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For those who might not recognize the name, Rahm Emanuel, he is a Democrat big-wig dating all the way back to the Bill Clinton days. Presently he is the United States Ambassador to Japan since 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 55th Mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019 and the 23rd White House Chief of Staff from 2009 to 2010, and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois between 2003 and 2009.

Why bring him up at this point in time with the war in Ukraine and Joe Biden seemingly cowering more and more in Delaware? … Actually, that is exactly why I mention Rahm Emanuel … Let me explain.

Back in 2008 Rahm Emanuel said,

“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

From The Epoch Times:

“Ukraine’s NATO membership was never ‘imminent’ and will not be on the agenda in the near future, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on 3/11/22.

‘It has been clear for a long time that membership for Ukraine was not something that was imminent, not something which is relevant in the near future,’ he said at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum.”

Perhaps, just one man’s opinion? Apparently not likely as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on March 4 that Ukraine’s NATO membership “will not take place.”

“I also made it clear in Moscow and in my visit that this option [Ukraine’s membership of NATO] is not on the table and will not take place,” he said during an interview with German public broadcaster ZDF.

“I said publicly that we all know that Ukraine’s NATO membership is not on the alliance’s agenda today,” he added. “That was understood by the American president, that [was] also understood by the French president.”

Scholz said he shares Russian President Vladimir Putin’s security concern and clarified to Putin that Ukraine will not be allowed to join NATO.”

So we have both the German Chancellor and the NATO Secretary-General both saying basically the same thing that was apparently ‘understood by both the French and the U.S. … So why now?

I have read multiple conjectures by multiple sources as to ‘why now?’ 

In my opinion, Putin was very cognizant of Rahm Emanuel’s quote, as well as similar axioms by others in the past. He recognized the profound weakness emanating from Washington, and could not let this opportunity go to waste. Consequently the ‘coincidence’ of the gathering en masse of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border, and the beginning Joe Biden’s presidency was ‘no coincidence.’ Putin saw an opportunity to do things he could not do before, and could not let that opportunity go to waste!

3/14/22

From BlazeMedia:

Transgender advocates believe Rowling is an enemy of their movement because the “Harry Potter” author affirms the biological structure of sex and gender and believes that transgender ideology delegitimizes women.

Rowling has repeated her beliefs several times in recent years, and, just last November, she vowed never to stop defending biological women’s sex-based rights.

Rowling has been critically outspoken in recent days about Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill, which would further codify progressive transgender ideology in Scottish society. Specifically, Rowling believes the legislation “will harm the most vulnerable women in society.”

“Multiple women’s groups have presented well-sourced evidence to [First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon’s] government about the likely negative consequences of this legislation for women and girls, especially the most vulnerable. All has been ignored,” Rowling said.

Then, in response to someone who challenged Rowling by commenting, “Do you really want your legacy to die on this hill?” … Rowling responded, 

‘Yes, sweetheart. I’m staying right here on this hill, defending the right of women and girls to talk about themselves, their bodies and their lives in any way they damn well please. You worry about your legacy, I’ll worry about mine.’”

Wow, someone who is standing up to the “woke crowd,” and is not afraid of cancel culture. Someone who stands on principle. Certainly someone we can all look up to … especially all women and girls.

3/13/22

Let’s play a little game of “what if?” 

For instance, what if when then President Clinton had the chance to take out Osama bin Ladin, he gave the okay? How many American lives would have been saved if bin Ladin was already dead on that infamous day in September in 2001?

What if German army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg had been successful in his attempt to kill Adolf Hitler in 1944? How many lives would have been saved?

What if Florida State trooper, Toni Shuck, did not place her own life in danger when she positioned her SUV between a speeding suspected DUI motorist and throngs of unsuspecting runners participating in the Skyway 10K on 3/6/22. By using her initiative to stop the evil drunk driver, she saved dozens upon dozens of lives and saved even more people from serious bodily harm injury. Are the throngs of people that were saved by Trooper Shuck any more important than the hundreds of Ukrainian civilians who have lost their lives? What about the millions of Ukrainians who have been forced to flee and take refuge in a foreign country, all because of the evil Vladimir Putin.

Recently, Lindsey Graham said the only way Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ends is “for somebody in Russia to take this guy out”.

In a statement on Twitter, the outspoken Republican asks if the Russian president has a “Brutus” who can take out Mr Putin and end the war.

Sen. Graham was vilified by a number of his colleagues, but was he ‘right on?’ The more I think about how this Ukraine war is likely to end, the more prescient I think Sen. Graham was.

These examples of “what if,” bring up a more basic question … “Should the getting rid of evil be encouraged? … Should the silencing for good of an obviously evil person, like Hitler or bin Ladin have been encouraged?Likewise should the killing of Putin be encouraged?Is  there any doubt that he is evil? What if Putin were assassinated tomorrow … how many innocent lives would be saved?

3/12/22

As Charles H. Spurgeon noted in his 1887 compendium of proverbs, The Salt-Cellars: “A hog in a silk waistcoat is still a hog,” meaning, “Circumstances do not alter a man’s nature, nor even his manners.”

Much later Barack Obama, in 2008, told a crowd at a campaign event, “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” Little did we know at that time that B.O. was prescient, and was in fact, speaking of his then running mate, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.

Apparently back then, B.O. knew that J.B. just could not make a decision based purely on principle … he had to first check the way the wind was blowing, and even then … well, the wind could change! 

Rumor has it that while still in grade school in Scranton, J.B. could not standup to the 4th grade bully, and as we all know, a zebra does not change its stripes, even when the zebra moves to Delaware, and later to D.C.

Not standing up to bullies is part of his nature, and circumstances do not change a man’s nature. Twice, in last couple of days, the pig basically has said, “oink, oink!”

First:

Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have been plotting to assassinate John Bolton, former national-security adviser in the Trump administration, says a Justice Department official with direct knowledge of the government’s investigation of the suspected plot. That is according to Tom Rogan, who reported the development in the Washington Examiner on Monday,3/7/22.

The DOJ source told Rogan that prosecutors have enough evidence to indict two Iranians attached to the IRGC’s Quds force, but that the Biden administration has resisted filing public charges for fear that it could derail their ongoing effort to strike a nuclear deal with Tehran.

It seems like the piggy, although no longer in Scranton, still cannot stand up to the bully. 

Then the headline:

“Biden Changes Tune on Helping Ukraine with Fighter Jets”

But why? From the Wall Street Journal editorial board: What happened between Mr. Blinken’s endorsement and the Pentagon’s rejection? It’s hard not to conclude that the White House blinked for fear of provoking Mr. Putin, who is demanding that the West stop arming Ukraine. But NATO countries are already sending all sorts of weapons into Ukraine. Is a Polish MiG with a Ukrainian pilot somehow more provocative than a Turkish drone or an American antitank missile? Transferring planes isn’t the same as NATO aviators directly shooting down Russian jets (WSJ). 

Poland which shares a border with Ukraine was all ready to go, but then “wee, wee, wee, all the way home!”

3/11/22

“Vaccine-induced immunity can never be as long-lasting and robust as naturally acquired immunity,” said Lentz-Marino, who taught chemistry and biology classes at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, for more than 20 years. “The human immune system knows what it’s doing. We are an incredibly successful species. There would not be close to 8 billion people on the planet otherwise.”

This, my friends, is an example of common sense thinking. So why hasn’t the CDC thought about natural immunity in a common sense way. Similarly why hasn’t Dr. Fauci addressed the issue of natural immunity? ( BTW, has everyone noticed that gratefully we are no longer having him forced down our throats.) I think that it all comes down to the practicality of the issue. When you think about the issue of natural immunity to Covid from the position of the CDC, you quickly realize that the CDC has a big practical problem. At this stage of the game, it would be close to impossible for the CDC to resort to common sense, despite a near avalanche of information. 

There are recent studies that appear to confirm the benefit of natural immunity … from the Epoch Times:

-An Israeli study found that people who were vaccinated who hadn’t been previously infected were 6 to 13 times more likely to get infected with COVID-19 than unvaccinated people who had already had the illness.

-Another study, however, suggests that the chances of reinfection are even lower than 1 in 1,000. Cleveland Clinic scientists who examined a cohort of 52,238 employees found no cases of reinfectionamong unvaccinated people with evidence of prior SARS-Co-V-2 infections.

-Other recent data also suggests that natural immunity is long-lasting. A study from Finland published in September in the European Journal of Immunology found that in COVID-recovered patients protection against reinfection persisted for over a year.

Think of all the issues that could have been avoided if from the beginning the CDC said the following:

“Those who have had the vaccine(s), keep a copy of your vaccination data. Likewise, those who have had a documented Covid infection, keep a copy of your documented positive Covid test result.”

Think of all of the issues that could have been avoided if the CDC, and Dr. Fauci had taken this practical and common-sensical approach from the beginning. How many of the “anti-vaccers” are such, because they have already had Covid? How many people have been fired from their jobs because they would not submit to a vaccine that they didn’t need?

Practically speaking, does anyone think that Fauci or the CDC will ever reach this common sense resolution?

3/10/22

When I read the news of the day, it reminded me of a 1965 hit song by the Dave Clark Five, titled “Over and Over.”  The song itself was about a guy at a dance, but the mesmerizing part was the repetition of the chorus … over and over and over again … like this:

“I said over and over and over again

This dance is gonna be a drag

I said over and over and over again

This dance is gonna be a drag”

Etcetera; etcetera; etcetera!

Why did this refrain immediately come to mind when I read the news of the day? Actually, simple, as Joe Biden did it again with his adamant refusal to make the U.S. energy independent like it was when he assumed office. Those who have read my blog over the years have probably lost track of how many times I have pointed out that the Dems have done things that hurt the little guy the most – over and over and over, again!

By the little guy I mean those among us who are in the lower and middle socioeconomic classes.

By not opening up the different things that he shut down, Biden is driving up the cost of gas/oil, and consequently he is going to overwhelmingly hurt that little guy. As the price of gas goes up toward $7.00 per gallon and beyond, who is going to be hurt the most? Think about it … is it going to be the guy who drives a newer, more gas efficient car or a hybrid? Gosh, no. Is it going to be one who can work from home. Gosh, no! Is it going to be the retired guys who do not have to drive back and forth to work each day … again, no. 

Who’s it going to hurt?

Obviously, it’s going to be the guy who drives an older gas-guzzler because he cannot afford a new car!  In addition, those who are going to be hurt the most as gas prices go up and up, are those who have to drive a myriad of miles back and forth to work each day because they can not afford to live close to their place of work.

To magnify just how out touch the Democrats are, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, is out there trying to convince all to drive electric cars. Obviously, Buttigieg must not be aware that the average cost of a new electric vehicle was $56,437 in November 2021, Kelley Blue Book said — an increase of 6.2% from November 2020. Are those who are in the lower and middle segments of our society going to be able to buy an electric car? … Obviously, no!

Meanwhile, in a speech, VP Kamala Harris was “imagining a future” without fossil fuels in a poor take-off on the John Lennon song.

The headline from the NY Post sums up what complete jerks and how out of touch these top Democrats are:

“Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg slammed for ‘tone-deaf’ e-vehicle push as gas skyrockets.” In case you are wondering, neither mentioned gas prices in their out-of-touch proclamations.

Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, tweeted, “The Biden Administration could not be more tone-deaf.” Rep. Mullin certainly hit the nail on the head, and over the years the Dems continue to hurt the little guy … over and over and over, again!

3/9/22

Word has it that there is a special place in heaven for martyrs. For those not into religion, martyrs are those who die because of their religion. “Renounce your faith, or else!” The “or else” in times past has been the guillotine, being stoned to death, being thrown to the lions in Ancient Rome, etcetera … you get the picture. 

Are the martyrs of today those who are dying because of ballistic missiles? Can the close to 500 Ukrainian civilians who have been killed  be called martyrs? Err … technically speaking, I suppose not, because in order to be a martyr, there has to be a religion. However, what if one dies because of a religion, but is really just an innocent bystander. What if those civilians in Ukraine have died as a consequence of the tenets or beliefs of a religion? If they died as a consequence of someone’s beliefs in a certain religion, then technically I suppose that they could be called martyrs … is the religion involved here is the “religion of global warming?”

Think about it for a second. A large chunk of Putin’s war is being financed by the buying of oil/natural gas from Russia. In Europe, Germany is the biggest sponsor of this religion. Germany has gone so far overboard here with the global warming religion that they have pointed themselves into a corner and thus are basically being forced to buy energy from Russia. As a result of Germany’s worship at the altar of global warming, Ukrainian civilians are dying.

Likewise, President Biden’s shutting down of the production and transport  of fossil fuels in the U.S. is having a similar outcome. Because of his steadfast adoration at the global warming altar, the U.S. continues to buy gas/oil from Putin’s Russia and consequently innocent Ukrainian citizens are being killed.

There might just be a special place in heaven for those innocent Ukrainian individuals who being killed in the name of the religion of global warming.

3/8/22

Is Joe Biden impotent? 

Here, far from being facetious, I am being 100% serious.

(In a purely physical sense, the answer is possibly yes, but who cares?) Here I am speaking of “impotent” in a non-physical sense. Let’s look at the definitions of the word, “impotent.”

   1 not potent; lacking power or ability.

   2. utterly unable (to do something).

   3. without force or effectiveness.

Let’s go through these definitions one at a time:

1. “Lacking power or ability” … First, does he have power? The answer here is, of course, yes. He does have the power. He had the power to cripple of our energy sector. and on becoming President, he immediately did just that. How is that turning out? Look at all his vaccine mandates. How many of them are still breathing? One could put Fred Flintstone in the POTUS position, and he would also have the power, but unfortunately, Mr. Flintstone does not have any ability. Does J.B. have the ability? From my perspective the answer is, no, as throughout his agonizingly long political career, I cannot think of a single instance where he has demonstrated any ability.

1. “Utterly unable (to do something)” … This one is actually easy. Not only is J.B. unable to give coherent answers to what should be simple questions (“they told me not to answer any questions!”), but in addition, he cannot give a speech without a teleprompter … let me rephrase that … he is unable to give a totally coherent speech even with a teleprompter. In fact when one tries to look apolitically at this issue he is the antithesis of our last President.

1. “Without force or effectiveness” … At this point in time, he is being completely overrun by Putin, who recognized a feckless, ineffective “leader” from the git-go. It seems that the only thing that J.B. has been effective at is assuring that the slaughter in Ukraine continues. J.B. has said, “sanctions will take time,” but how long should we have to wait while the Russian destruction in Ukraine keeps rolling along. If he knew that sanctions were going to take time, why did he wait until after the fact to implement them? Could it be because because he is “without force or effectiveness?”

So going back to my original question … “Is Joe Biden impotent?”

My answer has to be that although technically he has the power, unfortunately he lacks both the ability, and the forcefulness to be an effective leader, and therefore, sad to say, my answer is, “yes, he is the impotent “leader of the free world!”

3/7/22

Although today is Sunday instead of talking about someone we should admire and look up to, this piece is about an inspiring story.

From Epoch Bright:

In December 2015, schools in Abuja, Nigeria, had sent children home because Boko Haram attacks were growing in frequency and intensity. Kayode Adewumi owned a printing business there in Nigeria, and he got an order for 25,000 copies of something on a flash drive.

It was a poster with a logo of guns, and the words in Arabic reading “Kill all Christians. Death to Western education.”

Kayode and his wife, Oluwatoyin, realized the flash drive was from Boko Haram, and tried to return the drive and turn down the order.

But they didn’t let Kayode go easily—though their sons, Tani and Austin, knew little of what was going on at the time, Kayode and Oluwatoyin faced four heart-stopping visits from Boko Haram that drove them out of town, and then out of the country.

But after the fourth time, it became clear this was no way to raise their children. A tourist visa to the United States they had applied for months ago turned out to be a huge blessing, and the family moved to Dallas to stay with Oluwatoyin’s uncle. Subsequently, Kayode, Oluwatoyin, and their two sons, younger Kani and older Austin, relocated to New York City.

The two brothers played a made-up game that was something akin to chess. Once Tani started school in New York, he took a chess class, where he learned the real rules of the game. His curious mind took to the puzzles immediately, and his interest only kept growing as he discovered the strategies of past and present chess legends, and how to develop his own style.

Last year, the 9-year-old Tani had only been playing chess for one year when he won the New York State Chess Championship. Tani, his parents, and his brother, Austin, were living in a homeless shelter at the time, and his chess coach reached out to a reporter with their story, and things took off from there.

The family tells their story in detail in the book “My Name Is Tani … and I Believe in Miracles” written with author Craig Borlase, which hits shelves April 14, along with a young reader’s version. A movie adaptation of Tani’s life is in the works at Paramount.

3/6/22

Let’s assume that you are a Canadian without any significant political leaning. One of your close friends has a son who is a trucker, and last month this friend’s son was going to participate in a protest by driving from Calgary east toward Ontario. You remembered this kid from when he was a teenager and used to play with your son. He was basically a good kid, and so when you heard that these truckers needed some financial support, you donated $25 to help pay for their gas and food. You felt that doing this for a friend was the least you could do.

We are all familiar with what happened in Ottawa, etc. most of us are familiar with Trudeau’s response. On Feb. 14, Trudeau enacted the Emergencies Act, which enabled Canadian banks to freeze the assets of anyone who donated to protests against the vaccine mandates — without due process or any court action. Your bank account and credit cards were frozen … in essence for a $25 contribution to what seemed at the time to be a reasonable cause. 

To you this appeared to be an exaggerated and heavy handed response, and you vowed not to be in this position again in the future … if they did it once, they could certainly do it again. What to do? Your wife and you agreed that there was only one prudent thing to do … get all of your money and credit cards out of Canada when the dust had cleared. Subsequently when Trudeau ordered the banks to unfreeze the accounts after the protesters had been cleared away, you did exactly what you had planned to do. But lo and behold, you were not the only one who had formulated this same plan. 

From PJMedia:

“Armstrong Economics says there was a stunning run on banks across Canada, as scared citizens are withdrawing their life savings and transferring it to foreign banks in the United States and elsewhere.

The sheer amount of money withdrawals from Canadian banks was massive. There appears to have been a 500% increase just in the previous 24 hours. This is the problem with politicians. They are simply UNQUALIFIED to make such decisions. They have no idea that freezing accounts will undermine the confidence in the banking system,

Trudeau has created a very serious crisis and just rescinding his Emergency Act is not going to make it all better. Trudeau has driven a stake through the heart of the Canadian economy and that means that international capital will be skeptical about trusting Canada as long a Trudeau is in power. If it’s true that Canadians are panicking and withdrawing all their money from Canadian banks, then this is a huge story, and yet it’s one that the corporate media doesn’t seem interested in at all. There isn’t one report in any corporate press about any of this.”

Am I surprised at what is happening in the Canadian banking system? Actually, “No,” as far left liberals like Trudeau just do not have the capability to see the long term consequences of their actions. Is this another situation where the liberal Canadian press are purposely not reporting on anything which puts Trudeau in a bad light?

Again from PJMedia:

“Jordan Peterson, famed Canadian philosopher, says he’s been in contact with a “reliable source” in the Canadian military who advised him to take his money out of the Canadian banking system because the situation is “far worse” than anyone is being told.”

Hmmm! What will happen? 

I guess we will just have to wait and see.

3/5/22