From July 24, 2015 - Dave is on a television show called "Blood Relatives" about a murder here in the Central Valley of California. It was an... interesting experience... It was also a completely factually accurate show.

But... it's also a tv show...

The SHOW NOTES

The Show Notes

The SHOW NOTES

The Show Notes

The two Candidates have been selected. In keeping with the traditions of the day, their followers and friends hit the campaign trail on their behalf. Both sides have their platforms and both sides engage in the typical political mudslinging that we all know and love.

But there is an added undercurrent. The  Bourbon Democrats have made it abundantly clear that they have zero commitment to protecting the rights of all Americans, just the white ones that will vote for them. As for the others, well...

But things aren't going to go smoothly and those three recalcitrant unreconstructed States throw a monkey into the wrench.  Now nobody is clear on who won, because Democrat Samuel Tilden has 51% of the popular vote, but that is not how we elect a President. Republicans control the three State Executives and Legislatures, and they aren't about to allow the intimidation and suppression of voters that has been rampant to allow Tilden to win.

The Bourbon Democrats are screaming bloody murder and in that vein, the make it clear that everybody had better decide that their man won or else. Tilden or Blood!

And it's just the beginning.

[A] new consensus has emerged in the press… that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else. – Bari Weiss

Remember when scientific truth wasn’t just ignored or laughed at, but instead, we threw a bunch of leading scientists and philosophers and thinkers into prisons? Or just burned them at the stake for their heretical ideas. The basic reason wasn’t that the science or the thinking or the ideas themselves was “bad,” it was that it “explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture.”

History doesn’t really repeat itself per se, but it does rhyme. How is what is happening in the nation today any different from the inquisitions into Galileo and others?

Answer: It’s not.

I saw Greyhound, the new Tom Hanks World War II story of the Battle of the Atlantic, yesterday. I would rate it as a 10. Without giving too much away, it is a fictionalized story – an amalgamation, as it were, of the experiences repeated thousands of times over from 1939 to 1945. it is a story, but it is based in reality and that story is one that is chilling, inspiring, scary, and thrilling.

But it is a story of a simpler time. When the enemy was obvious when good and evil didn’t need to be redefined and micromanaged to fit some political agenda. There was no gray area.

Even today, there is good, and there is evil. There are times when being un-friended or hated no longer matters. It has to be pointed out that calling something good, doesn’t make it so. Particularly when it has always been evil.