Too Much of a Good Thing

 

  If you hang around cerebral folks, you’ve likely heard the words “adage” and “idiom” escape their mouths.

For the record, “Adages, such as ‘a stitch in time saves nine,’ typically offer advice based on common sense or experience and are easily understood by people across different cultures. Whereas idioms, like ‘kick the bucket,’ convey meanings that can be puzzling to non-native speakers and often culturally specific,” according to askdifference.com

So, when someone uses the words “Too much of a good thing,” that, to me, can be very confusing. In my puny mind, that sentence can neatly fit into both of the adage, as well as idiom category. How can that be?

Let’s say you won the Powerball lottery which carries a jackpot that cannot be described as insignificant. Usually totaling in the multi-million-dollar range, that money brings as much angst as it does glee. Suddenly acquiring previously unknown friends and relatives, magically causes such needy people to appear, wholesale, with open hands.

The same holds true for those people from other cultures who cannot fathom there being any good thing that might be overburdening. Once again, too much of a good thing,

Think about trying to invest, save, be benevolent, even squander your newly found bonanza. Buying a deserving person a car, bar patrons a ‘round of drinks,’ or setting up a trust fund for a favorite relative or lifelong friend, can exude wealth that often creates rifts.

Too much of a good thing, again. As is evident, sharing the wealth, not unlike adages and idioms, can quickly become confusing.

But it was my sainted wife who unintentionally introduced a conundrum into our otherwise simplistic life. Being the end of July, when temperatures are regularly reaching three digits, and humidity on The Eastern Shore approaches 98% – a pleasant 98%, that is.

Personally, I’ve been planting a very modest 4’x6’ garden for over fifty-years, usually consisting of two cherry tomato plants, two Big Boy tomato plants, and often a couple of okras, as well as cucumbers. Each has their own place on my table. The cherries are for salads, Big Boys are used on sandwiches, while okra is for gumbo, and cukes are used in my salads, as well.

Not seeming like an extraordinary number of crops, planted correctly, the cherry tomatoes can yield several two-gallon buckets of fruit, as can the Big Boys, both of which are usually shared with friends and neighbors. The aforementioned okra excess must be frozen or pickled as people refer to them as slimy in their refusal of free veggies; for the record, they’re not.

But over the past few years with the expansion of my modest garden into a 7’x32’ plot, I am now able to plant more everything. I’ve written about cucumbers from my garden before, but now I decided we needed two additional cucumber plants since there was a five foot space adjacent to my newly introduced eggplants.

As luck would have it, this year is thus far promising to be a bumper year for many crops.

From time-to-time, a growing cycle appears in the fruit and vegetable growing seasons. Every four-years, or so, my black walnut trees produced an extraordinary abundance of nuts; other years, my plum trees thrived as did pears and apples in still different seasons.

Alignment of the planets – or whatever causes this phenomenon – seems to be right this year of 2025. As such, our first tomato was picked July 1^st. Since then, it’s been tomatoes upon tomatoes from the Big Boy vines finding their way to our kitchen table.

Quickly approaching the beginning of August, we’ve also been harvesting an extraordinary number of cucumbers. In an effort of efficiency and frugality, my sainted wife has been accumulating Mason jars in order to can these green garden denizens.

A small portion of the cucumber bonanza

Buying them by the case she’s become the best friend of the local hardware store who is delighted to sell these canning necessities. The good news is the washing, sterilizing, creating a brine, peeling, chopping, slicing, and finally canning more than 20-cucumbers yielded eight quarts of pickles.

The bad news is that the very next day, she picked another seven cukes with five more in the wings. Of course she panicked. Of course.

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Without a preconceived plan for excess cucumber disposal, she took to making casual, unannounced “welfare” visits to neighbors. And how fortuitous she had a small bag containing at least five fresh cucumbers with her.

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Wearing a giant smile, she would begin her conversation with an expression of concern that she had not seen our neighbor in several days. (The reason for that is the aforementioned oppressive heat and humidity.)

While extending her hand holding the bag chock full o’ cukes, she learned how to release the bag, turn her body in mid-air, and skedaddle before the unsuspecting neighbor could scream, “NOOOOO!”

Unfortunately, the neighbors quickly caught on to her shenanigans and subsequent visits were met with them hiding like felons anticipating a felony warrant being served. It soon became apparent the jig was up, and time for implementing Plan B.

My sainted wife seemed to be leaving the house often, at random times. Her excuses varied from “Goin’ shoppin’,” to “Returning a library book,” even “Visiting some sick friend.”

Suspecting something nefarious was going on I decided to surreptitiously follow her. Sure enough, she wound up at the Tallmart store where I espied her sneakily placing our surplus cucumbers in the store’s vegetable bins, cleverly camouflaging them as genuine Tallmart produce which an unsuspecting consumer would hopefully give a new home.

It’s quite a shame that we have so much available food that we are unable to give it away.

And now you have another example of both an adage and idiom: Too much of a good thing.

The Inevitable

 

  “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

That profound sentence was written by Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, in 1789.

Eventually becoming a popular idiom, those words are now commonly used to point at anything that is both annoying and inevitable.

So, I was curious as to how we arrived at our present location in life regarding taxes and their punitive affects on our daily lives. Buckle-up and prepare for a wild ride through the true history of taxes, taxers, and taxees.

(Psst: Save yourself some time and trouble of looking up the word “taxees,” as I just made it up to improve that sentence.)

Real estate speculator, King George III

The federal income tax in the United States was officially established with the ratification of the 16^th Amendment on February 3, 1913. Its origins trace back to the Civil War when the first income tax was introduced in 1862 to help finance war expenses.

It should be noted that early taxation relied heavily on tariffs and excise taxes. Odd that this means of finding money worked well until Congress felt they were the smartest people in the country. By the way, what worked so well until then – tariffs – are suddenly vilified since it’s now President Donald Trump’s idea. Oh, my.

However, the income tax was repealed in 1872 due to public opposition. Go figure.

Not to be denied their exercise of power, Congress, in 1894, attempted to reintroduce a 2% income tax on incomes over $4,000, but the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. Not to be deterred, Congress flexed its muscle by proposing the 16^th Amendment in 1909; it was ratified in 1913.

The first federal income tax under this amendment was a 1% tax on incomes above $3,000, with a 6% surtax on incomes over $500,000. Clearly this paved the way for the annual pickpocketing known as the “Congress Can Spend Your Money More Wisely Than You” Amendment. (Not really, but it should have been named that for accuracy.)

This brilliant maneuver fundamentally changed federal revenue sources, making income tax a primary means of funding guvment operations. With sleazy Congressmen AND women in charge, over time, income tax brackets have evolved significantly impacting American economic policy and society.

Not unlike sharks, Congress suddenly developed a taste for blood, beginning a campaign to see how quickly they could bleed Americans, along with their work ethic. With a seemingly endless supply of dollars from the then-estimated population of 92,000,000 Americans, Congress’ crusade on class warfare began in earnest. Let the exsanguination begin!

But what exactly is the aforementioned excise tax? I’m here to explain.

An excise tax is a specific tax imposed on certain goods or services at the time of purchase, such as fuel, tobacco, and alcohol. It is typically paid by businesses, but passed on to consumers through higher prices. This excise tax is local in nature, collected by municipalities and states, very much like sales taxes are.

To help the federal guvment feel more included, the feds began adding their “fair share” of taxes on goods such as vehicle tires. Tires are subject to various taxes, including federal excise tax (FET) and state-specific fees such as the Tire User Fee in Illinois, which is imposed on the sale of new and used tires. These taxes help fund road maintenance and tire disposal programs. Wink, wink.

Unfortunately, Americans are sold a bill of goods each time the excise fuel prices are raised, lying to us about the need for mo’ money to repair roads and bridges. Uh, huh.

It seems as though the FET, sales tax, and Tire User Fee, is in addition to the ever-present federal income tax. Not a bad legal haul for a politician-generated robbery, but most certainly a crime for Al Capone.

Let’s skip ahead to the calendar. The federal guvment’s budget is on a one-year cycle. Beginning on October 1^st, and ending on September 30^th, this period is known as a “fiscal year.” Fiscal years are determined to set budget deadlines as well as spending periods.

These budget plans are set by Congress who hold the proverbial checkbook and pen. ONLY Congress may spend money from the Department of Treasury; not the President, Vice President, Speaker of the House, or janitor, can authorize spending money. Period.

If – IF – the federal guvment runs out of money, they cannot spend more because the pre-established limit has already been spent, and the checkbook balance is $0.00. In American dollars, that is ZERO.

Oftentimes, the guvment runs out of money, though. Natural disasters, civil unrest, over-exaggerations of the flu, foreign wars, and other unforeseen emergencies quickly deplete the coffers, at which time it is necessary to still spend money in the name of humanity and public safety. That’s when Congress meets to raise the budget in the form of a loan – a loan that needs to be repaid – hence, the name “loan.”

Currently, the loan as of late stands at a nosebleed $37,000,000,000,000. That’s 37 trillion dollars!

Click here for the actual Debt Clock   https://www.usdebtclock.org/

No matter who you are, that is a lot of money, but the brain trust in Congress think there’s room to write more bad checks for frivolous things. And they are quick to tell you that if only they had more money, all would be well. It wouldn’t, because they’ll only spend more. Trust me.

Now for the big question: Where will Congress get the money?  Answer: You.

And the little question to which you also know the answer: How will Congress extort your money? Little answer: Taxes.

Don’t forget that America became a nation because Britain’s King George III raised the excise tax on tea. Don’t forget.

Forward to 1865

 

  What was old is now new. Take, for example, electric cars. Electric vehicles were experimented with by several auto manufacturers as far back as the 1830’s, in Scotland. Attempting to find a suitable battery was difficult, inasmuch as electricity for charging was still widely unavailable.

After a period of deep thinking, European auto manufacturers decided, in 1901, that the internal combustion engine was far less expensive to manufacture and maintain than electric vehicles. But now they’re new again in 2025.

Then there are bell bottom britches. Exactly where bell bottom pants were born is a mystery, but they were adopted by the U.S. Navy in 1901, for use by sailors. They were found to be more easily able to be doffed by an overboard sailor preventing drowning. Used during World War I, they became accepted as a fashion must for both men and women.

Eventually, they disappeared until being “rediscovered” in the 1960’s and 1970’s as an accessory in the fashion world, again, when thought of as new. (As an aside, I also had a pair of bell bottoms, and I looked good.)

Not to be outdone, the brain trust of California’s transportation system thought it would be a terrific idea to make traveling throughout the Eureka State more safe, comfortable, and efficient by building a railway system.

You read that right. Someone who didn’t learn about the rail systems of America, Europe, or the Far East, in elementary school apparently stumbled upon something termed “trains.”

Trains have been around for hundreds of years in varying forms to include electric, steam, plus diesel, that have not only proved efficient, but cost effective, as well. They were successful in transporting both goods and people across a developing nation for many, many years.

Trains began waning following the Civil War ending in 1865, in favor of the new mode of transportation called the automobile.

As with all things, they age; some things age better than others. And just because they were once beneficial to ‘their times,’ doesn’t mean they should or could be revived. 

Gavin Newsom pointing to the direction 
his popularity is heading

Creating the California High-Speed Rail Program (CHSRP), California Gubernor Gavin Newsom thought it would be amazing if he could build this much-wanted boondoggle to showcase his forward-thinking abilities.

Promising this rail system would service areas from San Francisco to Los Angeles, was the easy part. Using a media blitz to promote and continue enthusiasm has become arduous, though.

With the CHSRP using the ol’ razzle dazzle game, they continue to cheer lead this bottomless money pit. Visiting

https://hsr.ca.gov/2025/01/06/news-release-californias-high-speed-rail-program-celebrates-progress-and-highlights-next-steps-towards-operations/

will take you to a website of fluff, along with nebulous platitudes that may actually invoke a case of Type 2 Diabetes.

Enthusiastically bragging about working on 171-miles of track, following the creation of more than 14,500 construction jobs, this statement from CHSRP gives one the impression this exercise was making great headway.

Unfortunately, this saga has been seemingly never ending. Beginning with early visions in the 1990’s, this high speed rail system had planned to remove cars from the roadways thereby relieving congestion.

With $9.95 billion in bonds sold in 2008, this pipe dream was well underway to becoming a reality.

Officially breaking ground in 2015, the section between Bakersfield and Merced, seemed like the easiest place to start. “The goal was to complete this segment first and then connect to the more populace areas,” according to brilliantmaps.com. That was ten-years ago, for your information.

This lofty project was expected to be complete by 2020, but the timeline has now reached beyond 2030. Financial issues have also plagued the project. “Originally projected to cost $33 billion,” brilliantmaps.com continues, “the project’s estimated cost has ballooned to over $128 billion. As a result, the funding shortfalls have become a significant obstacle. The federal government initially provided some support through stimulus funding during the Obama administration.”

Gubernor Newsom has arrived at a place where he, as well as his CHSRP, must explain where all those billions and billions of tax dollars went over the last 17-years. The bigger mystery is where the additional $95,000,000,000 will go. However, the biggest enigma is what are all those 14,500-construction people doing? Something to ponder.

California is proud to declare itself a state in which a resident needs a vehicle to travel. Widespread, Los Angeles itself is nearly impossible to navigate without a car, thereby demanding more wider roads, which create more pollution, necessitating additional traffic enforcement, besides vehicle registrations and inspections – all of which demand additional citizen’s taxes, handled by an obese bureaucracy.

Leading this charge, Gubernor Newsom fancies himself as frugal, when in fact, he is a spendthrift. Showing little regard for taxpayers, residents, drivers, and consumers, Newsom has been attempting to use this as one of his résumé items for 2028 presidential bid.

It’s too bad he’s desperately reaching backward into 1865 for tomorrow’s answers; not the brilliance for which one would hope in a leader.

His 2024 visit to The White House appeared to signal his own intention to run for the highest office. Seemingly measuring the Oval Office for new drapes, Newsom remained tight-lipped when asked speculative questions concerning this clear perusal of his future Washington, D.C. residence.

Pretending to not know of what reporters are referring, Newsom, to this day, has been making ‘presidential-like’ statements regarding current President Donald Trump’s behavior and actions concerning day-to-day operations. His scowl, complimented by his furrowed brow is a dead giveaway when determining if his audition is, indeed, authentic.

With poor decisions dangling from his neck much like cheap jewelry, Gubernor Newsom has been ignoring those faux pas collected akin to cheesy Mardi Gras beads. Wildfires, riotous protests, anti-Semitic rallies, transgender (Title IX) sports issues, illegal alien invaders, his environmental debacle, accompanied by outrageous and punitive tax policies, have all been gleefully explained away as “progress.”

Newsom apparently feels as though there’s a secret reset button that he’s able to push that will effectively erase all his past sins.

Sniffing out media cameras and microphones better than a bloodhound, Newsom seems to enjoy any and all havoc he creates in the name of forward thinking.

Unfortunately, all this forward thinking doesn’t include a Venn Diagram that encompasses from where all his stellar policies and dictums funding will come.

As with many – maybe most – guvment projects, funding monies be damned. The populace is seen as a giant cash cow to create a facade that rarely can be called a success without politicians and other guvment honchos digging into the wallet pockets of constituents.

If Gubernor Newsom wants to sit at America’s helm, he will need to quickly learn that our nation is not hankering for another spend-then-tax the populace. Based on his political track record, he doesn’t have a clue about budgets, much less constituents.

It’s time to send him into the private sector for a taste of how a real job works.

Promises, Promises

 

  Once again America is divided because of news. Unfortunately, this time around it is not fake news.

Parsing out and subsequently digesting this ‘new news’ has become rather laborious what with all the goings-on in the world and individuals’ private lives. As such, news consumers have resorted to finding means by which to expedite their news feeds, one of which being the internet.

Loaded chock full of eager advertisers trying to sell their wares to anyone, anywhere, has created a medium that rudely interrupts “normal” web surfing. Pop-ups blaze across the screen to not only antagonize but also disrupt any attempt to get to the core of a particular search.

Throughout its short existence, the internet had become a mixed hotbed of news-agency propaganda besides distractions in the form of those pesky pop-ups. As an aside, most of those pop-ups are titillating to the point of ‘train wreck’ status.

We’ve all been there: Driving down the highway when traffic comes to an abrupt stop. Flashing lights, wailing emergency vehicle sirens, tow trucks, citizens standing roadside weeping and often covered in blood, draws enough attention to make you want to look – like it or not. We must witness the train wreck.

Akin to the roadside train wreck is something generated by brief those hokey news briefs I call “click bait.”

Click bait is an enticement to divert your attention away from what you were doing, causing you to focus attention elsewhere. They begin with sensational headlines such as “Pope interviews space alien,” or “Donald Trump cheated with golf partner.”

Of course, the Pope story is about Jimmy Pope from the Bronx who is a heavy LSD user, while the Trump story misleads by omitting his golf partner actually gave him a Mulligan. Neither of these click baits were honest or informational. But they made you look.

Which is where we find ourselves less than several weeks after the New York City (NYC) Democratic Mayoral primary race. We couldn’t avoid the hoopla which was an exposé of showcasing failed New York State (NYS) governor Andrew Cuomo, along with a relatively newcomer named Zohran Mamdani.

Being a long-time governor spending ten-years in office, Cuomo has proven himself to be a genuine sleaze bag, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, when he ordered nursing homes to admit patients from hospitals without testing them for COVID-19. He was blamed for a large number of those nursing home deaths.

Mamdani’s, appearance on the Democratic ticket generated a considerable amount of interest and enthusiasm. Being a relatively newcomer – he’s been representing the 36^th district in NYS since 2021. He’s also a member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America. And proud of it.

With the aid of another Socialistic-leaning Congressional Representative, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 33-year-old Mamdani seemingly coasted to a wide-margin victory over Cuomo.

Immediately thereafter, the hoopla began to resonate across the media. Wearing an insincere smile, Mamdani continued to make the rounds while spouting his brilliant plan for “fairness,” and “equity.”

It all sounded so good to the downtrodden and spiteful New Yorkers who suddenly demanded a pound of flesh from smart investors plus business owner, alike. Take no prisoners!

Forgetting who was feeding them, those under educated voters could easily see lots of freebies in their future.

Promises of free bus rides, free subway trips, free cell phones, free food from city-owned and operated grocery stores, as well as free clinics, we on the tongues of every financial analyst and news pundit in America. This was revolutionary. REVOLUTIONARY!

Similar to attracting flies to poop, Mamdani was drawing larger and larger crowds of admirers and well-wishers on his trek to Gracie Mansion, following every spoken word. But from whence will the money for all the newly incurred bills come?

I’m glad you asked.

Evidently, Mr. Mamdani has this vision of taxing the “wealthy” for their fair share. It appears as though the actual numbers that separate the rich from the poor remain somewhat nebulous to our new Democratic shooting star. All we need to know is that a Mayor Mamdani will conjure up a clear number after his election.

Of course, that will be much too late to put the proverbial genie back into the lamp. Not to worry, though, as something desperate needs to be done to help the NYC underclass in such dire times.

He’s mentioned he will aim at stopping the current Commander-in-Chief, President Donald J. Trump, inasmuch as President Trump has been unfairly targeting needy illegal immigrants in America’s throes. Mamdani is angry that America’s resources, innovation, and subsequent wealth are too precious to waste on Americans.

Currently bragging about his socialist tendencies, Mamdani mentioned his brilliant programs that would spread his generosity would have to be likely confiscated from those not sharing his benevolence.

For the record, socialism is term used to describe an economic system that advocates a system of shared ownership and wealth equity. Communism, on the other hand, is similar to socialism, however communism receives its monies and holdings from state confiscation.

As is evident, socialism is nothing but communism light. Confiscation without guns...socialism for all!

Former PM Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, once said, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” That pretty well sums up the situation in which Zohran Mamdani hopes America’s NYC will head.

This sleazy tactic is very, very similar to one used in 1930’s Germany. A political newcomer from Austria felt Germany was in need of a more robust economy that would help most German people. With Jewish, homosexuals, and anti-National Socialist Party citizens serving as scapegoats, Adolph Hitler turned that nation against his perceived enemies to drive Germany into a world war. It should be noted that his newly contrived National Socialist Party – NAZI, for short – is nothing like what our modern media is comparing to President Trump.

This razzle dazzle plunged the world into desperation, poverty, mayhem, with international divisions felt to this day.

These wacky ideas from such immigrant transplants such as Mamdani should not be ignored, but rather heeded to prevent such dangerously stupid ideas from being implemented.

To prevent this derailing of America – this step having its inception at a low level – must be stomped out with education and an historic perspective.

Mamdani is not a clown. He is a dangerous threat that will turn the minds of ignorant, complacent Americans into slaves for his grandiose hare-brained idea of changing NYC into a socialist-run entity.

Rewriting History

 

  People have been subject to the proverbial wool being pulled over their eyes for so long that the truth now seems nonexistent.

Let’s play a game.

If I handed you an egg, then asked you tell me what your thoughts are, you would likely have a paragraph or two as an answer. Descriptive words could include cold, white, ovoid shaped, and no odor.

Should you drop that egg on the ground, I dare say your description might be totally different. Now words such as gooey, slimy, room temperature, fragile, odiferous, kind of clear and yellow in color, and fragile, would change the narrative.

Still, another time and yet another egg would probably result in a description altogether different of cracked with something firm inside, chilly, white in color – both inside and out, as well as semi-fragile.

All those scenarios are both correct and incorrect depending on who is looking at a specific egg, and the condition in which it was given to you. Raw, uncooked, refrigerated, boiled, are all factors in what you experienced with the egg, as well as any bias you incorporate therein.

Personally, I like eggs. A professional TV chef named Guy Fieri, who has seemingly countless shows about food, hates eggs, in any way, shape, or form. I would wager Mr. Fieri would vomit coat hangers if he was included in our little game. But I digress.

As is evidenced, we can all look at something – real or imaginary – and contrive our own description. And just because it is what you see and feel does not equate to what others see and feel.

The former Soviet Union was comprised of varying nations divided up into half-countries following World War II. That horrific war changed so much of the world and its views, for better or worse, with the effects still being felt 80-years later.

Controlled by communist dictators, the Soviet Union, along with its many unwilling inhabitants, was summarily ruled with an iron fist. In fact, it was so strict that fences were erected around its satellite nations to prevent residents from leaving.

To aid teaching their Neo-history to their school children, old texts, as well as period photos were incorporated into their modern versions of Soviet history books, museums, even songs.

Unfortunately, the Soviet rulers, along with history censors, were especially busy “modifying” their centuries of existence prior to their border realignment following the war. To accomplish this re-write the censors quietly airbrushed historical figures and places from photographs, plus associated captions in addition to text from old books, all to be forever lost.

This history rewrite effectively modified the truth about not only their past, but their future, too.

Something similar is being attempted throughout most of the world with newly enthroned dictators, and Leftist premiers and presidents, gleefully altering their own kingdoms with similar revisionist histories.

Every nation is subject to this alteration of past times for the benefit of creating a narrative that will be beneficial to the new comers that will also assist the dictators maintain control of their new domains.

And yes, the United States is not exempt. An earnest effort to modify and rewrite our history has been in the works for decades.

Using the public school system, in conjunction with prominent colleges and universities, the Leftist-infiltrated “education” system has been incorporating revised text books plus totally contrived lesson plans for use in altering the minds and hearts of many Americans.

Beginning decades ago, those elementary lessons were changed to blame historic figures and their notable historic accomplishments for each and every ill that exists in the modern world.

Citing Christopher Columbus for invading North America, thereby bringing ‘white man’s disease” to kill American Indians, began the crusade to erase our history. Such outright lies are now politely referred to as “propaganda,” except by the claimant using terms such as “the truth.”

Since that ‘dip of the toe in the water’ to test for temperature, it was discovered Americans were eager for a change – real or imagined.

Today, causes of everything from diseases to floods, hurricanes to forest fires, have been attributed to not only America and American inhabitants, but “white Americans,” specifically.

With lack of candor, a direct line was drawn from “racist America” to ills of foreign nations, all taught in schools as an umbrella to multiculturalism. Getting the populace to believe their woes were attributable to racism, a tribalisitic theme was begun in elementary schools, and eventually continued through the college level.

Dividing our nation was approaching completeness when indignant underachievers found new careers as professional race hustlers. Penning fictitious books, articles, making movies, and sniffing out television cameras plus microphones, only encouraged these phonies to continue their quest toward division.

Integrating this giant misdirection of facts into daily life of all Americans, a confidence game called “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” abbreviated as DEI, gave this scam legs for a continued immersion long after scholastic times, thus ensuring a reinforced method of brainwashing, along with division.

Breaking down each DEI letter would take days, but suffice it to say, they are not what they appear to mean to those consumers of new, trendy societal trials. Diversity means hiring based not on knowledge, skills and abilities, but on race, sex, even religion.

Equity is the fun word of this trio that uses measurements from when we begin our professional lives. If you are an engineer, you began your career years prior – while in school – to secure a lucrative position designing and developing everything from sneakers to cars to computers and rockets.

The theory behind equity is that too many straight white folks are already performing in jobs that eager minorities desire. Unfortunately, those yens can’t be quenched without an edge that will allow these wannabes an advantage. Rather than simply firing the seasoned straight white folks, they are expected to serve as mentors to the newcomers. Eventually, though, those newcomers will become bosses and managers without true knowledge, skills, or abilities.

While this may seem fair, under certain circumstances, it is. Designing a wooden pencil or a whistle is not necessarily critical to the world, but in the field of medicine, aeronautics, and research and development, it is.

Pro-DEI Representative Jasmine Crockett

One new loud voice from Congress is from Representative Jasmine Crockett, (D) Texas. She is only one of the proponents of DEI and is losing her mind because of President Trump’s saner policies. She has been making the TV talk show rounds accusing Trump of having a failing cranium. Evidently this champion of filling jobs with under qualified workers has never met former President Joseph Biden.

Several hospitals were overly enthusiastic about hiring personnel as doctors and clinicians via DEI programs to overcome their definition of “racism.” This zealous move toward more “fairness” to those being held back because of perceived racism, sexism, xenophobia, and misogyny fortunately hit the brakes.

And just like in the egg game, reality is in the eye of the beholder; we each see things differently, where all egg experiences are correct while simultaneously being wrong.

Each time, following several surgeries, I never once wondered what race, sex, or religion my doctors and attending nurses were. And to this day, I could also not care less.

But to some underachievers and whiny malcontents, jumping to the front of the proverbial line is critical to justness. It is not.

This exercise is an effort to rewrite history – history for which Americans fought so ardently: the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Prohibiting discrimination, by any other name, became law 61-years ago.

It’s about time we follow the “Rule of Law.”

Race to Nowhere

 

  As the title implies, something is amiss when those words are put together. A race is something in which people usually compete to win during a competition. Those folks could be running, driving, swimming, even knitting, vying to see who will be deemed the winner by finishing first.

Just imagine being a spectator at one of these races – excited to cheer for your favorite competitor only to be disappointed at the pace and scale of the contest itself. To make and keep these rivalries fair while being interesting for the fans, the weakest of competitors are often weeded out prior to the actual race.

Unfortunately, these excisions are not necessarily done with efficiency when talking about race participants in political arenas.

In fair political races, the people are able to go to the polls where they are then permitted to vote for, and oftentimes elect, their favorite candidate competitor. However, that’s not always the case.

With the ‘dumbing-down’ of America over the past few decades, many of the voters have had their brains excised to see, hear, and believe whatever they are told via mass media along with the press.

People have become lazy – too lazy to research their candidates – to make an educated and informed decision as to whether their votes will go to the best in the race. And that is troubling. And with campaigns such as Get Out the Vote, the suggestion is to simply vote without thought or consequence.

With the press lying to the voters regarding everything from obtaining a flu vaccine to casting a ballot for a department store mannequin, those educated and informed decisions literally dissolved right before their eyes.

A lifelong guvment employee – Joseph Robinette Biden – was summarily elected to the lofty position of president in 2020, defeating a one-term presidential rival Donald J. Trump, in an electoral race that appeared to be rigged in favor of Biden.

Using sleazy tactics like lying, fabricating facts, distorting the truth, besides filing one lawsuit after another to have rival Trump removed from the ballot, or incarcerated for trumped-up charges, Biden slid into office to quickly unwind all noble accomplishments implemented by President Trump.

This was clearly a Democrat exercise to discipline candidate Trump for defeating his 2016 lame opponent, Hillary R. Clinton. Clinton ran her part of that race from a van, and surrounded by aides toting ropes to keep the common folk far away from Queen Hillary.

Regularly hurried away from public meet-and-greet activities, the commoners were not allowed to approach or speak to Her Highness, thereby isolating her from agog, fawning constituents. Clearly her stellar plan didn’t work as she had hoped since her quest for presidential power failed badly.

It was 2024 when the next and last presidential race was held, and Biden – who plainly demonstrated he was incapable of caring for an avocado, much less a nation in which he begged an estimated 12 million invaders to enter, proved it was time for a change in the Democrat race lineup.

While the fawning press who carried Biden around the world for four years in a sedan chair, realized their favorite race participant was too incompetent to continue through his re-election campaign, the press began scrambling to find a viable replacement for El Jefé Biden.

The obvious choice was his hand-selected, four-year vice president, Kamala Harris. For the record, she was chosen because she met all the qualifications: black and female. No lie.

During her abbreviated presidential run, Harris selected an equally qualified vice presidential candidate for her race, a Tube Man.

In the event you’re unfamiliar with the term Tube Man, you’ve likely seen one outside a barber shop, car dealership, or new restaurant. They’re those inflatable things resembling a flexible, oversized drinking straw. With the benefit of an air pump, they flail and dance, waving their nylon arms to attract attention. They look really goofy, but garner attention.

A Tim Walz impersonator

Minnesota Gubenor Timothy Walz seemed to fill the bill for which Harris was so desperately searching as a quality running mate. Walz made quite an impression on the nation during the St. George Floyd riots in mid-2020. During those riotous weeks, Walz pretended the social misfits, fascists, miscreants, and black racists were expected to exact a form of justice through destruction of municipal and private property.

He further proudly began a very public critique of the Trump-Vance team. Pointing out their shortcomings Walz demonstrated his inability to grasp basic ideas of civility along with making the nation more cohesive.

Needless to say, Walz and Harris soon discovered the unemployment line following their miserable defeat during their historic run. Of course, they both set out to discredit and immediately blame the voting populace for their pathetic showing.

Not unlike a similar tirade from St. Hillary, Stacey Abrams, plus Al Gore, who all lost their political bids, the Harris/Walz dream team began their ‘We lost because of [you fill in the blank] tour.’

Not being their fault that they were smarter than those who failed to vote for them, Harris and Walz were quick to point out their incredible intellect while attempting to convey their message to such a stupid voting bloc.

In fact, Walz just complained about our 47^th president, Donald Trump, who is ardently returning America back to a sense of normalcy. Walz, carping that China – the nation that enjoys slave labor from its Uygur population, as well as a criticism from a 2025 UN rights report – is his personal favorite example of a nation to be held up as a model for the United States.

Not to be outdone, California Gubenor Gavin Newsom has been nudging his own way into the 2028 Presidential Elections, as he likely sees an opening. Along with Newsom are failed Gubenors JB Pritzker, Kathy Hochul, Gretchen Whitmer, as well as Hillary Clinton, plus the aforementioned Kamala Harris along with Tube Man. Alas.

Perpetually wondering why they are not reaching the political acme they so desire, they all fail to realize that the voters are not necessarily as stupid as this gaggle of geniuses have come to believe.

With college campus officials turning blind eyes to movements to exterminate the entire Jewish race, black-clad fascists burning cities and wreaking havoc in city streets, besides organized and well-funded terroristic activities being apparently sanctioned by these Democrats, has driven a giant wedge between the sane and insane.

Continually parading about television cameras, these anti-American gladiators have been willingly joined by state and federal congress clowns and senators, alike, all in an attempt to appear superior to conservatives and pro-Trump supporters. Using slurs while sporting smirks and grimaces, these malcontents couldn’t do more damage if they tried.

Remember that giant wedge? That is the result of the infamous “Rule of law” we’ve nauseatingly heard about for years from the self-righteous Dems. To be exact, created, out of whole cloth, sanctuary cities were born as a way to allow – rather encourage – foreigners unfettered access to our once-sovereign nation.

Way back when, the world was stricken with something called the COVID-19 flu. That disease was defined and re-defined repeatedly. If American citizens didn’t cover their faces with masks, stand six-feet apart, or acquire vaccinations, they were subject to arrest. Period.

Military personnel as well as police and other first responders were subject to immediate termination if they failed to follow rules about getting “the shot.”

Fortunately, the 12,000,000 illegal immigrant invaders were not subject to those same rules. Neither were they vaccinated for other diseases and medical issues children attending schools were forced to get. Hardly the rule of law that suddenly didn’t apply to a favored status class of people.

Hiding behind the cloak of fairness, the aforementioned gubenors and congress clowns have been continually helping our illegal alien invaders literally escape justice, while promoting the value those lawbreakers bring to our country.

There you have it. After years of ignoring you and your pleas to help our populace, those same greasy critters who have been pooping in your hat are now readying for a run in the 2028 presidential race. And now they need and want your vote.

They have been and continue to feign deafness when you speak. It’s high time Newsom, Pritzker, Hochul, Whitmer, Hillary Clinton, Walz, and Harris find real jobs in the private sector, thus ending their perpetual race to nowhere.

They’ll be really, really surprised how tough it is to work for a living rather than simply lying and pandering.

Thanks for the Mayhem

 

  It’s been two weeks, and we've seen two targeted attacks on Jewish people on United States of America soil.

Now seems like a terrific time to dig into this travesty on American citizens by naysayers, to reveal the unvarnished truth.

Since the 2020 announcement Joseph Robinette Biden was going to run against then-President Donald J. Trump, the lies began against President Trump and his supporters. But those lies extended far beyond the reaches of civil society with total fabrications for then-Senator Biden.

Biden needed a presidential win to continue the upheaval of America by radicals. Those radicals are not hidden from plain sight and subsequent scrutiny by the media, rather they are acting overtly while defying the sanctity of human life, as well as courtesy.

Let’s begin by defining the word “terrorism.”

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines terrorism thusly:

• 1.) The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.

• 2.) The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized, a mode of government by terror or intimidation.

• 3.) The practice of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals.

That definition pretty well sums up horrendous actions that were directed by dangerous wackos inside the borders of the United States of America.

This is where I’m supposed to use those weaselly lawyer words such as alleged, supposed, accused, and charged, while referring to the suspects in both these instances. Here’s a free clue from me: in today’s world, everyone – EVERYONE – has a cellular telephone with a built-in camera.

Many of those cellphone users spend most of their lives recording daily goings-on with those phones. Those recordings are available to use as evidence in trials. I say, “Let’s employ that video evidence for convictions.”

A week ago, two Israeli Embassy employees stationed in the United States were allegedly shot to death by a Chicago, Illinois, nutjob who hated Jews. Period. This young couple was just beginning their lives together but were summarily allegedly murdered by some sub-human who confessed to the killings at the scene.

Yesterday, another senseless attack was conducted against peaceful marchers who were calling awareness to Palestine’s keeping Jewish citizens as hostages. This sick onslaught of First Amendment practitioners was done with a makeshift flamethrower, as well as Molotov cocktails. As of this writing, eight Israeli supporters have been injured, with no reports of deaths, yet.

The first attack occurred in Washington, DC, while the second took place in Boulder, Colorado, both of which, for the record, are sanctuary jurisdictions. This point is extremely important in as much as one of these alleged, supposed, accused, and charged attackers entered our nation under the lenient Biden administration years.

With both of these assailants – allegedly – screaming for a “Free Palestine!” both clearly were uninformed enough to not realize Palestine was already “free” then, and still remains “free.” Awkward, at best, since Palestine’s free elections should have been a clue.

All the while, people have warned the world that America’s foolish open borders policy was doing nothing except inviting trouble – trouble in the form of “getaways” who intentionally subverted detection by American authorities. We now have an estimated 2,000,000 getaways hiding in the bowels of our nation.

Alejandro Mayorkas caught telling yet another lie

With the 2024 re-election of Donald Trump, the dregs of society who illegally slithered into our sovereign nation have been the subject of round-ups and deportation. This is important because, after years of lies by Alejandro Mayorkas, countless mayors, overly generous governors, and President Biden himself, have been denying any damage was being done in the name of mercy.

But the question should be mercy for whom? Realizing most of these murderous attackers are quick to add they are seeking a “better life,” “freedom,” and “financial security,” they are further filled with hate and retribution.

Feeling as though America is the land of ‘milk and honey,’ denying the influx of mentally bent illegal so-called desperate immigrants' entry is often viewed as inhumane, even punitive, by the do-gooders on the Left. The quick way to level the playing field is to simply grant everyone a seat at the proverbial dinner table.

In order to aid these envisioned downtrodden, the over-enthusiastic influx of illegal aliens allowed the entry of miscreants and reprobates, alike, to the detriment of native Americans, as well as other law-abiding transplants. The problem, however, now lies with the homogenization of the populace.

Pretending all was copacetic once a person began residing in the United States has proven to be overly naïve. Sneaking across the border, evading detection by Customs and Border Patrol, taking illicit jobs, circumventing driving laws, and stealing scarce financial-related benefits from all legal citizens, have placed a crushing burden on those who regularly follow the rules.

Meanwhile, Mayorkas appeared before Congress on several different occasions to answer questions on the porousness of the borders. And on each occasion, he wore the same smug grin while looking down his nose at the congressional interviewers, demonstrating a total lack of candor each time.

Likely feeling he escaped without consequence, Mayorkas was part and parcel of his years-long overt deception leading to this very day. Also complicit are the elected state and local government officials who, with extended middle fingers, promised law abiding Americans they no longer held sway, relegating them to second-class citizen status.

All this didn’t go unnoticed, though. Unfortunately, Leftist Democrat politicians vocally insisting “No one is illegal,” easily found television cameras to further spread their propaganda, all for vote pandering.

Hoping the newly settled illegal immigrants in America would simply comply with all its rules and regulations, these arrogant actions began overwhelming the system while breaking the financial back of the United States.

This mass deception seemed to work. Until the river of free gravy stopped flowing from the “haves” to the “have nots.” Local and state self-declared sanctuary territory governments found themselves in dire financial deficits; those deficits were immediately foisted upon the federal government once Trump became president again.

But the genuinely radical illegals have clearly been lying in wait to emerge from hiding to begin their internal attack on their hosts: generous Americans.

Radicalized college students, as well as those masquerading as college students, have become emboldened enough to openly march, chant, and demand the extermination of an entire race of people: Jews.

This sick pronouncement is in direct lockstep with the way Nazis overtook Germany in the 1930’s, and it’s all on the backs of the Democratic Party.

It’s time to reign in these ill-affected wackos. If they are here illegally, they should be immediately deported without the ability to ever return. And if they are Americans legally here, they should be arrested, tried, and swiftly incarcerated under federal terrorism statutes.

If laws are not being applied in such egregious examples of fear manifestation, they should simply be removed from the books.

In any case, this horror needs to stop – immediately.