Love is in the Air

 Let’s take this opportunity to head in a different direction – somewhere lighthearted, seasoned with a bit of humor – but, as usual, all true.

Once upon a time, there was a strong, African-American woman (we’re still awaiting a ruling from the Supreme Court on her sex,) who just happened to be the Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney.

This African-American District Attorney (AADA), was so terrific that she hired a “special” prosecutor to help her with the prosecution of former president Donald J. Trump. The person-in-question is DA Fani (She pronounces her name: “Strong African-American Woman Persecuted for being Blacque and Strong”) Willis. Her special prosecutor is a fellow named Nathan Wade.

Wade, according to the Atlanta Constitution Journal (ACJ) is a private attorney who “paid for lavish vacations he took with Willis using Fulton County funds his law firm received. County records show that Wade, who has played a prominent role in the election interference case has been paid nearly $654,000 in legal fees since January 2022. The DA authorizes his compensation,”

A January 19^th New York Post story pointed out “Bank records show Nathan Wade bought tickets for himself and alleged lover Fani Willis to fly to San Francisco in the midst of their probe into Donald Trump and election fraud in Georgia.”

It seems as though Wade, who is married to someone other than Willis, is subject of ongoing divorce proceedings. Details of the case were unavailable due to the documents being sealed.

But the ACJ adds “It is unclear if the explosive issues in the filing undermine the validity of the indictment against Trump and the remaining 14 co-defendants or simply muddy the waters by questioning Willis’ professional ethics.”

OOPS.

That ACJ segment doesn’t bode well for Willis or her presumed paramour, Wade. You see, recalling that famous line: “No one is above the law!” from Saint Nancy Pelosi, as well as a gaggle of other self-righteous Democrat politicians, should apply here. Unfortunately, the silence is deafening.

Clearly hoping this can all be washed away with a simple explanation, Willis appeared at the Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, on January 14^th, to admit she was “flawed” and “imperfect.” Well, at least she got that part right.

The part she got wrong, though is “she blamed the criticisms on race,” the BBC reported.

Although she spoke for roughly 30-minutes, she “did not mention Wade by name or address the allegations of having an improper relationship, the BBC continued.

She focused her speech “on the role she felt race has played in the accusations,” according to the BBC. She did, however, defend Wade’s credentials.

Prison jewelry for lovebirds

The BBC further stated, “she was ‘a little confused’ why so many questioned her decision to bring in multiple special prosecutors to the case and asked if her critics were ‘playing the race card.’”

If you’re still following this fairy tale, the definitive answer is: Yes. All her critics are ganging up on her to bash her for being Blacque, just because of systemic racism she was taught about in school and likely at home.

This apparent lapse in judgment on the part of Willis and Wade, alike, is merely another example of affirmative action at work.

In recent weeks the country has been exposed to the shortfalls of hiring based on race and sex.

Former Harvard University President Claudine Gay was exposed for her racial hatred toward Jews. United States Secretary of Defense Gen. Lloyd Austin who didn’t ‘call-in sick’, Liz Magill resigned as president of UPenn because of her anti-Semitism, all of whom are persons of stature hired to perform jobs, perhaps well above their abilities. Of course, the reasons for their being hired is clearly not their knowledge, skills or abilities.

Although this fairy tale is far from over, it should serve as an example that using criteria such as race and sex for filling positions of importance is more than bad form. It is dangerous to a free society based on laws.

Best wishes to “Strong African-American Woman Persecuted for being Blacque and Strong” Willis and her buddy, Mr. Wade.

Perhaps they will wind up with new jewelry as a memento of this lucrative situation they created. After all it’s kind of ironic that the objective that brought them together is likely the very same thing that may put them out of jobs and into prison.

Romper Room

 It’s been quite some time since the smart people invented something really, really great. Oh, sure, you immediately think of the cellular telephone – the gadget on which many of you are reading this essay, but that would be getting ahead of the story.

Since the current administration – the Biden administration, in particular – took office in 2021, the world has been on fire, figuratively. Almost immediately, President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., hired all sorts of clever people to his bidding.

His bidding has been to change the United States from a self-sufficient, freedom-loving, capitalistic country into a weak, desperate, needy nation, in an apparent effort to thank the millions of special interest voters for electing him. It’s now payback time.

Environmental, race-driven, anti-life, pro-minority, counter-nuclear family, racist hiring, anti-religious organizations seem to be the constituency that gleefully elected Biden and, subsequently, his cadré of children who are now running and ruining this once-great nation. I call this “Child Think.”

Because of decades of dumbing-down curricula in schools, we are now reaping what we have sown. Ignorant ‘educators’ have been teaching drivel as science to young students since the 1970’s as a concerted effort to change America from a democratic-republic to a socialist/communist system.

This may make many of you think I have lost my direction, but please hear me out.

One of the first items of business on Inauguration Day 2021, was to block leases for oil drilling in the United States. Nearly immediately, the price of petroleum products skyrocketed due to the law of “supply and demand.” If you limit the supply while the demand remains steady, the price will increase.

You can now write the rest of this paragraph: gas prices shot up, air travel soared, long-haul truckers began paying more for diesel fuel, and homeowners were going to get socked for higher fuel oil rates, all because of this Child Think.

The reason for this market manipulation is pretty simple for the Child Think crowd. They believe that if you stop refining oil into a variety of fuels, or merely cause the price to dramatically rise, people will be forced to stop driving or look for an alternative means of transportation.

What a terrific idea, right?

A thinking person would now ask the common-sense question: “How are we going to get our cars, trucks and SUVs to go from once place to another without gas or diesel fuel? How are we supposed to travel to work, school, vacation, the supermarket, doctor visits, and to the store to buy that 75” HDTV,” should be your next question. Imagine toting that TV home on public bus.

Remember that transit system consisting of buses that come by following a 55-minute wait, or those quaint trolleys our aldermen and city council members demanded for decades? Those are supposed to serve as our new modes of transportation. Those are the Child Think solutions for the ‘little people’ who will be unable to get petroleum products without a special voucher. Special voucher?

Not unlike the sugar, meat and gas rations during World War II, certain, privileged individuals will be able to buy the means to start and move their vehicles if they earned the right to travel for special needs.

Sounds silly and far-fetched. But how did we get here?

Child Thinkers have been creating solutions for non-existent problems since Paul Ehrlich and his wife wrote the book The Population Bomb, in 1968. This book “predicted hundreds of millions of people were going to starve to death in the 1970’s,” according to an article in The Guardian.

Of course he was wrong; it’s 50-years hence, and we are still alive and well. What happened?

According to Ehrlich, this fate “was avoided by the green revolution in intensive agriculture,” again cited by The Guardian. It further states “Many of the details and timings were wrong, Paul Ehrlich acknowledges today, but he says the book was correct overall.” Sure it was.

Further, The Guardian states, “Population growth, along with over-consumption per capita, is driving civilisation over the edge: billions of people are now hungry or micronutrient malnourished, and climate disruption is killing people.”

Pretty scary stuff, especially for an elementary school student force-fed this tripe for a half-century. Doom and gloom, waters polluted by chicken farm runoffs, Peruvian sheep going blind due to ozone disappearance, smog causing lung diseases in civilized societies, but this is only the tip of the iceberg.

Suddenly, we are now getting information about meat-eaters adding to the demise of the planet. It seems as though vegetarians thought it prudent to hop aboard the terror train to oblivion by announcing how cows and other farm animals are the latest scourge helping society reach its end sooner. Let’s eradicate them from the planet.

We are told these animals are, simply put, fart machines. Because they, themselves, are vegetarians, they fart a lot, thereby generating methane gas. Keeping this in mind, please remember that all vegetarians fart a lot; it’s difficult if not impossible to process greenery through our intestines. Now, vegans are part of the problem, too, not the solution.

What is a good, loyal environmentalist to do? Hold your breath. A Child Thinker in Great Britain is encouraging others to “stop exhaling” in order to prevent poisonous gasses from exiting and entering the atmosphere. While I wholeheartedly agree, I won’t be participating inasmuch as I need air to continue living; you all can do what you feel is necessary to save Mother Earth, though.

Which brings us back to saving the population of the planet, Earth. Child Thinkers globally know they have the definitive solution to this self-generated mayhem.

Rather than rely upon steam, nuclear, hydro, and coal generated electricity, the Child Thinkers have caught the attention of our doddering President Biden who literally needed cue cards to recall his favorite food (Hint: it’s chocolate chip ice cream.) This is part of that payback scheme.

Since that Inauguration Day Executive Order signed to cut back on oil drilling, the push began again in earnest. Being conned by start-up solar companies promising “FREE” electricity from the Sun, as well as windmill manufacturers harnessing every puff of moving air, these hucksters swindled the American taxpayers via our elected politicians in getting grants for this snake oil, under the Barack Hussein Obama regime.

Like Lazarus, more and more solar and wind companies have been sprouting like weeds in a garden to get their fair share of this guvment gravy, once again. Even Chinese companies are harvesting this seemingly endless supply of cash, all in the name of a cleaner environment.

But the big stumbling block remains vehicles. Yes, the cars, trucks, SUVs, upon which rely heavily for our lives are being outlawed by smarmy politicians who have become drunk with power by exerting their faux power.

Child Think once again brought a solution to all these problems: electric vehicles (EVs). Biden’s Children have decided that if you want to drive, you must buy an EV. End of discussion.

EVs are not new. In fact, EVs have been around for nearly 200-years, in one form or another.

An early EV from the 1800's

WHAT???

Indeed, an EV was created, according to Car and Driver magazine, in the 1830’s, in Scotland by Robert Anderson. It was a motorized carriage powered by batteries – although they were not yet rechargeable.

Other tinkerers and inventors dabbled with EVs for years thereafter, eventually centering around rechargeable batteries. Robert Davidson, Thomas Parker, William Morrison, Pedro Salom, Henry G. Morris, and Isaac L. Rice are also mentioned by Car and Driver, as early pioneers of EVs.

But, as Car and Driver points out, Thomas “Edison and his camping buddy Henry Ford tried their hand at an electric car and built a prototype before both decided that the gasoline engine had a more promising future. One factor was that electricity was not yet widely available outside city centers, severely limiting the market for car tied to that infrastructure. Divers could carry spare cans of gasoline for long journeys, but spare batteries were a lot heavier per unit of energy.”

It seems as though way back when, automotive engineer, designers, and industry titans realized gasoline powered vehicles could easily overcome hurdles in technology. Still, Child Think is alive and well in today’s society, with no end in sight.

But I say give them what they demand. Biden and his Child Thinkers are demanding Americans modify their lives with EVs. Period. No debate necessary.

To that end, I say let President Biden and his Secret Service buy and solely use electric vehicles. “The Beast” is the presidential limousine whose curb weight is an estimated 15,000-20,000 pounds, likely because of its armor plating, bullet-proof glass, electronics and other redundant systems.

Of course, there are additional vehicles in Biden’s motorcade that include Secret Service Agents transportation, a medical team, a decoy vehicle, as well as press personnel.

I contend that since The White House feels so strongly that EV technology is readily available and reliable for the average American, he should lead by example. You know he won’t, though. EVs are as unreliable today as they were in the 1830’s and should not be forced down our throats because of a dream from Child Thinkers. Forward to 1832 is not the direction in which we should go.

Perhaps those children running The White House Romper Room should go back to a school with real educators and a curriculum of history who will tell them the truth rather than terrify them with conjecture. 

Wrong Again

  We need to retreat to the year 2000 to tell this story.

The presidential election was well underway with George W. Bush vying against then-Vice President Albert Gore, Jr., for the presidency.

After eight years of impeachments, a sex scandal, infidelity, as well as lying about sordid affairs to an entire nation, America was ready to wash its hands of President Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Americans desired a different path to the future; with that in mind, George W. Bush, aka: “W,” was elected the 43^rd President of the United States.

Almost immediately, sleazy Democrats poured out of cracks and crevices of television airwaves, radio signals, across print media, eventually winding up on the silver screen, to knock the new president as a buffoon. Period.

Calling W an idiot, dolt, goof, stupid, embarrassment, the Left exuded giddiness each time another weak-minded person felt compelled to jump onto the train of malignment in an attempt to summarily ruin both W’s and America’s reputation. And boy, did they try. But they were wrong.

Clinton personnel destructively removed the letter “W” from most typewriters, computers, and word processors, to create administrative nightmares as a way to show good will. Pretty swell, eh?

About nine months after being sworn-in to the office, W was reading a book to an elementary school class when a Secret Service Agent entered the room to whisper something in W’s ear. Immediately, his smile turned into a look of disbelief upon hearing the stunning news that America was under attack.

Let’s stop here to make some things abundantly clear: I am not a cheerleader for George W. Bush. I feel he was and is a fine businessman involved with the oil industry, besides being a part-owner in a professional baseball team. He also was the last sitting president to have served in the armed forces. For these things I admire the man rather than chastise him for his business acumen. Now let’s continue with the story.

Lest anyone forgot, it was September 11, 2001 when 19 Muslim terrorists commandeered commercial jet airliners only to use them as flying bombs. After killing the pilots and necessary “unruly” passengers, these terrorists flew those planes into The World Trade Center, the Pentagon, with one being overtaken by those unruly passengers and intentionally crashed into Pennsylvania dirt.

By the way, if you re-read the last paragraph, you’ll notice I did not mention Catholics, Jews, Episcopalians, Baptists, or any other religion. I used the word “Muslim” and I used it correctly.

Trying and saying anything to punctuate their intense hate for W, some malcontents started conspiracy theories to the effect that no planes actually crashed into the Pentagon. Although video recordings from the Pentagon’s expansive parking lot clearly showed a jet airliner speeding through the outer-rings of that historic building.

Since conspiracies were circulating, another theory was introduced that The World Trade Center Towers’ collapse was an inside job. It was theorized W secretly gathered a modest army of fellow military special forces rogues to surreptitiously dismantle interior walls to plant high explosives therein as an excuse to drag America into a new, lucrative war for both he and his vice president, Dick Cheney.

Suddenly, this guy went from idiot, dolt, goof, stupid, embarrassment, to a clever, sly intrepid conniving, man who was pulling the proverbial wool over everyone’s eyes. Wrong again.

According to history, W did drag us into Iraq to overthrow its ruler, Saddam Hussein. Hussein publicly threatened W’s father, George H. W. Bush, the 41^st president; after Hussein bragged about his ability to destroy the Middle East with his “weapons of mass destruction (WMD),” international support was quickly gathered.

An allied contingency assembled to prevent the use of these WMDs against the Middle East alliance, as well as the United States. Approved by Congress, America’s entry into a war with Iraq to overthrow their dictatorship was met with applause – a true effort of unity to save the world from an assured guarantee to erase many nations and civilizations within only a matter of minutes.

Unfortunately, Hussein exaggerated his military capabilities to gain an edge – although imaginary and overinflated – as a means of fending off his many Middle East neighbors who were eager to find peace.

Once again, the lies began with U.S. Senators, Leftist politicians, and professional crybabies trying to trip up W so that his re-election would be impossible. Wrong again.

W was returned to office in 2004 to serve another term, albeit lame duck, this time with constant criticism directed toward that genius president. Allegations of misdeeds over invading Iraq without proof of WMDs, and falsified evidence presented to Congress, were bandied about by Democrats with an axe to grind still angry over Bill Clinton’s impeachment. Wrong again.

And so it went. Until we entered the Obama era, that is. Barack Hussein Obama tossed his hat into the presidential ring from his feckless gig as an Illinois Senator in 2008. With Senator Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., riding Obama’s coattails to the White House as an affirmative action hire, the games began.

Collectivist tendencies toward anything and everything were regular fare under Obama. Socialized medicine, control over vehicles on the roads, higher taxes, making questionable atonement to Iran in the form of billions of confiscated dollars, plus making copious other affirmative action appointments to varying government positions virtually guaranteed the establishment of a doomed-to-fail system.

Proudly accompanying Barack was his wife, Michelle, a woman who averred her disdain for America itself. Always adding race into the conversation, Michelle proved her mettle by taunting White America – just as her bigoted husband did – at every possible chance. They were wrong again.

Reaching from the White House to local police matters, Obama regularly took the side of Blacks, further dividing a nation on the mend from days of slavery and segregation. Using race as a defining criterion for even releasing black criminals from prison. Of course, their right-to-vote was suddenly reinstated.

Wrapping up eight-years of reinventing the government as well as its medical insurance system, Obama needed to pass his freedom-destroying baton on to the next socialist. Enter Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton is the same Hillary Clinton married to the Philanderer-in-Chief, Bill Clinton, from ¶ two.

Ms. Hillary has been a media magnet for decades, constantly seeking out cameras and microphones in an effort to tell the world how terrific she is. And it seemed to work.

Saint Hillary Clinton, praise be

She was on the Richard M. Nixon impeachment team in 1973, the First Lady of Arkansas while Bill served as governor, First Lady of the United States when Bill was busy with interns, followed by NY State Senator, thereafter, followed by United States Department of State Secretary, all without much in the way of qualifications.

Leftists, to this day, are delighted to see her proudly waddle up to an easy chair on a stage to be interviewed regarding her stellar life and associated accomplishments. They often last longer than the expected few minutes, but the droning from Ms. Hillary usually drifts to complaining about her run for president against Donald Trump in 2016.

Fully expecting to run away with the election, Ms. Hillary lost because of the Electoral College, and has never recovered. Rumors had it that she needed to be led away from her presidential victory location party with some muscle and enthusiasm over her unexpected defeat. But that’s just a rumor. She was wrong again.

Traveling about the country carping about how the election was stolen from her, she makes regular snarky remarks concerning Trump and his ability to lead America – although he did a splendid job while under constant attack by angry Lefties.

But four years after her loss, President Trump found himself out of his guvment job. Joe Biden of the Obama-Biden team won the last election in 2020. In what many Americans have been calling questionable, that 2020 election produced results an honest person would best describe as iffy.

As such, Trump associates, supporters, and friends have been sued, brought to trial, chastised publicly, and even incarcerated for “trespassing” and “parading without a permit,” while expressing their concerns over the election.

Today, we are approaching a crossroads to another presidential election in 2024. With Donald Trump preparing to run for a second term, he handily leads the Republican pack of candidates who are less-than-supportive of another run from Trump.

Resorting to name-calling, Republican contenders are fighting one another to outdo their opponents – business as usual. But the Democrats and a handful of RINOs (Republicans in Name Only), have been tirelessly working to undermine not only Trumps efforts, but the future of America itself to remain alive.

Opening the Southern Border to anyone and everyone has been a bane on our infrastructure literally since Biden’s first day on the job. Eleven million people have invaded our nation, most of whom are now receiving benefits. But those sanctuary cities that welcomed them are: wrong again.

American kids are unable to read, write, or formulate math problems, can’t find jobs, are unable or unwilling to repay their student loans, not buying homes or cars, protesting Jewish residents, unwilling to serve in the military, while increasing crime and contributing to homelessness.

Our proud Socialist politicians are wrong again. Bottom line: It’s time to elect Donald Trump once again. I hate to think about the results of America being wrong again. 

Rear View Mirror

 When I began driving in 1972, I learned from my Father. He explained the rules-of-the-road from obeying the speed limit to not camping-out in the left lane without passing. He taught me how to parallel park and to safely merge onto highways, as well. He also would regularly remind me to check the rear view mirror.

That last one involving the rear view mirror was the one that boggled my mind. Why would I care what was behind me; it was the stuff in front of me that seemed to be important. My Dad felt otherwise.

All these decades later I’ve come to realize he was right once again. Aside from checking the mirrors to ensure you’re not obstructing a police or fire vehicle, or that an airplane was desperately attempting an emergency landing, I still felt it was silly to analyze what was history on the road.

Yet here we are with another epiphany applying lessons in life’s fluidity.

It seems as though checking the rear view mirror in life is just as valuable - perhaps more so – than only looking ahead. Allow me to explain.

The year was 2016. A businessman named Donald Trump ran for the office of the President of the United States. He ran against a seasoned professional freeloader named Hillary Clinton who desperately wanted to put another meaningless notch in her belt.

She proudly worked on the Richard Nixon impeachment committee in 1973. That very public stepping stone led her to a lucrative law position in Arkansas where she met and married an equally sleazy politician, William Jefferson Clinton – at which point she changed her name from Rodham to Clinton.

With little in the way of political experience in her rear view mirror, Ms. Clinton checked the pulse of Leftist America for issues and direction. She realized that women were anxious to kill babies, which helped Clinton gravitate toward legalizing abortion. And she found a winner in that message.

Making a name for herself, Clinton rode the wave of popularity being elected a Senator from New York, First Lady, Secretary of State, and eventually a candidate for president. And she accomplished all this on an awfully thin rèsumé – one lacking genuine political experience other than marriage to a sleazy philanderer.

Very few people looking strictly through the windshield were able to see Trump become the 45^th President of the United States. But looking back at that election we now realize the shenanigans going on in the political world.

Fake dossiers, lies, doctored photographs, misinformation of social media, slanted news from the mainstream media (MSM), disingenuous politicians, corrupt government employees, along with unwarranted federal investigations, all helped generate a question of impropriety in weak minded Americans.

Suddenly there were more fabricated stories about illegal immigrants being held in cages and drinking toilet water, tax breaks for the wealthy, a failing environment, and possibilities of wars with Russia, China, plus North Korea.

Those Lefties didn’t rest for a minute. Looking back, their attacks on Trump and his administration were only bolstering support from “Average Joe” Americans. His slogan, Make America Great Again – MAGA – gained in popularity, exponentially.

In an earnest effort to stop this meteoric rise, the MSM who detested President Trump’s name-calling resorted to, well, name-calling.

Resurrecting the distasteful, emotion-evoking moniker, “Nazi,” virtually everyone without a conscience or sense of history quickly glommed onto the word, largely without knowledge of the word and what it represents.

An acronym for National Socialist German Workers’ Party, the word Nazi has become associated with heinous acts of murder and oppression as those generated by World War II Germany. By the way, an estimated 6,000,000 Jews were rounded up and murdered by Nazis; not a word casually inserted into a daily conversation.

However, in 2017 – immediately following Mr. Trump’s inauguration – that word was tossed about more than practically any other.

Americans regularly heard that Trump was a Nazi, he was turning America into Nazi Germany, and so on, perpetuated throughout his four-year term, and abruptly ended upon the election of Joe Biden. Simply amazing.

Using new tactics centering around class warfare, Biden has been employing his Department of Justice, Department of Interior, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy, among others, to exact punishment upon American MAGA voters and Trump supporters.

Applying laws written specifically for the Civil War to silence and penalize Rebel Civil War participants, a public display of corruption mixed with revenge has been regularly applied to anyone and anything Right of center.

In a concerted effort to become the Anti-Trump, Biden, on his first day in office, ran out of ink signing Executive Orders undoing everything President Trump had enacted.

Literally opening the gates to the United States for illegal immigration on Day One, Biden and his simpleton henchman Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security, have insisted “the border is closed.”

Of course it wasn’t, and still isn’t closed, but for Mayorkas, lying with a straight face to Congress as well as the American public seems to come naturally. Keep in mind that an estimated 11,000,000 illegal aliens crossed our Southern border I three years.

Now, that same administration is busy wringing. We are quickly approaching another presidential election, and Biden sycophants are scurrying to do damage control. Again evoking names such as bigot, refugee, Nazi, and asylum, Donald Trump and his supporters are once again wearing targets on their backs.

Hastily ending our 20-year military occupation in Afghanistan for political points, Biden screwed both Afghanistan and our armed forces to argue he was smarter and more attuned than Trump.

Bragging how he pulled our troops from a Middle East country, Biden proudly bragged that “that other guy,” to whom he alluded was President Trump, should’ve made this sloppy international SNAFU himself. This bone-headed move lost America billions of dollars in arms, as well as countless Afghanis who willingly helped American troops as translators and guides.

But then a corrupt country named Ukraine, whose country abuts Russia, was invaded by Vladimir Putin in February 2022. Ukraine President Volodymyr “Show Me the Money” Zelenskyy begged Plugs Biden for money and arms to fight the Russian Army’s efforts to annex Ukraine back into Russia’s fold.

Volodymyr "Show Me the Money" Zelenskyy
showing how big the stacks of money he 
expects from his buddy Joe Biden should be

Eager to appear strong, Biden quickly gave billions of dollars to Zelenskyy, a mistake opening the spigot of endless cash to a country that became critical to an attempted impeachment of Donald Trump. Oddly enough, Hunter Biden, Joe’s son, mysteriously worked for Ukraine’s Burisma, a corrupt energy company. Hunter and his buddies were allegedly paid $1,000,000 per year, according to The Committee on Oversight and Accountability.

Let’s not forget other influence peddling schemes between the Biden’s and Romania, China, Kazakhstan, and Russia. Not insignificant amounts of money that totaled well into the tens-of-millions of dollars are now in question. President Biden commented these were “all lies.” Of course they were. Wink, wink.

President Zelenskyy just left the White House begging for more money – money America doesn’t have because of the 11,000,000 illegal aliens who are gobbling-up their “free” benefits, the new 30,000 IRS employees, the hunt for more American military ammunition, college loan pay-offs, electric vehicle recharging stations, “investments (read: giveaways)” in green technologies, ad campaigns to make Americans vegetarians, and the $16,000,000,000 to railroads.

It appears as though Zelenskyy will have to go home with only $200,000,000, per CBS News. Alas.

With the 2024 Presidential Election quickly arriving it’s clear we rely on facts from yesteryear rather than suppositions of the future.

President Trump has a proud legacy on which he will likely run, damn the smarmy Attorney General, State Attorneys, District Attorneys, and other prosecutors with axes to grind.

As you can see, there’s a lot in the rear view mirror that can be used to hopefully prevent one from making the same mistakes time-after-time to the detriment of society and your personal well-being.

Check that rear view mirror often.

Christmas Time

 “Rockin’ around the Christmas tree…” is the way an old, upbeat Christmas song of that same name, begins. Sung with glee by Brenda Lee, this song has graced holiday radio airwaves for decades. Creating a toe-tapping rhythm, its electric guitar lead usually evokes a smile along with an invitation to join the singing.

Of course, this is not what many people consider “traditional” Christmas music. They often defer to more religious compositions such as Silent Night, Oh, Holy Night, and It Came Upon A Midnight Clear. But that’s a personal thing in the grand scheme of things, in my opinion.

In any case, this time of year is supposed to be special in that it is in preparation of the birth of Jesus, the Savior and Lord of the Christian faith. As a Christian I do not feel this is one bit controversial, but for others – perhaps those who dislike Brenda Lee’s Christmas tune – such a divisive tune demands attention.

In the vein of ‘fairness,’ the world has gone crazy. Of course there are other religions that celebrate their own holidays at this time of the year; unfortunately, Christianity seems to be the main target of countless, mindless rebellions by non-believers.

Insignificant groups of malcontents in both Iowa and Wisconsin, under the guise of a religious sects, felt compelled to add their version of the Christmas holiday in the form of a Satanic display. Although disgusting, spineless state pubic officials rued there was nothing they could legally do to prevent such as display of visceral hate in an attempt to ruin Christmas for everyone else.

The Satanists’ argument was they simply wanted inclusion and felt the law needed to be challenged. Yea! Not one Iowa or Wisconsin lawyer was able to find a law or loophole to prevent such an atrocity. Perhaps there should be a hiring campaign for good guvment lawyers in those states. Just sayin’.

On the other hand, one good citizen named Michael Cassidy, was able to find a solution to Iowa’s sordid holiday train wreck. A former Navy pilot and Mississippi state candidate was arrested following his destruction of this horrible mockery of Jesus and His followers. Problem solved, I say. And “Thank you, Mike!”

In the meantime, in Boston, the Asian mayor, Michelle Wu, decided to treat her staff to some holiday revelry. To ensure a great turnout, Wu’s staffer sent an email to everyone in the Mayor’s Office to not forget this important event. That’s the good news.

The bad news is that Mayor Wu, with the intent only a Harvard lawyer could muster, had the invitation rescinded. It appears as though the original email was copied to “all” employees in the mayor’s office, a faux pas that would have left a non-racist with egg on their face.

Thank goodness for Wu, she apparently needed a reason to prove to civilized America she was a world-class bigot by announcing her soiree was an event for “Electeds of Color.”

You see, The Mayor’s intention was to have ‘an all-inclusive’ holiday party except for Whities. By the way, there are seven Whities on the Boston City Counsel. Oops!

A photo of the non-inclusive all inclusive
un-White holiday party in Boston

With a smirk during a subsequent press conference, Wu explained this misunderstanding away – just as the powers-that-be likely told her to do while getting her law degree in Harvard. The misunderstanding was that White people needed to find other activities, plain and simple. Pretty inclusive indeed, Merry Holiday!

Yet, the story doesn’t end here. Some investigating revealed Mayor Wu’s husband is, himself, White. EasternShoreFishAndGame.blogspot.com is still wondering if the invitation applied to that White guy, too. No one seems to be saying much, though. So much for emasculation of White folk via inclusion.

And let us not forget about our environmentalist friends who can find woe and anger in anything and everything.

Christmas trees are an integral part of the Christmas celebration. Beginning in Germany in the early 720’s. Involving a convoluted story about pagans and Saint Boniface, tradition was born using an evergreen tree as a “holy tree,” per a Britannica reference, beginning a custom extending for generations.

The eco-kooks have been coming out of cracks in the walls to offer their anointed perspective on Christmas trees, leaving no room for discussion. These are the same people that promised civilization would freeze to death shortly after their prognostication in 1974; our days were numbered, they said.

In 1976, those same nut-jobs began an earnest effort to warn the world’s inhabitants their life expectancy was no longer than 1984, as the planet was certain to spontaneously combust. And yet here we are 39-years later awaiting that terrible fate.

In an attempt to predict the future again, various groups of unemployed and unemployable people who need to be self-important resurrected the long-standing debate over Christmas trees. It seems as though these do-gooders feel cutting down a perfectly good pine tree for no apparent reason (other than religious tradition,) should be a crime.

Demanding legal action against anyone destroying a healthy part of nature has been bandied about lately. Giving “rights” to nature is only one more step to long-term mental health care for them. However, they feel this effort will have a year to garner enough support to enact meaningful legislation for Christmas 2024 to save countless blue spruce trees. Sure.

A solid alternative to this bizarre behavior, they feel, is to buy and use artificial trees. Perhaps those shallow thinkers failed to realize Christmas celebrants have been cutting down holiday trees for 1,300 years, to the tune of thousands to millions per year. There doesn’t appear to be a tree shortage after all that willy-nilly harvesting, though.

Too bad these same eco-kooks won’t accept any advice from me about changing their idiotic lifestyles that they feel they can and should impose on me and others like me. Where’s Michael Cassidy when you need him again?

And to that end EasternShoreFishAndGame.blogspot.com wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year! God bless. 

Job Openings

Who says there’s no such thing as good news?

Since early October 2023, the deranged Palestinian political and military organization, Hamas, has been front and center in the news. Hamas is an acronym of its official name, the Islamic Resistance Movement, an organization governing the Gaza Strip of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, according to a variety of on-line sources.

Since history is no longer being taught in schools, by way of background, World War II was a conflict begun in Germany in 1939, continuing through 1945. After the armistice, the League of Nations – precursor to the feckless United Nations (UN) – decided the war-displaced European Jews needed a place to live.

The League of Nations, in 1948, decided that Palestine land was an appropriate place for the Jews to reside in peace. Regular minor incursions into Israel by Hamas, over the years, has kept tensions high. Missiles, ‘hit and run’ attacks with guns and explosives, and suicide assassins, directed at the Jewish state, has been dealt with – tolerated – until the last October 7^th.

That was the infamous day Hamas summarily sent hundreds of missiles into Israel killing 1,200 mostly civilians. Innocent civilians, that is. Children, elderly men and women, young people at an outdoor concert and festival, all indiscriminately killed by Hamas.

Not being satisfied, Hamas soldiers physically entered Israel to further murder and capturing remaining Israelis, to include young women and babies, many of whom were raped. Please re-read the last sentence.

Those who weren’t killed were captured, being taken back into Palestine to be tortured and held as bargaining chits.

This mayhem was met with a strong response from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the form of rockets, missiles, tanks, ground troops, as well as air strikes. This show of force has been relentless, and justifiably so.

As if on cue, “news” organizations largely controlled by The Left have been using propaganda since the first IDF bullet was fired, claiming defenseless Palestinian civilians were being slaughtered for no good reason. And so it went.

Repeated lies about Israel randomly dispatching Arab children, cutting off food and water supplies, and preventing the repair of electrical lines, were quickly, regularly spread worldwide with glee.

Talk shows, podcasts, newspapers, and social media have been touting the pain and suffering of Palestinians at the hands of the IDF, with no end in sight, and always the same: Hamas did nothing to deserve the relentless counterattacks especially on such a fun-loving people.

But just as cockroaches run willy-nilly until the lights are turned-on, sickening diseases and awful things occur because of an inherent inability to destroy those guilty vermin.

Suddenly, organized protests, marches, even television appearances of otherwise “normal” celebrities have sprouted from virtually nowhere. Chanting racist slogans and hurtful messages, protesters of all races, sexes, and ages took the streets of major cities to express their hate of Israel and Jews, demanding they all be exterminated without mercy.

College pukes, Congressfolks, college professors, athletes, foreign nation heads, teachers, even the aforementioned inept UN have clearly laid their proverbial hand of cards on the table. Most of those anti-Semitic demonstrators were demanding not only a “pause” infighting by the IDF, but also intifada.

Intifada is an Arabic word meaning to “tremor” or “shake off” dirt from one’s sandals. Not exactly the love and peace we’ve been told the Arab and Muslim cultures expound. Remember September 11, 2001?

Proudly standing tall, usually while wearing smug grins, these Hamas supporters have been showing their bigoted, egotistic attitudes without concern or care of castigation from the people who pay their salaries, openly appearing before federal committees to answer some easy questions posed by Congress.

Appearing before Congress to share their thoughts about these current events were MIT President Sally Kornbluth, UPenn President Liz Magill, and Harvard President Claudine Gay – all of whom appear to be affirmative action hirees.

After several long hours of questioning about their professional positions regarding the clear antisemitism being demonstrated on their respective campus’, not one of the bunch could articulate – in a manner other than as a lawyer – that they condemned open disgust for and disdain at Jews.

Dancing around the questions from Congresswoman Elise Stefanik much like the late Fred Astaire famously performed, all three exercised their chicane skills in an attempt to appear to answer without answering – a move usually reserved for government employees appearing before House and Senate Committees.

All three scored poorly on their oral exams on December 5^th, as not one of these over-educated lawyers were able to respond “yes” or “no” to questions concerning the condemnation of antisemitism on their respective campus’.

President Magill’s response to the anti-Jew rhetoric was a clever, “It is a context-dependent decision, Congresswoman.” I’ll bet it is.

Just as an aside, Magill’s annual salary was reported to be $1,200,000, plus benefits and perks, according to timesnownews.com.

But Magill had an epiphany several days later to voluntarily step down from her president’s position. That’s one job opening. Arrogant Claudine Gay and Sally Kornbluth appear as though they, too, may be on the platform awaiting their train for departure from academia. Our fingers are crossed.

That would create another two jobs that need filling. Perhaps this time they will be properly filled with qualified personnel other than those who are merely able to check the appropriate boxes. Compassion and humanity are two of the important checklist items.

Bidenomics

 Here’s a fun fact: President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., proclaimed he is “taking on special interests and winning.” He smiled for the cameras as he made this statement while signing the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

All along, Biden complained enough wasn’t being done to “help lower costs for families, combat the climate crisis, reduce the budget deficit, and finally ask the largest companies to pay their fair share.” This statement clearly appears on The White House website under the byline August 15, 2022.

And here we are, more than a year later, eagerly awaiting the effects of the IRA to assist those less affluent navigate our “transitory inflation” with much-touted legislation aimed at punishing corporations for making money.

This sentiment is not new. Lefties and Commies such as Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and President Biden himself, have been forever beating the drum of squeezing blood from a stone by making profits a sin.

Taxing everything from driving, working, fishing, buying to help the economy, saving money, owning a car, smoking anything, rain, building a home, even dying, has become a true quest for greedy politicians ardently trying to break the backs of industry and its workers plus America’s citizenry all in the name of fairness.

That same tired line of needing equity in order to survive is nothing more than a phony claim to divide the masses for the sake of conquering via propaganda. And so far, so good.

Under auspices of helping the rank-and-file worker make more money, politicians regularly drag out lame examples of how corporate executives and other white collar-types make gads more money than their blue-collar counterparts.

But too often the blue collar-types are under educated, or merely engaged in entry-level jobs whose salaries are commensurate with their knowledge, skills, and abilities – mostly entry-level positions. In the event they are displeased with their wages or position they should find a new job.

Of course, right-to-work laws in varying states play a key role as to unionization of employees affecting attitudes of employees versus at-will employee situations. Playing the Devil’s advocate, unions enjoy dragging corporations into forced situations to settle perceived slights in salaries, benefits, and tenure.

Through walkouts, strikes, and slowdowns, demands by the rank-and-file workers can, and do, often end up victorious in disputes with management, however sometimes with less than desired results. Higher pay may translate to employee lay-offs or a cutback in hours, or both.

Suddenly, those meaningful demands result in lost product sales, higher costs to satisfy stock holder demands, and an occasional corporate restructuring or bankruptcy.

Certainly, none of these matters to guvment-types many of whom have never held a private sector job where salaries and bonuses and time benefits are calculated based upon profits. Union representatives usually omit those pesky parts out of their spiels to the picketers.

Demanding more in the way of fair pay is a virtual given in any job where skills are learned and should be considered for advancement rather than longevity, sex, or race.

In any case, Biden has been traipsing about the country claiming his IRA is a genuine success; in fact, it has been deemed so much of a success that the Biden Administration has named this stroke of brilliance “Bidenomics.”

Bidenomics' name sake

Let’s say it together: BIDENOMICS! YEA!

As luck has it, Biden claims greedy merchants have been working extra hard at socking it to the little guy. Since Biden has been in office, bread has increased by 29%, eggs by 87%, and electricity by 22%.

The IRA is heralded as a way for the average person to buy a new electric vehicle (EV) because part of that bill includes a tax credit for EVs. Costing in the neighborhood of $60,000, a new EV is eligible, under the IRA, for a $7500 tax credit. Wow!

Unfortunately, that tax credit comes out of the money you paid in federal taxes. And with the higher costs of food, homes, fuel, groceries, school supplies, and electricity, the average U.S. household finds itself more than $10,000 per year further in debt than when President Donald Trump was in office. Not the financial windfall for which you hoped.

Last, but not least, is the biggest threat to civilization; an existential threat, to be exact. That threat is: not Ukraine, not Hamas, not the Southern border, not a COVID redux, not out-of-control crime, not illiteracy in our schools, not systemic racism, not transgender hate crimes, not using an improper pronoun. The biggest threat to civilization is climate change.

Yes, climate change is the major burr under the saddle of prosperity that, according to experts such as Greta Thunberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Bill Gates, is the one issue which will determine if we, as a society, will continue. I’ll wait while you retrieve a tissue for your tears.

As usual, the guvment is trying to appear beneficial to American’s needs to stifle permanent environmental damage by throwing money at the problem. Giving money back to those from whence it came is supposed to somehow solve the problem at-hand. It doesn’t, though.

Giving money to solve a problem is tantamount to the redistribution of wealth – the middle class paying for the benefit of the wealthy to install solar panels, wind turbines, and purchase EVs exactly what is happening to our rapid descent into more debt.

Let’s examine where the rest of these precious tax dollars are going to through the IRA conduit.

Unfortunately, the Biden administration’s uncompromising rules on mining for necessary oil and minerals, along with keeping our environment the cleanest on the planet, prevents us from manufacturing our own solar panels and rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.

Thank goodness for America that Communist China is willing and available to flout environmental laws to continue to make a buck off the back of Joe Biden and every other American in the process of saving Mother Earth.

Our money flows freely to China to give them the business our environmentalists find distasteful. Of course,
that money translates into advanced military weaponry which will likely be used to fight against us while we side with Taiwan during a clash over their sovereignty with China.

There you have it. Bidenomics is a true success in every...uh, no, it isn’t. Never mind.

We’re now deeper in debt than ever in history, are amid an invasion of unknown foreigners freely crossing our Southern border, dangling on the precipice of financial collapse, quickly approaching total civil destruction, intentionally creating illiterate grade schoolers to fudge teachers’ abilities, while edging closer to another World War.

How’s that for a fun fact?