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I’d like to point out what a “President for the people” actually does!
From Townhall:
President Donald Trump announced on Friday revealed plans on Friday to create the National Center for Warrior Independence at the West Los Angeles VA Campus. This new initiative is aimed at offering critical support and housing for homeless veterans. Trump also directed that money originally set aside for services and housing for illegal immigrants be reallocated to help America’s veterans instead. The White House said its goal is to house up to 6,000 homeless veterans at the center by 2028.

“The VA campus in West Los Angeles will become the National Center for Warrior Independence with facilities and resources to help our veterans earn back their self-sufficiency.”
Los Angeles is home to around 3,000 homeless veterans, representing roughly 10 percent of the nation’s entire homeless veteran population — the highest number of any city in the United States.
Trump’s order insists that veterans are essential to America’s safety and freedom, yet many face homelessness and lasting injuries. The president’s order criticizes past government failures in supporting veterans, particularly under the previous administration, accusing it of neglect and mismanagement.

Did Joe B. ever do anything like this for veterans? … err, ‘no!’ as he was never a president for the people!
5/12/25

Today I read a touching article about Roberta Bell, and felt that she would be a very apropos candidate go a Sunday piece. The story basically starts two years ago.
From CBS News 2023:
The 58-year-old lives in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and is raising five of her eight grandchildren. Earlier this year, there was another child who needed her care.
“There was an inmate that needed assistance, some help. She was pregnant,” Bell said.
Bell, a correctional officer at the Louisiana Transitional Center for Women, met Katie Bourgeois, who had about two months left on her sentence — but was about to give birth. Bell said there wasn’t anyone in Bourgeois’ family who could get the newborn, and that she was looking for someone who could care for the baby until she was released. Bourgeois asked Bell if she would take in the baby, and Bell agreed.
Bell said she alerted her supervisor to the situation. She said that he warned her that it was a conflict of interest, but later asked her if she was still planning on caring for the baby.
“I said, if the hospital calls me to come get that baby, I’m going to get that baby,” Bell said. “And he said, ‘Well, OK, I’m going to have to terminate you.'”
And that’s what happened!
One week after losing her job, Bell was informed that the baby, named Kayson, had been born. She told CBS News that she “started taking pictures.”
Months later after Bourgeois was released, she picked Kayson up. The child was later placed in foster care with parents, Skylar and Christian Moore, who adopted him after the mother relapsed into drug use.

Bell said, “It just broke my heart” when she found out Bourgeois relapsed. “I had sacrificed to make sure that he would be taken care of.” However, Kayson’s new parents, Skylar and Christian Moore, reached out to Bell after finding out she had previously taken care of the child.

“This was basically her baby. You know, she had him for the first couple months of his life and now she didn’t know where he was,” Skylar Moore said. “In my heart, I told my husband, I can’t let her go to sleep another night, not knowing that he’s safe.”

What Bell didn’t know when she arrived at the courthouse on May 4, 2025 was that the Moores had applied to adopt Kayson. Judge Jeffrey Cashe made the adoption official, with Bell as the guest of honor. Roberta Bell was overcome with emotion.

The couple plans to continue including Bell in Kayson’s life.
5/11/25

The fertility rate is the average number of children born to a woman in her lifetime. Globally, that number has gone from 4.84 in 1950 and is continuing to decline.

From AI Overview:
The worldwide fertility rate in 2024 is estimated at 2.2 births per woman, a slight decrease from the previous estimate of 2.4. This is still above the “replacement level” of 2.1, which is needed to maintain a stable population size.
World fertility rate for 2025 is 2.40, a 0.37% decline from 2024.
* World fertility rate for 2024 was 2.41, a 0.33% decline from 2023.
* World fertility rate for 2023 was 2.42, a 0.41% decline from 2022.
* World fertility rate for 2022 was 2.43, a 0.41% decline from 2021.

Worldwide, fertility rates are declining, meaning women are having fewer children on average than in the past. This trend is evident in many developed and developing countries, and it’s often linked to factors like increased access to education, employment opportunities for women, and changes in societal values and lifestyle choices
Years down the road we will be forced to address the drop in fertility across many nations.
At some point the question will be asked, “Did the Covid mRNA vaccine administration have any effect on this decline?”

C&C addressed this issue, and I went to the original article out of Turkey from the journal, Vaccine:
Conclusion:
“This study is the first to evaluate the effects of mRNA and inactivated COVID-19 vaccines on ovarian follicles and ovarian reserve in a rat model. The findings demonstrate that both vaccines, particularly the mRNA vaccine, are associated withreduction in ovarian reserve, characterized by depletion of the primordial follicle pool and increased follicular loss via apoptosis throughout folliculogenesis.”

Since the Covid mRNA vaccine administration vaccine was administered worldwide and in the U.S. was unnecessarily mandated in young people, this drop in fertility is not going to stop any time soon. While this may be good for the adoption industry, in general, it cannot be good for the future of any country … “thank you Joe Biden!”
5/10/25

I just read something that is quite interesting.
From Townhall:
Does President Trump Have a New Nominee for DC US Attorney?
Mr. Ed Martin has been serving as interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia, though his appointment was set to expire this month. His nomination was terminated by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who opted to kill one of the president’s top picks over January 6 nonsense.

At any rate, Martin will not be the next DC US attorney. With Martin on the clock, anti-Trump Judge James Boasberg would have been able to fill the vacancy of DC’s top prosecutor.

Yet, some good news: Trump is considering Jeanine Pirro to fill the vacancy. Pirro, a former judge, prosecutor, and co-host of The Five on Fox News.

If he names Pirro as interim U.S. Attorney, Trump temporarily bypassed the confirmation process. Under 28 U.S.C. § 546(c), interim appointments can serve 120 days. So he now has three months to confirm a permanent replacement.

Before Jeanine Pirro was on The Five she had her own show on Fox on Sunday night. It was called Justice with Judge Jeanine. I loved it, and recorded it every week. FYI, Judge Jeanine is a huge Trump fan, and has been for many years. She doesn’t take any sh*t from the lefties on The Five.
Personally, I give Judge Jeanine a high five!
5/9/

For many years now I have postulated that the basic main difference between liberals and conservatives has to do with the part of the brain in which each group does its thinking.
For the most part liberals do most of their thinking in the midbrain which focuses predominately on emotion, whereas the brain locale of thinking for conservatives is in the forebrain which focuses predominately on reason and logic. For example, let’s look at ‘climate change.’ Liberals strongly feel that we must all do our part. It is up to each individual to do his/her part … to drive an electric car and to keep their houses cool in the winter in order to save the planet (emotional thinking). On the other hand the forebrain thinkers realize that turning down the temperature inside their house from 70 to 62 will not make one iota of difference as long as China continues to build new coal plants (logical thinking).

From Twitchy:
“He says he is a girl. Reality is irrelevant. Logic is irrelevant. His physical body and physical sex are irrelevant. His word is law. The authorities say he needs to be included above all else. Included on the girls’ team, not the boys’. “Inclusion” on boys’ teams doesn’t count. He alone gets to decide who he competes with and against. Female athletes aren’t given a choice.
Female players are left on the bench or excluded from competitions. His inclusion is paramount, theirs, an afterthought.”

But now these ultra-liberal leftists have a bit of a thinking problem when it comes to transgender males playing in women’s sports. It had always been that we all should have pity on these individuals since they really believe that they are women, and rather than upsetting them, the thing to do is to just acquiesce to their desires, and allow them to be whichever gender they desire. However, the “woe is them” philosophy is teetering as more and more of the generalized nationwide philosophy is now saying “woe is them,” as far as all of the young girls who are being harmed by these transgendered pseudo-females. Increasingly girls are not making their high school sports teams as they are being replaced by these pseudo-females. Likewise, first place medals are increasingly being given to transgenders.
The emotions are shifting! However they are not shifting enough as far as I am concerned!
5/7/25

I realize that for whatever reason, the “climate change, global warming emergency” no longer seems to be in the headlines anywhere except in California. In California the climate change, global warming emergency is the prime force that has taken over the minds of the governor and the wackos in Sacramento.
From Red State:
Only a week or so ago Phillips 66 announced they were going to close down their 100-year-old refinery outside of Los Angeles.
This was blamed on Gov. Gavin Newsom and the CA legislature’s hostile climate for any fossil fuel-related business operating in the state.
Meanwhile, energy company Valero has been signaling for over six months that it was seriously considering shuttering two of its California refineries. The first word of their intentions came last October.
Little more was heard from Valero until a few weeks ago, and only then because they made it official – their company was closing the San Francisco area Benicia refinery in 2026.
Valero CEO Lane Riggs cited challenging regulatory and enforcement environment for the decision to cease operations.

Valero dropped its bombshell April 16 announcement roughly six months after regional and state air regulators fined the company a record $82 million for secretly exceeding toxic emissions standards for at least 15 years. And last month, city leaders voted unanimously to impose moderate new safety regulations on the facility.

In September 2023, Newsom’s administration filed a lawsuit targeting the oil industry for “lying to consumers for more than 50 years” about climate change. He signed into law a bill seeking to hold Chevron and other refiners liable for allegedly price-gouging consumers. California bill SB X1-2 authorizes the state energy commission to determine an acceptable profit margin for in-state refiners and penalize those that exceed it. More recently, bill AB X2-1 has mandated increased reporting requirements by the state’s refiners.

Further complicating this situation this Benicia Valero refinery is also the major fuel supplier for Travis Air Force Base, delivered via direct pipeline from the refinery to the base fuel pits. The busy military hub uses a tremendous amount of jet fuel that is not easily replaceable by CA’s rapidly dwindling sources, and that would have to be brought in by a fuel truck.

And so we have it!
Newsom and his Sacramento cronies may have gone beyond the point of no return. How much longer will rational Californians continue to tolerate such tomfoolery?
5/6/25

One thing that wasn’t even discussed back in the early stages of Covid and its vaccine was “which of the two available vaccines was best?”
As many of us remember back in the beginning there was a general panic about ‘how soon and where can I get the Covid vaccine?’ In some parts of the country people were driving hours because enough vaccine was not available in their locale. Here in San Diego the vaccine was available on a first-come, first-serve basis at a giant parking lot outside our baseball stadium. Get registered, drive up and wait your turn. Back then us senior citizens were just happy to have some way to get vaccinated. I do not recall anyone asking which of the two major vaccines am I getting?

Which of the two major vaccines did any one individual receive?
Pfizer (BNT 262b2) or Moderna (mRNA1273)
Basically, it was the luck of the draw!

From Coffee and Covid:
“Earlier this week an important covid shot study was published as a preprint on MedRxIV. It was blandly titled, “Twelve-Month All-Cause Mortality after Initial COVID-19 Vaccination with Pfizer-BioNTech or mRNA-1273 among Adults Living in Florida.”

The study scraped Florida’s Medicare database and compared the two jabs against each other, specifically, their risks of dying from any cause —“all-cause mortality”— and they found a statistically undeniable +40% risk of fatality following the Pfizer jab over Moderna.

In other words, hundreds of thousands more Floridians died in the 12 months following the Pfizer jab than Moderna, when there should have been no difference at all. Specifically, they found that +230 more people died after Pfizer for every 100,000 jabbed. Not only that, but Pfizer getters died from cardiovascular causes at a rate of +83 more often per 100,000.

“If this study is right, it implies catastrophic failure by the FDA for not requiring long-term safety data, the CDC for continuing to push boosters with no mortality data, the NIH for funding everything exceptwhat might challenge the narrative, and Big Pharma for withholding or obscuring adverse event data.”

Here’s where serendipity kicked in … both my wife and I got the Moderna vaccine. We lucked out!
“There but for the grace of God, go I”

The reporting of this by the Main Stream Media? … “Crickets!”
5/3/25

Sometimes I ask myself the question, “Is this the hill that they are willing to die on?”
Certainly, there are a number of liberal policies that I consider insane, and query to myself, “ Is this the hill that they are willing to die on?”
The latest involves the University of Pennsylvania (U Penn). As many of you will recall U Penn had a transgender swimmer, who was called Lia Thomas. In 2022, transgender-identifying UPenn student Lia Thomas won a Division I NCAA women’s swimming championship in the 500-yard freestyle event after competing on the men’s team from 2017–2020.
Riley Gaines, a former Kentucky women’s swimmer who competed against Thomas, and Paula Scanlan, a former teammate of Thomas’s who had to share a locker room with the male athlete identifying as transgender, have lobbied against men’s participation in women’s sports.
From the Epoch Times:
The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) remains in violation of Title IX regulations lingering from a transgender-identifying athlete’s victory in an NCAA women’s swimming title for the school in 2022 and will have 10 days to resolve the issue before the matter is referred to the Department of Justice, federal officials said on April 28.
The announcement was made after the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights sent a notice of noncompliance to UPenn President Larry Jameson.

“UPenn has a choice to … do the right thing for its female students and come into full compliance with Title IX immediately, or continue to advance an extremist political project that violates federal antidiscrimination law and puts UPenn’s federal funding at risk.”

UPenn must also restore to female athletes their rightful records, titles, and honors, “or similar recognition for Division I swimming competitions misappropriated by male athletes competing in female categories.”
In addition, “the university must send a letter to each female athlete whose individual recognition is restored, expressing an apology on behalf of the university for allowing her educational experience to be marred by sex discrimination.”

The response from UPenn was basically a tap dance!
Is this really the hill that UPenn wishes to die on?
5/2/25

Recently I have become aware of something bizarre that appears to be going on in China.
From the Epoch Times on 4/15/25:
Chinese residents across the country continue to reveal on social media that amid ongoing respiratory infections and overcrowding at local hospitals and crematoriums, China’s villages, towns, and even streets in the big cities are looking eerily empty.
In a growing number of videos on Chinese-language social media, people across China are asking, “Where have all the people gone?”
A large amount of video footage shot by Chinese residents has emerged on social media in recent months showing many abandoned towns and villages across the country and empty streets in the big cities, with people questioning China’s real population in 2025.

From the Epoch Times on 4/29/25:
Residents in different regions of mainland China have reported to The Epoch Times recently that sudden deaths appear to be increasing.
Mr. Wang, who declined to provide his full name for safety concerns, told The Epoch Times on April 13 that many people in their 20s to 50s suddenly died. At least two of his relatives have died, he said.

Mr. Cao from Huadian City in Jilin Province, who didn’t reveal his first name for safety concerns, also told The Epoch Times that many young and middle-aged people he knew have died, one after another.
He said that on April 2, a friend of his in Dongying, Shandong Province in eastern China, died without any warning signs.

Mr. Su, a resident of Siping city in Jilin Province in northeast China who only provided his last name for safety reasons, told The Epoch Times that many people died unexpectedly this winter. He said they are of all ages, with the majority in their 50s.
He said that hardly any people are left in small towns and rural areas, and residents have been wondering, “Where have all the people gone?” Ten to 20 years ago, there were people everywhere, but now no one knows where they have gone, he said. Only a few elderly people are still in the villages.

Some suspect that the China made Covid vaccine may be responsible for… but ? After COVID-19 broke out in China at the end of 2019, Beijing mandated the use of domestically produced inactive COVID-19 vaccines and barred access to foreign MRNA vaccines.

Clearly something bizarre seems to be happening in China, but if China’s openness during Covid is any indication, it will probably be a while before we know anything.
5/1/25

One of the sites that I sometimes read, but rarely post about is
Twitchy. However, on 4/29 Twitchy had an excellent article about the oral arguments in Mahmoud v.Taylor, which is presently being argued at the Supreme Court.
Basically the case has to do with questionable material being force fed to K-5 children in Montgomery County, Maryland. In Montgomery County, the school district decided to push LGBTQ ideology hard during pride month a few years back, pushing their agenda on elementary schoolchildren. A number of Muslim and Catholic parents objected, wanting their children to be allowed to opt out. Whereas it had been okay previously for parents to opt out of certain things, because there was such a high number of opt-outs, the school board basically said “no opt-outs on this one.”
After reading some of the questions asked by Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Thomas, it appears that the petitioners will prevail. However, it was the comments of liberal Justice Jackson that Twitchy focused on. Justice Jackson noted that parents could send their children to private school if they didn’t like what the school in Montgomery Country was teaching.
Obviously, there are some practical problems concerning sending children to private schools.
After all, the reality is that many people can’t afford the tuition for a private school, nor can they take time off of a paying job to stay home to homeschool their children. We’re not saying it’s impossible to pick those options, but it is difficult and so, as a practical matter, many parents are absolutely forced to send their children to public schools.
So Twitchy suggested that Justice Jackson was endorsing robust vouchers for private schools. Wouldn’t that be something if a liberal Justice was in essence saying, “if you do not like what the public school is teaching your children, send them to a private school, and the state will pay for it.”
4/30/25