I don’t know what folk in America thought prior to the US being drawn into the Second World War. Perhaps all of the turmoil and chaos was thought to be another nation’s problem. Perhaps Americans back then were thinking that it’s nice to have allies in the world as long as those ‘allies’ don’t place us in tough positions. Screw Europe and Russia and China, they would have to tackle their problems on their own.

That sound exactly like what we are telling our allies around the world right now. If you are an Israeli sitting in Israel right now you’ve become acutely aware of just how fickle an ally America can be. I would suppose that if you’re an Israeli not sitting in Israel then the issue becomes a little more abstract.

From the UN to the battlefields our words and our deeds show that we are too afraid of our own shadow to be of much use to them. And so the Jewish homeland looks to be the latest (but certainly not the last) sacrifice to be laid before the alter of that progressive mantra: ‘peace through capitulation’.

God forbid our enemies should fear us once again. We can’t go back to the days when evil was kept in check by hard men engaged in a just cause as ‘hard men’ have fallen from favor and the only ‘just cause’ remaining in America is the destruction of our institutions.

Elections indeed have consequences and the fundamental change brought about by the absolute fiasco of 2020 may have changed the course of mankind for all time.

The future is beginning to look mighty spicy.

A bystander in Texas used his firearm to stop what appeared to be a violent robbery in progress. Police are now saying that the “robbery” was in fact staged for the benefit of a fraudulent visa application. The “robber” is still dead and the fake “victims” are nowhere to be found.

The Houston Police department initially believed that the gunman opened fire on Rasshauud Scott when he saw Scott attempting to rob a couple. Scott later died of his wounds.

Further investigation revealed that Scott regularly ran a scam that was designed to help illegal immigrants commit immigration fraud and obtain a “U visa,” which is given to individuals who are victims of crime and are permitted to stay in the country as potential witnesses while their crimes are being investigated.

Under the scam, someone stages a robbery somewhere that there are security cameras, such as at a gas station, and the “victims” then get to stay legally in the country, often for years, as the case goes unresolved.

These folk need to move their game to a more weapons restricted area.

Of course both Central and South America are significant contributors.

So, I read this in a report on Breitbart: “Per local reports, all of those eight who fell into the water from the construction crew repairing potholes on the Scott Key Bridge were central or southern American origin workers. While two have been recovered alive, including one who didn’t even need hospital treatment, at least two victims have been named. Miguel Luna from El Salvador, a father of three. was declared among the dead overnight and Maynor Suazo Sandoval, a Honduran, was also named on Wednesday morning.”

That struck me as odd. I would have bet good money that they would have either have been union workers (scarfing up triple time pay) or ‘brothers’ whose company leadership had an ‘in’ with city hall. I did a quick search and found that the entire city staff belongs to a union and that in that count of 5000+ some are teachers. A link called ‘data’ produced this about the schools:

And then this:

These guys are knocking it out of the park on High School Math: It’s improved such that 6 percent of the student body is now proficient. I don’t know what it is that they classify as ‘proficient’, but I’d bet it doesn’t include those skills that allow you to go to work as pothole repairpersons (else wise they wouldn’t be holding memorial services for Maynor and Miguel).

For those of you currently in Baltimore and considering relocating, catch a clue from Bob Dylan:

The festival was over and the boys were all planning for a fall
The cabaret was quiet except for the drilling in the wall
The curfew had been lifted and the gambling wheel shut down
Anyone with any sense had already left town
He was standing in the doorway looking like the Jack of Hearts.

Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving slut. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not expressing my glee at her discomfort because she criticized Trump (something I’ve done pretty often over the last 8 years or so), but rather because she sought to make her way in this life by leveraging the angst of others. She wanted to make her bones by gleefully showing that she wished him dead. That, as Trump would say, is one nasty woman.

For the gazillionth time, I’m going to vote for the guy. I think he did a great job as President and have no doubt that he will again (if given the chance). I also think that he’s a first class ass and the best reason I have for looking past this character flaw is that it pisses off the snowflakes so much that I want to encourage him to continue. Mine is not so much a love-hate relationship as it a one of love-instigate/tolerate.

Wifey was watching Fox News when I went into the living room this morning.  She knows I have a real aversion to national news networks in general and Fox News in particular.  I vote R, but it is in spite of these idiots rather than because of them.

The newscast highlighted AOC’s district in New York and the reporter(s) were hyperventilating over the ‘illegal’ aliens setting up shops on the sidewalks.  The words ‘third world’ were continually used.  Wifey was all blown out of shape about immigration (again) and how terrible things have gotten (again).  This happens every time she watches Fox.  So I tried to explain to her (again) that we (both R and D) have been whining the border problem every single day for the last 40 years.  For more than 14,000 days this has been thrown in our face by politicians of all stripes and news folk hell bent on invoking an emotional response.  Every single day the screams get louder and the urgency more pronounced.  She still doesn’t get it:  she’s being played. 

Here are a couple of my bottom lines on the topic: 

A)  If the government of the United States let them across the border, then they are not ‘illegal’.  B) If you’re going to let them in the country and know at the time you let them in that they could not support themselves then you had better be prepared to care for them.  Not everyone agrees with this but I am personally averse to watching folk starve to death on the public streets.  C)  If you complain about these folk using public resources then you cannot complain when they try to fend for themselves. 

D)  How in the world, in the ‘free country’ we claim to have created, is a permit required in order to work and feed yourself and family?  Do they have to ask for permission to live?

As far as the news networks go, I get it:  their attempts at invoking an emotional response is so that folk will ‘affiliate’ with them and return to watch. .  day after day, after. . . I’m certain that they know that some of us have figured this out and refuse to drawn into the little nightmare they’ve worked so hard at creating.  I gaze at them and see fools reading from a script that pads the pockets of network owners at the expense of viewer’s best interests and the needs of the nation.

As for the street vendors in NY, Chicago, Detroit, etc:  Damn folks, give them a break and let them participate in the American dream.  After all, you opened the door and then invited them in.