Unbelievable

 

  Just when you thought you couldn't find anything newer and stupider, simply turn the page on life’s book and you’ll discover it there, hiding in plain sight.

It was 1964 when auto manufacturers jumped onto the bandwagon of safety by installing lap seatbelts in their cars and trucks. A smattering of builders had already dipped their toes in the ocean of seatbelts a few years earlier to moderate applause.

After all, the aviation industry had already been using lap seatbelts to ensure the safety and well-being of flying passengers so, why not extend this effort to terrestrial travel, too.

The introduction of these belts in vehicles would only add a few bucks to the price of a car, but it was in the name of safety that was reasoned to be priceless. With congressmen searching for yet another way to climb aboard a podium – all in the name of pandering for votes – this was tailor made for those weasels.

You see, if the guvment made these belts mandatory, manufacturers had to install them without question. And you, as a consumer, had to pay for them, again, without question. That’s what we call a win-win situation for big guvment. Not to worry, though. We were guaranteed there would never, ever, never never, ever be a law that would make wearing these restraints mandatory. Alas, we were lied to, again.

Still, who could possibly deny the public such safety measures that prevent death and serious injury?

Using this plan as a blueprint for future actions, Congress suddenly found itself with its hands full of well-meaning measures to be poked down the throats of America’s sheeple.

For the record, sheeple are people who cannot, or will not, think freely for themselves. Therefore, they find it easier to follow the majority rather than question all the selflessly benevolent work done by Congress.

We just recently eclipsed the era that permitted flimsy baby seats for cars to be used to secure unsuspecting tots from being able to slide across slick Naugahyde bench seats and possibly out the window. These old-time seats had a plastic ‘steering wheel’ with a horn to allow the kiddies to pretend driving.

(As an aside, they offered absolutely no protection whatsoever but helped you to learn how to swear just like Dad while in the car.)

In all fairness, a new era in baby car seats was born. They firstly needed to be padded, secondly be fitted with nylon straps, and lastly be easily added to the family vehicle. And they were.

If you’ve ever heard of, or seen, a motorcycle, you likely had noticed they have only two wheels and no protection for the rider. Of course, the prudent thing to do was to create a law to force motorcyclists to wear helmets when riding their transportation around the highways and byways.

It didn’t take long for these motorcycle rider groups and manufacturers to unite for an effort to repeal the helmet laws, pointing out that in the event of an accident, they were the likely recipients of the brunt of injury and death. In other words, let the dice roll, and mind your own business.

In any case, Congress remained agog at finding ways to inject safety into every nook and cranny of life, and that was something at which they excelled, in addition to taxing the snot out of their constituents.

Smoking cigarettes was discovered. Since most of America once smoked either cigarettes, cigars, or pipes, the battle was uphill to get people to stop using tobacco products in the name of the safety of the users, as well as those friends and family members subjected to something called second-hand smoke.

This was a tough one for those congressional geniuses inasmuch as tobacco is a legal product, and a heavily taxed one, that provides for quick and simple redistribution of wealth. Any effort to make tobacco use illegal is verboten! On the other hand, making its use arduous was yet another hidden political gift.

If you think the strong-arm robbery of your tax dollars ends there, recall the “sin” taxes levied on alcohol. After all, state, federal, and local authorities refuse to let this cash cow escape without some form of punishment for users of these disgusting, wretched, substances.

Such penalization has always been delivered as a carrot-stick approach to force users to simply quit their vices to become more productive citizens through total abstinence. Period.

But the good news actually appears that a new generation of politicians have been entering guvment and have proved to be quick on the uptake when they pick up the tempo without losing a beat.

Just think about the decades-long “War on Drugs.” It was a failed effort, but not without consequences. Those mighty politicians who seem to be digging around inside our pockets for the next grift decided it would be prudent to simply raise the white flag of surrender.

Claiming there was no possible way to end the scourge of second-hand smoke, driving under the influence, public intoxication, as well as using safety gear, the guvment brain trust knew exactly what free Americans needed: more dangerous stuff.

Still in the works, state after state is slowly, but surely, decriminalizing marijuana. Also known as the Devil’s Lettuce, weed, Mary Jane, ganja, skunk weed, among other colorful monikers, this seemingly harmless drug has made its way around the social circuits and scholastic communities for a century or more.

Glamorized in movies and songs, this substance was jammed through legislation by dopers who convinced legislators this drug was little more than an aspirin with a kick. Unfortunately, after some years of being decriminalized, more and more people are driving while smoking this sensory-dulling substance, thereby causing tens-of-thousands of highway wrecks ever since.

Still, the insightful politicians are poo-pooing studies on safety and plummeting school grades linked to unfettered marijuana use, which, includes vaping. Remember the previous paragraph about smoking cigarettes and second-hand smoke?

Yet here we are at the crossroads of stupidity. If caught behind the wheel of a car with an open beer, you will get a ticket, hefty fine, and perhaps jail time. On the other hand, if you are toking on a joint, you are likely to receive a wink and a nod from the cops. Could it be because of the tax revenue suddenly generated by guvment approved weed dispensaries?

All these crystal-clear statutes and penalties – either enacted or repealed – have transitioned into nebulous situations that easily defy logic or sanity. Stay safe or be fined. Bicyclists must wear helmets, boaters need to wear life jackets, automobile passengers have to wear safety restraints, airline passengers are forced to don lap belts. But it is acceptable to drink your liver into oblivion, and smoke yourself into terminal lung cancer if you pay the taxes. Once again, all in the name of safety and longevity.

Gubenor Kathy Hochul, maybe

So it was with interest that I read a recent article regarding the New York State gubenor, Kathy Hochul (D). She feels that she has the right to play God. “I was taught that God is merciful and compassionate, and so must we be,” she wrote, according to the New York Post.

“This included permitting a merciful option to those facing the unimaginable and searching for comfort in their final months in this life,” the Post story continues.

There you have it. It’s your life, but only politicians are able to let you know how to live, in addition to how and when to die. As an aside, the follow-the-leader Illinois Gubenor JB Pritzker (D) has decided he, too, thinks it’s okay for you die via assisted suicide.  (Notice how I didn't drag abortions into this?)

We’ve reached the end of the road when it comes to common sense, with this abbreviated list of craziness oozing from anointed political types. However, it’s the voters who asked for this nonsense by electing and re-electing and re-re-electing these greedy morons to positions for which they are not qualified.

Unbelievable.

Christmas Time

 

Please accept this December 2023 story as a stocking stuffer gift from the entire staff as EasternShoreFishAndGame.blogspot.com . We wish all of you a Blessed and Merry Christmas, while we look forward to delivering more truth through fun in 2026! Thank you for stopping by.

  “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 song 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 public 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, as she apparently needed a reason to prove to civilized America she was, indeed, 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, this 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.

You Have a Choice

 

  Before we proceed, we need to establish some parameters. Words have meanings and are germane to the accuracy of the matter at hand. With that being said, let’s begin to day’s ride into the elusive unvarnished truth.

Nary a day goes by without a media whore popping up like a turd in the punch bowl. For the record, a media whore is someone without a life who desperately seeks attention. To achieve that goal, they grab at any and all opportunities to seek out a camera and/or microphone in order to spout their thoughts.

Of course, their thoughts are usually fleeting depending on the cause du jour, which must be an attention grabber, not unlike a bucket of ice water dumped on your head.

If the phrases, “No one is illegal,” “We’re all immigrants,” and “We came to America for a better life,” sound familiar, you’re not alone.

Latin America flags

Such stale messages are regular fare when catching the news and have quickly gone from being thoughtful to banal. They now have no more effect than inhaling and exhaling air.

As to those aforementioned sought-out cameras, they include police body cams, as well as cellphone cameras. Since everyone with a pulse has a cellphone – largely due to the Biden administration handing them out willy-nilly to an estimated 12 million undocumented border crossers – the environment is ripe for truth abuse.

Truth abuse is when you are presented with a story that is partially true, but the facts are quickly contorted to achieve the desired outcome in order to make a point. Think: video editing.

This is paragraph eight, for your information. Take, for example, people who crossed America’s sovereign borders, all in the name of seeking asylum. Asylum, as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary, is: A place offering protection and safety; a shelter.

That wasn’t so hard, now, was it? An asylum seeker is a person looking for a safe place to live, as well as shelter. If, by chance, these asylum seekers arrive at America’s doorstep with paperwork and piety, American authorities will gladly open an opportunity for them to find a viable pathway to citizenship.

On the other hand, if those asylum seekers climb over barbed wire fences, scale 20-foot-tall walls, or swim across the Rio Grande river at two o’clock in the morning – under the cover of darkness, they are not in compliance with the laws of the United States and are subject to arrest. Again, pretty simple.

The reason these interventions go unnoticed/unwanted intrusions is because many, many crossers are apparently trying to hide something from American authorities. Criminal records, mental health issues, medical well-being matters, are just a few reasons these newcomers attempt to hide their entry.

In any case, coming into the United States while intentionally avoiding detection is, by its very nature, illegal. But the do-gooder media whores – that include American politicians and illegal immigrants themselves – have been ardently attempting to rewrite the English language by omitting the words ‘illegal’ and ‘undocumented’ from our lexicon. And this is where things get icky.

Devoutly pushing an agenda of inclusiveness for ALL these undocumented immigrants by a self-anointed gaggle of dangerous activists has taken our nation down a path that is almost irreversible. Almost.

Blatantly ignoring the fact that much of this invasion mayhem occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lock down, nearly all illegal invaders entered our country without COVID flu testing, polio vaccines, tuberculosis tests, and MMR vaccinations. This all means more communicable diseases to share with us native Americans.

To add to this public health nightmare, these illegal aliens are less than fluent in speaking or reading the English language. That is important, because they will eventually need driver’s licenses to be able to maneuver about their newly invaded home country. Specifically, driver’s license tests, plus road signs, are written in English.

Since we’ve already had several deadly run-ins with illegal migrant semi-truck drivers, who have killed and maimed a number of American natives, suddenly have issuing-state governors ardently attempting to distance themselves from this sanctioned form of killing. Oh, my.

But what about the immigrants’ psyches? At virtually every supporting rally, pro-immigrant gathering, and related news story, a foreign flag from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, and Venezuela, can be seen proudly displayed. Also apparent are the languages spoken and written on signs for chants and on-camera interviews. Not terribly inclusive.

Television programs featuring cooking contests are chock full of South Americans proudly preparing and explaining their favorite dishes and delights from their native lands; oh, how they miss those special times and foods, they add in their narratives. Customs and clothing and flags and their native tongues shouldn’t be used to help close the void from there to the here and now.

But not mentioned yet are the unknown numbers of illegal aliens who crept into the United States under the cover of darkness as moles and terrorists. Moles are the foreign nation spies whose goal is to pilfer American nuclear, military, trade, industrial, and national security secrets for the benefit of their home countries.

The terrorists, on the other hand, have their own missions to disrupt daily lives by killing Americans while causing mayhem and fear, thereby crippling an American sense of peace and safety. If you’re skeptical, please go back and reread paragraph eight as to the definition of asylum.

On a positive note, President Donald J. Trump snatched the reins of saneness from national Democratic Leftist insanity in an attempt to correct this off-course trip to perdition. It’s been less than a year and he has pointed our wagon in a more rational direction, Democrats-be-damned.

With Democratic governors, mayors, plus U.S. Senators and Congressfolk insisting Trump is the cause of this immigrant scourge, the mentally unstable Left is ardently trying to hamstring our president by filing one lawsuit after another in a feeble attempt to wreak more havoc as a push toward total national collapse.

The proverbial ‘cat is out of the bag’ with cities and states being caught lying about crime and police activities, so much so that even the Leftist New York Times, and The Washington Post, have had to come clean with stories admitting to their ignoring soaring crime rates, akin to blatant propaganda.

President Trump has been methodically and thoughtfully placing National Guardsmen in select out-of-control large cities where local residents are pleading for murders, thefts, and shootings to stop for, well, asylum in their native land. This effort has been working to get local crime under control.

All the while, pro-illegal immigrant activists have continued with their rallies, as have the media whore politicians who feel as though President Trump, and his MAGA supporters, are the cause of this entire poop hurricane.

With bullhorns in-hand, and premanufactured banners flowing through the streets, thugs have taken to throwing rocks and bottles and fireworks at law enforcement personnel only doing their jobs. Finding overzealous Congressmen and Senators marching in lock step with these miscreants is more of an embarrassment than a noble effort; all of this is a seeming photo-op for their next reelection campaign.

Interrupting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations to identify and secure the “worst of the worst” illegal invaders has opened a new chapter in American law and order.

Once again, activist judges, moronic city leaders, countless governors suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) are proving they excel at blather and little else.

With our economy $35+ trillion in debt, communicable diseases appearing, crime becoming rampant again, lowering school standards, and general living accommodation overcrowding by those who simply refuse to assimilate into our established society, our future appears exceptionally bleak.

While the United States looks like the United Nations, we are expected to behave and live as one nation, one people.

The bottom line is that the United States has one flag and one set of rules; not one set of rules for illegal immigrants and one for native citizens. If you want to live in America, fly only the Stars and Stripes, or get out.

Squeeze Play Update

 

  Since 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has been trying to “find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally in an equitable way.”

Through this Convention, “every country on Earth is treaty-bound to ‘avoid dangerous climate change,” and has done so via regular gatherings. The most recent was only weeks ago, entitled Council of the Parties, or COP26.

Sounding very important, COP26 was well-attended in Glasgow, Scotland, by world representatives including President Joseph Robinette Biden and John Kerry, from the United States. Both American representatives agreed that climate change represents an existential threat to the Earth, a sentiment agreed upon by most attendees.

Forget the existential threat of systemic racism, or systemic economic inequity, or education disparity, or systemic crime, or energy, jobs, or corruption, this COP26 was laser-focused on climate change.

Boltneck Kerry piously addressed the Council on America’s sin of using irreplaceable fossil fuels to keep our citizens warm, lighted, and able to prepare food, through electricity. Sins, indeed.

Poor countries seem to be given a free pass on their pollution transgressions because of their inability to be financially extorted the way more affluent nations have been.

Kerry’s horse face explained that the United States was willing to sacrifice comfort for long-term global goals toward climate stability which, by “expert” estimates, would mean great discomfort and sacrifices primarily by American citizens.

Gone would be the days of spacious vehicles, recreational boats and jetskis, and thermostats set at comfortable levels. But all would be for the common good of attempting to avert climate change. Yea!

President Biden mumbled his way through his allotted address time at COP26 to make similar concessions and promises of austere future existences of hard-working Americans who have earned their place at the table of rewards of air-conditioned summers and warmer winters. Alas, both Biden and Kerry felt otherwise.

Promising that major American automobile manufacturers would be making electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030, to appease this punitive Convention left me with more questions than answers for this climate change brain trust.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has been a dismal failure for decades, losing a pleasantly surprising $9,200,000,000 in 2020. That figure is “pleasant” because it was expected to lose billions of dollars more.

The new USPS delivery truck

What could possibly turn this economic boondoggle around? The definitive answer is new postal vehicles.

This brilliant idea will buy as many as 165,000 new trucks for the USPS, some of which may be hitting the streets in 2023. The contract was awarded to a Wisconsin company through the equally genius Build Back Better plan which awards $6,000,000,000 to help speed production of the mail trucks.

According to The Daily Times story, appearing its November 12, 2021, issue, “Climate activists have pressured the USPS for the better part of a decade to retool its fleet.”

A Democrat California representative, Jared Huffman, put this legislation together. His take was, “we ought to step up and do something. This isn’t gonna fix everything. But it’s a very nice first step.”

Not being sure what the second step will be, $6,000,000,000 is lot of money. But the kicker is that this “first step” was rued by Huffman because “the USPS contract that allows for the production of gas-powered vehicles undercuts the climate goals.” Uh, oh!

“Gas-powered vehicles” you ask?

Yep. Those 165,000 new USPS vehicles are NOT EVs, rather they are nifty-looking gas-powered trucks that the COP26 was promised would disappear in order to save the planet.

Maybe Biden and Kerry will have continued luck goading Congress into squeezing more money out of United States citizens for other hare-brained projects in the future. Let’s hope they don’t run out of other people’s money, though.

Update:

Well, it has been four-years since this story appeared in this space, and we now have an important update on the goings-on with these brilliant USPS vehicles, as well as an excellent reason why the guvment should keep their noses out of the mail delivery business.

According to a New York Post article, “The US Postal Service has spent more than $3 billion dollars on a brand new all-electric fleet of mail trucks – and gotten just 612 vehicles for its money,” which information was supplied by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa).

Ol’ Thrifty Joe Biden, former president, ardently pushed the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that desperately needed $3 billion dollars of taxpayer money to save the planet by building non-polluting USPS trucks.

Almost all that moolah was paid to “Wisconsin-based defense contractor Oshkosh to design and build 35,000 new environmentally friendly mail trucks,” the Post continues.

But that is not the good part of the story. Being bamboozled into believing the Earth would summarily die without these vehicles is the true definition of “ignorant.” As the late Paul Harvey used to say, “And now the rest of the story.”

A USPS spokesperson insisted they received more than 9,000 commercial-off-the-shelf electric vehicles that were also purchased with the IRA cash. That’s the good news. There seems to be a serious disconnect betwixt and between the guvment, USPS, and Oshkosh.

The Post further states, “The ‘greening’ of the USPS fleet was part of a $!0 billion project to have 106,480 new vehicles in its fleet by Sept. 30, 2028, around 60,000 of which were supposed to be next generation and 35,000 of which were supposed to be battery-electric powered.”

In case you’re wondering how many chargers are available for use with these new green vehicles thereby allowing us mortals to continue breathing clean air. Nobody really knows.

But “As of November 10^th,” the Post continues, “USPS VP Peter Pastre told Ernst that only 612 Next Generation Delivery Vehicles that are battery-electric powered are currently on the road, bringing mail to 15 sites across the nation.”

There you have it. Job well done. And that is why you don’t believe guvment Representatives when they promise to improve your life.

Frankly, I’m surprised no one thought of simply buying and using homing pigeons.

Super Important

 

  Because so many readers of this space are so varied in both age and life’s experiences this is an excellent time to, as my sainted wife likes to say, “Do you really need to build a watch to tell someone the time?”

The answer, plain and simple, is: “Yes.”

Once upon a time, there was no such thing as television or radio. People received their news, information, horoscopes, local arrests, civic interests, land transactions, along with a healthy dose of advertising via something called “a newspaper.”

Newspapers could be found virtually everywhere, including newsstands, street corner vending boxes, stores...in fact, there aren’t many places a newspaper was not available. Costing upward of 2¢ per edition, they were affordable and packed with something for virtually everyone.

Besides news, columnists would offer advice to total strangers asking for help with relationships, sports scores plus game recaps and stats were available, bridal announcements, obituaries, charitable events, upcoming parades, in addition to classified ads for homes, cars, and other secondhand miscellany, appeared at your fingertips as if by magic.

Paperboys selling their wares

These newspapers were usually written and delivered daily, delivered to your home or business by enterprising youngsters known as “paperboys.” Before your hair catches afire, girls were not normally involved in the schlepping of heavy canvass bags filled with upwards of fifty newspapers therein. Sorry.

But there was a science to these dailies to attract attention and create enough interest for those who didn’t get one delivered to their home. These newspapers were usually 12” wide x 24” tall; folded in half they only revealed the most important stories on “the front page above the fold.”

This eye candy was used as a draw to entice readers select which newspaper to buy when looking for information outside of the home delivery network. Sensation sells. The more sensational, the better.

And this is actually where today’s adventure begins.

I picked up a copy of today’s – November 23, 2025, edition of The Tampa Bay Times (TBT) – whose motto should be, “It looks like a newspaper, but it’s better for lining a birdcage.”

Above the fold were two hard-hitting stories: “DIY fertility case ruling looms.” The other breath taker was, “Why is St. Pete HQ deal dead?”

In case you were just rescued from a deserted island with no running water, electricity, means of communication, or a smoking hot companion, you would have likely heard we have a current United States President named Donald J. Trump. He served as our 45^th Chief Executive from 2017-2021, and again as the 47^th from 2025-present.

His history is fairly well-known with a split opinion on his style, personality, plus business acumen. Without going too deep into his history, President Trump was defeated by Joseph Biden who served as the 46^th president. The battle was contentious fraught with countless legal challenges and personal attacks.

Being a storied figure in the New York City (NYC) real estate and building world, citizen Trump was very, very successful – albeit with a bankruptcy, or two interwoven therein – making literally billions of dollars thereafter.

Feeling he could do better running the country than the usual lawyer-turned-politician with whom we’ve been cursed for decades, President Trump dipped his toe into the political swimming hole that was instantly realized to be not a swimming hole, but rather a swamp filled with lizardly, lifelong politicians.

These lifers quickly discovered there was plenty of moolah floating around their swamp, and they didn’t take kindly to a newcomer invading their sacred territory, especially a non-lawyer who actually made his money unlike the swamp lizards: by investing his OWN money rather than pick pocketing constituent’s wallet.

This odd behavior was foreign to a man who knew how difficult it was to make money based on merit and deep thinking rather than forced taxation on the complacent, uninformed voting public. Suddenly, upon the official announcement of this 2016 Presidential Election win, the knives came out. Let the games begin!

Some Congressional political tart California named Maxine Waters filed impeachment papers against Donald Trump before he was sworn-in. That should be enough to give you an idea how deep this icky swamp is.

But this is not about only Maxine Waters, Our Lady of Perpetual Grievances Saint Hillary Clinton, Racist Barack Obama, or the anti-Jewish Jew Chuck Schumer, it’s about a fellow named Jeffrey Epstein who died in 2019. Although I never met Epstein, I’ve heard a lot about him. Why?

Glad you asked.

This Jeffrey Epstein was a financier who was also a convicted sex offender. Of course, there a lot of child sex offenders, but this one had a copious number of buddies, pals, compatriots, along with clients for his alleged sex trafficking of minors.

Having enough unaccounted-for money to afford a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Epstein, it is said, would use his private jet to ferry well-heeled “friend” and “clients” to and from Epstein Island for alleged parties and romps with underage adults. Read: pimp of children.

If you are a “normal” human being with morals and scruples, you should – as I – feel great compassion and an odd sense of anxiety just thinking about all happenings with or near Jeffrey Epstein.

Keeping in mind that under the Joseph Biden administration, illegal aliens were encouraged to freely cross the United States’ border to find a better life here. Unfortunately, those crossings included a large portion of children without accompanying parents. Many are now missing and thought to have been abducted or sold into slavery and the child sex industry.

But just how many children are missing varies greatly. An interweb search revealed that anywhere between 300,000 and 450,000 children are “missing,” meaning they cannot be accounted for, and there is little anyone can do to find them. Unfortunately, the angst associated with these missing illegals appears to be moot made apparent by the then-President Biden, along with the Democratic Party, who encouraged this migration nightmare.

There is, however, good news. Six years following his suspicious death in prison, the Epstein expiry and associations are suddenly the most important thing happening today. How do I know? Democrats are racing to grab microphones, television cameras, and newspaper reporters to explain their personal take on how President Trump is somehow personally involved in Epstein’s sordid life and death.

With no more ability to explain how stock market wizard Nancy Pelosi made over $238,000,000 as a United States Senator, these agog Democrat politicians are far more than eager to help indict President Trump, and subsequently impeach him, for nothing more than any wild imagination they can muster.

Like dog poop on your shoe, which winds up everywhere, Jasmine Crockett, as well as Hakeem Jeffries quickly found avenues to spew their hatred toward Republicans in general, Donald Trump in particular, for simply speaking to one another. But does the smoking gun lie with the association of Epstein, or could it be financial donations?

It seems a though St. Hillary Clinton, and her spouse, William Jefferson Clinton, John Kerry, Chuck Schumer, Virgin Islands Representative Stacey Plaskett, and Bill Richardson, are just a few of the more notable Democrats who have received donated money from Jeffrey Epstein over the years, according to ABC News.

All this was deemed super important – SUPER IMPORTANT – by those media whores demanding an ounce of President Trump’s flesh for not immediately opening up the sealed DOJ Epstein Files.

If that’s the case, why was this Epstein-Trump association relegated to page three of the aforementioned TBT rather than front page above the fold? Perhaps because the unfortunate involvement of the Democrats in exchanging money with a now-deceased pedophile/child sex trafficker.

Oh, my.

What seems odd, though, is that for four years, “the Biden administration had no desire to release any names that appeared in the thousands of the infamous Jeffrey Epstein’s emails and text messages under its control,” The New York Post points out.

But suddenly, the Democrats are now demanding the release of ALL the Epstein files. This is where it’s going to get good.

Without thinking – likely clouded by Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) – those files which were kept private are now subject to public release at the demand of the Democrats.

I’m guessing you’ll soon see a resurrection of the words “FAKE NEWS!” from those Dems.

True Story of Thanksgiving, Almost

By popular demand, this story is being re-issued just in time for the 2025 turkey holiday.  Please enjoy it and eat lots!

  Every year we hear more about the secular holiday, Thanksgiving Day.  It means many things to many different people, and most of what you now hear is bunk. 

 

Buttinski’s – folks who don’t have lives of their own, so they want to get involved in yours – have been trying to rid America of this special day of gluttony and sports and naps.

 

They try to blame the extermination of Indians on the white man, and claim the original immigrants were vegetarians.

 

It’s time to gather the family around the table and read the real story of Thanksgiving Day to them. 

 

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Pilgrims, Puritans, and Indians

 Back in 1621, the Pilgrims and Puritans, who were transplants from that awful place, Europe, finally had a good harvest of crops and decided to celebrate to give thanks.

 

Puritans were people who left England for more religious freedom, while Pilgrims were common folk who were escaping high taxes and reality TV shows.

 

Weather was terrible – too much rain, snow, not enough rain, hail, drought, and pestilence, caused poor harvests for years.  At last, ideal weather, along with better farming techniques, helped these refugees produce a great crop.

 

In the interim, many immigrants died from both starvation and diseases so, this bounty was true cause for celebration.

 

The Indians were patiently waiting for the Europeans to die so they could get their hands on those neat black coats and buckled hats, but alas.

 

To ingratiate themselves, and get the best fit of the clothing, they assisted the Pilgrims and Puritans by feeding them until sizes were perfect.

 

The Indians gathered turkeys and stuffing and mashed potatoes to help fatten-up the nasty white folks.  All worked well until this terrific harvest, when the homeboys no longer needed the Indians’ food.  That’s when the great massacre happened.

 

Known as the First Civil War, the ungrateful white folks tried to kill all the Indians and began naming all their football and baseball teams after them as a way to slur them.

 

This program worked so well that it took nearly 400 years to make things better for the last living Indian, Pocahontas.

 

Enlightened college students figured all this out and, driven by “white guilt” and “white privilege,” had begun campaigns to eliminate all sports teams with Indian names by 1633.

 

They even changed the name of Indians to “Native Americans.”  All seems to be working out well for them.

 

Pocahontas got her image on a coin.  Or was it Sacagawea?  I'm not sure.

 

In any case, the Europeans added an amendment to The Constitution to have everyone in America eat turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and cranberry sauce for dinner, and sweet potato pie for dessert.

 

That same Amendment – the 38^th – requires football and basketball games to be played on that day.  And it made Keno legal in 17 states.

 

In 1637, Macy’s decided to have a parade, and Santa Clause showed up to celebrate, too.

 

But in an ardent effort to include African-Americans in this strictly white holiday, the Pilgrims and Puritans invented Black Friday.

 

And everyone lived happily ever-after.

 

That’s the truth.  Almost. 

 

Happy Thanksgiving!