Iran US MOU

8 AM:

There's a lot of loose talk about what's in the agreement.

Too much talking, and not enough specifics. Nobody really knows what's going on until the official document is released. It hasn't been, and as for the rest of the talk, it may as well be bravo sierra. This includes Trump. But Trump decides what he's going to do next, or so he says.

It is clear that somebody is lying. If Trump is guilty of this, it's going to be very damaging to him, and I'd be very, very surprised if he thought he could get away with it, if such were the case. But it is all speculation until the actual agreement is produced. Let Trump's critics and the Iranian flap their gums all they want. They won't get to crow unless Iran is definitely coming out of this better off than before, and it is in writing, as they claim. So far, it is nothing but talk.

Not convinced that it's Trump lying. Heck, it may be both. Yet there is virtually no reason whatever for Trump to lie about the terms of the MOU. If he agreed to anything that rewards Iranian aggression, it would be very disappointing and disturbing.

Update 8 PM: :

The MOU has been signed. The agreement has still not be published. Senators say that they want to look over the deal. There's a lot of room for mischief here.

It looks political. Trump buys time for the midterms. Prices will be lower at the pump. Indeed, 2027 is projected to have gluts. Near term however, supplies will be tight.

If Iran reneges on the deal, Trump has cause to punish them. Of course there will be protests from the usual suspects.

Democrats are dying to do another Vietnam and Afghanistan. They would love to blame Trump for their own treachery. You can add the part of the GOP that opposes Trump to that company.

Anyway, the deal is shaky. It may not hold up.

Did Trump lie? If he did, it is not clear yet that he did. Even if he did, he is no worse than the Democrats. But if he really did, then it will hurt. You can be sure that the commies will do everthing they can to inflict the most damage that they can.

Senator John Cornyn Publicly Says He's Blackmailing President Trump to Gain Access to Trump Family Tax Records

The Conservative Treehouse

Summary:

This basic idea discussed: It's a uniparty. No real difference between the two parties. Two wings of the same bird, says Sundance.

Comment:

Sigh... Back to the right v left Marxist paradigm. As D'Souza said: the only difference between commies and Nazis is that the Nazis are nationalistic and the commies are internationalists. That's it. Otherwise they are for all intents and purposes, the same damned thing. This is why Cornball had to go. The only way to get them out is to keep voting them out every single time that you can.

Most recent LP Fusion Report

6/16/26:

It may be wise to keep up with what they're doing here at the lab. If there's an experiment that succeeds in getting net energy, that would be massive news.

Nothing like that has happened yet, to my knowledge with respect to this company. Disclosre: I own a share of their stock. Yeah, I know. Embarrassing to disclose that all I can afford is one share. It may have split into two shares by this time. Hey, it's growth! What can I say?

6/11/26:

It seems that the folks over there believe that they are close to proof of concept. Plus, they want to get government funding in order to build their machines.

Their chief scientist is no Elon Musk. He doesn't have the genius for the business end.

Shucks, if it works, one would think the world would beat a pathway to his door. The world is a cold, cruel place. It may not work that way, after all. It may not work (the business end) in any case. We'll see.

Note: the embedded page below is of my own page. Scroll down to see the report embedded into my page. An embed to an embed. What a concept!

Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Repeats a Warning Message - 5 Eyes Countries Focused on Totalitarian Control

Conservative Treehouse (CTH)

Summary:

Short post introducing the speaker in the video, which is embedded in the page.

Usually, I vet these videos, but I am allowing Sundance at CTH to do that. He recommends it,and I watched a little. I've heard of this guy, but I am not that familiar with him.

As for me, I am a bit pressed for time today. So I am not going to do anything that will cause me to have to roll up my sleeves and dig down deep into the muck, as a figure of speech.

Legal Insurrection: "Pratt concedes"

...but he isn't going away.

Summary: A brief history of the vote "counting" and a few quotes from Pratt about his intentions going forward.

Comment:

Does anyone remember Sarah Palin? She seemed to be good, but she faded fast. The problem with Palin is that she left the impression that they got to her, and that made her look weak. Weakness doesn't work in politics. She basically ruined her chances for the future when she did that---which was to resign her governor's office after the Democrats' continual efforts to destroy her.

There could be a list made of failed politicians on the GOP side who have followed a similar pattern. If Pratt has any future plans, he'd better follow up on his intentions. He also will need to be "for real", and be able to pull it off. That's because the left will go after him for being a threat to them.

Bank runs and stock sell offs -- both can be generated by irrational fear

Who most likely resembles the villain named Potter, and the hero named Bailey, in this movie? The left probably regards themselves as the George Bailey types, with the GOP as the Potter type. Is that not what the Dems always want you to believe?

The bank run scene in this movie illustrates what can happen when everybody tries to get their money at the same time. It breaks a bank. This is true FOR ANY BANK, no matter how well it is run. The fact of the matter is that only a small fraction of the depositor's money is kept at the bank at any one time. When everybody goes to get their money, the bank cannot pay. It is assumed that the bank has gone insolvent, but that is not necessarily so.

All it takes is some manipulative a-hole who plants a rumor of insolvency, and people panic, and this kind of scene results.

But why mention this? Because the stock market is the same way as the banks in this sense. If everybody tries to sell a stock at the same time, the market price will zoom downward in a death spiral.

Elon Musk can never see his money stacked up as a trillion dollars. The wealth is paper wealth.

But the left is stirring up hatred of Musk for being a "trillionaire". They are acting like Potter. Stirring up resentments over Musk's alleged misdeeds, and then trying to cause a stock selloff so that they can ruin him.

The modern left is more like Potter than Bailey. They are the bad guys. But what about the Republicans? They are gutless. That's the GOP's problem. They have no guts.

If the GOP would grow a spine, the left couldn't do as much damage as it does. If the GOP aren't cowards, then they're STUPID. Either way, they'd better get the sheet together main, or the left will wipe them out.

The question for the average guy is what can you do?

Think for yourselves, and you're halfway there.

But it is a vain hope. People will go to any length in order not to think for themselves. If they did that, they couldn't be so easily manipulated. It isn't just bank runs and stock sell offs. It could be for a myriad of situations where fear can be weaponized into self destructive panics. COVID madness is another example.

I can show this, and reason it out for you, but will you still not get it? Wealth taxes, punitive attitudes toward success will not better anyone's life. Quite likely the opposite.

Another example of the maxim : "Never underestimate the power of stupid."

All of these are Republicans. Do they have any idea of what they are doing?

Marxist-Islamist group that Obama rehabilitated in 2012.



Do any of those people realize what that means? Good God.

🚨 THREAD: What do Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and Elaine Chao have in common? They were all paid by a Marxist-Islamist Iran group that was designated as terrorist until 2012.

No, this is not a joke.

Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) was founded by leftist Islamists to oppose… pic.twitter.com/oX7DpDksUp

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 15, 2026

President Trump Announces Iran Deal is Complete - Strait of Hormuz Open for Transit

The Conservative Treehouse

The amount of anti-American spin out there is off the charts.

CTH is Trump friendly, which actually means is that you get some resemblance to the truth at that blog. But not necessarily in the comment section.

I'm going to post more about this in the next few days.

I have followed Epic Fury, the ceasefire, and the rest fairly regularly. Trump has had to dodge a lot of crap as usual, and may have delivered a HUGE victory. But it will be spun otherwise. Unless there's something in the details that is particularly bad, it is a big win. The Devil is in the Details.

All you have to do is open you eyes and see

 

Found on Revolver, and part of the post is embedded below. It confirms IN THE NEWS, that the left is just a bunch of commies. Not that anybody is actually paying attention to that.

Within the last 48 hours, we've seen:

1. A synagogue in Toronto vandalized

2. A synagogue in Montreal firebombed

3. Swastikas drawn on a Jewish family's driveway in Ottawa

4. Threats to attack Jews at the Walk with Israel event in Toronto today

This is our new normal.

— Casey Babb (@DrCaseyBabb) June 7, 2026

Ground News says that this is a "red" blindspot

6/14/26:

After watching D'Souza's 2018 movie, this does change the calculations a bit. If the left recognized the Nazis as an ideology of the left-- then the left is basically lying. They changed their tune for some reason, and started to say it was of an ideology of the right. But it never was, for the reasons I've always said. There's very little difference between Communism and Fascism. If the antifa types are fighting anybody, they're really fighting themselves!

To the extent that almost everybody believes the false premises of the the left's rewritten history of their one-time infatuation with Fascism, they are being duped. But not moi. Not that it matters. Most folks will continue being duped.

The opposite of communism is not fascism, but the American Way!

Mar 31, 2025

 

This is not written to dispute it, although I've written many times that the Marxist model is not one you should use if you are a sincere conservative. However, not everyone on the "right" is blind to the significance of this election. You may notice that the political left is definitely not blind to it.

Interpret this how you will. My interpretation is that we are poised on the knife's edge. The difference maker here could be how much people actually care about the truth, and are willing to do something about it.

NOTE:The Ground News embed is stricken because it is no longer allowed. It was at one time, but no more.

GONE! But that MAY be Google. Yep. Sometimes Google will do that. Screw it. I'll let it be stricken.

Mae West

A dude will like her when she's bad, but he'd be a fool to marry her.

Why did I have to ruin a perfectly nice day?

6/13/26:

Ah! This one was on New Year's Eve back in 2015... I don't remember what I was doing back then. I think I wasn't working at deliveries anymore by that time.

Lots of irony ( or sarcasm ) here.

But make no mistake. The modern left is bad news. Very bad news.

Dec 31, 2015:

I did once I started writing about liberals.  Yep, that'll ruin your day in a hurry.  I'm being a bit facetious here.  I'm not bothered by it, but I'm sure some of the snowflakes that might be lurking about may be a bit discomfited by it.

Now that those of you who are liberals are forewarned, you can now retreat to your safe zones.  That way, you don't have to be bothered by the knuckle dragging, mouth breathing Neanderthal with whom you cannot be bothered to have a debate.  That's because you, being that special, special snowflake that you are, are so much better.  Of course you are.

The thing I wanted to write about is a word.  It is called "catechism".  As I noted in the last post, liberals have to believe certain things in order to be a liberal.  And Christians too.  Not necessarily the same things, though.  In fact, if you are a liberal, most likely you aren't a Christian.  That's because if you still are a Christian and a liberal, something's dreadfully wrong.  The two just don't go together.  That's because the catechisms don't match up.

Actually, I don't know what the catechism is with Christians, and I'm not so sure about liberalism either.  I have to infer from what I can observe.  I won't do it with Christianity, because I'm not trying to bury Christianity, nor to praise it.  Can't say the same thing about liberals though.

From the film Brave New World, I observed that the fictional place had the catechism of Community, Identity, and Stability.  A catechism, is---" a series of fixed questions, answers, or precepts used for instruction in other situations".  I would link to that definition, but that includes other info that I would just as soon not include.  I'm most interested in the precepts.  Maybe I'll just refer to them as premises instead.  My Neanderthal brain can't handle those fancy words.

This gives a working basis that may help in identifying just exactly what a liberal is.  Tough job, but somebody's gotta do it.  Can you reduce liberalism to just three words?  I don't know, but I know one word that applies to them.  What is that?  Equality.  Boy, do liberals believe in that.  They believe in it as long as it doesn't apply to themselves, of course.  That's because they are just so special little snowflakes, yes they are.

Ah, another pops up in my brain.  It is untruth.  No, not truth, but untruth.  If the liberals find anything that is true, it is like holy water to the Devil.  The run from it as fast as they can.  That's how they can embrace something like post modernism, which denies that there is any such thing as truth.  For the liberal to see truth would be a miracle that would rival the Resurrection itself.  For the liberal to see truth, they'd have to be born all over again.  What a concept!

Finally, the last word is peace.  The liberals love that word, but they sure don't know how to find it.  Sort of like truth.  Only they really want peace.  Oh, they do, they do, they do.  But as sure as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, the liberals will never find it.  That because of the second part of the catechism, which is about untruth.  You can't find peace without truth, and the liberals just can't see truth for what it really is.  That is why they are liberals.

You can always hope that liberals will see the light, but don't bet the farm on it.

Dinesh D'Souza -- Death of a Nation

This was a movie made several years ago, maybe in 2018. The point being that I know that it isn't new, but it IS new to me.

There's some new information ( once again to me ) presented. Perhaps it may be considered new to others as well.

It's been written many times here that there's no big difference between communists and fascists. So that isn't new to me. The historical view shows that this is actually quite true. Fascism was well-known to be a creature of the left during the time of Mussolini and Hitler. How many folks knew that? I didn't. Just goes to show ya, I guess.

If I, being one who follows politics a lot; didn't know that, then it stands to reason that many folks out there don't know that.

But I suppose these same folks wouldn't care, or wouldn't bother finding out for themselves if this is true.

Indeed, you cannot convince a man who will not be convinced. You CAN convince a man who is mostly convinced anyway.

I write that because it seems to be a rather powerful movie that should have moved the needle, but really didn't. Why do you suppose that is?

Here's a trailer for the film. It is on Tubi. I just watched it for the first time today. Highly recommended.

Starship 12 failure analysis

6/12/26:

Not claiming to be a steely-eyed rocket man here. However, I can always give my two-cents as to what happened that caused the failure of the booster to perform as intended on flight 12.

In my opinion, the whole problem boils down to timing. The rocket engines in the second stage have to light up just at the right time. These same rocket engines have to be gimbaled so that the engines are pointed at exactly the right angle at the same time. These same rocket engines have to hit the top of the booster at exactly the right place. All of this is a complicated maneuver that depends upon exactly correct timing. If anything happens at the wrong time or wrong place, the whole process will fail. I think that is exactly what happened.

It's not an engine problem, in other words.

It is probably easily corrected, in other words. We should see flight 13 within a few weeks.

Jun 10, 2026:

This video is from Alpha Tech. (Update: WTF??? How did WAI get in embedded in there?? Was that a mistake?! Something odd here...) It is probably a bit too long, or I'm too impatient. Take your pick!

In my opinion (which nobody asked for), I think it is obvious even to a non-steely-eyed rocket man that it couldn't have been SpaceX's intent to have its Starship's plume hit the grid fin of the booster! Therefore, the booster was out of its expected position.

If the booster is out of position, then obviously something went wrong with the hot staging. Everything else follows from this important fact.

You don't need a twenty plus minute video to explain that.

I don't want to be too critical ( even though I am anyway ), it is mostly an informative video.

SpaceX IPO

Starts at $150, and trading higher.

Already a $ 2 Trillion market cap. Not much OPPO there, if you ax me.

You didn't ax me? Well, bless my soul.

Buy low and sell high. This is a bit rich, even if SPCX may be siting on the most fabulous wealth creator in the history wealth creation.

Could it ever rise 100 fold? If it did, imagine what valuation that would be. Insane. It is already insane. They haven't proven the system yet.

Two-tier Keir

The things they do to be beautiful. /sarc

For those who love to hate "X", and other "icky" folks:

We’re at the stage now where beheadings are regrettable, but tweets are unforgivable.

— Dr Philip Kiszely (@KiszelyPhilip) June 11, 2026

Bongino Show, 6/10/26

Jipped in progress at about the 32 minute mark.

AI has to save Sosh Scurity? For the record, AI doesn't HAVE to be a bad thing, but I think it most likely will be. Just like nuclear power didn't HAVE to be a bad thing, but was turned into that.

Anyway, Elon Musk has a plan. You know what? The guy with the plans (Musk) may be the one who can get it all done, but the left wants to destroy him because he bought Twitter, and said some critical things about their itty-bitty selves.

Well boo-friggin'-hoo that their itty-bitty feewings got hurt. Is Musk a savior? Nope. He puts his pants on one leg at a time like us all. But he is doing things. All I see out the lunatic left is destruction. We have a problem with Sosh Scurity cuz of what the left did with population through abortion and homosexuality---as well as other dumb stuff that they do or don't do.

A few words about Gold

6/10/26:

A golden oldie! Quite literally, in fact...

Yours truly made lots of money off gold rush of yesteryears, not that that matters anymore. If you think of it as a loss in buying power, then selling your gold for profit really isn't profit. No way I could've held what I had because of you know what.

Nevertheless, nearly $5k for one ounce of gold seemed rather pricey. It may have topped out for now. A pullback seems to be in progress. How long will that last? I have no crystal ball. Don't follow the markets anymore anyhow.

Update later the same day:





Apr 5, 2011:

I write about this from time to time, and I guess it is a good time to do it again.  I was reading an essay on Kitco, by the Aden sisters , and I saw this chart

Let me point out a few things here.  Look at where the trend begins, just after Bush was inaugurated.  To be even more accurate, it began when the previous top was exceeded, and when the previous low was higher.  The higher low was just after the inauguration in 2001; when the higher high took place was early in 2003.  It so happens that Fed policy became very accomodative at that exact moment in time.  Just a coincidence?  I think not.

What I get out of this is that the 911 event has put a strain on our finances and that the Fed and the government is financing it by inflationary policies.   The war in Iraq began in March 2003.  By that time, gold was not in a big uptrend yet.   It broke above 500 in 2006.  Guess what happened that year?  The Democrats came into power in Congress.  Actually, they won the election and took power the next year.  The war in Iraq had been dragging on and the government was losing control.  By the time 2008 was rolling around, the price of gold was clearly reaching historical heights.

Democrats couldn't force us out of Iraq, and were favorably inclined to spend more.  No control over spending, neither for domestic spending nor for the war spending.

Recession occurred and the only response that the government had was to increase its spending even more.  But that's what got us into this mess in the first place.  Turning to bigger government is like drinking from the same well that is making us sick.  Time to stop drinking from that well before they poison us all with national bankruptcy.

Blogging burnout?

6/10/26:

Another moldy-oldy to respond to... Well, sure seemed like a low-point back in 2014 as far as the good 'ol USA was concerned.

Trump came along and there was some hope. He's still around, and the left is more insane than ever. Well, look at it this way. If the left ain't going nutso, we must be doing something wrong...

Sep 24, 2014:

At the moment, I can't get really excited about anything.  If I am not excited, I am not motivated.  If I am not motivated, I probably won't write anything.

Update:  That last sentence reminded me of the Austin Power's movie.  But people won't die if I don't write.  Or maybe they won't.  Bwah hah hah!


Take the Climate March for instance.  It is hard for me to believe that this is a serious thing.  People there do not practice what they are preaching.  If they were, they'd give up all their possessions and move out to a homestead in the country.  Will Al Gore and the rest of these celebrities give up their rich lifestyles?  Doubtful.

That they are serious about something, there's little doubt.  These people want something.  But to do anything about "climate change", no they aren't serious.  This isn't about the climate, I suspect.

"War on Women"?  Not serious, folks.  Why would any society make a war on its women?  To commit suicide, perhaps?  If there's a real war on women, it is from the people claiming to be against the war on women.  For to wage a war on women is to kill off a society, and that is what these people are doing in the name of protecting women.  The reality is that they are destroying the futures of young women.

As for the GOP, who can they not succeed in running against insanity like this?  It should be as easy as taking candy from a baby, but these guys are flummoxed.  Well, they are supposedly flummoxed.

Limbaugh tried to explain why the GOP can't do anything.  It struck me as excuse making.

Incidently, there's supposedly some plot to destroy Limbaugh.  If only.  Limbaugh isn't a big help these days.  Conservatism can probably live without him.  He is a non-entity as far as I can tell.  He's the best thing the libs have going for them.

Conservatives had better find themselves some real leadership.

Dick Morris talked about how Obama wants to change America.  Well, duh.  That's so obvious.  What isn't obvious is why isn't anything being done about it?  A horrible thought then occurred to me.  Morris is just another mercenary making money off the misery of the land.  There's nothing serious about the man just as there is nothing serious about the people in this land.  Conservatism?  What conservatism!  Nothing is being done and nothing will be done because nobody intends to do anything at all.

All this and the Climate March marches on.  The left is winning by default.  Hard to get excited about a bunch of people who stand by and do nothing while their country is being stolen from them.

Announcement: Medical issues

6/9/26:

It is interesting to go back and read a post like this from the past... This was the first manifestation of symptoms of which would later be diagosed as cancer. The tests came short of what would have been necessary in order to discover it at that time. The test? An MRI was necessary. X-rays were simply inadequate. The X-rays did discover something unusual about my tailbone. I was asked if I had broken it at one time. To my knowledge, I had not.

The nature of chordomas is that they grow slowly and do not go metastatic like many other cancers. For that reason, it went undiagonosed for nearly five years! How would've things gone if I had gotten an MRI? Hard to say, but I thought about that. Five years earlier would've have meant no ObamaCare. It would've likely meant that surgery would've been prescribed, and from what I've heard, a wheelchair in my future.

The cancer grew bigger and more dangerous all the time. Yet things worked in my favor. I have pondered over that many times.

Sometimes there are no answers for why things happen the way they do.

May 4, 2012:

I've been dealing with a medical problem for the last few days that has kept me from my job.  It now appears that it may do more than that.  I thought it was manageable, but evidently it is not.  There is a likelihood of a lot of tests to determine what the problem is, and depending upon that, a possible hospital stay of an uncertain duration.

So this is a bit of a notification that there will be light posting until the situation plays out.

With respect to all my writing about political matters, and Obamacare, no matter what happens, I am content with my decisions.  I never expected a handout from anyone and have always did my best to give value for value.  I have lived my life in accordance with that.  I would have liked to have done better, but that may not have been in the cards.

I don't want to sound morbid here, but my condition may be serious.  If I am fortunate and it is not all that serious, I will be back soon.

One further thing.  I feel my latest work has been my best.  The bit about Seinfeld really does describe what is happening and it has a medical ( psychological) side to it, in Dr. Sanity's opinion ( and obviously I agree).  Frankly, I think the entire country and world is sick in spirit.  There needs to be a renewal.  But like my own situation, until one recognizes a problem, one can't begin to deal with it.  Hopefully a problem will be recognized and dealt with in time before it becomes too late to deal with it.

Breitbart died and some people seem to find satisfaction in it.  That is what I mean by a spiritual sickness.  By the way, I don't compare myself to Breitbart, but I have something in common with him.  Hopefully, I haven't made the same mistake he did.

Update:

I went to the doctor and at the moment, things do not appear to be as bad as I may have feared.  It appears though that the situation has still not completely resolved, as to cause and so forth, so more visits are likely in the near future.  I thought I might be in a hospital tonight, you see.

Blogging should resume on a light schedule over the weekend.

Understanding the PetroDollar

6/9/26:

There's a lot of fearmongering of inflation. If there's inflation, it isn't because of oil prices. The inflation bogeyman won't show up as badly as they say, or maybe not at all.

The stats are showing that prices are not increasing at that rate---yet. Some more stats are due soon. If it shows higher inflation, I'll call it out as bull hockey, anyway. "Lies, damned lies, and statistics".

4/13/26:

The thought about high oil prices and inflation does not jibe with Milton Friedman's theories about money. That is, it doesn't until you consider the petrodollar. Then it starts to make more sense.

That means the current high prices for oil won't cause inflation. It will cause the reverse. Less money means high "interest" rates. The price of oil works like interest rates. If interest rates are high, economic output drops. That means recession.

The statistics show a higher rate of inflation, but not all of the stats showed that. If you count "core" inflation, the prices didn't go up. That means aside from oil prices, the inflation rate did not go up. Eventually, the rest of the price structure will fall even while oil prices stay relatively high.

That would be true if oil is acting like a currency. Check back later to see if that is true.

Bongino show, 6/8/26

Trump's not exactly being subtle here. (that's an understatement meant as a joke)





Update:

Lots of inside baseball here. Found out the bit on the Welker interview that was so contentious. Read the comments on Free Republic here, specifically regarding the breakdown of some issues regarding Weaponization of Government at Powerline. Typical for the RINOS: undercutting any real opposition to Democrats' corruption and shennanigans.

A tendency for self-deprecation

Maybe I've had this trait forever. Or maybe it was something I developed over my life as a type of wisdom obtained from the school of hard knocks.

Sometimes it goes too far.

I call myself a Keyboard Warrior. True enough, but I have done some stuff before. So maybe that is giving the impression that I will do nothing but talk or write.

"Doing Nothing" ain't me. If that impression is given from my self-deprecations, then it is the wrong impression.

I DO believe in taking action. Action is called for right now. Blaming things on my age is not a thing I want to do. But reality is reality.

Action is needed now. The question is who, how, and when?

I suspect that there won't be any action, and people will dismiss me as well. But they've already been doing that anyway.

Even Keyboard Warrioring is more than most people do. The fact is people don't want to do anything. Not even the simplest things. Even the most "safe" things.

Unless I am wrong, we have swerved into a time in which taking the easy way out ain't an option.

Two options are available. 1) fight back or 2) surrender. I think that unless I am reading people all wrong, that the second option will be taken.

I am writing this in connection with the stolen election in California. It's not like this was unexpected. People expected the election of 2020 to be stolen. This was well in advance of the election. True to expectations, that's exactly what happened.

But nothing was done to stop it. Therefore, why wouldn't it happen again and again when there's nobody willing to put a stop to it?

So keyboarding is about all I can do right now. Not that I haven't already done more than almost everybody else does.

I won't self-deprecate THAT.

Know the law, know your rights

If we're headed for real trouble, and we just might be, the knowledge of the law can be of vital importance. Hence this video should be studied and understood.

A little reality here

The corruption in California is blatant. It should make any decent person angry. A call to action may seem to be equivalent for a call to violence. But make no mistake. It is not the time for that.

Is it ever a time for violence? Yes. There's no doubt that there are times when violence may be the only response available.

But for me? No. I am in no condition for a physical fight. If I am unwilling or unable to fight, perhaps I shouldn't suggest fighting.

I cannot shoulder a weapon and march. Simply not possible. I can fire a gun. That much I can do. Anything physical. No.

Wars are for the young and able-bodied. We may be on the cusp of a war, or a surrender. Take your pick. This corruption is so blatant that it should be considered intolerable. But what can you do about it? What WOULD you do about it? What are you prepared to do about it? If history is any guide, there may be words and that's about it.

Words has gotten us nowhere. Just sayin'.

All I can do is defend my space. But that has always been the case. But that is easily defeated.

The Chicago Way

6/8/26:

We're swerving straight into the Chicago Way RIGHT NOW. What are you prepared to do?

Better do something about the blatant fraud taking place NOW. Failure theater won't cut it. We need RESULTS. NOW.

The reason I'm putting this up (9/9/24) was a couple lines there at the end.

1) God hates a coward, and

2) Do you know what a blood oath is? Because you just took one.

Another reason is that I don't know if anybody in this country is prepared for what may be coming down the pike, and very soon now. Playing it safe may not be an option.









Post script:

The Biden Administration sure acts like they are helpless in doing anything more than what they are doing in terms of preventing these assassination attempts. As Bongino noted, there's practically no accountability here, and now they are taking victory laps like they did something good, when the truth is that they didn't do a good job.

This is the kind of thing we are facing. An institutional Chicago Way, in which they are willing to DO and SAY ANY DAMNDED THING. Now they want to punish people and JAIL them for merely expressing an adverse opinion to their interests. Well, all good men should answer the call, because our country is at risk from something like that. Playing it safe may not be an option.

Laying that guilt trip on thick

6/8/26:

A thought: Guilt-tripping is suicidal empathy?  Update:   Probably not.  Continue:Most folks know about white guilt. It was spoken of during the Obama campaign in 2008. "White folks are so bad that they cannot be allowed to exist"--I've seen something like that on the web.

I can figure non-whites getting into that kind of hate-mode. But why would white people do it, or allow themselves to be brainwashed into it?

Maybe because they think it makes them good people. They're not good. They're stupid.

Never underestimate the power of stupid.

Ah, yes! Never say never unless it is a rule.



Updated on 4/28/23; Originally posted on Dec 14th, 2010

There is a girl from Germany who posts on YouTube. She talked about Adolf Hitler and World War II. When she got to the history of the event, she said something that reminded me of all the guilt tripping that has been laid upon the West. This is communist inspired, I suspect.

As usual, the left doesn't care about the Holocaust. They just want to use it as a political device that can gain them more power. Once you recognize this tactic, you may be able to start counter-acting it. Without any counter, you are totally defenseless against it.

There was a video posted here about how Hitler overthrew the Weimar Republic. The same kind of tactics are being employed today, which is quite an irony. The left wants to impose guilt so that they can get you to disarm yourselves, and become completely subjugated to their will. Hitler disarmed all Germans, it should be noted. Hitler had his Brownshirts. Hitler used his Brownshirts to quell opposition. At the end of the Weimar Republic, Hitler's Nazi Party was declared as the only legal party in Germany. As a coup de grace, Hitler had all allegiance sworn to him PERSONALLY.

Hitler's Brownshirts were led by a notorious homosexual, Ernst Roehm. When Roehm was no longer useful to him, he had Roehm liquidated. A Christian would not have done that. The commies have the homosexuals believing that Hitler was a Christian, and that Christians would have all homosexuals sent to the concentration camps and gassed. All fascists must be Christians, so all Christians are super guilty because they caused Hitler to come to power. Or so it goes.

Germany was put through a huge, huge guilt trip. That has spread all over the West. We are constantly reminded of the past, and how the West colonized the world. The West was responsible for slavery and degradation of the environment. You get the picture. All of this inspires GUILT. Guilt must be expiated somehow. What better way for an enemy to destroy you than to get you to blame all evil on your own existence? Then you commit suicide, as this is the only way to bring justice for all the harm you allegedly did. This is what is happening to the West. The West is characterized as evil, and the only justice is for it to be eradicated.

The appropriate way to address what Hitler did was not to go on some super duper guilt trip. It is to rationally deduce what went wrong, and to correct it so that it won't happen again. Evidently, that isn't happening, for many of the same things that brought down the Weimar Republic are happening right here in the USA this very day.

The US Supreme Court had the chance to address the issue of oaths of office in the elections controversy. They refused the case. If this was addressed, then the oath of office would be treated seriously, which it is not. If it is not treated seriously, then what prevents a private oath of loyalty, such as the one to Adolf Hitler, from being made? The Supreme Court failed us. If there is no importance to the oath, then what inspires loyalty to the document? Anything at all? If there's no loyalty to the founding document, then what is going to preserve it? This could explain the rapidly deteriorating civil liberties that is found in the USA today. If the oath is not preserved, then what preserves the right to vote, the right to free speech and association, and the rest of the Bill of Rights?

The political left has gotten a lot of political mileage out of the guilt tripping. These people make it a religion to feel so guilty. They feel holier than thou when they feel so guilty. But they solve nothing that caused what happened in Germany in the Third Reich. The errors that brought the Nazis to power are being repeated this very day. American democracy and freedom will not be preserved, because that is the Big Lie. The Big Lie is what the Nazis liked to employ, and that is being repeated here as well. The Big Lie is that the left cares about Democracy and Freedom. They only seek to use these words as a means to power. This is what they care about.

Wake up America.

original post

Aaron Sorkin has joined in the kick Palin chorus.  It's the old emotional manipulation of laying out the old guilt trip. Sorkin wants Palin to feel ultra guilty.

Sorkin was furious that the documentary showed Palin hunting and killing a caribou. Although she made it clear that she intended to eat the animal, according to Sorkin, she had committed an act of murder and torture. 

Notice how it has to be justified on the grounds that the animal had to be eaten in order for this to be acceptable.  But even that justification isn't even acceptable to Sorkin, who wants to push vegetarianism, if one is to take this to it logical conclusion.

Why does Palin have to justify herself to Sorkin?  Why should Palin have to justify herself in hunting caribou for whatever reason?  Who cares what Sorkin thinks?  Evidently, there are those who do.  Hence, the technique is used because it works.

The left can use this tactic in order to manipulate others.  It only works if you accept their moral authority.  But who gives Sorkin or any others like him the moral authority?  Question their authority, I say.  They don't have any unless you recognize it.

Here is an previous example that I posted on this phenomenon.  

Spencer Pratt Loses - Following Stunning Surge in Mail-in Ballots Nithya Raman Jumps into 2nd Place in LA Mayor Race

The Conservative Treehouse

Totally fraudulent election. Nothing more needs to be said.

Daily Update:

But the Supreme Court may say something about it. Soon enough to make a difference?

Trump's DOJ may do something about it, but is it failure theater?

Angry Astronaut is still angry

Angry mentions this article, I believe. Don't recall seeing a link in the description, but the article reads a lot like what Angry is saying in his video. Angry fails to mention that it MIGHT be a software issue, which the SpaceDaily article mentions in its last few paragraphs. If it is software, then it will be ready for flight in weeks, not months. If it is hardware, it could be months.

The flip maneuver was rather aggressive. If the flight data shows that a less aggressive move may be successful, would that be good enough to satisfy a mishap investigation? There was another video ( not linked here ) that speculated that the flip maneuver was off a bit. The grid fin caught the wake of the upper stage, when it wasn't supposed to do that.

This may be a relatively easy fix.

As for the New Glenn mishap, yet another video said that the damage wasn't as bad as initially thought, and the pad could be repaired by the end of this year. Not good, but not as bad either.

It's okay to be critical, but Angry doesn't give out much new information here. I thought that some new info emerged, but this doesn't give much new information, and leaves out some other information that could be mitigating in terms of his critical commentary.

Never underestimate the power of stupid

"Never recover?" Never say "never". But I just did that. But that's different. (it's a rule and a joke)

The Republicans Are Saps and Saps Deserve to Lose

Free Republic

Quote:

The Republicans are Boy Scouts of old, while the Democrats are Hell’s Angels.

We all know what they are, and I understand the anger, but it is cutting of your nose to spite your face.

That's how you get Democrats, and enough of that kind of thing, and we'll be tossed into wilderness forever. In such case, the only way out may be bloodshed. Is that what you want?

Be careful what you wish for.

The GOP should be chosen if the there are no better alternatives. I voted for McCain and Romney. Yes, I voted for Cornyn, too. But I was glad that Cornyn lost. When there was a better alternative, I voted for Cornyn. (correction: not this time!) I never liked McCain nor Romney. Was the zero a better choice?

While I understand the sentiment to boycott the GOP, I do not necessarily agree on the wisdom of such a move.

Promethean Action PAC Discovers MAGAnomics

The Conservative Treehouse

This is one of the main reasons I support Trump. He won't abandon this because it is in his DNA.

Interesting thing said in the video: that Lincoln and McKinley were assassinated because of the "American System" of economics that they followed. Also, the Promethean Action video says that's the same reason that Trump is a target for assassination.

What about Kennedy? Kennedy favored TAX CUTS. Maybe Kennedy was assassinated for his pro-American policy preferences. In MY mind, this discombobulation of the American system which produced so much wealth for America is indeed a target of America's enemies--both foreign and DOMESTIC.

Let's be more constructive, please

Just did a 'truth' on Truth Social. It is embedded below, with some additional comments afterward.



Comment on the "truth":

Yours truly has a few complaints about Ringer's complaints about Trump. Let me list them:

1) Duration of the war: response: The "war" has paused for longer than the actual hostilities took place. There's been a ceasefire for quite some time, but the detractors keep calling it a "war".

2) Trump is probably guilty of hyperbole. With regard to "no more targets left to bomb", this is probably a bit of hype. You could say the same about Ringer's criticisms. Does Trump have to be 100% accurate in every single thing he says. If he was, almost everybody will have to go out of business.

3) He has a list of other quotes that fit the same pattern. Point made. I think we all get it.



He does list some of Trump's achievements here, to be fair. I want to be fair. Maybe being a better communicator, we can all start by being fair with the criticisms.

There are indeed some good communicators. Maybe could say even GREAT ones. One of those is The Conservative Treehouse.

Some may think of CTH ( Conservative Treehouse) as a Trump shill. But it isn't. Even if you think it is partisan Trumpist, the points are quite often valid nonetheless.

Of course, I support Trump. Of course, I've had my frustrations. But the guy delivers more often than not. For that reason, I say 'criticism is okay, but be fair about it.' Sometimes, I've hyped the criticism of Trump myself. But I'm dialing the hype back. In constrast, the left doesn't tolerate any criticism at all. We should not be like them. But we shouldn't overdo it. Rein it in a bit, but don't go to war just over a relatively minor point.

The left is victim of its own groupthink. They aren't stupid. Indeed, groupthink can happen even among some very intelligent folk. There's more than one way to be stupid. Forcing yourself into groupthink is really dumb, ya'll.

Trump should explain his economic agenda a bit better. The American System has a long history in this country, so it isn't something Trump pulled out of his hat. It is more like a Hamiltonian approach to industrial strength. America has all but abandoned home-grown industry. That has to change, and Trump is doing that. That is one of the reasons I support the guy.

His speaking is easy to forgive because his faults are not that big of a deal to me.

Didja know?

This scene from Jim Carrey's movie "The Mask", won an Oscar? It says so in the description. Never thought much about Oscars, but I do like the movie.

Nuclear Policy Just Changed Forever

People have been unncessarily alarmed because of the old policy. Yes, I believe this is good news.

How To Make The World`s Most Delicious Pork Chops

6/6/26:

This post has been discombobulated! Therefore, what to do? Run the question through AI!

To make the most delicious pork chops, **start with thick-cut chops (at least 1 inch thick)**, season them well, and cook them in a hot skillet for a good sear before finishing in the oven. Let them rest after cooking to keep them juicy and flavorful.

Key Ingredients for Delicious Pork Chops To create the most flavorful pork chops, focus on the following essential ingredients: Ingredient Description Pork Chops

Choose thick-cut chops (at least 1 inch thick) for juiciness. Bone-in chops can add more flavor. Seasoning Use kosher salt, black pepper, and your favorite spice rub (e.g., garlic powder, paprika). Oil

A neutral oil with a high smoke point, like avocado or vegetable oil, is ideal for searing. Optional Sauce Consider making a simple pan sauce with butter, garlic, and herbs for added flavor.

Cooking Method Preparation Steps 1. Bring to Room Temperature: Remove pork chops from the fridge 30 minutes before cooking to ensure even cooking.

2. Season: Generously season both sides of the chops with salt and pepper. You can also rub in your spice mix.

3. Sear: Heat oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Sear the pork chops for about 3-4 minutes on each side until they develop a nice brown crust.

Finishing in the Oven

1. Transfer to Oven: After searing, move the skillet to a preheated oven (around 400°F or 200°C) to finish cooking. This helps retain moisture.

2. Cooking Time: Bake for approximately 10-15 minutes, depending on thickness, until the internal temperature reaches 145°F.

3. Rest: Let the pork chops rest for at least 3 minutes before serving. This step is crucial for keeping them juicy.

Tips for Perfect Pork Chops

• Use a Meat Thermometer: To ensure perfect doneness, use a probe thermometer to check the internal temperature.

• Avoid Brining: Brining can alter the texture of pork chops; proper seasoning and cooking methods are sufficient for moisture.

• Experiment with Sauces: Enhance your dish with a simple pan sauce made from the drippings, adding flavor and richness.

By following these steps and tips, you can create pork chops that are tender, juicy, and bursting with flavor.

Truth be told, I never tried the recipe that got discombobulated. I don't use recipes.

10/8/11:

Beer as an ingredient? Hmm.


How To Make The World`s Most Delicious Pork Chops from Jeremy Campbell on UnleashVideo

Nick Freitas: " Here Is How The Next Civil War Will Start"

6/6/26:

Rich Lowry in an article at NY Post (link via Powerline) seems to be echoing Freitas here.

Lowry is a bit more subtle and restained. He is, after all, a National Review guy. Lowry could be a Cornyn type: all talk and no action.

6/5/26:

Folks who talk Civil War haven't thought it all out. I'm convinced of that. I have thought so since I first heard of it. If you think there's gonna be a war, you start preparing for it. Even if the idea is not to fight, you'll prepare for it. Where's the war preps?

yesterday:

Well, this is a real bonafide argument right here.

It only describes how it will develop, not how it will go.

My question is this: How much do you want victory? It seems to me that the answer is "Not very much". We can't even get simple things done when we have power. We allow them to stop us, and then we have others that are supposedly with us, who turn around and betray us. It is why nothing gets done.

If it happens the way he envisions, it won't be much of a rebellion. He imagines a love for the conservative way that is hard for me to see how that is so. If the love for the conservative was all that strong, then how did we get to this point in the first place? It does appear to be trending our way in some areas, but it needs to come together fast. Not happening nearly fast enough in my opinion.

We'll see.

Not a smart way to use your head

Ball bounces off outfielder's head, goes over the fence for a home-run.

Sounds like James Carville to me. Carville is endorsing a Nazi on the grounds that it will beat who they claim to be a Nazi---Trump.

My first inclination is to get mad at Carville. But the dude is going to keep the Nazi on the ballot, then let Carville run his crazy mouth.

Off his glove, off his head, and out!

One of the strangest home runs you've ever seen 🤯 pic.twitter.com/KaPpp1r9Cx

— MLB (@MLB) June 3, 2026

Bongino show 6/5/26; This point is a good one

Better to let him say it, so I jipped in where he starts on the point...

Politics is not about solving problems

6/5/26:

"Nobody really wants to do that." A bit of doomerism there. There's a lot of hyperbole in politics and that "nobody" part was hyperbole. Doomerism is the hyperbole that claims that nothing is getting done. A few things are getting done, but things are not moving as fast as we would like. The system is built that way.

I added this to my reaction posts because of that tendency to hype things a bit. I don't want to hype things. I want to be accurate as possible. Things are getting done, and to say nothing is getting done is doomer stuff. I don't want to go down that road. It IS definitely true that things are being obstructed. That's absolutely true. No question about that one.

Sep 25, 2017:

Because it seems to me that nobody really wants to do that.

When I say "nobody", all I have to do is look at the experience of this blog.  If this blog has been about anything, it is about solving problems.  It is also about the political class' total disinterest in doing anything like that.

No, the NFL nonsense is designed to make people mad.  That isn't going to solve any problems.

Colin Kaepernick took a knee because he wanted to piss off a lot of people who pay his bills for him.  He has the right to disagree.  He does not have the right to disrespect the nation while making a spectacle of himself, and then expect no blowback.

John McCain refuses to honor his promise because he just wants to make people mad.  He also gets some love from people who don't really give a damn about him or anybody else but themselves.  If John McCain really meant it about public service, like he claims he does, he wouldn't cooperate with Democrats to sink a bill that would honor his own promise.  He would at least serve his constituents who voted for him.  But what does his constituents think?  Do they really like what they get from this bozo?

People want red meat because it is fun to bash the other side.  They all love it so.  Me too.  I admit it.

But the problems remain.  We are no better off for all this nonsense.  Except the politicians seem to continue in their jobs, and the problems mount.

If we really have to divide up into opposing camps, then I might be on the side of those who call themselves "the right".  I probably shouldn't though.  For to do so is letting them off the hook for not getting anything done.  Their time is now, not some unforeseen moment in the future when the time is right.

There are no more excuses.  Suck it up, and get it done.  My vote is no longer something you can count on, assholes.  It is time to stop being assholes, and do your jobs.

Americans want to know how it got so bad in Great Britain

We already know, but this appears to be a Brit, and I think the Brits must all have their heads up their a-holes. So do we in the USA, but not everybody has gone full bonkers. Yet.

DNI Tulsi Gabbard Gives Update Following Surgery for Husband Abraham Williams

The Conservative Treehouse

Comment:

Same thing I was diagosed with--sacral chordoma.

He had a surgery, I elected to have proton therapy, which is a type of radiation.

He seems rather young. But I suppose this condition can crop up at any age, but most likely than not, at an older age than what he appears to be.

Chordomas can happen at young ages, but those who get it in younger ages tend to get it closer to the skull according to age. That is to say, a young person gets it in the skull, someone older, perhaps the neck, and someone OLD like me, in the sacrum.

Every case is different, I suspect. I have survived mine by nine years so far. The average lifespan after diagnosis back when I got it was five years. Let us hope Mr. Williams will have a lot of life left.

Don't like IPO now for SpaceX

It's probably premature to hold an IPO for SpaceX.

If he had a mature Starship launch system, then yes. Otherwise, no.

You don't have to have a profitable company to go public, so even though SpaceX may be bleeding cash to fund Starship development wouldn't be a barrier normally; the hostility towards Elon Musk may cause trouble down the line.

Lot harder to monkey-wrench his Starship if he keeps it private for now. I say wait until it's proven itself more.

New York’s 1.47 Million Voter Roll Fraud Unmasks The ‘Safe Blue State’ Myth

American Thinker:

A damning discovery in New York has flown under the national radar.

Comment:

This comment adds my own thoughts to what is being said in the article. The main idea is that the solid blue state may well be a myth. Frankly, I think it is more than myth. It is a syndrome of criminality. There is more than just outright fraud. It could well involve violence or threats of violence. Gaslighting figures in the mix as well.

One other example: Bongino referred to how "jungle primaries" can result in the elimination of Republicans from the ballot. That and other fradulent means of "voter suppression" are the only reasons the Democrats have any power at all. Voter suppression is what Dems routinely accuse Republicans of doing. Ten to one that this is just another case of projection. I'll call it political projection, because this is not psychological. It is intentional lying and fraud.

Ultimately, you need to get people to get their backs up against this kind of thing. It's this or there will be subjugation.

Quick update:

I've got a really bad feeling about election integrity. It may be very, very difficult to get rid of it. I have a very definite reason to suspect ALL politicians for this. It has to be extremely tempting for a politician or group of politicians to rig elections. There may be only limited ways in which an election can have integrity. One way is with paper ballots counted in public. The votes must be cast in private. The use of purple dye should be required in order to prevent double voting. Anything short of this should be considered suspect.

The Democrats' Insanity Defense

 

Update on 6/04/26:

The easiest thing in the world to do is to give up. That appears to be one of the leftist's strategies: to make you want to give up. Don't let this win.

Updated on 2/9/26:

  Tempting thing to say: "Life is nuts."

  And: "Try to make any sense of it will make you nuts, too."

  To counter those thoughts, I'd say: "If you didn't try to make sense of it, then you'll just join the rest of the looney tunes."

  One philosophy that I've held for a long time, and it doesn't seem to have helped me much:  "I try to be rational.  It doesn't seem to work too well in this crazy world."

  Maybe it is my own brand of crazy to keep insisting upon it.

  Whatever.

  I return you to your regularly scheduled nuttiness.

11/2/24:

The Democrats are so crazy, that GOP activists have to tone it down, or they won't be believed.

Tabletmag dot com

If the Democrats are crazy, and people are in denial about that, then does that make a lot of people crazy? It's got to be some type of dysfunction of a massive scale. If Kamala Harris somehow ends up in the White House, this may be a big reason why.

It is a scary thing to consider that there may not be enough sane people around to do what is clearly indicated. This group of people need to go, but will that happen?

Turn a page indeed. These people are nuts, and this isn't the first time I've written that. Here's a campaign slogan --- Make America Sane Again.

Dan Bongino on "suicidal empathy"

Suicidal empathy is defined as "Empathy with no ownership". Search text: "Suicidal Empathy: author Gaad Saad". Looked up this on search engine and found the Amazon link to the book.

Quote from Amazon page:

What happens when a society elevates victimhood to a virtue and decides that punishment is cruel? You get the disease Dr. Gad Saad calls suicidal empathy. And the West may be terminally infected.

Comment:

My own reaction is that the Bernie Sanders types are like the apparatchicks in the former Soviet Union. They talk a good game of equality under communism or (socialism or what have you in the modern West), but they live the high life. The apparatchicks in the Soviet Union got the goodies that the West produced, and these same goodies were denied to their subjects under the tyrannical and totalitarian control of the commies.

I simplify it ( as does Bongino in this clip) to plain old dishonesty.

Quick Update:

Keep in mind that the Soviet Union didn't coddle criminals. Neither does Red China. The hard line commies KNOW that this is societal poison, and they do NOT practice "suicidal empathy". This has got to be a psy-op on gullible Westerners who fall for this nonsense. It's a total and complete scam.

The pertinent section of the video where Bongino mentions the book:

Getting out of the comfort zone

6/3/26:

With respect to the most recent post as of this update, could it be that Democrats allow unsavory types into their coalition because their comfort zone would prefer the unsavory types over losing power?

But they're losing power anyway. What the Democrats are doing doesn't make sense...

Jan 11, 2026:

   It's a little difficult to come up with a topic today.  Something I saw just recently gave me an idea.  What is it about people these days that makes them different than before?

  Some may argue that they are not any different than before.  Well, something is certainly different.  No, it isn't exactly Trump.  But Trump has something to do with it.  Not in the man himself, but in the fact that it may be the time in which a man like Trump could succeed in getting elected to office.

  Trump didn't just fall out of the sky.  He's been well-known for decades.  Why now?

  Trump gets into somebody's comfort zone.  He's a threat to a lot of folks in DC. Probably not so much in the heartland.  Otherwise, he couldn't have been elected. The people wanted him for a reason.  Just speaking for myself, I was sick and damned tired of the GOP refusing to do anything about the outrages of the political left.  I recall vividly the way the left took down George W. Bush, and Bush didn't do a damned thing about it.

  But this sentiment of mine is nothing new. I've written of it long before Trump came down the escalator.

  The reaction of the left to Trump also pushes some buttons.

  Yet I am amazed by the polls.  Nothing that Trump does comes remotely close to what the political left does.  I won't argue about this, but there will be a denial of the truth of this.  The political "right" is way, way too passive.  The political left does not share that trait.  Would you see "moderates" blocking streets because they didn't agree with a certain policy?  Of course not.  Moderates don't behave badly.

  Can you see "conservatives" storming the Capitol Building on January 6th, 2021? Not really.  Conservatives wouldn't do that.  But MAGA people can be socially conservative, in my opinion.

  I didn't go to DC on January 6th, 2021.  There are multiple reasons why. I don't think that even if I did go, would I have gotten myself in the middle of a crowd of people who went inside the Capitol Building.  But if ANYONE gets in that situation, events could draw you in.

  One reason for not going to DC then was the attitude of the people there--the best example was in the video of Maxine Waters saying that those that she didn't agree with weren't welcomed there.  It is 90% Democrat, perhaps more than that.  You won't be treated fairly there.  You are stepping on hostile ground.

  Many people didn't believe that. Many people went there to express their opinions, and found themselves in the middle of something that they didn't think would happen.  If cops allow you into the Capitol Building, you don't expect to be treated as if you committed a heinous offense.

  The reaction to that event was just more outrage from the left, and it continues to this day.

  Sometimes the reaction to outrageous behavior is to give in to it.  Like the outburst from Jasmine Crockett.  The emotionalism is meant to make you feel sorry for making her feel bad enough to cry in public like she did.  I am inclined to think the whole exhibition was a big act, but there could be some genuine emotion there.  Yet it is still manipulative.

  Sometimes a person has to accept responsibility for their own behavior.  If they are going to engage in unlawful behavior, and even behavior that could be considered dangerous, they should accept the fact that something bad could happen in consequence of that.  Don't go around boo-hooing about it afterward.

  Same thing for the people who got caught up in the January 6th riot.  Many people just got caught up in the moment.  But they certainly didn't deserve to be called insurrectionists if they believed that the election of 2020 was a fraud.  There is a line to draw.  Where do you draw that line?

  There is such a thing as the First Amendment.  But what sort of behavior is appropriate?  When does the line get crossed?  But the folks who want to cause trouble will blur the lines.  The lines should be very, very clear.

  You don't get to endanger anybody's life.  You don't have the right to block traffic. If an officer tells you to do something, you should comply, and if you do not, then take your punishment, because you deserve it.

  Getting all emotional about it may go with the territory, but it doesn't get my sympathy.

  Indeed.  There are many examples in history that could be cited here.  Just because someone gets into your comfort zone doesn't give you the right to shoot anyone either.  It's a fine line.  But law enforcement requires a firm response to those who would challenge it.  If you challenge it, be prepared for bad stuff.  You had to know what you were doing, and if you didn't, all the more reason for not even being there to begin with.

  Why mention Trump. Because for some folks, Trump is the reason for this.  Nope. Not buying that. The reason for it is that certain people make it their business to get into your comfort zone for the sole purpose of being provocative. If the provocation is taken, there is an opportunity to exploit it.

  There has to be a certain amount of ill will involved in order to provoke people for the purposes of exploiting their reactions.  But you don't have to take the bait.

  So what is this essay all about? NOTHING.  Ignore it, if you please. I think of it as a WARNING.  Things are getting out of hand.  But there are people who like that shit. Just saying.

No common ground with Democrats?

Yours truly cannot believe that most Democrats favor a guy associated with Al-Qaeda as their representative in Congress...

Either I am wrong and they do, or Democrats are making a bad judgment call in allying themselves with a group of folks like this.

However, they did vote to send Barak Hussein Obama to the White House. Obama was elected because he is black; and the Dems decided to overlook his prior associations with a communist.

Prior associations DO matter. They mattered with Obama because Obama's election DID NOT IMPROVE RACIAL RELATIONS. The presumption was that by electing a black man to the White House would improve racial relations. That presumption failed.

What's the excuse for ignoring this Al Qaeda sympathizer to Congress? I refuse to believe that most Democrats agree with Al Qaeda.

But maybe I'm wrong...

This is the House Democrat leader congratulating a guy who defended the World Trade Center bomber and volunteered for an Al Qaeda organization.

The level of cooked we are can’t be quantified. pic.twitter.com/97Gi9ZgU6G

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) June 3, 2026

This Red State content producer says "we are cooked". Who's "we"? By all rights, the Democrats should be cooked if they put up with this guy... The GOP should hammer this home again and again. Instead this Red State guy can only wring his hands and say "woe is me!"

Could Oikophobia explain why solutions aren't wanted?

6/3/26:

It seems that I get into these modes of thinking with regards to what seems to be intractable problems. One of these is this negative attitude referred to as oikophobia--which to me is a hatred of the elite for one's own people. Or those who prefer to use hatred of others as justification for their own behavior.

Christianity teaches as a commandment to "love one another". That may be a problem for some folks who think that Christianity is the problem. Well, you can hate something, say Christianity for instance, and still use its ideas if those ideas are good. If you think hatred is a bad thing, why not try this Christian thing?

Ah! But people may not always agree on what "love" is.... Therefore, they could justify horrors by claiming it IS love that drives them to doing what they do.

Or you could just try to find a solution for the problem, whatever it is.

But you cannot please all the people all the time. Some folks are just going to be what they are. You cannot tell them anything...

1/25/13:

First, the term "oikophobia" has to be defined, which can be found here and here.

Basically, that's what I've been writing about.  Oikophobia is the hatred of the familiar which, in the case of the nation, it is the hatred of one's own people.

So, why wouldn't an "oik" try to sabotage any effort at truly improving a situation?  Why not do the opposite and try to destabilize and destroy the current order since you hate it?

By "current order", I mean the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.  By "current order", I mean capitalism.  By "current order", I mean the very things that have brought us our wealth and prosperity.  By "current order", I mean Western Civilization.  The right to self-defense and so on and so forth.

To the left side of the political spectrum, America is bad, and must be changed.  But changed how and in what manner?  To destroy those things described above as the "current order"?

To the right side, the left is only misguided and not evil.  Therefore, at least some on the right will not engage the left and fight them.  If you prefer not to fight, might you try some other way?

I've offered my thoughts on the subject of Oikophobia.  I suggested finding common ground on which an environment could be fostered so that solutions to problems could be found.  But what if the common ground is studiously being avoided?  What if the common ground is being avoided for the purposes of furthering the attitude of Oikophobia itself?  Perhaps the clang and discord is what is desired and not the clang of hammers which are the sounds of building the new ways and means that will solve our problems.

How far does this phenomenon of Oikophobia go?  Some of those on the right presume that it is only the left that has this problem.  But if you don't actually seek solutions to problems that your adversary claims to exist, perhaps you would prefer the noise that accompanies the opposition?  The noise that confirms you in your disgust with your own people?

Let's not hate people, let's hate bad thinking.

New category: "Reaction posts"

If someone clicks on a video, and if I wish to write something additional on the subject, then this label will be attached to the post. History of the blog was attached to the label so as to emphasize that this was a post from the past.

This post may be an exception, as it is a new post. Yet it has the new label.

If you'd like to see posts according to that label, click on the label at the end of each post. I can attach labels to posts already made, so perhaps I will populate the category with the most recent reaction posts.

This is better than including a mention that the post is a reaction to somebody clicking on the post.

Why the Right Really Hates Obama

6/3/26:

Ah, a blast from the past... The website is still in business, and the link's still good. It's worth taking another look at this article.

Not much change in my point of view. The political left wants to make it all about race, but that's not what drives what the left calls "the right". It's pure projection on their part.

You can have a color-blind society. There's no "cynicism" in that. You can have equal opportunity, as opposed to the leftist's equal outcomes. There's no cynicism in that either. What the left won't accept is that you cannot guarantee equal outcomes if you rely upon equal opportunity alone. In other words, people aren't equal. But the left knows that this is true. So I just call bullshit on their ideals and claims of equality. Now that may be called cynicism. But I'd rather refer to it as realism. Nobody strives to be equal. People strive to be better than the other guy. Take away all notions of merit, and you take away incentive. If you take away incentive, achievement suffers. It's been shown again and again. But the leftists push this utopianism nonetheless.

5/10/12:

In These Times

The title really says it all.  It is all about hate, it says.  I can't speak for anyone else, but here's what I said on the subject of hate in this blog.  The second part is this business about "right" v "left".  Again, I refer to what I wrote previously on the subject, which I paraphrase here--- it's not about right or left, but about freedom or tyranny.  In other words, it's not about ideology.

I wrote about ideology too, that it can make you stupid.  What's even more shocking and stupid is that those who are conservative claim to be on the right.  This is playing right into the hands of the left.  It is playing on their turf and it is always the loser.  Therefore, just speaking for myself, I am not on the right.  I am on the side of freedom.  If you are conservative, you stop letting the left box you into their ideology.

By the way, calling them left is appropriate because it is their ideology and evidently they believe in it fervently.

Finally, I remember getting into an argument with some guy on Amazon about conservatism.  I would say that this guy may be someone "on the right" as opposed to being someone who favors freedom.  If his idea is the prevailing notion of conservatism in this country, then I am not a conservative.  But what I think is closer to Reagan than some of what I hear from those who claim to admire Reagan.

I think I understand his success better than some of them do.  If these people ever got a clue, Obama wouldn't stand a chance.

Off-grid post, 4-3-22

6/3/26:

It looks like the basement idea really isn't necessary. The system that the Amish uses for climate control looks like a better implementation of the same idea. It's better because it will take far less excavation in order to get the necessary climate control effect.

With respect to the water, I still like the beaver idea. Beavers could dam up the rainfall and produce some permanent water (maybe). Come to think of it, the dry season lasts too long out there. Maybe the beavers cannot stop water evaporation. If vegetation can give enough shade, evaporation can slow down (maybe).

Help out the beavers? Interesting thought...

I haven't really thought out the beaver idea. You have to get them there. How could that be done? Besides, if the prospects for success aren't good, getting them there could be a problem.

4-3-22:

Yesterday I did an experiment to see how much power could be transmitted via the 12-volt inverter to the 24-volt charger, which charges the power-tote. What I found was that the 12 volt battery could only work (at best) for 30 minutes at a time. At that point, the voltage drop was too great to sustain the inverter, and so it had to be shut down so that it could recharge.

This deficiency might be aided somewhat with some parts that I ordered. The RV battery outside will be hooked up with the inverter, which is an upgrade in power available. The solar panel only puts out about 100 watts, so it cannot keep up either. But it won't drain the battery as quickly, and it won't be necessary to shut down so often, or maybe not at all. ( That might be wishful thinking).

For every 30 minutes of charging, it needed 1 hour of recharging. It got to be rather tedious to keep shutting down and restarting. I wouldn't want to have to do it this way.

In the meantime, I did some water filtration with some rainwater obtained recently. This produced one gallon of fairly clean water. ( not potable though)

This effort was a lot of work, and the economic benefit could be measured in pennies. However, out in the desert, which has no power and no running water; these experiments will give valuable insights into how to make that situation work more smoothly and efficiently. So there's a method behind the madness.

With water, you can sustain yourself. With enough water, you can grow food. Combine that with power, and you can not only do all that, but you can be comfortable as well. Or, perhaps not as uncomfortable.

One way to reduce the power requirements may be to adopt the old ways of yesteryear. Recently, I read about salt pork. It is rather simple to prepare. That means even yours truly could do it. To add to that technique, I googled up a video that shows how to pickle ANYTHING. ( according to that author) With these techniques, the need for refrigeration could be greatly diminished. I was also thinking that it would help to keep the refrigerator in the basement area that I am thinking of building out there. If that is cooler than at grade level, then the fridge doesn't have to work as hard, and that would save energy too.

Of course, all of this may seem insane. But what the heck? Nobody is sane anymore, so I might as well join the party.

Posting may be light for awhile

6/3/26:

Another visit with the doc, and we'll find out more...

5/16/26:

More about the Twilight Zone than what anyone bargained for...



5/15/26:

The term "Twilight Zone" was used in this post (before updating). Perhaps I wasn't clear what the term was supposed to mean. It may have helped if I was more familiar with the TV show from what back then. Maybe it was on the TV when I was little, but I just don't remember it much. What does Twilight Zone mean to me? In a word, "weird". It had that weird music that introduced it. Rod Serling would give his speech. Actually the speech may have come afterward. Either way, it just seemed weird. That's what I meant. It was "weird".

The re-runs are on Tubi, and I watched a few episodes. What seemed weird before does not seem so weird now. It helps to be more familar with the words one uses. After watching a few of these episodes, I don't think I would've used the term "Twilight Zone" this way. Just thought I would mention that. Over and out.

4/29/26:

Did my doctor's visit. My fears were a bit overblown. There's something that needs to be handled, but it is manageable. That's all I got on this. Posting will resume. As Roseann Rosanna Dana would say: "Never mind!"

4/26/26:

There might be something going on medically that I need to attend to.

Don't want to be morbid, but this may not be too good.

Anyway, I am up at an hour in which I am usually asleep. I checked the news (big mistake?), and discover that there was a shooting at the event that POTUS was attending. Another assassination attempt.

Good Lord.

Update:

A doctor's visit has been scheduled, so there's that.

Since I mentioned the incident at an event in DC? ( apparent assassination attempt), I'll add this to this update. Here's something that's going around apparently. (False Flag accusation.)

You idiots who think Trump is staging assassination attempts. You think he would agree to a plan wherein someone STOPS HIM FROM TROLLING A CAPTIVE ROOM OF THOUSANDS OF JOURNALISTS FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF? This is his dream scenario.

— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) April 26, 2026

"May you live in interesting times" seems an appropriate quote right now. This is straight out of the Twilight Zone.

James Talarico is called "Talafreako"

Can anything be done to discourage these types of attempts by politicians to make themselves appear to be different from what they really are?

Talarico is fake. But it may be possible to fool the public and win an election. Either by fraud or force (phony ballot trickery and the like).

Perhaps a Constitutional Amendment?

If by amendment, then how do you enforce it? If a politician wants to lie his way into office, then how do you stop it?

There is no fail-safe way, but maybe there is a way to discourage it. Perhaps something like a recall election. This doesn't always work, though. California is an example. They did recall one politician, and simply got another fake--Arnold Swartzenegger.

If democracy is to work, the public has to be on guard. That's a problem. As the saying goes: "You can fool most of the people some of the time, and some of the people most of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time". The trouble with elections is that you only need to fool most of the people some of the time. An election campaign isn't constant. It is for a short time.

Let's suppose you had something like a petition to find facts regarding an issue that the public decides is worthy of setting up. A court of inquiry could be mandated by a recall petition. If the recall petition gets enough votes, the court of inquiry would be convened and hold a trial. The results of the trial is definite like a finding of guilty on not guilty. The finding wouldn't remove an official, but it would be finding of fact that could be used in impeachment proceedings, and in electoral campaigns.

The limited nature of this proposition may insure that it is rarely used. After all, you wouldn't get an automatic removal from office even if malfactor is found guilty. But it could lead to removal. If the supporters of a politician found guilty this way refuse to hold the malfactor accountable, the public can take that into consideration the next time an election is held. Indeed, the refusal to act could result in more findings of fact petitions.

It could be messy, but politicians would not necessarily want to go through all this, and may act more reasonably. That's the hope, anyway.

Quick update:

Directly on point here with this tweet:

If Democrats told you what they really believed, they’d never get elected. https://t.co/THGTZDc4MW

— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) June 2, 2026

Update later in the day:

Big ideas from Democrats

If the ideas are so good, why not make it like a contract? If the politicians fail to live up the contract, they can held accountable for it. Make it to where they can in effect be sued for breach of contract, with the relief being a loss of the power of the office the rascal is holding.

The trouble with these "big ideas" is that they aren't explicitly stated. The ideas need to be explicitly stated and put in an enforceable contract with the voters. That is to say, make their office contingent upon being faithful in executing their contract.

This probably makes too much sense, and why it would never be enacted.