TRUMP EXONERATED OF RUSSIAN COLLUSION, AS I EXPECTED

Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel charged with investigating possible Trump administration collusion with Russia to sway the 2016, just sent the findings of his investigation to the Attorney General and exonerated Trump and all his staff of any such collusion. Of course, the Democrat party and their cronies in the media are besides themselves: many in the media view this report as an insult; some folks, like Rachel Maddow, broke down and cried on national television; many are demanding the Attorney General before Congress to answer for the report and give Democrat Congress members an opportunity to attack his character; and while others are even more determined to find something to use against Trump. It's long past time the nation called the media to account for it's blatant bias and one-sided opposition to Trump and his Republican peers.



This is my original blog entry, dated March 28. 2017. People have to realize that politicians never learn from their mistakes, they will gladly endorse one fishing expedition after another in the hopes of finding some sort of dirt to use on their political opponents. It is the duty of the American voter to use a bit of common sense, and perhaps a bit of wisdom, to discern the truth in these matters and to vote for elected officials that will act with honesty, integrity, and will place the good of the nation before their own interests. Demagogues whose only wish is to attain power, that put their own selfish interests before the interests of the nation, or that promise nonsensical Socialist fantasies, should be recognized for the unethical scam artists that they are, and be rejected at the ballot box. 

INTERNET FREEDOM IS BEING LOST, BUT NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE

I've focused on this issue before, and it's getting worse. My own experiences began when Facebook lost its sense of humor, and began suspending accounts for frivolous things. What will it take for people to realize how dangerous the situation has become?

The big social media sites are selectively choosing who is allowed to use their forums, with a subjective and biased set of standards. Facebook and Twitter banned Alex Jones and several other sites using the false reasoning that such sites spread misinformation, fake news, and contribute to racism and intolerance. However, they have also banned websites, such as Zero Hedge and others, that involve economic and political articles that disagree with government policies and the Progressive/Socialist agenda. Recently, the ISPs have begun talking about the need for censorship,  they are talking about some corporate staffer deciding who may connect to the Internet.

The latest push for Internet censorship began with the live feed posted by the deranged New Zealand mosque killer. Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand has demanded social media and other Internet sites be held accountable for not blocking the killer's video. Let's stop and think for a second. Are social media sites supposed to have some magical foresight that would allow them to know the content of a live stream video, before it gets posted? She also managed to quickly ban the private ownership of all semi-automatic rifles in her country. The UK and France have even more restrictive gun laws than New Zealand; however, mass murderers have simply come up with different methods of carrying out their atrocities by using vans and trucks to mow people down.

When politicians use the power of their position to bully companies into censoring random sites, or anyone that may disagree with the political class, it means Freedom is being stripped away from the public. Make no mistake, the danger is real and it is happening to us right now. This is not some idle fantasy or cheap conspiracy theory. The people of this world should enjoy the Internet while it is still somewhat accessible, because if the current trend continues, the Internet will soon be offering less choices than the local prison. 

WHERE HAVE OUR TAX DOLLARS GONE??

A message to all my readers that hold elected office.

WHEN OLD LIBERALS REALIZE THE COUNTRY IS IN TROUBLE

 

Who is brainwashing people into supporting this Green Deal nonsense? Has anyone actually read and understood what they are supporting?

The Green Deal supported by misguided Socialist fanatics, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, provides a framework for a radical change in American society. The plan is so extreme that even Left leaning publications such as the Economist have come out against it. 

Yet, these people are convinced that this bad idea is the only way to save the nation. We are quickly becoming a divided nation, divided in every way possible. The extreme Left of the Democrat party, that has become the home of insane Socialist-Progressives, is adding fuel to the fire by it's delusional support of failed ideas and hatred of anyone that disagrees with it's misguided agenda.

THE PETTY POLITICS OF ANDREW CUOMO

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo

The recent celebration of the late Martin Luther King Jr. was a chance for everyone to remember the great struggle for equality and human decency, and the great humanitarian ideals of the Civil Rights Movement embodied by the late MLK.  In some ways, my family and I have also benefited from the struggles of those that sacrificed so much during the Civil Rights Era. I will always consider MLK to be a legitimate hero, because he struggled for an admirable and worthwhile goal, human decency and the equality of opportunity which is owed to all people. He ultimately sacrificed his life to those that could not accept his message of decency and respect.

Andrew Cuomo, the Governor of New York, used the recent celebration of MLK to attack his political opponents. His language reflects the false stereotypes and petty Socialist diatribes found within the Progressive extreme Left wing of the Democrat Party. His complaint was that conservatives are racists, because they oppose the Socialist ideals favored by Progressives: income redistribution; welfare programs; and tougher immigration policies.

The diversity-challenged Trump administration has pursued policies that are the opposite of what King supported -- from their explicit efforts to roll back voting rights, tax cuts that exacerbate income inequality, proposed cuts to social programs like food stamps, a possible rollback of nondiscrimination regulations for housing, crackdowns on nonwhite immigration and asylum seekers, pursuing policies that rein-in public sector unions while earning the praise of white nationalist groups. And that's just a partial list. It's a reminder that despite all the change we've seen over the past half-century, the underlying fights are not over.

 It is clearly evident, Governor Cuomo's complaints have little to do with racial or legal equality, and everything to do with economic equality. He uses the same tired old stereotypes and specious accusations of racism against the Trump administration that have been used against everyone that falls afoul of the extreme Left wing of the Democrat party. The equality sought by MLK and the other heroes of the Civil Rights era was for an equality before the law, an equality of opportunity, an equality for each person to be allowed to reach their fullest potential, an equality that is based on mutual respect and understanding. Those icons of the Civil Rights Era never spoke of a government imposed economic equality, nor did they ever demand that one group be penalized in order for another group to succeed.

 I am not a Trump supporter, but I would be immediately included in the Governor's diatribe, because of my own opposition to the Socialism that is so highly favored by the misguided liberal elite. The Governor may get plenty of press time, and his misguided and misinformed opinions may be printed by his cronies at CNN and the rest of the mainstream press, but that does not make his message any better. He has a history of attacking members of his own party, if they happen to get in his way. Andrew Cuomo is simply one more cheap and opportunistic politician that uses his position to lash out at his opponents in order to further his own political future.