For the Marines

Hauling a Heavy Load

If you want to understand the causes and effects of the ongoing supply chain crisis, read Ryan Johnson's article: I’m A Twenty Year Truck Driver, I Will Tell You Why America’s “Shipping Crisis” Will Not End. 

Johnson's article is well worth reading for information and education about the processes involved in and the current obstacles facing our transportation industries. The functionality of our supply chain is a complex succession of interlocking steps that, as we are noticing in stores across the country, cause quite a cave-in when one step is missing or lacking in efficiency.

The ruling elites who create our crises don't need to worry about their impact. These self-appointed superiors travel to climate change conferences in private jets and gas-powered SUV motorcades, and they don't stand in line at the grocery store. It is the working American citizen who is left to pay the tab for terrible policies. Ryan Johnson's article tells us that we're in the supply chain nightmare for the long haul.

Homage to Voters

Here's to the parents who voted en masse

To change what their children are learning in class.

Here's to the families who shouted "No more!"

To taxes and crime, and mandates galore.

Here's to the people, making their stands 

To reclaim our country--built with our hearts and hands.

Random Questions

I'm just catching up on the week's headlines, and it's hard to know where to start digging in to the wealth of absurdities being covered in the media. Below are just some random thoughts I have over crazy current events.

1. Can Mayor Bill de Blasio really be a "Trekkie" if he doesn't know which main character wore the blue shirt?
2. If Alec Baldwin had hired a NRA gun safety instructor for his movie, do you think he would be in the news right now?
3. If the spending bills in Congress cost "zero dollars," why are the Democrats frantic to pass new taxes?
4. If American citizens are being fired from their jobs for not being vaccinated, why are unvaccinated illegal immigrants overrunning the US southern border with impunity?
5. If the vaccinated are afraid of the unvaccinated, is there much of a "vaccine" worth fighting about? 
6. Don't you agree that Queen Elizabeth, aged 95 and still working, is entitled to a few days of rest without all the panicked pearl-clutching?
7. Why is Joe Biden always either whispering or yelling at us?
8. And finally, well--IS the pope Catholic?

Fighting for Freedom

 

I wonder if King Biden has ever read the US Constitution or the Bill of Rights? Biden and his subservient minions are very busy dismantling whatever vestiges were left of our democratic republic. It would be nice if he had some knowledge of what is being destroyed, but I know that's a reach.

The First Amendment has already been trampled into dust. There is no freedom of speech tolerated in the kingdom of Biden. Any public speaker brave enough to diverge from approved Leftist talking points will be canceled and/or fired, the clear message being: Sit down and shut up; we know best. When the government closes churches and arrests congregants, free exercise of religion has become a quaint piece of history. A free press? Stop, you're being silly. And as for freedom to peacably assemble? Ask parents attending school board meetings to protest vaccine and mask mandates or curriculum about that one. Don't even mention petitioning the government for a redress of grievances; that's fast becoming a one-way street with Left turns only.

The bloated spending bills that Democrats want to force down our throats will include IRS surveillance of our personal bank accounts, with no warrant or probable cause necessary. So much for the Fourth Amendment. Welcome to the new American police state.

Yet in the Tenth Amendment, we learn that the Federal government has no right to issue sweeping nationwide mandates on vaccines or employment requirements. Decisions about masks, jobs, and most other issues in a citizen's life belong to each individual state--or "to the people." That's us. According to the Constitution, we get to decide how our daily lives will go. Not the government, not its agencies, not its self-appointed emperor.

I see a growing amount of pushback now from everyday people in many states against the government's tyrannical overreaches. That's a good thing, a green shoot of hope for our country's survival as the land of liberty. It seems that somewhere in our national DNA, the vast majority of Americans understand the need to be free. It's sad but not surprising that Biden doesn't get it.

Celebrate the Sailors

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Thank You!

Getting Schooled

When a country falls to tyranny, it happens quickly.

That is what my late mother-in-law always said when she recalled her flight from Stalin's takeover of her homeland with only the clothes on her back. Over the decades, I had heard all her stories of the fear, despair and horror of experiencing the iron grip of Communism so suddenly squeezing the breath out of a nation. Helen spoke also of the wreckage of human life that followed a Communist takeover--longterm confinement in refugee camps, enduring hunger, total poverty, and ubiquitous death. It all seemed so foreign, so remote from life in the United States.

Not anymore.

Think about the authoritarian changes to our country in the past year and a half: sweeping, liberty-killing mandates imposed nationwide on citizens--but not on illegal immigrants; a wide-open southern border; organized destruction of law enforcement; employment termination due to a differing opinion; arbitrary Big Tech censorship in all of social media, to name but a few.

There was a green shoot of hope in parental resistance to the left-wing agenda in our schools. People were speaking out, objecting to the filth and lies being force-fed to their children. It was a bright spot in the chaos, a truly American moment.

We can't have that now, can we.

With absolutely no Constitutional authority to support him, so-called Attorney General Merrick Garland is unleashing the FBI on parents who "threaten" school boards and educators. Merely objecting to curriculum could be considered a "threat." This is a brazen violation of every parent and taxpayers' First Amendment rights to free speech. It is a blatant totalitarian move to squelch all dissent by parents and frighten them into silence so that the radical Left can continue to poison and indoctrinate America's children. It is a chilling step towards transforming the US in to a police state.

You thought it couldn't happen here? It is happening here. And, as I was warned by my mother-in-law, it's happening fast. What happens next, if America allows this tyranny to stand?

Let's think about the track record of Communist dictators throughout the last century. Start with the violence of the Russian Revolution, continue to the establishment of the Soviet Union and its ongoing rape of Eastern Europe throughout the 20th century. Think of Mao Zedong's Chinese Revolution and ensuing control. Remember the many decades of suffering in North Korea and Castro's Cuba. One hundred million people were slaughtered under Communist dictators within a 100-year period--an average of one million people killed per year. Quite an achievement, wouldn't you agree?

Aside from all who were murdered, millions more were imprisoned; misery and poverty abounded for those unfortunate people remaining behind. All these survivors ever wanted to do was escape their oppressive government.

I leave you with one question for homework. If the Left--the Communists, the Marxists, call them what you will but realize they are tyrants--have such a better idea for managing government, why does history prove that they always need to impose it by brutal force?

A Plan in Motion

The repeated claims that Joe Biden is "incompetent" are wearing thin. As president, Biden certainly is incompetent; but then, he was incompetent as a vice president and as a senator, also. There is much more to his "incompetence" than most Americans are willing to voice out loud.

Joe Biden is a front man for the hard left-wing forces in this country--in the media, academia, entertainment, business, military, and politics--that are itching to take us down and rebuild us in their image. In the Wuhan virus, they found their vehicle to seize control of our daily lives. Like any dedicated dictatorial lefties, they are not about to let go.

Immigration is only one example of the purposeful destruction of our country. Mask up those American school children, quarantine them, isolate them from their peers and limit their activities. Force workers to get vaccinations against their will and their Constitutional rights or lose their jobs. Do the same to our soldiers. Complete control of the citizenry is part of the plan.

But illegal aliens? Let them overrun the red states, unmasked, untested and unvaccinated. Relocate them, at taxpayers' expense, to strategically selected states. Let the illegals spread Covid freely and run up the Covid case numbers and hospitalizations in conservative states. Turning red states blue, along with collapsing their governmental infrastructure, is a very big part of the plan.

The Border Patrol agents are being trashed for doing their jobs. Nevermind that every single one of the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants crashing our southern borders is, by United States law and definition, a criminal. The demoralization and dismantling of law enforcement is also part of the plan.

There are numerous examples of the plan in motion aside from immigration. Afghanistan, voter laws, "tax the rich," climate change, critical race theory, cancel culture are all part of it. There is much more. For a full accounting of the ongoing Communist march upon our nation, read Mark Levin's American Marxism. A bestseller since its July release, the book is a chilling explanation of our current dire situation. But it's a book concerned Americans should read.

We need to understand that there is a plan in motion. We must understand precisely what that plan is. Most importantly, we need to know how to fight back. American Marxism shows us the way.

Truth Teller

Mark Steyn explains exactly how much trouble we're in. Every American concerned about what's happening in our country should read it--and become even more concerned.

A Hinge Moment of History

Fair Warning

As solemn and sad as it was to watch, I found a strange comfort in the television coverage marking the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. There were commemorative ceremonies at all three locations of the Islamist terrorist attacks.

Listening to the respectful recitation of thousands of victims' names at Ground Zero by loved ones, and hearing their heartfelt words of remembrance, I realize how fresh this horrific event remains in America's collective mind. The cherished memories of 9/11's thousands of victims ripple directly into many tens of thousands of lives--family members, loved ones, friends, neighbors, coworkers. These thousands in turn touch the many millions of Americans who still believe in our nation's founding values and principles and in our inherent strength and goodness. Watching the coverage offered a bright ray of hope in the midst of a dark and dangerous time in our national history.

Like biblical demons, the numbers of America's enemies both foreign and especially domestic are legion. But I think the numbers of loyal Americans who love our country are greater. More than they would ever give to us, I offer this fair warning to America's enemies:

We, the American people, will never forget 9/11. We will always remember our overwhelming loss and our unified strength in its wake. In our individual, quiet ways we will fight your efforts to destroy our nation. Count on it.

On this sacred day of vivid remembrance, I say this to our many enemies: You've got your work cut out for you. Watching my fellow Americans so sincerely commemorate the 20th anniversary of this tragic day fills me with a calming certainty.

You are going to lose.

 

New York City 9/11 Commemoration

Pentagon 9/11 Memorial - Washington DC

Flight 93 9/11 Memorial - Shanksville, PA