A Philosophical Question...

Not to get all philosophical on you here, but I have a question.  A question as serious as a heart attack.  I'm wondering if Donald J. Trump's surprising ascent to the Presidency back in 2016 served to just slow America's inexorable slide into socialism, or to speed its adherence because of the irrational hatred held for Trump by so many on the Left.  The very Hard Left... 

And maybe not just a hatred for Trump.  Maybe for all of those who Trump represents.  Those who put him in office.  Those for whom the Democrats and the Progressives and the Liberals and the socialists and the Marxists and the communists and college and university professors and union bosses and 95% (by their own admission) of all the journalists in America, and those enormous Media complexes for whom they work, and seemingly every retired member of the FBI and the NSA and the CIA, and the and all but a couple of lawyers, hate the very ground Trump strides upon.  Perhaps these people have moved up their timetable for the complete and total takeover of America now that an outsider, a businessman, a reality show star, for God sake!...can come in through the back door and steal their Presidency from their clammy grasp!   

I mean, Holy Crap!  It was Hillary's to lose, right!

As anyone who watches the news is aware, America has been slip-sliding toward socialism for decades.  Ever since Woodrow Wilson forced the adoption of so many Progressive laws back in the early 1900's, America has been on the Watch List for Progressivism.  Oh, we're not there yet, but Progressive politicians have been enacting Liberal-leaning laws for a long time.  And Liberal judges, appointed by those same Liberal lawmakers, have been rubber-stamping those self-same Liberal laws when push-back against them is received by the courts.    

Example?  Sure.  Roe v. Wade, whatever you think of it, made abortion legal and widely available.  The Supreme Court, led by its majority Liberal-appointed members back then, somehow found a "Right" to abortion hiding in the "Right" to "privacy."  Now, you might be surprised to know that the word "abortion" appears nowhere in the Constitution (I somehow cannot imagine Franklin and Jefferson and Madison sitting around and talking about when a heartbeat first occurs).  Yet, the Supremes found it in there, skulking around, peeking around the corner, and passed a law enshrining it that's yet to be overturned.  A law that due to stare decisis * is almost certain to never be overturned.  And that's regardless of the raging hissy fits thrown by the pro-abortion crowd during the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation.

Now, I'm not advocating abortion, or waving a banner against it.  Certainly not.  I would never do that.  That's not my role here.  I'm just here to shine a light on hypocrisy, a commodity in massive oversupply in Washington, D. C.  My example was just that a judge who wishes to find a reason to be for or against a law will surely find it without too much trouble.  They have for centuries, and they'll continue to do so.  And this pattern of judicial overreach has indelibly assisted in putting the Country on a pathway that, if exploited by the Progressives, could easily lead to a Venezuela-style implosion...

(NOTE:  Venezuela was among the world's Top Ten richest and most powerful countries a century ago.  And then it started electing Progressive Leftists.  And those Leftists turned into dictators.  And now its citizens are eating their zoo animals...)  

Ronald Reagan was our last Conservative President.  Republican Presidents after Reagan have been Republican-lite.  Oh, they come to Washington promising to restore America's virtues and values, and fix the national debt and yada yada yada, but they've never really delivered, have they?  At most they just help to keep the Democrats, and their excesses, from ruining things.  In essence, they've been fairly good at keeping the Visigoths from the Gates.  So relative periods of calm and peace and prosperity interspersed by a Carter or a Johnson or an Obama.  

But now?  Those Progressives, backed by a cadre of Big Tech and hedge fund and Silicon Valley $Billionaires have learned their lesson; they allowed Trump in through a crack in the ceiling, and they're not going to permit that to happen again.  Little Mikey Bloomberg, for example, the world's 17th richest person, has just forked over another $100 Million Dollars to help the Democrats crush Trump in Florida.  In Florida, for God's sake!  $100 Million Dollars!  Like I said, Trump's Presidency may well have awaked all the Forces of Darkness, and they're Dead Set of making sure there will be no future Trumps...

*  "Stare decisis" is Latin for "it's been around so long people have begun to rely upon it.  And thus, we can't just jerk it out from under them."  Thank God they didn't pass a law making it mandatory for people to buy health insurance!  That would be unconstitutional (Heh, heh)!  Unless, of course, we had a Chief Justice like John Roberts who was trying to make sure he continued receiving those coveted invitations to Friday night D. C. cocktail parties...

Masks...

                         Masks suck.

There.  I said it.

Masks suck.  They really do.  You know it.  I know it.  We know it together.  They're uncomfortable.  They fog your glasses (if you wear glasses, like me).  They look foolish.  Reeeeely foolish!  They turn speech into a series of grunts and mumbles.  Nobody can understand what anybody's saying.  They cause rashes.  And they restrict oxygen intake (bad for lots of folks with asthma and COPD or other respiratory ailments).  And they're proof-positive that the American people can be trained like lab rats to do anything we're told, whether reasonable, or prudent, or lawful, or even Constitutional.  Matters not.  

We, The People, are now Sheeple.  I'm sorry to say...

It was just about ten months ago.  China turned loose a viral pandemic upon us, and upon the rest of the world.  And it's damn near ruined our Country.  And the world, for that matter.  We had been beating the crap out of them in matters of trade and commerce, and it's my opinion they just gave up and threw in not the towel...but the virus.  And to try and guard against it we were told back in February by the CDC that masks don't work.  And that we shouldn't wear them.  Until two months later they then told us we should.  Yeah, like that.

All I know is that wearing a mask is supposed to protect others from you.  Not you from others.  Lemme's say that again.  In all caps:

Masks are supposed to protect others from the wearer.  Not the wearer from others.

People sneeze.  And they cough.  And sneezing and coughing can spread germs quite a distance.  Up to 30' we're told.  That's why we're supposed to stay six (6') feet away from others (!) if we wish to go mask-less.  And we do.  God, how we do...

So, the original plan was for us to stay six (6') feet from others and wear a mask if we couldn't.  Got it?  Okay.  We can start from there...

Somehow, someway, wearing a mask is now our new National Talisman.  Our "proof" that we're "on board" and trying to "do the right thing."  That we're "with it."  That we're "following the rules," however new and unproven and inane those rules might be.  And posted...and demanded...by the "authorities," whoever they are.  Demanded to such an extent that folks are now getting citations for not wearing them.  They're being prevented from entering businesses and buildings for the want of a mask.  They're being "mask-shamed" by various and sundry "Karens" and "Kevins" if they choose not to wear one.  There's even a case where a woman was tased for failing to wear a mask while watching her son's baseball game.  Outside.  By a fat cop.  Who was mask-less.  Lemme's say that again.  Outdoors.  Socially-distanced.  Tased by a mask-less cop for not wearing a mask.  Yeah.  Like that...  

I've even noticed large numbers of seemingly ordinary people wearing a mask when they're riding bikes and jogging and while driving their cars with the windows rolled up.  

Dumber than a bag of hammers, they are.  

In short, masks are nothing much more than a panacea for what we think might be ailing us.

BTW, viruses are very small.  As in VERY small.  Somewhere between 0.4 and 0.25 microns.  That means they're sub-microscopic.  Too small, even, to be seen by a light microscope.  The pores in the most commonly-available and -used masks are from 0.50 to 0.500 microns.  That means the pores in your basic household mask are at least 20 times bigger than is your basic Chinese Killer Coronavirus germ.  Like BB's in a boxcar, they are.  In other words, if a virus wanted to enter through your mask, they could do so, holding hands with another 10 viruses, sideways.  Do you still think they might offer protection for the wearer?

(Did I mention that masks suck?)  

Dr. Fauci, the darling of the Hard-Left, and the "Mainstream Media," stated unequivocally back in the February that there will be no reason for The People to wear masks.  Now?  He says everybody, everywhere should be required to wear a mask.  He goes even further now and wants the Prez to shut down the Country once again.  Remember, Trump was taking his advice and counsel primarily when establishing our formal response to the China virus.  Every day Fauci told Trump what to say, and Trump said it.  And now some are blaming Trump for the inaccuracies in Fauci's advice.  Maybe Fauci doesn't (and didn't!) know what the Hell he's talking about?  Or maybe he's making it up as he goes along?  Or maybe he's just saying what the MSM wants him to say?  Fauci won't get his speaking gigs on CNN(LOL) and MSDNC if he doesn't say what they want said, doncha' know...

For me?  I've figured out how to avoid all the unpleasantness associated with being forced, under penalty of the law, to wear a mask when I show my face outdoors; simply don't go outdoors.  Pissed that you have to put on a mask when you go into the Post Office or Albertson's or your favorite mortuary?  Just don't go there.  Just stay home.  With the doors closed and the shades drawn.  Oh, it's acceptable to sneak out early once or twice a week to buy provisions.  You know, flour and eggs and milk and bacon.  Especially bacon.  Can't do without bacon.  And lots and lots of beer.  I can do without a mask, but I can't do without bacon.  And beer.

Other advantages associated with Just Staying Home?  Here's a short list...

     -  Your gas mileage will go through the roof!  No driving, no need for gas.  And your tires will last mucho longer!  And you can disregard all those coupons from Juffy-Lube.  Just think of all the money you'll save!

     -  You will save a fortune not eating out.  No restaurant visits, no expensive meals.  Plus, since there's no place open to eat, you won't miss them.  

     -  Your chances of being in flaming accident if you stay home, or having a brick fall on your head, or getting into a fist fight with a rowdy drunk at the local watering hole, all go down to ZERO!  

     -  You'll have plenty of time to clean your house, and go through your closets and get rid of old clothes, and polish the silverware, yours or somebody else's, and write your memoirs, and get a college degree on line (ASU will love you!), and a whole lot of other stuff.  Just think of all you can accomplish by Just Staying Home!

So, fellow Pilgrims, avoid the various "Karens" and "Kevins" screaming at you for not wearing a mask, by not wearing a mask...at home.  Plus, you'll save money.  A lot of money...     

A Heartwarming Campaign Story.

It seems that the run-up to every election day brings a raft of candidates promising everything including the kitchen sink.  People hungry?  Offer free food.  Are they poor?  Offer them a load of somebody else's money.  Are they afraid?  Offer them security.  And all they have to do to get that security is to give up some of their freedom.  Yes, freedom...

"Those who would give up essential liberty for a little safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

                                                         Benjamin Franklin, 1779

With that having been noted, I recall a little story about a middle school that was planning an election for its student government.  Three of its brightest young students were running for Class President.  They were Kenneth, Johnnie and little Suzie.  The campaign began with a speech to be given by each of the candidates to the entire student body during an assembly.  They were each to give a short address to the other pupils on why they believed they were the most qualified to fill that important position.  And here it the tale of how that fateful race was run...

     -  Kenneth stood up in front of the crowd, cleared his throat and began.  Kenneth, a fine young man with impeccable breeding and manners, started by saying he thought that their school's recess was far too short.  He said if his fellow students elected him, he would take measures to convince the Principal that recess should be extended from 10 minutes, to 15.  He said he's also try and get homework eliminated.  The crowd clapped reassuringly for Kenneth as he left the podium.

     -  Johnnie was next.  Johnnie, a fellow universally liked and admired by his classmates, took the lectern and began to speak.  He said he appreciated Kenneth's wish list, but said he'd also add in another day off at Christmas break.  The crowd applauded wildly!  He said he's also try and get the school to offer pizza at lunch break.  The other students went wild (everybody loves pizza!).

     -  Hearing Kenneth's and Johnnie's presentations, it was now little Suzie's turn.  Suzie, a canny and brash young lady who often ran afoul of her school's rules of comportment, took her turn behind the podium, took a deep breath, and began.  She said, "Fellow students, I think Kenneth and Johnnie are both fine gentlemen, whom I know wish only the very best for our school.  However, I'm taking a different approach.  I'll provide free ice cream - both vanilla and chocolate - at every recess for the entire school year!"  Needless to say, the entire auditorium with rocked with wave after wave of applause!  Little Suzie was carried out of the auditorium on her fellow students' shoulders!  

Soon thereafter the vote was taken.  Kenneth received 12 votes.  Johnnie bested Kenneth by receiving 19 votes.  Suzie, on the other hand, having gone to the Joe Biden and Kamala Harris school of politics, received 423 votes.  

And that, my fellow Patriots, is how politics works in America today; promise everything to everybody, right now, to be paid for by somebody else.  And if you just cannot wait, you can always burn everything down.  

As the old saying goes:  "Don't tax you, don't tax me.  Tax the man behind the tree."   

The Death of Pro Sports...

Why are some professional athletes out there only happy when they make the rest of America unhappy?

When others are looking for a little apolitical fun, a break from the horrific news besetting us every day, it seems a cadre of professional athletes seem to want to cloud up and rain all over us!  

The NBA Game 5 viewership was 18.22 million.  This year's Game 5?  5.7 million!  Two-thirds of their TV audience just magically "disappeared."  And game 7 ratings, the game where LeBron and the Lakers clinched the championship, with only 8.26 million viewers, were off 70%!     Or rather, the NBA "disappeared" it via their ridiculous Social Justice Warrior-ism.  "Black Lives Matters" advertisements posted in two foot-high letters all across the court signaled to the rest of us that they embraced blatant and divisive Marxist activism.  Adam Silver, CEO of the NBA, is an idiot.  He must be.  He is paid $Millions a year to protect and grow the NBA.  He just destroyed its PR image and its bank account.  

And he should be fired for it.  Wouldn't you think that the CEO of the NBA would look at BLM's website before he chose to kiss its ass?  Wouldn't you think he'd find out that he was using the NBA's resources to endorse an organization dedicated to the downfall of America?  

In fact, we've learned through this whole process that the NBA has ceased to be an American institution.  It's now a Chinese institution, with more than half it's viewership and income (more than $500 Million a Year), arising from China.  We learned that when the NBA would not condemn China's ham-handed takeover of Hong Kong.  So maybe we shouldn't be surprised that the NBA no longer supports or identifies with America and its core values.  And maybe the NBA shouldn't be surprised if the American people show it the door and move along with their lives...

And maybe they already have.

And not to be ignored are the results of our current MLB World Series viewership.  Our previously lowest-rated WS Game One was between the Giants and the Royals back in 2014.  12,191 Million loyal fans watched that game.  Our Game One between the Dodgers and the Rays in this year's WS?  9,191!  The Very Lowest In History!  Clearly, there's a Major League backlash against not just baseball, but professional sports in general.

And although I've been among the millions boycotting the NFL lately for its flip-flopping over its athletes kneeling when the National Anthem plays, I've checked in at the beginning of 19 recent games and discovered that they no longer show pre-game festivities.  No more Anthem, no more kneeling.  No more flyovers, no more kneeling.  Perhaps that's the only way they can avoid a fan backlash; let their childish and anti-American athletes kneel, but only when the cameras - and the fans - aren't watching.  (If a tree falls in the forest...).  I assumed Silver's NBA will soon do the same.

There will be a day of reckoning.  There will be a day when efforts to remake America into a Marxist institution by a bunch of overpaid, under-educated athletes whose major skill is "tall" comes back to bite them in the ass.  And when that day comes these people will learn that you simply do not bite the hand that's been feeding you.  

Unless, like the NBA, you have another place to hang your hat...     

But At Least I've Never Been a Lawyer...

                 "The first thing we do, 

                let's kill all the lawyers!"                               

                                                                             - William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Act 2

Let me start with an apology.  An apology for everything I've ever done for which proud I am not (with apologies to Yoda).  Some stuff I did that was even illegal, maybe.  Just slightly.  And definitely immoral.  Oh yeah.  Joyously so.  And altogether off-pleasing among a mixed company of those professing a higher level of breeding.

Which would definitely not include me.

Yeah, I've been a pool hustler (billiards professional to you!) of the First Magnitude.  And a poker pro.  And a "Street Outlaws" type car racer.  And an entrepreneur (some "Progressives" believe that's a pejorative).  Yeah, some pretty unsavory endeavors, I'll admit.   

And a lion tamer and bassoonist and a part-time archeologist who identifies as "Black," if reparations are to be paid. 

But I've never been an attorney, thank God.  And there were times way back then when seeking a law degree seemed attractive.  You know, work little, earn a lot.  But then I began to meet lawyers as a businessman in "real life" and came to know that the day I decided to inhabit grungy pool halls instead of the hallowed halls of some law school somewhere, was truly a great day. 

For me, and for the world. 

(You know what they call 100 lawyers lashed together and marched into the sea?  A good start...)

What brings me to opine on this lofty subject right about now was sitting through hours and hours and hours of the Amy Coney Barrett SCOTUS confirmation hearings.  Excruciating.  Like nails on a blackboard.  That's the nicest word I could find to describe the farce that unfolded over the past few days.  In short, the confirmation of a fully qualified judge - perhaps the most qualified in our Country's entire history - to a seat on the Supreme Court, having already been established as a foregone conclusion, and one fully sanctioned by the Constitution, was an exercise in futility.  And a disgrace.  Not just for the Judiciary Committee, for the entire Senate.  Even shorter, I got to watch a bunch of senators make complete and utter fools of themselves...

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died.  She'd been dying for years.  And she knew it.  She'd suffered through numerous bouts of cancer of various types and in various locations.  She has basically been rebuilt over the past few years.  The coroner was following her around.  However, even knowing this, she repeatedly refused to step down and permit then-POTUS Obama to appoint her successor while he still could.  She hung on with her fingernails until the end, presumably hoping that the end would never come.

And the end came during POTUS Trump's term.  Right after he'd already appointed TWO other SCOTUS justices...

So, even though her passing was only a few days ahead of a contentious General Election, Trump appointed Judge Barrett to succeed her.  As the Constitution required.  Nay, demanded!  And the Democrat's heads exploded.  In unison.

Anyway, we watched her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings unfold this past week.  For three days we got to watch senators talk.  And talk, and talk, and talk.  Mostly about themselves, or to themselves, or to each other.  Almost never to Judge Barrett.  They were obviously afraid.  Her having an intellect as big as the Great Outdoors, and themselves proving to have the intellect of, well, lemme' see here... knuckle-dragging, self-serving, mouth-breathing, indolent hypocrites, they mostly just pontificated about the scourge of back alley abortions and that global warming's gonna' kill us all in a fiery Hell!  

And it would all be her fault!

So I resurrected Shakespeare's quote above to help draw your kind attention to the fact that something has gone seriously off the rails!  Of the 535 members of Congress, 57%, or 249, are lawyers!  Annnnnnd, fellow Pilgrims, 66 of the 100 members of the Senate are Attorneys!!!  That's two-thirds!  Whoa, Nellie!  Isn't the Congress supposed to reflect the general makeup of The People?  If not by statute, by common sense then?  Is this some sort of slow-motion takeover of the U. S. by lawyers?  They even have their own special language by way of which they talk in terms of "litigants" and "briefs" and "motions" and "objections."  Oh yeah, and enormous hourly fees.

How long with it be before ALL the members of Congress are lawyers?  Like the creeping crud, might they one day overtake us all?  And then what?  Will nobody "normal" be around to represent the wishes and needs of ordinary Americans?

(Do you know why sharks don't attack lawyers?  Professional courtesy...)

Are you aware that lawyers do not make anything?  They don't invent, or create, or manufacture.  Or even repair stuff.  They just try and take away that which was made by somebody else.  Any lawyer worth his or her (or its...California, remember) salt will argue a case on either side of an issue.  They don't care.  They just thrive on disunity.  They neeeeed people to run into each other in the supermarket parking lot and beat the crap out of each other and steal from each other and lie to each other and screw each other's wife/husband/"other."  If folks were pristine, law-abiding citizens, lawyers wouldn't have anybody to sue.  

Did you know that there are more lawyers in Orange County, California than in the entire country of Canada?  It won't be long, I'm guessing, before there will be so damn many of them they'll be forced to sue each other if only for something to do.  

So by definition lawyers have no core values.  They will sue anybody for anything, anywhere, at anytime of day.  Or night.  They're vultures.  They feast on the "death" of others.  The "death" of a marriage, the "death" of a deal, the "death" of a contract.  The "death" of a company.  

Back to the confirmation hearings just finished.  I don't know how the citizens of the states represented by the Democrat senators who grilled Barrett the other day feel about those undertakings, but I'm ashamed for them.  They beclowned themselves.  They may have law degrees, but they have no common sense.  Or a sense of self-awareness.  An awareness that they look like buffoons.  And their glaring lack of that all-too-rare commodity was on display for three full days...

I've leave you with this.  My best friend from way back when decided one day to become a lawyer.  He then came back from law school a changed man.  He'd been brainwashed into thinking and acting and looking and talking like a "lawyer."  My friends know who he is.  He knows who he is.  As I've told him, if he hadn't been my best friend before he went to law school, he surely wouldn't have been after...   

"Seduced" by Real Estate...

Let's clear this up:  Joe Biden does not own the largest house in Delaware.

I know, I know.  That rumor has been going around lately.  But I'm here to quash it.  My extensive and exhaustive research tells me that there are two other Delaware mansions which are bigger.  But not by much...

Biden's primary mansion covers 4 acres of oceanfront property on the beach in Wilmington, Delaware.  It's listed at some 7,000 square feet, although it appears to have undergone several additions and expansions since its 1996 purchase.  However, he and his wife Jill also own another oceanfront vacation property on tony Rehoboth Beach.  This home is listed at "only" 4,800 sq. ft.  They purchased the second mansion in 2017 for $4.8 Million Dollars.  Their primary mansion is valued at somewhere north of $2,000,000.  I would guess faaaar north...

(Biden's doing okay, but not as well as those other "public servants" Obama and Sanders.  Obama has 3 mansions now, the largest being some 12,800 sq. ft., and Sanders has four!)

So let's do an inventory here.  Mr. and Mrs. Biden own some 8 homes (he's said he was "seduced" by real estate when just a young lad!)  At least two of them are on the water.  And Mr. Biden, for the vast majority of his 39 year Senate career was paid a whopping $175,000 a year.  He earned $225,000 as Vice President for that 8-year term.  

So I have this question.  How does a "public servant," earning what's considered chump-change in and around the Washington, D.C. area, where anything less than
"$Half a Mil a year" is considered poor, figure out a way to live in a mansion and own 8 homes?  Could it possibly be that our Mr. Biden has conjured up some way to line his pockets using his influence as a public official?  Our Mr. Biden managed to put together a net worth, according to Forbes, of more than $9 Million Dollars.  Hmmmmm.  According to my math, even if he saved every penny he ever earned sucking at the public teat he still couldn't have scraped together $9 Million!

When I was finally shown the door by my alma mater and asked not to return, I considered a career in public service.  I chose to take a different pathway because my research at the time told me that public servants, who although have terrific health care plans, and comfortable retirement plans, are usually paid far less than those in the private sector.  

Except for our Mr. Vice President.  He's rolling in cash!  Not only is he doing really well, it seem everyone in his entire family have become multi-millionaires by way of his "public service."  His son Hunter has made at least $10 million peddling Mr. Biden's influence as V.P., and perhaps quite a bit more.  And we're now learning that Mr. Biden may well have some of that "taint" stick to him as well.  The Chinese and the Ukrainians seem to love Mr. Biden.  So much so that they've been shoveling cash to his family!  Maybe he's not a dumb as he looks.  Or maybe he's just about to be snagged for screwing over the American public for more than four decades in a successful effort to unfairly enrich himself and his entire family through influence peddling.  

If Biden wins in three weeks this whole thing will be buried so deep we'll never hear of it again.  And Mr. Biden and Mr. Obama and that entire Administration will have escaped culpability.  They will not only have avoided prosecution for an attempted coup to oust a sitting POTUS from office, which is treason by the way, they will have taken saddle bags of cash out the door with them as they left.  However, if Trump wins I'm guessing our Mr. Biden will have a lot of 'splainin' to do...

So think of it this way: if Biden was able to amass a fortune of $9 Million Dollars on a salary of only $175,000 a year, just imagine how much more he can wring out of the White House were he to be elected President? 

(On the way out the digital door, I might ask right about here, why does a man who lives in a mansion on the ocean...need a vacation mansion on the...ocean?).

The Technology Does Not Exist!

California's legislators passed a law back in 2007 requiring - demanding - all gun manufacturers to imprint a unique "microstamp" on each new firearm's firing pin so that every time the gun is fired it leaves a special, unique mark on the spent cartridge case.  That would enable forensic authorities to later match the spent cartridge casing from a crime scene with the firearm that fired it.  What a great idea! 

Except that a firearm's firing pin is about the size of the point on a newly-sharpened #2 Tigonderoga pencil.  

Thus, any unique "microstamping" on a tiny steel point would be so small and so slight it could be easily removed in less than a minute with a finger nail file. 

Oh yeah, and the legislators, believing that they needed to provide those same manufacturers with a little "nudge" so they'd comply with this new law, put a poison pill in the legislation.  They required that for each new pistol, whether semi-auto or revolver, presented for introduction into the California market, two existing pistols from that same manufacturer had to be removed from the California market.  

In other words, if gun manufacturer, Smith & Wesson say, had a dozen approved pistols on California's "approved roster," and it chose to bring a new model to CA's marketplace, they'd have to stop selling two of their previously-available and previously-approved pistols.  Not much impetus to pay the more than $250,000 in California application and filing fees each manufacturer must pay to seek a new model's approval.  Or the requirement that each application had to also provide two new models of that same pistol and 500 rounds of ammunition for CA to try and destroy in its testing.  And if it could do so, then it would be disapproved for sale here.  

So let's summarize, shall we?  As of 2007, whatever roster of pistols a manufacturer had approved for sale in CA as of that time, that's where it stopped; no new applications, no new models.  Not even an improved existing model!  Changing the color of the pistol grips on an existing, approved model would constitute "new," according to CA, and therefore require an entire new round of testing.  Needless to say, gun manufacturers just wrote off California and left it behind.

(BTW, the protracted shortage of firearms here in California our citizens have endured since the beginning of the year was made much worse because of this law.  With an unprecedented demand for firearms nationwide since the beginning of of 2020, mainly by residents of so-called "blue" states, manufacturers have sent their products to states where they've been well treated and that do not put up roadblocks to the 2nd Amendment; not to a state dedicated to their downfall.  And you would have done the same...)

Oh yeah, and about "microstamping."  

The technology did not exist as of the date of this 13 year-old, 2007 legislation, and it does not exist now!   

"Microstamping" is nothing but a Leftist, anti-gun wet dream.  THERE IS NO TECHNOLOGY THAT WILL DO WHAT THE LAW REQUIRES!   It didn't exist then, it doesn't exist now, and it won't ever exist.  So has California withdrawn this bogus legislation?  Ummm, no.  Think about this: a unicorn law produces a unicorn result.  I'm guessing that California authorities created this flawed legislation to accomplish exactly what it's accomplished; make handguns harder to find and harder to buy in California.  

Socialism sounds great on the pages of a book, but isn't so much fun to watch in practical application, is it now?

The San Fran Nanniest of Nanny States!

                      Stop The Presses!

For those lucky enough to live somewhere else besides this failed experiment of a State, our Boy Guv, San Fran Nan Pelosi's nephew, J. Paul Getty's Godchild, just coughed up another hairball.  

He's now issued another of his finger-wagging little pronunciamentos upon us, the miserable plebes. The proletariat.  The "Sheeple."  The "little people."  He's decided that to further tamp down this nagging little virus the Chinese have visited upon us, he has to control the movement of his citizens.  To an unprecedented degree, I'd say.  Let's see if you agree...

Guv Gavin Newsom just let loose another list of demands concerning when to have little house parties, and with whom, and how many, and under what circumstances.  Parties.  House parties.  And when to have them.  Are all the other problems solved, or what?  

He has not yet attempted to tell us what to wear, however.

Anyway, should you wish to have a little house party and invite over some friends, here are some of your marching orders, effective immediately:

     -  First, Newsom tells us that gatherings outdoors are significantly safer than indoor gatherings.  Well,, duh!  In fact, he orders us to have ONLY outdoor gatherings.  Annnnd, attendees may go inside ONLY to use the bathrooms.  And those bathrooms MUST be sanitized frequently.  

        ("Oh, excuse me Mildred.  I must go and sanitize my bathroom again!")

     -  Now, you may have awnings or umbrellas or canopies or other shade structures at your gathering, Boy Guv demands, so long as three sides of the space (or 75%) or of the total surface area is open to the outdoors.  

        ("Ralph, measure those umbrellas again.  I don't want the Gathering Police to issue us a summons!")

     -  It gets better, and I quote:  "A gathering of no more than three households is permitted in a public park or other outdoor space, even if unrelated gatherings of other groups up to three households are occurring, mixing between group gatherings is not allowed.  Additionally, multiple gatherings of three households cannot be jointly organized or coordinated to occur in the same public park or other outdoor space at the same time - this would constitute a gathering exceeding the permitted size."

        (Wha...?  Who wrote this bulls*it?  And how many times would you have to read it in order to understand what it demands?  And was the author smoking an indica clone at the time, or perhaps it was a nice sativa?)

     -  This little edict goes further to tell us that if any prospective party attendee exhibits any symptoms of the Chinese Killer Coronavirus, such as fever, chills, shortness of breath, body aches, night sweats, sore throat, vomiting, diarrhea, headaches, confusion, cough or loss of taste or smell, they must stay at home and forego the pleasantries.  

        (Yes, and don't run with scissors, or eat yellow snow, or sleep with your boss's wife, or play in traffic.)

     -  After all of this, if you STILL desire to throw a party (what the Hell is wrong with you?) be advised that California demands that if anyone comes down with the Chinese Virus within 48 hours post-soiree, then they simply MUST seek to advise ALL the other attendees as soon as possible following the gathering.  

        ("Helen, got some bad news.  A fellow you don't know and never met from another party across the park just came down with the Chinese virus.  Just a heads up.  Have a nice day...")

     -  And be sure to pay attention to this one.  All attendees at your little Party With Rules MUST wear facial coverings in accordance with the CA CDPH "Guidance on the Use of Face Coverings."  

        ("Who are you again?  Are we friends?  Have we met?")  

Oh yeah, and on the way out the Digital Door, I have to report that CA ended this unfathomable exercise in unconstitutional overreach by adding, "And be sure to wash your hands."  

From a guy who's thrown more parties than perhaps anyone else on Earth, I just have to add, this whole party-throwing thing has gotten waaaaay harder than it used to be... 

Where Are All The Chinese Protesters?

I got to thinking, I haven't seen any Oriental protesters infesting our streets lately, have you?

I've seen lots and lots and lots of twenty-something, disaffected White kids with degrees in Medieval Lesbian Poetry and a $Hundred Grand in student debt, who've obviously grown weary of playing video games in their parents' basements, so rioting and looting and burning down courthouses must seem like the thing to do for them about now, I guess (one of my patented long sentences!).  And I've also seen a few Black members of "Antifa" and "Black Lives Matters" thrown in, too.  But only a few.  

The FBI's own statistics show that about 3/4ths of all the "BLM" rioters are White.  Bored, I guess.  

Does that surprise you?  It surprised me.  I somehow thought that a "protest" that's "protesting" racial inequality and "protesting" police brutality would feature those being treated "unequally" and "brutally," wouldn't you?  But noooooo!  Just White kids and college professors and school teachers and government workers and a smattering of Black Marists and would-be socialists and those desirous of tearing down and destroying America and everything for which it stands.

They seem to hate America that much.  

But I began to wonder exactly why there are no Chinese protesters?  Or Koreans,  South, or otherwise?  Or Indonesians?  Or how about Filipinos?  Or Tonganese?  Or Cambodians?  Or Japanese?  Not a single Oriental anywhere to be found, I'd say!  Why?  Aren't they pissed at how they've been treated by our society and our police?  Aren't they mad about economic depravations our capitalist society has visited upon them?  Aren't they upset with the way our police have been treating them?  What's wrong with all those Orientals out there?  

Could it be that our Orientals are too busy working and studying and raising their families to engage in such destructive and wasteful exercises as useless picketing and marching?  Or worse yet, rioting and looting and burning?  Or perhaps they're too used to obeying the law and are afraid if they didn't they be arrested and charged?  Could it be that this whole thing is nothing but a charade mounted by $Billionaires desirous of tearing down America, and Orientals, famous champions of capitalism and hard work, want nothing to do with it?

I'd say that our Black and Brown friends might want to take a page our of our Oriental citizens' playbook; if you study and work hard, and keep your noses clean, you'll get ahead in today's America.  If you don't, you won't.  And those who "don't" are available for you to see every night in Portland and Seattle and Chicago and other Big Blue cities that have chosen not to protect the lives or property of their citizens.  They're the ones who are rioting and looting and pillaging and plundering and engaging in outright anarchy.  They're the ones who are putting your society at risk.  They're the ones who are putting America's future at risk...  

Haven't seen a single Chinese or Korean or Japanese "protester" yet.  And I don't expect too... 

Have You Noticed?

As we struggle through this Wuhan Killer Chinese Coronavirus pandemic, we have no way of knowing whether we're still at the very beginning of it, or near the end, or somewhere in between.

You know this, of course, because you're smart.  If you weren't you wouldn't be reading this exciting, sometimes cringe-inducing, world-class little blog of no consequence to anyone, but me, whatsoever.  Or have received it in the first place, for that matter...

However, as your faithful Scribe Without Portfolio, your guide through the pitfalls of totalitarianism, your friendly helper without compensation of any kind, except for psychic, that is, I thought I'd send along a few of my random observations about living in 2020 America.  Some you'll find insightful, I hope.  Others?  A waste of your valuable time, no doubt.  But you'll have to be the one to decide.  Decide away...

     -  Have you noticed that masks are now America's new "talisman?"  The "proof" that we're all "woke" and "with it?  The newest effort to "virtue signal" by the aggrieved?  Especially those with a major case of the "butthurt?"  The very same masks that didn't work back in February and March (the CDC told us so!), and then began miraculously working starting in April and May (the CDC told us so!)?  The ones we just have to wear in order not to be screamed out of the local post office or grocery store or gas station by some random Karen or Kevin?  That one?

     -  Have you noticed that our police, the very same ones we were feting back in February and March, the ones at whose feet we were throwing garlands of roses, the ones to whom we were singing hosannas, are now the mortal enemy?  The folks about half of us want hunted down and killed?  And some of that half are actually doing so?  Nightly, unfortunately, in cities like Portland and Seattle and Chicago?  

     -  Have you seen any videos on the evening news of what's life's like today in once-beautiful downtown Portland?  Or Seattle?  Or the fabled and majestic canyons of New York City?  Or Chicago's Miracle Mile?  Have you thought to wonder why?  Could it be that it's because there's very little left of what used to be called "downtown" in so many of our biggest old cities?  

        It was just reported that fully 300 Seattle businesses have boarded up and given up.  Out of business.  For good.  Have you noticed that you haven't been treated by our DNCMedia to what blocks and blocks of these boarded-up businesses and burned-out churches and homeless encampments look like in ANY of these cities?  Midtown Manhattan, fellow Patriots, is a ghost town.  Nobody home.  They've all gone.  Why?  Maybe those who once lived here were afraid for their lives!  And as to the DNCMedia, are they afraid if you knew what Antifa and Black Lives Matters-style anarchy can do to a modern city you'd change your opinion of these two Marxist organizations?  And perhaps even vote for another candidate and another political party?  One that can make you safe from such anarchy?

     -  Have you noticed that increasingly middle-of-the-road Fox News routinely features members of both sides of any debate to better illuminate you, the viewer?  Yet, with very few exceptions, the other news networks routinely only invite Democrats or socialists or communists or Marxists to debate the issues?  No representatives of other political opinions or philosophies to be found anywhere?  Ever?  And if they do it's a "token" conservative who thinks Trump is evil and should be taken out and shot?  Is it that they can't get anyone from an alternative political opinion to appear, or is it that they just don't want to let their audiences know there IS another political opinion to report? 

     -  Have you noticed that the wildfires that have burned more than 4 million acres out west seem to stop right about the Canadian border?  And the Nevada border?  And the Idaho border?  Could it be that Canada and Idaho understand forest management and know that you must clear dead trees and underbrush and tinder from around fire-prone areas in order to prevent fires?  It's called forestry management.  Duh!  It's taught in colleges all across America.  Apparently nobody from California bothered to attend...

        As Smoky once so famously said, "Only (California) can prevent forest fires."

     -  Have you noticed that you no longer "need" a weekly visit to the movie theater like you used to?  Or an occasional visit to a theme park or a ticket to a concert or sporting event in order to live your life?  Or that those "celebrities" whose opinions you once valued so very much no longer hold much sway in your life?  Funny when folks are dying from a pandemic and struggling to put food on the table how quickly movie stars become "non-essential," isn't it?

     -  Don't you find it interesting that the businesses Democrat-led cities and counties and states chose to shut down at the beginning of this pandemic were churches and synagogues and mom-and-pop shoe stores, yet liquor stores and big box hardware stores and pot shops and supermarkets were allowed to remain open?  Could it be that the reason for such a decision was that maryjowanna emporia and booze hawkers brought in tax revenue and churches...don't?

     -  Have you noticed that our major news organizations, the so-called "MainStreamMedia," used to tell us the news and then we decided how to think about it.  Now?  The DNCMedia tells us what to think about the news they've permitted us to see, and we get to nod our heads in collective agreement...

     -  Have you noticed that those Democrats, like Biden and Harris, who wanted to confiscate our guns earlier this year have stopped talking about the subject entirely?  Maybe it's because it's the Democrats who've been flooding gun stores this year and trying their best to buy  protection against all those "Biden voters" who've been burning down our biggest cities...

     -   Did you notice that not a single elected Democrat, including either Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, made mention of the fact that their followers were rioting all over America?  Not even during their formal televised, week-long DNC convention?  An entire week of it?  Even though all these riots were occurring in Democrat-controlled cities, no elected Democrat seemed to notice.  In fact, only the changing polls caused them to finally notice that their voters were burning down America.  Funny how that happens...

These are just some of my observations over the past few weeks.  No doubt you've had a number of your own.  And I always feel it's neighborly to share our opinions with those we value, especially if we're heading into the single most consequential election in our Country's history.

Which we are...

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

I don't know whether the city councils that defunded their police forces in Big Blue cities over the past few months have given a thought to what might come next, but I certainly have.

Those cities would include Minneapolis, and Seattle, and Portland, and New York City, and Baltimore, and Kansas City, and Chicago, and San Francisco, and Atlanta, and, and, and...

As the recently-released FBI data reflects, the "NICS"  (National Instant Criminal System) Federal background checks people must use to be able to purchase firearms has been running at an all time high.  Up as much as 200% from a year ago.  Ammunition purchases are up more than 250%!  Many gun dealers are only seeing customers on an appointment basis!  Ammo shelves are almost empty.  And the greatest levels of increase in firearm purchases have occurred in historically Liberal-leaning areas of the Country.  The shaken citizens of Big Blue Cities in Big Blue counties in Big Blue States have been leading the charge to gun ownership (citizens in other locales perhaps already had one?).  So those living in the cities Democrats have deliberately chosen not to protect have in many instances decided to protect themselves.  

What other choice do they have?  What other choice would YOU have?

Remember back a few months ago when the Democrats were talking openly about firearm confiscation if and when they won?  Yeah, well, not so much any more.  It's hard to whip up the troops when the troops are on the other team...  

And to those recent converts to Individual Rights, we need to add in the more than 100 Million American Gun Owners who already collectively possess more than 440 million firearms.  Right now.  Today.  That we know of.  And I'm of the opinion they just might choose to use them.

You know that part of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution that reads, "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state...?"  Well, I'm thinking that if this unprecedented level of anarchy America is now facing continues much longer, without even a cursory effort by those Democrats in charge there to stop it, then that militia they were talking about just might just get itself "well-regulated."

Or perhaps not one, but dozens, maybe hundreds of individual citizen militias banded together by Patriots dedicated to protecting their lives and their property and the lives and property of their neighbors.  And I would guess all would be "well regulated."  

Did you know that cops are hanging up their handcuffs in unprecedented numbers?  In record numbers?  This flurry of farewells began with the death of George Floyd back in May.  Since then 272 police officers have put in their retirement papers in New York City.  That's a 49% spike from the retirements of a year ago.  Ed Mullins, President of the NYC Sergeants Benevolent Association, said nearly 80 of his 320 members have recently filed for retirement.  He said morale there is at the lowest levels he's seen in his 38 years of policing. 

Could working for De Blasio spawn any other result? 

The same story can be told in Minneapolis, and Seattle, and Baltimore, and Rochester, and so many other "Big Blue" Democrat-led cities across America.  The riots and looting and burning caused in these cities by "Antifa" and "Black Lives Matters," all seemingly supported, or at the very least not denounced, by Democrat leadership in those cities, has caused police there to pull back and cease ordinary policing.  Cops are afraid.  They're just people.  With families.  They're afraid if they police in the normal format they might get ensnared into a career-ending lawsuit.  Thus, traffic isn't being regulated.  Violators and speeders aren't being stopped.  Suspicious people in suspicious circumstances in suspicious areas are permitted to continue their activities unabated.  Community policing is not occurring.  Emergency calls to 911 are going unanswered.  Cops are preferring rather to sit in their squad cars and avoid both street violence and the likely prospect of them being criminally charged for simply doing their jobs.  

Retirement, in other words, cannot come too quickly.

But for us citizens it means anarchy.  With no cops to tamp down crime, crime flourishes (nature abhors a vacuum!).  And where crime is flourishing, citizens are likely to defend themselves against it.  Depending upon your source for news, you're seeing it every day, or not seeing it at all (CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, for example).  Citizens arming themselves and protecting their own businesses.  And homes.  And properties.  And lives.

I would expect nothing less.  

Democrats are promising us that this level of violence will grow even worse if we're stupid enough to reelect Donald J. Trump.  They're telling us this!  They're actually saying the "quiet parts" out loud!  And I suspect our well-armed citizens just might take issue with that.  Perhaps even enough to band together into citizens' militias to protect that which police, and their governors, and their mayors, and their city councils, simply won't.  

I suspect this could get much worse before it gets better.  It will get worse if Trump is reelected, but then he'll likely institute "The Insurrection Act" to thwart it.  That's one level down from martial law.  It might even get worse if Biden's elected, just because the "Biden voter" rioters are proving that they really like rioting and looting and burning and hurting people, and the anarchists might take his victory as their E-ticket authorization to riot.  We'll just have to wait and see.

But some of us will be awaiting the outcome with a loaded firearm at the ready.  And the promise that their friends and neighbors will be waiting with them, ready perhaps for "the shot heard 'round the dumpster."  

I'm ready to join them.  If they have a spot for a somewhat physically-challenged older coot to help protect America and its citizens, count me in...

BTW, I was, and still am, a champion marksman, so getting up close and personal to those wishing us harm isn't absolutely necessary for me.  In fact, not even the same zip code.  And in this context, I do not look forward to proving it...

They Cheat, You Know...

We pretty well boomed into 2020, I'm sure you'll agree.

The stock market was at an all-time high.  The unemployment was at an all-time low.  Even for Black folks and Hispanics.  Manufacturing was up.  Way up.  And crime was down.  Way down.  Everyone but Democrats were happy.  Trump had even begun to achieve Middle-East peace.  He'd even been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.  3 times.  

And then a pandemic up and crashed our party!  China unleashed a killer virus we're still trying to quell (the very day after they signed a new $250 Billion farm products purchase agreement, interestingly!).  All of a sudden Trump was forced to close down incoming flights first from China, and then the U. K. and the European Union.  He quickly followed that with a complete and total shutdown of our entire economy!  Businesses and schools and manufacturing plants and everything else was stopped.  Dead in their tracks.  From 120 m.p.h. to a dead, screeching stop!  And then we were ordered to stay home, with the shades drawn, and the doors closed tightly.  And if we just HAD to go out, for some milk and bread maybe, or a quart of scotch and an ounce of pot, then we just HAD to wear a mask.  A nightmare scenario, to be sure.

We were asked to give up 15 days of our freedom and our privacy to "slow the spread."  And then that 15 days not-so-quickly turned into months.  It's a wonder more people didn't beat each other to death during this enforced home confinement.  And in some cases, like mine, solitary confinement.  Not good at all...

Riots erupted.  Cities burned.  Cops were shot and killed.  Mobs are out of control in at least 50 cities.  All Democrat-run.  So what's the Democrat's answer to this pandemic and our months-long ordeal of violence and anarchy?  

Is it a heartfelt plea for them to stop?  No.  So what, then, do the Democrats propose to end this national nightmare and get us back to normal.  Ready?  

                        Mail-In Voting!

Yeah, that's it!  Mail-in voting!  So that's the Democrat's answer to a viral pandemic, enforced confinement, masks and social distancing?  

How San Fran Nan Pelosi, the aged Speaker of the House, and her band of would-be socialists believes that "mail-in voting" can somehow solve our current pandemic "problem," I can't imagine.  But she's got enough of someone else's balls (possibly Sen. Chuckie Schumer's!) to give it a try.  And just exactly HOW is "mail-in voting" supposed to solve our dilemma?  Make sick people well?  Help people not get sick at all?  No no no!  She says it will solve our myriad problems by eliminating the need for our poor, put-upon populace to actually present themselves, in person, to vote.  

Now, I might insert about here that we've somehow managed to vote in person for more than 240 years.  Through fires, and floods, and famines, and periods of pestilence, including the "Spanish Flu Epidemic" of 1918, we've voted in person.  Through World War 1, and World War 2, and the Korean "Conflict," and the Vietnam "Unpleasantness," and the past 19 years of Middle East tumult, we've managed to haul our asses out of the Barcalounger and trundle on down to the post office, or the court house, or the fire station, to vote.  In person.  We've always felt that in-person voting was a small price to pay for our continuing freedom.  And we do not need to have a vote sent to us, unsolicited, by a quasi-governmental franchise operation filled to the brim with pissed-off drones that hasn't broken even or fixed its crappy service in more than 25 years?  All of this so we can avoid in-person voting?  

During the 2016 General Election roughly 123 million Americans voted.  Plus however many illegal aliens.  It's estimated that about 64 million of them voted "absentee," and in a few states, "solicited mail-in," meaning the voter requested a ballot to be sent him because he could not be home during the Election.  Those in the military would be a great example.  Or, in about five northwestern states, they've featured mail-in voting for years, and thus have perfected their operational systems so as to avoid possible fraud and abuse.  

This is different than the "Plan" - I'd say scam - offered us by the Democrats.  They want to flood America's mailboxes with unasked-for votes - as many as 80,000,000 of them - so as to sow confusion.  And misunderstanding.  And errors.  Millions and millions of votes!  The USPS (Postal Service) has estimated that up to 10% of all "mail-in" votes will have errors,* and thus be susceptible to invalidation.  And the Democrat Party and the Democrat National Committee are telling us trust the Post Office.  An organization that, with the possible exception of AMTRAC, is the poster example for "how not to do it."  Everything will be jussssst fine, they tell us!  Do you want that?  I'd say no.  

So vote in person, America!  Take from the Democrats the chance to obscure or invalidate your votes.  It's still going to get dicey.  They'll make sure of that.  But at least rob them of the chance to screw you with "harvested" ballots* like they've already done to so many counties and states.  

They cheat, you know.  As often as possible...

*    More than 100,000 ballots, representing more than 15% of their electorate, recently sent out unsolicited by the N.Y. Elections Commission were found to have errors so great that they had to be invalidated.  So what's their "plan" to correct this problem?  Send out ANOTHER 100,000 ballots to the same recipients, with instructions that they destroy the first ballots.  Yeah, sure...    

**  When the polls closed on Election Day 2018 in Orange County, California, 7 Republican candidates were leading by significant margins.  A week later some 250,000 votes, representing nearly 10% of Orange County's entire population, were "found" and delivered to the election commission by ballot "harvesters" (people who are supposed to be authorized to hand deliver somebody else's votes).  All 7 Republican candidates "lost."   

The Truth About UFO's.

So I finally got this whole "UFO" thing figured out.

Yep, I've been researching this phenomena for decades now, and I've finally discovered the truth.  And I've got some serious pedigree to do so. 

 

Do you recall hearing of one Kenneth Arnold, the guy credited with having had the very first "modern-day" sighting of a UFO?  Well, he was my 1st cousin, on my Mom's side.  And he told me all about it.  And you can learn all about him by simply Googling his name.  You'll have thousands of links to acquaint you with his exploits.

Anyway, cousin Kenneth reported watching nine "saucer shaped," unidentified flying objects "skipping along" near Mount Shasta, Washington back in 1947.  He was a cartographer for the Army Air Corps.  So he was flying his J-3 Piper Cub that day, mapping away, when all of a sudden these "UFO's" appeared.  He commented that they "...skipped along like saucers."  And that's where we got the term.  Knowing the distance between two mountain peaks between which he observed them flying, he opined that they were travelling at over 3,600 miles per hour.  And that was about 2,900 miles per hour faster than anything we had at the time.

Ken later modified his estimate of their speed upward - slightly - to above 9,500 mph!

That, fellow Patriots, is the generally-recognized modern beginning of "Unidentified Flying Objects" as we know them today.

(BTW:  Ken later built an airplane in his basement.  A full-sized airplane.  Unfortunately, he must have forgotten that it wouldn't fit through the door.  He had to take it apart to get it out.  Take that for what you will...)

Soooo, I, The Chuckmeister, your friendly scribe, your personal conduit for all things bright and beautiful, hereby divulge unto you, my faithful readers, all you need to know about flying saucers and what they mean to us.  Ready?  Here goes...

UFOs started visiting Earth about 12,000 years ago, or thereabouts, I'm thinking.  Just about the time our Ice Age began to wane.  They traveled here looking for gold, which I think they use in their anti-gravity propulsion systems.  They use it to make U-115, which is a new element on our Periodic Table.  It's named "Unobtanium," I'm pretty sure.  They were running out of gold on their home planet, which I believe is in the Star Cluster Syrius "B," and so they launched a galaxy-wide search for more.  And they found more on Earth.

I'm not sure about the name of their planet, but stay with me here.

So these folks then flitted all around the Earth mining for gold.  And while doing so, sort of as a hobby I'd guess, they educated the natives in each locale about neat stuff like writing.  And agriculture.  And mathematics.  And constructing pyramids.  Especially pyramids.  Which they helped build.  Those anti-gravity machines sure come in handy, don't they?  That's why there are pyramids on every continent, including Antarctica!  And that's why they all look the same. 

Funny how that goes... 

But then people started really taking notice of these strange items streaking across the skies.  All through the Renaissance and up unto the current day.  Michaelangelo even put one in a painting.  

They really started paying attention with Ken's sighting and that infamous crash at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.  That event seemed to coincide nicely with our development of nuclear weapons, doncha' know.  Weapons about which the UFO folks are deeply concerned.  They tend to cluster around our nuke plants and missile silos.  I guess that after having invested so much in our little planet over the millennia, and have given us the nuclear technology they now fear, they don't want us to blow each other to smithereens.

So, they built local bases so they didn't have to travel back and forth to their home planet via "time-warp."  I mean, even with a "warp" it can take several days, or even weeks.  I think their bases are located underwater at several places around the Earth.  Our closest base is located underwater on the far side of Catalina Island, I think.  Another is underwater next to the island of Guadalupe off Baja, Mexico.  And thus their craft are more properly called "USO's," or "Underwater Submersible Objects."  Air or water, they're both elements, right?  Makes sense, right?

So it's not like I have a personal relationship with these guys.  We haven't got that far yet.  Or rather, I haven't got that far yet.  They actually don't know I'm here.  But I'm doing my best to get their attention so I can interview them for this (non) award-winning little blog.  I know you'd be excited to learn more about these guys and their hot rods (they travel reeeely fast!), so I'm doing whatever I can to get their attention.  I go outside every evening and jump up and down and wave my arms, trying to get their attention.  No luck yet, but soon, I'm sure.  Soon.  I'll keep you briefed...

Anyway, it's my opinion that then-Prez Eisenhower met with these ET's back in 1953, or thereabouts.  I think he cut a treaty with them, enabling them to keep on flying around inside our borders and within our airspace free of charge, in exchange for information on their remarkable technologies and how we could build UFO's of our own.

Did you notice how quickly we went from P-51 Mustangs to F-86 Sabre Jets?  From B-52's to a manned landing on the moon?  Barely a decade, fellow Patriots!  So those of you who are yet to be convinced about UFO's and their little "grey" pilots and crew, just remember if they were a threat we'd already be dead.  And, we average about 10,000 sightings a year, not all of which can be bogus.  So, I'm thinking if even one might be real, they all might be real, right?  Right!  

So to all you intergalactic traveler haters out there, don't dislike our little grey visitors simply because they're "different."  That's racist.  And God knows, in this day and age we are definitely not permitted to be that...   

Taxation Without Representation...

For all you fine folks living in the "other" 49 states, here's what it's like to live in "Taxifornia."

Did you know that 46 of California's 53 members of the U. S. House of Representatives are Democrats?  Only 7 Republicans?

Did you know that 46 of California's 52 counties are owned and controlled by the Democrat Party?  Only 6 Republicans?

Did you know that 24 of the 40 members of California's Senate are Democrats?  Only 16 Republicans?

Did you know that 55 of the 80 members of the California Assembly are Democrats?  Only 25 are Republicans?

And did you know that the overwhelming number of Democrats in both the Assembly and the Senate gives the Democrat Party a "supermajority," meaning it can, and does, vote for and pass any inane, ridiculous, stupid, dumbass, foolish, wasteful laws that comes into its members' drug-addled, sophomoric minds?

That's how, my fellow Pilgrims, we wind up with laws that make windmills more important than an oil wells.  And outlaw straws so that "global warming" won't kill us all.

It would be funny if it weren't so sad...

I've opined in the past about Taxifornia's outlandish laws.  We pass, on average, some 985 new laws each and every year.  And our Boy Guv, one Gavin Newsom, San Fran Nan Pelosi's nephew, J. Paul Getty's Godson, signs into law nearly every one of them.  Jeeeeesh!  And because there's not a single statewide elected Republican to be found anywhere (you could shoot off a cannon and not hit one!), there's nobody to stop them.  The Democrats have succeeded in transforming what was once the Golden State into a tarnished example of former greatness.  What a shame...

Need an example of law-making gone bad?  Here's one to make you say, "Whaaaa?"

California just voted to form a commission to study the giving of reparations to Black people.  There.  I said it.  They really did.  They voted to study giving money from taxpayers who never owned slaves...to people who never were slaves.  What could possibly go wrong?

And to this I might add that Talifornia was admitted to the Union in 1849.  It was not a slave state.  It was never a slave state.  Yet, sensing an opportunity to buy some more votes, or perhaps further cement its age-old purported "ownership" of Black people, race-bating, poverty pimp legislators sequestered no doubt in Sacramento's tony digs, chose to go forward with this naked example of extreme, ham-handed pandering.  And old saying comes to mind about now:  

"Those who rob from Peter to pay Paul, will never get an objection from Paul."

But wait, there's more!

Our Boy Guv just signed legislation forcing Taxifornia's public corporations to have directors from so-called sexual or racial minority groups on their boards under a first-in-the-nation bill.  On top of its 2018 measure requiring these same corps to have at least one woman on their boards, for some unearthly reason, Taxifornia will now force its 660 public corps to appoint Black, Latino, Pacific Islander, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Native Alaskan, or gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender board members.  How quaint.  But what about Gypsies?  What about Sephardic Jews?  What about Druids?

I would opine that this tells you all you need to know about Leftist Democrats and their identity politics.  They believe so completely, so thoroughly, so indelibly in identity politics that they're willing to force corporations in which they have zero ownership interest to appoint certain groups to their boards, presuming, I'm guessing, that these same board members will vote a certain way due solely to their skin color, or sexual preference.  How stupid.  How condescending.  Black folks ought to take a look at this scenario and understand - finally - that they've been considered chattel by the Democrat Party...forever.  

As John Wayne so famously said, "Life's tough.  It's even tougher when you're stupid..."