Something for all of us to seriously think about, and consider: this bomber walked among us for a majority of his 28 years. High school, shopping, college, etc., because we are a tolerant nation that still believes in our Achilles Heel posted to the base of the Statue of Liberty. So have the other attackers, male and female. The stabber in MN on Saturday, the CA couple slaughtering fellow office workers, and on, and on the list goes. At some point we have to wake up, make a stand.

Building a mosque near Ground Zero, after 19 Saudis slaughtered 3,000 of us in one morning? Audacious but, no problem, because we are a tolerant nation.

Stabbings, shootings, office massacres all across our nation? No problem, because we are a tolerant nation that refuses to believe so many people from one "religion" hate us that badly. Those that act out violently surely must be an aberration. Look at the majority of Muslims, spouting all the rights words to reassure us that they are peace-loving people and that their violent brethern do not represent the real Islam.

It is past time to stop swallowing that bilge water. Islam is not a religion. It is a terrorist organization, world-wide in scope and organization, dedicated to taking over the world. Period. 

Clearly there are Muslim terror cells deep within our society, ready to strike fear at any time, rising from their anonymity and p.c. speech to spread their evil.

The only way I know, to get rid of weeds in a garden, is to rip them all up and out. In so doing, a few good plants will also be destroyed. Too bad. 

No more mosques. No more refugees (10,000 more are due from war-destroyed Syria). There is no proper vetting. That is spin from your bought and paid for govt, destined to bring a New World Order one way or another. 

How many more attacks are we willing to put up with, because we are a tolerant nation, the refugee collection center for the world's alleged oppressed, the Melting Pot Nation that just can't say no?

Muslims will never earn my trust, ever. That is because of their behavior choices, their ideology, not because I am intolerant, prejudiced, racist, bigoted, whatever the word of the day is.

I look at the forty-some year long long list of international terror attacks around the globe, and I just don't see any Irishman, Scotsmen, Spaniards, Mexicans, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Chinese, Australians dominating the list. I see almost nothing but followers of Islam.

To tolerate this terrorist group a day longer, is foolish, and proving fatal. To too many citizens around our globe who just want to live in peace.

Taxpayer/citizen/voter alert:

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Article in this morning's Post and Courier states that the Obama Administration has (wait for it) "working outside Congress, finalized a deal to provide Israel's military with $38B during the next ten years."

Pretty sure this is NOT what our FF had in mind when they debated long and hard over one hot, mosquito-filled, no-breeze, no a/c summer in Philly, eventually creating a three headed govt intended to provide checks and balances on each other. Animal Farm continues.

We have strayed so far from those first realistic ideals it isn't even funny. WW II gave birth to our national intelligence gathering system, eventually becoming the overbearing and thoroughly out of control CIA. Under Allen Dulles and his brother John, Sec. of State, the U.S. embarked on its present-day course of international interference in the affairs of other nations, and hasn't looked back. The list of countries and their leaders we have invaded/overthrown in the name of American Business is legend. Let us not put aside the millions of civilians in all countries who suffered and died as well.

Fast forward to this week. Yet again, Mr. Otero has gone around Congress and authorized a Memorandum of Understanding package of military assistance. These MOUs are routine, unfortunately. Not all are approved or orchestrated through Congress. This, after knuckling under to a nuclear authorization treaty with Israel's declared enemy, Iran, who has publicly, openly sworn to eliminate Israel from the face of the Earth.

Darn right Mr. Otero wants Slithery to replace him. Some idiot has to keep the lunacy going.

Meanwhile, Mr. Otero's administration is suing the state of North Carolina for having the audacity to pass a law that never should have been necessary, requiring men to use men's rooms and women to use women's rooms, i.e. using the room that matches the gender on their birth certificate. What a concept. This, is what we have fallen to: a law dictating where each of the only two sexes that I know of, must tinkle. Excellent.

That's your morning update. Enjoy your coffee. Oh, by the way, your govt is broke. Nope, I have no idea where money for Israel is going to come from. Probably from money set aside for: Social Security; Infrastructure Repair and Replacement; Education; Mental Health; Veteran Care; Homeless Care; Storm Cleanup, etc. Welcome to the new America.

NEVER SAID BETTER.

Time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again.

Franklin Graham was speaking at the First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida in January, 2015, when he said America will not come back.

He wrote:

The American dream ended on November 6th, 2012 in Ohio. The second term of Barack Obama has been the final nail in the coffin for the legacy of the white Christian males who discovered, explored, pioneered, settled and developed the greatest republic in the history of mankind. A coalition of blacks, Latinos, feminists, government workers, union members, environmental extremists, the media, Hollywood, uninformed young people, the "forever needy," the chronically
unemployed, illegal aliens and other "fellow travelers" have ended Norman Rockwell's America.

You will never again out-vote these people. It will take individual acts of defiance and massive displays of civil disobedience to get back the rights we have allowed them to take away. It will take zealots, not moderates and shy, not reach-across-the-aisle RINOs to right this ship and restore our beloved country to its former status. People like me are completely politically irrelevant, and I will probably never again be able to legally comment on or concern myself with the aforementioned coalition which has surrendered our culture, our heritage and our traditions without a shot being fired. The cocker spaniel is off the front porch, the pit bull is in the back yard, the American Constitution has been replaced with Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" and the likes of Chicago shyster David Axelrod along with international socialist George Soros have been pulling the strings on their beige puppet have brought us Act 2 of the New World Order. The curtain will come down but the damage has been done, the story has been told. Those who come after us will once again have to risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to bring back the Republic that this generation has timidly frittered away due to white guilt and political correctness.

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I happen to agree with him. My response:

Our Republic WAS working, more or less fine. It had solved some problems and identified others it was working on. Then, something happened. 

Eisenhower happened. His inability to control the Dulles brothers contributed mightily to today's horrors.

Before him, Truman put us into Vietnam. Ike approved the killing of foreign leaders, from the urgings of Allen Dulles, a slope we never managed to climb back up. After Dallas, well, Big Business took over. Nixon opened China, and American businesses started fleeing to 3rd world countries paying.50 a day vs. our $2.00 an hour. That has only gotten worse and cannot be brought back.

In the 1980s, with deregulation, Wall St. went nuts with greed, and leveraged buyouts of companies left and right, then released all the employees and sold the assets. In the 90s and since, corporate competition was stomped out using consolidation methods. Today, we have exactly one passenger train company in the country; four airlines carry 80% of our air traffic, and our largest retailer doesn't even have a store. Big box stores that dominate operate on the designed-obsolescence theory, requiring us to keep buying Chinese crap. Major U.S. corporations have inverted themselves to foreign countries to dodge our taxes, yet continue to avail themselves of our freedoms, defenses, utilities, and labor, without contributing their share to our communities. 

 Most of our problems stem from one: Congress, that is totally bought and paid for by Big Business; and two: from a dumbed down electorate that could care less about learning about issues and candidates and finds it far easier to just keep voting the same people back in office. As a result, the state of IL is tottering on the cliff of bankruptcy and I am sure there are other states close. CA comes to mind.

Racial harmony has all but disappeared. Minority opinions hold sway in our courts. One person doesn't like the Pledge, the Anthem, the Ten Commandments, the Flag, a Christmas display, and suddenly the overwhelming majority is left standing there wondering what the hell happened to their country. Thomas Jefferson felt a revolution every now and then would be necessary. Well, we are in one now, run by Soros, and Alinsky disciples, and their ilk, and their money, and their blind youthful followers who can barely read. It matters not, who wins in Nov, and perhaps that is the biggest crime of all.

On Colin Kaepernick:

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He has zero sense of history, none whatsoever. He has zero idea how to effect postive long-lasting change.
I would point him towards Native Americans and Japanese and black Americans, all of whom served with honor, distinction, valor, and great courage during WW II. Each of these groups of men came back to a country that simply shunned them in oh so many ways. None of the members of these groups ever considered ignoring our nation's symbol. Members of all these groups have strived ever since, to effect positive change in their communities, and in their nation.
We have come a long way towards true equality and respect for all in our country over the last roughly seven decades. We did so working within the laws and framework of our society, not by ignorant un-informed rabble-rousing, not by burning down our own neighborhoods, but by registering to vote, and voting, and attending town council meetings, and writing to our representatives, and running for office ourselves. 
The sight of pampered spoiled multi-millionaires disrespecting the symbol of a nation that allows them to make a stunning level of income and enjoy a luxurous lifestyle, is enough to turn folks away from being fans of their efforts, and of spending increasinglly hard-earned dollars on them.
Absolutely there is the right of protest. There is also a right and a wrong way to do things. Goodness, what morons.

How I Would Change our Welfare System:

1. No mailing checks. Eliminate fraud, checks going to dead people, etcetera. 

2. Must have picture i.d. provided by Welfare Dept.  You forget your i.d., you don't get paid. 

3. Show up with verifiable proof of at least six places you applied for work that previous month. These must not repeat for 13 months.

4.  In return for your cash payment, ten percent will be put into an untouchable savings account for you. If Roth IRAs are untouchable, then so shall be mandatory savings accounts.

5.  You must donate 20 hours weekly to your community: litter patrol, paint, repair work, crossing guard, flower box construction, park and playground maintenance, something. NO FREE LUNCH. You must bring your record showing your volunteer hours worked, signed by your supervisor. You don't bring it, you don't get paid.  

6. If you smoke, or drink alcohol, your payment amount drops by ten percent. The working folks have zero responsibility to support your vices.

7. At the end of two years, you are automatically dropped from welfare rolls, and your savings acct funds are given to you. You are not eligible for welfare in all 50 states for at least five years. Questions?

Our govt. can't find 12m illegals, but they did manage to locate a mosquito on Miami Beach that just happened to be infected with the Zika virus.
Riiiiiiiiight.

Watching CBS news video replay this morning on Roku, we sat through ten minutes of a network talk show endorsement. On and on they babbled about the 7th anniversary of this show.

This, is NOT news. This, was a shameful ratings grab. 

I cannot recall Huntley-Brinkley, Uncle Walter, Peter Jennings, Mike Wallace, Tom Brokaw, et al, endorsing local programming during their 30 minute nightly actual news broadcasts.

Our corporate media has totally, thoroughly abdicated their social responsibility to keep the population informed on current events that affect their lives, domestically, and internationally.

Shame on every one of their employees who accepts a paycheck for these shenanigans.

 It is NOT journalism.

 It is instead the Clown Broadcasting Shame.