Still No Snow
17/12/23 07:07
It rained pretty good overnight, but I never heard the wind they were calling for in the local forecasts. I suppose I ought to be grateful that we're not getting snow at this time of year instead of rain. It's supposed to be snowing in December. Right? It reminds me of the story about the new president of Argentina. I know, I know. Where am I going with this? He was touted as Trumpian before and after his win, and photos of him wielding a chainsaw went viral. I figured it was a good thing. The fewer leftists getting into office, the better. There were even stories of Trump paying him a visit in Argentina to congratulate him on his electoral victory. So, the next thing I read in the news is that he's coming to the United States. Not to visit with Trump, but to visit with Bill Clinton. You know, the very same Bill Clinton who erroneously claimed that he "did not have sex with that woman." The latest news is that Argentina will stay in the Paris Climate Agreement. That's not Trumpian. That's Clintonian. WTF.
The UPenn president stepped down over the weekend after Congressional hearings last week exposed her and three of her fellow university presidents as part of the problem and not part of the solution when and where it comes to ethics manuals and the harassment of Jewish students on campus. One fellow on Twitter, a Harvard alum, tweeted, "One down, two to go." The next head on the chopping block appears to be the president of Harvard University. By all accounts, she appears to be the least qualified of the three presidents sitting on the panel in front of Congress. Not just because she's black, mind you, but because she is a veritable nitwit based on what I saw of her testimony and a DEI hire to boot. That's a whole lot of virtual signaling by any measure. Did I mention that someone posted a rather lengthy tweet last night on Twitter exposing her as a plagiarist? One donor has already pulled a $100 million dollar gift from Harvard due to her testimony before Congress. Something tells me that the Jewish lobby is going to have the final word on Ms. Gay. That's a good thing.
The guys who put up our gutters did a pretty darn good job. I still think it was unnecessary to pull down all of our old gutters when they reshingled our roof, but it is what it is. Is it any surprise that the very same company that did the reshingling has a gutter division? That is by design, fellow travelers. Our new gutters are slimmer and more attractive, so out with the clunky ones and in with the slim ones. I'm guessing that as far as functionality goes, these puppies are going to work as well or better than the old gutters. I previously thought that I might like to try and do the gutter job myself, but after seeing how well it looks when professionals do the job, I now realize that it would have been a mistake for me to take on that job. I'm not even sure that I have the tools to do something like that, much less the know-how required to pull it off. I could watch YouTube videos until the cows come home and not even come close to doing as well as they did. That's about as much honesty as I can muster on a rainy Monday morning, so there you have it.
What the hell does that grifter Zelensky want now? He's back in Washington on bended knee looking for another tranche of our hard-earned tax dollars to fund Ukraine pensioners and fat-cat oligarchs. He'll tell you that if we don't fund their war against Russia, and Russia wins, Russia will certainly move on to take more territory to the West. He's full of shit to be sure. He'll tell you anything you want to hear as long as you pony up the big bucks for him and his fellow thieves in Ukraine. Don't think for a minute that he isn't siphoning off millions for himself and his family and stashing those monies away in Swiss bank accounts. Americans are getting sick and tired of Biden and his clown car of leftists paying off Zelensky so Zelensky doesn't spill the beans on the Biden Crime Family and their history of money laundering in Ukraine. The only way Zelensky gets any money is if Biden agrees to beef up our border security and I don't see that happening. The Democrats are too close to their goal of turning red states blue and having the one-party state/country that they have longed for to have it all snatched away by some demented old fool sitting in the Oval Office. Republicans in Congress would be wise to follow the sage advice of Nancy Reagan, the wife of the great Ronald Reagan, when she famously opined, "Just say no."
That asshole, Jack Smith, the Special Counsel Biden brought in from The Hague to bring down Donald Trump so he can't compete in the 2024 election, is getting desperate. He was coordinating his efforts with the judge in the case, a real leftist elevated to the court by Obama the goat herder, Judge Chutkin, to have Trump's trial start the day before Super Tuesday. That's a bit of a stretch given the various and sundry motions that are likely to come up in a trial of this sort. It's also election interference if you want to know the truth. None of it matters because Smith is determined to do Biden's bidding come hell or high water. He's also not taking any chances that Trump's attorneys will extend the dates by bringing appeal after appeal. He filed with the Supreme Court yesterday, and the Court agreed to hear expedited arguments. I just don't see how the High Court can agree with the Special Counsel that the president didn't have immunity from prosecution as a sitting president. That would be setting a very dangerous precedent to be sure. I'm counting on our conservative justices on the Court, three of whom were elevated to the Supreme Court by Trump during his first term, to do the right thing and find for Trump.
One problem with doing your Christmas shopping on Amazon is that your significant other can see what you're getting for him or her for Christmas. I don't care how many times they tell you that they never look, or how many times they tell you they have no plans to look, you know they're going to look. It may be inadvertent, but they're going to look. It could be in an e-mail when Amazon confirms your order. It could be in the "ordered" section on Amazon for anyone's prying eyes to see. Is that something that Amazon can fix? I suppose I could set up a separate account with a secret Gmail account. It shouldn't be that difficult. If a joint like Amazon can get you overnight delivery of your goods, they should be able to figure this out. Are they missing out on sales because they don't want to take the chance that their significant other will find out what's coming their way? What if I had a honey on the sidelines and I didn't want my main honey to find out that I was buying something nice and it wasn't for her? You also have the issue sometimes when you order a few things from Amazon all of which arrive at the same time, and you don't know which package belongs to who. You may even end up opening a present that was intended for you. All that side, who doesn't love shopping on Amazon?
Before I forget, I'm getting sick and tired of this nonsense about people not wanting either Biden or Trump as their only choices on the ballot come November 2024. Who's pushing this bullshit? I'm guessing it's the No-Name party trying to stay relevant. What they're not telling you is that you can write in anyone your little heart desires. You can always vote for a third party, say Jill Stein who is running as a Green Party candidate. Hell, if you're that unhappy, stay the hell home. Or, go and vote against one or more candidates on the ballot if you dislike them that much. We have a process, and that process is well underway for both, or should I say all, parties interested in running. Whoever wins the electoral college wins the presidency. That's the way it works, mother fuckers. Is this really just another way to suppress votes? I don't know what it is, but it's getting on my last nerve. And what's this I'm hearing about a New Hampshire resident being arrested for making death threats against Vivek Ramaswamy? You know Trump probably gets ten threats for every threat made against one of Trump's opponents. But, Vivek? He poses no threats to anyone's standing in the polls so why him? Maybe his constant baiting of his fellow Indian, Nikki Haley, on the campaign trail has irked someone to the point of doing something stupid. Enough already.
There is a new poll out this morning that seems to conclusively prove that a lot of people cheated in the 2020 presidential election. I, for one, am still firmly in the camp that says that there were never eighty-one million people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020. This is a guy who campaigned out of his basement for chrissakes. Trump was running around the country holding rallies with tens of thousands of people in attendance, and you periodically saw photos of Biden holding his rallies with maybe a dozen Democrat loons in attendance. None of it ever made any sense. You knew there was a plan underway by the Democrats to do something to rob Trump of a hard-earned victory at the polls on Election Day. Even Bumbles Biden, in his demented stupor, admitted to running a crooked campaign. The best ever, I think he said. The conspiracy to deprive Trump of a second term was so widespread and pervasive that those in the know knew he couldn't win. I don't know how, but the Democrats did the same thing in the run-up to the Congressional races in 2022. Don't think for a minute that there isn't a plan afoot to steal the 2024 election.
Now that Chris Sununu, the governor of New Hampshire, has endorsed Nikki Haley for president, do you think that it's going to make any difference at all? Sununu is a RINO's RINO, so nobody but Haley and her supporters really give two shits about his endorsement. I think he thinks he's the bee's knees and CNN and the other leftist networks out there will likely give him air time to spout his nonsense. I put Sununu's endorsement right up there with the endorsement of DeSantis by Iowa's governor. I think DeSantis actually went down in the polls following the governor's endorsement. Truth be told, this is all about stopping Trump for Sununu. He seems to be on a one-man mission to make sure that Trump doesn't get to the White House. It makes me wonder when he goes all in for taking out Trump at all costs if he isn't telling the voters of his State, explicitly or implicitly, that it's okay to cheat if that's what it takes to deny Trump a second term. It's a deal with the devil, it is. If they agree to cheat, he will agree to never look into election results that might prove election fraud played a key role in the election. It's justified, of course, since Trump represents an existential threat to our democracy don't you know.
I'm a little confused about this impeachment inquiry stuff going on in Congress. There's a vote today by the full House that will determine whether or not the Republicans can proceed with the impeachment inquiry of one Joseph Biden, President of the United States. I thought Kevin McCarthy kicked off an impeachment inquiry of Biden when he was Speaker of the House. So, why do they need a vote by the full house now? Pelosi never needed a vote by the full House when she launched an impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump. Anyway, the vote is today, and Republicans can only afford to lose a vote or two with margins being what they are after the expulsion of George Santos in the last few weeks. I'll be watching that vote with keen interest. If it works, it may well be the death knell for his 2024 campaign. With his son recently indicted on multiple charges and the full extent of Joe Biden's corruption while in office laid bare before the voting public, not to mention Biden's cognitive state which gets worse by the day, it could well be the end of the road for Joe Biden. Will his Party throw him out with the trash or will they work overtime to rehabilitate his reputation? Precisely how much stealing and cheating will be required to give him one last term in office? Does it make any difference to anybody that everyone knows he's never going to complete his second term due to his failing cognitive faculties? First things first. Let's get this impeachment inquiry off the ground.
Fast forward 24 hours and the good news is that the Republicans voted overwhelmingly to approve the Impeachment Inquiry of the corrupt Biden Crime Family. Even Rep Buck, who insisted that it wasn't warranted, stepped up to the plate and voted for the darn thing. That, my friends, is what a good day looks like in our nation's capitol. Not sure if it was a coincidence or not but it was the same day that the Republicans had subpoenaed Hunter Biden to appear before their Committee to answer questions behind closed doors. Is it me or does it feel like the door is closing on the Bidens and their decades of crimes? That cackling nutjob, Ocassio Cortez, was on mic ranting about the Republicans not having any witnesses or evidence to support their inquiry. Maybe she missed the two IRS whistleblowers and their testimony before Congress on the investigations they wanted to do but were stopped by Biden's Justice Department. Oh, and before I forget, Hunter did his little dog and pony on the steps of the Capitol building but did not appear for the hearing. Let's see if his father's Justice Department will treat him like they treated Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon when they failed to appear for their hearings. Spoiler alert: They've been convicted by a jury of their peers and now face jail time.
If anyone had a bad day yesterday, it was Jack Smith. The last thing Jacko wanted was to have Trump's trial date pushed back from the March 4th, 2024 date. Now that the Supremes have agreed to expedite their review of Trump's claim to presidential immunity while in office, it looks like a delay in the trial is all but certain. Judge Chutkan, the judge presiding over the case, has now seen the light and has taken Trump's case off the docket pending a review by the Supremes. I'm telling you, this has the libs and leftists in a rage. They so wanted Trump in jail by the time the 2024 election rolled around and that all looks very unlikely now. The other issue before the Supremes has to do with charges brought against the people involved in the January 6th fiasco. If the Supremes agree that those charges are unconstitutional, then many of the J6'ers will likely be released from prison. That will be a dark day indeed for Biden's Justice Department. It was a Trump judge who wouldn't prosecute using these soon-to-be-deemed unconstitutional statutes, and he will, in retrospect, be seen as a hero in an otherwise tragic series of events related to January 6th. Maybe someday we'll find out just how many federal agents were in the crowds at the capitol that fateful day facilitating the hoax known as January 6th. If there is a God, the perpetrators of the hoax will be brought to justice.
I hadn't been paying attention to the financial markets for the better part of the day yesterday as the Ev man and I were out doing a little shopping. By the time I got around to seeing the tweet that the DJIA was up over 500 points on the day, it was well past dinnertime. I knew Powell was speaking but didn't much care to hear what he had to say. I figured we were so close to Christmas that he probably wasn't going to rain on anyone's parade by making hawkish statements about interest rates or anything else. I hadn't factored in rate cuts, but they seemingly made it into the conversation. The markets were flatlining all day until Powell made his comments and then everything under the sun was off to the races. New highs were off the charts with practically no new lows when all was said and done. That's good market breadth. right? It wasn't that long ago when there were almost no new highs every day the market was open so this is a good sign. Is this the point in time when Aunt Mary and Uncle Bob empty their cookie jars and put their life savings in the stock market? It can't just be the institutional investors driving this rally. Is this the proverbial Santa Claus rally that we see from time to time? You hate to throw all of your chips into the middle of the table based on historical record, but it seems that's what we're seeing here. How long it lasts and how far it goes is anyone's guess. For the uninitiated, this started back in early November so it may be getting a little long in the tooth. I'll just leave you with this little gem posted on Twitter by Walter Deemer: "The most bullish thing the market can do is get overbought and stay so."
What the hell is going on with the remaining 137 hostages or so that are being held by Hamas in Gaza or God only knows where? And what is this nonsense about the White House throwing a holiday something at the White House and not inviting families of the American hostages being held in Gaza? I think I saw them cozying up to a microphone on the White House lawn and they did not look happy. I'm guessing they had a few things to say and not much of what they had to say was likely complimentary towards the current administration. They heretofore had kept their promise by not going to the media with stories about their loved ones. That would have embarrassed the Biden White House, and Biden's handlers couldn't have that. They have an election to win in 2024, and they are doing their level best to avoid the kinds of chyrons in the media that took Jimmy Carter out of the White House during the Iran hostage crisis. It looked something like this: DAY 444-AMERICANS HELD HOSTAGE IN IRAN. Biden's handlers probably told the families that going public would only endanger their loved ones. Now that next to no Americans were released during the 4-day pause, these families are beginning to realize that their loved ones may never come home. They have a right to be angry. Americans deserve to know the truth about why Biden kept all of this quiet and out of the mainstream media. It smells an awful lot like Afghanistan.
I still can't get over FBI Chief Chris Wray's comments to Congress back a couple of weeks ago. He said something about lights blinking red when asked about acts of terrorism in the United States. I can't recall if it was in response to a question about our open borders, but it's possible that it was. His boss, Bumbles Biden, has been letting terrorists into our country by the boatload while his Justice Department sits around in Congressional hearings talking about blinking red lights and the probability, not possibility, of a terrorist attack on our country. Wray knows full well why we're in the soup that we're in but fails to acknowledge that his boss is the guy responsible for putting our citizenry at risk. Houston, we have a fucking problem. I'm beginning to wonder if we as Americans aren't sufficiently inured to acts of terrorism given mass shootings and such that we may barely flinch when the proverbial shit hits the fan. We've been both horrified and further desensitized to acts of violence and terror by videos from the recent Hamas attack on Israel, and one has to wonder if there is anything short of a cataclysmic event that would even register with the American people. Maybe this has more to do with creating a situation "forcing" Biden's hand to institute martial law ahead of the 2024 election and, you guessed it, to call for a nationwide mandate employing absentee ballots.
Mrs. G had a nasty cold. I'm surprised that she didn't say something to us before we arrived on her doorstep for our weekly visit. That isn't the Mrs. G that I know. She came out wearing a mask when we arrived so that was the first sign that something wasn't quite right. Of course, the mask didn't cover everything, but that wasn't a huge surprise. You'd think that living in a facility with residents who survived the COVID-19 period relatively unscathed, that she and her fellow residents would know how to wear a mask. What did surprise us was the fact that Mrs. G hadn't been tested for COVID given her symptoms. Symptoms, by the way, that seemed to get worse the longer we sat there with her. By the time I got around to offering to get Mrs. G a glass of water to alleviate her distress, the missus was halfway out of her chair with coat in hand. Can you blame her? Nobody wants a raging cold in the days leading up to Christmas. It's not any more complicated than that. Whatever plans we had to help her with her computer problems or other things we barely touched on while we were there would have to wait. Did I mention that we forgot to bring over the four six-packs of Diet Ginger Ale that we had bought a week earlier? Of all the things to forget.
I think I'm in pretty good shape when it comes to presents and such. That is to say, I think I have all the things that I wanted to buy for everyone. Do I remember where I've hidden them all around the house? Maybe. I agree with the missus that we ought to start wrapping presents sooner rather than later. She wants to get started so that she doesn't have to do it all at the last minute. I want to do it so I don't forget who and what I bought presents for and, God forbid, where I might have stashed them around the house. I'm quite sure that the missus is already on to me when it comes to some presents since we share the same Amazon account. She'd probably tell me that she doesn't, but she's not a very good liar. You know what they say. Half of what it takes to be successful in our lives is just showing up. When it comes to Christmas, it means that you do your best to put something beneath the tree come hell or high water. You should have seen me and the Ev man pouring over $6.99 puzzles at Ocean Job Lots this past week. The missus loves puzzles so we're hoping she'll like what we picked out for her. There won't be any airline tickets for a week-long vacation in Florida this year so don't get your hopes up, sweetie pies. Speaking of pies, what, pray tell, should we have for dinner on Christmas this year? A holiday ham? A roaster chicken? A turkey perhaps, with all the fixings?
It wouldn't be Christmas if there weren't warnings here, there, and everywhere about scammers. The latest is when you get a text or e-mail from someone informing you that your computer is infected. I gather a lot of people fall for these scams so warning folks ahead of time can't hurt. The phishing scams are usually pretty obvious. Most of them have spelling errors that stick out like a sore thumb. You'd think that with all of the spelling programs out there these days that it would be close to impossible to compose an e-mail with spelling mistakes. How about the early morning calls to Grandma or Grandpa about their grandchildren being held hostage? If you live in a big city, you need to worry about being carjacked or pushed off a subway platform and onto the tracks by a neer-do-well with impaired faculties. I'm getting a little off track here. Did I intend to make a point other than to tell people to be careful around the holidays? I do enjoy the videos posted to social media sites that show the good guys getting the upper hand when it comes to robberies and such. The "good guy with a gun" is my idea of social justice. The only good crook is a dead crook? Do I have that right? Let's just say that you don't want me sitting on your jury if you've committed a serious criminal offense. Does anyone have any good Clint Eastwood quotes they'd like to share?
One last word on UFO's if I might. And what is this new name they're now using when they talk about UFO's? Is it UAP's? Not sure, but I'm going to use UFO's and that's my final answer. Anyway, we're not likely to get an answer one way or another from the federal government as to whether or not they actually exist. In fact, we're far more likely to find out who killed JFK before we learn anything new about UFO's. That's not the point I wanted to make. I wanted to say that UFO's are a worldwide phenomenon. That being the case, why wouldn't other countries spill the beans on what they know about UFO's? Is there a conspiracy between nations of sorts that sets the rules about what they want and don't want to communicate to their citizenry about the existence of UFO's? It seems nearly impossible that you would be able to get everyone on the same page when it comes to this sort of thing. Yet, whenever we hear about UFO's from the people in the know you'll notice that they never bother talking about what other nations know or don't know about the damn things. I don't know what to make of any of it. Maybe it's better that way.
I ordered a couple of smart plugs this morning. It's probably long overdue, and it's something that I've thought about buying but never followed through on it. We use a spotlight on the front lawn this time of year, and I'm always going outside to either plug it in or unplug it. We also have a Christmas tree that I am forever forgetting to turn on for the benefit of the missus when she gets out of bed every morning. I suppose I could use a timer, but I've never had much success with the timers that we've purchased. I also don't have any electrical devices that I can turn on and turn off by using an app on my phone. Not that I'm interested in doing that, mind you, but I have a specific use in mind with the spotlight (and the tree) so I want to give it a try. I can hear myself now: Alexa, turn off the fucking Christmas lights! That might be a bit harsh. I didn't mention that these plugs also work with Alexa? It's true. When the holidays have come and gone, maybe I use the plugs to turn my pot of chilli on and off during the day. I'm sure I'll have a thousand uses for the plugs once they arrive. Welcome to the 21st century, Johnny.
The UPenn president stepped down over the weekend after Congressional hearings last week exposed her and three of her fellow university presidents as part of the problem and not part of the solution when and where it comes to ethics manuals and the harassment of Jewish students on campus. One fellow on Twitter, a Harvard alum, tweeted, "One down, two to go." The next head on the chopping block appears to be the president of Harvard University. By all accounts, she appears to be the least qualified of the three presidents sitting on the panel in front of Congress. Not just because she's black, mind you, but because she is a veritable nitwit based on what I saw of her testimony and a DEI hire to boot. That's a whole lot of virtual signaling by any measure. Did I mention that someone posted a rather lengthy tweet last night on Twitter exposing her as a plagiarist? One donor has already pulled a $100 million dollar gift from Harvard due to her testimony before Congress. Something tells me that the Jewish lobby is going to have the final word on Ms. Gay. That's a good thing.
The guys who put up our gutters did a pretty darn good job. I still think it was unnecessary to pull down all of our old gutters when they reshingled our roof, but it is what it is. Is it any surprise that the very same company that did the reshingling has a gutter division? That is by design, fellow travelers. Our new gutters are slimmer and more attractive, so out with the clunky ones and in with the slim ones. I'm guessing that as far as functionality goes, these puppies are going to work as well or better than the old gutters. I previously thought that I might like to try and do the gutter job myself, but after seeing how well it looks when professionals do the job, I now realize that it would have been a mistake for me to take on that job. I'm not even sure that I have the tools to do something like that, much less the know-how required to pull it off. I could watch YouTube videos until the cows come home and not even come close to doing as well as they did. That's about as much honesty as I can muster on a rainy Monday morning, so there you have it.
What the hell does that grifter Zelensky want now? He's back in Washington on bended knee looking for another tranche of our hard-earned tax dollars to fund Ukraine pensioners and fat-cat oligarchs. He'll tell you that if we don't fund their war against Russia, and Russia wins, Russia will certainly move on to take more territory to the West. He's full of shit to be sure. He'll tell you anything you want to hear as long as you pony up the big bucks for him and his fellow thieves in Ukraine. Don't think for a minute that he isn't siphoning off millions for himself and his family and stashing those monies away in Swiss bank accounts. Americans are getting sick and tired of Biden and his clown car of leftists paying off Zelensky so Zelensky doesn't spill the beans on the Biden Crime Family and their history of money laundering in Ukraine. The only way Zelensky gets any money is if Biden agrees to beef up our border security and I don't see that happening. The Democrats are too close to their goal of turning red states blue and having the one-party state/country that they have longed for to have it all snatched away by some demented old fool sitting in the Oval Office. Republicans in Congress would be wise to follow the sage advice of Nancy Reagan, the wife of the great Ronald Reagan, when she famously opined, "Just say no."
That asshole, Jack Smith, the Special Counsel Biden brought in from The Hague to bring down Donald Trump so he can't compete in the 2024 election, is getting desperate. He was coordinating his efforts with the judge in the case, a real leftist elevated to the court by Obama the goat herder, Judge Chutkin, to have Trump's trial start the day before Super Tuesday. That's a bit of a stretch given the various and sundry motions that are likely to come up in a trial of this sort. It's also election interference if you want to know the truth. None of it matters because Smith is determined to do Biden's bidding come hell or high water. He's also not taking any chances that Trump's attorneys will extend the dates by bringing appeal after appeal. He filed with the Supreme Court yesterday, and the Court agreed to hear expedited arguments. I just don't see how the High Court can agree with the Special Counsel that the president didn't have immunity from prosecution as a sitting president. That would be setting a very dangerous precedent to be sure. I'm counting on our conservative justices on the Court, three of whom were elevated to the Supreme Court by Trump during his first term, to do the right thing and find for Trump.
One problem with doing your Christmas shopping on Amazon is that your significant other can see what you're getting for him or her for Christmas. I don't care how many times they tell you that they never look, or how many times they tell you they have no plans to look, you know they're going to look. It may be inadvertent, but they're going to look. It could be in an e-mail when Amazon confirms your order. It could be in the "ordered" section on Amazon for anyone's prying eyes to see. Is that something that Amazon can fix? I suppose I could set up a separate account with a secret Gmail account. It shouldn't be that difficult. If a joint like Amazon can get you overnight delivery of your goods, they should be able to figure this out. Are they missing out on sales because they don't want to take the chance that their significant other will find out what's coming their way? What if I had a honey on the sidelines and I didn't want my main honey to find out that I was buying something nice and it wasn't for her? You also have the issue sometimes when you order a few things from Amazon all of which arrive at the same time, and you don't know which package belongs to who. You may even end up opening a present that was intended for you. All that side, who doesn't love shopping on Amazon?
Before I forget, I'm getting sick and tired of this nonsense about people not wanting either Biden or Trump as their only choices on the ballot come November 2024. Who's pushing this bullshit? I'm guessing it's the No-Name party trying to stay relevant. What they're not telling you is that you can write in anyone your little heart desires. You can always vote for a third party, say Jill Stein who is running as a Green Party candidate. Hell, if you're that unhappy, stay the hell home. Or, go and vote against one or more candidates on the ballot if you dislike them that much. We have a process, and that process is well underway for both, or should I say all, parties interested in running. Whoever wins the electoral college wins the presidency. That's the way it works, mother fuckers. Is this really just another way to suppress votes? I don't know what it is, but it's getting on my last nerve. And what's this I'm hearing about a New Hampshire resident being arrested for making death threats against Vivek Ramaswamy? You know Trump probably gets ten threats for every threat made against one of Trump's opponents. But, Vivek? He poses no threats to anyone's standing in the polls so why him? Maybe his constant baiting of his fellow Indian, Nikki Haley, on the campaign trail has irked someone to the point of doing something stupid. Enough already.
There is a new poll out this morning that seems to conclusively prove that a lot of people cheated in the 2020 presidential election. I, for one, am still firmly in the camp that says that there were never eighty-one million people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020. This is a guy who campaigned out of his basement for chrissakes. Trump was running around the country holding rallies with tens of thousands of people in attendance, and you periodically saw photos of Biden holding his rallies with maybe a dozen Democrat loons in attendance. None of it ever made any sense. You knew there was a plan underway by the Democrats to do something to rob Trump of a hard-earned victory at the polls on Election Day. Even Bumbles Biden, in his demented stupor, admitted to running a crooked campaign. The best ever, I think he said. The conspiracy to deprive Trump of a second term was so widespread and pervasive that those in the know knew he couldn't win. I don't know how, but the Democrats did the same thing in the run-up to the Congressional races in 2022. Don't think for a minute that there isn't a plan afoot to steal the 2024 election.
Now that Chris Sununu, the governor of New Hampshire, has endorsed Nikki Haley for president, do you think that it's going to make any difference at all? Sununu is a RINO's RINO, so nobody but Haley and her supporters really give two shits about his endorsement. I think he thinks he's the bee's knees and CNN and the other leftist networks out there will likely give him air time to spout his nonsense. I put Sununu's endorsement right up there with the endorsement of DeSantis by Iowa's governor. I think DeSantis actually went down in the polls following the governor's endorsement. Truth be told, this is all about stopping Trump for Sununu. He seems to be on a one-man mission to make sure that Trump doesn't get to the White House. It makes me wonder when he goes all in for taking out Trump at all costs if he isn't telling the voters of his State, explicitly or implicitly, that it's okay to cheat if that's what it takes to deny Trump a second term. It's a deal with the devil, it is. If they agree to cheat, he will agree to never look into election results that might prove election fraud played a key role in the election. It's justified, of course, since Trump represents an existential threat to our democracy don't you know.
I'm a little confused about this impeachment inquiry stuff going on in Congress. There's a vote today by the full House that will determine whether or not the Republicans can proceed with the impeachment inquiry of one Joseph Biden, President of the United States. I thought Kevin McCarthy kicked off an impeachment inquiry of Biden when he was Speaker of the House. So, why do they need a vote by the full house now? Pelosi never needed a vote by the full House when she launched an impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump. Anyway, the vote is today, and Republicans can only afford to lose a vote or two with margins being what they are after the expulsion of George Santos in the last few weeks. I'll be watching that vote with keen interest. If it works, it may well be the death knell for his 2024 campaign. With his son recently indicted on multiple charges and the full extent of Joe Biden's corruption while in office laid bare before the voting public, not to mention Biden's cognitive state which gets worse by the day, it could well be the end of the road for Joe Biden. Will his Party throw him out with the trash or will they work overtime to rehabilitate his reputation? Precisely how much stealing and cheating will be required to give him one last term in office? Does it make any difference to anybody that everyone knows he's never going to complete his second term due to his failing cognitive faculties? First things first. Let's get this impeachment inquiry off the ground.
Fast forward 24 hours and the good news is that the Republicans voted overwhelmingly to approve the Impeachment Inquiry of the corrupt Biden Crime Family. Even Rep Buck, who insisted that it wasn't warranted, stepped up to the plate and voted for the darn thing. That, my friends, is what a good day looks like in our nation's capitol. Not sure if it was a coincidence or not but it was the same day that the Republicans had subpoenaed Hunter Biden to appear before their Committee to answer questions behind closed doors. Is it me or does it feel like the door is closing on the Bidens and their decades of crimes? That cackling nutjob, Ocassio Cortez, was on mic ranting about the Republicans not having any witnesses or evidence to support their inquiry. Maybe she missed the two IRS whistleblowers and their testimony before Congress on the investigations they wanted to do but were stopped by Biden's Justice Department. Oh, and before I forget, Hunter did his little dog and pony on the steps of the Capitol building but did not appear for the hearing. Let's see if his father's Justice Department will treat him like they treated Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon when they failed to appear for their hearings. Spoiler alert: They've been convicted by a jury of their peers and now face jail time.
If anyone had a bad day yesterday, it was Jack Smith. The last thing Jacko wanted was to have Trump's trial date pushed back from the March 4th, 2024 date. Now that the Supremes have agreed to expedite their review of Trump's claim to presidential immunity while in office, it looks like a delay in the trial is all but certain. Judge Chutkan, the judge presiding over the case, has now seen the light and has taken Trump's case off the docket pending a review by the Supremes. I'm telling you, this has the libs and leftists in a rage. They so wanted Trump in jail by the time the 2024 election rolled around and that all looks very unlikely now. The other issue before the Supremes has to do with charges brought against the people involved in the January 6th fiasco. If the Supremes agree that those charges are unconstitutional, then many of the J6'ers will likely be released from prison. That will be a dark day indeed for Biden's Justice Department. It was a Trump judge who wouldn't prosecute using these soon-to-be-deemed unconstitutional statutes, and he will, in retrospect, be seen as a hero in an otherwise tragic series of events related to January 6th. Maybe someday we'll find out just how many federal agents were in the crowds at the capitol that fateful day facilitating the hoax known as January 6th. If there is a God, the perpetrators of the hoax will be brought to justice.
I hadn't been paying attention to the financial markets for the better part of the day yesterday as the Ev man and I were out doing a little shopping. By the time I got around to seeing the tweet that the DJIA was up over 500 points on the day, it was well past dinnertime. I knew Powell was speaking but didn't much care to hear what he had to say. I figured we were so close to Christmas that he probably wasn't going to rain on anyone's parade by making hawkish statements about interest rates or anything else. I hadn't factored in rate cuts, but they seemingly made it into the conversation. The markets were flatlining all day until Powell made his comments and then everything under the sun was off to the races. New highs were off the charts with practically no new lows when all was said and done. That's good market breadth. right? It wasn't that long ago when there were almost no new highs every day the market was open so this is a good sign. Is this the point in time when Aunt Mary and Uncle Bob empty their cookie jars and put their life savings in the stock market? It can't just be the institutional investors driving this rally. Is this the proverbial Santa Claus rally that we see from time to time? You hate to throw all of your chips into the middle of the table based on historical record, but it seems that's what we're seeing here. How long it lasts and how far it goes is anyone's guess. For the uninitiated, this started back in early November so it may be getting a little long in the tooth. I'll just leave you with this little gem posted on Twitter by Walter Deemer: "The most bullish thing the market can do is get overbought and stay so."
What the hell is going on with the remaining 137 hostages or so that are being held by Hamas in Gaza or God only knows where? And what is this nonsense about the White House throwing a holiday something at the White House and not inviting families of the American hostages being held in Gaza? I think I saw them cozying up to a microphone on the White House lawn and they did not look happy. I'm guessing they had a few things to say and not much of what they had to say was likely complimentary towards the current administration. They heretofore had kept their promise by not going to the media with stories about their loved ones. That would have embarrassed the Biden White House, and Biden's handlers couldn't have that. They have an election to win in 2024, and they are doing their level best to avoid the kinds of chyrons in the media that took Jimmy Carter out of the White House during the Iran hostage crisis. It looked something like this: DAY 444-AMERICANS HELD HOSTAGE IN IRAN. Biden's handlers probably told the families that going public would only endanger their loved ones. Now that next to no Americans were released during the 4-day pause, these families are beginning to realize that their loved ones may never come home. They have a right to be angry. Americans deserve to know the truth about why Biden kept all of this quiet and out of the mainstream media. It smells an awful lot like Afghanistan.
I still can't get over FBI Chief Chris Wray's comments to Congress back a couple of weeks ago. He said something about lights blinking red when asked about acts of terrorism in the United States. I can't recall if it was in response to a question about our open borders, but it's possible that it was. His boss, Bumbles Biden, has been letting terrorists into our country by the boatload while his Justice Department sits around in Congressional hearings talking about blinking red lights and the probability, not possibility, of a terrorist attack on our country. Wray knows full well why we're in the soup that we're in but fails to acknowledge that his boss is the guy responsible for putting our citizenry at risk. Houston, we have a fucking problem. I'm beginning to wonder if we as Americans aren't sufficiently inured to acts of terrorism given mass shootings and such that we may barely flinch when the proverbial shit hits the fan. We've been both horrified and further desensitized to acts of violence and terror by videos from the recent Hamas attack on Israel, and one has to wonder if there is anything short of a cataclysmic event that would even register with the American people. Maybe this has more to do with creating a situation "forcing" Biden's hand to institute martial law ahead of the 2024 election and, you guessed it, to call for a nationwide mandate employing absentee ballots.
Mrs. G had a nasty cold. I'm surprised that she didn't say something to us before we arrived on her doorstep for our weekly visit. That isn't the Mrs. G that I know. She came out wearing a mask when we arrived so that was the first sign that something wasn't quite right. Of course, the mask didn't cover everything, but that wasn't a huge surprise. You'd think that living in a facility with residents who survived the COVID-19 period relatively unscathed, that she and her fellow residents would know how to wear a mask. What did surprise us was the fact that Mrs. G hadn't been tested for COVID given her symptoms. Symptoms, by the way, that seemed to get worse the longer we sat there with her. By the time I got around to offering to get Mrs. G a glass of water to alleviate her distress, the missus was halfway out of her chair with coat in hand. Can you blame her? Nobody wants a raging cold in the days leading up to Christmas. It's not any more complicated than that. Whatever plans we had to help her with her computer problems or other things we barely touched on while we were there would have to wait. Did I mention that we forgot to bring over the four six-packs of Diet Ginger Ale that we had bought a week earlier? Of all the things to forget.
I think I'm in pretty good shape when it comes to presents and such. That is to say, I think I have all the things that I wanted to buy for everyone. Do I remember where I've hidden them all around the house? Maybe. I agree with the missus that we ought to start wrapping presents sooner rather than later. She wants to get started so that she doesn't have to do it all at the last minute. I want to do it so I don't forget who and what I bought presents for and, God forbid, where I might have stashed them around the house. I'm quite sure that the missus is already on to me when it comes to some presents since we share the same Amazon account. She'd probably tell me that she doesn't, but she's not a very good liar. You know what they say. Half of what it takes to be successful in our lives is just showing up. When it comes to Christmas, it means that you do your best to put something beneath the tree come hell or high water. You should have seen me and the Ev man pouring over $6.99 puzzles at Ocean Job Lots this past week. The missus loves puzzles so we're hoping she'll like what we picked out for her. There won't be any airline tickets for a week-long vacation in Florida this year so don't get your hopes up, sweetie pies. Speaking of pies, what, pray tell, should we have for dinner on Christmas this year? A holiday ham? A roaster chicken? A turkey perhaps, with all the fixings?
It wouldn't be Christmas if there weren't warnings here, there, and everywhere about scammers. The latest is when you get a text or e-mail from someone informing you that your computer is infected. I gather a lot of people fall for these scams so warning folks ahead of time can't hurt. The phishing scams are usually pretty obvious. Most of them have spelling errors that stick out like a sore thumb. You'd think that with all of the spelling programs out there these days that it would be close to impossible to compose an e-mail with spelling mistakes. How about the early morning calls to Grandma or Grandpa about their grandchildren being held hostage? If you live in a big city, you need to worry about being carjacked or pushed off a subway platform and onto the tracks by a neer-do-well with impaired faculties. I'm getting a little off track here. Did I intend to make a point other than to tell people to be careful around the holidays? I do enjoy the videos posted to social media sites that show the good guys getting the upper hand when it comes to robberies and such. The "good guy with a gun" is my idea of social justice. The only good crook is a dead crook? Do I have that right? Let's just say that you don't want me sitting on your jury if you've committed a serious criminal offense. Does anyone have any good Clint Eastwood quotes they'd like to share?
One last word on UFO's if I might. And what is this new name they're now using when they talk about UFO's? Is it UAP's? Not sure, but I'm going to use UFO's and that's my final answer. Anyway, we're not likely to get an answer one way or another from the federal government as to whether or not they actually exist. In fact, we're far more likely to find out who killed JFK before we learn anything new about UFO's. That's not the point I wanted to make. I wanted to say that UFO's are a worldwide phenomenon. That being the case, why wouldn't other countries spill the beans on what they know about UFO's? Is there a conspiracy between nations of sorts that sets the rules about what they want and don't want to communicate to their citizenry about the existence of UFO's? It seems nearly impossible that you would be able to get everyone on the same page when it comes to this sort of thing. Yet, whenever we hear about UFO's from the people in the know you'll notice that they never bother talking about what other nations know or don't know about the damn things. I don't know what to make of any of it. Maybe it's better that way.
I ordered a couple of smart plugs this morning. It's probably long overdue, and it's something that I've thought about buying but never followed through on it. We use a spotlight on the front lawn this time of year, and I'm always going outside to either plug it in or unplug it. We also have a Christmas tree that I am forever forgetting to turn on for the benefit of the missus when she gets out of bed every morning. I suppose I could use a timer, but I've never had much success with the timers that we've purchased. I also don't have any electrical devices that I can turn on and turn off by using an app on my phone. Not that I'm interested in doing that, mind you, but I have a specific use in mind with the spotlight (and the tree) so I want to give it a try. I can hear myself now: Alexa, turn off the fucking Christmas lights! That might be a bit harsh. I didn't mention that these plugs also work with Alexa? It's true. When the holidays have come and gone, maybe I use the plugs to turn my pot of chilli on and off during the day. I'm sure I'll have a thousand uses for the plugs once they arrive. Welcome to the 21st century, Johnny.