Could Be Worse

2023 was not a banner year. I had seven cousins die from February on, and had some health issues for the first time. The coming year is a new opportunity, and I pray it brings blessings and abundance. 

Not Like Before

This football season, we are witnessing shells of teams play each other in college football bowl games. The best players, those who contributed the most during the regular season and were the difference makers, are sitting out. They have often either entered the transfer portal or are protecting their viability for the NFL, but are leaving the squads they were essential to in the lurch. I had witnessed a handful of pro prospects opt out in previous seasons, but nothing like we see now, and the transfer portal is warping bowl season. The competition on the field may still be exciting, but it is between teams that are materially different than they were in the run-up to earning their bowl berths. 

Good Neighbor Solution

Until the criminal enterprise posing as a country to America's south blocks the migrant caravans and does its part to secure the border, the United States should halt the remittances from the United States from entering Mexico. The corruption in our neighbor is so thorough and complete that the cartels are now generating more revenue than the Mexican oil industry. The US ought to give the Mexican government the incentive to clean up their country, or just conquer them, block the aliens, and stop the fentanyl that has killed so many Americans, and use the power we have to set things right. 

Injection of Poverty

What kind of leader wants to keep people poor? A ruler who wants folks dependent on him. One such leader is named Biden. 

Injection of Prosperity

Every apparatus of the government and more broadly, the Deep State, will do all they can to boost the economy in the run-up to the Presidential election, not because they seek to help the People, but because they want Trump to lose. This is already observed in the actions of the supposedly non-partisan Federal Reserve in halting the rise in interest rates. Every agency of government will ease up a bit in socking it to the taxpayers, but this is only temporary. If Trump does not prevail, the bureaucrats and government functionaries will slap the lid back down on free enterprise the moment they know their authority to do so is secured for another four years. 

No More Amateurism

In men's college basketball and football in America, the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) selling has essentially ended amateur sports. The best players will only go to the best teams where they will be the most marketable. This scheme therefore damages competition and makes it much more difficult to elevate programs that are not already competing at the highest level. What kind of NIL deal will a player be able to secure at a mid-major or a team that always stalls out at the bottom of a Power 5 conference? The NCAA did not want to enter play for pay as it was actually committed to the ideal of "amateur competition", but was forced to initiate NIL by courts. Now, you will have the powerhouses enhance their dominance with what must be characterized as professional players. 

The Satanic Stalinists

I saw a video posted of a DemocRAT staffer literally kiss a skull that was part of a Satanist display. When the sacrament of your faith is abortion, there are few things you won't stoop to, including praise for the devil himself. On that (unhappy) note- MERRY CHRISTMAS! 

Who Has Resolve?

The Blitz on London did not weaken England in World War II but strengthened their determination to beat the Nazis. October 7, 2023 a pogrom of Jews occurred like none witnessed since the Holocaust, but that has only steeled Israel to vanquish the Hamas murder movement. These jihadists shout "we love death more than you love life", but in the event, few terrorists are fighting to their deaths but they are surrendering in droves. The terrorists unleashed hell on themselves with the unprovoked massacre they thought was the beginning of the end for the Jewish State. Israel will prevail! 

Hamas Cease Fire

While most of the world demands the party that was attacked on October 7 cease fire, it is the side that did the attacking that could end the war in the Middle East instantly. If that terrorist organization released all the hostages and laid down arms, it is likely that Israel would not prosecute ordinary members and might even exile leaders rather than prosecute them. The Jewish State would likely accept a demilitarized Gaza with international, possibly Egyptian, administration with a great degree of autonomy for the Gazans, and the verifiable abandonment of weapons as the only non-negotiable aspect. Israel has always sought peace. It is their neighbors that have not permitted that. 

Who Actually Attacked?

Israel has a massive, well-equipped modern military. Before October 7, the Jewish State was content to shelter behind walls and fences while a genocidal enemy lurked just on the other side. The IDF even deployed the world's first area missile defense called "Iron Dome" to mitigate the need to enter Gaza to quell what otherwise would be murderous attacks from above. It was not a pleasant way to live for Israelis, but it seemed to obviate the need for Israel to go on the offensive to deter Hamas. All that changed when barbarians tore through that fence to conduct a merciless massacre of every Jew they could, men, women, children, and even babies in their cribs, and at least one ripped from her mother's womb. Then terrorists did what the always do. They fled back to Gaza to hide behind the own civilians. This is not a war Israel started. This is not a war of choice. The struggle in Gaza is a war for the very survival of the Jewish State. 

The Real Criminal?

There are numerous accusations against Donald Trump. They are whole cloth and political interference. Joe Biden, on the other hand, has been influence peddling for years. Trump has a huge ego but did not have to break the law to make his fortune. Biden family wealth is undeniably ill-gotten. If you want honest government, elect honest people. Trump is a truth teller and promise keeper, while Joe, on the rare occasion now that he is able to remember, is utterly dishonest. 

Colorado Election Interference

The fundamental aspect of a "free election" is being able to vote for the candidate you want. In Cuba or Venezuela, there are plenty of votes, but only candidates who meet the government's approval are on the ballot. Colorado wants to stage this kind of election. They are not merely keeping a man off a ballot (including being a write-in candidate), but denying millions of their citizens the right to vote for the candidate of their choice. Yes, they are blocking Trump, but much more important than any individual is the ability to vote freely, which the so-called "Supreme Court" of Colorado has just denied, by disenfranchising not Trump, who does not vote there, but the citizens whose rights courts are supposed to protect. 

All But Forgotten

The October 7 massacre took all the oxygen from the room. Whether Hamas intended or not, they stole the spotlight from Putin's invasion of the Ukraine. I bet little Vlad could hug the jihadists in thanks for giving his particular butchery cover with their thirst for innocent Jewish blood. While Israel needs and deserves support for fighting terrorists, we must not forget that a despot with ambitions for conquest still stalks Europe. 

Our Green Overlords

Those in power are not for the environment. They are against humanity. They hate people. They do not want you prosperous and free. They envision themselves as feudal lords and the rest of us as their serfs. They are keen to block carbon dioxide, which would include your exhalation. Do not let these tyrants in the making rob you of your ability to travel, heat your home and food, and even control the clothes that you may purchase. Anyone that would even conceptualize these controls to be impose over others must be stopped! 

Two State Mindlessness

There will never be a Palestine living side by side in peace with a Jewish State, simply because the Palestinians will not accept it. The aim of the Palestinians writ large (although there are individual Palestinians who are exceptions) is to wipe out the Jewish State. There is no point of compromise between remaining alive in safety in a more or less secure country and being driven into the sea by religious fanatics. It is time the rest of the world stop doing the bidding of the mad mullahs of Iran and allows Israel to vanquish the terrorist threat it faces not just in Gaza but also from Lebanon, once and for all. Then, so-called "Palestinian" leadership can be cultivated that does not want all the Jews of the Middle East dead or Dhimmi. 

Who Deserves Country?

The Kurdish people have fought terrorism. They have stood against Al-Qaeda and ISIS and have been killed protecting the world from these bloody-handed thugs. The forty-five million Kurds deserve a free and independent state of their own. You know who does not- the modern day Nazis calling themselves Palestinian freedom fighters. All they have brought forth is bloodshed and terror. 

Seeking Peace Partner

Neither Hamas (obviously) nor the Palestinian Authority actually want peace with the Jewish State. Iran, a regional menace pushing Shia hegemony, certainly does not seek peace, even if individual Iranians hate their leaders and have nothing against Israel. The Sunni states saw the  Jewish State as a hedge against the Islamic Republic, but do not go so far as to embrace Israel as an ally, even when they need the IDF as a deterrent to preserve their own regimes by blocking Iranian machinations. There are no great options to point to as being the long-term peace partner to fill the void when Hamas is vanquished, because few in the Muslim world and none with real power actually want peace with the Jews. 

No Other Army

The IDF is going to extraordinary lengths to spare noncombatants in Gaza, so much so that it is giving up the element of surprise essential to minimizing casualties among Israeli forces. Ten soldiers died yesterday because Hamas knew exactly where they were coming because the IDF gave advance warning so civilians could flee, and the terrorists deployed improvised explosive devices to ambush the Israelis. None of the incredible care the Jewish State is taking for Palestinian civilians really matters to the rest of the world as they condemn Israel anyway and continue their demand that the Jewish State unilaterally cease fire. 

The Indiscriminate Targeting

The putative leaders of the United States and Canada have called out Israel for "indiscriminate targeting" and the targeting of children in Gaza. The IDF has not been doing what is alleged, but just the opposite, as the Israeli forces have had their own soldiers killed in an effort not to harm hostages taken October 7, and have taken great care to avoid harming Palestinian noncombatants. The IDF continues to fight under the doctrine of "Purity of Arms", which is a higher standard than the military of any other nation. Israel adheres to this even at the cost of life to Israeli fighters. When Assad in neighboring Syria would reduce an area entirely with artillery and barrel bombs, the Israeli forces go house to house and door to door, losing men, to make sure that among the Gazans only the jihadists are killed. No other country would take such care. The real "indiscriminate targeting" is by stupid Western leaders like Biden and Trudeau who demonize the only friend their peoples have in the Middle East. 

Epitome of Education

Is there any way that a Jew-hating plagiarist could become the head of one of the most revered universities? I am just asking for a friend who said that a trade school would not hire somebody like that. 

"The Israelis Claim"

The international media has done all it could to sew doubt and undermine the narrative of the Jewish State since October 7. They have reported the terrorist organization Hamas's claims as fact, even when it turns out they are lies, because they are against Israel, as we saw in the reporting in the immediate aftermath of the explosion at Shifa Hospital. At the same time, the world's press has almost invariably voiced skepticism of what the Israeli side asserts. They have held the IDF to the impossible standard of fighting terrorists attacking civilians, holding hostages, and hiding behind their own noncombatants to not harm anyone but the jihadists themselves. It can't be done. You can't accomplish what the Jewish State needs to for survival with an expectation that nobody but the terrorists will be harmed. It is not Jews who are responsible for Palestinian suffering (which the IDF is exercising great care to minimize). It is Hamas. 

Was Joe Oblivious?

It is certain that Joe Biden has now experienced mental decline. It is not possible though that when he was younger and more fully in control of his faculties that he was not aware his family members were profiting off his name and office. If Joe actively was battling dementia as Vice President, we would have known it. 

Hunting the Hunter

What did Hunter Biden have to sell if it was not influence peddling in which his father willingly participated? Was Hunter an expert on energy? Did Hunter actually do legal work as the trained attorney that he is to earn those massive payments? No, he admitted in an interview that he is not well-versed in what Burisma had to sell the world. No, there were no time sheets kept reflecting any service as a lawyer Hunter provided. The only marketable item Hunter had to offer was access to his father. The Biden fish rots from the head down. 

Time for Comeuppance?

Are Hunter Biden's chickens finally coming home to roost? No, Hunter has the same chance of actually serving time in jail or prison as I have of flying by flapping my arms. Even if by some miracle, Biden is convicted, Daddy would pardon him. Hunter is as safe as houses.  

The Real Enemies

Those who fly planes into high-rise buildings and sever children's heads are not against only Jews, but foes of all humanity. If the barbarians succeed in eradicating Jews, do you not see they will go after Christians too and Buddhists, and Hindus, and agnostics, and atheists, and everyone who believes any different from them? The fight in Gaza is not just Israel against Hamas, but civilization against darkness. 

Israel's Sinister Settlers

The United States is getting serious. The State Department is really going to sanction those Bible-believing Jews for having the temerity to live in their Biblical heartland. Jews who refuse to lay down and have their throats slit by genocidal "Palestinians"will be denied entry visas into the United States.Yes, if the Jews of Judea, Samaria, and even part of Jerusalem assert their right to self-defense, the Biden regime in an attempt to keep Michigan blue by wooing the Muslim vote will deny "settlers" access to America. The settlers are not colonizers or occupiers but fruit of the same lineage that was on the land over two thousand year ago. It is the swarming hornets (trying to slaughter their peace-loving Jewish neighbors) who are the source of all the troubles. If American leadership now was moral, they would only sanction the side that wants to push the other into the sea. Jewish folks around the world will not be cowed and will continue to declare "Next year in Jerusalem", not Poughkeepsie or Petaluma, but the eternal and indivisible capital of the Jewish People. The State Department can stuff their visas. Jews will stick to what the Lord promised. 

Balance in Conflict

America, for mystifying reasons, sees a need to provide balance in the conflict between Israel and the "Palestinians". Was balance needed when the world fought the Nazis? The State Department is going to see make sure those vicious Jewish "settlers" are meted out punishment for trying not to have their throats cut by their authentically genocidal neighbors. Of course, Foggy Bottom has never embraced Jews, who are so few, while Muslims are so many and have far more oil than Israel has. This quest for "balance" may also involve some electoral number crunching by the Biden regime. Jews in America will not determine the outcome of any elections, but Muslims in the state of Michigan likely will. The United States does not need to demonize the so-called Jewish occupiers, because the rest of the world is already doing this. Then again, the diplomats facilitated the first Holocaust, so why would they not countenance another? 

State Department Hijinks

The United States is going to exclude some bloodthirsty, murderous Palestinian terrorists from entry into America. They are also going to block the visas of Jews in Judea and Samaria who are unwilling to be parties to their own murders. Seems fair- right? 

Truth About Climate

Schemers and scammers are using the man-caused climate change hoax to enhance their wealth and power. They are tyrants who will never comply with the restrictions they are imposing on the rest of us. They are flying where they want on private jets to the most lavish destinations while ordering you to drive an electric car that will never meet your needs. These are not limousine liberals but despots in the making who are pushing to supplant the real demand economy with one they control, wherein they profit from the changes they force on you. Fifteen minute cities and ULEZ are prisons with the ultra wealthy as warders. You don't expect Bill Gates to ever live within the confines he is pushing, so why should you? 

Does Iran Care?

As the United States makes bellicose statements about how they will thwart aggression by Iran, the Islamic Republic laughs. The mad mullahs realize American bluster means nothing, so long as the theocracy that has enslaved Iran remains unscathed. The Biden regime will never threaten Tehran or even really go after Iranian nukes, despite US protestations to the contrary. Israel is on its own in blocking an atomic mushroom cloud engulfing Tel Aviv.   

Leave Washington Out

Washington Husky football hides from Southern teams. The opponents they dominate are not very good. They don't belong in the championship. The best four teams right now in college football are Michigan, Texas, Alabama, and Georgia. Why does FSU merit any consideration? Because at the start of the season they beat a mediocre LSU team from the SEC that is tougher than the ACC, that makes little sense, as that Tiger squad is not among the elite from the real league. The tournament will probably have the major undefeated ballers, even though, except for Michigan, they would probably be in the middle of the pack of the Southeastern Conference. 

Requires Precision Bonding

I watched a beloved teacher of mine back in high school set up dioramas of battles with tiny but realistic models he constructed. That instructor was named Albert Gaines, but a few of the students closest to him referred to him as "Uncle Albert"or "Uncle Al" with much respect. He was a man's man who had won a state high school football title at Hillsboro around 1960. I asked him why he was using minuscule drops of a really expensive bonding agent from a specialty store to put the figures together. Uncle Al stated you needed a "quality bonding agent to put things together right and an even better one to fix anything that broke". I think the world need barrels of that now, actually, supertankers filled with the magic glue. 

Nothing in Common

Unless you happen to want to put a live infant in an oven and crank the broiler on, or chop babies' heads off, you have different values than Hamas. If you want to visit these horrors on innocent people, then by all means continue your genocidal chant of "from the river to the sea". If you are decent and do not endorse the eradication of the Jewish People, then please stand with Israel. The IDF is not just fighting for Israel but for the free world.