Why Republicans fail

I find it astounding that the Republican Party continues to attack its front-runner, Donald Trump.  Regardless of how you feel about him, it is quite the spectacle.  Why is this happening?  And when I ask that question, its really two: Why is Trump rising and why is the Republican Party so afraid?

Well, Trump--again, regardless of who you feel about him--is rising because he is not out of touch with the voters.  He has given political correctness a much needed middle finger and actually speaks about issues the GOP base cares about.

No Repubican establishment candidate sounds much different than any Democrat on immigration.  The GOP wants to repeal Obamacare but cannot seem to even seem interested enough to fight it. They talk a good game but do not even fight the good fight.

But they have no trouble attacking the Tea Party or its candiate Ted Cruz or Trump who is running away with the nomination.

Is the entire game rigged?  Are DC Republicans, inside their bubble, completely out of touch, corrupted by the whole Beltway culture?  What do these "conservative think-tanks" really do except live off people's donations?

People are losing faith and hope (on both sides--lots of Democrats don't like Hillary).  The parties seem to listen only to big donors and vote themselves benefits and raises at public expense. Bernie Sanders is rising on the left and Trump on the right.  That tells you something is wrong.

If the people in DC don't want to listen, fine.  

Work on your cardio, because you will need it when the mobs come.

Just a piece of friendly advice.

Hand over your man card, NOW!

I have never seen a US President cry during a press conference.  That was ridiculous and only makes us look even dumber in the eyes of the world.  Worst of all, I cannot be sure it was contrived.

Every time I hear "its for the children", I become suspicious.  After that Clyde Bundy ranch standoff in 2014 and the conduct of federal agents before bring faced down, I don't think anyone is sure about a situation where only the US government is armed.

Do loopholes need to be closed?  Yes.

The answer to America's gun problem--and it is a problem--is not guns, but people running around with the.  Criminals will always find ways to break laws.  I don't see how you want to punish law-abiding citizens.  The border-line fanticism in which this administration seems to want to push gun control makes everyone--right and left--suspicious.

This policy change, according to the president, is about closing loopholes.  It is hard to beleive anything that comes out of DC though.  Take the Patriot Act.  How was that supposed to work?  Somehow, I cannot seem to find "quasi-police state" or "out of control NSA" in the language of the bill.  There are just too many examples of government abuse to believe anything they say.

On the other side of the coin, what does the constant rash of gun-violence say about American society?  Try to treat each other better and you diffuse most problems.  Start hiring and stop making people work full-time for part-time pay.  Do the job and keep office politics out of the workplace.  It's ridiculous and inefficent.  Control your kids. Go upside their head if you need too.

And learn to handle rejection.

The world is not always a nice place, but no need to go out of the way to make it worse.

Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself.

Thus endth the sermon....

Happy 2016!

I had a great Wasted Week and am getting ready for 2016

Oh yeah,

I FINALLY finished Ares Unleashed!

More on that later!  Don't drink and drive and enjoy New Year's!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Proto-Nazis....Please Grow Up....

I have been watching the footage of alleged "protesters" at various universities, especially Yale, and I have reached one conclusion:

They are idiots.

Love it or leave it!

Yale, which is allegedly an Ivy League school, saw its students circulae a petition to repeal the First Amendment.  If you don't agree with them, you are insulted and shouted at and called "Nazi" or "racist." 

Look in a mirror, Yale students

One student, from a privledged family, who lives in a dorm nicer than most houses, shouted at a proffessor, using the "F bomb", made a complete idiot out of herself.  They attempt to intimidate and scare people instead of using reasoned arguments.  They are intolerant of anyone who disagrees with any single part of any of their group thoughts and immediately try to use wolfpack shouting strategies.

Fine, bring it on.

I went to the Citadel and went through more than they could ever dream of and fought--literally with my fists--real neo-Nazis.  If I ever go to one of those "safe spaces", I will shout stuff like "Long live democracy!" and "I love God!" or "All lives matter!" or something even more psychotic. 

If you don't like it, don't listen.  Start shouting and I will laugh in your face.  Put your hand on me...well, don't....not a good idea. Not to worry.  They won't.  They are cowards.

A friend of mine asked if this was a rerun of 1960s protests.  I said, "No, its not."  In the 60s, demented though they were, at least they had an idea they were genuinely against: Vietnam.  They may have been right.

The 2015 version is made up of spoiled morons who have never worked for anything, see imaginary slights, and are doomed to swept into the dustbin of history like Nazis and Communists.  Political Correctness will end up there too.

Along with these alleged "student protesters"

Protest rising tuition, PhDs working full-time but getting part-time pay, quantitative easing, any number of things.  Just find something real to protest if you want to effect real change.

 And grow up.

Please just be quiet and lead from behind....

Everytime he says something, it goes haywire.

Please just zip it!

Just before the horrifying attacks in Paris, he chided his critics not wanting potential terrorists posing as Syrian refugees coming into the country as being afraid of widows and orpahans.

Then Paris happened.

Then after tragedy in San Bernidino, he starts spouting off about "gun control."  It turn out that instead of "workplace violence", it was an Islamic terrorist attack.  Furthermore, after that Bundy Ranch standoff last year, it seems no one wants the US government to be the only ones with guns.

Please, Mr President,  just go someplace and be quiet.

Suddenly "leading from behind" sounds like a great idea.

Fly the Syrian skies....

Turkey shot down a Russian plane for a seventeen second violation of its airspace while claiming the Russian plane had been warned ten times......ten times in seventeen seconds?  Something sounds weird.

Meanwhile, a Russian plane strayed into Israeli airspace and the notoriously trigger-happy Israelis politely informed the Russians about the intrusion and everything was resolved peacefully.

That might explain why there will be Russian sanctions levied on Turkey and some Turkish ship or plane will meet with an "unfortunate" accident.

This underscores the need for a united campaign against ISIS.  If the US had any sort of meaningful strategy or leadership role, these incidents probably would not have happened.  If you want something done right, please don't give it to DC.....

In other news, the NSA electronic dragnet that has been ruled unconstitutional, not to mention illegal, is supposed to end today.  I hope the Supreme Court is on the ball and makes sure that the NSA does not hand the job off to their British counterparts at Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to spy on Americans.

My advice to GCHQ is to (A) mind your own business and (B) worry about the Muslim terrorists wandering around free in your own country.

BTW, you are welcome for those World War things, courtesy not of the US federal government, but the American PEOPLE.