As Obama and is liberal friends attempted to use the tragedy in Orlando recently to promote more gun control, another inflamed Muslim fanatic took two hostages in a Texas Wal-Mart and had to be shot dead by police. Democrats are despicable. Again they have created all these problems on all sides, and their failure is the net result of the violence we are seeing. Obviously, Muslims do not assimilate well in America. They are a problem and need to be dealt with because they have shown that they do not respect freedom and liberty, and their religion seems to push them into situations of violence. As the Muslim Mohammad Moghaddam was harassing Wal-Mart employees, the Obama administration was putting out the following fund raising letter.
Friend —
This weekend we saw the most deadly mass shooting in American history — motivated by hate, and fueled by the easy availability of deadly weapons.
The tragic shooting in Orlando — which specifically targeted the LGBT community — is the latest example of the epidemic of gun violence in our country.
Love is love, and no act of hate will change that. Violence in our places of friendship and worship cannot become the status quo.
Add your name to say you agree that doing nothing is not an acceptable decision:
An armed man who took hostages in a Texas Walmart today before he was fatally shot by police was identified as a longtime employee.
Mohammad Moghaddam, 54, had worked for Walmart for “more than a decade” and was a current employee when he took hostages at the Amarillo store just after 11 a.m., Charles Crowson, senior manager of national media relations for Walmart, told ABC News.
Further details on Moghaddam and his employment with Walmart were not immediately available.
The suspect was shot by a member of the Amarillo Police Department SWAT team at 12:22 p.m., and the initial investigation pointed to the incident as workplace violence, according to police. The hostages inside are safe, police said.
At least two Walmart employees were taken hostage. One of the hostages was a manager with whom the suspect had a work-related dispute, according to police. It is unclear how many other people were taken hostage.
“As soon as we heard about the situation at our store in Amarillo, Texas, we acted immediately,” Walmart said in a statement. “All customers and our two associates who were held hostage are safe. This was a very difficult situation, and we are thankful for the quick response from law enforcement.”
At least one gunshot was fired, according to an eyewitness. No one else was injured in the incident, the Amarillo Police Department said.
Funny how Obama didn’t mention this situation during his speech about gun control. The guy is in denial in such an embarrassing way. Obama is an idiot. Gun free zones are killing fields for Muslim radicals, which apparently are an increasing threat led to fruition by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
That professor, Helmut Norpoth, says his statistical forecast model shows the Manhattan mogul’s chances of beating Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton are at 97 percent, while his chances of defeating Bernie Sanders are at 99 percent. Overall, the model predicts that there is a 61 percent chance that a Republican will win the White House in November.
Norpoth, who announced his model’s results earlier this week, says his model is very accurate — and has been for 104 years. The statistical model, which uses a candidate’s performance in their party’s primary in addition to electoral cycle patterns, has correctly predicted the general election outcome for every presidential election dating back to 1912.
The only presidential candidate—actually–the only person running for any office to provide a plan to defeat ISIS has been Donald Trump. So when it comes to this November’s election, Donald Trump represents an actual answer to this terrorist problem—as opposed to perpetual news coverage and a feeling of victimization that is never-ending. People like me voting in this election expect results and Trump is the only one promising any. That makes him the only possible pick.
Hillary and her former boss, Barack Obama have created ISIS due to their administration policies of spreading the Islamic caliphate around the Mediterranean. I don’t think they intentionally created ISIS, but that they just mismanaged the situation due to their radical hatred of American sovereignty and foreign intervention in the Middle East region. Regardless, the trouble in the United States with increasingly persistent radical Muslim ideologies falls right on the doorsteps of the White House and Hillary was a part of that creation. That will pretty much destroy Hillary’s campaign now that this terrorist event has happened a few months before the presidential election.
At the beginning of the week of June 12th 2016 Trump plans a breakdown of Hillary Clinton and why she is not fit to be president of the United States. He had an easy job before this shooting, but now it is much easier for him. ISIS is Hillary’s baby as Secretary of State and now they have brought blood to the homeland she wants to lead. The election will go to Trump and when he wins, the first advisable thing to do would be to scoop up every terrorist sympathizer and put them on lock down. This should happen before we all have to go through the pain of increased TSA, NSA and FBI investigations giving up more of our freedoms, the groups who actually cause all these problems should be the first to have their rights trampled for the security of our nation. It’s not Christians doing these shootings, and it’s not Confederate Flag waving intolerant southerners. It’s radical Islamic terrorists homegrown in this case, but inspired by foreign insurgents who have in the past had the sympathies of the White House.
We either deport these people or we go to war with them in the streets of America. There aren’t any other options. Donald Trump’s solution may not be “politically correct.” It may go against “The Law Of One,” which secret society types, one world order maniacs, and political losers like Mitt Romney are so committed to—but I’m not, and neither is Donald Trump—and many others of us who are sick of these mismanaged events caused by stupid politicians who believe all the wrong things. I don’t believe in “The Law of One.” So scoop up the terrorists and all those Islamic idiots who say crazy things on Facebook and either deport them, or lock them up. We are at war and when we sort everything out, we can figure out how to integrate them back into society. But first, we need to send a message to ISIS—swiftly. And we can’t care whose feelings get hurt along the way. It doesn’t matter. The people causing all the trouble are the ones who need to feel the pain. And of all the people who are in positions of leadership, the only one with a plan is Donald Trump. I simply can’t wait for him to take office.
A federal law enforcement official told USA TODAY the suspect has been identified as Omar Mateen and said investigators were reviewing the attacker’s possible utterances that may provide more specific information about a terror ideology or affiliation. The official, who was not authorized to comment, characterized the attack as “certainly’’ terrorism. It was not immediately clear whether investigators were aware of the attacker prior to the assault.
Mina said the gunman was armed with an assault rifle, a handgun and some sort of unidentified device. Officers from multiple agencies and dozens of emergency vehicles responded to the scene. Orange County Fire and Rescue called for gurneys to move victims from the club.
There have been a lot of shootings this past weekend in Orlando, Florida—one of my favorite cities in the world. With an armed robbery at a Wal-Mart Thursday, then the shooting of a young girl and former Voice contestant Friday night by a solitary gunman, the Jihadist terrorist attack of a LGBT nightclub called “The Pulse” was the most violent, by far. As of this writing, 50 dead and about 50 sent to the hospital. So who is to blame? Well, in all these situations the fault is uniformly on the political left for following Saul Alinsky strategies seen below toward collapsing society.
For one, progressives have been very active in promoting the dreadful conditions of LGBT living and late night orgies of low mentality sexual promiscuity. Then on the other hand they have stoked the fires of Jihad by opening American borders and throwing a violent Islamic culture onto our doorsteps putting the two ideologies together with the hope that violence would erupt and that they could fulfill Alinsky’s strategy of removing guns from American society so that terrorists would have an easier time of destroying America for aims of progressive desires for world unification under their rule.
I would suggest dear reader that you respond to this violent event by buying a gun today, signing up for Second Call Defense—to protect yourself legally. (You can do that at the below link) Then make sure you are a member of the NRA in hopes that they might continue their efforts at preserving peace through their powerful lobby so that you might not ever have to use your guns to defend your lives and property from these radical progressive elements strategically put in place to destroy our culture. If it is happening in Orlando-it will be coming to your doorsteps soon—and you’ll want to be ready when it does.
The fault for The Pulse shootings in Orlando, Florida I would place directly on the Obama administration and those connected to it. It is really his failed policies which created the battlefield on both sides. He and his kind have followed Saul Alinsky and this is what you get. Guns are the solution to stopping future violence. Jihad and advocates of it are the villains, and it’s time we designate such things in the proper scope. If people want to follow Jihad they belong on the sand baked deserts of the Middle East where there is no economy or opportunity because of their long acceptance of collectivist based philosophies which has destroyed their ability to develop, culturally. You can’t just plop Jihadists into one of the finest capitalist cities on planet earth and expect them to put up with differing viewpoints—like gay people dancing the night way—literally. It wasn’t guns that caused the problem. It was progressives and their Saul Alinsky inspired insurgencies.
This is what happens when people who come from different places around the world, or adhere to values that are not fundamentally “American” find themselves in positions to rule over others.
LOS ANGELES — A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Thursday that the Second Amendment of the Constitution does not guarantee the right of gun owners to carry concealed weapons in public, upholding a California law that imposes stringent conditions on who may be granted a concealed-carry permit.
The 7-to-4 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, overturned a decision by a three-judge panel of the same court and was a setback for gun advocates. The California law requires applicants to demonstrate “good cause” for carrying a weapon, like working in a job with a security threat — a restriction sharply attacked by gun advocates as violating the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
“Based on the overwhelming consensus of historical sources, we conclude that the protection of the Second Amendment — whatever the scope of that protection may be — simply does not extend to the carrying of concealed firearms in public by members of the general public,” the court said in a ruling written by Judge William A. Fletcher.
Those judges voting against the Second Amendment of course are wrong. Guns in American culture are like pasta to Italians, rice to Asians, Fish & Chips to the British, arm pit hair for the French, feathers to the Indian, or piñatas to the Mexicans. It is disrespectful to come to America and proclaim that guns should be removed from our culture. There is nothing wrong with people from other countries coming to America to live the American dream, but it is wrong for them to seek to change anything about the freest country on earth with the garbage they ran from in the first place. It is in that spirit of “change” that Judge William A. Fletcher provided the ruling reflecting the 7-4 decision.
All I can say to those people is that if they don’t understand the language of the 2nd Amendment then perhaps we need another revolution where we can make it a bit clearer for them. Because that is the only path that is acceptable—removing guns from America just isn’t with incremental rulings against the 2nd Amendment to reshape our culture. California is showing that immigration has destroyed its heritage as a sovereign state within America. And they intend to infect the rest of our country with the same strategy. That is of course why we should all carry guns—everywhere.
The media set the stage and our current political system has cast the insurrection—so what happens now is their fault. The people in the following video and those like them are not Americans—they are invaders provoked by progressives to overtake us all and attack our way of life. At the now famous Trump rally in San Jose, California you can see dear reader how bad the situation really is. A Trump supporter ganged up on badly stood her ground the way a fan might at a typical football game when surrounded by supporters of the opposite team. But what happened to her is a hint of the intentions of these insurgents. This is the video the news media did not show you—it was of her being egged violently and spit on by a mob of illegal immigrant supporters built by the open border policies instituted by those around the world—including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton—to end American sovereignty and our economical means of capitalism. They are the ones who declared war. Most of us have been very kind up to this point.
Of course we’d all be stupid to take this laying down and to just surrender ourselves to these angry mobs. It is my hope that a Donald Trump election will further root out the insurgents and help set the course of the country back toward success. But you have to understand, the people behind this movement are thieves and extreme liars—just look what Kati Couric did just the other day with her video against gun owners, or the State Department against James Rosen at Fox News. They will do anything to advance their progressive agenda and when something challenges them, they resort to violence such as they did in San Jose at the Trump rally. Or they resort to criminal acts to hide their acts even at the highest levels, and they don’t care because the media is eating out of the palm of their hands. This criminal action is clearly mainstream now, the evidence is all around us—just look at these videos from stories done the exact same week as the San Jose protests.
This November election may be the last one we have without actual warfare occurring between the insurgents and the residents formed in America under the United States Constitution. It is my hope that the election will solve the issue. But don’t be naive. Violence will occur because the political left has no other recourse. What they don’t expect is for the good people of America to stand up for themselves—which they are about to learn—is going to happen—just like that young lady did in the Trump jersey as she was harassed. If she had not been standing in front of a Marriott in a nice neighborhood within America with hundreds of cameras recording every incident, if that mob had been in Venezuela, Mexico City or anywhere in the Middle East, she would have been raped repeatedly and butchered violently. These are the villains we are dealing with, and they are now in our country trying to take it over with sheer force. And we just can’t let that happen. Hopefully, an election will solve the problem. But if that doesn’t work, we will have to dish it out instead of just taking it. These vile idiots will be coming to your back yard soon no matter where you live—and this is what they are really like.
One of the reasons the political left is so obsessed with skin color is because they like to hide their misdeeds behind racism. But they don’t like to talk about people from other places around the world who come to America but have difficulty merging with the freedom tendencies of our culture. Failures who come from more collectivist based cultures who don’t assimilate well such as Mainak Sarkar, an Indian guy at UCLA who shot his professor while in class, are typically ignored by the media because they don’t advance progressivism. So here is a picture of him allowing the image to speak thousands of words of explanation.
As much as the political left makes fun of people who wear cowboy hats, drive pick-up trucks, and tend to thump the Bible adhering to traditional values–the typically “white” males usually associated with “redneck” culture are not the ones doing all the mass shootings and having a hard time living in America. It’s creations of the political left who have all the trouble–and thus, the fault for the UCLA shootings resides squarely on their shoulders.
I dare you dear reader to watch the fabulous film Cartel Land by Matthew Heineman for the sheer guts it took to film it. This was a movie I had on my radar for a while and due to the long Memorial Day weekend and the easy access of it on Netflix, I was able to finally watch it. If you really want to see the tip of the iceberg of what’s going on in Mexico—just the tip—then watch this movie today. It shows a lot of good people wrapped up in a completely destroyed system where government institutions have been entirely wiped away and yield to organized crime. Here is a clip of the filmmaker and some sample scenes.
Drugs are death—there is nothing good that comes from them in any way. If you take drugs, you are feeding these organized crime elements, and you are part of the vast evil they are spreading. I can’t say there was a single good guy in Cartel Land, but there were a lot of people who dared to think of themselves that way. For some standing up to the cartels was their very last act at some sort of redemption and to them I say, wonderful. Better late than never. But people in America better get it through their thick skulls quickly just how bad the situation truly is. Mexico is a destroyed country and the illegal immigration is technically an invasion against ours for the open destruction of American sovereignty. And to be honest, who could blame the Mexican people for wanting to leave such an armpit of a country. If there is one thing that Matthew captured so well was the many good people stuck in a situation where death, poverty, and oppression were the only things they have to look forward to. If any country should do any invading its America into Mexico. After watching Cartel Land I think we should invade Mexico, free all their people—clean up the cartels completely, and turn the whole county into an American state—like Texas. Those poor people would be a lot better off.
It was an amazing film. I already felt quite passionately about the drug cartels and the people who suffer most by them. But this movie really captured the desperation. You should watch it today. With Netflix, it doesn’t get any easier—so there’s no excuse not to see it.
If you’ve been paying attention to the crises in Venezuela, and most of the South American countries, you would have noticed that they are experiencing a complete breakdown in civility and decent respect for other members of the human race. What all of Venezuela is experiencing presently in 2016 and beyond is similar to what American inner cities are experiencing, a degradation of the human population into a failure in all aspects and the cause is the mismanagement of whatever governments imposed socialism upon those sovereign territories. When morality is gone from a society looters and thugs are born and they will think nothing of stealing from others to satisfy their immediate animal desires for survival. This is especially a risky condition in any society that has many active drug abusers who will do anything to achieve their next “high” to relive them from the pressures of reality—which they obviously can’t handle. These mismanaged and treacherous conditions can then push these scum bags, losers, and openly diabolical human wastes into well managed areas complete with good families and hard-working Americans. It is then that the only defense good people have against bad people is a gun, and that is why every competent American should learn to use a firearm and carry it. At a minimum gun owners should be in every home and they should be prepared to defend their “castle” from any incursion by one of those failures of left-leaning political philosophy. Hopefully it never happens, but if a gun owner has to shoot a desperate attacker who would rather steal and harass a good person with a firearm, then Second Call Defense is the best opportunity to quell the aftermath. The founder of Second Call Defense, Sean Maloney explains how the legal process works during such a shooting and how Second Call Defense can protect you after you’ve had to shoot an assailant in self-defense.
I have loved Second Call Defense long before I became a recruiter. It’s a great service and is something I think everyone should have. At my home, I have enough firearm ability to stop an army of such insurgents, so I sleep well at night. But that armed contest is just one step in the process. It’s not enough to just stop bad guys who intend harm with a gun. There is a legal process ran often by the same left-leaning idiots who caused all the trouble in the first place—who have mismanaged the legal system to such a degree that you could go broke defending yourself from their stupidity. The political left has created the criminal class and they essentially run the legal system—so the gun is really your only defense against both, and you need something like Second Call Defense to defend yourself from the legal assaults which follow defenses involving firearms.
It is a right and a privilege to own a firearm. Our American society is great because of the gun and I would suggest that every country on earth adopt the same kinds of laws favoring gun ownership that we have in America. All over the world, left leaning philosophies create scum bags, losers, malcontents, welfare recipients, Democrats, socialists, peace sign wearing hippies, pot smokers, Grateful Dead concert goers, Jimmy Buffett fans, drug dealers, slum dwellers, and second-hander insurgents. For those lost souls, they have no other intellectual recourse for their failures in life but to steal and harass good people, and the only thing really that keeps them at bay is firearm ownership—which is precisely why the left wants to ban them all the time. Unfortunately around the world, many good people have been crushed because they haven’t had the opportunity to own firearms to defend themselves and their economies show the result. Hopefully in the United States we can defend our own laws from the political left and show the world why they should follow our lead—and Second Call Defense is a huge part of that strategy. So I’d advise you to sign up. Use my name and you’ll get a free first month. It is the best thing you can do aside from buying and owning a firearm. I’d advise you to do it today. You can join by clicking the link below.
At a commencement speech to Harvard graduates, Steven Spielberg revealed why his movies have evolved into a much less blockbuster status than his previous work—his pre-college work. After his outstanding success, colleges looking to ride the coattails of the famous director as second-handers gave out honorary degrees as a way to attach themselves to his genius. Unfortunately, Steven grew up a little insecure and the sudden attention and social acceptance was enjoyable and he found himself bending more toward the liberal view of things as progressives had infiltrated Hollywood at every level, from finance, marketing, to actual manufacture—and Spielberg was the top of the heap, the standard-bearer of the entire movie industry. Unfortunately, the last brilliant movie of Steven Spielberg was Schindler’sList which he made the same year as the first Jurassic Park. From a box office standpoint, and the quality of art perspective, Spielberg has been in decline since 1993. He has done good work, but it hasn’t been on nearly the same level largely because of his acceptance of the global education he received from his honorary degrees and return to college to finish what he started before success interrupted his education at USC.
During the commencement speech Spielberg explained that he attended California State University, Long Beach but dropped out of school in favor of an internship at Universal — a choice, he said, that affected his filmmaking: “Up until the 1980s my films are what you could call escapist, but I was in a celluloid bubble because I cut my education short and my world view was limited to what I could dream up in my head and not what the world could teach me.”
He later re-enrolled and, in 2002, he completed the credits that were necessary for a B.A. from CSULB. He joked: “It helped that they gave me a course credit in paleontology for the work I did on Jurassic Park.”
Spielberg has since garnered an impressive list of honorary degrees from schools like Boston University, Yale and the University of Southern California, which rejected the director from its film school when he applied out of high school.
I watched Bridge of Spies recently while on an oversea trip and I thought it was good. But it wasn’t great. The same with Lincoln. It was a pretty average movie, certainly not on par with Spielberg’s earlier work—like TheColor Purple or Always. Now in my opinion, Steven Spielberg earned the right to make whatever movie he wants to. He had a string of films from 1975 to 1993 that dominated the box office and essentially made Universal Studios a successful business. Without Steven Spielberg, there would be no Universal Studios, Florida theme park. From E.T. to Jaws, Jurassic Park, to the Transformer series—even Back to the Future—if it wasn’t for Spielberg, there would be nothing. Likely, the brilliant film composer John Williams would still be in obscurity and unknown if he had not fallen into the fortune of working with Spielberg then his friend George Lucas in the late 70s. It is important to understand that all of Spielberg’s early success and the industry of Hollywood essentially, came as a result of him dropping out of college. Clearly, Spielberg doesn’t understand the Metaphysics of Quality. He has natural talent that was best utilized as a direct result of his individual mind, not the collective efforts of team collaboration. He is a collaborator, obviously, otherwise he wouldn’t be a great film director, but in essence, his trust in his abilities drove everyone from the front, not from the boardroom of collective input. Once Spielberg allowed for that type of collective—“worldly” thinking, the value of his work decreased immensely. Spielberg no longer means GREAT! Now it just means—interesting.
All the world can teach us is to be average, and submissive to its limits. That is the Spielberg after 1993 to the present—a broken man who has fallen into the rut of “average.” He no longer strives for perfection, or his place in history as a great filmmaker. He is surrounded by “yes men” and second-handers—and that includes the last four presidents of the United States. I still watch his movies, but often I wait until I can catch up to them a few years after their release. They are no longer for me opening night events—and that makes the world not a better place, but a far worse one. I would say that the movie industry was better off with Spielberg produced films like Batteries Not Included and Gremlins than it is with Munich or that stupid movie he did with Oprah recently about French food.
Spielberg upon reading this might think I don’t know what I’m talking about, but he’d be wrong. I grew up just a few miles from where he did in Cincinnati. I’ve read many of the same books and have very similar interests. The difference is, I never really grew up into an adult, and that was something that made Spielberg appealing as a filmmaker to many people who had lost their childhoods—as cynical adults. I have fought that “growing up,” because I don’t see the value in it. Colleges are more about crushing individuality into a collective mush, and that is not a good thing. Intellectuals call that “worldly” I call it “defeated.” I deal with really smart people every day—several of them with doctoral degrees and often they require me to navigate for them through the mine fields of business. I have to waste a lot of time “re-teaching” them how to unthink all the garbage they learned in college to get back to their inner child. Personally, I don’t think human beings should stop learning with the wonderment of children. Sure adults need to be responsible caretakers of civilization, but getting through Harvard doesn’t do it—nor does getting honorary degrees. Success comes from individuality, and it is something that is very unique. They don’t’ teach success in college. They teach compliance.
I honestly miss Steven Spielberg. I am grateful he has done what he did, but I miss the energy and hope of his pre-college work. He calls them “escapism” films but the important thing to ask is why people feel a need to escape in the first place. What is it they want relief from? It is the world of college destroyed autonomous thinking that has ruined the minds of millions of otherwise very smart people. Steven used to give people hope that life wasn’t so bland. Now his movies are about accepting how bland it is—because that’s the world view he learned in college—and it’s quite sad. What he told the Harvard graduating class is probably the worst advice anybody could probably give those young minds. But then again, Steven had the same advice given to him—which he followed toward his own destruction—and the eventual destruction of the entire film industry coming soon to a multiplex near you. Escapism is good when the world wants to throw shackles on your mind and destroy it for collectivist consumption. And that used to be why Spielberg films were always so special—and why they no longer are.
I have a special relationship with a David Harber sculpture at Liberty Center next to the upstairs portion of the Kona Grill. When I get time during mid-day it is not uncommon for me to go there to read. I love the way the designers of Liberty Center created a reverse spiral leading up to the sculpture hidden by evergreens. In the center there is revealed rather majestically a large planetary shape of smooth rocks placed together to form a very unique sculpture. It is called “Dark Planet” and it is but one of the many Harber sculptures featured at the high-end shopping complex known as Liberty Center located in Liberty Township, Ohio. I have been intrigued by the many Harber sculptures located around the property and people who visit are lucky to have them. The sculptures bring with them a sophistication that is quite appropriate to our times and I find them fascinating—immensely. The Steiner Group was very wise to feature them so boldly.
I happened to be at the Kona Grill during a fabulous late spring evening where the sun set behind the luxury Marriott across the courtyard and I had a full view of several of these Harber sculptures. The restaurant had the patio walls all pulled up to enjoy the outside air and everything was just fabulous, the food, the atmosphere and the company. But my thoughts were on a rather intense project that I’m working on, something that is bigger than anything that I know that literature has ever created. Yet I’m working out the details moment by moment and that was heavy on my mind while dining at the Kona Grill and looking across the bar at the Harber sculptures.
It was late at night when I left but I had to take the moment to see my favorite sculpture, the “Dark Planet” just upstairs, so I proceeded through the dining room to the stairs which take guests to the upper level and dodged servers coming and going with sushi to guests enjoying the open air on the upper floor. The blue sophisticated glow of the bar shown against the faces of the many guests enjoying the NBA playoffs over drinks and fine food as the stars looked on from above, but my target was just a few steps to the east of that fenced off area. The vegetation had grown full now that winter was over and the “Dark Planet” was hard to see until the long spirally path was walked, which I did, only to come upon the sculpture looking like a planet coming apart from inside before molten lava exploded it into some other form.
Not to give anything away too far in advance, but since I have learned about a rogue planet coming and going through our solar system every tens of thousands of years apparently creating havoc each time it swings in between Mars and Jupiter before shooting back around our sun for the cold space beyond—I have been mildly obsessed with the concept and that David Harber sculpture makes me think about it constantly. I had been wondering if the Harber sculptures were formed by some secret society of Illuminati maniacs who knew well about such things hidden from the masses. I was a little relieved to discover that David Harber was just an artist—not necessarily a cosmic doomsayer complete with hidden knowledge. After a little investigation from his website I found this curious quote about him.
With a deep appreciation of the cosmos, David is inspired by the night sky as well as appreciating it as a means to escape life’s hectic pace. Harber’s keen interest in astronomy and the stars allows him to bring celestial mechanics to life, capturing the passage of time and space
It was a serendipitous event for David to find, a few years ago, that he was a direct descendant of the Elizabethan mathematician and scientific instrument maker John Blagrave, and that this historic figure lived most of his life some twenty miles from Harber’s workshop in Oxfordshire
It’s not the purpose of art to define itself, but to evoke thought—which for me Harber’s work does. Just a few nights prior to my visit to Kona Grill, my wife and I were in our hot tub looking up at the stars as the moon wasn’t yet up over the horizon and again I was working out the sheer majesty of my literary project—the scope of which involved that “Dark Planet” hidden out there coming back toward us between Mars and Jupiter which I could see clearly above my head. I couldn’t help but think of the cataclysmic consequences of that occurrence. The tides on earth would become very violent, probably flooding the entire world with the awesome gravity pull of such a cosmic event, in much the way that the moon makes our tides on earth roll in and out. A planet the size of Neptune suddenly arriving so close to earth would have a major impact depending on the nature of the elliptical orbits. For me, the Harber “Dark Planet” sculpture represents the hidden monstrosity and fact of life looming large, unseen in the night sky—until it’s too late.
But with destruction also comes rebirth and such things aren’t necessarily bad unless you are madly in love with the way things are. We live in a world of constant change, yet that which is immortal in us all steps beyond such concerns of trees, oceans, and flowers. Earth will be destroyed probably many times over as that “Dark Planet” roars throughout solar system constantly wiping the slate clean for us to continuously reemerge as a civilization time and time again. It’s not the rocks and bones we take with us, it’s the ideas we generate through our lives and the impact that has on the cosmos. We are not meant to sit forever looking up at the stars waiting for them to pass judgment on us. We are meant to go into those heavens and to conquer them into our own imaginative impulses and to ride that “Dark Planet” the way a cowboy rides a bucking bull. We are meant to make the universe into our own image. Thus spoke Cliffhanger.
If you have not stopped by Liberty Center to appreciate the work of David Harber—you should. The “Dark Planet” is obviously my favorite. But a very close second is his “Torus” which is like a wormhole through time and space. It sits right outside of the Kona Grill in front of the Cinebistro movie theater and is worth a visit by itself.
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