Liberalism vs Nazism...

Many liberal Democrats, including some Democrat politicians, like to compare Donald Trump and his followers to Hitler and the Nazis. What they either don't realize or simply choose to ignore is the fact that liberalism channels Nazism in many, many ways.

Trump has called for removal of illegal immigrants, something liberals compare to Hitler. But Hitler removed all foreigners, legal or not. And as much as certain celebrities and liberal pundits are saying it, Trump has not called for removing all foreigners. Perhaps liberals should look up the word "illegal."

Let's look at a few examples of Liberalism mirroring Nazism:

1. Nazism: "We demand an agrarian reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the enactment of a law to expropriate the owners without compensation of any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land."

Liberalism: The stripping away of land from private owners. Liberalism today demands "eminent domain" on property. The Bureau of Land Management is taking ranches in the West and the Obama administration has claimed more land for "national monuments" than any other administration in history.

2. Nazism: "We demand the nationalization of all trusts...profit-sharing in large industries...a generous increase in old-age pensions...by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor...and the creation of a national (folk) army."

Liberalism: The points raised in the Nazi platform demand an increase in taxes to support them. Liberalism today demands heavy progressive and graduated income taxes. Obama himself suggested, during his 2008 campaign, that a national security force be instituted.

3. Nazism: "That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished."

Liberalism: Demands a "death tax" on anyone inheriting an estate.

4. Nazism: "We demand the nationalization of all trusts."

Liberalism: Central control of the financial system.

5. Nazism: "In order to make it possible for every capable and industrious German to obtain higher education, and thus the opportunity to reach into positions of leadership, the State must assume the responsibility of organizing thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people. The curricula of all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life. The conception of the State Idea (science of citizenship) must be taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the State. "

Liberalism: Central control of education, with an emphasis on doing things their way. Liberals today are doing things their way in our schools (although Hitler probably would have exterminated students who displayed symptoms of being snowflakes.)

6. Nazism: Took over control of health care and made it a national system.

Liberalism: Passed Obamacare with the intention of it becoming a single-payer, national system.

7. Nazism: Instituted national gun control and confiscated guns.

Liberalism: Constantly screaming for increased gun control and would confiscate guns if they could.

8. Nazism: Hitler gave everyone a free radio. Then he nationalized the radio. Citizens were warned if they listened to anything other than Nazi radio, they would be put to death.

Liberalism: Demands Fox News and other conservative media outlets be censored and/or destroyed.

9. Nazism: Everyone got a guaranteed income from the government. The equal rights amendment was designed in two components, equality, economics and social. Economics was designed to equalize the country's wealth because everyone was entitled to equal income. To achieve that, they had to raise taxes to 70%.

Liberalism: Pushes wealth redistribution, a $15 minimum wage for everyone, higher taxes on the wealthy, and now has attained 47% of the population on some form of government assistance.

From the political program of the Nazi Party, adopted in Munich, February 24, 1920:

"We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and be for the good of all. Therefore, we demand: … an end to the power of the financial interests. We demand profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged. We demand … the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of national, state, and municipal governments. In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education … We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents … The government must undertake the improvement of public health – by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor … by the greatest possible support for all clubs concerned with the physical education of youth. We combat the … materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of the common good before the individual good."

Who does that sound like – conservatives or liberals?

Liberals, Political Correctness and Anarchy....

I watch the actions of Americans who are on the left side of the political spectrum and sadly shake my head. What has happened to pride and respect for our country and our system of government?

When Barack Obama won the Presidential elections in 2008 and 2012, those of us on the right who opposed his visions and ideology were sad and dejected. We didn't want him to win. We predicted many of the problems he would create, i.e., larger national debt, a really bad health care policy that would create problems, a lower status in the world because of his lack of  foreign policies, higher unemployment (regardless of the lies his administration tells.) We knew it would be bad.

We were called racists and haters - even though we didn't protest, didn't demand a recount, didn't threaten to disrupt his inauguration, nor threaten to leave the country in disgust.

When Republicans said they were going to work against Obama's policies that we knew were bad for the country as a whole they were called "obstructionists." Anytime they opposed Obama verbally (they mostly didn't follow up and actually stop him) they were labeled racist obstructionists. That lasted through most of Obama's Presidency.

Political correctness has become one of the most important left-wing ideologies in the last eight years - to the point of being ridiculous.

Gender and sexual preference rule this craziness. Last year the President of the United States declared that bathrooms and locker rooms in public schools will now be gender neutral and/or coed because it's wrong to force a child who identifies as the opposite sex to use a bathroom with others of the same biological gender regardless of their anatomy. This rule even applies to grade school children and schools that refuse to comply (because it's morally disgusting) have been threatened with the loss of federal funding.no

This newest liberal trend has now spread across the country with liberal leaning businesses declaring their bathrooms gender neutral and some states making the policy a state standard.

I've even heard some liberals say that people should give their babies and their pets gender neutral names because babies and pets can't tell you the gender with which they identify and it's not anyone's right to "force a gender" on them.

And finally, Hollywood elite have gotten together in an attempt to first, sway the election to the left and now, to undermine the new President's administration and even disrupt the inauguration. These famous liberal idiots are flat out calling for obstruction of the Trump administration by the Democrats in Washington. "Obstruction" was a bad word during the Obama regime. Today it's a demand from the left. And Trump hasn't even taken office yet.

Liberalism has long been about hypocrisy but we're seeing it right out in the open after this election.

The American people, the workers, the farmers, the small business owners, grew weary of the political left and political correctness and rallied around the one candidate who campaigned against it. Trump won the Electoral College with decisive numbers.

The left is saying, very correctly I might add, that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote. That's right - she did. But our electoral process doesn't revolve solely around the popular vote, and for good reason. 

On October 19, 2016, after candidate Donald Trump was asked if he would accept the results of the election no matter who won and he answered he would as long as the election was fair, candidate Hillary Clinton said “He (Trump) became the first person, Republican or Democrat, who refused to say that he would respect the results of this election. Now, that is a direct threat to our democracy,”

(Apparently Mrs. Clinton's memory has blocked out Al Gore's challenge to the 2000 election...)

When Green Party candidate Jill Stein called for a recount in several states following the election the Clinton campaign and her followers backed the recount. So what Hillary meant on October 19th was "If I win and Trump challenges it he's a threat to democracy. But if he wins and I challenge it well...  that's completely different."

Bruce Springsteen recently said “When you let that genie out of the bottle — bigotry, racism, intolerance… they don’t go back in the bottle that easily, if they go back in at all. Whether it’s a rise in hate crimes, people feeling they have license to speak and behave in ways that previously were considered un-American and are un-American. That’s what he’s appealing to. My fears are that those things find a place in ordinary, civil society.”

The interesting thing about Springsteen's comments are that bigotry, racism and intolerance have all increased under the Obama administration. Black Lives Matter is pushing racism every day. Hate speech and intolerance from the left are rampant, particularly now that Trump won the election. Trump supporters are being assaulted in the streets. Our police are under attack by people on the left - their rage fueled by the President himself. So who is Springsteen really talking about?

The plans by radical liberals to disrupt Trump's inauguration ceremony is pure anarchy. They (the demonstrators) will call it "free speech" but they cross the line when they deliberately attempt to interrupt the process of swearing in the legally elected new President.

Liberal activist (and resident idiot) Michael Moore is pushing for the demonstration saying "If Trump is to be inaugurated at all, let it happen behind closed doors, showing the true face of the security state Trump will preside over."

So Moore is saying "Let's disrupt the proceedings and force Trump to be inaugurated in a secure, private place and that will show everyone who Trump really is." Yeah... that's liberal logic 101 at its finest.

The left says Trump's election shows how bigoted and intolerant the right really is. But I submit that the truth is just the opposite. The intolerance and hatred on the left is being fully demonstrated to the nation and the world. It's what got Trump elected and what could ultimately be the death of the Democrat Party. And that will be OK.

If You Can't Say Something Nice....

Gonna rant for a moment...

"Comedian" DL Hughley took to Twitter yesterday to make fun of Debbie Reynolds death.

"Debbie Reynolds died a day after her daughter did! Black Mama's don't die cuz they kids do!They cry and say God don't make no mistakes!" Hughley said.

It's obvious that Hughley has no idea about the devastating pain of losing a child. If he did he wouldn't trivialize Debbie Reynolds' statement about wanting to be with Carrie. I wonder how he'd feel if he lost one of his three children and someone made fun of it?

Most of us who have lost a child didn't/don't want to die ourselves because of it. But we certainly understand the feelings. There is no pain like that of losing your child.

I have lived through many painful things in my life. I have lost beloved family and friends to death. I have watched people die while I did everything I could to keep them alive and I have watched people die with an empty feeling of knowing there was nothing I could do.

Even seasoned professionals - paramedics, doctors, nurses, firefighters, law enforcement officials - who deal with death on a regular basis, are affected by it in some way. Sure, they'll joke about it sometimes - but that's a coping mechanism rather than an attempt at humor. It keeps them from being consumed by the tragedies they see on a regular basis.

Hughley doesn't really have that excuse for what he said.

Of all of the things I've dealt with in this life the loss of my son was by far the most devastating. I cannot imagine anything else that could hurt that badly.

Mr. Hughley thinks he's funny. Perhaps sometimes he is. But this was not one of those times. Imagine if the celebrity mom and daughter had been black and a white comedian made such a comment. It would be main stream media news for a week. The only reports about it so far is that there is a "backlash against him in social media."

I actually feel sorry for Mr. Hughley. It takes a cold heart to trivialize and mock the deaths of two people the way he did.

Carrie Fisher left behind a daughter. That young lady has lost both her mother and grandmother in the last three days.

I wonder how Mr. Hughley would feel if that happened to him? My guess is he wouldn't think it was funny.

Olbermann: "Trump Is A Puppet Of Vladimir Putin"

Keith Olbermann, the loud mouthed liberal who went from sportscaster for ESPN to political pundit for MSNBC, said yesterday that the Russians had not only hacked into the Democrat National Committee computers and made information public to hurt Hillary Clinton in the election but that they had also hacked into the Republican National Committee computers. He said they are withholding the information discovered in the RNC computers so they can use it to control the Trump administration once Trump is inaugurated.

Typical for a liberal nut job - Olbermann didn't present any evidence to support his claims. Like Harry Reid, he put the information out there as fact and leaves it up to the listener to determine whether or not his statements are true. He bases his knowledge of the subject on news articles from the likes of the New York Times and the Washington Post, both far-left supporters of Hillary.

The CIA and the FBI disagree about whether or not both the DNC and RNC were hacked. The CIA says both, the FBI says it was only the DNC. So who is to be believed? John McCain and Lindsay Graham both want an investigation to see if the RNC was hacked and to see if Trump benefited from Russian hacking. That tends to make me say “Forget it.” McCain and Graham are the dufus duo of Washington.

Olbermann, in his 1200 plus word rant, says that the Electoral College must vote for Hillary Clinton to “save the country” and that anyone who doesn't believe his “existential facts” is a traitor to the country and “will immediately, and forever after, be held accountable.”

Held accountable by whom, Keith? You? That's laughable at best.

Go back to sports broadcasting. Your liberal views are pushing you toward fanaticism. You're losing it. And you're annoying.

Liberals Going Crazy Over Trump's EPA Appointment. It's Entertaining!

Donald Trump has appointed Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency. The left is going absolutely crazy over this pick. Personally, I think it's brilliant.

Pruitt is a critic of climate change science. That's good. We need someone heading that agency that isn't fueled by left-wing panic over climate change which, as Pruitt himself has stated, and despite what liberals like to claim, is not an absolute fact. Climate change statistics are generated by computers based on information fed into them by people. And while the left likes to believe that those people feeding the information are infallible, there is mega money to be made in the climate change arena.

The Obama administration, in collusion with the EPA, has taxed corporations and caused huge, expensive changes to be mandatory for them to survive. They're killing the coal industry (intentionally) in the name of clean air and they've squandered countless billions of dollars on green energy companies that got your tax dollars then went belly up - taking the money with them. The list is long.

Like it or not, fossil fuels will be our main sources of energy for at least a couple more decades. Understanding that and managing them wisely is prudent to the future of the nation. I have no doubt Scott Pruitt will do just that.

Of course - there will be some who will start shouting "Republicans want dirty air and dirty water!!" In fact, that's already happening. It's the same as them saying "Donald Trump is going to end medicare outlaw abortion and end same sex marriage." Simply untrue.

What they fail to understand is that the laws already in place keep the air and water clean. A new, conservative head of the EPA will keep things in the realm of logical instead of emotional.

If climate change and global warming are so real why is it that the polar ice caps are still here when "experts" (including Al Gore) predicted they would be gone by September 2016? While the Arctic ice cap shrinks and grows, the Antarctic ice cap is growing at nearly a record pace. Imagine...

Why is it that two of America's most outspoken climate change celebrities, those being Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio, travel all around the world in their private jets while telling the public that reducing their carbon footprint is vital? Why is it that Al Gore said the ice caps would melt and sea levels would be rising then bought a home on the beach in California? And why is it that Mr. Gore's global warming movie, which garnered him a Nobel Prize, was proved later to be full of falsehoods and outright lies yet he was never called on it?

Why is that that Al Gore has made millions upon millions of dollars pushing "green" products and solutions that really haven't worked except on his bank account?

Perhaps the most important question of all... why is that the left simply doesn't care about the answers to those questions? But then - they don't care what Hillary Clinton does either so it's no big surprise.

Like Trump's other appointments, Pruitt will be a great choice. He will be able to reign in the overzealous, emotional agency and keep it focused on real issues and find real solutions. And the other plus about his appointment? Far left zealots who currently work for the EPA might just resign if he is confirmed by the Senate - thus reducing the size of government. How bad could that be?

Missouri House Bill Would Make Gun-Free Business Owners Liable

This may stir up controversy. If so - that's OK. At least it will get people thinking...

Do you own a gun? Do you have a license to legally carry it? Have you been prevented from carrying it by certain businesses owners who have declared their business property to be “gun-free?” Or have you carried into the business anyway – which is some states is a crime?

One state representative-elect in Missouri has decided that business owners who refuse to allow legally armed citizens to carry their firearms onto/into their businesses can be sued by any citizen who is on or in their business property, unarmed against their will, and is injured by another person or animal.

Newly elected Representative Nick Shroer will be introducing House Bill 96, which would allow gun carriers to file suit against businesses that enforce gun-free zones on their property.

Business owners who declare their property to be gun-free would be liable for any injuries sustained that could have been prevented had the injured party been allowed to carry their firearm on their person while on the property.

In some ways a business owner's decision to forbid firearms on their business property is discrimination on the level of the same-sex marriage vs businesses controversy. Stay with me here.

Businesses are not allowed to refuse service to a same-sex couple up to and including forced participation in their wedding if one is a photographer or a baker.

Yet states allow business owners to discriminate against gun license holders by refusing service to them if they're carrying their legally registered, licensed firearm. In Texas the law says if the business owner(s) post an official 30.06 and/or 30.07 sign (concealed and non-concealed) in their business window or in a prominent place near the entrance, licensed gun owners may not enter the business carrying a firearm.

There are no criteria for the business owners to meet when deciding their businesses are legally gun-free. At least here in Texas, business owners merely have to post the sign to instantly make it illegal for a licensed gun owner to carry on the business premises.

Why is that not discrimination against a protected class of people? If the law says I'm legally licensed to carry a firearm in public am I not protected by that law? And if the law allows business owners to say “Not in my business,” how is that not discrimination against those with a legal right to carry?

Of course, gun owners will never be placed in a protected class. That wouldn't be politically correct. Yet the principle is the same. If business owners are not allowed to discriminate against people for their lifestyle choices (which is a Supreme Court decision not an actual, written law) why should they be able to discriminate against someone for legally exercising their guaranteed Second Amendment right?

Representative Shroer says his bill wouldn't have affected any cases in Missouri but instead refers to the mass shooting inside the gun-free theater in Aurora in 2012. The theater was designated by the corporation as a gun-free zone. Yet, if one or more theatergoers had been armed that evening they very well could have stopped the killings before the numbers began to add up.

Shroer says business owners who declare their businesses gun-free put targets on every one of their customers. And that's true. Gun-free zones often draw crazed murderers because they know they will meet little to no resistance.

It's about time to hold business owners accountable as accomplices to the murders of innocent people.

School System Bans Classic Books For Political Correctness

It's a sad day for school children in Accomack County Public Schools in Virginia. Accomack County, a peninsula between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, is probably best known for Chincoteague Island, a small island famous for wild ponies and the annual “Pony Penning” event.

Accomack County Public School system can now be known for setting back time and forcing censorship in the name of political correctness.

It seems a parent of one of their students (just one) complained to the school system because two classic books - “To Kill A Mockingbird” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” - have racial slurs in them. The school system has “temporarily” pulled them from all county school libraries.

Apparently, rather than deal with the truth that both classic books were written with the authentic language of the period about which they were written and, therefore, were not meant to be racist but merely accurate, is more than the school wants to deal with.

Harper Lee and Mark Twain gave us outstanding stories depicting real life in the South. The language in each book was accurate. Neither author meant to offend anyone but instead to tell a story that was believable. How sad that in 2016 we have become so “enlightened” that school officials ban them because someone is offended by words. Perhaps the school system will next set up safe spaces.

It would appear that Huck Finn's friendship with Jim and the development of Jim's character in the story are simply dismissed because the N word is part of the story. Likewise, and for the same reason, the actions of Atticus Finch in defending Tom Robinson, falsely accused of rape, to the best of his ability despite anger and negative pressure from the townsfolk, are also dismissed. And those dismissals are because of non-politically correct language that is accurate and fitting for the story itself.

Harper Lee won a Pulitzer Prize for her book. And today it's banned?

Political correctness is turning this country into a land of whiners and crybabies. People believe they now have the right not to be offended by anyone or anything – and our school systems are reinforcing those beliefs by doing their best to prevent anyone from being offended.

The coddling of college students following the election shows that our young people today cannot deal with real life and adulthood. And now it seems secondary schools are preparing the younger children to grow up to be college crybabies.

I wonder if the child of the parent who complained about the two books listens to rap music....?

To the parents of young people who will be reading classic books in the near future... talk to your kids. Explain to them that life isn't perfect, that words won't harm them and that a book doesn't have to be banned simply because there are words in it that in today's society have been deemed unacceptable in Politically Correctville. 

These two classic stories are bigger and more important than the N word. To Kill A Mockingbird is one of the best novels I have read. To deny students the chance to read such a poignant book is to deny them the chance to learn about values and integrity. Atticus Finch should be considered a hero in every sense of the word and in both the white and black communities. His personal convictions are something which each of us should try to emulate.

To say the school system overreacted to the complaint of one parent is an understatement. And that's part of the problem with today's society. One complaint draws an immediate reaction rather than time and consideration of the larger picture. Where will it end?