Month: October 2022

Last week the White House spokesperson was asked a question about the diesel oil shortage. Although he responded by talking, when he responded, his answer actually had nothing to do with the question. Why would a White House spokesperson blatantly avoid answering a simple question about our diesel oil supply?

-Could it be that the White House (WH) is not aware of the diesel problem?  … Extremely unlikely, as the major news affiliates are well aware of this potentially disastrous situation.

On Oct 27 (Reuters) – U.S. diesel supplies are becoming critically low with shortages and price spikes likely to occur in the next six months unless and until the economy and fuel consumption slow.

From Fox News:

“Mansfield Energy issued the alert Friday, 10/28, stating there was a developing diesel fuel shortage in the southeastern region of the United States. The company speculated that the shortage could be generated from “poor pipeline shipping economies” and a historically low supply of diesel reserves.

“Poor pipeline shipping economics and historically low diesel inventories are combining to cause shortages in various markets throughout the Southeast,” the company said. “These have been occurring sporadically, with areas like Tennessee seeing particularly acute challenges.”

States that are expected to experience serious effects of the shortage include Maryland, Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.

-Could it be that the WH is purposely not even mentioning this issue until the midterm elections are water over the dam. This could certainly be possible as another major issue before the midterms could sink the Bismarck, so to speak.

-Could it be that the WH is both well aware of the problem and understandably wants to keep it quiet right now for political reasons, but … has no idea how to remedy the problem? This is the scariest possibility of all because running out of diesel fuel would be an economic disaster for the country. Just about everything that moves around the country does so because of diesel. This includes trucks, trains, airplanes, and something that is very close to the heart of VP Harris, … school buses.

Sources are estimating that our diesel supply may run out on November 21 of this year. This is not the same as the country running out of baby formula. Because this is a huge deal, can anyone explain to me why the WH is avoiding the issue and subtly gaslighting us?

10/31/22

As is my modus operandi on Sunday, I am writing about someone who deserves our praise for his courage.

Kyle Seraphin has worked for the FBI for six years. He is an FBI agent … err, he is an FBI agent in limbo as he has been suspended without pay and cannot obtain new employment until he quits his current job or asks for permission. Hmmm! That seems harsh. Why has he been suspended?

Kyle Seraphin has basically been suspended because he is a whistleblower.

From Liberate America:

“On one occasion, Seraphin said he was compelled to divulge information in 2021 when Attorney General Merrick Garland said to elected officials that the Department of Justice was not singling out parents who were protesting at school boards. Seraphin provided a member of Congress an email that the FBI was circulating among its ranks. The email said that Garland ordered the activation of the PATRIOT Act to single out parents with a tag titled ‘EDUOFFICIALS.’

“Many of these parents were at school board protests concerning mask and vaccine mandates along with woke education curricula. This angered the political establishment greatly, which prompted Garland to use the security state to harass otherwise peaceful parents. 

‘That’s when you become part of political hatchet jobs, and I didn’t sign up for that, and nobody I know signed up for that either,’ Seraphin said to Dan Bongino, on his talk show, ‘That’s not what people want to get involved in.’

“In a recent Washington Times interview, Seraphin said that the bureau’s cases dealing with domestic extremists, right-wing extremists, and white nationalists are largely entrapment operations with dubious moral and ethical aspects to them.

Seraphin continued, ‘The FBI‘s playbook when it comes to counterterrorism investigations is always and unequivocally morally equivalent to entrapment, even if there’s a legal definition that allows them to skirt that.’”

So, let’s see if I understand … Kyle Seraphin has been suspended without pay apparently because he is a whistleblower. He had the guts to standup and say the equivalent of “what’s going on in the DOJ is not right.” He said what many Americans now realize, namely that the DOJ/FBI have become political, and consequently he is living day to day without a paycheck.

Hopefully the Republicans will gain control of both the House and Senate in the upcoming midterms, and thus be in a position to un-politicize the DOJ/FBI.

10/30/22

In a video posted on the Project Veritas YouTube channel this week, Democratic Arizona gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs’ twin sister, Becky Hobbs, can be heard explaining how the Democrat Party “across the country” donated to certain Republican candidates they saw as “extremist” in an effort to give Democrat candidates a better chance of winning.

At this point we do not know whether this was a good strategy or not. After the midterms we will be able to determine if this was indeed money well spent by the Democratic Party. Nonetheless, it reminded me that Rush Limbaugh proposed a similar type of strategy but without money. My mind is fuzzy on this, but as I recall, in the presidential primaries, he encouraged all of his listeners to vote for the Democratic candidate that he felt had less of a chance to eat the Republican nominee.

Coincidentally, this morning for the first time in a long time I came across two stories concerning Rush Limbaugh. For those non-Rush aficionados out there, this was unusual because Rush Limbaugh has been dead for over a year and a half. Because of his radio time slot on the West coast was 9am-12 noon, I was not able to listen to Rush when I was working, but would occasionally catch Rush’s week-in-review on Saturday.

Last week James Golden, a black kid from Queens, was on Tucker Carlson promoting his new book. For those of you not familiar with the name, James Golden, perhaps his radio pseudonym, Bo Snerdley will ring a bell. Bo Snerdley,  a longtime producer for Rush Limbaugh’s radio show! appeared on “Tucker Carlson Today” to promote his new book “Rush on the Radio: A Tribute from His Sidekick for 30 Years”

During the interview Golden emphasized what a truly caring and thoughtful person Rush Limbaugh was. He described an incident back in the eighties, where Rush became aware of Golden’s dire financial situation, and gave Golden $5000? 

A choked-up Golden divulged, “What Rush said to me was, ‘I don’t want you to tell anybody about this, this is between you and me; this is not a loan, this is a gift, because good things need to happen to good people once in awhile.'” Golden exclaimed, “That’s who he was. That’s who this man was. There were tens of thousands of those stories.”

Also in the interview, Golden revealed what happened the day that Limbaugh told the staff that he was stricken with lung cancer.

Golden — who became an executive producer of the nationally syndicated “Rush Limbaugh Radio Show” in 1992 — said that the first thing Limbaugh did was apologize for his illness to the staff because he felt like he was letting down his colleagues.

“Still breaks my heart,” Golden said. “That’s who he was. He cared about his staff. He cared about all of us.”

Golden closed with, “Tucker, he was one of the most exceptional human beings you could ever meet.”

Also last week

Kathryn Adams Limbaugh, widow of Rush Limbaugh, joined Glenn Beck on the radio program, to reflect on her husband’s life and legacy, saying she believes one of his greatest attributes was that “he was so humble. He had the biggest heart. He was so sincere, [and] he never forgot the little guy.”

When asked if rumors that Rush’s death certificate lists his occupation as “Radio’s Greatest of All Time” are true, Kathryn laughed and answered, “Yes, it was a way to tweak the media as a final goodbye from Rush, which we know he certainly would have loved.”

10/29/22

I found this piece from July, 21 2020 especially interesting because just this week the Mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot,  proposed giving herself a raise!

“Karen!”. . .  A Response to a Mess ?

Anyone who has been paying any attention knows that Chicago is a mess . . . Actually even those who are not paying attention know that Chicago is a mess! Furthermore anyone who has been paying attention knows that the Mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, is out of her league . . . Again I am not even sure that you have to be paying attention to realize that Chicago’s Mayor is a Double A baseball player masquerading as a Major League player. 

 Last week Brian Bennett, a Time magazine White House correspondent reported, 

“White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany just called Lori Lightfoot ‘the derelict mayor of Chicago’ and said she should request federal help to secure the city.”

To those of us who are paying attention actually agree with Ms. McEnany’s words, as ‘derelict’ means ‘neglectful of duty.’ Isn’t it part of the duty of any mayor in any city or town to keep his/her citizens safe? The citizens of Chicago are far from safe . . . ergo Mayor Lightfoot is derelict.

Now since Mayor Lightfoot is not only a lawyer, but also a graduate of the University of Michigan one could reasonably expect an intelligent response.

Mayor Lightfoot’s response – “Hey Karen, watch your mouth!” 

A classy response? Not quite!

A typical Democrat response . . . yes; attack the speaker, not what was said!

To me, this sounds like the sort of a weak defensive response that was said in anger . . .perhaps said in anger because she is realizing that she is not adept at playing in the big leagues.

(Err, at this point I should probably apologize to the University of Michigan for mentioning that she is a graduate.)

For those of you that have not been paying attention:

“Karen” is a pejorative term that has come to prominence to label a demanding, middle-aged white woman who displays a sense of overbearing entitlement in various societal confrontations.

(Err, at this point, I should probably apologize to all lawyers also!)

So what are some facts? 

Every weekend is a mess  in Chicago, especially for the poor people who happen to live in certain regions of the city, like my old neighborhood, Austin.

This last weekend in Lightfoot’s city … 68 shot, 14 dead! And last weekend was not out the ordinary for Chicago. This is typical! What a mess!

So far between January 1 and July 12, 182 children have been shot in the city. 34 of those kids died.

What does  Mayor Lightfoot say to the parents of those children that have been killed? Considering her “derelict response,”  my guess . . . Nothing, as I don’t Care(n)!

7/21/20

For a while I didn’t get it. “Why would some candidates for office refuse to debate their opponent?” Recently there has been three separate instances which, in essence, encompass three different potential answers to that question.

In the Arizona Governor’s race, the Democratic candidate (Katie Hobbs) refuses to debate her Republican opponent (Kari Lake). Lake has criticized Hobbs’ refusal to face her, suggesting that it comes from Hobbs’ inability to properly debate. This may actually be the case here as Hobbs also refused to debate her opponents before the Democratic primary.

In New York’s Governor’s race, there was one debate and it demonstrated  why incumbent Hochul does not want to do it again … her policies are terrible. During the debate Hochul, the incumbent Democrat stunningly said she couldn’t understand why it’s “so important” to lock up criminals. Wow!

However, the main reason for a candidate not debating is because the candidate is amazingly incompetent. This was brought out in spades in the Pennsylvania Senate Race debate between John Fetterman and Dr. Mehmet Oz.

As I watched multiple snippets of this debate, I stared to feel sorry for John Fetterman.

When asked about the federal minimum wage, Fetterman struggled to get through his answer that sought to invoke a “living wage,” calling it a “willing wage” and generally fumbling the answer.

When talking about abortion, Fetterman said, “that the choice beleans women and their doctors.”

The debate moderators also asked Fetterman why his position on fracking had changed, displaying a 2018 quote in which Fetterman said he didn’t support fracking. Unbelievably, moments after being read his own quote saying “I don’t support fracking at all,” John Fetterman says “I’ve always supported fracking.”

Now everyone is probably rightly assuming that Fetterman’s inability to speak and think coherently is due to his recent stroke. I am not familiar with the John Fetterman persona before his stroke … perhaps it’s different or perhaps it’s not. However, it doesn’t really matter, as a U.S. Senator must be able to think logically and speak, using normal English words, because the responsibility of a Senator is too important.

Now I get it. In retrospect, John Fetterman should have stuck with his “no-debate” stance as over 80% felt that Dr. Oz won their debate.

10/28/22

 During the pandemic and it’s associated lockdowns, I remember commenting that, in general, dogs were going to be in the best shape ever. Why? … because walking one’s dog was a “legal” way to get out of the house. Of course the walking of dogs in parks was prohibited because “those that knew best” ascertained that it was dangerous to be out in the fresh air of a park where someone might be within ten or so yards from another person, and besides masks were required in parks, and dogs could not and would not wear masks.

Well those same morons who roped off public parks with yellow crime scene tape and who proclaimed that beaches on the ocean were verboten are still around, and after reading something this morning, I wonder if these same loonies have gravitated to CNN.

Late last month, CNN published an article titled: “Our pets are part of the climate problem. These tips can help you minimize their carbon pawprints.” The article went largely unnoticed until CNN promoted the article on social media. 

From BlazeMedia:

According to CNN, pets are a negative impact in regards to climate change. CNN gave green advice on how to reduce your pets’ “carbon pawprint,” including feeding your canine companion “insect-based food” and adopting small rodents instead of dogs. (“I’ll be back in a little while, honey. I am going to take Rodney, our rat, out for a walk.”) 

Call me crazy, but I doubt that during the next pandemic, you will see a lot of turtles, birds or rodents on leaches out for neighborhood strolls. However, if you do, the ones holding the other end of the leaches will be wearing masks, and working at CNN from home.

10/27/22

If Al Queda or any other militant group were responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans, then I would anticipate a harsh reaction from the U.S. citizenry. A precisely placed drone attack here and another there could go a long way to convincing those killers of U.S. citizens to reformulate their plan. 

So far, so good!

Now consider another entity that is responsible for killing tens of thousands of Americans this year. Here I am referring to the Mexican drug cartels who are responsible for the fentanyl coming across our southern border, and it is this fentanyl which is killing Americans. No one is disputing this! … and no one is doing anything about this. Here I am specifically referring to our “ denying there is a problem” President and Vice President.

To me, the Mexican drug cartels are truly terrorists in a real sense that they are wantonly responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans … and since they are terrorists, they should be eliminated. 

Eliminated … How?

Follow my thinking here: After one week of warning the cartels, if fentanyl continues to be smuggled across our southern border, then using drones, bomb the crap out of them! Kill as many Mexican drug cartel members as is possible, and continue to do so until the fentanyl smuggling stops.

Will this be considered cruel and unusual punishment by those that know best? … Undoubtedly, but someone has to step up and do something!

However, on  Oct. 7, President Joe Biden signed a long-awaited policy tightening the rules for the CIA and Pentagon to conduct drone strikes outside of traditional war zones. The new policy requires the president’s approval before a lethal drone strike or commando raid can be launched.

The policy focuses on countries that are not conventional war zones, including Somalia, Yemen and Afghanistan, but where the United States continues to carry out counterterrorism strikes. It signals that the U.S. will limit drone strikes, which have been criticized for killing civilians. However, it allows the president to waive certain requirements of the new policy at his discretion.

So far, no longer so good, as this puts the onus of decision making in the hands of Joe Biden, who has been notoriously wrong in the past when it has come to foreign policy. Either he is unaware of the deaths due to the fentanyl being smuggled across our southern border, or he doesn’t care!

10/26/22

Just when I thought that the CDC had reached its nadir in terms of respect, the advisory board is acting in an amazingly incredulous fashion by adding a Covid vaccination to the long-standing and previously trustworthy list of vaccines for school children.

Before the Covid debacle, I had previously thought that the CDC, including its advisory board would have to be pretty smart individuals, but when the advisory board just unanimously voted to recommend that Covid-19 shots be added to the child immunization schedule, I was forced to change my way of thinking.

How many things are wrong with this bonehead decision? Where do I start?? 

First of all, a Covid-19 shot is not actually a vaccine. A “vaccine” by its traditional definition is something that is given to prevent a disease. For example, the polio vaccine is given to prevent polio … however the “Covid vaccine” does not prevent Covid. One might ask if a “so-called vaccine” for X, does not prevent X, why would the CDC Advisory Board recommend adding it to the list of recommended child immunizations? Dr. Marty Makary of John’s Hopkins noted that for schoolchildren, there’s no evidence to show a reduction in disease in that age range because of Covid shots.

Second: There are already at least eleven states with laws on the books which, in essence, prevent a “Covid vaccine” to be mandated for children. This will inevitably lead to lawsuits and stays in states which do not have such laws preventing vaccine mandates for children. At this point, the courts have put holds on all vaccine mandates, except those for health care workers, and there is every reason to believe that the same thing will happen for vaccine mandates for children.

Third: This latest unanimous dictum by the CDC Advisory panel will only hurt when it comes to the public following the present childhood immunization schedules. In other words, if this Covid shot recommendation is thought to be ludicrous, what’s to prevent John Q. Public from extrapolating to a conclusion that all of the other CDC mandates on vaccinations are likewise ludicrous? As Dr. Makary stated, 

“it threatens the credibility of MMR and polio and many of the other vaccines for which it’s taken 50 years to build public trust.”

Fourth: Those standard well-established vaccines have been shown to have a minimum of side-effects. The “Covid vaccine” has no such track record. Who knows what sort of bad things could come from the Covid shot as we get four, five, or ten years down the line? … The answer is, “Nobody knows!”

Finally, there is nothing in this CDC advisory that mentions prior Covid infections. Here at least one has to admit that at least the CDC is consistent in that none of their prior Covid recommendations have mentioned or even alluded to natural immunity from a prior Covid infection. Although certainly not impossible, it is highly unlikely that someone will get Covid more than once. Come on, CDC, get your act together!

While I do not have any young children, if I did, I would be totally against any recommendation that they receive any initial vaccine for Covid, or any further Covid boosters.

11/25/22

This morning within a space of thirty minutes I read two different articles, both of which questioned the safety of the Covid vaccines. The response from some to what I am going to say will be along the lines of … “Conspiracy theories, they’re everywhere. Just ignore them and they will go away!”

Yes, admittedly conspiracy theories are often ubiquitous, but what grabbed my attention about these two pieces was that they were from different sides of the globe, and they separately looked at two different, although potentially related, Covid vaccine issues.

First, from Epoch News out of Canada:

“An Alberta doctor is calling on the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) to look into what he says is a significant jump in doctors’ “sudden deaths” following the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines beginning in December 2020.

“I am now providing you an update with information about 80 young Canadian doctors who died suddenly or unexpectedly since the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines,” wrote Dr. William Makis, a nuclear medicine physician and a former clinical academic colleague at the Department of Radiology at the University of Alberta, in a letter to CMA on Oct. 15.

In addition, he shared his analysis of the death rate of different age groups, starting with all doctors under age 50, who he found “died at almost twice the rate in 2021 (and will be the same in 2022) compared to 2019 and 2020.”

“All doctors under age 40 died at a rate 5-fold higher in 2022 compared to 2019, or 2020 (the average for the 2019/2020 period is 1.5 deaths/year, in 2022 there were 8 deaths so far, so > 5-fold),” he said.

“All doctors under age 30 died at a rate 8-fold higher in 2022 compared to 2019, or 2020 (the average for the 2019/2020 period is 0.5 deaths/year, in 2022 there were 4 deaths so far, so 8-fold).”

Now granted, these numbers are small, I have never before heard of Dr. Makis, and I have not seen his actual data. However, what I find curious is the response of the CMA (Canadian Medical Association):

In response to Makis’s letter, the CMA told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement on Oct. 17 that the association is concerned with “misinformation and conspiracy theories” spreading online about the recent deaths of physicians across Canada.

“The CMA continues to encourage all Canadians to be up to date with all their vaccines to prevent serious health issues,” Lewis, a spokesperson for the CMA added.

The second concerning set of data is from Japan (also from Epoch News):

“Researchers in Japan analyzed deaths caused by myocarditis, a form of heart inflammation, where the myocarditis set in within 28 days of vaccination. Thirty-eight deaths fit the definition, about half of which were diagnosed by autopsy and or biopsy, with the others being determined through tools such as blood tests and electrocardiogram.

Researchers then took the vaccinated mortality rate and compared it with the death from myocarditis rate from the general population before the pandemic, in the years 2017 to 2019.

“Using the disclosed data by the Japanese government, we observed increased myocarditis mortality rate ratio in the SARS-CoV-2 vaccinated population compared with general population during three years pre-COVID-19 pandemic era, especially in young adults,” the researchers, Dr. Sintaroo Watanabe of the Japan Marine United Corporation and Dr. Rokuro Hama of the Japan Institute of Pharmacovigilance, said. SARS-CoV-2 is a name for the virus that causes COVID-19.

‘However, not only in young adults, but also in the middle aged (40s) and in the elderly and overall vaccinated, increased risk of myocarditis death is associated with vaccination.

‘Based on the results of this study, it is necessary to inform public about [sic] that the risk of serious myocarditis including death may be far more serious than the risk reported before and that it occurs not only in young persons but also in elderly,’ they said.”

I not aware of whether or not Japan has the equivalent of the CMA, but I have not seen a response to this study that implies “misinformation” or “conspiracy.” Could it be that there is no equivalent Japanese word to the English “misinformation” or “conspiracy?” … or could it be that Japan is actually interested in looking into data that does not fit a preconceived mold?

10/24/22

As is my pattern on Sunday, I pay tribute to someone who we can all look up to and admire. Javeno Mclean is such an individual.

From Epoch Bright:

Javeno Mclean, 37, who calls himself an “exercise specialist,” is the owner of J7 Community Health Center in Blackley, Manchester, England.

Born in Jamaica, Javeno used to be a professional cricket player. A few years ago, during his prime, he went to India where he had the opportunity to train the squad because their designated trainer had suffered a knee injury. It was in this role that Javeno realized he gained more satisfaction from helping others.

After a few years passed, he retired from cricket and decided that he wanted to help people get into shape.

In the early stages of his fitness career, Javeno worked for the Manchester City Council. However, he wanted to do something on his own, and thus started his gym.

“I wanted a facility that would be full of energy and have exercises that were attractive for the whole family,” he told Cambridge News. “I wanted this to be a gym where people could exercise and find something that works for them. I wanted a place where my mom or aunty or grandma could come and feel the love.”

Javeno offers his help for free, as he believes that taking payment from people who require his help the most “dilutes his intentions,” and makes his message for empowerment weaker.

“I have trained people with disabilities, with cancer, the elderly all for free for 21 years,” he said. “I’ve never taken a penny. I believe if I really want to help and change not just my community, but the world, I must do it from the purest part of my soul – and there isn’t a bank down there.”

Thus far I have not been able to find the equivalent to Javeno Mclean elsewhere although I would guess that somewhere, some such person exists.

10/23/22