"Good and Hard."

We've learned a lot of stuff since the Mid-Term Elections, I'm thinking.  Stuff that we might oughta' have learned before the Election took place.  And here's some of that stuff... 

We've just learned our friends in Pennsylvania love $5.00 a gallon gas.  They must.  They voted to continue it.

And we've learned that PA's folks also don't seem to give a damn that 100,000 of their fellow citizens will be forced out of their jobs in the mines because of their votes.  Joe said so.  And another 120,000 will lose their jobs bringing us oil and gas.  They'll also join the ranks of the unemployed.  And waiting for those mystical "green jobs" to appear.  That never seem to show up.  Why?  The not-so-terribly-bright and easily-sold folks in PA voted for it.  Let them stew in it.

And we also learned that the risk-averse folks in New York State don't seem to mind crime all that much.  They told us they did before November 8th, but they must have been lying to us.  And also themselves. Because they're not all that concerned about it.  They couldn't be, else they'd have voted to get rid of it.  But they didn't.  They voted to (re)elect a person who's never been elected.  And also never, ever had an original idea.  One who's as vacuous as a light pole.  But that's okay, the Democrat won.  And in that State, that's all that counts...

But hey, that's better than electing a Senator that can't form a sentence.  The modern version of "hire the handicapped."  That's a new one...

And the citizens of Illinois indicated via their vote that they want criminals released without bail, almost no matter what the crime.  We know they do, 'cause they voted for it.  And come January, they'll get it.  All of their criminals except 1st and 2nd degree murder suspects will be released on their own recognizance, without bail.  While the Democrats continue in their never-ending quest to outlaw firearms.  So their citizens cannot protect themselves.  And they must want it that way.  'Cause they voted for it...   

And we learned that Democrats accepted more than $80,000,000 in campaign donations from a twerp in shorts, who seemingly ran this generation's most "successful" Ponzi scheme.  From Bermuda.  Where there is no financial oversight.  And that's A-Okay with the Democrat Party.  They're just bummed 'cause he was planning to give them $1,000,000,000 (that's $One Billion!) in the next Election cycle!  They took his tainted money, but will they give it back?  I guess we'll see...

And they loves their crime, too, these Illinois Democrats!  They must.  They voted to reelect the very same porky $Billionaire who helped cause all the crime in Chicago.  A guy who spent more than $100,000,000 of his own money to get elected 4 years ago, and another $139,000,000 to get reelected this year!  He must reeely like that job!  And he must reeeeeely hate Illinois!  And IL's citizens must reeely like high body counts...  

And we learned that Pennsylvania also reelected a dead guy.  Yes, they really did.  One Anthony "Tony" De Luca (D-IL) died on October 9th.  But he was reelected to Congress on November 8th.  And they didn't even try to hide it.  They didn't try to substitute another candidate.  They knew they had it in the bank.  They laughed about it.  Before the election.  Pretty funny, doncha' think?

And we learned that "abortion" is of such major importance to a large chunk of the Democrat electorate that they'd ignore every other concern to get more of it.  So much so, it seems, that it surpasses inflation, and crime, and the high cost of energy.  I wonder if they know that half the states permit abortion until the baby starts the second grade?  And that the other half will likely give them an all-expense paid trip so they can get one of their very own?      

And additionally we've learned that after unceasing efforts by Democrats to defund our police, all types of crime, as well as police response times thereto, are on the increase.  Murder rates are up for the first time in more than 20 years.  Rape, robbery, and property crimes are up in double digit percentages all across the Fruited Plain.  People are scared.  They aren't sure they can continue to weather this economic storm.  They were hoping and praying that "normalcy" would return.*  

But apparently only half of our voters felt this way.  The other half?  They want more of it!  Those I've noted appear just fine with things the way they are.    And so a quote from the famous theorist H. L. Mencken seems appropriate about here:  

"Democracy is the theory that the common man knows what he wants and deserves to get it, Good and Hard!

*  Just a suggestion, fellow Patriots.  If you don't have a firearm, buy one.  Or three.  And then learn how to use it.  Learn well, for if things continue unabated, you just might.  

"Memories..."

As I prepare to "wink out" from this plane of existence, and embrace the one that follows, with gusto, I'm reminded of one of the most important realities you "nears" will face.

"Nears," as in "near" to your just reward...  

And that reality is, you spend way too much time making memories during your life than enjoying the memories you're making.

For example, I've played pool and raced cars professionally, served in our military, lived in a foreign land for 3 years, travelled to 37 countries, and then garnered a degree to prepare me to compete in the World.   

I then was found by my lovely wife, a terrific R.N., who then helped me create four lovely daughters.  As I always said, it was my pleasure.  And then she helped me to grow them, and get them educated, and off to their careers.  And then married off to four great sons-in-law, and lived to see them produce nine stupendous grandkids.  

All the while running a medical services business along with my wife for more than 38 years.  And helping to treat more than 10,000 seriously ill patients.  And saving the lives of hundreds and hundreds of them.

A 24 hour-a-day, 7 days-per-week, medical services business, for more than 38 years...

I liken it to that moving "people walk" at LAX airport.  You know, the one you have to move fast jump on, and then you can't get off until the end; when you retire.  Years and years later.  Long after you made the decision to jump on.  At which time you finally, finally have the opportunity to catch your breath and review your life's accomplishments.  Your life's memories...  

Too bad, isn't it, that in today's high pressure society one doesn't really have the chance to slow down and enjoy those memories while they're being made.  We're running too fast.  We have too many things to do and places to go.  But it sure is nice to have those wonderful memories once you've grown old... 

The Very Shortest Unit of Time...

It used to be that the shortest unit of measurable time was a "quark."  

That's what the physicists call the itty bitty, little infinitesimally-small spark of sunlight-bright generated by the mile-long Super Collider Reactor (look it up).  That's when two atoms of something-or-other are somehow made to crash into each other at the speed of light, and then to disappear.  In a burst of energy!  Or something 

While we have hundreds of thousands of homeless people living on the streets of our Big Blue Cities.  

And the Second Smallest previously was the time it took for the cab driver behind you to honk his horn when the light changed at a Times Square stoplight.  That was DAMN quick!

But now?  It's the time it takes for cranky old Joe O'Biden to haul his bony butt in front of the nearest microphone and spew a call for even more gun control.  More.  MORE!  Nothing but "more" will do!  When the Constitution to which he swore allegiance demands he "shall not infringe" the 2nd Amendment.  Which means tinker with it.  And he endeavors to infringe upon it to an even greater degree on a daily basis.    

Remember when he told us that the preferred way to scare off an intruder was to go the to the window and shoot your shotgun off into the air?  Which is BTW illegal!  In every city and every municipality and every state in our Nation?

He should be ashamed, if he had any shame...    

He did it again this week after a crazed Virginia Wal-Mart manager chose to kill a bunch of his fellow workers.  With a pistol.  I'll bet O'Biden would have given several $Billion Dollars of our tax money if the killer had used an AR-15!  But hey, made no never mind to our "Mumbler-in-Chief."  While surrounded by armed Secret Service agents, he said that semi-automatic weapons have no place in our society.  Apparently not knowing that fully 73% of all new firearms offered for sale in 'Murica are of the semi-automatic variety.  And so is your old granddad's shotgun.  

I know my fellow Patriots know all of this, but for those that don't, who might choose to read this, here's a few choice tidbits you should inculcate:

     -  According the FBI, there are more than 15,000,000 AR-15's in circulation.  They have been deemed America's Most Popular Sporting Rifle, as they are light, modular, inexpensive, and perfect for hunting, target shooting and self-defense.  But O'Biden's sycophants must not have told him the truth about them.  Or perhaps he just doesn't care about the truth...

     -  According to that same FBI, more than 100,000,000 Americans own more than 455,000,000 firearms.  Of all types and description.  And they didn't shoot anyone yesterday...  

     -  And how about this: the National Rifle Association (NRA) is America's oldest and largest 501(c)(3) corporation, having just celebrated its 252nd birthday!  More than 5,500,000 of your fellow Americans, more than 5% of our population, are Dues Paying Members of the NRA (I no longer pay dues, I should mention, as I've been a Life Member since 1965).  And these Members vote.  And they influence another 15,000,000 wives and husbands and girlfriends and boyfriends and aunts and uncles and cousins.  So there.

     -  Oh, and didja' know that since 2020 more than 60% of all new firearms sold have been purchased by women?  And didja' know that more than 55% of new gun buyers have been Black?  Didja?  Huh?  Once again, all FBI stats.  Presumably from the part of that flawed Agency whose statistics we can still believe. 

The non-political part... 

     -  And here's another little factoid.  So far as my research has turned up, there's never been a Member of the NRA who's been convicted of a firearm felony.  Never!.  Not in the past 252 years.  Try that one on,  O'Biden!  And you too, Legacy Media!  And all the gun-haters everywhere!

     -  According to that same FBI, Americans use a legal firearm to stop a crime in progress more than 1,500,000 times a year!  That's One and One-Half Million!  That's a bunch.  And unfortunately, as you know, our so-called "MainStreamMedia," which has proven to be nothing but the Media Arm of the Democrat National Committee, chooses not to report them.  Almost none of them.  Only the most newsworthy break through the partisan efforts to quell them.  But we already knew that, don't we?  Didn't we?  

     -  Try this one on.  11% of the good Citizens of Florida are now licensed to carry concealed firearms.  That's means more than 2,000,000 of Florida's folks are walking around with a firearm in their pocket today.  Don't you think that might give the Bad Guys a bit of pause before they choose to commit a crime in the Sunshine State?  Oh yeah, Gov. Ron DeSantis' veto-proof new Legislature in Florida will be contemplating adopting Constitutional Carry as its first order of business in the new session starting in January.

And in closing, as I prepare to exit the Digital Door, I leave you with this:  O'Biden's choice to politicize shootings by blaming the tool instead of the user, shall remain until superseded as The Example we shall henceforth use for... 

      "The Shortest Unit of Time..."    

$25.00 Each...

We're learning that the race for the Senate in Georgia is taking a familiar turn.  It's headed for a runoff.  Again.  

Groundhog day?

Two different candidates then last time, but the same scenario.  December 6th will be Chapter Two for Warnock-Walker.  And dozens more $Millions showered over Georgia's TV and radio stations.  Which brings me to a statistic I just heard, and thought you might wish to know: The two campaigns have spent a breathtaking total of more than $250,000,000 in campaign advertisements over this past election cycle.  A Quarter of a Billion Dollars.  In a State with only 10,711,000 citizens.  

Hmmm...

Seems to me if the two campaigns had gotten together at the beginning of all of this, say a year ago, and agreed to send a check for $25.00 to each and every Georgian, and just agree to forego the Mid-Term Election, and go straight into the runoff, GA's citizens could have used the money to buy a few gallons of gas so they could get to work. 

Yes, I specialize in long sentences...    

But now Georgia's citizens will be facing another month of wall-to-wall TV and radio ads.  Fighting for the 2% the Independent candidate's voters from the past Election.  Won't this be fun?  Trying to find the 5,000 people in all of Georgia, only, who voted for the Independent candidate, and must now choose one of the other two.  Or simply choose not vote at all.

What a waste of time.  

I say pay the Electorate!  Help us pay our electric bill, that you made artificially higher!  Give us a turkey for Thanksgiving!  Give us some money and leave us the Hell alone!  We'll even agree to answer your pollsters if you just stop pestering us with those godawful ads!

I say we have to go stop this "election season" and go back to "election day."  Like it was when I came up.  Less time, less money, less chance to cheat.  What a concept!  

What do you fellow Patriots think?  Shoot me a comment and share your thoughts!

(Dis)equally Divided...

How in the Hell did we get this way?

I'd like to say I don't know the answer to that question, but I cannot.  Because I do.  And it's simple.  I'll share my thoughts on the subject:

Each and every election we have, those of us who can still think and reason hope to God we can finally get some resolution to our Great Country's infernal political divide.  And then build upon that so we can fix whatever ails us.  And there's quite a bit ailing us, as it happens.  I'm sure you'll agree. 

If you look at the political map you'll see that Democrats control the areas of highest population concentration.  And always have.  Look at the Big Blue Cities, mostly up north.  Since the Civil War those in need, of most anything, food, a job, lodging and safety flocked to these northern cities.  And soon thereafter they were exploited by 19th Century Robber Barons, who stole their labor to make steel and build cars and manufacture products.  Soon labor unions followed to protect the interests of those workers, and wages proceeded with their steady march upward.  And also creating and fueling the inflationary economy we've always entertained, and feeling to an even greater degree due to today's out-of-control Gubmint spending. 

Those Americans who didn't buy into this schtick moved westward.  And southward.  Creating alternate cities where freedom reigned.  Atlanta, Dallas, Nashville, Charlotte, etc.  No taxes, no unions, nobody in the way of exercising one's Constitutional freedoms.  And growing and prospering.  

Excepppppt, these Big Blue Cities attracted political bosses and hacks who acted more like the Mafia.  Lots and lots of broken skulls, and hospital visits, to get those votes. And visits to the local graveyards for any others they might need to win close union votes.  JFK actually thanked the mafia back in 1960 for helping him achieve victory.

Flash forward to today: those "Big Blue Cities" have been completely and totally co-opted.  And those who escaped the iron fist of their control by moving elsewhere, have rendered our Country split right down the middle.  What we have now is... 

    ...the Makers, and the Takers.

The IRS will tells us only half of us pay income taxes.  Actually, the number is now 49%.  The other 51% are therefore "free riders," in legal parlance.  They drive on our highways, they read the books in our libraries, they drink water from our fountains, they enjoy the safety that our police and Military provide.

But they don't pay for it.  They either don't make enough in payroll to qualify for Federal Income Taxes, or they do, and are simply cheating.  And if they don't, the Gubmint most likely gives them money.  And trust me, that happens.  All day, every day.  Maybe some of those new 87,000 brand-new, well-armed IRS agents will track them down.  For their $20.00.  Or $200.  Or maybe $2,000.  

But the worst part, in my opinion, is that they vote.  Sometimes in their own best interests, and in the case of the last Mid-Term Election, sometimes not.  We're watching that all play out.  To some it is a relief, and to others, a call to arms...

There are, as I have written, 27 countries in the European Union.  In a geographic area smaller than Texas.  And yet, they have somehow forged an alliance that permits them to live together, in peace, after more than 1,000 years of war.  The "War of the Roses."  And the "100 Years War."  And the "War of Succession."  There were more.  Look them up.  But their major political differences have been put to rest today.  We should find a way to do the same... 

And I believe that "way" is to agree to disagree; to finally, and completely, forge a break between our two philosophies.  Let the Big Blue cities devolve into crime and lawlessness, as they are currently doing.  Let the Biggest and Oldest of our cities conduct themselves in whatever way they choose.  Let the Chicago's and the Baltimore's and the New York's and the Seattle's become awash in homelessness if they wish.  And they must wish it so, because it is.  We don't want that.  We want a New Beginning.  Starting now...

It is time for a divorce.  Call it the Union of Big Blue Cities and the Republican States of America.  I don't care.  Just Let Our People Go!  Because, be warned, if that doesn't happen, there just might be a conflict.  And remember, we're armed...

Paying it Forward...

I was given a gift by my parents whilst coming up that you might wish to pass along to your kids as well.

My Dad was a salesman, and a damn fine one.  And my Mom was an English teacher in her early years in a small, one-room country schoolhouse, where she taught kids 5 - 12.  Yes, there really were one-room schoolhouses back then, and she was a part of it.

So I was predisposed to being a pretty good talker, and also to being proficient in how to use the language effectively at a very young age.

And just to insure I had all the tools I needed to find my way in the world, Dad and Mom tied my weekly allowance to learning the language!  They actually required me to learn 10 new words from the Webster's Dictionary every week, starting with "A," including how to spell them and use them effectively and properly in a sentence.  No $cash without the formal test.  Every Friday Mom would set me down and ask me for the answers.  And I had to provide them or I didn't get my allowance.  And yes, there were a few times when I blew off learning the words and had no money to go to the movies with friends.

They were serious.

And the result?  This started when I was in the 4th grade, however old that made me.  Mrs. Mowery's class, as I recall.  Dad said something like, "Boy, come on over here (Missouri, remember).  We're gonna' start a new deal here, and you're gonna' love it.  Especially if you want to get your $0.75 cents allowance"  Yeah, Dad, love it.  

And trust me, I eventually did.  I learned to have a repertoire of what my English professor in college guessed at 250,000 words.  And considering that the average person with a college degree has some 50,000 to fall back on, I have a decided advantage in expressing my opinions.  My desires, my beliefs, my goals and dreams and demands.  I can reach down and extract the exact right word for the exact right circumstance.  And there have been many, many occasions when that capability was the difference between winning and losing.  Between getting my way...or being left by the wayside.

And you do not want that.

People, you have it within your power to give your children a quiver full of conversational "arrows."  Those who know me know about my "talent."  It's not a talent.  It's a learned skill, just like jiu jitsu or painting or driving a race car (used to do that do!).  And if you learn this skill well, your kids will have a leg up on the competition.  The ones who want to eat their lunch...

It's a gift worth more than money.  And it costs you nothing  but your time, and your commitment.  It's a skill, a talent, and a forcefield you can offer your kids they cannot get any other way.  My folks armed me with the tools I needed.  Ask yourself, do you know anyone who cannot converse effectively who has succeeded in our society?  No you don't.  And neither do  I.  Don't include your children among them. 

Now then, I always promised myself I'd pass that along to my fellow Patriots, and now I have...

"Close Only Counts...

...in Horseshoes and Hand Grenades."

That was the lesson I learned, very early and very harshly, while playing pool professionally.  That means "for money."  Lots and lots of it sometimes.  And I learned early on you either made those big ol' balls go in those itty bitty pockets, or you didn't.  I learned that "almost" making them, is the same thing as "not" making them.  And if you didn't make them, you didn't eat.  And eating, as we've all learned, is important...

A major league baseball player will go to the Hall of Fame for hitting .300.  That's three out of ten.  Looks like the Republicans are headed for that sort of record as well, and it won't result in any such accolades.

I'm thinking maybe those who finance election races like the ones just completed, you know, the Deep Pockets who write those $Big Checks to buy success at the ballot box, should sue those in the Republican Party in charge of delivering it.

They didn't.

Or, at least they haven't so far.  And I cannot think of a better set of realities Republicans had to run against than the O'Biden Administration gave them over the past two years.  The highest inflation in 40 years, citizens sitting on top of a river of energy and yet paying through the nose at the pump, crime running rampant in the streets, our Southern Border wide open, and our standing on the world's stage at an all-time low.  Everyone's life has gone to sh*t, and yet the Republicans couldn't deliver a knockout blow.  And so far, they haven't even won on points.  As I said, they should be sued.

While Our Guys were talking about the economy, and the border, and inflation, you know, the important stuff, Their Guys were talking about "abortion," which is "code" for "they're gonna' put you in jail," and the "threat to democracy."  Which, I've just learned was "code" for Donald J. Trump.  

And oh yeah, after O'Biden has unconstitutionally "given" more than $500 Billion Dollars in student loan "forgiveness" to a generation of overeducated (and probably underemployed) young debtors, in a naked effort to try and buy votes, two days after the Election a Federal Judge struck it down.  San Fran Nan had already told us it was unconstitutional, which we knew, and the judge used her words in his opinion.  Ha ha!  Too bad, so sad!  The Mumbler-in-Chief bought your vote and the check bounced!  

Imagine being so dumb as to fall for that crap?  Imagine being so dumb as to pay for counteracting that crap?

And so now we're forced to undergo another month of unknowing who's running things, when that decision should have been put to bed a week ago.

Ahhh, but just who are the fools?  The flimflam artists who did it to us, and to their voters, or the Republican election strategists who permitted it?

Anthony "Tony" De Luca, a Democrat candidate for the Pennsylvania House of Reps, up and died a month or so before the Election.  Did the Democrats replace him on the ballot?  Noooo!  Did he win?  Yessss!  By 86% of the vote.  And Barbara Cooper, a 93 year-old Mississississippi candidate for reelection to the House, also died before the vote.  She got reelected also, of course.  With 73% of the vote.

And now the good citizens of Pennsylvania will be sending Mr. Fedderman to Washington.  A man who can't talk and can't debate, into a job requiring at a minimum both attributes.  The reality of it all makes me cringe...  

Me thinks the Red Team doesn't play the game so well...

The definition of insanity, remember, is doing the same thing over and over again, yet hoping for a different result...

(And yes, Jon, I try to crank these out every two days.  Thanks for noticing...)

Election Takeaways, Thus Far...

Although the counting still goes on, in states like Arizona, and Nevada, and Georgia, where they don't have adult leaders, there are some takeaways we can draw from the Election thus far...

     -  The good people of New York preferred a continuation of the out-of-control crime problem it's facing to electing a Republican...

     -  The citizens of Pennsylvania were so desperate to seize political power that they proved willing to elect a mental defective as their Senator.  Somebody who can't form a sentence, or put two words together, off to represent them in a job where both of those skills are essential tools...

     -  The people of Florida get it; they returned they Governor, and everyone else on the Red Team.  So much so that there's not a single statewide office held by a Democrat.  Now that Florida's getting filled up, and way too pricey due to outrageous demand, seems we're going to have to look for an alternative place to move.  Texas, maybe?  Not Austin, which is filled up with California refugees, who brought their peculiar brand of politics with them, but Texas...

     -  Just like Missouri, and New York, and Illinois, and Taxifornia, Georgia proves to be another of those states where one or two yuuuge cities dictate the politics and policies to their suburban and rural voters.  And that's why the people in Atlanta all voted for the preacher, and everybody else voted for the football player...

     -  Don't know whether it's going to happen quite yet, and it's kinda' looking likely, but doncha' know it would be a hoot to have Kari Lake shake up Arizona as it's governor?  All that chaos and screaming and shouting should be good for entertainment, Ima' thinking...

     -  The jury's out as to whether The Don's involvement in the Election was super beneficial, or a detriment.  Or if it was helpful in some cases and not in others.  And whether he'll stay out of the mess until the Georgia runoff is finished.  If he announces on the 15th, I'm thinking it just might muck up the situation unmercifully...

     -  Will San Fran Nan stay, or will she go?  I'm thinking she's so addicted to power, and to "the Swamp," that she'll not be able to stay away.  Even if that means leaving Paul at home to fend off the occasional gay illegal alien attacker.  I'm betting she becomes the House Minority Leader just so she can continue destroying America, even if in a more reduced role...

     -  Beto and the "real governor of Georgia" have wasted more than $200,000,000 of Democrat money chasing their respective governorships.  That's Two Hundred Million Dollars!  I'd like to send out a hearty "thankyou" to the both of them, knowing if it hadn't been given to them, it might have been used to influence another race.

     -  The generations-long armlock that the Democrats have had on Black and Brown voters has been broken.  From expecting their vote up until now, the Democrats have been scrambling to get them back.  And it looks like they may be gone forever...

     -  "Importing" millions and millions of new Democrat voters via their diabolical little "replacement theory" scam won't work, for the reason above stated.  Hispanics love freedom, and education, and hard work, and prosperity, and human life.  They'll therefore quickly adopt the Republican playbook, even if "magically" given the right to vote...

     -  We're watching it all unfold.  I'm thinking we're paying the price as a Nation for an entire generation of our citizens having been permitted to grow up in this wonderful Country without ever having to pay the price of defending it.  I say it's all due to eliminating the draft.  No draft, no spine.  No spine, you pretty soon get men taking showers in the women's bathrooms.  And voting against their common interests.  Jus' sayin...'    

     -  And Democrats Nationwide have told us all via their votes that they care more about "abortion," and an amorphous "threat to democracy," than they do about the scourge of inflation, wiping out $Trillions in savings, or our loss of sovereignty, or our erosion of standing on the world's stage, or even $5.00 a gallon gas!  God help us, where did we go wrong?

Just like any good reporter, I'll get back to you when there's more news...

"Please Stay Home on Election Day..."

If you're one of those who've been led to believe by climate scientists, like Rep. Sandy Cortez of New Yawk, the only bartender who's never brought anything to the table, that our world will cease to exist in 8, 10, or 12 years, depending upon her mood at the time she spews her warnings, just please stay home on Election Day.

And if you believe that "abortion rights" are more important that the artificially high cost of energy, or our out-of-control crime rate, or the "silent tax" of inflation, that's infuriating us all, just please stay home on Election Day.

If you think the way to insure our Great Country stays strong is to abandon Afghanistan, for no special reason, against the advice of all of his generals, after we fought and died for 20 years to help make it free, then you don't deserve to vote.

If you believe that the answer to that raging inflation is to eat Chef Boy-ar-Dee, like hopefully outgoing Rep. from Ohio Tim Ryan has suggested, please do us all a favor and...stay home on Election Day.

If you think that O'Biden's call to stop all drilling and close all the coal mines and force us to rely on wind and solar for our future are a good thing for America, and should be accomplished post-haste, just please stay home on Election Day.

If you think that "importing" more than 5 million illegal aliens, from 165 countries, so far, while simply ignoring that it's a problem or that it even exists ("Our border is secure!"), then do us all a favor and stay home on Election Day.

If you watch late night "comedy" programs on broadcast TV, regularly, not just occasionally, and SNL as your go-to fare, God help us, stay home on Election Day!

If you're of the belief that whatever Elon Musk has, and all the other rich folks have, should be "redistributed" to those with "less," do to "no fault of their own," please stay home on Election Day.

If you think that the amount of melanin in one's skin is important to how one should vote, go hide in the basement; don't even think about voting on Election Day!

If you think that the mere act of voting for Republicans could cause "The end of the world," as SC Rep. Jim Clyburn, the #3 Representative in Congress has suggested, repeatedly, then do everyone a favor and stay home on Election Day.  And maybe a few days thereafter...

And lastly, if you think that the illegal alien gay BLM and abortion-rights advocate, who lived in a trailer in Berkeley and tried to use an "assault hammer" on Paul Pelosi, in his underwear, was spurred into action by 2020 Right-wing election-denialism, somehow, then please, PLEASE stay home on Election Day!

For everyone else, please do me and yourself and everyone else in our Great Country a favor, and...

             ...Get Out There And Vote!

Don't Shoot the Messenger...

The way I see it, all the Republicans will all vote for Republicans come Tuesday, November 8th, 2022.

Okay, we got that one jotted down.

And the Independents will all vote for Republicans come Tuesday, as well.  Wowzer on that one!

So we got the Republicans, which constitute about 39% of our population, and now the Independents, which total about 20% of our population.  Hmmm.

And I think a good-sized chunk of Democrats will quietly vote for Republicans come Tuesday as well.  Those who reside in Big Blue Cities and are afraid for their lives, would be my guess.

How many?  Don't know.  But it wouldn't seem to matter, now would it?  We're at about 59% so far, and counting!  

And all of that voting will lead to the Republican Tsunami I predicted a few weeks ago.  As I said, the R's will pick up 45 in the House and 3 in the Senate and the D's will take a historic spanking.  Despite what other pundits might portend.  

How do I know all this?  Come on!  You're doubting The Chuckmeister?  A man who's only been wrong once this entire year?  And that was when he was thought he was wrong but was really right?  A man who speaks about himself in the third person?  Puleeeze!...

Those of you who doubted me, you're forgiven.  I'm just that kind of guy...

So, while we head for the digital exits I'd like to offer up a question: how is it if a whole cadre of Democrat stars really believe the sky will fall if the Republicans take charge, and that "our children will be rounded up and killed," like Democrat historian Beschloss offered on MSPMS a day or so ago, and #3 in control of Congress, Rep. Jim Clybourne, said on Fox News Sunday would be "...the end of our democracy," and yet they know the Republicans will take charge anyway, why aren't they selling their expansive, waterfront mansions (O'Biden has TWO of them!) and heading for the bomb shelters?  

Or putting their cash in saddlebags and riding their Gulfstream G-5's to Costa Rica?  Or Belize?  Or to Panama, perhaps, another country which uses our $ as its currency?   And yes, I truly luuuuv long sentences!  I live by them, in fact! 

Oh yeah, back to the subject at hand.  Could the answer be that those on the Left are a bunch of of elitist, hypocritical out-of-touch, smarmy, intolerant, free speech-hating swells?  

Oh, I'm sorry, I just answered my own question...

The Most Dangerous Animal in America...

Lemme' take a well-deserved break from politics and all that entails, to bring you an indelible event from my storied past.  One I have trouble forgetting.  And one I think you'll find, ummm, memorable as well.  

In my opinion, the most dangerous animal in America is the North American Broad Breasted Turkey.

They have been bred to grow fast, and big, and produce a pair of huge breasts that Americans can gobble down on Thanksgiving Day.

Not that there's anything wrong with huge breasts, mind you.  

Except these guys grow to about 40 pounds, are the size of a small car.  Not really, they just seem like it when they unfurl the inch-long claws they display on their hooves.  And trust me, they know how to use them.  

Yes they do.

I have personal information on that topic, as it happens.  There was a really big turkey farm a couple of miles outside of Marshall, Missouri, the unfortunate college town in which I chose to live.  Unfortunate for them, not me.  

And me and a couple of the buds got all liquored up one Saturday evening, deep into fall, and decided to go out and get us some of them there turkeys, free of charge.  As in, grab them up, while they weren't looking, take them back to the car, and then...do something with them...to be determined.  Later.  Perhaps.  Not considered to any great degree at the time.  

That's what happens when you get drunk.

So, me and my fraternity bros drove the short trip out of town and into the moon-slathered night (poetic, yes?).  It was so bright out that literally hurt your eyes.  So much so we could easily see out without our flashlights.  We parked up next to the fence and worked our way over it (trespass much?) and through the eye-high brush which formed a barrier to turkey freedom, and then onto the expansive ranch.  A ranch dotted with little white specks, all over the ground.  Thousands of them.  Tens of thousands of them!  Maybe a million of them!  We were overwhelmed at the sight!

BTW, do you have to be "whelmed" before you can be overwhelmed?

We creeped along, ever-so-quietly, through the sleeping turkeys.  When we'd gone maybe 100 yards, one of the guys said he thought it was time to hijack a few birds.  As in, pick them up, put them under our arms, and walk out.  As quietly as we'd come, hopefully.  But with all the turkeys we could ever want!  That was the plan anyway.  What is they say about best laid plans?

I think we had picked up one turkey each and began our stealthy retreat.  Slowly we made our way, step by step.  And then one of them woke up.  And began to express its displeasure at being hijacked.  Something we had not considered to any great extent.  Ummm.... 

Oh sh*t!!!, oh sh*t!!!  

When a turkey gets upset, and you're holding it under your arm, it begins to rake its claws against your side.  Quickly.  Painfully.  And trust me, it wakes you up out of whatever was left of a really good drunk.  And it brings you into a stark reality; you are being clawed to death.

Well I, for one, did my very best to wring that go**amm turkey's neck in an effort to get it to stop trying to kill me.  Have you ever tried to wring a 40-pound turkey's neck?  40-pounds?  You run out of arm before the turkey runs out of life.  And then you drop the miserable beast and run like the friggin' wind!  

Please God, help me out of this!

Well, to bring this awful chapter to a close, we drove with all abandon back to the fraternity house, bleeding like stuck hogs.  Squirting blood!  All over my car!  When we were able to lose the shirts and jeans and survey the damage, we were all clawed massively from just above the waist to mid-thigh.  I had about a hundred of them.  All bleeding.  Did somebody say we wanted a turkey?

We used every single band-aid in the house that night.  Hundreds of them, all scrounged from the other brothers.  Hundreds of them.  And we couldn't go to the emergency room, because that would raise too many questions.  So we were left to nurse out own wounds and try to pass the blame off to anyone else for our rather unfortunate expedition.  

It was dawn before we finished repairing ourselves, and before our fraternity brothers stopped laughing at us.  You can all be assured the turkeys got the better end of this deal.  And I had a hot dog for Thanksgiving.  It was years before I could look another, ummm, breast in the eye... 

Election Deniers...

Our Nation's largest newspaper blasted out front page, above the fold, on Inaugural Day, January 20th, 2016, "Shall We Impeach Trump?"

No less than 53 Democrat House and Senate members chose to boycott Trump's Election Speech that same day.  They stayed away, their absence shouting out their refusal to accept his victory.

Hillary Clinton still has yet to concede her 2016 Election loss.  She STILL says it was stolen from her!  A tact now taken by her apparent protege in Georgia, a woman who's made running for Governor of that State a well-paying profession.     

I guess losing now means you never having to say you've...lost.

Yet, the Democrats now want us to believe that our small-"d" democracy is at stake because some Republicans and Conservatives are so-called "Election-deniers."  As if they are a threat to our democracy.  Even to the extent the Mumbler-in-Chief intends to give a Prime-Time Speech tonight to warn us.  About those awful "Mega-Maga-Super-Duper Republicans."  Whatever they are.  

Do these people have s**t for brains?

So I'm guessing there's a difference between the "Election Deniers" in 2016 and those from 2020.  I guess he'll enlighten us.  Or, he'll just lie like a rug and mumble incoherently and bore us to tears.  Like always.   

How many days again is it before this aged troll is forced back under his bridge?  Hours?