The Biden Administration recently announced they were forming a new department within the Justice Department.  A “Pre-Crime Investigation Bureau”.  The goal of this new agency is to identify, investigate and monitor individuals and groups who might engage in activities that would threaten the tenure of those in power. 

A sort of Americanized version of the KGB or other “Secret Police” type internal “Spy Network”.  North Korea, eat your heart out.  In this way they can target and eliminate individuals and groups that don’t agree with their Utopian Progressive Movement before those individuals or groups can act.

They will be “making a list and checking it twice” to make sure you and I don’t wobble from the official government dogma.

For example:  Were you ever a Donald Trump supporter?  You just made the list.  Were you now or ever a neighbor of a Donald Trump supporter? Bingo!  Were you ever at a Trump Rally?  Gotcha!  

Ever been to one of those Pro-Second Amendment Rally’s?   Home run, move to the top of the list.   

Are you a supporter of requiring voters to provide identification at the polling booth?  That will make you an instant target of investigation.

Are you one of those that believe “Critical Race Theory” should not be “force fed” to our children, is divisive and in fact a textbook definition of Racism in and of itself?  Expect a visit from a “Pre-Crime SWAT Team”.

If you are suspected of any of the above, or numerous other Anti-Progressive – dare I say Marxist – violations of the ruling Party’s ideology, you can expect a very thorough “anal” examination of your life and movements. 

Remember, “Big Brother” has their spy’s, cameras and microphones everywhere, including in your home.  Is that really just a regular mirror or is there  a camera or spy behind it?  Is there a microphone in that flower pot?  Is that a Sparrow on the window sill or one of those new drones?  Had a feud with relative or neighbor who just might share one of your “sins” with some “friendly” government agent or agency?

You see, now you no longer need to commit a crime to be investigated or prosecuted.  Government plans to “nip it in the bud” by taking you out while its still in the Pre-Crime state.  You may not have committed that crime but “Big Brother” knows you will commit a crime,  you just don’t know it yet.

Of course the Biden Administration is only doing all this for your own good.

Feel better now?  Maybe you might want to share this good news with a neighbor or friend. 

Or, you or they can just Google:  Biden Pre-Crime 

Wait!  Is that a Bull-horn I hear out front?

Bob Bandy – June 2021

I wrote the following/below post some eight years ago during a particularly low period in the Obama Administration.  Skyrocketing National Debt, very high unemployment, Corporate America and jobs fleeing the country, and Administration statements like “This is the new normal” and “Manufacturing jobs will not be coming back to America”.  At the time I felt almost hopeless.  Incompetency had won and the future was bleak.

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EVER WONDER WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO “YOUR” WORLD?

In some ways I feel a little like Rip Van Winkle awakening from a long sleep wondering where I am and what has happened to the happy and ordered world I grew up in.

It seems to me that our lives are now ruled by a consortium of Clowns, Criminals and Lunatics.

A  journey through a looking glass into a world where the Lords of Darkness have stolen power and are creating a society where no good deed will go unpunished.

If the United States were the Milky Way Galaxy, then Washington D.C. would be the gravitational heart of that galaxy.

At the heart of  the Milky Way Galaxy there resides a Super-Massive Black Hole.  In space lingo a Black Hole is the collapsed heart of a large star that has compressed into a point where gravity is so intense that everything, including other stars and star stuff,  is sucked in and nothing of any recognized value, not even light, can escape.

Washington D.C. is like that.  A place where our tax dollars get sucked in and nothing of any value can possibly escape.

You know why?  Its because the Clowns, Criminals and Lunatics are busy stirring a big cauldron to turn our tax dollars into a system of Food  Stamps and Flat Screen TV’s to keep the masses complacent.

The Romans first introduced the concept of Bread and Circuses to keep the rabble quiet and content.  The Dark Lords in Washington have only copied them.

What?  Did you expect something creative and original to come out of Washington D.C. ?  Have you forgotten this is the place where 98% of our political leaders give the rest a bad name?

(Bob Bandy – Feb. 2013)

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As Yogi Berra reportedly said “It’s Like Deja Vu All Over Again”

I find myself re-visiting what I wrote “back then”. 

Living in a surreal world with an empty suit “President” totally under the control of a Pelosi-Schumer Crime syndicate, who are in turn directed by a shadowy “Star Chamber” of “Deep State” far left “Progressive Marxist’s” bent on the destruction of our way of life, our Constitution and our Rights under the Constitution.  All under the false flag of Social Justice. 

I firmly believe all of these folks have achieved the current state of affairs as the result of, in my opinion, a very skillfully orchestrated, and expertly executed, Coup d’etat fraudulent election, almost assuredly with the help of an unfriendly foreign power.  I am not alone in this opinion.

So what can we do?  We can peacefully, legally, persistently and loudly “Push Back” at every opportunity.  For example we do not have to allow our children to be indoctrinated with Marxist ideas in our schools. 

Always keeping in mind the so-called “Progressive’s” are going to do everything in their power to shut us up and shut down any opposition to their schemes. 

Just something to think about and consider as a call to action before the America most of us love is gone forever.

Bob Bandy – May 2021

John Carpenters

Escape from New York (1981) IMDb

photo: Google

I am reprinting the following article because what it has to say is important.  Like many others I believe there are those who would take us down a path to destruction as a nation.  One that we have grown up in and many have fought and died to sustain.  These folks may be well meaning but they are engineering a national, and perhaps international disaster.  What follows is excerpted from the beginning of the article.

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The Following is Reprinted from:

Converge Media

WOKEISM – THE NEW RELIGION OF THE WEST

There is a new religion. It is moving like a tidal wave through every facet of western culture, shaping and redefining society as it goes. This religion masquerades under the guise of compassion and justice, but underneath is an evil ideology that is incompatible with western values and incongruent with the Christian worldview. This movement did not start in Minneapolis on May 25th, when George Floyd was murdered. That event acted as a watershed moment for an ideology that has been growing for decades. If left unchecked, this new religion could lead to a complete unravelling of western culture.

There are many names for what we currently find ourselves in; wokeness, political correctness, and cancel culture are some of them, but these only encapsulate a portion of the phenomenon. Cultural Marxism, neo-marxism, social justice, identity politics, and Critical Theory are broader descriptors. We would like to use a term that adequately captures the religiosity of the movement: wokeism.

Wokeism is a religion. Although it has not been organized into any formal religious structure, it has all the functions of religious doctrine. It has a unique epistemology (theory of knowledge), an evaluation of the human condition, and a redemption narrative. But from where did it come?

Critical Theory

In the early 20th century, a German school of philosophy called the Frankfurt School developed a social philosophy called Critical Theory. In a nutshell, Critical Theory critiques culture and challenges the underlying power structures of society. It is a movement to “liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them,” reinterpreting western culture as a story of the oppressor vs. oppressed. In Critical Theory, the only things that exist are hierarchies of power, and those hierarchies must be torn down. The goal of this movement, whether stated or not, is nothing less than the complete dismantling and rebuilding of western culture from the ground up.

Critical Theory started to become prominent among western academics in the 90s and eventually infiltrated almost every university in the western world. In recent years, the ideology has left the university and has made the jump to media and corporate culture, establishing itself as the primary moral culture within western societies. Currently, the main lines of separation between oppressors and oppressed are race, sex and gender identity.

This is not just a political or social movement within the framework of traditional enlightenment values. Concepts such as logic, science, and reason are viewed as tools of the oppressive white patriarchy. Values like individualism, hard work, punctuality and delayed gratification would be understood as perpetuating white supremacy. Critical Theory has become much more than a social philosophy and is the primary philosophical driving force behind the new civil religion of wokeism.

The goal of this movement, whether stated or not, is nothing less than the complete dismantling and rebuilding of western culture from the ground up.

The New Religion

Why call wokeism a new religion? The fact is that the rise of secular humanism over the past 70 years created a religion-shaped hole in our culture. Secularism, for all of its cultural dominance, failed to offer a robust philosophy of meaning and purpose, nor did it provide any moral framework for how to act within the world besides “be a good person because the alternative is undesirable for everyone.” Alternatively, wokeism has developed its view of reality with its own set of values and narratives. From the ashes of secular humanism, a new civil religion rises.

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To read the article in its entirety just google:

Wokeism the New Religion of the West

Bob Bandy – April 2021

One of my biggest gripes with Government (Federal and State) is that they make a habit of telling us lies.  They treat us like we are stupid.  Unfortunately, there is a sad percentage of the voters that swallow the lies and give Government good reason to believe they are right in their assumption.

Example: Our governments tell us they are going to pay for all their “programs”  by “taxing the rich” and by taxing “wealthy corporations”.

FACT:  It is true right now that some 90% of all Income Taxes are paid by a very small percentage of upper wage earners and the “rich”.  Approximately 50% of voters pay no Income Tax at all.  It is also a fact that if the government were to tax all the “rich” at 100% of their income it would not fund government for more than a couple of months.  After that Government could not go “back for more” because government already took it all (100%).  Folks who make that kind of money are not going to continue doing so if you take it all in taxes.  They aren’t stupid.

FACT:  Corporations don’t pay taxes.  Their customers do.  If you raise taxes on corporations, they pass the tax increase on to the customer in higher prices.  They have to or else go out of business.  Lots of folks like to cry out against high corporate management salaries but they are a very small percentage of the corporate overhead and if you want to succeed as a corporation you must attract the best management talent. I am often amused that the same folks who scream about corporate management salaries do not scream equally loudly about multi-million dollar salaries paid to athletes and entertainers.

Back in February of 2019 I wrote an article titled Little Red Hen Oil Company. (You can read the article – just type Little Red Hen in the article Search box and click “enter”).

In this article I documented that at the time of writing the Federal Government was taxing the consumer at 18.4 cents on every gallon of gasoline purchased and California State Government was taxing the consumer at 58.3 cents a gallon.  Oil company profits averaged about 7 cents a gallon, and that 7 cents a gallon profit was subject to Corporate Taxes by the Federal and State Government.  Keep in mind working taxpayers, including the working poor are the ones who pay these gasoline taxes.   I will let you decide who is the greedy party here.

For purposes of todays article I will use the following example.

Example:  Proctor & Gamble manufactures many products used in our homes.  Proctor & Gamble wholesales their products to their customer, Walmart.  Both of these companies are Corporations.  When Government raises taxes on these Corporations, in this example Proctor & Gamble, the companies wholesale price goes up and the price increase is passed on to Walmart.  Since Walmart is a corporation they also must pay an increased Corporate tax and must raise prices on products they sell to their customers.  A lot of Walmart’s customers are average working folks, including the working poor.  So, these folks end up paying the “hidden” corporate tax instituted by the government to punish the “greedy” Corporations.  Think about that for a minute.  Government just taxed you by proxy.

We consumers get upset with Walmart or Safeway or Shell Oil because the products they provide and we need go up in price and we think they are greedy and should be punished when they are really only acting as Tax Collectors for Government.

All this would be more palatable if Government was a good Steward of all this Tax Revenue created but they are not.  A very large percentage of this money ends up in the pockets of corrupt officials or their friends and relatives on padded Government payrolls.

It is just another way that Governments uses hidden taxes on “Joe Six-pack” and the “Working Poor” who are struggling to pay the bills and feed families.

This two-faced charade is repeated throughout our economy as Governments at all levels squeezes companies, individuals and business for taxes, fees, licenses, permits and all manner of “protection money”.  All the while these self-serving politicians, many of whom have never worked at a real job a day in their lives or tried to make a payroll, blame Job Creators and Corporations for being “greedy”.

Remember the Politicians Creed

“If God had not wanted them shorn, He would not have made them sheep.”          Bandit Calvera – The Magnificent Seven – 1960

Bob Bandy – March 2021

Washington D.C.

“YOU WILL NEVER FIND A MORE WRETCHED HIVE OF SCUM AND VILLAINY”

Obi-Wan Kenobi at Mos Eisley Spaceport

(1977 Star Wars IV)

Watching Star Wars IV with my wife the other night for the umpteenth time, I was again amused at Obi-Wan Kenobi’s comment to Luke Skywalker on their arrival at the Mos Eisley Spaceport.  Obviously Obi-Wan never visited Washington D.C..

Sometimes it is better to find humor and satire than it is to become despondent.

At this time our Nations Capitol is surrounded by a metal fence topped with razor wire and several thousand armed troops.

This leads to the question:  Are the troops there to keep the residents in or to keep we citizens out?

If it is to keep the residents confined in, then I applaud the action and would suggest we even add to this population inmates now occupying other jails and prison facilities from around the country.  I am sure all these folks would feel right at home and extend “Professional Courtesy” to one another since they share the same moral standards. The thieves, perjurers, scoundrels, snitches and riff-raff from the nations jails should find comfort and acceptance with the assortment of clowns, criminals, lunatics and riff-raff  who inhabit Congress.  A sort of mutual admiration society and win-win situation.

If the goal of the fencing and the troops is to keep “us” out,  one would have to wonder why?  Is there something they don’t want us to see?

Remember the Cantina scene in Star Wars IV?

Could this be our Congress at work?

Could that be Nancy Pelosi center stage behind the podium?

Just think of the opportunity of having the whole “Washington Cartel” of corrupt and morally bankrupt politicians “corralled” behind wire and troops in one place with the exits sealed.  Add to that the joy of them rubbing elbows with their “own kind” from jails and prisons around the country.  Something to dream about.

On a more serious note.

Right now, today, Congress seems bent on taking away rights guaranteed by the constitution – Free Speech for example. 

At this time, today, we still have the Right Guaranteed in the First and Fourteenth Amendment to Freedom of Association.

There are two types of freedom of association: the right to expressive association and the right to intimate association.

Additionally, the First Amendment protects a right to associate and a right not to associate together.

In “Country Boy English” this means I have the right to associate with those individuals, groups, businesses and organizations I want to associate with and equally important I have the right  to Not associate with individuals, groups, businesses and organizations I choose not to associate with for any reason I choose.

I look for Congress and various groups to try to reduce or eliminate this Right of Association but am hopeful any such effort by them might be one that would be hard to police and enforce.  For myself, I am prepared to take a stand on this Right of Association no matter the cost.

In the process of living in the current hostile environment coming out of our Nations Capitol, and sadly many States Capitols, I am encouraged by the lessons taught in that Classic Film:  Fiddler on the Roof.  The goal is to keep your faith and endure, all the while enjoying life to the fullest extent possible in a challenging environment.

Bob Bandy – March 2021

I have squandered my resistance for a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises,  all lies and jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.                Paul Simon – The Boxer 1969