Election day plus one

Lots of things to digest.  Statewide it looks like the Democrats (Pelosi) targeting of their seven Republican congressional districts is a flop.  One place they may pick up is Darrel Issa's district where he retired this go-around. Otherwise, we saw a good turnout of R's and not much from the D's.  John Cox will go against Newsome and that will be quite the battle.  Hopefully, Trump will come to visit and do some rallies for Cox.  Nancy Pelosi won big of course in her gerrymandered district and some of the other democrat districts show the numerous illegal immigrants were in play. 

Locally we saw Dan Miller win and retain his District Three seat on the BOS.  Thank goodness.  Hillary Hodge is totally unqualified to lead the post.  The people saw that and rejected her.  Diaz won re-election to the Clerk-Recorder even though this election program seems to be a real cluster-f***.  Hopefully, we will go back to voting in a booth at a local place and use paper ballots. But Diaz got an overwhelming victory so hats off to him.

It looks to me there is no "blue wave" on the horizon.  In fact I think there is a "red wave" coming and the democrats will be relegated nationally to back-benchers for a while.  California is a tough place though.  But I look forward to the lawsuits coming challenging redistricting and fairness.  How can the democrats have 44% of the registered voters and have 68% of the seats?  We will see.

Nationally I see the House and Senate retained and then some real progress for America and the working class.  Trump has changed things in politics and in my view it is good for the country.

The Catch! Dwight Clark on to heaven today. RIP

Memorial Day 2018, thank you veterans and those presently serving!

Clint Walker, RIP, you were our hero and role model and you died before!

School Shooters and more rants, as well as solutions!

What the hell is going on in the USA?   We have these young loony boys stealing dad's guns and heading to their schools to get even with those they have a grievance with.  Or they are a bit older and buy their own weapons.  But they wreak havoc and murder the innocent and we just don't understand any of this.  I say it is the culture and the way kids are raised.

When I was a kid in the 50's we watched Cheyenne, Bronco, Wanted Dead or Alive and Wells Fargo.  Mostly western genre.  And Even Disneyland and Davy Crockett.  Sure we were naive as our fathers and mothers had just saved the world from fascists a few years earlier.  And our parents wanted to make their families work and the country too.  So we got raised in an "Ozzie and Harriet" type culture.  Today the left makes fun of that but I don't recall one school shooting then.  The fifties were filled with carefree kids and up here in Nevada County we were all about carefree.

School here was a gathering place to make friends and learn.  When we were not in school we were exploring and hiking all over the county.  Fishing and hunting were a part of the culture.  Kids had the 30-06 on the rack in their trucks.  Parked at school.  No one even thought of shooting anything except maybe a deer in season.  And Nevada County was this way until the scourge of drugs came here in the late 60's. 

Something changed the way people were raising their kids and it was not good.  Parents read books that told them there are better ways to raise their kids and many took that advice and changed the relationship they had with their offspring.  They read Dr. Spock who convinced people that they should be "pals" with their ids and punishment for bad behavior should be treated with words and "timeouts".

Today we see the folly of those strategies where no consequences are meted out for bad behavior.  And over time we saw the politicians change the family dynamic.  It changed to accommodate the grievances of family disputes and placed the government in the mix.  Discipline your kids and CPS shows up to arrest you.  They are now the third adult family member and you better watch out.  They have been empowered to remove your kids from your home.  Of course, there are people that should never have a child and we see that all the time as well.  But those parents were never held accountable either so many of them don't know they are to be a parent and role model and not a "buddy".

Then, of course, we have drugs and other things like alcohol and marijuana.  Anything goes and even I sometimes have a problem with my inner libertarian about the use of personal choices.  For me, it is about abstinence.  I, of course, had cocktails and wine and sometimes a beer when I was younger.  Even today I will have a glass of wine or a rum and coke with a dinner.  But I never drank at home.  And I have kept a lid on any desire to over-indulge in alcohol.  I never did drugs thank goodness.  I was actually afraid to try them.  After Art Linkletter's daughter jumped off a building to her death, I said nope to the poisons.

Which brings me back to schools and these young men with the desire to kill.  I think we need to get the parents back in the loop.  You are the ones that raised these people and if they are 18 and under, you should be held responsible for their actions.  Bring back "guilt" and make people feel bad about their decisions.  Guilt is missing in our culture and to me, it is a mechanism that keeps people from doing bad things.  Public shaming perhaps?  We do it to our politicians when they are caught being bad.  Why not Joe and Jane and their kids?  And give the schools immunity to their discipline of out of control students.  I have friends that quit teaching elementary level kids.  They could not deal any longer with kids that screamed at them using obscenities and even violence.  The teacher is told to take it.  Well, who raised these brats?  Kick them out.  Stop dumbing down the whole class to accommodate these little scofflaws.

I recall in my youth there were some bullies in our classes.  They would pick on others they decided were weak.  Well a couple of times with me and guess what?  I had to fight.  I kicked their asses and they left me alone after that.  Sometimes you have to do the discipline yourself rather than relying on CPS and the Sheriff.  But really, the problem is the parenting of these people.  I knew many parents that allowed their kids to drink underage.  As long as they drank at home!  And these parents would smoke marijuana with their kids too.  What the hell is that all about?  So the kids grow up and become out of control adults with bad habits.  Those parents should be ashamed of themselves.

If you want to stop school shooters it seems to me these kids and young adults give us plenty of warnings.  But that government official seems to always misread the kid and we have a mass shooting.  Parents and teachers and others need to be empowered to take these kids and fix them.  If that means "juvy hall" then so be it.  But unfortunately, until we stop coddling these kids and trying to make them our "friends" we will see more of this behavior.

I am a supporter of the death penalty and the local pillory in the city center.  Punish these people so they don't forget why they are on display in front of city hall.  And make them think deeply about why they are on the electric chair.  But until we change the culture and rein in the trial lawyers and bleeding hearts we will not fix the problem

Red Wave coming! Why America will reject the democrats this November

Pick the red one!

Are we all sick and tired of the contrived "blue wave" yapping by the left in our country?  I am.  And of course, the media, all lefty all the time, (well except for a couple of stations), parrots the democrat talking points every day.  Yesterday they actually were parroting Nancy Pelosi when she said she is going to raise Americans taxes!  My guess is the media agrees with that and found nothing wrong with her position.  But her statement is an opening for the right, one that Republicans and conservatives, can drive a truck through.  There are so many outrages stated by the left I am surprised they are not all in therapy.

Polls show the media is 91% negative on President Trump.  What they don't understand that we older folks do is this, people like the underdog.  And the media is making Trump the underdog.  And those that support him as well.  Trump is a common-sense man if anything.  Sure he has a naughty side from his lifestyle over the years and you would think the secular media would love that.  But somehow the media cranks have decided that their lifestyles are now more moral and ethical and it is simply untrue.  The "anything goes" media and secular people of America now have morals?  Sorry, not buying it .  But as we see, Trump has turned them into slobbering and babbling morons.  We know the press loves Harvey Weinstein and Anthony Weiner and Bill Clinton.  And they do because they told us so over the years.  Those men were loved and forgiven for all their sins because they were for abortion.

If someone is for abortion, the left will allow you to be a ax murderer as long as you don't get in the way of abortion at any stage of a pregnancy.  Trump came out against abortion on demand and look at his treatment.  They hate his guts.  And those people in middle America are derided too.  But now we see abortion is not the only thing these secularists believe in.  They oppose the death penalty, they are for open borders or no borders.  They are for a multitude of genders while we all know there are only two.  They are attacking free speech at all levels of the education process.  Except for their free speech of course.  And they perpetrate violence against those they disagree with.  Mainly conservatives like Ann Coulter Ben Shapiro and Milo.

When my father came back from World War Two after saving the planet from fascism, he was proud of the fact the sacrifices by all those that fought saved the precious freedoms of America.  He was proud to be American.  Now we see our country and values trashed and the "Forefathers" demeaned as illegitimate to follow.  Somehow the past is dictating the present for the secular left.  But the past was something in the past.  We on the right are about the future and we learned from our mistakes.  The left wants to wallow in the mistakes.  They cannot seem to move on.  Sure, we had slavery and it was terrible of course.  But our country fought a war 160 years ago to rid the crime from the country.  But the left still whines and cries about "institutional" racism and can't seem to move along.

Everything is viewed through the prism of racial justice in their lives.  Rather than expending their energy to make their lives better (and living here they have a huge head start), these liberals are all about punishing the "white folks" for those past sins.  They would rather "take" what the white folks have and distribute it to others.  Whether a person of another color or gender.  All those white males need to be punished for the sins of the great great grandfathers.  All this is building up resentment and phony expectations by those that want free stuff.

America is about the future.  People need that lesson about pulling oneself up by their bootstraps.  After all, human dignity comes from personal accomplishment.  We can decide if we want to simply try and take from those that succeed or do something for ourselves that has meaning for our dignity.  The secular left roams the streets of America most every week to protest some slight or perceived injustice.  But the doers of the country are getting fed up.  We spend trillions of dollars every year to make the country work and yet that is not enough for Nancy Pelosi and the left/democrats.  They want new age slaves.  All those that work hard and play by the rules and pay their taxes and fees need to be punished with higher taxes and fees.  It is a socialist control mechanism.

All these leftwing outrages are having a cumulative effect in my view.  Americans are getting fed up.  They showed it in 2016 when they elected Trump.  The politicians are perceived as wimps and mealy-mouths.  The people wanted someone with the "edge".  Trump fit the bill at the right time.  Sure, he says things that are outrageous at times.  But he is the most transparent politician in my lifetime.  He tweets all the time and I enjoy them.  It is from his mind to the tweet to our eyes.  That, of course, makes politicians mad as they want to keep us "fooled".  After all my research and watching the polls and the special elections across the country, I project the "red wave" will sweep America.  We are looking for the people that will get things done and respect the people.  The democrats just mouth their allegiance to the people while picking our pockets and kneeling for the National Anthem.

America is changing for the better.  We need more people that will stand up to the bullies of the democrats/left.  Speak out and make sure your community knows there are people that will not be cowed by them.  Common sense and responsible men and women will soon be coming to an elected office near you.  The "red wave" will sweep out the socialist and put good people in their place.

Common Sense is peeking its head out from behind the curtains

Just when most of us were trying to understand how a "Russian Collusion" investigation from the 2016 election turned into a decades old claim that a member of the Trump organization had some ties to a Ukrainian political party, a East coast judge tossed a zinger into the prosecutors works.  This Judge actually asked the questions and made the observations many of us have been asking and debating for a year or more.  What the hell does Paul Manifort's ties to a Ukrainian political party in 2006 have to do with Trump?  Of course we know the answer is nothing.  The Mueller team of Stasi agents know it too.  The goal is to pressure Manifort and force him to give them some dirt on Trump.  But there is no there there.  We all know it.  Look at what Mueller's thugs have done to General Michael Flynn.  They bankrupted him. Later they said he did not lie!  Sure he apparently had some income from the Turkish government that he failed to get a license for, but to send him into bankruptcy and lose his home and other things to try and force him to confess to something he did not do?

And I watched a Mr. Caputo on Cavuto today and he faced the same Gestapo tactics as Flynn and Manifort.  He was pouring money into legal fees to defend himself.  He almost went BK as well.  But he started a GOFUNDME and raised over $250,000 in 12 days from over 5100 people.  Now he has some room to tell the Mueller thugs to go to hell.  The tactics of Mueller and his democrat lawyers, most of whom were Hillary supporters and donors, are not American in my opinion.  Assistant AG Rosenstein hired Mueller and gave him marching orders to find "collusion" by the Trump campaign with the Russians.  Of course collusion is not a crime and after almost two years, none has been found.  My understanding of the Special Counsel's law is they are only created if a CRIME is alleged.,  But that is not what Rosenstein put into the marching orders.  So this is a good old communist tactic used by the first KGB guy, Beria.  "Give me the man and I will find the crime".  That was Beria's trademark phrase.

But we see this Judge Ellis in Virginia state the obvious this week.  This Mueller/Rosenstein "witch-hunt" must end.  It has nothing, will find nothing and only hurts the country.  I have tweeted to Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he should "un-recuse" himself and put a stop to this travesty of American "justice".  The American people deserve better.  Sessions is doing a great job on gangs and illegal immigration.  He s also stopping the suits created in the Obama era against faith based people and organizations.  He is bringing common sense back into play.  That is why he has to stop this "witch-hunt" about the Rooskies.

I am heartened as well watching the blow-back from common sense people in our country as they confront the PC crap the left is and has been dishing out.  Our culture cannot stand for long if it gets diluted to a nothing.  And thanks to the in Internet and its many news sources we get to see and read about these ridiculous attempts to undermine out culture and country.  Just yesterday I saw where the EEOC of the feds is attempting to force a Savemart in San Diego to allow people to speak another language in their employ.  Say what?  The EEOC needs to go.  It interferes in too many lives and businesses.  And in a free country if I want my employees to speak only English then that is my call.  Not some bureaucrats from DC!  So hopefully Trump will demolish the EEOC along with many more of these PC bastions of unAmerican rules.

I also just read in the SacBee today on page 2B that a Judge will allow the prosecution of three people, one of whom is Yvonne Felarca, to proceed.  She is famous for attacking people she disagrees with with her form of violence.  She is a "antifa" and I saw her in Berkley early in 2017 at a free speech rally.  She tried to kick a man in the balls and she got knocked out for her troubles.  There was a video of her assault that went viral.  Of course it was doctored to make one think the guy just punched her out. But the truth was she attacked him.  All he was doing was marching for free speech and American freedom.  Anyway, she and her two pals were filmed slicing and dicing about ten people in Sacramento in 2016 and now they will face the music.  Felarca is a elementary school teacher as I recall.

America seems to be doing real well economically and today we see the unemployment rate down to 3.9%.  The lowest in 40 years or so.  Some experts say it will drop to 3.8% which is the same as in LBJ's term in 1964.  But of course the SacBee writers on the economy have to try their best to dampen the good news since it is a good reflection on Trump.  Wages have been inching up but not fast enough for the SacBee.  And the Tax Reform bill just isn't helping people they say as was promised.  I say hogwash.  It looks to me the middle class is getting more dough in their checks and the businesses of America are expanding and using the money they are saving for purchases and wages.  But if it deemed to help Trump the press just can't hack it.  They dampen all the good news and enhance all the bad.  They are headed for the dustbin and that makes me really sad.  But their demise is suicide in my view.  They could write the news to be far and balanced but they just can't help themselves.  All trained in liberal arts colleges by leftwing professors.  America loses.