Fallujah, My Lai, and the Fifty States

Posted on 2016-11-20 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

“We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” Heard that before? It is a quote, or claimed to be a quote, from the American Phase of the Southeast Asian War (usually called the Vietnamese War in the Fifty States). Wikipedia says, in part: A famous quote from the Vietnam War was a statement attributed to an unnamed U.S. officer by AP correspondent Peter Arnett in his writing about Bến Tre city on 7 February 1968: ‘It became necessary to destroy the town to save it’, a United States major said today. He was talking about the decision by allied commanders to bomb and shell the town regardless of civilian casualties, to rout the Vietcong. The quote became distorted in subsequent publications, eventually becoming the more familiar, “We had to destroy the village in order to save it. Continue reading →

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Stranger With A Gun?

Posted on 2016-11-18 by MamaLiberty

By MamaLiberty

I carry a gun everywhere, all the time. Most people in the grocery store, the bank, the courthouse or anywhere else don’t even seem to notice, except for the few who ask me what I carry, ask if I’m still giving self defense classes, or just want to talk about shooting. I invite them to come shoot with me any time and hand them a business card.

So, I don’t have too many folks to share this picture with here… If you talk to people who are nervous or fearful to see some one carrying a gun, you might want to show it to them. It makes a very important and graphic point…

From Living Freedom, Claire Wolfe’s Blog.

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Electing a President – The Electoral College and the House of Representatives

Posted on 2016-11-18 by TPOL Nathan

by Nathan Barton

US Constitution: Article 2 Section 1 Paragraph 3 (as amended):
“… if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.”

I do not know why those trying to corrupt the Electoral College and throw the 2016 election into the House of Representatives have not bothered to read and understand this. Perhaps they are so enamored of the “fact” that Clinton may have as many as 1 million more popular votes than Trump that they think the American “love” for “democracy” will allow the Constitution to be further gutted. Never mind that several third-party and presumably-neutral if not anti-Trump organizations have conducted surveys and estimate that at least 3 million votes by non-citizens were cast, with the greater majority of those being for Clinton.) Years of Democratic Party work has seemingly paid off for them. Continue reading →

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Der Fuehrer Trump?

Posted on 2016-11-18 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

A website, “Veterans Today” published a lead article last week: “1933: Trump Elected Chancellor” in which Gordon Duff openly states that Trump (or his backers/puppet-masters) are planning a false-flag attack to consolidate his power. The article also repeats all the tired old claims that the Clinton camp repeated thousands of times: we will have no health care, be drinking raw sewage, die from poisoned food (no government inspection), and watch while friends and neighbors who don’t have the right pasty skin color are tortured or killed or deported or put into FEMA camps (or all of the above). The article is “illustrated” by a photo of the burning Reichstag building in Berlin, just to hammer home Duff’s point. Though Duff makes some valid points about the past history and current condition of the Fifty States, it is clear that he shares the Tranzi’s love for the nanny state and a “planned political economy.” And the irrational fears that fuel protesters and rioters across the nation this week. Continue reading →

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The arrogance (and the fear) just won’t stop

Posted on 2016-11-17 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Now more than a week after the latest election for Massa, and the stunning announcement that Trump defeated Clinton, Johnson, McMullin, and Stein, the news continues to pour in. The elites’ arrogance and the irrational fear continue to ramp up. They just don’t get it; history was made and life will go on. Even with Trump.

Debra Saunders, over at Town Hall, reports on the “education” being provided to students in the San Francisco Public Schools, and makes an appeal (which she knows is useless and a waste of electrons) to anti-Trumpers to “leave the kids alone.” But that is PRECISELY the strategy of the Tranzis, of which the ant-Trumpers are the current most prominent element around the world. They can and HAVE created a climate of fear in classrooms and on the streets for their own children and those of both “independents” (moderates) and Republicans about this evil monster who has risen from the sewers and is now stealing their future; sexist and racist and homophobic and warmongering and greedy. Continue reading →

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Baker’s Dozen ™ Odds and Ends for Your “NEO Bag”

Posted on 2016-11-16 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Nope, nothing to do with the Matrix movie arc. Back in the 1980s, before the collapse of the Soviet Union and end of the First Cold War, family members and civilian employees of the US Army in Europe (USAREUR) and US Air Force in Europe (USAFE) had to prepare for a “Noncombatant Evacuation Operation” (NEO). Part of that included a NEO bag for “when the balloon goes up” and Warsaw Pact forces invaded Western Europe, and you had to evacuate to Britain or Ireland. You usually kept it in the trunk of the family car. Today, that is often called a “bugout bag.”

Here are thirteen items that you may not have thought about, but which are useful to have just in case, whether the bag is a backpack or the back of your van or SUV. Continue reading →

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Never mind the results, it is the intent that counts

Posted on 2016-11-16 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

I am sure you’ve heard that before. “Oh, it doesn’t matter if you really don’t do whatever it is that you wanted to do, your heart was in the right place. You had good intentions. You tried.”

“We tried to have a peaceful demonstration.” As reported by the Oregonian, initial reports of the people arrested during Saturday (day 5 of the protests) were intentionally low-balled: instead of 13, 71 people were arrested after closing streets and light-rail routes, attacking people (including a KOIN new filming crew), and throwing lit flares at cops. In many other cities, more protests and some violence flared: a high school girl was beaten up in California for posting a pro-Trump graphic on her Facebook account. More signs and posters and social media posts urging that Trump be killed and Melania be raped are showing up (Breitbart).

Mama’s Note: Isn’t it sad that so many people simply can’t see (or won’t admit to) the stunning hypocrisy of those who want to control our lives? They want to have all of our guns confiscated because someone “might” use them to cause harm (only an excuse, of course), yet they can call for the murder of someone they don’t like without a qualm. “If it saves one life” is clearly only applied to the lives of those they care about. Continue reading →

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Oh the horror of it all

Posted on 2016-11-15 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

The internet and the mainstream media are full of the stories, the columns, and the comments: most talking about how the world and the Fifty States will become a hideous, horrible, fear-driven place because The Donald was elected. If not immediately, then at the end of four years – and if the election of 2016 was “unthinkable” then an eight-year Trump regime would be a nightmare beyond comprehension of the most accomplished of horror movie script writers. Others say not to worry, as this was the last hurrah of white males and the “old America” and in 2020 darkness truly will fall.

It isn’t just the Tranzis, the liberals and progressives, who are screaming this out. Not just the protesters in dozens if not hundreds of American cities (more about that below). Not just the union bosses and the snowflakes in universities and high schools. Much of the fearmongering is coming from libertarians and conservatives (both paleo- and neo-). Continue reading →

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We’re all tired of politics right now, so…

Posted on 2016-11-14 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

A non-political post:

Thank you!

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In defense of the Electoral College

Posted on 2016-11-14 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

The Philadelphia Constitutional Convention, for all of its phony baloney, deception, and raw political maneuvering, got a lot of things worked out pretty well, to try to cement together thirteen independent nations into a single Union.

One of those things was the way of electing the head of the Executive Branch of government. Never mind that there were less complex ways, and ideas (such as the Swiss Federal Council system) that had not yet been thought of or invented. The Founding Fathers were willing to (and some actually wanted) an “elected king,” (bad idea) but with limited powers, (good idea) and NOT elected by “democratic means” – they distrusted and feared democracy: mob rule (good idea). But they also needed to have a system which would be acceptable not just to the big, populous states (such as Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Massachusetts) but to the small, low-population states (such as Delaware and Rhode Island and New Hampshire). Continue reading →

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