It's About Revealing a Eutopia of a Higher Realm Thing

Dear America,

"Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited!  Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence towards Almighty God...What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be."  

-- John Adams

i love the simplicity of this

i can even imagine it 

of course, in observance of Adams' overarching message, it's society's steady keeping to these very ideals -- in dutiful yet grateful obedience from one to another  -- that gives us humans such a challenge.  

Human nature and free will  --  both God divined -- makes it so.  

There is a dark side in all of us.  And when one dark side communes with another dark side, it is entirely conceivable for entire secret society's --  that which revels in nefarious motives and destructive forces -- to manifest, and even grow unrestrained, under the cover of darkness.

It seems America, large and small, is being inundated with acts of lawlessness; evidence of corruption seen all the way up to the Department of Justice, and even the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

And it seems to be galvanized with the same, flagrant, commonality:  hatred for Trump

 

Funny, considering The Left's favorite campaign message,  "Love Trumps Hate;" it complies to all, except the for the crowd that just hates Trump (and the conservatives who voted for him).

Is it hatred to ask that America protect it's borders, as well as enforce the immigration law already on the books?  Is it?

Is it hatred to ask of American companies, and Americans, to put America first, to prioritize what is best for the citizens of this country before the needs of any other nation, or people?  Is it?

Is it hatred to seek ways to protect and secure the safe-keeping of America and Americans, by making sure all immigrants, all visitors, have America's best interests at heart?  Is it?  

Is it hatred to designate Jerusalem the capital of Israel -- with precedence distinguished by every president since 1995?  Is it?

Is it hatred to stand up for the unborn?  Seriously, is that hatred?

The thing is, America -- individually and collectively -- is continuously at a time for choosing, generation after generation, ever since 1776.

Truth is, like him or not, Trump is irrelevant in some respects.

We, as citizens, are always at liberty to decide who we are and what we stand for, for better or worse, secret societies and all; returning to the words of John Adams, law and order and good conduct and justice, leading us in peace and love, is perhaps only one good law book away.

Individually, it is our duty, by design, to pay attention to what and how we contribute to the whole, for the benefit of the whole.

This is precisely what will show us the way, revealing a Eutopia of a higher realm; and as individuals we must choose.

Make it a Good Day, G

It's a Day Coming With a Dare Thing

Dear America,

"We must be ready 

to dare all for our country.  

For history does not long entrust 

the care of freedom

 to the weak or the timid."   

Dwight D. Eisenhower

so...just to be perfectly clear as to where we begin the day...

the Senate MUST hold tight to the expressed civic duty and lawful responsibility of refraining this wanton administration from total destruction of our Republic.

It's called the Separation of Powers.

Drawing support from one of the best books ever, The 5000 Year Leap -- we can thank a Greek for this function, a cornerstone of a government built for the people, with freedom and liberty for all.

Of course, he lived in the days before Christ; what the hell could he really know, right?  Well, going for a quick summation here -- we should all be amazed with what this Greek, Polybius, observed in the days of the Roman Republic, and the critical thought process that ensued, in the evaluation of governance in the day... from monarchies, to aristocracies, to democracies...all of it.

Polybius realized the inherent shortcomings, and thus duly noted and explained in The Leap by W. Cleon Skousen,  "none of these systems, when allowed to govern, provided equality, prosperity, justice, or domestic tranquility for the whole society."

And Skousen then shares a quote from William Ebenstein, who wrote Great Political Thinkers:

"Even more keenly than Aristotle, he [Polybius] was aware that each form carried within itself the seed of its own degeneration, if it were allowed to operate without checks and balances provided by opposing principles.  Monarchy could easily become tyranny, aristocracy sink into oligarchy [oppressive government by a few rich families], and democracy turn into mob rule of force and violence."

Well these splendid ideas passed away nearly the same day Polybius died.

We had to wait a rather long time for the rebirth of such wisdom; and finally, in the 1700's, came a Frenchman -- the Baron Charles de Montesquieu.  According to history, he spent twenty years writing The Spirit of Laws.

Here's  something to reign supreme in the hearts and minds of free people everywhere:

"When the legislative and executive  powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch OR senate [legislature] should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner."

"Again, there is no liberty, if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive.  Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control, for the judge would then be the legislator.  Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with violence and oppression."

And now to skip a few pages from The Leap and get right to the point of who we, in America, can thank for this thing called Separation of Powers:  JOHN ADAMS.

And he nearly stood alone on this one, believe it or not.

He was the first to bring Separation of Powers to his state of Massachusetts; and in turn, the federal government came along thereafter, almost begrudgingly.  And this is the perfect moment for the reprisal of the Adam's quote little old gthing used a few days ago, however now to place it in full and proper context.  This is from a letter he wrote to his wife:

"The science of government is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take [the] place of, indeed to exclude, in a manner, all other arts.  I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.  My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."

How our U.S. Supreme Court -- the highest court of the land -- has become a political football is beyond comprehension, let alone any sort of justification.  It's tarnish being the unconscionable fraud against freedom and liberty for all, allowing for the political sway to shape and shift real law by the intentions driven by whatever hidden agenda of the political class.  It's a travesty of the Rule of Law, a transgression of the highest order.

John Adams was a prophet; for look at us now -- in comparison of the generations which followed him -- clearly today, the masses have grown weary of any actual duty to country, lazy of any inherent concern to understand their own responsibility that comes with a fully functioning Separation of Powers, and designed, all together,  to protect a free people under the law; indeed, having reaped, unwarranted mind you,  the rewards of the generations who have come before, and fought in wars, and fought within the bowels of the capital, and have fought on the streets of the free market, just to create this prosperous, rather easy, breezy, beautiful life and life style that is simply off the charts! There is nothing like us on earth -- these United States of America!

This wealth that lives and breathes all around us in the every day --  it seems that we have become anesthetized as to a certain and profound truth as to how it was all made, over time, and how it is all intended, with good reason and critical thought, to work.  America's future is, and always will be, fully dependent upon daring souls,  brave men and women, of all colors, of all religions, to cling more to the Rule of Law, then the whims of man. 

But, again, just look at us now; with the Left declaring it is their right under the law to place a Left-brain advocate "of the law" on the Supreme Court, to replace Justice Antonin Scalia [as if anyone else could do]; and in reply -- with about nine months before election day -- the right, the Senate majority, is insisting upon patience, with every intention to leave the spot vacant until the next president is elected.  [see political football details, here]

looking around...it's almost as if it's too late... 

For this generation of small minds -- complete with a fresh, however limited and abhorrent, liberal education of the last forty years --   is glued to their  iPhones, stuck on social networks in anti-social behavior, and being free to feel entitled for everything, from free healthcare to free college... so that they can get that degree in gender studies or literature or philosophy upon the virtues of the likes of John Adams, just so that when they finish, they can graduate and do nothing with that useless degree and most likely end up drinking coffee and painting and blogging and playing music on their brand new Beats earphones all the live long day....ingrates.

We inherited the wealth of progress, and totally undeserving given our lack of respect from which it flows.  And yes, that is in terms of both our general lack of reverence to our Creator, as well as to the natural awe we should all hold dear when it comes to our founders and the true intentions back behind every decision, every design, every article, every sentiment within our founding documents and the one essential element that makes it all work: the Separation of Powers.

It is a shame, really.  

For here we are, arguing about which side gets to replace, essentially, the indispensable -- the rare, the sacred, the uncommon man...... a judge who actually stood for the Law of the Land, and sat on the bench defending our Constitution,  without apologies, without wavering, tirelessly fighting for the Law from the one, true perspective of it's original intentions. The influence of any administration should have NO EFFECT on the law.

But here we are --  in the midst of replacing a brilliant, self-less, legal mind, and we mock the entire process by bickering over which political side gets the win?

What has happened to us?

 Isn't anything sacred anymore?

If we cannot entrust the bench -- the Supreme Bench, that is -- to protect the Law, then really, what's left?  Who can the people trust, if we can no longer trust a court of law to protect the law itself?

The thing is -- Obama has placed two liberal advocates on the bench during his administration; with only nine months before we elect an entirely new president to lead the way, it would be prudent to wait.  And surely, all of the candidates vying for a chance to bring a new direction, new solutions, to the country, would hope to have this once in a lifetime opportunity to play a part in placing a Supreme Court judge.  Obama has done enough. And besides --

"The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice," 

so says Senator Leader Mitch McConnell.  [and even though i cannot stand this guy, I agree with this wholeheartedly].

For we can be assured of one thing come November....

Come November we will know, with all hands on deck, which way this country intends to go.

Come November, the unknowns will be made known,  and we will see just how many of us DARE to act to the level that making history demands...

...for history does not long entrust 

the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Make it a Good Day, G

It's For the Whole Human Race Thing

Dear America,

the eagle has landed...

in Latin America.

Ahead of his visit, the welcome wagon included May Day protests burning President Obama in effigy, and basically, asking him to go home before he even got there.  Take a look, here.

The president's intentions during his three-day-tour --

"There's so much more to the relationship - in terms of commerce, in terms of trade, in terms of energy. And so we want to highlight some of the close cooperation that's already been taking place and to continue to build on that, so that we're creating more jobs and more opportunity on both sides of the borders."

Much like President Obama's annual State of the Union address,  his all too predictable modus operandi to effect change by nudge or by judge, the never ending campaigns to force his fundamental transformation from the inside out  -- the perpetual propagandist-in-chief that he is --  his intention over the next three days is to diminish America's significance while elevating everything Latina  in order to raise the conversation and "[cover] competiveness, education and innovation, along with border infrastructure, commerce, migration and citizen security among other subjects of shared interest."   It's sort of a mutually assured destruction kind of thing.

But you know -- you would think --- if Latin America is, in fact, America's "backyard" as according to our very own Secretary of State, John Kerry --   you would think all of this would be a non-issue, no?  Like    Mi Casa es Su Casa.  Mi puerta trasera es su puerta trasera.  

Oh. 
Oops.

And what gives?  Sure hope he's there to get reimbursed.

Has Obama already run out of venues here in the states to force feed his agenda down our throats, in a nanny state meets mother bird kind of way?  

Has Obama traveled through the streets of east L.A., Barrio Logan, or any of the many barrios and gang territories riddled throughout the landscape of the sunshine state that isn't Florida?  Aw hell, let's go ahead and look at Florida, too.   Eureka! 

Has Obama studied the demographics of our prisons? 

Has Obama recognized the actual costs of welfare, food stamps, medical care as it directly pertains to the growth of illegal immigrant homesteads throughout the nation?

Is Obama that out of touch?   [Rumor has it, he is...see here.]

[In the olden days, immigrants could come to America only if they had a sponsor waiting for them, never becoming a financial burden upon the citizens of this country.] 

But that's not even the half of it -- when searching for articles on all this -- take a guess as to which media entity popped up first.   Aljazeera!

Yes, indeed.  Those quotes up top came from a post written by Mike Allison, courtesy of Aljazeera online, the English version.

It's a fascinating read from the "associate professor of Political Science department at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania" considering it includes this commentary:

"The US is in no position today, nor has it really even been, to lecture the people of Mexico and Central America on democracy and human rights. Gridlock in the US Congress, drone-enabled killings without due process for enemy combatants, even if they are US citizens, the ongoing embarrassment that is Guantanamo Bay, and its wavering support for democracy in Honduras, are only four recent issues that undermine US authority to speak out on human rights and democracy."

oh okay, Mike.  Now I understand appearing on an outlet like Aljazeera, a certain point of view is probably expected if publication is the goal, but honestly... "[T]he US is in no position today, nor has it really ever been, to lecture the people of Mexico and Central America on democracy and human rights?"  Is that your final answer?

Is the view from Scranton that bad?   While your red lines drawn between what is deemed prevention, intervention, and convention seems blurry, at best; perhaps you should check the lens -- where was it made?  Or maybe it just needs polished.


The thing is,
no longer are we enamored with what it took to get here; the shiny glittery illuminations lodged between the twigs and leaves seem to be losing their luster.

We are no longer aware, cognizant, of the wealth of nations who walked the earth before us, from which we found our way; the founders dug deep back in the day in order to unearth the best of government, civility, morality, in an effort to profoundly lay the foundation to build a new world not necessarily by man, but by Divine Providence.

America was the first of it's kind.

Where is the John Adams of today? 

"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."

The Alexander Hamilton's --

"It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force."

The John Jay's -- 

"With equal pleasure I have often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people -- a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsel, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a  long and bloody war, have nobly established their general liberty and independence...

This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties."  (Federalist Papers, No. 2, pg. 38, plucked from the pages of The 5000 Year Leap, by W. Cleon Skousen)

It's funny, Bolivia can kick people out, effective immediately; (kinda unrelated, but timely) North Korea can arrest and sentence an American on suspect charges -- condemned to 15 years of hard labor -- if only to egg us on (because the threat of annihilation by nuclear weapon of every country within range is not enough);  to enter Singapore -- "Entry requirements for immigration to Singapore for foreigners are a valid travel document (6 months minimum), a return ticket or entry facilities to the next destination and sufficient funds to stay in Singapore."   

While here's an interesting exchange to humanize what it takes to immigrate to Mexico -- even though it's old news via CNN (circa 2010):

BLITZER: So if people want to come from Guatemala or Honduras or El Salvador or Nicaragua, they want to just come into Mexico, they can just walk in?
CALDERON: No. They need to fulfill a form. They need to establish their right name. We analyze if they have not a criminal precedent. And they coming into Mexico. Actually…
BLITZER: Do Mexican police go around asking for papers of people they suspect are illegal immigrants?
CALDERON: Of course. Of course, in the border, we are asking the people, who are you?
And if they explain…
BLITZER: At the border, I understand, when they come in.
CALDERON: Yes.
BLITZER: But once they’re in…
CALDERON: But not — but not in — if — once they are inside the — inside the country, what the Mexican police do is, of course, enforce the law. But by any means, immigration is a crime anymore in Mexico.
BLITZER: Immigration is not a crime, you’re saying?
CALDERON: It’s not a crime.
BLITZER: So in other words, if somebody sneaks in from Nicaragua or some other country in Central America, through the southern border of Mexico, they wind up in Mexico, they can go get a job…
CALDERON: No, no.
BLITZER: They can work.
CALDERON: If — if somebody do that without permission, we send back — we send back them

For the full read, just go to The Daily Caller, here, "Let’s adopt Mexico’s ‘fair’ and ‘respectful’ immigration policy."

So the eagle has landed
south of the border --
to campaign,
to grow relations,
to gain popularity and buy the Hispanic voting block in the light of day,
to make promises and intentions known that ultimately jeopardize our nation's unity, our nation's principles, our nation's security, our nation's economic future,
ever
so
slowly,
to necessarily chip away at the integrity of the eagle's nest.

Oh, you doubt?

Just watch the shadow move across the prairie,
the purple mountains majesty,
from sea to shining sea,
from Tijuana to D.C.

and now giving the last word to James Madison:

"Happily for America, happily we trust FOR THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE, they pursued a new and more noble course.  They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.  They reared the fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe.  They formed the design of a great Confederacy, which it is incumbent on their successors to improve and perpetuate. (Federalist Papers, No. 14, pp104-5; emphasis added, and happily making a second Leap)

Make it a Good Day, G
 

It's Just Another Day When Crazy is Mightier than the Sword Thing

Dear America,

happy wednesday, everyone.

[i know, i know...it's not really, so call me crazy for picking daisies; these are some heavy, heart-wrenching days]

Now, the holidays can be an emotional time of year under normal circumstances; add a small town tragedy that makes absolutely no sense in the world, we begin to twirl in place like a spinning top venturing it's way to the table's edge. plop.

News coming out of Newtown continues on a solemn trajectory, each day building upon the last, as we bury our babies and loved ones. It's an unimaginable task forced upon the families and community.

However, there is some welcome news.   We have become more aware of the details leading up to the Sandy Hook attack. It turns out -- bearing in mind what we discussed just yesterday --  Adam's mama did know.  She was shouldering the burden of committing her own son, and in the midst of getting the lawful authority to do so.   This very reality facing the family is believed to be the catalyst to set off the horrific chain of events. 

[Of course, how on earth Adam was able to commandeer the guns from the household, we may never know.]

But this new knowledge, learning of the depth of awareness inside the Lanza home, should give us pause.   This parent died in the process of doing all the right things, God rest her soul.  Can you just imagine what she is thinking about right now, in heaven?   Just the thought of it --  'my son, being responsible for something so incredibly awful.'     And, not to be overlooked,  there is still the father and brother and extended family remaining to pick up the pieces.  

The thing is, it is comforting to know that she recognized Adam's problems; she was well aware that his issues had reached a level that she could no longer handle on her own.   That is good news.  That means the family was working through it to the best of their abilities.  How can we ask anything more? 

[Of course, how on earth Adam was able to commandeer the guns from the household, we may never know.]

You know, there was another shooting -- in a Clackamas, Oregon shopping mall -- in this same week (Dec.11).  Three people were killed.  Come to find out, a second man, Nick Meli -- just a guy, lawfully able to carry a concealed weapon -- was at the mall at the same time.  When the shooting broke out, he went to the scene.  He was going to take a shot at the masked gunman, but realized there was a possibility, if he missed, that he might hit an innocent person; so he didn't shoot.  He just kept the gunman in his sights.   It is said that the shooter, then fully aware he wasn't the only gun in town, turned the gun on himself.   For the full story, go here.

But isn't that amazing.   Another gun on the scene stopped the violence.


In other news, did you know, crazy people are not lawfully able to obtain, let alone carry, a weapon in the state of California; and having said that,  neither are felons or anyone under even a routine court ordered restraining order?    And yet, somehow, some way, and many times over, these people still find a way to get a gun.

How?

Because even though the majority of us follow the law, go through the proper channels to arm ourselves legally and properly, if we so desire -- a minority of the population doesn't operate under the same rules. 

The street still caters to the underworld.  
And this reality will never go away. 

We can amend, rewrite, add...all the gun laws in the world...but this just guarantees the underworld to not only stay the same, it gives permission and plenty of room for this undermining sub-culture to get worse, expand, even prosper off of our ignorance.   Lawlessness will have the upper hand, the more the law abiding gives the right of way to the corrupt. [this theory works with regards to Congress, too]

America is at a tipping point. 

and sure, it is a phrase overused these days... shoot me.

we are spinning out of control in every way.

we are spinning, twirling, fluttering about, atop a fiscal cliff, a mountain of debt, on the precipice of cultural decay with enough emotional and spiritual dysfunction to light up the dinner table for centuries to come.

we are all crazy to put up with this nonsense.  [and how ironic, considering we made this crazy town in the first place]

America is at a tipping point...which way will we go?

It's time to straighten up and fly right, even if it sends this top right off the edge; let's take the fall together and land wherever we may land; hopefully, with any luck, that looks a lot like each of us ending up on our own two feet  -- or, just maybe,  growing a pair of wings.

And yet, this girl is still so unsettled...  
As a mama, as an American, let us be reminded of the weight of the world to walk in another's shoes -- Adam Lanza could have belonged to any one of us just as much as little Charlotte Bacon. 

Let's quickly move into a higher realm of contemplation.    John Adams wrote:

"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."

And from Alexander Hamilton:

"It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force."

That is some strong stuff, considering all that we are spinning around, to and fro, these days. The universe of our 'woe' is growing exponentially faster, and mightier, than the expansion of our good... just sayin'.

good self-government
walking hand in hand with good [limited] government --
this is the only way to guarantee real liberty.

What is crazy:  that our government today would never have us believe it could be this simple. 

Make it a Good Day, G

Dear America,

happy 1-11-11 day


so, in the beginning, our founders gathered together to make a republic, not a democracy, and follow the path of Nature's Law invoked and prescribed by the leading thinkers of the day, past and present, to create a more perfect union based entirely upon the Rule of Law, not man.

Why was "man" out of the equation, we wonder?  Because "man" was, and is, and forever more, imperfect; man is sometimes-- dare I say, many times -- wrong.


Or worse, sometimes man is evil.


Then again, sometimes man is just plum stupid... greedy, inconsiderate, self-serving, and rude...or man can be just plain bad...while we're at it, man is, quite often I might add, simply thoughtless,  soul-less and heartless... and if we go down that road, let's just narrow it down to Dante's Seven Deadly Sins, or is it God's -- either way, we all know what they are, right ...

And if man doesn't ever fall in the "really bad" category,  he is certainly deceptive, manipulative, and egotistical whenever it serves him best, and especially when it is a matter of gaining and controlling the general public opinion, persuasion, or sway.

From The 5000 Year Leap:

According to W. Cleon Skousen, as an individual, John Adams was not very popular -- but what the people saw in Adams, was a man they could trust, without any further thought, doubt, or concern.  It was Adams who wrote this little tidbit, some time following his presidency:

"I do not curse the day when I engaged in public affairs...I cannot repent any thing I ever did conscientiously and from a sense of duty.  I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice, or ambition, or even the desire of fame.  IF any of these had been my motive, my conduct would have been very different.  In every considerable transaction of my public life, I have invariably acted according to my best judgment, and I can look up to God for the sincerity of my intentions."

And it was Adams, who often reminded his fellow statesmen, this:

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

And coming from another man and founder, Samuel Adams, he wrote:

"The sum of all is, if we would most truly  enjoy the gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people; then shall we both deserve and enjoy it.  While, on the other hand, if we are universally vicious and debauched in our manners, though the form of our Constitution carries the face of the most exalted freedom, we shall in reality be the most abject slaves..."

"But neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.  He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries the most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man."

And here's one more, from James Madison:

"If man were angels, no government would be necessary.  If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."

Creating a nation that would encourage and develop civic virtue, in hopes of continually bestowing upon the public a flood of  upstanding political leaders, began with the moral and civic duty to create a good people from the start; sound principles, values, and virtues was not political lip-service, it was true blue American public service, from the heart, from the right place, beginning with man's first intention.

Our problems of the day, 

streaming live and in a chorus of continuous, voracious debate, 

centering upon the political discourse of the moment, 

throwing barbs and jabs at individuals 

(people like Palin, Bachman, Limbaugh, Beck...) -- 

even entire groups of people (republicans, tea party, conservatives..) -- 

through outright character assassination and  rabid vitriol  -- 

taking turns taking pot shots --

pow, pow, pow pow pow

and simply showering the mainstream media with untruths 

and linking something so unthinkable 

to the entire right side of the political spectrum 

is reprehensible,

disgusting

and 

wrong.

That is man, acting at his worst, all the way around.

And now, to have politicians, wondering how they will continue to serve the public safely, heighten the debate on gun control, or even have the audacity, at a time when we are broke, to give a second thought to increasing the budget for congressional security -- and to top it off, act as if the rhetoric has always been one-sided, as if the Pelosi's, Reid's, Weiner's or Grayson's are angels...even Obama himself has been hopped up on using rhetoric for political gains.  Are you kidding me?

And I guess MSNBC only spins a weave of proverbs and grace.

Please don't misconstrue -- it is essential, for everyone's well being, to feel free to live and work and interact in a safe, secure environment.  No question.  Congress is no exception to the rule, no doubt about it.

The thing is, if you really think about it, what happened last Saturday could happen again tomorrow; there is nothing keeping something like that from happening every day of the week actually from here on out, from here to kingdom come.

The only thing that truly keeps that from happening, is living in a country that not only encourages our people to be of kind heart, to take care of one another, to honor our mother and father, and treat our neighbors as ourselves, but one that TEACHES it, RESPECTS it, and above all, EMBODIES it through and through;  the founders gave us principles and values to follow for a reason, for they recognized the first truth about man and built an entire nation from it, respective of the very imperfect nature of the beast that we are.

Guns don't kill people; people kill people.

A civil, compassionate, honorable society is made in America only by creating, and teaching, to be of good nature, to be good people; the duty begins at first breath, and ends at our last, for each and every one of us who share this nation, let alone the entire world.

Given that "the shooter" was a registered Independent, I am most certain, his horrific actions, do not speak of the nature of the entire body of independents.

But wonder how one person can make a difference no more -- for isn't  it painfully obvious, and tragically true, in this moment; how an unconscionable act, by one person no less, can not only wreak havoc and destroy the lives of 20 innocent people, but also trigger an endless supply of careless, knee-jerk responses that in turn discredit friends, neighbors, countrymen and women of  good heart -- all of us who lean just right of center who can feel it, one by one.  throw a little more salt on our wounds why don't you.

All Americans --  feel real emotional pain -- and hold a heavy, heavy heart -- with what happened last Saturday; what happened does not usually happen, for by and large, we try to be of sound mind and body and act accordingly.

Tragically, the only person we can point to, is to the one crazy person who did it, Jared; who, for all intents and purposes, hindsight being what it is, showed all the signs he needed a little help; at twenty-two, Jared he is a man, who knowingly set out, in public, with a semi-automatic weapon to do harm -- and as we know now, he intended to do harm upon the life of Gabrielle Giffords and anyone else who got in his way -- and believed, he, himself, would not live to deal with the aftermath.  He said his good-byes.

Look, one bad apple should not spoil it for the whole bunch, that's all I'm saying right now; this kind of regulation and continuous taking away of the freedoms and civil liberties of a good people is not the answer; for then, Sam Adams would be absolutely right on target in a people becoming 'abject slaves.'

Talk about a moving target, we seem to be missing the point; good people in, good people out.  wax on, wax off.  it is a tedious drill, but over time, it truly works.

Before I close, a few noteworthy individuals seem to stand out, reacting with eloquence and grace and compassion is Governor Jan Brewer; if you were able to catch her State of the State address you know what I am talking about -- of course, it wasn't a S of S address at all...understandably, that will be saved for another day.  Her remarks were beautiful, thoughtful, unwavering in her commitment to hold the candle of fearless leader, even after being thrust into a state of utter devastation and loss.

Upon Gov. Brewer's lead, the entire legislative body gave a standing ovation to Daniel Hernandez, an intern of only one week for Giffords local congressional offices, who selflessly acted without thinking, and quickly came to her aid in the seconds after being struck by gunfire; he held her up, applied pressure to her wound, and spoke to her,  calmly encouraging her to hold on while awaiting paramedics; as Gov. Brewer pointed out, he probably saved her life, without thinking of his own...perhaps another Adams in our midst.

America, in actions and in our words, let us do no harm -- today and always.


Make it a Good Day, G