michaelcalpino

After a year and a half I do not understand the fanaticism of the mask wearers and the government officials that enable and encourage them. At the beginning of the pandemic St. Fauci himself declared them basically useless. A month later he became the head mask Nazi; personal behavior aside. As the pandemic wore on it became obvious that states and localities that had mask mandates fared no better that those who didn't. In fact, they had more cases and deaths. That is the science of statistics. The other scientific fact is that virus particles are are hundreds of times smaller than the weave of cloth masks and surgical masks have no ability to contain the aerosol. The most they can do is contain the droplets of a cough or sneeze of a sick person. Nothing else. Yet for way too many, mask wearing has become a religion. How else do you explain the absolute absurd behavior of people. Wearing them alone outside, alone in their car, while jogging, trying to keep it on a three year old who has, statistically, zero chance of getting sick and dying. Wearing them even after being “vaccinated”. “Vaccination” has become a cult all of its own now, becoming a natural extension of the masking religion. Medical science established over decades and centuries, along with common sense, have been completely ignored since the early stages of the Covid Crisis. The worst of it has to do with masking children; this is child abuse. As mentioned earlier, they have a practically zero chance of serious illness or death. More children have been victims of gun violence than have died of Covid. Masking has been shown to be harmful to them, constantly breathing in carbon dioxide and a wide variety of pathogens that grow in that moist environment. Then there is the psychological effect. Children need to see faces to learn how to properly interact with others. Be honest, we all need to see someone smile at us. Yet municipalities, and whole countries, are bring back mask mandates and lockdowns. In the U.S. masking is recommended for all children in school. The Delta Variant is supposed to be much more contagious so if masking and lockdowns didn't work with regular Covid, what makes these idiots think they will work against a more contagious strain? It will go through the masks just as easily, it will infect people funneled into big box stores even more easily. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result. So masking and lockdowns are not science or even common sense; so what are they? Masks are a symbol like a flag or a MAGA hat, a gang tattoo or a uniform. They demonstrate the adherence to a particular group or ideology. So who makes up this group? The reasons are not monolithic but they do have a common denominator. Some people have been so gripped by the fear propagated by the government and their media propagandists that they are terrified to have any normal interactions with their fellow citizens and cannot understand why others are not as fearful as they. In the U.K. behavioral scientists were brought in to increase people's fear level because it was thought that early on people didn't take the pandemic seriously enough. They did a great job there, and here as well. Six months ago when a poll was taken people thought that the Covid deaths were already in the tens of millions in the U.S. and there were similar exaggerated beliefs in the U.K. This for a flu that has a well over a 99% survival rate. Studies have shown that obesity and its handmaiden diabetes are the two greatest risk factors or comorbidities. Covid is not Ebola or the Black Death. But people think it is so they live in mortal fear praying at the altar of St. Fauci and doing any penance he asks in order to preserve their lives. Then there are those who not only live in fear but are evangelists for the cause. Death from Covid is their hell and salvation exists only in following everything St. Fauci, the WHO and the government tell them. Of course not even the WHO is recommending children wear masks but consistency fell out the window with common sense a long time ago. The difference between evangelical Christians and these Covid evangelicals is that their personal salvation is insecure as long as there are sinners who won't mask up or get “vaccinated.” These defiant reprobates not only put their own lives at risk but the lives of the faithful as well so no amount of browbeating, shaming or coercion is enough to force these people to join the cult. Again, no common sense. If masks are so effective, whether I wear one or not should not affect you as long as you are wearing your trusty mask. If you got your shot you are protected from any sickness the “unvaccinated” may carry. They have an irrational faith in their mask and shot while also believing their holy water ineffective at warding off infection from the disobedient. Yet this inconsistency does to occur to them as they place blind faith in government officials no less intense than an ancient Greek seeking guidance from the Oracle of Delphi. These government officials are the third group. Their behavior toward masking and lockdowns demonstrates they don't believe their own words, their hypocrisy is obvious. They gather unmasked, they travel, while demanding the peasants obey their every dictate. They have lied, they have contradicted themselves, they have covered up the facts and truths about the pandemic in order to spread fear. To these men and women in government, from the administration and St. Fauci to governors, mayors and councilpeople, it is all about exercising total and absolute control. They control whether you work or not, where you can go, in some cases whether you live or die, what you put in your body and increasingly what you can say. The mask is a symbol of subservience to it all. They are the infallible high priests of the cult of government and the mask is a badge of membership. It is a cult of lies, fear and suffering led by the most untrustworthy, diabolical and malevolent people of all-politicians and government bureaucrats.

An Injection of Death

If you listen to the media and many government sources you would believe that a race war of epic proportions is about to erupt. You would think that every white person who is not sufficiently contrite and cowed secretly desires to enslave all minorities under his thumb and that police officers are prowling the streets looking for unarmed black men to shoot. According to the president of the United States, minorities are too stupid to be lawyers, accountants or to get photo Ids and it is all because the system is racist. In fact, everything is racist from pancake syrup to math to the belief in hard work. If you believe those reliable sources you would also think that if you are a heterosexual there is something wrong with you. Deviant sexual behavior is the norm and millions of children are having their gender preferences forced upon them by an evil patriarchal society that wants to rigidly categorize people into only two sexes. You cis people betray your contempt through microaggressions only seen by the permanently aggrieved. The solution to all this racial and sexual bigotry is to punish all white heterosexuals, particularly those who identify as males, because they are incorrigible and beyond redemption, unless they're Democrats. I will ask you this question. Do you see this in your everyday life? I don't. Now you may say, hey, you live in southwest Florida which is almost as white as Vermont. Currently, I am not in Florida, I'm in north central North Carolina and I'm working in a factory where I am the minority. Apparently my white privilege hasn't gotten me much since my boss is a black man. I work with blacks, hispanics, and number of asians and a few other white folks. And you know what, we all get along. We are nice to each other. I have never talked to a black coworker and felt a burning resentment toward my incorrigible, irredeemable whiteness. The same is true at the gym. Blacks, whites, women, men, all getting along, being polite to one another, friendly waves and encouragement. When I go into a restaurant, the same thing is true. My guess is your experience has been the same. America is not a racist country, most of us treat our fellows with respect regardless of race. That is what we see every day. But the media, and social media in particular, want to make the anomalies appear to be the norm. Every white woman has a Karen inside just waiting to burst out. Every white man longs for the day when slavery is reestablished. If you don't think kids should be able to have gender reassignment surgery your are bigoted against the LGBTQRST+ community. So every exception becomes the norm, every deviant becomes a profile in courage and criminals becomes martyrs. Are there racists in America? Sure. Antisemitism is on the rise. That seems to be an acceptable racism today. There are white racists, black racists, asian racists, hispanic racists, there are racists in every group but they are not the norm. America is the most successfully integrated nation on earth. Before Obama injected his poison into our culture, a black man claiming racism in a country that elected him to the highest office, we were far along the path of realizing the dream of both the founders and men like Martin Luther King Jr. For each succeeding generation racism and sexism faded farther from the cultural consciousness. We judged men and women by their character first. My guess is that most of you still do the same thing. However, if the current media-government complex has its way, they will teach this generation to see race and sexual preference as the only characteristics that matter. They are teaching that there is a irredeemable stain of guilt on one race and a permanent condition of incompetence on another. The only systemic racists are the condescending white Democrats who have miraculously expunged themselves of racial guilt and believe minorities are incapable of achievement without their hand holding and handouts. They are Marxists who have substituted race and gender for class and want to divide us so they can impose their totalitarian vision on us all. Their vision is based on an ideology of lies and we must reject it. Most of America is a place of racial harmony where traditional norms and values are still believed and practiced. We need to hold on to that. We've got to reject their poisonous claims, we cannot become suspicious and resentful of one another based on their lies. We are Americans first, let us remain united on the things that bind us. Respect for one another, liberty, hard work, a sense of justice, and hope for an even better future.

It is one of the great philosophical questions of all ages. Why do men suffer? Why is life so unfair and brutal? Why have the great majority of men and women throughout history lived in grinding poverty and under oppression, one generation after another suffering and dying, never even taking that first step to realize their potential as human beings? Certainly some resent their station in life but too many accept it willingly, consider suffering a virtue and embrace a worldview that sees their life as inconsequential. They are merely disposable cogs in someone else's machine. It is the mind of a slave. For most of history the world, in most places, humanity was divided into two groups. There was the king, the pharaoh, the tsar and their small circle and then there were the peasants, the serfs, the slaves who gave their lives and labor to the first group so they could lives lives of luxury and build great monuments to satiate their egos. Even today we accept this worldview as normal. Rulers and ruled, the ruled providing for the rulers enormous portions of their labor and lives, ruler squandering it on their gilded lives. Why?! Deep down we all have a sense of justice, of morality, a sense of right and wrong. We know that if we produce something with our hands it belongs to us and for someone to demand it from us for no reason other than they want it is stealing. Think of the first time this happened in the murky past. A group of hunter gatherers hunted and gathered, each to meet his or her own needs and the needs of their families. One day someone stands up and says “Each of you will give me a portion of what you hunt or gather while I sit comfortably in my tent and enjoy the fruits of your labor.” Why would anyone agree to that? Two reasons. One, he may be the biggest, baddest man in the tribe and you would agree because of fear. The other option is he or she convinces the tribe that placing them in such a position confers some future benefit. These two options that have come down to us today. The first is simple, every thug and dictator throughout history understood the value of imparting fear to get the people to fork over their wealth and lives. We suffer it still today even in the United States. Is the IRS not the most feared agency in the country? But let's concentrate on the second because conditioning a population to slavery is much more effective for the tyrant. The ruler needs only convince the people that serving him or her confers some benefit. Perhaps they are a sorcerer who will guarantee the rains will come at the proper time. Or he is a strong man who will protect them from outside forces. Or, in the greatest con of all, the ruler convinces the people that their servitude and the suffering that goes with it is a virtue, that it is not only good for them personally but it is good for the group as a whole. We see all three at work today. The sorcerers of today are the academic wizards and brainless politicians who tell us that if we just turn the reins of our economy over to them they can guarantee prosperity; a car in every driveway and a chicken in every pot. The central planners and the central bankers do their best to convince us that if we just support them with our wealth and defer our freedom to choose to them, allowing them the time to think all this through, they will use our wealth and direct our choices in a way that will bring happiness and wealth to everyone. And the excuse for their constant failure is that they do not have enough money and control. The road to totalitarianism is paved with relinquished economic choices. The second is the security state, the strong man protecting us from a dangerous world. He must peddle in fear, there must always be an enemy about to storm the gates or one threatening the group from within. This gives rise to the police state and huge standing armies. Terrorists without and within demand that we sacrifice our freedom for our security. Our ability to travel, to be secure in our persons and papers, to have a life outside the state, none of that can have a higher priority that the safety and security provided by the state. The road to totalitarianism is paved with cries of safety. Finally, there are the rulers convincing the people there is virtue in sacrificing for the state. This can take many forms. The false patriotism that led so many to become cannon fodder for the ambitions of kings. Pride in the wealth of a court compared to other nations. The lie you are giving to something greater than yourself when the truth is that all that is deposited in the state's coffers is used to benefit the ruler and his circle of enablers. But there is something even more insidious and here Marx was right. He famously said that religion was the opiate of the people. Just think about it. If you can convince people not only to focus their attention away from their suffering for a future benefit like heaven but to embrace their suffering as a virtue, you can demand anything of them. On top of that, convince them that the state, regardless of how instituted or organized, is the very arm of God on earth and then any complaints, much less rebellion, are derided as sinful. This was the western world after Christianity wedded itself to the state in the time of Constantine. What is basic Christian doctrine in this regard? Suffering is good, heaven is the reward for suffering and this world will remain sinful and evil until some time in the distant future so you might as well accept it. What motivation is there to improve one's lot under such a worldview? Now we are no longer in the dark ages but a new religion is being preached by the ruling class to the same effect. This is the religion of climate change. It has all the same elements. Sacrifice now, suffer now, for some future benefit when the planet will be saved or healed. Such sacrifice is the height of virtue. It is our moral duty to put aside our liberty and prosperity and become subservient to a state that ensures our salvation. Of course the sacrifices they demand of us never touch the beneficiaries of this fraud. That is how you know it is all a fraud. It is always “The rules are for thee and not for me.” While we are confined to our homes with diapers on our faces, they are out eating at fancy restaurants or getting their hair styled with beaming, uncovered smiles. While they demand you ride a bicycle to cut your carbon footprint, they fly around on private jets. While they demand more and more of your money, they are buying mansions and limousines. We all know it is hypocritical but because of their position at the top, they feel entitled to it; they feel no guilt in enjoying the fruits of their con. As human beings we have the right to freedom, choices and the fruits of our labor. We have the right to our dreams and aspirations, we have the right to seek our full potential. It is what being human is all about. This applies to every individual equally. The fruits of our minds and labor belong to us to dispose of as we see fit. No one has the right to demand our labor or minds for their own benefit. Who are they to do so? Who are they to demand we become less so they can rise above us? Those at the top are no better than we are, they are our overlords only because they are the best liars and cons. They have no right to make us less or treat us as slaves. Why are Biden and Pelosi and Schumer and Kerry immune from suffering while inflicting it upon us? They preach our need to suffer but never allow any discomfort to touch them. They demand that we put off our dreams and goals while they live high on the hog. Why do we have to be less so they can be more? There is no moral reason the world needs to be organized in this fashion, there is no inherent reason for a few to live at the expense of the many. The few are not morally superior, they certainly are not more intelligent. Have you listened to King Joe and his minions? The only reason it is so is because the many either lack the courage to reject the claims of the few upon them or they have deluded themselves into accepting the lies. This injustice visits itself upon us because we allow it. It will only end when we choose to end it.

Many years ago Disney made a movie called “The Rocketeer” set in Hollywood in the 1930s. The villain was a famous actor who was a Nazi spy. He had hired some local mob thugs to help him. However, at the climax of the film the mobsters find out he's a Nazi and the head thug objects. The villain tells him, who cares, you're being paid well. And the mobster replies that he's a red blooded American first and he's not going to work for some Nazi no matter how much he pays. He then switches sides and fights alongside the FBI and the hero. Once upon a time, that was the norm. People were proud to be Americans and would never knowingly do things that hurt or betrayed their country. Of course there were exceptions. There was certainly a fascination with fascism and Hitler in the thirties, Hitler himself greatly admired Henry Ford. But once the war started, there was a clear line of demarcation between sides. The same was true for our relationship with the Soviet Union. Again, there was some fascination with Stalin in the thirties, the New York Times is famous for its glowing descriptions of his murderous regime. But during the cold war, most Americans saw them as the enemy and sympathy, much less open collaboration, would have been regarded by most as treasonous. Back then Americans supported America and each other. We supported American companies, American workers, pro-American films. Certainly the cold war years paralleled change in America, we acknowledged our flaws and worked to remedy them. But, by God, we were still the best place to live in the world. President Reagan, and the pride he had in our ideals and optimism he had for America, personified this belief for the vast majority of Americans. Those days are gone. Of course we are all well aware that since Reagan's time the voices denigrating this country have grown increasingly loud. Government school curriculum emphasized America's flaws and ignored her triumphs. Now every day we hear how horrible, racist, exploitative and evil America is and anyone who dares speak up for her is ridiculed and canceled. But this is much more than the Marxists in education and government trying to destroy our once great nation from within. Such people are traitors and their words and actions clearly identify them as such. Why we put up with them, even electing them to the highest positions in government, is sheer stupidity on our part. But it is even worse than that because while they are the few whose hatred for the country that gave them so much make them obvious villains, there are many who care so little for the country that gave them so much that they are willing to sell her out for an extra dollar. China is our enemy. They are a communist country ruled by ruthless communist autocrats. They rule their people with an iron fist and brutally suppress any opposition. They have killed tens of millions of their own people and continue acts of persecution and genocide today. They are increasingly aggressive toward their neighbors and their relationship with America has been one of deception and thievery. Recently, they have become outright hostile. Alongside Russia and other nefarious actors, they have hacked into vital systems to steal and disrupt. If the truth is ever told about Covid-19, we will probably find out they released another bio-weapon on the world. The esteemed Dr, Fauci demonstrated the heights of his stupidity when he stated emphatically that the Communist Chinese wouldn't create a virus that would harm their own people in addition to the rest of the world. Really? Mao murdered tens of millions of his own people! Do you think the current communists care any more about a few million deaths among their own when it can cripple the western world? This is the reality of the Chinese Communists. They may not want to bury us like Khrushchev but they definitely want us subservient. They are well on their way to achieving that goal. I'm not just talking about King Joe's attitude either. I'm talking about all the businesses that have sold out their country for a quick buck. Apple and Nike and thousands of others who use cheap or slave Chinese labor to make their products and will do anything to keep the Chinese happy even at the expense of their own country. John Cena apologizing for calling Taiwan a country is simply emblematic of a Hollywood that has bent over backwards to modify films so as not to offend the Chinese Communists so they can have access to their markets. The stars of the NBA gushing over China so they can keep their exalted status over there. Newsrooms and social media companies serving as the propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist party. All done for the almighty dollar. Now I am a free market guy, I have no problem with people making a buck, or a lot of bucks. But when you compromise your integrity to do so, I do have a problem with that. What kind of journalist bends or ignores the truth because it might offend the murderers in Beijing? What CEO accepts child slave labor to make his products a little cheaper? What celebrity trashes the country that made him what he is to praise an oppressive regime? They have all bought into the lie that America is no different, and certainly no better, than any other country. So the origins of their wealth no longer matter. No one cares if what they must do for their payments harms their country and advances a murderous communist regime. If an American sitting on a park bench in Washington took an envelope full of cash for information, we would call it treason. Yet when these companies and their underlings take money and favors from the Chinese communists in exchange for favors and influence, we call it smart business. All these people have sold out their country for to rake in a little more cash. And it is these businessmen and women at the top of all these companies who buy men like Joe Biden who will bend over for the Chinese Communists and do nothing to thwart their nefarious plans.

A message, a warning, from the future we are creating.

The End of the Old Normal: We've Been So Spoiled We have been spoiled. Since the Great Depression, and certainly since the seventies, we have become accustomed to a high degree of certainty. Until recently, there were a lot of things we took for granted. Grocery shelves would always be full unless there was a snowstorm; then the bread and milk would be scarce for a few days. There would always be gas as the station. Changes in the business cycle and government policy would be slow and incremental. Money in the bank was safe. The vast majority of your neighbors loved America and the ideals it represented-and that went for politicians as well. Those days are gone and their disappearance is a disaster for liberty and prosperity. This is crucial for you to understand. Without a high degree of certainty prosperity is difficult to achieve. This is important because economic liberty is intimately connected to political liberty. Now I am not talking about natural disasters. Some of those can be planned for and some will destroy life and property indiscriminately. That has been and always will be the case in certain geographic locations. But an earthquake, tornado and even a hurricane are localized. What we are experiencing now is completely different. Today we live in a deeply interconnected system that is very efficient when it is working. Goods and services move around the country and the world at lightning speeds. One hiccup at any point will cause severe, or even catastrophic, disruptions. A mega-ship stuck in the Suez Canal for days. An accident with huge consequences. But as we have seen malicious attacks on our dependent systems can be just as severe. The hacking of the Colonial Pipeline should be a huge wake up call for us. A Russian group shut down the main gasoline supply pipeline to the entire southeast. In a few days the local stations ran out of gas, in North Carolina the number of stations without gas rose to seventy five percent! No gas, no cars, no deliveries, no work, no ability to get around for groceries. Fortunately, the pipeline was up and running within a week after they paid the ransom so the disruption did not last long. But know this. Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea all have hackers whose sole job it is to get into our systems and cause disruptions. And with our weak president demonstrating ineptitude in dealing with this issue, these attacks will only increase. His stupid line that it was a private company that was attacked and they needed to deal with it is absolute bull pucky! This was an attack on vital infrastructure that affected a third of the country. And you know what? The twin towers were also privately owned. That attack was met with ferocity and resolve. Now do I think we should bomb Russia? No, of course not. But we had better put massive pressure on Putin to reveal those responsible and allow us to deal with them. If not, then these actors who work with or are at least protected by these enemy states are going to continue their malfeasance. What will be next? The electrical grid? All of you in your electric cars laughing at the gas shortage, what are you going to do when the lights go out? Do you realize how much more catastrophic that would be? A week or two or three without electricity and people will die by the thousands or tens of thousands. How about a nuclear power plant meltdown? Do we even want to think about that? Those are external threats that are new to us. Americans haven't faced a real external threat since World War Two. I won't count the cold war because total nuclear annihilation isn't something you deal with and survive. But now we have these foreign actors capable of just as much damage as if they had dropped a bomb on a power plant or pipeline. But now we are subject to crazy uncertainties at the hands of our fellow Americans. The coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated the fact that government intrusion has broken any restraints placed upon it by the Constitution, law or even common sense. A governor or unelected bureaucrat can shutter your business, put you out of a job, make you cover your face, ban travel, weddings and funerals and even confine you to your home. First Amendment guarantees of freedom of religion and assembly went out the window. And it was all for nothing, almost everything the government told us was a lie. So how can you plan for incompetent, arbitrary or just plain malicious government action? You can't. How can you risk your life savings on a venture that the government may shut down for any of a variety of reasons or no discernible reason at all? And finally, we cannot forget the uncertainty visited upon us by our fellow citizens. Rioting, burning and looting is becoming a regular feature in a number of cities around the country. Cancel culture can ruin a career or livelihood at the drop of a hat. You could be enjoying a quiet dinner with your spouse when a bunch of hoodlums show up to accuse you of the heinous crime of being a particular race. The world we knew just ten or twenty years ago is gone. We are living in an unfamiliar world where politicians are free to hate the country they serve, where there are a lot of people not working and a glut of jobs remain unfilled, where trillions of dollars are created out of thin air and no one thinks it is a problem and an individual's race is their defining characteristic, imparting guilt or victim-hood. We have accepted a two tiered justice system, endemic corruption, propaganda and total surveillance. It is a world that can only end in disaster and death. And it is a future we are allowing to unfold due to our tepid and inconsequential reaction to it.

King Joe has declared that the greatest threat to the security of the United States is white supremacists. Not China or Russia or Islamic Jihadists or the crackpot in North Korea or the fascists in Iran. No, the greatest threat to the nation exists among white Trump supporters, particularly white male Trump supporters. This was exemplified in the events surrounding the Capitol on January sixth, the great “insurrection”. They call it an insurrection, sometimes an “armed insurrection” to make it sound horribly ominous. An “insurrection”, of course, is an attempt to take over the government. If this was their intent, they were woefully unprepared and inept. It's hard to have an armed insurrection without arms, none of which were found among the people in the Capitol. Calling it a “riot” is even a stretch. Yes, there was some property damage but nothing compared to what BLM and Antifa have done in cities across the country. In fact, many of the so called “rioters” were escorted in by police. No, the most we can attribute to these patriots is an attempt to stall the certification of a fraudulent election, to disrupt the proceedings of the government. Something the radical left is constantly doing. Remember the Kavenaugh hearings? But the full force of the federal government has been brought to bear on this group. Hundreds of arrests have been made and many of them have been held without bond in solitary confinement for months. The have been denied access to their lawyers, their lawyers have been denied exculpatory evidence, they have been beaten. The government has acquired phone records and associated GPS coordinates from everyone in D.C. that day without a warrant, whether they were in the Capitol or not. They impeached the President over it! And they continue to state that every Trump supporter specifically, and every republican in general, is a actual, or at least potential, insurrectionist. They, who executed a marxist coup, are calling anyone who even questions their actions and motives a terrorist. While Old King Joe and his minions round up and persecute any domestic opposition, they are ignoring actual acts or war against the United States. Yes, I said acts of war. These Russian and Chinese cyber attacks and the Covid19 pandemic are acts of war. The are not treated as such, of course. Just pesky inconveniences and unfortunate accidents. But that is just the cowards in government and their accomplices in the media covering for their communist and authoritarian friends. Look at it this way. If a group of mercenaries from Russia, based in Russia, blew up sections of the Colonial Pipeline or took over one of only four meat packing plants in the country and held the people there hostage demanding ransom, what would have been our reaction? I would think the FBI and all the domestic forces in the country would have been deployed to stop them and bring them to justice and if not, we would have demanded it-loudly! But don't these hacks accomplish the same thing? A group of cyber mercenaries based in Russia, with a nod and a wink from Putin, shut down two pieces of vital infrastructure; fuel and food. The communist Chinese have been just as busy with their cyberhacks but the pandemic was nothing less than biological warfare. What if they had exploded a dirty bomb or two over LA or New York which led to radiation sickness and deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Is that an act of war? Yet they have a lab in China led by their former chief of biological warfare dedicated to gain of function research to make viruses more contagious and lethal and one of those viruses just happens to escape because their security is lax to say the least and it quickly spreads around the world leading to millions of deaths. Do we really think it was an accident? Are the Chinese communists behaving as though it's an accident or are they withholding any and all information relating to the lab and its work? Dr. Fouci led the stupidity squad in Washington when he stated that the Chinese communists would not have purposely released a deadly virus that killed its own people. Has he never heard of Mao or Stalin?! Communists don't care about their people, the CCP doesn't care if a few million of their own die if their actions hurt the West, their enemies! Yes, China and Russia and Iran and North Korea are enemies who smell blood in the water with our inept commander and chief and all the sympathetic marxists who surround him. China, in particular, knows it has us over a barrel and having bought the media, believes it can act with impunity. These were once regarded as acts of war. The destruction of infrastructure, the murder of citizens, such actions once required a strong response. Now do I want to see a shooting war with Russia or China? No, that is a last resort. But, my God, we're ignoring these attacks! President Trump has at least called for China to pay reparations for all the death and economic destruction the pandemic has caused. We have ways to hurt both these countries if we chose to. I'm sure we could hack some vital infrastructure in Russia if we chose. Remember stuxnet and the Iranians? We're capable of fighting on this front if we summon the will. And we've got to start treating Communist China as an enemy and act in our national interest, not theirs! These countries desire our downfall and with all the stupidity our leadership has shown in the past five months, they see a grand opportunity to hasten our demise. If we continue to just shrug off these obvious provocations, the consequences of the next attacks could be catastrophic.

I listen to a lot of news, talk radio and podcasts. As such, I daily deluge myself with information, from all sides. Since the explosion of the internet and social media and innumerable news outlets, we are never left in the dark about what is going on. Nothing is hidden anymore, even amid all the attempts at distortion and propaganda. For those of us who care about liberty, we are more than aware of the destruction all around us. What we are missing are solutions, real, concrete, effective solutions that will not only protect our liberties and natural rights but restore them when they have been infringed upon, ignored or deliberately violated. So what is the solution? When Joe Pags was asked this by a caller recently, the answer given was getting out the truth; dissemination factual information. Now while I believe that is very important, any action must be taken based on truth, that cannot be the end. This is why I have always said that we've got to do more than complain. Talk radio, social media, various groups and organizations, they've got to be more than support groups for the aggrieved. Others will point to electoral politics, the solution is electing the right people. That is certainly true but we've all got to admit, electoral politics has failed us when it comes to protecting, much less restoring, liberty. To all of you right wing, alternative media folks out there, your audience is looking for more than information and hope. They want solutions, they want to know what they can do in their own lives that will make a difference. We see our country being systematically dismantled and wantonly destroyed. Our traditional culture and all the things that made this country great are denigrated and now eliminated from the public discourse. We need more than just people telling us this is happening. We know what's going on! We need a plan of action to fight against it. Have we, like President Trump said, been the victim of a coup? I have heard it repeated by others. So we know it's true, then what? Knowledge of our demise and the establishment of the totalitarian state is pointless without action, it only leads to frustration and depression. So here are some solutions, real concrete actions we can all take that will make a real difference, much more than a strongly worded e-mail, not that those should be ignored. I have often said that we are funding our enslavement, that we are paying for our chains. I was recently listening to Dana Loesch and she repeated her contention that taxation is theft, particularly income taxes. Others have noted that especially now with the supposed Covid relief bill and the blue state and city bailouts, we are subject specifically to taxation without representation. We revolted over this two hundred and fifty years ago, remember? How about we stop! Will Dana and the others put their money where their mouth is and stop paying like I have for over a decade? Will you? Government uses our money to exercise their power and forge our chains. Cut it off and they will be powerless. How about not complying with all their stupidity. Don't want your kids indoctrinated with critical race theory and all the other woke claptrap in government schools? Pull your kids out. Find alternatives or home school them. This is even easier now that when I did it with my kids. And I'm sure the Covid shutdowns have demonstrated to a lot of parents that it is a viable option. Do it. Businesses, take courage from the few like the owners of Tinhorn Flats in California who have been fighting to stay open. It is the easiest thing in the world not to do business with all these woke companies supporting the democrat narrative and their destructive policies. Forgo your two day Amazon deliveries, find an alternative to Coke products, use another airline. There are over one hundred million of us. And we are the ones who work, we are the ones paying for this tyranny, we are the ones propping up this edifice of lies and fascist tyranny. If we dropped out, not in the Atlas Shrugged sense but if we all made the conscious decision to stop supporting this government corporate conglomerate bent on totalitarian control, imagine what would happen. We would all go to jail. Is that what you are afraid of? You still don't get it then. If you believe that this present administration is the result of a coup, if you believe that we are living in a post constitutional time as Mark Levin if fond of saying, then attempting to put any of us in jail for standing up for our God given rights is simply an illegitimate government enforcing immoral and, under our constitution, illegal laws. Why would we subject ourselves to such an authority? If you were a Venezuelan suddenly under the tyranny of Hugo Chavez in 1998 or a Czeck in 1948 when the communists took control, would you simply sit back and learn to live under tyranny? If you protested, would you just allow yourself to be subject to a show trial and thrown in a hole somewhere? As the late great Rush Limbaugh would say, we are in a battle of ideas. But it does not end there. It cannot end there. Government is force; it is guns and prisons and eventually under every communist tyranny, firing squads and mass graves. Our government is not even seeking to win the battle of ideas anymore, they are forcing us to accept their lies as truth, ignore their contradictions and embrace their absurdities. That force is at the point of a gun. Job loss, arrest and prosecution, financial ruin, prison. The question is, when that gun comes for you, what will you do? Will you allow yourself to be subjected to their illegitimate authority or will you fight back. Oh no! We can't have that! I can hear Glenn Beck's protestations now. We can never be violent. No? Then we have already lost. Without the brave citizen soldiers at Lexington and Concord, would we have a free country? Was any tyrant from Hitler to Napoleon to the Roman Emperors ever defeated peacefully? No. Why? Because any time government power is exercised in a manner destructive of rights it ceases to be legitimate, it can no longer win the battle of ideas by taking the moral high ground and must therefore resort to deception and force to exert power. If it is not met with real resistance, it will only grow in power. It is time for real resistance, substantial risky resistance, resistance for which we put our lives, fortunes and sacred honor on the line. If not, not only will we lose our country, but the world will fall to an all powerful totalitarian authority that will make any resistance all the more difficult. Or are your God given rights and freedom not worth it?

We finish out Trip down the ICW

On the ICW in Florida 2016

We continue down the ICW in 2016

Down the ICW we go in 2016

Sailing south on the ICW 2016

Continuing down the ICW in 2016

More of the trip down the ICW in 2016

Trip down the ICW in 2016

Sailing along the ICW in 2016

Trip From MD to FL via the ICW 2016

A pirate's wisdom on self defense

A pirate's wisdom; poison in life

Let's have a little fun with Captain Mike

The great defender of the Roman republic Cato, before he committed suicide rather than live under the tyranny of Caesar, told his son Marcus to seek Caesar's mercy. Upon hearing this all Marcus wanted to know was why it was right for him to accept a pardon while his father refused one. Cato is said to have replied, “I, who have been brought up in freedom, with the right of free speech, cannot in my old age change and learn slavery instead. But for you, who were both born and brought up amid such a condition, it is proper for you to now serve the divinity that now presides over your fortunes.” Cato was expressing a deep pessimism, believing the world as he knew it was dying with him. He had no hope for his son. For how could his generation fight for a freedom it had known only in the abstract, from hearsay? No doubt with tears in his eyes he told his son he had been born into slavery. He was a slave and that was all he would ever be. It was, and is, a most depressing sentiment. I find Cato's sentiments dispiriting, for sure, but also realistic. He had spent his entire life fighting endemic corruption and warning about the coming tyranny. He was fearless and bold. But with the remnants of the Republic melting away in Africa and Caesar's army closing in, he knew the republic was over. While he would probably have received mercy from Caesar, he chose not to seek it in his defeat. I find it quite discouraging that this tireless defender of republican liberty would simply give up so completely. Why would he not try to pass the fight on to the next generation, to inspire others to take up the torch he could no longer hold high. How could he claim to embrace liberty so vehemently and then turn around and tell the next generation not to bother? But our current circumstance makes his final sentiments understandable. While I have no interest in Cato's solution, I do sometimes vacillate between fighting for what looks like a hopeless cause and just retreating as far away from the tyranny as possible. Look at us, if we don't fit Cato's description of his son's generation, I don't know who does. Born into slavery, accepting the yoke as normal; freedom, true freedom, known only by hearsay from a disappearing history. We eagerly suck on the government teat, trading the animating contest for freedom and the risks of living that make life worthwhile for the lazy mindlessness found in government's ready embrace. How many of you live off stolen money but don't care that your sustenance is provided through immorality. How many of you are conditioned to obey the silliest rules and regulations that come from innumerable bureaucrats who claim to know everything yet know nothing? And that was before Covid! How many of you don't even think about how much money and dignity has been stolen from you? Hardly any because you keep giving it up. Do you agree with Cato that such an attitude makes it proper to serve a government that long ago broke its contract with us and now holds us in open contempt? How many of our fellow citizens are so well conditioned that rebellion does not even occur to them? Dutifully wearing their masks alone in the car. Conditioned to slavery from birth, can they even fathom what freedom would mean, and if they do, would they reject it for the safety of servitude? How about you? Are you ready to live without the safety net? No welfare, no Social Security, government health care, no FDA telling you what food is safe or OSHA telling you how to do your job? Are you willing to be totally responsible for your life? That's freedom. Can we even conceive of it anymore? Lenin said “Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.” President Reagan stated that “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” It been almost one hundred years since Franklin Roosevelt changed the country with the New Deal, seventy years since the rise of the military industrial complex, sixty since the great society and less than twenty years of social media. And throughout that time our grandparents, parents, us, our children and grandchildren have been indoctrinated in government schools to accept and revere the ever expanding growth of government influence and power. Media, from the days of Walter Durante and Cronkite have disseminated and defended Marxist propaganda. We have all been subjected to this conditioning and it takes a lot of conscious effort and education to combat it and an even greater courage to reject its implications and effects in our lives. The question I often ask myself is how many of my fellow citizens are left who have the will and courage to live free and fight to do so? Sure, there are a lot who give lip service or talk a good game but who really puts their money where their mouth is? Who refuses to pay for their chains, who refuses to comply with their tyrannical laws and regulations? Very few. Perhaps Cato saw something in his son Marcus that told him his son had been conditioned too deeply, that a life of liberty was beyond his comprehension, that a life of normalized servitude had made him incapable of embracing freedom and fighting for it with all his heart and soul. Perhaps Cato knew his son would fail if he tried, his courage would surely falter for his conviction was too compromised. Therefore, Cato thought it proper he simply shouldn't try. How many of our fellow citizens, our family and friends does that describe? How many of you? Are you failing already when standing against the forces of tyranny is inconvenient? When your job or ability to travel is on the line? Then how will you stand when things get really serious? Those without the courage to live free should follow Cato's advice, swallow your pride, reject your humanity and live as a slave. Samuel Adams said it best. “If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” So you need to ask yourself, who are you and what will your legacy be?

Rebe and Martin Got Married! 4/24/21

Most people who are paying attention to politics or are involved think that the policies of King Joe and his democrat accomplices are just policy differences to be rectified after the next election. Democrats are just wrong about things, their policies are the result of misinformation or an incorrect philosophy. If republicans, particularly conservative republicans, could just get control of the government again, we can fix all this. Really, that's what you think? The actions of the current crop in power, not just in Washington but in state and local governments around the country, cannot be attributed simply to misguided ignoramuses. I recently heard a discussion of the sheriff's department in San Francisco and the sanctuary policy they have implemented, for which they are being sued, rightly, by the people. They are refusing to inform ICE about illegal aliens who have committed crimes. Not just parking tickets or expired tags either. Rape, assault, serious crimes. Not only do they not contact ICE but they release them into the population. Now what possible motivation can there be for this? What voting block wants dangerous criminals on the street, what benefit is it to the sheriff's department or the government of San Francisco to have this policy? Can you come up with one? I can't! There is only one outcome to this policy of allowing criminals who are terrorizing the people of San Francisco back on the street to continue their reign of terror and that is to harm to the people of San Francisco and others-real bodily harm. We can extrapolate this idiocy to a lot of democrat statist policies currently being implemented. Who benefits from Iran, the largest state sponsor of terrorism around the world, having nuclear bombs and the ICBMs that can deliver them anywhere they choose? How is that good for anyone? How about allowing Russia and China, two totalitarian regimes, to expand their power and influence and take more territory, putting more unfortunates under their boot? How is that good for us or anyone in the world? Do we really want to go back to the way things were in previous centuries with equally powerful nations in a constant state of war? This supposed foreign policy, led by people like the UN ambassador who believes her country was founded by white supremacists and is the embodiment of racism, is designed to denigrate our power and position and enhance that of our enemies and the forces of totalitarianism and tyranny. Anyone with eyes can see that. These policies are deliberate choices and will have disastrous consequences for the entire planet. What about domestic policy? They are just as destructive. Look at their economic policy of print, borrow and spend. Now I will readily admit that there are people in government who are just plain stupid and truly believe that the government can make up money and spend it without consequence. But there are plenty who know exactly what the results of this will be. We are already seeing inflation and it will only get worse. That will make all of us poorer because our income will always be behind rising costs, particularly if we go into hyperinflation and currency destruction. How is that good for the country, for anyone? How about HR1 and the elimination of any form of voter identification? There will be no way to know who is voting or how many times, it will be no different than some internet poll. No one will believe the outcome anymore, it will destroy one of the most fundamental pillars of our society, the ability to choose our public servants. Now it is obvious who benefits from this initially, but having a country where half of the people or more no longer feel represented is not a recipe for stability and harmony. They know this and they don't care. There are so many other examples, I'm sure you can think of plenty. Gun control. Take the means of protection away from people, defund the police and release criminals onto the streets. Does that make any sense if you actually care about people? Of course not. Corporations now telling millions of their customers they are horrible racists and exerting pressure on recalcitrant states for rejecting even some of this foolishness. When has business, any business, made a conscious decision to insult and berate their customers? Of course we cannot forget the absurdities of their Covid restrictions. But all of this is being done with a straight face and deadly seriousness. So the big question is why? Is it a short term power grab? This might explain the open southern border-democrats just importing more voters. Is it a last ditch effort to rape the public and get as much wealth as possible before the system collapses? Maybe for some. There is no question these people want power and several of their policies, packing the supreme court, adding states, legalizing cheating in elections, serve that aim. But that does not explain the totality of the destruction of the combination of all these foreign and domestic policies and ideas. If these people destroy the United States as the primary economic and military power in the world, of what benefit is it to them? Why would Biden or Pelosi or Schumer want to rule over a ruin instead of a powerhouse? There are two possibilities as I see it. One, the pursuit of power has blinded them to the extent that they don't care. Like every communist, the well being of the country and its people are inconsequential to the exercise of uncontested and unlimited power. The economic destruction is ignored as long as they can rule with impunity from their ivory towers. But even that does not explain why they are empowering and emboldening fascist and totalitarian regimes at the expense of our traditional democratic allies. The only logical explanation for this is that they are looking for something even bigger. The United States is the greatest bulwark against totalitarian tyranny in the world and has been for over a century. If it is reduced to a third rate country there is nothing standing in the way of the oligarchs running the other powers to cooperate and form a world governmental power. I know this was once the realm of the tin foil hat crowd but with the Great Reset out in the open, this is no longer in the domain of conspiracy theory, it is fact. All these men and women, these oligarchs in government, corporations and in big tech are cooperating to destroy the United States as a viable economic and military power to pave the way for this new world order. This means that the people pushing these policies are not simply misguided and stupid, they are traitors to the republic. They have violated their oath of office and are openly carrying out the wishes of the enemies of the United States. It is time to stop giving these people the benefit of the doubt and not only see them for what they are but call them out on it. If you think fighting for your liberty against the US government is hard, try doing it against a worldwide power with its tentacles in everything, everywhere. Last stand people. This is no longer a pendulum swing from one side to the other. These people have a sledge hammer poised over the clock.