So why isn't this Great Society working?

Probably because it was never designed to 'work' only to care for those that fell outside of success.

From the Holy Bible, one is supposed to care for the widows and orphans, now my belief is that the word 'widow' was used for an unmarried woman with a child - how ever she got to that status. It was the duty of the community to care for them, they were allowed to glean the fields and such. Not an easy life but still not totally starving.

I am no expert on the Holy Bible, there are many things I am still discovering, but for sure it has more to offer me than some things I am hearing from conventional wisdom.

Ever wonder why there problems in Chicago, with all the money the Democrats give their favorite causes? The little Baptist Churches do much better with less, the Catholic schools do better with less, and the list of good people doing good things in Chicago go far beyond race, political party, religious community. But it just doesn't get into the political process nor the ruling elite, they seem to be permanently corrupt, EVIL. But they keep getting re-elected by the Daly's dead voters, and no one in Chicago is surprised. That is all a myth of mythical proportions. No truth to it. They aren't evil just plain old fashioned stupid. They don't see that it doesn't work.

In America, you work and make your life, you read and educate yourself (yes, there are great and good teachers, but really you know who is responsible), you make friends, you do good things for good reasons - never for money. You invest in a future, you don't borrow with no intention of repaying quickly. You look for a mate, build a family, do more good things, and some how, you die. But the little world you built, or helped along the way, the people you touched are all better for your being there when it mattered.

You can do most of that anywhere in the world, and we will all be better for it. No one has to be wrong, do bad things, become hated, become a problem... The problem with the Great Society, is the title. It should be the humble and nice society - no capitalization, and it isn't a government program, it is a human program called humanity. Be nice out there, another million laws or so - only employ too many lawyers, politicians and criminal injustice - y'all be nice and we will git it done right.

What we leave behind... is what we are...

Studying the Assyrians, and they didn't leave behind much except the terror of being City Breakers, and stone monuments to the warriors, their chariots, the siege engines and the conquests. The Sub-Asia peoples give us statues of near naked women and men wrapped in lust or something... The current Syrian Prince and peoples give us news highlights and fear of terrorists with deadly gas and the current Bollywood gives us several cinematic adventures and romances and lots of dances.

This thought got started on my wife's simple question, have I had breakfast, and her offer to make me some, I told her eggs and toast. Not normal behavior, I am really a gruel person, but the protein in the eggs will be fine, and a couple slices of toast with butter are not too many. Breakfast at her pace means my toast will be cold, the eggs properly runny yoked, and she won't sit down to breakfast until mine is cooling on the table and she can complain about it. I did go to shave and ponder why I look so old for a real age of 7.8 years younger than my paper age.

I sit and have breakfast, and spread my butter, cold, on the toast, cold, and it doesn't melt into the toast - but I don't mind, I am here for her, she will never wonder why it isn't perfect if I never mention that it isn't. The eggs are just right, still hot from the grill, yoke breaking with my fork and running making everything covered in liquid gold. Three, good number, I break my toast and mop up the yoke from the plate.  She says I do it just like my father, and she is right, I do it just like my father - I imagine he did it just like his father. They didn't waste much of the bounty on the table, they were very close to where it all came from and properly thankful for God's goodness.

They didn't decide that chickens needed to be.... or that wild critters were... and that wetlands couldn't be drained, since they were part of a swamp reclamation area that produced tons of good food from the rich peat once un-dampened. Dad hunted squirrels, for extra meat in the stew. boarded in the town to go to high school. Different lives than mine. All I bring forward is grace, and mopping the yoke from the plate until the yoke and toast are gone - and thanking the cook for her care of the breakfast and my enjoyment of our conversation and memories of the past.

You know they are counting on you...

The Founding Fathers were hard folks, they didn't have air conditioners, refrigerators, automobiles, airplanes and instant gratification through mindless streaming media. They had to go to plays, read books, discuss issues and be roused by the rabble. Who were armed and dangerous.

Current culture isn't like them, so their expectations of responsibility, honor, liberty, justice, death and life were totally different than yours. They were better for theirs, you I am not sure about.

The current culture expects that most of you are law abiding citizens, and will disarm properly like you stopped drinking during Prohibition. Most of America did, the gangs got lots of money from selling alcohol, but the government got no tax revenue - so Prohibition was repealed when the government needed more tax revenue, and the losing tax/alcohol control agents went after guns in the ATF, a tax enforcement agency. Anyway, not drinking is totally healthy, drinking just a little is basically harmless, and being an alcoholic is classified as a disease and needs treatment. Being drunk is lost time in a very short life - time that one never gets back. My point, is that the government has no competence in making great personal choices - just using drinking as an example of personal choice.

So, I expect the fools in politics, will bow to the Main Stream Media's bias on GUN CONTROL, which is silly but politicians are smart about how often to consider the voters (once, the day of balloting) and the MSM (constantly in the 24 hour news cycle of cable vision.) And no, FOXNews isn't really different that the others, they are just more inclusive for more audience. They are all selling ad space on the airways - their primary job is attracting viewers for commercial exploitation.

Now, you could call violations of the Constitution acts of treason, since the Constitution is the foundation of all law in the United States of America. Most won't, but I would if I weren't so fat and lazy, I do know there are procedures to change the Constitution, new amendments or just trash the whole thing and write a new one -- since they don't do it long hand now, it would be a long written always unread document, I will vote to keep the current one. Imagine the tax code, if written in long hand or carved in stone, short and vigorous, written by cut and paste on computer long and pages more than ever needed - and never followed nor cited.

Anyway, they are going to try this Gun Control thing, it will pass in many stupid States - like New York and California and looking like Colorado and Illinois.  The criminals that don't do drugs, run criminal enterprises will disarm immediately, NOT! The law enforcement will go to eight round magazines and never shoot innocent bystanders or ladies delivering newspapers again, honest. They will use drone strikes, and give the operators medals honoring their service far above those WWII warriors in real battlefields. But many of you weak kneed citizens will quiver in fear of failure and turn in great grand-pappy's blunderbuss, and that beautiful thing you never fired but bought just in case.

Those that care about many things will finally realize that the government hasn't a clue about crime, drugs, morality, liberty, responsibility, economics, agriculture, energy or science and ignore thems in government.. Just ignore them, they will eventually die, go away, or destroy themselves. Take good care of yourself, all those you love, those you tolerate and pray for those sinners and saints and always your enemies. For in the end, what you do as your personal choice is always going to trump what the fools say you must do because they made it a law. I am working on getting close to Heaven, before they decide that believing in Salvation outside of government goodness is against their law.... silly folks.

Time to come out of Hibernation...

Think I will buy and wear a kilt. Not that I have the legs for it, but I feel free, freedom and Liberty under the LORD.

As I have been analyzing my coming back to fuller strength and will, it goes along with the slowing down of my heart rate. My cousin noticed my resting heart rate is close to closing all systems down, I normally just fall asleep until Spring shows up, but I do remember my doctor telling me that he was giving me a medicine that would slow my heart rate and he didn't want it to shut down completely. Maybe I will have to look into getting that changed soon. Appointment is in March with him.

Now that the world is completely under the spell of the President's charm and promise -- I expect the total meltdown much sooner than later.

My list of things to do since I am up and awake: reload all my brass, clean the garage, cut the lawn, start hunting moles, keep my wife smiling, prep the garden.

Normal items will remain: shoot straight, stay armed and alert, constant prayer and daily devotions and thanks to the LORD. Y'all be good out there. Any advice on footwear, combat gaiters, proper headgear for balding kilted man -- is very welcome.

Armed? why yes, I have two, too...

If you are a person of law abiding sanity and not a gun owner nor worried about your government - then you are part of my problem. You will likely say, what does anyone need such a firearm for and so many rounds of ammunition? Looking at the civilian population that you think you represent. But the question should be asked of your armed forces - which includes the police and regulatory enforcers.

But you don't ask, although the 2nd Amendment is all about all of us, you won't ask.

So why do the armed forces, the police, the regulatory enforcers need all those weapons and ammunition? Well, to do their job poorly.  Ruby Ridge, Waco, Texas, are just two examples and this fine group of excesses done in the name of the government gone so wrong. But then you could have looked at what happens when a community of law enforcement officers think they are being hunted by one of their own-rejected. Don't deliver newspapers in the early morning, ladies.

Objective opinion

Watching the MSM (CNN) cover religion in the choice of a new Pope, is like watching the President and Vice President tell you which firearms would be better for less Gun Violence.

So I went to support the Pro-2nd Amendment

At the rally, at the Capital in Olympia, Washington. Since I have nothing better to do and I was free to attend. I went and parked and walked to the campus.

Very few people, because it was Friday, a casual work day, no one in Washington State is going to miss work dressed down for a demonstration... 

There was a large group of State Patrol officers, but that is normal while the government is working. The host stood up, the microphone worked and he got the rally started and thanked the right people. Then he got to the meat of the subject the 2nd Amendment being under attack and what we had to do about it. When he finished I took the microphone and told the story from my side and what I saw, what  I believed and I did mention being part of Appleseed and teaching safe marksmanship and our American heritage. I must have said many of the right things, people thanked me for what I said (no, I have little idea what came out of my mouth, but it was true) and several wanted more information about Appleseed shoots, where to find more information and made me wonder why I didn't have more business cards or trifolds to pass out.  

 
As others got up to speak I noticed much anti-the Presidents, the current one, the latest gripe from the news coverage or failure to cover. Lots of anger, lots of passion and lots of fumbling and grumbling.  That stuff doesn't grow without fertilizer and water - wherever it comes from. Still a mostly positive message to get with your representatives and act on our rights. Two Legislators, Elizabeths both, came and talked to us, one had some solid ideas for protecting the children in schools. Nice of them to come and speak during their lunch recess.

I did go back up to cover the positive ideas and things one could do as a shooter, a responsible gun owner, and I covered the third safety rule.  They all need to meet and talk politely, logically and sanely with the opposition, that only seems to know what they fear, not why they fear it. There were lots of television crews and reporters, the crowd didn't look like it got to five hundred total, but the expectations had been fifteen hundred.

I am very happy that I went, met some great people, was able to present the world from my point of view and promote safe shooting, safety and Appleseed. Another great day to be an American, volunteer Rifleman.