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Perhaps it’s because I spend six to eight hours, Monday through Friday, writing news commentary, that I’m having a hard time coming up with non-political material to write about for the weekends. After all, not everyone eats, sleeps and craps politics like I do and  you need something different to read from time to time.

For the past several weeks my ‘inspiration well’ has been dry. Oh, I know that there is something deep down at the bottom – my bucket jus’ doesn’t seem to reach it at the moment.

Worse yet is my so-called obsessive-compulsive disorder. I nearly freak out as bad at the thought of a day going by without a post to my blog as I do when I sit for an hour or more and find the page before me completely blank.

It’s not like getting up and checking  five, 10, 20 or 40 times every evening to see if the doors are really locked, nor is it the same as washing ones’ hands over and over all day, until they’re raw and chaffed. But it’s pretty damned close.

And so far they’ve yet to develop a medicine to cure this writer, who’s so uptight at times that seeing the abbreviation O-C-D, drives him nuts. I think it’s some sort of sick joke shrinks love to play on their patients.

They know good-and-well the effing letters are alphabetically out-of-order!

It came as a hollow crash from someplace in the far-end of the house. I had been half-asleep and thought perhaps someone had pushed in our locked front door.

As I got up, I grabbed my flash light and unsheathed my K-BAR knife. But by the time I got to the hallway, my wife Mary had turned on the overhead light and loudly questioned, “What the hell was that?”

As I started down the hall towards the noise, our housemate popped her head out of her room and said in a loud whisper, “It sounded like it came from the front door.”

As quick as possible, I scanned the living room area for intruders, settling my flashlight’s beam on the front door. I found nothing, so I turned on the living room lights.

That’s when I discovered the source of the noise – out American flag, which leans in the corner behind the front door had fallen on the floor. It struck me odd that it would have fallen across the doorway instead of sliding down the wall before falling over.

After picking it up, tightly wrapping the flag around the pole, I propped it back into position against and slightly behind our Nevada state flag. By this time both Mary and Ka had returned to bed and headed down the hallway, turning all the lights off behind me.

As I slipped back between the sheets, I couldn’t help but wonder why it fell over like it did. It was mechanically incorrect and yet it had happened.

I was suddenly jarred fully wake as this thought slipped into my mind, “Did we jus’ get a sign about America’s future?”

The thought remained tangled in my dreams throughout the night and morning. I woke up feeling very tired and decided to go look at the flag and pole in the early morning sunshine.

This closer inspection brought about a new discovery: the screw holding the top corner rivet to the pole had broken. The head snapped off cleanly from the screw, allowing the flag’s eyelet to stay snagged on it.

I knew then that it was a sign to be taken seriously – not only is America about to fall, it’s going to do so because like “a fish that rots from the head down,” so is the Obama administration, from the top down.

Recently, Donald Trump’s been accused of ‘attacking’ McCain, by claiming, “He’s not a war hero. He is a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

Trumps comment came after McCain claimed in a New Yorker article that Trump, “…fired up the crazies,” during a rally the GOP presidential candidate attended in McCain’s home state of Arizona. Conveniently though, many have forgotten how John McCain’s ‘war hero’ status has been misused over the years by those seeking to further their Progressive careers.

In his 2004 book, “Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them,” current Senator Al Franken describes a 1999 speech he gave to the White House News Photographers Association where he claims to have said the same thing as Trump.

“Hey, I like John McCain. And I really think he’s courageous. I mean, his stance on campaign finance reform and tobacco. Wow. That takes guts. But this whole ‘war hero’ thing — I don’t get it. I mean, as far as I’m concerned, he sat out the war. I mean, anyone can get captured! Am I wrong, but isn’t the idea to capture the other guy?”

Jump forward to an August 3, 2008 post in the’ DailyKos:’ “It’s time to take a good look at John McCain’s time in the Navy. My case is that McCain is not a hero at all, but an accidental bumbler with bad luck.”

Then there’s an April 10, 2008 post from the website ‘Jim Marrs:’ “I have never in my long life seen propaganda as blatant and untrue as the ceaseless barrage of lies proclaiming John McCain as a hero. Nothing could be farther from the truth.”

Finally, there’s the July 2008 ‘Democratic Underground’ post: “Of all the b——t in which McCain’s candidacy is grounded, none’s more offensive to me than the “war hero” crap. Actually, offensive doesn’t begin to capture it. Insane is more the word.”

Not only did future Senators and bloggers question McCain’s ‘hero’ status, so did then-presidential candidate and retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark, who said, “Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.”

Clark also tossed his hat into the 2004 presidential race, where his rival, then-Senator John Kerry’s top national security adviser Rand Beers claimed that because McCain was in “isolation” during much of the Vietnam war, his national security experience is “sadly limited.”

Beers added that McCain’s limitations are reflected in “some of the ways he thinks about the ways in which US forces might be committed to conflicts around the world.”

Progressives only defend McCain when they can use him to further their agenda.

There are two secretive side-deals to the nuclear agreement with Iran that the Obama administration won’t be sharing with the U.S. people, our Congress or other nations.

One of them concerns inspection of Parchin Military Base, where Iran’s conducted several testing related to nuclear-warhead development. The other concerns how the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran will resolve issues on the regimes possible military use of nuclear materiels.

Neither of he the deal will be overseen by any organization other than Iran and the IAEA. It also means the two deals won’t be disclosed to Congress despite the requirements of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, requiring the Obama administration to provide Congress with all documents, including all “annexes, appendices, codicils, side agreements, implementing materials, documents, and guidance, technical, or other understandings and any related agreements, whether entered into or implemented prior to the agreement or to be entered into or implemented in the future.”

It also means neither the Obama administration nor Congress will have a way of knowing whether Iran is complying with these ‘hidden’ agreements.

In July, Obama told the New York Time’s “You know, I have a lot of differences with Ronald Reagan, but where I completely admire him was his recognition that if you were able to verify an agreements that you would negotiate with the evil empire that was hellbent on our destruction and was a far greater existential threat to us than Iran will ever be.”

Obama’s nuclear treaty with Iran doesn’t even come close to being verifiable and worse, he didn’t even try to win the release of four Americans being held prisoner in Iran. However he did release a top Iranian scientist, arrested in California while attempting to acquire equipment for Iran’s military-nuclear programs, as part of the same flawed deal.

History confirms that Obama is no Ronald Reagan as trumpeted by the headline of the New York Times on January 21, 1981, “Reagan Takes Oath As 40th President; Promises an ‘Era of Renewal,’ followed by “Minutes Later, 52 Hostages in Iran Fly to Freedom after 444 Day Ordeal.”

The Center for Medical Progress has released a second undercover video of a top doctor for Planned Parenthood haggling over the sale price of body parts from aborted babies. It comes a week after the release of a video showing Dr. Deborah Nucatola, the Senior Director, Medical Services at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, negotiating the price of selling baby body parts.

Shot in February at a restaurant in Pasadena, California, the video shows Dr. Mary Gatter, President of Planned Parenthood’s Medical Director’s Council discussing the price of ‘intact tissue.’

“Well, you know in negotiations the person who throws out the figure first is at a loss, right? So…” she said before finally giving a price of $75. When the actors portraying interested buyers say the price seems low she responds by saying “I was going to say $50.”

Eventually the “buyers” offer $100 which Gatter quickly accepts. However, by the lunch’s end, Gatter suggests $100 is not enough and concludes, “Let me just figure out what others are getting, and if this is in the ballpark, then it’s fine, if it’s still low, then we can bump it up. I want a Lamborghini.”

Meanwhile, Dr. Willie Parker, a Mississippi abortionist and former medical director for Planned Parenthood, is attacking the first “sting video” showing a Planned Parenthood Senior Director talking about trafficking aborted baby parts. Using what he claims is a “Christian perspective,” Parker compared Nucatola to Jesus.

“I’m thinking about a strong parallel between what’s happening to my colleague and the trial week of Jesus before he was crucified,” Parker began. “As he was marched from place to place, asked to answer allegations about, ‘You say you’re the King of the Jews. What do you say?’”

He added, “Many narratives said that Jesus simply did not respond.”

“As hard as it must be for my very spirited colleague who is very bright and who is very ethical and who is very noble to have to say nothing and have to defer to the organization that she works for to speak on her behalf,” he defended, “even if she could speak, I think the best thing for her to do is say nothing.”

For all of his so-called ‘Christian perspective,’ Parker never once mentioned the babies.

President Obama has bypassed both the U.S. Congress and our Constitution again, this time by submitting his Iran-U.S. deal to the United Nations Security Council before letting U.S. lawmakers review it. Of course, the anti-Israeli, anti-U.S. body approved the deal, 15 to zip.

“This is by far our strongest approach to insuring that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon,” Obama said. “There is broad international consensus around this issue — not just among the international community, but also among experts in nuclear proliferation.”

It’s obvious that Obama has learned from the past and has set about finding ways to avoid the failures of previous administrations. And he had help from Progressives in the Republican Party.

For example, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol; though President Bill Clinton signed the treaty, it was never ratified, defeated by Congress, 95-0. The protocols were found to contain language that would have severely damaged the U.S. economy.

When Congress passed the “Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA,)” and Obama signed it into law in May, it was understood that Congress would have the final say. However, Obama exploited ‘a known flaw’ in the law, which states that the Act only applies to “statutory sanctions,” meaning those passed by Congress.

Proposed by Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee and co-sponsored by and South Carolina senator and current GOP presidential candidate Lindsey Graham, the INARA lowered the threshold for passing the agreement. So, instead of requiring a two-thirds majority for approval in the Senate, the Iran deal would now need a simple majority for approval in both houses, and a two-thirds majority to reject the deal by overriding the president’s veto.

Congress would have 60 days to act once the deal was submitted by the President and if within that period, if both houses of Congress failed to enact a resolution of disapproval, the agreement would become legally binding, meaning that the sanctions Iran is living under would be lifted. So, given how the INARA is structured, it’s impossible that any Congressional override will succeed.

History also provides this lesson: In 1997, Clinton made an arms deal with North Korea without referring it to Congress, announcing at the time, “this is a good deal for the United States,” claiming North Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program.” By 2005, North Korea had the bomb.

Obama’s deal with Iran is so bad, both Israel and the Saudi’s are standing together to oppose it – and that’s saying something about how topsy-turvy our world’s become.

Last weeks deadly assault on two military recruiting facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is but another in an alarming number of terror attacks in the U.S. committed by radicalized Muslims since September 11, 2001. In May of this year, two Muslim men opened fire outside of a “Draw Muhammad” art exhibit at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, before being killed by a police officer at the scene.

In December 2014, the NYPD found itself targeted when a Muslim man who attended a mosque linked to terrorism and anti-police activity — murdered two officers in “retaliation” for the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Two months earlier, four New York City police officers were attacked in broad daylight by a Muslim man armed with a hatchet, by a man known for frequenting ISIS/ISIL propaganda websites.

A Moore, Oklahoma woman was beheaded in Later September 2014 by a man who had converted to Islam. He was in the process of beheading another woman when an armed bystander shot and wounded him.

A Muslim man shot to death two men in Seattle and a man in New Jersey in April 2014, as “vengeance” for U.S. actions in the Mideast. The month prior, a man who had converted to Islam beat his lesbian daughter to death and shot her lover in Port Bolivar, Texas.

In August 2013, a Muslim convert went to a store on a “mission from Allah to help people” before he fatally stabbed a store employee 17 times. In April of the same year, the Boston Marathon went from a peaceful family event to a horror show as two Muslim brothers detonated two pressure cooker bombs killing three people.

Less than two weeks before that terror attack, a Muslim man walked into an Ashtabula, Ohio, church and fatally shot his father following an Easter service. And in February 2013, a Muslim man shot two Coptic Christians to death and beheaded them in Buena Vista, New Jersey.

A Muslim man gunned down a Christian convert who had widely denounced Islam in January 2012. He also killed his Christian son-in-law after his daughter married him without permission.

On September 11, 2011, three Jewish men were discovered in Waltham, Massachusetts, nearly decapitated. Authorities believed believe the Boston Marathon bombers may have been responsible for the triple homicide, though no charges have ever been filed.

In April 2011, a Muslim man shot his step-daughter in the head at point-blank range in Warren, Michigan, after she refused to strictly adhere to Muslim customs. A year later, a Muslim convert became angry that his family would not convert to Islam – and shot his mother, pregnant wife, infant son and two nieces in Marquette Park, Illinois.

In November 2009, a Muslim, parading as an Army Major opened fire on soldiers stationed at Fort Hood in Texas, killing 13 people and wounding more than 30 bystanders in an attack described by the Obama administration as “workplace violence.” Six-months later, a similar incident occurred when a Muslim man killed a U.S. soldier and wounded another in a drive-by attack on a recruiting office in Little Rock, Arkansas.

A Muslim man beheaded his estranged wife in February 2009, after she filed for divorce. Her body was found at the TV station he managed. Two months later, another Muslim man shot and killed his brother-in-law and another man after learning that they had patronized a strip club in Phoenix, Arizona.

A Muslim graduate student stabbed his non-Muslim Islamic studies professor to death in December 2009, to avenge “persecuted” Muslims. The month before, a Muslim man hit his daughter with his car, killing her because she had become “too Westernized.”

In July 2008, a Muslim man strangled his 25-year-old daughter in Jonesboro, Georgia, after she said she wanted out of an arranged marriage. Seven month earlier, on New Years Day, a Muslim man shot and killed his two daughters in Irving, Texas, because they were dating non-Muslim boys.

Two years prior in July, a Muslim Pakistani man shot six women, killing one, at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building in Seattle, Washington. A month earlier a Muslim convert shot four co-workers, killing one, as well as a police officer at a Denver, Colorado, super market.

A Jewish man, who had gone to the movies, was shot and killed by a Muslim gunman in June 2006, because he was the ‘first available Infidel’ available. In April 2004, a Muslim man killed his wife by bludgeoning her on the head with a hammer and attacked his daughters with a knife, because he believed they’d been “sullied” by a gynecological exam.

A Jewish man was left to die by his Muslim doctor in early December 2003, and between February 2002 and October 2002, two snipers, both Muslim converts, killed 21 people in shooting spree that stretched from coast to coast. Finally, 19 Muslim men hijacked four planes in a coordinated attack on September 11, 2001 — killing 2,992 people, the majority being U.S. citizens.

This list doesn’t count the number of failed attacks made against American citizens, such as 2010’s ‘Times Square Bomber,’ or the 2003 “Brooklyn Bridge Plot.’ Nor does it take count foreign attacks like Benghazi, where four American’s died or the 2003 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia suicide bomb that killed 34, including eight Americans.

Too bad the U.S. government refuses to admit these are ‘terror attacks,’ or that there’s such a thing as a ‘radicalized Muslim.’

“Can’t wait anymore,” U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Skip Wells said in a text message.

He was texting with his girlfriend Caroline Dove, excited that she had booked a flight to visit him in Chattanooga after being months apart.

“Yes you can honey,” she responded.

His next two words “ACTIVE SHOOTER.”

She thought he was kidding, replying, “You are so weird.”

Then silence.

A few hours later, she sent another: “Hon, I need you to answer me please.”

Her message remains unanswered.

Late at night I sit up into the early morning hours.
The lights are off and I sit in darkness.
Quietly, I listen for the sounds not heard.

My father did the same and I would wonder “Why?”
The glow from the cherry of his cigarette fills my memory.
Dad’s breath heavy as he exhaled.
His sadness, loneliness, disappointments, each palpable.
Disconcerting for me at the time.

Now I sit in darkness, but I don’t ask “Why?”
There is no answer I’ve learned.
My sadness, loneliness, disappointments — palpable.
It’s very disconcerting.

I can’t help but wonder if can you feel it?

It’s very telling when America’s first and only Black president’s greeted by people waving the Confederate flag, a supposed symbol of racism in the U.S. The flags were on display as President Barack Obama arrived in Oklahoma City for an overnight stay.

Andrew Duncomb, who calls himself the “Black rebel,” organized the Confederate flag demonstration. He also put together a similar protest at the Oklahoma State Capitol — a day after South Carolina removed its contested flag from the State Capitol grounds.

Obama praised the lowering of the Confederate flag in South Carolina earlier this month when he tweeted, “South Carolina taking down the confederate flag – a signal of good will and healing, and a meaningful step towards a better future.”

Obama also challenged those who defend the flag as a symbol of their Southern heritage saying, “For many, black and white, that flag was a reminder of systemic oppression and racial subjugation,” he said. “We see that now.”

Before his arrival in OKC, a group of Confederate flag supporters were out in force near Durant. The group was visible from the interstate as they flew several Confederate flags from their trucks and vehicles.

“We’re not gonna stand down from our heritage. You know, this flag’s not racist. And I know a lot of people think it is, but it’s really not,” said Trey Johnson, who drove three hours from Texas to join the protest. “It’s just a southern thing, that’s it.”

Oklahoma state Democratic representative Emily Virgin tweeted her disappointment with the flag display, “I am so embarrassed about what I just saw on the local news. Waving the confederate flag at the first African-American president. Good lord.”

Then she tried to change the subject, tweeting five-minutes later: “That whole ‘attracting jobs to OKC” thing is a little harder when the president is greeted at his hotel by the confederate flag.”

Evidently, Virgin had no idea that Obama was in town to visit El Reno Federal Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison for male offenders near Oklahoma City, not to talk about jobs. She should’ve known this since Obama killed the Keystone Pipeline deal that would’ve brought hundred’s of jobs to her state.

Of course, most Americans know that Obama is long past worrying about jobs or our economy. After all, with only few months left in office, he still has to fulfill his biggest promise to Progressive voters — and that’s “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

What Obama and his ilk do not understand about the American people’s sense of self is we’re rebels not only in spirit, but in action. Don’t believe it? Go ask Great Britain.