The Coming Year

2019 will bring war, pestilence, and strife. Happy New Year!

Full of It

The Never Trumpers and Democrats and assorted (sordid) other critics of our President need to stifle it. They are crowing about the economic downturn. These naysayers are saying since Trump took credit when the markets were going up, he needs to accept the blame for them falling. These obstructionists (some of them in the President's own party) have been doing everything they can to thwart Trump and turn back his agenda. They have succeeded in preventing Trump from implementing everything he wanted to institute to benefit the American people. Then, they have the nerve to blame Trump for the economic collapse they are deliberately causing.

If Aliens Came

If invaders from space came and tried to impose their will on the world, humanity would unite against them. If they came down to strip our individual rights, we would stand united against them. The aliens are here. They are the international Left, controlling countries like Red China, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, and Venezuela, and rearing their tyrannical head in virtually every other nation. Those who love liberty should unite to defeat the international Left.

The Israel Election

I have mixed feeling about Netanyahu. I think he has not been aggressive enough in fighting terror. I believe he has buckled to international pressure to clamp down on the so-called settlement enterprise and made it illegal in too many cases to live on land granted to Jews by the Lord Himself in the times of the Bible. Netanyahu has been hard on Jews and soft on Arabs emboldening terror and destroying deterrence. He is still far better than any of his potential opponents from the Left, who would have done worse by the Jews had they had power.

A Bear Trap

Do not be fooled by a one day blip that saw stocks rise mightily. US stocks are on a downward trajectory because the powers that be, the elite, the establishment, the deep state, the swamp want to destroy President Trump. They want to take down his business empire. They want him and his family incarcerated or worse. They are deliberately tanking the markets by doing everything up to and including impeachment to make sure no outsider ever rises again to the US Presidency. Washington is their town and we are their subjects and they are perfectly willing to crash the country to regain control.

Our Anchor Stocks

Many portfolios started the year with great gains that made it seem like these were solid stocks. You could almost have picked a winner blindfolded. Now, even the formerly hottest issues seem to be going in the wrong direction. It seemed impossible to pick a wrong stock. Now, it seems impossible to pick a right investment in any realm. Virtually everything is going down but misery. The great investments that used to anchor your portfolio are now anchors pulling you under.

Climb Back Up

The markets will bounce back from the current debacle. It probably will not be this year, maybe not next year either, but in the coming decades or next century or two, I promise, "the markets will reach new heights".

Little Less Blessed

Some people are feeling horrible because their 401 K and stock investments are down. Do you still have food on the table? Do your arms and legs still work? Can you see and hear? Is your body being eaten up by cancer? You are still better off than many. Count your blessings- even if your portfolio is down- you are vastly blessed just to be an American.

A Brief Nocturne

Oh my gosh, the sun is coming up on Sunday! Daybreak already, I had better write something. May your Sunday be wonderful and Christmas week bring blessings in abundance!

Shut Down Blues

Have you noticed anything different with the government shut down? Me either- if the government jobs subjected to the shut down are "non-essential", why is there a great urgency to end the shut down? I believe the Federal government is vastly too large, too wasteful, and too intrusive. This shut down may show how well we can survive and even thrive without the government "helping" in so many aspects of our lives.

The Trump Recession

The so-called "Trump Recession" is the fault of everybody but Donald Trump. The blame for the economic downturn lies squarely at the feet of our President's opponents, from the obstructionist Democrats, to the never-Trump wing of the Republican Party and the weak sisters in the GOP generally who do not have the guts to stand with Trump, to the Federal Reserve that propped the socialist Obama up with free money but wants to make sure Trump fails and does so badly enough that an outsider never wins the White House again. All these Resistance members are willing to throw the nation into an economic depression just to restore the establishment to the unopposed status they enjoyed before the rise of Trump.

Standing Against Judas

President Trump and a handful of Republicans in the US House of Representatives have refused to lay down and are still demanding border security. The President and these intrepid few are willing to shut the government down to keep their promises to voters. I can not imagine how anyone could be opposed to a secure border, but that is where Democrats stand. Unfortunately not many Republicans have the courage to fight back. Ultimately, whether the President prevails and we have a safer America remains in doubt.

The Judas City

Washington is now inhabited with much worse than rats. Our politicians are beholden to party and lobbyists before voters and nation. With their lack of determination to build the border wall in spite of the promises of their party, Republicans are showing they are just as bad and perhaps even more craven than Democrats. They displayed just as little backbone when they reneged on their commitment to repeal Obama Care. I am absolutely opposed to the socialism offered by Democrats, but the lies of the GOP give me little comfort.

See Rat City

Never mind going to Chattanooga to see a natural wonder. See something amazingly unnatural in the betrayers in Washington DC. These political elite are not interested in keeping their promises to voters. They are only interested in perpetuating their own power.

Even Bigger Rat

James Comey complained that President Trump called Cohen a "rat". I guess Comey thought he had earned exclusive rights to be called a "rat". Comey damaged Hillary Clinton first, then started his campaign to bring down President Trump that continues to this very moment, and has done greater harm to America than any FBI director. Comey has sold out way more than Cohen did.

Recipe for Disaster

The "Land for Peace" formula has brought nothing but disaster for the Jews of Israel in relations with the Palestinians. Gaza is now nothing more than an enclave of Islamo-Nazism with Hamas churning out a generation of people who want nothing more than to murder Jews. Israel must not repeat the mistake of giving away land anywhere else in the Holy Land as a reward for not ceasing violence. The recipe to end hostilities must now only be "Peace for Peace" with no more territory given to those who would only use it to instigate terror and murder.

The Bowl Season

The college football bowl season kicks off today. Many Americans will spend thousands of dollars to take their families to a distant city to party, feast, and take in a ball game. Win or lose, these fans are all enjoying a life of prosperity that America affords while much of the rest of the world all too often faces the empty bowl.

The Simmering Cauldron

If Israel responds as it must to stop the spree of murder of Jews by Palestinians in the so-called West Bank, expect Hezbollah to use the opportunity to initiate conflict with the Jewish State from Lebanon and Hamas to attack the Jews from Gaza, forcing Israel to fight a multi-front war. This is bad news for the region and the world. The only good news from Israel's prospective is that Obama who wanted Israel reined in and withering is gone and Donald Trump, a US leader who actually supports the Jewish right of self-defense, is in office as President.

A War Brews

Escalating violence by Palestinians against Jews in the Holy Land including the murder of a baby, and now the shooting of several Israelis leading to at least two more deaths signals an impending war. Israel must react with massive and overwhelming force to restore deterrence. A "proportional response" or attempt to handle this as a law enforcement, apprehend the shooter(s) effort will be laughed at by the Palestinians and invite more spilling of innocent Jewish blood. Israel must put the element of fear back in those who contemplate jihad that even if their initial efforts at terror seem to be a success, the price that they and those backing them will pay will be unimaginable.

Appearing in Strasbourg

Why is there a terror watch list in France? If someone is a threat to launch murderous attacks, why are they allowed to roam around free or remain in France? If someone has a mentality to murder, they need to be locked up or deported!

New Injustice System

In the new Amerika, if you are a Democrat bigwig, you can do no wrong. You can carelessly leave national security secrets open to being stolen by placing them on an easy-to-hack server in your basement and have them stolen by a half dozen or more foreign nations. No problema, your intentions were good. You can commission a manufactured scandal out of whole cloth and use that to have your friends in the Justice Department and the highest ranks of the Federal Bureau of Investigation launch the infiltration of your opponent's Presidential campaign by operatives and informants in an effort to destroy that rival that continues to this very day. That is good work, forward planning, and thinking ahead. You can even sell a large portion of US uranium to Russia and profit handily from it but that does not mean you colluded with the Russians; no, only Trump did that. We can not survive as we were founded with the sick double standard that permits the Clintons and Democrat elite to skate on everything but seeks to impeach and incarcerate President Trump for nothing.

Staying on Track

President Trump was doing everything right for the US economy despite strong headwinds from the Left and all its components including the Democrat Party and the mainstream media, those Republicans who are "never Trump", and the entrenched swamp dwellers across the board who may be from either party or neither, but who find their suckling at the teat of government highly profitable. Trump was lowering taxes and diminishing Federal regulation to breathe life back into the private sector. Even his own Fed rebelled against Trump by raising interest rates. Still, our President pulled forward, but now with Democrats about to take control of the US House, even Trump's magnificent efforts may not be enough. Those who oppose Donald Trump are willing to crash the entire economy just to see that President Trump does not remain in office. Trump's opponents may indeed succeed, but the toll of their actions are harming the nation and may well weaken America beyond saving.

Not an Upset

The Tennessee Volunteer men's basketball team defeated the top-ranked Gonzaga cagers today. Some call that an upset. It certainly did not upset me.

Slaying the Retailers

It is hard to imagine being able to compete with Amazon. How can you beat being able to buy virtually anything at an extremely low price and having your purchase delivered to your door at no additional charge within a couple of days?

Next Pearl Harbor

America can never anticipate every possible strike against it but must be ready to counter them wherever they are attempted. December 7 was just another day until 1941 when it earned its infamy. September 11 was perfectly ordinary until 2001. No one knows the next date of blood and flame, but we do know we must be on guard against it.

You Hear Crash?

The Democrats, the mainstream media, and never-Trump Republicans are all willing to cause a recession to make sure our President is not reelected. The problem with undercutting your own economy is that you can never be sure where the bottom is and how long it will take to recover from your deliberate damage when you want to promote economic growth again. These "resistors" may unseat Trump but cause an economic depression to do it.

A Fitting Tribute

I just watched the very moving funeral service for George Herbert Walker Bush. It is a shame that someone has to die to bring the nation together in such a meaningful way.

Israel Versus Iran

With Israel revealing and destroying Hezbollah terror tunnels entering Israel from Lebanon, Israel is confronting Iran. In Gaza, Israel finds itself not only facing Hamas but Iran. Israel is facing new medium range, multiple warhead ballistic missiles aimed at them by Iran. Wherever the Jewish State looks, it is facing an existential threat from the Islamic Republic of Iran. These two regional powers are bound to come to blows greater than we have seen till now. I predict a Middle Eastern war soon, that may well turn into World War III. Either the Jewish State will disappear or the theocracy enslaving Iran will be vanquished in the end, but both the Shiite expansionist state and Israel can not continue to exist. My feeling with the world as it is, that sadly, by 2030, the Zionist entity will be no more and the Middle East will no longer be dominated by the Sunnis, but completely absorbed by Iran and the Shiites.

Garlands and Caissons

Whatever criticism I have of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George Bush, I find their Presidencies vastly preferable to those of any Democrat. I have never had the slightest doubt that GOP Presidents are patriots who love our country and are (or were) dedicated to service. George Herbert Walker Bush was an outstanding American and he will be sorely missed.

Gave Away Presidency

George Herbert Walker Bush enjoyed the highest popularity of any US President I know of in the wake of his victory over Saddam Hussein and his eviction of Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Bush could easily have won a second term and sent the Clinton's back to obscurity in Arkansas, but he broke his "Read my lips, no new taxes pledge" to the American people and handed victory to Bill Clinton.

Legacy of Service

From the time he entered the US Navy and became an aviator, the late President George Bush served our nation. No individual I can think of wore as many hats in service to America as George Herbert Walker Bush did, from Congress to the Central Intelligence Agency to the Presidency. His contribution will never be forgotten.