Month: January 2023

From the perspective of an outsider I think that a display of Republican strength is what is needed in McCarthy’s fight to be the Speaker of the House.  In the latest vote McCarthy is increasingly falling short of the necessary votes. Critics and Republican naysayers are having a field day, and the Dems are eating it up.

I do have a potential solution to this enigma … ready? … Consider nominating Donald Trump as the Speaker of the House! 

First remember that the person elected to the position of Speaker of the House does not need to be elected House member. Also consider that Trump as the Speaker would be a total nightmare for the Democrats. Could the Republicans unite and gather the votes necessary to elect Trump to this position? I do not know that answer, and neither should anybody who is outside of those privileged few who are meeting behind closed doors.

The main question is: With the threat of electing Trump to this position, could any Democrats be cajoled into voting for McCarthy? What would be lesser of two evils for the Democrats? To have Donald Trump as Speaker or to have some of them vote for Kevin McCarthy?

An outlandish gambit? Worth a try? Only time will tell!

Truth or dare?

1/5/23

From today’s news it’s apparent that in this “woke” environment, it is impossible to know whether to speak or not to speak. Sometimes if you vocalize … you are in trouble. Whereas, sometimes if you don’t vocalize … you’re in trouble. It almost seems that it depends on which side of the bed the “woke” arbiter woke up on!

From Townhall:

A Christian pro-life leader in England was arrested not simply for standing in front of an abortion clinic. She was also arrested for the crime of praying while standing there, even though she was simply praying in her own head. Talk about being prosecuted for a “thought crime.” This really and truly happened.

In a video a police officer asks Vaughan-Spruce politely, “Are you praying?” She responds, “I might be praying in my head.”

In the words of Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, leader of the UK March for Life, “It’s abhorrently wrong that I was searched, arrested, interrogated by police and charged simply for praying in the privacy of my own mind. Nobody should be criminalized for thinking and for praying, in a public space in the UK.”

Accordingly, “Whilst in the police station, Vaughan-Spruce was shown pictures of herself outside the abortion facility. She said she could not recall from the pictures whether she was praying at these specific moments, or whether these had been taken at times that she was distracted and thought about other things, such as her lunch. She maintains that all her thoughts were equally peaceful and imperceptible and that none should be criminalised.”

This was not Orwell’s 1984. This was England in 2022. Let that sink in.

Whereas in contradistinction to the UK, here in the U.S. one has to apparently refrain from verbalizing what’s on one’s mind.

From BlazeMedia:

Radio broadcaster Gary Hahn has been indefinitely suspended after mentioning “illegal aliens” during a broadcast.

While covering Duke’s Mayo Bowl on Friday, Hahn gave the score of the Sun Bowl, saying that “amongst all the illegal aliens” in El Paso, the game stood at UCLA with 14 and Pittsburgh with 6.

Now let’s be clear, Gary Hahn was not making anything up. He was commenting on what was actually happening in El Paso, where Mayor Oscar Leeser declared a state of emergency earlier this month as the area grappled with an influx of migrants, according to CNN.

Likewise, in El Paso, Sun Bowl Association executive director Bernie Olivas announced that the Fan Fiesta was cancelled, mentioning the use of the convention center for migrants — the festivities had been slated to occur at the El Paso Convention Center.

Gary Hahn worked for Learfield Sports and Learfield has suspended Wolfpack Sports Network play-by-play announcer from his agreement indefinitely because … because he commented on what was actually happening in El Paso.

What a conundrum!

In Britain, a woman was arrested for being silent, whereas in the U.S. a sports announcer was suspended for commenting on something that was in the national news!

Both are ridiculous!

1/4/23

Even though there is much more info from Terry M. Campbell’s treatise on “global warming,” this will be the final part on my blog. I found this to be irresistible and compelling because what was written was based on real data.

Again from Campbell’s piece on Rip’s Newsletter:

“Now let’s look at some facts, analyze them and try to draw some reasonable conclusions.  To find these facts we must do a little looking around and ignore the liberal press while we do it. Most of the liberal non-scientific environmentalists who are talking about global warming (i.e. – Climate Change) are also the ones who used to spout an ice age is coming theory and the non-existent ozone layer problem, in the not-too-distant past.  I think we can discount all of them right off the bat.  A person can only cry wolf so many times before he is ignored. None of the climate change prophecies made by the climate alarmist has ever been proven to be true.  Mark J. Perry of the American Enterprise Institute (AIE) compiled a non-inclusive short list of their bogus predictions:ü 1967: Dire famine forecast by 1975.ü 1969: Everyone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam by 1989.ü 1970: Ice age by 2000.ü 1970: America will be subject to water rationing by 1974.ü 1970: America will institute food rationing by 1980.ü 1971: New ice age coming by 2020, 2030 at the latest.ü 1972: New ice age by 2072.ü 1974: Space satellites show new ice age coming fast.ü 1974: Ozone depletion is a great peril to all life.ü 1976: Scientific consensus planet cooling, famines imminent.ü 1978: No end in sight to a 30-year cooling trend.ü 1980: Acid rain will kill all life in lakes.ü 1988: Regional droughts in 1990.ü 1988: Maldives Islands will be underwater by 2018.ü 1989: Rising sea levels will obliterate nations if nothing is done by 2000.ü 1989: New York City’s west side highway underwater by 2019. The book by Danish author Bjorn Lomborg states the damage done by the Climate Alarmists.  False Alarm: How climate change panic costs trillions of dollars, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet.John Kerry and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes and many other climate extremists state: “We only have months or a few years before earth’s extinction.” It is easy to conclude from the above that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a rare or trace gas.  There is not enough of it to have a measurable effect on the planet’s weather.  Temperature rise is the main cause of a rise in CO2 levels and lags a temperature rise by months sometimes years. There are true scientific atmospheric papers and charts about temperature and carbon dioxide in the air measured throughout thousands of years. These charts were from an in-depth analysis of ice cores and tree growth rings.  What was interesting is that the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere lagged the temperature rise by at least several months sometimes years.  Therefore, elevated levels of carbon dioxide did NOT cause the temperature to rise but the reverse is true.”

In summation the title of Campbell’s updated and revised treatise is:

“Global Warming … A HOAX!”

1/3/23

When I initially read about this case I was gobsmacked. Could it be that SCOTUS is actually going to put on their big-boy/girl pants, and in part tangentially address the issue of voter fraud. Here I am referring to the case of Brunson vs. Adams. If your response is “never heard of this case,”do not feel out of touch, as predictably it has not received one iota of publicity in Main Stream Media.

Before anyone gets fired up let me point out that there is no way that SCOTUS is going to consider hearing this case. A deadline for the Rule of Four has been set for 1/6/23. [If you are not familiar with the Rule of Four and how it pertains to SCOTUS, perhaps you could read my fictional novella, “The Keneally Chronicles” (available on Amazon), as the Rule of Four is a central part of that story.]

Brunson vs. Adams is not about election fraud per se, but rather is about the nonchalant and irresponsible approach that the Congress and V.P. Mike Pence took, or rather didn’t take, when considering the validity of the last Presidential election.

The following is from the editor of The Blackshear Times, 12/28/22:

“I am writing this letter to inform your readers about a highly significant case that will be coming before the U.S. Supreme Court January 6, 2023 which has not gotten the attention in the press that it deserves.  

Brunson vs Alma S. Adams et. al has been brought to  the court by four brothers from Ogden, UT none of which are attorneys. In their case they make the argument that when Congress certified  the election of 2020 without taking the 10 days to investigate charges of election fraud that they violated their oaths of office. That violation, if agreed by the court, would require that they would immediately be removed from office and could not stand  for office in the future. Those that would be affected by this ruling would include the former and present Vice Presidents, the present President and over 300 members of Congress. Should this occur it will be a political tsunami and the mainstream press remains strangely silent.”

Wow! Don’t get your hopes up. Word has it that in the past the Chief Justice, John Roberts, could be heard screaming behind closed doors about riots in the streets if SCOTUS took a look at anything that questioned the validity of the election. Tsk! Tsk!

BTW, who is Alma Adams? Alphabetically she happens to be at the top of the list that Mr. Brunson says committed treason.

1/2/23

After the massive snowstorm that hit in the Buffalo area around Christmas, undoubtedly there were many stories of heroism. Today as per my usual Sunday tradition, I am going to single out two instances where individuals did the right and praiseworthy thing.

First from BlazeNews:

The house where Danielle, Demetrice, and their four kids lived lost electricity at their home in Williamsville. They got into their car to drive to a nearby hotel. Like many other Buffalo residents, they got stuck in the snow.

“I’ve never seen anything like it. It was like looking at a white piece of construction paper,” said Danielleto CNN. “Even cars, with their bright lights on, you just couldn’t see anything.”

When firefighters got the call about stranded motorists, the family’s vehicle was one of the first they approached.

“Please don’t leave us,” said Demetrice, the father of the family.

“Don’t worry, man,” said the firefighter. “I promise we won’t leave you.”

The family was rescued and brought to the aircraft rescue and firefighting facility. That family was among 42 people saved, but they were the only family with children, so they stayed at the facility as the storm continued.

On Christmas, the firefighters came through again with presents for the children. They were able to find several items in the firehouse to wrap for the family. With the amazing help from the field office delivering some items from the terminal, we were able to make sure Santa paid a visit. “Those guys were amazing at the firehouse,” said Demetrice. “They treated us with nothing but love.”

Again from BlazeNews:

A woman in Buffalo, New York, rescued a man from a deadly storm that saw over 30 deaths in a short span.

Sha’Kyra Aughtry and her boyfriend spotted Joe White screaming for help while “being blown up and down the street” and decided to take the senior citizen inside to tend to his wounds, along with bathing and feeding him.

Aughtry also said White was so frozen that she had to blow-dry his hands to detach the bags the man was carrying with him.

After the two-day ordeal, White was finally transported to a Buffalo hospital.

According to a coworker of Joe White, Mr. White is allegedly mentally disabled and “did not understand the true severity of the storm.”

“Disoriented and crying out for help, he miraculously found himself at the doorstep of Sha’Kyra Rain Aughtry—a total stranger—who put her Christmas plans aside and tended to his wounds the best she could,”

Kudos and praise to Sha’Kyra Aughtry and kudos and praise to the firefighters – both of whom did over and above what was required.

1/1/23