Month: March 2023

On Sundays I write about someone who has done something praiseworthy … someone we can all admire. Today that someone is eight year old Kayzen Hunter.

Kayzen Hunter has a ritual of going to the Waffle House in Little Rock, Arkansas, with his family for breakfast, and on those trips, he became a friend to waiter Devonte Gardner.

From BlazeNews:

Kayzen’s mom, Vittoria Hunter, said that her son and Gardner have been friends for over a year.

“It was about a year ago when they met. My dad started going and Kayzen would go with him. When he came home, he talked about Devonte and how much he liked him,” she said.

Likewise Gardner has memorized Kayzen’s favorite meal.

“Every time he comes in, I always give him a high five because that’s what he expects,” Gardner said.

“He’s a wonderful kid. He tells me jokes every time he comes in, like, ‘Hey, Devonte, I got a joke for you,’ and the next thing you know, we’re laughing,” he explained.

One day, Kayzen found out that his friend and his family were living in a motel because of horrible conditions at his previous apartment, and he didn’t have a car to get to work.

So Kayzen jumped into action. Originally, the GoFundMe campaign he started had the goal of raising $500 to purchase a car for Gardner.

“Devonte is one of the most joyous and positive people you’ve ever met!! He always greets us with the biggest smile,” Kayzen wrote in the campaign description. “I hope your heart is as BIG as mine and you will help me spread kindness in the world. Any amount helps!!”

After the campaign raised tens of thousands of dollars for Gardner, he says he has signed a lease for a two-bedroom apartment for himself and his daughters. He says he’s looking to buy a sedan but will save the rest of the money for his daughters.

“I’m gonna save the rest because I want to put my daughters in a good school, I want them to be in a good environment,” Gardner said. “Everything I’m getting is going mostly towards my daughters to make sure they have a great, great life. Make sure we won’t have to struggle anymore.”

Thanks to young Kayzen Hunter, Devonte Gardner’s life has made a U-turn. Strong work, Kayzen!

3/12/23

This is from March, 2021, and the situation has only gotten worse!

The Biden Non-plan 

Thus far I have purposely not commented on Biden’s border crisis. I refer to it as “Biden’s border crisis” because that is exactly what it is. In the process of the carrying out his spiteful form of Trump revenge, he now owns this crisis. Instead of taking time to thoughtfully review Trump’s approach to just about anything, he (or whomever is making decisions for him) has decided to embark on his own version of “cancel culture.” One of the major problems with Biden’s border plan is that there is no apparent plan, and thus the country is left with chaos. 

Has anyone asked President Biden ( or whomever is making the decisions for him) what the long term plan is? If anyone knows the answer to that question, please let me know. As best I can tell his most recent “solution” was to go On Air to plead with people across Central America and beyond NOT to come. All that tells me is that President Biden (or whomever is making the decisions for him) either is clueless about life in Central America, or has no interest in stopping the flow of migrants across our southern border. How does President Biden (or whomever is making the decisions for him) think that the people in Central America will be cognizant of “his plea?” Joe, FYI, for the most part those in Central America do not have TVs. They also do not read newspapers, as newspapers are not delivered to their shanties, and if they were, it wouldn’t matter as illiteracy is endemic. 

When their neighbors leave for Los Estados Unidos and do not return, the message is something akin to . . . “They made it, so we should also go for it.” Why would they think otherwise? Unfortunately the “plan” of “pleading with those in Central America not to come” is a fool’s errand, and will accomplish nothing.

I do not like the present border situation, but the Biden’s plan (or the plan of whomever is making the decisions for him) is a nonsensical non-plan, as with it, there will be no end to the migration to Los Estados Unidos. Yesterday, I read a statement from a man from Brazil who has brought his entire family to the border. He stated that crime is rampant in Brazil and he so he headed north because Biden was now the President. Brazil!!  First Central America, and now South America. I feel for him and his family, but the solution is not to have anyone who resides south of our border head north. 

Recently a self-identified liberal asked me in a group email if anyone had a better solution than Biden’s non-solution. I answered, “yes, I do.”

First of all, let’s be clear, my solution is not a total solution, as there will never be a total solution. As Christ said in Matthew 26:6-13,  “The poor you will always have with you.” Likewise from Deuteronomy 15:11, “There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded . . . “ 

My solution is twofold:

First: Make life in Central America better for those that live there. This will involve individual charitable giving to provide food and shelter for those who are living there now.(Google “Food for the Poor” [FFP] if you are actually interested in helping.) To me, perhaps even more importantly, is to attempt to provide at least a partial remedy for the future in Central America by improving the education of the children so that they will have a chance when they grow up. 

Build schools. For instance, whereas elementary  education is free for children in Honduras as long as the child has shoes, there are not nearly enough actual schools . . . schools that  have roofs and actual walls without holes, so that the children can actually learn. Donate school supplies, as obviously it is difficult if not impossible to learn without pencils, paper and books. (Again FFP if you are truly interested.)

Second: Where are the millions of U.S. churches during this crisis?  I would propose that churches, synagogues, etc. sponsor families from Central America. By “sponsor,” I mean totally provide for them now and subsequently totally provide for them  for ten years . . . food, clothing, shelter, education, etc. As best I can tell, I have never heard anyone propose that individual churches step-up. To put it politely to all of those who are in a tizzy over the chaos at the border . . . “Put your money where your mouth is.”

I am sure that there are many more practical solutions to at least partially help with Biden’s border crisis.” If anyone has a connection to Mr. Biden ( or to those who are making the decisions for him), please pass this along.

3/24/21

3/11/23

 As was stated in “Down Under-1, most of follows is from an article in the Journal of Clinical & Experimental Immunology  Sept, 2022, titled Covid-19 vaccines – An Australian Review.

Short term vaccine side effects:

Just to name a few short-term side effects: Death, Cardiac disorders such as Myocarditis, Blood and lymphatic system disorders, such as blood clots, thrombocytopenia, low platelet count, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, capillary leakage syndrome, Congenital and genetic disorders, Eye disorders, Immune disorders, Muscular, skeletal and connective tissue disorders, Cancerous tumours, Nervous system disorders, Pregnancy and perinatal conditions, Guillain-Barre syndrome and the list goes on. The data from NSW showed clearly that COVID injections were correlated with increases in hospitalization and ICU admissions and indicate a relation to death with COVID injections. The increase in hospitalisation, ICU admissions and deaths is very pronounced after the third injection although only 69% of the population took the booster shot versus 95% taking the initial series.

We get an insight into what is really going on in England where the government released COVID related death data (if the death certificate mentioned COVID) and all other death data sorted by vaccination status. The overall death rate for the unvaccinated was 17% while for the vaccinated it was 83%. The trend seems to be an ever increasing all causes death rate with added vaccinations without getting any protection from additional injections.

According to the VAERS database over 22,000 deaths have been associated with the COVID-19 vaccine. This is particularly alarming as according to the VAERS website adverse events including deaths are underreported by an unknown factor which could be between 10 and 100, so the actual number of deaths is likely much higher and could be over a million.

From large insurance companies in the US we know that the all- cause death rates are up 40% in ages 18-64 years and there are 100,000 excess deaths per month in the US across all age groups, which cannot be attributed to COVID-19 alone. However, caution has to be taken in interpreting these data as deaths due to suicides and delayed hospital treatment are not taken into consideration. Nevertheless, the trend seems to be the same and should raise alarm.

COVID-19 vaccines cause more side effects than any other vaccine, a fact that is attributed to its interactions with the immune system. Not only does spike protein produces unwanted side effects, but mRNA and nanoparticles do as well.

Long term side effects:

Long-term risks of vaccination as predicted by scientists, many already validated by scientists and doctors:

Vaccine-induced autoimmunity, pathogenic priming, multisystem inflammatory disease and autoimmunity, antibody dependent enhancement (ADE), activation of latent viral infections, and prion disease, increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy and other vascular events following vaccination, babies suffering enduring adverse consequences, mRNA reverse transcribing intracellularly into the DNA and death due to autoimmune disease long after vaccination [78-84].

Whistleblowers:

At a parliament enquiry by US senator Ron Johnson, lawyer Thomas Renz presented three US military doctors, Drs. Samuel Sigoloff, Peter Chambers, and Theresa Long, whose declarations he planned to use in federal court under penalty of perjury. These doctors revealed a 300% increase in miscarriages in the military above the five-year average in 2021 with the five-year average being 1,499 miscarriages per year while in the first 10 months of 2021 the registered miscarriages were 4,182. Other diseases went up in a similar fashion such as an almost 300% increase in cancer diagnoses (from a five-year average of 38,700 per year to 114,645 in the first 11 months of 2021). Neurological issues increased by 1000% from a baseline average of 82,000 to 863,000 in 2021.

Some other increased conditions were:

269% increase of myocardial infarction

• 291% increase of Bell’s palsy

• 156% increase of children’s congenital malformations of military personnel

• 471% increase of female infertility

• 467% increase of pulmonary embolisms

Conclusion:

Never in Vaccine history have 57 leading scientists and policy experts released a report questioning the safety and efficacy of a vaccine. They not only questioned the safety of the current Covid-19 injections, but were calling for an immediate end to all vaccination. Many doctors and scientists around the world have voiced similar misgivings and warned of consequences due to long-term side effects. Yet there is no discussion or even mention of studies that do not follow the narrative on safety and efficacy of Covid-19 vaccination.

In the USA, as Blaylock states it very nicely, federal bureaucrats have forced the acceptance of special forms of care and prevention, which includes experimental mRNA vaccines. Medical experts that have questioned the safety of these vaccines have been attacked and demonised, called conspiracy theorists and have been threatened to be de-registered if they go against the narrative. Alternative treatments were prohibited and people who never practised medicine are telling experienced doctors how to do their job. AHPRA is doing the same here in Australia to the detriment and in ignorance of science. When Adjunct Professor John Skerritt, who is currently the Deputy Secretary and directly responsibility for both the Therapeutic Goods Administration and the Office of Drug Control, was asked why the registration process for vaccines was shortened he wrote: “It is nonsense to assert that vaccines typically take 10 years to licence. The standard regulatory process for vaccines is about 10-12 calendar months and in the case of COVID-19 vaccines this period was shortened by accepting data on a rolling basis, teams reviewing different parts of the dossier in parallel, working collaboratively with international regulators, and by many members of the teams working long hours” (personal e-mail communication). One has to wonder how they propose to assess long-term side effects. Can we really trust any pharmaceutical drug approval by the TGA after this statement?

As scientists we put up hypotheses and test them using experiments. If a hypothesis is proven to be true according to current knowledge it might still change over time when new evidence comes to light. Hence, sharing and accumulating knowledge is the most important part of science. The question arises when and why this process of science has been changed. No discussion of new knowledge disputing the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines is allowed. Who gave bureaucrats the means to destroy the fundaments of science and tell scientists not to argue the science?

3/11/23

Those who live in Australia were fed the same lines as those in the U.S.

Most of follows is from an article in the Journal of Clinical &  Experimental Immunology  Sept, 2022, titled Covid-19 vaccines – An Australian Review.

Initial information:

The mRNA vaccines were supposed to remain at the injection site and be taken up by the lymphatic system. This assumption proved to be wrong.

During an autopsy of a vaccinated person that had died after mRNA vaccination it was found that the vaccine disperses rapidly from the injection site and can be found in nearly all parts of the body. The mRNA is enveloped in liquid nano particles (LNP), and these nanoparticles can cross the blood-brain barrier and the blood-placenta barrier. In summary, it is unknown where exactly the vaccine travels once it is injected, and how much spike protein is produced in which (and how many) cells.

Natural Immunity ignored:

It is an amazing fact that natural immunity is completely disregarded by health authorities around the world. We know from SARS- CoV-1 that natural immunity is durable and persists for at least 12-17 years. Immunologists have suggested that immunity to SARS-Cov-2 is no different.

The Brownstone institute has established the most updated and comprehensive library list of 150 of the highest-quality, complete, and robust scientific studies and evidence reports/position statements on natural immunity as compared to the COVID-19 vaccine-induced immunity. The consensus of these studies is that immunity induced by COVID infection is robust and long lasting (https://brownstone.org/articles/79-research-studies-affirm- naturally-acquired-immunity-to-covid-19-documented-linked- and-quoted/).

There have been discussions about risk and value of vaccination in the previously infected part of the population. Study results have shown that the second dose in people already exposed to the virus leads to a reduction of cellular immunity, inferring those individuals previously infected with COVID-19 should not get a second injection.

All of these facts should have led to the standard operating procedure of establishing antibody titres in patients before vaccination for SARS CoV-2, similar to other vaccinations. However, this did not happen and natural immunity is still not accepted as proof of immunity in Australia.

Protection:

The vaccine was never meant to prevent the spread of the virus, but to decrease disease severity. A study at the University of California followed up on infections in the workforce after 76% had been fully vaccinated with mRNA vaccines by March 2021 and 86.7% by July 2021. In July 2021 75.2% of the fully vaccinated workforce had symptomatic COVID.

Acharya et al. (2021) and Riemersma et al. (2021) both showed that the vaccinated have very high viral loads similar to the unvaccinated and are therefore as infectious. Brown et al. (2021) and Servelitta et al (2021) suggested that vaccinated people with symptomatic infection by variants, such as Delta, are as infectious as symptomatic unvaccinated cases and will contribute to the spread of COVID even in highly vaccinated communities.

Treatment:

It is truly disturbing that treatments recommended by some doctors in America have not been tried in Australia. These treatments are mainly based on vitamins, zinc and zinc ionophores, such as ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. A reduction of mortality strongly depends on an early start of these treatment modalities

Scientific papers support the use of ivermectin according to Bryant et al. (2021). They found moderate to strong evidence that ivermectin can reduce COVID-19 deaths while being safe and inexpensive. The same was found for hydroxychloroquine in a review by McCullough et al. (2021), which also stated that a reduction of mortality strongly depends on an early start of the treatment. Hydroxychloroquine has been registered in the US since 1955 and has a well-characterized safety profile.

Yet here in Australia the recommendation is to isolate and monitor yourself. Only if you have difficulty breathing, experience loss of speech or mobility, confusion or chest pain should you contact the health care provider. 

3/10/23

The war in Ukraine continues with no end in sight. In fact, with the winter weather easing, look for an increase in Russia’s aggressiveness. At some point will someone pointedly ask about the end game … in other words, what will it take to end this war in Ukraine? 

Last week V.P. Kamala Harris said that Putin will be punished as a war-criminal, and this week our Attorney General, Merrick Garland, took a secret trip to Ukraine and repeated the same … “Putin is a war criminal, and will be punished.” Does this sound like a good common sense approach to end this conflict? Is stating that your adversary is going to be severely punished increase or decrease the chance for a peaceful settlement? … Duh! Between you and I, is Putin a war-criminal? Yes, he is. However, announcing your intent to severely punish Putin when the conflict ends will only prolong the conflict, and this is common sense. Because Biden et.al. use little common sense, I see no way that this Russia-Ukraine war can possibly end, as long as J.B remains in the Oval Office.

However, there is another common sense reason that this war cannot possibly end as long as Biden remains at the helm. Russia, with a GNP similar to Italy, is financing this war by selling oil and gas. The brilliant move by Biden, et.al. to drastically decrease oil/gas production by the U.S, only serves to keep the world market price for gas/oil high. This is because of the basic economic principle of supply/demand. In other words, as any high school economic student understands, limiting the supply of something only serves to increase the price of that thing. Thus by limiting U.S. production (decreased world supply) Russia can maintain its high oil price as world demand remains high, and thus Russia can continue to comfortably finance its aggression in Ukraine.

Recently Donald Trump gave a good speech last week at CPAC. One of the things he said was that after he was elected, he would quickly end the war in Ukraine. He didn’t mention how he was going to accomplish this, however I can safely say that it wouldn’t be by calling for the punishment of Putin as a war-criminal. From my perspective the only way to end this war, is by immediately increasing the production of oil/gas by the U.S. This, my friends, is common sense, and this is what Trump will do on his first day in office. Amen to that!

3/8/23

In January, 2019, then freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) claimed the world “is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.”

To me, it’s always interesting when the vernacular changes. “Global warming” has become “climate change” … will it next become “global cooling?” You laugh! However, in a published 2019 Nature Geoscience article it was pointed out that the waters in the Disko Bay region of Greenland have cooled to temperatures not seen in more than 30 years.

The water in Disko Bay is about 3.6 degrees cooler than a few years ago, study authors said. The result of this cooling is that the Jakobshavn Glacier is growing.

From BlazeNews:

“For the last 20 years, the Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland was one of the fastest shrinking ice sheets in the world, losing on average 1.8 miles of ice annually while thinning 130 feet per year, according to The Associated Press.

But in 2016 something changed: The glacier began growing again, at about the same rate it was previously retreating, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said.

‘At first we didn’t believe it. We had pretty much assumed that Jakobshavn would just keep going on as it had over the last 20 years,’ Ala Khazendar, the study’s lead author, said, according to USA Today.”

More from the AP:

“A natural cyclical cooling of North Atlantic waters likely caused the glacier to reverse course, said study lead author Ala Khazendar, a NASA glaciologist on the Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) project. Khazendar and colleagues say this coincides with a flip of the North Atlantic Oscillation — a natural and temporary cooling and warming of parts of the ocean that is like a distant cousin to El Nino in the Pacific.”

Perhaps AOC isn’t aware that the ocean around Greenland is actually cooling, but when she learns this news will “climate change” become “global cooling?”

3/7/23

Is anybody else, beside me, troubled by the actions of President Joe Biden in reference to East Palestine, Ohio … err, I mean the non-actions of our supposed leader.

Keep in mind that this toxic railroad accident occurred in early February. President Biden said on 3/2/23 that he will visit East Palestine, Ohio, “at some point” … this in the wake of a train derailment that spilled toxic chemicals into the community.

Contrast Biden’s lackadaisical response to: “You are not forgotten,” said by former President Donald Trump when he visited East Palestine, Ohio on 3/22/23, and brought water and other supplies to the folks living there. Residents of East Palestine seemed to be very appreciative of Trump’s visit, especially in view of the fact that Biden has not gone to visit the devastated town.

Now I ask, which response shows true leadership …

• “you are not forgotten”

or

• I will probably visit there ‘at some point’

Not surprisingly, the people of East Palestine are frightened and worried about what their future holds. Obviously neither Joe Biden or Donald Trump know what the future holds for these East Palestine families, but who showed up to offer support and encouragement? 

Hint … not the non-leader who will most likely spend this weekend at his Delaware beach house.

3/6/23

As is my habit on Sundays, I write about an individual or individuals that are worthy of our praise. Today that group are students from Callisburg High School in Texas.

Callisburg High School janitor known as Mr. James to the students had his rent raised by $400 and he wasn’t able to make ends meet without going back to work.

From Blaze media:

Students at a high school in Callisburg, Texas, were upset when they heard that an 80-year-old custodian was forced to come out of retirement in order to afford his rent, so they jumped into action.

Three students decided to open a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for Mr. James, and they set their goal for $10,000.

“Hey guys I’m having a fundraiser for our janitor who is struggling to pay his rent. He had to leave retirement to continue to pay his rent that was raised. Just a little will change his life!!” the description read.

After the campaign went viral on Instagram, the students raised more than $30,000 in just two days.

Only a week later, the campaign has raised more than $162,000 with more than 5.2k donations.

“Nobody deserves to work their whole life. They deserve to enjoy everything,” said student Greyson Thurman, one of the organizers of the campaign.”

To hear of high school students doing something unprovoked and kind is always refreshing. These students should serve as an example of how young people should act. Kudos to them.

3/5/23

Just today I was just telling a friend that I will never believe that Joe Biden fairly won the 2020 presidential election … the emphasis on “fairly.” Then lo and behold I read something by Joe Fried in American Thinker, and now I am more convinced than ever that I am right. The following are merely some examples of skullduggery (cheating) that occurred in multiple swing states.

Arizona:

At an Arizona Senate Committee hearing on January 24, 2022, we learned that precisely 95 percent of Maricopa County overseas military members (and their families) voted for Joe Biden. That is an amazing (as in phony) percentage, given that the overall county-wide vote was fairly even between Biden and Trump (51 to 49%). Winning the military vote in Maricopa County with a 90 percent margin strongly suggests the likelihood of fraud.

Georgia:

Garland Favorito is the head of VoterGA.org, and has a forty-year background in information technology. In a detailed press conference, Favorito and his cyber experts itemized fifteen categories of ballot irregularities found during their analysis of ballot images acquired from Fulton County, Georgia.

The number of unsupportable ballots found for this one county is forty-five times larger than Biden’s margin of victory for the entire state. (He goes into great detail emphasizing that many of the results were “not possible.”)

Michigan:

Before the 2020 election, the Michigan Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, implemented an illegal procedure that seriously undermined the integrity of the election. She announced that all signatures would be presumptively valid — even if they were only slightly similar to registration signatures. The announcement was, effectively, an invitation to fraudsters to grab all the unused ballot applications they could find or buy; and fill them out and send them in.

Trump opposed Benson’s new procedure, and he ended up winning in court — four months after the election.

By using an illegal standard for processing of signatures, and by announcing that new standard in advance so that fraudsters could exploit it, Benson effectively invalidated the Michigan election certification.

Nevada:

Three months before the 2020 election, the Democrat administration in Nevada passed a law that gutted election controls, and made the 2020 election impossible to certify with credibility.

Under the new Nevada law, all registered voters are automatically mailed ballots (not just applications). In 2020, this created mountains of unused ballots because lots of registered voters are not interested in voting, are not necessarily citizens, may have already moved to a new location, or are already “living” in the city cemetery.

How hard was it to cheat in the 2020 Nevada election? In Clark County you just had to walk into any large apartment building, go to the mailbox area, scoop up a handful of ballots, sign them, and mail them in. There was no ID required, and it was very hard to fail a signature test in Nevada. That is still true today.

The new Nevada law, coupled with its lack of an ID requirement, made the 2020 election unverifiable.

Pennsylvania:

When the Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth certified the election on November 24, 2020, there were 202,377 more ballots cast than the number of people shown to have voted. This irrefutable fact is one of several reasons many Pennsylvania legislators wanted Vice President Mike Pence to delay counting the electoral votes on January 6, 2021.(FYI: Pence did nothing!)

A reading of the Pennsylvania Code (25 PA. Stat. §3154) suggests that the certification may have violated Commonwealth law. The statute states that, if there is a significant unidentified excess of votes cast over persons who voted, there must be an investigation before the votes are recorded.

There was no investigation. 

Wisconsin:

In some amazing way in Madison Ward 124, the voter turnout increased in that ward by 1,285 percent.That very unnatural increase could explain why Madison refused to provide ballot access to post-election auditors. The sharp increase in Madison’s voter turnout could be due to incredible voter enthusiasm. But more likely, it is due to the 200 drop boxes that were placed in the Democrat stronghold for special voting days called “Democracy in the Park” (a two-day, Biden-promoted event of very questionable legality).

The Ward 124 anomaly has never been investigated.

Like I said in the beginning of this piece … There is NO way that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, FAIRLY!

For those who wish to delve further into these and more 2020 election irregularities, may I recommend Fried’s book, “Debunked.”

3/4/23

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if SCOTUS,especially John Roberts had worn “big-boy pants,” back in January, 2021.

This piece is from 2/24/21.

Duck, Duck, Goose-egg

Sometimes I wonder why we actually have a Supreme Court when they seemingly duck on important issues. They are supposed to be the brightest legal minds, but when it comes to these bright legal minds actually making a meaningful decision  . . . they duck, and the country gets nothing (a goose-egg). They’ve been ducking various abortion issues for years and now they are presented with serious issues related to the abuses of freedoms and the making-up of laws because of Covid.

Well, News Flash! . . . they just ducked again, and consequently the country got a goose-egg. This week the Court ducked on two election issues out of Pennsylvania. They seem now to have “ducking” down to a science. The vote on these Pennsylvania cases was 6-3 in favor of “ducking.” One might say, 6-3 is not close as two votes would have to be changed in order to make it 4-5. However, whereas a 5-4 majority is needed to ultimately decide a case, only four (4) votes are needed to hear a case. As pointed out in The Keneally Chronicles, this is referred to as the “Rule of Four,” meaning that only one more of the Justices needed  to agree to hear the case. Only one additional Justice needed to have the fortitude not duck these election issues. I am not surprised that Chief Justice Roberts ducked, as he seems to be losing courage year after year, but I am very surprised that Roberts’ outrage against hearing any election cases a few months back is continuing to have an effect on Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett. 

Thank God for Justice Clarence Thomas who is not afraid to speak his mind.

“One wonders what this Court waits for,” understates Thomas in his dissent, adding “we failed to settle this dispute before the election, and thus provide clear rules. Now we again fail to provide clear rules for future elections. The decision to leave election law hidden beneath a shroud of doubt is baffling. By doing nothing, we invite further confusion and erosion of voter confidence. Our fellow citizens deserve better and expect more of us.”

Justice Thomas adds,

“The Constitution gives to each state legislature authority to determine the ‘Manner’ of federal elections…Yet both before and after the 2020 election, non-legislative officials in various States took it upon themselves to set the rules instead…. [T]he Pennsylvania Legislature established an unambiguous deadline for receiving mail-in ballots… the Pennsylvania Supreme Court extended that deadline… (and) ordered officials to count ballots received by the new deadline even if there was no evidence—such as a postmark—that the ballots were mailed by election day. … these cases provide us with an ideal opportunity to address (this) before the next election cycle. The refusal to do so is inexplicable.”

Inexplicable . . . unless you are a duck!

2/24/21

3/4/23