Iran.
• Long simmering Sunni/Israeli disagreements have been set aside to face this new danger in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia and Israel stand together in opposition to Iran and this new deal.
• Even though it hurt Israel in the beginning for not being invited to be a part of the negotiations, it is now a blessing for them. They are not constrained by the deal. Bebe announced yesterday that Israel will do what it takes to ensure its own safety. Note to Iran - bone up on your civil defense drills.

The bad news:

• The deal stinks. The inspection lead time clause by itself is a trap door for cheating. Much of the agreement has holes so big, the Iranians could drive a truck full of centrifuges through it. But who cares? Pop the Champaign! It is a deal! Who cares if it is a bad deal?

The very bad news:

• Just like the result with our negotiations with North Korea, Iran will soon have a nuke as well as intercontinental missiles. They will be a threat to Israel, Sunni nations in region, Europe, and yes, even the United States.
• Once they have a nuke, could you imagine anything worse than an alliance between Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea? With all three having nukes? What that would do to world stability? Don't think for a minute this is not a possibility. Remember the odd bedfellows who made up the Axis Powers.

That is my take on the puts and takes from yesterdays "historic" agreement. We will now get ready to have BHO receive his second undeserved Nobel Peace Prize. Ain't life grand? Where else, but in this land of make believe we now call America, could something like this happen? Okay Scottie, I am ready to beam up now...

Winning the argument...

 

 

"The only way we are going to win elections is to first win in the market place of ideas. Not to beat the other side into submission, rather convince them through logic that our side is right..."

When many of us go to church, we hear a similar message. We go to church not only to worship, not only to draw strength from fellow believers (iron sharpening iron), but to also become equipped. Equipped for what? Simply put, to keep from becoming insular (a country club), we become equipped to spread the Word, to bring people to faith - that all happens outside the doors of the church.

The same is true with our political organizations. For a while, I just quit going to any of them. Why? As much as I liked hanging out with "like minded people", it accomplished NOTHING in spreading our message. It truly was like "preaching to the choir".

Yesterday I had breakfast with a friend and we discussed this matter (as well as many others). It was a similar discussion I have been having with many others over the past few years. How do we win the argument? How to we govern using rock solid conservative principles without appearing to be just "the party of no"?

Here are some thoughts. I will use ObamaCare as an example. Ever since the bill was signed into law in 2009, the battle cry from our side has been "repeal and replace!" An excellent sound bite. But in almost six years the "replace" part of the cry has never been defined. We have not shown the American people the better mouse trap. In absence of that, even though many are not nuts about ObamaCare, they will stick with what they have.

In other words, we really need to become known as the "party of know" and not the "party of no". We need to be a fountainhead of ideas, with new and innovative ideas spewing out like water over a falls. Then we must be able to message them. Simple, logical, short messaging. When questioned or challenged, we must (through logic and knowledge of the subject) be able to WIN THE ARGUMENT. We must be able to convince the other side that we are right. And we must be able to do with without leaving them wounded and bloodied on the battlefield.

This all starts in the grass roots organizations. The caucuses.The BPOUs. Tea Party meetings. Tea Party Patriot meetings.  Advocacy groups. Our government was created to be a "bubble up" organization - not a top down one. People we elect to represent us come from our grass roots organizations. They are us. The ideas they bring to Washington or St. Paul are shared ideas. Ideas we all hatched together in our grass roots organizations. To win the argument, we, along with our representatives, should all be on the same song sheet.

We have work to do before 2016. We need to be smarter. Better educated, Better trained. Better connected. To win the argument on all levels, we need to be ready to have our "A" game sharpened up. The other side does. So must we.