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I think that yesterday’s election was basically decided because Kamala Harris was a lousy candidate, and Trump took advantage of it. Trump took positions on a myriad of things, whereas Harris was the opposite … not taking positions on things she has supported in the past, such as; providing reparations to black Americans; “sanctuary cities”; the restoration of voting rights for all former prison inmates; welcoming multitudes of foreign nationals supposedly displaced by “climate change” to flood into the U.S.; providing taxpayer-funded sex-change mutilations to illegal aliens; ending the detention of illegal aliens; massive restrictions on drilling for oil; giving millions of illegal aliens smuggled into the country a pathway to citizenship; ending the death penalty; forcing automakers to cease building gas-burning vehicles by 2035; decriminalizing prostitution; closing private, for-profit prisons; and abolishing the Senate filibuster.
The Democrats have only themselves to blame for their shellacking, as it was they who covered for Biden’s obvious mental decline, and then arbitrarily anointed Harris as their candidate even though she was not likable and had not ever garnered any votes nationally.
To be honest Harris was put in the unenviable position of trying to reverse the feelings of many Americans concerning the future of our country. Prior to yesterday’s election according to CNN, only 28% of Americans believed the country was headed in the right direction. Gallup’s version was even more dismal at 26%. That was a startlingly low number, especially given its historical precedent.
What do the Democrats do now? To use a sport’s analogy … their staring pitcher (Joe Biden) was knocked out of the game early, and they were forced to use a substandard long-reliever (Kamala Harris) who had never pitched in the big leagues before. Consequently the Dems were trounced. Moreover, to make matters worse for the future, they have no relievers in the bullpen and no good prospects in the minors … they have no one ready to step up and be a starting pitcher before the election in four years … Good! Serves them right !
11/6/24

As I am sure you realize today is the official Election Day even though voting has been going on for quite a while in multiple locales. Thus it is possible that the election has basically already been decided.
For many months I have predicted a Trump victory, and some have asked why I have felt so strongly.
Some recent events obviously did not color my opinion months back. The latest news about jobs (in October there were just 12,000 new jobs, below the consensus estimate of 113,000) was inconsequential because the American people know that many cannot find a job.
I think that the Trump endorsements by Megyn Kelly, Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, and RFKJr had only a minimal effect. Likewise, I do not think that the “garbage” comment by Joe Biden had much of an effect.
Similarly,my opinion does not involve the betting sites, (Polymarket now favors Trump 60-40). Months back when I predicted a Trump victory the betting odds were close to even money.
Likewise my opinion did not involve polling, as back when I first predicted a Trump victory, the polling results showed that the race was close to even, and now every day it seems that different polling numbers are coming out.

To reiterate, for months I have been saying that Trump will be our next President. My prediction of a Trump victory was based on my betting on the judgement, pertinacity, and knowledge of the American electorate. Despite what the mainstream media was preaching, I was betting on the American people.
11/5/24

For a long time I have been paying attention to the Nazi-like tactics of some law enforcement officials who come to a person’s home with guns drawn. In a number of these situations a knock on the door or a letter in the mail could have been used instead, but, no. The latest outrageous over-the-top incident occurred on 10/30/24 in upstate New York to Mark Longo and his wife Christy. What did this couple do to warrant a convoy of vehicles and ten government agents to invade his home?
Did Mark Longo pray silently somewhere that he wasn’t supposed to?
Did Mark Longo push a bully who was verbally abusing his son in front of an abortion clinic?
Apparently Mark Longo did something far worse! He was keeping a pet squirrel in his house, and the proper paperwork, although started, had not yet been completed!
Some Karen, possibly Monica Keasler, complained to authorities and subsequently allegedly bragged about it. (I say ‘allegedly’ because Monica Keasler’s Facebook page has been taken down.)
The judge, Richard Rich, who signed the warrant that led to Mark Longo’s house being invaded by the gestapo was an independent until 2013 when he became a Democrat.
From Townhall:
“An upstate man whose beloved squirrel, Peanut, was cruelly killed by the state said he was treated like a “terrorist” when 10 government agents descended on his home during a five-hour raid.
Mark Longo, whose pet P’nut captured the hearts of 3 million social media users, was stunned when a convoy of vehicles carrying officials from the state departments of Environmental Conservation and Health arrived at his Pine City home.
“They treated me like I was a terrorist. They treated this raid as if I was a drug dealer. They ransacked my house for five hours,” Longo told The Post Saturday.
“They asked my wife, who is of German descent, what her immigration status was. They asked if I had cameras in my house. They wouldn’t allow me to go to the bathroom without a police escort, who then checked the back of the toilet to see if I was hiding anything there.” 

Now perhaps some might be asking why I would be blogging about a squirrel in New York on the day prior to the election. Well, I live in the total Democrat controlled state of California … totally Democrat just like New York. The governor of California is a Democrat just like the governor of New York, and most appointees are liberal. Now while I do not have any pets, I do pray quietly. If Kamala is elected, certainly the DOJ will continue to be gestapo-like, just like it is now, and I dread the morning that ten armed government agents come without cause to search my house, just like Mark Longo’s!
11/4/24

On Sundays I write about individuals who do something special, and deserve our respect and praise.
Today, that person is Dr. Luis Manuel de Jesus, an obstetrician who lives and works in Santo Domingo. The father of three had aspired to be a doctor since he was a child.
There is little doubt that the moment of birth should be a joyous time for both the mother and her newborn.
“Bringing life into this world is a great privilege,”
Dr. Luis Manuel de Jesus told The Epoch Times. “[It’s] very fulfilling for me.”

The 46-year-old doctor works at Centro Médico GRUMED, which belongs to Grupo Médico San Cristóbal, with his wife, Diana Figueroa, who is also an OB-GYN. He has loved singing from a young age, eventually joining a church choir. While studying to become a general doctor at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, Dr. de Jesus joined the university choir too.
Later, as he went on to study gynecology, obstetrics, and oncology, Dr. de Jesus found himself with no time to attend rehearsals, but his passion for singing didn’t fade.
One day, while introducing a patient to her newborn for the first time, he decided to sing to the pair in his melodious voice.
“I saw that she was very pleased,” he said, adding that after seeing footage of the moment on social media, other patients asked him to sing at their deliveries, too. Soon, his singing began to regularly permeate the maternity ward.
Knowing how incredibly stressful childbirth can be, Dr. de Jesus now frequently goes the extra mile to support his patients by singing during labor to help them feel “relaxed, calm, and happy.”
Truly Dr. de Jesus is a not only a special obstetrician, but also a special person.
11/3/24

Just the other day I read something about what Dave Ramsey said. Let’s be clear, prior to reading about what he said, I had no idea who Dave Ramsey was. Apparently he is an influential financial radio show personality, and he has a ton of listeners. He basically went about how he decided which Presidential candidate to vote for by making a personal spreadsheet. His line of reasoning was formulated and logical. Essentially the spreadsheet contained a multitude of questions which revolved around “whose policies do I like.” “Which are beneficial to me?”
Questions like:
“Who has a tax policy that I like?”
“Who has a foreign policy that I like?”
“Who has a gun policy that I like?”
“Who has a climate change policy that I like?”
“Who has an immigration policy that I like?”
“Who has a woke policy that I like?”
Etc.

He did not consider the following non-policy issues:
“Who’s a mean tweeter?”
“Who cackles when not answering questions?
“Should I vote for Harris solely because she’s a woman?”
“Should I vote against Harris because she is a woman?”

He then tallied the answers to his policy questions in two columns … the DT column and the KH column.
As a consequence of this very logical way of thinking, Dave Ramsey has decided to vote for Donald Trump.
What about you ?
11/2/24

Last night I stayed up way past my bedtime and watched “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Different from when Donald Trump was on that same show, I watched the entire thing, which I am guessing was close to three hours. The guest on this show was not Kamala Harris or Tim Walz, but rather J.D. Vance.
For those of you not very familiar with Trump’s running mate, my suggestion is for you to either to read Vance’s basic autobiography, ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ or to watch Vance speak about a wide variety of subjects on The Joe Rogan Experience on You-Tube.
Admittedly this is only the second time I have watched Rogan’s podcast show, the first being when Donald Trump appeared on that same show about a week or so ago. I think that Vance did well with knowledge on a wide variety of topics. One of the beauties of Rogan’s podcast format is that it allows for open discussion on just about anything.
Rogan and Vance did not agree on everything, and on some topics, e.g. newer PTSD treatments, Rogan knew quite a lot whereas Vance admittedly knew nothing. Keep in mind … no notes, no scheduled questions … a true free-format.
Be that as it may, even though J.D.Vance did quite well, Donald Trump did better. However, what I came away with after three hours or so of watching is that Vance is more than capable of stepping into President Trump’s shoes if something unforeseen were to happen.
Remember:
Neither Harris or Walz appeared on Rogan’s podcast. Harris fell back on the hackneyed “scheduling conflict” trope, and Walz was invisible. Could either of them have appeared with Rogan? … should either of them have appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience.? Only time will tell.
11/1/24

President Biden just called all Trump supporters, “garbage.” (Actually, even though the media is trying to deny his comment, I saw the tape … he said it!) Could this be similar to Hillary’s “deplorables” comment prior to Trump’s victory in 2016?

Speaking of garbage, how could three Supreme Court Justices vote that it is okay for illegals to vote in the November election?!
In case you haven’t heard …. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against Biden Department of Justice efforts Wednesday to keep thousands of non-citizens on Virginia’s voter rolls ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Justices Sonja Sotomayor, Elana Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson agreed either the DOJ’s attempt to keep illegals on the voting roles!
Now to be perfectly clear, I am not calling these three liberal Justices, “garbage,” but rather I am calling their decision in this case, “garbage.”
Note to those on the left who ever refer to the other six Justices as prejudiced, this unbelievable decision by these three liberal Justices has to be the most prejudicial non-rational decision ever! And I stand by my statement that their decision in this case was “garbage!” The decision should have been an easy 9-0!

10/31/24

Let me be clear from the start that I do not think that anyone should take advice from Pope Frances on who to vote for in the upcoming U.S. presidential election … not Catholics, not Protestants, not atheists, not Buddhists, not Moslems, not anybody! However, recently Pope Frances did say something that is worth noting on this subject when he commented that Catholic Americans should choose between the “lesser of two evils.”
I was reminded of what Pope Frances had to say about this issue when I read an article on Townhall by Mark Lewis entitled “Vote America.”
He begins, “I have been reading that there is a fear, among Republicans and conservatives, that a lot of religious/Christian people are going to sit out this election simply because they cannot abide Donald Trump’s morals. They certainly won’t support Democrats, but they can’t vote for Trump. As a Christian, I can understand it, but I also have some problems with it.
“My first major concern is…good grief, people, look at the alternative. Granted that Mr. Trump is not the reincarnation of Jesus, but the Democrats—all of them, not just Harris and Walz—are just pure evil.
“Nobody who claims to be a Christian and who truly understands the Left and the Democratic Party today could ever vote for a Democrat.  It would be the height of hypocrisy.  To claim that “Jesus is my Lord” (which a true Christian must), and then vote for a party that believes in murdering babies, transgenderism, same-sex marriage, and other homosexual perversions, the mutilation of children, the theft and destruction of honest people’s property—no Christian could vote for anybody who propagates those anti-Christian, godless positions.”
At this point you may feel that this is a bit over the top, however, the author, Mark Lewis, continues:
“I do personally believe that Mr. Trump, for all his faults—and we all have them, including every faithful Christian—is a far, far better person than Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.  I don’t think Trump is “evil”; he may have some wicked bones in his body, but “evil”?  No, I don’t see that.  But I do consider Harris and Walz, and every Democratic politician, evil people. Indeed, it’s a matter of degree; in one sense, morally, every election is a selection among the ‘lesser of evils.’ But, if we honor that rule this time, Trump is far superior to Harris and Walz.”

For those who disagree with Mark Lewis’s, and in fact, my assessment of the Democratic Party, remember that the present Democrat politicians today are not of the same genre as JFK was.
To avoid being misunderstood, let me be clear … I do not think that every individual who identifies as a Democrat is an evil person, but rather it is the Democratic Party that is evil.
10/30/24

After the way the 2000 election was stolen by villainous means, I am hoping that the Republicans will be ready for the inevitable skullduggery that is certain to come, most likely in the form of mail-in ballots. It has already started! Unbelievably
on 20/28 there was a ruling from the Nevada Supreme Court on accepting mail-in ballots without a postmark and after the election. I had always thought that those on the various State Supreme Courts would be the cream of the crop in the legal community, but apparently not so in Nevada!
Mail-in ballots are not only open to every type of nefarious action, but they have become the preferred method for NGOs, religious and secular, to use to undermine fair elections.

From Rips Newsletter:
Republicans Need To Prepare Plan B
Win or lose, Trump’s likely to be in court
about BS ballots from ineligible addresses

The address is king in the land of the mail-in ballot. The person doesn’t matter much because anyone can make up a name. Addresses are a bit stickier. An address is permanent – or close to it. Addresses live in thousands of commercial and government databases – each adding context to a street number.
409 Clifford Street is just an address on a voter roll. It could be a home, a bank, an insurance company, or an empty lot. For years, nobody cross-checked voter rolls with property tax rolls because nobody thought of it, and if they did, the technology to do it was prohibitively expensive. When the StopBogusBallots.com team, using quantum-speed Fractal technology, started comparing voter rolls with property rolls in 2021, the number of anomalous addresses from which a mail-in ballot could originate exploded.

Our StopBogusBallots.com team is collecting these cast ballot identities, comparing them with official government databases, and where they originate from an ineligible address, we flag them. Where possible, we are legally challenging them. The StopBogusBallots.com site has lots of lawsuits posted if you like to read that sort of thing.
A mail-in ballot has highly deterministic characteristics – like predicting for whom the ballot is cast. Mail-in ballots from ineligible addresses are 97% for Leftist candidates.

So now I get it! The Dems are all-in for mail-in ballots because mail-in ballots are easily falsified.
StopBogusBallots.com is preparing to challenge those ballots that are unlawful ballots. I have contributed to this site, and am encouraging others to do so.
10/28/24

Many years ago, especially in blue states there was a rash of COVID vaccine mandates by different companies. To their employees they basically said, “Get the vaccine, or else!” At that point many employees said ‘no,’ based on religious reasons. A lot of these individuals kowtowed to their employer and begrudgingly got the vaccine, while others held fast to their religious beliefs, and many were fired for disobeying the vaccine mandate. Some of those that were forcibly fired subsequently sued their employers because their religious beliefs were disregarded.
And now years later groups of these employees who sued are receiving justification.
From Epoch Health:
A group of health care workers who sued their hospital over a COVID-19 vaccine mandate are slated to receive $10 million, according to a settlement agreement filed on July 29.
About a dozen workers at the NorthShore University HealthSystem in Illinois lodged the suit in October 2021, arguing that the facility was illegally not granting religious exemptions to the mandate.
After eight months of negotiations, the workers and NorthShore “have agreed to settle this case,” according to a memorandum filed in federal court.
Under the settlement’s terms, NorthShore will pay $10,337,500 into a settlement fund for workers affected by its mandate—specifically, workers who, between July 1, 2021, and Jan. 1, 2022, asked for a religious accommodation and were denied, and either received a vaccine to avoid termination, or were fired or resigned from their employment. About 473 workers fit under that category.
Each worker who eventually got a vaccine despite raising religious objections would be eligible for about $3,000, while those who were fired or resigned from their position could receive about $25,000, according to estimates.”

Well I guess that showed those stubborn employers … over $10 million!
But reminiscent of a 1974 song by BTO (Bachman–Turner Overdrive), “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet!”
From the Epoch Times:
“Rail transit officials in California’s Bay Area have been ordered to pay more than $7 million to transit workers who were fired because they refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine years ago. On Oct. 23, a federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California sided with six former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers who had refused to get the vaccine for religious purposes.
BART was ordered to pay the group more than $7.8 million, with each individual receiving between $1.2 million and $1.5 million, the Pacific Justice Institute, which represented the transit workers in the trial, said in a statement on Oct. 24.”

Although I really do not know for sure, I suspect that there are more similar COVID vaccine mandates vs. denied religious exemptions cases in the legal pipeline, and if there are not at this time, there will be many more.
The October awards in California have set the bar quite high – much higher than the July bar set in Illinois, and I predict …
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet!
10/28/24