It's I don't care what you say CNN, Rock On, BEN! Thing

Dear America,

just wish CNN was half as interested in vetting a candidate Barack Hussein Obama, back in 2007, as they are with one of the republican front-runners, Ben Carson...after eluding to Carson's extensive fabrication of a somewhat violent past in a recent journalistic hit piece.

Now little old g spent many moons, here, in my Diary of America, investigating Obama's questionable associations (Frank Marshall Davis -- take that! for a link into controversy... or  this one, Reverend Wright...) and the Communist/Marxist family background -- on both sides of his family, mind you.  OF course, given the birth of G dates back to summer of 2009, all of my searches and finds and story telling unfortunately came after the fact -- after the country was diabolically mesmerized of the notion of the first black president taking the oval office in hopes of all kinds of wonderful things in our future; all 300 million of us carried a different dream on our backs, but mostly in our hearts, of a new age.   As if.

And it's not like any of it has been old news -- or as if any of it went away either.   Just yesterday, one of my favorite places on the WWW, The Patriot Post, Mark Alexander came out with this post ....HERE...in which he also reminded us of a post from way way way back in '08....HERE.

And where was CNN then? Or better still -- NOW?    

Where is CNN doing it's great investigative journalism in wondering just where we all went wrong under Obama?  Or better still,  where is CNN questioning Hillary on her questionable past, perhaps telling a fib or two?  Really, now -- questioning ALL of her stories might take a decade just to corral the bevy of  unbridled lawlessness, let alone unearth the number of lies (that being, UN-truths, just to be clear).

But back to Barack:

The economy has never bounced back -- the world is coming apart at the seams, Al Queda is not the JV team, ISIS is committing crimes against humanity from sea to shining sea and from heaven to earth, IRAN still believes in Death to America -- the Obamacare exchanges are turning into billion dollar fraud schemes and have turned one-sixth of this nation's economy into a cesspool of bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo and in spite of it all, we still have millions uninsured -- race relations have deteriorated, and have metastasized into a groundswell of hate crimes against law enforcement -- the cost of simply living, as in electricity will in fact "necessarily skyrocket..."  and the cost of basic food and goods and services have soared, while over 93 million Americans are not even in the labor force!

We could go on and on -- 

The thing is, long before day one of this administration,  THIS  president, and this first lady, have been nothing but perfectly clear.     

Their malicious intent was to change America forever because they simply hate America for which she stands. [Whatever...go ahead and hate me...it's just true.]  

• America's traditions would have to change.
• Holidays would have to change.
• All of the inequalities of America's racist past would have to change and be course corrected, beginning with the return of the bust of Winston Churchill...
• Foreign affairs would have to change -- beginning with making our enemies welcome associations, while our allies would become nothing more than chess pieces in the re-organization of a new world order.
• All the while -- new energy policy, new immigration policy (more like domestic invasion), new education indoctrination policy, new domestic terrorist policy -- would all became immediate targets via Executive Order or by simply writing a new government regulation, coming in conjunction with a brand new bureaucracy of officials to make it so [See RED Tape Rising, at The Heritage Foundation, HERE]

No longer in the cover of night, what we have here is TYRANNY, as in one side takes ALL, and CNN isn't saying a word -- except, oh how 'bout that Ben Carson over there telling stories about a shady childhood and we can't find anyone from fifth grade to verify it.

seriously?

And the left wonders why the panel of leftist attacks, along with the innumerable and unprofessional interruptions featured during the last CNBC debate didn't go over well?  Can The Right  actually get a question without the ideological zinger thrown in, or at least without the inherent condemnation?

Which reminds me of something else I read just yesterday on The Hill that made me roll all the way down the stream laughing,  It's from Brent Budowsky, and reads like so -- Sanders Trouncing Trump, Media Ignores. 

First off, Brent, The Left side, the establishment, wants Hillary; that shouldn't be a surprise. [Well, if we are really being truthful, the left establishment doesn't really want Hillary -- it simply gets down to the law of pay back -- it's just her time.  The Left owes it to her.]

Second, Brent -- loved this part! --

My view of Trump is similar to my view of Matt Drudge, who is the most powerful influencer in modern media history when it comes to what is covered by the news business. Drudge towers over the media like a colossus. News leaders read The Drudge Report like Talmudic scholars poring over ancient scrolls. News stories blessed by Drudge flow like mighty rivers from his keyboard to television screens and daily newspapers in living rooms across the nation. 

As a liberal Democrat, I am overwhelmed (honestly) by the green monster of jealousy that President Obama, Hillary Clinton and Democrats have never figured out that they should assemble their Democratic super-donors to finance ventures to challenge the literal monopoly of news aggregation power that Drudge — who is never accused of liberal bias — has achieved for what he does so brilliantly.

Are you for real?

Is it not enough to have the Liberal bias simply everywhere -- on the net, on TV, including in the everyday conversation in schools -- are you kidding me?  Are you that blind, deaf,  or dumb?  What -- because conservatives have a nice neat little list to go to every day, you think the Left sits at a disadvantage? Are you f$@&& kidding me??!??! 

...yeah because places like the Huffington Post, and Yahoo, in the mainstream, is just not enough...

.... the liberal dialog quoted daily by the likes of really cool people like Facebook's Zuckerberg or Sandberg or turned into a funny comedic rant by Jon Stewart,  all with the liberalism persuasion being magnified and multiplied and re-directed a top priority daily through the Google machine is simply not enough... 

....to the powerhouses of the big three -- ABC, CBS, NBC -- finally experiencing a wee bit of competition with the rise of Fox News is not enough.....

...As if -- as if George Soros doesn't sit behind a curtain all the live long day masterminding the propaganda and bank rolling a fundamental transformation through think tanks and liberal websites, complete with the wealth of liberal elites in Media, Hollywood, and Government at his beckon call...is never enough.

yeah, Brent.  I feel for you.  You should be jealous of the likes of Drudge.  How crazy powerful Matt Drudge must be against the army of millions in liberal media available 24/7 and dominating the voice of America for so long.

Let's see...

what else...

I have nothing else.

The liberal hypocrisy of CNN is what began the day, but it's the liberal ideology the rues the day in America.   And it sure ain't your grand-pappy's liberal ideology no more, no more; no sir ree bob.  It's so far left they simply want to abolish all other thought!  It's so far left, they want to censor any and all opposition.    It's so far left it has turned into a tyrannical, totalitarian subversion of the American Dream, turning us inside out and upside down without CNN, or any one else on The Left for that matter, so much as blinking an eye.

Oh Brent, you know not what you say.

And finally,

rock on, Ben!

Make it a Good Day, G

It's to the Power of Benjamin Thing

Dear America,

i have a thing for benjamin's...

beginning with Benjamin Franklin, and of Poor Richard's Almanac.

Industry pays Debts, Despair encreases them.

Hope and a Red-Rag, are Baits for Men and Mackerel.

and, one of my favorites,

Well Done, is twice done.

...just to name a few.

The Trump candidacy is taking a perverse cue of these three, so please allow for a wee bit of pithiness to take over.

First, this INDUSTRY factor:

Oh he, as in Trump, knows Industry; some might even believe he invented it by now.   And of course, he sees the Despair -- he bears witness to this sense of longing, the masses deep longing to have what we don't have meeting up with a great weakness, that of coveting...the coveting of things, of wealth, of property, of another and running roughshod and rampant from sea to shining sea. 

Trump is speaking the language loud and clear of all the things we -- the poor of hearth and heart, the disillusioned, the frustrated, the Middle, The FED-up, the righteous citizens of the greatest country in the world, want to hear.

This thing called HOPE, like a red-rag -- it's bait.

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Now, just a couple of days ago (go read it), little old gthing laid out some things with a capital T to trouble this lofty presidential hopeful's ambitions -- and now, sad to say, there is more.  It just keeps coming.

But don't take my word for it -- go to The Patriot Post here and now -- for Allyne Caan explains this:

“I think eminent domain is wonderful. … I build a lot of buildings in Manhattan, and you’ll have 12 sites and you’ll get 11 and you’ll have the one holdout and you end up building around them and everything else, okay? So, I know it better than anybody. I think eminent domain for massive projects, for instance, you’re going to create thousands of jobs, and you have somebody that’s in the way, and you pay that person far more— Don’t forget, eminent domain, they get a lot of money, and you need a house in a certain location, because you’re going to build this massive development that’s going to employ thousands of people, or you’re going to build a factory, that without this little house, you can’t build the factory— I think eminent domain is fine.”

If "Industry pays Debts, Despair encreases them,"  a desperate Hope crushes both, in an instant. Eminent Domain is fine, wonderful even...are you kidding me?

Let this be the nation's mantra:  a republican presidential nomination IF well done,  IS twice done.

For consider this:

To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.

If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.

Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.

...indeed, and honorably naming another few.

How I wish upon the morningstar,

for if this passion was poured into the campaign of another Benjamin, how Reason would thus prevail.

Here's a switch up for you, so don't blink....

Ben Carson's full name is Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr.   And I find that exhilarating, to say the least, if not also a lot.

For, with the way my mind meanders, I quickly sought a brief description of King Solomon. [And found one, here]   And sure, it isn't all grand, however, plucking out what I like, let me share a story characterizing the fine use of common sense -- that for some, call wisdom.

Although Solomon was young, he soon became known for his wisdom. The first and most famous incident of his cleverness as a judge was when two women came to his court with a baby whom both women claimed as their own. Solomon threatened to split the baby in half. One woman was prepared to accept the decision, but the other begged the King to give the live baby to the other woman. Solomon then knew the second woman was the mother.

This is how I picture a  presidency under President Benjamin Solomon Carson (Ben).

Ben Carson is thoughtful, wise, and authentic in EVERY response he gives, every word he speaks, and every intention of his candidacy and possible administration.  His answers to questions take reason, logic, and strength -- side by side with humility -- to their highest heights.

And you know what happens when we stand back from a problem, approach it from a higher perspective, taking the long view -- we see the whole picture; we find an answer to the whole, not just the one thorn sticking out.  [Brilliant is the man who wants the people of America to be mindful, not another victim.]

[G note:  King Solomon is credited for writing such works in the Bible as the Book of Proverbs and Ecclesiastes and The Song of Solomon, as well as, authoring a couple Psalms (72 and 127).]

Many Foxes grow grey, but few grow good.

Well done, is twice done.

THE THING IS,

we no longer have the time for a do-over after the comb-over, okay.

We may be very well FED-up, but Trump is Not the Best Answer.  Perhaps -- if we stand back -- take a long, discriminating, thoughtful, mighty yet humble, view, the Question is Best Answered by Ben.

Just imagine it -- if the passion behind the mouth changed forces.

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Avoid dishonest gain:  

no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

Many a Man thinks he is buying Pleasure, 

when he is really selling himself a Slave to it.

Prosperity discovers Vice, Adversity, Virtue

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