Power to Destroy

The government of my hometown of Nashville, Tennessee is determined to destroy business through taxation. An ongoing concern will not remain so if its property tax is raised higher than its net profit. You can't remain in operation with a formula like that. 

More Branches Falling

Just as the recovery from the Ice Storm of 2026 seemed to be kicking in across my hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, severe thunderstorms started to strike. The bad news is the good news for me in this case, as a dangling tree limb that was supposed to cost over a thousand dollars to remove fell on its own with the force of the newly kindled high winds. I just thank the Lord I and nobody I care about was under it when the five hundred plus pounds of wood crashed to the ground. I cut it in three more manageable pieces with my handsaw. A chainsaw would have helped, but I do not happen to own one. Stay safe out there neighbors. A lot of weakened branches, limbs, and even whole trees are falling with the strong gusts. 

Second Biggest Star

The talent with whom I have enjoyed regular interaction is obviously Dennis Quaid, who moved in next to us several years back when he purchased a Nashville home. The celebrity with the second most exposure, who has literally sprinted across to greet me, is Quaid's wonderful and well-trained English bulldog "Peaches". Dennis brings that glorious old girl on many national media appearances, but I am fortunate enough to have known her before she enjoyed so much fame. 

An Ongoing Campaign

The majority of Iranians want to live a free, Westernized lifestyle. They are NOT religious fanatics. What the government that ultimately replaces the mullahs and Ayatollah regime will have to overcome is millions of religious zealots who believe exactly as the Twelvers do and think they have a religious duty to kill you if you do not follow the same tenets they do. These are folks who gladly sent their ten year old sons across Iraqi minefields on bicycles to clear them by blowing themselves up, so experienced adult soldiers could attack Saddam Hussein's forces without the concern of setting off a mine. They are contemptuous of the value of life including their own and their children's. They will require a denazification program on steroids as they do not simply follow an evil man (Hitler) but hold as an article of religious faith their obligation to convert by the sword. 

The Wrong Leadership

Incompetent leaders take the path they should not. In the case of my hometown of Nashville, Tennessee's municipally-owned electric utility, the service had only one hundred sixty linemen for two hundred thirty thousand customers; however, they devoted copious resources to diversity, equity, and inclusion. You might say these DEI programs are well-intentioned, but they cause real and substantial harm because with finite resources, you can't hire more workers to restore power or ideally, keep the electricity on when you are spending the limited money you are allocated on diversity trainers and officers, who do not know a positive wire from a negative one or a ground wire. 

Bringers of Peace

If we have to burn the village to save it, by all means, set it ablaze. The world could not live with atavistic madmen with Seventh Century mindsets controlling the most destructive weapons. Iran left unchecked as the "Islamic Republic" would have erased Israel with nuclear bombs and extorted the Sunni states and Europe. Everyone should praise and thank President Trump for thwarting these terror-sponsoring tyrants from starting World War III while in possession of an atomic arsenal and the means to deliver it. 

War of Choice?

The war against the Islamic Republic was started by them when they captured our embassy and its staff in 1979. It was waged and perpetuated by the mad mullahs who have enslaved the Persian people since then. Only now is President Trump answering their aggression against America in the way it should have been dealt with all along. If it had been addressed properly as our nation is doing now, Iran would never have risen to menace the globe.