Mueller is shaking the trees hoping something will fall out.

Reading the AP news item: "Meuller Warns Lies could Spur Charges" by Chad Day and Eric Tucker in th e Post and Courier November 1st, 2017.  Paul Manafort and Rick Gates allegedly took 21 million dollars from Ukraine Government Officials whom some refer to a mafia or organized crime setup more than a government and didn't pay taxes on the money, instead hiding it from government view.  Ukraine legitimate leaders are angry about it. The average monthly salary in Ukraine is $224. If I was a taxpayer I would be angry. This all happened years ago. Manafort "steered Trump's campaign for much of last year" until he was dumped identified as being a  risk for them.
My view is that some will say that Trump knew about it and is a crook. I say that if the FBI didn't know about it, it is reasonable to assume that Trump did not, either. Without evidence to the contrary, he gets the benefit of a doubt and we move on. Innocent until proven guilty is how we wish to be treated. Right? Same for our President. Otherwise they can just type in lies about anybody, tweet them, and bring them down to ruin.
This fellow, George Papadopoulos, a low level person in Trump's campaign, claims he was told by a Professor based in the UK that the Russians had "dirt on Democrat Clinton in the form of thousands of emails" well before it became public. They suggest the professor's name is  Joseph Mifsud. He says he did not pass the information up because he did not know if it was "real or fake". The article does not say who hacked the emails. George has plead guilty for lying to the FBI about legal contacts with the Russians and is soon to be sentenced. So the bottom line is that Meuller is really reaching for something, anything... shaking the trees, hoping something will fall out.
How many millions of dollars is this investigation costing us?

Alt R, Alt L, Antifa Synonyms for Dumbass

Some Antifa spokesman says we have no resistance to them. That it's a sign US is a weak, a done deal? I guess they don't see us arresting them during and after the fact. We will use our traditional stabilizing force, the Police, to take care of them. It must be a hard thing to realize, waking up in the morning in jail, no one to go your bail. People groaning, farting, complaining, cursing, screaming. Steel doors slamming and hand cuffs rattling. Smell of unwashed bodies. With a toilet? Living in a bathroom? The smell rolls over you. Court coming. Low paid attorney coming. Police record to keep you from getting any kind of decent job. No one wants to hire a convicted troublemaker. I mean, think about it. Would you? Antifa, Alt R, Alt L...all synonyms for dumbass. Go ahead. Nothing has changed. We have a place for you and they will be glad to have you. Jim Self

Don't Assume All Of Islam Is Out To Get Us

Islamic population is 1.6 billion. Some 7%, maybe,  want all non-Muslims dead. Then a large minority want Sharia for all Muslims. The majority do NOT. They want peace and liberty. As they experience what the west stands for through expansion of media into their countries, expectations and desire for liberty and freedom will grow and their majorities for peace will increase. THAT is what Obama should have said over and over again. The fact that he didn't left the world without leadership as he pivoted and danced and golfed and campaigned...for 8 years. I think Trump should name Islamic Fundamentalism when he refers to terrorists, but each time he should remind everyone that a small percentage of Muslims hate the west and are threats and  it is only them we are fighting. It's true, it's the right thing to do, and we should do it. Put the bad guys on the spot. Let everyone know terrorists  are small and insignificant in number,  the world will not be destroyed by them, and allowing clerics to convince their young people to go fight with ISIS is a pointless sacrifice to certain death. 

Let's Pass It So We Can See What Is In It!

  Sometimes I am not completely clear on recent current news but my memory serves to ask... Haven't they been talking about not allowing laptops on airplanes for a month or so now? And weren't they saying it was because laptops and computers can be used to disguise bombs?  Well, isn't that what Trump was talking about? And isn't that the classified information Trump "gave" to the Russians?
  This is when I take a deep, slow breath and try to relax. We talk about the Democrats maybe saying something dumb as if it is a surprise?  Democrats have been waving their "We are stupid Idiots" flag in our faces since Obama won his first term. He "pivoted" from one controversial issue to another...keeping the country in constant uproar, bringing out the worst in our blessed conservatives who brought out the Tea Party. He constantly stirred the pot. His own people said as much...some complaining he did it on purpose and it had no good, useful ending. But I digress. Just do not ever forget the famous phrase by a true example of insatiable special interest appetite for idiocy representative, Nanny Nancy Pelosi... "Let's pass it so we can see what is in it!"
   I think we ought to write a bill called , "God Bless America Bill" or something, that allows class action lawsuits against politicians for being stupid. We can use long words so Democrats can't understand it... and then pass it so we can all "see what is in it". Alas, it would definitely be a Freedom of Speech issue. We CAN, however, criticize Democrats for abusing their liberal right... Freedom to be Stupid, or Freedom To Cater To Special Interest Groups who's interests will definitely lead to the loss of liberty and and destruction of our jobs-rich economy. You ask, jobs-rich? Compared to the rest of the world we are doing pretty good. And, if you don't like it here, be smart and go somewhere else.
Jim Self
jimself1954@gmail.com

What This Is All About?

   Politicians offer to support special interests and their supporters for their votes and contributions in order to be re-elected.

   Hedge funds and Banks must have volatility to make huge profits from speculation in the stock market. Volatility in the stock market is derived from fear and uncertainty. That's why they financed Hillary Clinton. She is the definition of fear and uncertainty. 

   Hedge funds, Banks and big investors influence Big Media to stir fear and controversy which creates volatility. Remember, Hedge funds and banks OWN big media. Big investors  finance controversial activists and special interest groups, stirring fear and volatility. Politicians benefit in terms of votes and contributions from special interest supporters and investors and hedge funds and banks.

   That's why Big Media is slanted to controversy. That's how politicians who stand for policies that will logically lead to the downfall of this country stay in power, like Hillary, Pelosi, Schumer, etc. That's how hedge funds and banks make insane profits consistently. That's where the money and support comes from for never ending LGBT protests,  Idiots for Opening Borders,  Nuts for an Islamic America, Let's Go Bankrupt for Free Health Care, and anti-gun laws for law abiding Americans bent on self protection...to name some. 

   Attempts to fix this may be made by our  political system, but I am doubtful of success.  One thing I can think of that will help and may bring success is to be true to our conservative roots and vote like a conservative. We have 63 million Trump conservatives. That's 48%. Lets take it 51%.  Another thong is not to be sucked in to controversy. It will continue to come like machine gun fire from the Big Media...but if you know their agenda for spreading fear and uncertainty, you CAN calmly ignore all of the lies and fake news. We must talk about it, write about it, mail  letters to our relatives about how important our votes are. We don't have to get in a hurry or write checks. But we must get it done one email, one letter, one phone call at a time.  We have until 2020 to keep this movement going forward. The circle of corruption is the enemy of liberty and they are not going away. Their goal is to make money and stay in power...but they act like they support some kind of unidentified utopia that they WANT to exist...that will save everyone from personal failure. It is not possible, of course, but as crazy as it is, they could succeed.   

    I love my country. I love the USA. I support Donald Trump absolutely. 

James L. Self 

Twitter @SelfJim

Beware Liberals Accusing Conservatives of being "Inferior Species"

   In an editorial today Joe Darby said that "Good people could only justify owning other people by labeling those who were owned as an inferior species." *
   He's right. Absolutely. He referred to white's owning black African people as slaves. I am talking about collectivist/liberal/progressive/communist/socialist government owning us. They all  mean the same thing.
   Beyond the topic and back to the means, though, it struck resonant to me that this is something of what we are doing here in America right now. Liberals protesters are single issue protesters. They are emotional/angry and focused on one thing with total disregard for the stability of the health of the nation. Some are paid by wealthy activists.  They do not know how their numbers can and may lead to collapse of our country... moving the country into a socialist economy and government where "we the people" meaning the liberals...meaning the "confiscationists" ...take the assets of the wealthy and redistribute it to those with needs. They won't have to have the police show up to take everything, though. It will all be done through income and asset taxation.  Investors will stop investing because if it isn't profitable, it isn't going to happen. The stock market will crash. The government will enact emergency measures, suspending the constitution. We'll have soldiers on street corners, shortages in everything.  The poor will have to accept a check which will be a very low wage for their work. Yes, they will have to work. No one will get a free ride. If they won't work, they will starve. The government will become a huge business enterprise with special interests running everything because they will own everything, like East Germany before reunification, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba. They are all a little bit different but they all have it in common that a person stops being an individual and becomes an Government asset.
   We had better keep in mind that all it takes is a small group of "intellectuals" with financial support to ignite all of the single issue screamers into one party to take over, promising everything. Read the statistics on the high number of millennials living in their parent's homes, high percentages not working, requiring welfare and health care support, voting Democrat to get what they want. You read that and you will understand how Hillary came so close to winning.
   Enough. My point is that there has always been and will forever be a tug of war between clearly defined  Individual Rights under the Law,  Private Ownership of the Means of Production and Property, all Protected by an  Immutable Constitution...and Government Ownership of the Means of Production, No Written Constitution to Protect Individual Rights. What this means is the Government will be able to pick anyone up, torture, maim, kill them and to object will be drawing the same treatment to yourself. It's the difference between being ruled by a Constitution or a sociopath with a machine gun like Adolf Hitler. And our Adolf Hitler will not give a damn about their pie in the sky liberal causes. There will be shortages of everything. Life will be work and sleep and listening to propaganda about how great the revolutionary life is...which will be crap, but you will be horrified at how much of it is believed by your children.  The birth rate and population will be decimated. We will live in this miserable world in much smaller numbers until we get our shit together and overthrow that government.
    The next time you see liberals saying that conservatives are an "inferior species", to borrow Joe Darby's phrase, remember they may not believe it, they may not admit it, they probably haven't thought it through, but by convincing a majority of voters to vote Democrat they are trying to set us up to make slaves out of all of us.
 
* Quote from Heritage Is Not a Defense of Slavery, by Joe Darby, Published in the Post and Courier editorial page, 4/29/2017.

Why Do Our Children Fail To Launch?

   When we cater to children, showering them with gifts for their "love", we teach them to expect what they want to be given to them with no quid pro quo. If a spoiled child desires a bicycle and parents require him to do something to get it, like pick up his dirty clothes from the floor and maybe clean his bathroom thoroughly, and/or required to cut the grass without payment three or four times, he will may balk because he has always been supplied with  things without having to do anything for them...no quid pro quo. This child will resent having to study. He may resent having to work for income. He may resent having to deal with a used car instead of a new car. He may seek to have a new home as a first home and may try to purchase a house which he has no chance of affording.
   He may be very ready to make compromises that will slow his progress toward whatever his ideal goals are in life because he cannot see himself working and achieving those goals. He never had to work to achieve anything before. He will see himself falling behind others and he may not have a clue as to why. Not actually being able to justify blaming others for his shortcomings he may just resign himself to blaming fate, which is just blaming others for your own shortcomings.

   So the message here is to be careful with your most precious accomplishments...your children. You are doing your child a favor when you attach a quid pro quo. If they cannot find initiative in themselves to strive for success, to work for their future, their future may be your couch, your breakfast table, your third room and your  computer. It's called failing to launch and it's not rocket science.
    

Saving the U.S., one word at a time.

   So, Democrats have moved way out to the left where their only supporters dwell. They are fighting for birth control by abortion while Tea Party right wingers sometimes manage to pass legislation to limit them... which will probably all be declared unconstitutional, and preserving a broken healthcare system while praying the US Taxpayer will end up paying for their healthcare. Meanwhile, Republicans constantly face vicious verbal attacks by the extreme right wing tea party calling them RINOS and the left wing big media teams up with Left wing extremists' one sided, and often false narratives to create, magnify and sustain the left's virtue.
   The way I see it, there is nothing virtuous about abortion or leading this country down the path to Socialism/Communism  like East Germany before the wall came down. I should not have to pay for Democrats health care. We are borrowing to stay afloat and that means we are broke.
    I have a feeling that if it were not for the internet, the ends would fold up, big media would have to resume it's truly balanced coverage of real issues for truly balanced people and the moderates could resume bipartisan governing. But the internet is here to stay.
   We've got to figure out a way to govern. The Republican Party is the only party interested in doing the work of the government. The Tea Party hurts everyone when they attack and beat the hell out of  moderate Republicans. They try to destroy the only part of the government that is working. It won't do any good to tell them to stop.  Ignoring them may be the only way to move forward.
    It seems that until we get a bipartisan group thinking and discussing the problem like MATURE ADULTS, we will not start fixing this Government and this country.

America Must Turn Off of The Road to Destruction. Start By Boosting Conservative Voting. If We Don't Try, We Have Ourselves To Blame.

    Somehow, we in America, have found ourselves battling with three groups...special interest activists, corrupted big media, and Socialist politicians who owe their jobs to those who want to live their lives in ways that are contrary to those values consistent with liberty for all. I will call them the evil three.
   Some examples follow:
   Women fighting for the right to dismember babies in the womb as if it were no more significant than peeling a potato; massive welfare and tax credit entitlements for those unwilling to support themselves;  single payer system to pay for health insurance...meaning U.S. Taxpayer; fighting any efforts to stem the inflow and use of illegal drugs fueling gang war activity and deaths of probably millions each year; expanding borrowing by students for needless college degrees saddling them with $25000 to $100000 in debt that has not been vetted...in other words...sub-prime. We are seeing a softening of desire to enforce the law for leftist politicians. The smoke of corruption is heavy, but with no trial there is no evidence to ponder. Such was the case with Hillary Clinton's selling of American power as Secretary of State under the previous administration. As long as the charges remain a matter of media speculation the bad actors will be protected and enabled.
   These are just a few causes within the left agenda. In a sense what we are seeing is the leftist, unproductive but needing crowd being organized by activists with money and the agenda of acquiring power and control. The productive crowd is NOT being organized. The productive crowd is comfortable, busy, and aware of their own ability to support themselves. If the left continues to organize their special interest groups with no likewise organization of conservatives the end result may be the end of what we know as America.
    Most people don't know what socialism is, but it makes them feel good. No hunger, free education, free childcare, rents paid, Government checks and tax credits galore. Socialism is East Germany. Socialism is Communism. Socialism is collectivism. Venezuela protesting, getting shot by police,  attacked by tear gas as a result of their Socialist government right now...today.     It is a process and it is predictable. Things we are seeing now: All conservative politicians are being character assassinated by the evil three: special interest activists, big media, and leftist/Democrat politicians who owe their jobs to socialist activists. These three scratch each others' backs.
   This is what has been happening and will continue to happen:  Debt spending skyrockets. (Obama) Gov. borrowing continually and gradually sets off inflation.  (Anyone with a debit card knows that we have had a slow inflation for years but they don't talk about it. )  Confronted by the violent attacks of leftist propaganda machine, by the evil three, conservative voters feel helpless and afraid to try to stop the spending and changes.
   The truth is that the vast majority of people in this country are conservatives. We believe in being independent, we satisfy our own needs through a good work ethic and healthy decisions, we respect and worship God in our own ways, and we respect strength and charity. We do the best we can. And we expect others to do the same.  We all would like to live in a place where we don't lock our doors at night. Many do.
   If you look out over the heads of the the American people you will see many of them standing on tip toes looking at each other, shouting. Those are the Democrats. The vast majority will be quietly looking down at the ground. They are paying attention to their own condition, their own plans, and their next steps toward improving their own lives. These are your conservatives.
   Most conservatives don't vote now.  Many more may stop. Anyone they send to Washington will be character-assassinated by the evil three as  racist, sexist, closed minded, uncooperative people who refuse to work together and compromise...while they are the ones absolutely refusing to compromise on anything. (Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Shumer)
   And so it continues:   Voters elect a conservative government in reaction to the mistakes by the previous administration and the damage it has done to the country. But they are only strong as long as their courage and energy to fight lasts. Big Media pounds away every day on the present administration with Intelligently Contrived Propaganda...ICP...while special interest activists and other politicians constantly character-assassinate all conservative comers until they are burnt out and afraid to do anything. Eventually, the economy will spiral down due to bad sub-prime loans to students and possibly sub-prime mortgage loans again. Recession will be much worse this time because of the debt service. Statistics say that 1 in 5 households have no one working. That's a really bad thing. It describes how the weakness in our economy that;s been balanced with  Taxes on the wealthy will inevitably come to confiscatory rates...because that is what all of this is about...the politics of envy...the fuel of Socialism. The Government will need the money and it will take it from the only people who have it...the wealthy. At some point, credit, upon which most companies rely to survive to some degree, will dry up because investors will not invest if their profits are confiscated. When that happens you will see businesses closing up and shrinking everywhere...and unemployment will skyrocket further. Tax revenues will fall, welfare spending will accelerate and the government will have to basically print money to keep the checks going out to teachers, policemen, paramedics, sanitation workers and welfare recipients whose number will skyrocket as unemployment increases. But this printing of money  cannot go on forever. Inflation will grow quickly then, and bread may rise to $20 a loaf. Imagine that. Welfare income will become entirely insufficient at those prices. People will get hungry. There are 318 million people living in this country. Hungry people will riot. The government will have no choice but to declare martial law. And that will be that.
   Many say, "Oh Jim...Oh, Dad...that's not going to happen." But I see it coming. The ingredients are here. That is where we are headed. Conservatives can see this happening and want to stop it, but feel helpless as we get shouted down and character-assassinated.
   We must not lay down and be quiet. We must fight for Liberty for our children and our grandchildren. I don't know how I can help the cause by getting more conservative voters to the polls but we must figure this out and get it done. When we let 26% of eligible voters almost send a sorry excuse for responsible politician like Hillary Clinton to the White House?  If not for the electoral college it may have happened. It was too close. By the way, I am all for having a woman as President, but after Benghazi, after Pay To Play, not her!
   We see Donald Trump's mistakes. What we don't see are the mistakes made by experienced politicians who are used to hiding them...making back door agreements with special interest groups that leave this country a bill to pay, abusing power in private.   If we only knew, it would make President Trump look like an absolute saint. We have made the first step and we were lucky. Let's not leave the next step to luck. Let's get behind our President to enact his agenda. Lets pound away on the Republican woosies who are afraid to act. We must have the courage to do the right thing for our country. I will make my mind up on one issue at a time and NOT give a damn about what big media has to say about it. You have to read it or turn on the news to be aware of their propaganda. I will instead choose what I feel is right for the country. I will rely on common sense.  I hope you do, too.  We must take control of our destiny before it is snatched from us.  Remember, Liberty and the United States of America mean the same damn thing. We lose one, we lose the other.
   If you agree, please spread this around. You DO have some power, but you have to believe and have the courage to stand for something. If we don't try, we have ourselves to blame.

Morning Coffee with Jim Self: Just Pass a 12 cent Gas Tax and Let's Move On

Morning Coffee with Jim Self: Just Pass a 12 cent Gas Tax and Let's Move On:    3/22/2017 From the desk of Jim Self South Carolina is considering a gas tax...and a sales tax increase on automobiles. Our new Governor...

Just Pass a 12 cent Gas Tax and Let's Move On

   3/22/2017 From the desk of Jim Self
South Carolina is considering a gas tax...and a sales tax increase on automobiles. Our new Governor, Henry McMaster, suggested last week that the present gas tax, which is the lowest in the country, supposedly, is not entirely going to road maintenance, which, to me, suggests that part of it is being hijacked to use in other areas. The target of 12 cents a gallon is set to take about 60 dollars a year from each of us SC drivers.
   Now I am going to tell you what I think.
The sales tax is already $300. That's enough. Period. Don't bugger with that.
If the 12 cents a gallon will do it, that's ok with me. About 30% will be paid by out of state drivers. BUT, make sure that money goes toward road maintenance. All of it.
And if the present gas tax revenue isn't all going toward road maintenance, correct that issue.

According to the DOT and the Post and Courier;
29% of urban roadways are in poor condition
35% are in mediocre condition
19% are in fair condiition
17% are in good condition

The TRIP Report...a national transportation research group based in Washington, D.C. is used by the Post and Courier unnecessarily  back up their claims of this need and most probably to supply filler material. There is no way a bunch of suited college grads living off of lobbying salaries in DC can estimate my auto maintenance costs by $1850 a year (per auto) and not be transparently and completely wrong. I wish we wouldn't use information like that. It's got to be nonsense.
We South Carolinians do need to improve our roads. 12 cents a gallon is not going to break us. Now I wish they would just do it and move on.

Things That Are Important and that WE Cannot Afford To Forget About

   As weeks turn to months, things tend to be replaced in our day to day minds. Politically, somehow we need to remember what is important and to contribute to guiding this country as much as possible.   Otherwise we allow other people to do it and that is definitely unwise. So, I am contributing a list of some things that I think are important and we conservative voters...sane people...ought to consider ongoing.

   Balance the federal budget.  No person, no country, no entity can continue to live on credit indefinitely. The credit will eventually run out. THEN WHAT HAPPENS? For a person the result is bankruptcy.  For a country the result is a depression. It could take 20 years and 50 million deaths to restart a viable economy in the United States. We MUST get control of our spending and bring the revenue/expenditure picture back to balance. The cost of not doing this is destruction, and remember, when the U.S. coughs, the entire world catches a cold. It will be world wide.
   Use Yucca mountain. We invested 12 billion dollars there. We have nuclear waste all over the country and it needs to be taken better care of. The process needs to be as cheap as possible and security must be unquestionable. Imagine the cost of maintaining all of these places. Incredible.
   Jam phones in prisons. The FCC has not allowed this and it has to happen. We are hamstringing prison security our own security by being soft on this issue.
   We must have Health Insurance with low premiums and low deductibles...affordable. I should not have to pay for health insurance for others. On the other hand, health insurance should be affordable and deductibles should be reasonable. If we make it affordable then everyone can afford it. My insurance costs me $230 a month with a 2000 dollar deductice. I like it. More than $2000 for deductibe is too high. Policies should be choices for coverage.  Remember this. If the government can't get beyond the politics of entitlement it absolutely will not be able to contain costs health insurance for anyone. If it can't then, it needs to get out of the Health Insurance business.
   We must change our immigration laws AND control our Southern border. Across this open border we have allowed:
millions of unskilled, welfare dependent and many being criminally inclined people,
millions of pounds of drugs and thousands of drug dealers who are armed and dangerous thugs fueling gang (Chicago murder type) activity and the like in our communities everywhere in our country,
a significant amount of human trafficking which brings lost female souls here  to be used by the most evil of men.
   Many American stolen cars are taken across the border...if they can move a stolen car across the border do not think for a second that they are not taking our young American girls South to be sexually used and then destroyed there, too.
   That wall needs to be built as soon as possible and the border must be sealed.
   Our Politicians are for sale to one way thinkers for votes and money.  American must take a fresh look at how we finance our political campaigns and possibly at term limits...some way to take control back from big and dark and ill gotten (Clinton pay to play type) money, leveling the playing field because, as we have seen with the 2007 credit bubble,  big money interests do not necessarily have America's  best interests at heart.
    One way thinkers fight for what they want and do not consider the costs. Many are angry and ignorant...perfect tools for big money interests like Soros. From what I have seen, protesters are in low numbers and angry. That pretty much means organized by someone or some organization from a splinter group. They really don't matter, except to the Media. We cannot allow one way thinkers to steer this country. We must realize when we are being played and avoid it. Turn it off. Then we can to all get involved in a mature, effective way and control direction we are headed.
   Write to Congressional leaders and to POTUS. Pass things along that make sense to you. Be calm. Be effective. Be parental. Remember, an actual letter seems to get the most attention. Please feel free to forward this letter anywhere you like. God love you, and God Bless America.
Jim Self  jimself1954@gmail.com

One Way Thinkers vs. Two Way Thinkers

     3/11/2017   Let me begin with a notion that, I believe, has a lot of merit and may explain much of what we are seeing. "One way thinkers".. for me, means  people who are mostly single issue voters, what we call liberals and progressives...which are fancy, political credibility applying words for people who demand the authority to make everyone happy...where the end is the only thing that is important...Alinsky said that...without considering the responsibility for the means. Two way thinkers want many of  the same things, but they are responsible people who also consider the costs.
    One way thinkers demand  "the authority to make everyone happy" and ignore those who get hurt. In abortion, who is happy and who gets hurt? In welfare, who is happy and who gets hurt? The "means", are the cost in terms of lives lost in riots and assassinations, money cost of permanent entitlements, traditions and value systems like having a family, getting married, raising children, teaching them to get an education and be responsible and independent are assaulted and damaged, cars burned, windows broken, policemen shot, stores looted, laws ignored by common people, powerful people, government leaders, presidential candidates. These "means" as a way to make everyone happy amount to attacking the things that make us  strong and different from European and third world countries.  One way thinkers.
    I think that the number of one way thinkers may not be increasing as they desperately want us to believe. They, a general percentage of our population, have been there all the time. That number could be and probably is fairly steady. Our PERCEPTION of the group has been changed by a couple of things...notably, fake internet news, low information, agenda driven bloggers and commentators now having a microphone to the world, development of the art of argument to the point of terrorism, and the tendency of the main stream media to follow the internet and getting lost in the "giggle", taking us down the drain with them.
   The power of one way thinkers comes from the fear they create in two way thinkers...so much so that the two wayers will retreat, not vote, not speak...and allow the one wayers to have their way. THAT is what all of this protesting and violence and terrorizing arguments are all about.  They are trying to terrorize us two way thinkers from standing up for what we believe in. If you are pro life you are "at war" with feminism. If you have a problem with men in your little girl's bathroom then you are at war with LGBT crowd. If you like your gun in your pocket then you are paranoid and at war with all innocents of the world. Ya get it? Who are you at war with?
   Free day care for every mother in the country would be a wonderful thing! But who is going to pay for it? One way thinkers don't care about that, but they still want it. One way thinkers have been fighting for government support forever. It has always, is now, and will always be there. In this Socialistic non-thinking, the consequences are truly terrible. But one way thinkers don't think about the consequences. They are not programmed to think that way. Read "The Liberal Mind" by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., MD. "The Psychological Causes of Political Madness".
   These one way thinkers keep pushing and pushing, making their small presence appear to be quite large and making politicians uncomfortable while gaining ground by electing leaders who turn out to be boneheads. In Europe, these boneheaded politicians have allowed millions on refugees to flood into their cities, draining their treasuries, refusing to assimilate and clamoring to change the laws that made their cultures what they are. These boneheads will take some time to change out through elections and all the time the two way thinkers will have to deal with the protests and riots by one wayers who will claim that two wayers are at war with innocent immigrant families, ignoring the wholesale rape and murder of citizens.
   Europe has a tough way to go and it will take a long time to fix. Two way thinkers in America see the issue and want to head it off. Two way thinkers almost lost the last election by allowing the one wayers to scare them off from voting. Only 50% of the voters actually voted. The one wayers want us to think that the other non-voting 50% are like them...fuel for their arguments for their own credibility. But don't believe them. There are far more thinking, responsible people in the country than there are boneheads.
 Now, one way thinkers try every day to vilify President Trump any way they can. The main stream media is still on the Dump Trump Train, solidly...overreacting, making every flaw, every slight misstep and mistake evidence of lies, cover up, and crime. It's as bad for Trump as it was for Hillary, except that for Hillary there was evidence and most of it was probably true. For Trump, it's just anything and everything the one way thinkers can conjure up with their internet tools and sick imaginations.
   So, I like the idea that the terms Liberal and Progressive give political credibility to common one way thinkers who are distinguished only for their "low information" and their ability to ignore and deny responsibility for the negative consequences of there demands. And that they use violence and terrorizing arguments to silence their opponents and victims...and to make their make their modest numbers appear to be much larger and therefore more politically significant.
   Jim Self  jimself1954@gmail.com

Boneheads, Idiots, Sexists, People I Wouldn't Let In My House, , etc.

   3/3/2017   Representative Cedric Richmond, a Democratic Congressman from Louisiana's 2nd district which includes New Orleans, since 2011,  is my sexist and bonehead pick of the day today for his sexist "joke" about Kellyanne Conway. No reason to rehash that immaturity here. Does he think that his constituents are amused by his clearly and undeniably sexist comment? Does he think that his constituents are trash minded and that they will be amazed and amused by his off color joke about Kellyanne Conway, for whom we Republicans of all colors have enormous respect? Being that "Comfortable" ...as he says he meant, which just made the comment worse... can bring a congressman  to commit stupid acts like spending money illegally and lending support for issues for bribes. If he does that he can wind up in jail...on his own knees...the same place those of  those without character end up. I wouldn't wish that on anyone...neither should he...and there is not a damn thing funny about it. And the people of New Orleans deserve to have serious representation. Who takes  this guy seriously? Pool hall buddies, maybe.

   3/5/2017 Today it came out that the Obama administration may have tapped Trumps' phones prior to the election. It would have required a court order. It's getting a lot of mileage.

   3/5/2017 MSM still seeking far right...neo-nazi, misogynist, anti-semite...propaganda to present as if it is Republican dogma. This activity supplies MSM with plenty of ammunition when their other propaganda loses steam.

Jim Self
jimself1954@gmail.com

Associated Press Dump Trump Train is Out of Gas

   David A. Lieb from the Associated Press is giving a foot up for ex-Attorney General Eric Holder in the Post and Courier today, He describes a path to regain Democratic power  by re-drawing voter district lines and winning Governor seats and such in swing states. This doesn't mean much to us "regular" folks who work for a living and yearn for a day or two a week when we can do what we love, with those we love, and maybe complete a chore before going back to the grind on Monday. Holder demonizes us Republicans who "rigged the local elections"...look...he has to say something. Holder says Democrats failed to focus on local elections. Yeah. While Obama led them over the cliff.     Eric Holder wants money in order to do this. Lieb is trying to help him get it. And some will contribute. But most big money supporters will move to the side who has the power. Wealthy people didn't get that way being stupid. Meanwhile the AP will continue running it's "Dump Trump Train" until it runs out of gas. They probably won't go away completely, but they will fade into the background for the foreseeable future. People quickly get tired of the constant whining of spoiled children and news agencies with transparent agendas.

To Kathleen Parker

Kathleen,
   Trump's solicitousness toward Putin, some of it tongue in cheek, obviously, is compared to what? No relationship at all? No communication? I don't think that the possibility of us sending a cruise missile down his chimney if things don't go well is a basis of understanding that I could work with. I would rather have my President speaking to him than not.
   The unwillingness of our administration to declaim moral equivalence. I did not hear him say that. What he didn't say was that Putin and Russia were evil and America was innocent. The man is trying to get some kind of relationship going where they can communicate. He can't do that while he shoots spitballs at him in public.
   And what I heard him say to our allies was that they needed to pay their fair share for our help. That's all I heard him say. That's how I feel about it, too.
   I want to see problems and solutions discussed. I want to see the long term viability of this country discussed...if you are interested in what I am worried about...think about that. In my mind the  failure of character  demonstrated in the leaked Democratic emails,   the "obvious to anyone with a brain" criminal bribery in the US State Department, for Christ's sake...and the failure of the main stream media to jump on Hillary Clinton and squeeze her until she landed in jail...are all signs of the loss of what got us here in the first place...our morale compass.  Is there a pol who can be expected to say the same things in public that he says behind closed doors, Kathleen? I can think of two or three possibilities.
   I think we have let the kids play long enough. We need for the serious people in America, you included, to start addressing problems and solutions.
Jim Self
116 Long Bow Rd.
Summerville, SC 29485
   

One Thing We Can Trust the Government To Do is To Screw Us

   You know why we don't have a working instant background check system? Because we don't trust the government not to expand the "check" into a "denial". The FBI was reduced to having to call around to the surrounding counties to see if Mr. Dylann Roof, the Charleston massacre boy/man had any legal problems that would stop him from obtaining a handgun within 3 days. Whose fault is that? You'd think, with all of the thousands of college educated FBI people, that they could come up with a way to check someone out quicker than that in the time since computers and the internet have been here. You'd think. I guess I know why, though. It's because in order to pass a law that requires everyone to get cleared before they buy a gun, they must deny them the ability to buy that gun...until they are cleared. I get it. All they have to do then is to refuse to clear anyone and they have what they wanted in the first place. Then all they have to do is make the rest of our guns illegal like they did in Australia and we'd have utopia.
    Why don't I trust the government? Take Social Security. Until LBJ was elected by liberals....that means "Give away money until the system collapses...then enslave everyone and we'll have utopia", the Social Security system was a trust fund. LBJ needed money to pay for his war in Vietnam and his "Great Society" welfare program. So he hijacked the social security trust fund, dumping it into the general fund with what he called the "Unified Budget Act". And just like he said after the law passed, minorities...he used the N word... would be voting for Democrats for 200 years. I have seen and heard the tape. I believe it was real. Votes. Screwed America for votes. And they never fixed it. Politicians. We can't trust them.
  LBJ is long gone and I am glad he is.   We cannot change what has happened. But what we must do is to require truth from our politicians. We would have control of our gun sales if we could trust our government. But we can't.
   The government is busy trying to get to the point where it can deny Social Security benefits to more elderly people and get away with it POLITICALLY. That means, do it and still not get voted out of office for it.
   I personally think that term limits and campaign finance reform  would go a long way toward fixing our government. As it is now from day one politicians have to begin soliciting donations for relection...in other words, making promises to special interest groups...those with deep and shallow pockets. We need to stop that. We need to level the playing field. Right now  the only thing a politician needs is enough money to get a firey, utopia promising message to every fire breathing protester in the country.
    And we, the taxpayers, the folks with jobs, the responsible, sane crowd, the ones that pay the bills and shoulder the debt, still have to finagle time off from work to vote! There is something that we CAN trust the government to do and that is to do everything they can to screw us!

Bill Clinton Did the Same Thing As Trump In 1995

Actually, this is a hell of a lot worse than what Trump is doing. Think about it.

In his 1995 State of the Union address, President Bill Clinton said:
“We are a nation of immigrants.. but we are a nation of laws. Our nation is rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country…
“Illegal immigrants take jobs from citizens or legal immigrants, they impose burdens on our taxpayers…
“That is why we are doubling the number of border guards, deporting more illegal immigrants than ever before, cracking down on illegal hiring, barring benefits to illegal aliens, and we will do more to speed the deportation of illegal immigrants arrested for crimes…
“It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that has occurred in the last few years.. .and we must do more to stop it.”

  1995 Bill Clinton State of the Union, Biden and other Dems refused to accept Vietnamese refugees, Flashback: Jerry Brown, Trump travel ban, Vietnamese refugees, WorldTribune.com

Did the MSM villify Clinton like they are to Trump? I don't remember it that way. 

Climate Change...When We Can't Trust The Scientists or Politicians

   The present argument over climate scientist emails is interesting in that they are saying that releasing them would corrupt the scientific method. Nonsense. Exposing the discussion will only expose the doubts AND the evidence. Ya know...this IS a trial, and a most important one. The trial is whether climate change is real, what will be the consequences of it, did humans contribute to it significantly, and can humans do anything to improve the outcome. Those emails are the evidence. They expose the weaknesses and the strengths of the evidence. There are potentially huge changes involved...and then maybe not.
   I see the western world as very much like a lid to a quart mason jar setting on a table top...surrounded by the mason jars. We, the western world, are like the top. The jars are the billions and billions of 3rd world people (who make less than $2 a day)  who need electrical energy. COAL, my friends, the ass kicker source of steam/electrical generation,  is the way to get it. The CO2 is coming, Sweetheart!
   Citing the terrible consequences of global warming...and maybe not...I think the scientific world should respect our involvement and include us in the discussion. I read the books, but I am coming to the conclusion that a smart person can convince us of anything if we are willing to leave the interpretation of the "evidence" to them in their secrecy. See what I am getting at? The emails matter. This world can fall apart if we cannot trust the politicians and scientists.
 
 
   
   

Where it Belongs

   USA jihadi training dumps are in the news....jihadi clerics...what are they doing? One thing they are doing is making money. I guarantee it. To send to their war making bro's overseas? What do I think? Most or all of that money is going into their own bank accounts, financing as rich a life style as they can, in their closed cell societies where slavery of their women is institutionalized with traditions that are centuries old and written in Sharia stone and protected by the threat of a horribly violent death. This Sharia thing should have been canned a long time ago but it wasn't because it's a damned good living.
   And every time we have a shooting....a "Lone Wolf"...or better...a "Shithouse Rat", who attacks a soft target and murders unprepared people in gun free zones, the whole jihadi cleric/army thing comes crashing into our living rooms, compliments of sensationalism seeking/click generating "journalism".
   Listen. Don't be fooled. Don't be scared. We are in no more danger now than we were 30 years ago. Just get your concealed weapons permit and carry a gun. Train to use it...be a perfect shot. Then, the unlikely time a killer approaches you in a Wal Mart parking lot, you will have the street smarts to see him coming and the ability to blow his brain out all over the pavement...where it belongs.