When
I was a kid around eight or nine years old, there was a popular song
out called "Don't fence me in." The first line of that, or the chorus, I
can't recall which, said "Give me land, lotsa land under starry skies
above. Don't fence me in." At that point in my life I hadn't traveled
all that much and so the idea of the song appealed to me. It still does
except that, at my age, I've done most of the traveling I'm likely to
do, but I still have the memories and a batch of old photos and I do
enjoy both. As a kid I always wanted to go west. When I was 21 years old
I finally got to go and once I started I kept going until I couldn't go
anymore.
It's
a good thing I got to go when I did, in those pre-Obama years when the
West was still relatively open, because our soon-to-be-f0rmer Marxist
president seems hell bent on shutting down as much Western land as he
can so ordinary folks can't get to use it or even see it except from a
distance.
It
would seem that he has eagerly embraced the old Marxist concept of
private property being some sort of sin and he'd like to redistribute as
much of the property in the West to "the people" (meaning his kind of
people and no one else) as he can before he is forced to leave the White
House, even though his bosses will force him to remain in Washington as
part of their agenda to destabilize a Trump presidency.
Greenland is blowing away all records for ice growth this winter, having
received nearly double the normal amount of snowfall. They have
received almost 80% of their normal snowfall less than halfway through
the winter season.
The “Kate’s
Law” bill has been introduced into the 115th Congress, giving lawmakers
another run at legislation that would impose a mandatory minimum
five-year prison term on illegal immigrants who re-enter the U.S. after
being deported.
The legislation is named for 32-year-old Kate Steinle,
who was shot and killed allegedly by a previously deported illegal
immigrant felon in San Francisco. The House passed the bill last year
but it died in a filibuster by Senate Democrats.
The bill was introduced again this week in the House by Rep. Steve King and in the Senate by Sen. Ted Cruz.
The conclusion I reached regarding my heading for this brief article
has more than been borne out in recent days. Usually when a sitting
president hands over the reins of power to his successor the custom has
been for him to quietly withdraw and go do something else, write his
memoirs or dedicate his memorial library, or whatever “something else”
might be.
But that is not to be the case with our current Marxist president. He
has already informed us that he “isn’t going anywhere” but will stay in
Washington to keep his finger on the pulse of current events.
Which
means he is going to be second guessing everything that Trump does, and
he realizes that a compliant and prostituted “news” media will daily
report his running commentary about how poorly Trump is doing things to
the public. So Trump will be fighting on two fronts at all times.
Chancellor Angela Merkel
has said there is no legal limit to the number of asylum seekers Germany
will take in, with at least 800,000 expected this year alone.
President-elect Donald Trump
on Friday called for lawmakers to investigate U.S. intelligence leaks
to NBC about information on Russian interference in the presidential
election.
“I am asking the chairs of the House and
Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with
NBC prior to me seeing it,” Trump tweeted Friday.
Law Enforcement officials are stating that in November 2016 Esteban
Santiago walked into an FBI office in Anchorage claiming that he was
being forced to fight for ISIS. He was sent to a psychiatric hospital.
From CBS Miami:
Law enforcement
said he was found with an active military ID and is an American
citizen, born in New Jersey. Previous known addresses include Penuelas,
Puerto Rico and Anchorage, Alaska.
They add that in November 2016, he walked into an FBI office in
Anchorage claiming that he was being forced to fight for ISIS. He was
sent to a psychiatric hospital.
In 2011 or 2012, he was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations for child
porn. Three weapons and a computer were seized, but there was not
enough evidence to prosecute, according to law enforcement sources.
