Author: Patrick

Short Bio: I started blogging about politics in 2006, as a populist, skeptical left of center type, with a blog called simply, "The Populist."I suspect, but cannot prove; that my blog might have been hacked by some evil neoconservatives. I cannot prove that at all and also too, around the same time. Hackers from China where attacking wordpress blogs. I believe either the Neocons or the Chinese got my site. I don't know honestly know which.Either way, by 2007, I began to see that I really did not fit within the Democrat Party and liberal circles and after my blog was hacked; I created a blog called "Political Byline" and I kept writing; first as a Centrist and then as a Conservative PopulistFor my long bio, see the "About Me" section on this blog.

Get out and VOTE!

ivoted — Get out and VOTE! Before the polls close.

My friends as you all know we are a constitutional republic and to protect that constitutional republic and not descend into a dictatorship; one right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States of America is the ability to vote.Now I understand some people are jaded and have attitudes and say the voting doesn’t matter let me tell you this nothing could be further from the truth.

The difference between the United States of America and other countries is that we settle our disagreements politically peacefully and that is at the ballot box without resorting to violence and insanity.

The anarchist’s want us to have anarchy in this country and this peaceful alternative is the best way. I ask everyone that follows me today; if there are local elections in your area. please stop what you’re doing and go vote because America needs your help.

My thoughts on the events in Texas

I’m sure that by now all of you have heard about what happened down in Texas.

Because of the fact that I happen to be a blogger, and do write about Politics, Freedom and Religion; I am going to offer my thoughts on this little event.

I’m all for freedom of speech the more the better I feel and personally I feel the answer to offensive freedom of speech is more freedom of speech to refute it. However, I will say this about one of the people who are involved in that event that happened down there in Texas where the shooting occurred —- Her name is Pamela Geller.

Pamela Geller is a Jewish conservative blogger from New York. Pamela Geller is also what some would refer to as an Agent Provocateur.

In other words, she is well-known for taunting Muslims and disrespecting their religion to garner a reaction from those of the radical Muslim sort. She does this so she can go back to her blog and say “see all of those Muslims? They want to murder people!”

Now, let me make this abundantly clear, I believe that no religion or race, color or creed or sex is above mocking or criticism. Furthermore, I believe that freedom of speech is a bedrock freedom that we enjoy in this country.

However, I believe that people like Pamela Geller who use the First Amendment in this country or the idea of freedom of speech to intentionally provoked those of the Islāmic faith to carry out acts of violence actually devalues our right to freedom of speech in this country and the protections of the First Amendment.

Having said that I believe that Pamela Geller should be most certainly charged with hate speech because of this event. So far, she has skated and not been charged of any such crimes because of her reliance on the First Amendment.

However, as we all know tonight there are two dead men in a parking lot and I truly believe that is because of Pamela Geller actions and personally as a Christian and as a Buchananite conservative; I believe Pamela Geller should be charged with hate speech because of the danger unnecessary placed on the police officers and the people at this event.

Pamela Geller unnecessarily put people’s lives at risk also she can have a little event that mocked Muhammad that my friends is not being a patriot that is being shameful.

It is for this reason that my blog does not link to her blog at all.

Her fight is not for freedom or even freedom of speech her whole thing is self promotion and her moronic attempt at self promotion caused two men to be shot and killed by the police and put a lot of people’s lives at risk, including the police officers who were trying to stop these two guys from killing people.

Again that’s not patriotism that is shameful in my humble opinion. 😡

Update: This is now a major story on Memeorandum

Mini-Movie: The frame job against Bashar al-Assad

This comes via Conservative-Headlines.com, and I know some people might not like it that I linked to these guys. Well, you know what? Tough! This video is a eye-opener; and I really do not even like Alex Jones for some very good reasons.

https://youtu.be/pqj4WzgnxDc

Just like Al-Qaeda, ISIS was created by the United States. Our biggest threat as Americans, is not terrorism; it is our own Government.

Why I am not blogging about Baltimore

I realize that some of you are most likely wondering, “Why is he not writing about the Baltimore situation?”

Because, quite frankly, I believe that is a total waste of time. Like I wrote about the local story here about the guy who got shot by the feds here, when they were trying to arrest him:

The man was armed with a hammer, he tried to attack a federal officer, and he got shot. Just another day in the big city. But, as you know, because he is black, as was the agent that shot him; because of the stuff happening everywhere now, the left and their media lap-dogs are going to exploit this, in hopes that there is another riot in Detroit.
Because that, is what marxists do. Marxists exploit stuff like this to disrupt the system. You watch and see, summer is coming and Detroit has a white mayor. You watch, another uprising is coming and the marxists will be in the middle of it.

Despite the fact that 3 of the officers involved in the situation in Baltimore were black, like here in Detroit where the fed agent was black, who shot the suspect — none of that matters. It is going to be portrayed as a evil white police force or in the case here in Detroit as a evil white Government killing blacks.

It is especially hazardous to one’s well being and livelihood, if you happen to be white and have an opinion that is not a part of the demented liberal socialist marxist politically correct stripe. Which is something Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Teana Walsh found out the hard way:

Days after posting her opinion on how to deal with protesters and looters in Baltimore, Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Teana Walsh resigned.
Walsh, 35, did not make public comments about her resignation. The resignation was sent to Prosecutor Kym Worthy Friday afternoon in response to push back for her Facebook post about shooting people in Baltimore.
Her post, from April 27, read in part “So I am watching the news in Baltimore and see large swarms of people throwing bricks, etc at police who are fleeing from their assaults … 15 in the hospital already.”
“Solution. Simple. Shoot em. Period. End of discussion. I don’t care what causes the protesters to turn violent…what the ‘they did it because’ reason is…no way is this acceptable. Flipping disgusting.”
Walsh, who was on maternity leave, was set to be disciplined for the post. Instead she voluntarily resigned.
“This afternoon Assistant Prosecutor Teana Walsh called Prosecutor Kym Worthy to announce that she is voluntarily resigning her position with the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office,” spokeswoman Maria Miller said in a release. “During her tenure in the office, Teana Walsh has been known for her great work ethic and her compassion for victims of crime and their families. Her post was up online briefly and she immediately took it down. The post was completely out of character for her and certainly does not reflect the person that we know.”
Worthy called the potential discipline an “internal matter,” and didn’t say what it would have been.
Activist group Progress Michigan released a statement about the incident calling into question all of Walsh’s work with the department.
“Kym Worthy must conduct a thorough review of Walsh’s conduct,” Lonnie Scott, executive director for Progress Michigan said in a release. “For an assistant county prosecutor to call for the summary execution of disenfranchised and angered citizens shows she has little regard for justice or due process.”
The organization claims it “holds public officials and government accountable,” in its mission statement.

Just so everyone knows Teana Walsh looks like this:

So, white people cannot have an opinion, that truly is a righteous opinion about what happened in Baltimore? It sure appears that way. But then again, that is what happens when you let Marxists rule the Country.

Update: Teana Walsh’s part of this story, is now a Memeorandum thread, with the usual left-wing suspects weighing in.

Customs and Immigration Officer shoots suspect in Detroit; Suspect had a hammer

Of course, you know, the left is going to play this one for all it is worth. Considering what’s happening elsewhere.

Detroit — The 20-year-old armed robbery suspect who was fatally shot by a federal agent on Monday was “armed with a hammer,” Detroit’s police chief said Tuesday.The shooting, on the city’s west side, angered residents who had to be placated by the city’s police chief.The Detroit Fugitive Apprehension Team, a task force that included officers from the Detroit Police Department, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Marshals, were serving an armed robbery warrant in the 9500 block of Evergreen at the time of the shooting around 1:13 p.m., Detroit Police Chief James Craig said.The officers were allowed into the home to conduct their search, Craig said.The incident comes at a time of heightened tension between police and black communities in some U.S. cities, spurring a national debate about race and police tactics.In the Detroit incident, the suspect was black, as was the federal agent who shot him.
Source: Federal officer shoots, kills Detroit man one east side

The man was armed with a hammer, he tried to attack a federal officer, and he got shot. Just another day in the big city. But, as you know, because he is black, as was the agent that shot him; because of the stuff happening everywhere now, the left and their media lap-dogs are going to exploit this, in hopes that there is another riot in Detroit.

Because that, is what marxists do. Marxists exploit stuff like this to disrupt the system. You watch and see, summer is coming and Detroit has a white mayor. You watch, another uprising is coming and the marxists will be in the middle of it.

Others –YMMV: ThinkProgress, Fusion, Detroit Free Press, Raw Story, ABC News and CBS Detroit

What’s wrong with Santorum? This

(H/T Hot Air)

The following reasons are why Rick Santorum is not working as a potential for the white house:

Santorum is what I like to call, “A Soft Statist.” When it comes to big business and business in general, he is all down with the federalists. However, when it comes to the libertarians he is totally against them and has made some very disparaging comments about them too.
Santorum is Catholic and the Middle America and the Midwestern states are not that trusting of the Papists like Santorum. It goes back to the protestant/catholic mistrust thing that goes back a very long time. I mean, there were them things called the inquisitions in which many of my Christian and Baptist forefathers were horrifically slaughtered by the Roman Catholic Church. Many people have not forgotten about that. It was big issue when Kennedy ran for President.
Populism – Santorums Sarah Palin style populism is just not going to play out those parts of the Country. As it says below, many of the people in that part of the Country are small business owners, farmers, and just plain folks who are simply not interested in hearing about how horrible some people have it.

Basically, Rick’s old hat. He ain’t got a prayer.

Rick Santorum was the returning champion at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition forum on Saturday. But inside Waukee, Iowa’s Point of Grace Church, it certainly didn’t feel like it.After his upset victory in the 2012 Iowa caucus – driven largely by the state’s powerful evangelical voting bloc – many expected the former Pennsylvania senator to be welcomed back with open arms. But compared to the other eight Republican candidates present at the Des Moines-area conference, Santorum’s speech fell strangely flat.The audience didn’t clap much, and when they did it was usually polite and perfunctory. Lines that felt like they were meant to be showstoppers were at times met with awkward silences.Part of that may have been due to his choice of subject matter. While speakers like Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal emphasized Christian credentials and Rand Paul and Scott Walker pushed muscular foreign policies, Santorum was selling a populist economic message that didn’t seem to land.He called the Republican Party’s supply-side, free trade message outdated and pushed for a minimum wage hike. “We’re keeping down the wages of American families,” he said. “We need to say we’re on the side of American workers.”Observers believe Santorum may be misreading his audience this time around. “It didn’t resonate,” said Dennis Goldford, a professor of politics at Des Moines’ Drake University. “Santorum sort of moved to that blue-collar conservatism, populist kind of approach . . . That’s not what will sell this particular crowd.”
Source: Santorum Falls Flat with Iowa Evangelicals, Despite 2012 Caucus Win | National Review Online

This is why I always verify before I hit publish

This is almost sad, I saw this and didn’t publish it.

This is why you verify everything. I guess ol’ neocon hindrocket didn’t think of that. What a freakin’ moron! 🙄

A Las Vegas man claims he started a false rumor that the injuries suffered by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid several months ago were the result of an attack by Reid’s brother, not an exercise accident.Larry Pfeifer, a 50-year-old former consultant in the nightclub and entertainment industry, said he fabricated the story after becoming appalled that right-wing political blogger John Hinderaker published a rumor that Reid’s injuries stemmed from an assault by a Mafia enforcer. Pfeifer said he pitched his fake story about the Reid brothers’ supposed fight to Hinderaker, author of the Power Line blog, to test whether the blogger would publish it, as well. When Hinderaker reported it and the rumor was subsequently spread by others in conservative media, Pfeifer says he began plotting to self-report it as a lie to show the lack of credibility and journalistic standards among partisan media figures.“It was just so outrageous,” he said. “The fact that someone can say something completely false that can destroy somebody’s life, it’s just wrong. Where’s the moral compass?”Source: The big lie: Las Vegan watches as his Reid tale takes off – Las Vegas Sun News

Comcast’s futile bid for media domination fails after gov’t pushback

This is some good news.

NEW YORK (AP) — What killed Comcast’s $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable? Regulators’ desire to protect the Internet video industry that is reshaping TV.A combination of the No. 1 and No. 2 U.S. cable companies would have put nearly 30 percent of TV and about 55 percent of broadband subscribers under one roof, along with NBCUniversal, giving the resulting behemoth unprecedented power over what Americans watch and download.Competitors, consumer groups, and politicians have criticized the deal, saying it would lead to higher prices and less choice.”The proposed merger would have posed an unacceptable risk to competition and innovation, including to the ability of online video providers to reach and serve consumers,” Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said in a written statement.The Justice Department said that Comcast dropped its bid because of regulators’ concerns that the Philadelphia-based cable giant would become an “unavoidable gatekeeper” for Internet services.One of the concerns consumer advocates and competitors had with the Comcast deal was that it could undermine the streaming video industry that is reshaping TV. Comcast could, for example, require onerous payments from new online-only video providers for connecting to its network. Dish, the satellite TV company behind the new Web video service Sling TV, and Netflix opposed the deal
Source: Associated Press

The part up there that I bolded and underlined is the reason why I glad to see that the Government stepped in. When you have one or two big companies controlling everything; that can deadly. It could also be used for partisan purposes, as in control.

Sawyer Sweeten of ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ dies at 19

This is some terribly bad news to report:

New York — Sawyer Sweeten, who played one of Ray Romano’s twin sons in the CBS comedy “Everybody Loves Raymond,” has died. He was 19.Sweeten committed suicide, his sister Madylin Sweeten, said in a statement. There were no other details. Madylin, and Sawyer’s twin brother Sullivan, all played the children in the sitcom’s fictional Barone family.The hit comedy aired for nine seasons before ending in 2005. Sawyer Sweeten was a toddler when the series began.In a statement Madylin, who is four years older than Sawyer, said the family was requesting privacy.“We beg of you to reach out to the ones that you love,” she said. “Let them have no doubt of what they mean to you.
Source: Sawyer Sweeten of ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ dies at 19

TMZ.com has the story too. 19 years old, such a young age. Something clearly was amuck. God Bless his family. 🙁

Democrat Police State in Wisconsin

If you are one of those people that believes that we are headed towards a police state; then I VERY HIGHLY recommend that you click this link here, to read an article by David French, who is a lawyer and does write for the National Review. The link will open in a new window, so, turn off your popup blocker, because sometimes that will keep a new window from opening.

Now, I do realize that National Review is a Republican Establishment publication, but this article here; is something that EVERY American should read; it shows just how dangerous that partisan Government and the use of law enforcement for partisan means, can really be.

I did not quite any of this article, because I think everyone should read this one. If you are not a partisan person; then you would most likely want to read this one. It spooks the heck out of me; and I used to vote democratic party. Go read it now.