Bump's Stump

RAY . . . I DON'T KNOW QUITE WHAT TO MAKE OF THIS. A LONG TIME AGO I WROTE A COMMENT "PETER ARNETT VISITS THE GEEZERS". I DON'T KNOW WHEN THIS ARRIVED?  OR WHO SENT IT? I THINK I WILL TRY TO FIND OUT. DIXON Hi everyone. Since last writing a request to contact Peter Arnett in 2011, I have come a long way in producing a theatrical documentary about his life called 'Words of War'. A number of people contacted me from this forum and I thank you. I've already filmed with Peter in his homeland of New Zealand and right now I'm raising some funds to get over to China where he is teaching journalism. This is the 1st main stage of the project as I want to film with him in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and the USA also. For anyone interested in the film or those can contribute or know of those within your own networks who could give me boost I need to get to China they can go to a crowd-funding site that is taking donations right now (60 days): S...

Whoa! I WITHDREW THIS GRAPHIC  because I found it was not even close to being accurate. Sorry if it miss-led you....... The  Obama Administration, specifically Harry Reid, pulled another dirty "behind the back" political deal yesterday. For over a hundred years house votes required 60% approval. Not any more. . . Reid changed the rule. Now majority rules. When Republicans wanted to appoint a new member of the Supreme Court, they also tried to change this rule. The Democrats fought it tooth and nail. They told everyone that if the rule was changed to 51% the entire government would self-distruct.  Interesting. Now that we have Ultra-Liberal Democrats in control - they have changed their mind. Now it's okay?  Yesterday sneaky Harry Reid greased the rule through when no body was looking. It's the only way Mr. Obama's Ultra- Liberal Judge appointments  can pass through the Congress.   The sad problems is that the new rule applies...

In my neighborhood many residents put out a flag today.  They flew on poles, trees, and anywhere else that was suitable. My friends remembered, at least on this day, that soldiers died to protect our way of life. The flag reminds us that wars are terrible, terrible scourge and most people now condemn war. It's no longer thought to be a reasonable way to resolve differences. History has detyermined that war a natural extension of diplomacy, but it's not "natural" at all. It's is the result of failed philosophies and religions. "The American flag does not fly alone in the wind,   I t flies  with the memory of each soldier's last breath." Let's not be so quick to "accept" that warfare is the ONLY way for a government to protect it's citizens and advance it's interests.  Let's find a better way to resolve problems. Memorial day is set aside to remind us of the human cost of war. We should ever remember the allied dead an...

Thomas Sowell has written: "The real danger to us all is when government not only exercises the powers that we have voted to give it, but exercises additional powers that we have never voted to give it."  When Obama Administration's Attorney General started to keep track of phone calls going to Fox News Channel  reporter James Rosen (and his  parents), and to other reporters or networks that dared to criticize the Obama Adsministration, it directly opposed the Constitution. It was illegal, and they damn well knew it.   When the Internal Revenue Service started demanding to know specifically who was donating to conservative organizations that had applied for tax exempt status, it clearly expected to intimidate those donors and others who oppose the Obama Administration's political agenda. Someone once said;  "A government that is powerful enough to protect it's citizens against it's enemies is also powerful enough to become an enemy itself...

We have a long history of fences. Every nation does.  Lines are drawn around our family,  property next,  city, state, and finally the entire nation. The tendency to draw lines apparently goes all the way back to the creation of man.  History indicates that man has always fought over his "lines".  Isn't this an elementary history of most wars ?  Recently, several scientists   invented a weapon that would win all wars, the Atomic bomb. An unwanted side effect is that man now may have  enough power to blow the earth right out of orbit.  It was, I suppose, inevitable that the atomic bomb technology would spread. There are now a dozen nations, some quite unstable, that have the atomic technology.   The good guys, led by the citizens of the United States,  have a right to be worried, very worried because we are not the most stable and reliable nation any more. We regularly elect and appoint politicians whose only interests are le...

About Mychal Massie Mychal S. Massie is the former National Chairman of the conservative black think tank, Project 21-The National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives; and a member of its’ parent think tank, the National Center for Public Policy Research. In his official capacity with this free market public policy think tank he has spoken at the U.S. Capitol, CPAC, participated in numerous press conferences on Capitol Hill, the National Press Club and has testified concerning property rights pursuant to the “Endangered Species Act” before the Chairman of the House Committee on Resources. He has been a keynote speaker at colleges and universities nationwide, at Tea Party Rallies, at rallies supporting our troops and conservative presidents; and rally’s supporting conservative causes across the country. He is an unapologetic supporter of our right to own and carry firearms BEST SUMMATION OF BARACK AND MICHELLE EVER! Mychal Massie is a respected writer and talk show ho...

"A Nation At Risk" An essay by this name was written in 1983. Unfortunately, I've forgotten who wrote it. It accurately described what was then happening in our nation's K-12 schools and went on to predict the inevitable result. 30 years have now gone by. The essay has proven to be 99% correct. Since 1983 Americas' K-12 educational system has steadily declined. All those years of special committees, study groups, self described experts, political and union interferences, and etc. - all have failed.  Still, we continue to insist on the same programs and policies. Make sense to you? In 1960 the system was quite different. Teachers began classes at 8:00 a.m. and school ended about 3:30 p.m. They dressed professionally. Men@Suit & Tie / Women@Skirts & Dresses Students sat at their desks, feet on the floor, and spoke only when required. The Principal or Vice Principal applied "corrective counseling and punishment". Discipline was the...