Month: February 2024

On 2/28/24 I happened to be at the gym when President Biden spoke to the country on crime. Now while I could not hear what JB was saying, I could read what he was saying as there was closed captioning on the TV screen.

Amazing was the fact that Lakin Riley’s name was not mentioned. As everyone is aware this twenty-two year old was allegedly brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela. That JB would not even offer condolences to the family was disgraceful. … “Have you no shame, Joe Biden?”

Consider the following headline from CV News Feed:

“Venezuela’s Violent Crime Dropped as U.S. Illegal Migration Spiked”

Continuing from CV News Feed:

“The murder rate in Venezuela was a massive crisis for the country,” political commentator Mike Cernovich recently pointed out on X. “The murder rate has sharply declined since [President] Joe Biden opened the borders. Now the [United States] gets to experience these murders and gang attacks.”

Cernovich cited a pair of articles to show the drastic decline in murders in the South American nation.

One article from 2019 referred to Venezuela’s murder rate as “soaring,” adding that it has “plunged the nation into a public health crisis.”

However, Cernovich also cited a Bloomberg piece from December 2023 acknowledging that the country’s murder rate is the “lowest since 2001.” The article also acknowledges that this comes as a record number of migrants are leaving the country.

“Venezuela’s rate of violent deaths dropped to its lowest level in more than two decades following years of massive migration as both criminals and victims fled the nation’s economic crisis,” author Andreina Itriago Acosta wrote in the article.

Still referring to that same Biden speech, although he was supposed to be speaking about “crime,” not once did he mention “illegals” and what part they play in the increasing crime rate. An honest person would at least admit that his border policies could possibly be playing a role in the increased crime, especially in our cities. However, Joe Biden, or whomever is making the decisions for him, consistently deny that he (they) bear any responsibility for any of this!

“Do you not feel any shame Joe Biden, that an innocent young woman is dead because of your border policies?”

2/29/24

How long before Joe Biden comments on the murder of Georgia college student, Laken Riley? She was found dead on 2/22/24 after she failed to return from a morning run at the University of Georgia in Augusta.

The accused is Jose Ibarra. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed on 2/23/24 that suspect Jose Ibarra is not a U.S. citizen, but a Venezuelan national who illegally entered the country in 2022 and had “previous arrests and criminal citations,” 

The University of Georgia Police Department charged Ibarra, 26, “with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, kidnapping, hindering a 911 call and concealing the death of another, UGA Police Chief Jeffrey L. Clark said.

Just to be clear today is 2/28/24 and so far we have heard zero, zip, nada  from Biden. However, Donald Trump had plenty to say already. While JB continues to remain silent, DJT is saying what millions of Americans are thinking.

“Crooked Joe Biden’s Border INVASION is destroying our country and killing our citizens!” Trump said on Truth Social. “The horrible murder of 22-year-old Laken Riley at the University of Georgia should have NEVER happened! The monster who took her life illegally entered our Country in 2022…and then was released AGAIN by Radical Democrats in New York after injuring a CHILD!! When I am your President, we will immediately Seal the Border, Stop the Invasion, and on Day One, we will begin the largest deportation operation of illegal CRIMINALS in American History! May God Bless Laken Riley and her family!!! Our prayers are with you!”

On 2/26/24 a White House spokesperson released the following statement:

“We would like to extend our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of Laken Hope Riley. People should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law if they are found to be guilty. Given this is an active case, we would have to refer you to state law enforcement and ICE.”

The lackluster statement — which doesn’t, in fact, include any word from President Biden himself — was quickly slammed by multiple people. In general the comments after this namby-pamby White House response were along these lines:

“No statement from Biden? Just a few cold words from a press aide. Pathetic,” Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) said.

“I’ve heard NO APOLOGIES or remorse from @TheDemocrats about their open border policies leading to another murdered American,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said in response.

This dichotomy as far as statements go only reenforces the fact that Donald Trump is a leader and Joe Biden is a schmo!

2/28/24

For those of you not familiar with what is happening with EVs, here is the latest.

From Townhall:

“On Thursday, 2/22/24, Mercedes-Benz announced it was joining other automakers, such as Ford Motor Company, in rolling back its planned production of electric vehicles — the ones the Biden administration sought to force Americans to get regardless of whether families could afford them or the U.S. transportation system could handle the switch. 

Mercedes-Benz had previously announced an aggressive plan to turn its company into a major EV producer by 2025 but realized — just as Ford Motor Company did previously — that shunning gas-powered vehicles was not such a grand idea. 

Now, according to the company’s leadership, its at least 50 percent EV production goal has been pushed back by at least five years to 2030 due to weaker-than-anticipated consumer interest in making the transition.”

According to Fox Business, “[i]n the meantime, Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Kaellenius reassured investors that the company will continue to manufacture combustion engine cars and improve its technology well into the next decade” and “current plans for updates mean ‘it is almost like we will have a new lineup in 2027 that will take us well into the 2030s,’ Kaellenius said.”

“The ambitious goals of U.S. policymakers and car manufacturers have collided with reality, as most consumers still do not trust electric cars and are turned off by high prices.”

While JB can make all of the mandates about Electric Vehicles that he wishes, his mandates will not make people buy things that they do not want and cannot afford. Likewise, automobile manufacturers are in business to make a profit, and they are finally realizing what I have been saying all along … “you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink or buy an EV!

2/27/24

For years black voters have been a mainstay of Democrats. Could this foundation be crumbling?

Estimates have an increasing number of black voters voting for Donald Trump  come November.  Based on Trump’s growing support among influential blacks, I am inclined to believe that Biden’s supposed support among black voters may be crumbling.

On 2/23/24 Trump spoke at two rallies. The first at the 6,000-seat Winthrop Coliseum in Rock Hill, about 70 miles north of Columbia S.C., and the second speaking to the Black Conservative Federation(BCF), where he underscored the importance of blacks helping him unseat Democrat President Joe Biden in the November general election.

Earlier in the day, President Trump spoke during a rally at the 6,000-seat Winthrop Coliseum in Rock Hill, S.C.

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), whom President Trump named to his shortlist of potential running mates, spoke on behalf of the 45th president at both locations where President Trump spoke. So did another shortlist contender, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.).

Mr. Donalds, who serves as BCF chairman, told the Columbia audience: “Let me tell you, Rock Hill was rockin’ … and there’s a reason why that occurred. It occurred because our country is struggling … and because we have a terrible person at the helm of our country in Joe Biden.”

From the Epoch Times:

Former President Donald Trump, with help from a chorus of prominent black voices, is trying to drown out the old “blacks-should-vote-Democrat” mantra.

The Republican frontrunner and his allies, speaking to the Black Conservative Federation (BCF) on Feb. 23, underscored the importance of blacks helping him unseat Democrat President Joe Biden in the November general election.

Diante Johnson, president of the Black Conservative Federation (BCF) told the audience that he thinks President Trump will snare an unprecedented 50 percent of the black male vote this fall, which would decimate the incumbent’s chances.

BCF Vice President Quenton Jordan told the audience that he has seen the black conservative movement expand dramatically after being told that such a movement “couldn’t exist.”

More blacks are turning conservative, he said, because they care about what he calls “the four F’s: Family, Faith, Freedom, and Finances.”

Also in attendance was Alveda King, a niece of famed civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. After representing Georgia as a Democrat congresswoman, Ms. King switched to the Republican Party. President Trump says he has known her for years.

Trump also recognized others who spoke at the event, including Mr. Donalds; Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-Texas); former NFL player Jack Brewer; and Dr. Ben Carson, his Housing and Urban Development secretary, who received the BCF Lifetime Achievement Award.

The BCF presented President Trump with the Champion for Black America Award.

As President Trump reviewed accomplishments of his presidency and discussed issues of special significance to black Americans, he went off-script more than usual. Part of the time, however, it wasn’t by choice because “the teleprompter broke.”

President Trump told the BCF audience that he is dedicated to improving life for all Americans. He says his “Make America Great Again” slogan applies to everyone, regardless of race, creed, or ethnicity.

Two takes for me from 2/23 events:

First – Trump received the Champion for Black America Award. I haven’t heard of JB receiving any award from any black organization.

Second – Trump spoke for an extended period of time without a teleprompter, while JB cannot speak coherently for even a minute without a teleprompter.

Hopefully the two events on 2/23 will be a forerunner of the crumbling of a past Democrat foundation, the black voter.

2/26/24

Sunday is a day I devote to heroes.

Because February 19th is the  anniversary of the invasion of the small South Pacific island, of Iwo Jima, I thought that it would be appropriate to recognize some of of the 70,000 who fought there.

Perhaps all of us are familiar of the iconic monument of five Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the American flag on Iwo Jima in WWII. The 78-foot-tall granite and bronze monument in Washington, honors the Marines who fought and died at Iwo Jima. 

For those unfamiliar with what went on during the five week battle against the Japanese, the Battle for Iwo Jima was one of the bloodiest ever fought by U.S. Marines. Nearly 7,000 Marines and other military personnel died in this fighting, and another 20,000 were wounded. We can honor them as well by remembering who they were and the hell they endured fighting for freedom. 

The following is a capsule summary of four Marines from the Epoch Times:

When we think of the Marines who hit the beach at Iwo Jima, the sailors and airmen who supported them, and even most of the Americans in uniform during World War II, it behooves us to remember that they were civilian soldiers, not professionals. They left behind mothers and fathers, wives and children. And most of them could never be described, as some commentators are wont to do, as boys. These young men had lived their entire adolescence during the Great Depression, had often worked as teenagers to help support their families, and were made fit and tough by that hardscrabble labor and poverty. Today’s notion of adolescence extending into the mid-20s would have been as foreign to them as the Pacific islands they invaded.

Donald Ruhl (1923–1945) grew up in Joliet, Montana, and graduated high school in 1942. From 1937 until graduation, he worked on a 400-acre ranch as a farm hand for $15 a week plus his room and board. On D-Day of the Iwo Jima landing, Ruhl killed two Japanese, one with his bayonet. The following day, he saved the life of a wounded fellow Marine by carrying him to safety. And on D-Day plus two, he threw himself onto an enemy satchel charge and died in that explosion while protecting the lives of nearby Marines. 

Texan First Lieutenant Jack Lummus (1915–1945) played baseball and football for Baylor University, left school before graduating, and was playing professional football for the New York Giants when the war came. He enlisted in the Marines, completed the then-called Officers Training School at Quantico, Virginia, commanded a platoon on Iwo Jima, and singlehandedly attacked enemy pillboxes, assaults that inspired his men to join his one-man charge. Wounded by shrapnel and a land mine, he died in a hospital just a few days after the charge.

Private First-Class Franklin Sigler (1924–1995) went straight from his New Jersey high school into the Marines, and then to Iwo Jima. There, he took command when his squad leader was wounded, launched a one-man attack and captured an enemy gun position, and fought back the Japanese who attempted to retake the post. Though he was wounded and under fire, he carried three other Marine casualties to safety. 

North Carolinian Rufus Herring (1921–1996) had command of a Landing Craft Gunboat when his ship came under attack. When Japanese mortars and artillery set his ship on fire and knocked out the conning station, killing most of the other officers, the severely wounded Herring directed operations aboard ship, including the guns returning the Japanese barrage, and brought the vessel and most of its crew to safety. Later, he became mayor of his beloved hometown of Roseboro, North Carolina. Before his death, he declined burial in Arlington Cemetery, preferring to rest in his native soil.

These are but four of the myriad of heroes who fought, bled, and died at Iwo Jima. 

2/25/24

Donald Trump has done it again! Done what? you may ask. He has appealed to another group of voters who have been forever caught in a trap. Here I am talking about the parents whose children who are trapped in failing schools. These parents, including many single parents cannot afford to send their children to any sort of private school. In addition, there are those who cannot home school their children, either because they have to work or do not have the schooling or the wherewithal to do home schooling. Because these families do not have a school choice option, these children are basically trapped in substandard schools. Consequently, in all likelihood, they will never achieve their full potential and thus will possibly be trapped in poverty for their entire life.

From CV NEWS FEED:

“Former President Donald Trump announced that if elected in November, he would support universal school choice as well as comprehensive tax credits for families who homeschool their children.

‘I will support a policy of universal school choice,’ Trump said while speaking at the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Convention, in Nashville, TN, Thursday:night, 2/22/24.

The Republican frontrunner indicated he would allow ‘parents to choose the public, private, charter, or religious school that best suits their children.’

Trump stated that he would ‘support America’s homeschool families including allowing 529 Education Savings Accounts [ESAs] to be used for homeschooling expenses up to $10,000 a year per child completely tax free.’”

“In addition Mr. Trump said that he intends to ‘close the federal Department of Education, and … move everything back to the states where it belongs.’

Furthermore, Trump emphasized that he would make it a ‘top priority’ to ‘take back our education system from the communists and the freaks that are destroying it.’

‘On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory [CRT], transgender insanity, and all other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content onto our children.’”

Kudos to DJT! It’s about time that someone is finally standing up for the mainly lower class children and their parents. When Trump is elected these families will have some realistic hopes for their children who will no longer be trapped.

2/24/24

As almost all of you are aware on 2/16/24 Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died  in the Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence, Russia’s prison agency said. He was 47.

Right from the beginning let me be clear … I am not a Putin backer. Navalny and Putin have been enemies for a very long time, and the presumption by many is that Navalny was murdered and that Putin was responsible. In actuality at this point we do not know what actually happened to Navalny, and we may never know. It is common knowledge that Navalny and Putin were political enemies, and most of us would agree that it is pure evil for anyone in politics to physically go after one’s political enemies. Certainly, if it is true that Putin was responsible for Navalny’s death, then this is the lowest an individual can go. 

However, what about going after one’s political enemies by attempting to put him/her in jail on trumped-up charges? What about attempting to bankrupt a political enemy by fining him/her a ridiculous amount for a trumped-up fictitious crime? While I would never try to equate murder with jailing or financially ruining a political opponent, nonetheless both of these would also be judged as pure evil.

Speaking of trumped-up charges for trumped-up alleged crimes, isn’t this exactly what Joe Biden and his intermediaries are trying to do to his political opponent, Donald Trump? Is there a difference between what an intermediary allegedly did to Putin’s political opponent, Alexei Navalny, and what Biden’s intermediaries are now doing to Biden’s political opponent, Donald Trump? 

2/23/24

Last night I happened to watch part of Laura Ingraham’s interview with Donald Trump, and in my opinion it was a very good interview.

At one point in response to his $354 million fine from his recent civil fraud trial in New York, Trump pulled out a copy of the 8th Amendment from his his pocket. He then read the section which states, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”

To me this is exactly what this enormous fine is, especially when there was no victim.

When asked about potential revenge for a series of mistreatments by Democrat prosecutors, Mr. Trump said, “My revenge will be my success.”  I thought … good campaign slogan!

The other interesting part of the interview had to do with potential debates with Biden. When asked Trump responded, “I’ll do it right now on your show. I’ll challenge him right now.”

Everyone knows that JB will never debate Donald Trump for a multitude of reasons, even though many Libs will have pity on the well-meaning, but tottering senile old man.

At the end of the interview Laura Ingraham asked, “Why not drop out instead of face all of these legal battles?”

President Donald Trump: “I can’t because I want to make America great again.”

A good answer from a good American!

2/22/24

What if I told you that the Biden “Admin Paid German Agency to Help Teachers Turn Kids Against Conservative Media.” (This is a headline from Catholic Vote.) My sense is that at first you would not believe that headline. What if I added that this censorship program was funded by .American tax dollars? … again my sense is that you wold say, …”no way!”

What if I added that over 700 educators participated in a year-long series of State Department seminars hosted by the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab (the ‘Rhode Island Lab’).”

These seminars introduced the teachers to various “censorship tools.” These included “video games designed to entice children to embrace leftist narratives and to compel them to use tech platforms that collude with the government to surveil and censor.”

What if I told you that this curriculum included lessons on promoting street protests for leftist causes, and detailed instructions on how to turn schoolchildren into media producers who advocate against free speech.

By this time my sense is that you would be saying, “NO WAY!”

However, the Media Research Council’s (MRC) Censorship Investigation Project uncovered the secret collaboration through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and analyzing public records.

MRC Legal Associate Tim Kilcullen reported Tuesday that both the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security funded the effort.

Kilcullen added, “Under the Biden administration, the U.S. embassy set up a “year-long, cross-national professional learning community,” dubbed the “Medialogue on Propaganda,” in order to export German socialist ideas of censorship to American educators.

If you haven’t bought in so far, what if I told you that according to Kilcullen, “A portion of the curriculum was ‘funded in part by leftist billionaires George and Alexander Soros.’”

If only a portion of what I have just told you is true, how frightening is that!

2/21/24

As most of you realize, I do not profess to be an expert on “climate change.” In fact, recently a friend lent me “Green Murder” by Ian Plimer, an Australian “climate change denier,” and I am having a tough time comprehending it.

Nonetheless, recently I did struggle through a piece by Daniel W. Nebert, a professor emeritus in Gene-Environment Interactions at the University of Cincinnati, and thought I would pass on the part related to Glacial Periods. Please bear with me and these large numbers as the end-message is quite clear.

It is my understanding that the following will be included in a future piece in American Thinker:

“From his seminal work while prisoner of war during WWI, Serbian mathematician Milutin Milankovitchexplained how climate is influenced by variations in the Earth’s asymmetric orbit, axial tilt, and rotational wobble — each going through cycles lasting as long as 120,000 years.

It is widely recognized that Glacial Periods of about 95,000 years, interspersed with Interglacial Periods of approximately 25,000 years correspond with Milankovitch Cycles. Multiple incursions of glaciers occurred during the Pleistocene, an epoch lasting from about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago, when Earth’s last Glacial Period ended. Around 24,000 years ago, present-day Lake Erie was covered with ice a mile thick. 

 Within each Interglacial Period, there’ve been warming periods, or “Mini-Summers.” For example, within the current Holocene Interglacial, there have been warmer periods known as the Minoan (1500 – 1200 BC), Roman (250 BC – 400 AD) and Medieval (900 – 1300 AD). Our Modern Warming Period began with the waning of the Little Ice Age (1300-1850). Today’s Mini-Summer is colder so far than all previous Mini-Summers over the last 8,500 years.”

So let me get this straight. 

Is the earth warming? … Yes, it is, but this is not the first such “Mini-Summer” that the earth has had. As with past “Mini-Summers” these  warming periods typically occur during periods of extreme cold referred to as Interglacial Periods.

Comparatively speaking this so-called period of “global warming” is not so much compared to prior episodes that have occurred over the past 8,500 years.

As any intelligent person knows warming is to be preferred to cooling as far as how the earth’s inhabitants get along. Death rates are much higher with extreme cold than with extreme heat. Imagine trying to grow food in freezing conditions as opposed to hot conditions. Crops will not grow if it is freezing. Imagine what America’s bread basket would be like if Lake Erie was covered with mile thick ice. Millions would starve if temperatures plunged!

At what point will this global warming paranoia cease? In my opinion, probably not until we get a Republican back in the White House!

2/20/24