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THE UNINVITED “GUESTS”

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(Or: The best counter measure, is too un-invite them.)
Let us talk about the “Horrible” illegal immigration problem in the EU. Today some 40 dead ones were found in a truck. We read many articles of 1000s arriving on the bankrupt shores of Greece and other countries. It is in our news, daily. Remember you see some of the millions of invaders in the USA, every day. Just look around. These invasions should not happen.
Some reports tell us that between 1999 and 2000 there were 3,600.000 home invasions in the U.S. Now this includes break-ins, burglaries, home rapes etc. Rooster knows two people who, were at a guest’s home for dinner, when the house was invaded, by thieves who threaten them and stole all their money, jewelry etc. That is two too many. In the US we clearly see and understand that unwanted entry into anyone’s home is illegal and scary. How come few seem to get upset if the invasion is hidden and many of the invaders are protected by their own Government? You older folks remember the 1944 movie “the Uninvited” with Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey. You younger ones recall the 2000 movie “The Uninvited” staring Mekhi Phlter and Mori Morrow. All shock movies dripping in horror. That is obvious what we think on the subject if it is within our walls. Somehow we are blasé about it if it is outside the house, but in the neighborhood.
Why is it that the U.S.A has not stopped its illegal invasion? Why is it that Europe just does not seem to be able to stop the invasion of 1000s and maybe millions of mostly Muslims from wonderful countries ruled by Muslims? Of course there are others. For example in the EU many are Christians fleeing Muslims. The question is still there. Why can these countries not stop the invasions? They call them migrations. Why?
Success is not difficult. It is time consuming and expensive, but not impossible. So why does it go on? All you have to do is gather up the invaders and deliver them back to the Country they came from. You keep doing that and pretty soon the invasion will become a random crossing. If the Country they came from, refuses to allow your boats to land, then you force the landing with war ships. You deliver them with a month’s supply of food. Point is you find a way to do it. Your Leaders should never allow it to happen. Why do they?
The answer lies in their political beliefs. Socialist/progressives/communists etc. are all one world believers. Borders are in their way for a one world happy family of home invaders. You see they do not see them as invaders, but as poor lost souls following the wrong set of beliefs. Most of Europe’s leaders are people of this belief. Even Merkel in Germany is a soap opera when it comes to these tough decisions. Clearly France, Spain, Italy etc. have no leaders who read history. If they did they would see the terrible things that happened to their countries when invaded by Muslim Armies a long time ago. Those same things will happen when this invasion takes its beach heads and moves further inland. Send them back to the Counties that born them. It is their problem and let them deal with it. It is not the problem of other Countries. If you wonder why Trump is leading in the polls, it is because he alone says he will close the borders and deport the illegals. Europe is desperately in need of someone to take Trumps example.
People with common sense understand what has to be done, but are a forgotten minority. Uninvited…. so to speak.

PROTEST: FLY THE BETSY ROSS FLAG. It is the one flag where all the States supported the Constitution.
Wc 624
Rooster Bradford, gives up all rights to this article and seeks no compensation for its use. 2015

ANCHORS A-WAY BABE

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(OR: Where & how you are born matters.)
Several Candidates for President are beginning to talk about the citizenship of babys born in the USA of parents who are here illegally. Those who argue such a baby must be citizens are the same ones who tell us the minute before a baby is born it is not human. This is just a hint that their logic may be flawed.
To understand the issue, we must know it is not solved by the Constitution. Second, we must know and understand significant court comment on it. The main body of the Constitution is silent on anchor babies. In fact it left citizenship to the States. Citizenship becomes a part of the Constitution only in its amendments. The birthright issue comes to pass only because of the existence of the 14th Amendment. Its language, which some argue says children of illegals are citizens, is as follows:

“Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United
States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Obviously the above language does not mention children of illegal trespassers. At best it’s language is ambiguous when it says “ born or naturalized… and subject to….” What does “… subject to jurisdiction…” mean? If being born and naturalized was all that was meant then why condition that event, by “…subject to the jurisdiction thereof…”. Why was this condition added? Logic tells us that if we have no jurisdiction of an illegal, then we also have no jurisdiction of its baby seconds before it is born and right after. Illegals make illegals so to speak. The word jurisdiction must have meant something other than the power to arrest and deport. Let’s step back in time to learn the reasons the 14th Amendment was created in the first place. Certainly knowing what the writers had in mind should help logic and common sense.
Winning the Civil War was its cause. With the end of slavery three Constitutional Amendments were passed to hopefully clear up the citizenship issue of slaves. They are the 13, 14, and 15th.
Amendment 13: This simply removed Slavery and Involuntary Servitude and gave Congress (Not the States.) power to enforce it.
Amendment 14: This attempted to define Citizenship (see above) and specifically said no State could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process and equal protection of the law. This reinforced the power granted Congress in the 13th. It went on to talk about apportionment and election of members of Congress. While at it the writers added that the US Gov. could not assume any debts of the Confederate States. Clearly the intent was the slavery issue.
Amendment 15: This was the final wrap up of the slavery issue by declaring a State could not deny votes based on race, color, or servitude.
Using common sense these three focused on slavery, its destruction, and feared resurrection. The issue of birth rights of illegal trespassers was not in the intent and was not in the mind of those who approved the amendments.
How did the Anchor Babe concept get pulled out of this ambiguous language? Well the Liberal members of our Supreme Court did the deed. The case most used as the source is “United States vs Wong Kim Ark in 1898”. The issue here was the citizenship of children born to people here legally, but not citizens. By the rules of interpretation this ruling should never have been applied beyond its facts. The Court did not have before it the issue of the parent’s illegality. Another case used as the fountain head is Plyler vs Doe (1982) where a footnote seemed to say that presence here legally was not relevant. Again it was an aside. It was not an issue clearly framed by the pleadings or otherwise before the court. This being so it should not be a ruling of the court.
The result is that there is no clear Court Case, interpreting the Constitution directly on the issue. At best, if the issue had been before the Supreme Court its ruling should have said the Constitution is silent on the matter. It is akin to Presiding Justice Roberts calling Obama’s Health Care, a tax. Justices sometimes pull issues out of thin air.
This means that Congress has the power to pass a law saying birth right means both parents, or one (If it wants.) must be legal citizens. Of course the pro-aggressives will appeal it, and finally, for once, the issue will be directly put to the Court.
Oh, yes finally the stock market is acting like a real market. Good luck.

PROTEST: FLY THE BETSY ROSS FLAG. It is the one flag where all the States supported the Constitution.
Wc
Rooster Bradford, gives up all rights to this article and seeks no compensation for its use. Aug. 2015

SANDERS MATTERS

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(OR: Look behind Bernie’s large crowds and ask, why?)
This Morning it was reported that the national tax income for 2015 is estimated to be Two and a half trillion dollars. The most ever. However the national expense is ½ trillion more than that. (500 plus billion for those in Isla Vista). The current national debt is 18 and a half trillion dollars and rising. If we spent all the annual income (impossible) it would take 10 years to pay off the debt. This terrible situation is because of Socialism. Just as with all Socialist experiments, if we continue, we will implode because the giveaway mentality will crush productivity.
The above is why Bernie Sanders matters. In one respect he is honest. He tells everyone he is a true blue Socialist. This means he will continue the above debt accumulation until our cornucopia is empty, like Greece and Puerto Rico are right now.
What we can learn from Sanders Campaign is awesome. Keep in mind the Democrats have a primary candidate who is a closet socialist. She does not pull instant or big crowds. Bernie’s are like Flash Mobs. By the thousands (27.500 in L .A. Portland 28,000: Seattle 15,000} these Socialist/ Democrats just appear out of the woodwork. That they show up in such numbers is what is important. Why and who are they? The why is because they are ardent Socialists? They are those brain washed by years of education failure. The who, is that they are mostly middle age and young folks. They are rushing to listen to an old white haired man, who looks his age, and speaks poorly. When someone takes his mic he lets it go. What attracts them is not the man. It is the fact that he is a card carrying, in your face, Socialist. What does this all mean? To the Conservative, this can mean only one thing. There is a tidal wave of Socialists out there ready to continue the destruction of our Republic. Let them find an American Lenin and there will be no stopping the plunge. Do not doubt me. They already have had nearly 8 years of rampage with Barrack. Most of you did not think sane people could vote for such a disaster a second time. They did. Their sanity is in question. The Conservative must understand he or she holds the life jacket in their hands. If properly handled it will save anyone, and everyone. If not we all will sink in the same cesspool of greed and entitlement. It will not be enough to win the next election. Why? Because a win will give conservatives only 4 years. We will be beset by debt problems, which makes any more time problematical. What is required is not only a victory but a meaningful reeducation of these hordes of thieves who stand at the gates ready to demand you feed them and take care of them. This then is the challenge. Is there one of the candidates who understands this and has the guts and fortitude to do it? The beginning could be as simple as denying Federal Aid to any School System that does not teach the merits of a Republic and the failures of Socialism. The second effort would be by advertisement handed out to TV and radio that do the same. The GOP candidates, Rooster sees, do not give much hope. Which one of them has said Socialism is a cancer of peace? Which one has said the greatest killers of their own people have been socialist governments? Which one of them has said Socialism destroys productivity? Which one of them has said the old order must be changed? Which one has said it like it really is? With Socialist stupidity failures around the globe you would think it easy to point this out. You would think pointing to Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Cuba, China, Vietnam, Greece, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Puerto Rico Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, etc. in your face, failures of Socialism, would be easy. No one is doing it. You would think telling people that the only thing they have to fear is free stuff, itself, would be on the lips of true leaders. It is not on the lips of those running. Trump, Cruz and maybe one other could, but will they? Think of this. China is stumbling and will fail. Germany is the strength of the EU. If it fails (Right now it is in decline.) who will bail out future members like Greece? If the USA fails there is no country or group of countries which could bail us out. Our chaos will be very personal.
PROTEST: FLY THE BETSY ROSS FLAG. It is the one flag where all the States supported the Constitution. Wc 678 Rooster Bradford, gives up all rights to this article and seeks no compensation for its use. 2015

BIRDS EYE VIEW OF THE DEBATES

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(OR: LOOKING AT THEM  FROM THE CEILING.)

Let us first look at the questions.  Somewhere in the Fox think tank they got it wrong.   They decided to attack the candidates rather than facilitate the poor souls up on the stage.   The stage was well done, but we could have used more meaningful questions on the burning issues of the day.  The general question of candidates non-support of the eventual Nominee was a set up.  They knew only Trump would raise his hand.  Meagan’s surprise attack on him,  about his views of women was especially wrong.   It was kind of like the question, “When did you stop beating your wife?”  Just wrong, that’s all.

Both events were pretty much the same in results.  No clear winner, but we did observe a bunch of folks who should get out of the way.   In the first debate only Perry stood out as a decent candidate. He was much improved over his poor performance when he last ran for the nomination.  Much has been said of Florina, as having done a fair job. Her answers were ok, but you should never forget that when she was head of Hewett Packard she did a poor job of leading, and was complicit in the general CEO rip off of large companies.  She also lost a major bid at election in California.  Track records are much more important than the words used in a debate.

The main event was handled about as well as can be done in a crowd.  Trump received the most screen time, and Ron Paul the least.  We could have done with a lot less screen time of the moderators.   Jeb Bush showed his true soft side personality.  His achievements in Florida were only fair on the conservative litmus test.   Carson is a good conservative and said the right things, but he to, suffers from a speaking voice that gets lost in a good wind.  Christie lost it on his response to being called for hugging Obama.  Cruz, unfortunately was avoided by the moderators and his questions did not let him shine in the small window they gave him.  Rooster likes Cruz.  His deeds are impressive as he battles the “Good Old Boy” network in the Senate.  He has the guts to go out front and do battle. Huckabee, a seasoned politician and political figure handled himself well, but Rooster is not impressed with his ability to call an ace an ace and demand performance of others.  Kasich’s answers were just what the main stream news folks love.  There was little that pleased the conservative love meter.  Ron Paul was pretty well sidelined, and out of the game.   We really did not get much information from him and the questions given him were weak.   Before the next debate he should comb his hair, and stand a little taller.  Rubio handled himself well.  Was he given a break, because of his Cuban history? Maybe.   Again however, his personality is not top-gun caliber.  Trump was Trump, the super salesman, with a big voice and larger than life handshake. The jury is still out on his conservative core beliefs.   There is a sinister campaign, being put out by the left, that he is a secret agent for the Clintons.   This could hurt him. If he does not get on it right now it will gather steam from the conspiracy types. Certainly he has some of the Reagan attributes, a voice you can hear and courage.  His donations to Democrat candidates will not sit well with the main line conservatives. It is way too early to judge him a winner.   Scott Walker did fine and his track record of standing up to the establishment and entrenched unions in Wisconsin is admirable.   Rooster just wishes he would find a capable speech coach, to help him raise his voice, open his eyes and sound like the combatant his record portrays.

Clearly this debate did not produce a dominate personality with strong conservative credentials.  The handlers and seconds have a lot of work before the next round.

 

PROTEST:  FLY THE BETSY ROSS FLAG.  It is the one flag where all the States supported the Constitution.

Wc  677

Rooster Bradford, gives up all rights to this article and seeks no compensation for its use.  2015

THE UNBROKEN CIRCLE

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(OR: Political mistakes, repeat themselves.)

For those who recall 78 records, there was something special about the sound and clatter  when the needle ran out of recorded space and began to flop  around in the center.  Suddenly you had a strong urge to make it stop.   So it is with historians, such as the Rooster, when he feels the sound and fury, repeated in Politics.  That sound and fury occurs when a society rotates from freedom to socialism, and back again. It is a cabal of whiners, lazy people, do-nothings, and greedy who create a society which takes from others to give to “ more deserving”.  This goes on until the producing victums re- take control once again.  They then restore individual freedom which includes free enterprise, free speech, freedom of worship, dignity to the human spirit etc.  The only controls they impose are those to control the evil ones.  There are a never ending supply of them.   All along the way the producers are attacked by the Cabal.  In time the cabal, like a swarm of bees will begin to win, and the merry-go-round resumes.   In short history has been a battle between the producers and the non producers.  In all of history, only once or twice has a government come along that has lasted a long peaceful time.   Like a merry-go-round there are different rides.  There is one for socialism, one for communisim, one for conservatism, one for destroyers, one for builders and so forth. Too often the change is swift and terrible   In the mix in different ways,  is the misuse of the ability to vote.   It is fine line between having your money taken by the vote of a 45 Cal. Pistol, and the vote of the majority around you.   In the final analysis what you earned is taken from you.   One is considered illegal and the other legal. The result can be the same.   One certain change for the better would be to control the misuse of the vote so that the legal does not have the same impact as the illegal.  That is to say, control the vote so that the voters cannot vote themselves a vacation and free stuff at your expense.

The best form of government is a Republic with limited democracy.   In a Republic the people do not have a direct say.  They cannot directly vote themselves candy.  Their power is filtered through representatives, whom they select by vote. This provides debate, aging of the wine, selection, and time to reflect.   Yet, the candy taking can be regained by voting in legislators who will get the candy for you.  This is happening in the United States today.

A significant  answer would be to root out conflicts of interest in the voting process.  In American, (which is going down the drain because of conflicts of various interest), it could be done and could be done peacefully.  The odds are against the latter, however.  One political observer and teacher after another has stated that Democracy is doomed once the voters discover  they can vote themselves money they do earn.  It is true, also in a Republic.  It happens when the voter votes in the candy taker.   In America even Social Security which the socialist government should have protected has  been given away to those who did not earn it It is a huge Ponsi scheme where the current payers are paying for the users and there is not enough left for the payers when they want to become users. In the non government arena men are sent to prison for this.   Food stamps have been thrown around like cafetti.   All manner of other welfare has been dangled in the face of the freeloader and producer alike.  Any mathematician worth his or her salt knows all the free stuff has a dooms day.   Any elementary teacher will tell you, nothing will be learned if the kids have the power to vote for what is next.   If there is a possibility  a free government to last a long time it must cast out conflicts of interest in voting.

In the Republican type, it would be relatively simple.   For example if you as a voter depend on governmental money for income, you have a clear conflict of interest in voting for those who hand it out.  Such a conflict should prevent your voting for any part of that Government.  For example a federal employee, or one receivning food stamps, or one otherwise being taken care of by the Federal Government, should not be able to  vote for federal officials.  They can vote for State and local governments where they do not have the conflict of interest.  The point is they should not be able to vote for the hand that feeds them.   The payment of taxes does not overcome the conflict, however the lack of paying taxes should be a factor.   If a person does not pay taxes to the Government they are to vote for, they should not be eligible to vote.  Of course it is a conflict of interest.  It is in their best interest to continue not paying their fair share

The elimination of conflicts of interest  would  curtail greed and self enhancement.  Voting for a Senator, a Member of the House, the President etc. would be limited to those who pay for that part of government which is applicable.

Of course this is not the total answer, but it would go along way to slow down the process of legal taking, otherwise known as theft.

PROTEST:  FLY THE BETSY ROSS FLAG.  It is the one flag where all the States supported the Constitution.

Wc

Rooster Bradford, gives up all rights to this article and seeks no compensation for its use.  2015

SENATE ON CRUZ CONTROL

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(OR: A CROSS TAKES ON THE GOLDEN ARCHES.)

Well! Well! Well! Finally someone had the guts to call an Ace an Ace.  Yes it was junior Senator Cruz calling the high and mighty Senate Leader, McDonald a liar.   It kind of makes one think of the Bridge term where one suit trumps another, or one might think of a trump-et. Get it?  Yes, maybe what you hear is really the Trump-effect.   Trump’s entry into the race for President, if nothing else, has embolden candidates to speak up and not be shy.  Even Christy was heard pounding sand (hard to hear sand pounded) on the Hannity show.  Candidate Huckabee accused Obama of leading the entire Jewish nation to the doors of the Ovens at some new holocaust.  Both Huckabee and Christy were ranting on Obama and the no-deal Iranian fiasco, but let us consider what Mr. Cruz did.  It was special.

For a sitting GOP Senator to call the Majority Leader, a liar, on the floor of the Senate was akin to a 7. Earth shaker.  The Statues in the halls of the great building should have fallen flat out, on to the marble floors.  The reconstruction scaffolds around the Rotunda should have shaken to the ground.  Cracks in the structure should have opened letting out the hot air.   Really?  He did that?  Almost blew Rooster off his perch high atop the Hen House.  What guts.  What absolute patriotic guts.

Those who pay attention to such things have known, for a very long time, that the Senate and to a lesser degree the House, have built protective barricades around themselves.  Certainly one of them is the unwritten rule that you shall not speak badly of another member and especially the leaders.   More than that it has become a rule that if you dare to stand up in the boat, you will capsize….. not the boat.   These protective unwritten rules of no- conduct, are worse in the Democrat party.   How many years did we put up with the lying and deceit of “good- ol- boy” Harry Reed and his frosty glasses?   If ever there was an evil man in high places, Harry, the Democrat Majority leader was it.   Any Democrat underling who pushed him the wrong way, had lunch in a homeless shelter.  Of course the common senseless types, love dictatorships, whether in the Senate or as the top dog in a kennel. Look at their voting for and re-voting for Pelosi in the house.  As Peggy Lee used to sing, “Is that all there is?”

Senator McDonald is a weak leader and should not have been elected to the position except for the unwritten rules of top kid on the mountain.  You know the rule.  If you are there long enough and do as you’re told you get promoted.   Physically he does not look good.  He speaks almost as bad as Obama.  The worst is his morality.  Like so many weak men before him, he has fallen for the belief that as a leader,  it is no sin to lie. Like so many common senseless folks, “The End Justifies the Means.”  Certainly it is a mantra of the Democrat party and, over the years, has been adopted by many in GOP leadership.

It is time for our legislatures to become places of debate.   Unlike Japan and other places it is not necessary to have road rage in the aisles.  We can be like Great Britain, where debate does not mean combat.  The English have done it for years.   They even put the opposing parties opposite each other, so they can see each other’s expressions of disapproval, head waging, and finger gestures more easily.

Many years ago Rooster, as a young attorney, was admonished by a Judge not to call a witness a liar.  Language police were exposing themselves even then.  Somehow it was ok to say something like, “The witness must be forgetful, or the Witness did not get it correct, or the overwhelming evidence contradicts the Witness.   None of the substitutes were as effective because they leave doubt.  When you call someone a liar, and your opinion is worth something, no one can have doubt about what you mean.

The point is truth and telling it like it is, should be preferred to lying, deception and silent punishment.  It is better to err in the search for truth, than not to search at all.     Hurray for Mr. Cruz.

PROTEST:  FLY THE BETSY ROSS FLAG.  It is the one flag where all the States supported the Constitution.

Wc 738

Rooster Bradford, gives up all rights to this article and seeks no compensation for its use.  2015

RE: MCCAIN-TRUMP MAY BE RIGHT

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(OR:  JUDGING TOO EARLY LEAVES NO ROOM FOR DOUBT.)

 

Presidential Candidate Trump, is taking a lot of flak for questioning the hero status of McCain.   Before you fall for the main- steam line, read this.

When McCain was running for the GOP nomination Rooster argued against his getting the nomination.  Rooster also took collateral damage from many of his Navy buddies who were in favor of McCain simply because he was Navy.  Rooster argued that his record clearly indicated he did not have the common sense to run the kind of a campaign needed to stop the coming avalanche of lies.   Rooster was correct.  McCain never took the fight to Obama.

Rooster’s argument then was much the same as Trump’s today.    First of all, getting shot out of the sky by a missile was something McCain could have avoided. Many pilots had the same problem.  Having the same warning McCain had, they avoided missile attacks.  Point is a pilot with good common sense, who paid attention in briefings and learned from his training, stood a very good chance of coming home.  Those heroes are forgotten.  Certainly Rooster does not take away from McCain’s endurance in captivity.   As we shall see, his guards did not see the irony.  Certainly McCann was involved in the destruction of more American Aircraft than their SAM missiles.   Point is McCain did not have to be there.   But let’s look deeper into his past performance to better understand his use or lack of use of common sense.

Going back to his Academy days he was in the bottom of his class.  Not the very bottom but close enough that he should not have been accepted for flight school. Only the best were chosen for  very expensive pilot training.    Here is where it gets interesting.   His Grandfather and his Father were Admirals in the Navy.  Both rose to very responsible positions and McCain took advantage of that.   The first advantage was pulling strings to go to flight school.  There, as in the Academy,  he did not shine.   Once in the air he had to ditch a trainer over the Atlantic.  No real inquiry was conducted.   Next he borrowed a Navy jet to fly to an Army and Navy game up north.  It too malfunctioned (always blame the plane.) and he ejected.  The plane came down in a rural area and no one was hurt.  Again no serious questions were asked of the Admirals son.    So far the loss of the planes and his rescue cost the taxpayers some several million dollars.

Then on July 29, 1967 McCain was aboard the USS Forrestal Aircraft carrier siting in an A-4 Skyhawk fighter preparing to take off.  It was in the famous Tonkin Gulf.  Next to him was a similar plane with a pilot by the name of “ White” aboard.  Somehow a Zuni rocket was shot from another plane.  It went through Whites plane and into the ocean.  Fuel and a bomb fell on to the deck, and all hell broke loose.  134 people died including White.   McCain saved himself by jumping out of his plane.  He went below decks eventually watching the horror on TV in the pilot’s area. Once again he was lucky but no hero.   The Naval inquiry could not find a reason for the event and labeled it an accident.   It just happened that only one of  the fixed Rockets aboard a manned F 4 fired off, and it just happened to be facing the two A 4s of White and McCain.  Some 72 Millions in value were lost in the resulting Carrier damage, including McCain’s plane. A total of 21; 11 A 4s, 7 F 4s and three Vigilantes were destroyed.   Many others damaged.

Three months later McCain  was shot down over Vietnam, losing his 4th million dollar plus plane.  This time he was picked up by enemy and made a prisoner.

When he got back home he soon divorced and remarried. Then he began his career in politics in the State of his new wife’s family.  His loss of the Presidential campaign against Obama, was largely because he just never figured out how to fight.   He simply stood in the way dumfounded.  His positions as a Senator have left many common sense folks taking deep breaths.   In short his proven conduct over his varied careers, leaves many unanswered questions.

It could be Trump is right on the money.  When you think about it, surviving in a hell-hole prison should not make a hero.  How a person fights a battle, is the measure.  Taking a stand as our boys did in Bengazi.  fighting hard, damning the torpedoes and ordering full speed ahead, is the stuff of heros.

PROTEST:  FLY THE BETSY ROSS FLAG.  It is the one flag where all the States supported the Constitution.

Wc  750

Rooster Bradford, gives up all rights to this article and seeks no compensation for its use.  2015

IN DEFENSE OF THE CONFEDERATE FLAG

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(OR:  Do you really understand this flag?)

If the destruction of ancient monuments and works of art, by ISIS in Iraq and Syria, disturbs you, so should the destruction of the Confederate Flag.   We are talking about taking down and hiding a bit of history.   The flag in question was never the flag of the Confederate States.   It was a flag specially designed for their troops to take on to the battle field. The purpose was to identify enemy from friend.  It represented our brothers and sisters serving their duty to a government that existed 150 years ago.  It was and is a battle flag, much like a Navy ensign flying from the bridge of our naval ships.

The flag flying in South Carolina, was never the flag of the Confederacy. Never, at that time, was it a flag of one of the States making up the Confederacy.   The Confederacy had only two national flags.   The first was called the Stars and Bars.  It had a blue corner, like the American flag, with 7 stars in a circle.  The rest of it was two horizontal red bars separated by a white bar in the center. In 1863 this flag was discontinued with a new design called the “Stainless Banner”, which was white with the upper inside corner showing a replica of the battle flag.

The Battle Flag never represented Slavery.  It represented the troops of the Armies fighting for their view of States rights.   Slavery was just one of the issues that caused the Southern States to decide the only way to protect their rights from the aggressive North was to leave the Union.   Yes, the Northern States, being industrialized, had an entirely different agenda than the agricultural South.  Both the north and south bear responsibility for the hatred between the two sides. The first conflict of that costly war was in South Carolina, where Confederate troops attempted to remove a U.S. Garrison at Fort Sumter. Thereafter the new American  president, Abraham Lincoln, called up 75,000 troops to stop the Rebellion.  The South called it a succession for State rights.

Right or wrong, the flag should not be a symbol.  It is a simple battle flag. To those ignorant of history it is a symbol of Slavery.   To say that, exposes a weak mind.  It is not fact.   Rooster loves history and wants to preserve every bit of it, good or bad.  To hide it is to destroy it.  To do so ranks at the top of stupidity.  What is considered bad today, might not be tomorrow and so it goes.   Point is to destroy history is to destroy tools of education.

If the Civil War battle flag, should symbolize anything today, it is not Slavery.  It is States’ Rights.  The real issue is not a memory of Slavery. It is the threat of States once again deciding it is better to be free than put up with the National agenda.   In other words those who want to continue the power of United States, , cannot afford to have States departing on their whim.  The issue of Slavery is as dead as the flag in reality.  The issue of separation for any reason is the fear of hand wringing iconoclasts.

Back to the issue of simple history.  Destroying History has unfortunately been the bane of humanity since we began to socialize.   Destruction and obliteration of the enemy, and the history of its existence, has been routine. Look at what the Allies did to Europe in the Second war.  Look what Hitler did to London.  One can even argue the extinction of the Neantherdal by the Homo sapiens is part of the same.  Today Europe  destroys  evidence of Hitler, and forbids anyone to talk about the Nazi regime (A form of socialism).  That is wrong headed.  Also it clearly is a denial of free speech.   It would be better to talk about it, and to hold its monuments as evidence of wrong doing than to scorch the earth and leave nothing to use as teaching tools for the next generation that comes along.

Destruction is the tool of fools.  Let us try to rise above such nonsense.

PROTEST:  FLY THE BETSY ROSS FLAG.  It is the one flag where all the States supported the Constitution.

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Rooster Bradford, gives up all rights to this article and seeks no compensation for its use.  2015


GREECE: 61 PERCENT VOTE FOR CHAOS.

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(OR:   The greedy always eat their benefactors. )

 

What is the real significance of 61 percent of the voters, in Greece, voting not to
tighten their belts and “Knuckle down Winsocki”?  (From the 1941 Broadway show “Best Foot Forward”)   Well for Greece it means 61 % of the people are brain dead or silly, and want to be hurt.  It cannot mean anything else.  It also means, as Rooster has always said, any given population is roughly divided into threes.  One third are common sense disabled, 1/3 are in the middle swinging from side to side, and 1/3 are ruled by common sense.  In this case most of Greece’s middle voted for the blind and greedy, and a few voted for Common sense.  The Yes vote was 39 Percent.  Just based on demographic data the vote was predictable, and the socialist leaders knew it.

What, however, does it mean on the world stage?   The Greece vote confirms that liberals suffer commonsencelessness (sic).  Their ability to see the future is flawed, big time.   The present Greece government is as liberal as they come and do not forget they were voted in, at a time austerity was turning the Greece economy around and things were looking up.  This referendum simply allows the present government to say,”See we have to vote this way because the people want it”.  Just a cover, and a lie, the mantra of liberalism.

Most important, Greece chaos is a good example, of the problem with Socialism in all its forms.   Think of socialism as a cancer where one type of cell eats good cells. .   Cancers only cure is massive doses of anti-cancer treatment, which can take many forms.  Most are very painful to peace and tranquility.   Socialism is the taking from one group to please another group.  The problem is the pleasing time only lasts as long as the victims put up with it.   You can never expect those getting free stuff to pass a law taking away their free stuff.  Just does not work.  There ain’t no free lunch, but to a bona fide liberal they either do not see it, or deny it.   Ok, let us look at the big picture.   Greece is just another present day example of the failure of Socialism.  The U.S. is now a Socialist country so you can expect the same routine.  Are there other current, on- going examples?  Oh!!  yes there are.   How about Cuba which is right next door.  Castro’s promises of free stuff failed, from the git-go.  The economic collapse has been complete, except for the collection of 1950s cars.  Now Cuba’s economy will be repaired, somewhat, by an overflow from a new star in the socialist galaxy……. us.   Look at Argentina.  It is a combination of socialism and dictator, which is normal.   The present dictator is the only one with a motive to kill a prosecutor who challenged her.   Look at Venezuela.  Since Chavez came into power by giving free stuff to the greedy, that country has been in an economic collapse.   Only its oil reserves have kept it from hitting total bottom. Political opposition is smashed.  With a few exceptions most of South American countries are in one phase or another of socialism with strong and weak dictators.  As you look across the globe this same show is repeated over and over again.  Historically the greatest example of this failure was and is the Soviet Union. Its pure socialism collapsed and was replaced by a lesser form, but again with a dictator. One day he too will vanish and Russia’s bumpy road will continue.

Common sense folks understand that there should be a fair and equitable balance between the haves and the have-nots.   What they do not get is the chaos they cause by allowing Haveanots keys to the treasury.  It seems fair and equal but it is not.   Many great thinkers have talked about this.  Democracies always fail because they allow the Havenots to vote themselves a key.  In a Constitutional Republic a citizen is born equal, but he or she does not grow up that way.  For peace to prevail a system of government must be devised which prevents the taking, provides care of the helpless, and rewards hard work and good deeds.   This system will necessarily have to restrict the vote of the brain dead, greedy, and silly.

PROTEST:  FLY THE BETSY ROSS FLAG.  It is the one flag where all the States supported the Constitution.

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Rooster Bradford, gives up all rights to this article and seeks no compensation for its use.  2015

ICONOCLASTS RUNNING AMUCK

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(Or: Destroying Icons is a rage of unstable minds.)

Do you support the destruction of history?   If not you might be sane and loaded with common sense.  If yes or say yes,  sometimes, then your brain is disabled with defective common sense.  Image bashers (iconoclasts) can be some of the most dangerous terrorists to your way of life.  They are worse than the rioters who tear down things and bash windows.   The secondary focus of this article is relating the results and lack of results from the senseless killing of innocent people in North Carolina.

Before we get there, let us look at the larger picture.  ISIS and Al-Qaida in the Middle East destroy any Jewish icon they find and have gone even further in destroying any history of a way of life different from what they believe.  They are image bashers.   In Germany, Austria, and Bavaria, the liberal IBs (Image bashers) have obliterated any physical evidence of Nazism in their areas.  Their destruction has taken many forms, but Dynamite is their favorite.  Some of the structures cannot be obliterated because they are too big.  Sub pens in France are a good example.  Both the radicals of the Middle East and Europe use explosives to destroy images of what they do not like.  As a historian this is very difficult for Rooster.   It is the same with Hitler’s burning books he did not like, and the destruction of the great library of Alexandria, by Muslims. Time after time during the entire life of man, this form of insanity has marched on.

The same intolerance is a part of liberalism in the U.S.   It is not conservatives who go about basing Images.  It is the intolerant liberal.   Certainly one of the important examples today is what they have done to “Marriage”.   The ancient image of a man and women, joining together in holy Matrimony to have and raise children, has been destroyed. The injury to the family is just now developing. The image of a Constitution that is strong and stable, and provides the written word, like a bible, has been destroyed. It is liberal’s concept of a living Constitution which has done the trick.  Another great example is their trampling upon our language.  Many words are now forbidden to even be spoken. Most words describe images.  Certainly one obvious is the word “Negro”.  Oh, it is ok for blacks to say it to each other, but another race cannot. The destruction of this image, caused O.J. Simpson to escape murder.  The government’s primary detective was so afraid to say the word, that when the black attorney asked him if he had ever mouthed the word, Mark Furman said “No”.  It had to be a lie, and the entire credibility of the prosecution when down the drain.  Another word,” Mulatto”, has been banished to the ash bin.  In their haste to put race against race, anyone with a tiny bit of black in them is called black.  Why?   Even a young liberal female in Washington State can curl her hair, call herself black, and get away with it until the one person who should know, called her on it.  Her Mother
Now let us consider the mass killing of people in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, N.C.   Obviously the church wanted to stay black, because it uses the limiting word “African”.  Isn’t that racial?  Still not the point.  The point is that the liberals scream the entire country is racist because of this senseless killing.  There is no question that the 21 year old “Dylann Roof” acted as a racist.  He said so.  However he did not wrap himself in a Confederate Battle Flag, so why the demand that it be removed and hands be cut off of anyone who flies it.   What did the historical Confederate flag have to do with it?  You cannot wipe out the history of the Civil War.  Not possible.  It is another icon being bashed by the mentally unstable. That’s all.  Now you know how many large corporations are led by the same misguided, when they remove any image of that cotton flag from their product.  No it is not just to protect sales.  They actually believe destroying history is good.

What about the real issue in the killings at “Mother Emanuel” church, in N.C.? The liberals are so heated up to destroy images they miss it, completely.  What was the real cause?   Was it hatred of race or not?  No it was not.  Rooster is absolutely certain that Dylann Roof is autistic.  His common sense, like most iconoclasts, is and was disabled. He looks the part, he dressed the part, he said things like such a person, and he lived the part.   At the killing he was an iconoclast in action.  He was trying to destroy an image for all the same reasons as other iconoclasts.  The underlying reason which pushed this young white boy over the top, is that the present electronic age is popping out weird thoughts in disabled people all the time.  No one is doing anything constructive about it.    The evidence in this case is that Roof lived, with others (probably like him), in a trailer, and played computer games all the time.   What games?  How much violence did they put into his faulty brain?  His roommates are probably the same type, also forcibly abandoned by their families. Yes it is so, because liberals have made it impossible for parents to have any effect after a son reaches 18.  Liberals refuse to realize the electronic attraction, is more invasive and persuasive than drugs.   Who is addressing these issues?  Well some conservatives are, but they cannot be heard over the screaming sounds of the running amuck iconoclasts blown by an evil liberal wind.

Our Country is being led by common sense deficient people who are blind when they look at themselves in a mirror.   Expect no help.   Do not wait to hear any of them call out to the people to stop their foolish chasing after flags and recognize the real problem here.   Not going to happen.  They are totally incapable of worthy leadership.  It is so bad that an entire swarm of conservatives are running for President. Everybody wants to be a savior, but it will never happen unless you call um like you see um. .

PROTEST:  FLY THE BETSY ROSS FLAG.  It is the one flag where all the States supported the Constitution.

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Rooster Bradford, gives up all rights to this article and seeks no compensation for its use.  2015