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So now Biden wants for the justice system respected? In response to the New York conviction of Trump he now says “Our justice system has endured for nearly 250 years and it literally is the cornerstone of America. Our justice system should be respected.” Huh? This is from a guy who says to ignore the Supreme Court ruling on abortion. He said “What we’re witnessing wasn’t a constitutional judgment, it was an exercise in raw political power,” “We cannot allow an out of control Supreme Court, working in conjunction with extremist elements of the Republican party, to take away freedoms and our personal autonomy.” Wow. That certainly shows respect for the law. Biden also has defied the Court’s ruling on his student loan forgiveness. Remember when he said “The Supreme Court blocked it but that didn’t stop me.” This guy also has his agencies routinely exceed their authority in pursuit of DEI and climate change and is regularly sued by the Republican AGs. Our justice system should be respected? Only when it suits him.

Again, it appeared to me that the democrat strategy was to sue Trump whenever possible to make him the sympathetic choice to face Biden thinking that he was the only republican that Biden could beat. Now that Biden has botched the job so badly, the strategy was then to keep Trump off the campaign trail by making him sit in court. When that didn’t seem to affect his poll numbers the democrat strategy has now become to try to bankrupt him.

I am certainly no lawyer but I would bet that all the Trump trials will result in convictions. Does anyone think that juries in New York, Washington, DC and Atlanta would vote for acquittal? However, each conviction will be overturned. But Trump won’t be refunded a penny for all the millions he’s paying to his attorneys.

There is little need to point out the unevenness of “justice” in this country. We blacks have been on the wrong end of it too many times. Yet this is one of the starkest reminders that justice is not blind. Just look at the parallels: Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden himself. You can find the same – or worse – incidences by them that Trump is being accused of. Yet no indictments and no convictions. And what about Hunter?

Respect for the justice system? Way to go Brandon.

Harold A Black

May 27, 2024

I was looking at a Cubs game, they were announcing a pride night in Chicago with a pride Cubs jersey giveaway. Oh boy, I bet folks will be lined up for that much like the Dodger fans lined up for the Shohei Ohtani bobblehead. Well the Powers-that-Be has designated June as Pride month – although I don’t know what they are proud about. Anyway, who decides what month is which? Last year we went to a Tampa Rays game and found out it was Pride night. Most but not all of the employees were wearing rainbow stuff. The field was decked out in rainbow colors and it was the most weird collection of fans I had ever seen with various piercings, face paint and colorful attire. I was wondering if these prideful folks only showed up for pride night since I had not seen them at any of  the other games we had attended. Or rather, if they were at those games, why were they not dressed in their prideful attire? Why do they have to make it a point to look so weird? Well we are going to a Tampa Bay game when we make our annual camping trip to Madeira Beach. Saturday night is pride night so we are going to the Friday night game. Of all of the major league baseball teams only the Texas Rangers do not have a pride night. The Rangers are nonapologetic about not hosting the LBGTQ crowd and are refusing to genuflect to the pressure. I salute them.

Remember when calling someone a queer was insulting?

Did you see where the park superintendent in Denali national park in Alaska asked contractors not to fly the American flag but she flies the pride flag? Senator Dan Sullivan vigorously protested but interestingly no word yet from Lisa Murkowski. 

I don’t care if someone is LBGTQ. What I mind is the effort to indoctrinate young children through the drag shows and gay literature in the schools. This is a private matter left out of the public domain.

I mind the overly public displays of kissing, holding hands and flaunting one’s sexuality in public. But I am equally offended by heterosexual displays.

Is there a straight pride month?

Somehow we have gotten to the point where people get fired for resisting the LBGTQ mantra. The left has demanded tolerance – except to the Jews – so keep your criticism to yourself. Federal, state and local governments fly the pride flag during pride month. Biden even hosts a group at the White House and flys the flag. Hopefully, this year a trans person won’t expose his artificial breasts.  I am certain that with its leftist leaders the city of Knoxville will fly pride colors but I doubt if the county or the state will do so. My feeling is that if you want to fly the pride flag then why don’t you fly the flag for whose ever month it is? For example, June is also African-American Music Appreciation Month, Caribbean-American Heritage Month and National Safety Month. If you are going to fly the pride flag, then make room on the flagpole for the other three.

I wonder what the African American Music Appreciation flag looks like?

I was on a talk radio show – one in which I appear monthly – and the engineer played a Rolling Stones song as a lead in. I told him that if I when I am on the show not to ever play the Stones. When asked why, I told them that I have never gotten over “Brown Sugar”, one of the Stones’ greatest hits. When asked why I read the lyrics which are about slavery and the rape of black women. I could never figure out how this ever got radio play and no one pointeed out the lyrics. Think I am kidding? See for yourself:

Brown Sugar

The Rolling Stones

Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields 
Sold in the market down in New Orleans 
Skydog slaver know he’s doin’ all right 
Hear him whip the women, just around midnight

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good? 
Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should, oh no

Drums beatin’ cold, English blood runs hot 
Lady of the house wonderin’ when it’s gonna stop 
House boy knows that he’s doin’ all right 
You should have heard him, just around midnight

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good? 
Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should, yeah

Brown Sugar, how come you dance so good? 
Oh, got me quittin’ 
Brown Sugar, just like a black girl should, yeah

Now, I bet your mama was a tent show queen 
And all her boyfriends were sweet 16 
I’m no school boy but I know what I like 
You should have heard them, just around midnight

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good? Oh, no no 
Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should

I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, woo 
How come you, how come you dance so good? 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo 
Just like a, just like a black girl should 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, woo

Random Thoughts

The Supreme Court upheld the funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – one of the terrorist groups in the Federal government. Clarence Thomas writing for the majority stated that the Congress has wide latitude in the funding of agencies when they mandated that the CFPB be funded out of surplus funds at the Fed. Well the Fed for the past few years has been running a deficit meaning that it has no surplus funds. Well how can the CFPB be funded if there are no surplus funds?

Biden is still trying to buy votes by his last forgiving of student loans. Its “only” $7.7 billion which amounts to a rounding error in the budget. But again it is in defiance to the Supreme Court ruling that he does not have the authority to cancel student debt. The president ignoring the law does not set a good example for the rest of us.

The Harvard board decided unanimously to deny granting degrees to the 13 worse pro Hamas student demonstrators. Two were Rhodes scholars and were Muslim. One was from Pakistan and should have been expelled from the country. One hundred and fifteen faculty members – likely from the nonacademic majors like gender studies – had voted to allow the miscreants to graduate. Some have threatened further action against the university for ignoring their whines. The board’s actions surprised me especially because its chair is Penny Pritzker who is not known for rational thought.

I would hate to be a Jew on the Northwestern campus, Not only did the president cave to all the demands of the pro Hamas agitators, he then went before the congress and lied about it. Northwestern agreed to give scholarships to Palestinians, to establish professorships for Palestinians, to study its investments and relationships with Israeli universities. Logic would have it that in the spirit of diversity, equity and inclusion that the university would do the same for the Jews. But no.

Biden’s Title IX revision is a joke. Now just claim to be another gender and be allow access to the facilities of the other sex (yes there are only two). Males can play women’s sports. Obviously, Biden has the trans vote but why tick off the rest of us? My advice to the girls is “just say no.” If a boy shows up, don’t participate. If one goes into the locker room, walk out. Remember ignore your Marxist teachers, principals and school boards. Your parents have your back.

Trump has three groups of advisors plotting strategy for his return. They are on tariffs, immigration and the Fed. The tariff group is a bunch of mercantilists who think that tariffs will preserve jobs by keeping out competition despite evidence to the contrary. The Fed group wants the president to be consulted on monetary policy. The immigration group wants to expel the 30+ million illegals from the country. The Fed group has forgotten what harm a democrat president could do to the country, much less Donald Trump. As to the immigration group, I would hate to live in a country that would evict 30 million people regardless of legal status.

A friend of mine pointed out that the spate of rules and regulations from the Biden camp are coming fast and furious because they are trying to get as much in place in case he loses. That way Trump will spend all his time trying to purge Biden as much as Biden as tried to purge Trump.

The one thing I dislike about major league baseball is the umpires inability to tell what is a ball and what is a strike. Some like C B Buckner and Angel Hernandez are worse than others but most are bad. Although 90 percent of the calls are correct, umpires still miss on average 14 calls per game. Most of this missed calls are one balls thrown on the edges left or right or up or down were bad calls. That is stunning but look at any game and I get the calls will have you scratching your head. I favor use of technology to call balls and strikes and just let the home plate umpire call foul balls and the plays at the plate. Currently there is an automated ball-strike (ABS) technology being used in the minor leagues but MLB says it is not ready for prime time. I watch baseball and have seen umpires routinely miss balls and strikes that are on the edges of the strike zone. Two times balls were clearly out of the strike zone but were called third strikes with two outs in the last inning with runners on base. But there is no appeal. What is particularly disturbing is that If the ABS is not ready then I suggest that teams be allowed to appeal balls and strikes. If the team loses the appeal then the team loses its ability to appeal a call in the field. I don’t know if this is optimal but MLB needs to do something about the umpires’ inability to accurately call balls and strikes on the edges.

Lastly, did you see where the majority of House democrats voted against repeal of the DC law to let the District’s 40,000 noncitizens vote in local elections? Now how do you think the democrats really feel about allowing the 30+ million illegals and all the legal noncitizens vote?

Harold A Black

May 24, 2024

I’m a dog person and dogs know it. Perhaps they sense it because they very seldom are aggressive toward me. I once was called by my vet who wanted to know if I were interested in another female German Shorthaired Pointer (my favorite breed). They said her owner was terminally ill and wanted to find her a nice home. The only problem was that she didn’t like men. I said “She will like me.” When I went to see her I met her in the back of the building. She came right to me, sat wagging her bobbed tail and looked at me with sad brown eyes. I took her home. Her name was Greta. She was wonderful and protective. She was patient and loving with my grandkids, including my then young grandson. But if a strange male came to the door she would literally attack the door. However, if I told her it was all right and let someone into the house, she would either go into her crate or lie on her pillow and forget about the visitor. I would occasionally host a poker game. Greta with my other two GSPs would be on pillows in the kitchen while we played in the dining room. I would tell the players to ignore the dogs and don’t pet them. Once I was ignored and one player reached down to pet Greta. She bit him.  He never played in our game again.

The only time she threatened a woman was when my other half was recovering from a horrific automobile accident. A nurse came to the house periodically to take blood and do other ministrations. One day the nurse hurt her while drawing blood and continued even though told to stop. Greta jumped up on the bed and growled deeply at the nurse who asked “Is she going to bite me?” “Yes, if you don’t stop.” The nurse stopped. From that point on, Greta had to be put in another room whenever that nurse appeared.

A few years ago a German Shorthaired named CJ won best of show at Westminster. CJ made my GSPs look like mutts and got me wondering which breeds had never won best of show at Westminster. I was shocked to find that 11 of the top 20 breeds had never won best of show including the Labrador retriever and the Golden Lab. In fact, 160 breeds have never won best in show. Obviously, the judges are prejudiced with blind spots. How else to explain it? The breeds that have won the most are the wire fox terrier (15 times), the Scottish terrier (my other half’s favorite breed) 8 times and the English springer spaniel (6 times). The standard poodle has won 4 times and this year the winner was the miniature poodle. Personally, I hate the poodle cut and would disqualify the dog because of it.

If your breed is one of the 160 that has never won best of show, then why bother showing up? All the goldens, all the Labs, the dachshunds, rottweilers, Welsh corgis, Great Danes, Shih Tzu, miniature schnauzer, Australian shepherds and French bulldogs are just wasting their time. Even those that have only won once have the odds stacked against them like the Pomeranians and cocker spaniels. They might as well stay home.

In today’s world there would be massive protests by those on the left demanding equity and fairness at Westminster. Even though the best of every breed gets a participation trophy, equity would demand that one of the 160 win best of show. That means that for the next 160 years one of those dogs would take home the top prize. It would only be fair!

Harold A Black

May 24, 2024

Truck owners are famously loyal. I have heard Ram owners heap scorn on GMCs and Fords while those owners ridicule Rams. I am a Ford pickup guy. I bought my first F 150 for a farm truck 50 years ago which morphed into a gas F 250 which then morphed into a diesel F 250 when we started towing toy haulers and going camping. I admit that I did not do my usual extensive research when I started buying pickups. Rather I knew that if I did not buy a Ford my father would disown me. Dad initially disapproved of my only buying foreign cars until I took him for a ride in a Porsche 911 S cabriolet. However, I knew that he would never endorse my buying any truck other than a Ford. That stemmed from an incident in his past. In 1938 he walked into a Chevrolet dealership in Savannah, GA to buy his first new car. Dad said that the Chevy coupe automatic was simply stunning. The salesman said to Dad, “What do you want, boy?” Dad said “I want you to look at me going across the street and buying a Ford.” When he went into the Ford dealer – who had obviously seen him come out of the Chevy dealership – he was greeting with “Can I help you sir?” Dad bought the Ford and only Ford products until he died having Lincolns the last 30 years of his life. BTW, my son bought a Lincoln Nautilus a couple of years ago as a tribute to him.

I have been pleased with my Fords. My 2017 F 250 diesel has 140,000 miles and is the best truck I have ever owned. We love this truck. However, I am not so certain that I will ever buy another Ford. They make a great truck but their corporate actions and especially those of their foundation are off putting. It is the age old dilemma of whether to buy a great product from a company whose values differ from mine. I am not on Facebook because of Mark Zuckerberg. Yet I use Microsoft products despite the actions of Bill and Melinda Gates. I stay at Hyatts (although I prefer Embassy Suites) even though I find the Pritzkers especially annoying. But I stopped buying athletic shoes made in China because of the Uyghurs yet I have an iphone. I know that my actions don’t make an impact on anyone other than me. But that’s okay.

My problem with Ford is that they are supporting the EPA’s punitive tailpipe emissions rule and are against the suit brought by 25 republican AGs who argue that the EPA has overstepped its authority. To refresh: the EPA is mandating that by 2032 EVs constitute 70% of auto sales. Why would Ford align itself with the EPA? Namely because it has gone all-in to produce EVs and is losing its shirt. Ford is losing $130,000 for every EV it sells and over a $1 billion a quarter. To compensate, it is raising the price of its popular gas/diesel vehicles. To wit: a new diesel Lariat F 250 is over $100,000! What Ford wants is to force gas powered vehicles either off the market or made so expensive that customers will be forced to buy electric. Its electric F 150 is a novelty truck that can’t haul or tow heavy loads for any distance. So I will do what other Ford customers are likely to do, keep my current pickup and drive it until the wheels fall off. Then go buy a used one.

What about the Ford Foundation? Basically, it is a Marxist, socialist funding organization that funds radical movements worldwide. Go its website and it becomes clear that the foundation is focused on climate change, racial justice, equity, radical feminism and gender issues. There is even something called the Art for Justice Fund to “address the issue of mass incarceration”. Art for Justice? The Foundation says “We believe in the inherent dignity of all people. But around the world, too many people are excluded from the political, economic, and social institutions that shape their lives.”  The Foundation has announced its support for the advancement of LGBTQ+ rights. Ford is doubling its annual investment in trans communities, committing to at least $10 million over the next five years. Ford has targeted over $1 billion for social justice initiatives.

Apparently, the Foundation obviously does not believe that capitalism is the best method to accomplish its objectives. The Foundation is all-in on abortion and favors a reimposition of Roe to make abortion again legal nationwide. It states “We believe access to abortion is not only a fundamental human right, but a key pillar of democracy and a pivotal step on the road to equality.” Obviously, they must be pleased with the fact that abortions exceed live births in New York City. Also, the Foundation declined to condemn the Hamas attack on Israel and has been accused of funding antisemitism both domestically and abroad. Perhaps this is in the tradition of Henry Ford who was a notorious antisemite. However, the Foundation did announce that it would no longer fund the radical Alliance for Global Justice which is linked to Palestinian terrorist groups. Additionally, the Foundation has donated millions to groups advocating no deportation and no detention of illegal immigrants. Although the foundation and Ford Motor are two separate organizations, the company has done nothing to distance itself from the Foundation that bears its name, implicitly sending a message that it does not oppose its actions.

I think it is highly likely that the EPA mandates will not be enforced. A republican administration will move to strike them. The American consumer may finally wake up to the high costs of going green and become frustrated with the increased brown outs and black outs of the energy grid. This is happening in Europe and will happen here. Then Ford (and GM’s Mary Barra) will find that it is on the wrong side of the market as consumers rebel against the dictates of the left. Hopefully, I will still be around to see it.

May 23, 2024

Joe Biden gave one of the more curious commencement speeches ever when he addressed Morehouse College’s class of 2024. I know that presidents seldom write their own speeches but Biden should fire this speech writer. The speech was insulting because it certainly could not have been intended for Morehouse’s graduates. Biden speech could have been given by a race grifter to a group of welfare dropouts telling them that their lack of achievement was due to racism, the failure of capitalism and white supremacy. Consider:

“You started college just as George Floyd was murdered and there was a reckoning on race. It’s natural to wonder if democracy you hear about actually works for you. 

“What is democracy if black men are being killed in the street? 

“What is democracy if a trail of broken promises still leave black communities behind? 

“What is democracy if you have to be 10 times better than anyone else to get a fair shot? 

“And most of all, what does it mean, as we’ve heard before, to be a black man who loves his country even if it doesn’t love him back in equal measure?” 

Biden, or his speech writer, is oblivious that every graduate is a success. Most Morehouse graduates come from nuclear families of college graduates and not households headed by single mothers. These are the children of lawyers, doctors, engineers, educators and scientists. As to having to be 
“10 times better to get a fair shot” a Morehouse man will tell you he is already 10 times better. There is a well known saying that “You can tell a Morehouse man. But you can’t tell him much.” This is a school whose alumni are a who’s who of black intelligentsia and Biden is talking about the failure of democracy? Well since he has been in office for three years, is any failure of democracy his fault?

Why didn’t he list all that he has done to further race relations? Why didn’t he talk about the appointments of people of color to high positions in his administration? Why didn’t he talk about steps taken to increase reading and math proficiency among black youth? Why didn’t he talk about how his programs will provide incentives to uplift people of all races? Is it because he has done nothing to improve the well being of minorities? If this is a failure of democracy what is he proposing as an alternative? Why instead of an uplifting speech celebrating the graduation from one of the country’s elite colleges, Biden is race baiting instead? Does he think that by pointing out the inadequacies of his administration and telling lies that he can scare black folk into voting for him? Well those that do vote for him are true yellow dog democrats in that they will vote for a yellow dog (somehow that is apt) than vote for a republican. Someone needs to tell Biden that the Georgia voting law that he lied about produced record numbers of black voters and that “racist” “anti-democratic” Georgia elected both a black senator and a Jewish one. If the Georgia law were intended to stifle the black vote, we should have more laws like it. Biden’s speech was that of an angry old man who is a habitual liar and showing signs of mental and physical decline. It was a desperate speech from a desperate politician. Biden has been a consistent failure in the economy, foreign policy, domestic policy and race relations. He said he was going to unite us. He may be succeeding in uniting us against him.

Harold A Black

A recent article in the Washington Post was entitled “Mike Johnson, the Accidental Speaker, is among the most consequential.” I was wondering how Johnson is “the most consequential” in his short time as Speaker. Given his razor thin majority and the factiousness of the republican caucus I admire his being able to get anything done. But what has he done that the Post is so praiseworthy of? He has passed a government funding bill, reauthorization of the foreign surveillance law, aid for the Ukraine, legislation to seize Russian assets and a ban on Tik Tok. The Wall Street Journal also has praise for Johnson for these items as well. 

However, none of them are especially critical components of the bucket list of items most of us deem important: the southern border, inflation, the administrative state, regulatory overreach, lawfare against conservatives, the war on fossil fuels, the shutting down of Federal land for coal, gas and oil, the EV mandates, growth in federal spending, Title IX rewrite, and woke bureaucracy and military. Where is Johnson on these issues? How can he be “most consequential” if he has only shepherded through the easy stuff? As I have said before, all of the hard issues have been left for the republican AGs to fight via lawsuits against the federal government. The republicans in congress are busily just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Consider that they have recently passed a bill to stop Biden from withholding weapons to Israel – a bill that has no chance of being signed into law. They passed a law to stop hidden junk fees on ticket sales (whoopie). They passed a law to expand the definition of antisemitism. 

Go to govtrack.us. There you will see that there are 15,114 bills and resolutions currently before congress. Only about 7% will become law. As of May 17, 2024 there are 16 bills and resolutions on the congressional calendar. Not a single one of them deal with any of critical items listed above. Not one. Rather you have republicans introducing the Wippes Act (To require the Federal Trade Commission to issue regulations requiring certain products to have “Do Not Flush” labeling), The Think Differently Transportation Act (To require Amtrak to report to Congress information on Amtrak compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 with respect to trains and stations) and the Working Dog Commemorative Coin Act. Recall that Boris Badenov bypassed the congress when he was spraying goof gas to turn smart people into idiots. After listening to a congressional debate he said to his sidekick Natasha Fatale “Someone beat us to it.” Talk about Nero fiddling while Rome burns! If Johnson is the most consequential speaker then he is lording over the least consequential House of Representatives in history.

Harold A Black

We just spent the week camping near Asheville at Lake Powhattan Recreation area. It is a beautiful campground with plenty of space between campers. Asheville was in the process of removing the memorial to Zebulon Vance who commanded a regiment of North Carolina Volunteers in the early days of the Civil War. Vance then was elected governor in 1862 and proceeded to be a thorn in the side of Jefferson Davis. During Lee’s campaign against Grant, Vance refused to send his militia to Lee’s aid. North Carolina’s ten thousand may have made a difference with Lee running short of men in his bedraggled army. But the confederacy was one of state’s rights and Davis had no authority to order Vance to support Lee. Vance said that he needed his troops to protect the home front from Sherman who was advancing through South Carolina and threatening North Carolina.

Vance was an enigma, both pro Union and pro slavery. He once said “the general welfare and prosperity of our country, the very foundation of our society, of our fortunes, and, to a greater or lesser extent, the personal safety of our people, combine to make us defend [slavery] to the last extremity.”  Although he opposed succession, when succession came like most of his fellow southerners he chose to cast his lot with his state and fight for the south.

In downtown Asheville stands a memorial to Vance. It is a 75 foot tall monument dedicated in 1897. As part of the cancel culture Asheville decided to remove the monument. That was blocked by a lawsuit filed by the Society for the Historical Preservation of the 26^th North Carolina Troops – Vance’s regiment. The North Carolina Supreme Court denied the suit ruling in the city’s favor and demolition began on May 14.

I, for one, am glad that the memorial and others like it throughout the south are being removed from town squares. Such memorials were elected during a time that I call the southern reign of terror, where blacks had no power, were subjected to Jim Crow laws, had to “stay in their place”, feared lynchings, denied the vote, had no elected officials and no voice in public proceedings. I looked upon all these memorials as a finger to us blacks and hated them all. When I was in school in the 1950s-1960s in Georgia, the state did not celebrate Memorial Day. Rather it observed Confederate Memorial Day. My schools refused to commemorate dead confederates and did not fly the racist Georgia state flag which had the rebel banner added to it after the Brown decision in 1954.

I was glad when schools throughout the south took confederates names off their schools. I would not have wanted to have Robert E. Lee’s name on my diploma despite the fact that I admire Lee greatly. I was sad to see that one school district in Virginia decided to reinstate the names of Stonewall Jackson and cavalry officer Turner Ashby to two of its schools. Again, most black parents have little choice as to where to send their children to school. Although some protested the move and favored a more generic name for the schools, the school board reverted to the confederate names. Again, I would not want the name of Stonewall Jackson on my diploma despite the fact that he was a great general.  The county is rural with a small population of only 3.2 percent black. It is not surprising that these residents do not have much of a voice and much of an impact on the county’s politics. I would hate to be black in that county. For us blacks, the names and memorials symbolize racism in America, despite the protestations of those embracing the “Lost Cause”. I tell those who glorify the confederate generals that Rommel – the Desert Fox – was a great general but there are no memorials to him in Germany. Why? How was Rommel’s role any different from Lee’s? Again recall that my maternal great great grandfather was a sergeant in the 6^th Georgia who never disowned his black son born to a cook on the Jarrell Plantation in Jones County, Georgia. My son and nephew have paid a visit to his grave to tell him how his offspring are faring. But we are glad he lost and I would not want a Jones County school named in his honor.

More random thoughts

I take back most – but not all – of my criticisms of John Fetterman. Who knew that he would be the only vocal supporter of Israel in the senate while the Jewish senators are mostly quiet. Chuck Schumer actually went on the senate floor to call for a change in government in Israel. I didn’t see any criticism of Schumer from AIPAC.

Most Jews are democrats so why are their most vocal supporters republicans?

Does Biden’s withholding weapons from Israel mean that he is courting the Muslim vote (those who support Hamas) while thinking that the Jews will vote democrat regardless? He may be right. AIPAC is supporting Bob Casey in the senate rate in Pennsylvania even though he has been less forceful than his republican opponent David McCormick who has been loudly pro Israel.

The only actions taken by Trump that Biden kept were the tariffs. Now he has doubled down on the Chinese tariffs, ironically imposing them on green items that are not produced in volume in the US. Way to go Brandon.

Seemingly to celebrate Biden’s tariffs, BYD just launched the world’s first plug in hybrid pickup truck, the Shark, in Mexico for $54,000. BYD and Li have announced plans to build factories in Mexico claiming that the cars and trucks are not intended for the US market. Of course, they are lying.

Biden’s trade representative said that the tariffs would not have any impact on US prices saying “I think that that link in terms of tariffs to prices has been largely debunked.” Where did she learn her economics? 

Have you wondered why the campus protests are so small? As I have noted before, those that are protesting don’t have a clue about the Middle East and are not serious students. In fact, many protestors are not even students. Regardless, the vast majority of students are not participating. Yet the media is filling their 24/7 with campus protests.

Why are most of the tents of the student squatters at all the encampments the same green and white (Hamas’ colors)? Did the antisemitic student organizations get a volume discount?

How do you tell a terrorist from a civilian? Israel is telling people to leave certain areas in the Gaza war. Is it any surprise that when they flee to an area that the Israelis have cleared of Hamas, that fighting reoccurs in the once cleared territory? I guess they should let everyone flee except young men.

The Treasury is finding it harder to sell T bills and T bonds at its auctions. The Treasury issues the securities to fund government spending. The high interest rate on Treasurys, contrary to public opinion, is not determined by the Fed but by supply and demand. Given the rapid rise in spending and the increased volume of Treasurys, the only way that the Treasury can sell the requisite amount of bonds is at a lower price (higher yield). What happens if the Treasury cannot meet the financing needs of the government? It can sell them to the Fed which is called monetizing the national debt. Needless to say this is highly inflationary. Inflation also results in higher yields since investors want to preserve their purchasing power and suffer no decrease in the real value of their purchases. All this points to a possible collapse in the market for Treasurys if the congress doesn’t rein in spending. Lots of luck with that one.

RFK, Jr once called the Tea Party the resurgence of the confederacy. Excuse me but I was a Tea Party supporter having spoken to them at a rally in Knoxville and I hate the confederacy.

It’ll be interesting to see the relationship between Jewish students and professors going forward at the universities with the pro Hamas crowd and compliant administrators.

Wouldn’t it be great if the neo Nazis went on campuses to support the protesters in the student encampments?

We have just completed our “end of life” crisis. You have heard of the middle age crisis where you buy a sports car, get a hair weave (Joe Biden), and lose 20 pounds? Well the end of life crisis is where you sell the sports car (Porsche 911 cabriolet) to get a convertible that you can get into and out of (Mercedes 350CLK), sell the BMW, Honda and Indian motorcycles and get two Can Ams (Spyder and Ryker), and downsize your fifth wheel from a 36 foot 12,000 pounder to a 28 foot 8,000 pound Cougar 23MLE. 

We love Knoxville and the Knoxville house (I designed it and it has trees and the lake) and won’t downsize to the Georgia farmhouse (I designed it too) until I get too old to drive the 4 hours back and forth.