If you read some of my posts you will see that I love music and love to play music, especially the fiddle. In that vein, I discovered a wonderful book. It is “The Violin Maker: Finding a Centuries-Old Tradition in a Brooklyn Workshop” by John Marchese. I am now reading it for the second time and enjoying it even more than the first. It is a good read and I would recommend it for anyone that loves violins. Another great book I came across, dealing with violins and their players, was “Stradavari’s Genius: Five Violins, One Cello and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection” by Toby Faber. The title is self descriptive. It is a very good book.

I have to say that, as for me, the year was an almost complete wash. I have no idea what I actually accomplished except for rebuilding a quarter mile section of fence on the east side of my property. Well, I did get most of the outside of the house repainted and I started learning how to play “Jerusalem Ridge”, a great tune by Bill Monroe and I did include a new section here about New Mexico Hispanic musicians.

Well, here is wishing all a very good 2011. We need a good year. It just seems like the whole country is exhausted.

Here in New Mexico we did elect a conservative Republican for governor, Susana Martinez. She will have a massive job ahead of her just to clean up some of the corruption and mess left by Bill Richardson, who I consider the worst governor we have ever had. The other bright spot is that our Congressional District 2 returned to conservative Republican hands. However we still have 2 very liberal representatives in Districts 1 and 2 and both of our senators are very far left.

How will things turn out? Who knows but for the sake of the nation I hope that the various parties in Congress and the president will work together for the good of the American people but I doubt it will happen.

Now the letter to the editor:

“Congratulations Democrats! You’ve won, Big time! You now control the entire Federal Government.You own all the levers of power. You should also realize that you own the consequences of this Socialist Workers Paradise that you are creating.You own the unemployment rate, the tax rates, the Dow/Nasdaq Averages, the GNP, future SAT scores, the price of oil, the crime rate, and the inflation rate.You own every body-bag that comes home to America. You own the Iraqi war and the consequences of a cowardly retreat. You also own Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Hamas, Hezbollah, Osama bin Laden, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chaves, and Kim Jong-il. Those of us that did not drink the Kool-Aid, will be watching every move your Democratic dictatorship makes… and we WILL hold you accountable. By the way, I’m a retiree. Where do I pick up all the free stuff Obama promised me?”

I love it!!!

This election was a flood and make no mistake about it. With the election of Barak Obama, and even more far left Democrats in the Senate and the House, the American electorate has voted for utopian change and they are going to get it in a big way but will it be the change they think they are getting? I predict it will not. History teaches us that utopian dreams always end up as nightmares; witness Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia and the recent rise of fundamentalist Islam.

The public has made a bargain with evil and what will come forth will be a flood of filth that will wash over this nation as never before. The Culture of Death has been ratified. The abortion mills, greased with taxpayer money,  will be running overtime. With the advent of universal health care euthanasia will become commonplace as it will be decided that the sick, elderly and handicapped are no longer assets but liabilities, protecting children from pedophiles will be considered passe and hate speech laws will be attempted to be used to prosecute anyone who dares protest any of this. We will see attempts to use special police to enforce the coming “crime against society” laws and if things get really bad our military’s guns will not be used against our enemies but against our own citizens.

Robert Bork, some years back, wrote a book called “Slouching Towards Gomorrah”. We are not slouching towards Gomorrah any more. We are running towards it and as it was in that day there will be judgment. God will only tolerate the slaughter of the innocents so long.

Finally one more thought. Obama says he wants to unify this nation but this nation is more divided than it has been since the 1960′s. Unity will not happen but now he and the Democratic Party own the problems and there are going to be a bunch of us that will hold both him and the Democratic Party responsible because it is no longer “Bush’s fault”.

There is some poetic justice in the fact that Hillary Clinton, who, it appears, was promoting her own coronation, may now not even get the nomination. I say “may not get it” because it’s hard to count the Clintons out even when they are down and the real dirty tricks have yet to be played. Wait until the backroom deals start to be made amongst the mucky mucks of the Democratic Party. However, it would make me exceedingly happy to see Bill Clinton denied a third term in the White House. And, while on the subject of Bill Clinton, why did he possibly ruin her chances amongst blacks by committing the ultimate political sin of race baiting Obama? Did he really think it was necessary so therefore he was the best to be the heavy and get it done or was he trying to sabotage her campaign thinking that if she won and was a better president than he it would further deteriorate his “legacy”?

In any event, his “legacy” is pretty well tarnished since he has exposed his sordid character to the whole world once again. There is practically no loathesome action or actual crime that can’t be excused amongst the left wing in this day and age, including mass murder and genocide, so even though Bill could be excused for selling the Lincoln Bedroom, taking campaign cash from the Chinese, raping women, selling pardons, loosing his law license for lying to a grand jury and making millions off lucrative back room deals, it is meet that he discovered that acts of racism against the party faithful for political gain wasn’t to be tolerated. This time he really fell off the wall and as “they” say, all of his big media pals “couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty back together again”.

I for one will be glad to see the Clintons with their overweening lusts for power, self-aggrandizement and especially money move off the stage of history.

More to come.