Message From Above
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THE 19 COMMANDMENTS OF BUDGET
Forget Voodoo, take a look at Budget & Appropriations. That’s Hoodoo Economics to put Merlin, Gandalf, and David Copperfield to shame. An arcane alchemy understood only by high priests and Adepts of the 14th Level? Nah. You just need a guide and here it is: The 19 Commandments of Budget. FIRST AND BASIC COMMANDMENT: Everybody has an agenda. So do you. That’s why we’re all here, remember? SECOND: The perfect is the enemy of the good. Anyone…
COURTING DISASTER
Another day, another court order shutting down the President. This time, a Federal Judge in San Francisco halted Trump’s executive order directing agencies to shut down offices and lay off thousands.. Before that, it was a judge in Maryland, halting Trump’s DEI Executive orders on Federal Departments. And before that, a Judge in Rhode Island, and one in Massachusetts, and Seattle, and another one in California, and the DC Federal district bench. Welcome to the Judicial Resistance, or Judges’ Insurrection….
ANSWER TIME
So NOW they tell us. Four months after the end of the Biden Administrations, various “journalists” like Jake Tapper are coming out with books, bravely exposing what we’ve all seen and known for years: President Joe Biden was basically gaga while in office. This week’s announcement of Biden’s stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis puts a very sad exclamation point on the whole affair. FIRST: President Biden deserves our sympathy, prayers, and good wishes. We wish him health…
WHITE GUY CODE TALK
Did I Just Miss the Signal? “Got the code book?” So Minnesota Governor and 2024 Vice-Presidential Candidate Tim Walz said he was picked for the ticket because he could “code talk to white guys.” “I could code talk to white guys watching football, fixing their truck, doing that, that I could put them at ease,” Walz said at the event Monday.” (The Hill, Walz on why he was picked as Harris running mate: ‘I could code talk to white guys’) Code Talk?…
ABBIES AND NORMIES
The Real American Divide. The real conflict in America today isn’t between conservatives and “liberals” (which everywhere else in the world are called Social Democrats.) It’s not between Hawks and Doves, and It’s increasingly less about Democrats and Republicans. The traditional parties have realigned, and the gap is now between two groups I’m calling Normies and Abbies. “Normies?” very simple: normal people. Oooh!! Scary! “Who defines “normal,” you say? Good question, because the definition of normal changes and…
CORRUPTION: LEAKY PIPES AND YOUR WATER
Corruption and It’s Costs. So how is corruption like a leaky pipe? Answer: stuff goes in one end but it doesn’t all come out the other. We use the word “corruption” to mean a lot of different things, but commonly to mean dishonesty in organizations—particularly government. “Corruption” generally means people stealing stuff or taking bribes to do their jobs. So, here’s the pipe: An organization, say, the Boy Scouts or your local town, has a job to do:…
NEW MATH, OLD TRICKS
You know what an equation is? It’s a “mathematical statement.” Math is a language, like French or Spanish, that lets you express things that are hard to say other ways. Think “C’est la vie, ma Cherie, pour toujours l’amour,” which can be expressed in non-French but doesn’t sound as good. The equation is about two things that equal each other. It looks like this: A = B –Example: 2 + 2 = 4. The 2 + 2…
THE GOOD IS ON IT’S WAY!
Christmas came early for me. Santa slid down my chimney on November 6th, 2024. That’s the day America chose to turn the page from the corrupt and sclerotic Democratic Party rule, toward something different. And now things are going to change. What is that something? Well, President Trump 2.0, for starters. What will that mean? I’ll bet a vigorous reopening of the economy, an all-out reform of our uncontrolled bureaucratic and regulatory administrative—or “Deep State,” Tough-On-Crime polices including…
DEBATE DOGS THE VEEP
Harris may have “blitzed Trump” but polls are showing the post-debate up-for-grabs voters are breaking for Trump. Harris had a chance to score a first impression as presidential candidate and she didn’t make the sale. She never answered a question, she didn’t positively outline any plans of hers, her visuals were terrible (the smirking, smug condescension was off-putting to men and women alike. This hurt Hillary 8 years ago, why repeat the mistake?) Trump is Trump, he’s thoroughly defined, nobody…