REPEAL AND REPLACE CONGRESS IN 2018

Both Houses of Congress are disgusting and dysfunctional because both political parties involved are self-serving and corrupt.  It's not that government is broken, it's that the people in it have become evil, unethical and immoral.  That's the big picture.  

Someone might say... "They can't ALL be bad apples."  Well, show me one... just one... who has stood up and called it out for what it has become.  If you don't speak out against it, you are complicit.  So, this is not a swamp... it's a huge, tortuous and cancerous cesspool of lies, spins and anti-American activity. 

There is no justifiable reason for us to support this cesspool.  Why are we contributing our hard-earned money to any political organization that is just going to use that money to further entrench itself against our wishes?  Frankly speaking, what we should do is all change our political registrations from Democrat or Republican to Independent.  Let those thugs boil in their own stews.  

Neither party is able to justify its cavalier disregard for the American will, and no political official in Congress is able to rationalize any reason for him or her to remain in their office based upon any degree of success in running a responsive and responsible government.  They can't even agree on how to disagree.  

Forget repealing and replacing ObamaCare.   They have made it abundantly clear that it is not going to happen.  And neither the Democrats or the Republicans are going to allow it to happen; they have thrown down the gauntlet to the American people by saying, "Up yours." 

This is not a matter of us trying to change their minds, it is a matter of us having the will and the fortitude to change the players.   It's time for US to throw down the gauntlet by removing and replacing every one of them in 2018, regardless of party, tenure, power, or whatever political promises they might put forth in an effort to keep their plush offices.   They have proven they are not people of integrity and that their promises to us mean nothing.  They have proven they are incapable of governing according to our dictates.

This is the big picture, and we need to start today to repeal and replace them.   

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

THE VOTER REVOLUTION IS NOT OVER

I've been evolving.  I'm evolving from looking at the day-to-day, ongoing debacle we call the United States Government to examining the overall big picture.  Rather than looking at the symptoms, I'm investigating the problems.  

We, the people, have had enough.  We showed that in November of 2016 when we elected a president who promised to get our country back on the right track, while at the same time giving him the majority in both Houses of Congress that he needs to have to accomplish the things that have to be done and undone.  

Looking back at where I stood before the election, back at this time last year, my thrust was that we needed to get the incumbents out of Congress.  Unfortunately, we did not succeed in doing that.  We did give the President his majority, but we replaced few Republicans in the process... and we're now seeing the results of the mistakes we made.  

In just six months, the Republican Congress has proven that they don't care about the message we delivered in November; they want business to continue as usual.  They paid mere lip service to our demands and they don't seem to care whether we like it or not.  It's almost as if they remain bound and determined to show us that we're no longer in charge of this country and that they are.  

They promised to repeal and replace ObamaCare.  It is now painfully evident that they have no intentions or desire to do so.  Either that is the case, or they have no balls.  

In order for the people to succeed in wrestling back control of our government, must must remove every incumbent... every damned one of them and regardless of party... in November of 2018.  We need to do this for the good of our country and so we can get back to being able to sleep at night.  

We need to start recruiting competent, willing and mentally balanced patriots to take these jobs today, so they can announce their candidacies by the first of the year and get their campaigns up and running.  

They've made it obvious that we have no choice.  Let the revolution continue, full steam ahead!  We must cast the devils out of our midst!  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

THOSE WERE THE DAYS, MY FRIEND

This from Wikipedia: "The Founding Fathers of the United States were those individuals of the Thirteen Colonies in North America who led the American Revolution against the authority of the British Crown in word and deed and contributed to the establishment of the United States of America."  At least some of these names should be familiar to you: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and George Washington.  

Judging from the picture, one might surmise that these were principled, educated and well-mannered men who were gathered together for a common cause: establishing freedom and democracy in North America.  Most of the American Revolution figures were members of the Masonic Lodge; although not a religious organization, one must believe in a Supreme Being to be a member.  Many of the teachings and principles of Free Masonry ended up encoded in U.S. law, and it is certain that the Founding Fathers intended our government to be centered on a religious foundation.  

What do you suppose these men would have to say about Washington D.C. in 2017?  Does it surprise you that in their day the likes of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Loretta Lynch, James Comey, Susan Rice or Eric Holder would have long ago been hung from a public gallows in a Washington square?  

But, that was then and this is now.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

WE'RE BORN, WE LIVE AND WE DIE

It's what happens between the moment of birth and the instant of death that is the true mark of a man or woman.  Some have great positive or negative impact during their lifetimes, while some come and go without so much as a whisper, merely an entry on a birth record someplace and perhaps on a tombstone in some obscure cemetery.  

Some are instilled with love of their fellow mankind and become servants of God; some murder a dozen people and become subordinates of the devil.  Some work tirelessly to raise good families, while others have no inner compunction to do so.  Some join service organizations and do good and worthy work in their communities; some turn to drugs and alcohol and allow their souls to seek the gutters of life.  

But, we all start with the same clean slate; it is only what is on that slate when we die that is a measure of how we have lived our lives.  Those of us who do not take the opportunity to ponder these simple statements, to adjust their lives according to the principles of religious and moral teachings, are more often than not destined to fail.  

Although whether or not one lives a righteous and just life is of no concern or earthly consequence to many, most religions teach us that those who do not are going to pay a heavy price when they pass on into the next world.  

The main reason that I try so hard to live by the rules is that I want to minimize the odds that I will end up in eternal purgatory surrounded by the avowed jackals of the universe... politicians and journalists.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

WHAT YOU SOW, YOU REAP

The Bible teaches us that if you preach, practice and spread good, good will surely come to you; if you sow evil, it will surely return to bite you.  

We as a nation have allowed our morals and scruples to evaporate.  Just as we have not required our children to learn and follow the moral and ethical teachings contained in the Bible, we have not held our elected politicians or our government officials up to the high standards embedded into us by our forefathers.  Left alone without guidance and instruction, children and those who pretend to the throne of governance will soon stray from the straight and narrow paths of righteousness.  The result is clear: crime, drug misuse and social dysfunction has increased immensely in our younger generations, and we have a country that is floundering because its leaders have turned into self-serving and corrupt, blubbering idiots. 

We are angry, frustrated and confused, but we have no one to blame but ourselves.  It is not their fault; it is our fault for allowing them to turn into what they have become.   It is our fault because we don't want to live up to the responsibilities of parenthood or citizenship.  You know the old saying: "Spare the rod and spoil the child." 

The lesson here is that it is not up to them to change; it us up to us to make them change.  Just as the schoolyard bully needs to be hauled into the principal's office and whacked on his behind with a paddle, so should the Hillary Clintons of the world be in a jail making license plates.  Just as a child needs to be sitting in a room with his nose in a book learning about life, so it is that a politician should be required to know every single word of the Constitution verbatim.  

To require less on our part is to lead us to right where we are at this very moment in time. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

MORALS, SCRUPLES AND DIVISIONS

So, I assume you wonder what is coming next for this blog, now that I've made these momentous decisions.  Well, here goes...

The foundations of this country being rooted in Christian teachings, I'm going to start by citing the New Testament, Book of Mark, Chapter Three:  "If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.  If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand."  

Look at the shape this country has gotten itself into.   Not only have we forgotten the teachings of the Bible and the fundamental principles upon which America was founded, but we've allowed evil ways to insert themselves into our everyday lives; they have destroyed our moral compasses in the process and in so doing, they have turned man against man, woman against woman.  The country has been fractured over and over again by dissent and disagreement.  And those who know right from wrong have somehow lost the spine to stand up and insist that we return to the Biblical teachings that made this country great.  

Our national resolve to stand united has not only been decimated, it's been almost totally destroyed by rancorous, bitter disagreement and we have been truly weakened to the point that our house is not going to be able to stand much longer.  

The people in whom we placed our trust to guide us have shred that trust to tiny, unrecognizable bits and pieces.  Those who practice to deceive are surely bound to be bitten by their fellow snakes.  Take this impasse over healthcare for example: We have a President who swore to the people that he would repeal and replace ObamaCare.  Yet, when the House passed a bill that merely applied patches to a horrible piece of legislation... a bill that neither repealed or replaced ObamaCare, our President was supportive.  In other words, he either never intended to repeal and replace, or he lost the spine to stand up for what he promised.  

We have a Republican House and a Senate that swore upon holy oaths that if we, the people, would only hand them the majority of power, they would proceed to repeal and replace ObamaCare immediately.   We handed them that power and they set about creating bills not to repeal or replace bad law, but to tweak it and call it by another name.  Either they lied to us up front, or they lack the spine to live up to their promises.  

How could their belligerent disregard for their promises and for the will of the American people have ended up in anything else BUT failure?   

We have a nation that is divided against itself and a government that could not care less.  What is worse is that we have a country full of citizens who seem perfectly willing to set their Bibles in the closet underneath the dirty laundry and go along with the program.  

Satan must certainly be relishing our future.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

 

THE GREAT AMERICAN CHARADE CHANGES MY LIFE

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As I indicated yesterday, when you're laid up in bed, reality sometimes slaps you in the face.  I have realized that the country my ancestors helped to establish back in the 1600's, the country which they gave their guts and blood to help build into the bastion of democracy, the country that I served in the military to defend... is a thing of the past.  

Poof!  Just like that, it's gone and it saddens me.  

This country was founded on deep-rooted Christian values and the fundamental idealism and determination to have a just and free society governed by and for its citizens.  Those ideals, visions and determination have successfully led this country through a war of independence, two huge world wars and many other battles; .through feast and famine; through the Great Depression; and through plagues and pestilence.  

Today, the rancor and the divisions of this country are so pervasive that our government can no longer function.  Instead of being a country of strong morals and laws, we have evolved into a government of weak-hearted and self-serving aristocrats, and a complicit populace that is blindly willing to stand by and let it happen.  

It's all such a charade.  

We go to church not because we believe in a higher authority, but because it is a social necessity.  We say things we don't mean just to be politically correct.  We insist that it is inhuman to kill a man for heinous crimes, but we don't hesitate to abort innocent fetuses and sell their body parts.  Politicians promise the people, but they have no intentions of living up to those promises.  When citizens step out the front door of their houses, they become different people, devoid of principle and immune to the rules of morals and ethics.  

No longer is a man's handshake a firm agreement; agreements must be written by lawyers and attested to by notaries; even then, we connive as to how to get out of them.  We justify our transgressions on the basis that others transgress; therefore, we are entitled to transgress.  

After six months of watching, hoping and praying that the new sheriff in Washington just might be successful in hammering into people's heads the notion that things need to change, that a swamp must be drained, that national unity must be achieved at all costs... I'm sick to my stomach.  

I don't want to play this disgusting, putrid game of charades any more.  I want off this not-so-merry-go- round.  I feel as if my words on these pages have become exercises of pure futility.  

In short, I've decided to walk away from it.   If no one else cares about our destiny, why should I?  

I have been writing five blogs and have decided to put three of them into hibernation... on the back burner.  I'm changing my focus from the ulcer-production line into something more productive and agreeable.  This particular blog will remain active, but be posted only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays beginning with this Wednesday.  

We've become addicted to hatred, division, greed and corruption.  Not even our churches and synagogues are willing to stand up and insist on morality and ethics.  We've all turned our backs on our God and our heritage.  We're a mindless society of zombies and spineless imbeciles... exactly what the Democrats and Republicans in Congress want us to be.   And we all know that when you're dealing with addicts, you can't make any progress until they hit bottom. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THE CRAP

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When you're sidelined by a summer bug and forced to spend some down time, you watch a lot of news and talk shows on TV.  You are also somewhat divorced from reality as your fever, cough and headaches evolve by the hour.  That does give one the ability to remove himself from being immersed in all of the palaver, most of which is pure blarney and mindless blather, circulating in Washington and all over the mainstream media.  

Why do we even bother to listen to this crap, day after day after day?  Do we honestly think there is going to be an end to it?  

I'm so sick and tired of the damned Congress.  They are dysfunctional  beyond description and have been for decades.  They still do not have the slightest conception of what their duty is to the American people or how to go about fulfilling their obligations as our elected representatives.  They're full of excuses as to why this cannot be done or that cannot be undone.  Their biggest thrill of the day is when they succeed in preventing each other from doing anything positive.  They all need to be replaced.... Democrat, Republican and Independent... every last one of them.  

The media considers itself to be more powerful than the people.  They answer to no one, abide by no principles and fancy themselves to be members of some "journalistic" mafia, running roughshod over American values and democratic ideals.  They know we despise them, but they do not care.  

I'm sick and tired of it all.  It seems to me that the day of revolution is not far in the distance. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

THE WAR AGAINST I.S.I.S. IS NOT OVER

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Now that I.S.I.S. has been sent packing from Mosul, some pundits would have us believe that the war against I.S.I.S. is over.  Granted, Mosul was of great strategic significance to I.S.I.S.,  but not every terrorist thug involved with them was holed up there.  They're still in great abundance in Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Libya, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and even right here in the good old U.S.A.  

But, some journalists point out that their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is dead; Russia claims they nailed him in an air strike and I.S.I.S. has verified he is indeed dead.  Well, it's not the first time his death has been widely reported, and he managed to survive every one of those reports.  Until our intelligence people can verify it, we have to presume his death is fictional.  Besides, if he is in fact dead, that is most unlikely to affect the organization any more than the death of Osama Bin Laden did.  I.S.I.S. is more than a bunch of camel jockeys; they have a sophisticated and deeply organized structure with tentacles reaching all over the world.  They are not now going to dry up and blow away.  

Indeed, quite the contrary is likely to happen.  After the death of Bin Laden, terrorist activity around the globe increased dramatically.  With the Mosul defeat and possible death of al-Baghdadi,  things are likely to heat up even more.      

One thing is certain: Trump made great strides in just six months... far, far more success than Obama ever inclined to pursue or capable of achieving.  Obama could have eliminated them before they metastasized, but he didn't and it's going to take us several more years to make any really significant headway in getting rid of them... an effort that is going to require every country in the world to participate in.    

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

NEW YORK'S MAYOR IS WHAT'S WRONG WITH DEMOCRATS

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Bill de Blasio, the illustrious Mayor of New York City, was faced with a dilemma: (1) Stay at home and grieve for the New York cop who was tragically gunned down the day before, and attend a city-wide swearing in ceremony for new cops, or (2) Get on a plane and fly to Hamburg to protest capitalism and make the citizens of New York City pick up the tab.  

Good old Bill chose the later.  

Good for him.  I mean, he stood up for his principles: never do anything that is American, or patriotic, or sympathetic, or human.  Above all, act like you're above reproach and flaunt your Democrat liberalism.  Always stay true to your friends... the liberals, the communists, the Democrats... and above all, stand tall and proud when true Americans stand up and call you and your friends out for being the assholes that you are.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS ARE IMPOTENT

Mitch McConnell has come out and admitted that the Senate Republicans probably cannot pass a repeal and replace ObamaCare bill.  

So once again, Republicans have proven that even when they have the largest marbles in the game, they still don't know how to play that game.  The current crowd of dimwits is impotent, useless, worthless and unworthy of our votes in 2018.  

What a waste.  And for the past decade, we have been electing and reelecting them over and over again and expecting different results.  I think their brains surely must have turned to mush. 

What a damned waste. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

THE SICK, PSYCHOTIC DEMOCRATS

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Mark Prichard was arrested on Thursday at Senator Mark Flake's Tucson office after he said, (regarding the Steve Scalise shooting): "You know how liberals are going to solve the Republican problem? ... They are going to get better aim. That last guy tried, but he needed better aim. We will get better aim."  

With all of the similar remarks being made by liberals and by "respected" members of the Democrat Party, one has to wonder whether or not that party has morphed into a gang of vigilantes who may actually have put a price on Republican scalps.  

It's a sick, sick party and they're using every morbid trick in the book to try and change the results of the last election.  They should henceforth be referred to as: "The Party from Hell." 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  
 

THE DISOLUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Sanctuary cities are against the law in this country; yet, there are countless cities and maybe even one state that don't give a damn what other cities and states think, and which could care even less what the law is... they're going to be sanctuaries, period.  

Since we're supposedly a democracy, the federal government has an obligation to ensure that the voting processes, particularly for federal offices, are conducted fairly and squarely and that every vote counts equally.  Yet, attempts at voter fraud and vote rigging have abounded for decades, and the 2016 elections seem to have been no exception, with many known instances of multiple registrations, registering of illegal aliens and registrations of cemetery residents.  Now, the Trump administration wants to investigate the extent of such activities and according to at least one estimate some 26 states have adamantly stated they will not allow it.  In other words, it's none of our business whether or not our elections are clean and legitimate.  

Our country has a Constitution which has ruled our governmental processes since 1789.  Now, we have a major political party which has decided it doesn't care what the Constitution says,  they are going to run things the way they want, including choosing the President without any democratic rights of opposing parties to put up candidates for the office.  And, God forbid if another party runs a candidate and that candidate happens to win, they have the right to cancel the election and remove the winner.  

In a complete upside-down turn of events, a federal judge has now ruled that you can come into the U.S. as an illegal alien, break the law and get thrown out of the country, and get paid for it... $190,000 as a matter of fact... because someone else complied with the law and blew the whistle.  

It appears to me that we are now just one step removed from becoming a Venezuela.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

GOD BLESS AMERICA?

OUR ANCESTORS GAVE THEIR BLOOD AND GUTS FOR AMERICA.  

WHY ARE WE SO WILLING TO LET THIS COUNTRY GO TO HELL? 

I'LL BE BACK ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 5TH