Do Dead Computers Go to Heaven?

The inevitable happened.  My old non-Internet computer succumbed to the forces of winter, cold, ice, wind and everything else that conspires this time of year to destroy The Normal and Expected.  Or maybe this is what I get for claiming that the movies, Blacula and Scream Blacula Scream were my sources for black history (I will not yield).  Whether the computer is destined for Heaven or Hell I know not, but until I find a suitable replacement I ask that you continue to visit this page just for the links.  Later then. . .rb

Scream Dracu-Dem Scream!

Last time I checked, it's STILL Black History Month. This thing just goes on and on and. . .you may recall in the past that I related my own appreciation for black history, because I actually sat through both the main motion picture, Blacula, and its sequel Scream Blacula Scream! Yes, these were produced several decades ago, but I remember watching intently and educating myself about everything I need to know about the -- what do they call it? -- oh yeah, the black experience.

But that aside, the thought of these old movies caused me to think of President Trump and his blitz to uncover corruption and theft of financial resources from the American people.  While Republicans have their own closeted skeletons, it's just incredible how so many rotten facts continue to emerge regarding Democrat-initiated horror stories.  Trump and Elon Musk are apparently starting to open up a number of secret corruption coffins occupied by, yes, Dracu-Dems and their thirst for money -- your money.  Some vampires suck your blood and some suck your money, and this species of vampire rat clings to the money artery and sucks it under cover of bureaucratic darkness.

Scream Dracu-Dem scream!

Just look at New York's Schumer, Jeffries, James and a bevy of the usual leftist subjects as they scream like hell over Trump's hatchet-wielding attempt to audit USAID, the Treasury Dept. and the Dept. of Education, among others. Oh! Oh!  National Security! they shout, pepping up their always-faithful supporters who take to the streets at the drop of a cheap hat.  Or suit.  Suddenly, the Democrats' former darling Musk is a monster intent upon cracking the files of Social Security recipients and others because he wants to -- what?  Clean up waste?  How about Medicaid, how about Medicare?  How about all the expensive regulations encouraged by federal unions over time, the kind of thing that keeps corruption safe from prying eyes?

Scream Dracu-Dem scream!

37 million dollars to Politico from taxpayer funds?  Other amounts to various established "news" sources who, as we can plainly see, are paid to make the left look go-o-o-o-o-o-d.

Scream Dracu-Dem scream!

Look!  ICE is rounding up people who don't belong here, border invaders who suck tax money as fast as the politicians who welcome them to the USA.  Look! ICE is coming for stinktuary shities, AKA sanctuary cities, willing to arrest mayors and others who stand in their way of enforcing the law.  Meanwhile, "immigration attorneys" are out before the always willing TV news cameras, dramatizing the injustice, the injustice of it all!  Apparently, once one attempts to rid the world of human-trafficking and drug-running cartels, the immigration attorney class moves in to take their place (and profit generally remains the driving motive, if not a desire  simply to screw around with the Constitution).

Scream Dracu-Dem scream!

Legal types and others running for the hills now that so much left-sided corruption resulting from January 6 and Trump's "impeachment" attempts is coming to the surface have every reason to worry, for prison cells occupied by so many J6 participants who shouldn't have been condemned to a life behind bars are now empty, awaiting folks who really belong there.  That Trump asked for 10,000 National Guard troops prior to the January 6 riots, only to be denied by Pelosi and the DC mayor, is another factor in his favor, but of course the press doesn't care to explore that.  That no police officers were killed during January 6 during the DC riot-and-not-an-insurrection remains hidden among many leftists inclined to ignore the truth.

Scream Dracu-Dem scream!

We hope the courts will get out of the way and allow Trump and his trusted associates (younger ones, too, a reflection of America today) to basically audit America's spending, wherever the search leads.  The "Deep State," NGOs and unelected bureaucrats who will do anything -- anything -- to avoid the spotlight because of extreme financial mismanagement are exactly the targets the Trump administration needs to tackle.  The still-complicit mainstream media will continue to say and write all manner of absurd things to deflect attention away from the political left which has, for decades, given them sustenance.

Scream, you bastards, scream!

Celebrating Black (yawn. . .) History (zzzzzz. . .) Month

Here we go again.  Like drug commercials dwelling among TV nightly news shows by the ton, here come a rapid-fire barrage of daily accounts and televised feature stories about black history.

Why?  Isn't it way beyond time to discontinue this artifact of the so-called civil rights struggle era?  With the arrival of the Internet, interested people and organizations have before them a treasure chest of black history, requiring no longer a need to plaster posters and in-your-face reminders everywhere of the good, the bad, the ugly, the black and the brown.

I know, I'm just some old white guy, and to some this kind of talk makes me suitable to wear a Klan outfit as I burn crosses in the yards of colored people of color colored folk.

Actually, when I served in Air Force hospitals during the Vietnam years, many of my patients, obviously, were of other colors, and I treated everybody equally.  At one hospital, my supervisor was a black man and he wrote glowing performance reports about me.  Probably because I'm such a racist.

Nevertheless, for reasons which escape me in 2025, we're again doing a month's worth of tribute to black history, same old, same old, and I suppose I should contribute something of substance -- so here are my meager offerings:


o  Law enforcement personnel overwhelmingly kill many more white people than black people every year, FAR more.  There is not a national attempt for cops to seek out and purposely murder black people -- with the caveat that yes, there is a tiny percentage of bad cops who do terrible things to people of all races, and they are generally found out and removed.  No credible officer gets out of bed each day and plots to murder individuals encountered during his or her shift, and the fact that certain so-called black justice entities work hard to keep this lie alive in the public light should tell us everything we need to know about their intentions.

o  Black people murder more black people than any other race involved in black homicide.  You just don't hear about the statistics by way of the complicit legacy media.  You never have to any fair degree.

o  Democrats are the original racists, responsible for the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow laws, lynching of black people, and as strident obstacles against and opponents to civil rights legislation in Congress (thank the Republicans for getting such legislation passed).  By twisting facts over the decades, the political left has managed as if by magic to make those on the right appear the enemies of black civil rights and they the shining champions.

o  Everybody's favorite lovable Democrat Joe Biden and his gang purposely flooded the United States with millions of illegal aliens, and those invaders threatened and took away jobs usually held by black people because they accepted lower wages. Employers hiring at the back door were delighted, while you, the colored people of color colored folks were shut out.  THIS is black history in America.

o  Immigration attorneys:  They're a part of black history because some of these folks are currently working to keep illegal aliens in the country, keeping jobs black people might otherwise have.

o  Martin Luther King.  Hmm.  Well, those secret files are coming out and I think I'll just let this one go for now. . .just in case. . .

o  George Washington Carver (1864-1943).  Yes, that old black textbook standby. the U.S. botanist and agricultural chemist who invented multiple uses for peanuts, soy beans and sweet potatoes.  Loved by all, just think of how despised he might have been, had he invented hundreds of uses for spinach, kale and brussels sprouts.

o  Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson and all the black jazz and blues singers of the 1920s, thirties and forties whose heartfelt and soulful songs make rap and hip-hop as worthless as dog poop on a guitar pick.

o  So, is an African-American African or American?  To be born in America, but needing to tack the African designation onto the American word as a prelude comes off as a bit schizophrenic by now.

o  Black Lives Matter is also a part of black history, but you might want to check out BLM's own history in detail.  It's not exactly pretty.


Well, that's about it for my contributions to Black History Month this year.  Yes, I'm aware that somewhere on the calendar is White History Month, sort of, but nobody much cares about that or anything good created by those of such forgettable ancestry.

The CH Curse

Did we in the U.S.A. just get knocked on our ass?  According to news reports over the weekend, it appears that CHina may be a few steps ahead of us on computer CHips and the rush toward having super artificial intelligence. Equally as devastating, CHina may have accomplished this giant leap forward without the need for ultra-clean and expensive manufactured CHips, using instead the same ol' same ol' CHips already long in circulation.  "DeepSeek" is the CHat application that apparently took the world by silent storm.

This is one of those times when one hopes our intelligence community knows and controls far more than some are shaking in their shoes and peeing in their pants about today.  But if accounts are accurate, it may be that we've been wasting our time building mega-sanitary CHip manufacturing plants requiring vast environmental compromise and costs reaching through the roof and all the way to the next galaxy.

Is cheap and fast the phrase of the day in CHina?  Is the elegance and fanfare involved among American corporations and politicians searching for issues upon which to stake their futures ultimately a mere circus tent for those who appreciate pomp and circumstance?

Should we end up "CHatting" with CHinese AI as it continues to invade and overtake our computerized lives and infrastructure, our trail of information desired will always lead back only to the version of sanitized truth the CHinese communists desire.  Kind of like the lies and censorship Biden's evil accomplices provided, except this time it's all communism all the time.

Have the CHinese acquired the formerly all-USA philosophy of just-get-it-done, ditching regulations and inspectors which have become so top-heavy in the states?  If so, that's typical CHina -- and maybe we shouldn't be surprised.

But on Monday morning we were surprised.  Now what?  Can we just produce CHips at home as easily as constructing a basement or garage meth lab?  Can up-and-coming USA companies holding their hands out for billions of CHip production dollars get the job done for a few million instead?  Or multi-thousands?  Smaller and more efficient factories?

The CHinese CHip story is bound to roll over and change quickly, once the government and media get together to offer words of either comfort or worry.  Under Trump, we'll hope for and anticipate the truth for a change.

Illegal is as illegal does:  No, you can't put lipstick on a pig and make it less of a pig.  Anybody who crosses our southern or northern borders against our laws is guilty as hell, period.  "Just looking for a better life" is lipstick on a pig.  Aside from illegal aliens and cartels paying off agents to transport instant felons, the other criminals of concern are the multitude of religious organizations who encourage illegal immigration and then grab government money for care & feeding once the hordes arrive.  Me, I am particularly impatient with options run by the Catholic Church, which has long been expert at accumulating the world's unfortunate and then making American taxpayers pay the bills for care in perpetuity.  We don't see the Church selling off its gold and art in Rome to cover these expenses, do we? But don't focus just on That Church.  There is plenty of taxpayer money-grabbing to go around via non-government operations and, of course, many other religious "services."

As Donald Trump orders individual and family criminals out of the country, religious and other affiliations with their hands out can put them back in their pockets and find some other way to be neighborly, something incapable of soaking the American taxpayers for as much as a parasitic entity can grab.

Designated Survivors

When congressional officials attend such affairs as The State of the Union address or, as occurred a few days ago, presidential inauguration ceremonies, it has been customary for years to leave behind one member of Congress who would become the voice of presidential authority in the event of a fatal mass casualty event.  This person is known as the designated survivor.

"Designated survivor" seems to have acquired an additional definition this month, as of January one. With the exit of the despicable Biden gang and the entrance of Donald Trump, we have all become survivors, designated by all indications to regain shattered rights and respect for, rather than abject fear of, the federal government.

As Trump gave his first speech on Inauguration Day, the cowardly, self-serving (and treasonously manipulative?) Biden was arranging pardons for his family with only minutes to go in his role as President, lest any legal problems crop up in the future. These pardons, combined with other pre-emptive actions, bend the very option of legality to the mat, and we hope the courts will become involved and reverse this dangerous attempt to predict the future.  If a family member chose to commit murder a week from now, would the blanket pardon make prosecution impossible?  Various things coming to light now make me question whether the election of Biden four years ago might have been assisted by other factors.

Yes, Trump issued pardons as well, about 1,500 to the "J6" people ("hostages") in prison for storming the Capitol.  Isn't it about time?  Horror stories regarding prison conditions have leaked out little by little, and we're sure we will be bombarded with many more now.  When one learns that just one now-released prisoner from Florida was held for three years without so much as a bond, it's a little difficult to believe this is America.  When somebody is held in solitary confinement and deprived allegedly of even basic rights, we should be terrified.  When you arrest and convict a grandmother or others who just happened to be in the area -- and when you discover that certain prison areas were set aside JUST for Trump supporters -- questions must be answered in depth.  Behind much of this was Biden's helpers, devious and dangerous and often stupid in their actions, one and all, and in a fair and perfect world prison cells currently evacuated by J-sixers would be promptly filled by Biden administration personnel from numerous levels of the so-called people's government which thinking minds hope is never to return as the leftist rats' nest it was.

Hours after Biden left Washington for the last time as Chief Executive, I couldn't help but notice how Trump, after signing Executive Orders squashing Biden's own, graciously threw signing pen by signing pen out into the audience of his supporters, instead of awarding them to congressional representatives or dignitaries as they traditionally are.  To me, this small gesture said a lot about Trump's concern for the people he serves, people like us.  Yes, there fly a lot of theatrics in the land of Donald Trump, but he is a performer as well as President x2, and we're not likely to see another quite like him ever again.  That, for sure, accounts for the charm effect, like him or not.

Predictably, as Trump began signing Executive Orders generally intended to reverse Biden's disastrous instructions, his orders regarding illegal immigration and birthright citizenship attracted a waiting-line beehive of officials from at least 18 states, the ACLU, the ever-complicit legacy media and others intent upon fighting Trump in court (and here I stood, ready and willing to remove the anchors from anchor babies so they could float up and away, back over the border, never to return).

Seems to me, the 14th Amendment was intended to preserve and remove from question the citizenship of slaves living in and born in the United States, but the ACLU and other activists insist upon putting blinders on everybody and turning illegal into legal as they strangely embrace the sexual and invasive functions of those who come here against our laws and manage to drop infants like cockroaches in hopes of remaining forever.

This argument for birthright citizenship should have been put to bed by Congress long ago, but perhaps its ramifications will finally end up in cool deliberative hands when posed by Trump's government attorneys.  Or -- or maybe the quagmire will emerge to join the nearly impenetrable D.C. swamp.

Meanwhile, it's just so incredible, yet not out of character, that the leftist-activist mainstream media went right back to exercising the only worthless skill at which they excel:  Attacking Trump.  Both this entity and the extremist Democrats they serve, nation destroyers one and all, just don't get it.  Their time is over and most Americans demonstrated through November's popular vote that a vast majority have had enough of their lies, censorship and efforts to put illegal aliens (that means criminals, mamma) on pedestals with more rights than imaginable, while slickly demoting average Americans who may as well have become denizens of some Third World fantasy under authoritarian Democrat rule.  Enough!

While the rest of Trump's Executive Orders are enticing and necessary, I'm sure a significant population is more interested in his promise to release the secret government JFK files.  Really, I'm pretty much done with President JFK, great though he was, but I'd much rather have a huge release of UFO information -- the hardcore stuff, not the cow chips.