I’m Depressed

Reading the WSJ and listening to the news is enough to put you in a funk. Biden is dithering us into a nuclear-armed Iran and assuredly a middle east conflict of potentially biblical proportion. His continually showing weakness on the international stage will undoubtedly encourage China to move on Taiwan and Putin to increase his energy war in Europe by closing the natural gas spigot. At the same time, Interest rates here jumped another three-quarter of a percentage point in an economy in full recession, despite the administration's attempts to redefine that economic barometer. Further, the administration touting full employment despite a workforce participation rate of 62%. And, we have that walking talking advertisement for hair gel, posing as the prime minister of Canada wanting to follow Sri Lanka and the Netherlands lead in restricting nitrogen emissions from fertilizer. A concern, we in our “green initiative” seem inclined to follow suit. What with Ukrainian wheat export production in the harper, why reduce the productivity of farms in North America to compensate, courting famine for those nations dependent on grain and wheat imports? Not very bright or realistic, these green globalist elites. 

Yet Another Existential Threat

It’s hilarious listening to the climate change alarmists go off the rails when a heat wave strikes. Interesting that temperatures hit 100 degrees in England, and they are telling us that the asphalt roads are melting and they have to cover the metal structure of bridges with reflective foil to keep the girders from bending. Seriously?  So steel now melts at 100 degrees? And according to mainstream news sources, apparently, people are dying in the streets. Yet statistically, more people die yearly from cold exposure than from heat.  We don’t hear much from the hypothermia alarmists. And of course, the solution is to have President Mumbles declare a climate emergency and through executive order or the misused reconciliation process in Congress restrict fossil fuel consumption by regulating the oil industry into bankruptcy while China and India continue to consume Russian oil and grow their economies. And ditto online:  homes burning and oceans rising. Death and destruction, an existential crisis. The solution from all these pundits: Government regulation, and we all know how much good that will do us.

I’ve Had It

Subtlety has never been my forte. So let me vent. I'm fed up to my teeth with the negativity permeating our country. The voices of Maxine Waters, AOC, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, The Squad, Bernie Sanders, our president himself, and their ilk degrading our country every chance they get; the thought to be legal scholars that come out of the woodwork advising our judicial system is dysfunctional that our founding fathers drew a flawed constitution have me apoplectic. All in complete disregard of what this country, as a nation, as a society, has accomplished in science, industry, and culture, what it has meant to the world as a facilitator of peace and purveyor of benevolence, preserver of the environment. Perfect no, but other countries of international influence pale in comparison. I can't bring myself to suggest they know not what they are doing. Collectively they are nothing more than ingrates and rabble-rousers disguised as public servants; self-aggrandizing terrible people that don't deserve the wealth and fame they have amassed at public expense.

It's All They've Got

Racism, abortion, guns, Trump-bashing, January 6th, and contrived social inequities are the talking points of the Democrat’s assault on the ‘22 mid-terms and ‘24 elections. The economy, our balance of payments, supply chain difficulties, our faltering international presence, immigration, crime, and federal government overreach are addressed only in a malaise of minimizing contradictions, confusion, and misdirection. The polls have got it right; we are in a world of hurt.

The Generalization of Racism

This race-baiting drives me crazy. Apparently, what racism means to too many Americans is White people subjugating people of color, explicitly subjugating Black people, and supposedly believing the practice is peculiar to the United States. I wish those of that mind would research the history of slavery, its subsequent abolition, and the demographics and status of people of color other than in the United States. No question, biases, and prejudices are a human condition and can be harsh and demeaning, but to be thought disproportionately and specifically to black people because of their color in today's society is absurd. Statistics say otherwise. To dislike a person, a group, or an organization, for we rational folks, has to do with character and agenda, not color. No question, contrived disparaging stereotyping of one’s ethnic origin or race can be cruel and offensive. They should be destained, but when those biases and prejudices are broadly interpreted as proof of systemic racism play into the liberal white-supremacist narrative intentionally intended to be divisive and destructive. I’ve known white, black, yellow, and beige folks that I disliked, but it wasn’t because of their color, and I'm sure that's the vast disposition of most true Americans. Don't let them mask their true intentions in their endless efforts to divide us for their nefarious purposes.

The 14th Amendment

The abortion-rights movement keeps saying that their 14th Amendment rights are being violated in the SCOTUS RvW decision. I can't see the relevance. Overturning RvW hardly qualifies as depriving any person of life liberty or property without due process. The only “person” being deprived of life by the Planned Parenthood advocates appears to be the fetus, which is never considered in their purview as a person or even in the developmental stage of becoming one. Apparently it's too much to ask the dissenters of the SCOTUS RvW decision to read Alito’s statement in the court's decision.

Let’s Hear It For Elon

You have to find Elon Musk's refreshing counterpoint to the sensitivities of woke culture. As reported in the WSJ, a small cadre of SpaceX employees subjected their fellow workers to a letter looking to gain support to “separate the company from Mr. Musk’s personal brand”, particularly his “public statements and behavior”, finding him “embarrassing and distracting”. In simpler terms, some employees didn’t care for Mr. Musk’s politics and failed to realize where they fit in the food chain. What is truly refreshing is the company response. It is nice to know that in America, some corporations recognize that they need not succumb to the leftist whining, woke culture, and bend to their whims. Ms. Shotwell, SpaceX President and possessing a most appropriate surname, responded by conducting an internal investigation, outing the culprits, and promptly firing them. But their First Amendment Rights, wailed the left. Not in this case. They inappropriately used company time, company resources, internal e-mail, and “diverted employee’s attention from company operations.”  Bravo. And after all, SpaceX is Elon Musk’s company, it is his vision. You don’t like it? The door is that way. American corporations take note. And stop pandering to the left.