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As you read about the following at what point do you wonder “have the loonies taken over the asylum?”
From the New York Sun:
“A Christian summer camp in Colorado is fighting to be able to stay open in light of anew regulation that would force it to allow attendees to use bathrooms and sleeping facilities that do not align with their biological sex.
The camp name is IdRaHaJe for “I’d Rather Have Jesus.”
IdRaHaJe, is suing in federal court over an amendment to camp licensing requirements issued by the state’s Department of Early Childhood that require camps to let campers use private facilities — such as bathrooms and bunk rooms —that match their gender identities.

“The government has no place telling religious summer camps that it’s ‘lights out’ for upholding their religious beliefs about human sexuality,” a lawyer with the Alliance Defending Freedom, Andrea Dill, says. “Camp IdRaHaJe” exists to present the truth of the Gospel to children who are building character and lifelong memories. But the Colorado government is putting its dangerous agenda — that is losing popularity across the globe—ahead of its kids.”

My question is, “What is the Department of Early Childhood?” After googling “Department of Early Childhood,” it appears that it is mostly concerned with daycare facilities, and has little to do with summer camps. Nowhere does it explain how someone gets appointed to the department. Additionally, I could not find where it appears that any of its members are elected.
This case will obviously go to court and Camp IdRaHaJe will then prevail. Subsequently will the loonies in this “department” be fired or chastised?
We’ll see!
5/24/25

As I was reading about the recent pernicious revelations concerning President Joe Biden, I thought that nobody should be surprised if more shady things come to the forefront. The Robert Hur interview tape and Biden’s sudden diagnosis of metastatic prostate cancer should make us wonder, “what’s next?”
In my opinion the next big hoopla will be about the Biden pardons. Of course, most Dems will say they are all valid, whereas many others will reasonably question their authenticity. We will never know if J.B. authorized these or not. After all if he cannot remember when his son, Beau, died, how can anyone expect him to recall the specifics of signing a vast number of various pardons? The common sense answer is that there is no way to authenticate that he okayed all or even some of these pardons. To me the central issue boils down to one simple question … “Should autopen signatures ever be legal?”
My answer is … “No, never!”
I guess one could argue that if a President’s writing arm was incapacitated, then an autopen signature might be acceptable! To that I would still answer …”No, never! No exceptions. Autopen signatures should never be acceptable.”
Presently there are rumors of whistleblowers concerning this issue. Furthermore, there are, as of yet unsubstantiated, rumors that many of Biden’s staff have accumulated sizable amounts of wealth that could possibly be related to auto-penning some pardons. Again, I must emphasize that these rumors are just that … unsubstantiated rumors, not fact!
However, these rumors merely skirt the main issue …
“Should autopen signatures ever be legal?”
No, never!
5/23/25

A few weeks ago we decided to put a bird-feeder in our backyard. One of our friends had one and while at her house it was pleasant to sit on the patio and listen to mix of multiple bird chirping simultaneously.
Initially, we had just a few birds, but then over the course of a week or so the numbers increased
. In addition as the days went on we started to see different colored birds. It was almost as if the word was out … “come over here and get free food at this new bird-feeder.”
Of course, none of this was unpredictable, and consequently we had to refill the bird-feeder more frequently. Birds, just like people will be attracted to free stuff. Our neighbors commented on how nice it was to be able to enjoy the increased music of the bird chirping. The birds were happy, and the neighbors were happy, but neither of them were paying for the bags of bird food. These bags cost $18 each. Initially one bag every two weeks was okay, however, now it’s one bag per week, and encroaching on 1+ per week. Is there going to be a limit?
I was reminded of our bird-feeder when I read about what is happening in Minnesota.
From Townhall:
Minnesota Democrats are doubling down on their radical agenda, pledging to “fight until the very end” to provide free health care to illegal immigrants, on the backs of hardworking taxpayers. As everyday Minnesotans struggle with rising premiums, longer wait times, and an overstretched health care system, progressive lawmakers are prioritizing illegal immigrants over legal residents.
State lawmakers reached a deal earlier this week to implement cuts to MinnesotaCare coverage after the program exceeded its projected enrollment by nearly 30 percent. Initially, the program was designed for 5,700 undocumented immigrants, but within just a few months, over 20,000 had enrolled in the free healthcare program.

Just like birds coming from outside of our backyard to take advantage of the free bird food, could it be that illegals are now coming from adjacent states into Minnesota to take advantage of the free healthcare there?
5/22/25

As many of you are aware, I have been concerned and somewhat verbal about autism, because of the dramatic effect that an autistic child can have on a family.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is taking aim at autism attempting to ascertain its cause.

Recently the Epoch Times ran a bio-story about three autistic individuals. Interestingly, and perhaps coincidentally, all three of the involved parents related the onset of the autistic symptoms to childhood vaccines. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) said that although autism can be diagnosed at any age, it’s described “as a ‘developmental disorder’ because symptoms generally appear in the first two years of life.”
Since the onset of autism is typically around when these children are receiving vaccinations, this could certainly be an example of true-true, but not related. However the honest answer is that we just do not know.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that the prevalence of autism has increased to one in 31 children, up from one in 150 children in 2002 and one in 10,000 in the early 1990s.
On April. 28 RFKJr said, “This is an epidemic, and it is clearly an epidemic, and it’s happening. And epidemics are not caused by genes. Genes can provide a vulnerability, but you need an environmental exposure, and we need to identify what that exposure is. What is doing this to our kids?”

In an address on April 16, Kennedy said that autism is an epidemic and criticized those who attribute the jump in cases largely or solely to better screening and diagnostic criteria.
“Autism destroys families, and more importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which is our children,” he said.
“These are kids who will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted.”
The remarks drew criticism from some parents, who said that their autistic children are successful and not reflective of what Kennedy described.
Could it be that these parents who were critical of what RFKJr said have children who are not severely autistic, but rather on the autism spectrum?

In a town hall with Dr. Phil McGraw on April 28, Kennedy reiterated that he was bringing attention to the plight of families who have children with “profound autism,” which he said represents around 26.4 percent of people with the condition.
“What that means is non-verbal, non-toilet trained, and all these other stereotypical behaviors like toe walking, stimming, hand flapping, et cetera,” he said.
Although as I have alluded to before, in some, just the mention of RFKJr’s name causes their blood to boil. However, I can bet that these irate individuals do not have autistic children.
5/21/25

Why the Extreme Animosity ?

Yesterday I went to lunch with a friend of mine. In the past he has told me many times that he is a life-long Republican, and he repeated that again yesterday. However, to my way of thinking … with no offense intended … he is a RINO. He wishes that Trump would be nicer, more compassionate, and less caustic. Yesterday, for no apparent reason, he went off on RFK Jr. In fact he is not the first person who has demonstrated a true hate for RFK Jr. It was like throwing a little match into a gas-filled room …BOOM!
Coincidentally at approximately the same time RFK Jr, the head of HHS, was testifying before the House Appropriation Budget hearing. Although, because of his abnormally raspy voice, I have a difficult time understanding everything that he says, I decided to listen to some of his testimony.
In his opening statement he pointed out the discrepancy between what the U.S. spends on health care (presently $4.7T annually), and the results, especially in terms of chronic diseases and mental health. He stated that although there would be no cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, we should focus spending on”smarter” spending of our health care dollars.

Subsequently, I then listened to what he had to say about illegal immigration and child abuse …
“Under the Biden administration, the Federal Government became the biggest facilitator of child abuse in our country. My predecessor prioritized speed over safety. In stark contrast, this administration is putting a halt to the child trafficking problem. We are fingerprinting every sponsor, DNA testing, income testing and valid ID testing. Nobody gets a kid until they prove they are a family member.”
He related a story about a man who claimed to be a relative of a sixteen year old immigrant girl. After raping and subsequently impregnating her, he then discarded her. RFK Jr’s implication was that similar scenarios have happened much too often, but even if this is an isolated situation, once is way too much.

I do not quite understand the extreme animosity of some towards RFK Jr., and I can be fairly certain that most of the RFK Jr haters did not listen to what he had to say yesterday.
5/15/25

In 2023 after the Hur-Biden interview, Special Counsel Robert Hur decided not to press charges because a jury would conclude that Joe Biden was a merely a sympathetic forgetful elderly man, and that a jury would have pity on him, and thus would not be able to convict him of anything.
That actual interview was not initially released to the public. Just the transcript was released. However, while some thought that the audio should have released, the Dems were against its release. Here, just recently, parts were released via Axios, and I can fully understand why the Dems wanted to suppress its release … it is worse than imagined! Worse that is for Joe Biden and his Democrat backers.
I watched a few minutes and whereas JB’s debate performance last summer was bad, this was much worse. It was proof that what Robert Hur said was not an understatement. JB was truly a doddering confused old man that no jury could convict.
However, if Joe Biden was a confused old man, as the Hur-Biden interview confirmed, who was really making all of the decisions that were being attributed to him? Who was auto-signing all of the pardons that he supposedly made?
Mark my words ladies and gentlemen, “fasten your seat belts,”as the fun is just beginning!
5/17/25

I just finished a remarkable book by Douglas Murray titled
“On Democracies and Death Cults.”
Before you run out and buy it … a word of caution … it is not for the faint hearted as the events of October 7, 2023 are described in much detail. What was reported in the newspapers and on TV does not begin to paint the picture of what was happening on the ground when Hamas exited Gaza and maimed and brutally murdered innocent Israelis who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
What I found very interesting is the contrast between Israel and Hamas in terms of how those on the west bank glorify truly evil murders by naming streets and plazas after them … while not so with Israel.
Similarly here in the U.S. young people, both on and off college campuses, many seem to have no hesitation in referring to the Israelis as the aggressors and Hamas as the victims. One has to wonder if this is the result of brainwashing or if it is just plain stupidity.
As far as those in the upper hierarchy of Hamas, they had no hesitation in sacrificing the common folk in Gaza, while at the same time making sure that they and their families were well taken care of.
An additional thing about war was addressed in this book … that being the concept of proportionality. If a nation were attacked and X number of its innocent citizens were killed, proportionality implies that it would be okay to kill that same X number of the attackers, but no more. Douglas Murray says, “that is nonsense,” and I agree. Wars are bad things and bad things happen in wars, but nonetheless wars are fought to be won.
Although in some wars it might be difficult to identify who are the good guys and who are the bad guys, here it is clearly a case of ‘good versus evil,’ and to me Hamas is clearly not “good!”
5/20/25

Is Another Cover-up Possible?

Just when I thought that it was the end of the Biden theatrics after the audio of his Robert Hur interview, something else pops up.
The recent news is that Joe Biden has metastatic prostate cancer. The story is that this prostate cancer was just discovered after a prostate exam revealed a prostate nodule. From someone who has a fair amount of knowledge and experience with prostate cancer, something just doesn’t fit.

First off, either Joe Biden has or hasn’t had periodic blood tests for PSA (prostate specific antigen). An elevated PSA is often what arouses the initial suspicion that an individual has prostate cancer.
Since routine PSA blood tests are often ordered in older males, with J.B. being 80+ years old and the president, it is extremely difficult for me to believe that he has not had multiple PSAs done. If, in fact, he has not had multiple PSAs done, I would have to question the medical advice he had been given. Yes, some physicians do not recommend routine PSAs in someone over eighty, but he is not just some ordinary Joe, as he has been the President of the U.S.A. for four years.
In other words I feel that it is most likely that Joe Biden has had an elevated PSA for a while … possibly for years. Remember that the public never knew the results of Joe Biden’s physicals.
Often after an elevated PSA is discovered and repeated to insure that it is not a false positive test, a prostate biopsy is then performed. Since this is an outpatient procedure, it could have been done anytime in the past few years. In other words JB’s prostate cancer diagnosis could have been known for a long time. At some point after the prostate biopsy is positive, a work up is done to see if there is evidence of any spread. A common site for prostate spread to spread is to bones, and it is likely that the spread to JB’s bones has only been recently discovered.
So, like I previously said, there are certain things that do not seem to fit.
The suspicion that Biden had prostate cancer was all brought about by someone feeling a prostate nodule. Possible, but not likely.
Suddenly, out of the blue, Joe Biden not only has prostate cancer, but it has already spread. If he had not been getting regular PSAs done then this is possible, but I find it hard to believe that he had never had prior PSAs done.
Whereas the sequence of prostate nodule -> elevated PSA -> positive prostate biopsy -> bone scans revealing the spread to his bones is certainly possible, is it likely?
Could it be possible that the diagnosis of prostate cancer has been known for a while, but only recently has the spread to his bones been discovered? If this is true, then the question is whether Joe Biden ever received treatment for his prostate cancer … most likely this would have been radiation therapy at some point in time.
Back in 2024 it would not have looked good if one of the presidential candidates had cancer.
Recall that in April, 2022 in one of his verbal ramblings, Joe Biden said the following, “That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up have cancer.”
In other words could we have another cover-up going on …this one regarding Biden’s physical health?
Hmmm!
5/19/25

Yesterday, 5/12/25, President Trump signed an executive order(EO) limiting what Big Pharma can charge for its drugs in the U.S. Although this sounds straightforward, it is not for a couple of reasons.
First off this EO can only apply to those individuals whose drugs are covered under Medicare or Medicaid, as these are the groups in which the government is involved with the drug payments. This EO cannot apply to the private sector.
Big Pharma is not going to like this! Back in Trump’s first term he tried something similar and was sued by Big Pharma. Basically, back then Big Pharma won out, because the courts basically said that only Congress could do this by passing legislation.
So now expect Big Pharma to again file suit, and this EO will be put on hold. It is very likely that the same thing will happen again … the courts will conclude (rightfully so) that only Congress can do this by legislation. Trump is no dummy and he knows what’s in store here. However, with Congress now being controlled by the Republicans, some sort of bill will surface involving the same basic concept as this present EO, and for sure this be come up well before the midterm elections. When this occurs, there will be intense pressure on the Democrats in Congress to vote for its passage. I cannot envision a member of Congress voting against this if he/she is running in 2026.
Donald Trump has laid the trap on what could actually turn out to be his legacy achievement!
5/13/25

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