Bad Ideas, Like Bad Verdicts, Last Forever (Originally Published in March of 2013)

Of all of the stupid things we do, changing our clocks each spring and fall, has to rank near the top. The anarchists of Arizona don't recognize the spring forward, fall back national stupidity that occurs twice a year at 2 a.m. on a Sunday morning.

In fact, Arizona seems to do just fine without that bi-annual disruption. Odd.

The question I have isn't whether or not the time change is useful- clearly it is not. The real fun occurs when we ask ourselves, "How do we get rid of it?"

Society clings to useless ideas- ideas that have lost their utility or didn't really have any utility to begin with. Nobody wants to say, "that whole time change thing was bullshit." Because if we do that, somebody's feelings might get hurt. Or we might have to actually admit we were idiots for trying it in the first place. So instead, 300 million of us- minus those heartless heathens in Arizona- dutifully disrupt our lives because we are sheep. That's what sheep do. We can't even get rid of some make believe energy saving practice that hasn't saved any energy at all. This has been going on for 40 years. Some dip shit named Hudson started all of this, thus I blame him and in all fairness- back in the 1800's it might have been useful. Now rather than argue about it anymore- we just do the sheep thing twice a year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

So probably, we will never get rid of this piece of national insanity despite Arizona's trailblazing. The point of this blog will have you scratching your head, I hope, when I beam down the real reason I showcase this sheep-like behavior.

As a nation, we are absolutely outstanding when it comes to implementing ideas. We are true professionals. We will try any lame brained shit based on an outlier, a glimmer of potential success. But where this nation really falls flat on it's face, where we really suck- is our inability to measure the success of something and get rid of it... if it doesn't work. We never make plans to measure the success of a new program or law and if it's not working- have some plan in place to get rid of it. Definable and measurable results. Did the plan achieve measurable results? What a novel idea!

More often than not- our shitty ideas languish like antiquated liquor laws- forever wasting time, taking up space, and irritating folks who are forced to comply with some foolishness generated in the 30's.

Sometimes, bad ideas just make me feel stupid. Near my house and less than a mile away, is a red light that should never have gone up in the first place. It just isn't needed. But rather than get rid of the light in this fully developed area with no potential for future growth- the light will undoubtedly remain in place for eternity. I feel stupid when I am stopped at this light with absolutely no traffic for miles. It is on a two minute timer. I am on a 30 second timer. Sometimes I look both ways and then I run it.

I cannot tell you the amount of joy and exhilaration I get when I run this thing. I do not feel shame or remorse. It is my middle finger to a world where everything must be regulated and where nobody ever questions the need or usefulness of some government intrusion that has no utility or purpose other than it's mere existence.

In 2008, while the world was collapsing and hemorrhaging jobs left and right, it was my contention that  healthy people who had lost jobs would simply drop their health coverage. It was too expensive. The first people to get cut or laid off were always the most junior. The younger, healthier people. So as the healthy people did in fact that very thing- opt out of health care coverage- the old and unhealthy felt the pain. They could not opt out. The insurers, with their shrinking pools of healthy people and thus shrinking pools of available dollars, ratcheted premiums through the roof. This brought health care costs to absolute stratospheric heights as the greed of insurers, malpractice lawyers, administrators, fraud, government waste, patent protection and drug and device company gouging- were all put on full display.

The only way to recapture those healthy minions and their money- was to pass a law which forces the healthy all back in and then call it something else to really hide your true intentions. The affordable care act is bullshit and it most certainly is not affordable unless you live on the poverty line. Then it might be a good deal. More welfare.

Occam's razor. The simplest assumption is often the most accurate. Occam's razor (also written as Ockham's razor, Latin lex parsimoniae) is a principle of parsimony, economy, or succinctness used in logic and problem-solving. It states that among competing hypotheses, the one that makes the fewest assumptions should be selected. The healthy minions escaped and that was the collateral damage that occurred in 2008. The health care lobbyists and government want you back. They need your free and unencumbered money to redeploy to unhealthy people and keep their profits and margins intact.

It was always that simple.

The roundup begins later this year. Of course, people are absolutely going to shit bricks when they see just how bad all of this Obamacare really is. Expensive and terrible coverage. Most of us will just opt out and pay the penalty. The penalty is cheap the first year. It is only 95 dollars in 2014. Where else can you get less for more? That is real economy.

We are a long way from measuring the effects of Obamacare. Like daylight savings time and shitty stoplights- Obamacare might have been done with good intentions but the results will be disastrous.

Where did they screw up? Where they always screw up. They forgot to measure and address all of the failing components in the system. Outrageous litigation costs and awards, outrageous malpractice insurance costs. Ridiculous patent protection for drug makers and devices. Price gouging. Ballooning  administrative costs overpaid administrators. Fraud. Medicare and disability fraud. Non profit and tax exempt status.

They didn't lift one finger to fix our broken system. They don't care about fixing it. These aren't public servants- they are employees of the crony capitalists. Anything having to do with cost containment or regulation was simply ignored because those are the elite areas. Lawyers, lobbyists, big pharma, public companies, even bankers. Those people were left untouched because they write the re-election checks, they give the politicians' kids nice jobs.

Government doesn't care as long as they get the healthy minions and their money back.

And they will gouge and tweak Obamacare until such a point that we will all get tired and just "stfu." And it will be around forever. It will never be measured for effectiveness. Like daylight savings time or that light at Shoshone and Overland. It is here to stay.







         

It Has to Get a Lot Worse Before It Gets Better- The Sunday Collage

 As a young man researching the murder of Frank Little in Butte, Montana, I knew I was going to have my work cut out for me. It would be a diet of microfiche readers at the library and old documents at the Butte Archives which is a wonderful repository for all things associated with the history of Butte.

But the real problem I was going to have was the source or reference material. In 1917, the only source of information was print media. Newspapers. In Butte, every newspaper was owned by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company or the ACM. The ACM had acquired every mining property on the hill and employed tens of thousands of miners. They didn't just run Butte and own a sympathetic and crooked police force, they ran the state of Montana. That is well documented. In town, everyone just called them the "company."

I discovered a couple of things. That history really is- told by the winners. The company filtered out any death or story that cast them in a bad light. Since Frank Little was a union organizer and fiery orator, they especially hated him. They slandered him and his organization. His murder not only went unsolved- it went un-investigated.

So that was it. Radio would not be around for another 15 years. Newspapers, hopelessly biased, were going to be my only source of information. 

My father had been a news anchor on a small TV station in Williston, North Dakota in the late 1960's. Every night I would watch him report the local news and then I would watch the national news on one of two TV networks. Walter Cronkite was the anchor I remember most. I was about 8 years old. I have been a news junkie for over 55 years.

Cronkite was objective. There was no political bias or jaded subterfuge like today.

When networks reported the news in the 60's, 70's, and 80's- it appeared to be impartial and mostly truthful. There wasn't this heavily biased, editorialized opinions that we see today. Everything is suspect. Election rigging with no investigation. Fraudulent polls. Suspicious debates and moderators. Jaded celebrities offering platforms, endorsements, and liberal opinions. Unrelenting media hatred for one candidate and universal media love for the democratic party and whatever horrible candidate they conjure up. 

So what changed? Who murdered decency and objective reporting?

It was called the "Fairness Doctrine" and it was officially destroyed in 1987 and buried by Barack Obama in 2011.   

The demise of the Fairness Doctrine has been cited as the main reason for party polarization in the United States. So here it was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine

Every contest has rules. Boxers, caged fighting, football, golf. Without rules and a fair playing field, there is simply cheating and chaos. So cheating and chaos now reign supreme on our political landscape. All sorts of illegal activities like importing votes via illegal aliens and blocking any effort to prove citizenship before casting ballots. Demonizing anyone who questions the breakdown of our system. Subjecting people to ridicule for simply questioning an outcome or refusing a shot. We even have the democrats trying to unseat justices on the Supreme Court for simply returning the abortion issue to individual states. No issue is more divisive than the abortion issue.

As a country, we are in pretty bad shape. We desperately need an intervention and a complete change in policy. Yet, I don't see anyone with that level of political courage. Trump has his hands full.

So maybe things just have to go the way they are going. And with luck, it will get so bad that good people will finally get off their asses and help.  I don't think we can stop what's coming. 

But we can sure as hell slow it down.

Could America Survive Without California?

 For years I have been listening to various asshats tell me that California produces more tax revenue than it receives. I have also read where California believes they are the 4th or 5th biggest economy in the world. So as Gavin Newsome aka the clown prince of Sacramento, trades barbs with President Trump- you have to wonder...could we live without California?

California has the tech industry and Silicon Valley. It has the film industry and Hollywood. But most importantly, California has a fantastic agricultural economy. They grow everything from soup to nuts in one of the most fertile, temperate climates in the world. California has fantastic weather, miles and miles of beautiful beaches, and the Pacific Ocean. It has nice people as well. We conservatives tend to throw out the baby with the bathwater when discussing the oppressive liberal politics that strangle the state. We think everyone is a liberal in California and that simply isn't true. I know many conservative people, more conservative than myself, who have fled California.

Let's agree to one other thing. It is California's great weather, beaches, and the ocean that people love. That is why so many corporations and people have moved there. It is quality of life. 

Nobody moved to California for the great governance. In fact, California boasts a list of idiot politicians like no other state. Waters, Pelosi, Schiff, Harris, Newsome. You have to look awfully hard to find a cadre of dipshits worse than that list. I can't imagine anyone saying, "Man I love those California politicians- let's move there!"

For the record, I briefly lived in Santa Ynez. It was a wonderful place, with wonderful people (many conservatives) but the cost of living was atrocious. Santa Ynez has no water. Water bills approaching 1000 per month are not unheard of and the residential rate in Santa Barbara for water, sewer, and trash is 254.00 per month.

So California has three giant industries, which are more or less, there because of the beauty and the weather. Two of them, tech and the movie industry, could easily be relocated. The agricultural industry, the one that feeds many of us, cannot be readily moved or relocated. It is mostly dependent on the weather, soil, and water California naturally has.

So just how much tax revenue does California send into the federal government compared to what they get back? While it is true that California provides a little excess revenue, it is not that much. I chose a couple of normal, or non covid years to make comparisons. In 2019, what California sent in was maybe 4% more than they received. You can play with this map and see all of the liberal states which love to tax and redistribute their citizens income. Balance of Payments Portal | Rockefeller Institute of Government

Can we live without Hollywood? Yes. Can we live without technology from Silicon Valley? Probably not. Can we live without the food California grows? No.

I used to love California. That was back in the Reagan days- maybe Schwarzenegger days. Now it has become a taxing, regulatory, expensive nightmare. Traffic is horrible, the roads are horrible, crime and homelessness are mired in the cities. The cost of everything is terrible. Insurance rates, utility rates, medical procedures, just the cost of doing business with all the government red tape and skim. In short, California has become noncompetitive. The only thing they produce better than anyone else is red tape and tax skim. They are very good at that.

I don't know how you turn around a Frankenstein government like California's. The six richest families, folks like the Gettys, understand that to keep the hoi polloi from stringing them up- you must keep the free shit army well fed, medicated, and pretend to care about them. This is accomplished by marching a few political stooges out there to administer your survival politics and make someone else pay for it. This is the role of folks like Pelosi and Newsome.

Could America live without California? I wouldn't want to. But we could sure live without all of those assholes who are currently running things.

"We Were Here First!"- The Sunday Collage

 (On a request by A86, I have returned the blog to it's original background colors. I am still screwing around with the header thing a ma jig. So that might change)

I have always been fascinated by the "we were here first" argument. I have been hearing that argument made in one form or another, my entire life. 

The popular television series "Yellowstone" was based on the premise that a ranch which had been homesteaded long ago, was under siege by airports and developers. Thus, our protagonists are the Duttons' versus the antagonists- greedy out of state development interests. 

Imagine sitting around your teepee in the 1850's and watching white European settlers' stream in and take giant tracts of land, land that you used to freely roam around on and hunt. Of course you are angry. However, you are essentially powerless. You can't communicate your concerns; you are facing overwhelming numbers and advanced weaponry. You can fight but you will be at a disadvantage. In the end, you are going to lose your land and your way of life.

That is what happened to the American Indian. They were here first but as it turns out, that argument fell on unsympathetic ears. 

So we have "reservations" now. Large tracts of land inhabited by native Americans. This is where we put the Indians after the Indian wars were over. Are the Indians still pissed some 150 years later?

Oh yea. Last year, I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee and I tried to ask a tribal cop a few questions about a ceremony going on at the cemetery. Not only would he not look at me or answer my questions, he told me he had things to do. As I departed, I noted that he did not move at all.

Which brings me to the latest, "we were here first" argument.

Here in my little town in Southern Utah- we have another evolving "we were here first" saga going on between four surrounding subdivisions and a gravel pit or mining operation right smack dab in the middle. The gravel pit and it's owners are seeking a special designation which would essentially protect their operations from interference by local governments. They would be free to strip sand and gravel from their 177 acres and at some futuristic point- turn the whole site into a subdivision.

The problem for them is that they are surrounded by four subdivisions of people who don't particularly care to be subject to back up alarms, rock crushers, dust and debris, and crumbling roads. Never mind that the gravel pit will destroy the terrain and hills- the landscape itself seems to be some secondary concern not even worth mentioning.

The city in which this gravel pit operates in is governed by relatives of the owners of the mining operation. Where I come from, we call that the "good ol boys" and from every early indication- it appears that the gravel pit operators and the good ol boys have the upper hand. 

Remember, townsfolk aren't asking them to stop their operations. We are simply asking the city not to grant them a special designation that will allow them to operate with little or no oversight.

So a clash between the gravel miners and the surrounding homeowners is developing. The homeowners are attending the planning and zoning meetings, council meetings, and they are arming themselves with lawyers. That is how we do battle in the 21st century. 

So, it remains to be seen how this will end. I don't think anyone will be asking native Americans for their advice.

Being Authentic

 Many years ago, I worked with a deputy who I really didn't care for at first. He was gruff, jaded, and tough. He had been on a riverboat gunship in Vietnam. Prior to that he had killed a kid towing irrigation pipe on an unlit trailer near his hometown. Despite all that, Eugene became a deputy sheriff.

The first few times that Eugene and I squared off- things didn't go very well. Eventually, we had a conversation where I asked him, "You don't like me very much, do you?"

At that moment he stared back at me and said, "no I don't." He explained that I was a smart ass and a know it all who didn't know shit. I think he even called me a punk.

I listened to what he had to say. Therein lies the secret to our friendship which lasted until the day he died.

He told me the truth. His truth. What I did with that was up to me.

What I did do was evaluate all the things that I had said to him, about him, and the way I had treated him.

I looked for understanding. I realized he was right and as gruff as he was, he helped me grow up. It was the greatest gift anyone ever did for me. But I think he was smart enough to know that I might actually evaluate what he had to say.

From that point on, I worked hard to be a better person. I learned to value honesty and the truth. The truth has great value and it works in the long run.

Being authentic or having integrity is absolutely essential. If you don't have that, you have nothing. Your relationships are all superficial and shallow, Animosity and bad feelings begin to grow. People do not trust folks because they aren't sure whether they are telling the truth or not. Once your credibility is shot, people no longer seek you out for friendly activities or advice.

It is one of the biggest choices you will ever make. People respect the truth. Anything less will not work.

I felt a great deal of remorse when Eugene passed away. He was one of the few people who told the truth no matter what the situation was or who might leave with hurt feelings. It took me many years to understand that Eugene had made a decision sometime in his life. A conscious decision. One of the very few people with the courage to make the correct decision knowing people would find it unpleasant.

Choose wisely.

 

Back in the Saddle!

 Man, I am afraid to turn my computer off.

A few months ago, I lost my sign in information, my email, and my password. I tried several times to get back into Frankenstein Government. No luck.

This morning, I tried once again. I dredged up an old email, password, went thru a bunch of Google nonsense and voila!

In the past 10 or 15 years, I have used some form of Atkin's Diet to lose weight fast. I am currently doing the same thing. At day 41, I have only lost 24 pounds. Some 15 years ago, I lost 31 pounds in 41 days. I documented it here.

The worst part about my keto dieting is that I have never been more disciplined than I have this past 6 weeks. I have not consumed more than 10 carbs in any day. 

I am left with only one explanation for my shortcomings. Metabolism. 

So I am going to keep on trucking and trust the process. This time I am willing to go 62 days and praying to lose a total of 34 pounds. 

After I found my way back into the blog this morning, I started reading some of my old stuff. Some of it was pretty good. 

I think the Obama years fucked me up. He was such a sneaky prick that I think I lost hope. By the time Trump got in- Obama had sabotaged his presidency so thoroughly that it was one bad thing after another. If that wasn't bad enough, the election steal happened in 2020 and ushered in the drooling idiot who truly screwed up everything he touched.

I cannot think of one good thing Biden accomplished.

Anyway, I'm glad to be back in. I'm going to try and write like the old days. I have never been more hopeful than I am now- seeing Trump hit the ground running and listening to the libtards and dramacrats howling like babies.

That is the sound of winning!

Justice Comes on Swift Wings

There is a giant swath of folks in this country who simply cannot believe what is happening. They cannot believe that a "convicted felon" is our President. They have been so cleverly indoctrinated by colleges, media, and their like minded friends- that they simply cannot self examine. They cannot ask the question of themselves, "maybe I'm wrong." They are so ego invested in being right, so smug and superior, that all that is left for them as they lose- is to ridicule their perceived enemies.

I knew President Trump would win last fall. I knew it when I drove around Montana's most democratic city and observed Trump signs in many yards. I had never seen this.

People have had enough. 

We just lived through the worst four years in our country's history. They invented, then lied, about the origins of covid. They killed millions weaponizing a virus carried by horseshoe bats in China. 

The liberals stole an election and covered it up. They forced people to take unproven vaccines. They fired people who were simply exercising their rights not to be guinea pigs. Fear driven liberals closed the private sector down. They want on a free money binge that ignited the worst inflation since the '70s. They suppressed and censored free speech and alternative treatment methods. They got people killed in Afghanistan and stoked the fires of war in the Ukraine with 100's of billions of dollars. While Rome was burning, they then set their sights on defaming and discrediting former President Trump through our court system which is littered with Obama appointees.

There are three problems that the left never counted on. President Trump has "fuck you" money. He has the where with all to fight it out in the courts. President Trump is a terminator. He does not quit. Knock this guy down 15 times and he gets up 16 times. He has proven this over and over again.

The left counted on us to believe. We were supposed to believe their election lies. That the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. We were supposed to believe "51 experts" when we knew they were full of shit. We were supposed to believe all those liberal prosecutors and judges and those doctored charges. We were supposed to believe a search warrant at Mara Lago was necessary.

What do invading armies do first? They knock out communications.

Thus, the single biggest problem that the liberals never counted on, was a change of ownership at Twitter. They had control of that communication platform as well as Facebook. When Elon Musk bought Twitter- it was all over for the Obama regime and his minions. I don't think I understood at the time just how important that event was.

It was a true watershed moment. It changed the course of American history. Free speech returned. Elon Musk fired three quarters of the staff and suspended accounts were restored. The deep state government, who had controlled speech on the platform mostly through the FBI, were discovered and kicked out.

So justice comes on swift wings. The old criminal, the one who should have been prosecuted, pardoned a few thousand convicts and his family on the way out. 

The porous border was once again shut down. Illegal aliens are being deported. The J6 crowd, mostly a bunch of trespassers, have been pardoned from their years' long confinement. Government workers were told to return to work, offered buyouts, and eventually will be terminated. The FBI agents that conjured up charges and served search warrants on President Trump have been fired. All the DEI hires of Biden are being eliminated. Tom Homan is deporting thousands of criminals. Elon Musk is finding billions in waste and fraud. Military personnel refusing the jab are being offered their jobs back with back pay.

So the reckoning is here.

 

"Headless Body Found in Topless Bar"- The Sunday Collage

This was an actual headline found in the NY Post, circa 1983. The author of that headline died recently.

I chuckled the first time I read it. I thought it was a perfect metaphor for the leaderless group exercise we have been enduring ever since the Dems installed their old, white, version of Obama. Obama lite.

So, after listening to the Dems wail that "no one is above the law" as they apply the law to President Trump, we find that Joe Biden who promised never to pardon his son ad nauseum...

Pardoned his son. For 11 years' worth of crimes. Apparently, this is a "blank check" pardon wherein you cannot charge, poor picked on Hunter, for anything he may have done for 11 years.

There are quite literally millions of people sitting in our prisons who have committed lesser crimes than Hunter.

It isn't just the drugs, or the hookers, or the embezzled payola from Burisma, or the tax evasion in the millions, or the 195 suspicious activity reports that banks filed on behalf of the Biden crime family. The Bidens are rotten to the core. This would include pictures of Hunter Biden with his naked 14 year old niece. Sleeping with his dead brother's wife. Or that abandoned and disavowed baby daughter sired by Hunter.

These Bidens are some horrible people. The shoppers at WalMart can hold their heads high.

Obama lite, was picked by Obama as a running mate. Let's not forget that. 

What a fantastic four years this has been. As crazy as it sounds, without this criminal idiot in the White House, we would never have known how bad things could get. Transvestite cabinet members. Unqualified gay men running departments. Dead servicemen. Wars. Targeted attacks on Trump supporters by the media. FEMA deciding who it would not help based on Trump signage. Trillions of dollars spent and wasted causing the greatest inflation in 50 years. It's just been a slow moving trainwreck from start to finish.

So we needed those 4 years. We needed to see just how bad this government could get. And boy, did we find out. It has set the stage for a real reckoning.

I think the metaphor comes into focus here. If the government represents our topless bar these last four years, it's pretty obvious who the headless body is.

9 Million Counterfeit Ballots- The Sunday Collage

 Earlier this week, graphs started popping up on X and other places. Most of those graphs showed the steep and dramatic increase in popular votes that occurred in 2020 and compared the elections of 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 for context.

Beyond any doubt, democrat or republican, the popular vote totals for Biden in 2020 were astronomical. Many charts reflected raw data as it stood on Wednesday and Thursday. Some showed a difference of as many as 18 million ballots cast for democrats compared to previous elections and 2024. Those early charts did not take into account that California was still counting. Counting votes in California is apparently a Herculean task unlike Florida who had their votes counted in a few hours after the polls closed. Thus we are left with the rusty machinery that counts votes in California by either necessity or design. California still had at least 8 million votes to count and Arizona still hadn't finished counting either. By extrapolating what's left to count, and being overly generous to Kamala Harris, I landed on a popular vote count of 71 million for her. I think that will be pretty close. I see the total popular vote around 145 million and I threw in an extra million for all of the other states.

I am going to change the numbers as they come in.

This is a minimum difference of 9 million votes- 9 million less than President Biden received in 2020. The vote total for Biden was so ridiculously excessive, that it's hard to reconcile. I looked at charts taken from Wikipedia, CNN, and historic national vote counts. What's even crazier is that Biden garnered 12 million more votes than Obama did in his first election cycle. Had Trump's numbers gone down in the 2020 election it might have made sense. But Trump was up another 12 million in that 2020 cycle. 

So we are left with two possibilities. Joe Biden was either the most popular Presidential candidate ever in an election where the GOP nominee was also very popular- or people cheated. 

Here are the raw numbers: Popular vote count.

2024 Trump: 70.9M (Current as of Thursday, Nov 7) 2024 Harris: 65.8M (Harris is still gaining in California's glacial vote counting efforts) 2020 Trump: 74.2M 2020 Biden: 81.2M 2016 Trump: 62.9M 2016 Clinton: 65.8M 2012 Obama: 62.6M 2012 Romney: 59.1M

2008 Obama: 69.4M    2008 McCain: 59.9M

The one certain thing I found when reading liberal and conservative posters on X is that each side tried to rig the numbers and thus the graphs. The liberal posters tried to make the numbers look better- the conservative posters tried to enlarge the disparity.

The one thing we can all agree on- is that somehow Biden managed to get 9 million more votes than in any election before or after. Where did all those votes come from and where did they land?

Rigging the Swing States

An exact and much more precise methodology for determining where those extra million votes cast could be accomplished by doing a state by state popular vote count. This is more work than I want to do and I think it would show what we all suspect. That when we all went to bed with Trump leading Biden in virtually all of the swing states in 2020, Biden somehow miraculously reversed every vote tally by the next morning. 

I think we can assume that the folks that rigged that election knew where to deploy those 9 million extra ballots. Those extra ballots went to Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona. Perhaps some landed in Nevada. The swing states. You certainly wouldn't waste your efforts in states that you were already going to win like New York and California. So you want to deploy those ballots in a fashion that seems plausible and doesn't draw extra attention. A million or so in each state.

So where do you get the ballots? 

This is not hard. You can harvest them in apartment complexes and vacant addresses or from people who will never vote. But more likely, you can simply counterfeit a ballot once it has been printed. This is not serialized currency we are talking about. Printing 9 million extra ballots would not be that difficult. But it will take manpower to fill them out and deliver them where they are needed. Once you know the vote count Trump was getting in each state, you would just drop a greater number of fraudulent ballots in places like Atlanta, Philadelphia, or Detroit- taking care not to drop too many. That's why places like Georgia had Biden winning by 12,000 or so. Trump won Georgia before Biden and after Biden.

A network of people were undoubtedly responsible for this. You would need to collaborate and coordinate, transporting falsified ballots where they were needed. The 350 million dollars that Mark Zuckerberg donated would take care of the costs.

It is absolutely deplorable what occurred in 2020 and while that is bad enough- any attempts to investigate that sham election were blocked and ridiculed. No investigation, forensic or otherwise, would ever take place because the winning side would never allow it. The Commander in Chief, responsible for all things law enforcement, was not about to authorize anything that would undermine his election. So, we were stuck with an old criminal politician who was ineffective his entire political career and predictably- we got more of the same. 

On an interview with CNN's Dana Bash, Jim Jordan pointed out that 2.5 million unsigned ballots were illegally counted in Pennsylvania in the 2020 election. Counting unsigned ballots is illegal.

In an absolutely laughable CBS "60 Minutes" segment airing on Nov 3, the show brought on several election officials (Georgia, I think) attesting to the accuracy of the balloting. It was clearly the typical government propaganda piece that "60 Minutes" has been putting out. Remember, because of covid, absentee balloting was at an all time high. People could simply fill out ballots and drop them in boxes. No voter ID. Unmanned. No real rules. Could I counterfeit ballots, fill them out and drop them in an unmanned box? Sure. Will 60 Minutes ever mention this was possible? No. They are very well equipped to hear one side of a story and report it as "fact" while neglecting to hear the other side of the story. This lack of equal side reporting is one of the reasons CBS has lost credibility.

The Fallout

We all felt the same way that Wednesday morning in 2020. We knew what we had seen. Was it possible for Biden to reverse course and win a swing state or two? Sure. But all six of them? No way.

Media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, blocked any rational discussion of the sham election and actually deplatformed people. Mainstream media offered only their liberal spin and obstructed and ridiculed anyone who questioned the election outcome. Our country was so confused and distracted, that we could not agree on a path forward. Then January 6 happened.

January 6 was a demonstration. It was populated with people that believed the election had been ripped off. Undoubtedly, members of the FBI were embedded in the crowd to facilitate criminal trespass and make it far worse than it was. Now that Trump has won- I think we are going to find out the extent of what happened and I think it will provide exoneration and redemption to a good many people.

Trump winning this election will be a complete disaster for the architects of Jan. 6. They are going to be exposed.

Summary

Trump desperately needed to win this election. In an odd way, the democrats probably did us a huge favor in 2020. Not only did they expose their criminal intent, but they enabled a man with nothing to lose- a fresh four years to fix things. Elimination of giant swaths of unnecessary and wasteful spending, lawfare practitioners, and restructuring rogue agencies involved in criminal conduct. 

The J6 crowd will finally get some relief. 

Wars will stop. Prices will come down. But most importantly, we may see a fair election system where only citizens are allowed to vote. Maybe even the timely counting of ballots which places like Arizona and California find impossible.

We were truly standing on the edge of the cliff. Had Harris won this election, I think our country would have taken a swan dive off that cliff. That is not to say we are out of the woods yet. But we are in far better shape than we were a week ago.

Those 9 million fraudulent votes? They are hard to conceal. In my world those excessive votes are called evidence. Like fingerprints, DNA, or cellphone geo tracking- they are there and nearly impossible to explain away. They are fruits of the crime and unlike the fallout immediately after the 2020 election, it will be hard to obstruct and ridicule naysayers into submission. I think in the months to come, the people who believe Biden supporters stole that election may finally be vindicated. Who you going to believe- the media or your lying eyes?

"We're Going to Need More Body Bags!"

 The mass casualty event of November 5 is now complete. A lot of ideas, people, lies, bad opinions, and institutions died on election night. I am overcome with joy. Sometimes we are blessed by the absence of bad people and bad ideas and to remove them often requires a reckoning. We had a reckoning on Tuesday night. 

The first casualty was the democratic party. They have reversed roles with the old Republican Party. They have completely lost their base. The new democrat party is filled with socialistic elites bent on war and destruction. They pander to special interests and to the LGBTQ community. They are fine with men in women's sports and locker rooms. They worship entertainers like Jimmy Kimmel, Orca Winfrey, and Taylor Swift. They engage in identity politics. The democrat party is a party in complete disarray- filled with elites like the Clintons, the Obamas, the Pelosis' and the Bidens- selling our nation out piece by piece and gaining personal wealth. This is not the party of middle class America. This is not the party who protested the Vietnam War, the party who stood for American workers and unions. This party is an abomination. 

The second casualty has to be legacy media to include print media like the NY Times and the Washington Post. Their liberally biased reporting of the news has become nauseating. Although the Fairness Doctrine was killed in equal measure by Reagan and Obama, the media has become so hopelessly jaded and biased, that viewers no longer find them credible. Viewers actually dismiss what they have to say. My disdain for print media is equally divided with television news and news magazines like "60 Minutes."  If I never hear from Peter Muir or Nora O'Donnell ever again, I'll be fine with that.

Pollsters. Good gawd, do they ever get anything right? Days before the election, I was convinced Trump was going to steam roll Kamala. He had Elon Musk and Joe Rogan. He was going to end wars and cut taxes for large swaths of the American public. He had an outstanding platform. He was gaining traction. Yet what did I read? I read how Kamala was "neck and neck" and virtually tied with Trump. I heard it was "too close to call." I heard Kamala would win Iowa. All of this turned out to be bullshit. None of it was accurate. Since the election, I have purchased a nice plot in our city's cemetery for pollsters.

Obama. If Biden was simply an Obama puppet which most of us believe, Obama is now out of puppets. Kamala was going to be Obama's Act IV, and it now appears Gepetto will no longer be pulling the strings. It is time for Obama to sell his DC residence and return to all of those old, rich, white folks up in Martha's Vineyard. I hear he has an opening for a new cook.

Merrick Garland. I cannot think of a worse human being. Architect of the Trump lawfare plan and legal obstructionist and protector of the Biden crime family, I expect Garland to resign or be the first to face Trump's firing squad. I thank God this scheming miscreant was denied a seat on the Supreme Court.

Illegal aliens. One last dash for the border is on tap. If you make it, you may soon be receiving a plane ride back to where you came from. If you are a criminal, and your home country doesn't want you, I suppose they will find a place for you in our swollen prison system. We provide nice accommodations compared to what you received back home.

Electric vehicle mandates by 2035. President Trump has said he will tear that executive order in half on his first day in office.

The expiration of Trump tax cuts. Trump will install new tax cuts.

The end of the Jan 6 witch hunt and horribly stiff sentencing. Pardons are coming.

The View. I have watched this show precisely- twice. I hated it. It is like a birth control ad for normal, functioning men. The Trump hatred and hysteria is palpable as these liberal women all try to outdo one another. Overreacting to molehills. Calling Jan 6- an insurrection. I've seen worse mobs at Target on Black Friday. Buffalo Man is a pacifist.

Election rigging. There is not one doubt in my mind that the 2020 election was stolen. From 2000 Mules to the astronomical vote count- 15 to 20 million more votes than any other election, more votes out of nowhere. Every state Trump lost in that election- he has now won in two elections. Yet the liberals still demand proof. Unfortunately, it was those same liberals who obstructed any investigation or any evidence gathering- and attempted to debunk any intrusion into the idea that all those ballot boxes were stuffed with counterfeit Biden ballots. This time around, not only did GOP poll watchers catch liberal attempts at election rigging but lawyers were on standby. Here's a wonderful and quick overview. https://realrawnews.com/2024/11/hes-back/

Gavin Newsome. One of the great elite socialists of all time, Gavin Newsome is a narcissist and ego maniac. Funded by the Gettys and other elite San Francisco families, Gavin Newsome screwed the pooch in California. He will have four years to dig himself out of a 70 billion dollar hole that included catering to criminals and providing cover for illegal aliens. Undoubtedly and unfortunately, President Trump's policies will help Newsome and the state of California recover. If Newsome can stop the bleeding, I expect to see him in '28. This dude covets power but for now, I am keeping an eye on Zombie Newsome to see whether or not he rises from the dead.

Last and certainly least, Kamala Harris. Harris has been an empty headed Vice President. Her history shows her as a gun grabbing, abortion loving, tax and spend socialist. Her parents lean communist. A professor and research scientist, Kamala's parents hardly qualified as middle class Americans and there is simply no way that Kamala would have stooped to such low levels to become a McDonald's employee. That was a fabrication. That would have been beneath her perceived class. Kamala Harris is a perfect example of someone sleeping her way to the top of Willie Brown's California political machinery. She was Willie's concubine and Willie's wife was seemingly ok with the arrangement. The problem is that even though you manage to crawl to the top of California's legal system- you will still be judged on your character and merit. Her lack of character and merit was her downfall. There was no Willie Brown to save her this time. She was forced to answer questions she could not answer. She was forced to explain her complete lack of a platform or her work product on the southern border. Kamala Harris is a failure on many levels. I do not expect to see her again. She is one and done. The dems would never risk a repeat of this mass casualty event.

We were truly standing on the edge of a cliff. Had Kamala Harris won this election, I am not sure we could have found our way back. It's going to be fun watching the deep state get rooted out, rearranged, and fired after the inauguration.

They are going to need more body bags.

 

 

The Spirit of America- The Sunday Collage

 I am in a dive bar. Certainly not the Green Dragon Tavern. This is the Helsinki Club, last building in Finntown. In this very bar- murder, rape, and arson have been contemplated. Drugs and money have been exchanged. Every dirty, racist, joke ever conceived has been uttered in this place. Prostitution, gay sex, even a few fights.

So, when my friend, new owner, and Never Trumper told me that they did not discuss politics in the bar- I recognized immediately that he knew my politics were not his own. In the four or five times I have been warned about discussing politics in my life, it has always been by some liberal who is moderating and controlling the conversation. You are entitled to their opinion based on your global positioning at that very instant. Not your own.

With just a few days to go in this election, I think people tend to underestimate the Spirit of America. That is the finger and a hearty "fuck you!" to a government that seeks to moderate and control our lives. It was the same middle finger we thrust at King George. It was the same middle finger that the southern states thrust at Lincoln. It is the same middle finger Donald Trump has thrust at the media and the liberal politicians who have told him- "This is our bar. You are entitled to our brand of politics."

So here we are. The Spirit of America lives. 

What bigger "fuck you" can you utter while supporting a guy who has stood up to so many attacks, been knocked down 15 times, and staggers to his feet for the 16th time? A guy who was impeached twice for nonsense and shot once in the ear. A guy charged with every asinine crime the liberal left can conjure up? 

They wanted to give you another Bush or maybe a Clinton, some professional politician that would keep their fortunes intact. Some status quo piece of garbage but instead you got MAGA and the Spirit of America. 

Joe Biden spent 50 years in politics and accomplished nothing other than lining his own pockets. He was a safe, status quo politician like Bush or Clinton. He couldn't campaign and win so instead they just stole the election and told us to shut our mouths about it while giving us their dementia patient.

The Spirit of America is one of rebellion. In a world full of opinions, it is that guy who says- "I don't want your opinion, I have one of my own." I am going to trust my instincts. 

That's why they really hate you. They can't force their shitty opinions down your throat and you won't get in line and be an obedient slave. We saw it with a stolen election, we saw it with masks and vaccinations, we are seeing it with lawfare and the J6 committee. They are failing to make us obedient.

That's the real Spirit of America and in this bar, politics is always welcome.

Does It Take 52 Liars to Qualify As a Conspiracy Theory?- The Sunday Collage

 We're getting close to election day. You can smell it.

Judge Tanya Chutkan, in an attempt to smear Donald Trump, has decided to release 2000 pages of "evidence" that would damage his campaign. The timing of this release, 2-3 weeks before the election, was perfect. 

Remember the 51 experts who swore and signed affidavits that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation just before the 2020 election? There was no investigation into that.

There was also no investigation into the results of the 2020 election. That was the one where we all went to sleep with Trump winning and sometime between 0100 and 0700, Joe Biden miraculously staged an epic comeback in every one of the states he had been losing.

So Chutkan, activist liberal that she is, checks in right on time with her attempt to influence the 2024 election. A little more on Chutkan.

Chutkan is a Jamaican immigrant. Tanya Chutkan's resume reads perfectly left. Appointment from Barack Obama, the Lightbringer. Provide abortions for in custody minors. Ruled that the Department of Education violated the law v the speed of implementation of the IDEA act- a Barack Obama era law. She postponed the execution of several inmates who were lawfully sentenced in which her decision was subsequently reversed. She released records from the Jan 6 demonstration that Donald Trump had sought to remain sealed. She has sentenced some 30- Jan 6 defendants- to the harshest punishment which sometimes has exceeded prosecutor recommendations. She is a democrat party donor. This week, Ms. Chutkan released more Trump trial transcripts stating that to not do so- amounted to election interference.

So you might be thinking Judge Chutkan's track record reads almost perfectly like a liberal activist judge. Making political decisions from the bench. That is precisely why Obama chose her.

So where the hell was Judge Chutkan when Hunter Biden's laptop was uncovered? We now know that not only did those 51 "experts" all lie in unison but that the laptop was genuinely owned by Hunter Biden and dropped off at a repair shop and abandoned. We also know that those 51 experts, mostly high ranking government employees, influenced media platforms enough to not only suppress the story but eliminate anyone from talking about it.

That is some serious election interference right there. Not one person has ever been prosecuted for it. It is probably the single greatest, provable conspiracy theory, of the past 4 years. All of this leads me to Kara Swisher, who is precisely the kind of person that I often wonder, "How the fuck does this person get on tv?"

Apparently if you are a liberal in America, you can make up any horseshit story you need to just so long as it remains in line with your political affiliation and motivations and those of the network you are spouting your nonsense on.

So I shall leave you with today with Kara Swisher. Ms. Swisher is a liberal lesbian from San Francisco. Here she is spouting nonsense that big tech did not collude with the government to suppress the laptop story- even though the NY Post was deplatformed for 16 days- until after the election. Don't believe your lying eyes- believe Kara Swisher.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/cnn-pundit-downplays-big-tech-censorship-of-hunter-biden-laptop-in-2020-calls-government-collusion-nonsense/ar-AA1syxfD?ocid=BingNewsSerp

15 Years of Frankenstein Government- The Sunday Collage

In 2009, I was 48 years old. Divorced, single, sober. My life was calm and serene. 

I wanted to write. Not because I think I am some superior, knowledgeable writer but because we were witnessing some of the worst government behavior that had ever taken place. When the government stole one trillion dollars' worth of taxpayer money and bailed out crooked bankers and banks, they were fully exposed. That level of theft was breathtaking. Things were going to get far worse.

People generally don't care about politics unless they are old, retired, and have the time to watch what the hell is going on. I will be the first to admit this was true for me. When I was younger, say twenties and thirties, I was too busy taking care of my patchwork family- earning a living, paying for things, fixing wrecked knees and straightening teeth, and bearing all the costs associated with life in America. We grow up distracted. 

With 60 hour work weeks, who had time for politics? I didn't. 

That all changed for me in 2007. I started paying attention. Lots of attention.

One of the things that happens when you write publicly is that you begin to receive comments. Most are good, some are critical. Many of them cause you to think.

What were the framers of the Constitution trying to accomplish? What are the federalist papers and why are they important? Who created and owns the FED? Where does money come from? How come absolutely nobody discusses the national debt?

I know the answer to those questions. I learned them right here. Comments by people more knowledgeable than I- forced me to check my wrong assumptions and opinions. I learned a great deal by publicly writing. In a way, you could say I earned my education here. The one I didn't get in college or political science 201.

I also witnessed the great flip flop of party platforms. I witnessed the democrats becoming the aristocracy of America and beating us with big government while the republicans became the party of middle class America. 

Donald Trump had a lot to do with that. So did Barack Obama.

I've enjoyed writing here. I've met some very fine people and some overly critical jerks. But I learn something from every one of them and if I hadn't written here publicly, I would have missed out on a great deal about things I was completely clueless about.

We've got about 7 weeks to the greatest election in my lifetime. We have two of the most bizarre candidates running for President. One is a no bullshit sort of guy who tends to piss people off with his critical comments and name calling- while mostly black prosecutors charge him with various made up crimes hoping to discredit him. The other candidate is a complete fraud and failure who is actually quite evil. She pretends to be centrist but she's not. She is the worst kind of person- completely fake with a very dark agenda. I think she is trying to be Obama 3.0, only far worse.

In fact, for the first time since the 90's, I'm actually going to vote. God help me if I end up on a jury list somewhere. 

What I learned here, is that you don't learn anything without risk. If you want to post superficial nonsense, that is what you will get in return.  Superficial and useless replies. But if you want to actually learn something, take a stand, form an opinion, and put it out there. It's like fishing. You never know what you might catch. 

Lake Mead National Park Ranger Nails Scofflaw

 The story I'm about to tell you is absolutely true. I didn't think this kind of shit could happen in 2024. Not with body cams and allegedly- superior training.

Now as many of you know, I spent 25 years in law enforcement. As a result of that vast error in judgement- I conducted somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 traffic stops and went to a few thousand calls. Conducting the verbal part of a traffic stop is relatively simple. You contact the driver, tell the driver the reason for the stop, listen to the response, and decide if it's something you need to write a ticket for. Good cops shoot for compliance first without a ticket.

Anyone who told me the unvarnished truth on a traffic stop- never received a ticket. Somewhat rare but not unheard of. So those are my rules, unpublished for sure and not agreed upon by all. Those rules were clearly not communicated to the cop who stopped me on January 30, Officer Johnson.

I am travelling south on a highway that goes along the west side of Lake Mead, near Las Vegas. I am also within the confines of Lake Mead National Park, policed by federal park rangers.

On this particular day, 3 trucks, service trucks which are caravaning, ignore a yield sign and pull out in front of me on the highway and proceed to do something akin to 10 MPH under the posted speed of 50 MPH. I follow them for a few miles when I realize that I may die of old age before I reach my destination. So I pass all three.

Instead of continuously solid yellow lines, the park uses those centerline rumble dots, worn and faded from the Vegas sun. Traffic is sparse and non-existent- because it is 50 degrees outside which is bitterly cold for the people who inhabit this part of the desert. 

This act of passing defiantly pisses off the lead caravanner guy driving some sort of pickup truck fitted with one of those metal boxes with all of the smaller cargo doors. The guy starts chasing us. He is no match for our car and so he never really gets too close- but it causes us to speed a little- maybe 10 or 15 over for a mile or two to stay far enough ahead of him. That's when we see Officer Johnson.  

Officer Johnson flashes his light at us. He turns to apprehend us. I choose to pull over in a boat ramp area which is off the highway and much safer but it's 1/2 mile down the road. I make it there before he gets directly behind us. This highway has no shoulder.

Johnson doesn't pull us over from behind, he intercepts us like he is blocking our escape. He jumps out of the car, excited, and the first thing out of his mouth is "are there any guns in the car?!" I answer him. 

Johnson just sort of shouts things at me, like "why are you driving here and where are you going?" Not once does he mention why he stopped us. He collects my documents and he is so over the top aggressive, I am actually worried that this nutjob is going to try and take me to jail if I offer any resistance. So I distract him with some other issues, try to get him to calm down. Tell him I am a retired cop. Two blue hairs for chrissakes, not Bonnie and Clyde.

I wasn't trying to get out of a ticket, I knew that was a done deal. I was trying to avert a trip to jail.

Eventually he returns with a ticket for "unsafe operation" which I think is some oddball term for a boater speeding through the buoys on the lake except that this ticket is 380 dollars and akin to careless driving. I asked him what I did wrong. He says, "you were doing 57 mph in a 45 zone, you touched the yellow, and you eluded me."

That's when I knew Officer Johnson was not only a bad cop and full of shit, but that he made up a story to suit his outlandish behavior. I may have been guilty of the speed and probably was but nothing else. I noted he had a body cam on. Thank God I thought.

I also believed that it was the motorist I passed that phoned this in but not a word about that from Officer Johnson.

You do not receive a court date when you are ticketed by the Lake Mead Rangers. The park uses some clearinghouse in Texas which issues you a summons if you have not paid the ticket. So I wait. After two months, I call them. "Do you wish to contest the ticket?" Why yes I do. The clearinghouse says the ticket was never turned in. I think, maybe Johnson finally came to his senses.

In late August, I receive a court date in the mail. Nothing else. I finally email the rangers office and ask if I am entitled to discovery, if this is a trial or initial appearance, or just what the hell this is. The rangers office emails me later and says there is a government official who will review your case and offer a plea bargain. They give me a phone number. I email back and say I plan on going to court, I will talk to the official there.

So I travel the 150 miles to federal court in Las Vegas. It's a total pain in the ass, finding parking, evading the immigration line, getting searched, and you must provide ID. Then find your court room. I make it with 10 minutes to spare. There my case is called. There is a government official, I presume a lawyer, who takes me into the hallway and reads what Officer Johnson wrote.

There for the first time, my wife and I hear an almost entirely different version of events. This time Officer Johnson writes that he received a call of a reckless driver who passed three cars and nearly hit two bicyclists on the road. (There were no bicyclists) He then located the vehicle traveling at 57 mph in a 45 zone, which then crossed a double yellow line on the highway, before turning into a parking area whilc traveling 30 mph in a 15 zone in the parking lot. 

Wow. I was pissed. My wife was just sick. What kind of cop makes this shit up? In my day, a soon to be fired cop, that's who.

I told the "government official" this 2nd version of Officer Johnson's was also untrue, and the body cam would bear this out. I was going to go to trial. He offered me a deal where I would pay a 20 dollar fine plus court costs and the whole thing would go away and not be reported anywhere. 

I am a coward. I should have gone to trial. People like Johnson should be rooted out and fired before they damage other motorists. In my day as chief, I would have tried to retrain Johnson while placing him on probation- but let him go if the retraining didn't take hold. 

I took the deal. So 50 bucks and I was done with this nonsense.

I don't travel through Lake Mead Park anymore. I go through Henderson/Las Vegas. 

In my day, law enforcement was still an honorable profession. We tried to be decent but I am sure we failed from time to time. But what I never did was make some shit completely up, overcharging some motorist because I was angry or agitated. Cops call this contempt of cop. Apparently, Officer Johnson's tolerance for adversity is very low. 

I feel bad that all of those tickets I handed out over the years probably did little more than raise insurance rates for people already burdened by excessive insurance costs. I often wonder what good it did. 

I hope Officer Johnson comes to his senses. I sure have. 

Joe Biden Saves Democracy! -The Sunday Collage

On July 21, 2024, President Joe Biden offered up his re-election resignation on "X" formerly known as Twitter.

I guess that's what it was because the letter doesn't state his intent with any kind of precision.

It was an incredible letter. It wasn't on letterhead; it was just a few paragraphs of mumbo jumbo with the usual lies and other assorted nonsense one associates with Biden. It was purportedly signed by Biden with a signature I do not recognize.

Having read the letter a few times, it reminds me of some poorly written scrap someone might conjure up to play nice with Joe while recapping his presidential past. It avoids any details regarding anything of relevance or substance. It reminds me of one of those hastily written confession statements that police departments used to write up and tell a suspect to sign.

There is not one chance in hell that Biden authored this letter. Not one. It begs the questions. Who wrote this letter (while Joe was recovering from Covid in Rehoboth) and why was it suddenly presented via social media as though it was such an urgent message that it simply could not wait a few days and be delivered in some personal fashion like a television announcement? 

The letter that could not wait. 

So it was, I certainly had a few questions. I waited for the big reveal, scheduled for Wednesday evening, a mere 3 days ago as I write this.

I have to be honest. I can't stand to listen to Joe Biden. He is a fucking numbskull. When Joe Biden, grand criminal that he is, starts talking about values, character, honesty, and integrity- I think I throw up in my mouth a little bit. 

So I just had to bear down and put up with it. I knew it wouldn't be too long because Joe simply can't string together enough coherent thoughts and sentences by himself without reading them off a teleprompter. So that's what we got.

And about 3 minutes in- there it was! Joe was stepping aside to save our democracy. He was putting aside his personal ambitions. He was passing the torch to a new generation.

This is something Joe hadn't been able to do in 54 years. But suddenly he realized it was time to save democracy. 

So whoever pushed him out, like Obama, Clinton, and the democratic party (Joe refers to them as the party elites) had allowed him to run out the clock. Now bear in mind, he is the democratic party nominee. He registered as the incumbent and garnered 13 million votes. He was selected and Kamala Harris was not.

If you really wanted to endorse Kamala and pass the torch Joe- the simple, quick, and legal way would be to resign and let Kamala become President and run.

Now I do not know by what process, the democratic party uses to force one duly elected (by the people) nominee out and transfer all of the money and votes that nominee has obtained and deliver them to someone else the party selects. In fact, that might be the most undemocratic thing I have ever seen.

But that's what they do. Install a tinpot dictator. Then try to rig another election. The CIA has been doing it all over the world for decades.

I have listened to Joe's speech a few times. The best way to do it- is to watch and read the subtitles to get an idea of just how bad Biden is butchering everything on the teleprompter. He even quotes Benjamin Franklin on the last day of the constitutional convention in 1787. But he butchers that also.

Democracy has never needed saving. It has survived quite nicely in either a direct or representative form for centuries, sometimes devolving into mob rule democracy. Democracy doesn't need any help from Joe Biden or anyone else for that matter.

What needed saving this week was our republic. The only people that can do that now are in Congress. 

We have a duly elected nominee. Is it our fault that the media and democratic leadership lied and obscured the extent of Biden's senility? No. I listened to KJ Pierre, Biden's Press Secretary, tell me he was fine day after day. Does this mean that now that Biden's senility has been fully exposed, that a duly elected candidate's votes and money can simply be transferred to someone else? Also no.

The democratic party and the media lied to us. They should bear the responsibility for their lies. Biden should either step down or run against Trump. Instead, we will get 6 months' worth of lame duck edicts and even more damage from Biden and the democrats. If only the congressional GOP had a spine. 

It's like a never ending shitshow. I can't wait to see the pardon list.

Was It Worth the Trouble, Mr. Trump?

 Several years ago, as Ann Coulter (2016) was being laughed at for predicting the Trump presidential win, I was reading a piece about why working-class America was supporting a billionaire. It was a nasty piece, a hit job, explaining that poor, working class Americans were a bunch of dupes enamored by wealth and fame. Deplorables, according to Hillary.

It was also total bullshit. 

Over the years after Hillary Clinton, perhaps one of the most highly effective criminals in America lost her bid to become President, I came to understand the widespread appeal of Donald Trump.

It wasn't polished bullshit, it wasn't party support, experience, or a career of broken political promises. It was something else entirely. Something that I treasured. 

To be sure, I was not a Trump supporter back then. I am a strict adherent to George Carlin's political views in that we keep electing these rich assholes and nothing changes. So I skipped the voting process in 2016 for that reason and also that I lived in Idaho. We all knew who the winner was going to be anyway.

The truth is, I don't watch television much and I didn't know diddly squat about who Donald Trump was. But I must admit, watching these liberal clowns spew their fear and hatred everywhere, Trump started to pick up traction for me. So it was, that I watched President Trump very closely throughout those 4 years.

I came to realize who he was and what he was and I began to actually like this guy. 

First and foremost, Trump represented a big "fuck you" to the last 20 year's worth of Presidents who sold us out to China, Mexico, bankers, insurers, and war mongers. 

Trump is authentic. He says things which are not veiled in hypocrisy or convenient lies. Some of it can be deliberate, derogatory observations he has made of situations and people. I would call that his truth. He calls shit exactly the way he sees it. It makes liberal heads explode.

His war with the media was epic. Still is. Filled with liberal pansies, Trump called them out at every turn.

We knew he would not need to take campaign bribes like Obama did and therefore, there would be no political payback like the thousands of fraud committing bankers that Obama let off the hook.

Or Obamacare. The great health insurance bailout that screwed many of us and took away our right to determine our own healthcare and who could provide it.

Trump represented the American dream. The dream of his father and his own dream. That if you work hard and long, you can achieve whatever you want in America. 

But the two things I admire most about Trump are things that are simply not possessed by most people. They both involve tremendous personal courage gone missing today.

The first is his ability to just tell people the way that it is. The way that he sees things. He doesn't give two shits for your feelings. He has a goal in mind, he wants to achieve it, and you better get on board with it or get gone. Telling people they are useless, when in fact they are useless, is something to behold. Whether it's a career bureaucrat like Anthony Fauci, or a lying and deceptive William Barr, calling these people what they are- is something every one of us wishes we could do. Here in minion world most of us lack the personal courage to do that and we certainly fear the downstream destruction of our resumes'. But we admire it. 

The last item and probably the most important character trait Donald possesses is resiliency. This guy is like the terminator. He just keeps coming. You cannot knock him down and keep him down.  Impeached twice over nonsense, charged with 71 make believe felonies, and Trump just mows through it all. Wasting millions on his defense for acts that should have been covered and seen within the scope of his duties- he not only perseveres but he makes a mockery of the lawyers, prosecutors, and politicians who hate him.

With all the shit Trump has gone through including the stolen re-election bid with 51 government "experts" claiming the Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation, spying on his campaign, make believe Russian dossiers, search warrants, 30 year old allegations with not one piece of physical proof, and court room after court room- he reminds me of a scene in the mountain man movie, "Jeremiah Johnson." After dozens of Crow Indians attack and try to kill Johnson and get killed themselves, Johnson is greeted by another mountain man, Chris Lapp, who happened upon Johnson in the beginning of the film. Lapp looks at Johnson years later and asks, "was it worth the trouble?" 

Johnson lifts his chin and says, "eh, what trouble?" 

It's Showtime Bitches!!- The Sunday Collage

 Today, they convicted Former President Trump today on 34 counts of make believe bullshit fabricated from a 17 year old tryst with a porn star. 

At it's very worst, Donald Trump may have gotten a piece of ass on the side. He may have used campaign funds to give Ms. Daniels 130,000 to shut up about it. He may have (gasp) lied.

Let's conjure up some perspective.

Of all the whores in the Whitehouse, JFK was probably the worst. Kennedy was a well documented sex addict. The "Stormy" of his day was a film star named Marilyn Monroe. Men (and women) have been screwing around on their spouses since time began. Millions upon millions and probably billions. Clinton paid Paula Jones 7 times what Daniels received. Where was the big witch trial then?

So men like to get laid. Unscrupulous women provide vaginas. There is nothing proprietary there. No news flash. 

The US government spends 100's of billions of dollars a year on welfare, wars, shitty student and housing loans, bond interest. They waste TRILLIONS every year apparently without any laws or governance. They create inflation by issuing covid relief bills and other horse shit spending bills. Inflation is costing me 600 a month since 2021. Am I supposed to be all pissed off because one man, may or may not have, given some porn star 130k to shut the fuck up? Money that undoubtedly went untaxed.

Oh yes, 130,000 wasted on TV ads is a much better expenditure than hush money. Either way the 130k is wasted. Money is always wasted on something. Bad investments, booze, drugs, women, art, shitty cars, and RVs. That's what it's for.

So yeah, I don't care.

The real culprit isn't Donald Trump. 

The real villain in our story is a runaway government that is killing the American way of life. We have lost our manufacturing base to a lobbyist-based Congress that sold us the fuck out in 2000. Our healthcare system, bad as it was, was made infinitely worse when Obama stole the system with some horrible bill nobody read, bailing out insurers and his campaign donor buddies. The Supreme Court then stuck us with that new tax. Our crooked federal agencies. The CIA, the FBI, the FED, and the BLS.

Then our government installs a real live criminal, Joe Biden, who sets about the task of fucking over the working class while issuing 9 trillion in covid relief which has largely gone missing and caused the greatest inflation in 50 years. Enriching the already rich American aristocracy who receive the money first and invest it into bloated markets and real estate. After taking bribes in the millions from China, Russia, and the Ukraine- Biden has paid the Ukraine off for those bribes- nearly 200 billion worth of war funds. Remember the laptop and the 51 "experts" who claimed it was Russian disinformation to help rig the election for Biden? Did they get prosecuted? Then we have the great covid cover up, which nearly cost me my life, 9 days on the ventilator and 175,000 in hospital bills. The disease our government helped create which our government then covered up with the help of that Fauci fuck. Two year's worth of assholes telling us how to live, vaccines that kill, crooked drug companies and the FDA that cover up vaccine injuries, and masks that did not work. All those fucking lies.

But you want Americans to be upset, to actually care whether Trump banged some broad 17 years ago or maybe lied about some wasted campaign funds??

You gotta be kidding me. 

I am sick of the lies, the inability to balance a budget, and the leftist propaganda on everything from continual cover-ups to climate change, to gender and race baiting. I am tired of the nonstop taxes and runaway inflation. I am tired of getting yelled at by an old criminal fool shuffling about on a stage somewhere in front of 5 or 6 people. I am tired of rigged elections, congressmen becoming millionaires overnight, and assholes telling me I am an idiot for thinking something is wrong. The American judiciary provides shelter for the aristocracy and federal over reach- we the people, not so much. Unless you can write a six figure check- you aren't gonna rate a glance. Due process my ass. If they can take out Trump- they can certainly squash a bug like you or me.

Trump isn't the end. This is just the beginning of something far worse.

Guilty Until Proven Innocent, The George Kelly Story, Updated 4/23/2024

 George Alan Kelly is an old guy who lives just north of the Mexico border on a ranch. 

Now you might wonder, why would anyone buy a ranch on the Mexican border? Well, Mr Kelly bought the ranch back in 1997 when we protected the border. It wasn't a free for all until President Biden and his illegal immigration handlers turned it into a drug running, human trafficking, do whatever you want, war zone. 

Perhaps Biden and friends should be charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigration. 

At any rate, Mr. Kelly is eating lunch at his home and hears a single gunshot and sees a number of men, likely Mexican nationals, on his property armed with guns that he believes were AK 47s. He arms himself, fires a few warning shots in the air, and the trespassers eventually disburse. He calls police. The police come out, take the report and leave.

Hours later while searching his ranch, Mr. Kelly finds a dead body- shot thru the chest or back- depending on the entrance wound. He calls police again.

The deceased is a Mexican national who has been deported multiple times. Drug runner, maybe. Trespasser, obviously. Who shot him is anyone's guess but I'm betting it ain't George Kelly.

Mr. Kelly is arrested. His bond is set at 1 million dollars.

In America, you will hear this bullshit about being innocent until proven guilty. And for 25 years, every dangerous felon I ever locked up and wanted held in jail, got me the standard prosecutorial response. 

"Bail is only to guarantee the defendants appearance in court." Blah, blah, blah.

Now just where in the hell is Mr. Kelly going to flee to? Mexico? Is he going to drive down to Argentina? How about you just take his passport and let him go. George Kelly ain't going anywhere. He has no rap sheet or prior arrests that anyone knows of. 

His crime was reporting a dead man on his ranch. He would have been better off just burying the body.

The American shitshow rolls on. We'll know more on the 22nd when the prosecution has to lay out a case. They better have one.

Here's a link to the story: https://lawandcrime.com/crime/innocent-arizona-rancher-files-full-throated-defense-after-mexican-national-shot-dead-on-property/

Another one: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/philboas/2023/02/08/george-alan-kelly-arizona-border-could-become-political-powder-keg/69884911007/

Here's a link to Mr. Kelly's GiveSendGo account. I donated. https://www.givesendgo.com/G9T79

04/23/2024- Update

The sham trial has ended in a mistrial. In what has been described as a 7-1 vote for "not guilty" the judge in this case has declared a mistrial because of one holdout.

This case should never have been brought to trial.

The bullet that killed the victim was a rifle round that traveled through the body and is missing. So no forensics. Mr Kelly who alleges he shot in the air, several warning rounds, says he never fired directly at the victim.

Armed illegal aliens frequently travel through his property. At 75 years old, it is hard to imagine that George Kelly, on a ranch he has owned for 25 years, has suddenly decided to start shooting people.

In the west, we respect property rights. That includes no trespassing warnings.

God willing, George Kelly will not spend one more day in jail. Because the problem is the lost jail time and the costs of defending yourself. That punishment happens long before any trial.

Give to legal defense fund. GiveSendGo - George Alan Kelly Legal Defense Fund: The Leader in Freedom Fundraising.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/let-me-go-home-okay-mistrial-declared-arizona-rancher-accused-killing-illegal-immigrant

The Atheist's Song- The Sunday Collage

"Without God, all things become permissible."

-The Brothers Karamazov

Happy Easter to the three people who still read this thing once in awhile.

It is Easter eve. Easter is an important holiday in my family which always marked the arrival of spring. It also marked the one day you must absolutely attend church. Easter was for my mom. Always there was dinner afterwards.

Unfortunately, there are a significant amount of people that don't believe in God. I'm ok with that just as long as they don't ridicule or berate my beliefs. If folks cross that line, well things tend to get ugly and animated quickly. 

For many years I struggled with the concept of God. I read books, I talked to people, pastors, priests. I discovered that the Vatican had removed books from the Bible in the grand editing process that they employ.

And then, through a series of sobering events, I came to believe. It started in my 47th year. 

It began with forgiveness. How could a man, charged with some ridiculous crime, and while dying- ask God for forgiveness for the very people who were now inflicting injury on his body and killing him in the most painful way?

Who is capable of that? Nobody I know of.

And about the time that I was discovering Jesus was different than any man who ever walked this earth, I listened to a man who called this his true test of atheism.

Imagine being alone in the universe. The only molecule among trillions that managed to crawl out of the primordial swamp and become human. And when you die, nothing. Nihilism. Life was a waste of time. Imagine standing naked in front of a full-length mirror and stating, "Behold the greatest power in the universe." 

That is the atheist's song. It is a lonely and hopeless song. This is all there is. 

Today I am grateful and thankful. One day we will pass through this life and on to the next. That is the meaning of Easter.

First, We Abandoned Virtue- The Sunday Collage

This post was first published in September, 2014.

Sorry for the delay today. Late night, didn't get home until 2 a.m.

A couple of weeks ago, I was reading some interesting stuff about societies and how they eventually crumble and implode. More than a few people have postulated that the first things to go wanting are values, morals, and integrity. This was first proposed by Socrates and then expanded on by Plato as they spoke of virtue as moral excellence.

How are people supposed to understand the importance of virtue if your society doesn't teach it and your leaders don't possess it? Not only do we lack any type of "leadership by example" but when was the last time you actually heard anyone, anywhere, describe a President or a  Congressman as honest?  If all you ever see is this current day "dog eat dog mentality" from your leaders doesn't that become the standard? If you look outside politics, you see greedy corporate pirates such as the Koch Brothers, Gates, and Angelo Mozilo. If your Congressmen and women are allowed to accept bribes from lobbyists, trade equities on information they receive as they formulate laws that impact various publicly traded industries and corporations, give themselves giant raises, sweet lifetime retirement deals, and health packages outside of Obamacare- at what point does our culture accept that as the norm or worse yet, describe it as intelligent? I think they already have.

It gets worse I think. If people don't understand the importance of virtue, they begin to see it as unnecessary. They don't apologize for their lack of virtue because they don't see any reason to have it. So I think that type of moral decay has to be in place before societies crumble. When we collectively abandon civil ways of dealing with each other, abandon virtue, morals, and ethical behavior- we are ensuring our demise. It makes perfect sense. If people are setting the example, treating each other civilly, and always acting within the bounds of virtue and integrity- your society is at it's strongest. There is no moral erosion. In fact, I often think that this missing piece is the root of all of our problems. I see it everyday.

When I was a child, two things happened. My parents instilled a strong sense of right and wrong. Note that I had two parents. I was taught how to behave with virtue. That does not mean that I always behaved correctly- often as a child and a young adult, I did not. However, those were just my poor choices. Secondly,  children were taught civics in school and our teachers were very active and involved with this. This three pronged approach- two parents and our schools- taught us the importance of integrity, virtue, and ethical behavior.

This doesn't happen anymore. Schools quit teaching civics long ago. Two parents is an iffy proposition and chances are good that one or both parents have dismissed virtuous behavior as a waste of time anyway. Instead, they are busy working and accumulating "things."

Replacing virtuous behavior in our society is the idea that all we really need to do is comply with the legal minimums. What is barely legal is the only concern nowadays. Corporations and the pirates that run many of them, take every advantage possible. They pay the bare minimums. They routinely find ways to skirt having to pay overtime, health insurance and other benefits, and all they really care about is greed. If they can get away with something, they will. Acting responsibly and doing the right thing are no longer big concerns. Accumulating as much wealth as possible is their only concern. It is a sickness. Our political leaders lie with impunity. They engage in every greedy and self centered act just so long as they can get away with it. Some might be cash register honest- but I'm not convinced they have that much integrity. Take a look at some of these people, consider Darrell Issa. He is a former CEO and quite wealthy. He also has an unbelievable criminal history- most of which he has gotten away with- while now acting head of the Government Oversight and Reform Committee. You cannot make this stuff up.

And watching this dog and pony show, is a culture and society that hasn't had any real or moralistic leadership since JFK and some might even argue that. Nobody leads by example today and oddly, there are people who would argue that our current leadership is fine. Remember, you can't possibly know what you haven't been taught. It doesn't come by osmosis.

Could the slow erosion and demise of our society and culture occur because we abandoned virtue and ethical behavior for self-centered-ness and materialism? Could it be that simple?

I think so.

What remains to be seen is whether our culture picks itself up, recognizes what is wrong, and gets back on track with some moral excellence or whether we continue to circle the drain. It almost makes me sorry that I'm not going to be around to see how all of this ends. If we do manage to pick ourselves up- it certainly won't be at the behest of our current government "role models." In fact, it may very well occur without them. Let's hope so.