Brussels, we’re hearing, is a “wake up call”. \u00a0San Berdoo was a wake up call. \u00a0Paris was a wake up call. \u00a0Tunis was a wake up call…I think the illustration stands, now, on it’s own.<\/p>\n
One of the wonders of modern technology is that we get our news “as it happens”. \u00a0We also forget it once the next item is happening. \u00a0Bad habit, that snooze button! \u00a0We’ve hit it so many times it seems as though we’ll never wake up. \u00a0If we’re not careful, that may prove true. \u00a0Or, we’ll wake up dead.<\/p>\n
Sometimes attributed to Lenin and others to Goebbels, the adage “Repeat a lie often enough and loudly enough and it becomes the truth” is working for our sitting administration. \u00a0“Isolated incidents” of “workplace violence” pointing out the need for “more common sense gun laws” are the mantra. \u00a0Islamic Terrorism is not. \u00a0They either don’t have the same alarm clock as the rest of us or have just turned it off, I guess. \u00a0The current state of affairs in the Fourth Estate only aids and abets that stance.<\/p>\n
I don’t know how to break this to them all…we’ve noticed. \u00a0Weapons sales in the U.S. have soared. \u00a0The firearm manufacturer’s association should name the POTUS their “salesman of the year”, and the NRA, NSSF and GOA should appoint him their honorary spokesman. \u00a0Training programs for armed as well as unarmed defense and disaster \/ emergency preparedness are packed. \u00a0But we refuse to be terrorized, don’t we? \u00a0Have you cancelled your plans to visit Europe? \u00a0Egypt? \u00a0South Asia? \u00a0I haven’t. \u00a0Have you changed your plans even closer to home?\u00a0I have spoken to several people that attended the festivities in Times Square, (Crossroads Of The World), in New York City, (Capital Of The World), on this past New Year’s Eve. \u00a0Some for the first time and some for the fifth. \u00a0WE “get it”. \u00a0Our “leaders”, however, do not. \u00a0Just yesterday, live from Cuba, our CinC took “a moment” to address the attacks in Brussels. \u00a0While he DID, this time, call it “terror”, he DID, as usual, stop short at the word ISLAMIC. \u00a0And then he got ready to visit the home of another one of his idols, (Peron), in Argentina. \u00a0I don’t know about you, but in my never, ever, humble opinion, “He chose poorly”. \u00a0But it’s okay. \u00a0Really. \u00a0He’s on his way out. \u00a0Whatever legacy he was able to forge is all he’s going to get because we’ve got him boxed in. \u00a0Ish. \u00a0The only reason, truly, that we’ve achieved any type of stagnation is by virtue of the infighting of the right, right?<\/p>\n
All we need do is win the next election. \u00a0Maybe the next CinC will turn “general-ing” over to generals and doctoring over to doctors and diplomacy over to diplomats. \u00a0I know that all the generals, doctors and diplomats I KNOW are ready. \u00a0Are you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brussels, we’re hearing, is a “wake up call”. \u00a0San Berdoo was a wake up call. \u00a0Paris was a wake up call. \u00a0Tunis was a wake up call…I think the illustration stands, now, on it’s own. One of the wonders of modern technology is that we get our news “as it happens”. \u00a0We also forget it<\/p>\n