EDITORIAL

JUNE
Notes on stuff that happened in June, 2014.
(Editorials appear in reverse chronological order.)

(The Swamp) --

NOT RED, NOT BLUE

(June 30, 2014) South Carolina isn't a "Red" state or even a Conservative state. It's a multi-oligarchy (see below) and has been since 1607. It's politically no different from a small European dutchy. It's not a plutarchy, either, although our government does want to be one from time to time.

Don't get me wrong - I love this state. But one survives here and advances by cultivating and supporting one's friends. Most of the people who think they know about politics in this state are just wrong. This state is about the power of friends, and the oligarchs remaining in their positions of power. The one difference is that there isn't one group of oligarchs, and if you can gather together enough friends with money, your group can be its own oligarchy.

Consider the drug prosecution against Thomas Ravenel, which was, arguably, a statewide bi-partisan event. Thomas was already the State Treasurer, a position which was bitterly contested in both the Republican Primary and the general election. Common people - people such as you and I - supported him. One of the reasons the people of the state supported him was because he came with few strings attached. That was also his political weakness.

What I am about to say cannot be proven, because it would "out" various collaborators, and I would lose 50% of my sources, minimum. So, if you want absolute proof, stop reading, now. The rest of you can humor me.

Thomas Ravenel was guilty of giving drugs, the elite in this state frown on, as party favors to his friends. What he did not do, and what he was initially charged with, was selling anything illicit to anyone. But it was enough for his political enemies, GOP and Democrat, to conspire with the Obama administration's Justice Department and Eric Holder to "punish" him. And for once, this conjunction of important constellations came together in a win.

The problem is that Thomas was guilty only of doing what many in Charleston were doing, when it came to marijuana and cocaine. Lately, he has also been "guilty" of dating younger ladies, some from the College of Charleston - something almost EVERY successful heterosexual Charleston male over 35 does - and has done since God was a boy! Few stars in heavenly crowns for chastity will be handed out in the Holy City, when the last trumpet blows. Thomas, however, is SINGLE, so it's no big deal - a trait that many Democrat and Republican sugar daddies do not possess. But Ravenel did it on a Cable TV show, which for many older oligarchs is not cool.

Not the only sugar baby in Charleston. And there are plenty of sugar daddies. It's almost a badge of success in the Holy City.

As I have been reminded by my friends and critics lately, times are changing, and drugs, they tell me, should be considered a matter of a citizen's free will and not a matter of law. All of that is well and good, and, in fact, I pretty much agree with that view. But Thomas did break a simple possession law, and did it in front of a witness who turned out not to be a friend.

Now, Thomas Ravenel, the man who has walked away from many of the politically powerful, who were his enemies, anyway, is seeking an independent candidacy for the Senate from South Carolina. To put it plainly, Thomas is running against Lindsey. Those who favor Lindsey are looking past the number of times he has said one thing and done another. Those who favor Thomas, who are not libertarians, will have to look past his political conviction and his anti-establishment attitude which he broadly showed in his recent TV adventures.

I will be waiting and observing to see if the cable gambit for name recognition worked, and if it didn't anger too many women, as it did my sweet wife from Union. This could well be a "battle royale" between ages, political philosophies, vast fortunes, and political giants in this multi-oligarchy we call South Carolina.
 


 

ABOVE THE LAW. BELOW DECENCY

(June 29, 2014) Our President is supposedly a "Constitutional Professor." This means that he is supposed to know what the Constitution says. A most unfortunate supposition for those who believe in him. He should know that when he crosses the line, he should face conviction on impeachment.

But an impeachment conviction will not happen prior to January of 2015. That's because the House impeaches, but the Senate convicts. The current Senate is below any measure of proper decency, and will remain so as long as Harry Reid runs it. So until the New Congress is sworn in, our President is above the law.

He is also above the law as long as Eric Holder is the chief policeman of our country. Between the President and the Attorney General, no law is sacred and no person is safe. When a single man or any group of men can decide which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore, laws are worthless and rectitude of governance is suborned.


Militias are not just constitutional. They are a necessary edition to the internal self-preservation of our country. The event at the border is a perfect example.

There are times like these that the Second Amendment has its greatest moral significance, and when a well regulated [properly armed and trained] militia is most necessary. When the government refuses to do its job, then its job must be done by those of us who volunteer to do so. The best example of this is the gathering at our southern border.

Presidential Diktat and disastrously unenlightened Latin-American foreign policy has forced the regular enforcers at the border to be no more than nursemaids and babysitters, while criminals, thugs, and illegal diseased children are ESCORTED into our country. The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights explicitly tell law abiding citizens what to do: We have the moral and legal right to defend ourselves WITH FORCE from foreign invasion.

I got a real kick out of reading neo-con reaction in Breitbart and Newsmax to the militias who are showing up. Yes, they may not be able to block off but five miles of a much larger border, but they have a right to do it. Yes, there may be a couple of frustrated crazies in their midst, but most are sober, serious lovers of America and the Constitution. Historically independent, volunteer militias didn't just play an important role in South Carolina during the Revolution of 1776-1783, they also often kept the peace between indians and settlers in the Upstate.


Volunteer militias were remembered this weekend at Roebuck in Spartanburg County. These fusiliers are from the South Carolina Independent Rangers reenactment group.

And if they are fired upon by the Drug Thugs, Coyotes, or La Guárdia Federál de Méjico? Well, the militia, at least, will fire back. If Mexico wishes to make an issue of it, they can speak to the President - if he's not on the golf course or vacationing in some country garden.

There is one other possibility - that Obama will use this opportunity to have the citizen militias fired on by National Guardsmen. Don't think for a moment that if it proved to be politically popular, he wouldn't do it in a smidgen of a minute.
 


 

LIBERAL OF THE WEEK

(June 27, 2014) All puppies and most cats - regardless of age - are liberals. They expect to be taken care of from cradle to grave.

The recent elections have surprised many liberals. To get what they want, they've had to vote for RINOs.


I'm still feeling dizzy! I just voted Republican!


 

REV. JONES, HERE'S YOUR $10K. HAVE A NICE WALK AROUND..

(June 26, 2014) Laura Ingraham and her talk-show guest, American Spectator Editor John Fund, both had sources that the Cochran campaign spread copious walkin'-around money and were able to increase the "black Mississippi Republican vote" by 40 times. It was a miracle. Right.


John Fund, American Spectator Editor

Read this article on Breitbart.com and listen to the embedded audio file. It was a ear opener. But not for South Carolina Democrats who have been spreading walkin'-around money since God was boy. You might be surprised at it, though.
 


 

MEGYN KELLY'S HAIRDRESSER REALLY GETS IT RIGHT

(June 25, 2014) If you did not get to see Megyn Kelly's show Wednesday night, then you didn't get a first look at her new "do." Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I believe there is a perfect haircut for every face. Kelly, who is arguably one of the ten best looking people on Earth, has found her look. It's sleek, no-nonsense, yet extremely complimentary and downright sexy. Professional and hot, at the same time. If you missed it, here is a still frame, but it looks so much better in real time.


Megyn Kelly of Fox News and her new "do"
 


 

POST MORTEM-ER SNURD

(June 25, 2014) Rarely, does anything on radio truly effect anything in the real world. If it were the other way around, the country would be 75% staunch conservative, but it's not, and Rush Limbaugh really is just an entertainer. It's not that Rush is ever wrong - I listen all the time and have yet to hear him say anything unfactual, except that one time back in 1992, when he was given some bum information about Autism, but he corrected that.

Greenville's long-time DJ cum Talk Show Host, Russ Cassell, is a talent, at least on par with Limbaugh. But like most SC radio talents, his voice is limited. In fact, if Russ was not a National Voice Talent, like your humble editorialist, nobody outside the State would know of him. At least until the past two weeks. Now, he and his radio show on WORD 106.3FM are famous ALL OVER.

And it was the political death of Sally Atwater.

The day after the initial primary election, Sally called Russ's morning show for what she must have thought would be a routine, friendly congratulatory interview. Understand, SHE called him. She called the guy who had skinned Fritz Hollings who tried to BS his way around telling everybody that Social Security money was safe, "in a lock box" - his words. Russ stung him so badly, that Fritz said some very public, very impolite and untrue things about the radio host.


Russ


Sally

Anyway, when Sally called, Russ had some very hard Qs for her As. Only, Sally was completely stymied, and tried to walk sideways out of almost every answer. It could have ended then, but a WORD producer stuck the conversation up on their interweb page and the conversation went viral. REALLY viral. By the end of the day, almost every person in the state had heard it.

To be fair, all Sally had to do was give straight answers. But she didn't, AND broke one of the primary rules of politics - never assume ANYONE in media is your friend. But she did. Added to that, there were a lot of Democrats voting in the Republican primary - I'm told by those in the know that Sally would have won anyway, but her voters stayed home. And THAT, as they say, was it.

To be fair, Russ is a Teddy Bear. But he is also deeply idealistic and fundamentally religious. He really does believe what he says. And Cassell is NOBODY's "special media friend." Sally lost by many points.

So now, the Republicans will be running a proven RINO who is just lucky enough to be running against a socialist with a (D) after the name.

All because of one little interview.
 


 

POETRY IN MOTION

(June 25, 2014) Trey Gowdy may not know it, but he's a real poet. I know few South Carolinians who can think as clearly as our Congressman from the Fourth District. These past couple of days have been instructive. Here's an example of his work on the committee which has been examining the IRS Commissioner, John Koskinen, who, it seems, fudged some facts about when he actually knew about Lois Lerner's emails and the fact he has seen no wrongdoing.

Gowdy: "If you destroy documents, a jury can infer that those documents weren't going to be good for you. If you fail to keep documents, that jury can assume that those documents are not going to be good for you.

"You've heard of spoliation of evidence, haven't you?"

Koskinen: "I can't recall ever hearing it."

Gowdy: "It's true in administrative juries, civil hearings, criminal hearings.."

Koskinen: "I practiced law 45 years ago, gave it up for lent one year, and never went back."

Gowdy: "Well, lemme tell you what you would have found, if you had stuck with it [investigating Lois Lerner's claims about her computer files and emails]: When a party has a duty to preserve evidence or records, and they fail to do so, there is a negative inference that is drawn from their failure to preserve the evidence. It's common sense, right?"

Later on:

Gowdy:"Well [Mr. Commissioner], what did Lois Lerner mean when she said, '…that perhaps the FEC [Federal Election Commission] will save the day?'"

Koskinen:"I have no idea what.."

Gowdy: "What did she say.. what did she mean when she said, 'We need a project, but we need to be careful that it doesn't appear to be per se political'? You don't think that's a potential violation of '[US Code] 18-242 [Deprivation of rights under color of law]'?"

Koskinen: "I have no idea that.."

Gowdy: "Because you haven't looked at '18-242!' And you don’t have any idea, Commissioner, you don’t have any idea whether there's any criminal wrong-doing or not.

Koskinen: "With regard to the production of the evidence, the production of Lois Lerner emails, I have seen no evidence of any wrong-doing… there are people who are making judgments about whether [Ms. Lerner and the President] are guilty or.."

Gowdy: "You know what? I'm not one of those. I'm just simply saying we will never know because you didn’t keep the evidence. The evidence was spoliated. And whether it's negligent, whether it's intentional, whether it's reckless, we still don’t have the evidence, commissioner."

Koskinen, then rolls out a talking point about talking points from the White House and how the Republicans are responsible for it, when Gowdy, as we say in SC, brought him up short.

Gowdy: "No sir, you're wrong about that, you're wrong about that, you're repeating a talking point from our colleagues on the other side that we're obsessed with the White House. It was Jay Carney who perpetuated the myth that it was two rogue agents in [Cincinnati] Ohio. It wasn't any of us. Was that accurate? Was that first, initial line of defense that this is just two rogue agents in Ohio, was that accurate, Commissioner?"

The South Carolina Congressman then goes on to show Commissioner Koskinen that he had, indeed said that the Republicans were spreading rumors that the President and his spokesperson had actually begun.


Poetry in politics

One of many reasons I like Mr. Gowdy is that he tells the truth. But he also is not lazy in his thinking or the prosecution of lazy thinkers who come before these hearings. It's pure poetry.
 


 

ANOTHER UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF LEADING FROM BEHIND

(June 24, 2014) It really makes you think. Germany was dead set on getting all its gold back from the US - close to 92 tons of it. After repatriating only 5 tons, the Obama administration stiffly informed the Gerrys that they shouldn't ask for any more. Now, why do you think that happened?


Hope you have some. Our Government may not.

More than one source is proposing the same scenario: Maybe the rumors are true - that the Government has run out of gold and has only a very small amount to keep the "fiction of plenty" floating. There is a very simple way to put all the rumors to bed, and that is to open up Fort Knox so that everyone can see what's there. Not just "see," but assay as well.

But THAT won’t happen. If they were to open up Fort Knox, people could see that there is little or no gold. And do you have any idea what this would do to the solvency of the Euro as well as the US Dollar? 84 tons of gold short?

The tiring flurry of falsities on the economy, from every administration since Nixon, and the obfuscation of simple specie is finally coming back to haunt the current group of liars. We also know that China cannot GET anymore gold, right now, or at least no-one is trading gold for the Yuan. And, then, there is the rumor that some traders are considering using a computer unit, rather than the US Dollar because of its inherent fluctuations.

Add that to the apparent weakening of the US Armed Forces, some writers are pointing to very disturbing happenings in international economics. Is it time to panic? I hope not. I also hope that none of you have large amounts sitting in big bank accounts.
 


 

BACK FROM ON THE HUNT!

(June 23, 2014) I'm back from Hell - Columbia to you - talking to sources for a story I'm working on. I'll write some tomorrow morning (Monday). In the mean time, please read this article I found on zerohedge.com. It's very important and may answer some of the questions I've gotten from your emails about what a fraud the Stock Market is.
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PLUS ÇA CHANGE PLUS C'EST LA MÊME CHOSE.. STILL.

(June 17, 2014) If you don't come to Swampfox News every day, you may have missed the Ramirez cartoon, the other day. I'm putting it here, as it were, in the permanent record. I'm not going to explain it, but I'll give you a hint; Both he and I are old enough to remember the shameful event that took place on that day in 1975.


That shameful day - April 29, 1975. Photo by Hubert van Es, UPI. This is why, for so many of us, the Current President reminds us so much of Nixon.
 


Michael Ramirez is the political cartoonist for Investor's Business Daily.

Michael's sabre-tooth sharp wit and cartooning skills put him in the same category as the great Jeff MacNelly, of late memory.


One of Jeff's - may he rest in peace. Most people have forgotten what a "cloister-fork" Clinton's tax-sucking administration was.
 

Sadly, it's still, "plus ça change plus c'est la même chose."
 


 

I WANT ONE! I WANT ONE!

(June 16, 2014) I have found the ultimate Father's Day, Birthday, Christmas gift. It's something that every little boy has wanted since the probability of having one became possible. A flying car. The Transition®, Terrafugia's street legal airplane, to be exact.


Every reporter who has covered this flying wonder says - besides the fact that they want one, too - that the makers of this thing say it will be ready by the end of 2015 or the early 2016. Here are some more pictures.


This wonderful little creation can already go 100mph for 410 miles on a tank of hi test gasoline. It can carry 500 lbs at these ratings - so it's definitely a two-person affair. The idea is that you drive to the airport where you would take off and land, then drive to your final destination.


Nifty, isn't it?

But that's NOT the one I want. I want THIS one: The Terrafugia TF-X™ verticle takeoff flying car.


Terrafugia's TF-X at 200mph

Now THIS looks like something the Enterprise crew would fly/drive. Can't you just see Bones, Kirk, Scotty, and Spok flying to the ship in one of these babies. And the kicker is that if they ever develop a decent fuel cell, it can be easily converted to all electric.


Terrafugia's TF-X, vertically taking off. Those are propellers at the ends of those nacelles.

The idea is to fly point-to-point. And of course, the only reason we don't have both flying cars right now? Yep - too much government red tape.


What is the government afraid of? That they won't able to control it? or you? Anyway, cue the Star Trek Theme.

So, that's it. I know I'll have to win the lottery before I could afford one. If you win, you can give me a ride.. anyway, a guy can dream...... Hope you had a happy Father's Day.
 


 

TIME FOR AMERICA TO GROW UP. A LOT.

(June 15, 2014) RUSSIAN TANKS ROLL INTO EASTERN UKRAINE - IRAQI CITIES RECONQUERED BY TERRORISTS - OBAMA MOVES A CARRIER WITH ORDERS NOT TO SHOOT.. a few headlines from the past couple of days.

So, here we are again, only, what was predicted when Senator Obama first showed he was not up to the fight, back in January of 2007, has come true. You prepare for war if you want peace. He didn't know that, then, and he doesn't know that, now.


Irony piles high as the USS Carrier George H.W. Bush is sent to the Arabian Gulf.

The kind of sabre-rattling that the President is doing, now, by moving a carrier to the Arabian Gulf, is too little, too late. Moving important pieces to the Gulf and reinserting troops on the ground -THAT would make a definitive statement. But Obama has already written off the Ukraine, and that sign of weakness may subvert any message he may send by doing something for or to Iraq.

It has been said by others that President Obama has no long term vision, when it comes to foreign policy. I maintain that he has no long term vision about any area of his presidency, based on anything but pure fascist idealism.

It's not the end of the world. The sky is not falling. America is still remarkably strong, even though our President has done everything he can to show the opposite to the world. The upcoming election really does mean the fate of our country in the wide world, as well as internally. We fail to change direction, and the sky WILL fall.

You hear a lot these days about war fatigue. Those who are tired, to an enormous percentage, are not those who have fought. This is not a reality show. This is a battle which is going to end ONLY when every Islamicist is dead. That may NEVER happen. And we need to grow up, and face the facts.
 


 

LIBERAL OF THE WEEK

(June 14, 2014) All puppies and most cats - regardless of age - are liberals. They expect to be taken care of from cradle to grave.

Liberals, don't believe they can't do certain things, until it's too late.


Whattayou mean I can't eat chocolate?
 


 

"WHY I VOTE DEMOCRAT"

(Friday, June 13, 2014) SARCASM ALERT!!!!! As you know, I read a lot of blogs, liberal and conservative, fringe left and hard right. The following comes from a blog with lots of disgruntled people - people who are supremely unhappy about the results in the recent SC primary. I won't tell the nom de plume of the write of this next bit, because it's even ruder than I normally like. but it was written or stolen from someone who wanted to remind the readers what's been happening the last five and a half years. While reading, I had more than one spit-up-milk-through-my-nose moments. If you have any sense of how far gone Democrats have taken our country, you will, too.

"Why I vote Democrat

I vote Democrat because I believe it's okay if our federal government borrows $85 Billion every single month.

I vote Democrat because I care about the children ..... but saddling them with trillions of dollars of debt to pay for my bloated leftist government is okay.

I vote Democrat because I believe it's better to pay billions of dollars to people who hate us rather than drill for our own oil, because it might upset some endangered beetle or gopher.

I vote Democrat because I believe it is okay if liberal activist judges rewrite the Constitution to suit our fringe ideas, which would otherwise never get past the voters.

I vote Democrat because I believe that corporate America should not be allowed to make profits for themselves or their shareholders. They need to break even and give the rest to the federal government for redistribution.

I vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted, so long as we keep all of the murderers on death row alive.

I vote Democrat because I believe it's okay if my Nobel Peace Prize winning President uses drones to assassinate US Citizens, as long as we don't waterboard terrorists.


"...because I believe it's better to pay billions of dollars to people who hate us rather than drill for our own oil.."

I vote Democrat because I believe people, who can't accurately tell us if it will rain on Friday, can predict the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Chevy Volt.

I vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is not as important as preventing people from being offended.

I vote Democrat because I believe the oil companies' profit of 3% on a gallon of gas is obscene, but the federal government taxing that same gallon of gas at 15% isn't obscene.

I vote Democrat because I believe a moment of silent prayer at the beginning of the school day constitutes government indoctrination and an intrusion on parental authority ..... but sex education, condom distribution, and subsidizing madrasas are all values-neutral.

I vote Democrat because I agonize over threats to the natural environment from CO2, acid rain, and toxic waste ..... but I totally don't care that parents are disengaging from their children and expect the taxpayers to pick up the slack.

I vote Democrat because I believe lazy, uneducated stoners should have just as big a say in running our country as entrepreneurs who risk everything and work 70 hours per week.

I vote Democrat because I don't like guns because I really do believe the police will show up before the murderer kills my daughter.

I vote Democrat because I see absolutely no correlation between welfare and the rise of illegitimacy.

I vote Democrat because I see absolutely no correlation between judicial leniency and surging crime rates.

I vote Democrat because I believe you don't need an ID to vote but you do to buy beer.

I vote Democrat because I believe marriage is obsolete.

I vote Democrat because I think AIDS is spread by insufficient funding.

I vote Democrat because I think "fairness" is far more important than freedom.

I vote Democrat because I think an "equal outcome" is far more important than equal opportunity.

I vote Democrat because I would rather hide in a class room while others fight for my freedom.

I vote Democrat because I'm not smart enough to own a gun and I need someone else to protect me.

I vote Democrat because I would rather have free stuff than freedom.

And lastly, I vote Democrat because I'm convinced that government programs are the solution to the human condition, NOT self-reliance."
 


 

WHAT, AFTER ALL, IS A FERRET, BUT A LIZARD WITH FUR.

(June 12, 2014) After spending all day, contemplating the SC Primary results, what I have to say can best be summed up by Douglas Adams in his Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy (in four volumes)....

"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see...."

"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"

"No," said Ford [Prefect], who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."

"Odd," said Arthur [Dent], "I thought you said it was a democracy."

"I did," said Ford. "It is."

"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"

"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."

"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"

"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."

"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"

"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in."

- Douglas Adams, So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish. (1984) Ch. 36.

This doesn't apply to everyone who ran and everyone who voted, but pretty damn near all.
 


 

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN - WELL.. 10% - 14% OF THEM, ANYWAY.

(June 11, 2014) APATHY is the word for Tuesday's SC primaries. The Democrat turnout was tragically apathetic, but somewhere between 10% & 14% only turned out for the Democrats/GOP combined. De Toqueville has been accredited with the quote that a people deserve the government they allow. Whether he said it or not, it's true.


Voting in Anderson Co. - Photo by Ken Ruinard of the Anderson Independent/Mail

This was supposed to be the election that "really showed them," whoever "them" was. The people were supposed to rise up and vote the bad guys out, whoever the "bad guys" were. Mostly, the people who were already in are still in. So, were the challengers the "bad guy?" I bet they don't see themselves that way.

So why, or maybe even better, HOW, did all those incumbents win? The people in Virginia certainly got rid of Eric Cantor, PRIMARILY over the immigration issue. Why didn't WE do that? There is an answer.

More Democrats voted in the GOP primary, because the Republicans LET THEM. Just look at at the number of people who voted for Jim Clyburn (who holds the State's Affirmative Action seat) and the number of people who voted in the Democrat Senate race, and then look at the same numbers who voted for Republicans in the same areas. VERY revealing. I assume that this is just fine for the State Republican Party Establishment, because they wanted Lindsey. And, now, they have him, and there is a nice guy, Brad Hutto, against him, but a Democrat is still a Democrat in Harry Reid's Senate.

I am happy to report that Tim Scott will be running against a moron socialist this fall. He is the real face of South Carolina, and definitely speaks for me and mine.

Yes, Thomas Ravenel will most probably run against Lindsey as an independent, and I'm guessing there will be hell to pay on all sides, because of it - many people realize that his Federal law breaking was over something that should be, at most, a misdemeanor. But I'm guessing Lindsey will win, because there are more people who get free stuff (not talking about SS or Medicare) than those who work, in our State. And Lindsey is the free stuff man.

In the end, the people who just talked and didn't vote are to blame. That's approx. 88% of Republicans in this State, give or take an inch. And THAT is embarrassing.
 


 

LIBERAL OF THE WEEK

(June 7, 2014) All puppies and most cats - regardless of age - are liberals. They expect to be taken care of from cradle to grave.

Marijuana is in the news a lot. This kitty looks like she's been blazin' blunts pretty heavily..


You got another splift, dude?


 


 

THE WITNESSES ARE ALMOST GONE, NOW

(June 6, 2014) A few remaining South Carolina WWII vets have returned to Normandy - many, most probably, for the last time. This 70th Anniversary of the bloodiest battle, since the War Between the States, will not be the last time we celebrate the bravery of those men who laid down their lives so that the rest of us might live. But it may well be the last time all but a handful of the hundreds of thousands of men who did the fighting are still alive to see it.


D-Day, 1944

I'm reminded of the films of old Confederate and Union soldiers, gathered in the early 1930's and the remembrance of "how few remain." The nobility of age. The irony of survival. Now replayed on a foreign shore.


Confederate Veterans ca. 1933

There used to be a wry saying amongst the veterans of The Late Unpleasantness - "Worry not that you shall go to Hell, for you have already been through The Wilderness." The same can be said for those who fought on the Beaches of Normandy, and Saipan, and The Bulge, and Iwo Jima.


Saipan 1944

So, the bands play, and the old men remember, and the tears flow or the chins jut to keep the tears at bay. The once young and strong fighters embrace each other with withered arms and severe smiles. And those who care, remember once again, that time when might was truly used to create right.
 


 

ONE MORE SET OF LIES..

(June 5, 2014) When the administration PROMISES to give the Senate 30 days notice before an exchange of terrorists for an American Soldier, ACCORDING TO THE LAW, DURING a TIME of WAR, then that administration has committed fraud and, maybe even treason. But, thanks to Bill and Hillary Clinton and Obama, breaking the law seems to be de rigueur for Democrats in high office. Of course, those are not the only lies told by the Democrats in the Bergdahl Fraud Scandal.

Lie No. 1: Army Sgt. Bergdahl was on death's door..
Complete crap. All you have to do is look at the video of Bergdahl's release. He looks great!
Lie No. 2: He was captured in action.
Ummm, no. He crawled under the perimeter wire, and went AWOL, expecting to be accepted as a hero by the Taliban, who summarily tied him up and held him for ransom.
Lie No. 3: Bergdahl served with honor.
All depends on how you define "honor." He deserted his post and taught the Taliban how to turn phones into I.E.D.s.
Lie No. 4: Congress was consulted, according to the law.
Not even a smidgen. Of course Harry Reid lied and said that they had, but the Hooker State Senator hasn't spoken the truth since he descended into the Senate Leadership.


Desperate Administration meeting with members of the Senate Oversight Committee, trying to explain away their monstrous adventure into the Royalisation of the Presidency

You have to ask yourself, also, why Susan Rice on the network newsers? She has zero credibility except in her own head.. well, hers and MSNBC. There is more and more evidence that the exchange of prisoners was not just a dumb screwup on the part of the administration. Eventually, we will know just how bad this situation really was.

Americans are the most forgiving people in the world - although that will change as we march further away from the Almighty - but nobody likes to be made a fool.
 


 

THERE'S ONLY ONE QUESTION WORTH ASKING HERE:

(June 4, 2014) Why are these lady soldiers not making enough money?


Waiting for 'newser' on soldier hookers at Fort - May be a long wait.

When you don't pay enough attention to your armed forces, stuff like this happens a lot.
 


 

PRESIDENT WRONG. AGAIN.

(June 4, 2014) I want to say that it is obvious what happened, concerning Sgt. Bergdahl. He CRAWLED, off the base, AWOL, thinking he was going to join the Taliban and be a hero. Instead, they imprisoned him and held him for ransom. Currently, the President's personal assassin squad is out and about warning his military people to squash any of the truth, because the five-for-one swap is not only against the law, it's stupidity at the highest governmental levels. Late word is that his squad has failed, and are now out trying to make it look like it was the only choice he had. AND, the President has done NOTHING about the real hero, Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, with REAL PTSI (formerly PTSD), locked up in a filthy Mexican jail for taking a LEFT TURN! 'Nuff said.


Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi in Afghanistan, where he gained considerable recognition for heroism. So far, the President has done nothing.
 


 

PRESIDENT HAS ENERGY BRAIN FART

(June 3, 2014) Now..

We're all pretty much convinced President Obama is an idiot when it comes to ecology. His worship of the false god of "Climate Whatever-we're-calling-it-this-week," has been outed week after week.. The same erroneous arguments. The same bad science. The same wakko interpretations of what good science there is.

This time, he and his play-toy, the poorly named Environmental Protection Agency, have erred so profoundly that every single American who actually pays for her or his own energy (and that's fewer than you might think), will be seriously effected.

Both Duke Power and SCE&G (Scana Corp) will be raising your cost of energy, every single year by 5% - 20%, depending on how many coal fired electricity plants they own. And just because we have fewer coal-fired plants than other states doesn't mean that we wont be paying for the ones in other states.


This is a lump of coal. The President fears this metamorphic rock consisting of carbon, hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen, not fully understanding what it is.

If you pay $200 a month for electricity, in four years, your costs will almost double. It's that simple. Even if there were global warming, stopping all coal all around the world (and the rest of the world uses far more coal than we do), it will only make a difference of 0.01°.

0.01°.

And we haven't even begun to talk about the immense drain this will put on jobs and the economy.

The EPA and the President are making fools of every one of us.
 


 

BOWE BERGDAHL IS SAFE AND OBAMA HAS A WHOLE LOT OF 'SPLAININ' TO DO

(June 2, 2014) Look, I know the President broke the law with the trade for the last hostage of the terrorists, but, Harry Reid is standing in the way of impeachment. I feel your pain. However, nothing will change until Democrats have been shunned from government.


Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will be back in America, soon. We're all happy for his parents. But Obama has broken the most rookie, basic foreign relations rule.

I'm very glad for his parents that they and the Army have their son and Sergeant back. There is nothing more moving than a mother's tears. There is nothing more sincere than a father's welcome, maybe.. maybe not. We will see, as time goes on - Seven separate sources, people who KNOW Bergdahl, say he crawled under the perimeter wire and went AWOL. This means that our President traded five Islamicist terrorist murderers for a deserter..

But, I also know that we should never bargain with terrorists. Now, it is deadly certain that another kidnapping by another terrorist group will happen again. We have traded for a person who will be replaced by another person - probably soon.

And Obama? Well, his media sock puppets are already out, making sure this arrogant, cowardly, passive-aggressive moron gets away with a crime against America and the five people who got killed, looking for this guy. Al Qaeda terrorists are not a "new" kind of enemy that we CAN negotiate with. The President was not negotiating with a foreign country! He has materially aided a terrorist entity, and he either knew what he was doing or he is a complete ignoramus.

I have said it before, and I say it now; If you vote for a Democrat, you vote for this kind of lunacy to continue.
 


 

STOP TALKING AND VOTE TWICE.

(June 1, 2014) I have heard a whole lot of talk about how we have to get rid of Lindsey Graham, how he's not really for the 2nd Amendment, how he's not really for this or that. Heck, even I've complained about our Senior Senator from time to time. I STILL think he would serve our State better as a jurist - remember the half-and-half picture I drew?

Frankly, whoever wins, including Lindsey, is fine with me - although if he does win, I hope he fires all the people around him, because he only talks to friendly Media, these days, and all that will accomplish is for more people to dislike him. They are not helping him by isolating him. Also, his campaign is one of the most uncomfortable, plastic-banana horrors I've seen since Olin Johnson's daughter's losing campaign.


Lindsey and his sister. Is this an act of desperation? Is he really leading by over 50%? We'll only know if everybody who's talking, on both sides, votes.

Contrary to what you may have heard, though, Sen. Graham is not winning by 51%. He's lucky if he has 46%. How do I know this? Because I know who is doing the polling modeling, and who is paying the modelers. They don't poll nearly enough people to make any kind of definitive assumptions you hear about on the news. If you've followed any of my posts since 2004, you know that game theory (statistics) is chaos theory - you've got to poll at least the square root of the numbers ofpeople in the group you're guessing about.

But what I'm also seeing and hearing is JUST talk. And Lord knows, there is a tremendous amount of that. So I have a simple solution:

EITHER SHUT UP, OR VOTE TWICE.

Just voting for your favorite candidate will work, this time, especially if everybody who can, votes. The bottom line is this: If there really are 54% of potential voters who will vote for someone else in the primary, there MUST be a runoff. But that's just the first vote.

Those who voted and whose candidates did not win, then have to bite the bullet and vote for whoever gets number two, in the runoff. That's the second vote. And you may not want to do that, preferring our Senior Senator, even with his crappy lieutenants and advisors.

We already know that the TEA Party is NOT organized in South Carolina. And you may have heard that resurrected politician, new father, and reality star, Thomas Ravenel, may run if Lindsey doesn't lose (he may run anyway - you might want to ask Will Folks about that). WHATEVER. The point is that there is no need talk, even if you are FOR Graham. Just vote, and when the opportunity presents itself, TWICE.
 


 

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