The GBRA’s 2019 Summer Party was an over the top success. With over 260 people in attendance, abundant food, intelligent, articulate speakers and loads of good, old fashioned Republican camaraderie a good time was had by all. Our main speakers, George Papadopoulos and Simona Mangiante were charming and informative, and quite personable. They stayed and chatted with the organizers even when there was nobody but us clean up crew left.
Much to everyone’s amusement there were even a few sad sack protesters outside the event. Seriously, where do they get these people with nothing better to do on a beautiful Sunday afternoon than to stand around holding signs reading “Impeach”?
This event was a great start to the 2020 political season and there is yet much work to do. But we will do it, and make America Great Again.
almost entirely about pols agitating for more taxes, more power and control. But, hey! After CNN’s Democrat Climate Fandango the other night, who doesn’t want the pols to have more power and control?
occurred during the Crusades. It would be like driving from New York to Los Angeles with all your windows blacked out and your only input to the world is your backup camera on 24 hour delay. What could go wrong?
course of six years he refused to provide the court with the raw data that backed up his claims. This is nothing new for Mann, he has never released the raw data, only his massaged data. Now step with me into the Way Back Machine and let’s 
go back to the 5th grade when we learned about the scientific method. One of the steps in the process, and all of them are critical, is to keep careful records of the results of your experiments and make that data available to other scientists so they can run their own experiments and test your theory for themselves. By refusing to release the raw data Mann, and others are no longer doing science, they are doing religion based on private revelation.
The claim is made that AGW must be true because there is a scientific consensus, supposedly up around 97%. That claim is hotly disputed by hundreds of climate scientists. But even if it were true, what of it? Science advances because somebody noticed 
something that didn’t fit the theory and set about investigating it, and sometimes proposing a new theory that fits the facts better. If scientific fact were based on consensus NASA would be calculating orbits on Ptolemaic epicycles and your physician would be bleeding you with leeches to balance your humors.
grown, sea levels have not risen but remained stable, some glaciers are melting, but most have grown, snowfalls are not a thing of the past but have become more frequent and more intense in the Northern hemisphere. In short, observation contradicts the theory’s predictions. A scientist would conclude that there’s something wrong with the theory and try and figure out a better theory. That doesn’t seem to be happening among the oh-so-woke elites. I’ll let you come up with a theory as to why that is, this discussion focuses on “Climate Change”, renamed from the failed Anthropogenic Global Warming, and the proposed human responses to it.
I propose that climate change has been going on since the planet coalesced out of the primordial circumsolar debris field. I further propose that the premise that human activity is not the primary driver of climate change is false. 
Because civilization requires energy human activity has had a larger influence on the planet but that is is certainly not the major influencer of climate variability as human energy sources are a tiny fraction of the total planetary energy budget. By far and away the Sun is the largest and most important energy 
source for good old Earth. Were I feeling more combative that I do at the moment I would suggest that the reason that Climate Alarmists never talk about the Sun is because there is no way they can claim any power to influence it so it gets ignored. But ignoring the Sun an error. The Sun is a variable star. Fortunately for us it’s variability is truly minor or we would not exist to remark on it. In the below video this (Oh, no, Russian!) scientist proposes a theory as to what is driving climate variability. Ordinary observation will determine whether her theory holds water. Myself I am inclined to think it does. Let’s compare notes in, say, 2022 and see what we think.
I have known for many years that I’m only as trapped as I’m willing to be. That is, I cannot be held against my will except by superior physical force. This is the fundamental principle on which our nation is founded writ small, that government receives its just powers from the consent of the governed.
If the recent events in Hong Kong have proved anything it is that a people who do not consent to be governed will not be governed, no matter the threat or inducement. This was proved long ago on these shores, when the 13 colonies threw down the gauntlet of the Declaration of Independence, then made it good with their blood and treasure. Choosing to live in freedom always carries with it a cost in blood and treasure, a fact that we who have long enjoyed the liberty our Founders won for us have largely forgotten.
In our own age the dream of totalitarians to control men remains strong. Also in our own age we see that the desire for men to live free in noble liberty is stronger. Sadly that is too seldom seen on these American shores as the propaganda organs of the left have convinced broad swaths of the population, the youth in particular, that freedom is found in slavery.
In our own age as in every age men and women who recognize chains for what they are, rebel and cast themselves into an unknown future regardless of present risk to confront and overcome risks of their own choosing. Certainly the people of Hong Kong recognized the chains Emperor Xi of China and the Chinese Communist Party offered them, and repudiated them in no uncertain terms.
All across the world resistance to the great slaver societies, Islam and Socialism, is growing. Be it Salvini’s Italy, Orban’s Hungary, Johnson’s United Kingdom or America under Trump, a populist groundswell is growing. What form the triumph of these and other movements will ultimately take cannot be foretold. What can be foretold is that in the end, however long it takes, liberty will win.
Ultimately is is a question of the human spirit. No matter how many find the shackles comfortable or safe more will find them a searing agony in their souls. It is these who will wager their lives, fortunes and sacred honor for a future they cannot clearly see but salute from afar in faith. It is those who will not to be bound who will not be bound who will be free in body, mind and spirit.
It is clear that the ultra-woke Marxist inspired Progressives are taking their marching orders from the Prince of Darkness. It’s (the P.D.) sheer effrontery never ceases to amaze me. Not only does it boldly set out to convince parents to cooperate in the destruction of their own families but expects the (primarily) American taxpayer to fund their own and others’ destruction.
In every healthy culture in history norms for regulating relationships between and among the sexes, of which, let me state it boldly, there are only two, with the goal of family formation and cultural induction. That is, the proper arena for sexual activity, however dishonored in the breach, is marriage, the goal if marriage is procreation and the introduction and socialization of the resulting progeny into the culture as fully formed, fully functioning adult members.
Every human being comes into the world as a baby which at birth is, by visual observation, determined to be either a boy or a girl. Sex is not “assigned” at birth, it is assigned at the moment of conception when sperm and ovum join their respective chromosomes into a new living person. To hear these morons talk you’d think that the kid popped out with an empty socket between its legs to which the assisting physician, after rummaging around in a box of parts, selected and bolted on a set of genitalia.
Every human being is made in the image of God, and that image is alike manifested as either male or female, this is the root and foundation of an individuals’s identity. Each person, whether male or female, is an imperishable soul who has a compatible but perishable body, the whole of which possesses intrinsic but distinct masculine or feminine characteristics the various aspects of which are are arrayed on a bell curve. The admixture of these characteristics, differing for each person, make up our distinct and unique personalities and by extension the rich tapestry of our relationships.
The family is the school in which a child is nurtured and guided to adulthood. Parents, primarily by their example, teach their children what it means to be a man or a woman: their roles, their ideals, their destinies within the family, the community, the culture, their nation and their religion. These are sex differentiated and complementary; they are as necessary for the individual as is their skeleton.
The Left is attempting, and successfully, to wrest parents’ role in shaping their kids ideas about who they are and the purposes their lives away from the parents and arrogate it to the State. Ironic that in an age of decentralization they want to impose a top down 19th century mass production process on the whole world. They are bent on destroying children, destroying the family as an institution and destroying American culture and civilization in order to seize, hold and exercise power over these malleable kids today and later as malleable, rootless adults.
By teaching the children to define themselves as loveless meat puppets they strip them of their capacity to develop fully human relationships and become fully functioning autonomous human persons. It is Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, which cannot be achieved without horrific industrial scale child abuse. Jeffrey Epstein and his pedophile pals are the masked face of the elites who have sold their soul to Old Scratch for wealth, power and an unlimited stream of victims on whom to practice their perversions.
The world has changed and is changing, and not always for the better. I can walk past any elementary school playground and hear words I didn’t know existed till I was in boot camp. America’s educational system was #1 in the world and California was #1 in the nation. Now the US is, depending on the subject, 25
What the hell is going on here, and why isn’t somebody doing something sane about it?
Stewing in solitude about the issues even as a registered Republican wasn’t going to help anything. All I was doing was stressing myself out, sometimes using words I never heard in the Bible, snapping at my wife and getting nothing whatsoever done to improve the situation.. I needed to connect with other like minded people, people who by and large share my values, who have experience acting in the political arena (which turns out to be very different from what I had imagined), people who knew things I needed to know, people who were willing to work for improvement. So I connected. And if anything is going to get done to avert the worst of this train wreck you will too.
The speaker at our July event this year was Greg Kirkorian, a fine Republican and a member of the Glendale School Board. I had never met Greg before, and he made a very favorable impression as a solid guy deeply concerned with the welfare of the kids the school board serves. It turns out that every school board meeting LGBTQ activists show up to lobby for more LGBT related events and curricula. Every time they have several people who “represent the community” speak in support. 
Look, friend, I know you’re busy, you already have a full and absorbing life and time is in short supply just as it has been since the Big Bang kicked the whole show into high gear. The issue of education is not by a long shot the only critical issue facing us. But it is one that we can address immediately, locally, effectively – and win. It is a building block that will lead to other building blocks that will lead to still others. This is American power at work, and I want you to be part of it. Its going to be fun!
Oh, did I forget to mention that George Papadopoulos will be attending the picnic at Jeffers Estate? Mr. Papadopoulos did jail time for the crime of being on the foreign policy advisory panel to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. I am very much looking forward to hearing his perspective on the events that made him so painfully famous. I hope you won’t miss this opportunity! 
But that’s not all! It just wouldn’t be right if we let you enjoy all these great benefits without the chance to take home one of only three wonderful patriotic eagle sculptures. It would absolutely enhance the beauty and patriotic ambiance of your home and become a treasured heirloom to be passed on the the next generation that we are working so hard for. All you have to do is register as a GBRA Club member before midnight September 14, 2019 and you will be automatically entered in the raffle which will take place on September 15
