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For many years now I have postulated that the basic main difference between liberals and conservatives has to do with the part of the brain in which each group does its thinking.
For the most part liberals do most of their thinking in the midbrain which focuses predominately on emotion, whereas the brain locale of thinking for conservatives is in the forebrain which focuses predominately on reason and logic. For example, let’s look at ‘climate change.’ Liberals strongly feel that we must all do our part. It is up to each individual to do his/her part … to drive an electric car and to keep their houses cool in the winter in order to save the planet (emotional thinking). On the other hand the forebrain thinkers realize that turning down the temperature inside their house from 70 to 62 will not make one iota of difference as long as China continues to build new coal plants (logical thinking).

From Twitchy:
“He says he is a girl. Reality is irrelevant. Logic is irrelevant. His physical body and physical sex are irrelevant. His word is law. The authorities say he needs to be included above all else. Included on the girls’ team, not the boys’. “Inclusion” on boys’ teams doesn’t count. He alone gets to decide who he competes with and against. Female athletes aren’t given a choice.
Female players are left on the bench or excluded from competitions. His inclusion is paramount, theirs, an afterthought.”

But now these ultra-liberal leftists have a bit of a thinking problem when it comes to transgender males playing in women’s sports. It had always been that we all should have pity on these individuals since they really believe that they are women, and rather than upsetting them, the thing to do is to just acquiesce to their desires, and allow them to be whichever gender they desire. However, the “woe is them” philosophy is teetering as more and more of the generalized nationwide philosophy is now saying “woe is them,” as far as all of the young girls who are being harmed by these transgendered pseudo-females. Increasingly girls are not making their high school sports teams as they are being replaced by these pseudo-females. Likewise, first place medals are increasingly being given to transgenders.
The emotions are shifting! However they are not shifting enough as far as I am concerned!
5/7/25

I realize that for whatever reason, the “climate change, global warming emergency” no longer seems to be in the headlines anywhere except in California. In California the climate change, global warming emergency is the prime force that has taken over the minds of the governor and the wackos in Sacramento.
From Red State:
Only a week or so ago Phillips 66 announced they were going to close down their 100-year-old refinery outside of Los Angeles.
This was blamed on Gov. Gavin Newsom and the CA legislature’s hostile climate for any fossil fuel-related business operating in the state.
Meanwhile, energy company Valero has been signaling for over six months that it was seriously considering shuttering two of its California refineries. The first word of their intentions came last October.
Little more was heard from Valero until a few weeks ago, and only then because they made it official – their company was closing the San Francisco area Benicia refinery in 2026.
Valero CEO Lane Riggs cited challenging regulatory and enforcement environment for the decision to cease operations.

Valero dropped its bombshell April 16 announcement roughly six months after regional and state air regulators fined the company a record $82 million for secretly exceeding toxic emissions standards for at least 15 years. And last month, city leaders voted unanimously to impose moderate new safety regulations on the facility.

In September 2023, Newsom’s administration filed a lawsuit targeting the oil industry for “lying to consumers for more than 50 years” about climate change. He signed into law a bill seeking to hold Chevron and other refiners liable for allegedly price-gouging consumers. California bill SB X1-2 authorizes the state energy commission to determine an acceptable profit margin for in-state refiners and penalize those that exceed it. More recently, bill AB X2-1 has mandated increased reporting requirements by the state’s refiners.

Further complicating this situation this Benicia Valero refinery is also the major fuel supplier for Travis Air Force Base, delivered via direct pipeline from the refinery to the base fuel pits. The busy military hub uses a tremendous amount of jet fuel that is not easily replaceable by CA’s rapidly dwindling sources, and that would have to be brought in by a fuel truck.

And so we have it!
Newsom and his Sacramento cronies may have gone beyond the point of no return. How much longer will rational Californians continue to tolerate such tomfoolery?
5/6/25

One thing that wasn’t even discussed back in the early stages of Covid and its vaccine was “which of the two available vaccines was best?”
As many of us remember back in the beginning there was a general panic about ‘how soon and where can I get the Covid vaccine?’ In some parts of the country people were driving hours because enough vaccine was not available in their locale. Here in San Diego the vaccine was available on a first-come, first-serve basis at a giant parking lot outside our baseball stadium. Get registered, drive up and wait your turn. Back then us senior citizens were just happy to have some way to get vaccinated. I do not recall anyone asking which of the two major vaccines am I getting?

Which of the two major vaccines did any one individual receive?
Pfizer (BNT 262b2) or Moderna (mRNA1273)
Basically, it was the luck of the draw!

From Coffee and Covid:
“Earlier this week an important covid shot study was published as a preprint on MedRxIV. It was blandly titled, “Twelve-Month All-Cause Mortality after Initial COVID-19 Vaccination with Pfizer-BioNTech or mRNA-1273 among Adults Living in Florida.”

The study scraped Florida’s Medicare database and compared the two jabs against each other, specifically, their risks of dying from any cause —“all-cause mortality”— and they found a statistically undeniable +40% risk of fatality following the Pfizer jab over Moderna.

In other words, hundreds of thousands more Floridians died in the 12 months following the Pfizer jab than Moderna, when there should have been no difference at all. Specifically, they found that +230 more people died after Pfizer for every 100,000 jabbed. Not only that, but Pfizer getters died from cardiovascular causes at a rate of +83 more often per 100,000.

“If this study is right, it implies catastrophic failure by the FDA for not requiring long-term safety data, the CDC for continuing to push boosters with no mortality data, the NIH for funding everything exceptwhat might challenge the narrative, and Big Pharma for withholding or obscuring adverse event data.”

Here’s where serendipity kicked in … both my wife and I got the Moderna vaccine. We lucked out!
“There but for the grace of God, go I”

The reporting of this by the Main Stream Media? … “Crickets!”
5/3/25

Sometimes I ask myself the question, “Is this the hill that they are willing to die on?”
Certainly, there are a number of liberal policies that I consider insane, and query to myself, “ Is this the hill that they are willing to die on?”
The latest involves the University of Pennsylvania (U Penn). As many of you will recall U Penn had a transgender swimmer, who was called Lia Thomas. In 2022, transgender-identifying UPenn student Lia Thomas won a Division I NCAA women’s swimming championship in the 500-yard freestyle event after competing on the men’s team from 2017–2020.
Riley Gaines, a former Kentucky women’s swimmer who competed against Thomas, and Paula Scanlan, a former teammate of Thomas’s who had to share a locker room with the male athlete identifying as transgender, have lobbied against men’s participation in women’s sports.
From the Epoch Times:
The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) remains in violation of Title IX regulations lingering from a transgender-identifying athlete’s victory in an NCAA women’s swimming title for the school in 2022 and will have 10 days to resolve the issue before the matter is referred to the Department of Justice, federal officials said on April 28.
The announcement was made after the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights sent a notice of noncompliance to UPenn President Larry Jameson.

“UPenn has a choice to … do the right thing for its female students and come into full compliance with Title IX immediately, or continue to advance an extremist political project that violates federal antidiscrimination law and puts UPenn’s federal funding at risk.”

UPenn must also restore to female athletes their rightful records, titles, and honors, “or similar recognition for Division I swimming competitions misappropriated by male athletes competing in female categories.”
In addition, “the university must send a letter to each female athlete whose individual recognition is restored, expressing an apology on behalf of the university for allowing her educational experience to be marred by sex discrimination.”

The response from UPenn was basically a tap dance!
Is this really the hill that UPenn wishes to die on?
5/2/25

Recently I have become aware of something bizarre that appears to be going on in China.
From the Epoch Times on 4/15/25:
Chinese residents across the country continue to reveal on social media that amid ongoing respiratory infections and overcrowding at local hospitals and crematoriums, China’s villages, towns, and even streets in the big cities are looking eerily empty.
In a growing number of videos on Chinese-language social media, people across China are asking, “Where have all the people gone?”
A large amount of video footage shot by Chinese residents has emerged on social media in recent months showing many abandoned towns and villages across the country and empty streets in the big cities, with people questioning China’s real population in 2025.

From the Epoch Times on 4/29/25:
Residents in different regions of mainland China have reported to The Epoch Times recently that sudden deaths appear to be increasing.
Mr. Wang, who declined to provide his full name for safety concerns, told The Epoch Times on April 13 that many people in their 20s to 50s suddenly died. At least two of his relatives have died, he said.

Mr. Cao from Huadian City in Jilin Province, who didn’t reveal his first name for safety concerns, also told The Epoch Times that many young and middle-aged people he knew have died, one after another.
He said that on April 2, a friend of his in Dongying, Shandong Province in eastern China, died without any warning signs.

Mr. Su, a resident of Siping city in Jilin Province in northeast China who only provided his last name for safety reasons, told The Epoch Times that many people died unexpectedly this winter. He said they are of all ages, with the majority in their 50s.
He said that hardly any people are left in small towns and rural areas, and residents have been wondering, “Where have all the people gone?” Ten to 20 years ago, there were people everywhere, but now no one knows where they have gone, he said. Only a few elderly people are still in the villages.

Some suspect that the China made Covid vaccine may be responsible for… but ? After COVID-19 broke out in China at the end of 2019, Beijing mandated the use of domestically produced inactive COVID-19 vaccines and barred access to foreign MRNA vaccines.

Clearly something bizarre seems to be happening in China, but if China’s openness during Covid is any indication, it will probably be a while before we know anything.
5/1/25

One of the sites that I sometimes read, but rarely post about is
Twitchy. However, on 4/29 Twitchy had an excellent article about the oral arguments in Mahmoud v.Taylor, which is presently being argued at the Supreme Court.
Basically the case has to do with questionable material being force fed to K-5 children in Montgomery County, Maryland. In Montgomery County, the school district decided to push LGBTQ ideology hard during pride month a few years back, pushing their agenda on elementary schoolchildren. A number of Muslim and Catholic parents objected, wanting their children to be allowed to opt out. Whereas it had been okay previously for parents to opt out of certain things, because there was such a high number of opt-outs, the school board basically said “no opt-outs on this one.”
After reading some of the questions asked by Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Thomas, it appears that the petitioners will prevail. However, it was the comments of liberal Justice Jackson that Twitchy focused on. Justice Jackson noted that parents could send their children to private school if they didn’t like what the school in Montgomery Country was teaching.
Obviously, there are some practical problems concerning sending children to private schools.
After all, the reality is that many people can’t afford the tuition for a private school, nor can they take time off of a paying job to stay home to homeschool their children. We’re not saying it’s impossible to pick those options, but it is difficult and so, as a practical matter, many parents are absolutely forced to send their children to public schools.
So Twitchy suggested that Justice Jackson was endorsing robust vouchers for private schools. Wouldn’t that be something if a liberal Justice was in essence saying, “if you do not like what the public school is teaching your children, send them to a private school, and the state will pay for it.”
4/30/25

On 4/28 there were massive blackouts involving all over Spain, Portugal, southwestern France, plus parts of Belgium and the Netherlands.
The unprecedented blackout brought much of Spain and Portugal to a standstill, stranding thousands of train passengers and leaving millions of people without phone and internet coverage and access to cash from ATMs across the Iberian Peninsula.
The outage began at midday. Offices closed and traffic was snarled in Madrid and Lisbon, while some civilians in Barcelona directed traffic. Train services in both countries stopped.
Emergency services and rail workers in Spain had to help evacuate some 35,000 people from over 100 trains that stopped on the tracks when the electricity was cut. By 11 p.m. passengers from 11 trains still needed evacuating, and the cause of the blackout had not been ascertained.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said, “We have no answers, and we aren’t ruling out any hypothesis regarding the blackout.”
Cybersecurity reporter Ryan Gallagher was quoted on Bluesky saying that a cyberattack has been ruled out, and the problem is likely technical.
PJMedia raised an interesting point.
From PJ Media:
Is there a lesson here about so-called clean energy?
Spain reportedly went 100% renewables – mostly solar and wind – as of April 16th.
That isn’t quite accurate; Spain does still have traditional power sources, but they typically provide less than half the country’s electricity. April 16 just happened to be the first day that none of them were needed.

So now less than two weeks after April 16th there is a massive power outage! … Hmmm!
4/29/25

In the news over the last week or so there have been multiple complaints about various things that are related to President Trump’s illegal immigration policies.
First it was the Kilmar Abrego Garcia story that led to multiple Democratic congressman traveling to El Salvador for a reason that I have yet to figure out other than it being a photo-op.
Next it was the arrest of two judges, judge Cano in New Mexico and judge Dugan in Milwaukee. Each of these two were individually arrested after seemingly aiding and abetting two different illegals. The response of some on the left was near apoplexy … “a dictator,” “revenge,” and other manifestations of Trump Derangement Syndrome.(One liberal judge in northern Wisconsin was going to protest the arrest of the Milwaukee judge by not going to work! How this helps anybody in Wisconsin is a mystery to me!)
An then the story that Trump had deported a two-year old … the actual story was that the deported mother wished to have her two-year old with her.
If we could ever get these liberals to think logically, it would become apparent what the cause of all of these situations is … drum role please … Joe Biden and his out of control border non-policies.
Mark my words there will be many more future deportation sad stories, and the ultimate cause of all of them will be Joe Biden, or whomever was controlling the Biden puppet strings.
4/28/25

On Sundays I write about individuals that we can look up to and admire.
Just recently I read about Rodney Smith Jr. who has launched, Raising Men Lawn Care Services (RMLCS) and its sister program Raising Women Lawn Care Service.
From Epoch Bright:
It all started with a single act of kindness in his senior year in 2015, Smith says.
“I was leaving school, and I came across an elderly man outside mowing his lawn,” he said. “It looked like he was struggling, so I pulled over and helped him out, and then, little did I know, that one small act of kindness would end up changing my life.”

Getting home that night, Smith posted about the experience on Facebook. He was so inspired that he offered to mow the lawns of other older folks, asking if anyone had an elderly parent or knew any disabled veterans in need of a hand. He would show up and mow their lawns—for free.
“I can’t remember how many I done,” Smith said. “People reached out, and I started mowing lawns. At first my goal was to mow 40 lawns—I was in school, so I’d mow them in between classes—but I mowed 40 lawns so quick I had to go up to 100.”
After founding RMLCS in 2016, not only did Smith mow lawns for the needy in his area, but he invited kids across the country to take up his 50-Yard Challenge to mow 50 lawns and help their own communities. Those who completed the challenge were rewarded with a brand-new lawn mower and weed-whacker set, courtesy of Smith, which he hand-delivered personally, driving to family homes wherever in America they might be.
Over the years, some 5,000 boys and girls have signed up, and although many dropped out, unable to finish all 50 lawns, around 400 to 500 have completed all 50, Smith said. The 50-Yard Challenge not only helps the elderly and disabled but also all those kids aged 7 to 17 who do the mowing.
It teaches life lessons.
Smith has now driven to all 50 states to bestow kids with boxed sets of lawn-mowing equipment, visit with the winners, and mow lawns free of charge beyond his home state of Alabama.

Rodney Smith Jr. is truly someone we can all look up to and admire.
4/27/25

The other night, almost by accident, I happened to come upon a podcast by Billy O’Reilly. As many of you will recall, years ago the Bill O’Reilly Show used to be the front runner on Fox News. In O’Reilly’s Talking Points, he continually referenced Joe Biden as the ‘2nd worst President ever.’ I initially thought that he was implying that Jimmy Carter was the worst President ever despite the fact that in my own mind, Joe Biden is turning out to be much worse than Carter ever was. However, it turned out that O’Reilly thought that the 15th President, James Buchanan, was the worst President ever.
(FYI, from Wikipedia:
Buchanan’s presidency coincided with a period of escalating tensions over slavery and the looming Civil War. Historians often criticize him for failing to take a strong stance that could have prevented the war, instead relying on constitutional interpretations that favored the South.)

This ‘worst ever’ concept came to mind recently when I read about the ‘worst ever’ birth rate in the U.S.
From Daybreak Insider:
“Birth rates in the US have long been slipping, hitting a new low in 2023 with just under 3.6 million babies born that year. That’s about 76,000 less than 2022 and the lowest one-year tally since 1979 (New York Post).”

Could it be just more than coincidence that the lowest U.S birth rates have occurred during the tenure of two of the ‘worst ever’ Presidents? … with Carter in 1979, and Biden in 2023.
I wonder what the U.S. birth rate was during O’Reilly’s ‘worst ever’ President, James Buchanan?
Does the American public have an innate sense that having a baby might not be such a good idea when the sitting President is horrendous?
4/26/25