ANOTHER FAIL AT CNN

Gabrielle Sorto, writing for CNN, managed to slip a serious error past the editors. But, the editors are not to blame, they are probably too young to know better. 

The purpose of the article was to cover the Chowchilla school bus kidnappers. However, the writer claimed this crime which occurred in 1976, was the inspiration for the movie "Dirty Harry" which was released to theaters in 1971. Did the script writer for Dirty Harry have some means of seeing the future? Hmm..... there is obviously a problem there, somewhere. I'm certain CNN will be deleting this article, as soon as the adults in the room realize how badly they screwed up.

This slip should be warning, the folks working in the media are just as prone to mistakes as anyone else. The titles "journalist" or "writer" do not give someone greater wisdom, knowledge, or intelligence than anyone else. There are far too many people that idolize journalists and members of the media, people like Walter Cronkite or Dan Rather are held to very high esteem by these press idolizers.

  If Gabrielle Sorto and his colleagues at CNN can make such a blatant error, by believing that something that happened in 1976 was the inspiration for a movie that came out in 1971, imagine how badly mistaken they can be when discussing a topic that is far more complex.

MY RESPONSE TO THE LOCAL REPUBLICAN PARTY

The Spotsylvania Republican Party invited me to "Like" their page, below is my response. Both political parties have done a terrible job managing the finances of the Federal Government, and both have drowned the nation in onerous laws and regulations. I reject both parties for their incompetence, and I further reject the Democrat Party for embracing the insanity of Marxist/Socialism disguised as "Progressive" values.


"Thanks for the invite, but I stopped identifying as a Republican in about the year 2002. My political beliefs are Conservative, and I normally support decent Republican candidates such as Rep. Rob Wittman in most elections. However, at the national level, especially the Presidency and positions that involve the leadership of the House and Senate, I can discern very little difference between the policies of the two major parties. 

The Republican national leadership has constantly disappointed their supporters by failing to enact, or even make a concentrated effort at implementing the many promises they've made to the voters. The only consistency I've observed from the Party leadership, is to keep promising they'll get things done if they can just win the next election. We hear this every election. 

George W. sent our forces to Iraq, to fight in a war we did not need. The Republican party blindly supported his decisions, without stopping to think or to ask questions. Later, Obama did the same thing in Libya, Syria, and other nations, and the Republican Party leadership still went along blindly. Today the warmongers John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, within the Trump administration, are eager to get us involved in a senseless war with Iran. When will this insanity stop? 

The Republicans in Congress continue to pass the most ludicrous of budgets, and have all but ruined the financial future of our Federal Government. $22 Trillion worth of debt is an amount that will choke the nation, if interest rates rise just a few points too much. What are they doing? Does anyone in Congress, or at the state and local level, understand the basic principles of monetary economics? Do they realize the nation is sitting on a ticking time bomb called "hyperinflation"? Endless loans and cheap credit have saddled the public with enormous debt, which must be paid back at some point. The cost of living has increased exponentially over the past 30 years. Try going to college or to the hospital, only the very wealthy can get by without resorting to massive school loans or overpriced health insurance. The middle class is drowning in debt, and endless taxes. What has the Republican Party done to help? Nothing. If the Party leadership actually cared about the middle class, they would increase the Standard Tax Deduction to $100,000 per taxpayer. That's right, if you work and file a tax return, the first $100,000 of income should be free of income tax. That would be just one way to help the middle class. 

The Republican Party, declaring it's supposed support of Conservative values, was at one time the Party of reason, thought, and moral principle. If it can ever return to actually representing those values, I will rejoin the Republican Party."

DO NOT BE FOOLED INTO GIVING AWAY YOUR FREEDOM

 

 

The Fourth of July is meant to celebrate the struggle against tyranny, and unelected governments that do not have to answer to the citizens. Today we are getting very close to such a situation, with mindless bureaucrats and people without any sort of official position making decisions that effect everyone. Our nation is ripe for a Socialist dictator to seize power, by giving gullible people a false sense of hope that he will impose Marxist economic equality and ensure public security.

In many of my posts I discuss the destruction of American symbols as a concentrated and ongoing effort. In this article, we can see how the memory of Thomas Jefferson is dishonored by politically ambitious fools that can not see how their actions hurt our society. Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, one of the greatest arguments for freedom ever produced. The arguments he made in that tremendous document are ignored and forgotten by a nation that no longer understands or appreciates what it means to be truly free.

"Indeed, it is painfully fitting that mere days before the nation prepared to celebrate its freedoms on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the City Council for Charlottesville, Virginia—the home of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration—voted to do away with a holiday to honor Jefferson’s birthday, because Jefferson, like many of his contemporaries, owned slaves. City councilors have opted instead to celebrate “Liberation and Freedom Day” in honor of slaves who were emancipated after the Civil War."

THE GREAT STRUGGLE OF OUR TIMES

What should we believe and why?

Finding the Truth has been the goal of every religion, philosopher, and poet since the beginning of time. It should be clear to my readers what my beliefs are, and I have no desire to impose my beliefs on anyone else. But there is one thing we must all do, and that is to never stop our search for the Truth. However, in recent times there has been a concentrated effort to stop our search for the Truth. Whether it is a critical review of the recently deceased, or a new law that forces very young children in Catholic schools to learn about the merits of the LGBT lifestyle and the insane fad of transgenderism.

When we lose our ability to express ourselves, we lose every bit of freedom or liberty we once enjoyed. The Bill of Rights enumerates our freedoms, and protects the public from an overly dictatorial government. But what good is the First Amendment and the guaranteed Right to Free Speech, if Congress can frighten social media companies into limiting people's ability to express themselves???

We have lost our freedom, we are now living in tyranny; but we just can't see it. Social media can silence anyone with whom they disagree, from conservative writers to elected officials. The media and politicians can use the power of their positions to slander and defame anyone they don't like; and the accused have no way to respond effectively. Progressives and Marxist/Socialists have wormed their way into every institution and professional board, and use their positions to impose their values on everyone else. 

 

Welcome to the new reality. 

 

 

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.