Buon Natale–Childhood Christmas Memories and my Father

Dad’s life was hard from the start.  My Grandfather—Baltazar Bolado, I—was killed in the line of duty when Dad was just ten years old.  Having to learn quickly, my father—the oldest in the family—helped Grandma raise my uncles.

Providing for the family became priority.  Working long, hard hours became a norm early on in his life, and my father did not avoid his obligations.

By the time his own family came along, my father was accustomed to hard work.

Although life left him scarred, my father’s childlike spirit never died.  To his last breath, he lived to the fullest and provided his children with the same energy.

I can remember when I was a kid, how Dad always made Christmas such a big event.

Dad was a big kid.  Because he never truly had a childhood, he lived childhood through us, his children.

To get an idea what Christmas was like for me as a kid, think the super bowl.

The super bowl has taken on a life of its own in our culture.  At times, the activities surrounding the super bowl are bigger and better than the actual game.

That’s the way Christmas was for me growing up as a child.  The only difference was that the events leading up to Christmas and the actual day of Christmas were equal in quality, perfectly balanced between the anticipation and the experience of it.

Dad was great—he’d even leave the cookie crumbs and a few drinks of the milk so I could imagine Santa having a snack after dropping off my gifts.

Every kid should have a Dad like mine.

Every Christmas should be like the ones I experienced as a kid.

Merry Christmas, Dad.

I bet you have great Christmas mornings in heaven.

Give Mrs. Santa Claus a kiss and hug for me.

 

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Committee of Eleven—The Electoral College and Why the Founders Created It

Athenian Democracy developed around the fifth century BC in Athens.

Direct democracy—pure democracy—is evil.

The Greeks determined this 4, 500 years ago.

The wisdom of the Electoral College is to vote the will of all the People of the United States of America.

All of the states of the Republic.

It is not necessary for our Republic to forget an ancient lesson because certain rich actors can’t except that their candidate lost.

The Hollywood elites claim that they are in support of the Constitution and are urging the electors to switch their vote and go against the will of the US Voters who elected Trump to be their president.

So now they care about our Constitution?  Now—when it conveniences them—they proclaim the wise words of the Founders.

Where in the hell have they been for the past eight years?

Where was their great love for our Republic’s Constitution when this president was desecrating our Constitution through his two terms?

They say that Trump’s unqualified.

Oh, really?

And what magnificent qualifications did their president for the past eight years have?

He had none.

He waltzed right into our highest office, not only absent of any suitable requirement for the office of president, but he gained his victories through the practice and use of highly questionable and illegal methods.

From utilizing agencies such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), and through various other loathsome groups, this president used cloaked concepts, such as “making the voting process easier” and made use of one of the most repulsive instruments ever created to support the ominous practice of illegal immigration—the “matricula consular.”

Of a certainty, the methods the leftists used to get their president (re)elected in 2008 and 2012 were far-reaching and all-encompassing.  Nevertheless, their candidate won.

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And what exactly did these Hollywood elites say or do about such an unqualified, devious individual winning the White House?

They uttered not a word.

In 2008 and 2012—because their candidate won—they gave not one damn about our sacred Constitution.

And, upon each attack on our Constitution, by their illegal, unqualified president, they sat in silent adoration as he shaped the United States into a weak, pathetic, lawless country, bathed in racial tensions and possessed with an affinity toward racist organizations who condone violence against police.

Regarding pure democracy Plato wrote: Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Essentially, the definition of democracy is 2 wolves and 1 lamb voting on what to have for dinner.

Armed with such a succinct assessment of the evils of democracy, the Founders of our Republic developed a system that regards the popular vote with the detest it deserves.

The Founders developed and voted into the heart of our Republic a system to protect the People from democracy’s evils.  As Madison declares: it could not be less folly to abolish Liberty.

However, we can eradicate democracy.

The electoral College is not to “vote your conscious” as these Hollywood malefactors are suggesting, thereby voting against the will of the People.

Rather, it is exactly to ensure that the will of the People is obeyed.

Madison judiciously explicates: The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States.

The vote of the Electors is to protect our Republic from having elections stolen from the People’s will.

The will of the People is not the popular vote—a democratic tool that can be easily manipulated, even more in our modern world than in the ancient world of the Athenians.

The wisdom of the Electoral College is to regard the popular vote of the Republic (Athenian Democracy) as mob rule—which is not the will of the People.

The wisdom of the Electoral College is to vote the will of all the People of the United States of America.

All of the states of the Republic.

This is what makes the duty of the Elector consecrated into the fabric of our beloved Republic.

It is your duty as an Elector to vote the “conscious” of your state’s People.

It is possible that the pure democracy vote of each individual state can be deceived and compromised by an extraordinary tyrant or cabal—the very possibility that the Founders feared and guarded against the most— but it is far more difficult for such a tyrant or cabal to do so across the entire Republic.

The People of your states have voted.

The Republic—as a whole—has elected Donald Trump to be our president.

It is your righteous duty to uphold the will of the People of your state.

Publius

 

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Return to Jamestown—We Must Return to our Cultural Origins if Our Republic is to Survive

I am a voice in support of the Republic of the United States of America.

I declare my adoration and loyalty to Liberty and inspire the objective of the United States’ Citizens to pursue happiness.

I am concerned about the state of our country.  I believe that our beloved Republic has lost its way.

Many times in our history our country has been threatened.  We—the Citizens of the Republic—have always saved it from extinction.

Today, our Republic is faced with great threats.  Out of control debt, that will reach $21 trillion within the next few months, our inability and refusal to secure our borders, and the lack of integrity in our politics—to name a few.

A responsible US Citizen has only to take a look at the Debt Clock in real time to see we cannot continue in the direction we are going.

An imagination of Jamestown saddens me.  Then arouses me in my soul.

It leaves me feeling inadequate.

Confronting the immensity of the Atlantic Ocean, thereafter to land on a strange world in the spring of the year, with the memory of the “Lost Colony” still fresh on their minds, the 100 members of the Virginia Company dared to institute ruthless laws to survive the harshness of winter and the feral beast.

James Forte—built in a triangle around a stockroom for weaponries and other provisions, a church, and a number of houses—provided little sustenance in the first years after their 1607 landing.

The brutal weather and cruel environment led to many dying of starvation and disease.

Drastic measures were needed.

The following year, Captain John Smith enacted a “no work, no food,” law.

The edict led to broader covenants which called for stronger, tougher, stricter leadership.  Until, ultimately, the colony introduced military law, imposing harsh punishment to those who refused to comply.

Jamestown survived due to the courage of the early Patriots to accept tough leadership and because of the resilience within their hearts to preserve the idea of Liberty and autonomy, even to the point of death.

Jamestown continued to exist throughout the century and into the next, ceasing to exist as a town in the mid 1700s.  But it left behind legacies expressed in the Constitution of today’s United States.

While many today believe that Liberty and tough leadership are not compatible, quite the contrary, they are much aligned with each other.

If our Republic is to survive through the present day “starving time” it will require the same mindset, character, and tenacious spirit displayed by the Patriots who endured the trials and sufferings at Jamestown.

While I am not endorsing that tough leadership reach the level of John Smith’s “no work, no food” law, I am saying that if we don’t balance our budget, we will lose our ability to pay our debts.

Sovereign default is not a pretty picture.

Ask Greece.

Poverty is not a picnic.

Ask India, South America, and Africa, or any of the other countries who fall into its pit.

Our country is strong—we will not fall into such an ugly hole.

However, we will lose some of our economic might and influence.

Our posterity will be negotiated, perhaps even forfeited.

We need a John Smith, or a Jane Smith—I care not which.

There’s only one way—one message—that can address the most pressing issues facing our Republic.

Donald Trump is not the right messenger, nor the perfect president.

However—at this time—his message is the tough leadership our country must have if it is to endure.

 

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