Why Build the Wall?

What is the Media (D) ignoring about the immigration crisis our nation faces today?

To answer that question, I urge you to watch this video. I just wish Pres. Trump would articulate this information as well as this man does:

More importantly, I would like to hear Speaker Pelosi (D) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D) explain how the "wall" is immoral and is a "waste of money" when we've spent 50+ Trillion on poverty with Welfare, and we NEVER hear any success stories about this program lifting anyone out of poverty!

A Study In Elitist Hubris

If anyone now, or in the future, wants a perfect example of how the Media (D) today - ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC - has become elitist and so narrow minded that they don't even realize how blinded in their Trump Derangement Syndrome condition they are, this is it!

This is the "pies de' resistance" of show how fascistic they are in their thinking.

As my long-time readers already know, I've been focusing on how the "talking heads" are so isolated in their ivory studios of broadcasting they don't even realize how they're coming across to much of the population lately.

What am I talking about?

On Monday, only yesterday, President Trump announced on Twitter that he would speak to the nation via television about the ongoing "crisis" of funding the "wall" during the ongoing partial government shutdown.

This announcement immediately launched a rumor mill into the stratosphere over what the president would say and do.

Reports have flooded the web that he'd declare a national emergency and possibly use the military to build the "wall" in whatever form was possible, depending on where he got the funds from.

However, the reaction of some "talking heads" such as CNN has revealed just how biased and one-sided they've become in their commenting about this announcement. In fact, it's even come down to debating whether they would even broadcast his speech.

As you read the script of their exchange, and watch the brief video clip included, pay close attention to the fact that they are using the point of accuracy from THEIR view. Note also, how even Cuomo, who' for allowing it, is using this angle to tear apart any reasonable and factual arguments the president may make tonight. This is a great example of just how extreme and fascistic they actually are towards any counter ideas Trump may have to support the issue of this circumstance.

Of course, the Democrats are demanding that they get their equal time to rebut his speech points; you'd think that the "talking heads" at CNN were debating whether or not to let their comrades have the opportunity. You can only imagine what Speaker Pelosi and Minority Leader of the Senate are going to be countering with.

It will most likely be another great example of their continued poking their fingers into their ears and blathering "La, la, la, la, la.....!!!"

Why Youth Today Have No Clue How Spoiled They Are

'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'   


'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,   I informed him.

'All the food was slow.'   

'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'   


'It was a place called 'at   
Home,'' I explained. !   


'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'   


By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.   


But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card.

In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at  Sears & Roebuck.   
Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died. Now there's not even a Sears anymore!  


My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer.  

I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow)

We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11.   


It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a.m. And there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.   


I was 19 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.' When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.   


I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line. Oh yea, all phones then were connected to a wire that went out to the street & a telephone poll.   


Pizzas were not delivered to our home, but milk was; in glass bottles with cardboard caps!  


All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers   --   my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents.  He had to get up at 6 AM every morning.   


On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.   


Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.   


If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren   


Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.   


Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?   


MEMORIES from a friend :   


My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.   


How many do you remember?   


Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.   


Ignition switches on the dashboard.   


Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.   


Real ice boxes.   


Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.   


Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.   


Using hand signals for cars without turn signals. 

Diversity: The Cudgle of Social Justice

The policies and changes implemented by the Obama Administration of the recent past are only now beginning to reveal just how they are impacting our future potential when it comes to production and innovation in both industry and science.

As a multitude of earlier reports have pointed out that the White Christian Male is the target of these policies, PragerU's latest video with Heather McDonald reveals how it is using those same policies at our businesses, centers of research and institutions of what have traditionally been "higher learning."

In other words, if the social justice warriors have managed to infiltrate all facets of society and are determined to use ridiculous policies which take out their frustrations on those they feel are the reason they've not been able to compete on a par with others.

Showing Their Hand

When the incoming Speaker of the House takes her Christmas Vacation in Hawaii after the government shutdown begins and the President and V.P. announce their decision to Congressional members that they will stay at the White House over that same vacation period to be available for discussions about the funding of the "wall", you know they're showing their hand.

When the incoming Speaker of the House answers "No!" multiples times to both the President and the Media (D) when asked about a compromise on funding the "wall", you know they're showing their hand.

When both the former Speaker of the House, who's now the incoming one, and the current leader of the Senate in 2009 spoke of the need to build a "wall" on the southern border and curb illegal immigration from Mexico, they're showing their hand.

When the incoming Speaker of the House has said several times that the "wall" is "immoral", but does not explain why it is so, then you know they're showing their hand.

When the incoming Speaker of the House lives in an estate which is surrounded by a "wall" and a gate to keep unwanted strangers off of her property and out of her own house, you know that they're showing their hand and being hyper-hypocrites to boot.

In a game of poker one "shows their hand" when they give signals - directly or indirectly - as to what their hand truly contains, or is, in the game of politics. In this case of funding the wall the issue is NOT whether they're against actually having a border "wall", obstructing the inflow of illegals from Mexico, or even reforming existing immigration laws with all of its loopholes.

No, their hand which they are revealing to everyone is their "dog in the manger" attitude about who's going to get political credit for enacting a government program which would actually solve the threat to the nation it would remedy.

It means that they recognize that they must, at all costs and by all means, deny ANY Republican, whether it's Trump, Bush, Reagan, or any future Republican President, that THEY are in control of the game and will dictate the terms with the help of the Media (D) pushing the propaganda narrative to the public to persuade their mind-numbed "non-thinkers" to put pressure on those who just read the headlines and love the vitriol of conflict, anger, frustration, and crisis on a constant basis.

That is their modus operandi. 

And I believe much of the public is beginning to see through their charade when it comes to this issue. l also believe that the public is getting very tired of this crap and the liberal/ socialists are unwittingly cutting their political throats.

Don't be fooled, snookered, scammed, hoodwinked, or bamboozled - as former Pres. Obama would say - into believing that the liberal/socialist are going into this new 116th Congressional session for any other reason.They're scared to desperation of their impending doom and this explains why they're becoming so radical in their policies.

It's that simple!

Do You Love Your Country?

I woke up this morning, grabbed my cup of coffee, and went to my study to sip away while reading emails; what's become my morning ritual in semi-retirement.

The first email I opened of any significance - not junk mail wanting me to buy something - was from Eric Metaxis, author of a book titled "If You Can Keep It" which I read a few years ago and enjoyed so much I subscribed to his occasional newsletter. A link to the book is at the bottom of this post.

The title of this blog, which I've borrowed from his email, seemed to me somewhat ridiculous to ask; at least for me. However, upon reading the opening sentence, I was intrigued to learn why it was posed.

So, I've decided to share it here for my few followers who may find it edifying too:

Just after the 2016 election, the Wall Street Journal asked me and several others to comment on our hopes for the Trump presidency, and here is what I wrote:

My earnest hope is that most Americans will learn again to love their country, and will understand that not to do so is like refusing to love oneself or one’s children—peevish and wrong. To love something is not merely to approve of it, but to call it upward to its best self, to call it to a purpose that goes far beyond itself. Most who have truly loved America have done so with a conviction that we are, to use Lincoln’s phrase, God’s “almost chosen people.” We have been abundantly blessed not for ourselves, but so that we could be a beacon of hope and freedom to the world, not least for people like my parents, who sailed to these shores from war-torn Europe in the 1950s and who, when they passed the Statue of Liberty, were enraptured and emotional, knowing that the liberty it represented was not just a word but could be a way of life, one they hoped to embrace and pass on to their children, and now have, by God’s grace.

Lincoln also called America “the last best hope of earth.” As he was not known to be a prideful, chest-thumping buffoon, we must wonder what he meant by that sobering expression of American exceptionalism. May we, in the next few months and years, learn again to see what he—and all of the Founders, and Tocqueville— saw so clearly: that the greatness of America lies in our goodness, and that we can never be great without being good.

My hope is that we would remember that our freedoms are extraordinarily rare and fragile. If we don’t understand what inestimable sacrifices were made so that we could have them, we will certainly lose them. My hope is that we would remember our heroes and celebrate them. For starters we could exhort our children to memorize Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride” and the Gettysburg Address, because they are beautiful and ennobling and true. My hope is that we would restore to our national vocabulary the words “honor” and “sacrifice” and “dignity” and “sanctity”—and that “this nation conceived in liberty” would become a glorious and irrevocable blessing to the whole world beyond our shores forever and ever.

If you’d like to read more, I write at length about these ideas in my book, If You Can Keep It. I recommend it highly, even if I did write it!

Being that it was asked of Eric by the Wall Street Journal two years ago, I wondered if his words were ever published. Sure enough, not only WSJ, but the NYT also published it here. I suspect Eric's shared it again in today's email because of the current bitterness dominant in the Media (D) over the wall funding.

And now, for the cartoon of the day from The WSJ: 

What Speaker Pelosi Hopes You'll Never See

Right now the big attention getting issue in the news is the government shutdown over funding for the border wall.

What the Media (D) is NOT telling, or showing, their consumers is that the Border Patrol Union members are supporting President Trump's using the wall funding as leverage against the Liberal/Leftists in the House who are doing everything they can to keep from funding it.

Today the Border Patrol Union leaders met with the president in the White House today and gave a press announcement with him which most likely the Media (D) is doing their best to NOT air on their coverage of the issue.

What makes this press announcement all the more interesting is what the last question in this video piece asks. To those who want to use the "racist", "bigot", or emotional "bleeding heart" angle about it don't want you to think about when it comes to this issue.

I urge you to watch it!

And now, for today's cartoon from the Daily Signal: