This ain't your great grandpa's USA....

Here it is, the day after the 75^th anniversary of the Japan’s attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor. You may remember that that attack on the “day that will live in infamy” led to America’s entry into World War Two.

Sadly, school kids these days are taught disgustingly little about World War Two in general and particularly about December 7, 1941. As such, they don’t really know why American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to it as a forever “infamous” date on the calendar.

I would wager that most American adults under the age of 30 – unless they’d happen to be history buffs - are equally as uneducated about such “ancient history.” And, as a result, they probably have little to no idea what Pearl Harbor Day is about and have little interest in learning it.

Just as tragically, today’s “United” States of America is no more capable of fighting a War like the Second World War than it is for successfully colonizing the planet Neptune.

The USA of 1941 quickly abandoned its isolationist follies, rallied around the flag (“Old Glory”), sacrificed on every front , the home front especially – rationing tires (rubber), gasoline, wiring and other copper, food and staples to make food (flour, etc) - all to further America’s War effort.

Able-bodied men were whisked off into military service and then off to the War. Able-bodied women stepped into factories, etc to fill their shoes. Men too old for military service filled Defense jobs right alongside the women.

Heck, female professional baseball started up to replace men’s pro ball because almost all the male players were now off in military uniforms instead of their baseball uniforms. (Remember the Tom Hanks – Gina Davis movie “A League of Their Own?”)

But…today’s “U” S of A would have to debate the morality of retaliating militarily to a sneak attack like Pearl Harbor for a decade or so. Then another decade of lawsuits would be filed by the ACLU claiming violations of civil rights committed by rationing gas and tires and being limited to only so many miles of driving your car each week (to/from work mostly), “all for the War effort.”

And today, patriotism and rallying around the flag wouldn’t happen in a “U”SA where the academic institutions like that cesspool of idiocy in Massachusetts - Hampshire College – are too timid to risk offending anyone by allowing the American Flag (“Old Glory”) to be flown on campus so they banned flying her and any other flags from campus flagpoles. And many finally succeeded in driving the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) units off their campuses.

Not only that, but a whole bunch of the liberal academic cesspools in public education secondary schools (aka public high schools) have banned military recruiters from participating in campus career days.

No, tragically, today’s “U”SA is no more capable of fighting another World War Two – let alone 

winning it in four years – than it could fight its way out of a wet paper bag.

How badly we’ve decayed as a country. How far from greatness our once-great nation has fallen.

Hopefully the Good Lord and president-elect Donald Trump can begin turning things back around.

Be gone with ya’ll, Huck Finn and Atticus Finch! The revisionist historians are at it again and are legislatin’ ya’ll out’ve the libraries.

The headline read “Virginia school district suspends ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,’ ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ after complaint.”*

Apparently, the eggheads in a local Indoctrination Ministry (otherwise known as the public school system) have suddenly discovered that such period novels as Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” have that ‘N’word in them.

“WAVY-TV reports that a parent [as in one] voiced concerns over the books during a school board meeting earlier this month” [emphasis added].* That’s right; only one. But it’s enough to

 “Right now, we are a nation divided as it is,” the mother said in her complaint. “She tells the board that her biracial son, a high school student, struggled getting through a page that was riddled with a racial slur [emphasis added].” **

Really? Seriously? He couldn’t finish reading a page because there were racial slurs in the dialogue? So, maybe we should pull rap songs off of iTunes and radio stations cause when rap “artists” say the “N” word, the “B” word or call for the killing of cops in the lyrics to their “music” we could have minorities, women and cops hearing these songs driving or walking down the street struggling to walk or drive.

“The Virginia [school district] has temporarily suspended the use of [these] books while officials examine the issue. A committee that includes a principal, librarian and others will now review the books and make a recommendation to the superintendent.” A public school principal and librarian don’t really strike me as objective judges concerned with teaching historical period-correct vs politically-correct viewpoints.

But, sadly, the infection of political-correctness and fear of lawsuits has the whole world running scared anymore – to the point that this kind of stupid overreaction has become the norm rather than the exception to the rule. At the rate this decay is accelerating, pretty soon the public school system will be teaching that the Civil War was fought over a dispute in the minimum wage instead of States Rights or even slavery.

God help us.

*"Virginia School District Suspends Classic Novels after Complaint." CBSNews. CBS Interactive, 01 Dec. 2016. Web. 01 Dec. 2016.

**Reporter, Dave Elias Chief Political, Graham Hunter Reporter, and Nestor Mato Reporter. "Virginia Schools Pull Classic Novels following Complaints." NBC-2.com. N.p., 01 Dec. 2016. Web. 01 Dec. 2016.

***Mark Twain photo by Photographer: A.F. Bradley in his studio. is in the public domain in the United States. This applies to U.S. works where the copyright has expired, often because its first publication occurred prior to January 1, 1923.

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A lesson in real world economics.

This little item is wonderfully precise at distinguishing between the conservative right, and the liberal left.  It is one of the very best examples I've ever seen at drawing the contrast.  Enjoy!  And happy holidays. Scratch that! Merry CHRISTMAS!

This is going round the internet and is really spot on. Keep in mind, it is not me saying this, I wish I was that fast on my feet. But whoever wrote it/spoke it is exactly right!

A guy looked at my Corvette the other day and said "I wonder how many people could havebeen fed for the money that sports car cost."

"I am not sure," I replied. "It fed a lot of families in Bowling Green, Kentucky who built it. 

It fed the people who make the tires, it fed the people who made the components that went into it, 

It fed the people in the copper mine who mined the copper for the wires, 

It fed people in Decatur IL, at Caterpillar who make the trucks that haul the copper ore. 

It fed the trucking people who hauled it from the plant to the dealer and fed the people working at the dealership

and their families. 

BUT,... I have to admit, I guess I really don't know how many people it fed."

That is the difference between capitalism and welfare mentality. When you buy something, you put money in people's pockets, and give them dignity for their skills.  When you give someone something for nothing, you rob them of their dignity and self worth.

Capitalism is freely giving your money in exchange for something of value.  Socialism is taking your money against your will and shoving something down your throat that you never asked for.

Forrest Gump described Hampshire College's new flag policy perfectly.

Hampshire College, a a private liberal arts college in western Massachusetts, responded to a student protest of Donald Trump’s election whereat they allegedly burned a U.S. flag by…wait for it…banning the flying of any and all flags on campus. So, they promptly lowered the Stars and Stripes from any flagpoles on campus.

Overreact much, Hampshire College? Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

The last I looked, as wigged out as it has become since the Civil War, Massachusetts was still one of the 50 United States. But, apparently College President Jonathan Lash thinks they need to send “Old Glory” into time out as they “discuss what the flag represents to all members of our community.”

Say..what? Apparently President Lash thinks we’re apparently not the United States anymore. Apparently not united enough to be represented under one flag, anyway.

Is it just me or didn’t Massachusetts agitate until we had a war back in 1861 to force the nation to reunite back under that same flag?

In the rambling, wishy-washy and nearly incoherent statement president Lash issued November 18, he said “…we decided today that we will not fly the U.S. flag or any other flags on our college flagpole for the time being. We hope this will enable us in the near term to instead focus our efforts on addressing racist, misogynistic, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and behaviors.”*

What the hell does flying the US flag on campus have to do with distracting their focus on anything? That flag’s flown been on flagpoles there and everywhere else in this country for generations.

And what about focusing on patriotism, civility and tolerance towards Christian viewpoints, and respect for our history, heritage, for liberty, the Constitutional Republic form of government we were established as? Oh; those aren’t politically-correct so we can’t address those things, I guess.

Lash babbles on, “I ask our campus to join me in a commitment to living up to the ideals of our mission: to insist on diversity, inclusion and equity from our leaders and in our communities; to constructively resist those who are opposing these values; and to actively and passionately work toward justice and positive change at Hampshire and in the world.”*

Lash and Hampshire obviously consider “insisting on… inclusion” to include anyone except those like patriots, Conservatives or Christians who were notably absent from the viewpoints he listed.

And what exactly he means by “insisting on… equity from our leaders and in our communities” to mean God only knows what in his confused, politically-correct skewed viewpoint.

It’s pretty obvious el presidente’ sees the removal of the U.S. flag from his campus flagpole to be “constructive resist[ance to] those who are opposing these values” and one helluva giant leap for mankind “towards justice and positive change” on his campus “and in the world.” Apparently the advancement of only politically-correct things are positive changes to el presidente’ Lash.

Forrest Gump said it best, “Stupid is as stupid does.”**

Now that I’ve raked the good college president over the coals pretty well here, I will say that this is still a free country and since they are a private college then they can pretty much exhibit their rights to do so as they see fit.

BUT, that river should flow BOTH ways.

As a taxpayer, I firmly believe that if Hampshire wants to ban displays of all flags including the flag of the United States of America, then the USA should be able to and very well should withhold any and all federal funding from Hampshire and its students including student loan money.

In doing so, then and only then would the scales of justice truly be balanced in this situation. Surely, President Lash would respect such restriction since he’s oh so concerned about “actively and passionately working towards justice…in the world.”

*"Statement from President Jonathan Lash Regarding the College's US Flag." Www.hampshire.edu. N.p., 22 Nov. 2016. Web. 28 Nov. 2016.

**Forrest Gump. Dir. Robert Zemeckis. By Eric Roth. Perf. Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field, and Mykelti Williamson. N.p., n.d. Web.

Algore in drag? Just go away why dontcha?

For crying out loud, the perpetual canker sore that is the Clintons just keeps on keepin’ on. Now the Hildabeast is crying foul claiming that she won the popular vote and therefore deserves the election.

Whether or not that’s true, the Electoral College vote went in favor of Trump and that’s based on outcome by state. Any graphic of the 2016 presidential vote count shows the entire U.S. to be almost completely covered in red (meaning the populations of almost all counties – parishes in Louisiana – cast Republican votes. That means they voted for Donald Trump not Hillary Clinton. Only the usual large liberal metro areas like Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, NYC, etc cast votes for Hillary.

And that’s without investigating all the alleged voter fraud so common in Chicago-style politics – the kind that brought Chicago machine candidate Barry Hussein Obama to the presidency.  So, at this point the people who are not eligible to vote for one reason or another (you know, like they’re dead, or they’ve already voted several times in this same election or they aren’t even legally entitled to vote but what the hell, they did anyway) have been investigated and eliminated.

And she’s crying foul? She’s demanding a recount or outright award of the presidency? This woman and her ilk (like her intern-molesting, cigar-stuffing, lying-under-oath husband) have absolutely no shame and will stop at nothing to try and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

All this has a real cheesy, recurring nightmare ring to it. Remember, it was her “husband’s” vice-president-turned-presidential-candidate Al Gore who whined and pitched a fit about the vote count which went against him – popularly and electorally – back in 2000 where he lost, not once, not twice, but three times by recounts and US Supreme Court decision (!) to George W. Bush.

So, spare us the “sour grapes,” Hillary. You lost. And your whining isn’t even original. It was worn out – completely – by your Party back in 2000.

And, you might be careful what ya wish for; you might get a vote investigation launched that would reveal illegal voting and other things you might not really want brought out into the sunshine.

But, I suspect that you and yours don’t really expect a real recount or a real upset victory to result from it. Rather, I’ve suspected since 2000 that the real agenda has been to destroy voter confidence in the American voting process. That way you can disenfranchise enough truly eligible voters that they either don’t show up at all or really don’t expect much substantively objective out of the voting process and as such aren’t really surprised when some corrupt Party hack is placed on the throne. That too has been worn out completely by every banana republic and dictatorship on the planet for decades.

If you were truly statesmanlike and presidential, “Mrs.” Clinton, you would accept that you lost not one but two elections you thought were victories for you for simply throwing your name onto the ballot. And if you were truly a statesman and of presidential material, you would then retire gracefully from politics.

Instead you just keep on whining, complaining and trying to prolong the agony you inflict on our country.

Message to Hollyweird, the music industry and the arts community; put a sock in it! We don't care adn we aren't paying for tickets to hear what you think.

'Hamilton' stars give Mike Pence a message

Look; I'm all for the First Amendment "right of free speech." I'm all for the ability to citizens to dissent all they want so long as it's within the law and within the rules of polite society.

But I, for one, would sure as hell love for all the actors, singers, artists and who knows what that make their living plying their arts for the public who pay good money to watch them act, sing, dance or view their paintings or sculptures to just shut the hell up about politics and world affairs.

I, for one, don't give a rip what they think about Republicans, Christians, Apartheid, saving the whales or any other political or social anything. I'm not paying for your CD, to see your movie or play or to see your paintings or sculptures just to hear your discontent about the world situation, the plight of the animal community, the influence of the Church on society or anything else.

So, shut up why don't ya? Just sing, dance, act, paint or sculpt and keep it at that. I don't buy a ticket to shove my opinions on you and I expect the same respect from you. I do not - let me reiterate that - I definitely DO NOT shell out money to see you ply your trade only to have you seize the bully pulpit and shove you views on things down my throat.

If Democrats & other liberals ran the World Series....