A rational, logical explanation for how things really are and how they got to be that way; the stuff most people are afraid to say out loud ...
Intro
It's time for a reality check ...
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
Why the left fosters chaos ...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
It's time to reboot the country ...
You know, shut it down and start it up again. Yes, we did that for an entire year but the bad actors and slopware came back. There are rumors we have another shutdown coming.
So this time we need to do a clean install.
Get rid of all the crap that’s insinuated itself into our system – the parasitic stuff that bogs down everything, makes our system run worse instead of better and drags down our overall performance. The useless, distracting stuff that always pops up while we’re actually trying to get something meaningful done, attempts to propagate itself everywhere and tie up all our resources.
It's time to take back control of our system.
We can safely delete most of the crap that’s accumulated over the years. It’s garbage. Too much of it is simply redundant. Some of this bloatware may have been useful and well meaning at first, but now most of it’s just resource vampires that add absolutely nothing worthwhile.
Here are some things that can go. And the sooner the better.
End all programs paying able-bodied people not to work. Make parents – not the rest of us – totally responsible for feeding and caring for their own children. It should never be socially acceptable to decide not to work and simply live off unearned government benefits. Nor should it be acceptable for parents to shirk their obligation to feed their own children.
Why are taxpayers now on the hook for feeding breakfast, lunch and dinner to 30 million school-age kids every day – even when school isn’t in session? Because their parents can’t afford to feed them? Because SNAP benefits they already get aren’t enough? No, it’s mostly because a lot of parents have decided if someone else will feed their kids for free they don’t have to.
I feel dumb even raising these blindingly obvious points. What genius ever thought any of this was a good idea? Now, it’s okay to help people in need, but we’re way, way past that now.
The longer we wait to address this, and we must, the more painful the remedy.
An easy cut is eliminating the Department of Education. We can easily do without it. It’s absolutely useless, except as a mouthpiece for teachers’ unions and promoter of silly experiments dreamed up by out-of-touch academics constantly trying to find new ways to justify their existence by paving the cow path.
Do we really need a new way to teach students how to add, subtract, multiply and divide? Or to address imaginary “racism” and “sexism” in math? Or to teach kids as young as six or seven years old that gender has nothing to do with biology or what’s in their pants – it’s entirely up to them to choose or change their gender any time they like. Do we need any of this?
Nope. But the bureaucrats at the Department of Education think we do.
After we dump this travesty let’s drill down and decertify the teachers’ unions.
Before we do that, I concede good teachers can have a powerful, positive, and lasting impact on a student’s future success. They add value to our society.
But teachers’ unions don’t provide a damn bit of value. Not a bit. If anything, they are an obstacle to reforming and improving our dreadful public education system. These protect bad and incompetent teachers, fight any accountability, and support brainwashing impressionable kids with looney-tune racist ideas. Like that skin color alone determines their prospects for success in our country. That whites are automatically oppressors; everyone else is a victim of white oppression. That we are a country of racists. And that our Constitution was created almost exclusively to protect slavery.
Teachers’ unions today are engaged in nothing less than institutionalized emotional and intellectual child abuse. It’s long past time to bring them to heel.
Next up: fossils in Congress. Whether you are a Democrat, a Republican, Libertarian or whatever, I don’t believe I’m alone in thinking Congress could use the legislative equivalent of a high colonic. At the very least we should have term limits and enforce these retroactively. Anybody already in the House for more than six years would have to go immediately. Period. No ifs, ands, or buts. We should also take this opportunity to repeal the 17th Amendment and put selection of Senators solely back in the hands of each state’s legislature.
Then, going forward, anyone new running for a House seat would be limited to two two-year terms. Senators would be limited to one six-year term. This combined action on Congress alone would fix the most grievous problems in our country. Want to reduce the distorting impact of dark money and special interest groups on Congress? This would do that. Almost instantly.
Next, stop funding NGOs. I don’t care where they are, what they do, or who they are supposed to be helping. NGOs serve themselves as much as anyone else.
Think Catholic Charities is arranging housing, food, and transportation for illegals out of the goodness of their hearts? No, they, like all the other ostensibly “non-profit” social service NGOs are getting paid by our government to do this and paid pretty well at that. Plus, funding to NGOs allows politicians to secretly send our tax dollars to groups below the radar to do things they don’t want the American public to know.
Why? Because politicians realize taxpayers would be pissed if they did.
Like quietly arranging for the transport of Covid-positive illegals and their families away from our borders to hide them somewhere else in the US. Like a small town near you. Secretly housing them in a hotel or motel in your town and providing them with spending money.
Yes, NGOs – Catholic Charities in particular, and others – are doing that. Right now.
Next, stop sending money to “nonprofits” altogether. That includes NPR, the CPB, PBS and any other remnants of what have devolved into nakedly partisan “state” media.
First, these aren't actually “nonprofit.” Their “nonprofit” status is a technicality. These all make money and pay salaries, sometimes big, big salaries. Think anyone at a “nonprofit” works for free? Do you believe the staff at NPR, CBP and PBS work there for nothing?
Hey, Sesame Street makes money and charges local PBS stations to show it.
State-supported media always have an inherent conflict of interest; now ours is just a propaganda mouthpiece for Democrats. Doubt they are biased? Just listen to the slobbering PBS and NPR reporters kissing up at the current White House briefings or covering Democrats in general. Do they cover Republicans the same? Did they cover Trump the same way? NFW.
Our public broadcasting industry really has no reason to exist anymore with all our media options today. They certainly aren’t providing objective news. There’s no dearth of content elsewhere. Honestly, America can live just fine without Downton Abbey and other made-in-UK series nestled within the nonstop beggathons. Nor should American taxpayers be paying for the far left’s social agenda promotions, such as the increasingly “woke” Sesame Street adding the obligatory transgender or gender-fluid Muppet. Americans shouldn’t be paying to support any of this.
If advertisers want to support this, fine. Let them.
Finally, get rid of the politicians on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and atop all our military branches. Force their retirement, whatever, but get this current crop of woke bozos away from any say over our military. They are an embarrassment to our people in uniform, to our country, and are a laughingstock to our adversaries. They are supposed to protect us from threats from abroad; instead, they want to focus on mythical threats from within our own country – that’s not their job, not now, not ever.
All of the above is just a good start. We should do it.
Saturday, July 17, 2021
The Democrats' imaginary mandate ...
For some bizarre reason, Democrats believe they have a mandate to do all kinds of crazy things. Even though Biden never promised any of this looney stuff when he was running for President. And Democrats are scarcely holding on to the House and Senate.
In fact, except for Biden’s win and Trump screwing up the Georgia Senate races, Democrats took it in the face in 2020. They lost seats in the House, have to deal with a squeaker 50-50 seats in the Senate, and it was a bloodbath for them pretty much everywhere on the state level.So where do they come off acting like the public demonstrated its support in the last election for whatever wild-ass crap Democrats want to do now.
Democrats have to know the public’s not on board with all this. They have to have some internal polls – not the self-serving push polls from their left-leaning media friends – showing how ordinary Americans really feel about all this.
Just a wild guess here, but I bet it’s not good.
I’ll concede Democrats have worked the free money angle to their advantage. But it’s like a sugar rush: feels great for a short while and then you feel sick. There’s are more serious downsides, too – they’ve pumped so much free money out there people aren’t interested in going back to work, which hurts small businesses like restaurants, and inflation is also starting to creep up.
The voting public also never said they wanted socialism. Or authoritarian rule. Or censorship. Or a government takeover of healthcare.
Or allowing biological males who identify as female to compete in sports against biological females. Or teaching children that gender is not biology, but merely how you feel. Or promoting that children as young as pre-teens should be allowed to get gender reassignment treatment and surgery. Or providing Federal funding for any and all members of our military who want gender reassignment surgery.
Or teaching public school students America is a horrible country founded on slavery, steeped in racism still today, and that skin color alone determines whether you are oppressed or an oppressor. (Spoiler alert: white people are oppressors; black and brown people are oppressed.)
And lots, lots more.
Nope. The majority of voters in 2020 did not vote for any of those things. Apparently many only voted for Biden because they hated Trump. Biden didn’t articulate any of the above while campaigning; in fact, Biden said he was opposed to many of these back then.
That’s probably why so many Americans are freaking out over what Democrats are trying to ram through now. None of this was on the table when they voted. Now it all is.
Democrats do realize many of these are wildly unpopular with the American public. I suspect that’s what’s driving their frenzied rush to get their agenda passed and signed before the midterms in 2022.
Much of what they want to do is blatantly unconstitutional, like a Federal takeover from states of all elections. Or creating new rules for anyone who wants to run for President. Or, for that matter, working with tech firms and social media to censor things they don’t like. Or dozens of other crackpot schemes they are trying to sneak into law.
Biden’s a senile idiot and Harris is stupid and obviously in way over her head. Neither of them has the brains to pour piss out of a boot with directions on the heel. Biden reads everything off a teleprompter or his cheat cards, and he still screws up even when he gets the questions in advance. When Harris get’s stumped, which is often, she just cackles and hopes the awkward moment passes. Or she makes some completely ridiculous statement Biden flacks have to walk back immediately.
These two dimwits have no business even pretending to run the country. They are also dangerous because they seem incapable or unwilling to stop the true crazies in their party from destroying the country. Make no mistake, that’s what the Democrat loons are doing.
They are the real danger to our democracy, not white supremacists and voter ID laws.
The other day I said what scares me is about all this is that no one seems to remember history and how authoritarian regimes like those of the Bolsheviks, fascists, and Nazis came to power.
But what scares me even more is that they actually do remember this history and are using it as a blueprint to create their own.
BTW, none of these authoritarian regimes had a popular mandate either, when they started. They bluffed their way into power and control until it was too late to stop them.
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
They're enhancing Trump's folk-hero status ...
Friday, May 28, 2021
Why there's systemic racism in America ...
Sunday, May 16, 2021
How to stop virus and ransomware attacks ...
Hunt down the people creating and launching them. And execute them.
I’m serious. Find them and quietly execute them on the spot. Don’t arrest them. Don’t wait for some drawn out public trial, or pleas for mercy because they might be kids.
They show no mercy to others. Don’t show any to them. Exterminate them immediately once they’re found. Wherever that is. Here or anyplace else in the world.
We all know we could actually do that if we wanted. If we can find a mass murderer in Pakistan and send in a team that kills him, we can find and take out these guys. If we can drone strike the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard while he’s traveling in Iraq, we can do the same to them. You know we’ve done this behind the scenes to bad guys around the world for decades.
Bad guys sometimes just seem to disappear without a trace never to be heard from again. Organized crime has been known to do this at times, and sometimes for us as well.
But that’s not enough. Freeze and seize their assets, bank accounts, online crypto currency stashes, computer hardware, personal possessions – anything they owned, rented or borrowed before or after they started writing and pushing out viruses or ransomware.
Do the same to everyone in their orbit, anyone who may have provided any help or encouragement to them at all.
Then permanently pull the plug on any service provider they’ve used to spawn their wares. Find who owns that service provider and put them in jail forever. Again, no mercy.
Make it known in their “community” that associating with someone writing, producing, or even just distributing a virus or ransomware attack makes them an accomplice, equally guilty and subject to the same extreme punishment. Like “disappearing.” Again, no matter where they are.
Now, some – like the ACLU – would say this is a violation of their rights. I would say they have no rights anymore. They are fine with endangering the lives of millions of innocent people, just as the recent ransomware attack on the Irish health system clearly demonstrates. Once that attack began, the authorities had to cancel all appointments and surgeries.
Some would also say the U.S. cannot be involved in such extra-judicial activities, especially when these might encompass foreign nationals. I would respond that the U.S. doesn’t have to do this itself; there are plenty of private contractors – like Blackwater and others with private strike teams – that would be happy to do it for us. For a fee of course. Or a simple bounty on their heads.
It would be worth every penny.
We might even get some tech billionaires to help underwrite the cost. It’s their software and platforms being used as vehicles to enable and carry out many of these attacks, after all.
What about computer viruses and ransomware that originate in other countries; do we have the right to go in there? Legally, perhaps not. But should we, yes.
And we’d probably get away with it.
Does anyone think Russia, which has enough economic and political problems already, wants to be seen as a haven for virus and ransomware operations? A lot of them are there, and in other eastern European countries; the leaders of those countries certainly know who the bad actors are and what they’re doing.
Does anyone think China, trying to charm and win over the rest of the world, doesn't know exactly who the hackers and ransomware creators in their country are? Of course they do; China's a police state for God's sake.
But like the others they won’t admit it. They can’t. They have to pretend they care.
Think about it: if the trackers start sweeping these operations out of their countries, do you think any of those leaders would stand up and fight to preserve them? They’d have to first admit they knew who these modern-day pirates were and what they were doing all along.
When hackers and ransomware bandits attack school systems, police departments, pipelines, public utilities, hospitals, and the entire health system of a country, it’s time to realize how dangerous these criminals are to everyone. Not just the U.S. But to the entire world.
It's time to take them out with extreme prejudice. Wherever they are.
Whatever the cost.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Intentionally provoking a civil war?
I honestly believe that’s what the extreme left wants.
I also think they believe they’d win. Maybe they think this because the media is making them believe they have a majority of the public on their side. The media keep reporting ridiculously skewed polls that the left interprets as confirmation of their popularity.
The left is making a grave mistake. It’s akin to someone who starts to believe their own press clippings. Biden believes he and his ideas are wildly popular with Republicans. He’s said as much. In fact, he’s not. He’s not that popular with independents either, despite what the media claims. He gets relatively high marks for handling the Covid vaccinations, but that’s it.
Most of the rest of his agenda and his “executive orders” are a bust. It’s not entirely his fault; he doesn’t fully understand what’s going on. He’s being told what to do and what to say by others. Those telling him what to do and say have clearly lost touch with what mainstream Americans want, or are willing to put up with. Meanwhile, he’s hopelessly clueless.
His handlers and the media are doing their best to prop him up and make it appear the public loves him and “his” policies, such as they are, but it’s wearing thin. They are all afraid to let him go off script, even to the point of requiring reporters to submit questions in advance so his handlers can put the approved response for him to read on his teleprompter. We all see this.
We all see as well how big tech and social media platforms are censoring anything negative about Biden, his family, his supporters, BLM, Kamala Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, and any criticism of the policies they are promoting. No one can criticize the tech companies and social media platforms doing this heavy-handed censoring, either, or they are shut down, too. I’ve personally never seen this level of censorship before, nor have most other Americans.
And they aren’t subtle about censoring, or even embarrassed. In fact, they brag about it.
This pandering to the far-left progressives has severely damaged what very little credibility Democrats and the media retained. Yet they continue to manufacture and promote stories and narratives that are laughably false. No one believes them anymore.
That’s obvious to everyone but perhaps themselves. Or maybe they think no one is noticing and they are getting away with it.
Here's the reality the left and their allies in Congress and the media are hiding. Dig down deep enough on the same polls the media and the left like to promote and this is what you'll find.
No matter how many times Democrats call the January 6 incident an “insurrection” and an “assault on our democracy,” and the media keeps spinning the same narrative, most in the public aren’t buying it. It was far less destructive than what the media still refer to as the “peaceful protests” that actually wrecked and burned city after city month after month.
Look, we’re a kind, generous and compassionate nation but the American public -- regardless of their own race or ethnicity -- doesn't want open borders. It doesn’t want thousands of low-skilled migrants illegally breaching our borders. It doesn’t want to give automatic citizenship and full benefits to them. It doesn’t want our leaders to encourage parents in Latin America to shove their kids across our borders, hoping we will take care of them.
Our public thinks abortion should be legal, with reasonable restrictions, but doesn’t want Federal tax dollars to be used to fund abortions here or abroad. The public also doesn’t believe transgendered men who identify as women should be allowed to compete against biological women, nor should our tax dollars be spent on gender reassignment, much less for kids.
The American public is overwhelmingly in favor of voter ID to cast ballots, too. It knows that practically everybody – except criminals and those here illegally – already has government issued photo IDs. Even polls of blacks and other minorities, supposedly harmed by voter ID laws according to the left and the media, show they broadly support voter ID laws.
However, the propaganda machine run by our media hides this. Hiding the real data showing what the American public actually supports doesn’t make any of the above untrue. However, it encourages the left to pursue irresponsible policies unpopular with the majority of Americans by pretending there’s widespread public support when there is in fact widespread opposition.
Now the left is pushing to pack the Supreme Court, a proposal that, despite claims to the contrary by partisan pollsters and the media, is opposed to by most Americans. If the left succeeds in this, it will have taken a dagger to one of the most respected institutions in this country.
But, of course, the left doesn’t mind doing this; the left’s opposed to anything that allows citizens to have faith in the basic fairness of the United States as a nation of laws, not man, and what once were known as American values.
That’s why the left despises the Constitution – it tells us our rights come from God not government, for one, but it also limits what government can do to abridge those rights.
The left especially detests the Second Amendment. Not because, as the left and the media constantly proclaim, it empowers people to buy and use weapons of war on their fellow citizens.
No, the real reason the left wants to dump the Second Amendment is because of why it was originally placed in the Bill of Rights. It’s there as a reminder to would-be dictators that they can’t assert total control over the citizenry by first disarming the public, leaving them defenseless. The Brits tried that when we were their colonies. It didn’t turn out well for them.
In reality, the left and Democrats aren’t actually opposed to guns, just who is allowed to have them. And how they might use them. Especially "right-wing extremists" and "white supremacists" who have already tried once to "overthrow our democracy."
Doubt that? Think about the fencing and troops still surrounding the Capitol to “protect our democracy.” Really? That why they’re there?
That’s bullshit. The media know that. So do Democrats. They are afraid of the American public in general, not a handful of right-wing loonies. That’s why the fencing and the troops remain. And also to send a message to the public that the left and Democrats are in charge and will use troops and fencing to maintain their power. It's a bad message to send, particularly now.
Trying to destroy our protections in the Constitution, the checks and balances in the design of our government which the Democrats representing the left are trying to do, politicizing the military, and encouraging anarchy and assaults on law enforcement is a recipe for disaster.
The American public simply won’t stand for it, especially since the left and their allies in Congress and the media are trying to pull all this off all at once. It’s all too much, too quickly.
The left and Democrats are getting dangerously bad information if they think they can do this. The media and partisan pollsters are feeding them bad data. When the too-heavy hand of government starts dictating to citizens what they can do, where they can go, what they can say, who they can do business with, and where and what their children must be taught, a lot of folks will start to push back.
You’d think they would have learned that from the pandemic shutdowns. Keep up the pressure and even the most passive among us will rebel. Then it snowballs.
The left and their Democrat and media pals must be feeling that pushback. If they don’t, they’re blind and deaf. That’s the only possible reason they’re jamming everything through they can at breakneck speed. Their leaders realize time is running out on them. Now that vaccines are here, the public is not as willing to put up with the nonsense; the public is beginning to realize that all the shutdowns weren’t really about the virus, but about wielding power over them. And the public’s pissed.
The left and their friends in Congress and the media are playing with fire. Maybe this is intentional to provoke an all-out civil war. Maybe that’s what they want so they can install an even more authoritarian government, crush all dissent, and rewrite the Constitution to suit their wishes.
They should really reconsider if that’s their goal. Pushed too far and Americans will rise up to defend their freedoms, as they did against the British with the American Revolution.
Legal gun owners in America already constitute the largest standing army in the world by far. In case anyone has forgotten, the exact language of the Second Amendment is: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Most gun control arguments focus on the “right of the people to keep and bear arms” phrase; often lost is what precedes that: “being necessary for the security of a free State.”
That’s the “why” that should give the left and Democrats pause as they continue to try and unravel the freedoms, liberties, and core institutions that make America what it is.