Just some thoughts as they occur to me through the day;
* Personally, I’m glad to say that one of the things that won’t be salvaged from the LA fires is the political future of Gruesome Newsom.
* Sadly, they will probably end up electing another Democrat out there and then wonder why they’ve got the same problems 20 years hence.
* Donald Trump didn’t issue pardons to his family when he left the White House last time. Joe Biden did that. Think about it.
*Back in 1993, Al Gore made the Sterling prediction that by the year 2000 Winters would be history in America. Sarasota Florida got 7 in of snow day before yesterday. Talk about a prediction that didn’t age well.
*The list of things that I trust more than Snopes, includes absolutely everything.
From Josh Dunlap
“New bank accounts belonging to the Biden family have recently been found which were used for receiving money that was laundered from China, Romania, & Russia while Biden was VP, with over $240K in checks being directly wired to Biden with no explanation. “
In the scary light of the fires in the Los Angeles area the last couple of days, it’s time for us to take inventory:
* No water reservoirs after the Democrats have been turning down such plans for years. They even turned down desalinization plants that were to be used as a water source. Therefore, no water to put out fires with.
* Even assuming they had water to put out fires with, they’re short on equipment and manpower because LAFD has had their budget cut by the cities Democrat run administration to the tune of 17.7 million dollars.
* The Topanga canyon fire particularly, the locals tell me was likely started in the homeless encampment there. It’s a sanctuary city of course and the newly imported Democrat voters are now living in those homeless encampments with people who have lost their homes because they don’t have enough income to cover homeownership and the taxes attached thereto.
*Where is the Democrat mayor of LA during all this? She’s on a taxpayer funded junket to Africa. At least she’s the right color. Got to check those politically correct boxes. (As an aside, this idiot was on Joe Biden’s short list for VP…)
* Oh speaking of politically correct boxes, the city fire chief in LA? A gay woman. Maybe instead of trying to fight “toxic masculinity” they brought in somebody who knew how to fight fires? Just a thought.
The January 6, 2025 certification of Trump’s election victory is the first time in fifty-two years that no Democrats challenged the certification of a GOP victory in a presidential election. Dems in the House challenged the results in 1981, 1985, 1989, 2001, 2005, & 2017.
Some of our friends still haven’t gotten the message about the establishment GOP. Take Kruiser, just this morning:
“Nobody outside of The New York Times Opinion section and the Biden White House thinks that Liz Cheney is a principled person. “
Well, Steve, I wouldn’t say nobody.
Let’s consider the establishment Republicans who have been tolerating her, and even encouraging her, all this time. I even personally know one that’s been praising her as a principled person.
They are precisely what’s been holding the GOP back, since before Reagan.
Here we have a picture of Jill Biden leaving the vote booth on November 5th. This was sent to me by a reader.
First, it is remarkable that she’s not absentee voting.
Secondly, I can’t help but wonder, as does my (here nameless) correspondent, if the color of her outfit wasn’t a pointed message.
I’ll tell you something else… Liberal heads are going to explode over this interview.
I warn you, it’s a gruesome scene.
It’s worth noting that the name of the perpetrator has not been released as yet.
I will leave to you to consider the history of these kinds of attacks, particularly recently as to why authorities there are playing that one very close to the vest.
Update:
The suspect accused of plowing a truck through a crowd on Bourbon Street early Wednesday morning has been identified by a law enforcement source as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar.
Yeah, that’s what I thought. If it’s a white guy, they will invariably name the suspect before the screaming dies.
But when it’s anybody else, islamist, transsexual, one minority or another, it’s usually something on the order of 24 hours before the suspect is known to the public.
Over at PJ media, Greg Byrnes does a bit of a retrospective on Jimmy Carter on the occasion of his passing:
Once in office, his popularity gradually began to fade, partly because of his drift to the Left. He supported the legalization of abortion by the courts, and his first act in office was to pardon all Vietnam War draft dodgers. In some ways, it was the McGovern agenda without the McGovern political baggage. His aides were often inexperienced in Washington’s ways, and like the only other engineer elected president, Herbert Hoover, Carter had an unfounded faith in his ability to both lead and micromanage his administration.
While in office, he created the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. In a hotly contested decision, he gave away the American-built Panama Canal. He faced an energy crisis sparked by war in the Middle East and an Arab oil embargo, which Carter called the “moral equivalent of war.”
But critics saw his address to the nation on the energy crisis while wearing a sweater as a sign of weakness in American global leadership. He seemed to ask Americans to get by with less and lower national expectations. In a struggling economy, he provided the equivalent of $11 billion to bail out a failing Chrysler Corporation as Japanese car imports flooded the struggling American automobile market.
In his famous “malaise speech” towards the end of his term, he epitomized the economic malaise the nation was experiencing under his leadership with high gas prices, inflation, and slow economic growth.
High gas prices inflation and slow economic growth. Sounds awfully familiar, doesn’t it?
And it should be noted that the bailout of Chrysler handed up some 40 years later I’m out into nothing as Chrysler’s new owners are about ready to pull the plug on the place.
The Carter administration record was bad enough that it resulted in two landslides for Ronald Reagan.
The greatest of his sins in my opinion was the creation of the federal department of education, which further the intrusion of government into the educational process. As I have asked several times in these spaces, does anybody truly expect a taxpayer funded government-run education system to properly fill the minds full of mush with the true intention of the founders as regards limited government?
I feel, and will express here,, a sympathy for his passing. But in fairness one cannot ignore the rest of it. The old saying about those who don’t learn from history will repeat it seems to apply here, in spades.
One respondent in the back and forth in some of my online conversations late this afternoon, suggested that at least he was a better president than Bill Clinton. My response was to quip about that’s not all that high a bar.
Still, it must be observed that although his presidency was problematic, one never doubted his sincerity. And that’s far more than I can say about a goodly number of presidents in my lifetime.
* The number of people telling us that they are moving to Canada because Donald Trump was elected interests me for two reasons. First, Trudeau is about to be replaced by a conservative in the upcoming election, and why aren’t they moving to Mexico? Racist much?
* And about that… Shouldn’t Babs Streisand and Cher have moved out of the country by now?
* A fascinating little tidbit about Trump’s victory… He is the first Republican candidate to beat not one but two Democrat candidates in the same election.
* Is the shooting of a healthcare CEO, a tacit admission Obamacare didn’t work?
* A while ago, I suggested that assuming Trump and on the nomination in 2016 that whatever Republican won the nomination would get the same treatment from the Democrats the Trump did. I took it at the time as proof that it wasn’t really about Trump but about any opposition. What we are now seeing in reaction to Elon Musk bears this out.
