‘Diane Alden’ Archives
The Cafe Constitution: #2, Firearms
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years No. 15 The Constitution of the United States is not a café where one may pick and choose which items on the menu one prefers. The Constitution is what it is. These days it is popular to call it a "living" document. Which means it is subject to the whims of political correctness, a judiciary and executive [...]
Spies Like US: Spies, Lies, Echelon, Economics, and People (S.L.E.E.P.)
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years No. 14 The question was: "Why was a nice girl like you working in a place like that?" Former Lockheed-NSA employee and member of the team that developed Echelon, Margaret Newsham, had quite an answer. Her life history is similar to that of other nice women who came to adulthood in the fifties and early [...]
Wolves Among Us
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years No. 13 The history of the wolf is the stuff of legend. Portrayed both as vicious predator and today often romanticized as a kind of saint in fur. Nevertheless, the wolf is a primitive relative of the domestic dog. Having once owned a wolf hybrid named Thorn, I appreciate the wolf. However, they have no [...]
Spies Like Us: Spooks and Money Talk
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years No. 12 The term for intelligence operations and snooping is aptly named the "The Black World." Searching through the murky depths for truth consists of looking for the point where justified national security concerns and unconstitutional and illegal prying diverge. Critics of the NSA and projects like [...]
U.S. Military: Where Honor Still Means Something
American Gumbo with Diane Alden I am proud of the US Navy ... and the men and women who do their best every single day, day in and day out. Washington DC may be full of fools, morons, evil doers, but the US military is the last place, the last institution in the US where honor still means something to the most number of the people. Maybe I [...]
First You Say You Do, Then You Don’t …
American Gumbo with Diane Alden First you say you do, then you don't, then you say you will then you won't. ... You're undecided now so what are you gonna do? In the case of Obie and NATO France and Brits anyway, ... it is on to regime change. This will end badly for us and cost us lives and money. Count on [...]
Come Back Here … I’ll Bite Your Legs Off!
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Republicans ... are the Black Knight ... the fight over the budget last week Democrats and Republicans --totally looney. As the black knight aka says at the end as he sits there with no arms or legs: "come back here and I''ll bite your legs off!" Good going Boehner and the rest of the armless legless [...]
Patriots, Elites, And the War in Libya
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Being against the war in LIBYA is not being against the US or the US military. Those who think so, have stopped thinking and are reacting because so many folks have learned the hard way, that when the elite get us into a war, its usually NOT about the best interests of the US. Allen West learned the hard way [...]
How Much Am I Willing to Sacrifice for God, Christ, and Freedom?
Remembering Shahbaz Bhatti American Gumbo with Diane Alden Shahbaz Bhatti died speaking up for all Christians: he died speaking of his fealty to Jesus Christ: he died a free man. How free are we? How far will we go in defense of our faith in Christ? How much will we sacrifice in order to claim real freedom to worship and speak as we will for that [...]
Government Sachs
American Gumbo with Diane Alden You wonder why I hate big financials, aka out-of-control investment banks, so much? This is one reason. Goldman Sachs might as well be Government Sachs, or Government Sachem. They have been in bed with big government for at least two decades. The Keynesian approach is to spend, spend, spend. By the by, Goldman [...]
Ain’t Globalism Wonderful?
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Ain't globalism wonderful? I feel the US government has turned into a pimp for selling off American assets to the highest bidder or creditor. We built China and yet you hear the same morons on business channels talk about the glories of 'free trade.' In what freaking virtual reality do these morons live? They are [...]
No! Nicholas, Say It Ain’t So!
American Gumbo with Diane Alden No! Nicholas say it ain't so! Multiculturalism failed? No more kumbaya around the campfire? Can we forget being sharia law compliant? No more preferred minority status for angry jihadis with a grudge against the world? You telling me political correctness and multiculturalism was a bad idea. If the French say it's [...]
Alden On Modern Democracies
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Modern democracies should be considered as oligarchies. In these systems, actual differences between viable political rivals are small, the oligarchic elite impose strict limits on what constitutes an acceptable and respectable political position, and politicians' careers depend heavily on unelected economic [...]
Soldiers R-US?
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Years ago I wrote a piece that has been included in several books on corporate military. My contention in that article - the possibility of misuse by corporate entities without constitutional restraints - SWAT teams of militarized ninjas, highly paid, doing the bidding of corporations rather than nation states. [...]
Ford Hood Massacre Could Have Been Prevented, Says Report
American Gumbo, Diane Alden And why didn't the FBI or Army attempt to stop Maj. Hasan from killing a bunch of US soldiers. The presented to Congress says they turned a blind eye to his radicalization. Again I ask WHY is that? Could it be political correctness and multiculturalism worship inhibited both entities from doing their job ...lest they [...]
When I Start Feeling Sorry For Myself …
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Every time I start feeling very sorry for myself, which does happen on occasion, a story like this comes up. I am so adamant and passionate about our responsibility to our soldiers, sailors, Marines -- particularly those who have been in combat or suffered mental, physical, or personal loss. That is because we [...]
Get Yourself Ready! Stand Up!
American Gumbo with Diane Alden JEREMIAH: “Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you ... They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the LORD." Rep. Ranker - the world, flesh, the devil and fadish/evil trends - surely you must know the time is at hand when [...]
Beware the Charging Rhinoceros
American Gumbo with Diane Alden You don't want a 'warfare' state but neither do you want a state with its head in the sand ignoring the big rhinoceros charging full throttle towards the part sticking out of the sand. No matter how much you want to ignore reality there is always going to be someone out there who wants what you have got or hates [...]
Muslims Threaten Children With Violence and Rape
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Political correctness and deification of multiculturalism and demonization of Western culture could result in a new Dark Age. If the West is so unsure of the worth of its cultural heritage and does not want to defend it ...then we are doomed. The same happened to Rome. They ran out of steam; it just wasn't worth [...]
Is It Time to Dump the Term “Pro-life?”
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Time to dump the term "prolife"? I must be chugging on the same track as this dude cause I call issues related to the unborn as "preborn." "Prolife" could include not wanting your pond scum to be touched. ___________________ Diane Alden responding to "Is It Time to Dump the Term 'Pro-life'? For the Sake of [...]
Lords Without Anger or Honour
American Gumbo with Diane Alden They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords, Lords without anger or honour, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labour and laughter as a tired man looks at flies. And the load of their loveless pity is worse than the ancient [...]
Occult Underpinnings of the Third Reich
Gumbo with Diane Alden Being a huge history buff, particularly that of WWII the occult underpinning of the Third Reich is infamous. The core group of Nazis attempted to ditch Christianity in favor of what they considered the German pantheon of gods, myths, and legends. Himmler was the worst purveyor of this weird belief system. In regard to the [...]
Libertarians, Conservatives, and Qualities of Governance
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Former Law and Order star, Michael Moriarity says about Libertarians what I have been thinking. While I admire and believe in about half of their tenets, some of them are so really stupid and anti-human and so out of touch with any of the beliefs the Founders had in mind that I have trouble accepting a rational [...]
Evil Exists But So Does Amazing Grace
American Gumbo with Diane Alden I just believe strongly that what we all need right now is a lot of prayer. Regardless of how the leftist media or the left is spinning it...this country is in deep trouble for many reasons. Evil exists but so does amazing GRACE .... we need more of the latter and a lot less of the former ....and only WE can be the [...]
Hatred, Military Cuts, State Rights, and Dioxin Scare
American Gumbo with Diane Alden What a shame about this guy....the hatred that spills over into sectarian and political violence usually ends up with more good people dead than bad. _____________________ A good man who did something www.economist.com IN HIS first speech to Pakistan’s constituent assembly, on August 11th 1947, the country’s [...]
DOT’s Mexican Truck Proposal Angers US Truckers
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Good bye borders another attempt by the Powers That Be to screw American truckers while empowering Mexican truckers who often do not follow the same safety standards. But who cares? Laws are only meant for Americans to follow everyone else gets a pass. This is part of the establishment elite effort to regionalize [...]
China Preparing for Armed Conflict in Every Direction
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Responding to: China Preparing for Armed Conflict in Every Direction: Yeah tell this to the US Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable that pushed giving China everything they asked for that had United States proprietary or productive capacity or comparative advantage written on it. Fox Business punditry, [...]
Ruthless is the Word
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Responding to William Anderson's "False Foreclosures and the Free Market": Ruthless is the word. Not only in home foreclosures but I know of a case where a person with only SSI was hounded into a heart attack by a credit collection agency even though this person was disabled and could not possibly pay the [...]
RINO Sen. Isakson to Side with Obama on START
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Republican Senator Johnny Isakson from Georgia is planning on voting with the Obama Administration on the START treaty. Both Georgia Senators are closet RINOS (Saxby Chambliss is the other). Time after time both have worked against the conservative agenda and for the interests of the power brokers in and out of [...]
Go! Go! Tenth Amendment!
American Gumbo with Diane Alden I am for Tenth Amendment attempts by the several states to nullify at some future time what amount to unconstitutional laws, blatantly unconstitutional regulations and legalities like the code, wherein these regulations fly in the face of US Constitution and the intent of the Founders. Think Obamacare, think the [...]
