We have the government we deserve ...
Famous last word.

One of the passages from Lawrence of Arabia's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom", which was about the British campaign in the Middle East in WWI, has haunted me since I read the book as a kid (in the late 1950s):

"All men dream . . . but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."

I have always known that Evil, walking among us, never closes its eyes.

That's a very nice photo of Washington DC.

@G6loq:
Maybe you deserve it but I had nothing to do with it's creation or continuance. I have spoken against it far and wide for more years than I care to admit only to be ignored and scorned. I have lived against it in mostly silence, doing my small part to not nourish it.

There are people here, many of them - perhaps even a majority, that are ignorant of the meaning of the word freedom and some even loathe the very word. Through ignorance or intent they are trying to cage or kill all of us under the guise of benevolence.

They attack you with their words and actions just as though they were gun or knife. Either you defend yourself as you see fit or you become another of their victims. The gov't can not and will not protect you nor should it, but neither should it facilitate those that will harm you. If it does then it should be defended against too.

A great culling is approaching, right vs wrong, and though it will be disastrous to all right will prevail and wrong will be subdued temporarily again, and the cycle will have repeated as it has many times.

Speaking of sleepwalking - from mid-2014:

"Barack Obama has already checked out of his job"

Ghostsniper-

As always thank you for your delusional ravings.

Happy New Year!

"Men are bad unless compelled to be good."

~ Niccolo Machiavelli

Who compels Obama? Hillary? & etc.

"Clad in their false histories . . . " I had a beer with two Saudi Arabian exchange students the same year I read Age of Faith by Durant. Bottom Line: Islam functions because it's racist and predatory. Yet I have close friends and relatives who think I'm crazed and intolerant for point those things out. The Long, Long Night . . .

@Arthurstone

Actually, I agree with Ghostsniper ...

It is war.