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That’s the narrative coming from the Left and many of the kids from the Florida school shooting. Nobody can blame the kids for this narrative.  After all, these kids are the product of today’s liberal educators and parents. That and they’re kids!

It’s something to watch, that’s for sure. I guess the thinking (as if any thinking is actually going on) is that the NRA supports guns and a gun is what killed all those students so there you go…

A guy is drunk and kills someone while driving. Who gets the blame, the car, the alcohol or the driver? If not the driver, why is he jailed?

Someone uses a knife and robs a store. Are we marching against the knives? Are we boycotting the knife manufacturers?

A terrorist rents a Ford U-Haul truck and mows down people on Main Street. U-Hauls fault? What about Ford?  They made that big truck.  Is it their fault?

A few years ago, two brothers used pressure cookers to blow people up during a marathon in Boston. The authorities killed one of the brothers (terrorist) and jailed the other. Was this tragedy caused by the pressure cookers or the brothers who turned them into bombs? Did we ban pressure cookers? Should we? Should businesses ban all Americans who use pressure cookers?

I suspect you get my point. So in each of these cases and based on the current discussions regarding the school shooting, should we consider banning all trucks, all knives, pressure cookers and all alcohol?  Should this be the discussion we should be having? Will banning any of these stop the killings they’ve caused? What if we at least increase the age to 21 before one can own a knife or car? We already have to be 21 to drink so I guess that’s ok or should it be 25 or go back to prohibition? You remember how well that worked out…

Banning guns would be just like prohibition.  The non-law abiding citizens would have guns leaving the rest of us vulnerable or the ban would cause law abiding citizens to become unlawful citizens. Negative and unhelpful either way.

I honestly don’t know what I am missing. I cannot, for the life of me, begin to understand the thinking coming from these liberals who are so against our Second Amendment. One Senator from Florida, during a so called town hall meeting, aired by CNN came right out and said “People don’t kill people, guns do.” He said that out loud, on television in front of all those who had just gone through the school shooting. I’ll repeat it, “People don’t kill people, guns do.”   I never thought anyone on the Left would ever have the courage to make such an insane comment out loud. I was obviously mistaken.

In the simplest terms, that means that a gun is a living, breathing thing. It can load itself, aim itself and pull its own trigger. Amazing thing, a gun is.  Seventeen people were killed and this is the argument coming from a United States Democrat Senator. It goes without saying, but I will anyway. Not a single gun, on its own, killed anyone, ever. Same goes for a car, a pressure cooker, a knife, a box cutter, a baseball bat, an airplane or even a fist attached to a man’s arm. In each of these cases, it was the sick and evil mind of a person that killed innocent people.

As for having an honest discussion about protecting our schools, I can only refer you to the article (Florida Shooting) that I wrote two days after the horrible incident. My opinion hasn’t changed. It scares me that the leaders in this country don’t have productive ideas to protect our children. Everything being proposed is naïve and nothing more than a band aid.

Proposed changes from leadership:

Ban all AR15 rifles: Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. What about M1s, 22s and 500 other gun types?

Raise the age to 21 to buy all guns:  There are sick, evil people of all ages. How old was the Vegas shooter, 50, 60?

Boycott the NRA: See above.

Arm the schools:  This will reduce the number killed but not stop the killing.

Increase and improve background checks: Again, this will help keep guns from people who shouldn’t have them but, it will not keep guns out of the hands of criminals who want to kill. It will help but not stop the killings. Don’t forget about all the other ways to perform evil…

Better care for the mentally ill: Good, but our kids are going to school tomorrow. Another band aid

What ideas do you have?

In the President’s round table discussion, with a number of the victim’s families, there was a father who lost his daughter.  He had his two sons with him. He was pissed off and he said so. He was smarter than everyone else in the room, including the school officials, law enforcement and yes, the President. This sounds like bragging on my part because he said the same thing I’ve been saying about the solutions.  They’re just band aids. The father wanted the schools secured. No one gets in without being checked, without having their bags checked and then the doors locked. He truly wants to fix the problem and not in a year or even a month, tomorrow before his boys go back to school.

To finish, as for the NRA, Americans should thank the NRA and stand beside them. If not for the NRA, we would be without our Second Amendment entirely. They have fought for this constitutional right on our behalf. One teacher in another state said, and I quote, “give me the right to carry, at least give me a chance to save my children and my life.” End quote. Of all the school massacres this one in Parkland, Florida provides us all the importance of individual responsibility and the need for our right to bear arms. Both the local and Federal Government failed in their most important promise, they did not protect us, not our teachers nor our kids.

Another horrific school shooting. It’s so sad and heartbreaking. I cannot even begin to imagine the horror that the kids and the parents are going through. There are simply no words to put this into proper perspective. I can only pray for their healing and strength.

As with every shooting incident, fingers of blame are pointed everywhere. In this incident, it may be even worse than past events.

Finger Pointing:

#1- Some good citizen did exactly what we are all encouraged to do. He saw this sick kid’s post on social media and he notified the FBI.  The FBI interviewed, of all things, the guy who reported it.  They never tracked down the kid.  They never even spoke to him. Ridiculous.

#2- Lack of focus on mental illness in the country. No doubt we can do better.

#3- No armed security guard(s) at the school. Schools around the country that have armed security have a better safety record. It seems to me that armed security could reduce the number of injured or killed, but it likely won’t stop the attempted killers.

#4- The standby favorite – Gun Control. You know where I stand on this. I did see an excellent quote this evening though. “In Africa an idiot kills a Lion and they blame the idiot. In America some idiot shoots a human being and we blame the gun.” End Quote.

So as the finger pointing continues and everyone fights over what should be done, our kids will get up in the morning, say goodbye to their parents, and the parents will worry for their safety as they go off school.

The time has long since passed.  We need to fix this problem and stop all the chatter and finger pointing. It won’t be cheap but what price would we place on our child? The fact is there is no amount of money we wouldn’t pay to ensure our kid’s safety. While nothing is 100% we could do so much more. We spent billions on climate change for what? This is just one small example of money wasted in this country.

So, what’s the solution?  It seems to me, as sad as it is, the time has come when our kids enter their school the same way we all board airplanes. We have to show ID, we are body scanned and our bags are physically checked. When the airplane door shuts, nobody else gets in and we have good reason to feel safe.  As I said, nothing is 100% fail safe, but if you think about it, airline safety has a pretty damn good track record. The other thing is how we build our schools. School construction planning should revolve around safety. Secured access. Put open play areas in the middle of the structure so access is protected.

A determined killer can do harm to our kids before school and after school, on the weekends, at a parade, or even in the safety of their own home. Does that mean that we shouldn’t commit to making sure that when our kids are in school, they are safe? Shouldn’t we attempt to control what we can control?

Is securing our schools more realistic than pretending we are going to collect 300 million guns from our fellow citizens? We know the bad guys aren’t going to turn their guns in. Would protecting our kids in their schools be more effective than our trying find and stop every person with mental problems? Wouldn’t this type of security be better than hoping two, or three, or four armed security guards are in the right place when evil unleashes evil? Are we really going to leave our kid’s lives in the hands of the FBI and law enforcement, hoping that they find and arrest every evil sole in this country? Unrealistic. While Washington and the special interest groups argue over the “what ifs”, our kids go off to school in the morning…

To me it’s time for less talking and more doing. These are our kids and enough is enough. The kids should be safe when the school door shuts behind them.  For God’s sake, we cannot have someone walk onto school grounds with an AR15 hidden in a bag.

I finish as I started, by praying for every child and family affected by this horror.

“Lord please hold each of these families in your loving arms. Comfort them Lord as only you can. Give them the strength they need to get through each minute, each day, and for all of their lives. Welcome their loved ones Lord to your Kingdom. Take away their tears, their fears and fill them with your love. Hold them close until we can once again be near them. In the name of Jesus Christ our saviour, Amen.” 

As they say, My Cup Runneth Over.  I don’t know when it happened and I certainly don’t know why it happened but, between you and me, this country has gone crazy!

The girls are now allowed to join the Boy Scouts. Men can use the girl’s restrooms and girls can use ours. Thousands of women march in cities across America wearing hats depicting vaginas. The Government shut completely down over a debate on illegal non-American citizens. The Black community continues to vote for people who have never done anything to improve their lives. Hispanic illegal aliens demand to stay in the country, stomp on the American flag and tell the President to F-off. The FBI, CIA, DOJ and possibly, the former President teamed up to rig the 2016 Presidential election. The main stream media doesn’t care. The Democrats, who represent at least half of the 300M Americans voted no on tax cuts for the very people they represent. The former Secretary of State actually took a hammer and smashed her cell phones, then she used bleach bit (whatever that is) on her computers to erase all her data and then claimed she has nothing to hide. The former President gave a billion dollars in cash to a country that publically chants “death to America.”  The Government wouldn’t listen to the people so they elected a billionaire, builder and TV celebrity to represent them.

You see where I am going yet? This is just a short list of things that make me say, “What happened?” What on earth has happened to us and our country that made these things AND so many other stupid and unexplainable events take place? I use the word “stupid” because my vocabulary is so deep… That and it is the perfect word to describe all of the nonsense.

Honestly, every day it’s something else. Just when you think we’ve reached the bottom of the barrel along comes some other stupid thing.

Listen, the majority of the American people just want to live their lives and feel good about their country and the people they’ve elected to represent them. They want to focus on their families and loved ones. Instead we are bombarded with all of this nonsense, nonsense that leaves most of us shaking our heads and just walking away. I can see why so many are clueless about such matters. I used to think they were a part of the problem. Now I am starting to think they are the smart ones.

I wish I could tell you that “this too shall pass”.  In our 24/7 new cycle world, where everyone feels they have special rights, and personal responsibility has long since passed us by, I can’t say “this too shall pass”. All I can do is tell you to keep your focus on the things that matter the most to you and fight-the-fight at whatever level makes you comfortable.

In the meantime, if all else fails, we can always bring our service-peacock to sit on the airplane with us to calm us…

Last night I watched Martha MacCallum interview Trey Gowdy. In case you don’t know, Mr. Gowdy is one of our Federal House Representatives. He is currently the chair of the House Oversight Committee.  He came into the spotlight during the Obama administration while investigating such high profile issues as Benghazi, the IRS, and the Clinton email debacle.

Most people that I know respect this man and believe he seeks the truth in all matters that come before him. The Left hate Mr. Gowdy because he is hard hitting, well prepared at congressional hearings, and doesn’t appear to give a hoot about anything other than the truth. As you can tell, I am among his fan base. Not that he would care or rather find important.

Mr. Gowdy announced that he would not seek reelection.  This is the reason that Martha was interviewing him.

Ok, you’re on the same page now!

One of the questions that Martha asked Mr. Gowdy was, People say to me that you’ve done good work.  They want to know why anyone hasn’t gone to jail.  She was making reference to each of the cases I noted above (Benghazi, the IRS and Clinton email/home server).

Just when I thought I knew everything, Mr. Gowdy’s answer taught me something new. Having heard his response I have to admit, I felt pretty stupid because it was so obvious and made so much sense.

Mr. Gowdy’s response: I get asked the same question every Saturday when people come up to me at Publix. Why haven’t you put these people in jail? Well, Congress doesn’t have the power to put anyone in jail. You could come before us and admit to robbing a bank and there is nothing we would be able to do about it. We provide oversight.  We seek to uncover the truth for everyone to see but, only the Executive Branch through the DOJ has the power to prosecute. Duh… until tonight, I’ve been among the many Americans disgruntled with Congress for not seeing these investigations through. Now I get it.  It makes sense.

It’s not as though the Obama’s DOJ, Eric Holder or Loretta Lynch were ever going to prosecute one of their own (Hillary Clinton and the IRS).

Martha asked Mr. Gowdy, Do you think any of these cases will ever be prosecuted?  Gowdy’s response: We are our own worst enemy. I mean, we decided who would be our Attorney General. We picked the new FBI Director.  You tell me Martha.  Interesting, isn’t it? I won’t forget this comment.  I know that if Hillary is never brought to trial it will be because the Republican Attorney General, Jeff Sessions either didn’t have the stones to do it or he is just part of the Washington swamp. You know damn well that the President wants these cases and people brought to justice. Hillary is not alone either. Many, many others played key roles in these cover-ups, including Mr. Obama himself. It is clearer to me now more than ever, that Sessions was a bad choice for AG.

I enjoyed the interview and I feel even stronger that Mr. Gowdy is a man of great integrity. He said that others will take his place and do a better job than he. I disagree.

Thank you for your service Trey, all the best to you.

  DON’T DO IT MR. PRESIDENT!

While the memo confirmed what most of us who were paying attention already knew, I have to admit I am a bit disappointed with it. There was so much hype about the memo that I probably “jumped in” more than I should have. My expectations were probably unrealistic too.

I was hoping for something like; On June 3^rd at 3 pm Obama met with Hillary Clinton and FBI Director Comey to discuss the plan to bring down Donald Trump. Obama was quoted as saying “We cannot let Trump win because he will undo everything I did as President.” And Hillary said “I am entitled to be President, you know that Mr. Comey.  So, how do we ensure this happens?” Like I said, my expectations might have been a little too high. Of course, now that I say all this, we don’t know if that didn’t happen do we?

Let’s have some fun. Perhaps the conversation continued.

Comey:  What we can do, is leak a fake report saying Trump is colluding with the Russians. Everyone hates the Russians. We will get buy-in from some of the Republicans like McCain and Flake. We will need to come up with some dirt to help the story along.

Hillary: I can have my campaign pay for opposition research. Will that work?

Comey: That would be helpful. I think my guys can use that opposition research to go to the FISA court and get permission to spy on Trump and his campaign. We leak tid-bits now and then to further discredit Trump and sell the Russian story.

Hillary: I’m willing to pay up to 12 million dollars to get the dirt we will need. To keep distance from us, I’ll hire Steel the British spy. While all of this is going on Jim, you can pretend like you’re investigating me over the email bullshit.

Comey:  Are you okay with this Mr. President?

Obama:  I’m ok with anything that keeps Trump from becoming President. I didn’t work this hard to screw-up America only to have him take office and expose all that I did. I’m sure I can get the DNC to pitch in some money too. Hillary, do you have Bernie taken care of?

Hillary: Don’t worry about Bernie, Debbie has that covered.

Comey: Ok, sounds like we have a plan. Remember, this meeting never happened. This goes without saying but, Hillary, I assume you’ll keep me on as Director, right?

Hillary: Of course Jim.

Interesting, isn’t it? When you look at it this way, it sounds quite possible doesn’t it…

Exposing all of the true events is going to take a long time and require a lot of money. Not to mention, a lot of courage by the Republicans. The Democrats will fight this every step of the way. The country will never be able to move on until someone higher up than some FBI agent goes to jail. Until that happens the idea of equal justice under the law will remain only words on a very important piece of paper.

God be with us!

Last night millions of us, less the 13 Democrats who protested, watched the President give his State of the Union speech. Admitting I favor conservative policies and fully understanding half of the country does not, I ask you “what am I missing?” What did the President say last night that the democrats hated so much that they couldn’t stand and cheer?

I honestly can’t remember a time when the Left has so blatantly shown the world what they stand for. Seriously, the results are in.  If there was ever any question, the Democratic Party clearly showed last night that they put Americans last. They couldn’t even get out of their seats to applaud “In God We Trust”. They hate the President so much and they want their power back so badly, they’re willing to turn against our core beliefs.

I understand it is politics.  I know this isn’t the first State of the Union where one side sat and the other side stood. But Mom taught me that two wrongs don’t make a right.

What I find appalling is that the Democrats didn’t stand for those very things that “anyone” who loves our country and who loves our people would willingly stand and cheer for.

The members of congress who are among the racist Black Caucus didn’t even stand when the President announced black unemployment is at the lowest level ever. The Black Caucus! What part of that statement isn’t positive, isn’t encouraging, and good for our fellow Americans? When the President spoke about standing up for our flag and putting our hands over our hearts, the Democrats never moved. Again, if you are an American and you love our country, why no reaction? When he introduced us to the two couples who had lost their daughters to the MS13 gang they remained in their seats while my wife and I wiped the tears running down our cheeks. When he said we are no longer going to send our money to countries that are not our friends, the Democrats remained in their seats. What part of that statement could they possibly disagree with? When he announced, against the wishes of his own party, that he is willing to nearly triple the number of illegal aliens’ amnesty (amnesty that the Democrats had requested), they booed. One of the leading Hispanic congressmen stood up and walked out. Does that make any sense at all? Again, “What Am I missing?”

Every single thing the President spoke about was good for the country and therefore good for you and me. He talked about the growing economy, tax reform, higher wages, bonuses, removal of the individual mandate, the dismantling of ISIS, less regulation, manufacturing on the increase, highest stock market ever, lowest unemployment among Hispanics and Blacks and women’s unemployment lowest in 17 years. He wants to, for once and all fix the Nation’s immigration problems, rebuild our aging infrastructure, strengthen our border to protect Americans and stop the flow of drugs. He restated his devotion toward our military and our vets.  He stated that it was we, the people, who are making America Great Again. None of these goals, none of these very good things for America were greeted positively by the Democrats. Through their inaction one can only assume that they are against it all. Even if you set aside the fact they didn’t stand or cheer, the looks on their faces told the real story.

If you ever questioned my earlier posts, telling you the Left only cares about regaining their power. If you have an ounce of common sense, last night’s reaction to the President’s address, should have dispelled any questions you have.

You simply cannot love America, care about her people and be against any of these important initiatives that the President presented to the world. You can disagree about the details of how we get these things done and you can fight to get more of what you believe is important but you cannot remain in your seat when you’re presented with positive and hopeful ideas that are good for our country and our people. When a President says “You (me and you) are making America Great Again,” you must stand and cheer. The depth of the Left’s hate for this President harms us all in very deep and scary ways.

Any of us can dislike, even hate what the President may have done when he was a private citizen. We don’t have to make excuses for any of that. He was a billionaire who used his power to get what he wanted. In the process people were used and hurt. Today however he is not a private citizen, he is the President. He was elected because millions of Americans could no longer stand by and watch the politicians steal our wealth, take away our freedoms, and make promises that never came true. This brash billionaire stood before us and didn’t pretend he was a saint. He openly told us he was a part of the billionaire club that paid for special interest to get what he wanted. He spoke in a way that wasn’t fancy or deep thinking, but in a manner that every-day people could understand and appreciate. Suddenly the politically correct crowd was being called out. The left wing media was exposed. He said the politicians are all talk and no action. Who among us can disagree with that? When he asked the Black community, “what in the hell do you have to lose?” we thought to ourselves, “What do you have to lose?”

So, I finish as I started, “What Am I missing?” What part of the President’s speech was bad for us or bad for the country, what part?

Never in my life time have I been so adamant about the need for Americans to vote in November. We must all come out and vote. We must give this President a huge majority so that he can continue to fix this country, and as the king of branding always says, “Make American Great Again.” We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to make a big and important difference in our own lives. Obama ran on “Hope and Change”, the problem was, it was the wrong type of hope and change. This President offers us a chance for real and positive hope and change. We can’t let him down and more importantly, we can’t let this opportunity pass us by. Assume nothing.  Vote and tell everyone you know to vote! United we Stand. This is our time.

 President Trump Quote on Immigration

“My duty, and the sacred duty of every elected official in this chamber, is to defend Americans, to protect their safety, their families, their communities, and their right to the American Dream. Because Americans are dreamers, too.” 

By now you can obviously tell I lean heavily to the Right. Sitting here tonight, thinking about all the news coming at me via the television and web I asked myself, what’s the truth? Who can I trust? Who cares about me?

Let’s face it, in today’s 24/7 news cycle with all sorts of opinions constantly thrown at us, finding the truth is difficult.

The vast majority of the news feeds are liberal.  That’s one thing that isn’t hard to see. Even the Left cannot argue that point. Well, they can but it’s not a serious argument. NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN versus FOX News. On the web, most of us have Yahoo as our home page and finding Right-leaning articles on Yahoo is challenging. Almost every other article is from Huffington Post and Newsweek. These two organizations are about as Left as you can get. Couple that with news from Hollywood (don’t understand why their political opinions matter) and it’s fair to say the web is also dominated by the Left.

This means that those on the Right have to work very hard to find stories that represent our view. It also means that the vast majority of Americans only see Left wing sourced stories. I have friends who share my views but are not as compassionate as I am. By the questions they ask I can tell that they never look any further than Yahoo’s home page or one of the major news networks. Many people think they are getting both sides of every story because they watch CNN or read USA Today. Little do they know, they are being brain washed to believe that everything from the Left is right. See, even that statement is confusing. Right? LOL

I do my best to seek out the truth but it is pretty difficult. I think most of us believe what we want to believe.  We seek out the story that meets our need, the story that gives us the answers we want. Whether those are true or not remains questionable.

How we view an issue boils down to our core beliefs, doesn’t it?  I think it does.  I think our core beliefs come from our personal life experiences, our upbringing, and even our friends and co-workers. Our current status in life also plays a role in how we view a topic.  No smooth political ad or slippery politician can sway how we feel on a topic that we have dealt with or are dealing with on a personal level. Example: If you’re poor, Obamacare looks pretty good to you and no one can tell you otherwise. Consider that and then throw in the fact that 99.9% of the information this poor person receives comes from the liberal media. This poor person will be a liberal forever. Sadly, they will probably also be poor forever.

If you approach every topic  by asking yourself, “what is best for the country?” then chances are you’ll arrive at a different answer than if you approach every topic with “what’s best for me.” The two rarely line up with each other. However, I believe that the odds of those two lining-up are much greater if you lean Right. The Obamacare example is a perfect example of what I mean. The poor person, personally needs health insurance but what he really needs is a job. Free insurance doesn’t provide an incentive for anyone to get a job. Why should they, the more they earn the more they will have to pay. In other words, Obamacare is good for the poor guy but bad for the country. You with me? On the other hand, if you lean Right you believe in personal responsibility. You are likely a very proud person who would be ashamed if someone else had to pay your bills.

On the surface, in my view, the Left’s whole platform is based on keeping the majority of Americans down and keeping them dependent upon the Government to provide for them. The more they (the Left) can give you the more likely you will be their slave and vote for them. They want you to believe that they care about you.  They portray themselves as the loving party who is always looking out for your best interests.  There are many examples of how they keep you down without you even knowing it. This horrible cycle relies upon the poor staying poor and the middle class staying middle class. By extending unemployment insurance they want you to believe they’re helping you, right? And why wouldn’t you believe that? You don’t have a job, you need money to buy food. It’s the same argument I used above with Obamacare. As long as someone can get unemployment the incentive to find a job is less. I understand, but these social programs will never give you the chance to better your situation. The more food stamps you get the less need you have to work. Again, these are perfect examples of the Left vs. the Right.

The biggest problem I have is that the Left doesn’t care at all about you, they honestly don’t. For them it’s the vote and the vote only. The Left actually doesn’t want you to have any personal pride.  In fact, they prefer you remain right where you are.

Now the right has a different approach.  Their approach can be perceived as “not caring”, but trust me, they actually do care. Don’t misunderstand me, they care about votes too, a lot! But their policies can actually provide you with growth. The Right’s approach is a tough-love kind of care but none the less, their ideas are designed to make you more self-reliant. Their policies provide a pathway to regain your pride, your life, your independence.

When we were growing up, our parents forced us to do things we didn’t like, right? Many of those things made us better people, right? If you went to your father and asked him for $20 and he handed it to you it was great! Right? But what happens when Dad isn’t there anymore? What happens when Dad doesn’t have $20? The better answer to your request would be, go clean the garage and I’ll pay you $20. It’s the whole teach a person how to fish thing.

I think the food stamp program is important and needed.  I also believe that there have to be limits.  Those who can, should be made to do something to earn the stamps until they can get on their own feet. Such thinking on the Left is considered outrageous, unthinkable, inhumane and without any compassion.

Let’s look at the differences with a current topic, immigration.  Consider what you’ve read and seen on television. Who has your best interests in mind, the Left or the Right?

According to everything I’ve seen, the Left wants us to believe that they support illegal aliens and are willing to do anything it takes to make sure that they will be given the right to remain in the country. Just last week they even went as far as shutting down the Government over this issue. They demanded that the Right provide a pathway to citizenship for the 800,000 DACA people (Remember, Obama had granted temporary rights to DACA people so they could remain in the country). That’s pretty serious, right?   They must really care about the illegals.  So it’s understandable that the majority of Americans think the Left really is the caring party.

Fast forward to this past week and the President, from the party on the Right announces a proposal.  The President is attempting to overhaul the nation’s immigration policy.  His number one goal is to end the mess we are in and never return to a situation where the flow of immigrants is out of control and we don’t have any idea who is (even) in the country.

His proposal would allow 800,000 DACA people a pathway to citizenship and he doubled that number to include some 1.8M illegals. His proposal came with certain requirements. These illegals could remain in the country and prove (clean the garage…) they were good citizens by not breaking any laws over the next 10 years. If they break the law the deal is off and they are deported. The President’s proposal also included a wall and other illegal immigration protections along the southern border (Controlling who enters the country and stopping the flow of drugs into the country).  His proposal also stops chain migration and stops the visa lottery program. Every year the Government randomly awards VISAs to 50,000 people from “underserved” countries. Randomly!

Now remember, the Left just got done shutting the entire Government down over DACA, refusing to approve a stop gap budget until the Right agreed to provide a pathway to citizenship for these people. Based on the news, the websites, the liberal politicians and social media, the Left is outraged with the President’s proposal. What? Why?

That’s right, they are outraged. The minority leader of the House held a news conference where she accused the Right of wanting to turn American white again. The minority leader of the Senate accused the President of being racist. Last week he told us he had agreed to give the President the money needed to protect the border.  This week after the president announced his proposal, the Senate minority leader said that deal was off the table. So what the hell is going on? The DACA people continue to protest and “demand” that they should be allowed to remain in the country.  Wait, the President’s proposal offered that to them.  If you are confused by where the Left actually stands on this issue don’t feel bad, you’re not alone.

Here’s the deal. The Left doesn’t care about the illegals they never have. What they care about is votes.  With the elections coming up in November they cannot allow the President to win on anything because it makes them look bad. So, while last week it appeared the Left cared deeply about the illegal aliens, all they were really doing was trying to hurt the President.  In their minds, that would translate to more votes for them in November. It is honestly no more complicated than that.

Many on the Right don’t like the President’s proposal.  Many believe in the rule of law and therefore the illegal aliens must go. Some are against his proposal because it doesn’t include voter ID which is a whole other article.

All that said, the President is the leader of the party and nation. He seeks a middle ground that shows real compassion for the illegals while also doing the right thing for the country. One would think that any liberal American who truly cares about the country could and should support the President. But they don’t.

Where do you stand? I can tell you that I stand in the middle, boots pulled all the way up, hoping the mud doesn’t get all over me. While I strongly believe in the rule of law, I also want the borders protected and the immigration policies fixed once and for all. I’m tired of talking about this and really tired of listening to the illegals make demands. Not once have I heard one of them say, thank you or show appreciation of any kind for the time and energy we are putting forth on their behalf. Finally, never in my life has it been clearer how fake the Left’s care is for any of us or the country. They call the illegals dreamers and American citizens racist.

The whole purpose of this post is to suggest you look beyond the noise of the media, the World Wide Web and Politicians and do some thinking of your own. If you take the time to think about your life, your experiences and apply some good old common sense, I am certain you’ll make good decisions for yourselves, your family and our beloved America.  Let’s face it, the only one that cares about you, is you.

I told you before that I am sick and tired of talking about the DACA issue. Also, in my prior post, I laid out the terms that I would agree to if the country decides to allow them to remain in the country. News flash, I’ve changed my mind.

I think many of us struggle with “what is the right thing is to do” with these people. I know that I’ve bounced around and listening to congress, I can tell I am not alone.

The caring human side of me isn’t all that charged up about sending all of these people out of here and back to their birth country, a country they know little about. They arrived as kids (the dreamers) so they’ve spent the bulk of their lives here in the U.S.

The American citizen in me who believes and follows our laws isn’t all that charged up with allowing these people to remain in the US. It breaks our laws, sends the wrong message to other illegals and it’s completely unfair to all of those who have been going through the proper legal channels to come to our country.

I’ve made my decision though.  Interestingly enough it is the DACA people themselves that made the decision easy for me.

I am so taken aback by how brash they are, how demanding they are, the things they say, the things their signs say, and the mess they leave after protesting, that I am done.  They need to go, every last one of them. As stated above the law has always been high on my list. By way of their actions they have removed any sympathy I might have held for them.

I tweeted this morning, that every group, Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, all of them have bad apples among them and all of them have good, loving, caring, honest, law abiding people among them too. In fact there are many more of the latter than the former hateful, law-breaking types. This is a true and simple fact. So, that being the case I asked myself, “Where are the good DACA people? Where are the ones that are thankful for being in our country and are thankful we took them in?  Where are the ones that honor our laws and are respectful of our rights?  Where are the ones that love us? Where are those people?”

The left wing media show us pictures of the poor family being torn apart. Daddy being deported and his wife and kids crying in the background. This is all designed to tug at our hearts and it does tug at our hearts but then we see these people protesting and carrying signs demanding that they should be able to stay and calling our President names I refuse to use and camping out in front of Senator Schumer’s home chanting, “if we can’t dream, you can’t sleep.” Believe me, I am no fan of Chuck Schumer but these people should have their heads examined. These are the types of people we want to welcome into our country? These are the types of people we want voting?  These are the people we want to expose our kids to? Hell no! We have enough of these types of hateful LEGAL people in this country we sure as hell don’t need to add to it.

Having seen these DACA people and how they act, would you invite them into your home? Would you knowingly hire them to work and represent you? I wouldn’t.

Where is the humility? Isn’t it true that if you want something, you work for it? If you want a job do you tell the person interviewing you to piss off and then stand up and demand they hire you? No you don’t. If you need help and you want something from someone, don’t you ask politely and don’t you say please? Most sane people do.

The Left would have us believe that these are good, honest people who make America better. They tug at our hearts by telling us they came here as children and worse they still call them children while the average age is like 25. We know that the Left only wants votes.  That alone should tell you how bright these DACA people are. They actually believe the Democrats care about them or at least they did until this last fiasco. But I digress…

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I’ve shared mine. For me, it’s like everything else in life.  I’m not a racist until a racist calls me a racist. I care about all people until they don’t care about me. I don’t use people and I don’t let them use me. I expect everyone in my life to treat me the way I treat them. Lastly, I still believe that you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

New Immigration Platform:

1. Deport all illegals. The law is the law.
2. Get rid of chain migration.
3. Get rid of the VISA lottery program.
4. Pass voter ID.
5. Move to merit base immigration.

Finally, my wife asked me the other night, “what would happen if we just deported all of these illegals?”

Wanting to provide her a well thought out answer, I paused to think about the question before answering and then I said “Nothing.”  Without any pause she replied “Exactly.” She’s right. I guess she doesn’t like it any more than I do when an illegal alien tells our President to F off…

Americans are you hearing all of this? How many of you even know what I am referring to? Less than half would be my guess. The only network talking about it is Fox. But then again, there are a lot of you on Twitter, and FISA has been front and center on Twitter so maybe you have some idea.

FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act). This is the act that was put in place after 911 allowing our Government, the FBI and CIA primarily to spy on foreign actors who are plotting against the US. The concern has always been that these agencies have expanded their surveillance to American Citizens which is against the law.

When you hear FISA these past few weeks, the reference is to the FBI using the law to spy on, then private citizen Donald J. Trump, who as you know, was running for President. The Government went to the FISA court (the FISA court is made up of special judges to whom the Government must submit requests and from whom they must get approval in order to spy on someone), at least two times, asking the court to approve their surveillance of Mr. Trump.  The court turned the requests down. This almost never happens. It is well known that FISA requests are always approved. It happened in these two cases because the Government’s arguments were weak, not convincing enough for the Judge.  Which means the requests must have been really weak.

In the meantime, the Clinton campaign hired a group to produce a dossier on her opponent Donald Trump. Translation – go out and find dirt on my opponent that I can use against him during the campaign. She paid this group over 10 million dollars for this dossier. When Hillary was asked about it she said she wasn’t aware of any such dossier. Think about that.  She spent, or rather, the campaign that she was running spent near 10 million dollars.  She isn’t aware of it? This was going to be our President. Ah, 10 million here, 10 million there, pennies, right? Not to you and me. In the end, the findings in the dossier were never used by the campaign because none of the allegations could be backed up.

The FBI was made aware of the dossier by…   Are you ready for this? Senator John McCain. McCain sent one of his cronies to Europe to meet with Fusion GPS, the authors of the dossier headed by a former British Spy. McCain I guess, felt the information in the dossier was a threat to our national security, so he gave it to the FBI. The fact, I am sure, that Trump slammed McCain during the election had nothing to do with McCain wanting the FBI to have this. McCain wasn’t about to let the truth get in the way of his being able to get even.

At least three higher-ups in the FBI (Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Andrew McCabe) took the dossier and ran with it. These three have been proven to be huge Hillary Clinton supporters, donating thousands to her campaign. These clowns massaged their prior requests to the FISA court to include the false information in the dossier. This time they hit gold, the court approved surveillance of Trump.

Remember when Trump accused the government of wiretapping Trump Towers? Remember, then FBI Director Comey testified to the Intelligence Committee that this never happened.  Interesting, huh?

Fast forward a month. Trump wins the election. Now we are hearing about text messages between these three FBI agents.  They are talking about some kind of insurance policy, in case Trump wins.  Although, they think that’s highly unlikely. They (Peter Strozk and Lisa Page) talk about some secret society.  They talk about Attorney General Loretta Lynch knows Hillary won’t be prosecuted.  This was prior to the election when Hillary was being investigated over the email/server debacle. We also are learning that the letter that Comey read to the nation, letting Hillary off the hook was written prior to the FBI even interviewing Hillary. The feeling is, the whole Hillary investigation was a hack job.  Comey also testified to congress that he didn’t make up his mind on Hillary until after he interviewed Hillary. Based on these text messages, that’s a lie. Oh and just for the heck of it, Strozk and Page were having an affair while they were playing Maxwell Smart and agent 99.

                                         Peter Strozk                           Lisa Page

It can be very confusing.  It is designed to be very confusing. During the first two months, remember, President Trump fired Comey.  Comey then released private notes to a professor friend.  Per Comey’s instruction, the professor (friend) leaked the notes to the Washington Post.  As planned by Comey, this causes the hiring of the special prosecutor Mueller. Mueller is hired to investigate possible Russian collusion by the Trump campaign. The entire Russia collusion is based on the dossier.  The fake dossier if you listen to Sean Hannity (which I do).  Is this ripe for the next Clancy novel or what?

If true America, we are witnessing a plot to 1. Fix an election and 2. Over-throw a duly elected US President. This stuff makes Watergate look like a child steeling bubble gum.

Also, if true, Comey lied.  Loretta Lynch lied.  Whoever made the actual FISA request lied.  Certainly, the three FBI agents (one of which, Andrew McCabe was on the Mueller investigation team until he was removed once Muller learned of his bias toward Hillary) LIED.  These three did all of this because they felt that they knew best who should be our president.

Last week we learned that congress wrote a memo outlining all of this.  I assume their memo was outlined much better than I just did it.  The memo reportedly contains great details about the conspiracy to rig the election and over throw (impeach) the president. The republican congress is demanding that the memo is released to us, the public so that we know what they know. Twitter has gone wild with #releasethememo.

In the meantime, Congress is requesting that the FBI release all the text messages between the two FBI (lover) agents Page and Strozk. Guess what? The FBI claims that the text message have been lost! Not kidding.  50,000 text messages from November 2016 to January 2017 have suddenly gone missing.  Where have you heard this before? Remember the 33,000 missing Hillary emails? Remember the missing IRS emails. Every time a case is heating up, something suddenly goes missing. Just a coincidence…I am sure.

So America, what if this is true? Do you think all of this is just happenstance?  Not true?  Made up by Republicans to throw off Mueller in the Russian investigation? How is it that a year later, Mueller hasn’t pinned anything on Trump? If it is true, the entire Mueller investigation is a made-up shame, wasting tax payer dollars and completely harming the President and the country as a whole.

It seems odd to me, that for the past two weeks we’ve not heard a word out of Hillary. Even big mouth Obama has been silent on this and so have their (NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN) media outlets, who have not spent two minutes covering this story. Wouldn’t you think they would at least be screaming about these damn Republicans?

This is another “standby” post, because only time will tell. A few of the congressmen are saying they expect the memo to be released to us, maybe as soon as next week. The Democrats are already planning their strategy. They’re starting to say that this in just another right wing conspiracy. Over 100 Republicans have gone down to the secured room where the memo is and have read it. As of this writing, fewer than five Democrats have even taken the time to read it.

Meanwhile, the big debate that the media wants us to focus on is illegal aliens being allowed to stay in the country.  Focus America.  When the media point to the shiny object in the corner, don’t blink.  Keep your eyes on this FISA investigation. Our democracy depends on it.

Let’s talk again, real soon.

When we last talked, my guess was the Government would shut down and it did. Trust me, I am not patting myself on the back and I hated the last 36 hours. At one point I became sick and tired of the whole thing.

Passing these short term resolutions makes me crazy. Running the Government one month at a time is ridiculous. There is no successful company on the planet than runs this way and for good reason. So, that’s number one. It’s great that the Government is back up and running but the entire thing was stupid, wasteful and a perfect example of what is wrong with those we place in leadership positions. Worst of all, we will be right back here again come February 8^th when this resolution expires. How dumb is this? Really dumb.

The Schumer shutdown was a big bust for the Democrats. As I said, their number one goal wasn’t about DACA.  Their goal was to make the President look bad and make him look like he isn’t capable of running the country. 36 hours later, the President doesn’t budge and yes, the Democrats blinked.

This stunt has the DACA people feeling that the Democrats let them down and used them for political hostages. Ya think? To the DACA people (and more importantly, all legal citizens), if you haven’t already figured it out let me make it very clear for you. The Democrats don’t care about you and don’t feel bad, they don’t care about any of us. They care about power and they will go to any lengths to regain it. If you’re still a non-believer consider this;

The Democrats just got done voting NO for tax cuts for all citizens. Why? Because it was proposed by the other party. They would rather you and I not be able to keep more of our money than to agree with something proposed by the other party. That’s more important to them than you are. The Republicans, all of them, voted NO on Obamacare. A big difference here.  The Republicans voted NO because they felt Obamacare was bad for “you”.  Reducing taxes, keeping more of our money can never be a bad thing, never.

The Dems just put their party over our military troops, our vets, and children’s health. Forget about the fact they did this on the false narrative that it was for the DACA people.  It is not as though that makes their argument better, it makes it even worse. They voted NO because the other party proposed it. That’s the only reason. They are hell bent on making the President look bad and convinced this will gain them the seats they need to once again have the power, the majority. To beat a dead horse, nothing else matters to them, nothing. It doesn’t matter what is good for the country, what is good for us, it only matters that they regain their power.

What a great platform they have in November. “Vote for me, I stood against you keeping more of your money! I stood up against the Republicans when they wanted to lower corporate taxes. I know millions of you received higher wages and bonuses because of these lower taxes but remember, corporations are evil. I voted against the repeal of the individual insurance mandate because I know all of you wanted to pay the fine so that you could help others pay less for their insurance. Finally, vote for me because I stood strong for 36 hours in favor of people who are not citizens. I know it looked like I didn’t care about the military but I love the military. I know it appeared I didn’t care about our children’s health but I do, I am a Democrat, I care about everyone. If you honor me with your vote, I promise I will fight for you and work hard to get President Trump impeached. Let us never forget, he is the one that gave you these horrible tax breaks, he’s to blame for this country’s economy, and he cannot hide from producing the lowest unemployment in our history. A vote for me is a vote for the American people.”

Only in politics can such spin occur.

To the DACA folks I will end by saying you should rethink who you put your faith in. Your faith in the hands of the democrats and their leader Chuck Schumer obviously was a huge mistake. I hope you’ve learned by this and understand it was really never about you. The only hope you have is in the hands of the very person you’ve spit on, marched against and called a racist. Your only hope indeed is the President of the United States, the leader of the Republican Party.