Nathan: Of COURSE they did – just like they have honored every political promise that they ever made and have ALWAYS told the truth.

Corruption – the “messiah”
White House: No Comparison Between Obama and Nixon
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This is a fine time for them to bring up the fact that the current resident of 1600 PA is black.  So?

Mama’s Note: It’s even more confusing since Obama is only half black, at best.

Congress in action – Theft and corruption by government
Bipartisan Congressional Demand: Provide All Communications Between IRS and WH About Targeting Conservatives
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This demand is even more of a joke than usual from Congress.  And just how many troops do they have to actually go and collect the data from the White House?

Congress in action – Stupid actions
Rep. Steve King: Gang of 8 Immigration Bill ‘Destroys the Rule of Law’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This is a tad too late, Mr. King.  Rule of Law?  What is that? Some myth from a century ago?

Mama’s Note: Ah, but the “rule of law” is a complete myth, and has always served as a justification for increased state power.

See “The Myth of “The Rule of Law.”

The notion of the rule of law would only make sense if the state was an entity external to human interaction, as if it were not made up of human beings but was enforced through some natural or supernatural mechanism. But the state is quite clearly created and administered by acting human beings. It is not some sort of intrinsic mechanism of nature that functions independently of human action, or the result of the will of some deity.

African Collapse – Islamic wars: African front
Nigerian Leader Admits Parts of the Country Now Under Control of Jihadists
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This certain must be a surprise to all the people that have been killed, abused, and terrorized in those three states.

Culture wars: killing babies – Nazgul
GOP House Members on Gosnell Abortion-Murder Convictions: ‘There Are Kermit Gosnells All Over America’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This verdict is not justice, it is an opportunity for more and more babies to be killed:  a slap on the wrist for this monster.  Of course, the charges were set up this way from the git-go; it is okay to kill children INSIDE the woman, just not outside.  And do it in a clean murder chamber, okay?

Stupid government tricks – Theft by government
Interior Department Spends $472,150 to Train Fish to ‘Recognize and Avoid Predators’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Okay… This makes so much sense – if you think fish can be trained.  Bureaucrats can’t be trained (or is it, “untrained”?), but maybe you CAN train fish?  Like teaching a horse to sing?  By the way, is this recognition to be in the water or out of the water?

Stupid government tricks – Theft by government
Stimulus: $152K to Get Lesbians Ready for ‘Adoptive Parenthood’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This makes almost as much sense as the fish training.  Why would you expect someone who has “exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones” to have anything resembling a normal, natural “motherly instinct?”  (Look, I am a self-governor, and if someone wants to have sex with someone of the same sex, that is their business, as long as they don’t scare animals or small children while doing it.  But I don’t have to accept it as good, right, natural, godly, or anything other than a perversion which is counter both to nature and to morals.  But I DO most strongly object when government sees it as its business to teach ANYone, lesbian or not, to be a mother, ANYone, homosexual or not, to be a father, or anything else that IS NOT A POWER THAT GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE.

Mama’s Note: So far, I’ve not found anyone who can tell me just what “power” any non-voluntary government should legitimately have.  In my book, there is none.

Theft by government – Corruption of the “messiah’s” minions
ACLJ Calls on IRS to Approve Tax-Exempt Status for 10 Tea Party Groups
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This is too little, too late.  For more than a year – during an election year! – they were not tax exempt.  And they were required to submit thousands of items of data.  If elections really meant anything, this would have been devastating.  I see a lot of “libertarians” posting things on line about how none of these organizations should be tax-exempt, that they all (and churches and schools and everything else) should pay taxes.  WRONG ANSWER, people.  If you don’t like some organization or group that you hate or despise getting tax breaks, the PROPER solution is to get rid of the taxes for EVERYONE.  Just like the answer to IRS bullying and nosiness is to GET RID of the IRS.

The “messiah’s” minions – Theft by government
Holder: ‘We Are Examining the Facts to See If There Were Criminal Violations’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This is another joke: the only reason this agency led by this criminal would try to determine if something was criminal would be if they were planning to do it themselves and wanted to make sure it was definitely illegal to give themselves more of a thrill.

Congress in action
Rep. King: Obamacare Is Very Bad, But Immigration Bill Is Worse
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This is hard to believe. I suppose it might be better to be killed then raped, instead of raped and then killed, but is it really that significant a difference?

Mama’s Note: No difference to the dead, obviously. All legislation eventually results in less liberty and justice, and these are certainly no exception.

Home front – Stupid Tranzi words
Bill Clinton: Boston Bombers ‘Were Not as Empowered as You Are’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This is bogus, but it raises a valid point.  Elections being meaningless, what “power” do individuals (by themselves or in a group) have to control their own lives, their own society, their own government?  Actually, the two bombers made more of an impact on society (and not in a good way) than everyone else in the state of Massachusetts that day.  NOT GOOD.

World wars – search for resources
China Seeks Foothold in Arctic Group As Competition Heats Up for Region’s Resources
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This is bizarre.  As is letting India, Japan, and Korea join.  I can’t, for the life of me, find a globe that shows that any of these four nations have ANY foothold in the Arctic itself.  But this isn’t about reality, just politics.  Scummy, dirty, politics.

Mama’s Note: Well, who or what has the legitimate AUTHORITY to prevent them from joining together to homestead any uninhabited area of the globe? If the area is inhabited, they will need to deal with those people. Others might offer to help in their defense in an invasion, but otherwise everyone just needs to mind their own business.

Congress in action
Reid: ‘Where Was Their Outrage When Groups on the Other Side of the Political Spectrum Were Under Attack’?
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This is so typical of Reid: he does a wonderful job of bouncing accusations back.  Sadly, too many people believe him.  And by the way, can anyone tell me just when the IRS did this to which transnational progressive, liberal, socialist, America-bashing, anti-religion groups?  Under whom?  Nixon?  Ford?  Reagan? Bush I?  Bush II?

Home front
Police Chief Asks Citizens for Ammo, Gets 1,500 Round Loan Amid Strong Response
(CNSNews.com ) As the “Great Ammunition Shortage” continues, police departments across the country are struggling to supply their arsenals. One police chief turned to the community for help, and citizens stepped up.

Nathan: Gee, maybe they could have a bake sale, and people could pay for the pies and cookies with bullets instead of little green pieces of paper.

Drug War and the Nanny State
NTSB: Get tougher on drunken driving
(Washington Post) The NTSB wants state legislatures to drop the measure from the current blood-alcohol level of .08 to .05, about that caused by a dry martini or two beers in a 160-pound person. The .08 standard could allow the same person to drive legally

Nathan: For once, Sean Hannity was right: this is about money and control.  People should be punished for what they DO and not what they “might” do in a one-size fits all nanny-police state.  Watch as Congress introduces and passes yet another bill tying highway funding to states’ passing yet another alcohol control law.

Mama’s Note: Aside from that, there’s the little problem of calibration of the devices used to measure. Most of those devices are not monitored for accuracy anyway, but .05 is well below the threshold of most of them. It is entirely possible for the device to read this level even when the person has not had ANY alcohol, and most certainly if certain foods were consumed recently. This bogus “law” will be challenged in court, and hopefully eliminated.

The forces of tyranny and destruction are targeting more and more ordinary, innocent people all over the country, and one can’t help but see at least a few pleas for financial assistance in their daily rounds of blogs and new sites. Most are asking for help with legal expenses, and a few with basic living costs. Often they’ve had their total assets seized by government as well as being incarcerated – many times without even being charged with any crime at all.

Heart breaking, a sure sign of the evil that has taken hold in this world, and often simply overwhelming when the desire to help is balanced against one’s own personal limits. Even if one could or should contribute everything they had, the need could never be met. There’s no shortage of potential victims, and all the money we can come up with doesn’t change the biggest problem.

The courts, judges, and lawyers are actually part of and answerable to the exact same system that creates these victims and destroys all of these lives – and yes, that includes all of the “defense” attorneys. They have no “standing” in court, and can’t function at all without the approval of the government “license” and their trade unions – called “bar associations“.  (And yes, I understand there are some ethical lawyers, but they are bound by the system and can only do so much.)

By what logic does anyone expect to be vindicated, let alone have their lives made whole, if they trust to the system that has damaged them in the first place? Yes indeed, there are occasional small victories, of course, but the general trend is for the “law” and courts and judges to have more and more control over the minute actions and choices of ordinary people… they have the OPTION to give or to take, which is truly fearful to any reasoning person. That they do not always choose to destroy doesn’t change the fact that they have that power, and no “constitution” or anything written on paper has any power to compel them to choose what is right.

Then there are the DEMANDS of some very well meaning bloggers, writers, and activists for those who love liberty to “write to their representatives.” The idea obviously being that these politicians simply need to be told what “we” want, and motivated by the threat of not being re-elected.

Ah, sure. I can just see it now… Diane Feinstein gets a ton of letters, calls and emails from thousands of her gun owner constituents and she smacks herself upside the head saying, “Oh, for pity sake! I didn’t know that’s what they wanted. I’ll just have to cancel all those gun control measures I’ve written.”

Worked so well when everybody and his brother voiced serious objection to “Obamacare” legislation, didn’t it?

First, those politicians do not have the same world view as those who love liberty. I can’t imagine that any of them actually see people as sovereign individuals, self owners, with natural rights to live and control their own lives and property. If they did, they would not be in politics. That seems very obvious.

Second, most of them “represent” hundreds, thousands or even millions of people. It is not possible for them to actually carry out the wants and wishes of more than a few, regardless of their intentions or worldview. The whole idea of “the people” being in control of this is ludicrous at best, regardless of how much they protest. If I write to one of them, demanding that they do so and so – and you write to them demanding the opposite… what’s a poor politician to do? He counts the numbers, measures that against his re-election chances, and then does what seems expedient or within his own agenda. And that pretty much has to be a given.

So, is writing, calling, emailing these “representatives” a rational use of time and effort?

Maybe it is time to start thinking of a different strategy…

Nathan: Ah, the wonders of being on the forefront of technology and oppressive government: even most of the so-called “conservatives” in the Colorado GOP can’t help but join in.  (Of course, ANY time you see Tranzis and liberals signing onto the same bandwagon, you just know it is a really bad idea.)  The idea that all Coloradoans welcome an even more massive intrusion of government into their lives is nonsense.  At the same time, too many Coloradoans DO welcome just that.  Not that Colorado is a spy-free state today (nor for the past five years, from personal knowledge).  Colorado state agencies have been using near-real time satellite surveillance for the last five to six years to detect things as minor as engine oil leaking from a parked truck on the back lot of a relatively small industrial site in a remote region.  If not as ubiquitous as surveillance cameras are in Boston or New York, Metro Denver has more than its share.  But the use of drones by law enforcement and other government agencies in Colorado would up the ante, and place Colorado right up there with Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois as a first-tier police state.

Home front – Hoplophiles and Self-Defense
Colorado: Nucla requires home gun ownership
(9News.com) The Nucla Town Board last week passed a new ordinance requiring that residents own firearms, but it has exceptions for heads of households who don’t want to participate or who cannot legally possess a gun.

Nathan: One of the signs of backlash by SOME Coloradoans (especially on the Western Slope and especially in the far Southwest) against the police state is this action by the tiny community of Nucla:  they realize that it is a political statement and not really something they will enforce.  Not that they really need to:  Nucla is as heavily armed as most small ranching and mining towns are.  And the crime rate is low – until you count government activities into the mix.  And it is not that far north from Dove Creek (county seat of Dolores County to the south of Nucla’s Montrose County), where the school board gave the superintendent and one of the principals the additional title (with responsibilities and a $1/year salary) of “security officer” to allow them to be armed on school grounds to prevent another Sandy Hook.  Not that Sandy Hook is likely to get repeated in Dove Creek, where the school (PK-12) is located immediately north of the County Courthouse and Sheriff’s Office, where the school is surrounded by (even by Colorado standards) heavily armed houses full of people who have to hunt (in many cases) to be able to survive a 25% unemployment and even higher “underemployment.”  And where the Sheriff had to publicly chastise a visiting federal bureaucrat and her DHS bodyguards for her fear of being attacked in a public meeting.  But the people of Southwest Colorado, especially the West Ends of Montrose and San Miguel and Dolores Counties, understand that they are in the great minority compared to the progressives of Metro Denver and their huge population of ethnic client groups: black and Hispanic and border jumpers, and the rest.  And that the predominant idea among the elite in Denver (“conservative” as well as liberal) seems to be that the Eastern Plains and the Western Slope and areas like North, Middle, and South Parks and the San Luis Valley should exist primarily as playgrounds for the Front Range: skiing and elk and other game production (or preservation, depending on whether you are a “conservative” hunter or a liberal treehugger), and perhaps to produce livestock and crops and water for the consumption of the masses on the Front Range (that stretch of urban madness stretching from Laramie and Cheyenne down through Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont, Boulder, Denver, Castle Rock, Colorado Springs, to Pueblo).  Ultimately, as the Police State of Colorado matures, these enclaves of relative liberty like Nucla and Dove Creek will become either little Coventries or just swept away:  if relocation into strategic hamlets worked in Vietnam, then it will surely be tried in Colorado.

Hoplophiles – Self-defense – local tyranny
Colorado: Sheriff’s lawsuit against new gun laws grows
(9News.com) The right-leaning Independence Institute says 54 sheriffs are joining the lawsuit, along with other gun-rights activists who oppose the laws.

Nathan: Thanks to Debby for this one.  Remember, 9 News is part of the mainstream media: to them, a libertarian think tank is “right-leaning” and Jon Caldera is a paid-for spokesman for right-wing extremists and Big Business.  This number of 54 is up from 37 or 38 a few weeks ago, and shows some hope that the people who are SUPPOSED to be the highest law enforcement authority in their respective counties (as well as the keepers of the peace for the people) are sick of the Colorado General Assembly and a series of autocratic governors (and mayors) and their trampling on rights and liberties.  (Of course, cynically, one can point out that the Sheriffs, too often, see the state authorities as competition to their own inherent power to tyrannize people as elected quasi-dictators.)  Together with recall attempts we’ve discussed earlier, and various claims to ignore the laws which go into effect on 1 July, this is a good thing, but unlikely to succeed.  For related discussion of the really unforgivable behavior of the legislature and other powers-that-be in this Colorado gun law business, visit and read Ari Armstrong’s column.

National security letters warn fourteen governors?
(Before Its News) Barack Hussein Obama had served 14-State Governors in the United States, National Security Letters (NSLs) warning that the Governor’s actions in attempting to form “State Defense Forces” needs to be halted “immediately” or they will face arrest for the crime of treason. The employment of NSLs was authorized by the Patriot Act introduced by George W. Bush. Contained within the section related to these letters, it is forbidden for anyone receiving a NSL warning to even acknowledge the existence of said communication. Obama is angered by the several State Governors who have reestablished “State Defense Forces.” These forces are described as: “State Defense Forces (also known as State Guards, State Military Reserves, State Militias) in the United States are military units that operate under the sole authority of a state government; they are not regulated by the National Guard Bureau nor are they part of the Army National Guard of the United States. State Defense Forces are authorized by state and federal law and are under the command of the governor of each state.

Nathan: First, let’s deal with the bogus nature of the story.  The earliest date I can find for it is an Examiner story dated 26 May 2010, by Ken Larive quoting a Dr.Lyle J. Rapacki.  He is, at least, apparently a real person.  Then I can find nothing until the 6th of May, this year: almost three years later.  Several websites suddenly picked up the story, acting as though it were new. (Example: “Before Its News” itself.  Maybe they should call it “after its news.”)  Snopes denounced it (though with poor fact checking on their own) within four days; by that time it was on dozens of sites.  A few more (EU Times, RT) also seem to have denounced it – although some trace it (incorrectly, in all likelihood) to some known fabricator of bogus stories.

It IS a compelling storyline, to those who already despise and even hate the current administration and its leadership.  But there are significant internal inconsistencies to it, and it ignores a good deal of factual evidence.  Finally, the actions attributed to the administration just do not ring true.

As Wendy and Claire have already commented, the empire is breaking up. Although not true, the way this story is being received and spreading is a strong indicator.  Fourteen states is more than a quarter of the Union: more than seceded in 1861.  People believe/want to believe that this administration is both this stupid and this vindictive.  It probably gained new life because it dovetails so well with the IRS and DOJ-AP and Benghazi scandals.

But there is NO external evidence that these NSLs even exist (and there are some serious questions about whether the venue for such a threat would be an NSL anyway).  Given the pride and political stance of the named governors, and the sending of these to fourteen, it is hard to believe that not ONE of them would have published the letters and DARED the White House to press charges of treason, let alone charges of a mere felony for revealing the NSL.

Secondly, State Guards or State Defense Forces have existed for a long time, precisely because of the risk of having National Guard units federalized and deployed overseas during a disaster or other emergency at home.  These have depended largely on (often) unpaid volunteers and very low budgets.  Third, many of the states with well-organized SDF are the most Tranzi of states: California comes to mind.  If the White House was wanting to trigger a new war between the states, this would be a singularly stupid way to do so: by arresting the likes of Moonbeam Brown and charging him with treason.

I realize I sound like a stuck record, but once more we have an example of those who are seeking to defend against the real and dangerous power and abusiveness of the administration haring off to a bogus event, damaging their credibility by repeating fairy tales with no basis in fact and not a shred of evidence.  By doing so, they damage their influence and ability to win others to their cause.  Is it not time that those who claim to love liberty and hate tyranny could ALSO learn to love (or at least practice) a modicum of skepticism and ability to research and inquire and publish the truth?

Nathan: No wonder we are in such sad shape if not even 2 in 3 mothers think the “public schools” are okay.  Of course, since most mothers are themselves products of the GRTF schools…  This isn’t the only way in which we are being stupid, as the next story reports.

Theft by government – Stupid people
Unlike Boomers, Millennials Appear to Be Super Savers
(USA Today) A new survey shows that just under half of Millennials (those ages 19 to 34) indicated plans to rely on public programs for retirement, down from 63 percent of Millennials who said the same in 2011…

Nathan: Public programs, of course, depend on the government stealing the money from people in the first place.  The theft was done by fraud as well as threat of violence, of course.  For decades people were told that it was “their money” put into a trust fund called “Social Security.”  That lie was as big as AmerInd people told that their remaining land was “in trust” with the BIA so that it wouldn’t get stolen by the government or their neighbors.  How is that, again?  But about HALF of the Millennials STILL have not learned what a scam SS is?  Sure, 14 percent have supposedly learned in just two years, but…

Mama’s Note: The big problem is that most of those seniors now dependent on Social Security no longer have any other option. Even if they are healthy enough to work and save more for retirement, there are no jobs available for most of them… regardless of their talents or education. A true “catch 22″ situation for millions of hard working Americans.

Theft by government
IRS Won’t Say If It Will Comply With Congressional Demand for All Communications and Names Involved in Discriminating Against Tea Party Groups
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Why should they?  First, the only purpose of this organization is to steal money – an immoral activity that taints it and everyone in it.  Second, their putative boss (the guy at 1600 PA) doesn’t respect or obey Congressional demands – so why should they?  Just one more Executive Branch agency telling Congress (and us) that we don’t have a republic any more.

First Citizen – Tyranny
Obama Hailed ‘World Press Freedom Day’ As His DOJ Was Seizing AP Phone Records
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: “War is Peace” and “Slavery is Freedom” – so what is odd about this?  Typical Tranzi hypocrisy, or just the usual debasement of the language.  If a man and a man can “marry” then press freedom is protected by seizing their records and suppressing their dissent.

The “messiah”
Obama: Republicans Won’t Work With Me Because They’re Afraid of Rush Limbaugh
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: So let me get this right.  If the man who is putatively “the most powerful man in the world” is stalled in his agenda because Limbaugh has all these fearful GOP types, then WHO is the “most powerful?”  What a joke!

Theft by government
$406.7B: Monthly Federal Tax Revenues Hit All-Time Record in April; Individual Income Taxes Up 36%
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Isn’t inflation wonderful?  Let us ALL celebrate how much we allow government to steal from us.  Elsewhere it is reported that the deficit is down to “only” $640 billion for this year: just think, that is ONLY $2,000  for every man, woman, child, and border jumper in the US.  Just for THIS year.  Yet, despite all this wealth, we are being told that children must go without school, elders must go without food, the poor must go without shelter and heat, because only government – vast and expanded even more – can provide all these things.  I know who needs to be institutionalized, and it is NOT “American Spirit.”

Stupid headlines -Islamic wars: Canaanite front
Muslim Brotherhood Stokes Anti-Israel Sentiment: ‘Israel Is Our Enemy’(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This shocking headline was right there on the front page along with such other surprising stories as “Dog bites man” and “Water flows downhill” and, of course, “MY granddaughter is the sweetest child in human history.”

The “messiah” – Tranzi spirit
Obama Wants to ‘Institutionalize’ the American Spirit He Saw in Boston and West, Texas
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: A funny choice of words.  And no doubt he is speaking the truth as he sees it.  There can be (in his worldview) no place for Americans to respond to disaster and attack and crisis EXCEPT as part of an “institution.”  And he wants to lock up the “American Spirit” in any number of institutions where it won’t bother him and his buddies:  “public schools” and insane asylums and prisons…

Congress in action – Stupid people
Mark Sanford to be sworn in Wednesday
(Washington Post) Rep.-elect Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) will be sworn in Wednesday as the new representative of South Carolina’s 1st district, his spokesman announced Tuesday. In the House chamber, Sanford will be sworn in approximately 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, spokesman Joel Sawyer said. The Republican will rejoin Congress a week after he defeated Democratic nominee Elizabeth Colbert Busch by nine points, even as he was barraged by Democratic outside spending.

Nathan: Just when you thought that the Congress couldn’t get any more despicable.  Of course, the “good people” of South Carolina have demonstrated their lack of responsibility, morality, or common sense.

Corruption in government
Texas businessman and con man Billy Sol Estes dies at 88
(UPI.com)

Nathan: Today, most people don’t even recognize the name. The man hailed from Pecos, and he was a well-known and popular member of a conservative church, and a real rags-to-riches story even in Texas.  His corruption and trial, conviction, and imprisonment was a shock (even to a ten-year-old) at the time.  How naive we were!  The depth of his involvement and corruption, and of the government itself, is explored at Lew Rockwell, but I am thinking more about what didn’t happen in the 1960s:  ordinary people failed to take action to do something about this sort of thing, in part because they failed to recognize that government did not PREVENT these kinds of things: instead, government PROMOTED and ENABLED the commission of crimes like Estes.  And does so even more today.

The “messiah’s” minions/corruption – Theft by government
Internal IRS Mandate: ‘Be on the Lookout’ for ‘Organizations Involved In … Educating on Constitution and Bill of Rights’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Well, well, more scum floats to the top.  Last week and weekend’s major topic – and latest distraction from the continuing loss of liberty.  Stupid of them to put it in writing, but then… if they weren’t stupid and cruel, they would be making a living some other way.

The “messiah’s” minions/corruption – Theft by government
Ways and Means Committee: When Did WH Know IRS Targeted Groups Based on Political Philosophy?
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Probably a few minutes before they told the IRS to do so.  I am sure that there is nothing in writing, of course.  But the thugs who float to the top in the IRS enjoy this sort of thing.  It gives them something to do in the winter when flies are hard to find (to pull the wings off of).

The “messiah’s” minions – Islamic wars: Arab street revolt
Pickering: No Need to Ask Clinton About Benghazi, Because He Questioned People Who ‘Attended Meetings With Her’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: And a one… and a two…  How much do you love to see these folks tap-dancing like this?  This attitude is disgusting, the dodging is stupid.  But more than just disgusting, what is sick about this is that most Americans will buy it.

The “messiah’s” minions – Islamic wars: Arab street revolt
Slain Benghazi Officer’s Mom: Obama, Clinton, Rice All Blamed the Video As ‘They Were Hugging Me’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Gasp!  You mean – they LIED?  No, your son died for a bunch of lying thugs that we have elected to high office or have been appointed by those who were elected?  Probably because they LIED to us?

The “messiah’s” minions – Islamic wars: Arab street revolt
Rep. Blackburn: ‘People Are Beginning to Use the Term ‘Cover-Up” Regarding Benghazi
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  BEGINNING?  What a stupid man: this accusation started about as soon as the Administration claimed the attack was due to a silly YouTube movie.

The “messiah’s” minions – Islamic wars: Arab street revolt
Gates Suggests Americans Have a ‘Cartoonish Impression’ of U.S. Military Might
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Any excuse for the failure of the Administration to have come to the rescue of those in Benghazi?  Probably.  He intentionally missed the point:  an attempt – even a failed attempt – would not have resulted in this outcry (however belated).  But of course, this is just one more distraction.

Fox News: Colorado Democrats Face Recall Efforts for New Gun Laws
(Fox News)  Four members of the General Assembly face attempts to recall them from office because of their votes and support of the array of gun laws passed and signed by the governor.

Nathan: This is good – but it is shutting the barn door after the cows get out.  It was the disarray and weakness of the Colorado GOP (mostly the establishment refusing to accept the Tea Party movement and true conservative (and libertarian-leaning) grassroots) that LET these idiots get into the Assembly in the first place – that and gerrymandering which knocked out some of the best that the GOP had (somehow) gotten into the Assembly three years ago.  But I don’t think that they will be able to recall them – or even bring the recall to an election:  you have to have TWENTY-FIVE percent of the people who voted in the last election in the district sign the recall petition, and they only have until the 20th of May to do so.  That means that the people doing this could be wasting time and money that could have been spent to get the laws they passed to the ballot on a referendum, or saved their money to challenge them in court or try at the polls in 2014.  So: too little, too late, and not counting the cost.  Colorado remains a growing police state.  Frankly, massive civil disobedience (as the sheriffs are already doing) seems to be the best option for now, followed by armed resistance when Hickenlooper, his thuggish comrades in the Assembly, and the FedGov decide to take action.

New religions: global warming/environists
Gore: ‘Our Very Way of Life’ Is at Stake
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Yeah, Massa Gore, it IS, but from you and your ilk, NOT from your ghost stories.

Stupid government tricks – Crash of 2009
1/3 Population of Puerto Rico Gets Food Stamps from U.S. Gov’t — $2 Billion in 2012
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Not nearly as bad as Indian Country, of course.  but what do we expect?  Is it any wonder that the Administration encourages admitting PR as a state?

The “messiah” – Abominable Act (ObummerCare)
Obama Hails Health Care Law, Contraception Mandate in Women’s Health Proclamation
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Good grief, can’t he understand how this ticks off even many of his supporters, like the majority of the black voters and the majority of the Hispanic voters?  He believes that his charisma can overcome this – sickeningly.  The real reason this might not matter is because he has no real opponents who are willing to spell out the truth about this and so much else.

Islamic wars: South Asian front
Sharif’s Election Victory in Pakistan May Further Strain Relationship With U.S.
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This, of course, is a GOOD thing.  The US should have as little to do with Pakistan as we do with Switzerland: no alliance, no foreign aid, no carrot-and-stick routine.  We don’t need a “strained relationship,” we need NO relationship.  Just a tacit understanding that any threat – any DIRECT threat – to Americans or American interests will result in fire and thunder, but that otherwise, they do whatever they want to whomever they want.  AND anyone else can do whatever they want to Pakistan… especially India, Iran, and Britain and Israel.

Islamic wars: Southwest Asian front
Syria Denies Role in Turkey Bombings, As Turkey Seeks ‘Joint’ World Response
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Okay, Turkey is an American ally, which is NOT in general a good thing.  Seems the best thing would be to let Turkey and Israel do whatever they want to Syrians (on whichever side) until the Syrians stop attacking Turkey and Israel.  Let US (and NATO) stay out of it.

Stupid people – Hoplophobes and Hoploclasts
NRA Teams up With Beau Biden on Delaware’s Mental Illness Reporting Bill
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Oh, dear, and here a few of us thought that the NRA was cleaning up its act.  You are known by the company you keep, and Beau is pretty scummy company.

Islamic wars: Home front
Lieberman: Boston Bombing Suspects: ‘Motivated by Violent Islamic Extremism’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Duh.  You think?  Of course, the usual Chechen bloodthirstiness is a major factor too – kind of like Khymer Rouge murder rage versus the more “typical” Communist rages and killing.

Theft by government – Environists
Unproven U.S. Oil Reserves Far Greater than Originally Thought
(National Journal) The United States Geological Survey estimates that the Bakken and Three Forks shale formations hold more than 7.4 billion barrels of oil and gas that is undiscovered, but could theoretically be extracted in the future…

Nathan: But NOT, of course, if this administration and its Tranzi backers and controllers get their way.  This oil will NEVER be touched, but saved for the “future” and the “elite.”

Nathan: There are several aspects to this that are important.  First, and obvious, this is yet another boondoggle: a trashcan down which to throw taxpayers’ money.  IF this were that good a risk, private investors would be willing to shell out IF government hadn’t already tampered with the market.  Second, the “novelty” of it is highly questionable: various similar techniques have been used and tried for years.  This may be a “novel” way of putting it all together.  Third, anything out of Washington state these days is highly suspicious as to whether it is legit or just a scam – and we KNOW that Solandra and others have scammed the government big time.  Fourth, 10 tons and 800 gallons is PITIFUL.  10 tons solids (admittedly, high moisture content) produces 2.6 tons of diesel? Enough for about 4,000 miles on a semi-truck.  But how much water will be used?  And what about the remaining 7.4 tons of residue?  Some will surely go away as gases (water vapor or CO2, particularly).  But how much goes back to the field to nourish soil for the next crops?

Mama’s Note: Regular unleaded here was $3.19 this morning in town… so, just how is this economical? Not to mention that ethanol is very destructive to most engines.

Home front – Hoplophiles
US gun homicide rate down 49% since 1993 peak; public unaware
(Pew Research) “National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Beneath the long-term trend, though, are big differences by decade: Violence plunged through the 1990s, but has declined less dramatically since 2000.” (05/07/13)

Nathan: Well, if it is Pew claiming this, with THEIR progressive agenda, it must be true.  So, with the massive increase in gun ownership in the past two decades, gun crimes are going DOWN.  Gee, I wonder just why THAT is?  And why has the decline slowed?  Is it for the same reason that military sexual assaults are up?  For the same reason that productivity of the work force is down?  For the same reason that politicians are getting sleazier and sleazier?  Because SOCIETY is decaying?  Because “public education” is a joke?  Because there is less and less responsibility taught and expected?  The question for the future is WHEN will the immorality of society – and the desire for the profits and pleasures of crime – tip over the balance against an armed “I’m not going to be a victim” populace?

Mama’s Note: I think that ship has already sailed… the cities have the greatest population of helpless victims… whether willing or not. The predators are much more prevalent in these places, which is only natural. The predators will eventually eliminate the victims… and each other. Those of us elsewhere, well armed and ready… not so much.

Theft by government – Stupid people
Argentina: Government offers tax amnesty for undeclared cash
(Biloxi Sun Herald) “Argentina’s government announced new measures on Tuesday intended to suck up undeclared dollars in response to growing pressure to abruptly devalue the nation’s currency. Economy Minister Hernan Lorenzino said the new tax-free bonds and certificates of deposit will pull into the banking system the foreign currencies that Argentines have hidden under mattresses and spirited out to illegal tax havens.” (05/07/13)

Mama’s Note: Wonder how many will be stupid enough to fall for this one… Once the government knows about the assets… a tax or confiscation later is just so much easier.

Nathan: Since anyone over age 30 should remember going through this once, and anyone over fifty going through it twice, I expect that very few people will be taken in by this ruse – certainly not more than 50 percent of them.  If there were more smart ones, this wouldn’t even be happening.

Culture wars: Society and military
Military Sexual Assaults Increasing
(Godfather Politics (Commentary) …L.A. Times headline …: “The military’s sexual assault problem: An alarming increase in sexual attacks shows that the culture in the armed forces must change.” The L. A. Times is in denial. The culture in the armed forces is not going to change unless they start recruiting from some culture other than what they find in North America. “Rape culture” isn’t unique to the military. It is getting more and more attention as a high school phenomenon. Recent news examples are found in Torrington, CT, Cleveland, TX, Steubenville, OH, and over the border in Nova Scotia (which I think is relevant since Canada shares modern liberal values about sexual freedom with the US).

Nathan: The Godfather Politics writer is only partially right:  the root of the solution is that American Society – as a whole – has changed, and especially that society found in the urban areas.  The attitude towards women, towards rape and other sexual assaults, towards casual sex that USED to be limited primarily to the upper classes and the elites (remember the Kennedy clan and all the rapes and related things – even the way they treated JFK’s own sister?  To say nothing of Hollywood) and the urban ghettos with their degraded “black” culture, the homosexual districts like Castro in San Francisco, and the debauchery of seaport’s redlight districts and military post’s hogtown or “strip.”  But even those places (for good or bad) distinguished between the women who worked there and other women of good repute.  Today, that is NOT the case, and in the one-size-fits-all military, women are fair game: just as they are in the night clubs and bars and many other places.  Meanwhile, the media popularize the free and easy sex, encourage men and women to do whatever they want, and – then blame the military for being tainted by the popular culture.  Where are the similar attacks on Big Sports and Hollywood?

Dear Patriot,

America is under attack from within. Over the last 4 ½ years, our nation has been transformed for the worse so much that one would hardly recognize it. We have a corrupt, Chicago politician in the White House who is bleeding our nation to death. Since he won re-election, with the help of low information voters and a compliant media, the details of even further corruption has been revealed. The time has come and we must not relent until we…….. IMPEACH OBAMA and REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE …

We are demanding that Congress move to impeach President Obama. However, we will not be satisfied with simply impeachment. He must be impeached and removed from the Office of the Presidency! If not, then we will not recognize our republic within the next few years. The great experiment of America will be over. Are you willing to have that happen during your lifetime? Are you willing to leave a shell of our great nation for future generations? We’re not! … President Obama is the most corrupt president in U.S. history. His actions are against everything this country was founded upon and stands for. Obama is a danger to America. That is why we are calling for his impeachment and removal from office. We urge you to stand with us in this call for impeachment for the good of our nation and to keep the legacy of our Founding Fathers alive.

How can I NOT respond to something as misguided as this?

Dear XXXXX, thank you very much for sharing this.  It is important to see people at least trying to do something.

We must admit and understand that the “Great American Experiment” is over – finished.  The Republic is DEAD.  We ARE that shell they refer to: your grandchildren are being born into a police state, in which there is less and less freedom, less and less liberty of any kind with each passing day.  Some states (like South Dakota and Texas) are LESS-tyrannical and cruel police states than others (like Colorado and New York and California), but the liberty that we… grew up with in the 60s and 70s is GONE.  The Constitution is a dead-letter, used only for procedures and to give a false impression that we are still a republic, still a land of freedom.

The chances of impeaching and convicting the man currently living at 1600 PA are virtually ZERO.  Even if the majority in the House of Representatives that claim to be “Republicans” or “Conservatives” were NOT statist, thieving, corrupt, venal, and power hungry, AND cowardly, no matter how many charges and specifications they put on a Bill of Impeachment (and you can be sure that MOST of his crimes would never show up), the Senate is controlled by “Democrats” (“Liberals” who are really Transnational Progressives or Socialists, TRANZIs instead of NAZIs (National Socialists)) who will in no way convict him of the high crimes and misdemeanors he has committed and ordered his minions to commit, much less his breaking of his oath to preserve and defend the Constitution, or his moral crimes.

Rather than contribute to this effort, use your money to buy supplies and tools to prepare for the worst, even in places like your hometown:  food and first-aid/medical, and weapons and ammunition.  If you think it can’t and won’t happen in West Texas, read this article:
Bosnia preppers survival strategies

What SHOULD we do?

• First, pray – pray for the State of Texas, and maybe for the  nation as a whole (it probably isn’t totally a waste of prayer time to pray for what once was, that it might be restored).  Pray for your congregation and your family and  your community.
• Second, prepare:  get what you can to live on (food, water or ways to purify water, rough-wear clothing, tools, things to trade) and to defend yourself and your neighborhood: weapons, tools, ammunition, batteries, etc.
• Third, reach out to other people in your congregation and your community and your work place, and get them to also pray and prepare.  Even if only 1 in 100 does, there is a better chance of survival.
• Fourth, reach out to those elsewhere with the Gospel.

The rest of my e-mail is more based on religious arguments than non-religious ones, and I will leave that portion out in deference to our site policies.  But the point is clear:  hoping that some miracle will come because we use the right words and demand things that just are not going to happen is a waste of time and opportunity to be prepared for worse times ahead.  The more people fool themselves into thinking that yet another petition, yet another round of e-mail or snail-mail or phone calls or faxes to the politicians in your state capital or DC, the more people will find themselves unprepared and either enslaved or dead.  There is little time left to prepare, and resources ARE limited:  it is YOUR choice and MINE.  I choose not to waste time and effort to replace one mad tyrant with another.

Mama’s Note: Amen, Nathan. I came to that conclusion many long years ago, and it always makes me sad when otherwise smart and good people insist that this begging and pleading with our tormentors and would be masters is the ONLY way to be “doing something,” and that our quiet preparations and refusal to live in fear is somehow cowardly or even helping the controllers.

Each person must be free, of course, to take the actions he or she feels worthy and necessary, but nothing will be gained unless everyone has the same liberty to choose for themselves.

Mark Bradshaw bought a piece land to build a car dealership on, but like Hughes, the prairie dogs moved in and now the land is useless and worthless. …The same thing has happened to real estate developers and new subdivisions that now have empty lots that were worth $100,000, but are now worthless plots full of prairie dog burrows.  They have taken over the local cemeteries leaving grieving family members upset about what they’ll do the graves of their loved ones that paid dearly for.

Nathan: Every day in the West, we see this happening.  Sometimes it is “just” a single farmer or rancher or landowner: other times it is a whole city (Cedar City) or a whole county (Dolores County, Colorado – where the sage grouse is the “victim” that the FWS is “protecting.”  How long will we allow this to continue?

Mama’s Note: Prairie dogs are about as “endangered” as house flies, for starters. And, if anyone is truly worried about prairie dogs, or sage grouse, or any other animal, all they have to do is collect some and start to breed them – or let them roam at will – on their own property, and with their own money. Just wonder how they’d fence them in.

Here in Wyoming we shoot the darn things. They are a pest and a danger to both humans and livestock.

War on religion
Army: No more preaching by anyone to anyone in uniform
(Godfather Politics) Ken Klukowski writes: …“[Weinstein] says Christians — including chaplains — sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ in the military are guilty of ‘treason,’ and of committing an act of ‘spiritual rape’ as serious a crime as ‘sexual assault.’ He also asserted that Christians sharing their faith in the military are ‘enemies of the Constitution.’”

Nathan: The military forces have had protections in place to keep a senior officer or enlisted personnel from pressuring junior personal, but that is NOT what Weinstein is after: he wants to and is continuing to degrade the quality, morale, and moral foundations of American military forces.  Weinstein’s defense? He doesn’t do it just to christians: all religions must follow these rules.

Europe’s collapse
Why have the Spanish people not revolted?
(Infolibre via Europress) Five years of crisis, 6 million unemployed and thousands driven from their homes: Despite the heavy social toll, Spaniards suffer their fate without rebelling against the government or against the EU because they fear losing what little they have left, argues a sociologist.

Nathan: Why indeed?  But we have to ask the same of Americans – for forty-plus years I’ve heard people say “if this happens…” or “if this goes on any longer…” that they would revolt or that SOMEone would revolt.  But it doesn’t happen, and the reason is probably the same as in Spain: we are too afraid of losing what we have left… possessions, money, liberty, health, family, etc.

Home front – Stupid government and stupid people
Maryland: Baltimore Jail a corrupt culture
(Washington Post)

Nathan: Read this and throw up.  Multiple prison guards knocked up by the same prisoner, and arguing over who the inmate likes most and what they shall name the children.  Trading of drugs, liquor, cell phones, sexual favors, and anything else.  Sounds like medieval Europe or some banana republic, but it happens in Maryland.  Just like murdering tens of thousands of babies happens in Pennsylvania and enslaving women for a decade happens in Ohio.

Mama’s Note: The really telling thing is that this story was no particular surprise. The American INJustice system has been horribly corrupt for a very, very long time.

Home front – Stupid government
Northern Virginia: 83-year woman who disappeared is found: dead.
(Washington Post)

Nathan: She’d dead, Jim.  Who killed her?  The story says the family is blaming American Airlines, the Airlines blames Washington National Airport.  As you can imagine, I blame the government.  Why?  Because our worthless security system does not allow families to meet their loved ones at the ramp or gate any more, because the security thugs (TSA) are more interested in abusing and groping elders (and children) than they are in helping them, and because more and more people “leave it to government” instead of caring for and looking out for each other, because that is what government is teaching them.

Mama’s Note: I wonder why the family didn’t have someone travel with her. That would certainly have been a better plan. Sad… but with the rapid onset of dementia, she may have had a fatal condition and died in any case. God rest her soul.

Our right to self-defense
JFPO/GOA:  New Executive Orders Steal Liberty

Nathan: This is a GOA/JPFO advocacy article but has reportable news:  once more the “messiah” is shoving large rude objects into our bodies.

Home front – Slavery
Ohio:  Three slaves get freedom
(Yahoo.com) Three women who went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s, had been tied up but were found alive Monday in a residential area just south of downtown, and three brothers were arrested, police said. … One of those arrested is a 52-year-old man, police say. The women were being treated at the hospital. A 6-year-old also was found in the home.  One of the women, Amanda Berry, was last heard from in 2003, when she called her sister to say she was getting a ride home from the Burger King restaurant where she worked, reported the Cleveland TV station WEWS. She was to turn 17 the day after she disappeared. Another of the women, Gina DeJesus, was 14 when she went missing on April 2, 2004. She was walking home from school. The third woman, Michelle Knight, 32, had been missing since 2002.

Nathan: Imagine: slaves for a decade and more.  And a child raised in slavery.  Not in Saudi Arabia, not in Afghanistan, not in Serbia.  The Castro brothers are, of course, innocent and anyone who thought something was fishy was a nut case, or so the cops said.  Talk about a long response time for a 9-1-1 call!  But the real issue is how many more people are like this?  Held in slavery (no, this is NOT kidnapping: these men are SLAVERS), abused and having their money and labor stolen, fearful that their friends or family are hostage to their abusers for their good behavior.  Actually, this kind of sounds like the way people are treated in the Fifty States, doesn’t it?  Not by three brothers, but by the combined forces of local and state and federal government.

They created an organization to be, in essence, the small nation’s employee to coordinate and help them do together what would be very difficult to do separately.  A bit more than two centuries later, that organization has become a monster, one-by-one stealing the liberties, the freedoms, the very identity of those first few nations and the many others that joined them.  One by one, while paying lip service to those liberties, it steals them away, turning the nations which it was supposed to serve and protect into its own arms of oppression and tyranny, and turning their citizens into slaves.  Slaves having the appearance of free men and women, but constantly robbed, monitored, regulated, controlled, and treated like felons, whose every move is increasingly watched and limited for their own ‘good’ and ‘freedom.’

This quote was one sent in a regular subscription, for today, 8 May 2013:

“[A] public policy of simply discouraging people from owning or using firearms is not, in and of itself, a constitutionally permissible objective, any more than discouraging people from religious observance would be permissible to some oh-so-progressive government that considered religion as hopelessly declassé as progressives nowadays consider the right to keep and bear arms …. And any statute or regulation that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the ground that guns are a public health hazard should enjoy the same frosty reception in court that would be given a statute or regulation that burdened the free exercise of religion as a mental hazard.”
– Daniel D. Polsby (1945-) Dean of the Law School and Professor of Law at George Mason University (Source: Treating the Second Amendment Like Normal Constitutional Law, REASON, March 1996, at 36.)

He wrote these words in 1996, apparently never dreaming that less than a generation later, an American administrator would be openly stating that free exercise of religion (such as telling someone else in uniform about your faith) would be considered an “act of terrorism” and a form of “mental rape,” which should be prevented or punished by court-martial.  Nor that in true Soviet-style, mental health treatments and evaluations, unsupported by second opinions or any other control, would be grounds for stealing weapons from law-abiding and peaceful people who had (mistakenly, it seems) served their nation to protect those very freedoms.

A recent editorial in a European newspaper asked why the good people of Spain did not revolt, with six million of them unemployed, with taxes and spending and borrowing by their supposed “democratic” government climbing higher and higher, with the rest of Europe demanding more and more to punish the people, whose greatest crime seems to be that they let their government run amuck, for the evils that government committed against those very people.

My question, which I ask more and more, is why the good people of those fifty small nations which once banded together to voluntarily cooperate and make liberty and prosperity a reality for the people of those nations, why THEY do not revolt.  Not just against the rogue employee of the small nations, but against the petty and daily tyranny of their individual governments and the governments in those fifty states.  Is it not time to admit that a ghastly mistake was made and that enough is enough, that the system has failed after 226 years, and that it must be either restored (completely and in one move, and not “reformed” a part at a time) or put in its grave and replaced by a new system protecting the liberties of the people and the freedom of their societies and economies – recognizing that government, like those other institutions such as slavery and state churches (and human sacrifice and absolute monarchies and empires), that are so evil in their ends AND means as to be repugnant to all civilized peoples.

But instead of rebellion, we get horror.  None of these ancient evils have been done away with.  Slavery exists even in our own land: not just the slavery of taxation and prison industries and government-run education, but actual slavery in the harem and the home and workshop – ignored by government.  Absolute monarchies still rule much of the world: some hereditary but most elective.  Empires, in effect if not title, still exercise their power: whether the “Russian Republic” or the “People’s Republic of China” or the “French Community” or the “European Union” or the far-flung “defense forces” of the United States.  State churches now promote the doctrines of humanism and evolution and political correctness, failure to accept such punished as vigorously as theological heresy once was.  And human sacrifice continues and even grows; in our land alone more than one in every three hundred people is killed in bizarre ritual every year.

Yet not even one in three Americans is willing (according to polls) to say that rebellion or revolution may be necessary.  Only a minority of Americans are armed – and far fewer are willing to take up those arms in the cause of liberty for themselves and others.  And too many have been sucked into the trap that military service for the greatest empire in world history is “defending our liberty.”

Is it not time to simply say, “No, I won’t” and when someone TRIES to make you do it, take up your weapon to defend your family, your business, your employees, your livelihood and even your own life against those who do not themselves carry weapons (or other tools of tyranny) but still threaten you with those things and will gladly deploy petty or not so petty criminals in the guise of servants of the law and the people WITH weapons to force you to submit to MORE chains of slavery?

Until the time is right and defense – armed defense – is upon us, we must pray to Almighty God for His blessings of liberty to be restored to this land, and prepare ourselves to take advantage of the opportunity which He WILL provide.