Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Merk the Jerk lies again...

...but what's new?

This article is fashioned around a claim by Oregon's junior Senator that the mere discussion of Congress shutting down the government via failure to approve a higher borrowing limit will cause the US Dept of Agriculture to have to stop reloading the Free Shit Army's S.N.A.P. "food stamp" cards*.

Last I checked, the October 1 expiration of the borrowing limit is a hard and fast date, and spending may continue right up to September 30, at eleven-fifty-nine pm. The "threat" of Congress failing to do anything carries no weight, only the actual carrying-out of such a threat is cause for concern.

Merkely, you are an asshole.

By the way, Mister Senator-Jerk, your use of the term "food insecurity" carries no weight, either. For those who have had to miss a meal, actual hunger is a real bother, but the "feeling" associated with "worrying about hunger" has no effect on a rational, self-disciplined human being. You either eat or you are hungry. If you are eating, you aren't hungry.

Note that the article says that the Jerk is the Democrat's honcho on food issues. I have a litmus test for Mister Jerk: if you ARE the honcho, how about writing some rules so that S.N.A.P. cards can only be used to buy actual nutritious food? No Twinkies, no McDonald's fat-bombs, no sodas, no candy bars, just real food, like economical cuts of meat, poultry, fish and blocks of cheese, to name a few basics. There are probably no more than 50 items in a grocery store that ought to be on S.NA.P., the rest of it can be classed as un-necessary to a survival assistance program.

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* The S.N.A.P. card replaced Food Stamps a decade or so ago, but severe "mission creep" has set in with this supposedly-basic welfare program. The program was designed to simply fill grocery bags for impoverished persons, and fill them with nutritious food, much of which was USDA surplus food back in the '60's when the program started. Today, you can eat at restaurants on S.N.A.P. This is wrong. The program needs to be returned to it's original mission.

Attack Mode

The LA Slimes goes into full attack mode on the US culture, going right back to the Founders and attacking them personally. History modification doesn't get much more stark than this.

The way THIS culture warrior sees things, if they are going after the very foundation of our society to bring it down, it's time to take the culture war into the next level, say, at about 2500 feet per second.

In the Second Republic, it WILL be a crime to bring such talk using history modification. History will be accepted in the spirit of the time during which it was made, not with the hindsight of people whom the Founders wouldn't have given the time of day to. The Founders, of course, WERE upstanding men of their time. The fact that time and custom has changed (for the worse!) does not alter the fact that the Founders held the respect of their fellow men (and no, the respect of the women did not count in those days).

The days of this Republic are numbered, and so are the the stylings of today's writers who feel free to believe that they are time travellers.

The AME Church and the Second Amendment

Originally published in Facebook, on my timeline.

Every outlet of the press is eating up the emo radiating from the Bethel AME Church in Charleston, SC, where the horrific murders of nine people took place. WE should mourn, yes. We can even begin to think about political implications, too, now.

Political implications generally begin with historical review, so let's look at the AME Church and see what it's politics have been, over the years.

This particular Church started out in 1865. Some say it was organized in 1860, but given that SC was a Pro-Slave state at that time, It's unlikely. There were few SC black "freedmen" then, and those who were free, usually didn't make the sort of waves necessary to start a church.

In 1965, the South lost the Civil War, and was invaded by occupiers, some from the Union Army, but more were the opportunists known locally as "carpetbaggers", many of whom came to the South to cram the North's victory down Southern throats. You must realize that while there were more freedmen then (technically, all negroes were free then), nowhere had these freedmen actually been freed, even in the North, because segregation of the races was still the rule. A few blacks were used as political standard-bearers by the Re-Constructionists ("reconstruction" was an odd word for the occupation of the South, because these Northerners were there to finish General Sherman's job of pillaging the South, and they did NO reconstruction of any sort).

Part of "reconstruction" was directing the blacks into their own, segregated churches, and that's when the African Methodist-Episcopal Churches were formed. The leaders of these churches were given a pro-forma way to pray, a pro-forma education for their pastors, and even the vestments of the pastors were standardized. One moment, nothing, then BOOM! organized religion for the blacks. Who pulled all those puppet strings? Those same reconstructionists who were still pillaging the South.

The reconstructionists (carpetbaggers) found resentment wherever they went in the South, so for their own protection, they allied themselves with local politicians. Politicians are known for selling their souls, so selling their culture out was easy. When enough of these bonds had been formed, the birth of the Dixiecrats was underway. Along with the Dixiecrats came the KKK. Along with the KKK came terrorist methods of instilling fear, in the blacks, as a way to keep them from actually getting any value from their free status. The "sharecropping" system of agriculture was developed, and it was difficult to tell from slavery. The sharecroppers were paid pittance wages for their work, but they had to buy everything from the farmers, and saved nothing.

As citizens, blacks were entitled to own guns, but the Dixiecrats saw that as a bad thing, so various laws were passed barring blacks from bearing arms. This policy was preached as "good" from the AME Churches, which by the mid 1870's, had become models of the white-controlled behavior of blacks. In fact, pretty much everything the KKK wanted was sold to the blacks via their AME Churches. Whenever an AME Church defied the KKK/Dixiecrat alliance, the Church was usually burned. That happened to Charleston's Bethel AME twice. They got the "message".

Today's AME Churches are still beholden to/puppets of the successors to the Dixiecrats, which faded away in the 1960's due to the Civil Rights movement. Those successors are today's Democratic Party. It is ironic that even after today's blacks have achieved some level of parity with whites and other races in the USA, they still parrot the old political garbage, and foremost among those scraps of political offal is "No Guns for Negroes".

In Portland, the Emeritus Pastor of the AME Church is Rev. Leroy Haynes. Just listen to the Reverend trash the Second Amendment, even as his congregants are getting murdered in their dozens every year by black thugs, he still preaches "No Guns for Negroes". He has had to expand that a bit, so he's really preaching "No Guns for Anyone" today.

It's all History folks, look it up if you don't believe me. Download JPFO's fine book, "No Guns for Negroes", where everything I have just said is documented.

Hashtag for tonight

With the liberal lie machine cranked up into overdrive for tonight, if tou are into Facebook or Twitter, use the hashtag: #SOTUstfuPOTUS on any posts on those social media...

Editing Freedom's Works

I've been blogging here for close to ten years. One of my major quests on this blog has been to show the readers what Socialism is, what it does, and how it got that way. I think I've just found the best, most concise explanation of Socialism ever. I didn't write it, and it needs editing, but it IS readable, so I will present it here after only changing the font to better suit my blog (it was originally Verdanna Bold 14-pt).

Without further ado, from this URL:

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Most of us believe socialism is what the socialists want us to believe it is-a share-the-wealth program. That is the theory. But is that how it works? Let us examine the only Socialist countries-according to the Socialist definition of the word-extant in the world today. These are the Communist countries. The Communists themselves refer to these as Socialist countries, as in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Here in the reality of socialism you have a tiny oligarchial clique at the top, usually numbering no more than three percent of the total population, controlling the total wealth, total production and the very lives of the other ninety-seven percent cent...

If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of superrich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead it becomes the logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately, socialism, is not a movement of the downtrodden masses, but of the economic elite.

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If you wanted to control the nation's manufacturing, commerce, finance, transportation and natural resources, you would need only to control the apex, the power pinnacle, of an all-powerful socialist government. Then you would have a monopoly and could squeeze out all your competitors. If you wanted a national monopoly, you must control a national socialist government. If you want - a worldwide monopoly, you must control a world socialist government. That is what the game is all about. "Communism" is not a movement of the downtrodden masses but is a movement created, manipulated and used by power-seeking billionaires in order to gain control over the world . . . first by establishing socialist governments in the various nations and then consolidating them all through a "Great Merger," into an all-powerful world, socialist super-state ..."

Note that his example is best considered in the light of history, and in the light of the two most recent failed Socialist attempts, the USSR and Nazi Germany I hope by now that you all understand that Hitler led a socialist state, not a right-wing fascist state as the Left would alter history and have you believe.

Now put it together. What did both of those States do to get started and how did they wind up failing?

Both States took over from weak governments. The USSR was formed out of the failed Czarist monarchy, and Hitler sprang up from the Weimar Republic which failed due to losing WW1, having to pay reparations, and the world's Great Depression. In both cases, the putative dictators paid lip service to the downtrodden masses, with Hitler doing the better job of that. Hitler, between his release from imprisonment and seizing of absolute power, was the perfect "community organizer", setting up soup kitchens to feed the starving masses, putting clothes on the masses' backs (uniforms, but the ensembles kept them warm and gave them the required sense of identity), and controlling the worst of the street terror (anarcho-bolshevism) which had arisen with the decline of the Weimar Republic.

Then Hitler and his counterparts in the USSR disarmed their citizens. This disarmament was actually the most important step, because it precluded the citizens from changing their minds later and tossing out the Socialists.

Skipping over the obvious mechanisms of failure, in both cases, the USA, we find that the US Military ended Hitler's dreams, and the US Dollar ended the Soviets' dreams.

If you are a Socialist trying to conquer US individualism and turn the nation into the next "great" Socialist empire, how do you proceed?

You proceed as in above:

• Disarm the citizens.
• Control the press.
• Throw free shit at those whom you've convinced that earning their way in life is not required.
• Constrict commerce to only those avenues of trade that the Government can control.
• Do it all in the name of the downtrodden masses.

There it is, in a nutshell.

What is the one thing that is currently stopping the wannabe Socialists?

Our guns. In our safes. The Socialist Dream simply cannot proceed while we have the guns.

Designed to destroy the Constitution

Observe this process. It is carefully calculated to attack the Bill of Rights.

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There was a mall shooting a year ago in Oregon. A crazy guy went into a mall full of Christmas shoppers and opened fire with a stolen rifle, killing two, but when a Concealed Carry person drew on and aimed at him, he ran off to a remote part of the mall and killed himself.

The simple fact of history from the Clackamas Mall shooting was that the Second Amendment didn't start the shooting, it ENDED it.

That simple explanation doesn't fit the agenda of the Left, who want to eliminate the Second Amendment, so, in a carefully-laid plan to "memorialize the victims", they have deliberately left out mention of Nick Meli, the armed citizen who stopped the shooter's rampage without firing a shot.

The Left is AGAIN revising history to suit their agenda. I am AGAIN bringing out the HISTORY book to remind folks of the truth of the incident.

Exhibit A: in today's Oregonian:

The "commentary" mentioned there is from a MAIG supporter, and does not mention the armed citizen. The link goes to a list of articles, none of which promenently mention the armed citizen. There ARE, however, plenty of mentions of gun control ideas with which to weaken the Second Amendment.

This blog does not believe in defensive warfare. Never has, never will. I offer the following solution:

Since the "free press" is not free, but is totally enrolled as a major political tool of the Left, it has ceased to deserve the protection of the First Amendment. In the State of Oregon, all political organizations which seek to press the Government for a political end must Register as Lobbyists.

It's time the press was Registered as lobbyists, and it's time that they are forced to follow the strict rules that all political lobbyists have to follow.

Register the Press, not our Guns.

 

Mandela and de Klerk

With the passing of Nelson Mandela, world and media leaders of leftist persuasion (but I repeat myself) are falling all over themselves praising Mandela. They have all chucked the book of South African history into the dustbin. I hope this post reminds you of that history.

Nelson Mandela was nothing without President F.W. de Klerk, the last President of apartheid South Africa. In fact, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee realized this when they co-awarded the Peace Prize of 1993 for the two leaders' JOINT effort to end the official Government policy of Apartheid in South Africa.

The facts of history are that Mandela was a communist revolutionary, and F.W. de Klerk was anti-communist. They were enemies, and Mandela's revolution is well documented. de Klerk surrendered the apartheid policy for the whites, and the war ended. Had de Klerk chose to fight on, South Africa would have been utterly destroyed.

Now, History generally judges successful revolutionaries by how well their post-revolutionary efforts held up. Like the majority of revolutionary leaders of note, Mandela was successful on the field, less so in administration of the new government. The new South African regime seized corporations and properties, on the sole excuse that their owners were white. This inspired other African nations to do the same. Jomo Keynatta comes to mind, but there were others, and the practice continues to this day all over the continent.

Mandela was noted for not executing his defeated enemies, and he even formally forgave many of them. To me, this is his main legacy. I have mixed feelings about the "Truth Commissions" he established: most were simple witch-hunts, but most whites who faced them were forgiven their sins (after being stripped of all their pre-revolutionary wealth).

There is one huge stain on Mandela's record, though, and no review of his legacy is complete without it. That is the black thugocracy that established itself after Mandela took over. Mandela's own wife was part of it. Government power was used to establish gangs which not only indulged in corruption, they operated crime rings as well. South Africa is only just beginning to work out of this problem in this last decade, but it has a long way to go.

Nelson Mandela opened the doors of South Africa by overcoming the white door-men. The transition to multi-racial democracy has only just begun, though, and only time will tell if it flourishes or fails.

A second face

...to spread that egg on will always seem best to a secular progressive.

I guess that's why Bloomberg News penned this piece on the NSA-spies-on-Europe scandal.

Two Wrongs always make a better Right, according tho liberal policy on spinning.

Impeach Jack Lew

I do conflict management. I did it professionally, in two careers, for a total of 47 years, and I do it as a hobby now that I'm retired.

Any good conflict manager studies the aftermath of great conflicts, to see where lessons may be learned, what mistakes were made, where conflict can be better managed.

I find that the biggest single mistake made in the two-week stalemate between the Left and the Right was the handling of the threat of "default".

Let's look at default. Default would have occurred if the United States Treasury (led currently by Jack Lew) had failed to pay interest/dividends on the various lending instruments it had issued. The monthly cost of that interest is currently $23 billion dollars. On average, Treasury takes in tax receipts of $230 billion per month. How then can it be said that the United States was ever in danger of being in "default"? The US had income of ten times the expense which had to be paid to avoid default!

The fact that "default" was ever an issue at all was because President Obama wanted to raise a boogeyman to threaten and cow the House of Representatives with. The President, along with his fawning media corps, managed to convey the lie that the United States was sure to default if the borrowing limit was not eased. The dumbed-down electorate, which should have been shouting "pants on fire" at the President ever since he began this Big Lie campaign, said nothing, never challenged the basic assumption, even when many, many economists and respected economic-evaluation institutions raised the bullshit flag on "default" several months ago.

President Obama appointed Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, and he was confirmed by the Senate. Article One, Section Three, last paragraph of our Constitution says, 

Judgment in Cases of Impeachments for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives, shall not extend further than removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.

The Senate would not be involved in the Impeachment of Jack Lew.

What was Jack Lew's offense? When confirmed, he was charged with the absolute duty to protect the faith in, and credit of, the fiscal obligations of the United States. When forced by circumstances to put US Treasury operations on a cash-receipts basis, meaning that he would have to prioritize spending according the the importance to the credit of the US of his expenditures, he failed to do so. That is a deleliction of his duty, a complete dereliction of it.

Were I Speaker Boehner, I would immediatley direct the House Counsel to prepare those Articles of Impeachment, and summon Jack Lew before the House for his trial.

How would this action affect President Obama? There are a number of possibilities, but the first would be that the President would probably ask Jack Lew to resign, and he probably would. The President cannot afford to expend any political capital protecting his appointee. Speaker Boehner should then schedule a hearing in the Oversight Committee, or the Finance Committee, offer Jack Lew full immunity, and ask him under oath if he was ordered not to prioritize payments that Treasury had to make, so as to make it appear that "default" was a certainty on October 17th. If his answers provide ANY inkling that the President, or a trusted advisor such as Val Jarrett issued such an order, the Speaker should commend him for his honesty, and prepare to impeach President Obama.

In the meanwhile, Speaker Boehner needs to draw up a Federal Law requiring that the Treasurer of the United States have such a payment priority in case of such situations. That law should be passed and sent to the Senate, with pressure to have it heard in the Senate. It would be very interesting to see what "justification" would be rolled out to oppose such a common-sense law.

 

Thursday Thuds, Burst-option selected on my unregistered Assault Thud Gun

Thud Subject One: Syria: Three-round burst selected:

• The US wants "teeth" in Putin's UN proposal to divest Assad's military of it's Chem weapons. Channeling Jack in "A few good men", "Teeth, you want teeth? You can't handle teeth".
• Note that Russia was the vendor for all these gas weapons, can fake up "1,000 tons" of them very easily. There is NO way to effectively inspect after the "hand-over". WE will have to trust Putin...and he has bridges for sale.
• Note that the US CIA has been giving "traceable" weapons, mostly AKs and LMGs, to the Free Syrian Army (but only the "good" militias"). Yeah, we really know how to do that "traceable" weapon thing. Just ask Eric Holder how that's done...

Thud Subject Two: Colorado anti-gun recall: Two round burst selected:

• Read the actual results. The recalls succeeded, but only because they were polling-place elections, had less than 20% turnout. Okay then, two GFW* pols are gone. The gun laws aren't, and the Kingfish, Gov. Hickenlooper, who signed the laws after hinting he'd veto them, wasn't touched. Phyrric Victory. Magpul's departure from CO is a much harder hit than this.
• Now we get to see how the NRA-ILA will use this "victory" to keep the save-the-2A ball rolling. My guess: a money solicitation is in the mail. Not being a member of NRA, I won't get one, but I'd bet on it happening. If the NRA would double-down now, and go after Hickenlooper, I might send some shekels their way, but I bet they don't go after the real prize.

Thud Subject Three: US Public Schools: Three-round burst selected:

• Just saw on Fox News this ayem that the idea of paying dropouts to come back to class is upon us again, like a bad 'Nam foot-rot that won't go away forty years later. Let's see, what do we REALLY accomplish with this idea: Nothing! These louts and loutesses who would come back for a $100 gift card will stay only until it's spent. While they are there, they will either sleep off their dope in class or worse, be disruptive to those who are there voluntarily to learn. Portland Public Schools tried this out up in the North End. It failed.
• Have you noted the drumfire of liberal writers in the liberal blatts trying to shoot down the No Child Left Behind testing? The harassing fire is getting louder. You will recall that this "program" was passed during the Bush Administration, when the (D)s had a lock on both houses of Congress. 
• NCLB is a Liberal-owned program, and even it's watered-down testing shows that schools are doing a worse and worse job on the kids all the time. The entire Liberal approach to education, that is, to just keep dumbing the lesson plans down until the dummies finally can "get" them, has failed.

Thud Subject Four: Obama masked bandit: Full-auto, empty the magazine!

• Check it out. Now stay tuned on this subject to see if this WHITE guy is charged with racial intimidation for wearing an Obama mask during a bank robbery. Get your bets down!

Thud Subject Five: Climate Hooey: Reload, fire another full-auto magazine:

• New study finds that out of 117 recent model-based climate studies, only three were "roughly accurate", and the other 114 "over-estimated the amount of warming" on the average, the over-estimations averaged on the order of double. That is not science, that is propaganda, and not very good propaganda at that.

That's it, readers. Your thud-gun recoil therapy for this week.

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* GFW (Gun Fearing Wuss), a term coined by the former gun-blogger and 2A-defender Kim duToit.