We Have Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself

Americans attribute that famous saying to FDR in his own 1933 Presidential Inauguration address in the Great Depression, but it was 400 years earlier. In the sixteenth century, the great French writer Michel de Montaigne (pictured right) – the man who pretty much invented a whole new genre, the essay – wrote: ‘the thing of which I have most fear is fear’. Although it depends on which translation you read. In another, the wording is slightly different: ‘The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents.’

Although we all have heard something borrowed, something new, something old, and something used, some things are just constant, and fear is real when things are out of control in the world. Unfortunately, as JRB has quite often boasted about his progressive ideas akin to FDR, he has single-handedly really outdone others as well as himself by pushing the world into a fearful economic chaos without any endgame in mind.

For more than 40 years in the U.S., neo-liberalism has dominated economic and political debates blaming free-market and growth-at-all-costs approaches to economic and social policies. Additionally, JRB argued the biggest challenges of Climate Change, systemic racism, and wealth inequality made problems worse.

Actually, capitalism offers solutions to all those challenges. The largest reductions in carbon emissions have come from natural gas, thanks to the market innovation of shale fracking. Genetically engineered crops have increased farm yields too. The wealth created by competitive labor markets have helped minorities employment grow by reaching out to train many for trades in new high paying job skills. Globally, extreme poverty has plunged to less than 10% from 45% in 1980 while world GDP has more than tripled. 

People are no longer geographically tied down, they are a global community. They have fast broadband, smart-phones, computers, and other technologies enabling everyone to share knowledge. 

In an 1817 letter to George Ticknor, Boston University from Thomas Jefferson equated knowledge with power, safety, and happiness:

This last establishment [a state university] will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be adopted at all by our legislature who meet within a week from this time. my hopes however are kept in check by the ordinary character of our state legislatures, the members of which do not generally possess information enough to perceive the important truths, that knowledge is power, that knowledge is safety, and that knowledge is happiness.

My Ukraine - United States War History

In 2008, I went on a family vacation to the Baltic Sea nations of Poland, the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, including the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. We also traveled to Russia into the port at Saint Petersburg. 

It was an incredible trip because  my family experienced firsthand these people that have suffered so much in recent years in wars. Their national pride was obvious as they rebuilt and restored many of the towns and villages that were destroyed in the second world war end other regional wars during the 1950s.

The citizens that we encountered were a proud people who appreciated their National heritage and their freedom from Russian communism. Their International threat proves to all liberal Democrats that Socialism is deadly and a weak leadership of the United States is presently unable, or unwilling, to fight for its own Constitutional rights. This is our rule of law, but all Americans are being sold we can change it and so many are not buying it – no sale! It is another big wake up call for Americans to stand tall to defend it or we lose it.

I hope this international dilemma will not be forgotten by my children and grandchildren and then wasted on the trash heap of history. We have to remember every day as we go forward to fight left-wing, communist, socialist attacks or we also lose our own freedom.

As a sidenote, it is interesting that the Ukraine government issued firearms to all its citizens 18 to 65 to defend their nation. In the United States we have our Second Amendment rights which defends the right to bear arms, so we all have our own personal weapons. It is laughable that both China and Russia realize that of the 340 million people in the states, there is over 500 million firearms in homes all across the nation.

If our nation was attacked on its soil, it would be a bloodier, deadlier, catastrophic war than the 1861-1865 U.S. Civil War when we lost over 625,000 lives. Now, that is a chilling reality! 

 God Bless America! 

Finding Freedom - All ID's Matter

Texas is getting ready for its "woke awakening" now as "woke" voting laws prohibit valid voter ID as just one of many obstacles facing all voters. After all, who needs or requires them anywhere anyway? Let's see...

QUESTION:  Has anyone REALLY read the law?  Why? It's because if they did read it, there would be no debate...

Dozens of chief executives and other senior leaders gathered on Zoom this 4/11/2021 weekend to plot what several said big businesses should do next about new voting laws under way in Texas and other states.

Kenneth Chenault, the former chief executive of American Express Co. , and Kenneth Frazier, CEO of Merck & Co., urged the leaders to collectively call for greater voting access, according to several people who attended. Messrs. Chenault and Frazier cautioned businesses against dropping the issue and asked CEOs to sign a statement opposing what they view as discriminatory legislation on voting, the people said.

A statement could come early this week, the people said, and would build on one that 72 Black executives signed last month in the wake of changes to Georgia’s voting laws. Mr. Chenault told executives on the call that several leaders had signaled they would sign on, including executives at PepsiCo Inc., PayPal Holdings Inc., T. Rowe Price Group Inc. and Hess Corp., among others, according to the people. PayPal confirmed it has signed the statement. PepsiCo, T. Rowe Price and Hess didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment to the Wall Street Journal.

Cancel Culture Crackdown Brings Viruses to Life

Viruses are regarded as nonliving extremely complex molecules that are capable of growth and multiplication only in living cells. Similarly, thoughts and ideas can live only under free speech between individuals. 

In the sharing of my views and opinions, I find it's always best to do as much research as anyone can do to vet out the facts and revelations that appear around in our crowded information world.  The best rule of thumb is to look with a jaundiced eye of skepticism at every bit of data that is thrown out in the internet and media outlets. 

Believe it or not, even after much investigation, one may have to draw only upon their own gut feelings as to whether facts are the truth or merely just fiction. Some call it a judgement call, but so be it; it must stand until better proof presents itself. That is my interpretation in how I arrive at my personal opinions.

I have been following the Covid vaccines closely by personally knowing people who have contracted the virus. The final pre-vaccine outcomes of all have surprisingly resolved quickly within a range of complete recovery to death.  Being a geriatric patient, a septuagenarian of seventy-five, I qualify as a combatant out in the war and a fighter against this virus. By the way, I have had my first shot of the Moderna vaccine on Jan 16, 2021 with positive news of a 94.5% efficacy, and the second shot scheduled on February 13, 2021.

I feel like every day is a battle to defend myself as I take in all the ongoing clinical or medical information being dispensed to inoculate my knowledge base. There is, however, like medicine, good and bad advice and one has to decide where science is fact or fiction; in both cases there are political forces working behind the scenes in government and medicine. 

 

As an example, the World Health Organization, WHO, a controversial Chinese Communist politically funded medical body and denier of the Wuhan Virus nexus in a recent article about clinical studies questioned the safety to pregnant women to avoid Moderna doses. It recommends generally against it. I forwarded it to my daughter who had a baby and was in self-quarantine for nearly a year in her Los Angeles home. 

She has a Bachelor and Masters degree from the Keck School of Medicine at USC and over eight years experience in marketing pharmaceuticals directly to physicians in their offices, actively training hospital staff, and administering patient medical procedures alongside doctors in operation rooms. So, she is highly qualified to evaluate the efficacy of clinical trials and resulting outcomes. In contemplating another baby in her future, this article is just more piece of data  to vet and compare to competing clinical papers and trial outcomes to reach sound conclusions.

So you can see, as a "die-hard Trumpster", I do give both sides a fair public hearing, with no restrictions to free speech, and draw down on those facts to make my own opinions.  I do not believe in turning off anyone else's free speech in attempting to reach out for everyone's words and ideas, whether I agree with them or not. It is a God-given, Constitutionally mandated right to free speech in the United States that endows every single individual without any Federal or State or Local government interventions or restrictions to not be silenced or have their rights abridged.

As a Constitutional advocate and United States citizen, I found it absolutely appalling and illegal that privately run mega-trillion dollar, Neo-Nazi, Big Tech conglomerates with their self-appointed, gross arrogance can under their own self-righteous fiat dictate censorship of a free nation's citizens about which company or who personally is allowed a public forum or platform on the American public internet.

Is the Obama era "Fairness Doctrine" going to be resurrected to control information completely all the information news outlets?  75,000,000 of the electorate who voted for Trump, plus more voters who never heard anything except the loud hyperbole of "Mr. Orange Hair and his rants" were not given by left-leaning media any air time to view the actual facts, issues, or results of a highly successful President.

I know many who regret they did not vote for Trump and now really doubt the senile, old guy who reads chyron teleprompters with 5" high letters of scrolling text moving along to deliver his scripted messages.  Sad.  Many voters were duped into this ridiculous farce for a President, a Manchurian candidate literally, that will bring down the United States Constitution with its citizens to a new world order, not under our sovereign USA control.  

Hopefully, cautiously, all Americans are keenly watching about what that militant mascarade of our troops is doing there as it's marching around in our national capital to fight against its citizens to protect those now in power. Who, potentially, are these anarchists? 

I heard yesterday that the Washington establishment permanently installed chain link fences and razor wire as the "new normal" in Washington too. Hello, Venezuela!  How nuts is that scenario?

Gravy Train or Oil Train - No Difference

Say GOOD-BYE to the XL Pipeline!

...Say HELLO to the Green New Deal! 

...And NO, this is not Thomas the Engine!

Well now, obviously ole Joey kept his Faustian deal with the devil to sell his soul. His demons will haunt him throughout his brief tenure in office as he does penance by asking for monies and favors in exchange for access to the Oval Office as well as their seat behind the Resolute Desk making the decisions to guide his presidential powers. All Joey has to do now is read the five inch letter high characters in words flashing across in a brightly lit, chyron display monitor. 

Joey spouting off during his Presidential election rhetoric about the rich Wall Streeters, millionaires, and billionaires has all but forgotten about his harsh rebukes and on taxing the rich. Everyone will be surprised to find out now that this is just not the case. Shockingly, Joey has already figured out how to tax the people with a simple scheme: Green Energy subsidized through added fuel taxes. This revenue includes automobiles, oil heating, and all businesses requiring fossil fuels. (i.e., airlines, retail stores, schools, municipalities, etc.)  

The sweet spot in the fuel deal is pay back, or better, simply payoff. The millions of dollars that fatcat, Democrat Daddy Warbucks, donor, Warren Buffet bundled, hosted fundraisers, and contributed to Joey's campaign paid off. His Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF) hauls 80% of the oil crude from Canada to the Midwest and Texas or charges other shortline railroads a fee to use their tracks. BNSF charges $30 per barrel verses $10 per barrel in the Keystone pipeline. Warren would lose $2 Billion a year if the pipeline construction goes through the United States.

As a side note, Canada begins trading with China to offload their excess crude oil to Chinese tankers bound to their mainland while leaving the U.S. to crawl back to the middle east for it's own petroleum needs.

This delay is temporary as any Presidential executive orders can be. But, every year it's a big $2 Billion paycheck to Warren Buffet. The Green Deal initiatives are completely ignored as the railroad and trucker union workers continue to transport the same oil in both rails and trucks which net out zero environmental savings. So, is it more or less dangerous to transport crude oil through pipes or travel on roads and rails delivering volatile, dangerous fuels?