summer patriot, winter soldier

rose of sharon first blooms of the season .....

the big rose of sharon is showing its first blooms of the season, and the upstart is sporting copious buds.   we have had a very wet late winter and spring this little part of things, and the new growth has responded accordingly.

and, we are finally getting some warmth.  this is not something the flowers waste, and i've already had a bumper crop of lilies, tiger variety.   only the iris have been something of a disappointment, though those that showed were quite beautiful.

i watch all of this, and black lives matter and antifa and obama & soros take a back seat, and i haven't given nancy pelosi even a side long glance for about a week.   who cares when my little weed patch is resplendent in color?

the people who clamor for my attention and politic and whine for my loyalties can all take a long walk off a short pier.   except, of course, for "the donald."   he has received couple of donations, and will receive more as the summer rolls into fall.   joe biden?   well, he is not even a thistle in my scheme of things, more like a milk weed in need of water  ....   not even of enough significance to be an annoyance:  he counts for nothing.  he is nothing.

i've mowed the front, and cut a deal w/ a neighbor on the back yard.   china can take a fucking hike.   all is right in my world.

john jay @ 06.25.2020

p.s.   you know what is nice about the flowers?   i have done nothing to deserve them, really, only "neglect" describes my efforts at "cultivation."   the flowers have just chosen to be resplendent, and i've done nothing to deserve it.   nature provides, what she will, when she wants, and as she deigns.   china had best heed the message.

the trouble w/ boltons ....

"dirty" harry callahan said it best, when lecturing a perp he'd just ventilated a bit, "a man has got to know his limitations."

the trouble with boltons is that they know in their heart of hearts that they are smarter than everyone else, that to include everyone, and especially the persons they (nominally) work for, and (nominally) under.   they know that they are better qualified to be the boss, than the boss.

theirs is an insufferable arrogance in the long run.

now, as to the bolton "at hand," he knew that he was better qualified to be president that the mercurial donald j. trump, knew it as certain as the sun is to rise tomorrow.   he knew he was smarter, and knew more about politics, and especially international relations, than donald trump would ever know.   and, perhaps bolton was as right as he was sure of himself.

but, the one thing john bolton did not know was how to get elected president of the united states.   and, the one thing that he could not accommodate to his view of his reality, (and to his ego) was that donald trump did, and had.  bolton had tried, incessantly, but no one would listen to his erudite pleas to be elevated into rule.  in having the political acumen to be elected he was simply ignorant, ... , as ignorant as george will, as ignorant as cokie roberts and sam donaldson as a team, as ignorant as judy woodruff, and the little pipsqueak, george stephanopolis.  (who the hell cares how you spell it, and "them," for that matter.)   sometimes people simply understand eruditeness for what it is, and, nothing more, and nothing more in the person who speaks well: they view the suit that speaks well for being empty of other qualities handy in a politician, such as empathy and compassion, and a steady hand on the tiller.

bolton apparently did not view this as a limit on his power and his influence:  boltons never do.  they simply learn how to ignore the fact that they do not make decisions, nor implement them, they just give advice and should learn to be content with that.  after all, not every person has the ear to a president of the united states.  but, with this, bolton was not satisfied, and hungered to be more, and hungered to be recognized over the land as being more.

and, this was why bolton got canned.  simple as that.   simple as the fact that no hat will ever be big enough to encompass his head, and his view of his own greatness.  again, this is why bolton got canned.

this is why boltons always get canned.   and, this is why they whine about it, forever more.   incessantly.   ceaselessly.   as they are being lowered into the grave.   bolton will be whining about donald trump.   and, how he, bolton, was much smarter in all things presidential.

john jay @ 06.23.2020

the left's power grab .....

i see very little possibility of a peaceful resolution with the left of their naked power grab.   violence seems the likely resolution.

john jay @ 06.19.2020

you ever heard a pig being castrated?

sounds just like bolton.     

john jay @ 06.18.2020

time was, i respected john bolton .... that time has passed ....

there was a time when i respected john bolton, but that time has passed.   i cannot respect a man who hasn't even a rudimentary knowledge of chess, for you see, he does not understand the difference between the pawn and the king.

he joins a long line of persons who, thinking themselves smarter than their employer, cannot understand why the employer does not do as he advises.   like all people afflicted with arrogance, (and bolton is very arrogant), he thinks that he should be running the show.   and, like all such persons, he is consumed by envy and petulance that fate has decreed that he be subordinate to those to whom he thinks himself superior.

so, we have the "tell all."   from what i am given to understand, this doesn't amount to much.   but, this doesn't matter to me.   bolton pledged to serve his master, to keep his blabber-mouth shut, and agreed to fall on his sword in the service of his master if it came to that.  instead, he squeals like a baby.  ....  tough guy, my ass, he is a sissy.   in his final act, he throws a tantrum, a little hissy fit, and demands the one thing he cannot command with dignity, and that is public attention.   it will fade, quickly enough.

so, bolton reveals himself as the crybaby that he is, and so consigns himself to oblivion.  i for one will provide no comfort during his fade to obscurity by buying his exercise in blabbery, and footing the bill.  teal'c, that worthy warrior in "stargate 1," holds that it is good to die well in battle, to accept one's fate while fighting bravely to prevent it, but not to bring dishonor on one's self by dying poorly.  (squealing like a baby, as it were.)

bolton has not passed from the world of politics by dying well.   he brings dishonor upon himself, revealing himself as less than a proper warrior.   he could not accept his role, and his position, his lot in life, and now weeps piteously before a pandering press.   he does not, and perhaps never has with his inflated ego, understood the difference between the king who decides, and the fawning courtier who advises.

he is now pariah, worthy only of jimmy fallon and the like.

i have an autographed book, somewhere, authored and signed by bolton, bought at a cpac convention some years ago.   it is yours, if you pay for shipping.  the jackass's last bray. 

john jay @ 06.18.2020

black lives matter .... a matter of personal discipline, rectitude ....

it has always been that simple.

john jay @ 06.18.2020

changing the dismal statistics on the abortion of black children .... requires no burned buildiing ....

need i point out that american blacks could change the dismal statistics on black babies without burning down any black owned businesses, without rioting, and without the need for physical assault or murder?

just by using peaceable means, these horrific facts could be changed.   why haven't george soros and george soros put their considerable resources, in money and community organizing skills, towards altering this appalling situation.   well, i suppose maybe they'll get around to it, once they have installed themselves in power and maybe america into the first genuine socialist paradise.

read "concrete," or i suggest a little emma goldman, if you need to understand.  or, if you even care to understand.

john jay @ 06.16.2020

p.s.  and, if you need to understand solzhenitsyn's patriotism, understand that he was a soviet artilleryman through most of world war ii, before being tossed into the gulag.  you do know about the gulag, don't you?

the absolute, immutable truth .... about black deaths .... and, yes, they matter ....

the absolute immutable truth about homicides in which persons of color die, is that the two biggest killers are planned parenthood and black mothers.   more, by quantum leaps and bounds, than young black males killing other young black males by firearms, knives and blunt trauma instruments.

there are about 11 to 12,000 criminal gun homicides in this country every year***, year in and year out, and a very high percentage of them involve young black males.  and, an overwhelming number of their killers are other black males.  

so, say every year, 7 or 8,000 young black males are killed by other black males.

the number of black children who die every year by abortion in america makes that number look very small, by direct comparison:  the last time i had cause to look the, slightly more than 25% of black children conceived every year die by abortion, sought by their mothers.

each black person killed unlawfully by police officers is a matter of concern.  the number of black children who die each year by abortion is a horror story, a blood letting of unimaginable magnitude.   yet the left says nothing about, or that margaret sanger saw abortion as a way to "ethnically cleanse" white america of blacks.

you question these assertions?  you challenge them?   then i suggest that you get off your dead ass and refute them.--  that is what the comment section is for.  but, understand, if you do, you will have to refute statistics on these matters compiled by the f.b.i. (published every year, compiled from stats generated by the states), and facts on "birth control."  i look forward to hearing from you.

john jay @ 06.16.2020

*** and, this pales again, in comparison with deaths caused by medical malpractice.   each year in this country, well over 100,000 people die from what is delicately called "medical misadventure."  (in other words, doctor and hospital foul ups.)  since black comprise a significant proportion of the populace, i assume, that blacks number a fair number of the victims of medical malpractice.

you can look this up, too, if you doubt it.  go ahead.  if i am wrong, or wrong headed in your estimation, i'd like to hear about it.

seattle mayor jenny durkin is an absolute idiot .... she's nuttier than joe biden ....

seattle mayor jenny durkin calls the antifa occupation of the capital hill neighborhood "a block party."   this after arson, looting, and running the seattle police department out of a neighborhood station.

armed antifa have set up roadblocks in and out of the "capital hill autonomous zone," and issued demands to the seattle government.  by all accounts, life is not cordial in capital hill.   and, durkin says of this, that maybe there will be a "summer of love" just like in san francisco.

jay inslee.  jenny durkin.  what kind of idiots elect these kinds of idiots.   it is kind of mind boggling, in its own little way. 

john jay @ 06.12.2020

p.s.   the seattle times newspaper says nothing.  friends, buy guns, and lots & lots of ammo.   don't surrender them.

p.s.s.  the dimmo's are in cahoots with all this.   if you don't recognize this whole thing as loosing the "red guards" on our populace, you just aren't processing very well.   mao would be proud of the dimmo's, and george soros.

"jay inslee" is what happens, when ....

"jay inslee" is what happens when a politician is motivated to run for office because of personal ambition rather than service to a set of ideals and beliefs, and service to the public.

he doesn't know what to do, because he doesn't have any idea of what it is he wants to do, or is supposed to do, nor does he have any idea what ideas he serves.  he is as a man in a stupor, frozen to decide, because he has no idea why it is he is supposed to decide anything, other than election.

it is not as if the emperor has no clothes, it is simply that the suit of clothes are empty of a man serving his beliefs, other than ambition.  there is no man, in the man.

john jay @ 06.12.2020