Deportations Are Not Party Invitations

Could be that the President never intended to stage illegal alien apprehensions at all on Sunday.  His frequent changes of mind often seem part of a long-range plan, as opposed to simply changes in strategy.

Announcing days in advance when and where I.C.E. operations would commence appeared wildly ill-advised, almost staged for effect. Then again, reports surfaced that somebody in Homeland Security or I.C.E. blabbed to the press and that's why crucial data went public. Whether this or a phone conversation between House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Trump actually altered his plans is open to speculation, but we suppose all the whining from bleeding hearts on the left could have helped influence his postponement.  That families chosen for deportation were already processed, denied asylum and legally destined for deportation should have said it all.  Massive deportations -- of which only 2,000 bodies were up for grabs -- could certainly solve a major problem in American cities right now, which is. . .

Housing shortages:  If America's "sanctuary city" governors and mayors would do their jobs and help I.C.E. remove from society an ongoing number of border-jumping criminals and their families, housing problems could abate tremendously.  Additionally, because said governors and mayors, frankly, could not care less about aiding in the enforcement of laws regarding illegal people, these officials should be arrested and tried in court for subverting the oaths of office they solemnly took and face real prison time for committing a form of sedition.

More worries:  The discovery of many Congolese nationals who crossed the Southern border should have been the catalyst to make Democrats at last help Trump take action against the border outrage, now that Ebola cases in the Congo and elsewhere in Africa are dramatically on the rise.  Did these illegals bring us deadly Ebola gifts?

Reparations:  Until this nonsense once again reared its foolish head among Democrat presidential hopefuls, we were unaware that a significant percentage of slave owners in the U.S. were themselves black.  Nor did we know that only four percent of slaves were sent to the United States, while most went to countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Great Britain and Jamaica.  We agree with pundits who widely suggest that LBJ's "Great Society" and other absurd Democrat-initiated programs costing taxpayers trillions of dollars were reparations enough and, as history has demonstrated, these immense amounts of money accomplished little but to keep black people victims and slaves to government.

ABC-TV:  Notice that nowhere among all the exciting televised advertising for the Wallenda siblings' high wire walk 25 stories above the streets of NY City Sunday evening was there even one mention that these two accomplished professionals would also be tethered to a cable overhead -- just in case, you know.  Once viewers became aware of this precaution, the event became about as exciting as watching a bear ride a bicycle with training wheels.  If the TV audience anticipated thrills of risky behavior, it was never in the cards.  Then again, there WAS a risky moment, that split-second where an electronic billboard in the background "flashed" a quick view of the famous statue of David, with full genitalia on display, as a commercial for some product filled the screen.  Next time, maybe naked high wire walking can fill the bill.

Loved ABC-TV's interview with a pediatrician and attorney who visited the Southern border's migrant center, all tuned up to blame Trump and America for allegedly deplorable conditions where children are housed.  Our question, again -- so how do you blame either for the condition of people who aren't supposed to be here anyway?  Don't play the child card on us, folks, it's worn thin.  There's a reason, best exemplified at the border, why we often write in this blog, your babies aren't cute anymore.

Trump-hater Tom Steyer is running TV commercials for his organization, "Need to Impeach."  Wow, what a fresh concept.

Horny takes on a new meaning:  Physicians around the world have noticed children and young people long addicted to cell phone use requiring them to look down constantly have developed small "horns" or beak-like bone deformities at the base of their skulls posteriorly.  If your kid ends up looking like a "Star Wars" alien after a few more years of cell phone hypnotics, you'll know why.

Conservative-disliking and megalomaniac NY State governor Andrew Cuomo explains that it was just a mistake, an error on paper.  After state legislator Republicans noted that a new Democrat-backed law allowing illegal aliens to have driver's licenses was apparently followed three days later by another bill "mistakenly" giving aliens with new driver licenses the ability to VOTE, they went bonkers.  Oops.  The guv blamed all of this on an error in writing the bill.  As if this Democrat hack, doing everything he can to centralize NY government and remove power from the people, doesn't like the concept of illegal aliens voting.  The cascade of new legislation passed by NY's primarily Democrat legislature in the current session offers enough socialist gunpowder to hone a really nice freedom-wounding bullet.  And still they ask, why do folks continue bailing out of the state?

UFOs emerge from the Fountain of Youth:  I get it, yet I don't get it.  I'm watching some media members treat the subject like a newborn.  As if UFOs are new to the scene.  An uncle was telling me about this stuff more than 60 years ago, radar included, and UFOs weren't new then, either.  Nevertheless, since we live in a society now so badly informed about national history and uncaring about human (as opposed to alien) threats surrounding us all, maybe it's no surprise that a load of folks haven't a clue that the UFO subject isn't exactly something that the cat just dragged in this morning.

Florida Experiences Temporary Sanity

One bread crumb thrown out of a whole bag isn't much, but it's a start.

Florida becomes the first long-affected state to ban so-called "sanctuary cities," with a law now requiring police agencies to cooperate with federal entities in the perfectly legal quest to detain and deport illegal immigrants.  A butt-load of criminal aliens impressed with the weather and other amenities in the Sunshine State are now fair game for encounters with agencies dedicated to tossing them out of the country.

At least, that's the intent.  Far and wide, groups pressed with assisting illegal immigrants threaten lawsuits and any other actions available to them.  A familiar concern among social entities warning of dire consequences is that illegals will now "fear" the police.

In our opinion, people here illegally, haphazardly sucking national resources dry, certainly should fear law enforcement personnel, as apprehension and deportation will help to -- we can't resist -- make America great again.

If Florida can weather the inevitable babbling legal storm, and if the state successfully carries out the arduous process of extracting foreign outlaws as if removing infected ticks with tweezers, maybe other states will also develop a sense of rationality regarding this serious issue of invasion.

Polls on parade:  Elections may be far away, but that isn't stopping pollsters of every description from sampling public opinion.  Fortunately for most, the public has a very short memory and voters are sure to forget how badly and unreliably polls reflected what would turn out to be President Trump's victory to claim on Election night.  Sweetheart polling indicated time and again that Hillary was the top choice.  Oops.

Killing the Electoral College:  Several states have already decided to change their election rules, driven to make the traditional Electoral College almost irrelevant.  We hope more rational states, the Supreme Court (good luck!) or some other official entity steps in here, because placing the fate of elections primarily in the hands of voters in a few big cities would assure Democrat Party "winners" for generations to come.  The thought of a one-party system, of course, horrifies.

Is anybody surprised?  The New York Times is not committing treason (per the President) by disclosing United States maneuvers to implant malicious digital code within Russia's computerized infrastructure.  Why wouldn't we wish to know, assured as we certainly must be that Russia and nations such as Iran, North Korea and China have inserted similar potential disrupters into our own power grid in recent years?  Best estimates indicate that a sudden and long-lasting national power failure in the U.S. would result in the deaths of 95 percent of the population over just a year, so the importance of this subject cannot be more evident.

Carrie Lam must go:  Hong Kong's leader, obviously a mainland China hack, will receive no love from the (latest estimate, next day) two million people (out of a total population of seven million) in the streets protesting proposed legislation allowing China to remove and interrogate (and likely imprison) those alleged to have perpetrated crimes (such as speaking out against evil Chinese dictator punk Xi, we assume). While the protestors' goal is total retraction, not just postponement of the bill, maybe Hong Kong should beg a return to British rule before the almost inevitable occurs.

Police in Phoenix go mad-dog on a couple suspected of shoplifting and resisting arrest:  Well, we know how it looked on camera -- but it wouldn't be the first time a mom or dad was hiding a gun behind a babe-in-arms, though this pair was not -- yet making things difficult nonetheless.   NATURALLY, there's a 10 million dollar lawsuit in the mix to make everything go away and be all better.  OF COURSE Phoenix mayor Kate Galego instantly took the side of the alleged perps, blaming cops for ramping up the already ramped-up.  Why is that mayors, city legislators and even some chiefs of police go absolutely Milquetoast when they should actually stand behind the defenders of law who patrol the streets at their own peril?  We suspect the missing words most of the time are -- "social justice."

Social justice reminds us of an event planned for last March at the City University of New York, via the Graduate English Center, entitled “Refusing Institutional Whiteness: Possibilities, Alternatives, and Beyond.” Yes, it's as bad as it sounds, warning that “whiteness continues to be a crucial problem in our English department.”  Refusal, dissent and protest are words used as potential methods to overcome "whiteness" in academia. 

We, almost ashamed to admit our own whiteness lurking behind the keyboard, assume this is "diversity" at its best in the nation's educational institutions and, man oh man, is it ever time to take another look at how universities receive federal funding.

Bits and Pieces for June 2019

Ascendancy:  As popular or vital sources such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Google and other Internet giants continue to censor, ban outright and delete information -- much of it dealing, strangely enough, with politically conservative issues -- the drumbeat continues for government intervention.  This may indeed be required, but not to the extent some would prefer.

Facebook's Zuckerberg and others are said to almost be salivating at the prospect of government-induced action, perhaps resulting in making larger institutions smaller.  Wha...?

The explanation for what seems bizarre thinking on the part of those who might be most affected by a comprehensive government inquiry apparently comes down to a basic framework:  That government attempts to exert regulation and further control over the Internet's major players would actually allow the giants to consult and help write the regs, and in so doing could either tie up in endless red tape or simply exclude potential competition.

Why is government almost destined to address social media issues?  According to legal minds, social media hosts are defined as either platforms or publications.  Platforms allow free and open thought, but Web sites which allow people to freely post communications but then engage in editing in any form meet the criteria as publications -- and Internet publications, unlike platforms, apparently lose a considerable degree of government protection.

Whatever the legal ramifications, immense changes may come to social media, but we hope Congress won't allow major players to call the shots, inadvertently assisting a colossus in becoming an even bigger threat to freedom of speech.  How do you make things fair?  Probably by having no government regulation at all.

Commercial TV as a bright shiny object:  Summer is almost here in North America and, we must say, commercial television stations have rarely placed before viewers a more vacuous or fetid platter of choices.  From glittering quiz shows dependent upon gimmicks and forgettable celebrities to multiple sing-offs no more meaningful than sequential jerk-off sessions, to sexual hog-calling episodes disguised as Beautiful People soap operas scrounging for marriage mates, all of it reflects the slow-motion suicide of TV as we once knew this household staple.  Recent determinations suggesting that millennials have little or no money to purchase sponsor products may plant the kiss of death on what little movement remains of commercial TV's actual brain-inspired programming.  It's enough to make viewers long for the return of video porn arcades.

Hong Kong rebuffs China, good luck with that:  A million fearful Hong Kong residents took to the streets to protest proposed legislation allowing suspects of "crimes" to be sent to mainland China for questioning (or is that interrogation?).  We wish we could find a million or even 500 brains among Bernie Sanders supporters which would make them rise up to refuse his attempts to make us the new Venezuela-in-ruins via his desired presidency.

Which reminds me to ask myself -- if I had a choice of gaining membership in either the Center for American Progress or the American Communist Party, which would I logically choose?  Never mind, I don't think it matters.

Lara Logan confirms what everybody should know:  Former CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan remarked on Fox News last February that the liberal media basically runs the journalism show:  “Any journalists who are not beating the same drum and giving the same talking points,” she related, “pay the price” for not joining the liberal crowd.  As an independent voice in the profession, Logan has become a target of the leftist media -- no surprises there.

Down on the border:  We hope long-time Democrats recognize the monster which has consumed their party in 2020 when the choice is either Trump or an evolving leftist creature which has the power to destroy the country. . . for real.  What rational entity would allow one million-plus invaders to cross the border, bringing diseases, poverty, no skills and an attitude very much NOT American?

Gun Violence vs. the Left's Attempted Murder of a Nation

Internet immediacy makes it difficult to pose questions or information not already thought about and posted by others, so in many instances I can't take full credit for things I write here.  Nevertheless, if I can break down and refine the "buzz" currently making the rounds, that's probably a good option.

I don't know where rational Democrats hide these days, apparently drowned out or afraid for their very political longevity as their party is hijacked by dangerous, if not fully straitjacket-style insane people bent upon national chaos.  Every last presidential candidate on the left is selling nothing less than a socialist fantasy whose apparent bright spots will eventually lapse into the best current example of failure on the planet:  Venezuela.

Once the prosperous jewel of South America, populated by happy, well-educated people, Venezuela, like America, was romanced, sexed up and promised hope and change by a seeming diverse segment of would-be U.S. presidential candidates. 

But there always is one little detail high on the minds of leftist wannabees:  Guns.  Your guns.  Your right to possess guns.

Guns?  No problem.  After Chavez and his thugs claimed Venezuela for their own -- their public status helped along by kind words and visits from Hollywood faves Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Oliver Stone and others, by the way -- trusting but unsuspecting Venezuelans across the land were "convinced" that in order to assure their ultimate safety firearms must be turned in.  All firearms.

By 2019, two thug administrations later, Venezuela's wealth and spirit have been stolen, leaving its people starving, tattered -- and defenseless against brutal military rule.  If only. . .yes, if only.  But the people's guns, their last defense against an evil never anticipated, had been removed by a clever, malevolent gang.

We in the United States still have the right to keep guns.  Yes, a plethora of especially state laws have perverted the "shall not be infringed" portion of the Second Amendment all to hell, but something akin to original intent still exists.

Unfortunately, as another mass shooting horrifies the nation, the usual voices and polls have gone on the attack against "gun violence," customarily blaming firearms before considering the people behind the triggers.

Aside from appearance and function, guns haven't changed much over the years.  But people have, a lot.  And there sits the dilemma.

It's easy to blame guns for violent acts, for unto themselves they are inanimate objects like trees and rocks.  Firearms don't get up and walk away.

We, on the other hand, have become versatile in our rudeness, our concerted engagement with electronic devices and the realization -- in my opinion -- of what we are and our place in the universe.  That is, human life is cheap individually and the "collective" is what counts, either as something to be ruled or something to be annihilated by corrupted minds.

So there's evidence today that many more Americans want the President to "do something" about gun violence.  Yes, something must be done, and every time we ask government to "do something" about anything all of us are likely to be on the losing end.

To actually "do something" about guns and those who use them unwisely is an impossible task.  Ultimately, to paraphrase from an old radio serial, who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?  Or women?  Should we hire psychics to produce the appropriate Minority Report for people acting a tad different?

The trouble with the current pod of Democrat presidential hopefuls, aside from the fact that every one of them knowingly or unknowingly harbors a pathway to Venezuela within their map to socialism, is their dedication to "do something" about guns, just as they intend to "do something" about ridding us of basic rights, chip by chip, for our own good. 

If socialism was a failure elsewhere, believes the new breed, perilously intent upon repeating the unworkable, that's just because those who failed simply didn't use it correctly.  And on and on the tragedy goes.

Trump and Tariffs:  While attack dogs from both parties condemn Trump for his plan to place tariffs on Mexico until it stops hordes of Central Americans from invading the USA, note that neither party offers an alternate solution.  Meanwhile, the illegal immigrants advance, bringing epidemic-style diseases tailored by nature to threaten all Americans previously thought immune.  Epidemic possibilities, of course, are owned by the do-nothing Democrats in every way.

UFOs and religion:  As U.S. government objections to the release or discussion of UFO information appear to be loosening a bit, we wonder whether the tendency of some organized religions to be more accepting of UFO existence might be accommodating such maneuvers, though not intentionally.  Decades ago, members of the clergy such as the Rev. Barry Downing and those affiliated with NICAP's board of directors, for example, expressed thoughtful belief about the phenomenon's reality, while others were quick to attribute UFO activity to demons or psychological illness.  Blanket condemnations of both the enigma and the observer seem to have eased, as we watch "normal" society now taking another look at the UFO subject and its potential.  Perhaps my observation here is as nebulous as other ideas I throw out, but I do see a change -- certainly evident in media reporting.