The Best They Have to Offer

 Vice President Kamala Harris is genuinely hard to describe.

 

She is a lawyer of mixed race, with her father Donald, being Jamaican and her late mother Shyamala Harris being of Indian extraction.

The easily amused Vice President Kamala Harris

 

Harris was born and reared in California and, after a lifetime of public service (Read: Sucking on the guvment teat,) she was elected as President Joseph Robinette Biden’s second-in-command in 2020.

 

Her claim to fame was her super-efficiency in prosecuting drug cases as Attorney General of California, and preceding Senator Barbara Boxer as one of California’s two Senators.  Her two lifetime jobs were lawyer and politician.

 

On paper, Harris is an astounding figure in every field she enters.  Just ask her.

 

While on the vice presidential campaign trail she made several high-profile statements.  One was calling then-VP Biden “a racist,” another appearance including one on a popular radio show.  There, she was engaged by the host’s question about her personally smoking marijuana.

 

“I think it gives a lot of people joy, and we need more joy,” she said during that interview.  When asked if she ever smoked herself, Harris admitted to smoking a joint in college, and used her normal annoying laugh to verbally sidestep her honest answer.

 

Her response was one which should have disqualified her from any federal position, much less one requiring a Top Secret security clearance – the use of illegal drugs.  But she had a way around this imprudence.

 

Alas, her special privilege “trump cards” consisting of Indian and Black races, gender, and interracial marriage, all helped her wade through her cesspool of admissions about past illegalities.  It’s one thing to participate in indiscretions; it’s quite another to put people in prison - punishing others for those same indiscretions.

 

Democrats and Blacks and people of color seemed delighted to vote for “the first” Black woman vice president – damn the critics and evidence.  This was suddenly identity politics.

 

Upon her assuming office January 20, 2021, she hit the ground running with inane trips to Vermont to visit a yarn shop, and most mainstream media staged these trips as if she was impersonating an exhibit in a sideshow.

 

Unlike Vice President Mike Pence, President Donald Trump’s second-in-command, Harris was offered softball questions about her upcoming engagements and expectations of the job.

 

Pence was skewered with national security-related questions and policy decisions over which he had little or no input or control.  Harris, on the other hand, was peppered with gushing remarks concerning her idol-like status as first Black woman VP over which she relished.

 

Such behavior bordered on embarrassing during a time which the national elections’ validity appeared to be in question.  While this sugar-coated banter portrayed Harris and Biden in a soft, favorable light, ignorant politicians like Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi continued their vindictive, punitive attacks on Donald Trump and his supporters.

 

That smokescreen was enabled part and parcel by the mainstream media, social media, and late-night “comedians,” all of whom were delighted in their attempt to impeach a past president for lies perpetrated by former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

 

Harris’ boss, Joe Biden, was busy shutting down our seemingly endless supply of fossil fuels, and simultaneously opening up our southern border to an endless supply of alien invaders.

 

COVID-19, the flu virus that paralyzed the world in 2019, was now the surrogate child of the Biden Administration.  On Inauguration Day, Biden promised the end of the COVID pandemic with his brilliant plan of wearing N-95 masks and social distancing 6-feet apart.  Of course, this was only a temporary measure to last 100-days.  Period.

 

Nearly a year later we are still wearing masks with medical charlatans spouting misinformation regarding both the cure of COVID flu and its lame prophylaxis as facts.

 

It seems odd that former President Trump was vilified and permanently banned from social media for those exact reasons.  Too bad those reasons don’t now apply.  But I digress.

 

Days after his inauguration, Biden opened the southern borders to any and all who wanted a life in America.  Free food, housing, medical care, schooling, transportation,

cell phones, and the like, were promised to anyone entering the United States illegally.

 

Before long, nearly two-million unskilled, illiterate, needy immigrants poured across the border in hopes of a better life, free from rampant crime and political persecution.

 

American authorities were quickly overwhelmed with uncontrollable throngs of lawless ‘invaders’ who immediately became a burden to our border states and their inhabitants.

 

President Biden placed VP Harris in charge of that crisis.  But it was months before she even stepped into Air Force Two to head south.  In fact, upon arrival, she stepped onto the runway and gave some inane remark before quickly climbing back aboard to leave.

 

She offered a lame excuse why she never approached the border itself: she was soon to travel to deep South America to uncover the “root problem” of this mass migration of illegal entrants.

 

Her phony Latin America trip took her to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico, where she concluded the root cause of that northern migration was lack of money.  She returned to ask for billions of dollars in aid to those countries to prevent further illegal border crossings.

 

It didn’t work or solve anything except to lighten the wallets of hard-working Americans who were footing this asinine Harris scam.

 

During this 2021 Christmas season, Harris is focused on Kwanzaa celebrations.  “As families across the United States light red, black, and green candles of the Kinara this week, our family sends our wishes and blessings for a happy and healthy new year,” she Tweeted.

 

But just weeks prior to Christmas, Harris’ staff largely began a great exodus from her clutches.  With claims of anger, incompetence, and ineptness – with the fingers pointed by Harris herself – her previously loyal cadre seemed eager to escape Kamala’s apparent sinking ship of fools.

 

While appearing on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” the Vice President was asked “about the one national security threat that keeps her up at night worrying,” according to a New York Post story.

Always one to deflect, Harris offered, “Frankly, one of them is our democracy.”  Sure.

 

This coming from the Democrat Party who tried to destroy America by lying about false evidence from Russia, a possible stolen election, and an impeachment of a duly elected president, proved what most Americans surmised about Kamala Harris:  She’s as stupid as that fake, nervous laugh of hers.

 

I’m certain she was promised this position because she could go down in history as the America’s first Black, woman, Indian president of the United States.  And that she was virtually guaranteed this promise because her boss was too frail and incoherent to finish four-years on-the-job.

 

Her promotion to President was a lead pipe cinch in the making; just don’t create any waves along the way seem to be her instructions to reach that goal.

 

Unfortunately, Harris has been given what appears as a free ride throughout her guvment career and, like that Cocker Spaniel puppy that pees on the living room carpet, she doesn’t know any better.

 

And although her nose has been repeatedly rubbed into the shag carpet, she will continue to do what she wants without punitive measures.  Unfortunately, her dismal approval ratings of 28% should be a good barometer of her performance and likeability.  Maybe not.

 

Perhaps it’s her affirmative action road to the White House, perhaps it’s her false confidence, perhaps it’s her misplaced arrogance or perhaps it’s her laughable ignorance.  But now is the time for a good attitude adjustment and a lesson in how to laugh with sincerity.

Obsessed Army

 “It’s the most wonderful time of year.”

 

That Christmas song lyric and title was penned by the late singer, song writer, and television host, Andy Williams.  The song itself is a fun, upbeat ditty that actually gets stuck inside your head as an earworm, but a catchy, seasonal earworm.

 

Tune your radio dial during the Yule season and I’m certain you will eventually find it and tap your toe to it while you’re humming or singing along.  It, like all other carols, mentions joy, peace, love, friends, unity, Christmas presents, and children.

 

Like it or not, if anything can get you into the ‘Christmas Spirit,’ this happy song will.

 

Imagine climbing into your vehicle to shop for loved ones and you’ll probably still be hearing this song rattle around inside your head.  After locating a precious parking spot to help Santa Claus finish his shopping list, you head into the store only to be met by a military figure.

 

That figure can be a man or woman, usually ringing a hand bell, while normally dressed in a relatively non-descript blue uniform; adjacent thereto will be a red kettle proudly adorned with the logo: Salvation Army.

 

As a small child I recall my Mother dragging into and out of the local A&P market pleading for a ride on the coin-operated automated horse, using my stellar behavior as a bargaining chit.  It often worked unless one of these Salvation Army people was strategically stationed adjacent to the door.

 

That loose change for a ride on a fiberglass Champion would normally go into that red kettle to help the Salvation Army with their mission.

 

My old friend Champion

I stopped begging for one of those valued rides some 60-years ago, actually following my Mom’s footsteps by dropping money – change and folding cash, both – into those kettles ever since.

 

But this year is different. 

 

No, I’m not going back to riding Champion.  Rather, I’m writing this to offer some facts about Salvation Army folks; things are changing at the request of the Salvation Army itself.

 

After many months of national “wokeness,” the weak-minded among us bipeds are jockeying – maybe ‘wrestling’ would be a better term – to try to reach the pinnacle of stupidity and insensitiveness, first.  And the Salvation Army may well be in the lead.

 

When my Mom’s money disappeared into that hole in the cover on the red kettle, I never thought about where it was going, or for what.  Nor did I question her generosity to strangers without fanfare.  Eventually I realized that she was simply doing the “right thing.”

 

And until just recently, I never really cared where that cash went so, I decided to dig into the details.

 

The Salvation Army is an organization of civilian “soldiers” that are supposed to operate on the ‘front line’ of many social matters.  Those matters include “human need wherever, whenever and however we can,” according to their website.

 

Beneath those words appear a series of photos with the words: Volunteer; Donate; Help, Hope and Home; Provide Shelter; Missing Persons; Combat Human Trafficking; Equip Families; Teach Kids; Empower the Arts; Employment Opportunities; Combat Addiction; and Love the Elderly.

 

While those are noble goals they are pretty nebulous and beg for more detail.  And somehow they are financially-driven, and assumedly partially funded by those red kettles.

 

The latest revenue figures available are from 2019; total revenue for the Salvation Army was an amazing $3,863,646,000.  Their revenue costs for that year stand at $407,845,000.

 

That’s a lot of money, both folding and otherwise.  So where does it go?

 

Thanks for asking.

 

It’s Woke 2021, and sheeple around the world have been compliantly lining up to hit themselves on their heads as a sort of punishment for racism and slavery with which they had no involvement.

 

It seems as though the Salvation Army has reached the apex of solving all problems mentioned above including employment, addiction, teaching kids, and providing shelter.  Now it’s time for them to wade into the polluted waters of - yes, you guessed it – racism.

 

Following their United States Army brethren, the Salvation Army feels they have the definitive answer to the question of racial division.  January 8^th and 9^th is expected to witness “The Young Adult Racial Justice Forum,” to be hosted by the Salvation Army Metropolitan Division, Chicago, Illinois.

 

This new and improved Salvation Army appears to be shadowing the U.S. Army in its ardent efforts to gin-up racial division rather than unity.

 

Something sinister seems to be afoot with these two esteemed “armies” driving a wedge between homogenized America’s peoples.  Using event descriptions such as “We believe racial justice is an urgent issue close to the heart of God,” presents a dangerous façade that doesn’t reflect the true state of today’s America.

 

Once again, the narcissists leading the Salvation Army are veering off-course by intentionally driving the racial bus, on which we all ride, off the proverbial cliff. 

 

And not unlike U.S. Army General Mark Milley and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the Salvation Army soldiers are being fed the tripe of systemic racism that doesn’t necessarily exist, but garners hateful and divisive feelings from the accused.

 

This year my grocery store change is going toward a donation to a more unifying, needy organization that doesn’t justify intolerance and disruptive feelings by invoking God during the celebration of his Son, Jesus.

 

Unto us a Savior is born.

 

I wish you all a Merry Christmas.

Fortuitous

 
God bless Nancy Pelosi.  This non-assuming woman, who appears to have had so many face lists her navel is now on her chin, is worth an estimated $196,000,000.  This astonishing amount is the result of a salary of $193,000 per year, as the Speaker of the House, along with a gift for investing.

Incorruptible Nancy Pelosi

 

Of course her husband, Paul, is a venture capitalist who is every bit as successful as Speaker Pelosi, herself.  Of course.

 

The question that begs an answer is: how could Mr. Pelosi acquire so much information on potential business deals and trading information that he could be ready to pounce and make scads of money?  That would be more than ten-years of saving to reach $1,000,000.

 

It may be an incredible coincidence that Paul Pelosi bought a modest $1,000,000 worth of Tesla stock in December 2020.  That, in and of itself, would not be amazing.  The amazing part is that soon thereafter, Congress expressed a genuine interest in resupplying the federal guvment vehicle fleet with electric vehicles.  Tesla, for your edification, makes only electric vehicles.

 

Facts:  Vehicles in use by the federal guvment amount to more than 645,000.  Speaker Pelosi, is a California Democrat.  Tesla vehicles are manufactured in California.  Ms. Pelosi voted for an all-electric vehicle motor pool for the guvment.

 

I know, I know.  That is just a coincidence.  But I never used the words ‘pay-to-play corruption,’ either, so please don’t sue me.

 

Nor am I implying The Speaker or her cash-savvy husband are using insider trading to make money – much like the scenario that led Martha Stewart to spend five-months in a federal prison, for lying to a federal agent.  Just saying.

 

Mr. and Ms. Pelosi appear to have exercised stock maneuvers known as ‘call options’ which allowed the couple to buy Tesla stock at a reduced rate until 2022.  Fortuitous is an excellent word to use to describe this stroke-of-luck.

 

“A Pelosi spokesman said her husband, not the Speaker, made the Tesla bets and the Speaker’s political relationships were irrelevant,” according to The Washington Times’ James Varney.  Does The Speaker talk in her sleep?

 

For your information, there are laws that prohibit insider trading, using proprietary knowledge to affect financial deals, just for such outward-appearing situations.

 

Even if there weren’t any statutes in place to guard against such maneuvers, the optics alone of the “perception is reality” phrase comes to mind.

 

Not to be left out of this sleazy arrangement of a husband POSSIBLY using his spouse’s information to buy stocks in a company that would virtually guarantee an astonishing return-on-investment, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, re-introduced pertinent legislation.

 

“Senator Warren’s bill “would ban stock trading by Congress members,” the aforementioned James Varney said.

 

“After nearly four years of the most corrupt president in American history and with U.S. senators brazenly trading stocks to profit from a raging pandemic, the Anti-Corruption and Public /integrity Act is more urgent than ever,” added Mr. Varney of a statement from Ms. Warren.

 

In fact, concurring Speaker Pelosi was so angry about the alleged shenanigans of the previous administration (sure she was,) as Ms. Warren, that Speaker Pelosi’s “spokesman rebuffed questions about the speaker’s stand on Ms. Warren’s bill and the move to an all-electric fleet saying it was ‘not relevant.’”

 

Of course Ms. Warren was not speaking about Ms. Pelosi’s, or any other guvment official’s financial dealings, or how a guvment employee could parlay a salary of $193,000 per annum into a $196,000,000 bank account.  Of course not.

Better Than Free

 Let’s have some fun and put a couple of time-honored adages together.

 

First adage:  What goes up must come down.

 

Second adage:  If you think its expensive now, just wait until it’s free.

 

Idiom:  There’s an exception to every rule.

 

Sir Isaac Newton in need of a haircut

The first adage is usually attributed to Sir Isaac Newton regarding his “discovery” of gravity.  Newton learned that, according to legend, apples fell from trees because of gravity.  He was supposedly sitting beneath an apple tree, drinking tea, when an apple fell onto his noggin.  I was just a young lad when all this happened in 1679, and surmise this was a legend, rather than fact.

 

Our second adage is from a writer, P.J. O’Rourke, who was talking about then-president Barack Hussein O’Bama’s idealistic pimping of his Obamacare/Affordable Care Act insurance scam.  O’Bama promised healthcare would be free, but how would it be paid for?  He promised no higher taxes because this plan was so airtight that it would pay for itself.  It didn’t, which is why we are now inundated with countless TV ads for insurance.

 

Not to let a hare-brained idea go to waste, environmentalists have been banging their climate change drums since 1973.  Goading federal, state, and local guvments into spending billions upon billions of dollars on useless projects since then, environmentalists have an expensive itch to soothe: renewable energy.

 

Even private industries have been embarrassed into following suit, by playing the clean energy game – one competition that will have no winner – into “investing” obscene amounts of dollars as a form of “hush money,” not at all unlike Mafia shakedowns of yore.

 

Just as long as the dough keeps flowing, everyone is happy.  Guvments can ignore real changes by simply taxing the masses, corporations can continue with their businesses while passing the bills onto their customers, and the environmentalists can continue gadding about the world carping about pollution with their payoffs.  The only real losers are those who pay the bills.

 

If only we could find a way to make all this free…

 

According to the Tampa Electric Co., Tampa, Florida, they have that solution.  In February 2021, Tampa Electric was seeking a rate increase of what amounted to 18%, to begin switching their electricity to solar power.  Yeah!

 

Tampa Electric CEO Nancy Tower, said, “We know that investments we are planning are necessary to deliver benefits over time.”  Of course they are. 

 

“To continue delivering the value our customers deserve, we must plan for the long term, making investments now that create a better energy future,” she added.

 

It seems as though Tampa Electric is currently on track to generate 14% of its power from solar over the next two-years.  What could possibly go wrong?

 

Ms. Tower never used the words cost-effective, efficient, lower bills, or even cleaner environment.  Those would have been the keynote words to encourage the Florida state utility regulators to approve this rate increase.  Alas, one can now only speculate.

 

Adage one, would make Sir Isaac weep because centuries later, his words have proven to be false.  “What goes up must come down.”

 

Our idiom would certainly be relevant here because “There’s an exception to every rule” does not apply to getting lower utility costs because of renewable energy.

 

Adage two, just as with O’bama’s free healthcare bill, the prices associated therewith can only be expected to rise.  Once again, idiom one is germane to this adage, whose exception is that despite all claims, prices will rise, and dramatically so.  Which leads to another saying.

 

“There’s a sucker born every minute.”