Facing A Hostile World Unarmed

Tensions with North Korea are rising daily. We sent an aircraft carrier and support vessels to the peninsula for maneuvers with our ally South Korea. North Korea has threatened to retaliate with nuclear weapons. For the first time since the Cold War nuclear arsenals are pointed at each other ready to do war.

All this is happening at a time when we were promised we would be loved in the world if Obama were in the White House. Yes, I know it is all going to be blamed on George W. Bush and his “cowboy diplomacy,” but during the election we were promised that all these things would be better if all we did was vote Obama into the office of president. Not only is the world degrading quickly, our enemies know we are not to be feared and are trying to figure out the best way to take whacks at us.

North Korea has been a bunch of nutbags for decades, but they have been contained since the 1950’s. What I mean is North Korea has kept their country in poverty unlike any in the U.S. so they can use their money to keep their army standing. While South Korea has flourished and built a thriving economic machine, the North has kept their focus on protecting their border to prevent prosperity from rushing in and putting the lie of Communism to the test.

This conflict SHOULD be a slam-dunk for the United States. We have an industrial complex second to none, we have a military that is the best in the world and we have enough nukes to make all of North Korea into a glowing ashtray. North Korea barely has electricity in the big cities and has to use almost all their treasure to pay for a million-man standing army. At the head of their government they have a half-wit, sex-addicted lunatic.

Unfortunately for us, WE are going into the conflict with our hands tied behind our backs. Not to say we don’t have the weapons to destroy the entire peninsula or lack a military that is more than capable of handling North Korea and any other threat that might arise. We do. What we lack are leaders who have the backbone to stand up to the maniacal dictator of North Korea who is making threats that in normal times would get him wasted and has his finger on the nuclear trigger. Because Kim Jung (Mentally) Il knows, as do all our enemies, that we have a leader that is WEAK they are willing to make those kinds of threats and some are crazy enough to try to back them up – like North Korea and Iran. All they have to do is look to Afghanistan and the “Rules of Engagement” in place there that are placing our troops in jeopardy so a bunch of panty-wastes in Washington can feel good about themselves for saving lives. Once again, the Obama Regime is willing to sacrifice the American people to preserve face with those who hate us. It is truly baffling.

For US the situation could not be much bleaker in terms of leadership. Our entire upper echelon in the civilian sector is a disaster. President Obama has NO experience with standoffs and lacks the backbone to stand up to anyone but the American people. His entire career has been dedicated to opposing the established AMERICAN government where he could hide behind courts and protesters. Standing up to real “bad guys” as opposed to a manufactured one is a whole different situation. To the rest of the world he apologizes for who we are as he undermines American interests. Obama’s backed up by a less than stellar cast of incompetents. In the critical slot is Hilary Clinton as Secretary of State who outspokenly hates the military and feels it’s a good idea to negotiate away everything to avoid conflict. Behind Obama and Clinton are Vice President Joe Biden who is still looking for a clue (he reminds me of the Mel Brooks character in ‘Blazing Saddles’) and leaders in Congress who are too worried about their re-election campaigns to be concerned about something like a nuclear war.

At every turn we are led further down the path toward our own destruction and the current group of Democrats leading us are joyfully taking us there. We are watching the intentional destruction of our way of life and the undermining of our position in the world. There is no doubt Obama and his circus of followers are intent on tearing down our nation and putting a Soviet-style socialist government in its place, one that is not only totalitarian in nature but also subjugated to the other powers on the planet. We are being punished from within. The treatment we are getting is what normally happens when one country is conquered by another and the people are punished. The United States never lost the war; we just had a big heart, were lied to and were taken advantage of for our efforts.

America deserves better.

Dishonoring America

I know almost nothing of his politics, but what little we in the outside world have come to know of Nelson Mandela is that he was a man who tried to unite his country as South Africa changed over from a history of white leaders to majority black rule. Mandela was the first black man to lead his country – much like Barac Obama is the first black president of the United States – but with much different outcomes. Mandela went out of his way to prove that he was not vindictive for the years he spent imprisoned and tried to bring his nation together. He truly tried to unite his people after the ugly history of apartheid. Mandela was a man of honor working hard to demonstrate to the world that all his people were South Africans and he was the leader of ALL South Africans.

If only we had that kind of leader in the United States as we have OUR first black president. One who strives to unite all Americans rather than continually forcing wedges down our throats, one who loves the country and the people and saw a bright future for us, a president who included us in the process rather than hiding it from us, one who was open and honest about his intentions – one who believed in America and our dream as one people.

When Mandela became president his country was JUST emerging from apartheid. There was every reason in the world for Mandela and the South Africans blacks to have hatreds in their hearts. Yet, Mandela went to extensive lengths to include all the people in the formation of the new country. History was unchangeable, it was the future over which he had control and he did all in his power to mend his people.

When Obama became president slavery had been abolished for 145 years. There is no one left alive who was a slave nor slave owner. Slavery – like apartheid – was an institution almost everyone on the planet agreed was obsolete and needed to be part of museums not part of society – and was done away with. Not that anyone at the White House has noticed. The White House thinks it still goes on and sees everyone as pushing it. The reality is it’s nothing more than a political hot-button Obama and others in the Race Industry keep picking at like an unhealed scab to keep long dead hatreds alive. Never once did it occur to any of them that it was their own attitudes and hatreds that were causing negative reactions toward them, just like any other jerk you meet on the street who has a chip on his shoulder. It had nothing to do with the color of their skin. It was all about them hating the world. The haters don’t WANT to let it go.

We have another mindset along those lines that I, personally, would like to see put in the same museum with other obsolete mindsets – racism. Unfortunately, we are wallowing in hatreds Washington is squeezing for every vote they can wring out of it. It is a shield that is being used for many in Washington to hide behind while being racists at the same time. The very fact that their minds go to race with every issue that comes up indicates they are racists. There is no such thing as only one race being racists. It is a small-minded attitude shared by morons the world over. We see that now pouring out of the White House from every level right now. Racists are flooding in from all corners of the country as if the White House is a magnet attracting haters. Those people are entrenching themselves in every bureaucracy they can get into. It will take generations to weed out the haters.

Instead of following the South African model and uniting as a people we have a deep-rooted racist who hates what the United States is and what it has stood for in the world. He sees us as a nation of racists who have not left the Slavery Era where all white Americans are KKK members or some other form of racists determined to subjugate blacks and other minorities. He hates the principles of this country – mocking them when speaking to those he considers his allies – hates our freedom and will do all he can to tear down our national security and make us vulnerable on all fronts. To show his hatred for us, Obama has put racists in positions of power and pushed racist/socialist/totalitarian agendas into every corner of our society. He has failed to do his job to protect Americans and our rights – trying to make us feel as if it is America that has been in the wrong all these years and the tyrants of the world were the true heroes. It takes some SERIOUSLY warped, hate-filled thinking to get to that point, but that is where our president has taken us. He has led us down a path toward dishonor among the nations of the world – and, more importantly, dishonor to ourselves.

Americans deserve better.

Where Did We Lose The Boys?

The other day I was picking my daughter up at her college – which will go unnamed for now – and I looked around at the other kids. As a man literally old enough to be the father of ANY of these kids I could not help but notice the little girls running around in barely enough to cover their vital parts. I looked at my daughter and wanted to throw a blanket over her, but I restrained myself. Fathers are not supposed to lose their cool every time their over-eighteen daughter turns heads.

And then I became acutely aware of something else. There was something missing from the days when I was in school. The little girls were out there showing off their bodies, but… where were the guys? Oh, there were boys running around, at least I think they were boys, but mostly they looked like male versions of the females. It was just difficult to tell which ones were boys. Being a ‘problem solver’ by nature I quickly improvised a system of looking for something that looks like facial hair or unshaved legs, but the system was far from perfect – I was wrong about a third of the time. That’s not a good percentage if I was in a bar looking for love. The guys were missing the swagger, boldness and just plain bulk of the guys I grew up with. From what I saw, it looked like we have succeeded in creating a unisexual society where men and women are indistinguishable. The horror of it all!!

On the way home I asked my daughter, as calmly as I could manage, if it was just that my random sample was narrow – since it was only the whole campus – or if she thought it was the case, too. She said that has been the case since she was a little girl. Boys have been taught to be sensitive, in touch with their feelings, less competitive, less aggressive and willing to work toward resolving conflicts rather than fighting for their beliefs, competing, learning to be men… This discussion ran on for well over an hour, but the bottom line is we have a generation of boys who are… cream puffs.

I got a little lesson in what has been going on in schools for the last thirty or so years as we drove. While I was off working on a career the kids were off being indoctrinated in Feminist hate-propaganda teachers decided was the mantra they were going to use to build up girls while tearing down the boys. Those teaching and administering the schools designed a curriculum to make girls more assertive and less the ‘femme fatale,’ and in the process they weakened the boys into wimps. My daughter told me it probably started out innocently enough in trying to bring the girls out of ‘second-class citizen’ mentality while teaching the boys to respect women, but along the way someone realized that strengthening the girls was not enough, the only way to protect them from the larger males of the species is to make the men much less aggressive – make them into a generation of eunuchs. The solution these teachers came up with was to make the men more ‘touchy-feely.’

The result of their grand experiment is another disaster of ‘unintended consequences.’ That seems to be the cornerstone of that group of ‘do-gooder schoolmarms.’ Never look at their results, only look at their ‘good intentions.’ Yet, their strategy comes in segments. At the same time they were trying to make girls stronger and boys weaker they were making sex an everyday event. I have no idea how that fits with their ‘respect’ scenario, but I’ll bet they could talk themselves into all kinds of circles trying to explain it. Kids can now get their condoms for free from the nurse’s office or from the bowl in the counselor’s office. Talk about mixed messages. While they are trying to teach boys about respect for women they are cheapening relationships by giving them condoms to have as much sex as they want. That message to the kids is: Have at it and have fun!!! But remember, if the girl says no it’s no, but since we know she’s going to say yes, wear a condom. What??

My personal theory is that we lost the boys when they no longer had to ‘man up’ and go into a pharmacy to buy condoms. It was a rite of passage for men to go get the condoms under the gaze of the pharmacist, their neighbors and sometimes their family. It was an uncomfortable few minutes for any guy, but learning to ‘man up’ and ‘suck it up’ was an experience all boys should have to endure. By robbing the kids of experiences it does not prepare them for life – in much the same way helping a butterfly get out of a cocoon will destroy their ability to fly. The act of freeing themselves strengthens them to where they can fly – and boys need to be able to face up to the world that is about to hit them in the face like a runaway train. Protecting boys from experiences makes them weaker – and ultimately weaker citizens.

Our boys in that generation are carbon copies of the weak male characters of the sitcoms the boys watched. For a generation our television shows have had male characters that were always wrong, weak and a mess – with the female characters being the smart, strong examples that are always the ones who nag the men into line. Now what we have are kids who are confused about their roles in society and are going to be weaker in the end. I have this mental image of cowering men sitting on the roof of their homes waiting for someone to come rescue them as waters rise around them, but since all the men are cowering on the roof no one is coming to get them… well, except for the strong women who will protect their weak little men.

The reality is that not all the boys of that generation could be brainwashed and not all are wimps. I’m sure MY generation seemed like wimps to my father’s generation as we were growing up, too, but we grew into our roles as men. I hope this current generation will find their way as well. Our military kids from that generation are a shining example of those who were able to survive the ‘KGB-Gulag Style’ treatment. Yet, those boys who have gone on to populate our universities and colleges are shining examples of the success the teachers are having brainwashing our kids – and what we have to look forward to as these guys get older and start to step into positions of power and responsibility.

Over the last few decades the percentage of boys who have gone on to college has dropped dramatically. Many of the boys see what the teachers are pushing and decide they can do better without the whining drivel. Yet, those pushing that agenda continue on in our schools, movies, media and anywhere else they think they can use their position to influence thoughts.

Americans deserve better.

The Audacity of Lying

I grew up in the time America was changing. In those days Democrats were trying to be the party of the little guy, unions and those who wanted to promote social issues with as little government interference as possible. Republicans were the party of the fat-cat bankers, big business leaders and pushing Capitalism to the extreme making as much money as possible in the most creative ways on the planet. Times have changed.

I remember when our current political leaders were young, had long hair, beards, ran around naked, took more drugs than they will ever remember and had free sex with anyone who came along – the music of the time even celebrated loving "the one you're with" when you can't be with your mate. They regularly protested the Vietnam War, the industrial-banking-consumer establishment and the American government. Their mantra was to trust no one over the age of thirty.

Now, those same hippies who are well over the age of thirty have cut their hair (some have added implants to try covering their baldness), put away their frayed jeans, quit running around naked where the rest of us have to look at them (thankfully) and they changed their mantra to trust no one UNDER the age of thirty. The drugs and sex we’d have to take on a case-by-case analysis. I thought I knew who these people were way back in the Sixties, but over the years they morphed into something totally different.

Seemingly, the most confusing part of this change is their move from radical anti-American Government-ism into radical BIG government freaks. They want to change into this huge totalitarian government on steroids that oppresses The People with crushing regulations and overreaching agencies. There seems to be NO agency or regulation they find distasteful – unless it is the military or in some way keeps the people of this country safe. In their protest days they were all about tearing down the American government – today they are about building it up into a bloated version of government two-thirds of the citizens are against. They are building a monstrous bastardization of what they were protesting AGAINST. Those same people are all in favor of building a more massive government than has ever existed on these shores – one that reaches into lives for control in ways far beyond what the Founders fought agaisnt. They still hate the industrial-banking-consumer driven establishment which their followers took over, but they no longer hate the government. It is now their Deity.

There’s no REAL confusion on my part. As the days pass we see more and more clearly where these people who masquerade as American leaders are headed and what they’re all about. Those who have hijacked the Democrat Party are exactly what THEY have been since the sixties. I remember them on campus when I was in school. They were the radicals in the army garb who always passed out leaflets decrying the awfulness of American Freedom and how they had they answers that would set us all free. They were the socialist radicals. They were on every campus in the country, but most of us ignored them. They were idiots not worth the time to read their pamphlets. Nothing has changed. The people we have as leaders now are those same socialists that wanted to tear down what we have in the United States and replace it with the totalitarian socialism of the Soviet Union or China. They LOVE what those countries had – and eventually dide away with – BUT, they failed because they didn’t have our current crop of BRILLIANT American leaders. If they had OUR leaders they’d still be Workers’ Paradises. Or NOT. They probably would have failed much sooner than they did. These socialists wanted a communist state in the United States then and they are trying to bring it about now. Totalitarian dictatorships are the government style they have idolized their entire lives and they think they can bring it about here today. The real audacity of the whole situation comes from the misdirection they are throwing at the American people – that can easily be read as “lying” instead of “misdirection.” The Democrat party is no longer the party of the people. They are stepping up and becoming dictators and in order to make socialism work here they will have to do it the same way it has worked all over the world – at the point of a gun.

It’s not their slavish devotion to the Deity government that is confusing – that’s who they are and what they have done for fifty years – it’s their attempt to make government huge as if they will never lose power again that has me scratching my head. Logic is right out the window with this group. And that’s what has me worried. No one puts that kind of effort into building up power to hand it off to their opposition. There has to be more to the plan.

Americans deserve better.

The Destructive Hyphen

Hyphenated-America is as outdated as the horse and buggy, and not nearly as quaint. The time has come for Americans to let go of the politically incorrect “sacred hyphen” our politicians and media have been desperately clinging to as a divider and let us get on with being equal partners in solving the problems of Our Land as one people.

The hyphen in our social lexicon is a throwback to the 1960’s when people were trying to define themselves, which I’m sure, is a heartwarming reminiscence for a lot of Baby Boomers, but it is demeaning to all the People who have contributed to the tapestry of American society. The dirty little secret about the hyphen is it’s also a throwback to the original wording of the Constitution where Americans were counted as “Three-Fifths” of a person. That same pesky hyphen in the Constitution had the same diminishing effect then as now – it denied our People full equality.

We have had several stories with “hyphens” in them lately. Pakistani-American is a recent hyphenated label that has worked into the news cycle thanks to a lunatic trying to kill hundreds of Americans in Times Square, but we’ve seen the hyphen in African-American, Irish-American, Mexican-American, Native-American, Canadian-American and an endless list of countries, ethnic groups, territories, geographical areas, religions and continents that can be used to label Americans by their ancestors. The hyphen serves as a form of shorthand making it easier to manipulate groups by the media and those with political agendas without having to look at them as individuals with individual needs.

There is only one appropriate application of the hyphen in American society: First-generation Americans who have been naturalized. They actually are of another land and are joining the American experience. From the children of those naturalized first-generation Americans’ on there should be no need for a hyphen. Americans are Americans are Americans… are Americans. They came here to be Americans and should be allowed to be part of the culture.

There is no such thing as African-French or Chinese-British in distinguishing people of those countries. What about French-Germans or Turkish-Italians? Of course not… Their African-ness or German-ness or whatever-ness is obviously not part of their identity once they are part of their new country. They are never referred to as anything other than French or Brits or Germans or whatever land they live in once they become part of that society. The same should apply to Americans.

Forcing Americans into hyphenated groups is stereotypical labeling that borders on racism and bigotry. It allows politicians and their related anger-mongers to propagate grievances, widen separations, create anger, break down justices and ultimately build manufactured stereotypical hatreds the destroy the shared similarities of our people. Politicians and the media love hyphens – it makes their jobs easier. The hyphen allows them to put us into cubbyholes for them to label us as groups with needs particular to a specific group. Politicians can then throw themselves up as some kind of champion of causes for one group or another and pander to that group for their votes – rather than as leaders for all the people. Hyphenating allows “haters” to use the differences between groups to drive wedges between us rather than fixing actual problems of society and in the process they are weakening the Republic and the Dream that is America.

The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were ratified to remove the hyphen the “Three-Fifths” created. Here we are some 140 years after the passage of those amendments and some in our society – the bottom-feeding Political Class and the Media Underclass – are still trying to force the hyphen back into our names and separate our People in the name of ‘political correctness’ – a phrase that has become synonymous with undermining America. This is the Land of Opportunity for all of our People. Those wishing to diminish that creed need to step aside and allow people of vision to take over.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had a dream that all our people would be equal, that we would all be able to walk down the streets together and see the American Dream the same way. He did not dream of equality of outcomes – he was a realist and understood each of us will achieve what we can in our own ways – only that everyone have the same chance to take part in the American Experience as Americans. We are still being denied that Right by the leaders forcing “hyphens” down our throats.

Our political leaders and the media need to learn from Dr. King and the echo in America that we are ALL the American People and want Washington to lead as Americans rather than pander as Dividers – that’s what We The People demand of our future leaders.

Remembering The Golden Age Of Democracy

I wonder if in a few hundred years when people look back on these times anyone will believe there ever was such a place as ‘the United States of America?’ If you think about us we sound too impossible to be true. Freedom. Liberty. Democracy. A society where there are no limits, no bounds to what a person can achieve except those we put on ourselves. Imagine how that must sound… ‘America’ sounds like a fairy tale about a place made up of lore.

How will storytellers of future generations tell the story of ‘America,’ what we did, how we got there and the trials we went through against all odds that made us the leaders of the world for a short while after WWII?

I can see the weathered fifty-year-old storyteller – an elder in the community who has survived the grueling coalmines where he worked eighteen-hour days for the ‘Masters’ who repossessed what was the United States to repay debts. They use the coal to fuel their dirty-coal generators in China and India to drive their juggernaut industrial complexes. He speaks to a circle of kids keeping warm in front of a pot of flaming animal dung. They’re spread in front of him as he spins the tale of how it ‘used to be.’ He has to speak in a low, conspiratorial because the ‘Masters’ do not allow History lessons.

“America was a magical place,” he’ll tell them. “It was a country of dreams… peoples around the world could only imagine getting to a place so wondrous... Millions fled no opportunity and the tyranny of their homelands to get to this place that was so... magical. They came in boats, they came on planes, they swam if they had to… they risked their lives escaping murderous dictators or the lives they had that they wanted to make better for their kids. It was THAT good… It was SO great that people were willing to risk dying to get there. Immigrants were able to start with nothing more than the clothes on their backs and a dream in their hearts and build a life like nowhere else in the world.”

You can almost hear the kids oo-ing and ah-ing as if they’re listening to a story of Neverland. After all, who ever heard of such a magnificent place on Earth? Well… maybe Camelot, but that was a place of fable… maybe the United States of America was, too…

“They had a rich history by throwing off the bonds of a powerful king and establishing a government like none other – ever,” his rasping voice says between hacking cough spasms from the black lung. At least The Leaders gave him pain pills, many others were not so lucky – they were not going to waste money on the underlings. “The people chose their leaders and ruled themselves through those leader. Those fortunate enough to be born there lived in a society that was open and free,” Others around the globe who were oppressed by their leaders were liberated by these Americans. Americans were a people of great generosity and virtue. And that made them hated.”

Yet that Golden Land disappeared…

And that is where the elder will tell the children the ‘cautions’ they had to learn should there ever be another land of that caliber again.

“The system broke down because those charged with listening to the people and acting in their best interest grew too full of themselves and took matters into their own hands.” You can hear the children gasp again. Little hands shot up all around the group asking how they could let that happen. It seems so obvious to the little ones that mistakes should not have been made… steps should have been taken to protect the way of life… to prevent them from lives in the coal mines as slaves for The True Leaders.

The elder tried to explain… “Those who were supposed to question the leaders for the people… the media they were called… fell in love with the leaders and failed to do their job. The judiciary… those who were supposed to protect their Constitution… thought they knew better than the people and their representatives and rewrote the Founding Document to fit THEIR views rather than the views of The People.”

More gasps.

“The structure of the country was sound, but through a couple hundred years there were those who thought they could make it better by changing it piecemeal.”

“Where can we go to find a place like that today…” one of the children asked. “How can we escape the mines mommy and daddy are dying in?” the little one asked with tears in her eyes.

“There is no place like that anymore,” the elder admitted, the tears in his eyes, too. “America was the last, best hope for mankind… They were the shining country on the hill…” Gasps and more tears…