The Great Cholesterol Reprieve

 

  Here’s something to consider: While Joe Biden was president, he intentionally caused gasoline prices to skyrocket to affect his minions’ plans to eliminate fossil fuels altogether. Rising from less than $2 per gallon to well over $5.50 per gallon, that same legacy media feigned blindness to this grift.

Of course, it was Biden’s inept steering of the sovereign United States of America that brought us to these rocky shores. The complicit media gleefully pointed their crooked little fingers at not only President Trump, but all associated MAGA supporters.

Naturally, the ignorant Democratic voters suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) blindly blamed and wildly attacked Americans desperately trying to maintain a sense of civility and sanity.

All the evidence was summarily dismissed by Leftist television talking heads besides print rags such as the Old Gray Lady along with the Washington Compost, all of which excel at giving their idols daily tongue baths.

Further, each day across the entire globe, roughly 202-million chickens are sacrificed for food. Winding up as sliced deli lunch meat, nuggets, soup starters, wings, even pet food, these tasty birds also provide an added bonus in the form of eggs.

Eggs are those things that chickens use to propagate the next generation of fowl, thus continuing the circle of life. Loaded with protein, these hen byproducts are considered ideal for athletes and laborers because of the lasting stamina they provide.

Back in the 1980’s and ‘90’s, doctors and researchers came to the conclusion that eggs also have a dark side inasmuch as they are loaded with cholesterol. So, those aforementioned doctors and researchers have been warning consumers of hen fruit about the dangers associated with ingesting too many eggs.

Here’s the odd part. If a patient is found to be suffering from high cholesterol, their doctor will likely place them on a low-cholesterol diet consisting of – please be seated before you continue – chicken.

Please re-read that previous paragraph.

This double-edged sword is a rare case of having it both ways. But this is not the gist of today’s story.

Anyone who has the ability to read and comprehend English will likely remember news from earlier this year, 2026, that the same world that daily exterminates those multi-millions of chickens, was facing a world-wide plight of H5N1, also known as “bird flu.”

A January 13, 2025, CBS News story described this avian-related pandemic in which, “More than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. died last quarter because of bird flu, data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows, marking the worst toll inflicted on America’s egg supply since the outbreak began.”

Boneless Chickens

Here’s some good news, though. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as well as the USDA have been working on a vaccine to prevent and curtail the spread of the bird flu. Yea!

But here’s the bad news. That same CBS News item mentioned, “officials said it’s unlikely the vaccine will be used. The Biden administration has been weighing the possibility of vaccinating poultry for bird flu for years.”

No need to hurry.

Upon taking office following a lopsided electoral victory, newly-elected President Donald J. Trump (47) was quickly targeted by the legacy media for causing the rising price of eggs. Drawing a line from high egg prices to Trump’s fresh term as Commander-in-Chief consumed gallons of ink due to the circuitous length to meet the two points.

Never mentioned were the bird flu infection and associated unused Biden vaccine. Only mentioned were the rising costs of eggs hovering around the outrageous $7 per dozen mark. Implying President Trump was secretly attempting to break the financial backs of the average Americans, this sleazy reporting crept over the edge into propaganda from The Left.

Yet no one thought about looking at this egg crisis with a positive eye. Turning lemons into lemonade should have been the answer to the question, Why are egg prices so high?

The answer would’ve been, To lower your cholesterol.

Problem solved.

The Rightless Right

 

  Let’s have some fun and begin today with an ever-popular quiz. If you’re reading this with friends, no wagering, please.

We find ourselves quickly approaching the downward slope of summer. Traditionally, Independence Day – also known as the Fourth of July – roughly denotes the midway point between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Both of which are still legal federal holidays but are tucked between others that are less rigid.

Allow me to explain.

Depending on how revered these commemorations feel to the masses, some are moved to a ‘less important’ status and thus termed “floating holidays.”

A floating holiday is a paid day off that an employer offers in addition to regular company holidays. It’s called “floating” because you can choose when to use it instead of taking it on a fixed date.

Keeping that in mind, not all holidays are floating. And not all employers recognize floating holidays. But they can be very important to those employed in critical public safety professions, such as hospitals, fire/rescue, police, air traffic controllers, prison employees, and gas station attendants, who must work providing aid as well as comfort to the remainder of society.

That being said, please try to name which holidays have been relegated from absolute hard-and-fast holidays to floating holidays.

Go ahead. I’ll wait for you.

Martin Luther King’s Birthday, and Presidents’ Day are federal holidays. Almost. If those days fall on a weekend, an employee celebrates on the Friday before. Unfortunately, Presidents’ Day was remanufactured from Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday into one Presidents’ Day.

Memorial Day is an absolute holiday, as is Juneteenth; Juneteenth, however, is celebrated on the 19^th of June. That being said, The Fourth of July should be celebrated on the – uh – fourth of July. But we’re going to apply the rule exemption to a Friday, this year (2026) because the 4^th is on a Saturday. That means the Third of July has now become the Fourth of July. Got it?

So, if you guessed Fourth of July, you’re wrong.

Onward to Labor Day which is celebrated on first Monday in September. That’s pretty succinct.

Although when we reach Columbus Day, the anti-Americans in America have decided Columbus doesn’t deserve a holiday and have changed the name to Indigenous Peoples’ Day in some places to prove their ignorance. This is one of those floating holidays.

Veteran’s Day is next on the calendar to honor those U.S. military veterans who served in the armed forces. Again, celebrated on November 11^th, this holiday has been hijacked by Leftists who feel our military is an internal enemy and should not be observed. They couldn’t be more wrong.

In any case, this holiday if one that has morphed into floating status for the sake of snubbing those who did the heavy lifting.

Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the last Thursday of November. A National Day of Gratitude traditionally celebrated with a holiday meal and gatherings, Thanksgiving Day celebrants find themselves facing vegans and other malcontents who are desperately trying to alter history, largely because they’re bored.

And finally, we arrive at Christmas Day. Christmas is celebrated on the twenty-fifth of December – again occasionally falling on a weekend – we’re going to apply the rule exemption to a Friday when appropriate. But here’s where the wackos again try influence our society along with our national direction.

Suggestions were raised that Christmas Day should be eliminated altogether due to its nonsecular nature. Perhaps, they claim, all religions should have the opportunity to honor and praise their gods and religions equally. In fact, they do possess that ability, just not on the company’s or taxpayer’s dime.

Our nation is unique as it was founded on Christianity prohibiting discrimination based on other religions. Everyone is quite free to exercise their own religions, providing they do not curtail the ability by others to worship.

For decades, the Right has been under attack for formulating and continuing our great nation without prohibiting the Left from expressing themselves, no matter how wrong they are. That is all covered under The First Amendment. For your information, we, on the Right, have rights, too.

Ultimately, I blame this on the same super-genius elected officials (Read: Representatives and Senators) who created, then modified, and subsequently remanufactured these holidays. Don’t forget what a terrific job they did when they decided to manage Daylight Saving Time. They have plenty of trouble managing their own extramarital affairs.

Stop trying to change our culture; it’s been doing just fine for 250-years without their obnoxious, boorish added value. Enough, already.

Congratulations

 

  Save yourself some time and divert your attention to something more productive if you think this story is about extolling the accomplishments of our recent graduates. It is not.

Rather, this is to extend praise to all the voters in Minnesota, California, Maine, and New York. You should be proud. You WON!

Following decades of ignoring social issues such as the homeless, tax increases, illegal alien invasion, overburdening of the healthcare system, including the enactment of punitive legislation, the voters finally made their point. Hooray.

After years of protesting, marching, seeking-out media cameras and microphones, their pontification about replacing business-as-usual life has morphed into anything but, for the voters who so desire change. Reaching back into history – which they were never taught in school – these nitwits believe they discovered something new called social unrest.

Social unrest is a state of constant flux with every faction uniting within tribes. These divisions have been occurring for decades, largely begun in the tumultuous 1960’s when the former Communistic Soviet Union (USSR) began infiltrating our long-held institutions with Commies.

In an attempt to try again to change yet another nation into a Socialist and Communist bastion, the USSR groomed American college students into good “reds” by indoctrinating them to admire and follow the Soviet style of government.

Overly restrictive former USSR nations included Eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, and, of course, Russia. They built walls to curtail migration, but not to keep citizens out; rather, they were designed to keep them from escaping.

These were largely dissolved beginning in the 1980’s with Soviet leader President Mikhail Gorbachev who moved toward a more social democracy a few years later.

But the wheels of infiltration were already in motion overseas with college campuses becoming chock full o’ reds who found themselves in positions of influence in academe, ready to change the world. And change it they did.

In fact, it worked so well, they began infiltrating high schools as well as middle schools, eventually down to elementary institutions of learning, to include pre-K. It all seemed so innocent with educators and writers introducing likable characters into stories, books, television shows, movies, plus cartoons.

It wouldn’t be long before the kids began begging for materials they saw in schools; the powers-that-be were glad to oblige with modifying classes of substance – history, geography, arithmetic, reading, English, and foreign languages – into lessons on how to use condoms, protest, acquire abortions, and sue your own parents if they balked at any of these modernistic classes.

This decades-long march toward dumbing-down students proved very, very successful in finding the solution, then creating the problem. That problem was with nosy parents who weren’t too busy to pay attention to their kids’ homework. Suddenly, the schools found themselves in quite a pickle trying to defend themselves from their curricula reaching daylight.

It is said: Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Along those lines, the sneaky propagandist educators found themselves desperately trying to remain hidden in the shadows to continue their mission of altering America.

Enter: transvestite parades, gay pride events, anti-gun and hunter programs, empathetic collections for the United Nations’ international relief efforts, gender swapping, planet-saving exercises based on contrived data, and sexual education classes that included eugenics. All these efforts were both hard-hitting and simultaneously informational, even though they were based upon propaganda.

Not unlike Cosa Nostra, otherwise known as The Mafia, which had infiltrated politics, finance, money laundering, as well as other avenues to lucrative crimes, the teachers and professors found themselves scrambling to find “protection” against any and all citizens desiring to stop their nefarious ways.

The solution was rather simple. Become the watchdog.

Running for school superintendent and school board positions would guarantee the fix was in. With teaching credentials and teacher-of-the-year awards dangling from their necks, educators were easily elected to these positions to not only hide the insidious lesson plans but also run interference.

It was foolproof.

To further guarantee success, city and county political positions were filled with cronies ready, willing, and able to keep those agenda-driven teachers-turned-schemers in positions of power. Ever heard of tenure?

Eventually eliminating competency examinations, reading, math, and geography, they gleefully removed civics classes and government, only to substitute empathy exercises as a way to build camaraderie.

With the voting age decreased from 21 to 18, the kids were now willing and able to effect the change they were taught, as well as utilize their newly-found skills.

But this movement was only beginning.

Women’s movement, black reparations, anti-religion push, and other tribalistic motilities helped further divide America. To assist broken families, sustenance programs were instituted by well-meaning politicians. Cheap housing, school immobility, extracurricular activities, medical care, and other freebies were enthusiastically distributed.

With no need for a two-income household, families dissolved, father figures became oddities, crime soared, as did mayhem and subsequent homicides. It didn’t take long for societal leaches to realize they had found an ideal solution to trading a permanent job for perpetual leisure. Period.

Illegal drugs flooded city streets and schools, tenement housing became breeding grounds for lessons on how to become a thug, while girls with only a dim hope to escape this nightmare often found themselves pregnant with all hopes dashed. It was a perfect recipe for disaster.

Politicians took full advantage of this mayhem to run for office promising even more goodies and a brighter tomorrow. After elected, though, things didn’t get better. They were often too busy feathering their own nests with bribes, scandals, graft, corruption, and fraud scandals. All in the name of empathy, of course.

Books have been written for roughly a century on the pitfalls of stealing other people’s money in the name of societal good under the guise of Socialism. They usually point to the same sordid paths to oblivion, only to be resurrected by those who are smarter than everyone else. Just ask them.

California is in the throes of several elections with non-taxpayers voting to raise taxes on the working class. This exercise is taking the cities, as well as the state itself, in a self-destructive direction. Homeless numbers have skyrocketed, only to be addressed in a flippant way. With taxpayers leaving the state in record numbers, their tax base is also dissolving.

New York State is in a similar bind, as Gubenor Kathy Hochul just signed a bill placing her state $9 billion further into debt, while New York City’s grinning Commie Mayor Mamdani is plunging his once admired metropolis into a chaos/hate-inflicted tornado where Jews are openly called evil. Keep smilin’, bro.

Minnesota mastermind Aimee Bock, who stole 
$250 Million in charity funding

Minnesota, on the other hand, finds itself with hapless Gubenor Tim Walz repeatedly lying to Congress about fraudulently obtained tax dollars, along with icky Congress member Ilhan Omar alleged to have funneled billions of taxpayer bucks to her once-home sewer known as Somalia. Wink, wink.

And we now arrive at Maine. That very blue state hates America as much as President Trump. They detest both so much, they just elected a Democratic Socialist Senatorial primary candidate, Graham Platner, who is a piece of something. To summarize, he hates women, law and order, President Trump and his supporters, plus Jews, while expressing love for killing people, hating women, and sodomizing criminals. Quite a guy.

It’s unfortunate America finds itself looking in the mirror and not liking what it sees. But we did it to ourselves. We permitted this havoc to not only occur, but to flourish. We, as a society, cannot see the forest for the trees. These mentally ill politicians need to be expelled from office. Elections need to be secured by only in-person voting, and those illiterate young voters need to realize there no such thing as a free lunch.

In any case, kudos on voting absolute losers as candidates for office. It’s your money, your safety, and your freedom that hangs in the balance, though.

Congratulations! You won!

Semiquincentennial

 

  If you’re familiar with this modest venue of reality combined with truth and fun, you know I take lots of liberties with the English language. In fact, every one of my English teachers – probably all of whom are now deceased – are rolling over in their graves as I type. Please file those liberties under ‘Freedom of Speech.’

Along the way I also find myself struggling for appropriate words to make my point. Since I’m old enough to remember when the Dead Sea was just sick, it’s hard for me to believe there aren’t words to accurately describe my thoughts. If I can’t recall or find an appropriate word, I simply make one up because my time is too short to be wading through blah blah, blah, nebulous information.

So, I looked up “number of words in the English language.”

It seems as though throughout this lengthy list of referenced sites resides an equally lengthy list of numbers. Ranging from between 171,476 to 470,000, those numbers are not even close to one another, but several websites note that the numbers change daily as new words are added. It’s apparent these articles were written by lawyers who like to avoid finite information.

In any case, the reason for all this tiring research is for a really big event. The event of which I mention is America’s Semiquincentennial Celebration. For all those readers using the metric system, that denotes the 250^th anniversary. (I believe someone made that word up just as I would have.)

The United States Semiquincentennial Commission and the White House Task Force on Celebrating America's 250th Birthday published this word in its announcement of this historic event recognizing the longevity of America’s experiment of making a new country out of whole cloth.

To simplify this exercise of new land colonizers breaking away from Mother England in the 1770’s, then-King George III demanded a tax increase on British tea sent to America. Although these settlers were loyal to the King, they were doing all the heavy lifting, so to speak, and being punished for it.

Mayhem involving British-taxed tea being thrown into Boston Harbor, and the games began.

In any case, British soldiers were dispatched to America in order to regain control of, and punish, this insolence. Kind of like watching the movie Titanic, we all know how this saga ends.

A fledgling country was born anew uniting the already established thirteen colonies, also known as The United States.

African, European, Asian, and other conglomerations of nations at that time were being ruled by monarchs. They largely took over land masses through colonization and never left. Often exploiting natural resources along with strategic geographical advantages, these other nations eventually collapsed under their own mismanagement or civil unrest generated by natives.

But the United States was different. It created a new door to government, one that took in consideration of all its citizenry – of the people, by the people, and for the people. This “We the People” concept had never been tried before.

How could it ever work, much less succeed?

After 250-years of rules begun with the Bill of Rights, the United States has become an example of what can be achieved by incorporating its citizenry in the decision-making process of keeping our widely varying now 50-states cohesive.

Through free and fair elections, legal citizens are given the right to cast ballots for leaders who are elected, along with issues that affect its taxpayers. Via voting and representation in both the Congress and Senate, constituents are able voice their opinions as to how their government and representatives deal with day-to-day operations.

With those operations comes the duty to pay for all considerations managed by the government to fairly keep Americans safe. From police and fire protection, the military, infrastructure, health, as well as countless other categories affecting the entire nation, the preparedness and salaries of those critical civil servants is beyond important.

Maintaining equipment, training supplies, outreach, plus dealing with obsolescence, gets very, very expensive very quickly.

But it’s keeping the masses united that is key to longevity, camaraderie, peace, and integrity. All of which are critical unless or until envious outside forces feel the need to cripple our great experiment.

Other nations tried and failed at creating sovereign country built by a smattering of colonists driven to the edge by a king 250-years ago. King George III thought ruling with an iron fist was the definitive answer to keeping his subjects under his control. He was wrong.

There’s an old saying: The beatings will continue until the morale improves.

Nothing could be further from the truth. When everyone has a seat at the table, everyone has a stake in the game. And everyone needs to band and work together lest the entire system collapses, ending without any winners.

After 250 years of working at this noble experiment – and thus far succeeding – we all should be very proud. We stand alone as the only country in the world to have lasted this long giving freedom, security, and future hopes to over 350,000,000 citizens. Let’s not stop now.

It’s too bad we still had to have somebody conjure up the word semiquincentennial. I’m pretty sure it’s not a real word.