NANCY TELLS THE TRUTH

Yes, she said it and she meant it: Nancy Pelosi said that John Conyers is is an icon of the Democrat Party. 

Not only is he above and beyond reproach, she would have you believe, but the party looks up to him as being a standard bearer for what they epitomize and admire. That surely tells you everything you need to know about the Democrats, doesn't it?  They're a party of sleaze and disgust... period. 

The sad part of all of this is that the Republicans in Congress are not one damned bit better. 

They're all to blame for this nasty, irresponsible, holier-than-thou culture, and they're all in bed with the devil.  What a disgrace!

ABOUT THOSE BACKGROUND CHECKS...

There have been many cases where felonious shooters were found to have been able to obtain guns because they passed a background check and should not have.  It appears that the Justice Department under Loretta Lynch issued orders to the effect that only perpetrators who had committed crimes while crossing state lines could be included on the federal list of persons prohibited from buying or owning guns.  So, a whole lot of names were dropped from the list. 

And they want to blame us... law abiding citizens... for the resulting gun violence?  

Attorney General Jeff Sessions now wants to investigate the background check system and see how it can be improved.  I'm all for getting the names of those who are too much of a danger to society deemed onto the Federal list.  And, I'm all for making the program more effective and stronger.  I can't speak for the NRA, but I suspect they feel the same way. 

But, we have to be careful about this.  We have to be able to find an expeditious method for a person to have his/her name removed from the list if it got onto the list by mistake.  That's my only caveat. 

TRUMP THE OGRE VS. HILLARY AND KATHY

Both Hillary Clinton and Kathy Griffin are down in the dumps; it's going to be a totally rotten Thanksgiving for them because they are both unemployed... and it's Donald Trump's fault. 

In Hillary's case, she got outsmarted by her own scheming.  She trusted those dirty rotten Russians from the day she pressed the "reset" button with them, to the day she connived to sell them a bunch of our uranium and enrich her "foundation" coffers, to the deals which made with them to help her out in the 2016 presidential elections.  With their help and her newly-found millions socked away in that "foundation," she was absolutely certain she would win, but she evidently didn't buy off all of the right people. 

So, Hillary didn't win and now nobody wants anything to do with her.  Just mention her name in the top echelon of the Democrat Party and everyone in the room scrambles to crawl under the carpet.  

As for Kathy, her career in the comedy business was lackluster at best, so she decided to play a prank on Donald Trump and gain some notoriety in the process.  She made this phony Trump head depicting him as being beheaded and then trotted it out for the whole world to see, dripping blood and everything.   The public was repulsed, she said it was all meant to be a joke, venues started to cancel her appearances, she admitted it was a mistake and then said it was not a mistake and... well, the whole incident has morphed into being Trump's fault; he's the real asshole of the day.  That all being said, now she can't buy her way into a stage anywhere in the country and she's... penniless. 

Both Hillary and Kathy are peas of the same pod and would be quick to claim that no woman has ever suffered the trauma dumped down on them like the ruthless and cruel Trump crap has been. 


And so it is... The Donald is giving them both The Bird for Thanksgiving this year.  

Wah. 

DOGS DON'T BELONG OUTSIDE ON COLD, SNOWY NIGHTS

If I've heard it once, I've heard it a million times: "What in God's name has happened to our country?"  

Well, you're not going to like the answer, but in your heart you will know that I am correct.  What has happened is that we have not taken care of our country.  Like a crop, you can't just plant the seeds, walk away and expect them to grow and produce without coming back to water them, fertilize them, weed them, chase insects and predators away and keep them from getting diseases.  You have to work your tail off every day to protect them and nourish them.  

Frankly, we've treated our country like it really doesn't exist.  We're worse than dog owners who throw their dogs out into the back yard on cold and snowy nights. 

And we... we are the only ones who can make things better.  
 

WASHINGTON: SCURRILOUS SCUMBAGS

I cannot for the life of me fathom a Congress or a Department of the Justice who can look at the Clinton Mafia and say with a straight face, "There is insufficient evidence there to warrant a Special Counsel."  They then turn around and look at the Robert Mueller abuse of his position as he chases down a supposed Trump "collusion" claim without being able to produce one shred of evidence, and they simply shrug their shoulders.  I include Congress, Sessions and the media.  

The fix is in.  They have no intentions of ever cleaning up graft and corruption in Washington.  It's all a big sham.  

What's worse is that we seem to be sitting still for it.  

RED BLUFF SHOOTING: BLAME GOVERNOR BROWN?

Just a month ago, California's illustrious Governor "Moonbeam" Jerry Brown signed legislation that bans school superintendents from allowing designated concealed-carry-permit holders to carry their weapons on campus.  That means he created hundreds of more gun-free zones in the state... ripe hunting grounds for active shooters. 

Yesterday, a known felon... prohibited from buying, owning or possessing guns, went on a rampage in northern California near a Red Bluff elementary school.  Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said the shooter was "randomly picking targets."  Four people were killed and ten injured including two elementary school students before the shooter was shot and killed by law enforcement; the shooter tried to gain access to locked classrooms.  The shooter's neighbors said he was a lunatic, shooting off hundreds of rounds in the days preceding the tragedy.  And the Governor issued a statement saying he was "saddened to hear about today's violence in Tehama County, which shockingly involved schoolchildren."

Okay, Mr. Know-it-All:  With all of these great laws you've been enacting to get control of guns... (1) How did he get access to guns, (2) how did he purchase ammo,  (3) how many people on the school campus were prepared to stop him before he started shooting kids, (4) since it's law enforcement's job to stop these shootings and that's your chief argument against private citizens owning guns, why was this guy able to create seven different crime scenes before he was stopped? 

Brilliant.  Just brilliant. 

NORTH KOREAN DISASTER

Back on November 1st, I reported on this blog that the tunnels leading into North Korea's underground test site had collapsed and that some 200 had died.  I also reported scientists were concerned that radiation could escape from that location and threaten Japan or even the U.S.  

Since then, we've heard nothing. 

Although North Korea adamantly denies that the collapse occurred at all, more and more news sources are carrying the story.  Joel Myers, the founder and chairman of AccuWeather, said this week's forecast could spread radiation and threaten nearby countries with contamination from North Korea's last test.  “As winds pick up out of the northwest over the next few days, it is possible that any radiation that leaks from the site [where the nuclear test took place] could be carried and dispersed across the Sea of Japan and even to the Japanese islands.” 

This reminds me of the enormous meltdown of nuclear reactors at Fukushima; radiation from that disaster actually did reach our west coast.  

Of course, we wouldn't be in this predicament at all if Bill Clinton had stopped North Korea's nuclear program way back in the beginning...  or if George W. Bush or Barack Insane Obama had done their jobs and put a stop to it. 

A CALL TO ARMS

When you take a moment and a deep breath to study the safety and security of our nation these days, you can't help but agree that we are a nation at risk.  We have terrorists, drug cartels and downright evil-doers in our midst.  At the same time, most of our police forces are shrinking due to being targets of BLM and other whacko groups while being subjected to regulations that are so strict as to prevent the cops from being able to do their jobs effectively. 

Then there's Antifa, that friendly "pro-American" group which would have you believe their chief goal is to prevent Nazism in this country when, in fact, quite the opposite is true.  They dress in black and mask their faces, because they are afraid to be seen and recognized for who they really are: fascist thugs.  While pointing at the NRA as being the ones to incite violence in the country, they're the ones who firebomb everything in sight and seek to destroy everything we stand for.  Moreover, the real problem with them is that the left secretly agrees with them and their objectives to destroy America.   Hence, the big left push at gun control.  

The very second you say anything against Antifa, you become a target.   The media says little about their activities or the destructive agendas of other domestic terrorists ; don't you wonder why?  

We Americans face danger both from within and from without.  In every shadow, behind every wall, in every nook and cranny... somebody lurks who wants to do us harm.  It's no longer the occasional attack on the streets, in our churches and schools... it's everywhere.  And there is only one person in your immediate vicinity who can protect you because, when violence begins it is almost always over before the cops even get the call.

This is truly what is meant by having a well-armed and organized militia.  I'm not advocating for strapping ten guns on your belt and heading out the door with a chip on your shoulder, but I am suggesting that when the bad guy pulls out his weapon, he should immediately be faced with three or four more aiming back at him.  It has come to that point: any man or woman of gun-bearing age who doesn't have one and know how to use it is inviting carnage.  

If you don't have and carry a gun, get one.  If you have one, carry it, wherever you go.  On the other hand, don't even think about putting one in your hands until you learn how and when to use it.  

Most people I know don't even suspect that I carry a gun.  I don't show it, I don't brag about it, I don't even discuss it.  It's nobody's business.  In all of my infinite lifetime, there have only been two times when I even reached back to put my hand on my gun; thank God, the situation was quickly defused and I did not have to pull it out and show it, or somebody would surely have been shot and I doubt it would have been me.  

Yes.  The time has come.  We have to quit yakking about it and start getting serious.  Don't be to blame... be prepared.  

LUDICROUS

By all accounts, the guy was a total nutcase.  He was dishonorably discharged from the Air Force for some really nasty behavior, which says a lot in and of itself because the Air Force rarely dishonorably discharges anybody.  As a result of his crimes while in the Air Force, he was supposed to be reported as a violent offender who should not have access to guns, but he wasn't.  

He beat on dogs, had a vile temper and was well known to police.  He scoped out the church a few days before his shooting rampage and have a family vengeance going.  Nevertheless, he also had a pile of ammo and guns and walked into the First Baptist Church on Sunday morning and let his vengeance turn the scene into a bloody, deadly mess.  Had the neighbor across the street not seen what was going on, the shooter could have gone on to other venues and shot dozens of more innocent people.  

All of the laws in the world were in place to prevent that massacre; yet, it happened. 

There are all of these demanding cries that we've got to do something!  Right now!  Confiscate everyone's guns!  And yet,  in the same breath, they tell us to keep calm, keep strong and get used to terrorism because... it's the new norm. 

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS

Imagine being in a church on a Sunday morning... or in any other building or event... a town meeting, a Kiwanis Club meeting, a high school basketball game... and in walks unannounced evil.

I can't imagine how those churchgoers in Sutherland Springs, Texas felt yesterday, all sitting there with Bibles in hand, joined in the worship of God.  As I write this, the horrible news is just breaking out and I don't even know anything about the shooter yet, except that he's dead.  Did he shoot himself or did the cops shoot him?  I don't know.

So, the first shot rings out.  Now, where do you think the cops were on an otherwise peaceful Sunday morning?  I have to think they were not out on the immediate street corner waiting for something to happen.  Some, maybe one, was at home with family on a day or shift off, maybe another had just gotten off shift and was at home in the bunk, maybe another was filling up his patrol car at a gas station... just how many cops does a town of 400 have on their entire force anyway?  They may not even have a police force; they may rely on a county sheriff for protection.  My initial research shows there is one highway patrolman living in the area and the Wilson County Sheriff's office in Floresville... 15 miles away; there are 6,500 people in Wilson County, so just how many do they have working as deputies?  

The shot rings out and pandemonium begins as the minutes tick by.   Bang! One dead.  Bang!  Two dead.  Screams.  No one but the shooter has a gun.  The first call to 911 hasn't even happened yet.  Bang!  One seriously injured.  Bang!  Another dead... someone finally fishes a cellphone out of his pocket.  Bang!  We're just now five or six seconds into this sickening scenario.  

What the timing was, I don't yet know, but it could have been 15 minutes before the first law enforcement showed up from Floresville, counting getting the dispatch to getting into a patrol car to traveling at 80 or 90 mph to the scene.  Whatever the timing was, the shooter had plenty of time to reload.  Bang!  Bang!  Bang! 

Sooner or later, this country has to come to grips with the sheer reality of the situation.  If there were 30 people in that church, at least two or three should have been carrying a concealed weapon and known how to use it.  If just one or two had... maybe lives would have been saved.  Maybe the minutes would not have gone so desperately by in an otherwise quite church interrupted only by bang... bang... bang.  

JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS HITS THE NAIL ON THE HEAD

Wednesday night on the Laura Ingraham Angle, Justice Thomas remarked that he just can't seem to find anything in America today over which citizens are united.  Nothing.  

I think he is absolutely correct and I suspect it is not by accident.  I think  this disunification of the patriotic American spirit started way back in the 2008 election season when Barack and Hillary had a top secret meeting in an obscure hotel room, shortly after which Hillary announced that she was dropping out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.  I think they both agreed that the country needed to move towards Marxism and the conversation went something like this: (1) The country won't stand for such a direction unless we first strip them of their core beliefs; (2) This process couldn't be accomplished over night... it would take several presidential terms; (3) Barack, being the established community organizer, should be the ideal person to put the pieces together necessary to pull the evolution off and should therefore be in charge of the first portion of the project; (4) Hillary would be the cleanup hitter; (5) Barack would therefore go first with eight years in office to put all of the components together, and he would name Hillary as Secretary of State to provide visibility and a power base for her run in 2016, and he would help set up a machine to ensure her win; and (6) After Hillary's election, Barack would continue to support their joint effort in the background by creating more disunity and dissatisfaction with the American status quo.  

All of that put together would be a sixteen-year strategy to turn our government upside down and install Marxism.  

If you accept that as a working premise, then all of the things that have happened to our country over the last eight years make sense... including their reactions to Trump's election.  Together, Obama and Clinton have totally usurped the power and will of the people and have successfully pitted every segment of our society against one another.  

And here we sit.  

 

NORTH KOREA: OH, SHIT!

For two months now, scientists have been warning North Korea's resident midget dictator that the tunnel into the side of the mountain used for testing nuclear weapons was in danger of collapse.  He ignored them.  The tunnel has now collapsed, killing an estimated 200 workers and possibly leaking a radioactive cloud into the surface and atmosphere.  

The structural integrity was evidently severely damaged when Kim Jong-un conducted his sixth underground nuclear test in September; it was the largest of all tests and North Korea claimed it to be a hydrogen bomb.  

Initial reaction here is glee, but that radiation could well be on the way to the west coast of the United States.  Some observers think this disaster may be worse than Chernobyl or Fukushima in terms of radioactive danger.