The Great Sphinx Photoshop: Latest Refinement (#Sphinx, #Photoshop)

I have regularly been refining, rethinking and retouching my 2013 Photoshop of the Great Sphinx of Egypt. When new information came to light, I would incorporate that into my Photoshop. My latest improvement was to make the nose larger and closer to that of Khafra, the Pharaoh who probably built it, 4500 years ago. This was per the suggestion of a reader. (More specifically, she said the nose was too slim and European before, and so I used Khafra's nose to fix it.) Here's the latest result.

Strange Things Are Happening: Merkel the Urkel of Europe. Ended Western Civilization. "Did I Do That?"

"Strange things are happening" -- that's an old meme from the days of Red Buttons, singer and comedic actor, from the black and white television days of the 1950s.

Indeed, the things that are happening today are so strange that I can only conclude that the downfall of western civilization is near.  Either that or I have fallen into a large hole and descended into Wonderland.  The Mad Hatter has Obama's face, but Angela Merkel is his guest of honor.

Take the colossal ass, German Chancellor Angela Merkel.  She is allowing into Germany a million or more savage, barbaric Muslims, who hate their hosts, and who are now engaging in massive rape of German girls and women, all the while depleting the free social services paid for by the German people.  There's no telling when Muslim mass murder will begin in Germany, but it won't be long.  Count on it.  I think it is safe to say that, even while the scimitar is slicing through her neck, Merkel will be appealing to the public for "tolerance" and "diversity."

Angela Merkel is insane.  Note to Germans:  depose this beotch at your earliest opportunity.  Take back your country, by any means necessary.  Then eject the savage barbarians en masse.

The Left-Right Political Dispute Began 240 Years Ago

I am reading a book titled Abraham Lincoln:  The Southern View, by Lochlainn Seabrook.  The author describes the antagonistic political factions in America, from the end of the American Revolution until today.  What he says makes modern political struggles understandable.

The two political factions are simply these:  the centralizers vs decentralizers, the Federalists vs the Anti-Federalists, strong central government vs weak central government.

The centralizers want a federal government that dictates to the states.  The decentralizers want a federal government that takes its orders from the states.  Early centralizers include Alexander Hamilton and his followers, and decentralizers were Thomas Jefferson and followers.

The Hamiltonians wanted a central bank of the United States, and bigger federal government financed by trade tariffs and excise taxes.  The Jeffersonians opposed a strong federal government, opposed a central bank and supported low taxes and tariffs.

The Hamiltonians became the National Republicans, then the Whigs, and then the Republican Party.  Note:  the early Republican Party was a party of big government and big taxes.

The Jeffersonians became the Democratic Party.  However, what modern people fail to realize is that these early Democrats were Jeffersonian Democrats, who supported small government, low taxes and an agricultural society.

In modern times, the Republican Party moved right and supported Jeffersonian ideas, and the Democratic Party moved left, supporting Hamiltonian ideas.  The two parties did indeed switch sides, though modern gun-boat, Lincoln-loving Republicans vainly deny it.

In present times, the Democratic Party has moved even further left, and are now more socialist or fascist in their leanings.  The Republican Party has also moved left, all but abandoning its base of Jeffersonian conservatives, and now seeks to attract new constituents by adopting leftist ideas.

Has Jefferson lost the argument after 240 years?  Not as far as real conservatives are concerned.  However, we Jeffersonians are largely out of office.  How to retake the political initiative is the question.

Let's Hear It For the Militias!

Kirk Lyons, Southern Legal Resource Center

I have been advocating for the organization of militias for some time.  The reason is simple:  Obama and other leftists have been exceeding their constitutional authority at an increasing pace.  We are in danger of serious degradation of our rights under the First and Second Amendments.  Recently, Democrats in Congress have been making noise about suppressing opinions that are critical of Muslims and their murderous ideology, all while bringing in thousands more of them.  Obama is attacking gun rights through executive orders.  Further, many of us halfway expect the police to show up at our doors at any moment, demanding that we hand over our guns.

This past week a group of militia members took over a federal facility in Oregon, to protest illegal federal "ownership" of state lands, and to protest the re-internment of two farmers who were sent to prison for starting a burn-off on their own land that inadvertently spread to federal lands (so-called). After serving their sentences, a federal judge decided that they had not served enough time, and ordered them returned to prison.

The Kansas City Star has an article on the latest militia-federales standoff, calling the militia members "anti-government extremists," and quoting the laughable, discredited Southern Poverty Law Center to the effect that it's all connected to white supremacists.

The Star's article mentions a FaceBook friend of mine, Kirk Lyons, lawyer, Confederate activist and head of the Southern Legal Resource Center (of which I am a member).  I was chatting with Kirk just last week, about his collection of 19th century photographs -- tintypes, ambrotypes, daguerrotypes, etc.  Liberals hate Lyons with extreme ferocity, as he sues people and institutions that discriminate against people flying the Confederate flag.  However, some years back, Kirk Lyons defused a similar militia-federal standoff by negotiating the surrender of the militia members, the Montana Freemen.  There is talk that he may be used again to negotiate with the Oregon militia members.

Maybe it's just me, but the militia members don't seem like "extremists" to me.  The federal government does, however.

Happy New Year Y'all

I'm ready for the New Year, 2016.

New Year's Eve is a time to take stock.  What did I accomplish in 2015?

• Well, I had cataract surgery on both eyes and my eyesight is now the best it has ever been in my lifetime,  I can now drive at night without killing myself.  And, it's nice to see the world in high definition.
• My bass playing improved substantially, and playing jazz has become comprehensible, and not the mystery it was only one year ago.  I plan to continue my mastery of bass.  That will be my biggest goal for the new year.  
• I increased my knowledge of taxation (and my disgust with our tax system grew right along with it) and my knowledge of Lacerte tax software, the most popular program for tax accountants, which makes me more marketable for seasonal tax work.
• I read some good books on the War for Southern Independence, and armed myself with great facts for refuting Yankees and other purveyors of the Northern Myth.  I have two more books on the way, and will no doubt spend New Year's Day reading one of them.

And that's about it.

We are having friends over this evening to eat goodies and drink bubbly stuff and have conversations and watch the ball drop on television, welcoming in the new year.  It should be mildly fun.

Here's hoping you have a great New Year's Eve and a happy 2016.

Barack Obama's Last Year In Office -- My Thoughts

Tomorrow begins Barack Obama's last year in office.  Thank God.  He surely qualifies as one of the most damaging and destructive presidents in U.S. history.  Some folks say that 2016 will be "the end of an error," and that Obama's presidency was "One Big Ass Mistake America, O.B.A.M.A."  Yes, they are right.

It is scary and surprising that American freedom is so fragile and precarious, so easily swept away by cultural fads like electing the "first African-American President," without giving much weight, if any, to his philosophical underpinnings, his lack of experience and wisdom, his radical ideology.  As a president, Barack Obama has been a disaster, doubling the national debt, weakening the military, damaging the economy with his foolish health care plan (which doubled the cost of health care while reducing the coverage for most Americans), his opposition to domestic energy production, his naive moral and other support for Islam, his flooding the country with third world immigrants, thus increasing crime and welfare dependency but increasing the voting base for the Democratic Party, which was his main objective all along.

In 2016, Obama will do his best to further his leftist goals, including more wealth redistribution schemes, using taxes from productive citizens to buy the votes of the non-productive, import more low-skilled immigrants from Mexico and the Middle East, regardless of the economic cost for the former and the terrorism danger from the latter.  The Republican Party has become a joke, and will not seriously oppose Obama's policies.

One more year.  Let us survive it with as little damage as possible, until January 2017, when we will finally be rid of this incompetent, radical ideologue, and perhaps finally able to begin repairing the damage and destruction that his presidency has wrought.

Pamela Geller Named "Woman of the Year" by World Net Daily (#PamelaGeller)

Pamela Geller is the WND "Woman of the Year."  Donald Trump was named "Man of the Year."  I like both choices.

That's Pamela below, sunning in Florida with a poka-dot bikini.  She's definitely all woman.

Another One Bites the Dust: Paris Terror Mastermind Killed (#ISIS #Islam #Terror)

Another Muslim low-life has been removed from the Earth.  Charaffe al Mouadan, who was tied to the recent Paris terrorist attack, has been killed by a military airstrike.

Sweet dreams, scumbag.

Ain't Sharia Law Wonderful? (#Islam #Sharia)

Sharia is the brutal, backwards and barbaric law that governs Muslim nations.  Muslims are dedicated to spreading Sharia everywhere in the world.

Islam is the vile religion that is responsible.

Here are some examples of Sharia from Indonesia.  Note the woman being caned in public for getting too close to a man to whom she is not married.

Recently, the Party of Treason, the Democrats, have taken steps to criminalize criticism of this violent, anti-human ideology.

WE ARE ALL MUSLIM (#Photoshop)

Photo:  In 2004, over 300 school children were murdered by Muslims in Beslan, Russia, for no particular reason -- except that the children were not Muslims.  In December 2015, Michael Moore, leftwing pro-Muslim spokesman, carried a sign in New York claiming that "We are all Muslim."

No, we are not.  Thank God.

I extracted Moore's image from a news photo, holding his sign, and put it into this 2004 photo of the Beslan dead.