Thatcher Legacy

I was a cold warrior in England when Margaret Thatcher--the Iron Lady-- was Prime Minister. Together with Helmut Kohl of Germany, Pope John Paul and President Reagan, they outspent and held firm to defeat the Soviet empire.

All these Countries, to include the Danes and Dutch stayed true to NATO, allowing nuclear arms to be deployed amidst massive protests and upheaval.

There was enormous pressure in Europe to withdraw all nukes. I was at RAF Upper Heyford maintaining the F-111E, a long range bomber that was to help stop a Soviet attack on the “continent.” Situated in Oxfordshire, the base was (alleged) to have stores of B-61 bombs. The town of Oxford was so “anti-war, they actually flew a black peace flag over city hall. South of Oxford was the military base of Greenham Common, which hosted cruise missiles (GLIKEM’s,) and had a permanent women’s peace encampment. I bought my first camouflage uniforms there. The organisation known as CND (the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament) was active and posted signs along the highway stating “Nuclear Bomb Route”--I  still have one that I found unattended. The hysteria in Europe was great, leading to the creation of a “movie poster”, which I also have.

It is for a remake of “Gone With the Wind,” featuring Ronny Reagan holding Maggie Thatcher up in his arms, with a mushroom cloud as a backdrop.

“She promised to follow him to the end of the world--he promised to organise it!”

When Mrs. Thatcher took over government from Labour, the UK was in sad shape--most services were Nationalised, and the unions, especially coal held the country hostage. At our house we actually burned coal for heat--which also heated the water.

When they talk about “fire and brimstone”, I got a taste of what that means.

To make a phone call, every lousy little village had their own prefix code, and that changed depending on where you called from!

She turned the Country around, and gave renewed vigor and pride to a nation.

Out of principle, she launched a small war to protect a small island near Argentina. Just last month, the people of the Falklands voted 99% to remain within the British Empire. Mrs. Thatcher should be honored and remembered for being the biggest supporter and friend of the United States, for holding firm against vicious assaults you cannot believe, and restoring the United Kingdom to economic and personal stability.

Most former Prime Ministers are given an honorary degree from Oxford University. Spitefully, however, that honor was withheld.

She did what was best for her Country--and to defeat totalitarianism--regardless of popular opinion. The true test of lasting greatness. Lady Margaret Thatcher, shopkeeper’s daughter, 1925-2013.

Despicable is spelled "MSNBC"

John Hopkins University doctor and Conservative media sensation Ben Carson was raised by a single mother in the most trying of circumstances. His odds for success were against him, save for one thing--his mother, Sonya, demanded high standards and forced her sons to learn--against their will. She pointed out those who were wards of the State, and told her boys, “If you want to stay poor, go on welfare.” She wanted more for Ben and Curtis, working two or three jobs at a time to support them.

Earlier this week, Dr Carson explained that he was against redefining “Marriage”, since that could be used to justify legal relations between man and beast and man and children (NAMBLA.) After his words were misconstrued, he went on the cable-news circuit to apologize and explain what he meant. He needn’t have bothered.

Besides being vilified, mocked and ridiculed, MSNBC showed a clip of Dr. Carson, with a graphic of a white elephant and the text

“BLINDED by the WHITE.”

The Despicable MSNBC is the same network that edited the Zimmerman 911 call, edited video of a black man carrying a rifle, edited Governor Perry’s remarks, etc etc....

(http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/03/29/NBC-News-on-Dr-Ben-Carson-Blinded-by-the-White)

Dr Carson has just found out what it is like to be Conservative and ethnic, who has left the plantation and thinks for himself.

 You do not see the NAACP or other race hustlers running to his defense.

A minority who exhibits Conservative tendencies, you see, isn’t “authentic”, or a “real” Black. I believe some of the most courageous people in America are those Blacks who endure abuse and make their own way in life--without the adulation of the world.

Fire and Brimstone

Three years ago North Korea sunk a South Korean warship killing 0vr 40 sailors. Later that year they launched the largest artillery barrage since 1953, killing four.

Last month, the DPRK conducted the third nuclear test.

This month, in response to joint US and South Korean military exercises, a spokesman for Pyongyang's foreign ministry issued this statement:

... now that the U.S. is set to light a fuse for a nuclear war, the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will exercise the right to a preemptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors and to defend the supreme interests of the country.

The Supreme Command of the Korean People’s Army declared that it would totally nullify the Korean Armistice Agreement (AA) from March 11 when the U.S. nuclear war rehearsal gets into full swing. This meant that from that moment the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK will take military actions for self-defence against any target any moment...

During a rally on the same day a North Korean General said,

Intercontinental ballistic missiles and various other missiles which have already set their striking targets, are now armed with lighter, smaller and more diversified nuclear warheads and are placed on standby status.

When we [launch the missiles] Washington, which is the stronghold of evils, will be engulfed in a sea of flames/fire.)

 The DPRK has also vowed to turn Seoul and Japan “into a sea of fire”.

A DPRK newspaper added:

 The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK are waiting for a final order, getting themselves fully ready to deluge the enemies with a shower of bullets so that they can not survive, if they provoke it

The United States has about 30,000 military personnel in South Korea.

The North has been able to acquire nuclear weapons, only because we have been propping them up for at least 20 years. It was the Clinton administration that GAVE the regime tons of food aid, fuel oil, and nuclear capability to generate electricity. In exchange, they were to give up their pursuit of nuclear weapons,

The North would have collapsed more than a decade ago if we had not fed them. Instead, every time they have acted with aggression, we have  rewarded them.
The violence committed by the DPRK since 1953 is continuous and so common, it is rarely noted.

Five years after North Korea acknowledged possessing nuclear weapons, our National Security advisor to President Obama said this last week:

For sixty years, the United States has been committed to ensuring peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula. This means deterring North Korean aggression and protecting our allies.  And it means the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.  The United States will not accept North Korea as a nuclear state; nor will we stand by while it seeks to develop a nuclear-armed missile that can target the United States. 

To Protect and Serve?

From the Constitution of the United States, Article IV, Section 4:

“The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion...”

Far from protecting the States from invasions, they are facilitating that activity.

The Associated Press reports that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released from its jails more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation in February and planned to release 3,000 more in March. The states where immigrants were released include Arizona, California, Georgia and Texas.

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano justified the decision, saying, "We're doing our very best to minimize the impacts of sequester, but there's only so much I can do. You know, I'm supposed to have 34,000 detention beds for immigration. How do I pay for those?"

Well, I don’t know, Ms. Napolitano, what are you getting paid a six-figure salary for? Is there nothing in an agency that employs over 200,000, plus more than 150,000 contractors, (not including Coast Guard) that can be reduced?

DHS is in the process of building a new Washington DC complex costing $3.4 Billion, which will house some 14,000 bureaucrats.

In addition, the Transportation Security Administration just completed a $50-million deal to purchase new uniforms for its agents--uniforms that will be partly manufactured in Mexico.

The contempt this government has for it’s legal citizens is incredible-- 

How can you trust your government when it fails to perform the most basic functions? Sadly, this lack of consideration will become more pronounced when the intrusive and coercive ObamaCare is fully implemented.

Leave it to a Professional

On February 21st, 32-year old Katie Stockton pled guilty to a single count of murder. Eight years earlier she gave birth to a baby girl at her home in rural Illinois, and placed the newborn in the December cold in a ditch in front of her home. When first questioned by police, she pulled up her shirt and said,

“Do I look like I just gave birth to a baby?”

The frozen corpse was named “Baby Crystal” and the perpetrator was not identified for five years. When police matched DNA from blood with the corpse to saliva from a discarded cigarette, Stockton fled to Kansas City, Kansas. Later, two more infant bodies were found decomposed in the trunk of her car. The coroner who performed the three autopsies commented,

“We finally have some justice for Baby Crystal.”

The plea arrangement limits her sentence to 60 years.

We see where this poor woman made her mistake--she didn’t leave it to a professional! In this state, one can have a doctor kill their baby for them, any time, any place, for any reason! It seems very unfair that one has to be licensed to terminate life, causing undue disruption to this poor woman.

Does it really matter, if a child is killed with the legs dangling, and kicking out of the body, or to kill a child 10-seconds after it comes out of the body?

I am unable to make the moral distinction.

Who Knew?

On the floor of the House of Representatives, congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (Houston,) proclaimed herself a “Freed Slave.”

Apparently she has become a Republican and has left the Democratic Party Plantation. For many years she has been a House slave doing the bidding of her overseers. It takes a lot of courage to leave the safety of the Plantation House where she has been a kept woman of color. The most courageous people and ones I admire the most are those who do not live on the plantation and freely speak their mind such as Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, and Walter E. Williams who withstand relentless assaults on their character.

Coincidentally, the National Rifle Association will hold their annual meeting in Houston. Perhaps that is why she has had this change of heart in 2013.

The NRA was founded in 1871 by those Union officers who helped free the original slaves, to promote firearm ownership and proficiency. Many former slaves were protected from the klan through the efforts of the NRA.

Welcome, Ms Lee, to your new found freedom. Although scary at first, you will find fulfilling experiences and new opportunities--along with many new, true friends.

(I am not a relative by blood but in spirit as a fellow freedom seeker.)

Register criminals, not guns

As far as I know, the NRA position on background checks has not changed. The NRA still supports checks between dealers and buyers. However, the terms, have changed to 'Universal checks" for “transfers" of all guns. In practice, it would intrude on transfers between family members. This would lead to recording the details of the gun and the names of the gun owners--thereby creating a gun registry and de facto gun registration. Therein lies the resistance. The NRA, as well as gun owners are worried about how a gun registry will be used, as historically gun registration has lead to confiscation. The oft-cited polls showing support for "Universal background checks" omit these key details, which skews the result. The issue for gun owners is not the background check--it is about registration.

For proof that registration does nothing to reduce “gun violence”, I give you Chicago.

In 2012, Chicago exceeded 500 homicides, 435 killed by guns.

Besides the exceedingly, excessive restrictions on owning a handgun in Chicago, (which requires gun registration,) Illinois is one of the few--if not only--states to require gun owners to have a Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card. You must have this card in order to (legally) possess, buy and sell both guns and ammunition.  In addition, the statute reads:

“Any person within this State who transfers or causes to be transferred any firearm shall keep a record of such transfer for a period of 10 years from the date of transfer. such record shall contain the date of the transfer; the description; serial number or other information identifying the firearm if no serial number is available; and if the transfer was completed within this State, the transferee’s Firearm Owner’s Identification Card number. On demand of a peace officer such transferor shall produce for inspection such record of transfer.”

To recap then, to possess even one bullet in Illinois, one must have a FOID card. Most of the guns could be traced to the seller--IF the transfer was done legally. I think you could confidently assume that the killers in Chicago do not have a FOID card, and did not buy their guns from a FOID card holder.

Registration will not do--and has not done--anything to stop the flow of guns to criminals.