Self-Control

 

  Imagine hundreds of 4-year-olds in a room being taunted by cookies. They were part of an experiment in which they could immediately enjoy a cookie; on the other hand, they could reap two-cookies if they only waited a few minutes.

This was an actual study on self-control from decades ago. Similar studies offered children marshmallows in lieu of cookies, but the enticement was the same.

Yummy enticements

During this test of wills, many students quickly grabbed a single cookie rather than wait for a double reward. Alas, they were found to be surprised that those who exercised restraint for a larger reward wound up in different places in later life.

“More than 600 children took part in the marshmallow experiment nearly 40 years ago, conceived of by psychologist Walter Mischel of Stanford University and his colleagues,” per www.livescience.com.

This site added, “Some findings were that lower discipline abilities often resulted in lower SAT scores, a higher body-mass index and a slightly increased risk of substance abuse later on.”

Which brings us to the starting point of this week’s study in common sense.

While the Democratic Party and Democratic Socialists of America are still guzzling celebratory champagne from their massive win over Republicans earlier this month, Republicans are licking their wounds and simultaneously pointing loaded fingers at others inside their tent.

This circular firing squad is highly misplaced because very few incumbents dashed about their jurisdictions to help themselves much less stand with President Donald Trump. As a result, their halfhearted campaigns wound up as giant voids of disinterest. And that’s a small part of the post mortem election examination from me.

Being a supporter of President Trump, I have never met or spoken to him. And although I regularly offer stellar ideas for his continued success in office, he clearly does not read this blogsite. And that’s too bad.

Listening to his regular speeches to cheering crowds, reading related news items, as well as speaking to friends and neighbors of similar ilk, I can tell you with authority that President Trump was miles off course on his trek about the country to promote fellow Republicans’ chances at reelection.

Continuing the autopsy, President Trump verbally rambled – ad nauseam – at each and every turn. As he repeatedly bragged about his highest this and biggest that and most historic something else, he became tiresome because that was not what Americans wanted to hear.

To be fair, President Trump inherited a poop-mess from each of his two predecessors: Barack Hussein Obama and Joseph Robinette Biden. With history on our side, those two con artists attempted to financially destroy our nation with questionable spending, legislative, and Executive Order misdeeds, all in the name of helping the average citizen.

Each of those were deceptive ways to successfully further divide our country though tribalism that was designed to drive America far off course to the point of no return.

But Donald Trump won an election and subsequent reelection to steer our nation’s ship back onto a more cogent path. Stonewalling politicians, protests, riots, arsons, along with non-stop lawsuits hobbled the second Trump administration as much as it did his first. However, this go-around was far more vicious and uncivil.

Not being a Trump apologist, I can tell you that his goal to rid the world of Iran and its nearly half-century of threats of death to America and Israel was truly noble and prudent. Possibly saving millions of lives, The President took action he thought was necessary. And it was appreciated by many people world-wide who did not relish being vaporized by a nuclear weapon in the hands of an Iranian kook. Just sayin’.

Still, through a series of legal gyrations, American Congressmen and Senators tilted the boat to the port side in an attempt to have it both ways: pretend to stand behind Trump for the MAGA crowd votes, while distancing themselves to acquire Leftists’ votes. That’s a win-win if you’re not a team player.

In any case, the nose-bleed fuel prices, an empty Strategic Petroleum Reserve, multi-trillion dollar budget deficit, a phony medical insurance grift, Chinese renewable energy scam, plus the Minnesota fraud scandals all contributed to the decay of the United States’ Treasury, thanks to both Obama and Biden.

Efforts to recoup losses from these billions of dollars of corruption wound up floundering in limbo due to complicit prosecutors and Leftist politicians alike, all of whom deferred punitive actions. Wink, wink. Not the definition of “Rule of law” you imagined.

This is where President Trump hit his personally-created speed bump. Rather than focusing on the goal of ridding the world of Iran’s proverbial Sword of Damocles, he spoke in platitudes of his stock market achievements, employment accomplishments, and the nearly instant illegal alien invasion turn-around.

Suddenly, he wasn’t playing to the crowd; he was now playing to his own ego and, therefore, missing the mark of those who wanted more now.

Demanding larger paychecks to afford a house, acquire a new car, plus to repay student loans for useless degrees, and cheaper gas prices, these childlike voters saw personal envy over national safety.

Remember the kids with the cookies and marshmallows?

Many of these voters were likely the children who immediately grabbed the single cookie rather than wait for two. And they will soon realize the mistake they made by opting for the quick solution rather than the long-term one.

In any case, their rainbow dreams will soon be dashed because there’s not enough money to accomplish their lofty goals. It’s all about self control.

Assault on Civilization

 

  A quick glance about the Earth may give the average human being quite a surprise.

Four weeks ago, people seemingly meandered through life largely without a care except for the exorbitant cost of gas and groceries. The hand wringing began only when Donald J. Trump was elected to a second term in 2024.

Sandwiched between President Trump’s re-election was a cadaver named Joseph Robinette Biden. That 2020 election seemed like a prefect scam inasmuch as Biden didn’t campaign, rather he hid in his Rehobeth Beach house to avoid both contracting COVID-19 as well as being exposed for the idiot he actually is.

Almost before the chute opened following his election, Biden began signing one Executive Order after another to cripple America by stopping the flow of oil from the Keystone XL Pipeline, freely opening trade with communistic nations, demanding auto manufacturers produce electric vehicles (EVs), plus erasing all accomplishments of President Trump’s first term.

Being in the midst of the “COVID pandemic,” both President Biden and his hapless Vice President Kamala Harris spent most of their first year in office complaining about how little American citizens were being taxed. Reversing President Trump’s tax breaks, Joe and Kamala were eager to tax, tax, and tax some more to get our nation back on the track to oblivion.

With our country still reeling from the “peaceful” riots in May 2020, over the death of miscreant George Floyd, the Biden–Harris team eagerly threw open the doors protecting America’s Southern border. The Floyd distraction – in concert with the pandemic – provided great cover for the incursion of tens of millions of uninvited invaders from Central and South America.

This influx devastated our sovereign infrastructure with an immediate drain on our economy. As resources were suffering due to travel restrictions, prices soared, as did interest rates, plus inflation, thereby creating a perfect storm to break the back of the United States.

The Biden cabinet, composed largely of hacks and nitwits, openly lied about the border being open, artificial price hikes, regularly climbing gas prices while Biden, himself, bragged about the draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower fuel prices fewer than five cents for less than a week. This intentional act bordering on treason left us vulnerable from a national security standpoint.

Following four painful years of watching President Biden fall up the stairs, aimlessly meander around stages, incoherently babble at lecterns, and destroy any sense of national solidarity, he was “put out to pasture” by the same sleazy handlers that dragged him into this national mess.

But all the aforementioned problems did not vanish with the exiting Commander-in-Chief. Rather, they were still in their baby stages while the hook was dragging Biden off the stage. The show was actually just beginning.

Much like former President Barack Hussein Obama’s departure in 2017 revealed his special level of corruption and grifts emanating from the White House, Biden’s corruption and influence peddling made Obama look like an amateur.

However, the aforementioned Saint George Floyd rioting continued, unabated, even gaining steam. Morphing from marches and arson into malcontentedness, civil unrest in America seemed unavoidable to the point of an expected normalcy.

Racist organizations such as Black Lives Matter and the New Black Panther Part continued this destructive mayhem, as did Antifa, and other equally bigoted – read: Muslim – groups openly espousing the genocide of Jews. Not the civil behavior of people living in a free society one would expect.

Yet the havoc continued throughout President Trump’s stint as the Chief Executive with a compliant media falsely placing any and all blame on the Trump Administration.

Accusing President Trump of inflating the price of chicken eggs to causing the sharp rise of oil-based products, these smarmy destructionists used campaigns to evoke terror and total unrest among everyday American people. And it seemed to work.

Upon President Trump’s return to the Oval Office, America discovered into just how mentally deranged its citizenry had been transformed. With an immediate attack on public corruption, the Trump Administration ardently worked to reining-in stolen monies well into the hundreds-of-billions of dollars.

These almost unfathomable amounts are, in fact, tax dollars paid by the average American. Still, protesters raged, physically fought with federal law enforcement agents, and disrupted public hearings all in the name of – uh, no one really knows.

Yes, you read that correctly; taxpayers are fighting to continue the illegal funneling of their dollars to scam projects as well as overseas terrorist training camps. For your information, those terrorists will be employing their newfound skills on these same clueless Americans.

It has taken years for the benevolent United States to realize our generosity and care was being used to ultimately punish us for being generous and caring. Nice.

Peaceful riots in France in 2026

If you don’t believe me, take a gander at France, Italy, Albania, Sweden, England, and a smattering of other European nations. They contain copious amounts of foreign transplants, most of whom are not fit for a polite society. They abuse women and children, while ignoring laws, and flaunting disdain for everything non-Muslim.

Burning cities, senselessly looting stores and businesses, as they are attacking police and guvment officials, has generated enough in the form of activities that should cause concern everywhere.

Such a poop hurricane is a harbinger of not what could be rather, what will be. With our once-sovereign nation teetering on the precipice of societal extinction, conducted by thugs who only wish to destroy our once revered Western lifestyle.

Even our current political candidates are in on this assault on civilization. Caveat emptor.

Down to the Wire

 

  Following a two-year run, America’s future is down to the wire. We have heard all sorts of stories, lies, half-truths, promises, as well as the truth on this road to the survival of a country that just recently celebrated its 250^th birthday.

As previously mentioned, the last twenty-four-months quickly became the most virulent witnessed in a free nation – ever.

People self-segregated by sex, race, color, language, pronouns, weight, among other means of tribal distinction, all in the name of who-knows-what. People were fired from their jobs for not acknowledging a stranger’s pronoun, for not agreeing men are capable of having babies, and for following federal guvment laws regarding discrimination.

College pukes felt compelled to violently march against ethnic and religious Jews on college campi, all to the cheers of equally deranged individuals attempting to drive a wedge between those who want a peaceful existence and a deranged, antagonistic mob.

Individuals who were once buddies with former President Donald J. Trump suddenly became venomous when he was both elected and re-elected as number 45 and 47. Number 46 was Joseph Robinette Biden, who summarily drove the bus of prosperity off the cliff to perdition, while wearing a stupid grin.

After several assassination attempts, President Trump 47 stood tall to rein in a nation run amok. After one presidential term, Biden’s favor-currying was nose-bleed costly, to be modest. Illegally repaying college student laws, ignoring and even encouraging an invasion by foreigners, breaking civil rights act legislature, outlawing wood stoves, shutting down the Keystone XL Pipeline to artificially raise the price of oil, paying billions of dollars to our enemy China for solar panels, and covertly investigating Conservatives/MAGA supporters and gun owners, formed just a tip of the proverbial iceberg.

Biden's weaselly cabinet and half-baked brain trust

Behind the scenes, though, Biden’s weaselly cabinet and half-baked brain trust were hard at work besmirching Trump as well as his MAGA supporters, in an ardent effort to place the Trump years into the dustbin of history.

Using a new tactic called “lawfare,” Biden and his henchmen tried every dirty trick known to man, and then some, to prevent a Donald Trump from being re-elected. Suing Trump, siccing the Department of Justice on him, even feeding propaganda to the media about The Donald was not enough to stop Mr. Trump.

Not being able to fool all the county, these sleazy manipulators attempted to bankrupt our precarious financial state beginning with that guy from Kenya who spent eight-years veering the ship of prosperity off course before leaving office with our national deficit $9,300,000,000 further in debt – the largest nominal increase, influenced by the 2007-09 financial crisis.

This “gag gift” from Obama to President Trump created a giant speed bump that bound Trump’s hands and ability to even pay-down the interest. Biden equally squandered trillions of dollars to apparently “buy votes” from the invaders for which he opened America’s border.

Yet here we are with mid-term elections very close with a sizable slate of kooks vying for political seats to further their jihad against our once sovereign nation.

With the help of sanctuary cities and states running interference against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from summarily removing law-breaking criminals from our nation, most of these wannabe Democratic candidates – many of whom are running under the Democratic Socialist of America Party (DSA) – have been quite open in their mental under achievements. Permanently maiming children through sex change surgeries is an excellent example of the mayhem loosened on the American public.

Universally demanding the abolition of police forces, ICE, prisons, repealing The Constitution, dissolving the Supreme Court, the Senate, along with our current military and medical system, these candidates – plus their supporters – have clearly proven themselves unfit to reside in our first-world country.

However, many voters have been swayed to believe the lies repeatedly told by Democrats and DSAers to coerce voters to change the structure of our nation and society, all the detriment of their own futures.

Hearing about everyone being on the same financial level, receiving equal medical care, inexpensive housing, besides breaking the backs of hard workers, all in the name of envy, makes these Leftist converts and hopefuls anxious to finally achieve nirvana.

But at what cost?

People imagine they will be making more money to be able to afford a house; they will find that taxes will dramatically rise precluding buying a house. Their new digs will be in the form tenement housing – a place without choice of neighbors or location.

Cars will be manufactured by the guvment who make regular Social Security payments to thousands of 150-year-old recipients. The streets will run wild with crime because no police and no prisons mean no punishment for anything.

No borders mean an outlaw nation infiltrated by countless newcomers, most of who will be no more assimilating than our current stock of lawbreakers. And jobs will be filled by need, not by choice. If the guvment needs ditch diggers, your job will be a ditch digger. End of discussion.

It’s not hyperbole to say every vote counts – including yours. There’s nothing good that will come of electing any of the Democratic and DSA candidates. The unfortunate thing is there is no reverse gear on this bus to total destruction of America as we know it.

We’re down to the wire which arrives on November 3, 2026, ready or not.

Vote, and vote wisely.

Oh, the Humanity

 

  A beautiful made-to-order day begged me to take a stroll with a smile to the harbor. It’s a mere block away, but other daily duties and demands kept me too otherwise occupied to meander there for even a brief respite. Today was different.

I hadn’t taken but a few steps from my driveway when I noticed a small child riding a tricycle on the edge of the street. Accompanying her appeared to be her father who, under a watchful eye, carefully guided her toward the side of the street preventing her from errantly making her way into the empty street.

I doubled up my pace in order to catch up to these adventurers to make acquaintance with these unknown likely unfamiliar newcomers. Its wasn’t difficult to reach them as their combined mobility resembled a turtle-like pace.

Traffic was non-existent, as usual. But something unusual caught my attention. Although both apparently having a fun time, it was difficult to ignore the little girl was wearing a helmet. Back when I was a young child, a fellow elementary school student was cursed to wear a helmet to protect him in case of a seizure and subsequent fall.

I never witnessed Larry in the throes of a medical emergency at school, but the possibility was always present. Recalling Larry, following an exchange of names and our respective living quarters, I desperately avoided mentioning little Marilyn’s headgear to avoid an awkward situation for all of us.

In any case, after a few polite remarks between us, they went their way while I headed in the opposite direction. My walk was relatively brief, and took mere minutes. Nonetheless, I had a tough time feeling pity for Marilyn. Oh, the humanity.

After spending a short 20-minutes on a bench at the wooden pier, I headed back to resume duties and finish some business when I met a long-time neighbor. We swapped pleasantries at which time young Marilyn’s name popped up.

I was ruing her being forced to wear that cranial protective device to protect any brain damage when my neighbor interrupted. Evidently, I read too much into what I witnessed – all of which was erroneous. It seems as though Marilyn likely has no known spastic issues; the helmet was to protect her in case of a tricycle mishap. Period.

Feeling relieved, my neighbor and I parted ways, heading home.

This is not the end of this tale, but rather the beginning. I, too, had a tricycle when I was Marilyn’s age, progressing to a scooter, then a small bicycle, a skateboard, eventually a few larger bicycles, and lastly an English racing bike all for fun and transportation. None of which required me to wear a helmet for protection.

Realistically, somewhere along the way, guvment became involved likely due to prodding by parents who wanted their kids ‘protected’ from all dangers in life. Through seemingly countless ‘awareness’ campaigns, guvment buttinskis relish in regularly demanding newly-fashioned rules and regulations be imposed on others against their will – all in the name of safety.

As a child, my parents introduced me and my sister to learning through educational toys and books. But just because toys were educational didn’t mean they were boring.

Mattel happens to be the apex of toy manufacturers marketing everything from Barbie dolls to Hot Wheels cars.

For generations, kids have been subjected to having wonderful times which created equally terrific memories that often last a lifetime.

At age eight, Santa brought our household something Mattel called Vac-U-Form. It was a metal box that plugged into an electrical wall socket to heat up a cast aluminum plate. Plates were supplied designed for both boys and girls, so that both sexes could easily be burned on this modified hotplate.

It came with several plates along with small plastic sheets that, when used in conjunction with one another, would be able to form a homemade toy. And they were great because we made them by ourselves without too much adult supervision.

Fortunately, we never visited the emergency room for injuries related to this magical box. Pressing their luck, two-years later, Mattel gave America some new dangerous toy called Thing Maker from which were crafted rubbery icky bugs and critters to make most girls grimace.

Using the same electricity-to-heat process as with the Vac-U-Form, both these contraptions needed more supplies in order to manufacture these fun objects. The continuing marketing came from buying new molds, plastic sheets, and – as with Thing Maker – a liquid substance that also ran out needing replacement.

As I recall, these were some of the best educational gifts Santa delivered. Alas, they are long gone relegated to the dust bin of minor history. Still, although both were highly dangerous, we weren’t forced to wear asbestos gloves and aprons, respirators, special boots, or safety glasses. We merely had fun.

Recalling Marilyn and her helmet, evoked sympathy from me. I hope she was experiencing merriment nonetheless.

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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 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.  Rather, they are 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 parental 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, the 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 as 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.