Category: Current Events

Don’t Just Survive, Thrive

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There is a writer by the name of Nassim Nicholas Taleb who wrote a book called “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.”  The thesis of his book is that thriving is not about being robust enough to survive stress but rather being adaptable enough to improve your life in the face of stress.

Well, if he is right, we are about to be blessed with the opportunity to prove just how adaptable we truly are.  Now that the Supreme Court has abandoned us to the thugocracy we can expect amazing things from our government.  And if the Georgia elections go half as badly as the presidential elections did in that state, we are going to see stuff that would test the patience of Job.

I expect executive orders attacking the first and second amendments to be forthcoming from the Lying Sack of Crap Elect who is hoping to start infesting the White House in January.  He will attack religion, free speech and guns with every weapon at his disposal.  Hopefully some of those federal judges that President Trump installed will show themselves of some use and block these orders as unconstitutional but that’s yet to be seen.

I also expect the Justice Department to resume the BLM support activism that we saw under the former thug Obama.  That means that any Red State that tries to squelch BLM rioting in its jurisdiction will be harassed by the FBI and the Attorney General’s office.

And I’m assuming that the anti-trust investigations against Google, Facebook and Twitter will be curtailed or rather the investigations will center on why any conservative views are being expressed on these platforms at all.  It wouldn’t surprise me to see federal banking policy embrace the idea of banks punishing individual citizens who have espoused ideas that the Left does not approve of.  I mean why stop at canceling someone’s VISA card or PayPal account?  Why shouldn’t the federal government coordinate denying all bank access to such terrible people.  All they’d have to do is write it into some banking policy and the banks will be only too happy to follow in lock step.  Folks like me who run a tiny blog site have been more or less invisible or uninteresting to the powers that be.  But in the days ahead they may decide that to be fair, every sinner should be made to suffer equally.  So, who knows I may find myself de-platformed too.

And there could be even bigger fish to fry too.  The goons on the Left have threatened to pack the Supreme Court.  If they do, I wouldn’t be surprised if they then went whole hog and used a rubber stamp SCOTUS to discover that the First and Second Amendments don’t actually mean anything at all.  At that point we would get a close up look at what living in Venezuela is all about.

Why am I saying all this?  Because even these things do not represent the end of the world.  What they would represent are the acts of an illegitimate government attempting to destroy the freedoms that were enshrined in the US Constitution.  And I think that there will be a violent reaction to what has gone on for the last year.  I expect that the fraudulent election of the Lying Sack of Crap (Biden) will spark a level of outrage in the country that we haven’t seen before.  I wholly expect state governments to initiate action to insulate themselves from the harmful executive orders that the Lying Sack of Crap and his henchmen will instigate.

What I am suggesting to the readers here is that it is wise to look for ways to avoid being harmed by the terrible things that will be going on.  Find ways to shield you, your family and friends from the negative consequences of these things.  Be smart, inventive and maybe even work some of these things to your advantage.  I intend to promote products and services that will be sought after on our side of the fence.  Maybe you can think of filling a need that is unfilled because of the social media censorship.  Be creative.  Don’t just survive, thrive.

Merry Christmas

Red States Starting to Talk About Coordination Amongst Themselves

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Well, this is the first step.  Time to start looking at acting on a unilateral basis.  Not sure how quickly things will get going but no reason to wait anymore.  Supreme Court has thrown in the towel so we’re on our own.

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/allenwest-texas-texit-secession/2020/12/13/id/1001268/

And here’s a visual aid:

https://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2020/12/13/?post_type=comic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A House Divided

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And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand – Mark 3:25

He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. – Mark 3:30

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. – Abraham Lincoln

About a hundred and sixty years ago after another presidential election the United States of America broke in two.  The circumstances had many of the same symptoms from which we are suffering now.

  • The two parts of the country held each other in deep mutual disdain.
    • It would be hard to claim that the Left and the Right do not hate each other wholeheartedly.
  • The Progressive party saw its advantage in overwhelming its adversary through massive immigration.
    • Check.
  • The Progressive party saw its agenda as a moral crusade. They thought of their opponents as vile sinners who must be punished as severely as possible.
    • Check.
  • The Progressive party encouraged zealots to take matters into their own hands and commit crimes up to and including murder if it advanced the progress of the cause.
    • Check.

My point is that after witnessing all the BLM and COVID madness that has gone on and the scale of election fraud that was completely ignored by almost all levels of government at the federal, state and local level I no longer see a way that we are going to be able to reconcile our differences with the Left.  And that is not because I don’t think there are millions on the Right who want to let things blow over.  They do.  But the Left neither cares nor thinks they have to care what we think.  They intend to force us to live how they want us to live.  And that includes thoughts, words and deeds.  They will propagandize our children, monitor our communications, dictate our entertainment and regulate our religious and family lives.  Unless we break free.

You need look no further than Portland Oregon to see the template for how things will be done.  Thugs will terrorize our neighborhoods and the government will not intercede on our behalf.  They will select victims whose only crimes are being white or being normal or just being happy and they will make an example of you.  And after they’ve ruined your life you will be held up in the media as a warning so that those like you will grovel and hand over everything they have; their money, their homes, their jobs, their self-respect, their families and finally their lives.  But first what you’ll give up is your freedom; freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and the right to bear arms.

And what is our sin?  We were stupid.  We believed that America guaranteed its citizens the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  As it turns out, those things are only yours for as long as you are willing to fight for them.  The Left has been learning from the Jacobins and their Marxist children for almost as long as the country has been here.  And now with the help of the globalist oligarchs they’ve concocted a gulag for us that Orwell himself couldn’t have imagined in his worst nightmares.  And of course, it has a smiley face slapped onto the front just so you know that there’s nothing personal, just the system doing what it’s supposed to, rooting out bad thoughts.  It’s being done for your own good.

So, that’s the story.  They’re not going to let us go.  They’ll continue the campaign until they win or we give them a bloody nose.  And that’s only going to happen when our side decides to stop playing nice.  Because two can play at this game.  One of these days I expect all red counties to show 4000% voting levels.  Or all the Google server farms in red areas will simultaneously have the sewer lines become pressurized and fry the cloud.  Or maybe NLM (Normal Lives Matter) will suddenly appear in Cambridge and burn Harvard University to the ground as a way to equalize higher education in America.  Who knows what will be the first step?

But the real first step is acknowledging that the system isn’t set up to do what it says it will do.  It’s a scam and we are the marks.  And the only time you might be hearing someone tell the truth is when they drop the flowery language and tell you what concrete thing, they can give you if you work with them.  Like if they say they’re going to ignore the federal requirements for entitlements, affirmative action, LGBTQ madness and illegal immigration.  Those are real things.  If they do those things then they’re for real.  Those will be people who have brains and guts.  Look for those people and then watch to see if they produce results.  They’re going to want things in return.  They are going to want to run things their way.  If they can produce results, pay them.  They will be worth the price.

I Just Found Out My Dogs Are Immune to COVID

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This doctor is here telling the US Senate that he has mountains of evidence to prove that the active ingredient in my dog’s heartworm medicine is both, a foolproof prophylactic agent against catching COVID and an almost sure cure for recovering from it.  I have to assume that Fauci and the rest of his colleagues are either completely incompetent as doctors or actively working against the interests of the American people.  We need a new country.

 

 

 

 

 

Rush Limbaugh Talks Secession

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I’m not a daily listener to Rush so I’m not sure if this is a subject he has broached often or ever but it seems that even the most mainstream of non-Leftist pundits are treading on this topic more and more openly.  Apparently it’s far from unthinkable now to millions of people that our best path forward is to separate from the Left, either completely or to some limited extent.

Speaking personally I think I now have to agree.  We need to free ourselves from the tyranny of the Left.  There is no other way forward.

Can We Win Back the Culture or Are We Heading for Secession?

 

 

10DEC2020 – OCF Update – Things That I Am Trying to Figure Out

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Output’s been slow the last day or so because I’ve been working on some bigger fish.  I’m starting an sf&f book that I’ve been kicking around for a while.  It’s sort of a combination of sf and fantasy.  It always gets blurry when you start adding multiverses and immortals.  And that’s fine as far I’m concerned.  If you consider the ramifications of things like quantum superposition then it’s hard to say that reality draws a clear line between science and magic.  But it’s been fun and I’m making pretty good progress on both the outline and the beginning of the book.  But it has cut into my blogging time lately.

Also, I’ve been trying to do a little more analytical thinking about our present political situation.  We may have reached the point where yelling at the top of our lungs for people to wake up is no longer a useful task.  I think everyone who isn’t stupid or evil has acknowledged that our government is hopelessly compromised against us.  We need to switch gears and now focus on concrete plans to change the status quo.

And guess what, that’s not the easiest thing in the world to figure out.  It’s not just one thing.  It’s a million things.  We are up against an almost monolithic structure that is intent on destroying our way of life.  Individual defensive and offensive actions against such an opponent are so microscopically weak that they border on futility.  It’s obvious that organization is the key to expanding our impact.  But what organizations exist and which can you trust?

That is the kind of research I’ve been doing and it takes a lot of time and doesn’t provide instant results.  But there is no way of getting around the analysis.  So even though I enjoy ranting and raving and even though I think there is value in providing moral support and personal testament on the day-to-day events in the news I’m also looking to find answers to the questions we all have.  Is there an organization that is making progress against our enemies?  Is there an organization that can help us if we are attacked?  Is there a resource for finding allies in the different activities of our lives?  Such as religion, education, family activities, entertainment, sports, literature, professional societies, legal help, political organizing.  What corporations are on our side, or at least have made a point to remain neutral?  What news or social media companies will cater to us?  If any of you have done similar searches feel free to leave something in the comments that will provide a lead in my search.

I know this is a very long-term project so I try to keep it from dominating my day.  But at the same time, sometimes I have to follow a white rabbit pretty far down a hole to find out if he’s real or not.  So that’s what I’ve been busy with lately.  And I have the real-life stuff going on like all of you.  Christmas is coming up and we have things to take care of, and end of year stuff to attend to.  There are the young who need to be taught and the old who need to be remembered.  And Camera Girl is there to roll her eyes and shake her head in disapproval and attend to the ordering of her domestic universe, which she believes gives her authority over all of my world.  Hah!

photog’s Right-Wing Guide – Part 2 – Reviling Creepy Uncle Joe Effectively

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Briefly, to explain the title change, the first installment of this series was called “Right Wing Guide to Living in the Democratic People’s Republic of America – Part 1.”  As you can see that is pretty long.  And if I add a subheading for the individual essay it can get out of control.  Therefore, the shortening.  Well, you’ve got to admit it’s easier to remember.

Whatever Joe Biden’s place will be in America, whether as unsuccessful presidential candidate or as stinking, undead corpse littering up a back room at the White House, I think it is important that all good Americans heap as much scorn and derision on this lying, plagiarizing, bullying, woman-groping, hair sniffing, shoulder squeezing, influence peddling grafter as we possibly can without becoming truly offensive.

This policy has multiple advantages.  First and foremost, it is warranted.  There may be worse human beings in Washington.  After all it is a moral cesspool.  But at most they’re just barely nosing him out.  He truly is human garbage.  If an actual time machine existed it would be justified to go back and convince his parents to sell him at birth to a circus freak show as the dog-faced boy.  There he would have found his true calling.

Secondly, it feels right doing it.  There is a surge of joy when a truly fitting insult is found.  The “mot juste” as our snail, frog and cheese loving friends would say.  It is the joy in creating an apt word portrait.  Sure, the portrait resembles the evil, rotting, leprous portrait of Dorian Gray but that is still an accurate and useful work of art.  Mocking evil is fun.  I couldn’t stop laughing for several minutes when I reread this thing.

Thirdly and most importantly, his handlers hate it.  They’ve got to sell the image of Joe Biden as a wise elder statesman.  He must be painted as a saintly and totally legitimate leader of the United States.  Painting him as a doddering, crack-brained, idiot with the habits of a zoo chimp and the morals of a loan shark make that very difficult.  Joe is going to be asked by his employers to try to sell the American people on the idea of staying locked down basically forever.  If something that horrible is told to you by a demented circus monkey it’s going to seem less than compelling.

What I’d like people to summon up when they think of Joe is an image of his face on the body of a chimp inside of a cage with bars sitting in a truck tire suspended on a rope and flinging his own poop through the bars at the spectators.  I think this image will give Joe exactly the dignity, gravitas and credibility he deserves.  Keeping this image clearly in mind whenever he is speaking will remind the American people of exactly what he is doing.  He is throwing a bunch of crap in our direction and we should do whatever we can to avoid whatever he is pitching.

I’m sure over time other images of what Joe represents will come to me but for now Joe “zoo chimp” Biden is my current favorite.  If I can get this out there to the whole world it might have some interesting long-term effects.  Once the COVID thing is over Joe may want to shake hands with other world leaders.  If this meme gets out there some of those leaders may think twice before shaking Joe’s paw.  After all, where has it been?

Getting into the Christmas Spirit in 2020

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With all the horror that 2020 has provided I thought it would be extremely difficult to enjoy my annual ritual of watching my favorite holiday movies.  Just to start it off correctly I watched both the 1951 and 1984 movie versions of “A Christmas Carol.”  Surprisingly, I enjoyed them even more than I did last year under much less trying circumstances.  The scenes with Scrooge after his repentance are exactly what I needed to start enjoying the holidays the way I like to.  Surrounded by the squalor of the election fraud and the forced isolation of the COVID overreaction I needed to see scenes of joy and heartfelt emotion to wake my spirit up to the feelings of the season.

Wherever we are, even those of us locked down in this sad sham of an epidemic, we have many friends and loved ones that we can reach by phone or e-mail or by sending a little gift with a card.  Doing that will relieve some of the isolation and it will do a great deal of good for both the recipient and you.

And even if you are completely alone, maybe you can make a special meal for yourself and read a good book or watch a pleasant movie and reminisce about better times and look forward to better times to come.  Life ebbs and flows.  There are bound to be highs and lows.  This is a low point.  It will improve.  But letting Christmas pass without acknowledging it would make it even worse.  And I’m definitely not saying people should spend a lot of money or go through elaborate preparations for a party that no one will be attending.  Far from it.  One of few advantages that the present situation provides us is extra time for reflection.

We all rush through life without considering if we’re missing the bigger point.  Children grow quickly and people age without us realizing it.  We drift in and out of the lives of friends and then we’re left standing at a funeral wondering what happened to the time.  There’s definitely room for re-ordering priorities and reaching out to those we’ve lost track of.

When the world is going to hell in a handbasket is probably the best time to get your own life into better shape.  And the natural time to do that is at the end of the year.  Christmas and New Year are the perfect time to reflect and not just on the negatives.  Even those of us going through extremely hard times can take some solace from memories of the better times.  Those good things were real and we did enjoy them.  Remembering that joy can get you through some tough days.  Reliving it with someone who was also there makes it even better.

I come from a large family that truly relishes dark humor.  We reminisce about the most awful circumstances that we lived through together.  But this year I’ll look to remind them of some of the happier things that came with growing up in a large family.  If nothing else we can celebrate that we’ve beaten the odds and are all still alive and relatively healthy.  And we’ve got kids and grandkids too.  None of us is starving and there isn’t even a really strong feud going on in the sibling group which is pretty remarkable for us.  We won’t be getting together for Christmas which will break a decades long tradition.  But we can have a video conference and we can exchange presents and greetings.  That will help.

So, this is long enough.  My advice to everyone out there is don’t let the bastards get you down.  Make an effort to revive your Christmas spirit and I’ll bet it will be well worth your effort.

American Mind Has an Interesting Article – The Separation

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This is a pretty long article  with a good amount of prefacing discussion about where we are as a country.

The Separation

But by the end he gets to the nub of what he thinks we need to do, loosen the Union:

“The Separation is not a departure as much as return to the Constitution of the founders. The Articles of Confederation foundered on the three key functions required of the federal power: an effective army, a unified foreign policy, and a treasury that can incur liabilities for national functions. The federal government would retain its authority and taxing power for these functions.

Activities outside these spheres and the refereeing of interstate issues would be seated with the states. Broader latitude is provided to the states to effect and fund policies for their citizens. Blue states would no longer “subsidize” Red states. Greater funding for everything from climate change to social programs will be possible. The dust would be blown off the 9th and 10th Amendments.”

When he gets down to the amendments to the constitution it becomes a little less clear cut to me whether this is the simplest way:

“The Separation can be effected with a limited number of amendments to the Constitution: 1) a new amendment circumscribing the federal mandate to conform with the core functions above, 2) adjustment of the 16th Amendment to tie the taxing power to these functions, 3) elimination of the 17th Amendment so the state legislatures again elect Senators, 4) a new amendment formally providing the Supreme Court the power of judicial review but focusing that power on matters related to federal and interstate issues (i.e., the final word on the right to bear arms, free speech and abortion would be in state courts), and 5) a new amendment providing federal term limits.”

But this kind of idea is I think the direction we need to go.  What we have is a marriage that isn’t working.  Giving each side some space is the best option.  Whether it will happen is the question we have to answer.

06DEC2020 – OCF Update

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Sorry if things are a little slow this weekend with the posts, I’ve been enjoying the New England weather.

This weekend we have been blessed with an early December snow storm.  And even though it’s not the first snow of the season this was the first legitimately annoying snow of the year.  That’s because it was one of our trifecta storms.  It starts with a typhoon of rain, then it shifts to sleet and ends with a good think layer of snow.  When you get that combination it is delightfully heavy and certain to cause back ache, heart palpitations and exhaustion.  And it requires two separate removal operations.  Once the sleet ends and the snow begins in earnest you have to remove the slushy layer before it turns into a bottom layer of rock-like ice.  So you spend several hours (depending on the size of your driveway and parking area) shoveling and slinging slush and that is the heaviest snow there is.  And unfortunately snow blowers really don’t handle slush very well so this has to be done with the good old snow shovel.

Then you wait until the storm is over and remove the snow.  But unfortunately there is always an ice layer at the bottom even after the initial slush removal step so this is never as easy as a dry snowstorm.  It rained here on Friday through to Saturday morning.  The sleet started early and the snow began at 10 am.  I spent about three hours on Saturday slinging slush.  The snow was over by Sunday morning and I got to work again and finished up by 2 pm today.  Global warming, my foot.

So I’m behind on my writing but I haven’t heard about anymore snow coming anytime soon so I’ll catch up pretty quickly.  Maybe the lousy weather is why New Englanders are such perverse creatures.  They want to share their misery with everyone and being experts they do a thorough job.