Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Are You With Pat Buchanan (and Me)... Or Are You Suicidally Stupid?




By Patrick J. Buchanan...

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“Trump’s immigration proposals are as dangerous as they are stunning,” railed "amnesty activist" Frank Sharry.

(*ROLLING MY EYES*)

“Trump … promises to rescind protections for Dreamers and deport them. He wants to redefine the constitutional definition of U.S. citizenship as codified by the 14th Amendment. He plans to impose a moratorium on legal immigration.”

* THE LIE IS THAT THE 14TH AMENDMENT IS ABOUT IMMIGRATION. IT'S NOT.

Donald Trump's six-page policy paper, to secure America’s border and send back aliens here illegally, released this past weekend, is the toughest, most comprehensive, stunning immigration proposal of the election cycle.

(*ROUSING APPLAUSE*)

The Trump folks were aided by people around Sen. Jeff Sessions who says Trump’s plan “re-establishes the principle that America’s immigration laws should serve the interests of its own citizens.”

* AND WRITTEN BY CONGRESS - AS THE CONSTITUTION DEMANDS - AS OPPOSED TO BEING UNILATERALLY DECLARED BY EITHER A PRESIDENT OR A MAJORITY OF UNACCOUNTABLE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES.

The issue is joined, the battle lines are drawn, and the GOP will debate and may decide which way America shall go. And the basic issues — how to secure our borders, whether to repatriate the millions here illegally, whether to declare a moratorium on immigration into the USA — are part of a greater question.

Will the West endure, or disappear by the century’s end as another lost civilization? Mass immigration, if it continues, will be more decisive in deciding the fate of the West than Islamist terrorism. For the world is invading the West.

A wild exaggeration? Consider:

Monday’s Washington Post had a front-page story on an “escalating rash of violent attacks against refugees,” in Germany, including arson attacks on refugee centers and physical assaults. Burled in the story was an astonishing statistic. Germany, which took in 174,000 "asylum seekers" last year, is on schedule to take in 500,000 this year. Yet Germany is smaller than Montana.

How long can a geographically limited and crowded German nation, already experiencing ugly racial conflict, take in half a million Third World people every year without tearing itself apart, and changing the character of the nation forever?

(*SIGH*)

Do we think the riots and racial wars will stop if more come?

(*SNORT*)

And these refugees, asylum seekers and illegal immigrants are not going to stop coming to Europe. For they are being driven across the Med by wars in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen, by the horrific conditions in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan, by the Islamist terrorism of the Mideast and the abject poverty of the sub-Sahara.

(*PURSED LIPS*)

According to the U.N., Africa had 1.1 billion people by 2013, will double that to 2.4 billion by 2050, and double that to 4.2 billion by 2100. How many of these billions dream of coming to Europe? When and why will they stop coming? How many can Europe absorb without going bankrupt and changing the continent forever?

Does Europe have the toughness to seal its borders and send back the intruders? Or... is Europe so morally paralyzed it has become what Jean Raspail mocked in “The Camp of the Saints?”

* MY GUESS? WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE... THE EUROPEANS WILL SHOVE. FOLKS... HITLER'S GERMANY IS STILL WITHIN LIVING MEMORY...

(*SHRUG*)

The blazing issue in Britain and France is the thousands of Arab and African asylum seekers clustered about Calais to traverse the Eurotunnel to Dover. The Brits are on fire. Millions want out of the EU. They want to remain who they are.

* BRITAIN FIRST!

Each week we read of boats sinking in the Med with hundreds of refugees drowning. Yet many, many more make it to the Greek and Italian islands, and thence north to Germany and Scandinavia and the welfare states of Western Europe. Once they step onto EU soil, they are in.

* AND THE QUESTION IS... WHAT HAVE THEY BEEN DOING ONCE THEY'RE IN?

(*SHRUG*)

This unending invasion has called into existence anti-immigrant and anti-EU parties in almost every country in Europe. Few of these parties existed at the turn of the century. How does this all end?

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality,” wrote T. S. Eliot.

(*NOD*)

Is the West still blind to reality, to the inevitable future that awaits if the West does not secure its frontiers and close its borders to mass immigration?

Peoples of European descent, everywhere they live, have birth rates below replacement levels. Yet, most live in the world’s most desirable neighborhoods.

The great and growing populations of mankind are in the Third World. Countless millions are determined to come to the West, legally if they can, illegally if they must. And the more who succeed, the more who come.

* YEP...

Either Western nations take tough measures to secure their borders, or the Western nations will be swamped.

* AGREED.

The character of their countries will be altered forever, and smaller countries will become unrecognizable. And as this is happening, ethnic and racial clashes will become more common, as they are now becoming across Europe.

(*NOD*)

“The principle that America’s immigration laws should serve the interests of its own citizens” is paramount, said Sen. Sessions.

* YOU'D THINK THIS WOULD BE COMMON SENSE; BUT IN AMERIKA 2015 - THE AGE OF OBAMA - THERE'S A DISTINCT LACK OF COMMON SENSE; AT LEAST AMONGST THE "ELITES."

Sessions is right.

(*FIRM NOD*)

America is our home. We decide who comes in and who does not, how large the American family becomes, whom we adopt and whence they come. It has become the issue of 2016. Indeed, it is the issue of the 21st century.

(*STANDING OVATION*)

  

Sunday, August 16, 2015

So... Where Were All the Black Folks?




Intriguing title?

Did it get your attention?

OK... so... Mary and I attended a free outdoor concert at West Point last night. This wasn't the "normal" brass band or full orchestra concert; no, last night's performance was by the Benny Havens Band - an actual rock and roll (plus!) band; electric guitars, drums... exactly what you think of when you think "band."

Last night's show was "country" - "Red, White, and Country" to be precise.

(*SMILE*)

These extremely talented guys and gals - including a few "amateur guest stars," Colonels from the USMA Mathematics Department - kicked some serious country butt last night! Hell... I would have paid money to attend this concert! They were really good!

Covers... originals... BHB kept the crowd of hundreds entertained for over 90 minutes. Mary and I had our chairs... a picnic dinner... snacks... beer... and that's the way most folks who attend these concerts roll - a concert at Trophy Point is "tailgating" heaven!

But... here's what I'm curious about: Where were all the black folks?

Folks... West Point ain't America.

No... that's not right; let me clarify:

West Point is an idealized America. There's no poverty. There's no misbehavior. Everyone is respectful and friendly to one another. Children run around while parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles socialize... all is well... no one seems to have a care in the world.

To give you an idea of the atmosphere, think...

(*WINK*)

But we're all white!

(*GRIN*)

No... not 100%... but close enough.

(*SHRUG*)

Staff Sgt. Jeremy Gaynor - lead male vocalist - is black. I'd love to know if he wonders what I wonder regarding this... lack of diversity.

(*SHRUG*)

Or... does he have an idea as to why these West Point concerts - be they band, orchestra, BHB - don't attract more blacks... more Hispanics? I'd love to hear his thoughts!

Again... these are FREE concerts!

And, folks... it ain't like we don't have lots and lots of black folks... and brown folks... up here in Orange County and the surrounding counties.

(*SHRUG*)

It can't be just social-economic factors; plenty of successful black and Hispanic families up here.

(*SHRUG*)

And, folks... it's not simply these West Point concerts where I notice the overwhelming "whiteness;" it's at sporting events... plays... even fireworks displays - to a lesser extent, but still noticeable.

Is it self-segregation? (At least in terms of "leisure?")

I just find it very... interesting.

Any thoughts, folks?

Eric Holder infamously accused America of being "a nation of cowards" where issues of "race" are concerned. While believe me... I hate to agree with Eric Holder... but the fact is... he was far more right than wrong in that accusation.

So, again... thoughts? Comments? Your own personal observations and theories?

Friday, August 14, 2015

"The Donald" vs. the RINOs




This isn't so much a "pro-Trump" posting as it is an anti-RINO warning.

The morons controlling the GOP Establishment are doing everything within their power to undo all the gains made by the Tea Party - the 2010 recapture of the House... the 2014 recapture of the Senate...

Understand, folks... people like Boehner, McConnell, the Bush Family... they'd rather be uniformed but "sitting on the bench" than risk injury "on the field."

Forget Trump. May of the RINOs would rather the Left retain power - with RINOs picking up the crumbs of power as "second string players" - than cede "first string" status to the likes of Cruz, Paul, Gohmert, Lee...

We Americans have a problem on our hands! We live in a two-party political system where both parties are largely one and the same. We have the Leftist controlled Democratic Party... and we have the RINO Party... the "Republican In Name Only" Party. This isn't presenting "We the People" with a choice; it's instead steering the Ship of State full speed towards the rocks!

Folks... you're all familiar with the old adage "The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend?" Well... returning to Trump... whether you're a fan of not, the truth is that Donald Trump is largely speaking for the Republican base now... AND... also for large segments of the traditional (liberal but not Leftist) "old-style" Democratic base.

Whomever the "real" Donald Trump is, the reality of the moment is that the Trump "movement" meets the criteria of "Enemy of Our Enemy." And, folks... "We the People" need all the "Enemies of Our Enemy" that we can get!

Please read the following column penned by Reagan loyalist Patrick J. Buchanan. Consider what Buchanan has to say. I'll comment within the column itself.

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In the Cleveland debate, Donald Trump refused to commit to support whomever the Republican Party nominates in 2016.

Trump would be wise to maintain his freedom of action, for there is a plot afoot in The Washington Post Conservative Club to purge Trump from the Republican Party before the primaries begin.

“A political party has a right to … secure its borders,” asserts the Post’s George Will, “a duty to exclude interlopers.” Will wants The Donald “excommunicated” and locked out of all GOP debates until he kneels and takes a loyalty oath to the nominee.

“Marginalizing Trump” carries no risk of “alienating a substantial Republican cohort,” Will assures us, for these “Trumpites” are neither Republicans nor conservatives. Better off without such trash.

* GEORGE WILL IS ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT IDIOTS OUT THERE, FOLKS! BY THIS I MEAN HE'S AN INTELLECTUAL... WITH ALL OF THE "INTELLECTUAL CLASS'" COMMON SENSE FAILINGS. AS IS FAR TOO OFTEN THE CASE... WILL IS JUST PLAIN WRONG.

The Post’s Michael Gerson says “establishment Republicans” must “make clear that [Trump] has moved beyond the boundaries of serious and civil discourse.” He loathes the Trumpites as much as Will.

* AND THE OPEN SECRET? MEN LIKE GERSON AND WILL LOATH BLUE COLLAR AMERICA. THEY LOATH "SIMPLISTIC" CONCEPTS... SUCH AS RIGHT vs. WRONG. THEY WORSHIP AT THE ALTER OF THE ESTABLISHMENT WHICH AFFORDS THEM POWER, MONEY, AND EGO GRATIFICATION.

Trump’s followers are “xenophobic,” Gerson tells CNN. They have a “resentment of outsiders, of Mexico, of China, and immigrants. That’s more like a European right-wing party, a UKIP or a National Front in France. Republicans can’t incorporate that.”

* AAH, YES... "XENOPHOBIC." (THAT'S ONE OF THEM THAR BIG "COLLEGE WORDS." IT MEANS "FEAR OF THE OUTSIDER... FEAR OF THE OTHER.") YEP. LET THE JUVENILE NAME-CALLING BEGIN! LET OUR "BETTERS" TELL US JUST HOW "SILLY" WE ARE TO FOCUS ON AMERICAN - AFRICAN-AMERICAN... HISPANIC-AMERICAN... ASIAN-AMERICAN... AND JUST PLAIN OL' "WHITE-AMERICAN" - JOBS AND FUTURES RATHER THAN CLIMBING ON BOARD THE "EXPLOITATION OF CHEAP FOREIGN LABOR" TRAIN! HOW "SILLY" OF US...

But if the GOP has no room for Trump’s followers, it has no future. For there simply aren’t that many chamber-of-commerce and country-club Republicans.

* DEAD... ON... RIGHT...!!!

Gerson mentions with disgust the U.K. Independence Party and France’s National Front. What do those parties have in common? Both are anti-New World Order. Both arose to recapture the lost independence and sovereignty of their nations from the nameless, faceless bureaucrats of Brussels, those EU hacks who now dictate the kinds of laws and societies the Brits and French are permitted to have.

What motivates [adherents to these parties] is not all that different from what brought the farmers to Lexington Green and Concord Bridge and inspired colonists to stand by the original Tea Party boys in Boston.

New parties arise and outsiders are drawn into politics to fill voids and vacuums created by the failure of incumbent parties and politicians.

* ANYONE WANNA TRY AND TELL ME THAT THE PRESENT LEADERSHIPS OF THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PARTIES HAVEN'T FAILED AMERICA?

Case in point: Ex-speechwriter Gerson’s boss George W. Bush.

With the country united behind him after 9/11, Bush called for war on an “axis of evil” — Iraq, Iran and North Korea — that had nothing to do with 9/11. He then persuaded Congress to authorize an invasion of Iraq to strip it of weapons of mass destruction it did not have.

* REMEMBER THEN-SENATOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON SUPPORTING BUSH ON THIS? (NO, NO... DON'T BLOCK IT OUT, DEMOCRATS; IT HAPPENED!) REMEMBER ALL THE OTHER DEMOCRATS WHO FOLLOWED BUSH'S LEAD?!

Cost: 4,500 American dead, 35,000 wounded warriors, $1 trillion dollars sunk, 100,000 dead Iraqis, half a million widows and orphans, a country ravaged and a Mideast now awash in war and bloodshed.

* THOUGH TO BE FAIR, OBAMA'S AND CLINTON'S SUPPORT FOR "THE ARAB SPRING" DIDN'T EXACTLY HELP; NOR DID THEIR INVASION OF YET ANOTHER COUNTRY - LIBYA - WHICH HADN'T ATTACKED US. AND LET'S FACE IT, FOLKS, MOST OF THE CASUALTIES WE SUFFERED IN AFGHANISTAN HAPPENED UNDER OBAMA'S (TOTALLY INCOMPETENT) WATCH.

Political result (of Bush's incompetence): The Republicans lost both houses of Congress in 2006, and the White House in 2008 to an anti-war Democratic Senator whose voting record was identical to that of Bernie Sanders.

[And yet today] the leading establishment candidate of the Republican Party elites, in national polls and cash raised, is Jeb Bush, who took five days to concede the war his brother started may have been a mistake.

(*BONE WEARY SIGH*)

And the leading candidate of the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, voted for the war that proved a disaster and against the surge that staved off the disaster until the Americans departed.

(*NODDING WHILE SIGHING*)

Our Beltway elites are demanding that Trump apologize for his remarks about women. But when have they apologized for having inflicted this disaster upon our nation and the Middle East?

Thursday, the Census Bureau revealed that a record 42.1 million immigrants, here legally and illegally, are in the U.S., a population explosion being driven by Mexicans still flooding across the border. Is it “xenophobic” to ask if Americans approve of this historic change in the composition and character of the country they love?

Is it outrageous to ask whether there is a correlation between this massive infusion of unskilled and semi-skilled labor from the Third World, and the stagnant and falling wages of native-born Americans?

(*ANOTHER SIGH*)

The trade figures just came in for June. The trade deficit shot to $43.8 billion. Take out the $20 billion surplus in services, it was a $64 billion deficit in goods, pointing to a 2015 trade deficit of $750 billion in things Americans make with their hands, tools, machines.

This has been going on since Bush 41. And the correlation between these trade deficits and the trade deals our elites have negotiated is absolute.

Trump says our negotiators have been getting their clocks cleaned by the Japanese, Chinese and Mexicans. Is he wrong? Or are "free trade" and open borders now articles of faith, defined dogma, denial of which gets you excommunicated from the party of Gerson and Will?

Trump should tell the GOP, in the neocons’ favorite phrase, “All options are on the table.”

* FOLKS... TRUMP MAY NOT BE YOUR GUY... FRANKLY, HE'S NOT MY GUY... BUT EVEN IF TRUMP IS A FAKE, PHONY FRAUD... HOW DOES THAT DETRACT FROM THE REALITY THAT THERE ARE NO IFS, ANDS, OR BUTS CONCERNING WHO AND WHAT THE MEMBERS OF THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT AND THE DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT ARE?! IT DOESN'T!