Success on Pitch

The men's national soccer team of the United States has virtually no chance to win the World Cup. They will next face a highly ranked and experienced squad from the Netherlands, who will almost certainly prevail, but the American side did something few expected. They somehow defeated the Islamic Republic of Iran, who had a team that literally may have been playing for their own lives and safety of their family members. I am glad the team representing a more or less free people won but hope that the players who were defeated do not have to suffer any further because they are unfortunate enough to be under the thumb of the mad mullahs. 

"Weighing the Equities"

Nancy Pelosi holds you in very low esteem . She is pondering signing off on a railroad strike that would further devastate the economy of the United States. Union over all might just throw America from recession into depression. The "equities" that old Nancy describes can't be between labor and management but must be between an already suffering people and catastrophe. Let us pray sanity prevails and a railroad strike is avoided. 

Athlete in Crisis

Odell Beckham Jr. was one of the most dominant and explosive wide receivers to ever step on the field. He is in the midst of a health issue that had him removed from a commercial flight. He is still young and might have more football ahead of him. Let us pray what is happening to him is not an early manifestation of CTE and that whatever the problem is, that he can quickly recover. 

Pretenders Versus Contenders

I attended classes at Vanderbilt University for a semester and two summer sessions several decades back. I knew some of the athletes in passing, including football players. The team back then was not very good on the gridiron. For a couple of games recently, the Vandy boys looked like they may have turned a corner and become competitive in the incredibly tough Southeastern Conference. They managed consecutive wins over Kentucky in Lexington and then at home over the Gators. This was the first time the Commodores had managed that feat against conference rivals in a long time. They were brimming with confidence when their arch-foe Tennessee arrived in Nashville after sustaining a devastating road loss to South Carolina, and in the process, losing their Heisman hopeful star quarterback. A victory over the Vols would send Vanderbilt bowling. In the event, the Dores were bowled over and thrashed fifty-six to nothing. Maybe, my hometown team improved some, but they are far from being able to compete at the top level of the toughest conference in college football. 

A Sporting Chance

On a given day, the basketball team gathered from the Little Sisters of the Poor is not going to defeat the Boston Celtics. The state high school football champs from Rhode Island are never going to beat the New England Patriots. I will never put a chess grand master into checkmate. In this world, it is good to have realistic expectations. 

Still Standing Strong

I am thankful that despite constant persecution since he came down the escalator to announce his candidacy for President of the United States, Donald Trump is still willing to go to bat for us. Trump certainly loves our nation beyond all else. 

Schumer's Bold Solution

After the Biden cabal and its minions in Congress have made conditions so bad in the United States that responsible folks realize they can't afford to have children they lack the means to support, DemocRATS are explaining the necessity of having to bring in foreigners as being necessary because the natives are not reproducing. Americans are having to pick between food or heat because they can no longer afford both. New York Senator Chuck Schumer has admitted the "replacement strategy" in public remarks, even if he  has not acknowledged the reason that Americans are not being fruitful is that when you drive up the price of everything, people realize they have no way to pay for large families, but if you give sneak-ins carte blanche with tax dollars confiscated from Americans, they and their anchor babies can live as large as they please. After all, they don't have to pay for it. 

Not So Elite

Are a bunch of molesters, rapists, and groomers really the best the world has to offer? I think they are scum. If you want to categorize them as your masters that is your business, but I will never kowtow to them. 

Endless Harassment Campaign

President Trump faces yet more inquisition and unprecedented intrusion into his tax records by Congress.  With all the previous probes, if he was guilty of anything, Trump would have long ago been charged and convicted. The motivation for all this is never that Trump is corrupt but that the rest of those in power are, and know that Donald would expose and put an end to all their misdeeds. 

A Meaningless Reinstatement

I doubt President Trump will return to Twitter, despite being unbanned. The Donald owns his own platform "Truth Social" that is better than the awful company Elon Musk is trying to save. I do not think if Colonel Sanders was alive, you would see him eating at Church's Chicken, even if they offered him a free meal. 

Clearly Trump Supporter

Can there be doubt in anyone's mind that the Colorado gay club massacre was carried out by one of those Trump bigots? No one would be a bit surprised if the suspect does not claim he committed the violence in the Donald's name, except perhaps Richard Grenell, who is openly gay and acted as Trump's Director of National Intelligence and the thousands of other gay people Donald has worked with or employed over decades. I actually have no idea if the murderer even backed Trump, but you can bet whether or not he did, some members of the press and certain Leftists will say the attack was Trump's fault. 

Ranked Choice Voting

We will explore a hypothetical election to demonstrate how ranked choice voting (RCV) is designed to thwart the clear will of the majority. Let us pretend you have a Presidential election where RCV is in use. You have a Republican candidate, let us say Donald Trump, a DemocRAT, for argument's sake Joe Biden, a Communist, and a Libertarian. A Biden supporter or a Communist for that matter will not want to cast a vote for Trump or the Libertarian at all, but in being forced to select, since you can't place Biden as first choice, second, third and/or fourth, but only as their primary selection, do they choose the Communist as number two or Trump or the Libertarian? In any event, they only really support their man Joe. By the same token, who does someone who only really wants the Donald pick as his next three choices and in what order? We could have a situation where somehow a Libertarian or the Communist prevail because voters do not know what arcane sequence of ranking would result in the man they actually wanted winning. You could easily have the second choice of many but first choice of few defeating the individual that received the most first place votes. Americans want to pick winners, without caring who second through fourth place are, because we generally regard everyone who is not the champion as losers. 

Simply Too Divisive?

Is Donald John Trump too much of a bomb thrower to serve again as President? Does Trump have so large an ego as to preclude him from serving in high office any further (as if the politicians on the other side are modest and self-effacing)? Are we going to listen to people who despise us, deplore Trump, and hate the nation as it was Founded and let them select our candidates, or will we follow our conscience and our hearts and pick someone who loves our country as much as we do? 

A Long Relationship

Did you know Herschel Walker and Donald Trump have known each other for four decades? Donald lured the football great from entering the NFL to play for Trump's New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League. They are both high energy winners who love America. Let us pray both emerge victorious in their coming elections. 

Comes Our Cavalry

The salvation of the United may soon be at hand. A force that wants to return America to our Founding Ethos, to prosperity, to strength where Americans regain the respect of the world announced he will seek the Presidency that the cabal stole from him. That savior is Donald John Trump, a man who adores our nation even more than true patriots love him. You have my support Mr. President. We want you back in the White House to deliver energy independence, make the military strong, the streets safe, secure our border, and make us great again. 

Stripped of Freedom

We are in a post-Constitutional America in some aspects, and with successive "questionable" elections, the situation is only growing worse. Any republic or democracy for that matter needs transparent vote collection and counting so that the vast majority from any party have confidence in the system. Without that, with one or the other faction always doubting a straight outcome, you have chaos and invite violence between the sides. You also have a particular party who for some time has insisted the Constitution be read as a "living document", which is like being in a card game where the dealer is able to change the rules in the middle of a hand. Those same DemocRATS act as though the Second Amendment is not a crucial guard on liberty but a danger that must be eliminated. We need to hew onto our Founding documents and preserve an order that cherishes and upholds fair processes, in every arena from balloting to criminal justice, so January 6 suspects are not detained without bond or even bail hearings for over a year. Faith in the United States needs to be restored as we make our nation great again. 

Walls Not Bridges

It is hilarious that those who live in gated enclaves with private armed guards tell those who do not have the means to live beside them that nothing is wrong at our Southern border or in urban areas beset by huge numbers of homeless and insist that serfs like us need to give up our guns, the only means we have to protect our families, because we somehow threaten the non-existent peace in America. They wall themselves in while inviting the world entire to sneak into the United States. While some illegal aliens are relatively harmless, many are criminals and lunatics freed from jails and asylums in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua under the condition that they leave there and come here. Many others are told by the criminals that help them sneak across to deliver narcotics as a condition for their help and indeed their very survival as in "bring in this package and hand it to who we have told you or you and your family members are dead". The dunces with their"Coexist" bumper stickers and the limousine liberals will be the targets of the criminal aliens entering now and that is fine, but we sensible folk who demand sovereignty will be their prey too. We need a wall at our Southern border to keep us safe in our houses, and around our communities to keep us safe from the predations visited on us by the homeless. 

The "Homeless Community"

The ruling party wants to make the homeless a protected class, just like the trannies. In my hometown, our DemocRAT politicians talk about the Nashville "homeless community". I know I am part of this city because we pay more in property tax every year than my father paid to rent a mansion when he came here in the late 1930s. How can the homeless have a "community"? Is that not anywhere they take their stolen shopping cart with the big corrugated box or the tent they sleep in when they are not in a shelter, rehab, or jail? Of course, you have those with "mobile flops"- a vehicle that runs that they stuff towels in the windows to obscure the view when they shoot up inside or snort what they thought was cocaine but turns out to be deadly Fentanyl. Then some other member of the vagrant "community" dumps the body somewhere and has a new "mobile home" to repeat the process. These folks are not part of our community, because that would suggest they contribute something to it, but parasites who use social services that we pay for, are all too often aggressive panhandlers, violent if you refuse them when they beg for a handout, and often responsible for a great deal of Nashville's crime, when they break into homes and shops to steal to feed their habit, engage in strong arm robbery if you do not pony up when they confront you, or armed robbery when they get their hands on a weapon. The vagrants are not part of our community but prey on it. There is no difference between a beggar in Nashville and one in New York City, not neighbors but parasites who can make themselves homeless anywhere, not through bad luck, but self-destructive choices. 

Stealing Some Countries

If the political Left does not win "fair and square", they still seem to find ways to prevail. Whether in Brazil or the United States, where there is a will, the forces of evil find a way. The two most populace nations in the Western Hemisphere have both just had highly questionable elections, in the case of America, the second in a row (The first being 2020). 

Try Using Logic

Does it serve a particular party's interest to stretch out the vote and the counting of ballots?  Yes, it certainly does. Does one side seem to win an uncanny number of those long counts? Absolutely, and it is NOT the Republicans. What would the odds be that ninety percent of the close contests would be won by DemocRATS? Seems to be about one out of one, as the GOP can't seem to pull very many of those out. 

Just a Thought

Life is a trick question. 

Counting the Votes

Votes are found for DemocRATS that were never even cast. Ballots that were actually placed for Republicans will never ever be tallied. They do not count. In some places, it is taking so long to process that it seems the totals are being figured on fingers and toes. It is ludicrous that in a developed, First World nation, the workings of democracy are conducted in such a slipshod manner. 

On Election Theft

If the content a particular candidate wished to distribute was suppressed, have you really had a free and fair election? If the largest search site employs algorithms that favor one party and inhibit access to what the other side is attempting to convey, can we claim a straight vote has occurred? If one side's emails invariably end up in folks' spam filter but their opponents' messages are readily seen, has there been an unfair advantage? If the regime can send out the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to harass and even prosecute those that oppose Biden or indoctrination and grooming in public schools or the murder of those not yet born, has the contest been an honest one?<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4806307135523065"

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Time to Pray

Now that we have voted, let us all beseech the Lord for the protection of the United States. We certainly need it, and if DemocRATS steal another election, only divine intervention could save America. 

The Election Thieves

Do a handful of Republicans cheat in an effort to win an election? Sure, do a few DemocRATS play it straight to uphold the integrity of the vote? Possibly a small number of DemocRAT politicians would not want to use questionable means to prevail, but most seem to be win at all and any cost to maintain and advance their own power. The party of Machiavelli is definitely NOT the GOP. 

The Battle Plan

Republicans are going to mobilize voters at the precinct level. The GOP will send out "remember to vote" telephone calls.  DemocRATS are also going to activate their voters. They will rise from their graves or materialize from thin air to cast their votes for DemocRAT candidates. Let us hope in this epic struggle that good and (the) right prevail. 

Beware of Cheating

America needs plenty of observers to ensure a fair vote and an honest count. If you stop the count or at least say you are halting it overnight and send the monitors home but keep counting ballots, it seems certain you are up to no good. If you kick Republican watchers out and then put up cardboard to obstruct the view of what is going on inside, you may be safe to assume that it is cheating. If you claim a plumbing problem is forcing a stop to the tally but process thousands of ballots after the GOP side is ushered out, you are not playing it straight. There are a multitude of ways to manipulate elections, and DemocRATS are masters of them all. 

Enemies of Liberty

Every corporation pulling their advertisements from Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk beginning to end censorship there is telling us they hate free speech. If you abhor that, you despise human freedom. I will stand with Musk and have gone back on Twitter because at this point on this issue Musk is an ally of patriots. 

Return to Sanity

Israel has just elected not to commit national suicide, a rational choice for any country. Israel had been in the thrall of a coalition that included an Arab party hostile to the notion of a "Jewish" state. The now departing leadership had made concessions to mortal enemies that made Jews more vulnerable in their homeland and destroyed deterrence both domestically from terrorists within the borders to abroad against genocidal states like Syria and Iran. By restoring Netanyahu to power, the Middle East will be a more stable and secure place. Let us hope that the United States follows suit in the coming days to put competent leaders back in place as a hedge against the destruction Biden is unleashing. 

Whiff of Corruption

America's elections are every bit as above board as Brazil's. If you can't trust the count in these places, you might as well be skeptical about votes everywhere. 

New Titan's Stadium

I am opposed to taxpayer money being directed at any private purpose, including the Nashville stadium, but that being said, if you are throwing public money to billionaires, why would you not plan and build a venue large enough to host a Super Bowl? If seventy thousand seats is the minimum threshold to host the biggest game, why propose a facility that only holds sixty thousand spectators? The difference in price of the extra 10,000 seats would certainly be less now than it would be after construction is complete to attempt to add them later.