REALLY HILLARY

I would wager that the dog ate your homework in grade school. 

With all the finger pointing going on, regarding what the FBI should have done or should not have done, memory should serve we the people best.  With all the smoke that has been blown our direction for the last few years, regarding Hillarys’ indiscretions in safe keeping our country’s vital communications, it is sometimes difficult to recall the absolute cause for our concern.  

Do you remember the fact that she decided to shun protocol, and agreement with the executive, by using a private server to communicate government correspondence?  

None of the subsequent investigations would have occurred if she had just followed the rules.  She would have followed the rules if she didn’t think they should not apply to her.  

If one were to study the historical record of her skirting both legal and ethical boundaries that record is probably one more task that you would not have enough time to accomplish before election day. 

The fact to remember is this: without Hillary’s bad judgment, disregard of protocol, and failure of full disclosure, we would not be having this discussion. None of this is the fault of anyone else, she is responsible.

So now it’s time for the Clintonesque common practice of misdirection and deflection.  This practice has been a predominate method of the Clinton cartel since their political presence entered our national awareness.  Some suggested reading regarding the lady who could become our first female President: “Crisis of Character”; “Armageddon”; http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/01/30/clinton-system-donor-machine-2016-election/ ; Clinton Cash; “Hillary’s America”. 

Throughout the study of Hillarys’ records, the pattern of smearing accusers with blame and the obscurement of facts is more than evident.  The most notable are Hillary’s smearing the women who accused Slick Willy of sexual assault while in the office of president.  This time it’s trying to accuse Mr. Comey, Director of the FBI, of attempting to influence the election.  Once again, I reiterate, there would be no problem if she had just followed the rules.

After all, is said and done, should we elect her as President or should we do everything we can legally do to thwart her drive to govern?

Pray for discernment.  Pray for our country.

WE HAVE A CHOICE

          Free will was a gift allowing Human beings the ability to be surprised by the outcome of our choices.

Every four years in the USA we the people have an opportunity to choose the person who will direct our countries economy, security, and basically oversee our legislative branch of the government.  There are some folks, in our society, who view making that choice as a responsibility, and some who are more than willing to let someone else choose for them.  They do, however, reserve the right to complain and whine about the outcome their lack of action.  There are also those of us who allow our choices to be manipulated by societal pressures and propaganda rather than taking the time and effort to do their own research.

This Presidential election cycle is a crowning example of manipulation.  If we were to only allow the information,  given to us by the media and the web universe, the odds of making the best choice would be close to nil.  I a society that has been kidnapped by “Political correctness”,  the less guarded remarks of the “non-politician” Trump, have put him at a disadvantage. Strange reason for discarding his managerial accomplishments from the equation of choosing a leader.

Nice talk (political correctness), saying only what we would like to hear, and not showing what they really think is a vein of dishonesty that I do not want in the person who will lead our country.  I am tired of the slick politician who says whatever the winds of polling are blowing instead of doing what is best for our country. 

I see Mrs. Clinton as the personification of the political chameleon saying, not necessarily doing, what she wants us to perceive.

I have listed some of the things I’m interested in having addressed for our country.  You  may well have other things that we need.

	DONALD TRUMP	HILLARY CLINTON
ECONOMY	Business experience and a record seeing potential and making his vision come into reality.  Turning a $!,000,000 loans into a multi-billion dollar empire in 30 years. Tax incentives for the overseas business' to return to the US with over $3t influx of capital with a percentage of that going toward national infrastructure	30 years as a career politician and the ability to go from flat broke after leaving the white house to a net worth in excess of $200,000,000 in less that 12 years.  Remarkable? Raise business taxes, raise personal taxes.
NATIONAL SECURITY	Wants to rebuild the military strength to prevent adversaries from detecting weakness.  Wants to review and change our rules of engagement.	Will rebuild military strength, will continue prosecution of war in a manner similar to that of Obama administration.
IMMIGRATION	Stop illegal trafficking, extreme vetting of middle east refugees, end over- stay of visa’s	Allow large numbers of undocumented immigrants to come into and stay in our country.  Allow over 60K un-vettable refugees from Syria (?) into our country
BORDER CONTROL	Build a wall	Open borders
TAX REFORM	Rewrite current tax code and law, lower taxation,
HEALTHCARE	Replace Obamacare, limit civil case awards, open competitive medical insurance  across nation	Keep and try to repair Obamacare, end goal of one-payer system
VETERAN AFFAIRS	Re-organize the VA system	Just fine the way it is
MILITARY	Rebuild and strengthen, new rules of engagement	Limited rebuild
EDUCATION	School choice	More money into the existing system (unions)
RULE OF LAW	Return to the rule of law, DOJ, FBI
SCOTUS	Appoint conservative judicial, original constitutional adherence	Appoint liberal judicial, constitution interpretation in accordance with present social agreement

Now I don’t know about you but in that entire list, I don’t see any mention about sexual misconduct, respect of others, or any type of personal behavior that should be no one else's business.  That’s why we call it personal.

Your vote is important and it should count for something.  This is not a personal thing, and it’s not about my ego or yours, this is about our nation and what we pass on to future generations of American citizens of the U.SA.

God Bless our Nation

CARNIVAL BARKERS

What an experience we are getting crammed down our collective throats.  The media acting like carnival barkers directing us to the oddity they want us to view.  Hyping and sensationalizing only the perverse of one show while ignoring the hideous facts of the other. 

We, our society, who are supposed to be in charge of who we elect as our representative governance are no longer acting responsibly. We no longer look at the facts of what our country is in need of, or what’s best for the common good.  We are, instead, in the process of electing a leader on information being fed to us by a self-serving ideological media.

This last week the media had two major impactful stories that should have an effect on our choice of leadership. One story regarded the (Possible) personal reprehensible actions of one of the candidates, the other showed in black and white the actions and words which actually affected our nation and its politic.  One story made the one candidate look personally repugnant, the other story was virtually non-existant.  The barker refused to shout out “Looky here” too.

In fact, the mainstream media reportage is pushing the Trump show at least 7:1 over the Hillary Wiki-leaks information.  In the case of NBC, ABC the coverage or mention was an average of 9 minutes on Trump, 15 seconds on Hillary’s Wiki-Leaks information dump.

Now, I don’t know about you, but when it comes to choosing a leader for the free world, (our country, the USA), my priorities are focused on items that affect our nation, rather than on the indiscretions of a personal nature.  Individual morality is not the question we need focus upon, even though the moral fiber of our society may be important to us all.

In a rush to appear “holier than thou”, the media minions have decided that to advance their cause, hypocrisy might serve their candidate well.  Focusing  the full thunderous  sound of their attacks on the personal (undocumented) deeds of the Donald, while ignoring factual information showing the self-serving actions of the Hillary camp.

I will be among the first to condemn the actions of Mr. Trump if and when the allegations are proven to be factual.  I will also point out that sexual misconduct has not been any kind of disqualifier for the office of President.  While Presidents such as FDR, Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton have shown their sexual indiscretions, with Clinton being most obvious, how is it that we disallow Trump's viability.  President Jimmy Carter even admitted to lusting in his mind, the difference with Trump is the lack of political correctness.  We need to put all this into perspective, and we need to do it without hypocrisy.  Men can be pigs and we all know that and most men if being honest to have lusted in their minds as well.

My concerns for our country are not what Mr. Trump thinks about women, about men and women, about fast cars, or any of that small ball diversionary shiny subjects the elite would like me to be focussing on.  I don’t trust the Barker.  There is not one of my concerns that Donald Trump has not addressed during this campaign period.  He has proven himself in the economic/financial arena, in the rebuilding of infrastructure, and as one who completes his vision of what can be.  His children, his family, his companies have shown his devotion to the standards of education, morality, and success.  His success has shown his ability to see what needs to be done, then do it, a series of visionary objectives achieved.

I expect his abilities to match his objectives for our country.

Trump says he will make America Great Again, Hillary says she will implement more of where we are.

My daily political random thought:

It's like dreading a new medicine that looks like sludge, that smells really bad, and we're not sure of how it will taste.

Its history has shown despite all the drawbacks it has performed remarkably well in improving conditions.

The old medicine has not shown itself to be working.  In fact, it has worsened the conditions that are harmful to the body.  Even though abhorrible, the new medicine at least gives a chance of recovery.

Pray for our country   Love your neighbor  Pray for discretion

God Bless the USA

COMMMON SENSE OR PRIDE?

Yep. I’m one of those bible clutching, gun toting, reprehensible Christian rednecks.  I’m also voting for Mr. Trump, not because I like what he has said, but for what I have seen in his accomplishments.  That is just one reason but the big one is I will do everything I can to prevent our country, our way of life to continue in a state of erosion.

I see a huge battle being continued in our GOP party about who and what set of ideology best represents the conservative side of the aisle.  There are some who are so proud of themselves and the stick-to-it-ness that they exhibit by shutting all chance of change.  One thing comes immediately to mind and that is the statement “Pride goeth before the fall”.

The bible, at least the one I have read a bit of, has a lot of common sense strung through all those words and pages.   Might remind some of us, and myself, about some of that common sense. One of the first things I remember is that there are what are called the “Seven Deadly Sins”, of which pride is a champion.  The second thing that jumps into mind is that the downfall for Satan was the mistake of pride in deciding his position as equal to his Creator. The third common sense item quoted is “a kingdom divided against itself will fall”.

I include a list of some other quotations we might find applicable to our political landscape.  Think about it.:

Galatians 6:4, Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else. 

Isaiah 2:12, The LORD Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled). 

Jeremiah 9:23, Let not the wise boast of their wisdom.

Proverbs 11:2, When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

 Proverbs 18:12, Before a downfall the heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

Need I say more to our GOP, Conservative staunch “Never Trumpers” that the common sense on this election cycle is we are in jeopardy of not only losing this battle but in fact the Obama factor has spread through our ranks.  What is the Obama factor, it is basically pulling up stakes before the battle is won.

Pray for our Country, Pray for common sense

CONSERVATIVE OR FOOLS?

OK, I get it.  

You are morally superior human beings who know what’s best for our country.  It’s gonna be your way or the highway and there is no way you can support Donald Trump.  

Then there’s our political governing bunch that makes a big showing of how they are not going to support or even vote for Donald Trump.  I might go out on a limb here and suggest that they are acting in a counter productive and stupidly foolish manner.

In an earlier blog post http://arbeeresponds2.blogspot.com/2016/02/why-my-choice-is-marco-rubio.html, I stated my case against Trump.  I was totally in the Rubio camp and still would be had so many of my fellow conservatives not backed and voted for Mr. Trump.  They did vote and back him in insurmountable numbers and those numbers are firmly in Trump's camp today.

Something you “never Trump” GOP candidates running for office around the country are forgetting is this: there are 85% of your base who are voting for Trump.  You might come to realize that 85% may not vote for you who are deserting our cause in favor of a Hillary Clinton victory.  Some of us might even consider you as being traitors to our overall purpose of defending our sovereign nation.  You are, without a doubt, if Trump loses, going to be viewed as Hillary facilitators in the continued course Obama led us down.

I may never understand the “never Trump” conservative constituency who, mistakenly, stand proudly behind their constitutional stance but yet will put the immoral, socialistic pack of donkeys in the position of veto power.  If you think that anything other than a vote, I mean pulling the actual lever, for Trump is not voting for Hillary you are “squirrel food”.  How can you not know what that means?

AT STAKE:  Supreme court, education manipulated by unions, continued damage to the economy through taxation and regulation, constant erosion of the original Constitution, attacks on the second amendment, loss of business to other countries (TPP), curtailment of fracking, unrestricted intake of refuge, open borders and the list goes on.

When close to 70% of our population considers our government to be leading us in the wrong direction, why would you help to continue that direction of travel?

Pray for discernment

Pray for our country

Love your neighbor

God Bless The United States of America

CHANGE

John 8:11 "Go and sin no more" the fact is it is far too easy to be a hypocrite, we have all sinned.

CHANGE

(C) Ron Burres

I am not that man you knew yesterday,

Each day is added onto the ones before

If it were not for that man of yesterday

Touching my life in his own unique way

I would not be who I am

Perhaps,

Tomorrow I will be better.

That is my sincere hope.

arbee

HYPOCRITICAL OR IGNORANT?

Listening to the talking points spilling out of Hillary and her surrogates, (political, on-line blogs, main- stream- media), you would think that Donald Trump had bilked our government out of millions of dollars in taxes. 

 Hillary’s talking points on this subject are terribly ignorant, hypocritical, or outright lies. I don’t think that Hillary is ignorant on how to use tax law to advantage since she has done so in at least three situations that I know of: 

1. Claiming a loss of some $700,000  in the 2015 taxes;

2. Charitable tax deductions of $10m which were to the Clinton Foundation which has been proven to make their way into the hands of various Clinton enterprises;

3. Utilization of the real estate provisions in the tax codes in such a way as to diminish estate tax liabilities.  

That does not make her ignorant about the use of tax law to lower the amount of taxes they would legally be liable.  It does, however, make her seem highly hypocritical. 

The fact that her conglomerate of peeps treat the citizens of our country as being ignorant, in regards to business and tax practice, is an insult to a large majority of we the people.  The same talk down to us blather about the practice of saving a company’s existence, by using the legal method of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.  That is another insult to all the small business owners who have had to use chapter 11 to survive. 

How many times has she insulted “We the people” ?  How many times has she counted on her sound bites to be ingested, into the voting populace, as gospel?  That’s really sad.  What is much worse is the number of folks so indoctrinated in our society that buy into her false narratives.

Def: Ig·no·rant:

without knowledge of, unaware of, unconscious of, oblivious to, incognizant of, unfamiliar with, unacquainted with, uninformed about, ill-informed about, unenlightened about, unconversant with, inexperienced in/with, naive about, green about.  Lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated.

Def: Hypocrite: a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs,principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs. a person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude,especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.

Information of interest:

According to Hillary's tax returns--which she's published on her website, the Democratic nominee reported close to $700,000 in long-term capital losses in 2015:   http://www.hannity.com/articles/hanpr-election-493995/hypocrisy-hillarys-tax-returns-show-she-15166016/

This is an illuminating article regarding finance and acceptable tax practices.  It also shows how the Clintons used tax laws to their advantage. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-06-17/wealthy-clintons-use-trusts-to-limit-estate-tax-they-back

http://www.alternet.org/economy/robert-reich-reveals-real-scandal-trumps-failure-pay-taxes The real scandal here is that Trump and other hugely wealthy people can get away with this, and do so all the time. It’s just another way the system has been rigged – by rich people who buy off politicians to alter tax, bankruptcy, and other laws and regulations to their advantage, just like Donald Trump has done. 

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/21/carly-fiorina/trumps-four-bankruptcies/   Trump’s four bankruptcies were Chapter 11 reorganizations (named for its location in federal bankruptcy code), which are designed to restructure businesses without shutting them down completely. The purpose is to "save" the business, as opposed to other forms of bankruptcy which would liquidate the company