A commentator today wished for more Matt Wennerstroms: Mr. Wennerstrom courageously aided and saved the lives of ,several who might otherwise have been shot by the gunman in Thousand Oaks, CA. Now pay attention, Andrew Cuomo, that is if you can refrain from preening and planning your latest crusade to disarm the lawful.
Though apparently Mr. Wennerstrom did not use a gun to defend the unarmed, it is conceivable that armed citizens have contemplated, either in anticipation of the possibility or in the intensity of such a moment, actually using armed force to attempt to stop a monster. Since it is impossible to carry an AR-15 or a 12 Gauge concealed regularly, the heroic citizen will probably be out gunned by a subhuman bent on mass murder. He or she will probably face great physical danger by intervening. But that is not the only extreme hazard faced by those willing to risk all to protect others.
In New York State the minute you draw a licensed firearm, your life is threatened with complete and onerous change at the hands of a government determined to treat gunowners as guilty until proven innocent. I do not at all fault most police and Sheriffs in NYS for this; they do their duty of enforcing, not making law, faithfully. But leftist dominated government in NY, including many prosecutors, manifests one of the fondest of leftist dreams - the complete disarmament of the law abiding public. The certainty that they cannot do this to the criminal element is of no moment to them; it is plausible to think that that is, to some of them, just. Too much you say? Consider the British farmer who was as insolent as to finally make armed defense of his repeatedly assaulted person and property, did hard time for it and was sued at public expense by his attackers. That was in Britain, one of the most advanced of democracies but lacking a Second Amendment and NRA.
Oh that pesky Constitution; you know, leftists often think like the criminals for whom they have such sympathy; by golly, when they like a Constitutional right its a RIGHT (like the right to scald or dismember unborn humans, even on the cusp of birth). Ehh,but if they don't like it, why its a privilege which can be withdrawn by government at will. Funny isn't it, how the left finds in the "penumbras and emanations" of the Constitution a tenuously and ghoulishly established "right" like abortion but when the very Second Amendment is invoked, become devoted but highly selective "strict constructionists" maintaining that only organized militias can touch firearms and then preferably only those in use in 1787. The left relishes the prospect of subjects unable to resist when leftists take over , as the leftists surely intend and it dreams that to enact ever more restrictive gun control will be to discredit the NRA, which the left knows to be very effective in support of candidates and office holders conservative on a wide range of issues also and aside from gun rights.
But for now, not withstanding, the Second Amendment forces the left to innovate other means to advance its goal of reducing the reprehensible American polity to peonage, largely through rendering it defenseless. New York is a good example of it. It has Cuomo's"toughist in the nation" sanctions on law abiding gun owners (but not, God forbid, on cop killers). Since the election enabled Cuomo's ascension to dictatorship, many more restrictions, meant only to discourage the lawful and encourage their exodus and giggled at by criminals, are imminent. Coupled with these is the continuing refusal to protect those lawful and of good will should they venture to actually use their Constitutionally protected firearms to protect themselves, their families or the innocent. NY (read NY City) just elected a radical leftist Attorney General who will hasten to punish DAs who are less than zealous in taking good samaritans to task. Imagine having to use your own financial resources to defend yourself, against the infinite wealth of heavily taxed NY, for having selflessly come to the aid of the victims of some sociopathic yeg. In most of the rest of the country you can buy NRA insurance to help you pay for your defense over defending yourself or others but such protection is outlawed in NY, courtesy of you know who! Could this be a deterrant to those with the physical courage to face savages? Uh, I think so . Could it discourage those who look on such as Matt Wennerstrom for example? Well,yes! Let us pray for more Matt Wennerstroms and resolutely oppose those who would punish ones who, in response to atrocities generated by the moral breakdown of our society, would emulate him. Andrew Cuomo forced his unconstitutional "Safe Act" restrictions on gunowners through the legislature in the middle of the night by pleading a necessity arisen from mass shootings. That he was insincere in this concern is shown by his active opposition to legal protection for those who have the guts to use firearms in the defense of the threatened.
Why do I cite NY? Because it realistically predicts what is in store for the rest of America should it carelessly admit radicals like Cuomo or his ilk to national power. We in the real America must assume that any accomodation of the resolutely and demonstrably far leftist Democrat party will expose our entire country to what is now assuredly in store for New Yorkers. Now, an increasingly law abiding Federal judiciary may ultimately save us but meanwhile we in NY will bleed. Take heed America! Jack
Monday, November 12, 2018
Thursday, November 8, 2018
"Blue Seep", not "Blue Wave"
Take heart; our glass is much more than half full. The "Blue Wave" did not crest. The real America remains in charge of the executive branch, more secure in the judiciary and strengthened in the Senate. Bright breathless youngsters like Gillum and O'Rourke, eager to inherit the exalted Democrat mantle, were slapped down, leaving the 2020 Dem nomination race, which starts now, to atavistic would be saviors of a country which does not want or need earthly salvation. We must look to the Democrats in the House to reenthrone Madame Pelosi, an ideal contrast to gutsy President Trump. She is sure to disgust just about everyone between Binghamton and Bakersfield; leftists in power always overreach. In the Senate, reconfirmed Minority Leader Schumer is a continuing disaster for the Dems. In two very conservative Western NY House districts the disgrace and injustice of leftist representation was apparently avoided .We took some hits yesterday, yes, but we are still in very good shape.When one adds in our recent triumph in returning the Supreme Court to judicial integrity by seating Justice Kavanaugh, we are more than holding our own in our existential struggle with the totalitarian left.
The Senate results almost guarantee that any Supreme Court vacancy occurring in the next two years will be filled by a Trump nominee . That this may be backlash from the vicious and haughty assault on Justice Kavanaugh by the presumptuous Schumer is fitting. If a leftist leaves, the dominance on the Court of lawful judges will be cemented and the radical American left will have lost its cherished bastion of dictatorial imposition of its unpopular convictions.
(The loss of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is a blow to us; he is a warrior and a stalwart.)
Now: the House. Sure, it would have been better if we had retained it and we almost did but this may redound to our favor. There was no Alamo of murderous massacre in the vote. Aside from haughty and dismissive Pelosi (regrettably yes, possibly soon to be two improbable steps from the Presidency), now Maxine Waters, the bulless in the China shop, will be,get this, a Committee Chair! Good; from such a pulpit she will pontificate ceaselessly and with even more recklessness than that with which she has already disgraced herself and her party (that is, if that is possible). Rep. Nadler, just the kind of shrill, know it all "New Yawka"we need to raise hackles across the land , will tender us lessons in alienation from his Chair Should oh so levelingly compassionate Pelosi be distracted on the way to the limousine dealership by a deposition vote, we may rest assured of her succession by an equally radical dreamer motivated by tiresome"leftist in power" franticness. Should they get an unexpectedly canny political operative in the Speakership (a Newt Gingrich) they might disingenuously exercise restraint and sweet reason; beware! To bustle in their impending and probably temporary incumbency in control would be to remind the real America of how it would be should they ever achieve complete sway and the means to expunge the very memory of Donald Trump's insolent defense of American values. Trump nation would take due note and act accordingly in 2020. Yes, the Dems will block the President's legislative agenda for the next two years but he has already done good things they cannot undo and six possible years of progress against their onslaught on American democracy will still be to be celebrated. As for their threats of impeachment of the President or Justice Kavanaugh - why bring it on Dems! You can't get a conviction; the Senate will not allow it. As for subpoena and investigative power, well, the President is now free to nominate an Attorney General who can empower one with the authority to investigate the "investigators". So lay on! You'll simply reinforce your "disempowering" and genuine image as peevish obstructionists and you'll wear your welcome out in jack time.
( As for the subject millions of us in Upstate N.Y. ; well, say a prayer for us and get ready for our refugees. Chairman Cuomo, who regards us as on a level one above Arachnids , now has the State Senate and is making haste to bustle in far left lunacy. Take heed, America; he and his avatars have you in their sights.)
All in all, instead of the " Blue Wave" craved and supported by the MSM , we saw a "Blue Seep" , feckless and readily containable. The America hating left is still very much in the shadow and faces, in 2020, probably greatly aided by its predictably presumptuous behavior in its newly won but besieged island of power in the House ,a finishing blow in 2020. Civil War II is prolonged but then , so was Civil War I. Jack
The Senate results almost guarantee that any Supreme Court vacancy occurring in the next two years will be filled by a Trump nominee . That this may be backlash from the vicious and haughty assault on Justice Kavanaugh by the presumptuous Schumer is fitting. If a leftist leaves, the dominance on the Court of lawful judges will be cemented and the radical American left will have lost its cherished bastion of dictatorial imposition of its unpopular convictions.
(The loss of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is a blow to us; he is a warrior and a stalwart.)
Now: the House. Sure, it would have been better if we had retained it and we almost did but this may redound to our favor. There was no Alamo of murderous massacre in the vote. Aside from haughty and dismissive Pelosi (regrettably yes, possibly soon to be two improbable steps from the Presidency), now Maxine Waters, the bulless in the China shop, will be,get this, a Committee Chair! Good; from such a pulpit she will pontificate ceaselessly and with even more recklessness than that with which she has already disgraced herself and her party (that is, if that is possible). Rep. Nadler, just the kind of shrill, know it all "New Yawka"we need to raise hackles across the land , will tender us lessons in alienation from his Chair Should oh so levelingly compassionate Pelosi be distracted on the way to the limousine dealership by a deposition vote, we may rest assured of her succession by an equally radical dreamer motivated by tiresome"leftist in power" franticness. Should they get an unexpectedly canny political operative in the Speakership (a Newt Gingrich) they might disingenuously exercise restraint and sweet reason; beware! To bustle in their impending and probably temporary incumbency in control would be to remind the real America of how it would be should they ever achieve complete sway and the means to expunge the very memory of Donald Trump's insolent defense of American values. Trump nation would take due note and act accordingly in 2020. Yes, the Dems will block the President's legislative agenda for the next two years but he has already done good things they cannot undo and six possible years of progress against their onslaught on American democracy will still be to be celebrated. As for their threats of impeachment of the President or Justice Kavanaugh - why bring it on Dems! You can't get a conviction; the Senate will not allow it. As for subpoena and investigative power, well, the President is now free to nominate an Attorney General who can empower one with the authority to investigate the "investigators". So lay on! You'll simply reinforce your "disempowering" and genuine image as peevish obstructionists and you'll wear your welcome out in jack time.
( As for the subject millions of us in Upstate N.Y. ; well, say a prayer for us and get ready for our refugees. Chairman Cuomo, who regards us as on a level one above Arachnids , now has the State Senate and is making haste to bustle in far left lunacy. Take heed, America; he and his avatars have you in their sights.)
All in all, instead of the " Blue Wave" craved and supported by the MSM , we saw a "Blue Seep" , feckless and readily containable. The America hating left is still very much in the shadow and faces, in 2020, probably greatly aided by its predictably presumptuous behavior in its newly won but besieged island of power in the House ,a finishing blow in 2020. Civil War II is prolonged but then , so was Civil War I. Jack
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Hate
Oh my, how the American left loves to hate "hate". But how very much in love with it they are when it serves their purposes and how very convinced they are that their embrace of it is licensed and justified. I want to acknowledge here the effect Dr. Nick Waddy's comments in his recent post "The' Blue Wave'is Fading to Red as we Speak" in his blog Waddyisright.com have had on this post.
Hate: the dictionary defines it as "a strong feeling of dislike or ill will"; its that alright but its more too. Its a superlative ; there is not a stronger word to describe intense antipathy. Its staccato simplicity increases its impact. It comes complete with its own exclamation point. It should be used carefully and advisedly but that requires the ability and willingness to perceive one's own shortcomings.
Leftists use the word with presumption and ease, as if to say "that we are just is self evident; therefore if we say its so, it is, by definition. We are free to make the accusation of hate and we need not inform it further; if you disagree we will direct it at you through the powerful media we dominate in politics, government, the press, broadcasting , employment, academia and should we work it so, as we intend, criminal law".
The ordeal of calumny forced upon our President ,as he knew it would be and for which his willingness to endure it at an age when most of us want to kick back stands exemplary of courage, principle and moxie, is proof of the left's blithe and vindictive disposition to excoriate any who venture to oppose it, with the radical charge of hate. His resistance to them, his open scorn for their self righteousness, his insolent enactment of measures such as the nomination of Supreme Court Justices the left rightly expects to be at cross purposes with them, garners for him perfervid remonstrances of "hate filled divisiveness and obvious empathy with groups who thrive on insane prejudices and antipathies".
I wish there were available a doctrinal mirror similar to the optical kind which we could direct to the left; it would reveal, though probably not to their deadened perception, that the left is essentially imbued with those faults they energetically ascribe to anyone who questions them; they are the very definition of full blown, vicious and relentless HATERS and they forfeit thereby all moral authority to task others for this offense.
Why are they this way? I've written about this before. Its because they conveniently reject painfully evolved standards, traditions and laws as "irrelevant, oppressive, summarily dismissable ". Marx, their muse, misused the Enlightenment to make this leap of onerous faith and the leftist boomers in their consummate naivete embraced his legacy to enable their airy assumption of Promethean insight and their terribly ungrateful rejection of their parents' values. That historic mistake, due to their multitude only had a tragically inordinate effect on our culture and our polity.
The left hates everything positive about American history, culture, religion, morals, law, economics, self defense and laboriously accomplished progress in human well being because these realities put the lie to their conviction that America is unforgiveably flawed and deserving of punishment and forced transformation at their hands. That anyone would disagree with this generates on their part the demonstrated at the very least, "strong feelings of dislike or ill will" which satisfy the nominal definition of hate and for which the left provides endlessly repeated affirmation.
Our history, yes, shamed by profound oppression yet found in the histories of most nations but in our national progress addressed in an affirmative and sincere manner which has yielded considerable though perhaps not yet fulfilled mitigation, is hatefully dismissed by the left, (eg. by thoroughly leftist thankfully former President Obama, in his "doubt America first" policies). Our culture is debased by debauched popular entertainment which is our shame before the world but which is celebrated by the left in their embrace of its exemplars in the leftist dominated world of television, film and song. Our dominant religion, Christianity,a belief meaningless without its embrace of primal love, the elemental opposite of hate, is joyfully attacked by unsupportably atheistic leftists with vigor and relish ,its every human fault foreseen by those who wish for its demise but have nothing, nothing with which to begin replacing it. The great Catholic Church is especially targeted by this purposeful assault. Our morals are sneered at by a leftist subculture which excuses all personal irresponsibility. Our capitalist and advisedly free economics, which have provided, for virtually all willing to work them, miraculous human well being, are dismissed by neo Marxists completely forgiving of Marxism's amply demonstrated brutality and inhumanity , as unproductive of "equality", as if human nature, given its inherent differentiation in intent and ability could ever manifest such a dream. Our military, which has demonstrated the most merciful and humane use of measured force ever, is yet undermined and defiled by a left nonetheless supportive of the savage war measures employed by Marxist states and Islamist entities such as Communist Vietnam and the murderous faction of Islam . Our law, a product of the most enlightened system of Western legal thought and democratic reform, that of the English and American tradition, is rejected by a considerable leftist faction of the profession and its schools as simply "elites protecting their privileges". Its principled, learned and laboriously accomplished devotion to accumulated wisdom reflected in predecedent is casually and recklessly replaced by the substitution of currently fashionable trends (eg. the dismissal of the fetus as uncomprehending tissue and the unrestrained redefinition of the millenia old institution of marriage). Our tortured American progress toward wisely administered order and acknowledgement of soundly developed social progress, is laughable to the detached and profoundly arrogant left.
They are, in all of this, enabled by essential and for them, indispensable, HATE, in all of its hypocritical destructiveness. Jack
Hate: the dictionary defines it as "a strong feeling of dislike or ill will"; its that alright but its more too. Its a superlative ; there is not a stronger word to describe intense antipathy. Its staccato simplicity increases its impact. It comes complete with its own exclamation point. It should be used carefully and advisedly but that requires the ability and willingness to perceive one's own shortcomings.
Leftists use the word with presumption and ease, as if to say "that we are just is self evident; therefore if we say its so, it is, by definition. We are free to make the accusation of hate and we need not inform it further; if you disagree we will direct it at you through the powerful media we dominate in politics, government, the press, broadcasting , employment, academia and should we work it so, as we intend, criminal law".
The ordeal of calumny forced upon our President ,as he knew it would be and for which his willingness to endure it at an age when most of us want to kick back stands exemplary of courage, principle and moxie, is proof of the left's blithe and vindictive disposition to excoriate any who venture to oppose it, with the radical charge of hate. His resistance to them, his open scorn for their self righteousness, his insolent enactment of measures such as the nomination of Supreme Court Justices the left rightly expects to be at cross purposes with them, garners for him perfervid remonstrances of "hate filled divisiveness and obvious empathy with groups who thrive on insane prejudices and antipathies".
I wish there were available a doctrinal mirror similar to the optical kind which we could direct to the left; it would reveal, though probably not to their deadened perception, that the left is essentially imbued with those faults they energetically ascribe to anyone who questions them; they are the very definition of full blown, vicious and relentless HATERS and they forfeit thereby all moral authority to task others for this offense.
Why are they this way? I've written about this before. Its because they conveniently reject painfully evolved standards, traditions and laws as "irrelevant, oppressive, summarily dismissable ". Marx, their muse, misused the Enlightenment to make this leap of onerous faith and the leftist boomers in their consummate naivete embraced his legacy to enable their airy assumption of Promethean insight and their terribly ungrateful rejection of their parents' values. That historic mistake, due to their multitude only had a tragically inordinate effect on our culture and our polity.
The left hates everything positive about American history, culture, religion, morals, law, economics, self defense and laboriously accomplished progress in human well being because these realities put the lie to their conviction that America is unforgiveably flawed and deserving of punishment and forced transformation at their hands. That anyone would disagree with this generates on their part the demonstrated at the very least, "strong feelings of dislike or ill will" which satisfy the nominal definition of hate and for which the left provides endlessly repeated affirmation.
Our history, yes, shamed by profound oppression yet found in the histories of most nations but in our national progress addressed in an affirmative and sincere manner which has yielded considerable though perhaps not yet fulfilled mitigation, is hatefully dismissed by the left, (eg. by thoroughly leftist thankfully former President Obama, in his "doubt America first" policies). Our culture is debased by debauched popular entertainment which is our shame before the world but which is celebrated by the left in their embrace of its exemplars in the leftist dominated world of television, film and song. Our dominant religion, Christianity,a belief meaningless without its embrace of primal love, the elemental opposite of hate, is joyfully attacked by unsupportably atheistic leftists with vigor and relish ,its every human fault foreseen by those who wish for its demise but have nothing, nothing with which to begin replacing it. The great Catholic Church is especially targeted by this purposeful assault. Our morals are sneered at by a leftist subculture which excuses all personal irresponsibility. Our capitalist and advisedly free economics, which have provided, for virtually all willing to work them, miraculous human well being, are dismissed by neo Marxists completely forgiving of Marxism's amply demonstrated brutality and inhumanity , as unproductive of "equality", as if human nature, given its inherent differentiation in intent and ability could ever manifest such a dream. Our military, which has demonstrated the most merciful and humane use of measured force ever, is yet undermined and defiled by a left nonetheless supportive of the savage war measures employed by Marxist states and Islamist entities such as Communist Vietnam and the murderous faction of Islam . Our law, a product of the most enlightened system of Western legal thought and democratic reform, that of the English and American tradition, is rejected by a considerable leftist faction of the profession and its schools as simply "elites protecting their privileges". Its principled, learned and laboriously accomplished devotion to accumulated wisdom reflected in predecedent is casually and recklessly replaced by the substitution of currently fashionable trends (eg. the dismissal of the fetus as uncomprehending tissue and the unrestrained redefinition of the millenia old institution of marriage). Our tortured American progress toward wisely administered order and acknowledgement of soundly developed social progress, is laughable to the detached and profoundly arrogant left.
They are, in all of this, enabled by essential and for them, indispensable, HATE, in all of its hypocritical destructiveness. Jack
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