Iz u a boy? or Iz u a girl?

Suppose you're a high school teenage boy and you see a cute girl in one of your classes. She's not beautiful, but she's cute enough and she makes really good comments when the teacher asks questions and she interacts well with some other kids so you want to get to know her a little better and you find yourself paying a little more attention trying to figure out if you can become friends or not. She notices you looking at her and she smiles at you so you screw up the courage to talk to her and ask her a couple of questions. 

At first it's all about stuff the teacher has been saying and other things surrounding class assignments then she asks you about what hobbies you have, what kind of movies you like and what books you like to read. One day seemingly out of nowhere she asks if you'd like to watch the track and field event that afternoon after school. You're a little surprised. Kids talk about the football and basketball games and sometimes they mention the school baseball team, or soccer, but track and field? That's unusual. She says she loves to watch the pole vault and high jump competitions the most. You enjoy her company even if track and field isn't something you really care about so yeah, let's hang out together after school and watch track and field. It's kind of fun watching the competitions taking place around the track. Not many people come to watch, but you are surprised to find that you actually do enjoy watching the different events. 

After that you go on a few 'dates' together. She likes the beach so you spend some time watching the waves and people surfing. Standing on the pier one afternoon watching the sunset she takes you by the hand and pretends to be a palm reader and reading your fortune and telling you what you're going to be in life. She's a little crazy, but funny and creative. You are enjoying her company so much that you start going to some movies or to a fast food joint to  get a hamburger and just talk. 

Things are going pretty well for awhile and you even hold hands sometimes when walking or talking together, but she never wants to hold hands at school. Then one day a friend comes up to you, "Hi Jake!," You say as a greeting and then he gives you a  gut punch you never would have expected in a million years, "Dude, are you gay?" Where did that come from? "Dude I am not gay!" 

"Whatever man, people say you've been hanging out and holding hands with Sandy."

"Wait! Sandy's a girl." 

"No dude, Sandy transferred here from another school. Sandy's a BOY! Man you've been holding hands with a boy. Have you kissed him yet...?"

That's it for that kid. He doesn't want to be cruel, but he's not going to ever look at another girl for at least a couple of years. It's about the best way I can think of to destroy a civilization. Teenagers hate to be embarrassed and that scenario is very embarrassing. There have been a few instances where the injured party, the one who was tricked into thinking he was dating a girl, has actually physically attacked the party pretending to be the opposite sex and the pretender was violently assaulted and in a couple of instances they were killed. 

How does encouraging people to change their gender from one to the other help our society? First of all it's not possible. It simply cannot be done. A person can change their appearance not their gender. About 99 percent of the time the day a baby is born it is obvious what gender the baby is. The result is either a boy or a girl. Most of us knew the difference between a boy and a girl by the time we were three years old. Any serious student of human biology knows that no one is assigned a gender at birth. Gender is known long before the day a child is born. Ever hear of a 'Gender Reveal' party? Blue for a boy and pink for a girl? I've never heard of a yellow or a purple balloon at a gender reveal party. 

The only way that is possible is because gender is not a state of mind. There really is a biologic difference. It's how the human race survives. Screwing with that is how societies die. You don't have to believe that we need two genders to survive, but it will always be a fact. Male and male will always equal no future and the same goes for female. Until 1973 homosexuality was considered a mental disorder. Bravo! What else could it be? And was it taken out of the American Psychology Association journals not because of a new scientific discovery? No, it was removed by political pressure. Scientific knowledge regarding basic human biology wa supplanted by basic human lust. And so the slippery slide began. Same sex attraction was very much frowned upon in America before that. So much so that people with that affliction kept it to themselves. It was hard for homosexuals to meet people with their same attraction. People were afraid to approach each other and confess their desire except in places like bars that catered to prostitutes and criminals. 

In a few short years movies began to appear that didn't make homosexuality an acceptable lifestyle, but created characters who were sympathetic. On screen the directors and writers could create situations in which people, usually young people, could  confess their attraction and plead for help in handling the situation. Those situations led to accusations of bigotry against people who couldn't accept homosexual attraction. Eventually, slowly the homosexual community began to gain more acceptance by using emotional appeal. Over the next couple of decades society began to accept the notion that same gender attraction existed and we had to accept it and allow people to 'be who they are'. It took longer for people to accept public displays of affection like holding hands or kissing. Political pressure began to build mostly in the democrat party where people would claim no one can help who they fall in love with and 'who are you to tell people who they can fall in love with?' which really isn't the question they should be asking. The real question is who are they to turn reality into fantasy and confuse children into believing they may have been lied to about who they are? Actual gender confusion is real, mental gender confusion is wrong.   

In a pretty short period of time laws have been passed that allowed men to marry men and the same for women. About the same time laws were passed granting homosexuals the same 'rights' as minority groups and women. Non discrimination laws that prohibited workplace discrimination and guaranteed equal housing rights were extended to people suffering from same gender attraction. Now we've 'progressed' to the terms transgender and transsexual. It gets pretty murky at that level. Over the years homosexual morphed into same gender attraction and the term 'queer' was totally unacceptable. In the ever changing world of homosexuality we used the terms 'lesbian' for women and 'gay' for men. Then transgender, transsexual, and queer became totally acceptable with homosexuals accepting the term and even embracing it. Today they are referred to as LGBTQ and over the years they've added a nearly infinite collection of other combinations of vowels and consonants, but honestly isn't that enough? Lesbian Gay Bisexual (those who are attracted to both) Transgender and Queer. It's a lot to remember and it describes the same community; people who suffer from a mental illness that causes them to be attracted physically and mentally to people who are their same gender, also called same gender attraction. 

Today it is against the law to refuse to hire someone who is obviously a woman pretending to be a man or a man pretending to be a woman (a guy with a beard wearing a dress). Then it got really weird. In some states if a parent refuses to allow their child to undergo what is called 'gender affirming care' they can lose custody of their child in a child custody court case. If a boy in a public school wants to dress like a girl and be called a girl, including using a girl's name, the school is not allowed to notify the parents. Finally we are reaching a point where socially dating, which already has caused significant anxiety among some boys and girls since time began, has become even more scary since it is becoming increasingly difficult to know who's who, in too many cases adolescent boys are skittish about even talking to a 'girl'. 

Dating is becoming less frequent. Boys are staying home and playing video games or meeting at libraries. The goal of destroying America is coming to fruition. As soon as the enemies within can stop men and women from getting married and having kids America will be in a severe decline. It's population is already declining. Birth rates are not keeping up with death rates. Without immigration from foreign countries there won't be enough people to accomplish necessary labor. America needs people to fill positions at all levels. We need scientists and teachers and doctors and nurses and restaurants and people willing to work at every other level and American women are not giving birth at a sufficient rate. The face of America is changing. The language is changing. English is still the most common language, but in many areas English is barely spoken. Just in my area there is a city where all of the signs are in Korean, another where all the signs are in Spanish. A quick internet search revealed a comical observation that lgbtq "same sex couples have children at lower rates..." which shows just how much political power the same sex community has. The truth is that same sex couples don't "have children" at all without the help of the rest of the population. 

When I attended a public elementary school years ago I frequently heard teachers say, "Ok children, time to put on your thinking caps!" when we were either doing, or about to do, something stupid. For the benefit of those of us who were unfortunate enough to have democrat parents they took a few seconds to explain what the metaphor meant and how to make good use of it. My father was a JFK democrat who found something useful in both parties but didn't really like either one. So I say now to the hard core LGBTQ whatever supporters, "Ok children time to put on your thinking caps!" We have to emphasize the absolute fact that there are only two genders and that gender dysphoria occurs rarely but naturally in very few cases. When that occurs medical professionals and parents decide how to proceed. It happens at the time of birth and not when the child is eleven or twelve years old or older. It's important to emphasize that no one can change their gender. The only time gender confusion occurs is when people think they can change their gender then trick someone of their same gender into dating them. That is gender confusion and should be recognized as the crime of fraud. 

The only time the gender confusion promoted by the lgbtq crowd occurs is when a small group of people manages to manipulate other people into believing them by using an emotional appeal such as, "You can't help who you fall in love with!" when you really can. Why isn't confusing children so much that they don't know if they are a boy or a girl not considered child abuse? 

There are things in the universe we can depend on and the fact that all of us are born either male or female is the most important scientific fact there is. If you're confused about that it's because somebody confused you. Don't believe it. If you're a girl celebrate that and all the beauty it entails and if you're a boy celebrate that and all the beauty it entails. A couple of days ago I was at a local resort eating a hot dog and observing people around the pool when a couple of small children walked up to the locked gate a few yards ahead of their father who was a little slower being burdened with towels, toys, chairs and a cooler. The boy was about six years old and the girl was about four. The boy grabbed the bars and began violently shaking the gate and demanding that it open for him. The girl stood close by his side holding her towel and watching him. Pops was catching up saying, "Hold on! I'll be there in a couple of seconds!" We need boys and girls and moms and dads and we need to nurture them help them grow. Nobody made a mistake. There's nothing wrong with you. You are what you are so make the most of who you were meant to be. 

There is a God, listen to Him. He created all of us. If people tell you there is no scientific proof that God exists remind them that we are here and there's more scientific proof that there is a God than there is that God doesn't exist. We are created in His image. Male and female. 

THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY?

If I were the President of the United States and I really wanted to do something stupid, I mean so stupid that it could never be undone no matter how utterly ridiculous it was, I'd invent a huge bureaucracy that was going to mushroom into a colossus that would add billions of dollars to the national debt while at the same time being given a task that was so vague that it would be impossible to measure its effectiveness. During the Sixties I worked for a guy who was a contractor. His specialty was tennis courts, but we did other concrete work as well and if he ever caught me with apparently nothing to do he used to tell me to "Do something even if it is wrong!" I was a teenager at the time and not very knowledgable about the world but even I knew that if I wasn't sure what to do one of the things I definitely should not do is unload a bag of sand into the gas tank of one of the company trucks. 

Enter George Walker Bush the 43rd President of the United States. I voted for him, but mostly because his opponent Arnold Albert Gore Jr. was on a crusade to demolish the American economy so that he and some of his friends could become billionaires by pushing products that don't even exist so he could save planet earth from catastrophically overheating, bursting into flames and killing everyone. He wrote a book called 'Earth in the Balance' after talking to a couple of 'scientists' who provided evidence that if certain things happened the earth could burn itself up in about ten years. The book was widely read but it didn't start the panic that Big Al needed to get his business off the ground. He already had tens of millions of dollars from the tobacco farm he inherited from his father, Arnold Albert Gore Sr. so he didn't really need the money that bad, but the opportunity to become a billionaire beckoned and he wanted it. 

Next he produced a documentary film called 'An Inconvenient Truth'. It was about how the polar ice caps were melting and glaciers all over the world were melting and in about ten years the whole earth would be flooded and everyone was going to drown. The photographs were doctored and the 'science' was questionable at best. It's been about forty years and all of the oceans are pretty much where they've always been. Al was very charismatic and he had been a senator for the state of Tennessee for a long time and had a lot of contacts. 

If I wanted to start a panic across the USA where would be a great place to get it going? You guessed it, public schools. They were taken over by the democrats over a period of about twenty years and they had small brains and big money and Al Gore was ready to pick their pockets. There are about 13,000 school districts in the country and that so-called documentary was shown in about 12,000 of them, all in democrat strongholds. I know I said that democrats controlled the public schools but there are a few who hadn't  been completely dominated at the time. The truth is I have no idea how many schools actually showed the film but it was enough to spread panic in many locations throughout the country. 

It was nonsense and I've never responded well to anyone who tries to get people to panic and that is what I think he was trying to do; start a widespread panic to help him implement strategies and laws that would help him reach that coveted 'billionaire' status. The vote was close and mostly because of that stupid documentary. I'm blown away by the stupidity of the average democrat. Fortunately the outcome was that Gore won the popular vote, but lost the heretofore ignored electoral college. America dodged a poison bullet. The problem was that GW was better but not by very much. He saddled us with a war in the Middle East that lasted about twenty years and a bureaucracy that we didn't need and we would quickly lose control of. 

On the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States was the target of a well planned and well executed terrorist attack. Four commercial air carriers were hijacked and flown into three high visibility targets along the east coast; the World Trade Center towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Both of the tallest towers of the WTC collapsed and damage to the Pentagon was extensive. Almost three thousand people were killed. There was supposed to be a fourth target, but United Airlines flight 93 left Liberty Internal Airport from Newark New Jersey headed for San Francisco and was hijacked over Ohio. The aircraft changed course and was headed for Washington D.C. when the passengers learned via cell phones that there had been three other planes hijacked and each of them had been deliberately crashed into targets in New York and Washington D.C. They knew they were going to be used to commit a terrorist attack and decided to force the large jet to crash before reaching it's assigned target, heroically forcing their way into the cockpit and crashing into a farmers field in Pennsylvania. 

If I had been the directors of the FBI and CIA I would have resigned in disgrace the next day. The fact that they didn't see it coming is inconceivable. President Bush had been in office for about nine months and he was ready to go to war. On October 7 the United States and Great Britain began bombing sites around Afghanistan. The speeches President Bush made were precious. He promised to find out who was responsible and make them pay, which iars what should have happened, but it didn't. Intelligence sources said a guy named Osama Bin Laden was responsible. He was a billionaire from Saudi Arabia who hated the United States and was supposedly hiding in a cave in Afghanistan where he had organized training bases for terrorists. We believed him so let's go over there and get him right? 

If I wanted to totally screw up an operation to find a terrorist who had trained at least four men to hijack and pilot a jumbo jet I would be guided by outdated information on a known terrorist who was operating terrorist training camps in the remote mountains of Afghanistan where there was no access to any aircraft and no place to land one if there were. When this all happened I didn't have any idea that there were training bases in Afghanistan where terrorists received training in how to commit mass murder, but the CIA did. So did the FBI and none of that mattered. So the 'lowly field special agents' in Minnesota thought that it was unusual for Middle Eastern men to want to learn how to steer commercial jets and only wanted to practice joy riding in the sky, but the 'big guys' in D.C. said something like "Nah, you're just a bunch of racist pukes". The agents were 100% convinced that what they were documenting was bizarre enough to take a closer look and wanted a warrant to search his property that was seized when he was arrested for a visa violation. A guy with no flight training at all except for instructions on crop dusting in a manual in his possession and he paid $6800 in cash to learn how to fly Boeing 747's. And upon being introduced to the simulator he wanted to fly around New York Citya. Only an FBI guy with minimal investigative experience would fail to see a potential problem with that and that's how you make it to the top of the FBI or any other law enforcement agency frankly, you go to all the right parties, learn who drinks what, tell the best jokes and after a couple of years your on your way to the top.

It helps if you transfer multiple times too. That's how they know you're loyal to the 'Bureau'. You don't know a damn thing about invetigations, but you've learned a lot about different areas of the country and the rest of the world as well. Along the way you help with investigations enough to get your name on a couple and you interview for all the right jobs; and you never get in trouble. You never stay in one place long enough for anyone to notice anything unusual about you. So that's how a terrorist with a laptop computer containing names and numbers of other terrorists avoids being questioned prior to the worst attack by a foreign enemy since Pearl Harbor. So GW gets some weak intel about possible weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Sadaam Hussein used a poison gas to kill several dozen peoole he doesn't like and we are diverting the nain portion of the army in the area from Afghanistan to Iraq. 

What a great way to prolong a war. By now it's pretty clear that Osama Bin Laden has fled Afghanistan and is hiding somewhere else. May 1, 2011,  Osama Bin Laden was killed in a house in Islamabad Pakistan, That's ten years after the attack on New York City and Washington D.C. That's a long time. I guess it's a good thing too since the war in Iraq effectively ended in 2006 and now the army was in Afghanistan asking, "Who the hell is Osama Bin Laden? We're fighting the Taliban!" Since Osama Bin Laden was the mastermind of the 9/11 attack and several of his homies were already serving prison terms longer than two hundred years and now he's dead the military personnel in Afghanistan can go home right? The fights over. We won. 

Nope. President Bush isn't done yet. He wants regime change in Afghanistan so he has to defeat the Taliban. Nobdyy has ever beaten the Taliban for so many reasons that anyone with any military sense at all will leave them alone. In the 70's and 80's they were our friends. We helped them beat the snot out of the Russians. Then we left Afghanistan. President Bush kept the army there to do the impossible; "We'er 'Mericans, that's what we do. No Taliban gon' tell us what to do!" At least not until August 2021 when another president who was about as smart as GW decided to pull out. It was the most embarrassing moment for the United States since the panicked rout of American soldiers and Vietnamese civilians in 1975 Saigon. It could have been an orderly withdrawal if there had been anyone with any brains in charge, but it was a democrat show and it had to end bloody. Taliban closing in on the airstrips and planes taking off as fast as they could and a suicide bomber killed himself, 13 Marines and about two hundred civilians. The war President George W. Bush started and lost control of twenty years earlier was finally over and we didn't gain a thing. The Taliban won. They didn't defeat our military, they never could have done that. The only body that could accomplish that was the President of the United States working with Congress and a totally inept Pentagon command staff, but at least it was finally over. Unfortunately what should have been an orderly withdrawal turned into a panicked rout. A truly embarrassing moment for our country as the Taliban used a suicide bomber to kill 13 United States Marines and hundreds of innocent civilians. 

Every day they are endangering American citizens at home, here in the 'Homeland' as we call America now. The departments of Immigration and Customs enforcement and the Border Patrol now fall under the Director of the Department of Homeland Security which is actually ridiculous. The Director of Homeland Security has no idea what the training needs of those two departments are and they have been ordered to deport everyone who is in the country illegally which is no small task since people have been invited to come here illegally since at least the administration of GW Bush. In order to deport someone who is in the country illegally you have to first identify them and that involves doing a lot of homework. They can't target people because of their appearance for example. Or if they have an accent. The Border Patrol officers were chasing anyone who looked Hispanic and asking them where they were from and other questions that they had no right to ask. They were doing the same to people with heavy accents. Border Patrol officers were also covering their faces so nobody knew who they were and their uniforms were not uniform. They were wearing blue jeans and other color pants and t-shirts with various product logos emblazoned on the front,  even  their bullet proof vests were all different. Some said 'Police' others said 'Agent', or Border Patrol' (my favorite actually) so they could easily been impersonating law enforcement. There was no way to know. 

I watched the video recordings of the Border Patrol and ICE and it was embarrassing. They would jump out of their unmarked cars and start running toward people. Each in a different uniform, each with their faces covered and each of them carrying an automatic rifle. It was scary even to me. Most of those people came here from countries where even if they were being approached by law enforcement they ran because where they came from the police brutally beat people, robbed them or even killed them so yeah, they ran from our guys too because it was the only sensible thing to do. In a similar situation I probably wouldn't have run away, but I would've been nervous and I was born here and I'm a white guy with blond hair, blue eyes and a California accent. They need to prioritize, prisons first because they are the easiest to locate and many of the inmates who are here illegally are probably about to be granted parole or early release, and others are completing their sentences and need to be deported before they are released. After that you verify legal status at traffic stops and arrests. 

Training is so important to law enforcement because it helps them understand what their job is and it helps them accomplish their mission legally instead of giving them vague instructions, "Go out and arrest as many illegal aliens in a day that you can!" Orders like that require that the people involved be given special training on how to accomplish the mission because it is literally impossible to tell by looking at someone if they're in the country legally or not. The Border Patrol people have been chasing down anyone who isn't white basically. I don't think their racists they just haven't been given proper training. It will take longer to do it right, but doing it right is the only way to accomplish the mission. 

The DHS is grossly inefficient. They are a real danger to our way of life and should be disbanded and their current employees absorbed by the other federal law enforcement agencies if they meet the criteria. Some of them may lose their jobs and have to find a real job and that's ok too. 

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.