Drifting Fate

Hello, Since it's been awhile since I posted, I figure I owe my faithful readers a recap of recent events.  To both of you.  Well, OK, just you.  Alright, fine, I'm teaching the dog how to use the computer. Impeachment went about as expected.  I run hot and cold.  Part of me says the Republican Party should have shut this down hard when it hit the Senate and promised anyone coloring outside the lines not only no funding but the exercise of every power within their grasp to crush those who didn't toe the line.  Yes, the show of force would have been that important. The other side of me recognizes that the longer the charade went on the greater the likelihood of Trump being ousted (all hail President Pence!), but it would have put on full public display the likes of Biden, Obama, Hillary, and the likelihood for the coup they attempted.  It is that serious and I can't help but feel Washington, DC, closed ranks and chose the lesser of the evils in te...

I'm seeing a fair amount of backlash regarding the commentary about the 1/20/20 VA rally, in general.  Not my comments, my readership can be counted on two hands... ok, one hand, but about comments in general.  So, let me make a few points.... "You weren't there, so you don't have a right to say anything."  Wrong.  That's a specious argument.  While some things come down to arm chair quarterbacking to be certain, this is a hackneyed defense when the offended really has nothing of substance to say.  This sort of stance negates all study of history, any oversight of any action of any organization, and is just plain foolishness.  It sounds almost right because it plucks on the heartstrings of empathy, and, yes, empathy is required, but, it's always required at some level. "Sure you would have committed egregious acts of violence if you had been there."  This is more of a retort than a real response to any specific commentary I've seen.  The ...

Yesterday, 1/20/20, was the large pro-2A rally in Virginia. What was accomplished?  That’s a question that already makes people uncomfortable. On the surface, it showed how peaceful and orderly the Right is. Take over 20,000 armed and angry people, mix them together and the result isn’t a single accidental shooting or even one minor arrest. That alone should speak to the quality of people concerned. Add to that nary a spec of litter (a widely circulated picture even shows multiple attendees scraping stickers off the road), and one would have expected worse from the Lutheran Women’s Club. But civic responsibility wasn’t the goal, was it? Between the breathless anticipation by the MSM of violence (there wasn’t so much as a twisted ankle reported) and “ominous chanting” (it was the Pledge of Allegiance), what did the Democrats around the Country see as opposition to a tyrannical power grab? Paper tigers. How you can have that much pent up frustration and anger in one place...

It is the morning of 1/20/20, MLK Day, and while the huge Shooting, Hunting, & Outdoors Trade show (SHOT) is going on in Las Vegas, thousands of civil rights and pro-gun advocates are gathering in Richmond, VA to protest the actions of Michael Bloomberg's bought and paid for politicians. The question is this another Tea Party movement, apparently born strong but to quickly die on the vine due to Conservative's natural reluctance to form a cohesive whole ("just leave me alone"), or is this our Lexington? When one looks at how all three branches of government have been stacked against the continuing effectiveness of the US Constitution, this may be too little, too late, no matter how peaceful or violent things get. Many people on the Right say the Constitution has failed and that's why we are here.  I would counter with the idea that it's not we whom the Constitution failed, but that we failed the Constitution.  We have what we need right there for the...