Is the Bill of Rights to the Constitution still relevant?

It's time to pick on the Republicans for a change and I'm going to keep this short and simple. For about forty years we've been allowing people to enter the country illegally. Or maybe some of them entered legally with some sort of visa or other temporary status that I'm not even aware of and then they decided they liked it here and stayed. Apparently nobody checks the status of people here on a temporary visa status. Then there's a visa status that I didn't know about until about three months ago. It's called permanent resident status and it's a visa that allows the recipient of the card to live and work in the country for as long as they want but they aren't allowed to vote in elections. There is no requirement to become a citizen they just have to obey the law and renew the visa every ten years. I don't know why a person would want to live their whole life in a country without becoming a citizen, but I'm sure there are valid reasons. And I don't really care, but it turns out that the people in charge of passing out visas don't have a limit on the number of visas that can be issued nor does anyone ever follow up to ensure that people are renewing their visas on time, or ever. It's basically an honor system.

Honor systems work fine when you're working with honest people, but even honest people can get lazy and ten years is a pretty long time so time passes and the damn thing doesn't get renewed on time. Over time visa holders and even bureaucrats get kind of lax since there's no penalty for not renewing the visa and no real incentive to renew it at all. It can be hard for a person with an expired visa to renew a driver's license and if a permanent resident card holder leaves the country and has an expired visa they can't reenter. An individual can remain in the country indefinitely as long as they don't get caught breaking the law or otherwise draw attention to themselves so for decades no one really noticed. Then there were a few high profile crimes committed by people in the country illegally and some people became concerned. Then of course there was the tragic attack on the World Trade Center towers in 2001. Many of the terrorists involved on that were in the country with expired visas, mostly student visas. They decided to hijack four jumbo jets with passengers on board and use them to complete a suicide mission; two of them flew into the World Trade Center towers in New York City, collapsing them both. A third flew into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. and a forth apparently got lost, but was probably supposed to fly into the United States Capitol building. The passengers overpowered the terrorist hijackers and deliberately crashed the plane into a farmers field in Pennsylvania. What I'm trying to say is that the visa system was a little lax but it wasn't a problem until it was. 

There has been near hysteria in the country ever since. Every time an individual in the country illegally committed a murder or a rape it made the news and it seemed to be happening more and more often. Finally a guy decided he'd had enough and he ran for president of the United States almost solely on the platform of deporting people here illegally. The logic was sound; if the murderers and rapists weren't here they wouldn't be committing violent crimes. Drunk driving is another favorite crime committed by illegal aliens and drunk drivers kill and maim lots of people. The man's name was Donald Trump and he had been a celebrity for a long time. He was a real estate mogul who had made billions of dollars and decided he could help the country as president. He ran a good campaign and won the election by a large margin. Democrats hated him and kept him busy for his entire term by trying three times to impeach him without ever presenting any impeachable offenses. In addition to that they charged him with multiple crimes that were never committed, but he still had to waste time defending himself in court. 

He was an unconventional president in that he was sending out emails daily defending himself publicly and disparaging his accusers. Some people thought he was probably right, but he was mean so when his term ended in 2020 he was defeated by an old man who was clearly suffering from dementia. His four year term was a near disaster. When he left office hardly anyone in the country could afford to buy a house because interest rates had shot up dramatically. There was a war raging in the Middle East and the Russians had started a war with neighboring Ukraine. So Donald Trump ran again and won by a large margin again and pretty much used the same platform; deport people here illegally especially those who were committing crimes. Of course he also promised to help get the economy moving again and to help stop the wars in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. 

This is where my concerns about the Bill of Rights comes in. He was extremely serious about deportations. He unleashed the Department of Homeland Security and told them to deport every single person in the country illegally. Visa checks, work places, prisons he wanted to know where every visa holder was and if their visas had expired or not. If they had he wanted them deported and that's where he lost me. There is a requirement to renew a visa, but no one ever checks and there's no penalty for non compliance. The violator can be deported, but there is no requirement to deport them. To the Trump administration that didn't matter. All violators had to be investigated and the majority of them had to leave. Many of them had been here for thirty years or more and never committed a crime. They had good jobs and owned houses, their kids went to school here and they just didn't see any reason to keep renewing a visa when there was no penalty for not doing it. Well now it's a problem. The Department of Homeland Security has been going after all of them. Moms, dads, kids, everyone. 

To make things worse they are allowing officers from the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs enforcement run around with no uniforms, blue jeans and whatever t-shirt they want to wear and to top it off they are allowed to wrap their heads in a rag so no one can tell who they are. They claim they have to do that so criminals won't know who they are and track them down and kill them. All members of law enforcement face the same threat but they don't get to cover their faces so no one knows who they are. So they are running around in unmarked cars and chasing down anyone they think is here illegally. I have a problem with that especially when one of things they use for criteria is a person's race. If you look Hispanic you are at a greater risk of being stopped and questioned and if you don't have some form of identification on you even if you're a citizen they take you to their station to verify your status and there are a lot of people who have entered the country illegally from Mexico and Central America because for the previous four years the guy with dementia encouraged millions of people to cross the southern border illegally. His administration even created a cell phone app that allowed people to request asylum after entering the country illegally. I don't like racial profiling. Knowing a suspects race is beneficial when searching for a suspect that has been identified, but looking for a suspect when all you know is their race is against our basic civil rights. It's been unconstitutional for at least fifty years but they're doing it now. Someone filed a lawsuit that ended up in the Supreme Court. Several lower courts had rule that racial profiling was against the law, but the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the government. 

I couldn't believe it. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that racial profiling was now legal again. I was genuinely surprised. Probably more than I should have been and I still don't get it. If they can pick on people because of their race what about their political affiliation? Or their membership in the local Elks Lodge or what if they belong to the wrong church? I was in favor of deporting illegal aliens who were committing crimes. To me that was obvious and only democrats were opposed to that. Not only did President Trump let me down by ignoring the civil rights violations, but the Supreme Court agreed with him. So what about the Bill of Rights? As a detective for a major American police department for almost forty years we were bound by it. The Fourth and Fourteenth amendments prohibited unreasonable searches and seizures and guaranteed equal protections under the law. I don't know if those protections are still available to us. I personally don't think the possible dangers presented by the presence of illegal aliens justifies giving up our civil rights. If the cost of border security is giving up our constitutional rights then let's put together some sort of mutual aid agreement with Mexico that allows access on both sides of the border. 

    

     

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY

After four years of a president with dementia who couldn't even find his way off a platform from which he had just given one of his pathetic incoherent speeches we finally have a strong president with goals and ambitions to rebuild America and restore our standing in the world. He has hired a director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement who is not afraid to deport people who are here illegally. He selected an Attorney General who is not afraid to enforce the law and will not seek to throw people in jail just because she doesn't like them or they belong to the wrong political party. His new director of the Department of Health and Human Services is aggressively going after people in the food industry that are putting unnecessary additives in our food. He is also trying to make sure Americans aren't over immunized. Every person President Trump has nominated for a cabinet position is going to do a good job. Then to top it off President Trump started a Department of Government Accountability. Elon Musk has been chosen to lead that department and he is going after government waste with a recking ball. He has to because he only has three months to cut the waste out of the federal budget and he is find hundreds of millions of dollars that are being wasted or stolen because director of DOGE is a temporary position. 

It is amazing how much waste there is in the federal budget. It is disappointing how much theft there is and democrats are condemning any audits that have been ordered. It seems to me that they depend on theft for their campaign contributions. It looks like they depend on illegal immigration for a lot of their votes too. Watching a news program I saw a reporter asking people who were still in Mexico waiting for an opportunity to cross into the United States where they were headed. Some said New York City, others mentioned a variety of other cities, such as Detroit, it was almost always a city on the east coast or near the Great Lakes. A surprising number said, "Joe Biden." It makes sense to me that they thought they were being asked who they were going to vote for since the election was only a few weeks away and in a lot of states like California they register people to vote when they get their driver's license, which is something any person who sneaks across the border can easily apply for. While they are applying for a driver's license they can also register to vote. All a person has to do to register to vote is check a box stating they have legal status in the United States then sign the application. Just like that another democrat voter is registered. 

Ordinarily I'd say 'government accountability' is an oxymoron, but not with President Trump. He takes his Oath of Office very seriously and is determined to make our government more efficient. Of a necessity that means that some people will lose their jobs; especially in the departments where workers aren't required to report for work or refuse to do so upon being ordered to. Seizing upon an opportunity to make President Trump look bad democrats are on the airwaves everyday saying that any federal lay offs endangers children, and any cut to an agency's budget means they'll have to cut services to children and the elderly on Medicare or Social Security. Whenever they are tasked with the prospect of budget cuts bureaucrats always cut the most vital services first. Food programs to aid hungry children, Social Security, Medicare. Those are always the only programs bureaucrats can think of to cut. It's never the extra cars that don't get used or the new furniture requests or the people who are being paid but have little or nothing to do, or the request for new people. Bureaucrats always look for the most painful cuts that can be made and propose those first. 

Elon Musk isn't buying it. I've worked with a lot of bureaucrats over the years and I've rarely heard the managers brag about how efficient their employees are, it's always about the size of the budget they manage which is always huge, but never enough to get the job done. Musk can spot waste in a jiff and he's been swinging that recking ball twenty four hours a day. He'll cut billions from the federal budget without making unnecessary cuts to medicaid or medicare. Politicians like to pretend they are doing everyone a huge favor by 'saving' entitlements like social security, but Social Security is not an entitlement. People receive Social Security based on the number of years they contributed throughout their working lives. When they are talking about cuts to Social Security they are talking about breaking a promise made to working Americans in 1935 by a democrat named Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 

When the right president has been elected and he assembles the right team government accountability becomes a real possibility. 

The Mystery of the January 6th riot at the Capitol

This is one of my favorite topics, especially now that the election is over and Donald Trump is our president again. I was fortunate to work thirty six years for America's finest police department; the LAPD. We spent hundreds of hours practicing crowd control and studying how to help keep peaceful protests from becoming violent riots. There are lots of things the police can do to prevent protesters from becoming rioters and the Capitol police didn't seem to know any of them. One of the most basic is to leave people in the crowd an avenue of escape when you want them to disperse. The Capitol police actually blocked any avenue of escape and forced some people in the crowd to enter the Capitol building to avoid being injured by the police. I don't think the police wanted to hurt them or drive them inside the building they just looked like they'd never been trained on the psychology or the proper way to deploy resources to disperse a group of protesters once they become destructive or violent. One good way is to divide the crowd by using police officers lined up back to back and pushing the crowd away using short jabs toward them with the police baton and ordering them to 'back up!'

That way you can split up the crowd and call on police officers standing by at the perimeter to move in and arrest individuals who are inciting riots or passing out dangerous materials. In doing so you can also move in more police as needed to move the now divided crowd away from the building. As near as I could tell they didn't even attempt that. All they did was stand behind their flimsy barricades and wait to be trampled. Once they realized they were about to lose their barrier tug of war with the protesters they decided to deploy non lethal munitions and chemical irritants which they used about as effectively as a group of elementary school second graders might. It's not that clear what type of chemical irritant the police used, if it was tear gas or pepper spray canisters, but it is clear that whatever they used was used ineffectively. The idea is to move the crowd away from the building, and the police, and then to disperse them entirely. The proper way to deploy such munitions is to fire them at the feet of the protesters in the front, pushing them back and following them continuously, forcing them to continue their retreat. 

The Capitol police were firing their munitions deep either into the middle of the crowd or just behind them. That had the effect of blinding them and making it hard for them to breathe and at the same time blocking any avenue of escape. That forced a lot of them to run toward the barricades and seek safety inside the building. A panicked crowd of protesters is about the last thing a police department wants to have to deal with, but that's exactly what the Capitol police did; they panicked people in the crowd making them more dangerous to the police and to each other. Along with that we may never know what the FBI assets that had been planted among the protesters were telling them. The result was that some Capitol police officers were injured and more damage was done to the building. Another thing that could be done at the same time as the crowd is being dispersed by the police pushing them back, another group of police officers could approach them from behind and pull them back ensuring that the crowd didn't regroup. Anyone who appeared particularly dangerous would be handcuffed and detained in a secure area some distance away where they could be processed and detained for later transportation to the jail.

The police could have been divided into squads with a squad leader and three or four squads would then be put under the supervision of a higher ranking official providing directions and orders for deployment. The deployment of non lethal munitions or chemical irritants should not be at the discretion of individual police officers or their squad leaders. That order should come from somewhere higher up the chain of command for at least two reasons; one it makes someone accountable for the decision and it makes the deployment more successful because it is done in an orderly and targeted fashion, not just randomly lobbing incendiary devices into the crowd. It would also give someone higher up the chain to use a microphone to deliver a dispersal order to the protesters warning them what was about to happen if they didn't leave and giving them another chance voluntarily leave the area, which is oftentimes an effective tool that reduces some of the nervousness and tension. The person ordering the deployment of chemical irritants could also then direct where the munitions should be aimed; at the feet of the nearest protesters rapidly and in a concentrated fire By four or five police officers standing shoulder to shoulder and advancing toward the protesters, and directing them to continue to back up and leave. This tactic usually does cause the protesters to back away quickly to an area farther away from the intended target and toward awaiting police officers who are standing by to direct them to the avenue of egress, or to arrest any who become violent. 

I couldn't tell who was giving the order for the Capitol police to fire chemical irritant munitions into the crowd, but it was clear that there was no order to it. They were firing into the middle of the group at random, not concentrating on any particular area, or even farther away at the rear of the group protesting effectively cutting off their avenue of escape which is not an effective way to persuade protesters to leave. Lots of other things went wrong as well, including inside the building where the police failed to effectively take control of the building's interior room by room in an aggressive and orderly manner. 

The entire spectacle was an embarrassment that ended in chaos, injury and death. Much of which could have been avoided if the police had acted professionally instead of creating a chaotic scene resembling one mob facing off against another mob. Training is so important. Proper training saves lives and protects property. 

Then to add to the embarrassment the FBI moved in and conducted an investigation ignoring the law and bullying people into pleading guilty to things many of them were not guilty of. Probably. It became clear to most people that the FBI was on a political vendetta orchestrated by the Biden administration. For one thing a Capitol police officer had murdered an unarmed woman and they had to do whatever they could to make it look legitimate. In addition to that the Capitol police had been very ineffective at crowd control so special emphasis had to be put on the behavior of the protesters and focus taken away from the embarrassing tactics of the police. 

Ever since Donald Trump announced in 2015 that he was going to run for President of the United States as a Republican the Obama controlled Department of Justice began a long and arduous campaign to illegally spy on him, his family members, friends and associates and single them out for special treatment. They paid a former member of the British version of the CIA to compile a dossier on Candidate Trump, paying him a reported million dollars plus. The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation authorized the submission of a false affidavit to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge in order to illegally use electronic surveillance against Trump and his associates. They used the information they gained to further damage their reputation by presenting more false affidavits to criminal courts so they could conduct illegal searches of several of the homes of Trump's friends, associates and family members. 

They claimed that Trump was an agent of the Russian government who was trying to use his influence to make money by getting the support of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president. During his candidacy Trump was arrested four different times for crimes that were never committed and any convictions will be almost certainly be overturned by appellate courts. Two of the cases have already been dismissed, another court convicted and sentenced him for paying a woman to stop publicly making up lies about him which has never been a crime before. His sentence was "unconditional discharge" on January 10th, 2025. Most likely this case will also be overturned by the appellate process. Two of the judges trying the cases against him are probably illegal aliens who will hopefully be deported even though they have lived here for about fifty years having been brought here as children by their parents. 

All of these facts help create a foundation of illegal activities the FBI and the DOJ participated in upon becoming agents of the Democrat party instead of being true to their Oath to uphold the Constitution. Now that President Trump has been elected and most of the illegal charges have been dropped, in other words the democrat's efforts to stop him from campaigning have failed it's time to investigate the investigators. We don't want revenge, we just want to take steps to ensure that the FBI never joins an effort to undermine the Constitution again and that's going to mean firing most of the FBI leadership and seeking Special Agents who are not loyal to any particular individual or party, but to the Constitution they took an oath to protect. In the organization I worked for lying to a judge to secure a warrant against anyone was a criminal as well as a fireable offense. The FBI should be held to the same standard. 

Dodging Bullets

During the 2024 election cycle we dodged the bullet once again, figuratively and literally. I'm not going to stop saying that Democrats didn't try to assassinate Donald Trump during this past election cycle. I'm not willing to admit that the United States Secret Service has fallen from one of the absolute best personal protection organizations in the world to perhaps the worst. 

Exhibit #1 is the building 150 yards from the podium with a clear view of the podium. For one thing the head of the Secret Service has provided at least three different versions of the reason why that building was not covered; it was the responsibility of the local police department to secure that building. It had a severely sloped roof that made it unsafe to put people up there. They knew it was a problem so they decided to secure it from the inside. There still isn't any reason provided for the Secret Service marksman with a clear view of the building in question not taking preventive measures against the would be assassin before he started shooting. They had a clear view of him, why didn't they alert the people inside the building that the sound they were hearing of a person walking on the roof was a man with a rifle and maybe they should check it out? A police officer alerted by a citizen witness did get a clear view of the assassin, but the assassin threatened to shoot him so he retreated. Smart move but why didn't he tell anyone at the Secret Service to keep Donald Trump away from the podium? Those simple moves would have saved Donald Trump from being wounded in the head and an innocent Trump supporter being killed. It also could possibly have saved the life of the assassin who then could have been questioned about his motives and anyone who may have put him up to the task. 

Exhibit #2 is the stage itself. Since they knew about the potential for a disaster from the building 150 yards from the podium and with a clear view of the podium why didn't they put up some sort of screen so a potential assassin couldn't get a clear shot from the rooftop? Obviously the Secret Service has suffered a lapse in training and may possibly even be criminally culpable. Not the men and women on the ground risking their lives, but the jerks in the leadership who set them all up for failure and possibly even being murdered themselves. 

Exhibit #3 Donald Trump is about six feet four inches tall. Why was he being protected by women who were about five feet five inches tall, one of them appeared even shorter than that? 

Exhibit #4 The FBI so-called investigation. Why did they have someone clean up the crime scene before anyone took photographs? Why was the bad guy's body cremated without performing a autopsy? 

There are probably other questions that I missed, but those are important items. If he hadn't turned to look at that chart when he did he would be dead now. He would be dead and America would have been brought into another state of confusion and doubt and mistrust and all other emotions that accompany such a horrible event. Democrats would have been rid of their tormentor. Donald Trump was not just a political candidate to them. He was the man running for president who was going to do his best to stop their coup. He was going to respect the Constitution and stop all of the illegal shenanigans that democrats had resorted to in their effort to fundamentally change America and install a monarchy. Because Donald Trump survived the brutal attack the entire country dodged a bullet. 

He didn't just win the presidential election, but because the Biden administration did such a horrible job and Kamala Harris ran such a bad campaign, the democrats lost the House of Representatives and the Senate as well. I guess I wasn't the only one who was tired of hearing Chuck Schumer's lies all the time. 

Hopefully if democrats try to kill him again, Donald Trump will live to serve his entire four year term. This is the first time that we've ever had a reason to suspect that the Secret Service was actually complicit in an assassination attempt on a presidential candidate they were supposed to protect. This attempt is eerily similar to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy who was shot and killed under suspicious circumstances. Both crimes have given us cause to suspect that federal law enforcement may have been in on the planning and the subsequent cover up of the murder of a president and presidential candidate for political reasons. 

Democrat coup

It's true, the democrats are engaged in a coup against their own country, against our country. I guess all of the things I've been noticing lately could be a coincidence or just bad luck, but I really don't thinks they are. For the first time in our history we have deposed a president. President Joe Biden was legally nominated by his party at the Democratic National Convention to continue to represent his party, the Democratic Party, in the 2024 presidential election. At the convention all of his compatriots stated that he was doing a great job as president and could easily defeat Donald Trump. His mental acuity was not a problem even though he was eighty one years old. Then he put in a pretty bad performance during the debate with Donald Trump and they realized they might have a problem propping Biden up for the rest of the campaign. They've known for a long time that he was in the early to advance stages of dementia, but they were afraid that Vice President Kamala Harris was also inadequate to the task of defeating Trump who had been a very successful president just four years earlier. What to do? 

Instead of continuing to try to hide President Biden from reporters and the public, they panicked and opted to pressure, and eventually force Biden to drop out of the campaign and support VP Harris. During the 2024 primary season Democrats overwhelmingly voted for President Joe Biden to represent them in the general election in November. Harris was a distant fourth, but was chosen to run as the VP nominee because she is a black woman. Clearly her party didn't have any confidence in her ability to serve as the President of the United States. Suddenly after it became increasingly impossible to hide President Biden's mental deficiencies Vice President Harris became the smartest woman in the world. The only problem was that she had already been passed over as the parties nominee in a landslide and since the DNC the democrat leadership had been telling all of us what a genius Biden is, apparently forgetting that they had already rejected him twice as the person they had to have as their standard bearer. In case anyone is wondering what changed; nobody knows. 

The other question that nobody wants to address is, is it legal? Well let's not spoil the moment with legalities. We're talking about Democrats! The law doesn't apply to them. They love to tell us over and over and over again that 'nobody is above the law.' Unless the law is being applied to a democrat, then it's different. They have been plotting a coup against our system of government for decades, but not until we elected our First Black President did it really gain traction. Barack Obama had a majority in both houses of Congress and he moved fast, forcing a vote on a government take over of medical insurance. He wanted to abolish all private medical insurance in favor of medical care run by a newly formed bureaucrat run medical insurance. If unions hadn't intervened he might have succeeded, but there was a tremendous amount of opposition to socialized medicine by the majority of Americans, many of whom had great medical insurance that was subsidized by their employers, in some cases their employers paid the entire premium for them. For months President Obama told anyone who would listen that he wasn't proposing a government takeover, but an alternative government subsidized medical insurance for people who couldn't afford the more expensive private insurance policies that were on the market. 

When people asked the dreaded question; "How will this work? What is in this miracle bill?" Of course democrats were ready with an answer; "Nobody knows, we'll have to pass the bill in order to find out how it works!" Obamacare passed on a strict party line vote, with a handful of Republicans voting for it and I think one democrat voting against it. No one was surprised to learn that what the law actually did was cancel everyone's insurance unless they worked for one of the government agencies or a large corporation. With the stroke of a pen  President Obama signed the bill and millions of Americans were no longer insured by anybody. Supposedly there was a new office of government that for some reason was under the leadership of the IRS, who would make sure that all Americans were insured by an employer or purchased their own medical insurance through what was known as an exchange. Americans had to create an account via the internet then choose from three different insurance plans, Gold, Silver, and Bronze; cute. Gold is the most expensive, then Silver and at the bottom is Bronze. Each of them is complicated and difficult to navigate. Of course it took a few weeks for the IRS to even figure out how to make the website work since they weren't given any warning at all that they would be running a bureaucratic boondoggle. Suddenly the IRS was in the medical insurance business. 

Each plan had different coverage limits for different procedures and different premiums and copays and deductibles. It was and still is a mess, but we've been stuck with it for almost twenty years so people have gotten over the initial pain and fear and out of necessity have learned how to use it. The other surprise was that is was organized by geographic zones, roughly using a person's zip code. People living in a given area had to choose their doctors and other medical providers from a list of doctors in a certain zip code. People who had been treated by a doctor over a period of years could no longer see that doctor. If they had been using a hospital they liked and were familiar with they had to choose a different one unless they were lucky enough to find their doctor  and hospital were on the list that covered their area. Government employees and employees covered by a large corporation were exempt from the pain of Obamacare. Another promise from President Obama had been that nobody was going to lose anything. 

"If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your old inefficient insurance you can keep your insurance. Nobody's taking anything away from you." He said that publicly dozens of times and it was a lie. The biggest fraud ever perpetrated against the American people by an American president, with the possible exception of Franklin D. Roosevelt. And of course no government coup would be complete unless they could foul up the nations finances. There was no way to fund this white elephant and that's why the IRS was in charge. From then on there would be a new line on everyone's tax return asking for proof of medical coverage. The reason for this was because some people, especially young and healthy people would opt to pay for doctor visits out of pocket rather than incur the expense of a monthly insurance premium. Democrats are too smart for that so they wrote a line requiring all Americans to pay for one f their insurance plans or pay a penalty. Nobody told us about that little factoid either. Whenever a leader of the democrat party promises you anything that will be beneficial you can bet you are about to be cheated. The promise will be a mirage and it will disappear after you've fallen for it again. 

Over the next four years President Obama managed to weaponize the IRS against any conservative organization requesting tax breaks for 501c political pacs. None of them were granted. He also weaponized the BATF, and the United States attorney general to change the laws regarding firearms ownership. At the same time he made a series of public statements about how racist Americans are against black people. Just because we had elected a black man to be president didn't mean we didn't hate black people. It was stupid, but Americans were falling for it. Overnight black people started mistrusting white people and work places became tense once again like they hadn't been since 1960. President Obama went on a world tour telling people in countries all over Europe and Asia that America was a bad country with a sordid history. We were greedily using up all of the world's resources because we were wealthy and felt like we deserved more than everyone else. As a capitalist nation we were greedy and insensitive. He was going to change all of that. He capitalized on the fear people all over the world had about man made catastrophic global warming that was exasperated by American greed and waste. 

His performance was disgraceful. An American president visiting other countries, bowing and curtseying to foreign leaders and begging forgiveness in our behalf. He also promised many of them that he would give them large amounts of money in their efforts to stop the climate from changing. We will never know what happened to that money. He gave Iran billions of dollars which they used to continue their quest to become a nuclear power in the Middle East and to foster terrorist operations throughout the world. Democrats are destabilizing some dangerous regions of the world. While he was destabilizing the world, he was continuing his assault on America. He made periodic statements about how little the United States had done to strengthen race relations instead of reminding all of us how far we'd come as a country and as a people. Trayvon Martin was a thug who lived in Florida and attacked an innocent man one night and tried to rob him. Martin forced the man to the ground and was banging his head against the pavement when the man shot him dead in self defense. Immediately there were riots across the country. President Obama didn't see any reason to help bring the country together. Instead he insisted that Trayvon was a good kid and was killed because he was black. 

"If I had a son," the president said, "He would look just like Trayvon Martin." Obama had the opportunity to help the country heal, to have someone look into the incident and provide an honest assessment of what happened. In Florida if a person is being assaulted they have the right to defend themselves, some states think it is wrong for a person to defend their self. Instead of perhaps ordering the Attorney general to conduct an extensive study of crime in America and attempting to find out exactly why there are so many Black men in prison, he told the world that racism was the reason. That white people hate Black people and refused to provide them opportunities or give them jobs that pay well, they discriminated against them and forced them to go on welfare or resort to a life of crime. At about the same time another Black man named Michael Brown was killed in Missouri and of course rioting broke all over the country. Before any of the facts were known Obama was in front of the cameras claiming that Michael Brown was unarmed at the time he was killed by a racist white police officer. The investigation led in a different direction. Michael Brown was a robbery suspect and the police officer spotted him and attempted to detain him for an investigation. Mr. Brown didn't want to be investigated so he jumped into the police car and tried to disarm the police officer and succeeded in removing his pistol from its holster. Their was a violent struggle for the firearm which was discharged several times inside the car. Finally Brown was fatally wounded and the patrol officer was seriously injured himself. 

Obama didn't make any attempt to apologize for his inflammatory statements nor did he try to stop the rioting. Even before these two incidences of violence there was a professor Gates who teaches at Harvard University and was arrested at his home after refusing to identify himself to officers who had received a call for service at Gates' residence regarding a break in of his home. The responding police officer arrived at the residence in question and observed the front door ajar. Upon approaching the front door he was met by Henry Gates, the homeowner. The police didn't know who the homeowner so he asked the man to show some form of identification. When the man refused the police officer requested a supervisor to respond. When the supervisor arrived he also asked Gates for some identification so they could be certain he was in fact the homeowner and the real homeowner wasn't somewhere in the house dead. Gates continued to refuse. The police placed him under arrest, searched the residence and verified that Gates was in fact the homeowner. Then they transported him to the police station where he was booked for interfering with a lawful investigation. The next day President Obama accused the police of "Acting stupidly" and illegally arresting a man simply because of his race. The district attorney in that case declined to prosecute, President Obama invited Henry Gates and the police officer to come to the White House to drink beer and discuss the case. The whole thing was on the news and became yet another embarrassing chapter in our history. We endured the Obama administration for eight long years, suffering one embarrassment after another. 

His Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, was caught storing documents labeled Top Secret on an insecure service in her personal residence. Intelligent people assume, probably correctly, that she was sharing that information with multiple heads of state probably for financial renumeration. The FBI tried to avoid investigating her, but the pressure mounted until they really had no choice. Their investigation disclosed that she was in fact storing top secret documents improperly on a server in her home and the information had probably been compromised by a variety of foreign governments. They also discovered that she had destroyed a whole bunch of cell phones and personal computers and attempted to use a software program known as 'Bleach bit' to wipe her server and her computers clean. At the end of their investigation the head of the FBI James Comey, held a press conference during which he enumerated dozens of laws that she had broken. At the conclusion of the press conference he said there was not going to be any criminal charge filed against her because she didn't realize that what she had done was illegal and no prosecutor would file the case because although she was criminally reckless, she never intended any harm and she had learned her lessonTom H. In just a few months they were going to forget that leniency and go after Donald Trump for crimes that were never even committed and try to send him to prison for life. 

Left Wing; Right Wing

Okay, I don't belong to either major political party. I don't believe that either of them represents the interests of most Americans. If I had to choose one or the other it would be the Republican Party because at least their history has been one of putting America and Americans first. They believe in strength and individual rights. Almost without exception the Republican Party supports the entire Bill of Rights so I guess that's where I'll start. Most Republicans believe that we all have the right to not only have an opinion, but to share it with others, and they have the right to disagree. Whether or not that's a friendly disagreement is also up to the individual. They believe in the right to self defense and that the Second Amendment is a vital part of our constitution. For the most part Republicans don't believe that pornography has any place in our public schools. They recognize the inherent danger in teaching children that certain lifestyles are better than others, or lying to children about who they are. Gender identity is a sensitive subject and should not be pushed in our public schools, or even the work place. 

Over the years people who worked with me have changed their name. David decided that his dad was a total loser so he no longer wants to use his name so now he's George, or something. It can be hard to get used to, but it's just a learning curve. When George becomes 'Georgiana' and comes to work in high heels and a skirt that's a problem. Why is it a problem? Because George is a man and men don't wear high heels and skirts. It looks ridiculous and it's a real distraction. Can't I control myself you ask? Of course I can, but doing my job is tough enough without having to watch George walk around checking his lipstick. Did I mention that along with the skirt and high heels there is a wig and make up? Women worry about their facial hair. Compared to George their facial hair is nothing. Do I have to tell George how nice he looks in his new skirt? Remember that men tend to be rather brutal with each other when it comes to fashion. Like "Dude who are you trying to impress!" Or worse, "Hey Mark what the hell did you do? You smell like a French whore house." on the day that Mark, who usually wears Levi's 501's and a t shirt, but had to wear the slacks his wife gave him for his birthday along with the new cologne she's been nagging him to try. The only time I ever heard women criticize another woman's wardrobe was when the drop dead gorgeous twenty-five year old new girl showed up wearing a pleated miniskirt and a blouse that was in their opinion a little too flattering. 

It was the same outfit they wore to work when they were twenty-five, but that was different somehow I suppose. They were young professionals, she's a floozy. Republicans tend to view success as a result of hard work and discipline, and not being afraid to take chances once in awhile. And of course learning what the boss drinks and would he prefer a Virginia ham or an Omaha steak. No one should get preferential treatment because they were born a certain race or they're confused about their gender. Most Republicans don't just say they believe in science, they live it. People cannot change their gender and most Republicans recognize that fact. How about national security? Republicans try to keep illegal immigration to a minimum mostly because when you just let people cross the border illegally you run the risk of being infiltrated by some mean people who want to kill Americans like they did on 11 Sept., 2001. Democrats want us to think that could never happen again, but they know it can and probably will. 

The more I think about it the more obvious it becomes. Democrats don't think crime is a big deal, even violent crime. They don't think we should have the right to self defense. If we are being robbed we should be cooperative with the robber and hope the police can get our stuff back. That is if the robber is kind enough not to kill us. Democrats don't see any problem with children in elementary school looking a pornographic materials. It's ok with them if George changes into a skirt, a blouse, heels and make up, and comes to work looking like a bad joke. National security is a joke to them. They'd rather give money away to illegal aliens, and people who don't work than pay for better defense and more military personnel. They know there could be another terrorist attack, but so what? Only a couple thousand people will be killed or injured and any buildings that are damaged can be rebuilt. It's no big deal. For some reason they are willing to send the few resources that are available to foreign lands to fight a war that isn't ours. 

Democrats like to fund both sides in a war, probably even if we are involved. They are sending billions and billions of dollars to Ukraine, mostly in the form of vehicles and munitions, and they are purchasing oil products from Russia, thus ensuring that this war can never end. They are doing the same in the Middle East. Democrats don't believe that the USA is the greatest country in the world either. We are just one more in a vast number of countries. Democrats only believe in science when they are quoting a 'scientist' who is helping them sound the man made global alarm. They call it climate change now, but what they mean is man made global warming and they blame the United States for creating a problem that there is no scientific proof of it's existence. during the seven decades I've lived on this planet, and people I trust say it's been going on even longer than that, it's hotter in the summer than it is in the winter. It's one of the things you can count on. Some years it rains more than others, and some years it barely rains at all. 

Democrats claim that if we don't immediately start driving electric cars and putting solar panels on our houses we will soon be burned to death from catastrophic global warming. They are even warning farmers that if their cows keep farting we will all be doomed in ten years. For the last fifty years they've been saying we have ten more years before it's too late. The oceans will rise and everyone within fifty miles of the coast will drown. I live a few blocks from the ocean and for the last sixty years it has remained in the same place. I'm about ten feet above sea level and have been for the last thirty years. That's science enough for most people, but not democrats. They are trying to force me to buy an electric car and install solar panels on my roof. They are trying to get my relatives in Wyoming to get out of the cattle business before their cows fart us all to death. What I suspect they are really trying to do is help billionaires like Bill Gates, who is heavily invested in synthetic meat, make billions more. 

Democrats want to take away my right to free speech. If my ex-friend George wants to be called Georgiana and be referred to as she, I have to do it. In public schools they are forcing my kids to do the same thing. Democrats don't believe in education. If the world is in imminent danger of being destroyed by man made global warming they should show us how it is happening. What evidence is there that it is actually a danger to us. So far they haven't done that. A guy named Al Gore, who was a Democrat Senator from Tennessee and a failed presidential candidate made what he termed a documentary that supposedly showed all of the proof that our planed earth was about to overheat and kill us all. That was in 2006. One of the claims he made was that if we didn't reverse the trend in ten years it would be too late and he proposed some unrealistic goals. He said we all had to start driving electric cars within the next ten years. We had to stop using our air conditioners in our homes and we had to all stop driving our personal cars and take public transportation; buses, subways, or trains if we had any chance of surviving. And we had to live in smaller houses so we could lower the amount of electricity we were using. He said all this as he lived alone in a 25,000 square foot mansion over looking the ocean in Santa Barbara. He traveled alone in his private jet. 

Hypocrisy is what defines democrats, and as I've pointed out earlier they don't mind. They pass it off as a trait that everyone already has, but most people are too hypocritical to admit it. He's a real Bozo. He said the oceans were going to rise and wipe out Manhattan and most of Florida and take out a good portion of California as well. That was eighteen years ago and we are all still here. I was at the beach today and it hasn't changed a bit. It's the same as it was sixty years ago when I first came here with my mom and dad. Gore had photographs that supposedly depicted the glaciers in Glacier Park Montana were all gone, ditto Patagonia. Antarctica was practically ice free, as was the Arctic Circle and the North Pole. They showed it to kids in elementary school, and that's when I discovered that there are way too many illiterate educators. Everyone believed it. We live in Orange County California and most people go to the beach at least once a year, and many of us live on the beach. It's still right where it's always been. The same houses are on the foundations that were laid sixty to seventy years ago. There has been no need to modify the marinas to keep all those yachts from being swamped by the rising oceans yet I've been told that some teachers were crying after seeing Al Gore's fake documentary and a good portion of the kids were scared to death. 

One of my friends told me one of her kids came home and told her they had to start recycling immediately, "Okay", she said, "That will be your job." Just like that, at least in their home man made global warming was no longer a problem. Too many parents aren't as smart as my friends so they contribute to their child's unnecessary fears. I agree with recycling to a point, but when the plastic becomes so fragile that you can't stack water bottles without them collapsing it's gone too far. hundreds of 'scientists' all over the world signed a worthless paper stating that we were all doomed and democrats sat back, folded their arms over their fat stomachs and said, "See there it is! The top scientists in the world are telling us if we don't do what Mr. Gore says immediately we will all be dead very soon." That was about fifteen years ago. We're still not driving electric cars, we are still air conditioning our homes in the summer and heating them in the winter. We still don't use public transportation and the ocean is still where it's supposed to be. To me the most interesting thing about Mr. Gore's fairy tale is that he came up with a scheme to trade carbon credits. Apparently carbon dioxide is what we are belching that is killing the planet, causing the oceans to rise and basically threatening life as we know it with complete extinction. 

So he came up with a 'brilliant' plan. Everyone, according to him, has a carbon footprint. That is we all pollute at least a little. He says he has to pollute more than most because he is a very important man and if he didn't travel the world in his private jet he wouldn't be able to get his message out. I guess he hasn't heard of television or radio, or any other way of communicating with people. You have to fly to European resorts in your private jet and stay in huge resort hotels with other people who are very important and meet you there in their private jets and the most important have jumbo jets and the less important people fly in Gulfstream 650's and the poor people fly in jets that only have seating for eight to ten people, so the three or four people traveling in them can actually see each other (how embarrassing!). I suppose they park their jets in hangers at the far end of the airport to avoid the embarrassment of being seen with an aircraft that's worth less than eighty million dollars. While they attend these conferences they play all night on hundred foot yachts. They can do that because they care so much about Mother Earth that they are willing to sacrifice their time and attend these conferences where professors come from all over the world, flying coach at their own expense and staying in a Super 8 that is only about a 45 minute drive away, at the expense of their sponsor of course, where they read the latest paper they've had published in some scholarly journal. The day after they have read their paper and had all of the important people in the world clap their hands and  tell them how brilliant they are they are fed a steak dinner in a side room and checked out of their cheap hotel the next day after which they take an hour long bus ride back to the airport where they fly back home. On coach, at their own expense and nobody ever hears from them again, but they get to tell their giddy students, "Hey kids! I got to read my paper to a group of very important people in Switzerland, and Leonard DiCaprio was there. They put me up in a Swiss hotel and fed me a steak dinner. It was great!" 

And all those swooning skulls full of mush text their upper middle class parents and tell them how much their professor cares about the planet and he got to see Leonard DiCaprio. So Gore's idea was to make everyone "equal" be allotting everyone a certain number of carbon credits. People like me get about five. People like him get like fifty thousand, and corporations get a little more than that. Since I live in a very small house and don't travel in a privately owned aircraft I only use about three of my credits, but the very important people, people like Hollywood actors who care about the planet and Al Gore of course can purchase the credits that us peasants don't use. He wanted to start sort of an exchange that could facility this carbon trading thing. For a modest cost of course, but it wasn't about the money it was about saving the planet and making sure we were all equal, and we all understood that very important people have to live alone in mansions while those of us little people could get by in a three room apartment. One thing you can say about Al Gore is that he is very compassionate. The whole farce was put together so Gore could stop crying about having a bank account that was only in the nine digit range and break into the real big league of billionaires. Alas it failed and he will have to hang his head in shame for the rest of his days knowing that he will never have more than about five hundred million dollars in the bank. 

The reason democrats can't afford to take a chance on education is because their numbers don't add up. To make up for that they pass punitive tax measures that drive up the cost of fuel in an effort to force us all to ride overcrowded, diesel fueled busses and trains. They also pass punitive regulations that drive small businesses out so corporate chains can take over and make billions of dollars off the backs of small business owners. They pass onerous laws regulating farmers so they have a hard time making ends meet and are forced to sell to corporations who then, if they are lucky, hire them to stay on their farm to manage it and they get paid for their service. They penalize everyone they can. The fishing industry has to use a certain type of material in their nets. Something that is somehow friendlier to the environment and to the fish. Nobody goes untouched, including the large corporations who make up their losses by charging us peasants more. 

Democrats are good at supporting wars in foreign lands. Our corporations make billions of dollars selling weapons and ammunition to countries all over the world. Some of those countries can't afford those weapons so Congress uses third parties all over the world to make back room deals allowing third world countries to receive machine guns, tanks, missiles, and other implements of war as 'loans' from the USA. We pay for those loans that are never repaid via higher taxes. Democrats keep corporate welfare alive because those corporations return some of the money they 'earn' from the government in the form of campaign contributions. Since there are laws governing how much an individual or corporation can donate to a candidate, Congress passed a law allowing a thing called a 'Super PAC'. Corporations can donate as much as they want to a Super PAC. Instead of encouraging people to constantly educate themselves and look for ways to improve their standard of living democrats pass minimum wage laws which ensure them a so-called living wage, which companies pass on to us peasants, which includes the recipients of this generosity, making sure that no one can improve their lot in life and all of us experience the hardship of inflation. 

Abortion is another democrat brainchild. Instead of encouraging responsible behavior they tell people to go out and have a good time. If your girlfriend gets pregnant and you don't want a kid just go ahead and get her to have an abortion and the problem will be solved. At first they made it legal to have an abortion, then realizing that some people can't afford the procedure they decided to force all of us to pay for their good time. Worse, today we are faced with the idea that gender is something we can change. If a person decides, at the ripe old age of six, that they are the wrong gender they can change from a girl to a boy or a boy to a girl. In some states if a child's parent doesn't think that is a good idea the state can take the child away from the parents and charge them with child abuse. Unless they make some serious changes in their thinking I could never vote democrat. 

I'll remain Undeclared for the rest of my days. Republicans are too willing to cave in to such policies as Big Government, and abusive regulations, and democrats are too willing to push us to find out how far they can go toward stripping us of all of our freedoms. Currently democrats are winning and that's a bad thing for the entire world. Global inflation and world war is not going to help very many people. I will continue to support the candidates who are supporting the goals of preserving our liberty and our way of life. Those who are willing to take the risk of lowering tax rates and providing less services to other countries, and even some of the people living in this country. They need to provide incentives for corporations to limit their overseas operations and provide more opportunities for Americans. I'm also hoping that soon our representatives will have the courage to stop building up China's military power. The communist Chinese government is trying to take control of the world's economy and we seem content to allow that to happen. That will result in a worldwide depression, mass starvation and poverty that we haven't seen in almost a hundred years. 

If you like poverty and an endless world war vote democrat, they will accommodate you. If you want to continue a comfortable and safe lifestyle vote conservative, which will usually be Republican. We have to try to strengthen the GOP if we want to save our country. That's the truth. The far Left Wing is relentless and destructive. The far Right Wing, is just a small bunch of wing nuts that virtually no one listens to. Democrats claim that all Republicans are far Right Wing because they want to regulate abortion and stop mutilating children who have become brainwashed into thinking a person can change their gender if they want to. Republicans claim that not all Democrats are far left (but they are), only a few who want to strip us of all our rights and install a monarchy, which they claim is a small minority. Republican leadership is far too willing to appease democrats, who are willing to appease despots all over the world. Anyone who will take a serious look at what's happening today will see right away that if not all Democrats, the leadership of the democrat party is trying to topple America and set aside the Constitution. Their lemmings follow them out of habit. The democrat coup against America is picking up momentum. 

 

 

DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION!

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion;

Why do democrats always have to make everything so complicated? When I  first heard of DEI my first thought was oh %#$@ what 'feel good' nonsense have they come up with now? When I was in kindergarten we were taught to say things like 'please' and 'thank you'. We were taught that in group activities it was important to 'take your turn'. No pushing, no shoving, respect everyone, treat other people the same way you would want to be treated. Is there anything in that teaching that is exclusionary? Why do democrats always find subtle, and not so subtle, ways to separate us by race, gender, and any other way they can think of? 

What makes one group less deserving of respect than another? Of course we also taught boys to let girls go first, open doors for them, and show them respect in other ways. It didn't occur to me then but democrat teachers must have hated that. We were taught to be courteous and try to build friendly relationships with our fellow students. I have no idea why that wouldn't work today. Except that democrats have finally found a way to permanent divide America; gender identity. There is a large number of Americans who will never accept the idea that a person's gender is a matter of choice. We were not assigned a gender at birth we given a medical examination and that determined if we were a boy or a girl. That's it and a lot of people in this country are understandably offended by the idea that they have to be forced to accept the idea that a person's gender can be changed because it can't. 

Whatever a person thinks they are in reality we are all either female or male. Medical science is very clear about that. A person can think whatever they want, but some things cannot be changed. Some 'scientists' say that science is never 'settled', that there is nothing in science that can be counted on with absolute certainty, but that's really not true. Mountain climbers prove it pretty regularly. If you fall off a cliff and the distance is sufficient you are going to die. Decapitations rarely result in a successful reattachment of the head that results in the decapitated person returning to life. Every search I've conducted has concluded that a person who has had their head separated from their body never can be resuscitated. If you are born a male you will remain a male for the rest of your life. That is what DEI is really about. Actually at least two things are on the DEI agenda; gender can be changed and white people need to be punished for their white privilege. Especially if you are a white male. 

What we need to teach kids in school in addition to being able to read and add and subtract they need to know how to behave in a group setting. Basic manners. Be polite. Treat other people the way you want to be treated. Don't steal (although a lot of democrats probably see this one as a church/state issue), don't hit anyone. It's really not complicated. We can teach kids not to make fun of Danny if he wears a dress to school and has ribbons in his hair, but we cannot teach them to use the pronouns, she or hers, when addressing him because he is not a girl and his parents need to explain that to him. What every traditions they have at home are fine, but they cannot impose those traditions onto other people who don't believe the way they do. If Danny wants to explain why he wants to be called a girl that's ok, but when classmates refuse to go along Danny has to drop it and just accept the idea that he is different. His parents could help with that too, but that is not why we pay teachers. 

Teachers must set the example for kids so they learn how to respect each other and creating conflict will not help accomplish that goal. It would be great if democrats could be honest, but the idea of honesty is lost on them. I've heard way too many of them defend their dishonest positions by claiming that everybody lies about something. That may be true, but it is not something we should be encouraging. We should be holding everyone to the higher standard that says everyone should be honest about their dealings and that lying is something that caused a lack of trust among individuals. A person who lies then tries to defend the lie is not a person to be associated with. Honor is important. 

The core philosophy of DEI teaching is dishonest and teaches kids to be dishonest. There is no way I can ever condone such a philosophy being taught in our schools whether they are public or private. One of the things I've been taught from the day I was born was that honor is to be valued as one of the most important traits a person can cultivate. I was actually raised in a "Death before Dishonor" tradition. For some people that's a little extreme, for democrats it's unthinkable, but honor needs to hold a very high place in our society. Liars should never be celebrated, people of honor should always be respected and sought after. So-called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion teaching should be abolished from all of our elementary school and our public high schools.