Things appear to be breaking down

6/21/26:

Fourteen years ago, this very day, Romney was talking about attacking Iran. He said it on the campaign trail for the office of President of the United States. (See the links below.) How interesting. Trump is acting the way Romney said he would've acted. But Romney opposed Trump when Trump won the Presidency.

How do you figure politics? You probably don't. It isn't about principle. It's most likely about money and power.

As for my own opinion on the matter, I wrote that the time for military action had passed. Not that I wouldn't have welcomed a bloody nose for the mullahs; but that the public is too fickle to support any meaningful action. That's the way I have felt about using the military the whole time. It hasn't changed. During Bush's tenure in the White House, I had this bad feeling about his decision to take out Saddam Hussein. Sure as the sunrise, the left got the public to turn against the President. This kind of thing is what brought in the leftists, like Obama.

So far, Trump has kept it short. There are those who'd like to make it last longer. The longer it lasts, the longer the lefties have to propagandize the public about it. If that happens, history will repeat.

Jun 21, 2012: The original post follows:

Opinion

There's a pattern I try to discern amongst my web visitations, and then I blog about it here. The article that got me thinking along the lines of disintegration is this one from Instapundit.  If you follow the links and think about it, the entire World Wide Web as we know it could be at risk.

In its turn, the World Wide Web, or internet, has been quite destructive to the old bricks and mortar way. Now the web itself could be in danger. The web relies upon free content. If the advertisers can't monetize visitations, there can be no business basis. If there's no basis for business, the economics cannot be supported.

That would be quite a pickle, since the web itself has been so destructive. What replaces the web if it goes under? There's nothing left.

I think this could be a metaphor for the entire society. Everywhere you look, it seems, there's this disintegration.

The business about Holder and executive privilege is another example. It's all about the rule of law, but this government is acting more and more alienated to that regime, and a new vicious one could be replacing it. That regime would be called the rule of men. The same accusation that brought down the Nixon administration.

The difference then was an infrastructure that could support the rule of law. What happens if that has disappeared, or is no longer possible for some reason? Like the rest of society breaking down, for instance? The economic basis for a civilized society is losing its foundation. The Federal Reserve prints money to support an economy that produces little, but a lot debt. But how does the debt get paid back? It doesn't, that's the whole point.

Not everything that supports a civilization is reliant upon the use of force.  You have to have a morality that governs individual behavior.  If that breaks down too, the result must be chaos.  The only way to restore order is to use an extraordinary amount of force.  That brings you back to the rule of men as opposed to the rule of law.

People have also lost their sense of reality.  If you can't discern the truth, and won't listen to reason, what can anchor you?  Yet that is the way people tend to be acting.  It is madness.  It is the very definition of madness.

Something has to bring us back to center.  First principles should be recognized-- the rule of law must be one of those.  Also, there's no such thing as a free lunch.  Debts must be paid.  Income must be earned to pay those debts.

Hopefully the way will be found before things get so lost that getting back may be impossible.

Update:

The madness isn't entirely coming from the left. I saw something on the net that said Romney may attack Iran if he becomes president.

That's even more nuts than what Obama is doing. The opportunity for military action of this type has passed.

What's with FedEx?

FedEx keeps screwing up their deliveries here. There's a box out on the lawn that isn't the correct address. What's more, a delivery TO this address was misdelivered on the same day.

It has nothing to do with me. I didn't order anything. It was Wishbone's stuff.

It could be a switcheroo mistake. Maybe the person who got Wishbone's stuff was expecting what was delivered over here.

Wishbone calls FedEx or whoever used FedEx. Evidently this has happened a few times previously. In other words, it is the same kind of problem over and over again.

So I write this with the question. Has anybody had trouble with FedEx lately? The post office does better than these guys. Sheesh.

Tom Hanks' character (Chuck Noland) in the movie Castaway worked for FedEx. Evidently, that was a different time. This scene shows the pride in a job well done. Whatever happened to that??????????????????????????

The high cost of living didn't begin with Trump

Dinesh D'Souza notes the loss of buying power of the US dollar after all these years of Big Government spending sprees.

I can certainly relate to what he writes. You could fill up the tank of your VW beetle and drive a couple of hundred miles with just a couple bucks.

Gas was about 20 cents a gallon during the sixties.

Big Government won't make you rich. More likely it will likely make you poor, and the same for just about everybody else. Democrats love Big Government. It is their God. They worship at the altar of governmental power. That's not what the Founders intended.





Truth Social's embeds don't always work. Not clear to me why, and under what conditions that it doesn't. In such a case, here's a link to the embedded post on Truth.

Trump and John Wayne

6/20/26:

Trump could star in his own Western. It could be a re-make of True Grit.

Could you imagine Trump in Hollywood??? lol





Jul 25, 2015 : The original post is immediately below:

May have something in common.

All the experts hated them.  But the public liked them.  Let's see if the experts are right that Trump can't win.

We've had a lot told to us by the experts, but not all of the time is it right.

P.S. Paraphrasing the Duke here: "Everybody hates my movies, except the public."

AGW headache # 122

There's so many of these AGW discussions that I've lost track of the count. AGW is bunk. Debunking the bunk is the headache. But we'll power through the nonsense once again.

The idea for this post came from perusing the weather forecasts. Imagine that! Well, I have this land out in West Texas, and I wanted to check the weather out there. That's when I noticed something.

It was the spread between the forecasted high and low temperatures. Out in the desert, the spread is typically pretty high. Maybe 30 degrees Farenheit.

Since I domiciled in H-town for so many years, this seemed like a lot. Even more to the point, the spread on Galveston Island was typically much smaller.

Is this the typical thing? Yes, I do believe so. I checked many weather forecasts around the nation. It does indeed appear to be the case.

What causes this?

It is most likely the influence of the ocean. Water absorbs energy. The land reflects it back into the atmosphere. Hence, temperatures rise fast during the day, and fall fast into the night where the ocean's influence is the least.

Of course this is true. I noted this when I was a kid. I loved to go swimming when I was a kid. The water felt cold in the morning, but was warm well after sundown in the evening. It was like swimming in soup in the early evening. It takes most of the night for the water to lose its heat.

The significance of this observation:

Water has much more influence over the temperature cycles than carbon dioxide. Where there is much water, there is much more stable temperatures. Where there's absence of water there are wide fluctuations.

In other words, it is the water, not the carbon dioxide. AGW theory posits the contrary. Obviously, AGW theory is bunk.

Crowd at soccer match sings along with Bob Denver song

No soccer fan here. But it is remarkable to me that so many people sang along with the Bob Denver song about West Virgina.

But it was in West Virgina, so maybe that explains it.

It's from that big event going on right now that doesn't interest me much. But this sing-along did.

Country Roads after a World Cup victory has to be a top tier feeling in life

USA 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/1B5MC4hXrg

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) June 19, 2026

Cain's Convincing Fla. Straw Poll Win

6/19/26:

Limbaugh and Cain are no longer with us. The Grim Reaper must always be paid.

Don't fear the Reaper... gotta keep a step ahead.

Sep 25, 2011:

Refutes Press Meme That GOP Nomination Is a Two-Person Race

Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll tonight, winning the votes of 37% of those who participated. No other candidate came within 20 points of Cain 

Cain seems to do a good job expressing himself, as Perry seems to stumble at times.


Here's Limbaugh on Cain: