Time for a Choice

 

  Our lives are chock full o’ rules that appear in the form of laws, or simple civility.

For example, some laws include those associated with driving. If you speed while driving, you’re subject to being ticketed and subsequently fined. Those tickets, though, do not end there.

Mandatory insurance is always prepared to stick their noses into all moving violations that will also result in a steep increase in premiums for several agonizing years. The idea is since insurance companies must settle claims for its drivers, they use this opportunity to beat conformance into the driver. And so it goes with the rules, also known as guvmental behavior modification.

Plenty of governmental behavior modification can be found virtually anywhere. And this list of laws is seemingly endless; anything involving cars, guns, children, all the way down to the garbage that departs your home are already addressed by copious laws the guvment has thoughtfully put into place.

Changing out a broken ceiling fan, tossing dead batteries, leaf raking, bike riding, and landscaping are all mentioned in laws created by very fallible, albeit anointed, politicians, for our own good.

On the other hand, rules regarding civility are another matter. This category of freedom-stealing suggestions include such activities as wearing clothing that can be considered lewd, using foul language in public, driving mufflerless vehicles, and throwing your clam shells on the floor during dinner, are all easily recognized as questionable, but not necessarily criminal activity.

For your information, the main difference between laws and civil behavior is that laws are meant to protect people, in the name of safety, while civil behavior applies to keeping daily life palatable. There’s a huge difference in someone waving a handgun around, and someone loudly snapping chewing. Sure, you want to punch both offenders into submission, but those are differences with distinctions.

In any case, politicians have the uncanny abilities to lie to your face, as well as ignore regulations when it’s convenient for them.

Diving into the deep end of laws made by “lawmakers,” we find ourselves with both Democrats and Republicans placing their thumbs on the scale of truth and tolerance.

Recall the bike riding premise mentioned above. These laws were instituted by concerned, overly nosy, smarmy politicians who claim to have the bet interests of “our children” in their hearts and minds. They don’t. They were merely pandering for votes by creating an overly punitive regulation which will damage an entire family.

Should that family allow their child to ride without protective equipment, a prying neighbor can call the police to report child abuse. That, in and of itself, is criminal. Should the parents be fined? Should the child be removed from the home for its safety?

All this hoopla was for votes. By the way, if the child was aborted, we wouldn’t be talking about this situation. How safe is the “choice” child now? Still, it’s the law, and subject to severe punishment.

Illegally crossing the border is a criminal violation. It proves that if border crossers are unable to follow rules of entry into our country, they would be equally unable to follow other rules. As such, they would, or should, be denied entry into our country lest they continually thumb their noses at questionable activities such as murder and rape.

Begun under the Biden Administration, non-English-speaking foreigners were actually encouraged to cross America’s borders without penalty. The legacy media spent four-years ignoring that invasion with high-ranking guvment officials – including Plug Biden himself – that “The border was closed.”

Actually, it wasn’t. Four-years was ample time to allow and estimated 12 million to 15 million lawbreakers to flout our laws, with impunity. These ‘newcomers’ came with little in the way of clothing, money, communication skills, or civility. Yet many were able to pay “coyotes” – Mexican guides helping illegals safely cross the Rio Grande – an estimated $5,000 per person!

The only flag that should be
flown in America

That’s a lot of dinero for a family from a poor nation to amass in order to begin life anew. The bestest part is that if the illegal immigrants could not pay for their coyote passage, they would serve as couriers to transport equally illegal drugs into America. That service is a debt that makes criminal enterprises rich.

To appear empathetic to these invaders, federal, state, and local politicians were unable to see anything wrong in ignoring immigration laws; however, they could easily see something in the future that could be of great benefit to these political sleazebags.

Upon arrival in the sovereign nation of the United States, they were met with “gift bags” containing all sorts of goodies. Gift cards for clothing and hygiene products, SNAP cards, new cell phones, maps, plus instructions on how to avoid and handle Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, whose job it is to enforce immigration law. Not the deterrent for which one would hope.

All the while, opportunistic politicians in cities nationwide were quick to jump onto the bandwagon of compassion, opening the doors to everyone and anyone with a pulse, no questions asked. The possibility an illegal might be a criminal in their home country was met with scorn creating an invisible ‘force-field’ termed “sanctuary city.”

This brilliant display of civil disobedience on the part of largely Democrat mayors and gubenors was not without motive. After a few years of public amnesia, these anti-American pols would insist these illegal leaches should be made citizens without question. That would enable the newcomers to gain the right to vote resulting in re-election of their Democrat mentors. Neat, eh?

But the large swath of problems was covered up much as the Dem’s desired results. If these shenanigans could be kept quiet, the Republican Party would fade into history without a future. The fix was in.

To recap, the Democrats and Democratic Socialists (aka: Communists,) begged literally countless unvetted foreigners to break the law by entering the United States of America without paperwork. Once here, those miscreants were given lots of latitude to include guvment goodies, healthcare, methods of transportation, “free” educations, as well as housing and food – all on the taxpayer’s backs.

Politicians then protected these invaders by not only ignoring pertinent laws, but antagonizing President Donald Trump who inherited this poop hurricane from President Plugs.

But the best part of all this is that many of those nitwits who, only a few months ago were marching around college and university campuses calling for the extermination of Jews, thought it would be a terrific idea to march on behalf of these foreigners who want to remain foreigners.

Parading around Minneapolis, Minnesota, waving flags from their home nations, these tribalists proudly felt it was necessary to distinguish themselves from immigrants wanting to join the great melting pot to become citizens. Rather, they were hell-bent on making the rules in their newly adopted country, but with the blessing and protection of both Minnesota Gubenor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

Both those individuals clearly hate something called Law and Order, and, I suspect, American taxpayers.

Stifling the law enforcement efforts of ICE, whose job it is to corral immigration scofflaws, have been encouraging the populace to “resist,” “document,” and “hinder,” any and all attempts to round-up wanted individuals by ICE agents.

Rabble rousers from around the nation descended upon Minneapolis to help their Commie buddies summarily hide, besides stifle the identification and capture of wanted illegal aliens.

Blocking roads, blowing warning whistles, using megaphones, while smashing vehicle windows and spray painting the infrastructure, all have become parts of a ‘sport’ with which zeal and over-enthusiasm to create mayhem seems to have been intentionally misdirected by the legacy media and Democrat politicians, alike.

As a result, ICE agents have been doxxed, maimed, harassed, plus physically and mentally abused by these social do-gooders. So, who are they protecting with these life-threatening actions?

Car thieves, spousal abusers, drug dealers, rapists, gang members, murderers, and kidnappers are among those ardently protected by Minneapolis Democrats from being served warrants and finally removed for others’ safety. For your information, it’s called due process.

But left off that list is a bunch of sub-humans termed “child abusers.” Remember that aforementioned helmetless child whose family could be disrupted because of his parents’ not enforcing their offspring’s obligation to wear a safety device?

These child abusers fall under the category of sexual abuse, which activities often lead to the murder of the child victim in order to hide the crime. Not as harmless as a pie-in-the-sky activist would like to believe. These are real, dangerous criminals who are now being protected by lies, lies, and more lies as means to and end.

It’s time to place blame for all the violence where it belongs rather than where the Leftists would like you to believe it belongs.

It should be appropriately, squarely placed on the shoulders of those who actively encourage this smoke and mirrors, tongue-in-cheek hoopla: Tim Walz and Jacob Frey.

A True Fairy Tale

 

  Once upon a time there were two people, appearing to be women, who were on the campaign trail to hold a very high political office.

Citizens living in the Commonwealth of Virginia were recently facing an election to make one of these women the new gubenor for the next four-years. Virginia is a state that allows its gubenor to serve for a term limit of four-years; that’s not a bad idea when a terrible gubenor is elected.

This historic race to the statehouse occurred in 2025, in the midst of a nation in a downward spiral – plummeting towards Earth like a jet plane that had run out of fuel due to our previous spendthrift president, Joe Biden.

The economy was dragging down hard working citizens through high interest rates, outrageous diesel and gas prices, unaffordable housing, overpriced vehicles, new minimum wage statutes taking effect, all of which created a perfect poop storm. Let’s not forget the much-touted Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as: ObamaCare, coming to delayed terms of doubling premiums, all devised and encouraged by the America-hating Democrats.

Upon the 2021 inauguration of President Plugs Biden, Democrats opened the United States’ gates protecting our sovereign nation thereby letting in anyone – ANYONE – who had a hankering to live in prosperous America. No questions asked. What could possibly go wrong?

In the event you forgot, it was 2021 when we found ourselves in the throes of something called COVID-19. That was a flu the anointed political DC-ites transformed into a pandemic. According to guvment authorities, COVID was the biggest scourge since the early 1900’s Spanish flu pandemic, and important steps needed to be followed to ensure the population’s safety.

Over the next few Biden-years, an invasion of unprecedented proportions occurred with foreigners pouring across our borders. The problem quietly centered around the fact that these roughly 12 million undocumented, unhireable crossers arrived without COVID-19 vaccinations, polio vaccines, MMR shots, public health records, or even the Saint Dr. Anthony Fauci-approved face masks. Alas.

Yet no one in authority saw a problem. Village upon village ordered citizens arrested for ignoring the face mask and six-foot separation rules, although they were purely arbitrary in nature. But it didn’t take long to decipher the secret codes associated with these draconian regulations that cost countless military personnel and public servants their jobs for not being compliant. After all, it was in the name of public safety, we were told.

Of course those lies were only beginning. Border officials, federal cabinet members, doctors, television news readers, pundits, and gubenors nation-wide demanded orders be followed to the letter because: No one was above the law, and no questions were allowed to be asked.

This unprecedented display of power drew egotists into political careers to satisfy their thus-far unsatiated craving for not only authority, but unfettered authority. Enter two history-making women from Virginia.

It seems as though Abigail Spanberger who served as a U.S. Representative for Virginia’s 7^th Congressional District from 2019 to 2025, thought the water toe-test was conducive for a run to the statehouse. She is a member of the blue Democratic Party.

With her rèsumé nauseatingly distributed via constant TV campaign ads, Spanberger proudly announced her former work as an intelligence officer at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) besides holding down her position as a mother living in Leftist-oriented Fairfax County, VA.

On the red Republican side of the aisle was another female candidate named Winsome Earle-Sears who was interested in moving her office across the hall from her current location. You see, Earle-Sears ably served as Virginia’s Lieutenant Gubenor under Gubenor Glenn Youngkin, without controversy.

Lt. Gubenor Earle-Sears cut her teeth as a career United States Marine, after which she became a businesswoman, in addition to securing a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates.

Democrats were eager to support Democrat Spanberger because Democrats love Democrats. And Democrats detest Republicans because they are simply awful by virtue of being, well, racist.

But here’s the rub: Lt. Gubernor Earle-Sears is not only a Republican favorite, but she happens to have another much-desired attribute that draws Democrats like moths to a flame; she is additionally black.

Winsome Earle-Sears 

Democrats were clamoring to find blindfolds to cover their eyes in case a member of the legacy media asked them a question as to ‘Why aren’t you backing Ms. Earle-Sears?’

Feigning blindness, Virginia Democrats rallied their troops around Ms. Spanberger because...they suddenly had a memory lapse from their “diversity, equity, inclusion” cheerleading. It appeared as though the party that brought us the Ku Klux Klan really doesn’t enjoy the polite company of black women over white women, after all.

With the proverbial cat out of the bag, Dems shifted Spanberger’s run into overdrive by easily outspending Earle-Sears by lots. This odd imbalance was applauded by the Left, with surprises being readied behind the scenes.

This contentious race wound up being lopsided in favor of Ms. Spanberger whose campaign promising moderation, economic frugality, childcare, housing, education, representation for all, unity, healthcare, reaching across the aisle, besides increasing police presence, among the other predictable platitudes, found herself quickly changing directions following her swearing-in ceremony.

Now is a good time to explain the grifts that go along with calling Virginia ‘home.’ Most notably, Virginia, also known as The Old Dominion, has produced eight presidents, making it the state with the most presidents in U.S. history.

Beside that, Virginia has had a monumental run converting its ‘red’ status into ‘purple,’ by rapidly moving from a conservative to progressive venue through the regular elections of ‘blue’ candidates. This shift plainly signals the direction from which it came, to that which it is heading.

Unreasonable taxation has become the norm in Virginia over the past half-century. One of the more creative methods Old Dominion politicians have used to pick-pocket its residents is though something called “property tax.”

Property tax is a levy placed on vehicles in the state. Not unlike the ever-unpopular real estate tax, property tax is collected by the county-level treasurer every year – EVERY YEAR – to resemble a punishment on vehicles. This punitive way to keep safe, reliable cars and trucks on the roads forces drivers to give the state a set percentage of money, annually, lest they be fined.

Although the rates are relatively modest, they are based on the Kelly Blue Book value of your vehicle. In other words, the older the car, the lower the tax. This actually discourages citizens from purchasing new or newer transportation to avoid this financial punishment. By the way, trailers, campers, boats and motor homes were included in an expansion of the tax a few years back. Yea!

Ms. Spanberger is seriously considering expanding this assessment on – if you’re standing while reading this, please have a seat – lawnmowers. Go ahead and re-read that last sentence. I’ll wait for you.

Yep. In addition to making our environment cleaner, she also wants to outlaw leaf blowers. Not a bad idea since nobody will be mowing their lawns anyway. Just sayin’.

And those aforementioned increased police presence initiatives, a few paragraphs back, are aimed at focusing the police away from immigration-related crimes, to anything but helping the federal guvment enforce federal laws. Probably because she’s a law-and-order gal, just like her retired police officer daddy was.

Further, she desperately wants a ban on something called “assault weapons,” whatever today’s definition of those are, while making housing more affordable for immigrants, the poor, and elderly. Let’s hope she shows us how this brilliant plan is going to work as she continues her quest to make Virginia more affordable without raising taxes.

According to MSN, “Youngkin left Virginia with a $2 billion budget surplus. Yet, Democrats are aiming to impose new individual taxes on investments, trusts, and estates and sales taxes on gym memberships, dry cleaning, landscaping, pet boarding, and other yet untapped areas of ‘revenue.’ There are new proposed taxes on deliveries from Amazon, Uber Eats, FedEx, and so on. There is also a new 11% tax on firearm and ammunition purchases tat you can still buy.”

In fact, it doesn’t matter. The Virginia citizens were snookered into voting for a woman who lied to them like all other Democrats. Now those voters have to suffer the consequences for 1,460 days. They were sold a bill of goods while giving Abigail Spanberger her audition for her ultimate goal: the presidency.

Consider this historic action a wake up call for those wanting to be part of history. The only positive thing I can find in all this is that she can only serve one term.

After that, everyone will live happily ever after.

Just Quit

 

  Today’s adventure into reality begins with a story from before the 2024 Presidential Election. It further revolves around the hand-picked vice-presidential candidate named Tim Walz.

Being kind, Tim Walz is someone who can be called a Jack of All Trades and Master of None.

Walz is the current gubenor of a state known as Minnesota but is also referred to as Lil’ Somalia. For the benefit of those readers in Canada, Somalia is a country in Africa that closely resembles a toilet. Famous former inhabitants from Somalia include U.S. Congressional Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN), plus her former husband – and blood brother – Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.

It is speculated that this marital arrangement was the result of attempted immigration fraud. For your information, immigration fraud is best described as a serious crime in the United States, as is incest.

Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN)

It seems as though Rep. Omar is sort of a superwoman who, according to her Congressional website bio states, “[she] plans to resist attempts to divide us and push destructive policies that chip away at our rights and freedoms-and to build a more inclusive and compassionate culture, one that will allow our economy to flourish and encourage more Americans to participate in our democracy.”

That sounds awfully impressive. It’s a good thing she was elected to serve as a Representative to Congress from Minnesota. Even better is the fact that Gubenor Walz has been attempting to manage affairs also in Minnesota. Sounds like a marriage made in Heaven.

Over the last several years, our country experienced divisive actions including impeachment attempts of President Donald J. Trump during his first term, a seemingly lab-created COVID-19 pandemic, besides an utterly failed presidential run for a trollop named Kamala Harris; and now, we seem to have stumbled upon something even more unimaginable.

In 2024, presidential candidate Harris selected the aforementioned Gubenor Tim Walz as a vice-presidential running mate. He was likely chosen over an ideal candidate, Pennsylvania Gubenor Josh Shapiro, likely because Gubenor Shapiro is of Jewish extraction. That would have been uncomfortable to those Jew-hating, pro-Palestinian voters. After all, Walz was far more radical, even proudly parading his anti-American family in front of television cameras to pander for every vote possible.

During appearances, Walz never disappointed in playing the buffoon while imitating an inflatable ‘tube man.’ With flailing arms, ill-fitting suits, guaranteed goofy facial expressions, and wild eyes, Walz was the duo’s Yang to Harris’ Yin. The opposites were the new Odd Couple.

Unfortunately, both assumed they were each the smartest person in any room. Alas, both were regularly wrong. Their pandering was aimed at their audiences, totally forgetting that any and all votes were counted toward the tally, not just race, nation, sex, or religion-oriented votes. Excepted therein, as a rule of thumb, were white people.

Throughout the campaign, Walz and his modest family made several raucous appearances at rallies proving there were more people in America than just the black, brown, gay, transgender, and non-binary communities to which the Harris-Walz ticket begged for attention and subsequent votes.

Walz’s wife giddily mocked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. She over-emoted by pretending to exaggeratedly flip book pages while telling the cheering crown it was time to “Turn the page! Turn the page! Turn the page!” in an attempt to imply turning a new page in history over candidate Trump.

All the while, a spastic Walz pointed, exhibiting his normal stupid grin, agreeing it was finally time for him to step into the line for eventual presidential ambitions.

It was the Somali community that stood fast behind the Harris-Walz dynamic duo. Harris, after all, was black, and Walz needed the black Somalis to attain his lofty ambitions focused on a future White House residency. But how would he be able to accomplish snatching votes from a community comprised of black Somali’s?

I’m glad you asked.

Using the same ol’ playbook that most Democrats secretly employ, there was money involved. And lots of it.

Still being unraveled from the Gordian Knot of graft and guvment corruption, the facts thus far reveal a years-long snake pit of palm grease in exchange for votes, silence, and protection. Not unlike tactics employed by 1930’s mobsters, this massive operation involved greed, theft, lies, in addition to dishonesty, the Tim Walz’s personal journey became The Walz Perpetual Ego Trip, funded by ALL taxpayers.

Not limited to Minnesota, federal programs were begun under the COVID-19 lockdown when monies flowed in earnest to assist families with feeding, clothing, utilities, and daycare; in addition, further funding was designated for substance addiction programs, all on the backs of taxpaying citizens most of which were swept into an unexpected void.

The scam was pretty simple. Monies freely traveled throughout local Somali communities under the guise of assistance in lieu of actual food. Going one step further, child daycare was also funded with cash apparently shot out of cannons. With little or no accountability at the local level, most of those humanitarian dollars found their way headed directly to Somalia, bypassing needy Minnesota families.

With “protection” in place, this money – both local and federal funding – made its way to the scammers with little or no roadblocks to bottleneck those precious tax dollars. Throughout the duration of this transfer scheme, it seems as though Gubernor Walz needed help in keeping this cash river flowing unencumbered.

Enter a familiar name, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. His name may sound familiar due to the fact that this Leftist character – he’s a third term mayor representing the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party – became famous during the Saint George Floyd riots.

Cutting his teeth in far-Left Arlington County, Virginia, this 44-year-old has made his loyalty clear based on race-oriented activities. He stood and marched with the Marxist Black Lives Matter protests, even kneeling to honor the deceased, then-drug addled Floyd, ignoring pleas by peaceful community members to stop the riots and associated mayhem.

In fact, the Minneapolis-St. Paul area is home to an estimated 84,000 Somali resident community, keeping in mind that many members in this community are U.S. citizens. That being said, it must be borne in mind that only legal citizens are able to hold legal employment, besides paying taxes.

In other words, if you are an illegal alien – a definition with a distinction – you pay nothing in income taxes. Sanctuary people merely rely upon legal citizens to foot-the-bill for the rest of community.

So, from whence does the money for basic survival for these non-working, non-legitimate residents come?

Sometimes it comes from the local guvment, sometimes from the state guvment, sometimes from the federal guvment. And that can amount to lots and lots and lots of money. And because it changes hands so often, going from the guvment level to private charities, to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) it can, and does, wind up unaccounted for.

In many cases, the lines become blurred by the money handlers and con artists who figuratively peel a few hundreds off the stacks as sort of a ‘handling fee.’

Over the years, some of this corruption was reported to authorities through official channels. Whistleblowers working in legitimate capacities for a few of these humanitarian organizations were ignored, even chastised and sometimes fired for making bad situations known.

Reports still filtering in mention a variety of publicly pious politicians turning deaf ears and punishment in return for these means to stifle any misappropriation of precious money earmarked for health matters and child care.

But rectification was not to be. Unsubstantiated information has mentioned names refusing to become involved include Tim Walz, Jacob Frey, and a fellow named Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Attorney General. Ellison was overheard on an audio recording during a meeting with convicted fraudsters.

“’In the recording, now obtained by Fox News, the would-be fraudsters can be heard asking Ellison to help them secure more funding, before the conversation then turns to campaign donations.

The only way that we can protect what we have is by inserting ourselves in the political arena. Putting our votes where it needs to be. But most importantly, putting our dollars in the right place. And supporting candidates that will fight to protect our interests,’ one of the Somalian community members says in the recording.”

Gubenor Walz is adamant, though. Ranting as usual, he publicly stated he was not going to seek another term – and that is not a bad thing. Unfortunately, the damage is already done. Without accepting responsibility for the corruption permitted to occur unfettered in his state, he promises to continue putting pressure on President Trump; unfortunately, he never explains on what or why.

As of this writing the estimated loss from stolen federal funds connected to this graft and corruption stands at eight-billion dollars. This story will continue as more details are discovered. The only positive thing is that Tim Walz is not the current vice president.

There is, however, good news. I suggest Walz be appointed to be the new President of Venezuela.

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.