It Was 16 Years Ago...

I woke up that morning really bummed.  And I mean REALLY bummed!

It was the day after the 2016 General Election.  Barack Hussein Obama had won the Presidency.  He'd soundly defeated Mitt Romney, perhaps the worst candidate for POTUS in a generation.

Until Kamala Harris, that is.

And since I'd been following the career of Mr. Obama long before his Presidential run, I knew that his being elected would cause a tremor within the firearms industry.  And the shooting sports in general.  

That's because Mr. Obama was caught on tape at a fundraiser in 2007 saying, 

"I definitely am for gun control.  I'd ban them all if I could!  I'd confiscate all of them if I could!  Just give me the power to try."  

He'd been a Community Organizer if you'll recall.  Signing up poor folks all around Chicago as new voters for the Democrat Party.  And when the door opened just an inch, he slithered on through...

Remember Jeri Ryan?  She was Droid No. 9 on "Startrek: New Generation?"  It was being filmed in Chicago, so it was convenient for her and her Illinois State Senator husband and family. 

But then they had a nasty divorce.  So nasty it had to be sealed.  The judge in the case said nobody would ever get to peak inside that divorce file again.  Exceppppt, when B. Hussein Obama found out about it, he got it unsealed.  Being a Democrat lawyer in a Democrat state, I guess it was easy for him.  He spread their dirt all over Chicago.  Hubby was forced to resign from the Senate.  Obama walked right in.  

Please welcome State Senator Barack Obama!

Oh but wait!  That wasn't enought.  153 days later he announced for POTUS.  Romney became famous for having a dog on the roof of his car.  The "Corporate Media," the marketing arm of the Democrat National Committee, made sure of that.  And a few short months later he was President-Elect Obama!

The morning after the Election I watched him conduct his first press conference on an airport tarmac.  He ended it with, "Ladies and gentlemen, America's the greatest Country on Earth.  Join with me now as we begin to change it!"  There were dozens of journalists in the gaggle.  Not a single one of them asked what he meant by that jarring comment.  But he went on to do just that.  And we are all witnesses...

So like I said, I was bummed.  So bummed I put a call into my good friend Geoff West.  He had helmed the most popular blog on the West Coast for years.  It's called, "A Bubbliing Cauldron."  He somehow figured out how to bring both the Right and the Left together in a sort of digital Townhall without offending either.  Not an easy task in what was becoming a "Purple" county.  Either then, or now.  (NOTE:  He still pens an offering occasionally.  Put the address in your notes.)  

So I told Geoff how depressed the results of the Election had made me.  And along with comforting me, he offered a suggestion:  Why not start a blog of your own, he asked?  I thought about if for days.  A way to state your opinion, he said, even if there's nobody around to hear it.  A way to offer a thought to those who may or may not have thought it.  A way to stand on a digital soapbox on a digital Town Square and maybe provide an idea or two to the masses? 

I figured, what the Hell?  What's to lose?  I had a following of sorts in the Costa Mesa/Newport Beach area.  Those who'd read my frequent offerings to the Daily Pilot newspaper.  So I jumped in feet first.  By the end of the week I'd launched 

"Chuckmeisterunleashed.blogspot.com"  

The title is a result of the nickname I earned from winning the 1968 European Billiards Championship.  The Germans coined the "Chuckmeister," so it stuck.  And that Daily Pilot newspaper I mentioned earlier fired me.  I was a columnist for that 100-plus year-old daily, their only Conservative columnist at the time, and they dumped me.  After I asked a simple question in my column:  "Do you think all those kids and those teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary might have lived, if one or more of them had been armed?"  It triggered the gun-averse editors of the Pilot so much they showed me the door.  

Oh yeah, the Daily Pilot is owned by the Lost Angeles Times, the most Liberal newspaper in the Western World.  

So being the "Chuckmeister," and being then "Unleashed" from my position, I launched my little blog.  Hoping to attract only those who might wish to consider another point of view.  Because I've got a lot of other views at which to point.  And I've been publishing my opinions there ever since.  

And as to this Election upcoming, I can only hope.  I think we're finally down to the "Makers vs. the Takers."  It's whether those who have made it and are making it, can withstand a full-scale assualt by the Left who wish to now take it from them.  If they win, we're no longer the Country as created and as envisioned.  It won't impact me so much, as I'm through contributing as a citizen.  Except for this humble posting, of course.

But to give the keys to someone who's never so much as run a lemonade stand, is rolling the dice.  When we don't have to take a risk at all.  But giving a vote to the unproductive is like asking two wolves and a sheep what to have for lunch.  I pray for our future.

So thank you Geoff, for your friendship and assistance throughout the ride, and thanks also to those who've put up with my sometimes sophomoric antics.  I'll try and do better in the future...

P.S.  I've posted regularly since then.  A total of 1,566 postings over that 16 year period.  I cannot predict how long I'll keep it up (sophomoric joke, there), but I promise to do so as long as I'm able...