How Should You Be Feeling Right Now?

Our friend, Matt Rooney of the Save Jersey blog has offered this wise observation in the wake of the horrific Las Vegas mass murder:

Yes, the world can be a scary place. 

Always has been, always will be. 

But if you look at the actual numbers (not just the manipulative headlines), 2016 was a record year for peace and prosperity around the globe. There's never been a better time to be alive. 

That doesn't mean ugly things won't continue to happen from time to time, of course, and there will always be politicians/yellow journalists to take advantage of the suffering for selfish reasons. 

What should matter most when the worst happens is (1) compassion and (2) perspective. 

Why? 

People are hurting; they don't need your virtue-signaling, poorly-informed sermon right now, AND because freedom is the catalyst of all human progress. 

If you allow scary things to deprive you of your liberty? The clock will turn back. Don't let it. 

We've come too far, folks.

Mull This One Over For Awhile . . . .

'God Lives In The Hearts Of Those Who Grieve'

Sometimes, It's All Just Plain IGNORANT!

Three NFL players kneel for U.S. national anthem, stand for British anthem during Saints-Dolphins London game.

Watch, Listen And Learn What's Happening!

Well, Just Think About This One For A Moment!

Great Point!
Get a clue, #NFL @NFL #NFLBoycott#NFLBurnNotice @dallascowboys
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— Lee Jackson (@Stonewall_77) September 29, 2017

Once Again, The Defiance Proves Disgusting!

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— San Francisco 49ers (@49ers) October 1, 2017

The San Francisco 49ers.
And the solid chorus of jeers can be heard loud and clear!

Just About As Splendid As It Can Be . . .

You won't find many areas as beautiful as this.

You won't find many that are quite as picturesque. 

You won't find many that are have such a pleasant year-round climate.

You certainly won't find many that are quite as dreamy as this -- absolutely!

We're talking about the area around El Paso de Robles, California, The name means "the path of the oaks" and here you will find not only glorious, gnarly oaks but also some of the finest vineyards and wineries anywhere in the United States.

Yes, Paso Robles has become the newest incarnation of wine country in the Golden State. It's not as crowded or as hectic or as self-conscious or as chi chi as Napa or Sanoma. This is the pure, ungentrified, natural, authentic product. It's unhurried, unblemished and unfussy.

You'll find lots of B&B's, small inns and even brand name lodgings in the area but, for the most part, they're scattered and unobtrusive. Plus, there's Monterey and Carmel just a bit north and Santa Barbara just a bit south. 

You can't go wrong with "Paso" as locals refer to it.

We highly recommend it and send along these scenes for your enjoyment!

Photos copyright 2017 by Dan Cirucci.

Yeah, This Is Why They Call It 'Deranged'

And now, this from a Facebook friend:

In case you didn't know what Trump Derangement Syndrome is ... Here it is!

The quick back story: Our wonderful First Lady, Melania Trump sent a beautiful basket of Dr. Seuss books to a local library for National Read a Book Day.

The librarian rudely went public and declined the books, saying they're racist.

Now, for the photographic evidence.

Here's the same Librarian (Liz Phipps Soeiro), who used to love Dr. Seuss; dressed head-to-toe as The Cat in The Hat, with props and all. Now, she has the opposite opinion regarding the exact same thing. Hence, Trump Derangement Syndrome. Dishonest and disgusting.

BTW: Notice her mean, hateful face now versus how happy she was in the not-too-distant past.

H/T 



HarryHurley

He Just Gets More And More Outrageous Every Day!

From our friends at Save jersey:

POSTED BY: MATT ROONEY SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

It's one thing to be "soft" on illegal immigration.

It’s another thing entirely to OPENLY declare, at a time when individuals in your own state have been victimized by illegal immigrants, that as governor you’d side with… the illegal immigrants.

That’s not spin, Save Jerseyans. That’s exactly what Phil Murphy (D-Goldman Sachs) said during this week’s online town hall sponsored by New Jersey media outlets, telling the Star-Ledger’s Leftist mouthpiece Tom Moran that “I’m not sure what the right point of with the right point of notification is” concerning reporting illegals to the feds, but “[m]y bias is going to be having their back.”

Seeing is believing:

–Click here if you don’t know the story of Jose Carranza. Do it.

Not that many of our politicians care. New Jersey (and many of its communities) are at the center of the so-called “sanctuary state” movement; Murphy had already said he’d take things one step further and found the first-ever in America, state-based “Office of Immigrant Protection.”

Here’s the transcript:

Tom Moran: I wanted to ask you about sanctuary cities. As I’m sure many of us remember that horrible day when four college kids were murdered in Newark were shot in the schoolyard execution-style. One of the people convicted of that murder, Jose Carranza was an undocumented immigrant from Peru. It turned out he had been arrested the year before for child rape and released on bail. Ann Milgram the Attorney General at the time issued a new directive that currently in New Jersey if you are arrested for a felony or drunk driving, our police are suppose to notify the federal government and immigration authorities. Many sanctuary cities won’t notify them until there is a conviction and drunk driving is or is not included. I wonder what you think about the current state of the laws is? Say it’s any felony or drunk driving and it’s at the point of arrest not the point of conviction?

Phil Murphy: I want to be honest I’ve got an answer I’m going to give it to you. This the first time I ever have been asked this question. I think context would be the field is so tilted against dreamers against newly arrived immigrant brothers and sisters. My bias is going to be having their back because there’s always going to be an example in any population of somebody who does something awful or whatever it is in this case and a heinous level and I’m not denying that but then we got to be careful not to extrapolate that and then throw a similar blanket over an entire a group of folks. So I feel like the field has been so tilted against these folks. I want to be the guy they feel like they can rely on. I have to think that through the point of notification one of the things we have said that we would establish immediately if this admittedly doesn’t get at this but it’s in the same neighborhood is an office of immigrant protection at the state level because one of the things going around the state admitted all this Muslim ban came up, I went to Newark Liberty and we had Cory Booker and I and a round table. The next one of the things you realize particularly depending on your status is you don’t know who to call or you here 10 different things and you’re not sure which one to believe. It’s so that’s one thing I wanted to say we want to basically clarify that to make sure there was one place probably more Legal Services than anything else where folks could get answers regardless of their status and without any recrimination. But on this one I like to come back to you. I’m not sure what the right point of with the right point of notification is this is, that we’ve got a whole group of folks here who were should have got the boot on their neck and it doesn’t feel right to me it’s unAmerican.