Long Distance Communication

 

  It all began 534-years ago when Spain’s Queen Isabella I, was Queen of Castile and of Aragon, alongside her husband Ferdinand II.

Queen Isabella I

I know what you’re thinking. This is a bunch of crap I don’t really care about; now onto something more enjoyable and informational on which to waste my precious time. As a tip, this is not the time to leave.

Queen Isabella sponsored a fellow named Christopher Columbus to explore the world in hopes of finding trade routes for the betterment of Spain.

This quest began in August 1492 with the departure of three ships: Niña, Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Heading toward the Caribbean, this trio of ships was prepared to return to Spain with good news about their finding treasures and silk and spices from their cross-ocean destination.

The Santa Maria was the largest of the three ships, as well as the heaviest, as it was meant for carrying cargo. You can see where this is going. This cargo ship was meant to return with its bowels filled with all the goodies she could accommodate. “This voyage marked the beginning of European exploration of the Americas,” according to http://www.christopher-columbus.eu/index.htm

Unfortunately, there was a snag.

Being terribly wide and heavy – estimated at between 200-600 tons – with a deep draft requiring more water in which to float, this became a problem for Captain Columbus when he ran the Santa Maria aground on October 12, 1492. Uh, oh.

But this sudden change in plans evidently became an issue about 500-years later only when “woke” college professors, El-Hi educators, and the outright lies media began pushing as their latest tripe about anything and everything anti-white.

This new narrative from the Left includes inane imaginations of mentally-touched racists and phony apologists perpetually seeking an excuse for poking their crooked little fingers in the eye of history. And this is where today’s journey actually begins.

Hoping to get to the bottom of things I thought long and hard about a solution to eke out a kernel of truth from all this fake news. The obvious place to start was to ask Mr. Columbus himself. Yes, you read that right. Who better to ask?

I recall fiddling with something called a Ouija board as a kid. For our unfamiliar readers, Ouija is known as a “spirit board, talking board, or witch board,” per Wikipedia. Further, Wikipedia accurately states it “is a flat board marked with the letters of the...alphabet, the numbers 0-9, the words ‘yes,’ ‘no,’ and occasionally ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye,’ along with various symbols and graphics.”

Continuing, “It uses a planchette as a movable indicator to spell out messages during a séance.” The remainder of the Wikipedia quote describes how human participants use the planchette along with the Ouija board to communicate to the beyond. Kind of like an occult cellphone without the annoying updates and recharging.

By way of background, my sister and I had a Ouija which we used a few times with what I can honestly say were mixed results. I asked if I, at twelve-years-of-age would ever grow up; it got that answer partially correct, since I’m still in the process of maturing.

In any case, my sainted wife and I placed our fingers on the planchette and dove right into the spirit world for honest answers to Neo-teachings regarding Christopher Columbus in schools. We were engaging in a sort of long distance communication.

Questions included were largely related to the tireless droning of paid and naturally ignorant protesters who chanted Capt. Columbus brought smallpox, as well as other “white-man’s” diseases to the New World. In the event you missed this public display of insanity, Leftist teachers, along with children’s influencers, have been carping that this Caribbean landing was an intentional means to kill all the natives.

Unfortunately, Capt. Columbus’ exploration was summarily detoured by his ship grounding in the shallow Caribbean waters. Upon exiting his ship, he noticed the curious native people had brownish skin – unlike himself and his crew. He immediately thought he and his crew had landed in India hence, the name: Indians to describe the native greeters.

Another simple question was, “Why would someone intentionally attempt to erase an entire civilization or people with which he and Spain were anxious to establish a continuing future trade conduit?”

Of course the definitive answer was, “They wouldn’t.”

Then we asked Chris whether he had planned to loot the variety of islands scattered around the Caribbean Sea for gold and other riches. His answer was the same.

And so it went with the planchette moving to and fro for seemingly hours until our arms were becoming cramped, and the yellow, lined notepad containing the Q & A results was nearly full.

If you are wondering if this exercise was indeed real, please heed this suggestion from me.

Following years of antagonistic educators, politicians, clergy, guvment employees, the average next door neighbor, even your own blood relatives repeating sensational conjectures based on nothing but rumors and falsehoods, you can easily see how stupid ideas grow legs and quickly travel via social media along with the internet.

Merely state something as fact and let the shallow thinkers and rabble rousers take the reins.

American civility was snookered by a woman named Nikole Hanna Jones, the author of a book named The 1619 Project. This farcical tale of slavery in America drove a wedge through race relations by using quotes from journalists, poets, essayists, historians, and photographers, to tell a story that existed within our young nation. Too bad it was largely mendacious.

As a result, this book has since been banned in several states as a means to remove critical race theory from scholastic teachings. Many factual errors therein have been deleted, but the fact remains this writing was more contrivance than fact. Alas, this was sold as a bill of goods. Now revealed as largely fake, it is being quietly shuffled to the bargain book aisle.

There you have it. Much of a mentally hungry America enthusiastically welcomed Jones’ work of invented hodgepodge as genuine. Too bad they all received poison, yet very few intellectuals are fessing-up to their selective blindness and Jones’ scam.

Lest we forget the untruths perpetrated by Congress-liars and smarmy senators dishing falsehoods about Donald Trump and his MAGA followers, continuing his ongoing impeachments, the current falsities regarding the price of gas, as well as the rising cost-of-living in America – all of which can be squarely blamed on President Joe Biden, it is easy to see the fix is in.

Enter a whole new cadre of human waste called the Democratic Socialists of America who desperately want to make everyone beholden to an oppressive Communistic society, besides coddling Muslims who migrated to the United States only to prevaricate about their intentions to assimilate, then commit acts of outright fraud and terrorism against Americans.

To recap, perhaps Christopher Columbus and I really did converse mano-a-mano, via Ouija, to expose the contorted history of his Caribbean landing being shoved down society’s throats. Perhaps not. In any case, it’s time for Americans to discover common sense and stop being told what to think. 

Common sense should prevail.

Bottom line: Happy Columbus Day!

Mind Numbing

 

  Rug rats across America are back in school after a nice summer respite.

Armed with backpacks, book bags, lunch boxes, pencil cases, and in some instances laptop computers, these walking masses of cells have returned to continue where their vacations ended a few short months earlier.

Just as with kids when I was young, this assemblage of wannabe graduates likely fit into one of three categories: kids who absolutely love school, young’uns who hate school, and sandwiched in betwixt are those who are there under duress.

Unfortunately, not all children are in the habit of going to school. Discipline for truancy varies between jurisdictions. Some employ numbers of days-per-month standards to measure attendance, while others could simply not care less. Until it’s time to receive that high school diploma, that is.

Further, there are AWOL students who feel as though they are smart enough to game “The System.” Alas, they’re not, developing habits that are best described as B-A-D.

Skipping classes has evidently become a game to a number of these malcontents who may feel as though their informative years are better spent smoking dope, having sex, and often committing crimes to occupy their idle lives.

Come next spring when it is again summer respite time, an illiteracy epidemic is rediscovered, and parents of the underachievers will become irate, blaming shortcomings of their progenies on everyone from teachers to administrators to school officials, even police resource officers. But rarely on themselves.

Upon closer inspection we find that the blame for failure can often times be squarely placed upon the shoulders of those ‘educators’ who believe their curricula are just what the students need to succeed in life.

Taught in elementary through high school are lessons on new math, appropriately applying condoms, illegal drug identification, racial animosity, reparations, social justice, climate change, secretly obtaining abortions, plus how and where to change one’s gender without parent approval.

This would be Babylon Bee material if not true. But it is.

In case you’re wondering why there is no mention of algebra, history, geography, English, or electives such as German, French, Spanish, or Latin languages, it’s because there’s not enough time in the day.

To aid in the making-kids-feel-good department, all kids are regularly passed to the next grade as an ego massage for truants who were busy making babies and/or stealing cars to even participate in classes.

Not to worry. Destined for lives earning newly established minimum wage hikes, these total losers will soon feel as though they earned their $25 per hour salary. But this is only the beginning of the destructive hurricane subsequently befalling America’s workforce.

Eventually failing upward into high school and eventually college, these students have been trained to become functional illiterates. They are unable to read, write, perform basic arithmetic, and effectively communicate orally.

It seems as though the powers-that-be who created these burdens on society are suddenly doing the two-step shuffle as a way to avoid being blamed for their intentional destruction of our scholastic system.

The University of California (UC) stopped requiring standardized testing as part of its admission process, per The Washington Examiner. Of those students, 70% did not meet middle school math proficiency standards.

“At UCSD, which Forbes ranked as the third-best public university in the nation, one-eighth of the 2025 incoming class did not meet middle school math standards, necessitating the creation of a remedial math course reviewing elementary-school arithmetic. On a test given in the remedial math class, a quarter of the students could not solve 7 + 2 = x + 6. And the majority of those remedial math students were not humanities majors, but rather science technology, engineering, or mathematics majors,” The Washington Examiner continues.

But why do these facts exist in the first place?

Let’s analyze how we arrived at this point of our lives.

With the decades-long decline in minority test scores, anointed felt systemic racism was the definitive culprit. Being kept out of white schools because of segregation laws, minorities were forced to attend blacks-only schools until at least the 1960’s. Once repealed, integration was not only encouraged – it was the law.

Public institutions of learning were suddenly thrust into helping nurture underprivileged minority students, often at the expense of white students who enjoyed often solid educations since kindergarten.

These new melding of people from different races and cultures was not a simple as the architects of this blending had believed. With understanding, patience, and resilience, the mixing of Americans in the Great Melting Pot was continuing, and with success.

But cultural norms began crumbling due to race hustlers who clearly saw their kingdoms collapsing, and rabble rousing, what was once a life-long career, was suddenly heading the way of the buggy whip.

Black athletes were now competing against white athletes, black students sat adjacent to white kids, and jobs were open to all races requiring competitiveness among both sides of this equation.

Unfortunately, killing personal grifts of ‘race spokesmen,’ and ‘black representatives,’ was not as easy as destroying invasive garden weeds. Employing camouflage tactics, combined with outright fabrications, this cadré of disaffected saviors were willing to reset the calendar back to the 1800’s for their job security.

Stoking the dying embers of racial animosity seemed like a great idea toward ensuring the races were to be separated based upon color. Discouraging black kids from “acting white.”

According to Wikipedia, “In the United States, acting white is a pejorative term, usually applied to black people by other black people, which refers to a person’s perceived betrayal of their culture by assuming the social expectations of white society.”

It goes on to say, “The term is controversial, and its precise meaning is hard to define; some usage focuses on success in education. It is theorized that some students in racial minority groups are discouraged from achieving in school by the negative prejudices of ethnic peers and by public figures and academics across the political spectrum.”

So, what exactly does this mean?

I’m glad you asked.

News reports, like clockwork, regularly enthusiastically push sordid details about America’s schools, teachers, learning materials, even methods used as tools for shaping our future leaders. Unfortunately, these ‘future leaders’ may not be ready to lead a pack of hungry wolves to meat.

Throughout the years, that apparent decline in learning has occurred even with many jurisdictions spending over $50,000 per year per elementary student, incorporating the latest technology in courses, plus eliminating learning barometers which have long-been used to optimally place students in post-graduation classes and careers.

What do we, as a society, now do with upward failing college graduates: graduates who are unable to read their own diploma?

Affirmative action – an effort to right historic wrongs – is now being used as a cudgel to place diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) promoted wannabes into fields of employment once thought improbable.

The medical profession is now encouraging DEI to summarily place once affirmative action job seekers into positions of making life and death decisions because of their race. Period.

If you have ever – EVER – been lying in an operating room and thought it would only be right to have a choice between an excellent doctor, or one based on the doctor’s color, please review your direction in life.

Finally, when you contemplate why certain segments of Americans don’t readily assimilate or remain illiterate following twelve-plus-years of schooling, do not blame whites or white society for their shortcomings. After all, those non-conformists are simply marching to the beat of a different drummer.

In other words, it’s their own fault.

Clear Conclusion

 

 
As with most positions in career-style private sector employment, along with knowledge, skills, and abilities a candidate is expected to be a team player. As such, they must fit in with ease to help the cause and achieve the company’s goals.

Goals in business are pretty simple. If a void is found, ideas are kicked around, a solution is agreed upon, products and/or services are offered, which finally lead to money made for the company. Amen.

The company’s backers – often stockholders – are suddenly recipients of dividends for taking a risk on creating something new out of whole cloth. Most ground-up business ventures, however, fail nearly daily due to a compendium of societal speed bumps.

International viruses, guvment rules and regulations, climate and weather issues, commodities, and such certainly contribute to the success of both companies and guvment, alike. There are several differences with distinctions, though.

Guvment entities at federal, state, and local levels have the Power that businesses do not. Guvment agencies possess the ability to continue business as usual through taxing individuals and companies for more revenue, unlike those individuals and companies that must somehow pull more extortion monies from their butts. Those same agencies further often employ unreasonable regulatory hurdles that hurt businesses competitively.

Politicians are those special people who feel they are entitled to everything – everything – just because. While running for a spot on the ballot, they promise the world and more to everyone.

Free this, free that, and more free this, just so that they get the nomination. Once on the campaign trail they employ piety to attract kind people’s attention. They also promise to help the downtrodden in society with drug addiction rehabilitation, lower housing costs, more favorable interest rates, in addition to the proverbial chicken in every pot.

This is where the rubber meets the road. Guvments – be they local, state, or federal – produce only two things: hot air and red tape.

Guvments don’t make cars, candles, shovels, toilets, clothing, wristwatches, or even guns and tanks for the military. Since they produce nothing, they have absolutely no knowledge as to what a profit is, or how to turn a deficit into one without using a gun and getaway car.

An $85 shoelace

If a guvment agency needs a military boot shoelace, they contract out for one. Probably about $7 in a local department store; the cost will rise to about $85 from an approved vendor after bureaucratic procedure. Not a bad haul.

Yes, politicians run America much like the Sicilian Mafia (La Cosa Nostra) allegedly ran their operations in America. With the benefit of graft, corruption, payouts, and extortion, La Cosa Nostra became involved in many facets of life for which people begged; unfortunately, they were operated with benefits slanted toward the Mafia and against the people.

If that sounds familiar, you may remember happenings under the Barack Hussein Obama administration. God-like President Obama promised health coverage for everyone in America. Bar none!

People were agog as that swishy commander-in-chief paraded around stages across the nation making the same pledge at each venue: free or affordable healthcare for everyone.

But that was a lie, and Big Mike’s wife knew it was a lie. Conning the public into believing his bulls hit, a lopsided Democratic Congress passed the Affordable Care Act which was anything but.

In the details hid the important part about taxpayer-funded premiums that would be paid by those citizens who dutifully acquired their own health insurance. The fix was in, though. And that secret part of the ObamaCare bill expired under the Donald J. Trump second term.

With astronomical tax hikes needed to continue this half-baked Ponzi scheme, Congressional Democrats began lying about President Trump’s kicking people off their healthcare plans. Fortunately, this stenchy maneuver exposed the Democrats for the thieves they are.

This is only one example of the massive con game with which politicians have been grifting the American public for decades. Lie about the legislation, pass bills in the dead-of-night, then blame exorbitant tax hikes to cover their smarmy deeds on the other side of the aisle.

On the flip side, corporate America operates exactly the opposite. Very little in the way of money is spent unless there is an excellent chance of return-on-investment, or a favorable action is on the horizon.

The United States military, as of December 2025, had 2.81 million service members worldwide, including 1.33 million active-duty troops, according to usafacts.org. That’s a lot.

Take firearms manufacturers, for example. That same U.S. military mentioned above uses firearms and, I dare say, should have at least one firearm per soldier – plus a couple extra in case some get lost, stolen, captured, or break.

All of these firearms are purchased through guvment contracts to supply the troops. Tanks, airplanes, ammunition, ships, helmets, even boots and troop underwear, are all purchased from vendors. Those vendors vie for contracts with competitive bids. Often, those bids are subject to Congressional scrutiny. Remember those shoelaces?

The bidders are comprised of private corporations who make their money not from higher taxes they simply impose, rather they are selected by dedicated committees to make the final determination for lucrative, long-term contracts.

What could possibly go wrong?

Well, it seems as though many of Congress’ Best could be tempted to hold out voting on a contract for goods and services in exchange for ‘special considerations.’ Perhaps those contracts could be steered to minorities, maybe a gratuity is involved as a way to say “Thanks!”

Which calls to mind a searing question about how a civilian entering Congress with an annual salary of about $179,000, can be worth over $20,000,000 withing five years in guvment service. Baffling, right?

Short of stealing Rayburn House Office Building cafeteria tip jar money, I cannot imagine from where those magical income disclosure numbers come. And apparently neither do their winking fellow Congressmen.

Finally, let’s look at unemployment in America.

According usfiscalclock.com, as of September 24, 2026, the estimated unemployment figure stands at 7,000,000 eligible full-time workers.

Perhaps it is time to put these, and other, idle people to work by having them manufacture weaponry, helicopters, clothing, tires, ammunition, prepackaged troop food (MREs), and even walnut Congressional desks and matching chairs, to stop possible contract shakedowns, manufacturing issues, and supply chain hurdles.

All this will likely alleviate the unemployment situation about which the Democratic Party is constantly carping. Simply put, a clear conclusion.

Otherwise, these phony do-gooders will be summarily placed front and center in the spotlight of criticism, and rightly so. To do nothing to rectify any and all bad economic situations borders on criminal. It further places each Representative not interested in the missing-in-action category, to be remembered come election day.

It is now up to you, the voter. You’ll get what you asked for.

Libtards

 

  Since the 1990’s, a political divide has been hanging over America largely created by liberals. Often imitating cantankerous children in adult bodies, the shenanigans of these malcontents have been making news simply for their outrageousness.

Fighting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agents, setting police stations afire, looting stores, generating violent flash mobs, shooting innocent motorists while carjacking, in addition to a seemingly endless display of apparent hatred toward societal norms, has created an enduring scenario of once normal life that has morphed into mayhem.

Of course, none of this would be possible were it not for the legacy media steering these liberals toward extortionate behavior through manufactured information, also known as “fake news.”

Fake news was first discovered in 2003 in Iraq. America was in an invasion in that Middle Eastern septic tank while attempting to overthrow then-dictator Saddam Hussein. With U.S. forces overtaking the capitol, the Iraq spokesman, Baghdad Bob, insisted Iraq had the situation was under control. Bob assured the TV camera the Iraq army had the United States’ military on its heels, all on live television.

It was a lie. Army tanks were plainly seen rolling down the streets in the panoramic window behind Bob making this farce all the more humorous. Yet the American media asserted our armed forces were in a pickle. That is called being complicit.

Realizing they held genuine sway with distributing propaganda in place of news, the stage was suddenly set to tell the American public whatever they wanted whenever they wanted.

But another critical element was percolating that needed to be cemented in place in order to continue with this ruse. The average citizen needed to be dumbed down in order to create an accepting audience for this tripe.

The ultimate solutions were to make schoolteachers complicit using propaganda as teaching aids, plus encouraging the media to ignore critical news stories altogether. What a great scheme.

Unfortunately, this massive public goat rodeo doesn’t end here.

Enter the sphere of vocabulary. Words have meanings, and that is important to know. Our language has been modified to reflect specific agendas for decades. Babies became fetuses, fetuses became unviable life sources, destructive arson became peaceful demonstrations, illegal aliens became undocumented citizens, and ‘Make America Great Again’ became a legitimate target for practically every low IQ person.

Also included in this list is a very useful and legitimate word: retarded. Its official definition is “affected with impaired intellectual development; occurring or developing later than desired or expected; socially inappropriate or foolish,” according to the American Heritage Dictionary. Amen.

Yet to be bastardized or verboten as a handful of words have been prescribed by the anointed in guvment, specialized racial and social categories, and the aforementioned media, retarded still has rightful meaning, like it or not.

Once used as a descriptor in auto maintenance – advancing or retarding timing from top dead center – when setting ignition points, it simply addresses the appropriate position when which spark plug fires.

Often chiding people for using this word, the powers-that-be attempt to cloak the intelligence of those who participate in outlandish public speaking, besides “serving” the people in guvmental roles as politicians. And therein lies the problem.

Combined with their proud “liberal” moniker, “retard” has also taken on a new life in the apt new noun: libtard.

Evidently in an effort to protect sensitivities of slower or uneducated members of society, the term retard has taken on an avoided path through the English language. And that’s too bad.

But libtard is gaining strength in both validity and conciseness and should not be excised from the lexicon as a valid word.

Take, for instance, the latest displays of stupidity in America. New York City (NYC) voters elected a world-class clown to be their mayor. Spouting platitudes about saving money, Zohran Mamdani spent his campaign, as well as his first months in office, badmouthing President Donald Trump for anything and everything.

Not being able to run for president himself, Mamdani and his Democratic Socialists of America Party (DSA) are clearly deficient in their understanding of economics and government. Promises of free this and low cost that for voters are not unlike a child-like mind spouting delusions of grandeur. But facts are now getting in the way of delivering on those lofty expectations. Time to blame Trump.

Equally complicit in this poop hurricane are the NYC voters themselves. Largely hoped for and contrived by Libtards, this systematic disassembly of The Big Apple via absolute mismanagement can be blamed only on the person in the mirror.

Being slow learners, Democrats and Democratic Party supporters are suddenly viewing a cresting wave of popularity exhibited by Mamdani’s mayoral win and subsequent notoriety. Desperately stepping upon one another attempting to board the DSA train to grab a ride to the 2028 elections the near-sighted Democrats see their regular tax-and-spend method of governing as a new movement of taking-from-the-rich to buy more votes.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
wannabe president

Fifty-nine percent of the Democratic Party members have already made the leap adding “Socialist” to their party affiliation, with DSA leaders already measuring for new drapes in the White House. Included in that list of turncoats are Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, and relic Bernie Sanders, all leading the gaggle of America-haters and seditionists.

Seeing their Biden-era open border plan coming to fruition, these DSAers’ goals are to shred The Constitution, pack the Supreme Court, dissolve law enforcement across the nation, release prisoners, re-open the borders, give everyone cost-free medical insurance, fade out the military, confiscate private property, plus eliminate debt from all borrowers. All are realistic goals if the Libtards can elect more simple-minded politicians into office by equally ignorant voters.

With Americans begging for change, the sleaziest of the political world are averring their might and knowledge as DSA “solutions” to the state of the nation. After making President Donald Trump, as well as his MAGA followers, targets of slander and violence, the Democrats seem to be in control of their own destiny.

Thousands upon thousands of brainwashed college-aged children have been regularly and openly marching for the genocide of the Jewish population for some years now. Agreeable college and university presidents, chancellors, and professors are either turning a blind eye or encouraging this sordid behavior. But why?

Their ultimate goal is to destroy and replace the United States of America with a Communistic style of guvment, with Jews as their societal scapegoat. That ain’t good for anyone – including the savages who are pulling out all stops to achieve their goal.

If they’re unhappy with the way things are in America, they are welcome to leave to return to the landfill from they came. And those numb-minded Americans who want to mollycoddle foreigners, putting first before natives, should go with them. They represent the perfect definition of Libtard.

Expecting Too Much

 

  According to most websites associated with business strategies, setting realistic expectations, delivering on your promises, and consistently going above and beyond, can create memorable experiences that leave a lasting impression on your customers.

These references further state that by implementing this strategy in your business, you should be able to watch as your reputation and customer satisfaction soar.

If this sounds like a good idea to you, and you’re not a business person, here’s an easy question: To what aspects of your life would the first two paragraphs make an improvement? Along this same vein, to which personal scenario would these same two paragraphs not help?

Take all the time you need. I’ll stop typing and wait for you.

Of course, these are both individualized ponderings unique to each of you. But realistically, it would be nice to see those strategies applied to practically every segment of life thereby creating what might seem like a personal Eden.

Let’s say you have a dog or a cat, or both. Before you picked out your animal companion you likely imagined nurturing walks in the park, a snuggled bed, toys, healthy pet foods, leashes, grooming tools, along with potential traveling challenges. Some of these decisions are simpler than others, yet all are important.

A nasty flea and DSA supporter

Suddenly, you realize your new pet comes with far more in the way of trouble than you ever imagined. Your dog barks incessantly, your cat enjoys scratching the upholstered furniture, plus veterinarian visits are terribly expensive. And then there are fleas.

All this baggage should give potential “fur baby” parent(s) pause. Behavior modification tools are readily available to deal with these and other hiccups. Yet they usually deal with each situation, simply adapting and moving on, as they should.

Usually taking the blame are the pets. But is that really where the finger pointing belongs? Pets aren’t normally well-behaved Mensa members. Just as with humans, pets come with a variety of problems that should have been identified – before adoption – not afterward.

This is where we begin today’s ponderous adventure in “How in Hell Did We Wind Up Here?”

Upon examination, we, as an amenable people, are usually willing to place our trust in so many things and people as well as pets.

We get scammed because we are vulnerable to sad tales, teary puppy eyes, sobbing, plus what ifs. What ifs are those speculative posits that allow each individual person to conjure up in their own outcome of good or bad.

Recall when the mega lottery games occasionally reach atmospheric heights. We bought a ticket in hopes of winning an unimaginable amount of stupid money; that’s when the what ifs began on a positive note. A new house, expensive automobiles, fabulous trips, and perhaps a yacht belong in the what if conversations.

On the flip side, a medical matter is terrifying because they are not known to be inexpensive. In the event of such, people are goaded into buying awfully pricey health insurance to defray the astronomical medication prices and avoid a potential – what if – bankruptcy.

But for all the intelligent people living in America, we always seem to gravitate to what seems as though are ‘good deals.’

Trusting individuals of all ages are regularly taken in by scams, confidence games, bait and switch cons, even by those politicians who wear expensive suits accompanied by toothy smiles.

Usually beginning almost two-years out, many of these pols send out feelers to test the waters of potential topics. Using multiple polling services, wanna-be civil servants hire seemingly countless staff members who glom onto the aspirations of these silver-tongued devils, hoping to acquire a meaningful position if their candidate is elected.

Witness the current New York City (NYC) poop hurricane. A foreign transplant from Uganda, the insufferable Zohran Mamdani arose from literally nowhere to become the mayor of NYC with the aforementioned suit and grin. This go-funny-eyed serial liar weaseled his way into Gracie Mansion riding a papier-mȃché sedan chair, toted by adoring sycophants.

Promising inexpensive grocery stores, free bus rides, low cost housing, taxing the wealthy, and private business takeovers, Mayor Mamdani rode the wave of electoral enthusiasm without barely getting damp. Once behind the Mayor’s desk, his brilliant plans and promises were finally revealed as smoke and mirrors of a colossal con job.

But the damage was already done. His antagonism toward America and Americans enveloped the Big Apple like a stinky fart, carrying over into his seething hatred toward Jews, Republicans, Jews, blacks, Jews, and Jews. What could possibly go wrong?

Since you asked, plenty.

This exhibition of unemployed, youthful ignorant voters getting what they asked for inspired seemingly countless, additional clueless voters to stand in line to meet and greet the new harvest of Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) weeds.

I refer to them as weeds because although they appear green, they suck vital nutrients and water from the ground that a grassy green lawn needs to survive. Soon, they have drained everything wholesome leaving behind mud, thorns, and prickles.

Still relatively new to the electoral-political system in America, DSAers bring with them a haughtiness that is abrasive to hard workers who built this nation into a welcoming home for law-abiding people who wished to join our freedom-loving social experiment.

Now growing roots herein, DSAers are anxious to change all this freedom and opportunity into a proven communistic system that favors mayhem, envy, and sloth over hard work and honesty.

With lies, lies, and more lies, these DSAers have been shoveling hypnotic-like ideas and subsequent platitudes throughout podcasts, internet exposés, as well as news bites, all to the delight of weak minded supporters who hear the half-baked messages they want to hear.

Senate, Congressional, gubernatorial, and mayoral candidates have been finding themselves out maneuvering their Democratic Party buddies, although the Democrats insist DSA-types are welcome into their Big Tent. You betcha.

An excellent example of ‘Beware of what you wish for,’ can easily be located in a place called Hamtramck, Michigan. Once a Polish-American community, Hamtramck attracted new immigrants from Yemen, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, with open arms.

To demonstrate their wokeness, the LGBTQ (I’ll forego the other 17-identifying letters,) community welcomed and encouraged these newcomers to their town of about 28,000 residents. Today, it is the only Muslim-majority city in the United States.

Run by a duly-elected Muslim mayor, and governed by an all-Muslim city council, Hamtramck has now decided the LGBTQ (I’m still foregoing the other 17-identifying letters,) community members could not fly their precious, all-important Pride Flags. What’s up with that?

It seems as though the Muslim powers-that-be have taken offense at the symbolism of that sexual proclivity flag and prohibited its open use on Hamtramck streets. That is called getting what you asked for. It also encompasses not doing your homework.

Not unlike a much wanted puppy peeing on your Berber carpet, or rescued kitty clawing a Queen Anne chair, you should not be surprised by any and all inconveniences that arrived with your welcoming gestures and anticipations.

The bottom line is that Hamtramck Muslims, Zohran Mamdani, along with the rest of the DSAers got where they are not just because of the sleazy tactics, lack of candor, or faҫades. They got to where they are because the voter unrealistically expected too much. And the voters received what they deserve.

Remember this story when you’re casting your ballot for representation.

Now they need to be prepared for the flea infestation.

Holiday Retread

  Because I deserve time off just as much as my readers, I'm taking Labor Day 2026 off.  As such, please enjoy this retread - not unlike remanufactured tires - until next week.

Until then, happy Labor Day!

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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.