Donald’s flag hysteria delusion syndrome

Donald Trump suffers from flag hysteria delusion syndrome along with about 90% of his fellow Americans, including Hillary Clinton, Democrats, Republicans, left, right, center, and all the rest. They think that a fucking flag is sacred -- more important to the people than the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. 

Now, don’t get me wrong; I like the American flag. As flags go it’s a nice flag; a pretty flag. I’ve flown it on my house during Flag Day and the Fourth of July. I’ve waived it as a child at parades. I like to see it fluttering in the breeze. But I don’t worship it. I don’t worship any symbols. No symbol is sacred. Flags are just pieces of cloth. Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded.

“Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!” tweeted the Donald yesterday. He believes that Americans who protest government policies by burning the flag should lose their citizenship or go to jail as punishment. People who exercise their First Amendment rights should be punished.

Never mind that the United States Supreme Court has ruled that flag desecration is a classic example of protected speech. Flag burning is a form of political expression protected by the First Amendment. Even Justice Antonin Scalia, the Donald’s hero whom he wants to replicate on the court decided, in Texas v. Johnson, that government attempts to criminalize flag desecration are unconstitutional.

Never mind that the United States Supreme Court has ruled, in Afroyim v. Rusk,  that the Constitution does not allow the government to expatriate Americans against their will. The government can’t just cancel a person’s citizenship for any reason let alone for desecrating a fucking flag.

Trump should pull his foot out of his mouth, apologize, and recognize that our citizenship and the right to freedom of speech are far more important to Americans that a pretty piece of cloth. I feel sorry for Trump and others who become hysterical and feel offended by those who refuse to worship the American flag but they need to accept the fact that the purpose of the First Amendment is to protect offensive expression.

He should get treatment for his flag hysteria delusion syndrome

Indoctrination Nation

Does anyone doubt the fact that our government utilizes its vast nationwide network of public schools to indoctrinate children by teaching them what it wants them to think?

I’ve said this dozens of times on these pages: Public schools should be teaching the kids how to think, not what to think. But teachers and administrators – government agents – think they have a perfect right to impose their personal values – including politics -- upon the captive students in their classrooms. That constitutes indoctrination which violates the First Amendment. It violates the students’ civil rights.

Teachers in San Francisco’s public schools, for example, are offering a classroom lesson plan directed at more than 57,000 students in the district, and supported by administrators that calls President-elect Donald Trump a racist, sexist man who became president “by pandering to a huge racist and sexist base…Let us please not sidestep the fact that a racist and sexist man has become the president of our country by pandering to a huge racist and sexist base," says the lesson plan.

“Educators are entrusted to create lessons that reflect the California standards, support students’ social and emotional well-being and foster inclusive and safe school communities,” explained one administrator. San Francisco schools serve diverse populations and teachers are encouraged to include multiple perspectives in lessons, she said.

Apparently this administrator believes that teachers should be encouraged to create politically oriented classroom lesson plans which flagrantly lie to children.

Naturally, the other side of the political spectrum doesn’t agree. “It’s inappropriate on every level,” declared a Republican National Committee spokeswoman from California. It constitutes “inappropriate propaganda that unfairly demonizes not only the campaign that Donald Trump, the winner, ran, but also all of the people who voted for him.”

How do you suppose Democrats would react to a public school lesson plan teaching students that President Obama is a committed communist who uses his administration to steal property from the rich and re-distributes it to the poor?

The short answer is that public school government agents have no right to teach children political values. It violates the First Amendment and their civil rights. The result is … indoctrination nation. 

Who is Chicken Little?

Sometimes the smartest people come to the dumbest conclusions.

Professor Stephen Hawking, of all people, the brilliant theoretical physicist, cosmologist and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University at Cambridge, England, has concluded essentially that the sky is falling.

Stephen Hawking is Chicken Little.

He actually believes, and has said so during a recent speech at Oxford University, that the whole of humanity has less than 1,000 years left to exist on Earth before a mass extinction occurs, and that the only way our species can avoid dying out is to find another planet to inhabit. “We must also continue to go into space for the future of humanity… I don’t think we will survive another 1000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet.”

Technology will lead Earth to a virtually inevitable global cataclysm, Hawking predicts. “We face a number of threats to our survival from nuclear war, catastrophic global warming, and genetically engineered viruses… The number is likely to increase in the future, with the development of new technologies, and new ways things can go wrong. Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time.”

I wonder where this brilliant cosmologist gets the idea that our Earth is “fragile.” After all, the planet has been in existence for some 3.5 billion years. It’s not exactly like a crystal goblet whizzing about in space. I think it’s safe to say that Earth will still be quite intact 1,000 years from now – Hell, probably a billion years from now – unless we experience some sort of cosmic collision with another galaxy. There is no way that human beings all by themselves are going to break planet Earth.

What if humans do find other planets to inhabit? Won’t they be just as fragile as Earth? Won’t there still be the possibility of nuclear wars; catastrophic global warming; and genetically engineered viruses? Won’t they be faced with exactly the same doom and gloom possibilities that they face right now here on Earth? I think Hawking has been watching too many Star Trek movies. He must think that if humans move to other planets they won’t act like humans anymore.

Doesn’t Professor Hawking conveniently forget that human beings are perfectly adapted to inhabit planet Earth? Our species has been hopping around here for at least 2 million years or more which has given us plenty of time to adapt. This is the perfect planet for us. We’re not adapted to inhabit other planets. Other planets are too far away. Who in his right mind would want to leave this perfect planet only to start all over again someplace else light years away?

You want to know what I think. I think that our Professor Hawking has a political agenda in his head. I think his motives are evil. I think he’s a globalist; a committed socialist – perhaps communist -- who detests national sovereignty and individual freedom. I think he hates human liberty.

In an essay published in The Guardian last July, Hawking argued that in order for humans to survive the massive, serious challenges ahead – you know, climate change, overtaxed food production, overpopulation, and all the other transparent bullshit preached by the globalists -- they need to resist the individualism and isolationism that have fueled political movements like Brexit.

He wants a one world order governed by elites like himself. “We will need to adapt, rethink, refocus and change some of our fundamental assumptions about what we mean by wealth, by possessions, by mine and yours. Just like children, we will have to learn to share,” he wrote. He hates individualism. He hates liberty. He doesn’t like Brexit. He’s really pissed off that Donald Trump got elected. So he thinks we’re all doomed. The sky is falling.

“If we fail then the forces that contributed to Brexit, the envy and isolationism not just in the UK but around the world that spring from not sharing, of cultures driven by a narrow definition of wealth and a failure to divide it more fairly, both within nations and across national borders, will strengthen. If that were to happen, I would not be optimistic about the long-term outlook for our species.”

That’s what Professor Stephen Hawking is all about. He’s not about theoretical physics or cosmology here; no… it’s about his rotten political agenda.

He’s Chicken Little with a hammer and sickle. 

Why Trump Triumphed

Donald J Trump triumphed. He overcame all the odds. His opponents were shocked. The pollsters and pundits were flummoxed. There is rioting in the streets, crying and gnashing of teeth among the inconsolable losers.

What happened? How did he do it? Why?

This election was not a landslide. In fact it was extremely close. It appears that Trump’s opponent won the popular vote by a tiny margin. All of the several key battleground swing states that Trump won – which gave him is victory in the Electoral College – were won by relatively small margins. They might have gone either way depending on voter turnout.

Face it: The influence of progressive socialism in America has grown exponentially during the last several decades. Democrat enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders and Elisabeth Warren exemplifies this. The battle between the haves vs. the have nots, the producers vs. the takers, the hosts vs. the parasites, has slowly shifted in favor of the Socialists.

Hatred of capitalism, success, and individual freedom is palpable. Academia, professional teachers and administrators, from pre-school through university on balance has taught our youth the politics of envy, intellectual dishonesty, sloth and entitlement.

Barrack Obama, a charismatic and articulate African American orator, managed to get himself elected twice because of this shift, together with the fact that he would be the first black president. His skin color was far more important to the voters than his mediocre qualifications to hold office.

So despite all his many failures as president those same voters got behind the most corrupt and dishonest person ever to seek the presidency simply because she’s a woman and would thus become the first woman president. Her vagina was far more important to them than her record and political attributes.

In short, Hillary Clinton was a terrible candidate for president. She was dishonest, two faced, self-dealing, lazy, and un-charismatic; no one liked her; few trusted her; she carried more baggage than a cruise ship; and her long record of political failures, character flaws, criminality and abysmal incompetence was well documented in so many ways – think FBI investigation, WikiLeaks and Project Veritas. 

This was the gift that kept on giving for Donald Trump.

But there is no doubt in my mind that if Hillary Clinton were simply a halfway decent human being, like Bernie Sanders, for example, she – not Donald Trump -- would be the President Elect today no matter what Trump said or did during his campaign. She would have won in exactly the same way Obama won with his mediocre record in 2012 even though Mitt Romney was decidedly the better candidate for the job.

Did you notice that Clinton spent 3 times or more money than Trump did on her campaign but held five or more times less events and rallies, and that the rallies she did hold attracted many times less people than Trump’s rallies attracted? That’s because her message was boring, stale, scripted, and even her most ardent supporters weren’t interested in what she had to say. She had nothing of substance to say.

Trump’s message by contrast was spot on. His supporters loved it. He would often hold five different rallies per day in five different states, each attracting tens of thousands of screaming, sign waving, enthusiastic supporters, while Clinton could barely manage to pull a few hundred stiffs to her infrequent events. Sometimes she had to pay them to come. And she would often go days and weeks without campaigning while Trump just kept going and going and going.

Donald Trump focused on the issues most important to productive hard working Americans – government corruption in Washington; the economy; jobs; GDP growth; foreign trade deals; illegal immigration; energy policy; taxes; business; stifling government regulations; healthcare; gun rights; education; foreign policy; ISIS terror threats; infrastructure; National defense; and veterans affairs reform.

He successfully convinced his audience that the level of corruption, waste and fraud in America has advanced to intolerable nation threatening levels, and that he will do what is necessary to fix it. He’s going to drain the swamp in Washington.

Imagine the impact of that message with all the elite swamp creatures and cock roaches on K Street and within the D.C. belt-way. These are the rich fat parasites that have been sucking the blood and vital nutrients of our nation for far too many decades and therefore hate Donald Trump’s guts. He’s going to shine the light on them. He’s going to root them out and pick them off like bloated ticks one by one.

Decent patriotic hard working producing Americans love Trump’s message.

That’s why Trump Triumphed.

Bipolar FBI

Does FBI director James Comey suffer from bipolar disease? Is he going out of his way to embarrass himself and his bureau? Does he have a fetish for changing his mind? Or, has he just gone bat shit crazy?

Am I missing something here? Look; I confess; I don’t like Hillary Clinton; I don’t want her elected President; but I don’t want her prosecuted for any crimes either unless there is enough evidence that she’s guilty. If she’s guilty, prosecute her. If she’s not guilty, just leave her alone.

Let’s see if I have this right. After Secretary of State Clinton left office in 2013 there apparently was enough evidence from the 55,000 emails she turned over from her private server indicating  that she feloniously mishandled classified information in violation of one or more federal statutes. The FBI started an investigation which lasted over a year during which hundreds of agents spent thousands of man hours meticulously piecing together the case.

At the end of this long process James Comey told us there was evidence that Clinton violated the law but in his opinion it was not enough to warrant a prosecution. So he closed the case.

That decision caused a firestorm of controversy within the FBI. Agents, who knew otherwise, later discovered 650,000 more relevant emails on a computer shared by one of Clinton’s staffers and her husband who did not enjoy any security clearance for handling classified information. 

On the basis of this “new” information, Comey decided to reopen the case against Clinton just eleven days before the presidential election. That decision caused another firestorm of controversy, this time within the Democratic campaign.

Ok, so there was “new” evidence, and one would think that it would have to be pretty damn strong evidence of guilt in order to cause Comey to change his mind and once again put Clinton in serious jeopardy of criminal prosecution. If she’s guilty, by all means reopen the case, but if it’s nothing, just leave her alone.

But no… now just two days before the election, James Comey changed his mind again. It took him and his G-men over a year to piece together 55,000 emails and decide that there wasn’t enough evidence to prosecute, but just one week to analyze 650,000 emails and decide that this so-called “new” evidence amounted to nothing.  

Who does he think he’s kidding?

James Comey must be bipolar; he’s an embarrassment to the Federal Bureau of Investigation; he’s demonstrated a peculiar fetish for changing his mind, and yes, I think he’s just gone bat shit crazy.

Compulsory Nation

The United States Constitution begins with a short preamble setting forth the legitimate purposes for our new government, to wit: “… establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”

Government is necessary therefore only to preserve and protect the rights of the people – not to compel the people to act against their rights. Sadly, however, over the last 240 years, our government has slowly become less inclined to preserve and protect our rights and more inclined to compel us to act against them. The United States of America has become a compulsory nation.

Nowhere is this fact more evident than in the case of compulsory education. Our government has no legitimate powers or authority under the Constitution to compel parents and children during their entire formative years to participate in educational indoctrination programs. We know that if the government can compel this kind of scheme on children, it can do the same with adults.

It’s unconstitutional; because it plainly violates our First Amendment right to freedom of expression and association. It plainly violates our Fifth Amendment right to liberty. Education, just like religion, is a wholly private and personal aspect of our lives which should be entirely free from government intrusion, interference and coercion.

We have a constitutional right to decide for ourselves and our minor children matters of religion and education. It might be widely considered unwise, for example, when some parents, for religious reasons or otherwise,  believe that their children should not go to school for a formal education during their formative years; should instead grow up on the farm learning from nature and common sense. Unwise, perhaps, but that is their constitutional right.

The lack of a formal institutionalized education might be considered by you and I as a disadvantage to such children, but if so, it is one which can easily be rectified and overcome later in life when the individual is free to pursue whatever learning he or she desires. That is liberty. That is freedom.

Meanwhile, compulsory education routinely leads to egregious outrages like this:

A public school substitute teacher in the Carlisle Area Pennsylvania School District took it upon herself to badger, berate and reprimand an innocent student in front of the whole class for exercising his First Amendment right to remain seated in his classroom during the pledge of allegiance.

“And if you don’t stand up, you’d better have a good reason why,” barked the teacher. When the student declined to answer this nasty rebuke, she continued: “Well OK, then maybe you would just like to leave the country.”

In this instance the teacher was dismissed for her outrageous conduct, but many innocent American children are being coerced daily in their public school classrooms to recite the pledge and conform otherwise to the compulsory government education agenda in violation of their First and Fifth Amendment rights. This is the kind of government excesses we get when education is compulsory.

Today Americans are compelled by our government to be educated; compelled to file a detailed annual report to our government pertaining to our private finances; we’re even compelled by our government to purchase health insurance.

America has become a compulsory nation.