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Monday, January 30, 2017

AMERICA'S SECOND CIVIL WAR

One of my favorite radio personalities and authors, is Dennis Prager. Last week he published a column indicating that our country is in a (non-violent) civil war. This does certainly seem to be the case. I found the column to be grim and truthful.

Your Food Diary For:

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Essential Everyday - Butter Flavored Grits	400	84	4	8	1,360	4
	400	84	4	8	1,360	4
L U N C H
Omelette - 3-egg Omelette With Cheese, 3 eggs	425	0	21	28	650	2
Johnsonville 170 - Polish Kielbasa Sausage	340	4	30	14	1,140	2
	765	4	51	42	1,790	4
D I N N E R
Pot Roast, Beef	700	0	44	69	111	0
	700	0	44	69	111	0
S N A C K S
Jack Link's - Original Beef Stick	330	6	24	15	1,230	3
	330	6	24	15	1,230	3

Totals	2,195	94	123	134	4,491	11
Your Daily Goal	2,384	298	79	120	2,300	89
Remaining	189	204	-44	-14	-2,191	78
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g

Your Exercise Diary for:

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Walking	36	517
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Daily Total / Goal	36 / 30	517 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	336 / 210	4,232 / 4,130

America's Second Civil War

Dennis Prager

Posted: Jan 24, 2017 12:01 AM

It is time for our society to acknowledge a sad truth: America is currently fighting its second Civil War.

In fact, with the obvious and enormous exception of attitudes toward slavery, Americans are more divided morally, ideologically and politically today than they were during the Civil War. For that reason, just as the Great War came to be known as World War I once there was World War II, the Civil War will become known as the First Civil War when more Americans come to regard the current battle as the Second Civil War.

This Second Civil War, fortunately, differs in another critically important way: It has thus far been largely nonviolent. But given increasing left-wing violence, such as riots, the taking over of college presidents’ offices and the illegal occupation of state capitols, nonviolence is not guaranteed to be a permanent characteristic of the Second Civil War.

There are those on both the left and right who call for American unity. But these calls are either naive or disingenuous. Unity was possible between the right and liberals, but not between the right and the left.

Liberalism — which was anti-left, pro-American and deeply committed to the Judeo-Christian foundations of America; and which regarded the melting pot as the American ideal, fought for free speech for its opponents, regarded Western civilization as the greatest moral and artistic human achievement and viewed the celebration of racial identity as racism — is now affirmed almost exclusively on the right and among a handful of people who don’t call themselves conservative.

The left, however, is opposed to every one of those core principles of liberalism.

Like the left in every other country, the left in America essentially sees America as a racist, xenophobic, colonialist, imperialist, warmongering, money-worshipping, moronically religious nation.

Just as in Western Europe, the left in America seeks to erase America’s Judeo-Christian foundations. The melting pot is regarded as nothing more than an anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti-Hispanic meme. The left suppresses free speech wherever possible for those who oppose it, labeling all non-left speech “hate speech.” To cite only one example, if you think Shakespeare is the greatest playwright or Bach is the greatest composer, you are a proponent of dead white European males and therefore racist.

Without any important value held in common, how can there be unity between left and non-left? Obviously, there cannot.

There will be unity only when the left vanquishes the right or the right vanquishes the left. Using the First Civil War analogy, American unity was achieved only after the South was vanquished and slavery was abolished.

How are those of us who oppose left-wing nihilism — there is no other word for an ideology that holds Western civilization and America’s core values in contempt — supposed to unite with “educators” who instruct elementary school teachers to cease calling their students “boys” and “girls” because that implies gender identity? With English departments that don’t require reading Shakespeare in order to receive a degree in English? With those who regard virtually every war America has fought as imperialist and immoral? With those who regard the free market as a form of oppression? With those who want the state to control as much of American life as possible? With those who repeatedly tell America and its black minority that the greatest problems afflicting black Americans are caused by white racism, “white privilege” and “systemic racism”? With those who think that the nuclear family ideal is inherently misogynistic and homophobic? With those who hold that Israel is the villain in the Middle East? With those who claim that the term “Islamic terrorist” is an expression of religious bigotry?

The third significant difference between the First and Second Civil Wars is that in the Second Civil war, one side has been doing nearly all the fighting. That is how it has been able to take over schools — from elementary schools, to high schools, to universities — and indoctrinate America’s young people; how it has taken over nearly all the news media; and how it has taken over entertainment media.

The conservative side has lost on every one of these fronts because it has rarely fought back with anything near the ferocity with which the left fights. Name a Republican politician who has run against the left as opposed to running solely against his or her Democratic opponent. And nearly all American conservatives, people who are proud of America and affirm its basic tenets, readily send their children to schools that indoctrinate their children against everything the parents hold precious. A mere handful protest when their child’s teacher ceases calling their son a boy or their daughter a girl, or makes “slave owner” the defining characteristic of the Founding Fathers.

With the defeat of the left in the last presidential election, the defeat of the left in two-thirds of the gubernatorial elections and the defeat of the left in a majority of House and Senate elections, this is likely the last chance liberals, conservatives and the right have to defeat the American left. But it will not happen until these groups understand that we are fighting for the survival of America no less than the Union troops were in the First Civil War.

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Thursday, December 29, 2016

ANOTHER LOOK AT OUR RECENT ELECTION

Think fast. How many weeks since the presidential election? Can you believe that it was more than seven weeks ago? It seems like each week, a new excuse has been discovered to explain how Hillary Clinton lost.

Just as the lefties are still thinking about this election, so I am too. I found this October 15, 2015 article on vocativ.com

The Elections That Aren’t Really Elections

How much of a ballot can a dictator claim and still call a vote an "election"?

By Sarah Kaufman

Oct 15, 2015 at 6:43 PM ET

Belarus president Alexander Ukashenko won this week’s presidential elections in a landslide victory of 83.5 percent of the vote. Activists and international elections monitors argued the election was unfair, a safe bet with his only opponent scraping up 4.4 percent of the vote. While 83.5 percent of the vote is pretty high on the scale as rigged elections go, it’s nothing compared to the results some dictators have pumped out in the past few years. We looked at a number of widely scrutinized elections of the past 15 years to see how far dictators tend to go when rigging the vote. The countries we looked at scored 7/7 for lack of political freedoms according to Freedom House, which calculated relative political freedom in terms of political rights and civil liberties. Of these countries, all were deemed “not free” by the Freedom House except Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. The percentages “won” by leaders ranged from 60 to 100 percent. The most shameless, ruthless leaders (typically those who maintain violent, repressive personality cults) claim 100% of ballots and yet still call the processes “elections”. Examples include the 2002 Iraqi vote which kept Saddam Hussein in power and North Korea’s polls that installed Kim Jong Il and his successor Kim Jong Un in 2009 and 2014, respectively. In each, 100 percent of the “vote” went to dictators, and making the country go to the polls was merely another exercise of their absolute power over a subservient slave nation. Next in line are the over 90-percenters, who usually ensure that government criticism is repressed and/or punished and corrupt voting tactics are rampant, but may tolerate the existence of a nominal opposition, on and off. In Uzbekistan, for example, Islam Karimov won with 90.39 percent of the vote in a March 2015 election that Western monitors slammed for widespread proxy voting and biased media coverage. A 2010 election in Rwanda that kept incumbent Paul Kagame in power with 93 percent of the vote was marred by the murders of members of Kagame’s political opposition. Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak, who ran unopposed and was re-elected in 1987, 1993 and 1999, won again in 2005 with 88 percent of the vote in an election that was widely said to be rigged. Not all leaders are quite so blatant. Some almost blew an election or are better at making it seem like there is healthy opposition. Take Russian president Vladimir Putin, for example, who won 63.64 percent of the vote in the 2012 elections. The runner-up party was the Communist Party with 17.2 percent. Again, Western monitors criticized the election as having been decided from the start. “The point of elections is that the outcome should be uncertain. This was not the case in Russia,” said Tonino Picula at the OSCE. “There was no real competition and abuse of government resources ensured that the ultimate winner of the election was never in doubt.” And while Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe stuttered in the 2008 election, failing to exercise full control, his political machine ensured hetook 85.5 percent in an uncontested run-off. As a rule, any candidate who wins more than two-thirds of the vote should be considered suspicious, political scientist Thomas Lundberg at the University of Glasgow told BBC News. Any candidate who garnered a 60 to 80 percent range could indicate opposition parties in his or her country are too small or fragmented to make a difference in polling, he said.

I also found the DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 2016 ELECTION RESULTS TOO. I think I am beginning to understand why lefty liberal democrats love dictators so much, for example, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and al-Assad (al-Assad aka the reformer, as the uncontested genius, Secretary of State announced in 2011). They are jealous of their electoral hold on their populations. Pesky elections are not annoying obstacles to remaining in power. Look at the results of the recent presidential election in Washington, D.C. Can you imagine just one D.C. public school hanging the presidential portrait of the new President in the hallways or any classroom as was done in the past? Can you imagine just how fair and balanced the teachers and professors are in Washington when discussing any issue? Let me help with the numbers here... In Washington D.C., a place where over 300,000 Americans (hopefully) voted in the past presidential election, 24 out of every 25 people DID NOT VOTE for the next president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. And they say that Washington is out of touch with regular Americans? Democrats dream of having the electoral sway enjoyed by the likes of Saddam Hussein, al-Assad, Fidel Castro and the Kim Jong 'twins'. The Democrats already have this choke-hold on the black community. If Donald Trump can make good on his promises to improve the lives of blacks, they will surely rethink the politicians that they support in the future.

District of Columbia Results

DEC. 20, 2016, 12:15 PM ET

President

	PARTY	VOTES	PCT.	E.V.
Hillary Clinton	Democrat	282,830	90.9%	3
Donald J. Trump	Republican	12,723	4.1	—
Others	Independent	6,551	2.1	—
Gary Johnson	Libertarian	4,906	1.6	—
Jill Stein	D.C. Statehood Green	4,258	1.4	—

100% reporting (143 of 143 precincts)

Your Food Diary For:

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Quaker - Instant Oatmeal- Maple	640	128	8	16	1,040	48
Kirkland - Pre-Cooked Bacon	200	0	15	15	875	0
Post Great Grains Raisins, Dates & Pecans	400	78	8	8	257	25
	1,240	206	31	39	2,172	73
L U N C H
Omelette - 3-egg Omelette With Cheese, 3 eggs	425	0	21	28	650	2
	425	0	21	28	650	2
D I N N E R
BBQ Ribs	501	7	36	34	2,904	0
Roasted Cauliflower	100	3	10	1	497	1
BBQ Meatballs	300	3	23	20	0	0
Chocolate Coconut Clusters	400	40	28	4	50	26
	1,301	53	97	59	3,451	27
S N A C K S
Lindt Lindor White Chocolate Truffles	690	42	57	6	90	42
	690	42	57	6	90	42

Totals	3,656	301	206	132	6,363	144
Your Daily Goal	3,748	468	125	188	2,300	140
Remaining	92	167	-81	56	-4,063	-4
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 1,818 extra calories from exercise today

Your Exercise Diary for:

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Elliptical Trainer	99	1,352
FIVE MILE URBAN HIKE	83	786


Daily Total / Goal	182 / 30	2,138 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	538 / 210	6,107 / 4,130