It is the sigh of relief. Old Joe pardoned Hunter. All you dems that have been doing bad stuff can now rest easy. Hunter is not going to tell on you now.
Well, that’s not totally true. There are others that might spill the beans. Once Old Joe is out of office, he can’t issue any more protective pardons. And, if the Justice department gets just the right proof on just the right person, all that house of cards may yet come falling down, likely very fast.
You notice, Kamala never said what she would do for the country except in the broadest sense. What little there was of her campaign was about Trump.
Therefore, we can only assume, the votes she did get, weren’t for her, but against Trump. That means most any democrat could have done as well or better. My guess is, much better.
It’s kind of what happens when you have nothing to offer the voters other than, “I’m not him.”
Albuquerque, NM has to be one of the best kept secrets as a place to visit in the country. I would have never discovered it but I stayed there one time during one of my many trips back and forth on I-40. I stopped at a motel and looked out at the near distance and saw one of the most beautiful mountains I ever saw.
The sun, as usual was setting in the west and it set the mountain aglow, almost as if on fire. It seemed an impossible picture. If I had a couple million in my back pocket, I would love to buy a home near that mountain. I would love to see the vision of that mountain almost on a daily afternoon.
Unfortunately, between one thing and the other, I was never able to move there and likely never will.
By the way, later, I found out that the mountain, Sandia Peak, has a tram going to the top. So it is, you can enter the tram at about 5000 feet above sea level and get out about 10,000 feet above sea level (not exact numbers but pretty close.)
Indeed, most people don’t think of Albuquerque as being so high but it is. Fewer people think of it being at the base of such a huge mountain, but it is.
It is also somewhat odd. The west side of the mountain is just almost vertical while the east side is something of a gentle slope, where some folks actually ski. That’s right. You can ski in central New Mexico and the land there is magnificent.
Oddly, there are hiking trails on the west side that are marked out. As you can well imagine, some of the trails are more difficult than others. Moreover, if I could have, when I was younger, I would have loved to explore some of them. Of course, the problem was that, whenever I went through Albuquerque, I was always on my way through. I could never take the time to explore the mountain or the city.
Many times, I wished I had spent a week or two there. I regret I didn’t. However, I did take the tram to the top and back twice. Both times I had a sandwich and soda in the restaurant at the top. After, I hiked a little of the trail that goes along the ridge.
As I said, if I, could I would make that trip at least once a week. I would never tire of it one bit.
However, I must admit, if I moved there, I would likely have learn how to spell it. Quite frankly, I don’t know if I could ever manage that.
I am not a betting man. In fact, if you read my posts regularly, you would know that. However, sometimes I wish I were. I mean, if I had gone to Vegas with one bet, I’d be rich. Well, maybe not rich, but I would have made a bundle of money.
Several times, I have said that Old Joe would pardon his son, Hunter. He said he would not. But I knew he would. If you read my blogs you would know why. Logic tells us that Hunter knows where all the skeletons are hidden. He likely has told one and all that if he goes to jail he will reveal everything. And when he does, then a bunch of dems would be embarrassed. A few would go to prison. It is most casual to the most obvious observer. The democrat party would collapse in on itself overnight. It does make me wonder just what all he knows.
Of course, I have no proof. However, it is clear to me that it wasn’t Joe that decided to pardon Hunter, but Joe’s puppeteers. It was a risk they could not take for a minute.
Not only does it reveal to most of us that Hunter knows too much, but it also proves that no one with a D after his name ever need go to prison, even if they are convicted of a gun crime. It is something of an irony considering the dems are so dead set against private citizens owning guns. If it had been me that was convicted, I’d be in prison already. Also, most of you as well, especially if you have an R after your name. Sort of encourages a person to register as a dem, even if you are a staunch republican.
When a man stands behind a pulpit and preaches the word of God, he should be careful to teach the truth according to the Bible. As I was going through channels a couple of days ago, I heard a person who claimed to be teaching the Bible who implied that eating meat was Biblically wrong. He was very proud of himself that he had been a vegetarian for all these many years and he is healthier because of it.
Fact is, if he wishes to preach not to eat meat, he should be careful to say that it is his personal feelings. It is not Biblical. Throughout the Old and the New testament eating Meat is directed. Indeed, it is required in the first Passover. Jesus cooked fish for the disciples. Indeed, it is part of the requirements of the rituals of the Temple.
I do understand the concepts of not eating meat. Many are are healthier when they don’t eat meat. Most of us do eat too much meat leading to many health problems. However, just because a vegetarian is healthy, it does not mean that he owes it completely to his diet. Moreover, we have not one bit of proof that he might not be healthier if he had ate some meat.
The thing is, if a person wants to preach not eating meat, they ought not try to say it is biblical, because it’s not. When you try to make the Bible say things it doesn’t, it undermines the truth that you do preach. The one speaking should precede it with something saying it is personal opinions based on facts outside the Bible.
Understand, I am not saying that it is wrong to teach eating only fruits and vegetables. It’s up to you. I am just saying it should not be taught as Biblical.
I noticed that Macy’s Thanksgivings Day Parade was coming on channel 5 this morning so I decided to take a look at it. Of course it was somewhat subject to the weather, not in NY,NY but here. The weather can cause my reception of channel 5 to fade in and out.
However, from what I did receive, it appeared that I didn’t miss that much. It seemed to be about one part parade and two to three parts celebrity hosts. For sure, the camara spent more time on the hosts than the parade. The hitch is, the pictures of the hosts didn’t change all that much, while the parade was always changing.
My summation of the 10 minutes I watched, it was a very long egotistical advertisement. I am sure those that were there saw much more of the parade, even if they had to stretch necks a little to see it.
It is a shame. When I was a kid, we could actually watched the parade, though it was in B&W. Still better than watching today in color.
I have lost track of the threats of bombs of people selected for the cabinet for Trump.
So far, I have heard not one condemnation of the bomb threats by the dems, not one.
It seems that they have forgotten all their advice about transferring power after an election. It’s okay. It’s fine. They’ll remember it all again, the next time they win an election. Their memories will all be okay again.
I haven’t done a lot of research on it. However, it seems to me that whenever one corporation buys or merges with another, the result seems to be a smaller or less effective a corporation than either of the companies. Consider, Boeing and McDonald Douglas. I might be wrong, but it seems that Boeing is not anything like either original company. The latest version of the 737 has been struggling since it left the drawing boards. Moreover, I don’t think the old Boeing would have put up with the apparent coverups attached recently to the plane and corporation. Don’t know so much about others, but I am beginning to think walking is a so much safer than flying. And most of incidents seem to be with Boeing aircraft.
I am open to suggestions. Am I just looking for something not there or have I stumbled onto something. It seems to me that I have stumbled onto several instances. I mean, American Motors bought out Jeep. Then American Motors started having problems and it was bought out by Chrysler. Then Chrysler was in a hair of going under. Well, that might not be such a good example. At one time, all of the big three were having big problems. There might not be a GM had we tax payers not have bailed them out. I kind of remember that one. In a way, I paid for my 2008 Chevy twice: once as a customer, once through my taxes.
I am sure that at one time, Oldsmobile merged with GM. Now there is no Oldsmobile. After Chysler bought AMC, the only part of American Motors left, near as I can tell, is jeep. The rest kind of disappeared. No more AMC cars at all. My question is, is Chrysler any bigger than it was when it bought American Motors. I don’t know. Can hardly manage a guess. However, it does seem that Ford and GM individually have more and larger dealers. I guess I could look up the sales. However, as I have mentioned before, I am lazy.
Just thought I would toss it out there. Something to think about, if you are as me and like to consider such things.
Incidentally, if you are in a position to consider a merger, you might want to think about twice, or maybe 4 times.
Let’s say I want to go to Little Rock. I live here in Desoto County so, if I fly, it will take me about half an hour to get to Memphis International, assuming traffic isn’t too bad. Because I need to arrive 2 hours in advance, I leave my home 2 1/2 hours before departure time. Also, I need to really go through the old checklist and make sure I don’t forget anything. There’s no turning around to get anything.
On the other hand, I can just drive to Little Rock, which takes about 2 hours. I have my own car when I get there, I don’t have to take off my shoes and I don’t have the limits on luggage. I have no parking costs either. Moreover, I get to leave on my own schedule.
It does make me wonder, how many people fly from Memphis to Little Rock, or to Fort Smith for that matter. I really can drive from Memphis to Fort Smith (about 300 miles) in about 4 hours, much more comfortably than I can fly.
I really don’t understand why, as a nation, we forget things so quickly. After 9/11 we all claimed we would never forget it. Yet, nowadays, many don’t know many of the aspects. If we did remember, we would not let people in this country so quickly. Old Joe and his staff actually aid people into this country they know are a danger to us. And yet, Kamal almost got half the votes in this country.
Nonetheless, tariffs is what really prompted me to sit here in front of my keyboard. Oddly, it is the conservatives that are so quick to forget the reason for tariffs. I listen to the radio and I hear people talk about tariffs without reference to the real reason for them. They speak as if Trump has no reason for Tariffs.
Look, I am not one in favor of tariffs. I like free trade. However, sometimes free trade doesn’t work. There are, if you will think back real reasons for tariffs. China, in particular gave us real reasons. They were dumping steel and and aluminum on the market. The Chinese government was financially aiding their steel and aluminum industry to drive their cost down. It about destroyed our steel and aluminum industry. Remember, when they called the steel belt the the rust belt? Our steel industry today is still not as it was.
This put our country in a very precarious situation. If, all of a sudden, China stopped selling us aluminum and steel, just how would we make things, you know, like tanks and planes? We could again make steel and aluminum but it would take years, maybe decades to get everything geared up again. Things such as that don’t restart at the flip of a switch.
Some products we make need to be protected. We need to send a message to all other nations, “We will not become dependent on others for things for any reason.”
Moreover, most other nations don’t have our laws and regulations. Mexico does not have the laws concerning labor and environment. Hence, it is easy for them to build things at a lower cost. Also, instead of the pollution in the US, they have the worse pollution in Mexico. By the way, have you noticed what the smog is like in China lately. Have you noted the child and/or slave labor in China lately. It is there, you know. We have laws against that here. It gives China an unfair advantage.
By the way, did anyone notice the way the French and English government help in the development of the Airbus planes… or the supersonic plane. Odd the way the Airbus planes are built, parts in England, parts in France.
In some cases, we must not only compete with the other national industry, but also the other governments. I suppose that our government could provide help for our industries. However, there are names for that you know. It is called communism. In Germany, during WWII, it was Nazism. For many, many decades, we fought against it. Many men gave their lives to keep it out of this country. Now, of course, the dems have a different attitude toward it. They welcome it. They encourage it. They fight those who fight against it.
Going back to the tariff thing. When other nations refuse to compete fairly, when they openly use their government to help in defeating our industry, then it is time to use tariffs, before it becomes too late to be effective.
Finally, we do need to make sure we can still make steel, aluminum and meds in our own country. We should never have to go begging to other countries, especially our enemy, for them. That makes us weak and venerable.
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