It's a Call to Call Your Stupid Senators Thing

Dear America,

“President Obama tried to move us forward with health-care coverage by using a conservative model that came from one of the conservative think tanks that had been advanced by a Republican governor in Massachusetts,” she told The Wall Street Journal. ”Now it’s time for the next step. And the next step is single payer.”

first of all, Elizabeth Warren -- get your facts straight.  Obamacare was not fashioned through the likes of a republican, any republican, okay?  NO REPUBLICAN VOTED FOR THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT!    The architect of the [UN]Affordable Care Act was Jonathan Gruber along with a lot of help by Podesta's liberal think tank, *** Center for American Progress***  

Strong Suggestion:  DON'T click that! It will just make your blood boil!

From THREE YEARS AGO -- Marc Theissen posted this, at a place which advertises this tag line: "democracy dies in darkness."  [Oh you can say that again...] -- anywho, here you go...CLICK THIS!

Don't have time?  Here's the crux of the matter -- 

"As of this weekend,

 there are now seven 

Gruber videos, 

in which he mocks 

the “stupidity” of American voters 

and boasts of the 

Obama administration’s ability

 to take advantage of it. "

oh oh say can you see by the dawn's early light....

or read this part:  

...Asked in Australia whether he had intentionally misled the American people to get the law passed, Obama replied curtly, “No, I did not.” 

Yes, he did. Put aside his now infamous lie of the year in 2013 that “if you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan.” Obama also insisted repeatedly that the individual mandate “is absolutely not a tax increase.” In a 2009 interview with ABC News, George Stephanopoulos pressed him on it no less than five times. He even read Obama the definition of “tax” from Webster’s dictionary. Obama was adamant: “My critics say everything is a tax increase. . . . I absolutely reject that notion.” [LIAR!]

If one were to read vintage G thing, dating back to 2009/10...when this healthcare law fiasco was just coming about, plenty of background was exchanged to all of you with regards to this masquerade -- from death panels to little white coat lies made by the Obama Administration.  Go ahead and weave your way back to those good old days, courtesy of the old G Thing, and relive the days before this disaster called Obamacare finally reached a republican advantage to repeal/replace it.

But make NO mistake:  first and foremost, Obamacare was administered fraudulently, and only supported by the Supreme Court AFTER the Chief Justice decided to unconstitutionally change it and call it a tax --  surely coming with a pit in his stomach and heart palpitations.

Andrew McCarthy lays it out quite nicely, here, at The National Review (2013).
The thing is, this reason alone IS grounds to repeal it --
"Tax legislation has to originate in the House; the health-care law didn’t."  

Translation: On this fact alone, Congress should repeal it, for it's illegal!  It did not originate as a tax through the House, making it totally null and void!  What's the HOLD UP, besides this blatant corruption against the American people which congress continues to rob us dumb and blind?

But please, go ahead and read the whole thing by Andrew McCarthy; I'll wait.

do do do do, do do do, do, dado do, do do do.

The second thing is:  

UNIVERSAL 

SOCIALIST

 SINGLE-PAYER 

MEDICINE 

WAS WHERE THIS WHOLE THING 

WAS HEADED RIGHT FROM THE START

we just had to be patient.

that click quotes Obama from 2007!

...because, after all, Jonathan Gruber is an MIT economist,  HE Knew what he was doing and President Obama knew what he was doing and the democrats knew what he was doing....geeze, even little old G Thing knew what he was doing.....

It just so happens that it was the American people who were completely bamboozled (or was that considered  to be just too stupid, Jonathan?) and left in the dark about the god awful naked truth about this brand spanking new entitlement set to break America's back!  Oh the crime against humanity; the republic hasn't seen a day like this since the days of FDR!

From The Weekly Standard's John McCormack, August 2013:

And so we have a rare moment of bipartisan agreement in the United States Senate. Reid now appears to concur with Republican senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who has has been warning for quite some time that Obamacare was "rigged to fail" in order to pave the way for a total government takeover of the health insurance industry. 

"More than two years after the passage of Obamacare, the data overwhelming show the law will fail to achieve its core objectives of lowering costs and improving access," Coburn wrote in 2012. "That, ironically, may have been the design. By making private insurance unaffordable for everyone, it will become available to no one. All that will be left is government-centered, government-run, single-payer health care.

Here's a decent recap, taking another look while looking at Obamacare Five Years Later, as written for the Washington Examiner, by Robert Ehrlich (August 18, 2016).

QUESTION IS, will Americans continue to let their stupidity undermine the repeal of this single-payer ruse?

I spent a fair portion of my morning calling a few senators; starting with Mitch.

Now, his office answered with a recording, along with an automatic message at the end, claiming the mailbox to be full, and thereby making it completely impossible to leave a message at this time! UGH!  Of course it is.

I promptly sent him an email, and continued to make some calls.

What did I want?
Complete repeal of the Affordable Care Act -- nothing more, nothing less -- just as they had accomplished to do in 2015, when they managed to put just that on the desk of President Obama in January of 2016; and even though knowing full well he wouldn't come close to signing it -- moreover, opening the Oval Office door for Obama to use the procedural political process as mocking material for weeks thereafter.

Translation:  it was a sideshow and completely meaningless, just a symbolic gesture to it's base before 2016 arrives with a presidential size showdown.

So to the question I was prepared to ask his office:
Does Mitch even have any balls left?
But unfortunately, that question was met with the pathetic dribble, we are unable to take your message at this time. but your message is important to us, please call back at another time.

yeah, yeah, three hours later, just tried calling his office again.  nothing but niet

Now given the amount of propaganda being peddled from the Left ...claiming that in the republican bill hundreds of thousands  will die....let's get the take via the left mocking the right, shall we?

Here's some truth, making heads and tails of single-payer systems operating throughout the world.

Don't be stupid, America!  Don't be stupid!

From The Weekly Standard:

But these and other similar columns and editorials miss the point: The Arizona Medicaid story was not grounded in conservative heartlessness or hypocrisy. It resulted from a single-payer health care system crashing into a budgetary brick wall. The real lesson here is that “single payer” and “death panels” go together like “See’s” and “candy.”

About Those Death Panels . . .

The very real threat of government health care rationing.

JAN 31, 2011 | By WESLEY J. SMITH

Good story Wesley J. Smith -- even love the plug for See's Candy, a local favorite xoxo

Okay,

so where are we?

The Left is counting upon Americans to remain ignorant to the truth of how health care and the economics of the marketplace are intertwined; when arguing on behalf of the free market for the betterment of the whole, as any educated American  will surely do, the single payer nonsense has no legs, no arms, and a waiting list 18 months long to see a specialist....and by all ways and means, no place in a free market, competition driven, maximizing choices, decreasing premiums, health care system designed to give the all the freedom directly to the people, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, until death do us part.

Returning to how we began the day, Elizabeth Warren is just one in a million peddling a lie about Obamacare coming out of a conservative think tank, blah blah blah blah blah; great spin there, girl, great spin.  Chocking it up to a pattern, as we speak -- this time, telling a lie nearly as remarkable as your claim to be Native American ...when gaming the system to get a job that would allow you the privilege to pawk your caw at the hawvawd yawd...yes, indeed, brush off that Boston accent just for kicks and giggles.  Curious, did you go Mercedes or BMW, fizzy lizzy?

Enough.

This girl is so sick of talking about health care.  So here's my prescription:

Get on the phone, kicking and screaming to your stupid Senators!

Then, go have a cocktail; it's just the best we can do given the circumstances -- the arrival of a big holiday weekend just around the bend.

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Some might even be moved to say, at this sad state of affairs, that using the 4th of July as a time delay -- a crutch to delay the vote -- is a rather twisted illustration of the real scandal: the spineless, ball-less, useless bunch of Republican Senators who by definition, are primarily responsible for protecting the stupid republic! 

Make it a Good Day, G

It's a Blog Written with the Full Intention to Live Forever Thing

Dear America,

"I intend to live forever.  

So far, so good."

anonymous 

on a t shirt

indeed

ah intentions...

even with the best of intentions, humans are subject to a higher law --  and not to mention, a whole lot of human error, miscalculation, manipulation and all-round hi-jinx that is simultaneously seen and unseen, from origins within and with-out, and can come and go as it pleases.  Perfect for the popular phrase -- and rather splendid oxymoron that it is --  coming to mind:  holy shit.

If your intentions include something that is not part of the Divine Plan, it gets nixed; and in equal portion, planet earth is also home to dark forces, predators of the unkind kind and led by....

oh hell, for kicks and giggles, let's let Alinsky tell it:

"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical:  from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer,"  -- Saul Alinsky

This is how the infamous Leftist's playbook, Rules for Radicals, begins; with an Alinsky-ism only fit for the purpose of setting the stage of rebellion and wreaking havoc, pure evil, upon American traditions large and small, Alinsky's intentions were made known before even meeting the Table of Contents.

oooh wicked is what wicked does.

so, I kid you not with what I'm about to say --

you wanna know how the Lord works in mysterious ways?  how my every intention to walk with the Holy Spirit right beside me works?  No.  Of course not.  But you know --  it is my blog...and you know how that lyric goes, sing it with me now.... it's my party and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to, cry if I want to, you would cry to if it happened to you....

but I digress.

--- I opened A Super Upsetting Cookbook About Sandwiches by Tyler Kord (we've canonized this dude before, so forgive me if this girl chooses not to take up precious time and space on that again, in the here and now; you'll just have to take my word at my word, k.)  Any who -- what did I open to?  To a page showing a sandwich called Sympathy for the Devil,  and calling for four hamburger buns, 4 veggie burgers (recipe within pg, 136) and half cup avocado blue cheese spread (pg. 181), and half cup of roasted onions (pg. 172)... to which I must reply -- if you are one to need a recipe for roasted onions, shame on you.  Roasted onions, roasted whole bird chicken, roasted beets, roasted garlic, roasted just about anything and everything, should be in everybody's wheelhouse, for it is just about he easiest thing to learn to do!  just sayin.

Oh the devil is in the details, right?

(Oh I love you Tyler Kord.)

"Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares; at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:  How long will you simple ones love your simple ways?  How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?  If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and  made my thoughts known to you.  But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand, since you ignored my advice and would not accept my rebuke, I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you -- when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you...."  Proverbs 1:20-27

Wisdom or folly, the play things of the ages.

And perhaps, with a short pause, we might also note that the voice of wisdom, here, is personified as a woman...tee hee.  But not important;  the question before humanity, good intentions and all, is whether we take the path of righteousness, being guided by God's word, having given us the first law of mankind, as written in stone, by way of the Ten Commandments and handed to Moses somewhere around 1450 BC, OR choose the wicked ways of culture, fully corrupted from the inside out, having fully evolved, organized, and made rotten to it's core.  

So here's a segway divined out of the ether of the moment and following along a stream on a theme -- just how does James Comey imagine Hillary's intent lacking, and thereby a stumbling block on further prosecution (when totally guilty of transmitting confidential top-secret government information, via email, upon an illegal, non-disclosed, secret, totally insecure server...)  --  AND YET, and now being ripe for umpteen calls of hypocrisy,  feels totally secure in leveling a guilty verdict of Trump's ill intentions, with possibly a mission to evade and obstruct justice (but then again, said he "could be wrong")  throughout the entire hearing last Thursday ??????

So the intentions of Comey ring loud and true and false and mischievous, yes?

Let's observe where we were at BEFORE the Senate testimony, shall we?

From May 3, 2017, a post by Andrew C. McCarthy, at National Review, is a perfect place to start.  HERE.   [Love that A-MAC....always good intentions, and always highly accurate.]

Here is the final paragraph:

Patently, Hillary Clinton was well aware of (a) the highly classified subject matter of communications that would inevitably be passing through the private e-mail system she set up for State Department business, in violation of statutes and government rules; (b) the fact that e-mails are stored on servers; (c) the fact that the communications facilities and devices used by State Department officials are routinely targeted in cyberattacks by foreign intelligence services and other hostile actors; and (d) the rules for the proper handling of classified information (and potential penalties for mishandling it). Consequently, her mishandling of classified information was knowing and intentional, as well as grossly negligent. Many reasonable prosecutors would salivate at the prospect of taking such a case to court, especially if they knew that Clinton was going to run with a “lack of intent” defense.

And then there's this, another piece leading up to the highly hyped testimony, and it comes courtesy of Breitbart.com, posted by John Hayword, and gifted to the world wide web just before the hearing started and going something like this:

Hans von Spakovsky, former Justice Department attorney and a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, discussed former FBI Director James Comey’s upcoming testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday morning’s edition of Breitbart News Daily.

SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam observed that by Comey’s own account, he took notes during his meetings with President Trump but not President Obama, which would suggest “an element of prejudice that Jim Comey took into that relationship from the outset.”

“I actually agree with that. I actually think his opening statement is more of an indictment of him than of the president,” said Spakovsky. “If he thought that he was being asked somehow to do something wrong in his dinner conversation with the president, then his duty was to go back to his office, write a letter of resignation, and leave the FBI.”  

Of course, there was another part of the post that made this girl go hmmmm:

“The other thing about the way he’s been acting, the CYA memo he put together – how much would you all like to bet that he’s already got his book in the works that he’s going to put together about all of this?” Spakovsky asked.

This is called intentions meeting more intentions and immediately receiving real world context; like, how could he publish a book now, right?  Who in their right mind would ever buy a book that you can't trust a single word but his own name to be true?  holy shit, it's like, you can't be serious.

NINE TIMES; there were nine times during testimony when James Comey not only intimated he could be wrong, but said so in no uncertain terms! [And thank you, Breitbart, for one more time.]

Not to mention, if this girl hears him disparage "common sense" even one more time, why I oughta... [And who knew there would ever come a time to quote The Three Stooges....right?] 

But back to COMEY being wrong nine times during under oath testimony -- isn't that when we move to strike the entire answer?    His testimony, then,  becomes riddled with merely personal bias, built up by pure conjecture, using inconclusive evidence, with the intent to harm Donald J. Trump, now president of the United States of America.  Of course, this girl could be wrong.

All this being said, 

all we arrive at is a situation 

that can only be characterized as being 

completely and absolutely ridiculous.

What a farce.  Is this really the best use of our time?  

Remember now -- Trump was told three times that he was not under investigation (by Comey), that there was no evidence of collusion; while the obstruction of justice investigation just became the latest diabolical scheme, organized with every intention of bringing the Trump Administration to it's knees, if not beheaded.  [Yes.  I said it.  I said it for the express purpose of tying Kathy Griffin's antics directly with the intentions and actions under the deep state apparatus, clearly out to take out Trump.]

In one of my favorite books of all time, The 5000 Year Leap, by  W. Cleon Skousen -- Part II of the book focuses upon The FOUNDERS' BASIC PRINCIPLES....there are 28 of them, according to Skousen, if you so choose to take The Leap and read it.  It is the 13th one that we will concentrate on for today:   "A Constitution Should be Structured to Permanently Protect the People from the Human Frailties of their Rulers"

Oh woe is me to the force of power under the weight of good intentions...

As Skousen writes, "Every unconstitutional action has usually been justified because it was for a "good cause."  Every illegal transfer of power from one department to another has been excused as "necessary."  The whole explosion of bureaucratic power in Washington has been a result of "trusting" benign political leaders, most of whom really did have good intentions."  And then promptly quotes Thomas Jefferson:

It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights; that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism; free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power; that our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no farther, our confidence may go....In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, BUT BIND HIM DOWN FROM MISCHIEF BY THE CHAINS OF THE CONSTITUTION.

And for supplemental support, goes to good old George Washington, who once said:

"Government is not reason, 

it is not eloquence -- it is force!   

Like fire, 

it is a dangerous servant 

and a fearful master." 

Might as well put a pin on the map that points out the obvious, "you are here."

Based upon a series of good intentions, and some bad, the overwhelming arch of truth tells us that after two hundred years of "gradual and silent encroachments of those in power" (James Madison), we the people are experiencing less freedom, less security, less dominion over our lives;  being guided by men of "human frailties" at every turn, the sad truth is, good intentions have the capability of being intrinsically and thoroughly evil, with the power to make more corruption, more doubt, and more erosion of our nation's basic precepts of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.

Thus --- making the entire case arguing on behalf of the INTENTION at the heart of the matter entirely subjective, nefariously revealing political party lines more than anything else, to the extent of making it totally irrelevant in most instances; the only thing that matters is the law! 

Did you or did you not break the law?  

Who really cares what is in your heart, as far as understanding your intentions, back behind the clear disregard of the law itself?

 As a people, we used to recognize that when we chose to kill another person, it was not only a sin against God, it was breaking the law!  When we coveted another man's wife, or house, or horse and buggy -- to the point of stealing another man's wife, house, or horse and buggy --  it was not only a sin, it was breaking the law!  

The thing is, there once was a day when the original law -- The Ten Commandments -- was all we ever needed; there is that.  That's just a statement of fact.

 

Huh, wonder why making MORE laws have not served humanity, as a whole, any better?  Wonder what is at the heart of all this madness, discontent, and lawlessness?  

What were Comey's intentions when he decided to leak government memos to the New York Times -- Answer:  IT DOESN'T MATTER; it was illegal!   He broke the law!  GO HERE --  to RED STATE -- for a whole lot more on the controversy.

Oh enough of G for one day, huh?

Time to go make a sandwich; so hungry I could eat my neighbor's horse (but I won't -- that would just be gross.....and WRONG!  Vewy vewy wong in more wong ways than one.  teehee)

Make it a Good Day, G

please note: when this girl signs off, saying the exact same thing every single day: MAKE IT A GOOD DAY, G --  it goes without saying that the intention, the  first thought, of going in the direction of making it a good day comes before actually making the good day.  The thing is, if we intend to have a good day no matter what happens, taking everything that comes our way with an attitude of gratitude, there are no bad days.  Not to contradict or discount anything said here today, everything begins in the heart and mind with a single thought, for an intention truly lives there for better or for worse.

It's Eyes Wide Open Thing

Dear America,

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!  Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy...Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.  A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.  The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property -- either as a child, a wife, or a concubine -- must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men."

How's that for a powerful observation of the front lines on the war on women -- just for starters?

And certainly, the language may give it away, as something of long ago; but you may never guess who said it.

Winston Churchill.

gosh, the more I read of this dude, the more I fall in love xoxo.

But let's stay focused, shall we?

The old G thing plucked this little number from one of my favorite publications --the  Hillsdale College Imprimis, February 2016...featuring Andrew C. McCarthy!  xoxoxoxo

ISLAM -- FACTS OR DREAMS?

McCarthy delivered this speech February 24, 2016; while this adaptation appears in Imprimis, allowing for all of us who wait breathlessly for each and every monthly feature on a variety of constitutional topics to magically appear in our mailbox.

And who am I to be the spoiler, right?

Today -- in the wake of Brussels --  all I ask is that you read all about it, in McCarthy's words, not mine.

But having said that, let's go to the only and only thing on the day (after Churchill, anyway) -- and it comes from the middle:

"The fact that there are multiple ways of construing Islam hardly makes the Blind Sheikh's literal construction wrong. The blunt fact of the matter is that, in this contest of competing interpretations, it is the jihadists who seem to be making sense because they have the words of scripture on their side -- it is the others who seem to be dancing on the head of a pin.   For our present purposes, however, the fact is that the Blind Sheikh's summons to jihad was rooted in a coherent interpretation of Islamic doctrine.  He was not perverting Islam -- he was, if anything, shining a light on the need to reform it."

The Blind Sheikh is hardly a lunatic, as Andrew C. McCarthy fairly points out -- but a "globally renowned scholar," educated and graduated from the al-Azhar University in Cairo -- a doctor of Islamic jurisprudence and expert in Sharia Law.

Sharia rejects everything Western.  Everything.

It is incompatible with the Western framework of government and society in every possible way.

By ignoring the harsh realities facing the western world, President Obama is committing treason against America's sovereignty and security -- whether it be caused by blind, "politically correct" interpretation or something more atrocious... allowing for a conscious, calculating perversion of our values and traditions and culture to accommodate the horrific infiltration from within, one that is destined to destroy America, the leader of the free world and steadfast symbol of the West, starting with Europe.

With eyes wide open say a prayer for America, people --  unless, like the president, you consider ISIL "not an existential threat."    (oh okay Mr. President...as his latest response to Brussels is the tango).

Make it a Good Day, G

It's Revelations of the Natural Law of Things

Dear America,

Find Something 

You Would Die For 

and Live For It

So hello,

it's mourning in America.

Or maybe, this feeling that seems to overshadow everything I do or say,  is just me, little g, still reliving the loss of my baby boo...the best Boston Terrier that ever lived (of course...aside from that day in all of his senility mixed with canine chops caused him to take a chunk out of my cheek).

We rescued him about nine years ago -- but really, it comes down to one of those occasions when asking the question of who rescued who seems quite apropos. 

For he was the constant -- that one, brilliant, adorable, playful... sensitive to every whim and fancy of the keepers of his life... brown-nosing, suck up, little thing.  He was the first thing my eyes awoke to, laying sweetly at my feet -- and the last thing my eyes would see before falling fast asleep.  And so here I am, merely a week later -- and my heart has not stopped crying.

Seems like everything reminds me of him; my days begin innocent enough -- and totally unsuspecting, naive even,  of the coming moments that trip me up laying in wait.  And thus begins a viscous, conniving cycle of pounce, attack and recovery all the day long.

But oh thank God there is a time for everything under heaven, right.

For without the ebb and flow of real life and being integrally in touch with the very things that truly matter -- whether those things are perceived as being  negative or positive --  the value, the lessons, the wisdom, would become this elusive creature that would somehow always find it's way to escape our grasp.  And what a loss on top of a loss that would be,

There is a time to be born and a time to die for each one of us.

There is a time to weep and a time to laugh.

There is a time to mourn and a time to dance.

There is a time to be silent and a time to speak.

Above all -- there IS always, in all ways,  a reason for the season!   And what an error of our ways it would be to miss it!

And there is something to be said for that, today, this mourning -- in America.

Here we are, smack dab in the middle of "a time to tear down and a time to build"

that looks an awful lot like a divided country. Upon one side, we have countrymen intent on tearing apart the American culture bit by bit, and on the other, countrymen intent on rebuilding from the foundation put in place over two hundred years ago, from every cornerstone, complete with Columbus Days, Christmas vacations, guns in our holsters, and, in a manner of speaking, Bibles on our desk at work (if we so choose to exercise that Constitutional right!).

It's simple things really.

And we are at a cross roads, plain and simple.

We could all just sit back and pretend America isn't falling apart at the seams and drink whisky till the cows come home all on their own, OR,

we can pull up our bootstraps and get down and dirty and do something.  Maybe even be so bold as to SAY something.  To say something kinda like a certain presidential candidate Ben Carson might say...

Because you know -- there was nothing wrong with his response.  NOTHING.

For more details, allow me to send you to one of my favorite places in the whole wide world -- The Patriot Post.

For in there, Paul Albaugh also sends us to a post by Andrew McCarthy for National Review, where McCarthy makes merry of many a fine points, including this:

Why is that important to grasp? Because in the West, we recognize a division between the spiritual realm and political life – a division reflected in our Constitution. Mainstream Islam recognizes no such separation. While Islam unquestionably has tenets that we would recognize as religious in nature (e.g., the oneness of Allah), it is also teeming with rules that control law, governance, the economy, military affairs, social life, hygiene – virtually everything we see as the realm of politics and self-determination.

I wonder if Chuck Todd would have the guts to ask the president of Iran -- Hassan Rouhani -- if perhaps, the next time he is running for re-election -- his thoughts on whether a president's faith matters?  Would Iran welcome a Christian to run their country?  Is that something they would be open to, with or without the chant "death to America" as a campaign slogan?   Moreover, does Chuck Todd have a clue as to how incompatible and dangerous just one fundamentalist Muslim at the helm of the United States might just be?  (I say that laughing in my head hysterically.)

Sharia Law, and all that it's cracked up to be, and the American way -- fully protected by our Constitution, Declaration of Independence, our Federal Laws and trickling down even further into our local and state laws and regulations,  are NOT aligned.   It's as if we are talking apples and oranges....weeping and laughing, planting and uprooting, mourning and dancing....you get my drift.

Ben said:

“It depends on what that faith is. If it’s inconsistent with the values and principles of America, then of course it should matter.” He added that he “would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation.”

The entire Middle East is basically on fire -- is there anyone who really believes putting a Muslim in charge of America is just what the doctor ordered?  Look how they run countries!    Look at how the little people of those countries live!  Look at the Christian refugees running for their lives!   Look at the disparity between rich and poor, the powerful and the powerless!   "Death to America" -- who says that?  The Middle East, Iran in particular,  and the Middle Ages, seem to have just so much in common.   Dust to dust, it's all crazy.

I have had an "I'm With Ben" sticker on my back windshield since about May.  And it's staying right where it is.

You see -- we are lucky in America.    

America grew organically from Natural Law, the natural order of things endowed by something far greater than any president, mullah, king, emperor or any other government authority.  Men are endowed with CERTAIN unalienable rights by their Creator.   And the founders were clear with what that meant:  "those rights, they believed, came directly and exclusively from God." [The 5000 Year Leap]

...Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws.  On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws [for the protection of them] in the first place, (Frederic Bastiat, The Law...The Foundation for Economic Education, and quoted in The 5000 Year Leap)

America chose not to have a NATIONAL RELIGION for precisely this reason.   For who are we, as a nation,  to tell someone what to believe, or how to practice one's faith, or force someone to pray a certain way, or what have you.    It is an individual freedom to have and to hold   -- or not.

God's Natural Law covered it all, so to speak.  It clarified our duty and delight to follow a path, individually and with every intent and high hopes, collectively, that could not be surpassed and based almost entirely, and with great certain, innumerable and timeless, golden rules; certainly something our founders, given the cultural climate,  felt no need to articulate in words.  For the Natural Law of things revealed itself in the every day; and more than that, people tried their Sunday best to follow them, while we designed our government around IT (again, not the other way around).

Things like our duty to be honest in our transactions; for children to honor their mother and father; the duty to become economically self-sufficient; the duty to maintain integrity of the family structure; the duty to be humble -- temperate -- and keeping to a high moral standard, both privately and publicly.   And so on.    One could only hope....

Who'd a thought we would actually have to write some of this stuff down for the pending doom and gloom of a quiz later, right (i.e. the ignorant and uninformed to come).   Maybe the expectations have been set just a wee bit too high...

This morning, and in my mourning of all things mounting in my little world, I embrace a time, a season, not to tear down but to BUILD.  To build upon the character God put inside me and go forth.

I'm not only with Ben, I am with great confidence trusting in the Divine Providence that started it all.

Seasons come and go; but faith lives on forever.  (And this one's for you baby boo xoxo miss you, darling)

Make it a Good Day, G

It's Who is Being Naive, America ...It's an Un-checked Contagion Thing

Dear America,

so don't we all love technology...

until it sucks.

Oh yes, says the girl who refuses to get a smart phone...

Frustrated is the day everything breaks.  And when I say "everything" -- I mean, my every thing, my life, my love, my blog, my connection to the world and to the people I adore ... my computer; it's the everything that makes it possible to make all things, and any possible thing, go boom. 

And as ponder what I just said, I feel like I'm channeling 'Charlie' of the AT&T commercials.  when he says, "I know, I can't imagine living without it...it's a place people come, to share knowledge and ideas..."  just before his jaw drops at the number of likes on his selfie...[ a hundred, btw].   The old gthing can so relate.

Actually, let me take that back; I can't relate -- as a hundred likes has never happened on anything I've posted.   It would make my jaw drop, too.  But I digress.

gosh, I love him.  He had me at "did it hurt?...when you fell from heaven"...

But to save the day here, let's move on.org.

I believe the last thing we talked about was the latest illumination of a "new" terrorist group:  the Khorasan Group.

At the time, if you recall, little g was somewhat mocking it's arrival on the news front, thinking it sounded more like a Hedge Fund.   Turns out -- little g wasn't that far off, now was she?

As you say, what?  

stop speaking in tongues and explain yourself...

okay.  I WILL.  And more than that, I will count on somebody else to do it --  somebody with the brass and access to the intelligence and the personal background, to say so.   So take that and read THIS: The Khorosan Group Does Not Exist.  [It's been talked about and shared all over the internet for days now...And it explains just about everything.  Enjoy.]

It's painful, isn't it?

It's painful having all this knowledge at out fingertips and with very little power to do anything about it.

Did you know that within Obama's United Nations speech he applauded a controversial Muslim Cleric?

Cue, The Washington Free Beacon's Adam Kredo, who brings tidings of sweet alarm in his post, Obama Praises Muslim Cleric Who Backed Fatwa on Killing U.S. Soldiers.

Seriously?

Now don't you think somebody else -- somebody other than me --  as in our president --  has some esplainin' to do?

There are not words, there is no explaining your way out of that one, Mr. President.  But is anyone going to really call him out on it?

Interesting is Steve Wynn's attempt at calling out the fraud.

Recently interviewed, Wynn basically said on NBC News that he is "stunned at the immaturity of this administration...since '08...we elected a man as president who had no experience on anything -- nothing --what did you expect? "

And my reply:

exactly.

And all of a sudden Micheal Corleone is ringing in my ear..."oh. Who's being naive, Kay?"

Oh. Who's being naive, Steve?

Barack Obama being UNqualified, UNprepared, UNvetted, and IN-experienced in just about everything, with NO record (scratch that, make that an edited record, of bad sorts) made him the all too marketable, priceless, invaluable tool to the whole. And when I say "whole" -- we are talking about The Left ----- the super pac powerful, think tank supplied, George Soros sourced, mainstream media politicized and supported,  progressively undermining, take down of everything AMERICAN... the brash, asinine, we can only "co-exist" if you are Left, Left.

His "immaturity" that you speak --if we can all agree to disagree to call it that -- was an advantage.

He is the face for The Left to make it all possible.

He's the hardware to make all the software behind the scenes to make the change, to make the FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION all possible, from the roots.

No, no, I got it.

Obama is the ebola of our time in American government; he is the face of an UN-checked contagion.  He is the face of a virus infecting all of us -- his administration is destroying not only the very foundation from which this country stands, he is infiltrating every facet of our lives and livelihood and making us, as a nation, completely, recklessly, unconscionably, ill to the point, quite possibly, of no return.

There is one more thing I encourage you to read today.

It just might explain how easily the fraud is all getting done, and better still, UN-done.

For this we turn to Hillsdale College and it's monthly newsletter, Imprimis: The History and Danger of Administrative Law.  As all newsletters. it is a written adaptation of a speech made by the guest speaker, Philip Hamburger,  Hamburger comes with a qualified, vetted, resume a mile long.

And given I really, really, really want you to read the whole thing, I will do my best not to give it all a way right here and right now. But let's just say, Hamburger makes a few stunning, mature, remarks on the subject of everything Constitutional and everything that's not.  And it's all available on the world wide web for everyone!  Isn't that great!  Isn't it just marvelous!  Isn't the internet wonderful!

Hamburger says at one point, 

I argue that the rise of administrative law is essentially a re-emergence of the absolute power practiced by pre-modern kings.  Rather than a modern necessity, it is a latter day version of a recurring threat -- a threat inherent in human nature and in the temptations of power...

Whereas ordinarily kings bound their subjects through statutes passed by Parliament, when exercising prerogative power they bound subjects through proclamations or decrees -- or what we today call rules and regulations.  Whereas ordinarily kings would repeal old statutes, when exercising prerogative power they issued dispensations and suspensions -- or what we today call waivers.  Whereas ordinarily kings enforced the law through courts of law, when exercising prerogative power they enforced their commands through prerogative courts -- courts such as the King's Council, the Star Chamber, and the High Commission -- or what we today call administrative courts...

AND so on...

Indeed.

Power Corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Obama is the face of a man with intent to do harm to America, no question in my mind.  He is the face of an highly organized fraud against everything we know and love. 

And this  is not fanaticism speaking.

We are in the midst of unchecked power running a muck...whether discussing the economy, illegal immigration, foreign affairs, healthcare...and it's all about control, absolute control.  It's all about change, fundamental change, transforming America in every way, absolutely.

He made it perfectly clear before he was president; and he has methodically double downed on it in the every day thereafter.  He has continued to use his connections, his position of power, his deep-seated judgement against this country,and virtually every hardware and software known to man and made available to all, to his advantage.

And just in case I haven't made my point :  THIS Administration is the face of a world wide web of deceit in motion and it may just kill us before they are done.

and isn't that just grand.

Make it a Good Day, G

And what the hell is the Senior Adviser to the President of the United States doing on The Good Wife?    How dare you corrupt one of my favorite shows?  Ugh.

Seriously?  How can anyone take this administration seriously when it implants it's propaganda into our day to day like this?  And she wasn't even good!   But thank you... talk about transparency... thank you.  Some of us can see right through the emperor rising and leaving imprints in it's wake.  Kinda like tracking cookies.

It's TIME to Stop Apologizing RIGHT NOW among other THINGS

Dear America,

day three of: 

 "Obama, Obama, There's Still a Billion Osama's"

and day four of the strike.

This is America under the Barack Obama leadership.

I just found a new place on the world wide web to hang.   It's called The Corner.  And the post from the evening of September 11th was a doozy, written by the Andrew McCarthy.  Jonah Goldberg, who wrote the first post for the hot spot back in 2002, describes The Corner going something like this:   "home for Volcano-Lancing news, congressional handicapping, arguments about American exceptionalism and updates on the Islamification of Europe."

Jonah, I do believe an edit is in order.

What about updates on the Islamification of America?  

Oh G, did you have to go there?  and so early in the day?

How come our media still sits all googli-eyed at this president of ours?    Where is the re-play, one after the other of the people chanting:  "obama, obama, there's a billion osama's" ?

What happened September 11th of 2012 were PLANNED attacks: the embassy's were well aware, the state department was well aware, and our president -- who's simply been campaigning non-stop -- was still very much aware.  Remember now, he READS all about the Intelligence Reports every single day.

Remarks from The Corner yesterday --  same guy, same place -- go here.

"The “blasphemers” are only a pretext. What causes this is the indoctrination of Muslim populations in an evil ideology that justifies savagery over nonsense.  That’s the proximate cause. If you want to look at a material cause beyond the proximate cause, the place to start would be American officials like the ones Daniel cites with seeming approval: David Petraeus, Robert Gates, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — and I’d add Lindsey Graham to the list. — book burning — because, They are the officials who condemned Terry Jones’s exercise of free speech as Daniel gently puts it, they were “worried it would lead to Muslim violence against Americans.” That is shameful. What “leads to Muslim violence” is the toxic combination of Islamic teaching that violence is the appropriate response to even minor insults and the dhimmified superpower’s acquiescence in this barbarism."  Andrew McCarthy

 McCarthy includes a stunning, informative, knowledgeable response featured on another website, RadicalIslam.org's, Clare Lopez -- former CIA Operations Officer.  In it, she summarizes:

"We are witnessing the stepped process of the Islamization of American domestic and foreign policy unfold before our eyes and in accordance with both Sayyed Qutb’s classic book “Milestones,” as well as a November 2011 fatwa from Yousef al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s senior jurist, in which he said, “Gradualism in applying the Sharia is a wise requirement to follow.”

 hm. which reminds me....just what was that nonsense Michele Bachmann was mumbling about...something that even John McCain made political hay poking fun at her?   Oh right.  THIS:

“The national security of our country depends on getting straight answers from the Inspectors General to the questions we posed in these letters…The Muslim Brotherhood is not shy about their call for jihad against the United States. We seek answers through these letters because we will not tolerate this group and its affiliates holding positions of power in our government or influencing our nation’s leaders.” Michele Bachmann

All she wanted was a simple inquiry.  And she got attacked from one of her own and many more.  She was made out to be a fool.    Really?

 "What “leads to Muslim violence” is the toxic combination of Islamic teaching that violence is the appropriate response to even minor insults and the dhimmified superpower’s acquiescence in this barbarism."   

MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD Motto: Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.“ 

The end goal for radicalized Muslims is Sharia Law worldwide.  Sharia is incompatible with Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom to Bear Arms, Freedom to Live Freely in the United States of America...just to name a few issues off the top of my head.

And what is America doing?

We double-down on the apology to Muslims, and run scared.  

As we speak, Hillary just got finished apologizing AGAIN; basically addressing the world for the umpteenth time to let everyone know how sorry we are for being the cause of such an horrific turn of events, beginning with hurting the feelings of Muslims everywhere; did I mention she apologized?  Saying the film is so disgusting and reprehensible...pontificating about all the ways "this film" and the people who produced it, along with this putrid expression of free speech from which it came, is perverse, wrong, and in no way a reflection of this administration and these United States....oh -- and then getting around to what seemed like an after thought:   'and oh, yeah, but what you guys did was bad, vewy vewy bad.'

Some time over the next couple of days, I intend to buy a book.  My favorite morning talk-radio guy in San Diego, Mike Slater, had the author on, Elan Journo, discussing all the ways we have got this wrong.

To read all about it and link to ways to buy the book, Winning the Unwinnable War, go here.

One thing that stands out from the five minutes I heard was this:  we have failed to come at the problem from a position of real strength.   We talk big, but act small.  We speak with conviction, but respond with mixed messages. We try to neutralize the enemy, by begging for their mercy.

How can we expect radical Islam to respect anything we say or do at this point?

They are laughing at us.  And more important, in no uncertain terms, they are all Osama's now.

What has crumbled over the last couple of decades is just the threat itself.  We have lost it.  The threat of America's power and might being enough to squelch anything -- whether a little protest, to a full-blown uprising, to an act of war -- is no longer a deterrent of any measure.

In order to have that, it takes courage to speak our truth even if it might hurt some feelings and follow through what we say we will do.  

In order to uphold it, it takes a vibrant, wealthy, robust economy -- one that is able to build and maintain a Navy, an Army, an AirForce, and a big bad band of Marines coupled with the clear and present danger of our intent to protect, and attack if need be, from the top down and the bottom up. 

In order for that military to be seen and not heard nor put into harm's way, is the threat to use our force being so real, and so strong, and so formidable, nobody tries anything.  nobody.

Our leaders -- along with a complicit populace who have grown more interested in the Kardashians and free abortions than keeping their republic on the map  -- have placed America over a barrel economically, politically, culturally, morally, spiritually - - you name it, and we're over it.

Let G put it this way: we are no longer coming from a Reagan-esque position of true grit and Strength - - that just requires too much effort, too much work, too much money we don't have, too much moral accountability to count, to much of a backbone.

Guess what?  It doesn't matter when Romney spoke out against the outrageous response of this administration.  Before, after, it doesn't matter.  Out of turn -- whatever.   His conviction and argument still stands.  This is a guy who thinks and speaks like he wants to be the next president of the United States -- and  for all the right reasons.  [just what did President Obama fit in yesterday -- a fundraiser in Las Vegas -- just hours after Americans were attacked and killed, he's stumping?]

Sure, our heart matters a whole lot; but let me tell you, we won't survive without a backbone.

An image just popped into my head.   The snake is nearly all backbone.

Now, just where have I seen a flag using a snake --- hmmmm -----

of course, we have the Gadsden Flag:   "Don't Tread on Me."

and we have Benjamin Franklin's, "Join or Die"

It is time for all Americans to stand together, to join or die, from a position of strength.

Clearly, the world is being De-stabilized in ways way beyond our level of expertise or ability to accept as truth; we are way beyond the politically correct assumption all Muslims come in peace.   At least Romney respects the truth of calling what is, is -- with the backbone to say it outloud.

It is deplorable that this state department and this administration chooses foreign policy that just walks around bowing, apologizing, and kissing ass.

This girl is just sick of it.

I think it's time to bring all our boys and girls home -- every single one of them -- I've got a bad feeling about this; bring everybody home except for keeping some operations at sea to go to Israel's aid, if need be.

It is time to full-stop sending one dime on borrowed time in foreign aid to the haters.  Go here to see it all laid out.

It's time to say what we mean and mean what we say -- to all governments around the world, friend or foe.

It's time to get our house in order -- begin austerity measures in federal spending, reform entitlements, pay down debt, cut the deficit and mandate balanced budgets (equally important, operate from a congressional  budget, something we haven't had for three years).

It's time to get our personal house in order.

It's time for new leadership.

It's time to restore America's exceptionalism in every way.  They may very well all be Osama's now ---but we, the people, are Americans and live in the greatest country on earth in these United States.

It's time to come at this from a position of strength; but what do I know, I'm just a girl capturing a day in the life of America.

Make it a Good Day, G

and totally unrelated -- but thank goodness for something called the Internet Reformation -- because the mainstream  media is completely worthless.

and totally unrelated, but really it is.   Let's go to Breaking News --

Fed Pulls Trigger, to Buy Mortgages in Effort to Lower Rates.

"The Fed said it will buy $40 billion [with a B]

of mortgages per month 

in an attempt to foster a nascent recovery

 in the real estate market. 

The purchases will be open-ended [SAY WHAT?], 

meaning that they will continue 

until the Fed is satisfied [Holy Crap]

that economic conditions, 

primarily in unemployment, improve."

are you kidding me.

AND

a comment from "lisa" says it all:

"I guess we have to actually fall off the cliff then..."

Heaven Help Us.