I was thrilled by President Trump's State of the Union Address and I didn't even watch it live. I could not abide having to suffer Nancy Pelosi's haughty visage for that long. I read the text, viewed excerpts and enjoyed commentary on Fox; no sense bothering with thoroughly predictable MSM screed . Americans, we've got a President, we surely do and he did himself and we who believe in him mighty proud that night. His detractors, true to form, have been shown to be as so many petulant microbes.
I rejoiced at his ringing denunciation of socialism and at his declaration that we will never be cursed by its dictatorial sway. How the Infanta Alexandra's eyes burned with vindictive intent at that; how very much she has to learn in this hard world outside of her dreamy leftist haven.
His mere mention alone of the N.Y. Legislature majority's disgraceful self congratulatory ovation (they cheered, mind you!) after its hideous sanctioning of extended baby killing measures speaks for itself and reflects humiliation beyond description on those New Yorkers who empowered these terribly wrong headed people. It puts the President squarely on the right side of an issue which could be decisive in 2020 and is sure to provoke a veritable avalanche of hyperbolic Cuomoblovo from our preposterous Governor.
President Trump's condemnation of antiSemitism, with its implied support for the heroic Israelis, was magnificently complemented by his account ,dramatically endorsed by Holocaust survivors in the audience, of the advent of American troops assuring them, after their unspeakable travails at the hands of totalitarian savages, of reunion with civilized humans and of their deliverance.
I'm reminded of the outrage I felt for the nonetheless courteous WWII vets who had had to countenance the tawdry and presumptuous presence of Slick Willy at their 50th anniversary commemorations when I read of our President's moving expression of genuine love and gratitude for such immortals in the very audience that night. It was a surpassingly redeeming assertion of how the real America cherishes them.
His rejoinder to the doubtful on "our triumph over Communism, our giant leaps of science and discovery and our unrivaled progress toward equality and justice . . . " was a happy warrior's confirmation of faith in his, yes flawed but still eminently worthy country in a chamber hosting also his sour minded opposition, which shamed itself beyond measure with its characteristically childish bad will and bad humor.
His conclusion approached a standard set by our most exalted orators: ". . . rekindle the bonds of love and loyalty and memory that link us . . . keep America first in our souls . . . ."
Well done Mr. President, well done sir! What a signal service you have done in this telling assurance of your belief, for which you have energetically and courageously demonstrated such determined devotion, in our country's worth. Let the real America redouble its resolve to support you without stint. Jack
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Sunday, February 3, 2019
The left: it has hit the slippery slope
Dr. Nick Waddy, (who posts prolifically and convincingly at Waddyisright.com) made a very good point in response to my Cuomo the Calculating post on this site and I'd like to presume to develop on it. He said the Dems appear to be so confidently contemptuous of President Trump that they are newly emboldened to be frank about their real intentions. I think it is happening, at least in an ascendent and perhaps potentially dominant faction of the Dems and that it may be a decisive development., which could contribute mightily to the reelection and prospering of our good President.
Saul Alinsky, the sage of the New Left, bade radicals conceal their extremism until they had achieved final and irrefutable power and Marxists like Hillary and Barack Obama and even reflexive do gooders like Mario Cuomo paid that perceptive advice good heed.
Bernie Sanders has always been completely honest about his consummate hostility to American free enterprise, economic justice, health well being and our law making process. His considerable success in 2016 appears to have inspired others on the left to abandon Alinskyite restraint and to hold forth with abandon on their frankly radical views and intentions and to give ever more dependable notice of how it will be for all who doubt them, should they take full power.
A telling present example is frantic N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who lacks his father Mario's tact, his at least vestigial respect for traditional American values and his wise recognition that his "New Yawk know it all" image denied him national office. Now that Andrew wields dictatorial power within N.Y. the insufferable self righteousness and disdain for opposing views he shares with his Dad has found enthusiastic and histrionic affirmation in his joyous imposition of his bigoted views on his subjects. His public ecstatic celebration (Celebration!) of his massive augmentation of the ability to kill unborn babies at will was ghoulish in the extreme; he actually had State office buildings (including one named after Al Smith, a Catholic ) lit to commemorate a development profoundly disturbing to a multitudinous segment of the population of his principality of humbled N.Y . He has presented his new command extending the rights of youthful victims of sexual abuse to bring their victimizers to justice as mainly a necessary curb on a Catholic Church which is a yet cherished institution in N.Y. and which now stands fully alarmed by his obvious disdain for it. He has reaffirmed his commitment to the energetic harassment of lawful gunowners as they exercise a Constitutionally confirmed right which he regards as discredited. Many of us have long been aware of such convictions in him but he appears to be blithe to wear them on his sleeve now and apparently to believe they enhance his Presidential ambitions.
Fortunate for the right to life is the Virginia Governor's recent admission of support for abortion laws which may cause the live birth of babies for whom "decision" would then be made as to their continued sojourn among the living. Tell me Governor, your being knowledgeable on this procedure, in case of termination, what method of execution would be employed? This casual matter of fact statement by this feckless and soon to be banished man may have been a faux pas on his part but never doubt its veracity and embrace by the abortionists. Its good, though yet appalling, to have such a window into their profoundly wrongheaded and, in this, inhuman, minds.
Here's the real kicker though: a national news service reports, just by the way dontcha know, a proposal by the precocious Infanta, yet new born Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of again, N.Y.(AOC as she is already fashioned by those who expect her swift rise to the very top ), of a "Green New Deal", God help us all. Now this plan is not lacking in breathtaking presumption mind you. It would "eliminate U.S. greenhouse emissions and REMAKE THE ECONOMY (oh that's all?) by phasing out all use of fossil fuels within a decade". Wellll! The report does opine (naturally) that this plan stands little chance of immediate implementation; my, that is a consolation to my troubled mind.
Picture a young JFK championing, in the midst of the economic boom of the mid '50s, a measure "to completely transform this neodepression economy we suffer from now". Richard Nixon would have become President in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis would never have happened. Perhaps then we ought to embrace AOC's seminal outlook, yes! Maybe not.
Our current economic fortune notwithstanding: completely rejected by her airy dorm room style conjecture is the fact that the U.S. already leads the world's major economic engines in reducing carbon emissions, due to the resolutely opposed by "environmental" fanatics ,yet decisive, exploitation of the U.S. one thousand year reserve of clean natural gas. There is not, despite the haughty disdain of the myopic and arrogant U.S. "green" crowd , any conclusive scientific evidence that recent possible climatological change is attributable to the maliciousness of profligate mankind and its certain that the elitist views of affluent Western liberals have little purchase with nations such as China and India emerging from unimaginable poverty (and, yes, liking it even) . But still we have made a creditable effort to address the possibility. That is of no moment to AOC and her acolytes because it denies to such as her an issue she and her ilk hope to ride to totalitarian triumph.
Dr. Waddy is right. A very significant America hating segment of the Dem ( I can't stand to call them Democrats - they are fundamentally anti democracy) party now thinks it a winning position to openly advocate the radical transformation of our country on terms murderously and historically disproven by the thoroughly tried Marxist experiment of the 20th century. They actually think our President as impotent as to have opened a once in a lifetime door for their intrusion into our national health and life. It sets up yet another existential decision (perhaps comparable to that of the 1864 Presidential election which was the last hope of the Confederacy) for our country. Let's face this head on and take full advantage of the ill inspired turn of the Dems to reckless leftist adventurism. Don't be deceived by their possible embrace of Biden. Poor dear, he would open the gate to their most savage and totalitarian cadre and dictators. Jack
Saul Alinsky, the sage of the New Left, bade radicals conceal their extremism until they had achieved final and irrefutable power and Marxists like Hillary and Barack Obama and even reflexive do gooders like Mario Cuomo paid that perceptive advice good heed.
Bernie Sanders has always been completely honest about his consummate hostility to American free enterprise, economic justice, health well being and our law making process. His considerable success in 2016 appears to have inspired others on the left to abandon Alinskyite restraint and to hold forth with abandon on their frankly radical views and intentions and to give ever more dependable notice of how it will be for all who doubt them, should they take full power.
A telling present example is frantic N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who lacks his father Mario's tact, his at least vestigial respect for traditional American values and his wise recognition that his "New Yawk know it all" image denied him national office. Now that Andrew wields dictatorial power within N.Y. the insufferable self righteousness and disdain for opposing views he shares with his Dad has found enthusiastic and histrionic affirmation in his joyous imposition of his bigoted views on his subjects. His public ecstatic celebration (Celebration!) of his massive augmentation of the ability to kill unborn babies at will was ghoulish in the extreme; he actually had State office buildings (including one named after Al Smith, a Catholic ) lit to commemorate a development profoundly disturbing to a multitudinous segment of the population of his principality of humbled N.Y . He has presented his new command extending the rights of youthful victims of sexual abuse to bring their victimizers to justice as mainly a necessary curb on a Catholic Church which is a yet cherished institution in N.Y. and which now stands fully alarmed by his obvious disdain for it. He has reaffirmed his commitment to the energetic harassment of lawful gunowners as they exercise a Constitutionally confirmed right which he regards as discredited. Many of us have long been aware of such convictions in him but he appears to be blithe to wear them on his sleeve now and apparently to believe they enhance his Presidential ambitions.
Fortunate for the right to life is the Virginia Governor's recent admission of support for abortion laws which may cause the live birth of babies for whom "decision" would then be made as to their continued sojourn among the living. Tell me Governor, your being knowledgeable on this procedure, in case of termination, what method of execution would be employed? This casual matter of fact statement by this feckless and soon to be banished man may have been a faux pas on his part but never doubt its veracity and embrace by the abortionists. Its good, though yet appalling, to have such a window into their profoundly wrongheaded and, in this, inhuman, minds.
Here's the real kicker though: a national news service reports, just by the way dontcha know, a proposal by the precocious Infanta, yet new born Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of again, N.Y.(AOC as she is already fashioned by those who expect her swift rise to the very top ), of a "Green New Deal", God help us all. Now this plan is not lacking in breathtaking presumption mind you. It would "eliminate U.S. greenhouse emissions and REMAKE THE ECONOMY (oh that's all?) by phasing out all use of fossil fuels within a decade". Wellll! The report does opine (naturally) that this plan stands little chance of immediate implementation; my, that is a consolation to my troubled mind.
Picture a young JFK championing, in the midst of the economic boom of the mid '50s, a measure "to completely transform this neodepression economy we suffer from now". Richard Nixon would have become President in 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis would never have happened. Perhaps then we ought to embrace AOC's seminal outlook, yes! Maybe not.
Our current economic fortune notwithstanding: completely rejected by her airy dorm room style conjecture is the fact that the U.S. already leads the world's major economic engines in reducing carbon emissions, due to the resolutely opposed by "environmental" fanatics ,yet decisive, exploitation of the U.S. one thousand year reserve of clean natural gas. There is not, despite the haughty disdain of the myopic and arrogant U.S. "green" crowd , any conclusive scientific evidence that recent possible climatological change is attributable to the maliciousness of profligate mankind and its certain that the elitist views of affluent Western liberals have little purchase with nations such as China and India emerging from unimaginable poverty (and, yes, liking it even) . But still we have made a creditable effort to address the possibility. That is of no moment to AOC and her acolytes because it denies to such as her an issue she and her ilk hope to ride to totalitarian triumph.
Dr. Waddy is right. A very significant America hating segment of the Dem ( I can't stand to call them Democrats - they are fundamentally anti democracy) party now thinks it a winning position to openly advocate the radical transformation of our country on terms murderously and historically disproven by the thoroughly tried Marxist experiment of the 20th century. They actually think our President as impotent as to have opened a once in a lifetime door for their intrusion into our national health and life. It sets up yet another existential decision (perhaps comparable to that of the 1864 Presidential election which was the last hope of the Confederacy) for our country. Let's face this head on and take full advantage of the ill inspired turn of the Dems to reckless leftist adventurism. Don't be deceived by their possible embrace of Biden. Poor dear, he would open the gate to their most savage and totalitarian cadre and dictators. Jack
Friday, February 1, 2019
Cuomo the Calculating
Its fascinating, in a sense, to behold Prince Andrew Cuomo in all his imperious humbug now that he has achieved unrestrained sway in "his" state and can use it to make the final ascent to his assured destiny as savior of mankind. I thought he had given up on the Presidency but someone high in state government who knows told me he IS running. He simply doesn't understand, does he, in his unconquerable insularity, how pompous and ridiculous he looks to the real America and how much scorn and discredit he reflects on our state and pity for we who must endure him. Apparently he needs to be shown and if he gets the nomination of his increasingly lala party he will be, oh yes, when he tries out his hilariously pontifical "oratory" in fly over country.
His fevered determination to force his perfection on an America hopeless without his transcendent revelation (think I'm exaggerating? - ever hear him make a speech? - you'd think Moses had descended from Mt. Sinai) is on full display in New York now and we in NY who insolently oppose him are given to understand that we are subjects now, not citizens. Having acquired the obsequious, rubber stamp legislature he has always craved (now he can dispense with all that bothersome "democracy", dontcha know, from that "vocal minahritty" upstate) he has already imposed on New York taxpayers obligations anew, in extending the educational rights of citizens to those who entered the U.S. illegally but are sure fire Democrat votes after he gives them their "right" to vote .He has blithely and with horrid celebration condemned thousands of fetuses, some of whom breathe now, to denial of life itself (oh well, they are just tissue, yes? you know, like your tonsils . . .) and has fired his opening salvo in his final push to disarm the lawful in New York State (except of course for his body guard).
That's where the "calculation" comes in( even a semi Deity like him must perforce take pause now and again) ; he fully intends to present NY gun owners with regulation as onerously burdensome as to amount to the denial of their 2nd Amendment rights and their complete discouragement. But he can't do it all at once: he has actually to be approved by the American electorate(at least the first time) before he mounts on high and that is going to necessitate disingenuous gestures meant to convince we "rubes" that he's really not that bad on guns. Blue collar union America tends to like its guns and he's going to need them on the Democrat plantation. Also, there's that reprehensible but still troublesome newly minted and unforgiveably lawful U.S. Supreme Court, which may cast a gimlet eye on his "laws" (after all Andrew respects as law only that with which he agrees and that rules out U.S. gun and immigration law in his fief - he has openly expressed that conviction). He must needs spread out the inevitable law suits from unwashed gunowners until such time as he can install a compliant leftist tribunal.
So, his newly announced gun pronunciamentos at first glance aren't quite as offensive as they could have been - I mean, there were proposals to search gunowners' online traffic for expressions of political heresy sufficient to mandate summary gun confiscation and for virtually continuous perusal of gunowner conduct which would have the state police and county clerks working 18 hour days . Stand by - they are on the way, when he thinks them opportune.
The Prince has decreed "today is the next evolution in this ongoing crusade and it will be ongoing". Gee, gun rights advocates routinely maintain that the "common sense" measures pushed by the gun grabbers are incremental, nickel and dime steps toward eventual confiscation and here is the champion himself confirming it. Why would Andrew want to take our guns? Because he believes that would destroy one of the pillars of the conservative real America for which he cherishes (and expresses with ever increasing frankness) such withering contempt (just ask conservative New Yorkers about that - he has said he wants us to "git"). He knows gunowners and their formidable NRA support candidates and office holders who loathe his brand of sanctimonious incipient totalitarianism.
That's what we'll all "git" America, if this definitively disdainful, snobbish and vicious elitist is elected President. He probably can't swing it; there is far too much real common sense at large in our benighted land but its best to recognize and beware the threat he and all his ilk present to ALL we work for, fight for, respect, revere, worship and teach our children. Jack
His fevered determination to force his perfection on an America hopeless without his transcendent revelation (think I'm exaggerating? - ever hear him make a speech? - you'd think Moses had descended from Mt. Sinai) is on full display in New York now and we in NY who insolently oppose him are given to understand that we are subjects now, not citizens. Having acquired the obsequious, rubber stamp legislature he has always craved (now he can dispense with all that bothersome "democracy", dontcha know, from that "vocal minahritty" upstate) he has already imposed on New York taxpayers obligations anew, in extending the educational rights of citizens to those who entered the U.S. illegally but are sure fire Democrat votes after he gives them their "right" to vote .He has blithely and with horrid celebration condemned thousands of fetuses, some of whom breathe now, to denial of life itself (oh well, they are just tissue, yes? you know, like your tonsils . . .) and has fired his opening salvo in his final push to disarm the lawful in New York State (except of course for his body guard).
That's where the "calculation" comes in( even a semi Deity like him must perforce take pause now and again) ; he fully intends to present NY gun owners with regulation as onerously burdensome as to amount to the denial of their 2nd Amendment rights and their complete discouragement. But he can't do it all at once: he has actually to be approved by the American electorate(at least the first time) before he mounts on high and that is going to necessitate disingenuous gestures meant to convince we "rubes" that he's really not that bad on guns. Blue collar union America tends to like its guns and he's going to need them on the Democrat plantation. Also, there's that reprehensible but still troublesome newly minted and unforgiveably lawful U.S. Supreme Court, which may cast a gimlet eye on his "laws" (after all Andrew respects as law only that with which he agrees and that rules out U.S. gun and immigration law in his fief - he has openly expressed that conviction). He must needs spread out the inevitable law suits from unwashed gunowners until such time as he can install a compliant leftist tribunal.
So, his newly announced gun pronunciamentos at first glance aren't quite as offensive as they could have been - I mean, there were proposals to search gunowners' online traffic for expressions of political heresy sufficient to mandate summary gun confiscation and for virtually continuous perusal of gunowner conduct which would have the state police and county clerks working 18 hour days . Stand by - they are on the way, when he thinks them opportune.
The Prince has decreed "today is the next evolution in this ongoing crusade and it will be ongoing". Gee, gun rights advocates routinely maintain that the "common sense" measures pushed by the gun grabbers are incremental, nickel and dime steps toward eventual confiscation and here is the champion himself confirming it. Why would Andrew want to take our guns? Because he believes that would destroy one of the pillars of the conservative real America for which he cherishes (and expresses with ever increasing frankness) such withering contempt (just ask conservative New Yorkers about that - he has said he wants us to "git"). He knows gunowners and their formidable NRA support candidates and office holders who loathe his brand of sanctimonious incipient totalitarianism.
That's what we'll all "git" America, if this definitively disdainful, snobbish and vicious elitist is elected President. He probably can't swing it; there is far too much real common sense at large in our benighted land but its best to recognize and beware the threat he and all his ilk present to ALL we work for, fight for, respect, revere, worship and teach our children. Jack
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