Month: March 2019

In my car I have Sirius Radio, and BTW I love it! Anyway the other day I heard a song from the 70s, Lonesome Loser by Little River Band, and immediately thought about the Democrats. 

”Have you heard about the Lonesome Loser?
Beaten by the Queen of Hearts every time.
Have you heard about the Lonesome Loser?
He’s a loser but he still keeps on trying.”

In my mind the Queen of Hearts is the Independent voter, mainly in the Heartland. Why do the Lonesome Losers (the Democrats) keep on going with the same kind of horses when they can’t win? Why the Democrats apparent insistence going more and more leftward with their party’s ideas? (Granted one of the reasons they lost in 2016 was that they had a flawed candidate, but as I have pointed out before, the country is not ready to elect another liberal/leftist candidate. Barack Obama was elected because he was black and was a very persuasive speaker.) Yes, certainly there are areas of the country that lean very leftward, but California and New York will not be enough to elect a very liberal president in 2020. 

Yet, at this point, it appears that most of the headlines are being made by those young fillies on the far left like Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, Rep Ilhan Omar, and Rep. Tlaib, each of whom has won only one race. (“You go, girls! Continue speaking out!”) 

CNN  just had a focus group of Democratic voters, and they rejected Joe Biden because they “wanted a candidate that was more progressive,” i.e. further to the left. This is despite the fact that Mr. Biden apparently has an early lead in some polls.(You go, CNN. Continue pushing left!”) 

In my opinion Sen. Cory Booker, Sen.Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Saunders, and Sen Kamala Harris are too liberal to be elected President. Most times when they speak, I hear a lot of nice-nellyisms (an evasive style, full of circumlocutions).They are far from being thoroughbreds, and yet they are the ones that are receiving the most publicity in the newspapers.(You go NYTimes  & WaPo. Continue your liberal slant.)

Today in both in the national WSJ and also in the local liberal paper, the headlines announced the intent of the Democrats in the House to “step up Trump probes.” (You go Adam Schiff, Intelligence Committee (Rep, CA) and you go Rep. Jerrold Nader (D,NY), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.) At some point these continued “investigations” will start to have a negative effect with the independent voters, who are already tired of Mueller’s unending “investigation of ??.”

The “final nail in the Democratic coffin” will occur on March 3, 2020 because on that date there will be primaries in the liberal states of California, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Vermont. This will be after approximately seven or eight Democratic debates, and MSNBC and NBC will have the progressives fired up and in a frenzy. After this day a very liberal progressive candidate is likely to have the lead in the race to oblivion. (You go, progressives. The further left, the better!)

At this point even though I do not have experience in handicapping, I am going to predict the following results from the Nov. 3, 2020 election race. (You go, Contrarian.)

Win: Donald Trump – actually by a comfortable margin.

Place: Kamala Harris

Show: The independents, especially those from the heartland, who showed up big time and carried Trump across the finish line!

Remember you heard it here first!

The other night I was driving along minding my own business when . . . Boom! My left front tire had hit something, something big. The next day in the light I was able to see that this was a huge rectangular pothole, large enough that a large dachshund could have curled up in it for a nap. Now granted that this pothole was larger than the average-sized pothole, but those of the smaller variety are everywhere, and none are good for your tires or alignment. 

Coincidentally, that same morning one of the articles on the front page of my local newspaper was titled, “$1M Deal in Latest Cycling Injury Lawsuit.” This particular lawsuit was because a biker was severely injured because of a bike accident due to a pothole. Now granted this payout was not nearly as large as the 2017 $5M lawsuit payout to a bicyclist that had been launched several feet because of a damaged city sidewalk. One would think that $1M and $5M could fix a lot of potholes and damaged sidewalks, but surprisingly I could not find an increased allotment for fixing potholes or damaged sidewalks in the latest city budget. There is a lot of “touchy-feely” stuff in the proposed budget, like more tree planting because of the beneficial effects of trees on CO2, and improvements in bicycle paths and pedestrian walkways to encourage decreased use of cars, and thus combat global warming! Why do these City Council men and women feel that their job is primarily to “make the world ‘a better place’ for future generations by combatting ‘global warming’?” Will they ever realize that increasing the number of bike paths is not going to prevent “global warming/climate change” when, according to the New York Times in 2017, the Chinese are building or planning to build more than 700 new coal plants at home and around the world, some in countries that today burn little or no coal. Most of these plants are in China, but by capacity, roughly a fifth of these new coal power stations are in other countries. Over all around the globe, 1,600 coal plants are planned or under construction in 62 countries, according to data from the Global Coal Plant Tracker portal. While these new plants will expand the world’s coal-fired power capacity by 43 percent, the know-it-alls on our City Council are expanding bike paths and not fixing potholes! Go figure!!

When you are taking care of two little ones it is not that unusual for one to complain that the other did such & such. As the parent or grandparent you quickly learn not to respond to every “he did this” or “she did that,” and in fact do the smart thing and  discourage such behavior. “No tattling!”

A daughter of mine is a kindergarten teacher and has told me that if she wanted to spend her time actually teaching, she had to put a lid on “Manuel is not being nice,” or “Julia is not sitting on her spot,” or the dreaded “Michael is looking at me!” For these young kids this is often their first social experience, and this immature behavior must be nipped in the bud, otherwise the teacher cannot get any traction. “No tattling!”

Obviously certain aggressive behaviors cannot be tolerated and the line is quickly drawn. Even a five-year old understands the difference between calling George “shorty,” and punching or kicking George. As the children grow older, they mature and learn to tell the difference between the small change (“four-eyes”) and the big money (bullying). I agree that calling someone “four-eyes” is not a nice thing to do, and while being on the receiving end is not pleasant, such is life . . . apparently until you are a freshman at the University of Illinois, where according to the Washington Examiner, social media posts from the University of Illinois campus police are encouraging students to report “acts of intolerance” to the school’s Bias Assessment and Response Team (B.A.R.T.). The long list of potentially objectionable verbal offenses ends with the dreaded . . . “etc.”!

Again according to the Examiner, those reported for bias may be required to participate in mediation, “educational conversations,” or “resolution agreements” and may receive referrals to other offices at the school. In some cases, incidents which are deemed as possible violations of the Student Code can be forwarded to the Student Discipline System. If you offend a snowflake, get ready to be plowed under at U. of I.! What do others think of these snowflakes? According to Fox News:

Actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson lamented the “snowflake” culture in an interview with the U.K.’s Daily Star.
Johnson, who has toyed with the idea of politics, told the publication that snowflakes’ complaints do a disservice to the war heroes who fought for freedom of speech.
“So many good people fought for freedom and equality – but this generation are looking for a reason to be offended,” he said. “If you are not agreeing with them then they are offended – and that is not what so many great men and women fought fore.”

I guess those leftists, who think that these P.C. dictums are good for ? somebody, probably missed that day when the kindergarten teacher said, “No tattling! Alternatively, perhaps they were an only child who was home-schooled through high-school, or perhaps even went directly from pre-school to college.

Mark my words, this B.A.R.T. surveillance  will cause nothing but chaos at the U. of I.