NYC Follies

Can you believe this nonsense in NYC, where they won’t release the Guatemalan illegal immigrant who burned a woman alive on the New York subway to ICE because they are a “Sanctuary City?” They are likely protecting this miscreant for fear that the Feds will seek the death penalty, whereas New York is content to let him serve life in prison without parole. With maximum security prisons spending more than $50,000 a year to house and feed these animals, and assuming this 33-year-old has a normal life expectancy of, say another 50 years, this puts the taxpayers on the hook to the tune of 2.5 million dollars to pay for someone who shouldn’t have been in this country in the first place. Where is the logic in this thimking ?

Courting Disaster

Can you imagine our debt burden has exceeded $33 trillion, and its service of $1 trillion exceeds that of our military budget, a sure indicator we are teetering on the brink of financial disaster? DOGE can't come soon enough! And its toll on budget “Pork” and government management inefficiencies surely will evoke a considerable hue and cry from the establishment. Still, we must persevere lest we burden our children’s children with an insurmountable existential threat to their life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness as Americans.

Merry Christmas

Happy holidays to all, and thank you, readers, who have tolerated my incessant ranting and raving over the state of our Republic. Admittedly, I was losing confidence in our citizenry's grasp of our dire straights, that our elected officials on both sides of the aisle were leading us down a path of inevitable disaster, that Donald Trump, the anointed voice of decent, was crying in the wind, and that the enormity of righting our ship of state was beyond us. Then came the elections of November! Hope springs eternal. Our old values held out at the ballot box. Socialism, DEI, and the Woke movements were vanquished. The electorate took a breath and turned back toward constitutional guidance in our governance. Initially, we will be in a damage control posture with the promise of financial, physical, and international reforms being legislated and acted upon, a united United States to emerge representative of its former domestic and international self. Happy New Year!

Shut It Down!

I’m getting sick of the Democrats threatening to shut down the government and blame it on the Republicans. It's the same old tired playbook. Oh, the horror. So a few checks won’t go out, and you won’t be able to visit a National park over the holidays, but other than that, our government will continue to function, albeit the definition of function is subject to scrutiny, especially after leaks from the Biden administration show our commander in chief to have been incapacitated starting early in his term. And when the shutdown is over, our pampered employees will receive back pay anyway. So enough with the threats, and go ahead and shut it down. Maybe our representatives in Congress will have time to read the 1200-page omnibus spending package they’re trying to ram down our throats.

Exhorbinate Wages

Breitbart had their media expert on this morning talking about the future of mainstream media and cable news. The most glaring example was Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, who has been reduced from twice weekly to a single show but only saw her salary reduced from $30M to $25M while her viewership is less than 1mil tuning in, somewhere around 800,000. Compare this to Jesse Watters, who has drawn 4-4.5 million viewers to his show on FOX. Similarly, all the big names, Anderson Cooper, Morning Joe, and Jake Tapper, are all less than 1mil viewers, with CNN as low as 5O,000, which equates to 10,000 per state. The Food Network has more viewers. And they all command exorbitant salaries: $12M for Cooper, $4M for Tapper, and $8M for Morning Joe. At $12M a year, Watters appears to be giving FOX the best return on investment. How exactly is this sustainable, and what network shareholder would approve of Maddow’s salary?

AOC Ever The Race-Baiter

It would appear Jurisprudence in NYC trying to dissuade its detractors in Daniel Penny being acquitted on charges of homicide. Yet Congresswoman AOC thinks she is intellectually and morally superior to the jury of her fellow New Yorkers. She is another reprehensible race-baiting hypocrite following the Obama playbook, hectoring the common folks who have to deal with destructive government policies while she rubs elbows with the political elite and feathers her own nest. Least she forgot there were Blacks and Latinos trapped in that subway car being threatened by a deranged homicidal drug addict. Yet, Penny will undoubtedly be subjected to further legal harassment via a Civil Suit. DA Allen Bragg is a disgrace 

Showing My Age And Bias

I caught myself lamenting the destruction of our culture with a total degradation in our intelligence and taste in music. The WSJ ran an article marveling at the success of Taylor Swift, who surpassed Michael Jackson for an era of dominance in the music industry.  The stunning statistic is that Swift alone commands a significant portion of the market, a figure greater than the entire jazz genre. How depressing. Jazz musicians mastering their craft and toiling in obscurity are overwhelmed monetarily and culturally by a Tina Turner wannabe in a sequined bathing suit and go-go boots who belts out juvenile pop tunes about her failed relationships. She has neither the moves nor the voice of Tina Turner. What she has is technology: a pitch shifter and a hoard of marketing executives preying on our phenomenally brain-dead youth. It’s not music anymore in this age of video, Instagram, and audience participation. How far we’ve fallen. I am just saying.

Here We Go Again

This Hegseth nomination looks doomed, or at best destined for a Kavanaugh-style spectacle where the democrats will resort to their tired old playbook and parade a succession of distraught female victims in front of a Senate committee with the cameras rolling. The moral of the story is that you shouldn’t mess with the gravy train, which is the military-industrial complex. That’s their cash cow. There’s that; apparently, non-disclosure agreements aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. And even email correspondence with your mom isn’t all that private. This is not to say that Hegseth isn’t a flawed candidate with a history of womanizing, failed marriages, and boozing. Check, check, and check. But like Blasey-Ford before her, their star accuser has a story full of holes. With husband and child waiting for her in a hotel room, why exactly did the female conference attendee in question choose to go bar hopping with keynote speaker Hegseth and a group of star-struck women?  All the while texting her husband about what a scumbag she thought Hegseth was. And why did she, after engaging in a heated argument with a “visibly intoxicated” Hegseth, did she choose to accompany him back to his hotel room?  And suggesting that she somehow “blacked out” while claiming not to have been drunk, how did she suddenly become lucid with Hegseth on top of her?  Is she implying that the intoxicated Hegseth was somehow able to slip her a Mickey?  And if so, why would she have accepted a drink, and how would the drunken Hegseth be able to surreptitiously concoct the potion?  Too many questions. But the democrats will smudge up a set of giant spectacles and coach her through a senate investigation, hoping to tip the balance in the republican majority chamber. 

Hypocracy

Isn’t it amusing listening to democrats whine that Trump’s choice of Kash Patel as director of the FBI is only because he “agrees with Trump that the DOJ should serve to punish, lock up and intimate [his] political opponents?” Remind me again exactly what the DOJ has been doing for the Democrats the last four years. Hypocrisy reigns supreme.