This article is my first post for 2024, so I thought I’d summarize last year in a single quotation; you all know how much I love quotes. Unlike Claudine Gay, I don’t take credit for them.
Today’s quotation is one that I find decidedly appropriate to the festering situation in America. It’s a summation of the last three years, and it is more than appropriate… by the way – I don’t expect this to end in 2024…
“Stupid is as stupid does…” ~ Forrest Gump
It was Forrest Gump’s retort in the movie bearing his name when someone asked if he was stupid. It means a person should be judged by their actions, not appearance. Continue reading
If the whole damned system were to collapse today, it might just end up being the best thing that ever happened to this nation. It would force everyone to take a hard look at the reality of the stupid ideology they were so enthralled with, that is, for those who survive America’s fall and the incredibly bloody violence sure to follow.
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What do you think is the biggest problem this country faces now; the one thing those seeking your vote in the upcoming Presidential Election should focus their attention upon? Is it the conflict in Israel? Is it the threat of another pandemic? Is it the high cost of groceries? Is it safety in our public schools? What do you believe the next President should make his top priority?
Historians of the future, flash-frying peccary testicles and mesquite pods over their campfires, will wonder at how the archetypal Shining City on a Hill of America’s storied yesteryear got transformed into the roach motel that our country has become on the threshold of 2024 CE. Will they be as stupidly bewildered as, in our time, the faculty at Harvard, the editors of The New York Times, or the directorate of the CDC? Or will they figure out the score by then?
The best single description of civil war I have ever encountered is a scene from Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” Set during the Spanish Civil War, a Spanish woman loyal to the Republic named Pilar describes the first days of the war. For two dozen pages, she describes the murder of her hometown’s most prominent fascists after declaring for the Republic. She finishes the story by calling it “the worst day of my life until one other day,” then states that the worst day was when the fascists took the town three days later.
Just saw a report on Fox News this morning where the mayor of New York City just put out an executive order that they don’t want anymore busloads of illegal immigrants dropped off in their fair city. One busload of illegals got dropped off over in New Jersey because of that. It seems that Chicago has got the same problem.
The move comes as authorities say at least 10,000 migrants a day have been arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, many of them asylum seekers. It also comes as a migrant caravan of thousands of people from across the region – largely Venezuelans – has trekked through southern Mexico this week.
After years of trying to understand the complexities of the U.S. immigration system and how it impacts Minnesotans, I finally got the chance to really dig deeper into the cracks in the system and its effects on people.
In a unified effort, twenty-six state attorneys general are urgently calling on House Speaker Mike Johnson to expedite the passage of a crucial bill, the Immigration Enforcement Partnership Act, or H.R. 1337. This legislation, introduced by Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., on March 3, 2023, empowers state officials to assume the role of federal immigration authorities when the Homeland Security secretary neglects their responsibilities.
I was pondering my children’s and grandchildren’s futures in America today, as I considered what I wanted to write, and this was the result. They don’t have a future so long as so many people remain so ignorant in the country and demand every want and need for their existence to be met by the government, as if someone doesn’t actually have to pay for all of it – Yes AOC – taxpayers are real live people with their own bills to pay.
Folks, it’s time to break the cycle of abuses – cruel, brutal, immoral, unconstitutional and unacceptable – that have been heaped upon us by the government for way too long.
Joe Biden’s policies have been an unmitigated disaster. Even the lefties know that, but they gaslight us and pretend Joe is another Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Annual southwest border apprehensions exceeded 405,500 just once during the last presidency, in fiscal year 2019, when they hit 860,000. Trump responded with the successful “Remain in Mexico” program, driving illegal migration down again. 
The biggest migrant caravan for 18 months set off for the US from Mexico on Christmas Eve as border crossing records continue to tumble.
I always like watching all the old ‘Scrooge’ movies on TV at this time of year. I prefer the black and white ones. I picture London being black and white in 1843, when Charles Dickens penned the tale – and in fact, Benjamin Franklin described old London as being a smokey, dark place in the mid 1700s. One of the best film versions is the 1935 one starring Seymour Hicks. When he contritely visits his nephew and his nephew’s new wife at the end, he takes a moment to look at their Christmas tree. He sheds a tear because it’s so beautiful.