Month: December 2022

As is usual on Sunday, I present someone who we can and should look up to. This week’s hero is Bianca Palomera, was working her job as an assistant manager of a Habit Burger in Antioch, California. On the afternoon of 11/12/22, she noticed a man in the restaurant bullying a special-needs teen, and she spoke up.

From KTVU-TV:

“I hear the threats going, him having a problem, saying ‘who are you looking at, stop looking that way,'” Palomera recounted.

What to do? What would you do? What did Bianca do?

So she stood up for the boy and confronted his tormenter.

“‘Hey, you know, what you’re doing is wrong. It’s not right at all. He’s special needs. He doesn’t know what he’s doing,'” Palomera recalled telling him.

Her confrontation didn’t back the man down; instead he escalated things.

Surveillance video shows the much larger man getting right in Palomera’s face. He yelled slurs at her. She was seen jawing back at him.

Then he landed a brutal punch to her left cheek.

“I didn’t expect him to punch me at all,” Palomera recalled.

She briefly slumped on a chair then stood up and went after the attacker — but he swung harder and hit her apparently in the head.

Palomera believes that second punch is the one that destroyed her eye!

“I just remember grabbing my eye. I thought I was crying at first, but then after I saw that I had blood dripping down my shirt, you know, down my cheek.”

Doctors performed emergency surgery on her eye but couldn’t save it.

“Sometimes I think it’s all like a nightmare and try to open my eye, but regardless, I can’t see anything,” 

Even after getting punched in the head and losing her right eye, Bianca Palomera told KTVU-TV she wouldn’t undo standing up against a man she saw bullying a special-needs boy that weekend.

“Deep down, there will always be a little regret, but I wouldn’t take it back,” the 19 year old added. “At the end of the day, if you won’t do it, nobody else will. I felt like I had to step in.”

A true hero! Sticking up for a special needs teen, and paying a severe price. Again I ask, “What would you do?”

12/4/22

An oldie and a goodie from 12/13/20

If Not This, Then What? 

Thus far the Supreme Court has deftly and almost defiantly excused itself in perhaps the critical decision as of the yet early 21st century. The question is whether or not this past presidential election was fraudulent. Personally, I believe that it was stolen, but “I do not have standing!” (In this situation, a convenient SCOTUS avoidance technique.)

I understand the practical dilemma which is, (again as I understand it) if the electoral college does not demonstrate a clear winner by a certain date, then according to the Constitution, the election goes to the House of Representatives. One might think that this would be of benefit to the Dems as they hold a clear majority in the House, but in this situation each state gets the same vote as every other state … in other words, for example, Wyoming would get the same say as California. The problem for the Dems here is that there are more states that are Republican in the U.S., and since each state has the same number of votes as every other state, the likelihood is that the Republican nominee would win.

Well can you imagine the whoopla if that were to occur. As I see it, it would not really matter if SCOTUS took up the case and decided that the election was on the up-and-up, because the drop-dead due date for the Electoral College would have passed.

Ergo, in this situation,one might think that the Supreme Court is forced to turn a blind eye to a potential stolen and unlawful election. . . . But if the Supreme Court cannot judge whether a presidential election was fraudulent, then what good is it? 

In essence what this chicken-sh** move by SCOTUS means is that it is okay to cheat and make up rules in just about anything. To me this has John Roberts’ (it’s a tax . . . it’s not a tax!) fingerprints all over it.

12/3/22

Right now, somewhere in the world someone is dying from starvation.

“The number of people affected by hunger has more than doubled in the past three years”, according to the United Nations, as “almost a million people are living in famine conditions, with starvation and death a daily reality.”

Based on this reality, what would be the common sense thing to do? Throughout the western world, if you are on the left politically, the obvious “common sense” thing to do is … drum roll, please! …  to decrease food production. If you do not believe me, consider the following.

From Issues & Insights ( 12/1/22):

Most by now have seen reports that Dutch officials are closing as many as 3,000 farms in the Netherlands, the world’s second-largest exporter of agricultural products by value even though it’s only slightly larger than Maryland, to comply with crackpot European Union carbon dioxide emissions rules. It’s possible that eventually more than 11,000 farms will be shut down, and 17,600 forced to sharply cut their livestock numbers.”

Hmmm! Does this make any sense?

“On our side of the Atlantic, the malefactors are also busy. Just the News is reporting that the Environmental Protection Agency is quietly quadrupling the regulatory cost of carbon emissions in a new war on fossil fuels, which is, of course, also a war on the food supply.

‘If you think about the fact that they would impose this damage factor, let’s say on farmers, because it applies to fertilizer,’ Louisiana Solicitor General Liz Murill said on the John Solomon Reports podcast. ‘Fertilizer emits nitrous oxide. So fertilizer is a big contributor. If every family farmer now is going to have to pay more to obtain fertilizer to fertilize crops that feed us, well, what’s that going to do to the price of food?’”

Hmmm! Does this make any sense?

So let me get this straight! A million people are living in famine and are dying of starvation, so “those that know best” are going to decrease the supply of food and thus make food more expensive and consequently less available to those who are already living in famine conditions. 

Does  this make any sense?

The motivation of leftists for this apparent conundrum all has to do with “global warming,” and its “disastrous” consequences. Perhaps their thinking goes something like this … “Since global warming will kill off many, many people, we might as well kill off those who are living in famine now. They are poorer and will most likely die anyway. So the end result in terms of deaths will be essentially the same, as deaths will occur either now or later. Furthermore if more die sooner, think of all the expired CO2 that will not be expired! In addition, we will no longer have to worry about the potential flooding in the more affluent areas of the world, like Nantucket.”

Liberals apparently think, “this makes sense to us!”

12/3/22

As background,  a ‘neologism’ is a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.

The Senator from Louisiana, John Kennedy, often has a unique way with words. He makes statements that are true and often simultaneously amusing. In fact just recently he appears to have coined a new word to describe President Biden’s energy policy. He quipped that Biden and his party’s energy policy is a “moronathon!”

Sen. Kennedy continued,

“President Biden has embraced the woke or berserk wing of the Democrat Party, and woke ideology says we need to get rid of oil and gas in the United States.

“So President Biden has developed a new energy policy and it is this: Instead of producing at a cheaper cost our own oil and gas in America, we’re going to buy oil from foreign countries that hate us — in this case Venezuela — so those foreign countries will have more money to buy weapons to try to kill us. 

Sen. Kennedy added! “It also adds to inflation. This new policy of the president’s results in an increase in the price of oil and natural gas so, when a honeybun costs you $20, you can thank President Biden for that too.”

But let’s be clear, moronathonic-like actions are not limited to Washington.

From Townhall:

JetBlue is coming under fire over the airline’s refusal to hire unvaccinated pilots even as it takes a violent, convicted felon, John Perrys, under its wings. Perrys, a former Air Force captain, remains on felony probation until 2044. 

Daily Wire’s @LukeRosiak tells @TuckerCarlson about his investigation into @JetBlue‘s hiring of a violent felon: “They won’t hire you if you haven’t had the vax. But they did hire John Perrys…The crime he was convicted of was assault with a deadly weapon while wearing a mask.”

“It’s the epitome of woke logic here,” Rosiak said. “Violent criminals are not a safety threat…but what’s a safety threat is not wanting to get a vaccine that doesn’t reliably prevent you from getting or transmitting a disease that pretty much everyone has gotten now anyway.” 

Have “those who know best” at Jet Blue recently visited Washington? … if so, perhaps  moronathonic thinking is contagious!

12/2/22

I just read an article on Issues & Insights by Armando Simon, an author and retired psychologist. I do not think that I have ever recommended a book that I have not read, but after reading Simon’s op-ed about ‘American Injustice’ by J.P. MacIsaac, I feel that I can echo the sentiments of Simon’s full title … ‘American Injustice’ – Buy It, Read It, Give It As A Christmas Gift.

First of all who is J.P. MacIsaac?

From Issues & Insights:

“He is the computer repairman who received a laptop from an intoxicated crackhead scumbag that turned out to be Hunter Biden and who later neglected to pick it up. The book details what transpired after that.

In his op-ed article Simon stated, ‘You’ve heard the hackneyed phrase, ‘I couldn’t put it down.’ I’m sorry, but I couldn’t put it down, even though I had a long list of chores to do that weekend. Well, actually, I did put it down. That is, for five minutes to start one of the tasks only to go back and pick up reading where I left off.’

MacIsaac realized early on that the information that he had accidentally acquired was so explosive, with so much at stake, and the players so ruthless that the danger of being “suicided” was not as outlandish as one might think.

Nonetheless, for many months thereafter, MacIsaac was consumed with frustration as he continued to do right by his country and bring the evidence out into the public after he finally realized the FBI was going to do nothing, but it seemed no one was interested. 

Although he had repeatedly asked for anonymity, predictably the young author’s identity was revealed, and he began to immediately receive hundreds of insults and threats from people who instantly swallowed the party line. He had tried to remain anonymous throughout. All he wanted to do is maintain his business and build a life and home in Wilmington. But Delaware is a liberal state. At his restaurant and watering hole, strangers would come up to him and ask him how much Putin had paid him for what he had done. His liberal girlfriend dumped him. His tolerant and inclusive friends turned against him. He was called a fascist. His customers abandoned him. Ultimately, he closed his dying business and left Delaware, broke.

This book would make a good Christmas gift.”

Personally I plan to ask for MacIsaac’s book for “Jolabokaflod” which translates into “Christmas Book Flood.” This Icelandic tradition is to give and receive new books on Christmas Eve. 

12/1/22