tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72213733559099862722024-03-22T18:25:25.645-04:00Don Backman<center> Psychiatric Advice: 5 cents. Political Opinions: Free.</center>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-33583871018244521872022-11-05T00:06:00.000-04:002022-11-05T00:06:09.469-04:00In Their Own Words: Why Liberalism is a Mental Disease<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">Politics are funny, but they're also serious. The political and media arena generate the people that make important decisions or peddle influence, and as such, most of us pay attention to what they say and do. Words come before actions, so it is in this light I list notable quotes and their authors. I am not editing or changing any of their words; anything within quotation marks is 100% what they said and can be easily verified on the internet.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">(Vice President)<b> Kamala Harris</b>: <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">"</span></span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine." </i><b style="background-color: white;"> (Really? No shit, you don't say?</b><i style="background-color: white;">)</i></span></p><p><span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 16px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">(NY Gov)<b> Kathy Hochul</b></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">: </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: arial;"><i>I don't know why locking up criminals is so important to you.</i></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">" </span><span style="background-color: white;"><b>(Yeah, shame on us. How dare we think that way?)</b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">(Race Baiter) <b>Jesse Jackson</b>: (From an interview in Life magazine, 1969) </span></span><i id="yui_3_7_2_1_1372192224523_8911" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1372192224523_8910" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white;">Just before leaving the kitchen he would </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">spit into the food of white patrons</span><span style="background-color: white;"> he hated and then smilingly serve it to them</span></span><b style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">.</b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif;"> He did this, he said, </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif;">“<i>because it gave me psychological gratification.</i></span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">” </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Lato, Arial, sans-serif;"><b>(Thanks for proving you're a racist, Rev. What do you think Jesus would say about that?)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">(Media Mogul) <b>Oprah Winfrey</b>: <span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><i>"They just have to die."</i></span> <b>(Any plans to put older white people in Concentration Camps you'd like to mention, lady?)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">(Mess-NBC Race Baiter) <b>Joy Reid</b>: <i style="background-color: #fcff01;">"I was hacked." </i><span style="background-color: white;"><b>(A blatant lie trying to deny multiple homophobic slurs she made on her blog.)</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">(Also-ran) <b>Hillary Clinton</b>:<i> </i></span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">"We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices ... Government has to make those choices for people."</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 22px;"> </span><b>(</b></i><b>And that, Hillary is exactly why Americans didn't trust you in 2016!)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Bill Clinton</b>: <i style="background-color: #fcff01;">"</i></span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Lato, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-style: italic;">It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." </span><span style="background-color: white;"><b>(WTF, over?)</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The Rev. Al Sharpton</b>:</span> <i style="background-color: #fcff01;">"We don't owe America anything. America owes us."</i> <span style="font-family: arial;"><b>(Oh, shut up and pay your taxes, Al.)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">(TV Show <u>The View</u> Panel Member) <b>Sunny Hostin</b>:</span> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-style: italic;">"What’s also surprising to me is the abortion issue. I read a poll just yesterday that White Republican suburban women are now going to vote Republican. It’s almost like roaches voting for Raid, right?" </span><span style="background-color: white;"><b>(Seriously? White women are roaches? Like what Hitler called the Jews in Germany? I did Nazi that coming.)</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">(TV Show <u>The View</u> Co-host) <b>Joy Behar</b>:</span> <span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: Gudea, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;">Isn’t it a little racist to call it Black Friday? </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Gudea, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><b>(Only if it's a crime to describe you as bringing Joy to anybody.)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">(TV Show <u>The View</u> Co-host)<b> Whoopi Goldberg</b></span><b>:</b> <span style="color: #212529; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-style: italic;">"The Holocaust isn't about race."</span><span style="background-color: white;"> <b>(Yeah, try selling that line of bullshit in Tel Aviv.)</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">(US Rep)<b> Maxine Waters:</b></span> <span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic;"> </span><i style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: 16px;">“God is on our side." </i><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-size: 16px;">(Dag nab it. </b><b>That</b><b style="font-size: 16px;"> God guy is so easily swayed.)</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">(Mass Rep) <b>Dylan Fernandes</b></span>: <span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px;"><i>"We are a community that comes together to support immigrants."</i></span><span style="background-color: white;"> <b><span style="font-family: Lora;">(</span><span style="font-family: arial;">After kicking them out of Martha's Vineyard in less than a day</span><span style="font-family: Lora;">.)</span></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px;">(US Rep)</span><b><span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="font-family: arial;">Nancy Pelosi<span style="font-size: 18px;">:</span></span> </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: Lora;">"</span></b><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs." </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>(Well, there goes the neighborhood<i>.)</i></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Also-ran) <b>Al Gore</b>: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">"</span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>(Yes, tut-tut, of course you did. And myself, I invented the electricity it runs on.)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Barack Obama</b>: </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">I’ve now been in 57 states. I think one left to go." </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>(Oh crap. Can anybody lend me a new map?)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">(Singer) <b>Sheryl Crow</b>: </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">I propose a limitation be put on how many sqares [sic] of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don’t want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required." </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>(Remind us again what it is you eat, Sheryl</b></span><span style="font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">. Do you, perchance, eat fruit?)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">(US Rep) </span><b style="background-color: white;">Hank Johnson</b><span style="background-color: white;">: </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">"</span></span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;">My fear is that the whole island (of Guam) will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize." </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>(If I were you, Hank, I'd sue whatever schools you attended. If I were on the jury, I'd side with your lawsuit.)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: white;">Joe Biden</b><span style="background-color: white;">: </span><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">"All men and women are created by the... you know the... you know, the thing." </i><i style="background-color: white;"> </i><span style="background-color: white;"><b>(Consider yourself lucky Kamala is next in line, Joe. That's probably what's saving you from invoking the 25th amendment.)</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Seriously. These are all noted liberal Democrats that have (or had) a hand in shaping our government into what it is today. With all the Trump hatred still out there, with the very serious effort of the Democrats in power to try to remove even a chance of his name being on a ballot ... With all of what is going on currently ...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i>How the fuck can any sane person align with this party or cast a vote for any of these people?</i></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"></span></p>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-6663245858722283532022-07-12T14:01:00.000-04:002022-07-12T14:01:45.340-04:00When You Burn Your Bridges<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Hello, Britt</span><span style="font-family: arial;">any Gri</span><span style="font-family: arial;">ner. It seems you've put yourself into quite a jam. As I pen these words, you're sitting in jail. In Russia. And have been since February. It seems you brought something into the country you shouldn't</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> have when going to play basketball there. It seems they were not impressed ... it seems bringing hash into Russia concealed in vape pens wasn't such a good idea after all. Are you guilty? I don't know, but since you pleaded guilty in Russia, at least there you are officially guilty. If and when you get out, you can conjure up whatever words you wish about it then. But in the meantime, those Ruskies have you and there's not much you can do about that.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So, how are they treating you? Is the food ok? They didn't beat you, did they? When I read about foreign jails, I'm learning they are quite different than the US. Your rights .... um, how do I say this? Oh yeah. You don't have any rights there. Oh, they have a judicial system with courts, lawyers and such, but we both know ... You're kind of screwed. What happens to you is not up to you anymore, it's up to them. It doesn't help that they're in a war and the US has done everything, including arming it's opponent to hurt Russia. Putin is no fool, he sees what's going on. At this point, you're a pawn in a global game of chess, and every chess player knows when to sacrifice a pawn.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I see you're asking for help from your native country. That's us, the good 'ol USA. Isn't life ironic? Why, it was just a short two years ago you made some pretty controversial statements about the country that birthed you, raised you, and gave you opportunity galore. The opportunity was golden, but you chose to make a political statement about the US that didn't set very well with most of us ...</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-left: 40px;"><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">“I honestly feel we should not play the national anthem during our season,” Griner said. "I think we should take that much of a stand.”</i></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 26px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: #fcff01;">“I’m going to protest regardless,” she said. “I’m not going to be out there for the national anthem."</i></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Those words didn't set well with many Americans. Oh, you're entitled to your opinion .... and we're entitled to ours. When you verbally defecated on our National Anthem, you kind of pissed off a lot or people, maybe even half the country .... or maybe even more than that. Oh, the woke crowd, the professional race baiters and others afflicted with hate for America might have applauded your stand then, but ... most of us didn't. We understand you may not be happy, we understand you may have grievances meaningful to you ... But the bottom line is, when the chips are down, America demands patriotism from everybody if you are to be respected as an American. It doesn't mean you can't air your feelings, it only means the flag is supposed to bind us together, not divide us. You chose division, not unity.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And now you need your country. Oh, how the tables have turned. You saw other athletes snub our flag, you saw other athletes choose to piss on America and you chose to join them. Well, Brittany, <i><u>you chose poorly</u></i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Seriously. You made your bed, now lie in it - even in a Russian jail. No American looks forward to one of us ending up in a foreign jail, but you kind of burned your <i>Get Out of Jail </i>card when you chose notoriety over patriotism. Your detractors far outnumber your supporters at the moment.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Someday, you will come back to America. It might be sooner, it might be later. A swap deal might bring you home... or it might not. Putin isn't very happy with $hitshowJoe right now, so I wouldn't hold my breath. You have yet to be sentenced and we'll all see what Russia has in mind for you when that day comes. In the meantime, Brittany ... I'd like you to rethink how you view your home country. I'd like you to think about the words and tune of our anthem.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here's some free advice for you, which you probably won't pay attention to.<br /><br />America is very forgiving, but there are conditions put on forgiveness. One of them is contrition and a sincere apology. If and when you breath freedom again, you would be well advised to come to the podium with clean hands, a recognition that America, with all its faults is still the greatest country on the face of the planet and a promise to do better.<br /><br />Standing at attention with your hand over your heart while the National Anthem is being played would be the icing on the cake. Love it or hate it, this is our country. <i>Our</i>, as in .... yours, mine and every American.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Your choice. Either continue to be a rebel with a lost cause or be a patriotic citizen. We'll be watching, and we hope you make a better decision than you did in February.</span></p>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-35857593670861315272022-06-27T19:40:00.000-04:002022-06-27T19:40:02.460-04:00You Did it to Yourselves<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">Yeah, you did.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">When Roe v Wade became law by judicial order in 1973, the argument was settled - for the moment. Oddly, law is similar to science in one manner: It is <i>never</i> settled, it is only settled for a slice of time. In the case of Roe, it took a little more than 49 years to revisit and discard it in favor of Dodds v Jackson Woman's Health Organization. Let's just abbreviate it to Dobbs for discussion.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Prior to Roe, regulation of abortion had been in the hands of each state, and many states banned it although there were a handful that allowed it. Where I live, New York State was one that allowed it. But then again, NY is a deep blue state with the seat of power located mostly in the three counties surrounding New York City. Upstate is much more conservative and dances to whatever tune NYC makes us dance to. We're told that's fair, but we know better. The last elected Governor of NYS won 15 out of 62 counties, and if there were an electoral college for Governors, he wouldn't have made it. This, btw, is a strong argument to make all 50 executive branch seats subject to an electoral college. It would take away the stronghold the cities have in most states and give suburban and rural areas a fairer voice.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">When Roe became law, it took the argument away from state legislatures. It was legal, but that didn't make it moral. To think otherwise, you have to think death is a better alternative to life and if you truly feel this way, I feel sorry for you. 63+ million American abortions since Roe make it the largest class genocide in history, far outnumbering Hitler, Mao and Stalin.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">When the coming decision was leaked by one of the law clerks, the lines were drawn. Somebody paid by tax dollars took an oath to secrecy and violated it. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to narrow it down to ... oh, the offices of three Justices. Someday, somebody will undoubtedly stand up and claim they did it, probably in old age or sickness so as to preclude jail time. In the meanwhile, the list of suspects is short. And it will probably change the internal workings of the court to lessen the chances of it ever happening again.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As I said in the title, <i style="font-weight: bold;">you did it to yourself.</i> What do I mean?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Recent polls indicate Americans are <b>not</b> comfortable with full-term abortion, and even the clear majority are not comfortable with it after the first trimester (about 12 weeks). Take a look at the pie charts below:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXgqbnHufhafNpa8Uizo23K3iWAadqZ9HfVSEv0ICI96nVkXeyd5RxAF_BZnFc4iQRNxeryCyFACF3x-Y72YrGFBFLx4Cc111j4vTng2shoKawil_hi6oVI-lfIDr23rx-vedDozB_fJD1-F5t8jryX1i0vxgB6hRh4woOcAbMF6_2oLhjl2CtfLAy0w/s571/abortionpoll.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="480" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXgqbnHufhafNpa8Uizo23K3iWAadqZ9HfVSEv0ICI96nVkXeyd5RxAF_BZnFc4iQRNxeryCyFACF3x-Y72YrGFBFLx4Cc111j4vTng2shoKawil_hi6oVI-lfIDr23rx-vedDozB_fJD1-F5t8jryX1i0vxgB6hRh4woOcAbMF6_2oLhjl2CtfLAy0w/w505-h482/abortionpoll.jpg" width="505" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The numbers tell quite a story. 60% favor making it legal in the first trimester, but that number falls off to 28% in the second trimester, and even though the chart doesn't show the third trimester, the numbers fall significantly as full-term approaches. It's clear most Americans are very, very uncomfortable with full term abortion, even though Andrew Cuomo shoved it through in NY. Karma evened up the score though and it's a fair guess we'll never see Uncle Andy in the White House, the coveted prize he so desired.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So when Roe was expanded in some individual states, it was fine with the pro-abortion crowd. More is better, right?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">No. <b>You got what you deserved and the irony is, you did it to yourselves.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The US under Roe was in a unique club, even most European nations restricted abortion. This makes it especially ironic to hear them criticize the overturning of Roe, seeing as their own laws about the subject are <b>far</b> more restrictive than ours. See below:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdv2RG2_uBfMK7PO1edDLDL2GbghMUmuaBRb2xEFsP57uF0gw3tXa0boN76cOyQL0JHH6c8FerreEx4s26kUmBYYooigi_DwVArNJ9U4Lz9blhC8vSkqA3lNlOclCPf9zPc1m2od7aK2TEfz2-xOZlyVwcBg5j9oLhKXkwlphTfeAnj3CvlMThNf8qoA/s611/abortionpoll1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="602" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdv2RG2_uBfMK7PO1edDLDL2GbghMUmuaBRb2xEFsP57uF0gw3tXa0boN76cOyQL0JHH6c8FerreEx4s26kUmBYYooigi_DwVArNJ9U4Lz9blhC8vSkqA3lNlOclCPf9zPc1m2od7aK2TEfz2-xOZlyVwcBg5j9oLhKXkwlphTfeAnj3CvlMThNf8qoA/w418-h424/abortionpoll1.jpg" width="418" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It needs to be mentioned the US shares similar laws with China and North Korea. We're one of the few that allow full term abortion; see below:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6B35peQS04qgxRmpzR_XOe9jwFBF16Ezrf7_8gcNPKoGMTbPCa--OkcXkZju0Mk6H3Q7cDe4dm5RVazyrWsB0jDX_Y4HwISFTBHIAd_ILvzi0dRQDWcxf6afZk4T4lzNiOULCA--BtIsK8rhFBrcYIXvHeqMZTP7jLmyyIa3yvdnByy4tJQs4wNeIPQ/s800/abortionpoll2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="134" data-original-width="800" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6B35peQS04qgxRmpzR_XOe9jwFBF16Ezrf7_8gcNPKoGMTbPCa--OkcXkZju0Mk6H3Q7cDe4dm5RVazyrWsB0jDX_Y4HwISFTBHIAd_ILvzi0dRQDWcxf6afZk4T4lzNiOULCA--BtIsK8rhFBrcYIXvHeqMZTP7jLmyyIa3yvdnByy4tJQs4wNeIPQ/w538-h103/abortionpoll2.jpg" width="538" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;">Yeah. When you expanded abortion to the second and third trimester, <b><u>you did it to yourselves</u></b>. Now regulation of abortion is back where it belongs - in the hands of states, where the 10th Amendment (and Ruth Bader Giinsberg!) said it belongs:</span><p></p><p><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">are reserved to the States respectively</span><span style="background-color: white;">, or to the people.</span></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">I'm ashamed of New York. I've opined in earlier blogs about this, but my roots are so deep and our extended families are here; that's the reason my wife and I haven't fled to a more sanely-governed state.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">Yet.</span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><i><br /></i></span></span><br /></p>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-62951811413074145932022-03-16T23:27:00.000-04:002022-03-16T23:27:43.103-04:00What Dave Ramsey is Right About and Vice Versa<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">Dave Ramsey has become famous for giving financial advice to those who seek him out and ask for it. And he has become wealthy doing so, which I applaud. Making money legitimately in America is always admirable, not to mention, often copied. Others have followed Ramsey's path to wealth by merely telling others how to get there. It seems knowledge is power in the financial world.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I agree mostly with Ramsey's advice, but I differ on a few things he pushes: Number one, get rid of all your credit cards and only use a debit card; and number two, pay off your smallest debts first and then move on to the larger debts no matter what the interest rates are. These fly in the face of logic, but Ramsey excuses that by saying the emotional high you get off paying off your first debt is what keeps you motivated to keep going. He may be right with certain groups of people, but he is also wrong with another group that rises above emotion. No matter how it is presented to him, he'll tell you about studies that back him up. Well, one size has never fit all and it never will; there are simply too many variables to conclude one system will work for everybody. Even Henry Ford changed his mind with his famous statement <i>You can have any color you like as long as it's black.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Let's talk about credit cards first and why, if you are going to use plastic to buy <u style="font-style: italic;">anything</u> you should choose a credit card over a debit card. First and foremost, a credit card has a layer of buyer security built into it a debit card doesn't. If you buy a product and it has problems, say, it is broken, misrepresented or even never shows up at your door, you can call your credit card company and get your money back. Debit cards lack this ability - the moment you use it, the money is subtracted from your account and there is no way to recover it without lawyers and considerable expense.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Next, most credit cards have rewards programs. The rewards programs vary, some are airline miles and if you fly often, these are equivalent to cash in the bank. Some cards give a percent or two back in cash; some cards build a fund to use if you buy a new car and so on. Are the reward programs worth it? <i>Ab-so-lute-ly</i>. The last 4 GM vehicles I bought have all had substantial money applied to them <u><i>after dealing for the best price</i></u>. The last statement I read was nice enough to tell me I had redeemed over $12,000 in GM rewards to date. I was going to buy the vehicles regardless and it was nice to know my bank accounts are $12k better off than GM's bank accounts would have been had I not used my credit card for everyday purchases that I would have made anyway. Dave, Dave, Dave ... you can't have your daughter Rachel putting out Youtube videos on how to save 26 cents on a can of soup at Aldi and then tell us to walk by an easy $25 or so every month in cash-back rewards. If we're going to build wealth, every avenue is fair game and getting cash back on stuff you have to buy regularly simply makes sense. Obvious sense.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Of course, using credit cards for rewards only works if you <u style="font-style: italic;">pay the card off in full every month like clockwork</u>. This requires discipline and if you have it, then the credit card can't be beat - and to top it off, it's convenient. Gas pumps, grocery checkouts and such are far quicker with cards than they are with cash.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">When these statements of logic are put to Dave Ramsey, he counters by saying studies show people that use credit cards tend to buy more than they planned. I say ... so what? Denying yourself some of the small pleasures and superfluities of life when you have all the means necessary to pay for them is stupid. Self-denial is great when you're tight on your budget, but Dave - It's a YOLO planet, and if I want the expensive deli meat or a bag of Oreos, I don't care if it was an impulse buy. A few bucks spent in the grand scheme of things matters not.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Oh yeah, try renting a car or getting a hotel room without a credit card. Seriously, the credit card is the standard item needed to do so, Dave... Not to mention, I think it's awfully nice of a bank in Delaware to loan me money interest-free for 40 days. I know they'd prefer it if I only made minimum payments, but somehow I manage to pay them off in full every month and I do enjoy the cash-back rewards.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And lastly, although Dave Ramsey says your credit score doesn't matter ... it does. And you don't build a good credit score with a debit card; you build it with a credit card. Dave goes as far as to say you don't <u style="font-style: italic;">need</u> a credit score, but for the vast majority of Americans ...he's wrong. You -do- need it. His claims that "<i>manual underwriting</i>" is somehow better than the report the bank pulled when you applied for a mortgage are pretty hinky.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Next, let's talk about paying off debts in the order he prefers: Smallest to largest, no matter what the interest rate is on them. If you are paying off your credit card every month, you already have the discipline to look at your other debts and figure out which ones have high interest - and should be paid off sooner, not later. Allegedly, it was Einstein that said the most powerful force in the universe was compound interest .... and that should be your rule and guide for which debts to get rid of first. Dave claims to be good at math, but on this subject, he shelves the logic of math for the endorphins of emotion, and it's a bad trade.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Finally, Dave thinks that the stock market is the place to beat inflation. Well, he's right and he's wrong, depending on how old you are when the big monkeys shake the little monkeys out of the branches on a schedule nobody can predict. If your timing is bad, you're screwed - figure on being a Wal-Mart greeter in your retirement years because you were born under an unlucky stock-market era.. And his claims that the market returns an average of 12% are awfully rosy numbers; in fact, since it's inception the market has returned an average of 7.75% ... which is good, again, if your timing is good. But if you're at the end of your earning years and the stock market tanks, count on un-retiring because somebody's advice was wrong.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Now let me close with some obvious truths: If you are not disciplined with money, if you regularly spend more than you make, follow Ramsey's advice: Cut up your credit cards, work 2 or 3 jobs, pay off your credit card debt and you will slowly but surely climb out of the hole. Sadly, this advice applies to the majority of people with credit cards. For those buried in credit card debt, I sincerely hope you get out of it and ... I also recognize that if the banks didn't make money on credit cards that they would cease to exist. That said, the claims that those that pay off their credit cards do so on the backs of those that don't misses one big point, and that is human nature: There will always be a group of people that won't or can't pay off their debts timely, and this is the basis of the banking system in America.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">But if you <u style="font-style: italic;">are</u> disciplined with money, ignore most of Ramsey's advice with a smile on your face. If you don't need Dave Ramsey's advice, stick to the plan that has obviously worked for you for a long time - and that is maximizing your purchasing power every way you can, with credit card rewards ... and even that unplanned purchase that somehow didn't drive you into the poorhouse.<br /><br />Want to be wealthy? Here's Don's advice: Spend less than you make and build savings with the difference. It adds up faster than you realize.</span></p>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-11257562367541722682022-02-18T17:05:00.000-05:002022-02-18T17:05:40.058-05:00German Humor is no Laughing Matter<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">I disagree. The Germans do have a sense of humor, and the jokes told during the worst times of German repression (the Nazi and East German years) are witness to that. Jokes <i>were</i> told about Hitler and the Stasi when they were in power.... they just weren't told within earshot of untrusted people. The jokes were referred to as whispering jokes (</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;">Flüsterwitze</span><span style="font-family: arial;">) and some of them are pretty funny. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here are 2 Nazi-era jokes that quietly made the rounds:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Adolf Hitler was scheduled to visit an insane asylum and the workers drilled the patients in how to salute and say </i>Heil Hitler<i> correctly. After repeated training, they seemed to get the idea. Hitler makes his visit and the patients are lined up, and sure enough they give the Hitler salute while shouting </i>Heil Hitler. <i>But the Fuhrer notices only the patients are saluting, not the doctors or nurses. He pulls some of the doctors aside and asks why they are not saluting.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Mein Fuhrer, they explain. We are professionals. We don't belong with the madmen</b><i>.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>... </i>And another:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>A lady has a parrot and it overhears her saying </i><u>Down With Hitler</u>! (<u>Nieder mit Hitler</u>!) <i>Worse, it learns the phrase and one day, while at the window, clearly says </i><u>Nieder mit Hitler</u>. <i>A neighbor overhears the parrot and reports her to the Gestapo, who come and interrogate the Frau. She denies it and luckily, the parrot is quiet during the interrogation. Still, they don't believe her and tell her to appear with the parrot in court the next day.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>As she is walking to court the next day, she walks by her church minister who asks why she looks so glum, and she tells him the story. He tells her to switch the parrot with his and then there will be no chance the parrot will give her away. She follows him home and they switch the parrot, and she continues to the courthouse where the court is waiting for her.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Again, they accuse her of teaching her parrot the words and try to coax the parrot to repeat them.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>First, the prosecutor shouts at the parrot </i><u>Nieder mit Hitler</u>,<i> but the parrot says nothing.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Then, the Judge shouts at the parrot </i><u>Nieder mit Hitler</u>, <i>but again the parrot is quiet.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Soon, the whole courtroom is shouting </i><u>Nieder mit Hitler</u> <i>at the parrot ... and then the parrot says</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>The lord hears our prayers.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The East German jokes were also whispered and there were people that actually spent years in jail for telling them. The Stasi had ears almost everywhere and telling jokes that made fun of the state was not tolerated. One of the hallmarks that West Germany used to learn how the East German population felt was to collect and categorize their jokes. You can find many of them with a google search, but here are a few of the better ones:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Two East German border guards are conversing one day. One asks the other how he views things. The guard replies "I think ... " and is interrupted by the first guard. "That is enough, I now have to arrest you..."</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here are some about the Trabant 601, the car most East Germans had. Any car was hard to get In East Germany; the wait was long and the Trabant was comparatively expensive compared to wages.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>How did the Trabant 601 get its name? 600 people ordered it and 1 actually got it.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>A man driving a Trabant suddenly breaks his windshield wiper. Pulling into a service station, he hails a mechanic. </i></span><i style="font-family: arial;">“Wipers for a Trabi?” he asks. </i><i style="font-family: arial;">The mechanic thinks about it for a few seconds and replies: “Yes, sounds like a fair trade.”</i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">How do you measure the acceleration of a Trabi? ...With a diary.</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Why don't criminals take hostages in East Germany? ... What kind of criminal would wait 14 years for a getaway car?</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>General Secretary Erich Honecker and Stasi head Erich Mielke are discussing their hobbies. Honecker says “I collect jokes about me.” </i></span><i style="font-family: arial;">Mielke replies: “Well, we have almost the same hobby. I collect those who tell jokes about you.”</i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Why do Stasi officers make such good taxi drivers? You get in the car and they already know your name and where you live.</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Two inmates in the Bautzen political prison are talking about their sentences. "How long are you in for?" "Five years." "And what did you do?" "Nothing." "Can't be. For nothing you get ten years!"</span></i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">An East German Judge walks into the cafeteria of the district court bent over with laughter. Other judges and lawyers ask him why he is so amused. "Oh, comrades, I've just heard the latest political joke!" "Tell it to us!" "Unfortunately, I can't do that. I've just sentenced a barber to two years of prison for telling it!"</span></i></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And last, if not least ...</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #222222;">What is the definition of the Five Year Joke in East Germany? ...Three years in prison for telling it and two years for all who listened and laughed.</span></span></i></p>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-16708396053770484362022-01-31T09:50:00.001-05:002022-01-31T13:58:57.806-05:00When You Shoot the Messenger<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">Recently, Canadian-born rocker Neil Young made a point of removing his music from Spotify, a large media platform. His stated reason is that Spotify is allowing itself to be used as a platform for "spreading misinformation about Covid." He specifically cites the Joe Rogan podcast as the source. Joe Rogan isn't a liberal like Young and it's a fair guess Neil didn't care for any of what Rogen had to say, but he needed a specific reason so he chose Covid. Ironically, some of Young's past music moans about GMO food and the businesses engaged in it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Neil Young isn't ... young anymore. He's a washed-up old man living off his past glory. He faded into the backdrop of music a long time ago, sold off some of his music for a reported $150 mil or so and for the most part people forgot about him. Once in a while his music is played on classic rock radio stations and that's about it. Publicizing his stand, he told Spotify they could have Rogen or Young, but not both. Spotify, to their credit didn't bow to this form of blackmail and said goodbye to Neil in very nice words. They even welcomed him back should he change his mind.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A few other has-been nobodies of past music joined him (Joni Mitchell, Nils Lofgren and a few other pebbles of the music industry) in protest. I'd guess it's a publicity stunt to put their names iin the public eye again, but who knows? Anyway, the funny thing is that with absolutely no credentials whatsoever, they pontificate about what is misinformation about covid. The 2 doctors who appeared on the Rogen podcast have the education, degrees and experience to at least give them some credibility about the subject. One of them is a specialist in mRNA vaccines.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So why should anybody believe a washed-up old dope-smoking musician's opinion about covid over credentialed medical doctors? Now it's not science, it's the politics of science and what you choose to believe, much like the debate over climate change with experts on both sides telling each other why they are wrong.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Do we advance science when one side tries to shut the other side up? No, we need debate, We need to hear both sides, we need to know the pros and cons. If anything, there is a plethora of information bombarding us about why everybody should get vaccinated and they've even set up a website promoting vaccines. Is there a website warning us about adverse reactions? I highly doubt it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm not pro-vaccine and I'm not anti-vaccine. I'm pro-choice; every adult in this country should be able to make their own decision about what medical treatments they want and which ones they don't want. There should be no mandates, period. After the horrors of Nazi medical experimentation, the post-WW2 Nuremburg compact specifically addresses this by saying nobody should be forced to submit to medical procedures or medicine they don't agree to. How is it any medical regimen can be mandated after this?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I still enjoy a small smattering of Neil Young music. Most of his music sounds rather nasal and droning to me and I avoid it like the plague. What is most curious to me is the concept and implementation of streaming music nowadays. I come from the old school of buying music on media (records, tapes, CDs etc) if you want it, not paying to stream for something that goes in one ear and out the other. And with the technology of today. you can change the format of your music easily (mp3s, etc) and put it on ipods or similar. I'm not against streaming music, I just don't understand it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The meme I enjoy the most making the rounds of social media right now is the picture of Neil with the words "When you're so woke, you cancel yourself ..."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyway, I guess I can toss out my Joni Mitchell and Nils Lofgren CDs now, since they're sycophants of Neil in this publicity charade. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Oh yeah. I don't have any Joni Mitchell or Nils Lofgren CDs. Too bad.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-18068834472827699342022-01-06T14:37:00.000-05:002022-01-06T14:37:18.101-05:00The Mask Nazi<div><span style="font-family: arial;">I hesitated about writing about this. I didn't want to come off as favoring one side or the other in the debate about the efficacy of masks in preventing covid. There is plenty to read about this topic and it is easily found online. FWIW, I think the Governor of Colorado has the right idea about covid, vaccines and masks. His stated view is that the emergency is over and he won't extend or implement any mask mandates or force anybody to get a shot because ... because personal responsibility is personal, and if, after all this time, you get sick from covid without being vaccinated, <i>it's your own darn fault. </i>(He was silent about the large number of vaccinated people that get sick, which is par for the course.)</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">But I'm not in Colorado. I'm in New York, a blue-state that thinks nothing of suspending your freedoms, rights and liberties. I wish Ron DeSantis was my Governor, not some starchy lady that is drunk on power and hell-bent on somehow getting elected in November after becoming Governor by default following Andrew Cuomo's implosion. Keeping covid alive and well is part and parcel of the Democrat strategy to keep ballot-harvesting healthy via mail-in ballots. I suspect she'll do about as well at the ballot box as her predecessor did (7 out of 62 counties in 2018) but it will be enough to again elect whatever Democrat is on the ballot because the downstate urban region that includes New York City will be enough to prevail again. Frankly, I wish Governors were elected using an electoral college system to restore balance (and allow 55 out of 62 counties to have some sort of say in who will sit in the executive mansion for the next 4 years).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyway, the story that prompted all these words... and I'll skip mentioning the fast-food establishment where this occurred so as to not cause them harm.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>We had ordered, chose a table and were sitting there waiting for our order to be completed. We had already filled our drinks from the self-serve dispenser and were making idle chatter when the show began. A lady that I will call <i>Frau Goebbels</i> appeared suddenly and started shouting at one of the employees. Apparently, she was upset about an employees mask. Oh, he was wearing one, to be sure. It just wasn't up to her standards of mask-wearing.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>You need to pull your mask up.</i> We couldn't hear his response clearly, but the next words out her mouth were <i>No, you need to pull it up to the top of your nose. I can still see some of your nose. I don't want to catch covid from you.</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">My wife and I were stunned. We had the best seat in the house to this show, and by now we were watching more attentively. At about this time, our name was called to come pick up the food we ordered, so I walked up and picked it up. I got a peek at who she was yelling at, grabbed the food bag and walked back to the table.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I want to see the manager.</i> And magically, somebody appeared, talked to her and it was over. Frau Goebbels disappeared out the door. Shortly after, the employee walked out, took his apron off and muttered <i>Thanks for ruining my day</i> as he left. We're guessing it was either the end of his shift or the manager told him to go... but we're not sure.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">If this cost this young man his job, I'll be disappointed. Mask, no mask, or an incompletely-worn mask are not the end of the world. And being loud, rude and obnoxious in front of other customers wasn't warranted. It was more about power and control than anything else. In modern lingo, she was a <i>Karen</i>, but I prefer the moniker Frau Goebbels better. She would have made a good Nazi. Too bad she was 90 years late.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">There are ways to express your opinions about this, and the way this lady chose was a poor choice. We didn't learn anything about covid that night, but we did learn something about how many assholes walk among us. This lady clearly was one, and I fervently hope we never see her again. I suspect she is a professional complainer about many things in life.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">After we were finished, as we walked towards the door, we thanked the workers for how good the food was and ... oh yeah, thanks for the bonus show. We enjoyed it. ... They laughed along with us as we went out the door.</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-23897377351892209672021-12-04T19:26:00.000-05:002021-12-04T19:26:03.775-05:00They Had No Choice<span style="font-family: arial;">CNN isn't doing very well lately. Compared to other networks, their audience share is rather low. Their best years of the recent past were definitely the Trump Presidential years; they constantly beat him up at every chance. There was no fair and balanced to CNN then, and it is doubtful they will ever be able to move to a centrist news position now. Since Trump left office, their ratings tanked so badly they had to keep talking about him to try to improve their ratings.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">This week, they suspended Chris Cuomo after emails proved he lied about the extent of his participation in helping his brother Andrew Cuomo when he was pushed onto the poliitcal gallows trap door this past summer. Cuomo hosted the top rated show on CNN, which in comparison to other network news commentaries usually rated dead last.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">CNN doesn't bother to hide the fact that it is a mouthpiece for left-leaning liberal politicians, We all watched Rachael Madcow make a fool out of herself with her Trump Russian tirades, we've seen Don Lemon be nothing more than a lackey for boastful Democrats who lie (like Adam Schiff, who claimed he had the goods on Trump with Russian collusion in an interview with them and then when asked on the Congressional record, admitted he didn't) ... and Brian Stelter, who would look more intelligent if he were a mute. Considering the foolishness that has come out of her mouth. Joy Reid is, of course, another example of a closet bigot who takes completely non-racial stories and interjects racial bias into them (as in the Gabby/Laundrie murder mystery this past summer). Still, CNN stands behind these fools as long as they don't commit mortal sins, and even Toobinators manage to keep their jobs after completely embarrassing the network with (almost) off-camera jollies. Frankly, with the current list of on-camera personalities at CNN, I'm baffled as to why anybody would bother watching them.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Ah, but Chris Cuomo's sins rose above and beyond; even CNN couldn't ignore them anymore. When NY Attorney-General Letitia James decided to run for Governor next year (when she earlier said she wouldn't because it would look like she went after Andrew Cuomo to take his job), she had a few Aces up her sleeve - the "report" that summarized both Cuomo's activities following Andrew's trip to the woodshed. Andrew didn't want to resign, but it became pretty clear if he didn't, he would be impeached by his former friends in both Houses of the NY Legislature.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">So now, today (12-4) we see CNN decided to fire Chris Cuomo for good, citing a review by a "respected law firm.' I'm no fan of either Cuomo (I've written about them before), but I do find irony in the fact that CNN can't even fire Cuomo without the excuse of a law-firm review. No review was needed; we've seen enough of Chris Cuomo threatening to throw somebody down a stairwell, we've seen enough of his lies in his Covid-quarantine video clips and we've seen enough of his big ego when he's shooting videos of himself lifting weights. CNN should have axed him long ago and the fact that it took them this long to finally do it speaks volumes about the morals and ethics of those running the show in the CNN boardrooms.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">As for the advertisers that keep giving CNN money for ad slots, if I were them, I'd tie the price of that time on CNN to their Nielson audience share. Less viewers, lower ad rates ... or simply direct their advertising budget to the networks that do get consistently good audiences. Why spend money on networks with poor ratings?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">So, arrivederci, Chris. Like Fredo in Godfather II, I guess you got whacked.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">They only question is, in the casting of lots at the bottom of your cross, what CNN lackey is in line to take your seat?</span></div>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-43941904588794801082021-09-27T14:41:00.000-04:002021-09-27T14:41:08.464-04:00The New Segregationists<span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i>Segregation</i></b>: </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;"><i>The policy or practice of separating people of different races, classes, or ethnic groups, as in schools, housing, and public or commercial facilities, especially as a form of discrimination</i>.</span></span></span><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Segoe UI", "Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation Sans", "Open Sans", FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14.4px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Segoe UI", "Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation Sans", "Open Sans", FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14.4px;">We're supposedly better now; mainstream America recognizes segregation is not only wrong, but a blot on our history. Not only have we logically and morally moved <i>away</i> from segregation, we have <u>outlawed</u> the practice in Federal law. The 1964 Civil Rights act banned it in the workplace and all public places. There can be little disagreement that segregation was and is wrong.</span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, "Proxima Nova", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Segoe UI", "Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation Sans", "Open Sans", FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14.4px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.4px;">Last time I looked, we're living in the 21st century. 57 years have elapsed since 1964; surely we must have learned by now not to practice it. Sadly, it is returning and it is a real shock when you discover just who is bringing it back: <i>The very people and institutions that worked to abolish it!</i></span></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.4px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.4px;">Bill Maher will be the first person to tell you he's a Liberal, but lately he's made many statements that make Conservatives question his claim. He's no friend of 'woke' people and he recently pointed out how segregation is rearing its ugly head again in America. I'll leave a link to his words at the bottom of this essay, but the screenshot I put up here clearly displays where segregation is running rampant: <b>On college campuses, one of the very birthplaces of the civil rights battle.</b></span></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.4px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJC4Dj8Ja6OlLOL9zJFCdjUD6eYYsbuBtV0l_hfJo_HC3sQU2GeLUCsrtWmcUSBuSVda9_NulrIsZUevPHbrH-boGmPEE3-blA27lWwcv9_C8q17w0NU0WgNYZDmPwD_9-W2Ss-fad_pPz/s1972/Snap_2021.09.25+12.07.21_078.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="919" data-original-width="1972" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJC4Dj8Ja6OlLOL9zJFCdjUD6eYYsbuBtV0l_hfJo_HC3sQU2GeLUCsrtWmcUSBuSVda9_NulrIsZUevPHbrH-boGmPEE3-blA27lWwcv9_C8q17w0NU0WgNYZDmPwD_9-W2Ss-fad_pPz/w555-h257/Snap_2021.09.25+12.07.21_078.png" width="555" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.4px;">It seem the dorms in our esteemed American institutes of learning (over 100 were sampled) are 42% segregated by ethnicity; orientation programs are 47% segregated and college graduation cermonies are a whopping 72% segregated. Further, it almost seems blacks <u>are fine with</u> it that way. If they weren't, it wouldn't take much for them to stop the practice with a few well-placed protests.</span></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.4px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;">I don't usually give liberals a compliment when they utter their usual poppycock, but in this case, Maher is right. There should only be one national anthem (although I disagree with him that it doesn't necessarily have to be the one we have now; I wrote about that foolishness in a previous blog). Citing Whoopi Goldberg as a buffoon on the topic is enjoyable to watch. Whoopi thinks a black national anthem is needed and whites need to be ... <i>re-educated</i> about it ... No thanks, Ms. Goldberg. We're still mourning the loss of Aunt Jemima, thanks to those who already reeducated us. Thankfully, when the real national anthem is skipped at athletic events (as it has been lately), there are people who sing it A cappella anyway.</span></span></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;">This is the second of a three-part series I'm running on why racism has become a major divider of America. Part one was about race baiters, the next generation and for that I was called abysmally ignorant and a racist by my liberal brother (which means my points landed dead center). I forgive him; the brainwashing he endured (but refuses to acknowledge) in 10 or so years of higher education all but erased any common sense he had.</span></span></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;">The last part of my thoughts are going to center on Critical Racist Theory, the true evil it is and how it has (along with the race baiters and new segregationists) reversed the progress made in the last 50 years.</span></span></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;">The future looks dim as far as to how America is going to fix this. The racial and political divide are simmering as I speak, and I fear for the future of my native soil. Remember, when times are bad, the political winds are fertile for a despot to come along promising to fix it. About a hundred years ago, the seeds were sown and it did happen. And we all know how history has a habit of repeating itself, because people don't change. Technology and the environment change, but people are people and if there is any one thing history has taught us, it is that people will barter away freedom for security when the chips are down.</span></span></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;">Hell, just look back a year and a half if you don't agree with me.</span></span></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.4px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="DDG_ProximaNova, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_0, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_1, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_2, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_3, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_4, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_5, DDG_ProximaNova_UI_6, Proxima Nova, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Segoe UI, Nimbus Sans L, Liberation Sans, Open Sans, FreeSans, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px;">Here is the link to the Maher clip on YouTube: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYOuNi9iyY4&t=307s" style="font-size: 14.4px;" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO</a></span></span></div>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-46496413794253821012021-09-21T12:58:00.000-04:002021-09-21T12:58:34.205-04:00Race Baiters: The Next Generation<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Sooner or later, you get tired of it and tune it out. We're all used to people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson rushing in to whatever fire of racism they hope to amplify by adding their own brand of gasoline to the fire. We saw it with Michael Brown in Ferguson, we saw it in Floydopolis and now we're seeing the next generation of those that make an excellent living throwing gas on whatever fire they can dub <i>racist</i>. It is no secret that those that make a living writhing their hands over racism don't worry about where their next meal is coming from ... and we know that when a problem is truly solved, the money following the problem dries up. So it is in the interests of the race baiters to keep fanning the flames (and making damn good money off of it at the same time.) If you don't believe me, take a look at how Jackson's Rainbow Coalition <strike>extorts</strike> takes donations from businesses to facilitate racial harmony in the workplace. Or take a peek back when Fat Albert hyped the Tawana Brawley scam and discovered there is money to be made when screaming about racism, even it it is cooked up. Al wasted no time in cashing in on it and to his credit realized that morbid obesity doesn't bode well for longevity ... so he went on a diet. Everything but his fat head lost weight, but I have to admit he does look good in those Armani suits on TV, even if he can't pay taxes on the enormous wealth he has accumulated beating the drums of racism over the last few decades.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Some of these martyrs used by the race baiters are not exemplary citizens. Michael Brown had just committed robbery when he made the mistake of thinking he could top off his day by assaulting a police officer. It didn't go well for him, but the circus of rioting and destruction that ensued ruined the lives of many in Ferguson who had nothing to do with it. Of course, the usual race baiters flew in and added their own fuel to the fire.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">But there is a new generation of race baiters waiting in the wings, and sadly some of them are part of the CNN organization: Joy Reid and Don Lemon (seriously, Lemon? God does have a sense of humor). Let's talk about Joy first, because I'm still chivalrous and believe ladies should go before gentlemen.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This last week has seen America focus on the Gabby Petito story. We all know the story to date and of course, the story isn't finished yet. But at some point, it will be. America is following this story because it has all the elements: Mystery, crime, murder and human passion. Each day something new rivets us to the story.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So what does Ms. Reid do? She injects <u>racism</u> into a story that has absolutely nothing to do with racism. Her online comments are despicable as the family of Gabby grieves the loss of their daughter. What were her comments?</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 18px;"><i>It goes without saying that no family should ever have to endure that kind of pain. And the Petito family certainly deserves answers and justice. But the way this story has captivated the nation has many wondering, why not the same media attention when people of color go missing?</i></span></p><p><i><span face="Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 18px;">Well, the answer actually has a name: </span><span face="Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #222222; font-size: 18px;">Missing White woman syndrome</span><span face="Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 18px;">. The term coined by the late and great Gwen Iffil to describe the media and public fascination with missing White women like Laci Peterson or Natalee Holloway, while ignoring cases involving missing people of color.</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So there you have it. Somehow we're supposed to stop feeling sorry for Gabby and her family and replace the emotions we're feeling with anger about racism. <b>Frick du, Frau Reid</b>. And ironically, how do I describe a person of color in the media who blames the media for ignoring people of color without using the word <i>hypocrite</i>? ... I'm not sure I can. And as usual, all the words before <b>but</b> in her quote are insignificant because she doesn't really care about the Petito family -- she's got her racism 101 paint kit out and is filling in the numbers with some really far-out colors.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And next we have Don Lemon. This waste of a perfectly good spinal cord also added his racial gasoline to the fire by trying to say the Laundrie familiy exercised white privilege by refusing to talk to the police. Here's how he spun it:</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 18px;"><i>You ask any person of color, you ask a Black man who – if they have that sort of privilege.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Gee, can I ask OJ or Jusse Smollett if privilege didn't play a part in walking for their crimes?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>Here's a heads up for you, Lemon</u>. <u>Everybody</u> has that right. All they have to do is <i>exercise</i> the right. In the Laundrie case, it's obvious crimes were committed but not yet discovered ... and Gabby's fiance ran to a lawyer, who told him what <u>any</u> lawyer would tell a client no matter what color skin they were: Don't talk to the police, period.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Is America aghast? Yes, but that's the system and that's the constitution. If Whites, Blacks, Latinos, Asians or anybody chooses not to talk to the police - that is their right. There is plenty of other evidence and I'm assuming it will be brought out if Laundrie turns up alive ... which is speculative at this moment, because no matter what, his life is pretty much ruined going forward.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So there you have it: Race-Baiters, the Next Generation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Isn't it comforting to know that the future of solving race-based issues is in the hands of idiots who think that pretty much <u>everything</u> is racist?</span></p>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-54473231108458544402021-08-03T14:12:00.000-04:002021-08-03T14:12:03.304-04:00The Wheel of Justice Turns Slow, But it Grinds Exceedingly Fine<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">Gee, it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. (Guffaw) ... Just kidding. A few hours ago (It's Tuesday, August 3 2021) NY Attorney General Letitia James released a 165 page report concluding that Governor Andrew Cuomo <u>did, in fact sexually harass</u><i> many</i> women. The report includes conversations with victims, an interview with Andrew Cuomo and also used emails as evidence to support its findings.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I've written about this guy before ... quite a few times. If you search my blog, you can see first-hand what I think of him. Spoiler alert: I don't think very highly of him. As a New York resident, I've suffered under his so-called "leadership" in many various ways. His taxes are the highest in the nation, his expanded abortion policy is unconscionably murderous, his mandate to put Covid patients in nursing homes resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and his maniacal ego have impacted every New Yorker.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">So I say with no tears in my eyes as I utter the famous Italian phrase <i style="background-color: #fcff01;">vaffanculo, Andrew Cuomo</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Take your book full of lies about how you wonderfully managed the Covid pandemic and stick it up your ass. You are almost done as I write this; the only thing left to question is how you are going to exit the Governor's mansion - either by resignation, legislative removal or if you somehow manage to delay things until next years election with the voters removing you ...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">One thing is certain: Your days in power are very, very numbered. I hope you resign, but if that doesn't happen, I hope the legislature removes you. As you join the heap of disgraced and sleazy Democrats like John Edwards (2004 VP candidate who knocked up his Mistress while his wife was dying of cancer and then coerced a friend to say he was the father) and Elliot Spitzer (Client number 9), please think about honor and how it is so easily tarnished in public life ... and then please consider this:<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Even Richard Nixon did the honorable thing and resigned.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">You don't want to go out the door lower than Dick Nixon, do you?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">PS: Take Fredo and that lying/dying networks of fools with you, please.</span></p>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-87428101134325778472021-06-29T16:37:00.005-04:002021-06-29T17:11:26.552-04:00Mr. Rogers Neighborhood<span style="font-family: arial;">If there is one thing you can count on, it is change. Nothing is forever, or so it seems. The world you knew growing up and the world as it is now are different; some of the change is good and unfortunately, some of the change is bad. We are supposed to learn from our mistakes so as to not repeat something that was bad, but I'm not sure America is headed in that direction. America is divided at the moment and we can debate when it started and who is responsible until the cows come home, but the first six words of this sentence leave little to debate. As a people, we are divided and part of that division is the differences in urban vs. suburban lifestyles, experiences and education. Inner city folks don't think like small-town folks do because they live very different lives. The experiences of growing up in either area, for the most part mold how people view life, government and culture. Cities are usually rich in culture, but inner city schools fall short of testing scores in suburban areas. Inner city schools have the same curricula standards because of state mandates but have a tough time hiring and paying their educators when they are in competition with their immediate neighbors. When it comes down to money spent per student, suburban schools easily outspend city schools and those are simply the facts of life.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">It should come to you as little surprise that families living in the cities move out when they can afford to. I don't fault the city school districts, it's obvious they do as much as they can with whatever resources they have. And I don't fault anybody for trying to improve the lot of themselves and their family; this is part and parcel of the opportunity America offers to those willing to work for it.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">So, our suburban neighborhoods with their picket fences, little pink houses and 2 cars in the driveway are the American dream. Attaining this lands you squarely in the middle class, which is not a bad place to be overall.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">But that dream is being threatened. Regardless of your political affiliation, please click on this link and spend a few minutes seeing what might be coming to your neighborhood in the near future.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3q-qfLtB0o" rel="" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> and afterwards, please continue reading below.<br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Ah. Not in my area, you think. Think again. In New Hartford, NY ( a small town of ~20,000 adjacent to Utica NY, a city of ~60,000 ) it might be here sooner than you realize. Read on:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">As I grew up, New Hartford was a sleepy small town with a good mix of farms (over 50), a good school system and working middle-class post-war families. There is a business corridor which has grown exponentially along with the school budget. Surprisingly, the population hasn't grown much as there is a fair turn-over of properties. It should be noted that property values are higher than their city equivalents in most cases. Clearly, New Hartford is a desirable place to live and raise your children in and property values reflect this. Town government (I served 12 years on the Town Board here) knows this and protects homeowners by recognizing that people want their neighborhoods and property values maintained. Zoning laws recognize residential properties as the most valuable in spite of the large business base that has grown over the years. And why not? People matter more than brick and mortar buildings and always will. It is with that thought that some property in New Hartford is now endangered with the placement of multi-family units in agricultural and single-family-zoned areas. There are, by the way, 2 dairy farms (I'm fortunate to live next door to one of them), a tree farm and a cash-crop farm left in the town now. Change and technology put the vast majority of farmers out of business. Things certainly <i>have </i>changed.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">You watched the video clip above, right? Is Tucker full of BS or does the point he's making have merit? In smalltown New Hartford, NY unused farm property was bought last year by the Municipal Housing Authority based in Utica in spite of the neighbors banding together and fighting it. What they are not fighting is the sale of the land, what they are fighting is what the MHA has in mind for it. The MHA wasn't ashamed to let people know that they would like to build multi-unit buildings on it; specifically tailored for low-income families. The neighborhood is livid about this possibility and after approaching the Town Board, is now awaiting to see what the MHA really wants to do with this land tract. In spite of the single-family zoning in place, the MHA closed on the property last November and now is the owner.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXT4PtyGflKa67tkS4g6VleZPuycWi35ZfV5GerbK9WPnNNBVswrVMvn7HxddwBn1HdsEH_o6QOz1SCRZFGUtmNEsy_o3ltqu8fYw4VkmYMaOT2k_HfnNbbUgVEMN164noCT8x8Nv2umkt/s728/mha.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="402" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXT4PtyGflKa67tkS4g6VleZPuycWi35ZfV5GerbK9WPnNNBVswrVMvn7HxddwBn1HdsEH_o6QOz1SCRZFGUtmNEsy_o3ltqu8fYw4VkmYMaOT2k_HfnNbbUgVEMN164noCT8x8Nv2umkt/w402-h316/mha.jpg" width="402" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out what they have in mind. They didn't buy the property to grow beans or corn - they have plans, and that plan is to utilize the property using their business model, which is ... subsidized apartment rentals. To them, the zoning doesn't matter. They have plans, and if they can't get them past the local town government, look for them to seek judicial intervention or worse, lobby for new federal laws to override and mute the will of the town residents.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">That this could happen in America is shameful. But then again, after 12 years on the Town Board, I've seen more than my share of shameful events occur and to tell you the truth, I didn't enjoy watching good and decent people get shafted.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Neither will I this time, either.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-16291094203022044192021-06-06T12:31:00.000-04:002021-06-06T12:31:51.950-04:00One Good Scam Deserves Another<span style="font-family: arial;">I first saw him when he went on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson doing a comedy routine. To get on the Tonight Show as a comedian, you had to be good. Carson's talent scouts only took the best, and they had their pick of the crop. I thought he was funny then, and I still find humor in the things he says. And my wife and I saw his movie (Religulous) in which he pokes fun at various religions and their followers. As usual, he used humor to drive home his opinion that there is no God ,,, a view that I disagree with. People are free to believe (or not believe) as they wish in America.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Of course, I'm talking about Bill Maher, who has a late-night show on HBO where he discusses current events and politics. He's been a liberal mouthpiece for years as his comedy morphed into critical analysis of his views of right and wrong in the world.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">You can go on Youtube and find him and his liberal guests (Joy Reid from the Communist News Network among others) laugh at Ann Coulter when she suggested Trump had the best chance of being elected in 2016. Sometimes his comedy backfires, as that clip is now eternally famous.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Bill Maher is nobody's fool, to be sure. Before he comes on and speaks, he's well-read on the issues and doesn't overextend himself into no-mans territory. Occasionally, he even talks like a Republican, as he has done a few times lately.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">For example, he defended Israel's military response when Hamas attacked them with 4000+ rockets recently, even though liberals are mostly siding with Hamas. That surprised me somewhat.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">But I confess, his latest words on higher education amused me to no end when he went on and ripped it as a <i>racket </i>that sells a very expensive ticket to the upper-middle class. He bolstered his argument by saying the following:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><blockquote><p class="speakable" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Now that graduation season has ended and we won't be spoiling anyone's big day, let's talk about what higher education in America really is: a racket that sells you a very expensive ticket to the upper-middle class.</span></i></p></blockquote><blockquote><p class="speakable" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">President Biden's American Families Plan asks the American taxpayers to pony up hundreds of billions so that everyone can go to college and billions more for subsidized child care so that our kids can go to school while we go to school.</span></i></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Now the right is calling Biden's plan ‘social engineering,’ which is over-the-top, but Biden's plan is an endorsement of a particular idea that the more time humans spend in classrooms staring at blackboards, the better.</span></i></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">Liberals see more school the way Republicans see tax cuts – as the answer to everything. </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">We imagine going to college is the way to fight income inequality, it actually does the reverse</span><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></i></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;">I know that free college is a left-wing thing, but </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">is it really liberal for someone who doesn't go to college and makes less money to pay for people who do go and make more?</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Especially since colleges have turned into giant luxury day care centers with overpaid babysitters anxious to indulge every student whim...</span></span></i></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: arial;">And then he uttered the best line of the evening, one loaded with this pearl of wisdom:</span></p><blockquote><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Say what you want about Lori Loughlin. A</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">t least she understood that </span><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">one good scam deserves another.</span></i></blockquote><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr. Maher, may I suggest you take another look at the Republican party and how we think. If you keep thinking and talking like this, we'll patiently await your inevitable arrival.</span></p></div>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-13455916712164762852021-03-13T09:01:00.000-05:002021-03-13T09:01:13.339-05:00As the Sun Sets on Andrew Cuomo's Political Career<p><b> <i>Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.</i></b></p><p>It's Saturday, March 13, 2021. The sun is shining. Before we go to bed tonight, we'll set the clocks an hour ahead. <i>Spring ahead, Fall back</i> as the saying goes. Tomorrow, the sun will set an hour later than it did today. We're gaining almost 3 minutes of sunlight every day and although this number will go down as we approach the longest sunlight day of the year (June 21, when summer officially arrives) ... we will still gain some daylight until then.</p><p>However, there is one person in New York State who may not look forward to great New York State sunsets, and that person is Governor Andrew Cuomo. I use the term <i>Governor</i> loosely now, because while he still is the de-facto Governor of NYS, he's not one that can impose harsh policy on it anymore. He's been defanged; the power he once wielded has abated and now, instead of using his energy to craft and dictate policy, he's using it to merely survive in office.</p><p><b>This is good news.</b></p><p>Andrew Cuomo is on the way out. As I write this, it's not if, it's when. Worst case scenario is, he rides out his term and in November of next year (2022) he will not be re-elected. Somebody else will be sworn in as Governor in January 2023. It's a year and 9 months away, and as I figure it, that's the absolute best he can remain in office.</p><p>But I'm hopeful, as more women come forward that his term will be severely abridged. I'm facing east and holding my prayer beads that he will be gone sooner than that. Much sooner.</p><p>Let me make one point clear: I do not support vigilante justice, not jumping to conclusions. As I write this, there are now seven women claiming to be sexually harassed by the Luv Guv. One of them claims she was groped under her blouse. Andrew Cuomo deserves a chance to defend himself, both in a legal court and also the court of public opinion. These are <i>allegations</i>, not etched in steel facts. Yet, anyway.</p><p>But as the number increases almost daily, one does have to begin to wonder. As the body count climbed in the Bill Cosby case, his good reputation was erased. When he was convicted and jailed, then we knew: He did it.</p><p>Nobody has alleged Andy Cuomo dropped a roofie in their drink and took advantage of them - let's get this out there. And asking for dates in a stupid manner isn't illegal either. But groping is, and if the allegation has any evidence tied to it, it should be heard. Also, changing a job position or moving the employee around after being turned down for a date doesn't bode well for the Gov either.</p><p><b>All this is interesting, but without dates, times and some sort of corroborating evidence ... most of it will stay where it is: As allegations.</b></p><p><b>I'm wondering why people are on the mini-bus when there is a much larger issue to deal with when it comes to Andrew Cuomo, and that's the nursing home death scandal.</b></p><p>We now know the nursing home death number counts were changed ... and lowered. A recount of the numbers tell us it is at least double. His executive order in March of 2020 (rescinded in May 2020) <b>forced Covid into the weakest population sector in the state, and that is nursing homes</b>. When this colossal mistake came to light, he had the unmitigated gall to <i>blame Donald Trump</i> for it.</p><p><b>Why would he fudge the numbers? For personal and monetary gain, say I.</b> If you read his book in which he congratulates himself on every other page, he asserts NY came in fourth out of fifty states in nursing home deaths. <b>With the new numbers, we're number one. Andrew Cuomo's executive order killed tens of thousands of our most vulnerable population.</b> (Look for this book on the Dollar Store shelves in the near future, keeping company with books from Hillary Clinton and the like.)</p><p>So, as the heat is turned up, and as it becomes clear that both the NY Senate and Assembly (both in the hands of Democrat control) are abandoning him, he's taking a real gamble: <i>Does he think he can really ride this out for almost 2 years more? Is he that stupid?</i></p><p>Richard Nixon experienced a similar situation: As Watergate unfolded and his lies were exposed, he also lost his Republican protectors in Congress and the Senate. It became clear: If he didn't resign, he would be impeached. He took the easier way out and resigned.</p><p><b>I suggest Andrew Cuomo be put in the same position: Resign or be impeached.</b></p><p>As a resident of New York State, I can only hope.</p><p>New York State's motto is <i>Excelsior,</i> which means <i>Ever Upward.</i></p><p>Goodbye, Andrew Cuomo. Thank God your political career is (almost) over. Your plans to move to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 4 years are pretty much extra-crispy now.</p><p>As the days lengthen and the sun sets later every day, isn't it kind of ironic that your days in Albany are growing shorter?</p>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-17250493431646057702021-02-15T15:42:00.001-05:002021-02-15T15:42:28.390-05:00So, Who Will Take the Fall for Andrew Cuomo?<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">Once in a while, the liberal media cranks out a surprise. The surprise of February 2021 is how they have turned on one of their favorite sons - NY Governor Andrew Cuomo. It took a while, almost the better part of a year for them to gravitate to the position that maybe he did something wrong by sending covid-positive patients into nursing homes ... and then did something worse by trying to cover it up.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">After the first shots were fired about nursing home covid deaths being tied to his executive order, Andy tried various ways to deflect the criticism. His first attempt at blaming Trump for it didn't really grow wings and take off, so in his second attempt to deflect being the target of a probe, he had his own state-run health department issue an <i>investigative</i> report. Of course, this report absolved him of all blame.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Duh. When your boss (or any boss) tells you he wants an investigative report, what they mean is they want a report that blames somebody or something else - - and it's also handy if it absolves them of any wrongdoing too. That's a well-known part of a political patronage system that doles out jobs and holds the keys to continued employment and advancement.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Is there anybody stupid enough to really believe the felch dispensed by his own Department of Health? Please step forward, I have some <strike>dog</strike> really good stocks I'd like to sell you.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Of course, the mainstream media (MSM) sat on this story all last year because .. well, there was an election and they couldn't fling mud at one of their own blessed because they needed it to fling at what they view as the reincarnation of Satan ... and it's pretty obvious where the dung they hurled landed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Then, the NY Attorney General (a close ally of Cuomo) revealed the nursing home deaths were grossly under reported. A newspaper reporter sued under the freedom of information act and noticed a huge discrepancy between nursing home reports of death and NY DOH reports and brought this to the attention of the AG. To her credit, she refused to be part of the cover up and went public.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As this news took off, another bombshell landed squarely in Cuomo's camp. A communication between one of his staff members and the Democrat leadership in Albany surfaced. Melissa DeRosa, a staffer that sits at Andy's right hand revealed that the real numbers were squelched in fear that it would make Cuomo look bad while giving the Republicans ammunition to politically fight with. It's pretty clear now - a cover up had been going on for the better part of last year.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">But I still have faith in Andrew Cuomo to slough it off by coming up with a fall guy (or fall girl) to take the blame for whatever PC term he dubs this scandal now boiling and scalding his administration. The only question is, who will this fall person be? What crony-puppet will they dredge up to sacrifice to redirect the blame from Andrew Cuomo?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here's a list of possibilities:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Melissa DeRosa, whose days in Albany are probably already measured on a short stick for blabbing about it anyway...</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Dr. Howard Zucker, the NY Commissioner of Health who heads the DOH that falsified the numbers in the first place... or</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Some relatively-unknown low-level pawn in the administration who will be willing to take the blame ... and who knows what deal will be cut behind closed doors to make this happen, or</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Scooter Libby. He was the fall guy for VP Dick Cheney; he took the blame and was later pardoned. I hear he's tanned, rested and ready. Ok, scratch out Scooter. He's already done one fall-guy tour and in politics, you only get to be a fall guy once in your life.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: arial;">In any event, the good news is that Andrew Cuomo's pipedream of running for President in 2024 is probably nothing more than that - a pipedream. This scandal will shadow him for the rest of his life ... and deservedly so. As you can tell, I'm not a big fan of Andy. I already view him as a butchering murderer of fetuses ranging in age from a few weeks to 5 seconds before they take their first breath, and now he's added his own brand of a selective geriatric eugenics program to his resume.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm not sure if Cuomo is going to survive this putsch; I hope he's ousted. But I'm not going to bet on it because I view him as a self-indulgent narcissist, and I think he'll fight like hell to finish out his term which is up for re-election in 2022.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">If he's stupid enough to run again, I'm hoping he loses the remaining 15 out of 62 NYS counties he managed to win last time. We'll see. A lot can happen between now and then.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">But one thing is certain: He's an anathema now, and the likelihood he'll go to DC as anything other than a visitor is rather doubtful now.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">And this is good news, period.</span></div><p></p>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-29507154577768106912021-01-23T11:09:00.000-05:002021-01-23T11:09:18.917-05:00Stealing the 2024 Election<span style="font-family: arial;">The law of contradiction is pretty simple. <b>A</b> can't be the same as <b>B</b> if they are mutually exclusive. And in divided America, there are certainly plenty of A's and B's. Republicans and Democrats <u>are</u> rather far apart. This is not an earth-shattering revelation; the divide has been there for quite a while. It grew exponentially during the Obama years and the scorch-the-earth policy of the left during the Trump Presidency added to it. America is not unified; it is solidly divided and it is not going to heal in the next four years.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I find it paradoxical that Joe Biden in his call for unity has turned a blind eye to what his party is doing. A last minute 3 day kangaroo court impeachment designed to prevent Donald Trump from running in 2024 is not just shameful, it's destructive to the country. Trying to convince the average American that he incited people to riot at the Capital while ignoring the years of violence that elected Democrats publicly advocated for insults the law of contradiction. You can't have Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and other high-ranking Democrat notables urging violence towards Trump supporters and then point the finger of incitement at Trump.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwotcetjLjO_kHna9CK6PNmjvJpCcXbX26Dpus7qMB_YXdfCKZCiOeSYvb8VhapWwY1h6Go1I_Ktgeg5q9tmRJeqFxGktLKRofoGo5EXAGnfVq2LQI6E22dsOR-rbuuUySv8nSlyCE48O3/s715/linusoverthrow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="705" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwotcetjLjO_kHna9CK6PNmjvJpCcXbX26Dpus7qMB_YXdfCKZCiOeSYvb8VhapWwY1h6Go1I_Ktgeg5q9tmRJeqFxGktLKRofoGo5EXAGnfVq2LQI6E22dsOR-rbuuUySv8nSlyCE48O3/w383-h388/linusoverthrow.jpg" width="383" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>(But they will give you tips on how to overthrow others they don't like)</i></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">We can't have nuts like AOC and Michael Moore telling Republicans they need to be <i>reprogrammed </i>(like the re-education camps of South Vietnam circa 1975) or that they favor imprisonment for Trump. You can't have Trump supporters put into a database for selective punishment as some radical nutcases on the left have spoken about. You can't give the Nadlers, Schiffs and <strike>Fart</strike>Swalwells of the world a bully pulpit to keep pouring gas on the fires of division if you truly want unity. You can't hold a Senate trial that will end up in a mostly partisan vote to impeach a President that isn't even in office anymore. It's a circus side-show meant to stick another knife in Trump's back and we know it. Unity? Seriously? <i>Are you shitting us?</i> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Make a statement now. You can't have your unity while your party is trying to steal the 2024 election, Joe. What are you and your fellow Democrats so scared of that you want to preempt Trump from running again in 2024? With all the claims of election fraud, wouldn't you want the next election to be as clean as it can be?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The law of contradiction also won't let the past be changed; even that power is denied to God. Oh, you can color it a few shades, but you can't change it. After 4 years of watching such things as immediate demands for impeachment (the day after the 2016 election), the massive effort to dissuade Trump electors casting their electoral votes for him (click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSZO9i7s7N4" target="_blank">Here</a> to refresh your memory) and the Meryl Streeps/Alec Baldwins/Robert De Niros of the world trash Trump on the liberal-owned media regularly, why would anybody on the left be so dim-witted as to think the right is going to want to unify with them? Frankly, we don't want to, and we're also scared of your <strike>brainwashing machines</strike>re-education camps. It's bad enough liberals run the colleges and universities we stupidly send our children to for what is little more than liberal indoctrination.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">You can't have unity while your party wants to burn Trump and his supporters, Joe. <b>Those are mutually exclusive and the law of contradiction won't let you have both</b>. It's one or the other.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">You want unity, Joe? Speak out against these wrongs that your party is doing. Speak out against the people in your party that espouse retribution. Speak out against the violence your party tacitly condones. Distance yourself from these radicals if you want true bipartisanship.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Then maybe, just maybe, we'll listen. We'll consider it. Until then, expect a rough ride, sans unity.</span></div>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-10223819803936164432020-11-14T08:41:00.000-05:002020-11-14T08:41:43.529-05:00Something Extremely Bogus is Going On<p> <span style="font-family: arial;">Well, in reality there's a lot bogus going on lately. Where should we start?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">First, let's go with the author of that quote - Elon Musk. His twitter feed says it all: He got tested 4 times in one day for Covid-19; 2 tests came back negative and 2 tests came back positive. Apparently, there are different tests and this one ... doesn't seem extremely reliable.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqE3-qmme7Ta6rxhBFukta7sSXOYBp8y7cg5mlCXDt7BlfMzWvWWILIKDZw1t4b8fQcgF4KjTp6CBEv_GPJGAcO18dVPb5-jXJjc2DcdoVpqDqBnAuD3FAbC_TVVXnA-tveh7_MwwNiXL_/s574/elonmusk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="257" data-original-width="574" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqE3-qmme7Ta6rxhBFukta7sSXOYBp8y7cg5mlCXDt7BlfMzWvWWILIKDZw1t4b8fQcgF4KjTp6CBEv_GPJGAcO18dVPb5-jXJjc2DcdoVpqDqBnAuD3FAbC_TVVXnA-tveh7_MwwNiXL_/w400-h179/elonmusk.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">We're told science is the best method of handling Covid-19. Well, when science itself turns out to be bogus, then all bets are off. Now we don't really know if the supposed Covid spike is really as large as claimed; remember - bad data means bad results. FWIW, Musk also took 2 more tests that use another method (PCP, and I don't think they mean angel dust) and the results will take a day or two to come back. Musk says his symptoms are like a mild cold. We'll see.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Next, the really extremely bogus thing going on is happening in the Governor's mansion in Albany, NY. Andrew Cuomo, perhaps one of the worst human beings ever to breathe on planet earth has outdone himself with ... extremely bogus statements lately. This is the guy who murdered the business base in NY State with an extremely bogus executive order shutting down the majority of tax-paying businesses ... which had the sad side effect of some of them gone for good. Instead of locking down NYC and containing it there with a perimeter, he allowed it to travel upstate with such things as prison visits, etc. Making matters worse, he mandated nursing homes and elderly care facilities accept Covid patients, which of course resulted in 10,000+ deaths. Measured another way, his executive order resulted in about 1/3 of all Covid deaths in NYS to date.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Ah, the bogus part. This walking piece of slime, upon hearing President Trump announce a 90% effective vaccine, seized the day by attacking Trump. Somehow, the politics of Trump are bigger than the scientific breakthrough of a vaccine. Oh, but when Andy needed Trump's help last spring, he got it, and praised Trump at the same time. What changed? Only who would get credit for releasing the vaccine. If this had happened January 21, 2021 Cuomo would be praising Biden for it. We have an extremely bogus Governor in NYS, and if he doesn't join the Biden administration in some capacity, he will join NYS Mayor De Blasio on the list of politicians who will never be re-elected in NYS. Remember, this guy only won 15 out of 62 counties last time, and with the economic devastation in his power base (NYC), he couldn't be elected dog catcher right now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Lastly, let's talk about some extremely bogus things that happened November 3rd - the election. When you see the "I Voted" sticker on gravestones, it's no joke. This election was fraught with fraud, period. Fraud, of course means the results of the election are suspect. Who knows who really got more votes? 4 years ago, roughly 135 million people voted. This time, about 150 million people voted. How many of them were actually the sole ballot of a living person? How many mail-in ballots were real votes, how many did the Biden-endorsing postal workers discard (read the news, it happened) and if you think Joe Biden is not an illegitimate President-elect at the present, may I interest you in a buying a bridge in Brooklyn?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This may get sorted out in the courts, or it may not get sorted out in the courts. The irony is, of course Biden's call for peace and unity ... after 4 years of Democrat-sponsored rioting, burning and looting in the cities.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">When Kamala Harris moves in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, then perhaps you'll come to realize that Elon Musk is right:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Something extremely bogus went on.</i></span></p>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-42370462645844199582020-08-24T21:22:00.001-04:002020-08-24T21:22:55.006-04:00It's a Package Deal. No Ala Cartes.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the Presidential Election heats up, sides are being chosen. I'm not talking about simple party choices, Republican or Democrat. I'm talking about sides that are quite divided on some issues, but not others. However, when you choose a candidate for one specific reason, <u>you also get everything else the candidate stands for</u>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, he's also a gun guy. He likes to hunt and guns are part and parcel of that sport. He doesn't understand his Democrat Congressman will sell him down the river when he's told how to vote on a (anti) gun bill regardless of what the constituency in his area overwhelmingly wants. So when Joe Biden says he will put Beto <i><span style="background-color: yellow;">Hell yes I'll take your guns</span> </i>O'Rourke in charge of the gun issue, remember - you</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> voted for it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We've already seen this Democrat Congressman fail to represent the wishes of the district.</b> In NY-22, Trump won the district by about 16%. That double-digit number is remarkable because it tells you the will of the district - <b>this is clearly Trump country</b>. Fast forward to 2018 and the the 2019 impeachment vote. Yup, you guess it - he voted to impeach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, he went through the motions and made the <i>I'm soul searching</i> statements, but it's obvious that when you accept money from Babs Streisand, Alec Baldwin and Rosey O'Donnell, you owe them something and that's your vote when their hate reaches the floor in an impeachment vote. The conclusion is obvious: He was bought and paid for, and that same money is coming back into his campaign fund in an effort to keep him in office for the next time they tell him how to vote.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So it's a trade-off. Your union endorses in an effort to get more at work, but you lose in other ways. If the Democrats get their way, eventually there will be no private gun ownership, period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>But wait, there's more!</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You are also endorsing abortion, especially late-term abortion when you endorse the guy you think will vote to give you more at work. Oh, I'm sure you don't want that smell tied to you, <i><u>but it is by proxy</u></i>. This Congressman repeatedly voted for late-term abortion when he was in NY government. Late-term abortion is, of course, a polite term for <i>infanticide.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: yellow;">You don't get to pick and choose. It's a package deal, all or none. No ala carte</i>. No some of this, but none of that. You're willing to send an eventual gun-grabbing baby murderer back to Washington hoping for a fatter paycheck or better benefits, that's your business.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But don't turn around and tell me you support the second amendment or are against abortion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You indicated your preferences when you endorsed and voted. <u>You get the whole package, kit and caboodle.</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Millennials </i> came next and they carried America's journey left ever further, but they understood the limits. They understood that America is a capitalist country and that to succeed they had to embrace a work ethic as their parents before them had done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But now we're dealing with <i>Generation Z</i> and this generation has some rather funny ideas about things. They're the ones with measurable numbers promoting socialism and ... well, I call it <i>free everything.</i> Somehow, the work to be successful (and eat) paradigm has faded away. They don't only want it, they want it <i>now. </i>The idea of working and saving is an insult to many of them.</span></div>
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Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-23721532375309916712020-07-29T13:41:00.003-04:002020-07-29T13:41:53.351-04:00Faster Than Drunken Sailors on Shore Leave<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't spend it. Seriously, don't spend a nickel of it. Put it in the bank and sit on it for now. If the $1200 you previously got from Uncle Sam is already gone, the word on the street in DC is that there's more coming. Uncle Sam is going to fire up the presses and send you <b>another</b> $1200, if the HEALS act currently being negotiated on Capitol Hill gets passed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Odds are it will be, for a myriad of reasons ... The biggest being, this is an election year and both sides need to show their voters <i>they're bringing home the bacon,</i> so to speak. Both sides will claim victory, but neither will take the beating that should come with this <i>trillion-dollar</i> pork bill. Who will bother to complain about another trillion being added to the national debt when they're too busy enjoying free money?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You'll be sorry if you blow it on trinkets and doodads you really don't need ... Because you're gonna need it <i>real soon now</i> when all the taxing agencies already familiar with you come up short for next years budget... compounded with the fact that they're already far short of this year's anticipated revenue, thanks to Governors all over the US murdering their business base as they brag about saving us from a dismal Covid-19 fate. In reality, they didn't save very many; NYS had over 32,000 deaths as I write this. When my sister points out Florida surpassed us, she doesn't realize that's only in positive test results, not the death count. Florida was hovering just under 6,000 deaths yesterday when I looked, and that's less than 1/5 of what NYS has so far (if you believe the warped data to begin with anyway).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If there wasn't such a blatant and hypocritical approach to it, it might have been better received by the public. The rules were contorted and twisted to begin with; for example in NY State, Andrew Cuomo shut down everything that was <i>non-essential</i>. This included churches, theaters, gyms, barbers/hairdressers, bars, courts, museums, elective medical procedures and indoor dining (just to mention some on the list). Even construction was shut down, unless it was essential. The economy suffered and went into a recession; jobs were lost and as a result, tax dollars on all fronts were negatively impacted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But liquor stores <b>(!) </b>were deemed essential and stayed open, and via the appeals process, construction of a tourist center (<b>how essential is that</b>) in Utica got a waiver to continue. 3 months later, the cap blew off in national racial rioting, looting and inner-city destruction. Taking it to even more hypocritical heights, when the <strike>rioters</strike> protesters were congratulated (NY Governor Andrew Cuomo said he stood with them), then even a mongoloid can see how off the wall stupid these <i>life-saving rules</i> are. Mass gatherings are okay one way, but not another? How do these dimbulbs even begin to rationalize this?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">All layers of government are going to raise taxes; simple math dictates this</span>. But first, you'll be softened up. Now there's a boogeyman handy to blame and his name is corona virus. This guy is going to be the sock puppet that is held up when the substantial tax increases come. For example, in the county I live in, the county executive says we're 30% off projected revenue and is begging for federal help. Never mind that the real sickness has been tax and spend for years, and that in the 2 preceding years his less than $400 million dollar budget got a $16 and $19 million dollar increase in spending blowing it well past $400 million ... now he's got his excuse: It wasn't him, it's corona virus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ditto for your local municipalities (towns, villages and cities) and schools ... and of course, state government. Sales tax revenues are less than 3/4 of projected numbers, unemployment is up since the Governor shuttered his business tax base ... they're being slammed from all sides. Less revenue and more spending. To top it off, the worst and most incompetent governor the state has ever had decided to journey down to Georgia and ... give them advice. The Charlie Daniels Band's song <i>The Devil Went Down to Georgia</i> has taken a whole new meaning lately. As long as Georgia is listening to northern Yankees giving out free advice, my advice to the Georgia governor is to do <i>exactly the opposite of what Cuomo suggests to him</i> because it sure as hell didn't work here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That free dough Uncle Sam is giving you ... is going back to a government taxing agency quicker than you realize, and if you don't have it to give back, they don't care. They'll just pluck it from you in another fashion. <b>You're going to pay more</b> regardless of whether you have it handy or not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And of course, what accompanies a large increase in taxes?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prices, via inflation. Double digit-inflation. Remember when Carter was in office? Those are going to be the good-old days of inflation .... because, as the saying goes ... <i>You ain't seen nothing yet.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look out, it's coming to a location near you real soon now. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As in, your house on your street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because it's not going to be free at all.</span>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-67248006289335544132020-07-16T22:47:00.000-04:002020-07-17T17:10:02.478-04:00Covid-19 is a Co-morbid Topic<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the pandemic rolls on and the numbers keep climbing, there are a few things that you should consider before reaching a conclusion as to the veracity of Covid-19 data. The numbers are most likely inaccurate, to begin with. Oh, CV is certainly deadly, but it's mostly deadly to select groups of people. The young and healthy, as a whole fare much better than the old and infirm. If you die of <i>any other cause</i> than CV, but tested positive prior to dying, you are now a Covid death. Doesn't matter if you leap off a building or die in a car crash ... doesn't matter if you were asymptomatic or not. You are counted as a Covid death, and that is one of the reasons the numbers are practically meaningless. We don't really know if CV did them in or not, or if it was even a contributing cause. We (John Q. Public) are not being told this rather important piece of information; all we're being told is how many tested positive and how many died. Without more detailed data, this information is meaningless.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Italy was one of the early European nations to be hit with CV, and it ravaged the country rather quickly. But as we look at the numbers and assign them a weight, certain truths are emerging. Their aged population that was clustered suffered the most. But what was not initially factored into the equation was how many of them had comorbidities to begin with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Comorbidity is a $50 medical term that simply means there are one (or more) co-existing medical conditions in a person, none of which are instantly fatal by themselves. Many are common diseases that are controllable such as diabetes, hypertension and such. And many are more severe, such as heart conditions, COPD and cancer. Combined in one person they are a lethal mix, usually with a rather short fuse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Comorbidity and the pre-covid death rate are calculable; Dr. Mary Charlson came up with the <a href="https://www.mdcalc.com/charlson-comorbidity-index-cci" target="_blank">Charlson Comorbidity Index</a> (CCI) a few years ago and it simply computes the 10-year survival rate in people with comorbidities. The more diagnosed medical problems you have, the higher the risk is that you will not live another 10 years. Other doctors have taken her work, refined it and added their name to her version of the CCI. But the result is pretty much the same; click on the highlighted link above to compute your own numbers if you want to assess where you stand in survivability. If you have 2 or 3 comorbidities and contract CV, I suggest you make sure your affairs are in order. You're in for a rough ride.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I note the high CV death rate in Italy is <u>predominantly</u> tied to comorbidity. This doesn't offer comfort to those that lost a loved one, but it does paint it in different color: Without sounding hard or uncaring, it is obvious most of these people were on the short list already. Covid may have finished them off, or removed the ability of medicine to delay the inevitable, but nonetheless, their medical problems as computed in the CCI put them at high risk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I suspect numbers won't be all that much different in other countries including the US as the data is refined. And there are lessons to be learned here: Those with existing conditions and the aged/infirm should continue to shelter in place to the point of quarantine as much as possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rest of the world should return to some form of normalcy and business should resume. We can't continue to isolate from each other forever, and I'll even go a step further by telling you I'm a firm believer in how the immune system in healthy people needs to be exercised regularly to keep its defenses active. Yes, as we grow older i</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "clean" , sans-serif;">mmunosenescence (the gradual weakening of the immune system's ability to fight) is a factor, and we should be mindful of that. But in the younger population, we should return to normalcy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "clean" , sans-serif;">About 100 years ago, a poet named Strickland Gillilan wrote a very short poem about germs. It is entitled <i>Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes </i>and it goes like this:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "clean" , sans-serif;">As do we all.</span>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-77999269526945117032020-07-15T11:13:00.000-04:002020-07-15T11:13:17.880-04:00In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is King<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There's no shortage of gross stupidity in print lately; it's getting hard to choose just one thing because after you do, something comes along and tops it. Such are the utterings of one <i>Jody Rosen,</i> a liberal columnist who writes for various entities posing as newspapers. It's kind of appropriate that he poses as a journalist while using his html crayolas that somehow end up in print.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Choosing the LA Times as his vehicle, he proposed replacing our national anthem (The Star Spangled Banner) with ... wait for it .... <i>Lean on Me, </i>by Bill Withers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First attacking the credibility of the existing anthem as <i>elitist, sexist and racist</i>, he explains in a few thousand words what's wrong with it. Never mind that the words were written by Francis Scott Key while he observed a British naval attack on Fort McHenry in 1814, and that it highlights that after severe bombardment our flag was still there (and it still is, for everybody to see in a DC museum) ... now it's racist because Key owned slaves. He's another 18th and 19th-century relic of history that is being sentenced in the 21st century by supposed do-gooders in the name of racial justice. These do-gooders, by the way, comprise mostly of criminals in one fashion or another. Some are social justice petty thieves ... and some are social-justice murderers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jody Rosen urges us to correct what he sees as a problem by replacing one anthem with another. Of course, what Jody fails to mention and probably doesn't want to, is that research into national anthem authors works both ways, and perhaps we ought to look at Bill Withers background to see if he's a saint or a sinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Uh-oh</b>. It seems Bill laid his hands on his first wife in what the newspapers headlined as <i>domestic violence</i> in 1973-1974. <b>Are we going to glorify a wife-beater</b> by giving him the honor of composing our (new) national anthem?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rosen also mentions John Lennon's <i>Imagine</i> as a possibility, although he discards it because it's <i>too British</i>. While I liked Lennon's Beatle music, I also recognize him as being rather violent in his youth (getting into more than one street fight) ... and also as a serial adulterer on both of his wives. Again, are these the values we want to glorify?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The point being, <i>everybody</i> has a skeleton or two rattling around in the closet. Every US President has closets full of skeletons (some more than others, but the skulls and bones are clearly there). I suspect most Senators, Congressmen and Governors also have some history they'd rather not talk about. I don't believe I've met any saints, or any candidates for sainthood in my life ... so far.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Getting back to Jody Rosen, I worry about the future of America. Ideas such as his are not only looney, they're dangerous. If trying to erase history is allowed to go forward as we've seen recently, it will be an exercise in futility. They can destroy every statue, upend every grave headstone and burn every book. It won't change a thing because what happened, happened and trying to revise it is not only educationally wrong, but it's also repugnant. We should learn from history, not try to change it to fit what we think is right or wrong now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, Jody's claim that our national anthem is elitist, sexist and racist is codswaddle. The tune may have been cribbed and changed, but the words belong to every American no matter what your status in life is. It's our flag, it's our anthem and Jody, here's a clue:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">That's probably where the idea came from in the first place, anyway.</span>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-85849522894889450052020-07-04T10:46:00.000-04:002020-07-04T10:51:19.765-04:00Gee, That's Too Bad<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A few items to write about on the anniversary of the birth of our nation...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First, I note Canadian-born rocker Neil Young doesn't like Donald Trump using one of his songs in his campaign. Specifically, <i>Rockin' in the Free World</i> upsets Neil when the Trump campaign plays it. He says (and I quote) "<b>This is NOT ok with me</b>."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, Neil, when you joined ASCAP (<u>American</u> Society of Composers and Performers), you weren't even an American citizen (yet). Oh, you eventually became a citizen when America blessed you with it's wealth for writing and composing such songs as <i>Cinnamon Girl</i> (about a band drummer waiting to get laid after the show) and <i>Sugar Mountain</i> (about growing up and learning about the vices and virtues of life) ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">America paid you well for your music, Neil. But you had to join ASCAP to get your music out, and that was your downfall. ASCAP is a capitalist organization dedicated to bleeding out every cent it can by selling rights of usage for it's members. It goes around to bars and nighclubs making sure they are 'licensed' (a euphemism for shaking them down by making them pay if local garage bands play any licensed ASCAP music, which ... if they didn't, nobody would bother coming to see them). ASCAP also makes sure the jukeboxes and such are licensed, and if they aren't, they threaten legal action if somebody doesn't pay for a license.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So when Neil Young first protested about Trump using his music and demanded he stop, he was shocked to find out Trump bought a license from ASCAP to use it... And with that, there is nothing he can do to stop Trump from <i>Rockin' in the Free World.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PS: Neil, I'm a fan of your music like Trump is, even if most of it has only 3 chords.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next, an update on my previous blog about CHAZ. A day or so after I wrote about CHAZ, it changed its name to CHOP, but that didn't change much. Just about every person occupying CHAZ/CHOP committed some sort of crime, be it theft, larceny, burglary or simply violating numerous city ordinances by simply refusing to leave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But my ominous prediction about CHAZ being violent and lawless sadly was fulfilled. It turned bloody pretty fast and there were some shooting deaths. Finally, the Mayor (who is a complete dumb cluck) finally had enough and ordered the police to clear it out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, I want to extend my sincerest condolences to the family of Ghislaine Maxwell on her upcoming suicide. Ghislaiine is, of course, the madam Jeffery Epstein used to procure his under-aged consorts on his excursions to Pedophile Paradise, a nickname for his island retreat reputedly used for ... well, I'm sure you've read all about it. Epstein took Hillary Clinton's favorite method of getting out of a problem (others dying, not her), and now Ghislaine is either going to follow in his shoes ... or maybe, just maybe ... start singing like a canary, complete with names, dates and such.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If she survives her suicide attempt scheduled in the near future, that is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><u>Gee, that would be too bad.</u></span>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-86390572437827264642020-06-13T14:27:00.000-04:002020-06-13T14:27:23.777-04:00Let's All Welcome CHAZ to the Global Community<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you've been following recent events, your ability to be surprised is probably gone. We've seen riots, looting and the destruction of entire city blocks by arson in many large cities. The fuse was lit in Minneapolis, which seems to have surrendered to the rioters and now promises to abolish their police force. The riots quickly spread to other cities, and the destruction is right there on looted 4K HD-TVs for everybody to see now. Defund the police is the new cry of protesters and you can be sure there are elements of society just waiting for that to happen. When the door that is ajar now is kicked completely open, it truly will be survival of the fittest in the concrete jungle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This ought to be interesting; I'm wondering how long it will last. Businesses will flee because looting doesn't pay the bills, and when food becomes scarce (who will send in free food forever?), the experiment will take a new turn. If you think the violence is bad now, just wait - you ain't seen <i>nothing</i> yet.<br /><br />I'm surprised at how this is explained and softened into justification. One poll I recently read found that 58% of college-educated people somehow justify the rioting and looting. Oh, there are reasons to be sure, but none of them justify crime, they only explain a flawed mindset. Two wrongs have never made a right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just as you were getting used to this new lunacy, more arrived. Suddenly, Confederate flags and statues became targets again. One idiot left part of his brains on the sidewalk as he was participating in toppling a statue. He's alive, but I'm not sure the loss of his brains affected his IQ. Police departments everywhere became targets.<br /><br />The stage was set. State Governors pretty much locked these people inside for almost 3 months because of corona virus and they were already angry. It took little to ignite them. Ignoring the warnings of CV, they went out in mass anyway and did their thing. How ironic it is to see these same governors dismiss this as a right to protest when I can't even go to church as I write this. My governor said he stands with the protesters, which tells me now that anytime I want to go where people are assembled, why, we're just protesting. I'm urging my church to have a protest every Sunday morning, and we'll bring our own angry topics with us to protest. Ditto for graduations, now let's just call them protests. Concerts? Why, we're protesting bad music by listening to good music. Ditto for movies, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Getting back on topic, now Seattle has outdone themselves in wackiness. City blocks were seized downtown, a police station was evacuated and now we have a new "autonomous" nation in the lower 48 US: <b>CHAZ</b>. I confess I was confused at first; why would a protest group take the nickname of Sonny and Cher's firstborn? Turns out it is an acronym for <i>Capital Hill Autonomous Zone</i>. They planted food stores, put up fences and barricades and have stationed armed guards (with those menacing AR-15s) at their "borders." Signs tell us that anybody entering is now leaving the US.<br /><br />Abraham Lincoln didn't put up with this and I expect Donald Trump won't either. Trump already has a precedent to follow: Lincoln. Abe didn't waste time sending Federal troops to quash the rebellion, and Trump has already issued his warning: Either Washington State and Seattle fix this themselves, or he will.<br /><br />But in the meanwhile, I say we ought to send a warm welcome to CHAZ, even though I expect it to be short-lived, as nations go. First, I think they ought to mint their own money. Why would we expect them to use our filthy American dollars? I'm sure they can do better, and in honor of Chaz Bono, whose name they accidentally took, I suggest they issue their currency based on <b>BONOS.</b> One Bono or a hundred, they all ought to bear Chaz' likeness in honor.<br /><br />Next, I think they should establish their formal government and start electing their leaders. This, of course means they lose the right to vote in American elections. Why would we let foreign nationals participate in our elections? We wouldn't think of interfering in theirs. Let's keep it fair and simple.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, I think as citizens of this new nation, they ought to issue passports. You can't come into the US without one, and we wouldn't dream of visiting their new nation without one. So lets establish mutual rules on international travel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, this means we'll set up border crossings ... and I'm also completely on board with their fences. Why, we'll even help patrol them so we don't get any illegal CHAZmanian entries in the US.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then we should establish trade ties. We'll be glad to sell them food, but I'm not so sure the BONO is a recognized or cashable currency yet, so we'll continue to ask them for US dollars. When they run out, so does the ability to buy food ...and, of course, what seemed to be of paramount use when the pandemic first set in: <b>Toilet paper</b>.<br /><br />I'm wondering how CHAZ is going to handle their medical needs. Doctors and nurses might be a little relecutant to practice in CHAZ, and medical supplies, drugs and such might be difficult to obtain for them ... for a while, anyway. I'm sure they'll set up a good healthcare system and be developing new medicines ...real soon now.<br /><br />How is CHAZ going to provide safety and security to their residents? With a police force and a military, obviously. How they manage to implement this, I'm not sure. But one thing I am sure of:<br /><br /><b>CHAZ is going to be violent. They already are, and the absence of a trained and appointed police structure doesn't mean there will be peace on the streets.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It will more abusive than any police force in America could ever be.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you don't believe this, just ask the businesses that have already been extorted in CHAZ. They have plenty of stories to tell already.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PS: The officers in Minneapolis will go through the legal system and justice will prevail. We're not a democracy, as some seem to think we are. We're a constitutional republic, and the difference is this:<br /><br />In a constitutional republic, <i>we have laws that are procedure-based and are followed</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a democracy, <i>the angry mob hauls the accused out of the cell and lynches them</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seriously, which one do you want to live in?</span>Donhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15136649840123339559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7221373355909986272.post-31975762899896838732020-05-07T15:07:00.001-04:002020-05-07T15:07:59.163-04:00Thanks for Your Honesty, But You're Still a Schmuck<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Conservatives have always suspected liberals are two-faced. Usually when confronted, they will deny it vehemently and come up with a plethora of excuses to defend themselves. For once, a liberal NY Times opinion writer gave us a breath of fresh air when she confirmed these suspicions. Liberals <b>are</b> two-faced and she admitted it in print ... using the grey lady's ink, no less.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recognizing the damage done to the #metoo feminist movement by ignoring Tara Reade, Ms.Hirshman found herself boxed into a corner that had only two avenues of escape:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing on the menu said she had to say whom she was voting for (or bother to vote at all if she's so disenchanted). She added that out of pure stupidity. Like certain liberal members of my family who confessed to me Ms. Clinton was not their favorite candidate 4 years ago, she could have put the clothes pin on her nose before she entered the voting booth. Ironically, nobody would have probably noticed it under her Covid-19 mask.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>I'll take one for the team, </i>she said. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i>So I hate, hate, hate to say the following,” </i>she wrote<i>. “Suck it up and make the utilitarian bargain</i>. She added she would </span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: yellow;">sacrifice Reade </span><i><span style="background-color: yellow;">for the good of many</span><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;">How noble. Why, she's a modern-day Joan of Arc in her own mind. I wonder if she bothered to ask Tara Reade if she was wiling to take the bullet </span><span style="color: #222222;"><i>for the good of the country. </i>Never mind how the Reade story got buried and forgotten with the aid of the liberal media, of which she has been participating in since ... 1963.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;">For the record, I don't know if Tara Reade's story about sexual misconduct is true or not. Ditto for Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh, but I do note how they were handled both by those in power and media. I keep hearing this one is <i>different</i>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;">Damn right it is. We're not talking about a Justice, we're talking about a candidate for President whose biggest problem at the moment seems to be convincing the American public that he is <i>compos mentis.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ms. Hirshman, I'll keep it short and sweet. <u>You're as two-faced as any liberal I've ever met</u>, and I've met some dousies that I thought rose above and beyond the call of duty.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">But I do want to thank you for your honesty because it so clearly validates my opinion of liberal two-faces.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">And thanks also for letting us know some women are expendable if the cause meets your level of hate for the current incumbent of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I never figured you'd value the #metoo movement over one of your own.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">As a sidebar, #metoo has only one avenue forward at this point: </span><i style="background-color: white;">Only fresh allegations made within a few months of the alleged incident</i><span style="background-color: white;"> should be considered now. This should be pounded into every female's cranium ... </span><i><span style="background-color: white;">I</span><span style="background-color: yellow;">f you don't come forward quickly with credible evidence, don't bother years later</span><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></i></span></div>
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