FERGUSON : A REPLAY OF TRAYVON MARTIN

Good morning friends. By now you've all seen the reports of more rioting and the plans for demonstrations all over the country. My feelings? What a crying shame. Why that? Because it might not be happening at all if the mainstream news had covered the story properly from the beginning.

Just as they did in the Travon Martin case, they refused to report the FACTS, and instead reported what they wanted to. Which is a viewpoint that fits into their political worldview. Much of the evidence and testimony examined by the grand jury was reported very early on by alternative news sources. But CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, and the leftist print press IGNORED the EVIDENCE. Is it any wonder the people are so upset? I'm not condoning rioting in any way, but the way this case was reported made it seem like another an out and out incidence of police abuse of power. They report on the huge imbalance in the number of blacks vs whites in the prisons, but they don't report that the reason for that is because blacks are committing crimes at the same ratio.

Here's a link to an excellent article on this subject : http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/21/family-secret-what-the-left-wont-tell-you-about-bl/

Why is it a huge deal every time a white cop shoots a black person, but it's nothing when a black cop shoots a black? If you wanted to spend a day digging, you could come up with a thousand instances of that happening that you never ever heard about. Maybe the letter writing campaigns need to start targeting the news outlets. Demand they pay for all the millions of dollars of damages that are occuring right now and will occur in the following days.

Martin Luther King was a great man who accomplished a tremendous amount of good. Jesse Jackson / Al Sharpton et al have done nothing but instill an angry victim attitude in their followers. And those who stand up and speak the truth are reviled as Uncle Toms.

Let's all hope this passes quickly
Dumb Farmer

WHERE IS THE LAND OF THE FREE AND HOME OF THE BRAVE???

This mornings news had two reports that finally tripped my trigger to write a post. But it wasn't just those two reports, it was the accumulation of similar reports over the past several years. This is a large country, with a population upwards of 300 million, and one needs to take that into consideration when you see an item here and there about official misconduct, or just stupid behavior. But when report after report after report of outrageous (and many times illegal) conduct by police all over the country keep surfacing daily, sooner or later you have to realize, Houston, we have a problem.

Another instance (this makes at least a dozen I've seen in the last several months) of a police swat team conducting a no-knock raid ON THE WRONG HOUSE. Two or three of which resulted in severely injured children, and several with completely innocent people killed. The latest also involved the FBI and the suspect hadn't lived in that house for FOUR, yes 4! MONTHS. How in the hell does that happen? What kind of incompetent morons are running these "investigations"?

Just a couple right off the top of my head:
Police running "no refusal" DUI checkpoints where every driver stopped is forced to take a breathalyzer test, and a refusal results in a trip to the police station where a nurse is on duty and they FORCEFULLY take a BLOOD SAMPLE.

Virginia police trying to take a 17 year old boy to a hospital and have him injected with something to cause an erection so they can photograph it and compare it to a picture he sent to his girlfriend (who was also sending him nude pics, this wasn't some unwanted harrassment).

Police in Nevada arresting and hauling  a man off to jail because he refused to let their swat team use his house as a headquarters.

The picture of  CHP "officers" pointing their rifles right in the faces of innocent drivers at a roadblock not even driving the type or color of the car of the guy they were looking for.

I could go on and on. These kinds of things were totally unthinkable in this country just 10 or 20 years ago. So, what has happened to the land of the free?

And what about the home of the brave? What has happened to our young men? Reports from the very recent FSU shooting reminded me of the UVA mass shooting several years ago. The one person who tried to stop the guy instead of cowering under desks was an 80 year old Holocaust survivor professor. There's no more fist fighting, that takes guts. Now they shoot each other. Really a cowards way out if you think about it.

The problems in our society today are complex, and there is no easy solution to getting back to the realization that our individual problems are OUR problems. That they are not the fault of our family, friends, government, or society. Back to individuals taking responsibility for their own actions. For feeding themselves and their families. But we CAN do something about widespread abuse of police power. Time to write your elected officials - local, state, and federal - again. Demand they reign in the unconstitutional heavy handed behavior becoming so widespread in police forces around the country.

Stand up for what you believe. I remind you again, if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.

Dumb Farmer

MARKET BASKET : CORPORATE GREED AT IT'S FINEST

There is a very unusual and ongoing situation in New England that highlights corporate greed in America today. Market Basket, a $4 billion Massachusetts based regional grocery chain, has an employee revolt going on. Unusual, you ask? Seems they love their CEO. Former CEO, that is. Seems the board of directors weren't happy with the amount of profit the company was making. So they canned the longtime CEO and brought on board 2 corporate hatchet men (well, 1 man and 1 woman) to cut costs.

Since Market Basket is a privately owned company, I was unable to find the kinds of financial information that is available by law on publicly listed corporations. But the following was related to me by a friend who lives in the area. According to him, Market Basket has always been successful, profitable, and a pleasant place to shop. You see, they had happy employees. They had decent wages and benefits. They were treated in such a way as to create good morale. A lesson that 99% of companies in America today need to relearn : a happy workforce results in employees invested in doing a good job. Therefore resulting in reduced costs, INCREASED PROFITS, and LONG TERM success.

The problem is, the big investors and the Boards of Trustees don't give a shit about the long term. It's all about me, me, me right now. How much can we make right now? Over and over again we've seen it. Screw the employees to pad their Swiss and Cayman Island bank accounts. Put 20k people out of work? So what, I'm enjoying my new 120 ft. yacht that burns $7k worth of fuel an hour. And paying a crew of 4 to sail it.

I saw it firsthand at the company I retired from. Watched it go from the best company in the country to work for (and one of the most successful) to just another typical "cut this, cut that, if you don't like it there's a thousand people who'd like to have your job" outfit after the long term CEO retired and the Board chose a former economics professor as his replacement. Understand, the average manufacturing company returns a 4 to 6% profit. We were making 12%, but suddenly that wasn't enough for the greedy bastards. So the next guy threatens to close plants, lays off several thousand workers then brings them back as part time with a huge pay cut and no benefits. Said CEO gets an extra couple million on his bonus. So now they've got a pissed off workforce that doesn't give one shit about doing a good job or if the company makes money or not. I'm hearing stories that product quality is suffering. Surprise huh?

I digress, back to Market Basket. The employees, including managers, have basically shut the chain down, demanding the return of the former CEO. And the customers are supporting the employees, refusing to shop there until this is resolved. I truly wish them the best of luck. Check out Save Market Basket on Facebook. Donate to their support fund if you can.

Dumb Farmer

DO DOCTORS STILL SWEAR THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH?

There is no doubt our medical system needs an overhaul. Proof of this? I just received a bill for $706 for 15 to 20 minutes of a doctors time. That's on top of the hospital's bill of $500.  And $2k to get a spot of skin cancer removed from a different place. But is a government takeover of the entire system the answer? Just what has your government done for you with the "Affordable Care Act"? What has all of the bruhaha, political shennanigans, outright bribery for votes, and government BS actually done for  us citizens?

Basically, not a damn thing except drive the price, not only of insurance, but also of medical services, even higher. The following figures are right from "healthcare.gov". For a single retired male, or a young family, the only plans that come anywhere near being affordable, even after the "tax credits?  have either a $6250 / year deductible, or a $3500 deductible and you pay 30% of all charges. So basically, the only thing they're good for is if you get cancer, have a heart attack, or need some other major surgery. How many young families have $6k in the bank to pay deductibles? From what I've heard, most employer plans are almost as bad.

So who has Obamacare helped? I don't think anyone. The "poor", have always had free medical care, they still have it. The rich can afford it. And once again the working man gets screwed. Only now, the cost of care is up even more. So what have we accomplished other than adding a hundred thousand more federal government employees to administer the law? Adding another layer of bureaucracy and cost to a system already burdened by tons of laws, costs driven sky high by fear of lawsuits, and the age old human bugaboo, greed.

That's right, greed is just as rampant in the medical field as everywhere else today. You've heard about doctors charging you almost twice what they will accept from an insurance company as payment if you don't have insurance, right? I ask you : is this any different from someone robbing you at gunpoint? How in God's name can these people sleep at night? If you can't afford insurance, how are you supposed to be able to pay double what they accept from insurance companies?  If they can cover their cost of doing business and make the high incomes they do at that rate of compensation, how do they justify screwing over the poor working man? Do doctors still swear to the Hippocratic Oath?

I have said before that anyone can detail (bitch) about the problems in our society today, but the idea is to come up with solutions. Well, truly, I'm stumped on this one. The only thing I can see that would help WITHOUT the government stepping in and controlling everything, including doctors salaries, is to get rid of the lawsuit crap. That fear of lawsuits causes doctors to routinely prescribe tons of expensive tests to protect themselves. One referral after another. Turning what should have been a, let's say $2k procedure, into a $4k ordeal. Actually, we need total tort reform, but since 75 to 80% of Congress are lawyers, that doesn't get done.

If you have any other ideas on how to "fix" the system, please detail in the comments below. Maybe if we get enough "average" people (as opposed to the rich elites in D.C.) thinking, we can come up with something better than what those prostitutes in Washington did.

Dumb Farmer

MANIPULATION BY THE MEDIA REACHES NEW HIGHS (LOWS)

Hello friends, it's certainly been a long time. Quite frankly, I've just pretty much given up on educating people. Almost given up on caring what happens to this country. I've come to the conclusion it's a losing battle. People are so wrapped up in their own little worlds they don't want to know or care what's happening in the real world.

That is until they are manipulated by the news media into thinking a certain way about any given subject. And that has never been more obvious than with the current mess in the Gaza Strip. I just saw a picture that's propagating around the web of parents carrying dead Palestinian children. Caption asks if this is right, and states "this is a yes or no question". This is such blatant manipulation it would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic. And if half the country wasn't so stupid that they fall for it. And if it wasn't being repeated in kind all over the liberal news media in one way or another. Oh, the poor Palestinians. Shame on those barbaric Israeli's!

Let's ignore the thousands of years of hatred between these two sides for now, and simplify the issue to recent history. Since 1948, Israel has been repeatedly attacked by one group or another. Now it's Hamas. It's been Fatah, the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Jihad, and on and on. ALL WITH THE STATED GOAL OF REMOVING ISRAEL AND ALL JEWS FROM PLANET EARTH. Israel, who does have the capability of removing their problem from the planet, has bent over backwards time and time again. Ceded this, agreed to that.

Why do you think there are so many Palestinian civilian casualties? Because Hamas deliberately locates their rocket sites and tunnel entrances in neighborhoods, mosques, even hospitals so they can say to the world "see how barbaric the Jews are?" They are experts at manipulating and using world opinion. And they don't care how many of their own people they sacrifice to accomplish that. So, who are the real savages? I can't recall ever hearing about an Israeli beheading someone because they didn't believe in Israel's God. Oh, and by the way, the Palestinian people ELECTED Hamas to govern them. They had other choices. Choices that wanted to choose the path of peace and reconciliation. But they CHOOSE Hamas. Why? Because they've been brainwashed into hatred from time of birth. And it happens on both sides of any ethnic division. Brainwashed by greedy power /money mongers.

Here's the bottom line question for you - If Mexico started lobbing rockets into the US, if Mexican soldiers dug tunnels under the border and made attacks on US citizens, what would you demand your government do?

Don't be brainwashed
Dumb Farmer

CLIVE BUNDY, THE BLM, AND THE HARRY REID CONNECTION

Good news and bad news.

     The good news is the goobermint, in the form of the BLM, actually backed down from instigating something worse than Ruby Ridge or Waco when faced with a reported 2000 to 2500 armed citizens and militia members who showed up to protect the Bundy family from government snipers. This situation had the potential to turn into a major disaster. All it would have taken was one trigger happy whacko on EITHER side.

     If you just look at this particular instance, you think, well, there was wrongdoing on both sides. Apparently Bundy hadn't payed the grazing fees for years. But the causes of the reactions from Joe Western Citizen goes back a long ways.  I remember hearing bitching about high-handed BLM tactics since the mid 80's. And the EPA is pulling the same kind of crap. It's built up for many years and people have finally had enough.

Now here's the kicker : Seems the esteemed Senator from Nevada, Harry Reid, has a huge financial interest in the BLM kicking the ranchers in that area off that land. Gee, that's a surprise huh?

This is only one link, you can find many more.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/31/us-usa-china-reid-solar-idUSBRE87U06D20120831

This country today reminds me of Lot asking God if He would spare Sodom if He found one righteous man in the city. Would He find even ten amongst the 535 in our Congress? Yeah, I guess He might find ten, but that's about all.

Stand up for Freedom,
Dumb Farmer

WHERE IS MALAYSIAN AIRLINES FLIGHT MH370?

The mystery captivating the world's attention.

DISCLAIMER : The following is strictly my own theory, I have not seen anyone put forward the following postulation. And that is what it is, a guess. The only evidence I claim to support this is the fact that the plane's navigation system was pinging the Loran beacons on the route used to the Middle East and Europe, and that no crash debris has been seen anywhere. If you relate this information to others, please do not claim it as fact. In this instance, I do not want to be cited in "I read it on the Internet".

With all the satellite surveillance of the earth today, it's hard for this writer to believe that U.S. government, for one, doesn't know where this aircraft went. Doubt me? Just put your own address into google earth. And that is commercially available, unclassified imagery. But if they know, why in the world aren't they telling?

Because I think it's in a hanger at a military base in either Pakistan or southern Iran. Why? Because of the 20 or so electronic countermeasures engineers on board. Both Iran and Pakistan could benefit greatly from the cloaking technology those people have been working on.  And yes, even Tehran in northern Iran is well within Boeing's claimed range figures for the 777. I checked.

But again, why hide that fact? (If it is indeed, fact) Because Iran hijacking a commercial airliner could quite possibly ignite a worldwide call to put an end to Iran's nuclear bomb ambitions once and for all. And that is the last thing our president wants. And Pakistan is "officially" a U.S. ally. No, I don't claim Obama is a practicing Muslim, or in secret cahoots with the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) or any other conspiracy. What is proven is that he spent considerable time in Muslim countries when young, and has claimed to be Muslim at different times in the past. (See foreign student aid applications) And it's been pretty plain throughout his presidency he has no liking for Israel, consistently siding with the Palestinians. I do claim he is a Muslim sympathizer. Look into his staff and appointments, it may be an eye opener for you. Here's one to tickle your interest : in December 2012, Egypt’s Rose El-Youssef magazine, reported that six highly-placed Muslim Brotherhood infiltrators within the Obama administration had transformed the United States “from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.”  And one more : google Huma Abedin.

So there it is, for what it's worth. Not even worth the paper it's printed on, since it isn't printed on paper.

Dumb Farmer

IF THIS DOESN'T WAKE YOU UP, YOU'RE DEAD

It never ceases to amaze me how otherwise very intelligent individuals can continue to ignore the tons of evidence out there that "yes Virginia, there is a conspiracy going on to completely change America into someone's version of a socialist / communist utopia".  How they reason away every news item / report if it comes from Fox News, WND, the Tea Party, or any other conservative source. Honestly, I know people that think these places are falsifying the news. I know people who think anyone who watches Fox News or reads conservative websites is a moron.

So I'm going to get a bit nasty here, because I'm frustrated by years and years of unsuccessfully trying to open peoples eyes to the TRUTH. So you think I'm an idiot? Brainwashed by right wing talk radio? A redneck country hick who has no compassion for anyone less fortunate than myself? Who would walk right by someone having a heart attack or epileptic fit on the street? Yep, I've been accused of all of those things.

I won't bore you by reiterating the hundreds of reports about heavy handed government intrusion into our lives today, the increasing militarization of our police forces, and the continuing erosion of our constitutional rights here. But for the sake of newer readers here's a very short list :
2008 campaign - Obama "we need a national police force the size of our military"
2010 "someone" unknown funds a Rand Corp. study on how best to implement a national police force.
2011 Two times Obama says it's too bad I can't just do away with Congress so we can get things done
         Democratic N.C. governor says we need to suspend elections
         Obama campaign starts a website for people to report websites and posts derogatory to Obama
         FBI contracts to record every conservative talk radio show
2012 DHS has bought over 1.6 billion rounds of hollow point ammo over the last year and a half.
DHS has been conducting military exercises in and over major American cities.
DHS is in the process of taking delivery of 2700 upfitted MRAP's. (that's Mine Resistant Armored Personnel carriers) Yes, the very same used in Iraq and Afghanistan, only modified for high speed street usage.
2013 Multiple reports of intimidation (attempted control) of the press. Reporters as famous as Bob Woodward detailing how they were threatened by the White House.

Sorry about my rant, now here's the latest attack : The FCC is proposing to monitor every newsroom to insure that the news the government wants covered is reported. See here

 http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/02/19/govt-monitors-newsrooms-fcc-look-media-decision-making

and here : http://www.infowars.com/justice-group-warns-of-obama-plan-to-put-government-monitors-in-newsrooms/

You get it right? You can read between the lines right? The FCC controls station licenses. The Obama administration controls the FCC. Are you naive enough to not see the possibilities here? The government dictating what is and isn't news? How news is presented? I ask you what is one of the first things a communist / socialist junta does when they take over a country? CONTROL THE NEWS MEDIA.

Yes, taken individually, each of these things can be shrugged away. But put it all together folks!!!

Dumb Farmer

OBAMA IS CASTRATING OUR MILITARY

The 60's dope smoking, communist sympathizing, anti-Vietnam war radicals are in control in Washington. And they still hate everything military. And they are working very diligently to "fundamentally change America".

Obama has removed 197 Generals and Colonels since he's been Commander in Chief.  It has been reported by very reliable sources (including retired Medal of Honor recipient Major General Patrick Brady and former Delta Force commander retired Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin) he is using a "litmus test" for retention. "Are you willing to order troops to fire on American citizens?" He removed Gen. Carter Ham, Maj. Gen. Ralph Baker, and Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette because they publicly contradicted the administration's outright lie on Benghazi that there were no resources available to rescue the personnel at the consulate. Of all Obama's scandals, lies, and deceptions, Benghazi and what I've just told you should be prime grounds for impeachment.

Now it's been revealed he's ordered the Seals to remove the Navy Jack patch from their uniforms. For those of you who don't know, that's the "Don't tread on me" serpent flag that has been flown on U.S. Navy ships since the 1700's. And a version of which has been adopted by the Tea Party people as their symbol. Can these jerks get any more petty?

See the complete story here, written by a former Seal :
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/01/navy-seals-ordered-to-remove-dont-tread-on-me-navy-jack-from-uniforms/

Please pray for our country, I am afraid very hard times are coming
Dumb Farmer

HARRY REID : "EVERYBODY WANTS TO PAY MORE TAXES"

Ok folks, better sit down. You've heard me say before how out of touch with reality our Washington politicians are. Like they live on a different planet, maybe even different universe. Here's the latest proof. This is Harry Reid during a TV interview:

“Listen, we’re willing — the president has stuck his neck way out. He’s willing to do a lot of stuff with spending, but there has to be some reciprocity here. Once Republicans decide that they’re going to let — keep in mind, also, that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The rich know that. The rich are willing to pay more. They’re not the ones out here saying, ‘please don’t tax me.’
“The only people who feel there shouldn’t be more coming in to the federal government from rich people are the Republicans in the Congress. Everybody else, including rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more. So, yeah, but we’re going to have to have mainstream Republicans step up again.”

If you don't believe this is true, watch for yourself : http://www.inquisitr.com/1006383/harry-reid-everyone-wants-to-pay-more-taxes-gop-wont-let-them-listen/

That's not all, he also says "We don't have a spending problem, we don't have a debt problem, we have a funding problem". Yep, that's right, let's just take 100% of everyone's income and we'll decide how we'll dole it out.

I've said before, "we the people" are the problem. The close to half of us who are receiving some kind of government assistance will continue to vote for those who give it, and half of the other half are either to apathetic to vote, or just won't take the time. Are YOU willing to put forth the effort to encourage everyone you know to get registered, and then keep on them to actually go to the polls come election time?

If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.

Dumb Farmer

EPA REGS PUT BOMBS ON THE ROADS!!!

Well folks, our wonderful EPA has done it again. Yep, the same folks that required California to put a virulent cancer causing chemical in gasoline several years back. A chemical so volatile it permeated through the tanks and ground water, contaminating wells for miles around gas stations. Now they've got us driving potential bombs. Every truck, even diesel pickups, built since 2010 is an explosion waiting to happen.

Remember what McVeigh used to blow up the Federal Building in Oklahoma City? What the terrorists use for some IED's? Fertilizer and diesel fuel. Fertilizer being Urea, which is 50% nitrogen. Nitrogen and diesel fuel, when mixed, is extremely explosive. All these new trucks have a tank (plastic, for God's sake!) with several gallons of what they call DEF, Diesel Exhaust Fluid, that is injected in tiny amounts along with the fuel to induce cleaner combustion. That DEF is basically urea.

In the last 2 years, I have personally witnessed the aftermath of 2 truck crashes and have seen the reports of 3 others where the trucks exploded after a crash. Now, a youtube video of a truck crash/explosion in Indiana has gone viral. These are only the ones I know about.

How long do you think the EPA will cover this shit up? That the motoring public is driving alongside potential bombs millions of times a day? That truck drivers are being killed regularly because of the EPA's stupidity? I am searching for an investigative reporter with the resources and backing to break this story. Meanwhile, I would urge you to contact your Senators and Congressmen asking for an investigation.

Don't hang around trucks on the highway, good advice bombs or not.
Dumb Farmer

TWA FLIGHT 800 (ALMOST) UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH IS OUT

Remember TWA flight 800? Went down over Long Island Sound in July of 96, killing all 230 aboard? Remember the official government investigation pinned blame on a mechanical malfunction, despite multiple witness accounts of the plane being hit by a missile?

Well, now, 17 years later, the truth is finally coming to light. The truth of a massive government coverup. Altered witness testimony, military explosives residue on plane parts covered up, and even Federal judges complicit in the deceit, a sure indicator that the orders came right from the top. Which was the Clinton White House. And one of those judges, Sandra Sotomayor, recieved her payback with an appointment to the Supreme Court.

Are you ready for the truth? Think they covered up a successful terrorist strike? That's what I thought back then. The truth is worse. The TRUTH is it was a U.S. Navy missile that downed Flight 800. The Navy had a battle group "war gaming" not much farther offshore than Flight 800 was. Somebody screwed up - big time. My guess is it was a heat seeking missile rather than radar guided, since witnesses reported it went past the plane, then turned around and came back and hit it right in an engine nacelle. Ok, I'll be the first to admit shit happens. Friendly fire has killed a whole lot of troops in war. A friend of mine was hit by .50 cal. fire from a chopper door gunner. Guys were hit by napalm, short artillery rounds, even small arms fire. But this wasn't war, and it wasn't soldiers. But why the massive coverup? Why not admit a tragic mistake was made? There are only two reasons I can think of. Embarrassment to the Navy for one, but I think the real reason was money. Yep, that old bugaboo money. The government had already paid paid out millions and millions to family members of 9/11. Can you imagine how much they'd have had to pay to the families of the 230 victims? Even in 96, my guess is it would have approached a billion.

At first glance, you would think it was totally stupid to attempt to cover it up. But it worked for 17 years. Do you think this is ever going hit "60 Minutes" or get any other mainstream media attention? With Hillary in the preliminary stages of a presidential run? Think a court is going to order the government to own up and pay up? I highly doubt it. I predict it will be ignored, just like the truth about the Oklahoma City bombing. And do you really think JFK was killed by a lone whack job? How about Agent Orange? How many guys died without medical treatment while the VA denied any ill effects for 20 or more years?

Ask not what your government can do for you, but how badly your government can screw you over.
Dumb Farmer

THE CONSTITUTION, WHAT'S THAT?

Hello friends! It's been several months since I've had time to write a post, and an awful lot of awful news has hit the air and web waves. Awful news, you say? Yeah, I happen to think it's pretty awful when day after day news shows government at all levels just ignoring the United States Constitution and just doing whatever they want to for whatever purposes they choose.

What's even worse is that WELL over half the population is so self-absorbed they hear, shrug their shoulders, and go on about their business. Or, they bitch about it for a day or two to friends and social media, then just go on about their business.

So what's recently going on that's so bad? For starters, IRS gestapo raids on small businesses, holding employees at gunpoint, the IRS intimidating every conservative group that applies for tax exempt status, "revelations" that the NSA is recording every single cell phone call, email, and social media post of everyone in the country. (Remember, I told you about this well over a year ago?) Hauling elementary and junior high kids out of classes in handcuffs, for God's sake, for shooting spitballs and having a piece of paper that vaguely resembled the shape of a pistol. The White House intimidating reporters, and now outright attacks on free speach.

A Phoenix pastor has just been arrested by the PPD, jailed for 60 days, and fined over $12k for having a Bible study night IN HIS HOME. It's amazing the Muslims can completely take over Dearborn and Detroit, practice Sharia law - beating their women, and no one does a thing about that. In fact, I doubt you've seen one thing about it on MSNBC, CNN, etc. over the last several years. But have a Bible study in your home? Off to jail you go. This is so outrageous it's hard to believe, but it's happening right now. How about the 19 year old who when someone he was having an online disagreement with called him "crazy" and he responded "yeah, I'm so crazy I'm going to go shoot up a school full of kids, lol" and he's been in jail since March???

And last, but not least, the Henderson County and Las Vegas Police departments pointing guns at and arresting and hauling off the owner of a house next door to a house where a domestic disturbance was happening because he declined to allow them to take over his house as headquarters for their SWAT team.

Honestly, have we, as a country, gone over the edge of sanity? Once again I urge you all to DO SOMETHING BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. The power of public opinion is tremendous. Witness what the gay/lesbian organizations have accomplished for their purposes. It's way past time to SCREAM at your elected representatives, write letters to the editors of your local papers, get involved in the political process. When they knock on YOUR door, it's too damn late folks.

Dumb Farmer

ADMINISTRATION ATTACKS 1ST AMENDMENT AGAIN

Two of the most precious freedoms we are granted in our Constitution are under vicious attack by this administration. There is a reason freedom of speech, and the right to defend one's life and protect oneself from a government that becomes out of control, are the First and Second amendments in the Bill of Rights. We are seeing things perpetrated by the current administration that are unprecedented, at least in my lifetime. I thought all the recent news was pretty scary, and this really puts the icing on the cake. Not only are they intimidating reporters with all sorts of investigations, including the IRS, but now this :
http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/jailed-for-facebook-comments-marine-sues/

That's right folks, now they are arresting people, ESPECIALLY vets, for posting anything opposing Obama's policies on social media! HELLO THERE PEOPLE - CAN YOU SAY HITLER, STALIN, MAO, CASTRO, POL POT?

Now I know from experience there will be tons of people who say this is just some over zealous bureaucrat's doing. I say BULLSHIT! It's systemic, and all these things are not happening without direction from the White House.
 
This has really gone way too far now. It's way past time to start writing your Senators and Representatives demanding Obama be impeached for crimes against the Constitution. I have made it very easy for you to do just that. You can very easily find your particular Congressperson's email address by clicking on the "Contact your Senator or Representative" link at the top of this page.

Be part of the solution, not part of the problem,
Dumb Farmer 

HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS

Better hold on to your hats folks. I've finally had a few minutes to catch up on current events this morning. And the news is not good. Things are happening so fast now it's hard to believe. Things I never, ever, would have thought could happen in this country.

First, we all know about the IRS targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups, now we find out DHS has been sending armed plain-clothes agents to infiltrate Tea Party group meetings and rallies.

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/05/30/armed-homeland-security-agents-patrol-tea-party-rallies-against-irs

Second, the NSA actually publicly admits it has built the huge data storage facility in Utah. Of course what they haven't admitted is what they need all that storage for. To record and save every single phone call, email, tweet, facebook post etc. of every American.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/31/nsa-confirms-and-explains-ribbon-cutting-for-giant-utah-data-center/

This one really should scare the crap out of you. A direct attack against freedom of speech : http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/doj-slam-muslims-on-facebook-face-feds/

Add to this recent news about the DHS buying 1.6 billion rounds of hollow point ammo, the IRS Gestapo raids on small businesses, Obama's direct attacks against news reporters, Obama approving the UN arms treaty, which if ever ratified by 2/3 of the Senate, will effectively outlaw private gun ownership, and what conclusions can you possibly come to? He said he would "fundamentally change America". 

I still have several friends who defend him at every opportunity. Dismiss every report like those above as "the sky is falling" conspiracy mentality. He still has a 50% favorable rating in the polls. I am beginning to think it's possible he will succeed. Beginning to think a second civil war is possible, because there are a sizable number of people who absolutely will not stand for a communistic totalitarian government. There are still those who truly believe Patrick Henry's "give me liberty or give me death".

Please join me in hoping and praying that it doesn't come to that.
Dumb Farmer

STILL NAIVE ENOUGH TO THINK BIG BROTHER ISN'T WATCHING?

So you think all the "conservative" chatter about Big Brother watching is just more fear mongering?  Shrug off the 40 acre data storage building NSA is about put into operation in Utah? Well put this in your pipe and smoke it :

Tuesday, I went to buy a rifle. The National Instant Criminal Background System comes back with a "conditional approval", can't pick it up until Friday, a 3 day wait like it was a pistol. So today I go to get my new weapon. Nope, still conditional, can't pick it up till Monday. They can keep doing this for up to 30 days.

Let me give you a little background. Since the inception of the NICS, I've probably bought somewhere around 25 or 30 weapons of one type or another. I have concealed carry permits in 2 states. I've never had a problem buying a pistol or rifle before. So what changed? I now write a conservatively oriented blog. I now repost a lot of material on Facebook critical of Obama and Democrats in general. No, I have never threatened anyone. Guess I do fit Obama / Napolitano 's description of a possible terrorist though. Let's see : "those who see themselves as patriots", "those who jealously guard what they see as their freedoms", and "disaffected veterans".

WAKE UP YOU FOOLS, BIG BROTHER IS HERE NOW!!!

Dumb Farmer

IS NOW THE TIME FOR A THIRD PARTY?

So here we are in 21st century America. The Democratic party may as well be renamed the Socialist Party, (a system that eventually bankrupts every country that has ventured down that path) and the Republicans - unfortunately including a lot of Tea Party people - have become nothing more than bought stooges for conglomerates and corporations. Greed is running rampant in all sectors of our society, from business to the politicians to those on government handouts. More, more, more, they all demand.

It's hard to say which segment is the biggest offender. Business has returned to the days of the Robber Barons, where the owners live in unimaginable wealth while their workers can barely keep shoes on their kid's feet and put enough gas in the car to get back and forth to work.
   
Looking over the annual report for one SMALL corporation that I own stock in, I see the CEO received $3.1 million in compensation, and each of 4 Executive VP's received over $1 mil each last year. The 9 Board members raked in from $253k to $35k, an average of $144k each, for a total of 1.299 million, for attending 4 meetings. Yep, you read that right, for attending 4 meetings in a year.  

That got me to doing some research. Exxon Mobile CEO Rex Tillerson : $34.9 million in 2011. That's all I could find after 30 minutes of searching on Exxon. Apparently they are very sensitive to the subject, not even including exec compensation tables in their annual report to shareholders. Hmmm, wonder why.
GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, the man Obama chose to be his "jobs czar", and a man shamelessly responsible for moving thousands of American jobs to China and Brazil, got a whopping 80% pay raise last year. To $20.6 million.

I could go on and on here. You get the idea. A month or so ago the Republicans shot down a Democratic sponsored bill to create a tax liability on every corporation / company that closed plants down here and opened new ones overseas. (An idea I proposed here almost 2 years ago, but I said make it retroactive for the last 10 or 15 years and create an offsetting tax credit for every new job they create here) Yep, one thing that could have a huge impact on job growth and economic stimulus here and the Republicans shut it down. Good job you prostitutes. Yes, that's what I said, bought and paid for corporate whores.

I say it's time for a real third party to emerge. (We could even call it the "New American Common Sense Party :-) With a candidate like LTC. Allen West, for example. A man who isn't rich, isn't owned, devoted the majority of his life to serving his country, including putting his life on the line in combat, and who has the right ideas, principles, and programs. And, I hate to say this, but it is fact. West would have a much better chance of winning because his skin happens to be darker. It's no secret that many, many blacks voted for Obama just because he is black. Or half black or whatever. They see him as one of their own. But I say there are thousands and thousands of good people who happen to be of African descent that would jump at the chance to vote for a man like West.

In the words of one of the more infamous egomaniacs on TV, "What say you?" Anyone want to join me in an "Allen West for President in 2016" campaign? Oh yeah, that's assuming we make it that far before the crooks in office now succeed in collapsing the dollar and we have total chaos in the streets.

Still hoping for Liberty,
Dumb Farmer

ANOTHER DISAPPEARING ENERGY MIRACLE?

Almost 2 years ago I reported on an incredible scientific advancement that should change the entire world. See here : http://commonsenseandcircumstance.blogspot.com/2011/04/cheap-clean-energy-is-here.html

At that time, they said these easily affordable "furnaces" could be in production within 1 year. A search I just conducted returned only the original M.I.T. press releases and so on. The original patent was bought by Tata Group, an Indian multi-national conglomerate. Not one single piece of new news in 2 years.

Reminds me of two similar reports from years ago. First, and this I'm pretty sure it was Paul Harvey's radio show where I heard about this, was about an engineer from Denver who invented a frictionless bearing. On the surface, that might not sound like such a big deal, until you really start to think about it. No internal friction in wheel bearings, electrical motor bearings, transmission bearings, differential bearings, and on and on. A huge energy saver. Not another word about it in 15 years?
Second was a guy who invented the proverbial "perpetual energy" machine. A device (engine, motor, whatever you want to call it) that produced more energy than it consumed. His claims were quite controversial in the scientific community, so he put on a demonstration for teams from Stanford, M.I.T., and other prominent engineering schools. While those academics never came out and said that his device worked as advertised, they never said it didn't either. What they said was, they were baffled. So what happened to it? 

 Don't you just have to wonder who owns those patents now? The artificial leaf is the real kicker, holding the potential to reduce the world's dependence on fossil fuels by 30, 40, maybe 50%. So is it going to disappear down the rabbit hole too? Seeing as how our current administration thinks the price of gas and oil here should be comparable to Europe, ($6 per gallon plus) to reduce oil usage and would just love to further choke the American economy with carbon credits, why aren't they investigating these disappearances? Hmmm, how much did the energy sector donate to candidates over the last few election cycles?

We should all buy stock in Vaseline
Dumb Farmer

VENEZUELA - THE TRUTH ABOUT SOCIALISM

First, for my newer readers, let me clearly state the purpose of this blog. It is not just to point out the problems with our society and government today, but to educate and push people to seek out reasonable, common sense solutions. To motivate people enough to become involved in our political process. To at least make the small effort required to convey their thoughts to their elected officials. And finally, to make informed choices as voters. Toward that end, quite a few of my recent posts have been written to influence those readers who tend to have a 'liberal" or "progressive" viewpoint. You can expect that to continue. After all, there is no sense preaching to the choir, right?

I recently had a self-confessed progressive claim that the way out of our current economic malaise is for the government to spend more. Claims government spending creates jobs. Ah, a true statement, without a doubt. But at what price longterm? That is the real question. Another forwarded me a chart showing how unequal the wealth distribution is in this country, implying that a "redistribution" of the wealth is in order. Another truth. But how to accomplish that? Government wage and price controls? Both of these ideas are indisputably socialist, whether they realize it or not. As are most of the ideas and programs of the Democratic Party today. Let me make one more thing perfectly clear : I am NOT A REPUBLICAN STOOGE. My long term readers know I am as disgusted with most Republican politicians as I am with the Democrats. I do admit I am anti-Democrat though. I am a true believer in the principles this country was founded on, and the Democratic party of today has become the party of socialism.

The death of Hugo Chavez presents a perfect opportunity to take one small look at the results of socialism and government intervention.

After 14 years of Chavez, Venezuela has one of the highest overall crime rates in the world, and Caracas has the highest murder rate of any major city in the world at 130 per 100k population. They have a crumbling infrastructure, under-performing industy, (much of which was "nationalized" by Chavez) unsustainable public spending, the worst performance in capitol growth in South America, and 20% per year inflation rate.  Lest some of you be put off by the source for these statistics, it's the BBC. Not Fox, not WND, or any other conservative outlet.

The European states have been gravitating towards socialism for the last 30 years. Most of them today are effectively socialist. Most of them have stagnating economies with huge unemployment, and are on the verge of bankruptcy. I won't bore you with repetition, do the research yourself. Or see previous post here :  http://commonsenseandcircumstance.blogspot.com/2012/11/comrade-commander-flaunts-his-arrogance.html

So liberals, I challenge you again. How much evidence does it take?

In Liberty,
Dumb Farmer

HOW MUCH EVIDENCE DOES IT TAKE?

Just how much evidence does it take before people stop dismissing all the reports about what the administration and the Dept. of Homeland Security are up to as just "more rantings from right wing conspiracy nutjobs"? Laughing any given news report off  if it came from Fox News, or any conservative web site?

To recap just a few things briefly:
2008 Obama says "we need a national police force the size of and similarly armed as our military"
2008 Obama promises to "fundamentally change America"

2012 DHS has bought over 1.6 billion rounds of hollow point ammo over the last year and a half.
DHS has been conducting military exercises in and over major American cities.
DHS is in the process of taking delivery of 2700 upfitted MRAP's. (that's Mine Resistant Armored Personnel carriers) Yes, the very same used in Iraq and Afghanistan, only modified for high speed street usage.
2013 Multiple reports of intimidation (attempted control) of the press. Reporters as famous as Bob Woodward detailing how they were threatened by the White House. Here's the latest:

“I had a young reporter asking tough, important questions of an Obama Cabinet secretary,” says one DC veteran. “She was doing her job, and they were trying to bully her. In an e-mail, they called her the vilest names — bitch, c–t, a–hole.” He complained and was told the matter would be investigated: “They were hemming and hawing, saying, ‘We’ll look into it.’ Nothing happened.”

And I saved this for last, because it proves to liberals that I am one of those "right wing nutjobs".
2009 - 2012 It's been CONCLUSIVELY proven that the birth certificate he provided was altered AND pretty well documented that the social security number he uses (or was using until it was discovered) was issued to a deceased Conn. resident. No one has ever found out who paid for his expensive education. Not one single college classmate has come forward and said "yeah, I knew Barry back then". No reports on Obama at all until he shows up in Chicago and joins Rev. Wright's anti-white, anti-America church.

These are only the tip of the iceberg. If I had the time I could fill several pages.

So when does the not so average (because the average Obama supporter doesn't have a clue what's going on in the world) Obama supporter start to wonder? When the jackbooted thugs knock on their door?

Dumb Farmer