More press hypocrisy

 For the past couple of weeks the press has taken Joe Manchin to the wood shed for "failing to save democracy" because he won't vote to end the filibuster  or vote for a national take over of election law. Of course these are the same media people that extol the virtues of Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney for standing up for their beliefs. It's okay to be frustrated with members of you own political bloc when they won't toe the party line. What's not okay is to portray these stand outs differently based on party.

Memorial Day

 Some heroes gave all.

Remembrance and thanks are due.

Small payment indeed.

Don't be a Dumbass

 I've consistently said the Covid "crisis" has been over blown. In fact some studies show that there were more excess deaths in the last year from sources other than Covid (basically the lock downs were killing more people than the disease.

The fear mongering has done it's job and if we want to put the fear behind us we can't be Dumbasses. So skip the excuses and go get the vaccine. The wife and I have been fully vaccinated for over a month a little discomfort the day after the shot and no side effects. It's a win-win weather you buy the hype or not it won't hurt you if it doesn't work and if it works you won't get sick.

So let me repeat don't be a Dumbass.

Lies

 You have to wonder how anyone would believe anything a Democrat politician says they can't even stick to one name they used to be liberals now their progressives. Democrats claim to be for the working class and wanting to fight income inequality or the ever widening gap between rich and poor. Yet every time I hear a proposal from the left it is detrimental to the middle class worker. Take Biden and his climate pledge, it all sounds good until the bill comes in everyone wants a clean healthy environment but at what cost. In order to reach his carbon reduction goals most cars will have to be electric and most power plants will have to stop burning fossil fuels. So what's the cost, I 've been looking at maybe getting a new car and the cost differential between gas and electric is any where from 8,000 to 17,000 dollars. Now for most working class people this puts owning a car almost completely out of reach and this is just one small part of the added expenses coming from the climate worriers. 

Maybe lies is too strong of a word well intentioned but ignorant assuming they can see all the consequences of their good intentions might be more accurate. One things for sure no politician cares about my wallet as much as I do.

It's going to be a long 4 years hide your wallet and hold on tight

New voting laws

 Many in the tv and print media are claiming the various voting laws being enacted across the country are racist because they are aimed at suppressing mostly poor and black voters. I've voted since I was 18 maybe twenty when I voted for Reagan. Always voting in person, in those early years I probably would have been considered poor never really had a problem voting. When the media portrays these laws as racist they are insulting the very people they claim to want to protect. The poor and blacks are not too stupid or poor or lazy to vote   they can figure out how to get a picture ID or get to the polls. 

Democrats are constantly griping about proper identification being a hindrance to voting or how purging inactive registrations is all voter suppression. Then they wonder why people call into question the validity if elections. Trump is the most recent example but Stacy Abrams and the Dem's are still questioning the results of failed gubernatorial bid several years ago.

Voting should be as easy and secure as possible so I make the following suggestions.

 All voting will be in person, at a persons proper precinct no provisional ballots.

No picture ID no vote.

All voting will take 2 days Saturday and Tuesday.

Absolutely no media reporting till the polls close Tuesday night.

Absentee ballots are only issued hospitalizations or out of the state.

No ballot counting physical or mechanical is allowed without each party having a representative present.

Voting is a civic and community event where people should gather and see their neighbors sharing in decisions and working to make their communities better.  Voting shouldn't be so much about every person voting but encouraging everyone to want to vote.

Rejoining Paris climate accord and World Health Organization

 Watching the ABC evening news Friday I saw Pres. Biden touting rejoining the Paris Accord and WHO and how America was back. The news anchors were almost glowing in their report of how happy and receptive the zoom conference of mostly European leaders were of Biden's announcement. It made me laugh, of course these leaders were glad that America was back. They aren't glad were back they're glad we are paying for these programs again. Much like NATO before Trump forced their hands we were paying the bills. 

People always complain that the U.S. is the world's police force, we're really the worlds pocketbook and everybody wants to put their hands in our pockets.

Impeachment

Well the farce is over a trial where people could take their last shots at Trump with no real chance for success is done with the predictable outcome. What a waste of time and money the Democrats knew they could not get the Senate to go along with impeachment but did it anyway. The real malfeasance was not Trump supposed incitement, after all he did say to march to the capitol peacefully, of course the media dismisses that out of hand and most people don't even know Trump said peacefully. The real problem is when claims of irregularities are dismissed out of hand. Weather you believe the vote was completely above board or completely crooked it should be given a fair examination. When people see complaints ignored by courts or other officials you inflame people far more than any speech could. 

Just a little food for thought if the election was so fair and honest why are the Democrats so afraid of investigation?