I’ve known for a long time that I was going to support Donald Trump for president. I made the case for him way back in 2011—I had read many of his books and I understand the way he thinks. I also understand his parenting style—because I have pretty much have the same manner. I also have a very similar management style professionally so I am not stunned by what a great success the Trump children are—but a lot of people apparently are. So let them get to know just how great Trump’s children are starting with Donald Trump Jr.—the oldest son.
Great speech! But we expect nothing less from a Trump.
The Nathan Drake adventures on the Playstation game systems have reminded me often of my experiences from 1983 through 1988. I love the games and the character of Nathan Drake. Up until recently I thought Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was one of the greatest video games ever made. The video game company Naughty Dog actually did something unthinkable, they are challenging great movie characters like Indiana Jones for the right to be king of the storytelling venue, and up until Uncharted 4: A Thieves End—which just came out in May of 2016 I thought they were scratching the surface. However, I have given myself some time recently to play the 4th game, with great anticipation on my part. Even though in my life I have shelved many of the traits about Nathan Drake’s life which remind me so much of my early years I deeply wanted to see how Naughty Dog would end the story of that very likable character—as this is slated to be the end of the series as we know it. After playing Uncharted 4 let me report that it is jaw dropping great. I had high expectations but even so, it far exceeded those in every way. By the time the credits concluded I had a very similar feeling as I did the very first time I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark, only this was better, because the game was much longer and had time to jump into the lives of the characters in a storytelling fashion that I think was Academy Award winning. The acting and pacing was so good that it rivals the best films Hollywood has ever produced—like Citizen Kane for set design and drama, or James Bond for sheer action and scope of circumstance. As just an example of how good the game is, how it looks and how magnificent it is the video below is actual game play. It looks like a movie but I can confirm that everything you see is a playable element. It is quite astonishing.
If you have not yet played the game you may want to return to this article once you have as spoilers will follow. I thought there were a number of elements about Uncharted 4 that were quite extraordinary story wise, and those items will be discussed—so if you don’t want to know, stop here.
Was I happy with the ending? Actually, I was amazed by the ending. It was so refreshing, that an entertainment company actually produced a story that featured strong characters with healthy relationships. It was good to see that Nate and his wife actually lived happily ever after—that the events of the previous games were really about Nathan Drake coming to terms with his past and living a healthy future. And it was nice to see that they gave birth to a daughter who was living a successful life with them. Nathan Drake managed to also maintain positive relationships with his brother and his father figure mentor Sully as the years after Uncharted 4 progressed. It was the happiest ending I’ve seen since the conclusion of the very first Back to the Future movie—it was satisfying in every way. My wife and I kind of looked at each other after the story concluded because honestly it was like Naughty Dog had been spying on our own lives together over the years even down to the characters of the new daughters. I was certainly able to relate to the ending—to say the least. I was so pleased that millions of video game players were able to experience these Nathan Drake adventures which featured such positive role models and outcomes. No wonder the game is so popular—the ending showed me that video games have become the dominate form of storytelling in our modern culture surpassing movies and novels finally. In a lot of ways Uncharted 4 is the greatest story ever told—it is certainly the greatest treasure hunt surpassing Raiders of the Lost Ark or even Humphrey Bogart’s Treasure of Sierra Madre. The people at Naughty Dog knew what they were doing and they pulled it off with sheer audacity. Such a good ending to the story of Nathan Drake—especially for those who have spent the last ten years enjoying the Uncharted franchise. Hollywood would have never dared to give fans such a positive ending.
What started as a rip off of the Tomb Raider franchise—which was a female rip-off of Indiana Jones, Uncharted had evolved into its own thing by the third video game. Even the makers of the Tomb Raider games had realized that Uncharted was literally going someplace nobody had thought previously possible. So by the time Naughty Dog set out to do Uncharted 4, they were truly in “uncharted” territory for any storytelling medium. The game designers appeared to be aware that they were laying foundations that every video game and movie company in the future would have to live up to and they were enjoying it. There were times where they were actually showing off their technical abilities just because they could.
Libertalia was very interesting in that it actually fits politically into the discussion of our times—really the philosophic difference between libertarians, and the Tea Party movement. What a lot of people don’t know is that the American Revolution was ignited by the actions of these very pirates central to the Uncharted 4 story so I consider the narrative an important one which shaped the actual Libertalia which become America. But for the founders of Libertalia, what a concept, a utopian paradise founded by renegades from all the world governments and all the possible problems that might arise from it. I found the entire concept extremely compelling. Then to walk around that environment in a 3D world was really something to behold. The sense of scale was truly incredible. These Uncharted makers obviously have experience with real world adventures as their physics through caves, with rappelling and climbing and geography was spot on—nearly real world in their feel. If not for some of the over-the-top gun battles, and climbing, Uncharted 4 could be a simulation of real life.
It’s really hard to pick a favorite part of the game for me, because after I was finished, it seemed like a really long journey. I took my time getting through the game—spending about three weekends completing it. Ironically, I think the chapter where Nathan and his brother break into the old mansion to get back their mother’s personal possessions was the most compelling, which I didn’t expect. Nathan’s mother supposedly committed suicide when he was very young forcing him to grow up in an orphanage run by nuns. Uncharted 4 opens with Drake and his brother in a Panamanian jail and it is very gritty. Through the series Drake is in many jails yet he’s highly intelligent walking a very fine line between ghetto thug and world-class traveler. So it was interesting and realistic to learn that Nathan’s mother was a genius scholar who had obviously brushed elbows with powerful people and something bad happened to her. Her absence in the lives of her children obviously sent them down a dark path leaving them with relationship troubles later in their lives as they had been a relatively happy family. As young children that happiness was ripped from them and they spent the rest of their days trying to get it back which culminated around the secret treasure of Henry Avery—a character of obsession for their mother. I thought that the Naughty Dog team went so much further than Spielberg could in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in taking such an interesting globetrotting adventurer and grounding him into something internally driven by overbearing parents and childhood disappointments. Even in the Panamanian jail, Drake and his brother seem too smart for their circumstances, but psychologically damaged by their upbringing. Apparently they got just enough from their mother to be smart and inquisitive young people, but not enough to stay out of trouble. The story was to me, deeply intelligent.
And that is the triumph of Uncharted 4, not just as a Playstation only video game, but as a mechanism for storytelling. It is a shame that such a magnificent story doesn’t have the ability to reach everyone, but it certainly does justify the expense of buying a PS4 just so that people can play this video game. It is worth every penny the cost of not only the game at $60 dollars, but the $300 cost of a PS4. I haven’t played many of these types of games over the last five or six years. Previous favorites were Red Dead Redemption and of course Star Wars: The Old Republic. But this Uncharted game is just another step in creating virtual realities and telling stories in those realms. Recently after buying a Samsung 4K 70” television the first thing I wanted to do was get an updated gaming system so I could catch up on some of the new titles that have been produced in the video game world. The highest on my list was Uncharted 4 which was coming up at the time. With that said, the game was gorgeous blown up big and in 4K—nearly flawless. It really was a game that hit every mark on a high note and was something truly to behold and enjoy. If you get the chance, take the adventure. It’s not the only reason I spent 5K on an entertainment system, but I would do it again just to play Uncharted 4 once. It will last in your mind for a lifetime. It is my new favorite video game, and one of my most beloved adventure stories. It has the depth of an adventure novel, the action of a summer blockbuster, and the romance of an Academy Award winning motion picture. I really don’t think Douglas Fairbanks or Errol Flynn could have ever imagined the type of storytelling exhibited in Uncharted 4. It is a new gold standard that will certainly stand the test of time and is one of the greatest adventure stories EVER told. What a great experience Naughty Dog! Thanks!
Do yourself a favor and watch the videos included above. The effort put into Uncharted 4 is just incredible, and it certainly shows—an A+ in every single category.
Don’t take your eye off the ball ladies and gentlemen. The story of the day on July 8, 2016 is that Hillary Clinton committed perjury in front of congress which was revealed during the James Comey hearing the day before. The media seeking to help their candidate hide in the shadows of an offense that has jail time attached to it responded by playing the murders of two African-American men by police in graphic detail which stirred up the Black Lives Matters communists into a predicted froth which exploded in downtown Dallas by nightfall, leaving 5 police officers dead and many others wounded. But make no mistake about it–that is not the lead story of the day. It is Hillary, because once again it was the political left’s mismanagement of government resources that has caused all these problems in the first place—so don’t become distracted by the sadness of the tragedy in Dallas.
Cops are not the bulk of the problem here, and believe me, I’m not an open apologist for them. I think the mistake that police departments make during their recruiting is that they all too often put young men hungry to prove their manhood in positions of infinite authority—and often the cops don’t handle that responsibility very well at all. Let me provide two recent examples that I observed firsthand. On the Fourth of July I had a massive fireworks display that went on for over an hour. For me, the 4th is all about celebrating defiance and reminding those in authority that if they get out of control, that we will remove them from power with force if needed, and take back our country from the clutches of tyranny. So I could care less if the fireworks I had were legal or not. With that said, I was firing them off and they were loud. Near my home is a trailer park which I consider to be an eyesore to the fine community that I live in. Not everyone, but most of the people living there are drug fueled losers doing the bare minimum in life that is required and they live pathetic existences. When I see them at the local gas station where I often get fuel and meet them at the cashier’s counter they often stink–they smell like cigarettes and undeodorized sweaty malcontents. As I pay for my gas they pay for cigarettes, beer for breakfast, and lottery tickets. I don’t like them and they don’t like me. With that relationship in context, they called the cops on me over twenty times during my firework display and after the big climax which filled up the sky with fire; a young cop came into my backyard asking if I was done yet.
It’s a really stupid idea to walk into my backyard unannounced—in fact, it’s dangerous. That cop should have known better, he should have come to the front door–very dumb to walk on a man’s property in the dark and to come up behind him—especially at my house. But the young kid thought he had the right as a cop to go anywhere he wanted and if we weren’t so happy with our firework display he might have caught me in a bad mood. Smartly, he read my face and didn’t push the issue. He said the right things about the idiots who called the police which took off the edge and the exchange was friendly. But I could tell the kid was ready for a fight until he thought differently about the situation once he met my family—and probably Googled my name. He left trying to make himself sound important by saying that he hoped he wouldn’t have to come back out again. My thoughts were—what better thing did he have to do—really? Play on his phone in his police car? He was a cocky little guy untested and looking to use his badge as a way to show his social status of authority to others. If I had been a different kind of person, a different color, social class, or even just a little less legally knowledgeable, that exchange would have been much different.
Just a few days later I was with my wife at the Donald Trump rally in Sharonville, Ohio. Of course there were police everywhere, Hamilton County sent out a lot of troopers as did Butler County and the Highway Patrol. Most of the cops were nice people who were trying to help. But on the way out after the event was over I happened to have parked near the route where the Secret Service was planning to take Trump and his assembly back to the airport. So the Highway Patrol shut down the road while the motorcade prepared to go by. A little 5’, 5” kid dressed in a Highway Patrol outfit with the typical buzz cut on his hairline was very animated in the road yelling at people to get out of the road otherwise Trump’s Secret Service people would run “their asses over.” The kid was drunk on power and using the circumstance to justify his ego boost acquired by the position his badge gave him over others. He was using the power granted to him by the state to abuse people under a crises situation. If someone around me had even looked like they were going to pull out a gun they would have been shot dead in less than a second because cops like that kid are looking for any excuse they can get to prove their valor in the face of danger. It’s a real problem these days in a culture that has shit all over masculinity pushing insecure little guys like that into serving as a Highway Patrolman so that he might get the opportunity to prove that he’s not a little pussy. Once Trump went by all the cops got into their cars and cleared the road, and we all moved about our business. I know better around timid types like that little cop than to scare them in any way. They are jittery and trigger happy and they shouldn’t be given so much authority. But the management of our Highway Patrol actually recruits these types of people, so that’s what we get on the roads. Most of the time I’m glad the cops are there, because they prevent outright social anarchy, but in times of crises—or the hint of crises, they use their acquired power to prop themselves up in psychological stature.
As an intelligent, cultured white male, I know how to deal with timid cops. I don’t challenge them while they have the power position—I know when dealing with them that I have thousands of other ways to skin a cat, and after talking to me for a little bit they realize it, and back off their eagerness to draw a gun and shoot someone to prove that they are men. It might be remembered that we had an issue of police violence in good ol’ West Chester, Ohio—one of the nicest communities in the world—and even there, several cops took the opportunity to beat up a drunk guy after hours at a local sports bar. It’s in the nature of other human beings when they have power that they abuse that power. When dealing with cops, because most of them are not intellectual giants, the most powerful weapon you can have is intelligence. But if you challenge them power to power—they will kill you, because they have the authority of the state to do it. Even that kid who came into my backyard. If I had threatened him in any way he would have seized the opportunity to abuse his authority in less than a second. Like I said, there are other ways to skin a cat, and I use them all. But you just don’t challenge police directly—because they’ll shoot anybody at the slightest provocation.
Black Lives Matters protestors and the culture of inner city people community organized by people like Barack Obama over the years actively have created a culture that wants to challenge the police with physical violence. Like that trailer park trash I spoke about earlier they often live despicable lives making bad choices and getting a bunch of silly arrests on their records so when police show up to investigate a disturbance, the cops are already fingering their triggers. All the cops need is an excuse, and all too often, these Black Lives Matters communists give it to them viewing the killings as a sacrifice for the greater good. The whole problem is a creation of the political left’s incredible mismanagement. On the side of the cops, the progressive labor unions have given police a feeling of entitlement and unity when one of them goes rogue. Then on the side of the Black Lives Matter protestors, the political left has made many of them into dependents on the government and kept the intellectually ill equipped to deal with the world. So when the two forces are brought together bad things happen—like they did in Dallas on 7-7-2016.
Yet notice how quickly the liberalized media even as the Comey testimony revealed that Hillary Clinton had lied to congress during the Benghazi hearings that they played the obvious murder of two black males by cops at point black range. Those types of videos are filmed every day—and while they are bad, they are actually expected. Yet the media played them graphically halfway through the Comey testimony and the lead story of the day due to the stoked media fires that had been heating up all day, became the Dallas massacres by morning. Do you see dear reader how this game is played? So be sure not to take your eyes off the ball. Don’t fall for the laser light on the wall like some dog barking at nothing. Keep your eye on the prize and ensure that Hillary Clinton not only isn’t elected president, but that she go to jail for her crimes—because that’s what she deserves. Shootings between cops and the citizens they are supposed to protect happen every day. Statistically, blacks challenge cops more than whites because of the cultures they are raised in.
The cop that came to my house wasn’t too keen on the type of people who live in that trailer park which gave us some common ground to work with—because the trailer trash live bad lives that makes his job a lot harder. Domestic violence, drugs, prostitution and other despicable enterprises are common around people with low intellect and low ambition no matter what color your skin is. And when such people challenge the authority of the police, they end up shot and that is the way it will always be until we recruit police differently and take away the collective bargaining they enjoy through their FOP unions—which are progressive organizations. And before we do any of that, we need to put in jail a real criminal—someone at the top of the food chain—Hillary Clinton.
Watching the special session of congressional investigation into the James Comey FBI ruling on the Hillary Clinton email problems the essence is this—Comey felt that the Attorney General history over 99 years of patterned behavior that a case of this nature would not have been taken under the presumption of “intent.” Everything else said is irrelevant. It was obvious that Comey felt that Clinton had done a bad job of protecting her secure emails as Secretary of State and that she seriously jeopardized her credibility. Yet he did not advance the recommendation of prosecution because he felt the case was too flimsy for an AG at a Department of Justice to proceed with.
Here’s the problem with Comey’s statement—attorney generals are extremely political so their prosecution ratios if the charges are leveled toward characters on their political side of the aisle are of course extremely poor. It is no surprise that Comey made the political calculation that his case was not strong enough to by-pass the politics of the AG, Loretta Lynch. Yet, on Friday, July 1st Loretta Lynch under pressure from the disgrace of her meeting with Bill Clinton—Hillary’s husband—she stated clearly that she would accept any recommendation that the FBI proposed. So it goes on July 5th 2016 James Comey held a press conference stating that the FBI would not bring charges against Hillary Clinton because they could not prove that she “intended” to break the law. (Because all that evidence had been destroyed by Hillary’s team of lawyers)
When pressed by the congressional investigation specially held under an emergency session on July 7th 2016 however, Comey fell on the historical tendency of prosecution under the DOJ over a long period of time as the reason he did not recommend prosecution—even though Loretta Lynch already stated that she would proceed. So there was no question that the Department of Justice would proceed with the case which is contrary to Comey’s statements defending his position. That is the key to this case. Comey in spite of all his declarations about the importance of his integrity lied about his reasons for not moving forward with the prosecution. The DOJ would have had no choice but to pursue the case because Bill and Loretta Lynch got caught together in an inappropriate way.
Hey, how do I know these things you ask? Well, I recently stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. I’ve read a little law and I deal with lawyers more than I’d care to. Gotta’ watch how they twist the meanings of words.
A lot changed since March 15th 2016, when Donald Trump last came to Ohio for a rally. Then he came to West Chester in a drizzling rain and was about an hour late arriving from his plane as we all waited patiently from a previous stop earlier in the day. He was only a primary candidate then with still Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and John Kasich in the way of the Republican Party nomination. Just a few months later he returned to a venue just a few miles to the south of West Chester in Sharonville to the Convention Center. As I stood with my wife shaking the hands and talking a bit with Donald Trump and Newt Gringrich I couldn’t help but reflect that just 30 years prior I had spent many nights working in the exact spot where my feet were standing at the old jewel of Cincinnati, the Chinese restaurant Emperor’s Wok as a busboy. Not long after I moved on to bigger things the restaurant closed—which had been noted as the best decorated establishment in all of Cincinnati at the time. It was a first class place that died by the end of the 1980s. The Sharonville Convention Center was built upon its ruins and years later I was able to return to the spot of my youth to meet two of the most powerful men in the world on a quest to save America from the diabolical menace known as Crooked Hillary Clinton.
Just a few hours prior I had a meeting with an attorney over a business matter and as I looked over the charges it was obvious that the cost of legal counsel was another rigged system. In this day and age attorneys are a necessary evil—most of our laws have been written by their kind, and what they put down on paper are things only they understand—which defy conventional reading comprehension. They do that so that you have to use their services and to me they are all just glorified whores tweaking the legal system to protect their livelihoods. So I already don’t have much respect for people like Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Loretta Lynch, James Comey, and Barack Obama who are all lawyer types who behave like the lawyer I was dealing with—overpriced scam artists who will charge you for even small talk about the weather. They are all second handers who make their livings as parasites off industry then seek to take it over once you’ve done all the hard work. If people didn’t go out there and build things—or do things—lawyers would have nothing to do. They require others to do things before they can do anything in life. They don’t produce anything which is why Hillary Clinton has never done anything but suck off other people’s efforts her entire life. So as I read the report of the AG, while waiting for Trump to come out and talk in Sharonville, the problem was obvious to me, we shouldn’t elect any more lawyers to the Executive Branch of our government. I think lawyers are OK in the House and Senate where laws are actually written, but the President of the United States should be a different sort of character. They should not be by the nature of their professions second handers—but people of industry who have made their livings producing things. And right now, there isn’t a better example of that anywhere but in Donald Trump.
I have watched quite a few Trump speeches—including the one that had been in West Chester months prior—and this one in Sharonville was different. Trump had shifted into a new gear and was much more casual than usual. His jokes and free flow style of talking was much more exacerbated as I found myself laughing openly. The secret service in front of me have a responsibility to be absolutely stoic as they scan the audience for trouble and even they a couple of times looked as if they were struggling to avoid cracking a smile at Trump’s utterances. We all know how corrupt Hillary Clinton is so the writing was clear to see and Trump hit the perfect stride in exposing it. It was obvious to everyone that Trump was the right person to be the next President of the United States.
I have to thank the people who made it possible for my wife to meet Donald Trump. I don’t get too wrapped up in celebrity, and neither does she. But she wanted to thank him for giving our nation this opportunity for a different kind of president and she and he actually exchanged a few nice words to each other which is something I know she takes quite serious. We both know the implications of this 2016 election. Being married to me she can’t help but get the spillover of my life into hers so she sees things that are certainly uglier than normal people might experience. She also knows how tough it is to put yourself out there the way Trump has. She felt compelled to tell him that she was thankful that he was willing to do the job—because honestly, he could choose to do what everyone else in his position does—enjoy the good life and retire into the sunset.
Trump however is a warrior at heart—and I understand that. It is even more obvious in personal meetings. Comfort is not how warriors are wired. They like conflict and they insist to be involved in the action wherever trouble reveals itself. Trump was in his element in Cincinnati because Hillary had spent the entire day deflecting away from her FBI troubles attempting to show business failures in Trump’s Atlantic City investments. She came out sounding like a lawyer defending a murderer with blood still on their hands in court. She sounded like an idiot and it provoked Trump into attack mode where he is most happy. Trump as a producer in life employs lawyers to do work for him. Lawyers don’t hire Trump. That is the biggest difference in this campaign for a change. The biggest problems with Hillary and her gang of corrupt government thugs is that they are all second handers attempting to look like producers. Trump obviously understands this discrepancy and it was reflected in his speech. The campaign for presidency shifted gears in Cincinnati on June 6th, 2016. By the time I was able to shake Newt’s hand the body language of everyone around Trump shifted dramatically from the last time I saw them. They acted like a football team with a big lead in the fourth quarter who knew they could win against an inferior opponent. Hillary is an incredibly flawed candidate who just got caught under a FBI probe not only in criminal conduct but in helping rig the system in her favor through lawyerly tricks—and that is easy prey for Donald Trump.
By happenstance of fate—because of my days of working at the old Emperor’s Wok I knew a few tricks in getting around that part of town. Where I had parked was in the back of the convention center and down the road a bit. I remembered that one of the cooks who had been a friend of mine in the 80s straight from China was apprehended in the apartments behind the old Wok and deported as an illegal alien. Even though I liked the guy, he was here illegally and I never questioned what happened to him because he knew the risks. But because he was always hiding from the law, I knew of a few places that still existed where I parked. Ironically, that took me right to the route the Secret Service had mapped out for Donald Trump’s exit so I was able to get a picture of the car he was leaving in. It was very surreal for me because I remember how it looked when my friend was arrested; there were police cars everywhere and helicopters flying overhead when immigration officers raided his apartment. And now exactly 30 years later it looked pretty much the same—the street was shut down, helicopters were positioned above looking for trouble on the ground and police were everywhere. But while my friend was sent to jail, then deported, Trump was going toward a different kind of fate. Sometimes change is for the better. The Sharonville Convention Center is better than the old Emperor’s Wok. One was a building in gradual decline; the other represents the resurgence of economic viability. And my friend from back then was here as an illegal alien mismanaged by years of lawyerly conduct by politicians. Now Donald Trump is volunteering himself as a supermanager to go to the White House and fix all these messes once and for all—as a producer. As Trump drove by he waved—not as a politician, but as a guy who looked as though he appreciated that people valued what he was doing. My wife certainly made it clear to him that she did. We are all ships that pass on the open waters of productivity—and now we are at war for our very lives. We all have a job to do and it was truly nice for a change to see real people doing it—as opposed to the political hacks created by lawyers to suck off the system until there was nothing left. Trump’s visit to Sharonville was wonderful.
On Monday June 20th 2016 a host of senate democrats attempted to use the Orlando shooting to pressure GOP leadership into gun control measures on Capital Hill. Of course, thankfully because of the Republican majority and the powerful NRA their four proposals are going nowhere. But they’ll keep trying just like their buddy Leland Yee has for years out in California. The potential attempt had me fueled into a fired up fissure on Saturday when my friend Matt Clark brought up the topic of gun control up on his WAAM radio show. I had to call at the 30 minute mark and join the vigorous conversation Matt was hosting.
During the call I brought up the news story shown below, where liberal Leland Yee—a gun control champion in California was busted for trafficking in “foreign firearms” on the black market. Go ahead, read the article for yourself below from The Washington Post:
On the surface, the story of Leland Yee looks like a precipitous fall from grace.
The 67-year-old had risen steadily in the ranks of Bay Area politics since the late 80s, when he was elected to the San Francisco School Board. He then went on to sit on the city’s Board of Supervisors and in the state Assembly. The latter role saw him become the first Asian American speaker pro tem in 2004, making him the second-highest ranking Democrat in the California assembly at the time.
From 2006 onwards, Yee served as a state senator and was plotting a secretary of state campaign when his political visions were curtailed by a federal indictment in March 2014.
The arrest swept Yee and his associate Keith Jackson, 51, up in charges alongside some of the city’s most notorious characters, notable among them Chinatown gangster Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow.
Yee also discussed buying weapons overseas and bringing them to the U.S. with two associates and an undercover agent. He accepted $6,800 and a list of arms for purchase in the Philippines.
The maneuvers were not only illegal, but also in stark contrast to what he had long purported to stand for.
Yee told CBS two years before he was arrested: “It is extremely important that individuals in the state of California do not own assault weapons. I mean that is just so crystal clear — there is no debate, no discussion.”
The calamitous epilogue to Yee’s career, then, seems to be an abrupt about-face. During his campaigns, Yee had styled himself as an outsider removed from the corruption that plagued San Francisco governments past.
“My parents didn’t encourage me to go into politics at all,” he told Hyphen magazine in 2011. “There was a stereotype in the Chinese community that sees politics with suspicion. Politicians aren’t honorable, they’re corrupt and unsavory.”
Some members of the public have expressed disappointment over his conviction, but many more think the five-year sentence is fair (if not too light) for someone who has admitted to abusing his position.
Let me just say this much, there are no circumstances where more government equates to more prosperity. By nature, human beings fail when they have too much power and Leland Yee is a fine example of the same type of corruption we are learning about in Brazil, Venezuela and everywhere that socialism is the political philosophy of the masses. America must have guns—unlimited guns—so that our society can have the means to keep government from becoming all-powerful and ultimately following in the footsteps of liberals like Leland Yee. Every gun grabbing politician speaking to federal representatives in the wake of the Orlando massacre are potential Leland Yees. Many of them may be well-intentioned people, but all of them have the potential to become like Yee. What makes America different is that we do have guns, and we can if there is no other option; use them to protect ourselves from an out-of-control government. And by the sound of things now, it would seem that we are almost out of other options.
A suburban township has settled a lawsuit by Indiana-based adult club owners who had planned to open a swingers club in southwest Ohio.
The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports Melissa Warren and Eric Adams of Sanford Group LLC planned to open the sexually oriented business in West Chester but found their business license and zoning certificate had been revoked in November.
Township officials and Sanford Group reached a settlement that calls for Warren and Adams not to open another such sexually oriented business or similar use in town.
The township agreed to pay Sanford Group $61,000 and the site’s landlord $29,000 toward unpaid rent.
To illustrate my point, now that the Sanford Group knows the future of their West Chester location, they are absolutely free to attempt to get some very cheap rent at the old Forest Fair Mall location, which is very near where they proposed to set up shop over this contentious issue. After all, if they really just wanted to set up an adult swingers club, the reputation of the Forest Fair Mall location would have been much more lucrative. That mall is now a dead mall, which was once a vibrant place because management around Fairfield and Forest Park botched the deal over a twenty year period. High taxes and bad policy destroyed the mall—specifically allowing the location to be a hangout for young unsupervised people and night club goers. For a time, Forest Fair Mall opened an entire wing in front of what became Burlington Coat Factory to bars and nightclubs which essentially destroyed the appeal to lucrative businesses thinking of locating there. Then there was the meat market nightclub called Metropolis which further solidified the death of Forest Fair Mall. A lot of people got laid, cheated on spouses, and behaved in a generally despicable manner, but the cost was enormous to the region. Families stayed away from the mall and scum bags took over, and Forest Fair Mall—one of the largest in the country—died.
What happened in West Chester is called, “management.” They protected the community for future capitalist growth while discouraging vile businesses rooted in sexual proclivity from destroying that culture. That is what the purpose of zoning is supposed to be. Sadly it still cost money to make bad people go away, largely because a judge ruled in favor of the swingers club—probably because he wanted to attend the place. But the West Chester trustees worked the situation well and kept those sexual provocateurs away so that the families of West Chester and the business owners trying to expand their efforts could do so without the disgrace of an embarrassment conducting business just down the street. A tip of the hat to the good guys within West Chester for a job well done.
Obviously, Obama lost a Obamacare lawsuit, and it was embarrassing. So his administration wanted to change the news cycle. Literally, within hours of losing the court case Obama exceedingly overstepped his executive powers once again by imposing a ridiculous transgender rule against public schools.
Remember what I have said about public schools. If you vote for a school levy you are stupid. If you send your kids to public school, you are taking a serious chance of destroying their minds forever. If you love them, you should home school them, or send them to a private school. Public schools are dangerous, lazy, and obviously corrupt, and by Obama’s actions–are a part of the transgender psychosis promoting the advancement of mental illness as a substitute to logic.
I think it was way back in August of 2015 that I said I’d considered not contributing articles everyday like I do presently if Donald Trump were elected president—mainly because his presence in the race for the White House, or from the White House does much of what I have been doing with all this work. Well, after tonight’s performance in the East and the strong showing once again in five more states with clear indications of a strong finish in the biggest of all, California—it is clear that Donald Trump should be the Republican nominee for POTUS in 2016. Even with the silly little Kasich/Cruz alliance, the only hope they have is to get to a floor fight at the convention to be president—which won’t go over well as it goes against the popular vote. A lot of people never got over the Bush/Gore tie in 2000 where technically Gore won the popular vote, but Bush won the electoral votes. This Trump situation is much more flammable than even that, so I don’t see anybody but Trump running as a Republican against Hillary Clinton. And as for Hillary, she barely beat Bernie Sanders. She won’t be able to withstand a focused attack by Donald Trump every day. He will simply outwork her, and she won’t win a general election. So for all practical purposes, Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States.
I am an excellent judge of character and it may take five or six years for others within the Republican ranks to see what I do in Trump, but history will agree with me. Conservatives are not going to win major elections trying to shift the country radically back to the political right after 100 years of liberal erosion—so you have to pick your battles. Trump is all about the economy, border security, and trade negotiations—which is an excellent place to begin. Real conservatives need to keep their eye on 2024 for all the social issues. You have to fix the economy first and sustain the integrity of our sovereignty before we worry about guys wanting to use the restrooms of girls. These are all big issues but moral depravity escalates when people don’t have money in their pockets. Morality is a lot easier to sell when people have something of value that they appreciate—and right now—we just don’t have that type of society.
Trump from the White House will utilize the power of positive thinking to unlock America’s potential. It won’t be Trump’s policies that do it—it will be his mouth and charisma, and I see a path where he can do a lot more from the White House than the slow trickle that I perform with all my articles trying to teach people to do the same thing in their private lives. The next four to eight years will be a whirlwind and situations will change—and a chapter of our lives will close as a new one begins. That means I need to shift my personal role as well.
I have talked prior about a rather epic novel that I’m working on and I have been flushing out the ideas for quite some time. The articles on this site have played a part of that. But now it’s time to put pen to paper and to pound out the manuscripts. Rather than write the 1200 to 1500 words each day that I do here, my efforts need to go into that commercial work. It’s not the writing itself that is the challenge, it’s the editing and working out the details that takes all the time and that is where I’m going to put my focus at this point That’s not to say that I won’t make any more contributions—I certainly will. But as for the daily articles, it is time to let the chain reaction that many of us in this marketplace have set forth to do their thing and to move to the next phase as we see it.
My path is clear and it will take everything I have to get there. It’s certainly time for me to make this decision. I’ve delayed my indulgence for about a year because of all the volatility at the presidential level. It is hard for people to imagine that one guy like Donald Trump might have such a large impact on our culture but I’d ask those who can remember to recollect the difference between 1979 and 1980. I think the switch from 2016 to 2017 will be much greater and there will be so much news flashing by in such a whirlwind that nobody will be able to keep up. Meanwhile, I have quite an encyclopedia of articles here to help people through that phase and to guide them into making the correct decisions. My next role will be context through art—not in the definition of interpretation—which is what I’ve been doing. Now we need the artistic effort to expand culture and that will be my new focus. For me the work will be similar, I will write everyday toward a known objective—only people won’t see it as they do now. They’ll see it in bulk when the projects are released. For me it is the work of the Great American Novel, something I have been thinking about for quite a long time. How that novel gets published I’m not sure at this time—because that industry has changed so much. But first, you just have to write it then measure how best to distribute it.
As for Donald Trump, I know his people have read here and I hope this site continues to be a source of inspiration. But it’s time for the student to leave the classroom and to utilize what they’ve learned—and I expect that to be the case for everybody—even those silent lurkers who depend heavily on my written words. I’m not going away—I’m just turning inward so that I can build up to the next great phase which we will see a few years from now. When we get there—we all need to be ready and I need to focus on getting it right. I am proud to have played my part in all the multiple fissures that are emerging along the front of establishment debacles. I consider all this a major mission concluded even if people aren’t aware of the explosions and dawn has not yet revealed all the damage.
Trump winning against the establishment—and I consider Cruz part of the establishment—the church wielding branch—I see an open window for a reiteration of the American idea in much the way that Henry Morgan led the pirates of the Caribbean toward the first free establishment of a constitutional republic without the influence of a king. I’m not saying that it will be a moral quest, but it will get us where we want to go as a country among the world. The situation is complicated beyond measure, but ultimately the power of positive thinking will go a long way to getting us there. So enjoy the victory for those riding the Trump train. For those not yet there, see you when you arrive. It might take a while but I trust that you’ll arrive in your own way in your own time. And as for this site, this won’t be the last article. But they won’t come as often as my focus will be on more commercial material—because that’s what’s needed at this point in time. When the smoke clears—all this will make a lot more sense.
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