But then I realized I had missed Halloween altogether, and that Tuesday this week isn't for trick-or-treating, it's actually Election Day. Cursing myself for both the mix-up and the money I spent to parade in the streets as a fool with political power, I neatly folded up the absurd costume and put it back in the closet, storing it next to last year's male swimmer disguised as a female swimmer swimsuit.
Ah yes, the elections. A choice. Democrats believe "our democracy" is in peril, a democracy being what the folks in the formerly wealthy Venezuela have when they "vote" for and mysteriously (and overwhelmingly) elect the brutal dictator of the moment. This is how a society ends up eating zoo animals.
If you've noticed, Dem after Dem currently warns on TV about losing our "democracy." Good! Let's lose their definition of democracy because. . .
Republicans, for all their faults, at least accept that we live not in a democracy, but in a constitutional republic where at least some modicum of representation for the individual exists.
As Biden and his cackling green political disciples disparage fossil fuels, new predictions indicate that China's growing use of coal as demands for increased electrical energy blossom will undo every bit of "progress" the green revolution cult believes it has made around the world. Pity. So NOW can we go back to sanity and drill baby drill? Biden, who never started a business or held a job, can't tolerate the profits oil companies are making, though profits big or small are exactly what we should expect from capitalism working as intended. This ass of a pRESIDENT currently renews promises to rid the U.S. of coal in exchange for wind power, but the only dependable breezes Biden can deliver are his speeches as a blowhard.
Polls: Do we not resent becoming individual poll statistics before we're even voted?
If voters give Republicans -- and specifically conservatives who actually do something more than shoot blanks at primarily Democrat Party actions that got us into the worst mess in memory -- the opportunity to do the right thing, we fondly hope that those who insisted upon injecting unknown substances into human bodies are arrested, tried, convicted and in receipt of punishment as appropriate. Tell your congressional rep to insist upon "Nuremberg II" hearings and swift punishment which, in some cases, should exceed mere imprisonment. Never forget the harm caused by Frankenstein immunizations, making up "facts" depending upon whim, masking, school and business shut-downs and measures of cruelty exerted by authorities more concerned with power over us than with the necessities of living real in a constitutional republic. Maybe we should fret a little less about stolen elections and a lot more about stolen lives among both the living and the dead.
Speaking of stolen elections, anybody who believes all the fury is coming from the Republican side needs to merely wait until new election totals pour in and Democrats cry foul no matter what this week.
UFOs in the Mist Dept: Though I no longer clutter up the UFO arena with my presence to any significant degree, I am grateful for the good people who keep the subject in view -- and some of the best are in the link list on the side here. This week, I'm particularly grateful to journalist Billy Cox for holding a renewed government UFO bureaucracy's feet to the fire for apparently or possibly failing to inform Congress of new findings on the date due. No, I have no trouble subscribing to the likelihood that our government and those of other countries remain puzzled in relation to the phenomenon, but I'm also sure that the all-encompassing cloak and cries of "national security" have come in handy repeatedly for keeping the American people, shall we say, in the dark.
Twitter: Hey corporations, drop your criminal ESG involvement and consider returning to Twitter as advertisers. If Musk truly intends freedom as he allegedly cleans out the cobwebs of censorship and speech fascism, Twitter's renewal requires your support.
Blame Everybody But Dept: As the parents of Gabby Petito, murdered at the hands of her boyfriend Brian Laundrie, prepare to sue the Moab, Utah police for millions of dollars, we again witness an instance where somebody else, anybody, has to be held responsible for what a perpetrator, now dead, did. Police officers are not psychics and cannot always make the right call when human emotions and actions run wild. The brutal naked truth is that Ms. Petito, like so many young people, chose this monster to love and to cherish and their mutual decision to hang out together ended poorly. Law enforcement did not choose Mr. Laundrie as neither her soul mate nor her killer, and when everything goes nuts in a relationship that's how the cards are dealt.
This involves the same kind of situation when police are called every day to domestic violence calls, and some of the cops are murdered merely for showing up at the scene and trying to help. My opinion? Let the police show up to draw chalk lines, rather than be murdered themselves. We all make poor choices, but appear increasingly motivated to blame the wrong people when our fantasies of clinging to perfection unravel or our hearts are broken. We predict that the Moab law enforcement folk will weather this storm, though the foolishness circulating throughout the legal system currently may indeed declare some kind of cash settlement. If any officers are actually fired, that reflects as much the stupidity of our times as does sensitivity training.
