SOUTH CAROLINA IS GROWING & HERE'S PROOF

Unlike so much of the country, there are areas of South Carolina which are making money. Granted, they're doing it in spite of the Federal government's over-taxation and over-regulation. How do I know this? I have an "in."

One of the more successful companies in the state is Newmark Grubb Wilson Kibler. Here are their Industrial and Office reports. Read them, and then ask yourself whether or not there is a growing thirst for prosperity in this state, and people are expressing that with their hopes and their dollars.

FUNNY TWEET

GIMME SOME SKIN!

A Poem by Me

Slap my hand, when you agree with me, or even if you don't.
Little bodies in my skin do not make laws for my brain, or my brawn.
Little words behind my back,
Little words from little minds,
Little words.
 
Did you think me brown?
I'm pink. No pig, just pink,
Although I tan well.
 
I got a badge.
But I don't hide behind it.
I am not bigger than my badge;
Because my badge is you
And ten little rules.
 

DON'T DO IT.. DON'T. DO. IT!

You don't take away the right to carry arms when the bad guys are actively using arms! All Cleveland has to do is restrict firearms IN THE AREA of the Republican Convention to people with CWPs. South Carolina is right about this one. Heavy EVENT Police Coverage. No crazy people, no gangs, no convicted felons with guns, no guns in an arena, see-through bags vigorously checked, nobody carries without a permit which shows VIGOROUS TRAINING.

No one is more special than any other. No one. We all have our talents. And, no one is more special than anyone else, in the eyes of the Living God. The Rev. John Donne had it right, too, when he wrote in partial iambic trochee:

"No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee."

On a less elegant note, these assholes - Black Lives Matter & the Black Panther Party - are not going to get the GOOD people of this country to rebel, or take up arms against an imagined "black menace." We are, ALL, BROTHERS. Even so, We will get rid of the scourges in the Democrat party, who lend their cowardly names to these hate groups, by VOTING these politically correct vermin out of office, not with the bullet, but with the ballot!

We are America; United in fact, equal in law and justice, and voluntarily our brother's keeper. We are NOT subjects of the Democrat Plantation. We are NOT ABOVE THE LAW as Democrats are. And, We will not be held to account for their sins against the Constitution.

WE MUST VOTE, AND LET OUR JUST GRIEVANCES AGAINST THE DEMOCRAT ATTEMPT AT TYRANNY BE ANSWERED, IN A JUST WAY WHICH WE CREATE, AT THE BALLOT BOX!
 

NOTHING MUCH LEFT TO SAY

She broke the law many, many times, and she got off. The so-called populist socialist sold out for more power and left his supporters in the dust. For her. The only person who can beat her is a target of those who would rather be slave overseers than win with him. The only people who can stop this insanity are everyday, middle class patriots who may or may not vote. Many of them read this blog.
 

THE RISE OF THE KINGDOM OF THE UNITED STATES

Several years ago, I wrote about the end of the United States as a Constitutional Republic. I said, "Mark the date... today will be marked as the end..." The occasion was the unbelievably treacherous ruling on Obamacare by the SCOTUS, when we learned that the Chief Justice had been bought off by the sin of pride. All that happened today was the finalization of the beginning of the transition

The FBI did find wrongdoing. But FBI Director Comey said that no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute Hillary Clinton, even though she profoundly screwed up. But he was right. Any prosecutor who would dare go against the King or Queen would be unreasonable - even to the point of losing his or her life. So, the "reasonable" prosecutor would sell out, so that his children, now in the favor of the King or Queen, would prosper.

Do I despair? Perhaps, a little. Jim DeMint asked me for some money in an email, and for the first time in a long time, I said, "No." This is what I wrote him:

Dear Jim,

Freedom is gone. We have a monarchy, now, and people like Paul Ryan are abasing themselves to retain what little power they have. I have 3,000 daily readers who would like to believe there is a solution, but as long as we have traitors running our government, and people in the opposition who are too frightened to say or do anything, there is no hope. Anyway, it doesn't matter anymore. We've each of us got to find our way through the years of slavery that now will be forced on us.

Good luck & best regards, etc..

I should have added that the Democrats WILL cheat at the polls the way they did in 2008 and 2012, and that the fix is in, in Ohio and Florida - whatever it takes to keep the Democrat Monarchy running. But the facts are now clear that it doesn't matter what a Clinton or an Obama does. And frankly, it doesn't matter what freedom lovers do.

To get along and not be killed or fined or thrown in jail for trying to live your civil rights, learn political correctness, learn to bow and scrape, learn to lie and dodge, and you will do well, as anyone may do in a monarchy.

Above all, forget the truth, and after November, do not try to remember it. Cicero was murdered by Octavian, and Lepidus, and Marc Antony for being honest, but the Republic was long since gone.

HAIL HER ROYAL HIGHNESS, HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON!
 

COUPLA NOTES ABOUT SHORT MEMORIES:

• Did we forget that AARP is one of the PRIMARY SPONSORS BEHIND OBAMACARE? Did we forget that our medical insurance rates are going up a lot, this November, right after the Presidential election. Did we forget that AARP is a health insurance company, profiting in the hundreds of millions of dollars? Did we remember that there is a much better alternative group which gives the same services and isn't stained with the sin of treason?

• Did we forget that it was President Clinton who gave China enough computer information to leapfrog over us in the ability to hack and crack OUR information and redirect our missiles?

• How's our memory on Mrs. Clinton's enabling of her rapist husband?

• If we think hard enough, we can remember that Secretary Hillary Clinton looked into the faces of the relatives of the dead Benghazi Heroes and told them a bald-faced lie, excusing her inability to make a firm decision. Can we remember that?

• How's our ability to remember that the ruinous Lybian bombing policy belonged to Secretary Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama?

• Can we generate some remembrance of Clinton and Obama calling Islamic Terrorism "workplace violence?"

• Has "Shelter-in-Place," thanks to Democrats, become the substitute for the Second Amendment?

There are several dietary supplements which we could use to increase our ability to remember events of the past as well as ongoing sellouts of our civil rights.

As the radio commercials say, "Visit your local drugstore, today!"
 

THE HOLY MOLY! EMPIRE
or Why Europe Isn't Great Britain (or America)

If your family lived in any European country (the "Tin Isles" are NOT Europe) and you are still there, you have never experienced the kind of independence that has existed in America, and to a lesser extent in Great Britain. Granted, The Golfer In Chief is doing everything he can to surrender the United States' economy to the one-world horror that Keynes missed when he was formulating his inaccurate guesses, but we have a tool that NO OTHER COUNTRY has; The U.S. Constitution.

But, there is another device which ALL countries can use to ameliorate the current financial crisis. It's the contraption which was ditched in 1914 at Jekyll Island. Silver and Gold coinage can overcome any financial problem caused by paper money – which is almost all financial problems in the modern era.

Any schoolchild can tell you that a bag of marbles is worth more than a bag of sand. If, however, the child is taught, with an argument against nature, that a bag of sand is not only worth more than a bag of marbles, but is also a better representative than the marbles themselves, the child, now poorly taught, will base his future decisions on a fantasy further based on a lie. Notice that the sentence in red is much shorter and simpler than the sentence in blue. Such is the nature of truth versus fantasy.

As far as the current crisis and the media is concerned, they will not, with the possible exception of Trish Regan on Fox Business Channel, tell you that they are protecting the biggest boondoggle in world history - that debt is what is backing world currencies. Simply put, a large enough portion of the bag of sand, which represents the marbles, has been loaned out to the point that when debt is not paid back, the bag of sand is no longer representative of the bag of marbles. Worse, there is no way to tell this falsehood is false, until it's too late.

One more thing. The European Keynesian fantasy, which is now falling apart, generated a fatal side effect – governmental hubris. The EU got power hungry and began regulating people's lives, to the point that they were telling people what the proper curve of a banana should be, what the makeup of zippers should be, and the illegality of the English Electric Teapot! For what it's worth, Obama and Kerry were cheering on the European "hubrisites", and now they're looking really stupid.

That's where we are now - like the Holy Roman Empire after the rise and fall of Napoleon. It's time to go back to a precious metals coin standard. Because currently, the World has Lost its Marbles.
 

FOOTNOTES FROM THE EDGE

People Who Have Pretended For Years to be Conservatives - are now proving that the rest of us were right, they really were controlling, fascist, big government dorks.

George Will¹ was never Conservative. I can remember as far back as the 70's, George Will deferring to caution in the face of truly conservative ideas. It was as if he just wanted to be seen as clever.

You already know that Hank Paulson², the pathetic father of the 20-trillion dollar debt we owe, is also a fascist - or "buddy capitalist" as some popularists call it. He is one of those financial "experts" who thinks that the value of money is imaginary, and that it can be manipulated in order to save a fiat economy. Nothing that he has suggested, including big banks being too big to fail, has succeeded. The American economy is being reduced to ashes as its currency evolves into a joke of paper and ink.

Again, we are being bombarded by worthless political polls³, just as the Brits recently were, in hopes of demoralizing those who would see honesty and righteousness prevail in government. When the body politic has a cancer the size of Presidents, plus Congresses, and business elites, it is not a time for anxious modesty. It is a time for peaceful revolution, in which patriots must gather their ballots and comments as if they were bullets and fire them, without mercy, without letting up, into the ranks of the arrogant elite.

The South Carolina Elite⁴, like the Neo-Pols in the rest of America, want our state and republic of states to be an oligarchical oligopoly. You and you, alone, can keep that from happening. DEMAND TERM LIMITS. We know what bad government looks like. It's time to demand good government.

FOOLED AGAIN

Remember when I warned you about skewing? About how "game theory" IS "chaos theory," and how ∑=√n? Remember when I warned you about political polling and what a big phony scam it has become? Remember you were warned about scheisters (the original Yiddish spelling) in the political polling bidnez?

The plebiscite held in Great Britain to leave the European Union has proven, once again, that there is no science in the current practice of political science. It's ALL rubbish. Let the excuses begin. And let America become wise from learning.
 

GOVERNMENT MEDIA CONTROL

Several things occurred today (June 20, 2016) which confirm that if we stay with our current administration, we will give up our right to real facts from a righteous government. Currently, our Federal Government does not tell the truth, and it is unrighteous. This is not a political statement. We have not been told the truth, nor granted the right to know the truth since Bill Clinton took over. Sorry, CNBC & MSNBC, here's the truth:

US Market Jump Upward Is A False Move - Brexit is still very much a real thing, but the people in the US who NEED the fiat Euro to SEEM valuable because the fiat US Dollar is also worthless, think their treasure is protected. Also the pitifully small volume in the Market shows that the upward Market motion is purely computer driven; and who owns the computers? Big Banks. Two MAJOR Brit Politicians say Brexit is still on!

Hillary Clinton Will NOT Be Indicted - The FBI is Obama-driven. They are NOT the "hard-working, honest" investigators Fox News Channel would have you believe. To protect the President's idiotic gun grab, they have redacted important public information about the shootings in Orlando. As America was joining together in bi-partisan horror over what we were told was a massacre of gays, Obama decides it's time to ban guns. The FBI is playing along. So is the Justice Department. Do you REALLY think they'll be calling for an indictment of Obama's pet lapdog? This is PROOF they WON'T. UPDATE: Alternate media outs FBI, they release a less redacted version.. "God".. but Islamicist Terrorist said, "Allah."

NO SHOTS - We know now, that NO SHOTS were heard UNTIL the SWAT Team charged into the club. NO SHOTS. There was a fancy hunting rifle. There was a pistol. The person who was first "available" for interviews following the shootings, was the ONLY person interviewed for hours (the guy in the straw hat). Afterward, the media was asked NOT TO CONTACT anyone else, "to respect their privacy."

This Is The First Time a 911 Call Has Been Redacted BY THE RELEASER - Usually, the Media itself bleeps curse words, but that's all.

Feds & Brits in Power Are Running False Push-Polls - They are intended to dishearten the pro-gun and pro-Brexit voters. Also, expect HEAVY VOTE-COUNT CHEATING by the Brit government. Close margins are ripe for false margins.

The Federal Government Continues to Supress the Price of Silver & Gold - They are intended to dishearten the pro-gun and pro-Brexit voters. Also, expect HEAVY VOTE-COUNT CHEATING by the Brit government. Close margins are ripe for false margins.

The moral of this editorial is - Don't count on the FBI, and Don't count on Brit polling.
 

AN OPEN LETTER TO GREAT BRITAIN
 

Dear Britain,

I am not a Brit, though, many, many years ago, our family was forced to flee Scotland. For those of you who have not made up their minds yet, all I can say is that EVERYTHING that makes Britain Britain will be surrendered, if you stay, chained to a German-centered oligopoly.

Now, by itself, there is nothing wrong with Germany. But England, Scotland, and Wales were never German - Danish (Viking), perhaps, for 250 yrs or so, but not German.

'You, Great Britain, are a wonderful combination of deep history, energy and irony, stubbornness and reform, religious compromise and devout adherence, monarchy and representation, erudition and sauciness. Even though your parliament allowed half your silver to go to foreign hands, you still have a lot of it, and your money will be worth far more than the entire EU combined.

Great Britain, you should RUN from those who would make you what you cannot be. Run to that which you can be. But, above all, be the strong and faithful friend of the country with which you share a common history faithfully and language poorly.

Be Britannia! And never, never, never be slaves!
 

WHAT IS A "QUANT" AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO YOU?
 

WHO'S RACIST, REALLY?
 

The Mainstream Media has made it a cause célèbre to use the Democrat playbook, decrying Donald Trump as "racist" for calling Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the unrecused judge in the phony Trump University case, "Mexican." If the Judge wasn't "Mexican," why did he cling to Hispanic his roots? But, the MSM wants to act like the Snowflake Generation they have become, melting down at any harsh reality.

Here are some harsh facts:

• The Judge is Hispanic - of Mexican origin, and IDENTIFIES AS A MEXICAN HISPANIC, even though he was born in the U.S.!

• He is a member of Laraza Lawyers, which is not THE La Raza, but they HAVE DEFENDED some terrorists who DO BELONG to THE LA RAZA.

• Curiel has served in a selection committee awarding scholarships to illegal immigrants.

• Gonzalo Curiel is listed as a donor and a "Friend" to the California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc... an organization that :

• Sued the State of California to stop implementation of Proposition 187 which denied public benefits to illegal aliens.

• Sued the I.N.S. to stop the denial of temporary residency to immigrant agricultural workers with criminal records as mandated by the 1986 Immigration Control Act.

• Sued the O.M.V. on behalf of several illegal aliens whose applications had been rejected for failure to prove,as required by law, legal residency to obtain licenses.

• Sued U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello for investigating allegations that unqualified aliens had been registered to vote.

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY

Ron Paul wants us all to buy precious metals as a hedge against absolute economic disaster. But I don't think he is right about the future of our economy, at least, as long as Hillary or Bernie are not elected.

I truly believe that if Trump becomes President, he'll expose the fact that we have been in a recession since 2008, and that all that has kept us afloat is the borrowing from taxpayers - pushing our national debt to 20 TRILLION Dollars. He'll also reinstate the unemployment figures that Reagan used, which shows 28% of the eligible workers are NOT employed. That will cause the market to lose 15%-20%, but not 50% - the market moves too fast for that.

I also believe that one of the reasons the market will retrace ±20%, is that Trump will begin the revaluation (not re-evaluation) of the US Dollar as well as the rebuilding of the US Military, which will enforce our fiat currency until something backs it up, and such protection is no longer needed. Big banks could fail and small home-town banks may thrive, if they get Congress to dump Dodd-Frank.

On the other side of the ledger, gold, in a realistic economy, should double in value and silver should triple, because those are what their actual prices should be, given the increase in borrowing rates to reasonable levels. And that's reason enough to hold precious metals, so, in that respect, Ron Paul will still be right.
 

THE GREATEST

THIS MAN SENT HIS BALLS INTO SPACE

"PUERTO RICO - BANKRUPT ISLAND"

Paul Ryan is not a figure to make self-proclaimed conservatives at ease. A lot of his ideas are nuanced to the point of frustration for many, mainly because some of the portions of his ideas go off in a direction best not visited. One can note the old saw about a broken clock being right every 12 hours, but that’s really not fair. Many of his ideas, but certainly not all, are pretty good. His plan to drag Puerto Rico back into solvency is one of the good ones.

Let’s not kid ourselves; the wicked stupidity with which modern Liberals have destroyed PR’s economy, is a pale mirror of the horror which is Venezuela. They have literally run out of other peoples’ money. To continue would evolve PR into Venezuela, beautiful Spanish language and all.

The simple version of Ryan’s plan, which has approval of many in both parties – a rarity - is this: The US would spend NO tax money. A Board of Attender would be set up to run all of the state’s finances like a Bankruptcy Judge in a private Chapter 13. Puerto Rico would have to pay, eventually, ALL its debt. So, all PR’s government debt would be re-arranged. Unnecessary expenses would be winnowed. “State” bonds’ payback would be reduced.

There is an interesting ad, which blasts this plan as “unfair.” It shows a lovely older lady sitting in a pleasant room with nice afternoon north lighting. An ominous voice says that she is afraid that her savings in PR municipal bonds with vanish. The advertisement is troublesome, because it assumes that the woman was so dumb that she didn’t realize that ALL debt instruments come with risk. ALL.

The truth is that the nice PR lady will, probably, lose SOME value in her PR municipal bonds, but not the majority and certainly not all. The people who will be hurt the most are the people behind the ad – those big bank money funds who bought the bonds at discount and want the profit which would have to be paid by US Taxpayers. It would be interesting to see if our SC Retirement whiz kids own any PR munis.

I await with baited field and shotgun.
 

IT’S TIME TO GO BACK TO PROGRESSIVE SHAMING

Every time we Constitutionalists are polite to Liberals and Progressives, we get, in return, silliness. Until 2009, the silliness was loosely defined with no permanent damage. Now, the joke’s on us. Barack Obama, with the help of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the 36% of Americans who are greedy, lazy know-nothings, has petrified a silliness into our national economic and foreign policy. He has bankrupted these United States, made us a punchline among 1st World countries, defended our enemies, and betrayed our long-time allies. In short, the current resident of the White House has, metaphorically speaking, done to America what Bill Clinton did to his many female companions.

It’s time to look at this national failure in Old Testament terms.

Constitutionalist know that science must include the scientific method. Man-made global warming theory (AGWT) is a goop of opinions, self-hatred, and certifiable looniness. The only “science” in AGWT is political science. People who espouse the religion (for so it is) of AGWT need to be SHAMED for their ignorance and cowardice.

Peace through strength, a policy first espoused by both Washington AND Adams, is the only foreign policy which has been proven to work, not only in ancient times, but also by its absence, in current times. Enemies and allies despise weakness. America is the only country to succor the weak and oppressed.

[Quick story - When I was young, I used to get beat up occasionally - something in me, perhaps a budding Asperger’s, perhaps a growing understanding that I had no athletic ability at all, just did not allow me to fight back. My dad, being the street-smartest man I have ever known, introduced me to guns. Mind you, I NEVER carried until I reached the legal age, but knowing I could do something well, besides Theatre, gave me a tremendous ego boost, and gave me both a sport at which I excelled and a survival skill. I KNEW what to do if threatened. I also learned that you cannot expect other people to act as you do.]

Most people are relatively honest, but mostly, they are not honorable. Currently, our allies are living by the very edge of the letter of our mutual treaties - we have treated them poorly. Their behavior is no more honorable than is ours, which is to say, not honorable. Our enemies are beyond dishonorable and are dishonest. We, figuratively, need to learn how to shoot. Progressives must be SHAMED into understanding that America is unique, special, and strong, and must be kept that way.

Progressives believe that telling a lie is justifiable. I submit that telling a lie is only acceptable when it is made to the dying - and then, only marginally. Understand, when your spouse asks you if her butt looks big in that outfit, your reply is NOT a lie. It’s self-defense. A lie is telling your country that you can keep your doctor with socialized medicine, that your failure was not the cause of the deaths of brave men - rather a stupid film, that you’re creating jobs when you’re creating part-timers, that your predecessor caused the economic mess that you have created. Progressives must be SHAMED that the ends do not justify the means.

Progressives live in a world in which goodness, forbearance, and charity are emulated by those to whom such goodness is endowed. They believe that money has only that worth which the government says it has, and more rules create more advancement of the goals of society. In short, Progressives live in a wonderland of imagination, and it is shameful. The world is not what they think it is. Less is more, and strength creates respect and peace.

Progressives react to shame. They MUST learn to understand that they cannot expect other people to act as they do. Now, it's time to shame them in order to teach them that. Our country depends on it.
 

A CANADIAN OR A COMMUNIST? WAKARIMASU KA?

So, which person do we eulogize - Morley Safer, who died today, or Yuri Kochiyama whose birthday would be today, had she lived to 95?

I never interviewed Safer – met him, yes, even chatted with him, but never interviewed him. I remember his being affable, but that might have been because he was on CBS’s “Personalities” tour. Kochiyama was a different orange, and I did one interview when I worked for the student radio station at Carnegie Tech. After the interview, the program director decided not to run the piece. I never could find the tape, after that.

Morley Safer was a good reporter. He didn’t graduate from a liberal college, which, in retrospect, was probably a good thing. He could write – boy, could he write. He was honest, even to disagreeing with Dan Rather about whether or not the US was finally winning the Vietnam War. He also told the world that the US was screwing up under the Johnson administration – which made him persona non grata at the White House, until 1976 – Nixon didn’t like him either. Understand, Johnson was right, when he defined Safe – he wasn’t a communist, just a Canadian (Canadians, back then, were a strange mixture of Libertarian and Socialist – I know, I know.)

I wasn’t crazy about Safer’s reporting style – Charles Kuralt and Mike Wallace were my favorites at CBS. But you could rely on his facts. If he ever got it wrong, you knew about in prime time, if that’s where he made the error. You also knew it was an error, too, and not a lie, found out.

Yuri Kochiyama was a Communist. She had been one of those unfortunate Japanese descendants who, as a young adult, wound up in one of those concentration camps out west during WWII. She fell in love with Marx and Castro and all the silly thinkers who are back in vogue today among the non-logical College inhabitants. I remember her being the most confused person I have ever interviewed. Maybe her problem was that she had too many causes, or the causes she took up were obviously riddled with illogic. Maybe Kochiyama was disoriented because she jumped from cause to cause, which kept her from ever addressing her ideas to their illogical conclusions. Either way, her ideas were confused and so was her interview.

BACK FROM OUT OF TOWN DOCTORS

THE AVOIDABLE DISCREDITING OF AMERICAN ACADEMIA - OR - THE LITTLE BOY WHO CRIED VIRGINIA WOOLFE ON WALPURGISNACHT!

All viruses tend to expand until, by expansion, cause their own deaths. That’s because viruses do not have the “D” (dioxi) part of Dioxiribose in DNA. They have only ribose nucleic acid. Nevertheless, viruses can be so effective that they can kill any host AND themselves.

It is an apt analogy for the myriad self-centered “awareness” groups which have sprung up all over the campuses of America. From the safe-space nonsense to the paperwork-before-sex floccinaucinihilipilification, academia which supports them are becoming objects of disgust.

This rejection of academia reaches down to the very base of the un-degreed - that is to be expected. But, for the first time, in any meaningful way, disgust can be seen on the high peaks of the highly educated and well-off. And since the upper levels of society are the foundation of Academia’s fungible assets, losing respect can be a toxic thing.

Unfortunately, the halls of academe are no longer the homes of humble yearning to understand the world. Most Halls of Ivy have become arrogant, selfish, extravagant homes of meaningless words, founded in fantasy. It’s as if the ivy, itself, has embraced Kurt Vonnegut’s ideal of possibilities as if it were actually true – never pausing to ask if a wrong turn has been made.

I’ve referred to this book before – out of print or renamed, anyway, you can’t find it, anymore – After the Fire. Academe fails society by withdrawing to the heights of their ivory towers. But THIS time, the people have had enough, and they burn it and tear it all down. I don’t think we would do that, but I do think that people vote with their feet and their money. And the fact is that most commerce, and ALL Marxism, can function with a rudimentary grasp of reading, writing, and arithmetic. It’s true, and unfortunately, there is no college needed.

If academe cannot fulfill its libertarian function of free speech and the free flow of ideas, new and old, then it serves no purpose but that of a corral, where farm animals are kept. With encouragement of worthless ideas which themselves encourage fascist, book-burning behaviors, American Academia is asking to be dismantled, or at the very least, asking to be no more than arenas for college levels sports, which do serve the general public as entertainment.

Academia needs to ask itself if it wants to be a virus or a home for liberal arts and sciences.
 

SHUT UP, YOU SILLY PSEUDO- SCIENTISTS!

MAYDAY! MAYDAY! And, for the record: It's going to be cool to chilly this next week in South Carolina.. Mid 70's for the Coast, Upper 70's in the Midlands, and Lower 70's in the Upstate. It's a cyclical thing and we WILL have Summer, but we aren't near ANYTHING LIKE GLOBAL WARMING - even though the Obama Administation has made some airport weather stations move their thermometers to warmer places and recording phony highs for the last seven months. (After two months hiatus, the sea Ice is growing, again, thank you).. I really do wish a certain someone would shove a cork in it.
 

NO SHAME. NO, REALLY!

BORDER LIARS

So, I had a student, this semester (the semester is over except for exams), who is otherwise bright, entertaining, and totally what one would expect for and call a "GOOD STUDENT" - he will make an A, regardless of his politics. He is a dyed-in-the-wool Libertarian - not a hybrid such as I. That means that though he is a government minimalist, he also believes in a no-borders National policy.

We were sharing a table at coffee-time, when a story came on about illegals, protesting the fact that sane people don't think they should just get to come in, illegally. Of course it was in DC, so no-one was arrested, or even chased away. The GOOD STUDENT (hereafter calle "GS") mentioned that we wouldn't be having this sort of thing if we didn't have the ignorant immigration laws we have.

He based his logic on a science fiction story by my favorite living Sci-Fi author, L. Neil Smith, The Probability Broach (1979). He knew in what high esteem I held Smith's vision of an "Alternate" America in which government is more of a naughty, tiny joke with no real power. The problem is that in a Confederated America, the Whiskey Rebellion succeeded LED BY Albert Gallatin, Washington was lynched, and Hamilton was chased back to Europe. After a few rounds of "What-ifs vs Reality," I was able to get him to agree that the present is what it is.

Call it "England's Peculiar Problem." England needed borders in order to press forward with their rights in France. Eventually, the cooperation among areas, enforced by the Holy See, ended as the Roman Church needed more money, which they could get more of, if the areas competed with each other - hence separate states divided by borders.

After our conversation (we agreed to disagree), I started thinking about the number of reasons which make borders worth having in THIS reality. Call 'em America One (A1-the real world) and America Two (A2-Smith's world). A-1 helps people who are not doing well - there is a lot of cheating and vote-buying - when people come here illegally and don't support themselves, they still get help. In A-2, there is NO Government supported poor - far more people are well off and privately help people who really need it.

In A-1, our money is what the government says it is - it has no real value except what our armed forces can enforce - one needs borders to reinforce paper money. A-2 has gold and silver as the sole medium of exchange. A-1 has severe punishments for sins of judgment - pot, drugs, marriage, religion, choice not to report crimes of property - punishments decided by government courts - need borders to enforce government punishments. A-2, ALL crimes have monetary punishments decided by private courts - renegers are shunned, including food and shelter - reneging is highly immoral.

This could go on forever. But I won't.

The point is that every country in THIS world has borders.

Now, I've mentioned all this because, a day later, I was actually approached by a pro-illegal protester, after class. "DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE KILLING UNDOCUMENTED PERSONS???" she shouts at me.

"In what way?" I rejoin.

After about a minute of completely unintelligible mumbling and use of the word, "um," she says, "Then you're just a racist." I break out into unhelped laughter. She is, of course, offended.

"Consider this," I said, after collecting myself, "when a person enters the country illegally, who do you think hires him or her?"

"People with jobs," she was sure of this one.

"What if they don't?"

"Welfare!" she says wittily.

I wanted to say, "What happens when the money runs out?" but I didn't. Instead I said, "Look, you just accused me of killing people who are in the country illegally. But did you know that YOU are killing people who are already here?" This really angered the budding Social Justice Warrior.

"If you don't mind, tell me exactly WHY THAT IS!" or she WOULD have said that. What she actually said was more like, "ARRRRGHMMMMSGBBLEBBLEGBBBLE!"

"Sure," says I. Every person you let in the country illegally is a person for whom the country is not prepared. We're desperately trying to find, or allow to be created, jobs for the people who are already here. People who are here illegally are stealing jobs from people who are here legally. The suicide rate among jobless blacks is HUGE. So, people who are here, illegally, are disheartening people and causing them to kill themselves."

At this point, the young lady said that her head hurt. I answered that people who are for living BY THE LAW, are actually being hurt more than those who think it's neat to break those laws. They're not killing illegals. Rather, the illegals are killing them and their families, merely by being here.

I won't say that I won the argument, but, at least she went away and never darkened my classroom, again, although I do see her around the campus, blaming people for various reasons.
 

DOES KASICH HAVE A CHANCE?

Ever since Dr. Carson suspended his effort, I have kept meticulously to making sure not to support any one particular Republican candidate. Admittedly, I have defended both Trump and Cruz after a media attack. I haven't had to defend Governor Kasich, because he hasn't said anything I'm completely against.

Now, I want to say something in his favor.

He's not perfect, but we've learned - thanks to Jeb Bush's negative research, a lot of which comes from the Clinton gang - that neither are Trump and Cruz. The one thing he's got that none of the other candidates, including Democrats, have - actual financial and foreign policy successes. Just because a person has done a lot of stuff, doesn't mean the stuff was done successfully or even worked -that's Hillary's real problem.

Kasich has taken the opportunity of nature to help get his state out of severe debt. If he hadn't had the fracking wealth, it's arguable that he wouldn't have a surplus, but it's almost as sure that Ohio would, at least, be even on the debt scene. He also knows that there are no one-size-fits-all answers - something Ted and the Donald need to learn.

He's cool. Not just in his style, but in his temperament. He has the look of a steely eyed fighter pilot. He wasn't one, but you get the feeling, watching him, that he could, very pleasantly, stare down any communist dictator, and be polite at the same time.

His only problem is that his opposition have so much "show" appeal, that his campaign has been ignored or placed in an unfair category (the REAL Powers That Be don't trust him, with good reason). He's not one of them. And poll after poll shows him to be the only one who consistently could beat the Hill.

The only thing standing between him and success is a miracle. But one thing we know is that age of miracles has not passed, regardless the opinion of Mr. Choate to the contrary.
 

This must be a generational thing. Many people who grew up in the 80's and 90's seem to be effected. If one were to take a hard, honest look at the, now, "Late" Prince Nelson, one would have to admit that he had little effect on the actual genre of R&R (Rock 'n' Roll), although he did put on a heck of show. He was also a very generous man, a technically accomplished musician, who put many of his contemporaries to shame.

But...... what changes he did make to R&R cannot be compared to (in no particular order) Bill Haley, The Diamonds, The Jersey Boys, 4 Tops, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, Beach Boys (Jan & Dean), Joni Mitchell, Elvis, Chuck Berry, Carolina Beach Music, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Michael Jackson, Emerson Lake & Palmer, CSN (&Y), Ray Charles, the ever-changing Rap Movement, and Carol King, to mention a few.

You may want to add some of your own favorites who had a lasting effect on contemporary Music, like Harry Chapin, or James Taylor, or Carley Simon. And who can forget The Kingston Trio? As a Radio DJ & Newsman in the late 50's through the very early 70's, I saw remarkable changes in popular music. But to be honest, since the 80's the only thing new has been STOMP and Rap (unless you count Ancient Greek Theatre or Ancient Japanese Nō). To be frank, what most kids like today are the new Broadway show tunes made from Disney and Monty Python Movies. That's not innovative - the style is from the 1930's!!
 

WHO'S A GENTLEMAN?

Watching Chris Wallace causes some people to develop inoperable gastritis. I think he is the funniest unintended TV anchor across all current media. This weekend's Sunday talking head show on Fox News was a prime example. You know when he says he's going to leave a particular subject alone, that he follows it up with a series of questions on THAT SPECIFIC SUBJECT. It's a good, hardy laugh. Unintended, of course, but funny, nonetheless.

But not one talking head has mentioned that the reason we are where we are is because each party's leaders have promised a future which has not come even close to those promises. For years, conservatives on the GOP side, and Communists on the Dem side have been coaxed into supporting people who are convinced such people should be ignored. The Dem leaders are as desperate for their reasons as are the Establishment GOP for theirs. They reason that those who take up the causes of the large majority and reflect the gut-felt disappointment, must be branded as "rude," or "all noise," or "vulgar," etc..

In South Carolina, genuine Conservatives have been frustrated by the lunacy of our Senior Senator who, against all reason and fact, continued to say that what we needed was more moderates! No-one, except his compatriot in Arizona and a few elites believed this rubbish, but recently they must have been compelled to maintain this fiction in order to maintain their grasp on the GOP.

And the Truth has become the enemy of each party's leaders. Listen carefully to the words of the talking heads - it's all about appearances and the truth has become irrelevant. And those who talk about solutions are ignored or coaxed into an intramural pillow fight, and called "mean" and "vulgar."

One of the major reasons that we are where we are is that we have a ten year history of Democrats ignoring economic laws and then ignoring criminal laws in order to protect the ignorant changes they have made. The Republicans are guilty of being ignorant and naive.

Unfortunately, there may also be evidence that the Republicans are refusing to impeach the President because he will release the 27 pages of evidence showing that "W" kept certain evidence that Saudi Arabia's Princes helped with the 9/11 treachery from the public eye - information which would correlate a fatal friendship between Saudi and Bush families.

Now, please - I am not saying that the Bushes caused or plotted to cause 9/11. However, I do believe there is evidence of Saudi-US cooperation in other events, and guilt by association demanded a cover-up. And we all know about cover-ups, don't we, now.

Someone once said that truth is almost always the first casualty in war. It may also be a casualty in peace. How many politicians on both sides have knowledge of similar misdoings in BOTH parties? Is that enough to make you vulgar and rude? Would you follow someone who said he was going to change that? Would THAT be vulgar and rude?

There are millions of Americans - yes, on both sides - who have had a bellyful of bad politick. Vomiting their opposition may be vulgar or rude, but the soothing of the people's heartburn is seriously long overdue.
 

CO-CONSULS: DID THE ROMANS HAVE IT RIGHT?

Wait! This is not a dry historical discussion of a system which almost worked.. well, maybe it IS, but it needs saying, nonetheless.

Many of you, who read my articles regularly, already know that I think the Roman Republic did not fall into dictatorship because of it's form of government, but rather the "modernization" of its government and a slow collapse into economic fascism.

One portion of the original government of their republic was the executive institution of the Co-Consuls. Generally, there were two, and occasionally three (a triumvirate) Consuls - one would take care of domestic affairs, while the other would be in charge of foreign affairs. One Consul did the soldiering while the other took care of finance.

As long as jealousy was tempered and greed was secondary, the system worked pretty well. But when their laws were ignored or abrogated, there were feuds. There was no written constitution, and to their undoing, they didn't think they needed one. There were no Christian ethics to judge fairness until after the European Renaissance, followed by the Reformation (although Church historians rightly interject that the Reformation started with the English Devines, like Wycliffe, in the middle 14th Century).

This year's Presidential Election and the the abject failure of the Obama years draw attention to a very fine point on the need for a President to be Superman, or Batman, at least. More credible, it seems, would be a co-consulship which would operate like the ideal of the Roman Republic.

Constitutional historians point to the institution of the Vice President. It was originally proposed that such an office should be a co-consulship, with the President having the final say, the way the Roman Consul who had Flaminian Potestas (head priest power) would have final say. But the memory of the decay of the Co-Consulship due to ever-changing basic law, and the rise of the Imperator (head General) as Dictator, poisoned the idea for America's Constitution drafters.

Added to the over-complication by changing law, was the rise of the Equites (horse soldiers or knights) the Plebes (the original "common" folk) and the mob (perpetually kept at bay with "favors" from rich citizens). Technically, there were 3 groups of Romans, each with its on legislature - Senatores, Equites, Plebes, and 2 groups who did not - Libertii (freed men, but not citizens - had the right to petition a bureaucrat who worked for a Co-Consul), and the Servii (Slaves who had the right to petition their masters). Things got so confusing, that it was a strange year that did not witness at least one good riot.

Not even con-consuls could solve the confusion brought on by protesters of every stripe.

So what did they miss? They had Co-Consuls. They were sensitive to every dufus with a gripe. What they lacked was a Constitution which, though not immutable, was very hard to change. It's what WE have.

Maybe, just maybe, that's why people want to change the Constitution. It would allow someone to become a dictator of the U.S.A. And make no mistake obout it. Our current President WOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN IMPEACHED AND CONVICTED, except for the cowardice of the Senate.

So, maybe we don't need Co-Consuls. MAYBE. What we do need, is to keep AND ENFORCE the Constitution we have. Something that may not happen if we elect a Republican, but, WILL NOT happen if we elect a Democrat.
 

SMELLY FISHERMEN, REFORMED WHORES

Those who think that Presidential elections should be more civilized are deceiving themselves. They have always been savage affairs with the equivalent of Trillions of Dollars [in today's inflated money] in government contracts at stake. In most of the elections of the 20th Century, the blood was let behind the scenes, but blood did flow.

I will point out one oddity, however. When Democrats win, Republicans are left out, verbally abused, excoriated, and eviscerated. When Democrats lose, they always say, 'we must work together.' They are doing it more, now that they have had ten years to screw over the country and the results are stunningly bad.

One other thing. The Democrats - all of them - have become socialists - some, Fascists. And Americans were waking up to that fact. Consequently, the Republicans were pining for a candidate to put forward Republican issues (some were more Libertarian, but they definitely were Republican, too). He or she would be someone who would say these truths in a simple way - easy to understand - easy to follow, joyfully.

Well, they got it. And now, they hate it. Popular candidates, such as the three who are still standing, have done just that, but, horror of horrors, the people REALLY ARE THE PEOPLE - Americans with a conservative gleam in their eye of all races, most creeds, all educational spectra, and all personal preferences. Jesus recruited smelly fishermen and reformed whores to spread his word, and "the powers that were," were disgusted. Well, we're back and still smelly and still reformed. The GOP needs to understand - especially the South Carolina GOP.
 

NO PAL AT ALL!

I canceled my PayPal^® today. If you are an NRA or other shooting club member, you already know why. It's not that their service is bad - if you're a computer geek, it can be quite good. No, I canceled my account because they have changed their policy regarding the Second Amendment. They apparently don't believe it should exist. Law abiding citizens can't use their service to purchase firearms. SwampfoxNews.com called them earlier today, and were told they cannot comment on the policy. (Note: they said "CANNOT" not WOULD NOT!)

As a strong believer in capitalism and the right of free association, I believe it is their right to refuse service to anyone for any reason, although MLK might have had a problem with that, were he alive, today. But it is also my right to withdraw my patronage from their service. So I did. I already change my CC number three times a year for a $25 fee each time, so I feel comfortable using my card with known, reputable gun dealers.

Frankly, there are some things that I am too old to just let go of. My right to shoot anybody who trespasses my person with bodily or proprietary harm is one of them. Besides there are several such services, now, and many allow gun purchases. The older I get, the more I order online. I bought 0 (zero) items at brick and mortar stores last year, and I will probably do the same this year. PayPal^® is no longer my pal, nor the Constitution's.
 

CATCHING UP WITH CRAZY

TALKING A GOOD GAME AND DOING GOOD

My 69 years have taught me to be wary of people who, upon greeting you and without being asked, declare that they are Christians. What I've learned is that, if a person is having a daily conversation with the Big Guy, it will show in his or her life, sans advertisement. Every single person - especially people with whom I have had some sort of business relationship - who outwardly profess their allegiance to the Almighty, first thing out of the box, have, to a man (or woman), robbed me or cheated me in some way.

This is not to say that there are NO people who announce their religion that are Christian, it's just that I have never met them - and I have met a large number of people in my life.

On this Easter weekend, when Christians celebrate the scientifically unexplainable, and other religions sensibly eschew comparisons, it would be productive to consider what we tell people and what we show them, regardless of what we believe.
 

NOW, THIS GAVE ME A YOOOGE LAUGH!

BLM, BERNIE BABIES, BUMS BEHIND BAD BEHAVIOR

BLM, Bernie Babies, Rent-a-Mob, Illegals got really physical, tonight, even AFTER Trump held his rally and moved on. Trump's people were peaceful. This is what the crowd looked like, metaphorically speaking.

Nuff said.
 

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YOUR MOTHER!

People go to Donald Trump's rallies for one of three reasons:

1. They want to hear what he has to say.

2. They want to be there to agree with what he has to say.

3. They want to be there to keep other people from hearing what he has to say.

The Propaganda Puffies (no. 3) are already becoming boring with their 1960's style silliness. But ALL the media (each with their own favorite) are acting as if this is all brand new and honest protest (not to mention the phony umbrage over the naughty language.). But, the dirty words are the same, the "activism" is the same bullying, and the organization has the same idiotic transparency that plagued their efforts in the past.

We know that Bernie Sanders wants us to believe that he is a lot like the piano player in the whorehouse. He's playing his tunes in the parlor, but he doesn't have a clue what's going on upstairs. Of course he's a National Democrat and a Marxist, so he's been lying to himself for decades. Why not lie to his voters, as well.

THERE'S FREE SPEECH AND FREE SPEECH

Frankly, I don't know which is the greater tragedy - that college students understand the 1st Amendment so little, or that more than a few people think Bernie Sanders has any good ideas.

What we all witnessed was popular speech suppressing freedom of speech. College crowds are infamous for bad thinking, and so it was tonight. But there were lots of paid protesters, too! It's not free speech to shut down someone else's free speech.

Trump, who was endorsed by Dr. Ben Carson today in an attempt to bring the country together, was right to cancel the Chicago rally. In any case, tonight's cancellation probably kept us from having to witness some really bad MSM reporting.
 

ONE MAN'S HITLER..

Just so you know, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) helped write the Saturday Night Live skit and fake commercial calling Republicans and The Donald Nazis and Hitler. That was his job before the Democrat party helped him win a most questionable election - twice.

You already know that the Democrats are panicked and desperate. Only stone cold liars are left in their national party. This latest piece of propaganda is breathtaking, but frankly, not unexpected. Democrats have a history of "transference psychosis" - they claim other people do things of which they are guilty. This IS, among many other reasons, why I will vote for a ham sandwich, rather than vote for a Democrat, this November.

A ham sandwich has, at least, some virtue.
 

VIEWING LOCALLY, LYING GLOBALLY

 
ECCLESIASTES AND THE CONSTITUTION

Our Founding Fathers knew about electricity, the camera obscura, modern and ancient naval warfare, principles of fixed-winged flight, proper road-bed construction, the Mysore Rocket, archery, the principles of the internal combustion engine, the steam engine, and atomic theory - along with many other scientific and esoteric subjects..

Why is this important? Because there is a canard squawking about from liberal ducks that the world has changed and that the Constitution should too.

But when you look at the true history of science, it's more the difference of political systems than the creation of some idea or rationale from a tabula rasa. When the Scripture says "...and there is nothing new under the sun.." the author of Ecclesiastes (perhaps King Solomon) wasn't kidding. This is more than a simple shibboleth. Almost everything we understand and know has either been the subject of a scientific treatise or a symbolic poetic truth already expressed by the 1780's, when the Constitution was written.

When science can create items whole, by changing the substance of matter, THEN, and only then, should we contemplate a change in the American Way of Life. But even then, the basic principles of the Constitution would not change. Even if we can have machines that duplicate food, clothing, houses, cars, people will still own things - more especially in the areas of ideas than material things, granted, but life, liberty, and property would still be the operating ideal of America.

This, more than anything, is why an ORIGINALIST view of the Constitution is the only honest view. THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN - even from the minds of liberals.
 

 
A LITTLE HOUSE CLEANING

NOT Considering Obama's bad taste in Supreme Court Candidates IS Constitutional. The old addage that the President PROposes, but the Senate DISposes - that little "advise and consent" thing. (And, what a wonderful movie that was, with Charles Laughton as SC Senator & Pres. Pro Tem Seeb Cooley, and Walter Pidgeon as Senate Majority Leader Bob Munson of Michigan!)

But there is another aspect of this peculiarly Washingtonian dance. For five long years, President Obama has told first the House and then the House and Senate that there was no use sending him things that he would veto. You know it, and I know it. He swaggered his Presidency in the face of the Nation and the houses of Congress. Now, he complains that the Republicans are keeping the nation from coming together. This episode of political amnesia is as astounding as it is arrogant, but then, what have we been saying since he took office?

It's really very simple. Obama is doing everything he can to p.o. conservatives, libertarians, and constitutionalists. See, the President is a racist. He hates white people. Of course, his apologists will say he isn't, but just think of how many times he has done the "unexplainable" - unexplainable because those making the assessment would have to admit the obvious, which IS explainable.

One more thing - and I don't want to paint with too broad of a brush - but hundreds of millions of dollars - highway construction and repair dollars - are controlled by a tiny group of South Carolina Legislators. Even if every single one of them were as honest as the day is long, such control over so much money is just plain wrong. The simple fact is that when so much money is in play in the hands of so few legislators, corrupting influences are inherent. The only solution is absolute transparency. It really makes you wonder why transparency is not the rule, rather than the exception.
 

 
DR. BEN - IS STILL IN*.

We still like him best. Of all of those in the Republican primaries, I can still see no candidate more qualified than Neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson.

Here's Why:

• NOT ONE PERSON IN THE RACE HAS BEEN PRESIDENT. NONE.

• The argument that Ben Carson has no political experience is completely specious. Anyone who has been in the Educational arena has as much or more political experience than the animals we currently call "politicians."

• When it comes to Organizational skills, no person can be a neurosurgeon without astounding organizational abilities - Ben Carson is not only one of four top neurosurgeons in America, he is the number one infant brain surgeon. He breathes organization.

• Ben is LOGICAL. A president who thinks with his head is something one would expect. Think hard - is that what you're hearing from your candidate? This above anything else is why we favor the good doctor.

• His plan for defense is ultimately sensible - let the people who fight wars fight the wars. His job is to get with other thoughtful people and decide WHEN and WHERE to fight and HOW to pay for it.

• Carson's Foreign Policy is as simple as Ike's - If you are our friend, we are your friend. It's not perfect, but it's better than anything else that's been tried. Reagan liked it well enough to use it.

• He's a dyed in the wool CAPITALIST. You know why this is important.

• Ben Carson's National Medical solution is flawless. It is so much better than any of the other ideas, that he should be elected on that, alone. It won't cost less, but, with him as President, it probably will stay with the general rate of inflation, rather than being the frequent CAUSE of inflation as it has been since the Days of Bubba Clinton.

• He will STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. Depend on it.

• Dr. Carson WILL nominate an Originalist Strict Constitutional Constructionist to the Supreme Court. He has already said he would. The soul of our country cannot weather another moderate jurist - much less a liberal.

• Finally, most scientists, who have even a partial brain, agree that the next great challenge to America will be a natural or enemy-created plague. Who do you think would be able to handle such an emergency? or any difficult scientific catastrophe such as an EMP?

• About the grain in the pyramids thing - there are two pyramids that have been used, over the 4,000 years that Egypt was a player in the Mediterranean, which WERE used to STORE GRAIN. The grain was stored by the Priests of the Nile Kingdom for their own use, but the kings eventually had to raid them for their own political purposes. THAT IS A FACT. The way his denomination has spun the story is based on an actual, historical fact. Egyptology is still more art than science - more guesses than provable facts - they're still arguing about the temporal authenticity of the "kings lists."