The Other Side Of The Political Ad….

 This should not be taken as supporting or opposing Mike Rogers.

Giffords PAC, the Bloomberg funded gun control organization founded by former senator Gabby Giffords that is pushing total elimination of firearms, is running an ad on TV accusing Rogers of taking money from Pro Second Amendment organizations to “weaken” gun control laws.  But here’s the thing they hope you won’t consider: the opening footage of the ad is taken from the mass shooting event a few years ago at MSU.

Why is this important?

While they accuse Rogers of “weakening” gun laws, they hope you won’t remember that the MSU campus attack was only possible because a democrat prosecutor gave the future shooter,  Anthony Dwayne McRae, a deal on a previous crime.  He had been arrested earlier for carrying a concealed weapon without a permit - a felony that would have put him in jail for years AND RENDERED HIM A PROHIBITED PERSON WITH REGARD TO PURCHASING FIREARMS.  Instead, the democrat former prosecutor from Lansing, Carol Siemon, offered him a plea deal that lowered it to a misdemeanor.  Once the terms of the deal had been fulfilled, McRae was free to buy firearms again.  There was no “weakening” of gun control laws, the laws that were in place would have prevented him from legally obtaining firearms.  No, the laws, for which democrats had been screaming for years, were brushed aside - allowing him to buy firearms again.

On top of that, MSU used to be open to lawful concealed carry - and there was never an issue.  Instead, MSU was changed to a so-called “gun free” zone - and McRae took advantage of it to launch his attack.

So who, then, was REALLY responsible for the MSU shooting that left three people dead and five people injured?

Prime Minister Carney: “America Is Changing….”

Prime Minister, you recently made the above statement, and I feel the need to respond on behalf of the millions of us who do not share the warped vision being acted upon in Washington, DC.

Prime Minister Carney: No, AMERICA isn’t changing.

Unfortunately, we have a small group of oligarchs, one in particular, at the top trying to impose their vision on us and destroying everything we have worked to achieve for over 200 years.

Now, I am in full agreement that there are many things that have needed to be changed in our country for a very long time, and yes, our trade relationships are among them.  It is true that for too long our trade relationships have heavily favored our trading partners and we as a country have absorbed more than was equitable under the assumption that we were so affluent that we could afford it.  Maybe that was true at some point. Regardless you change these things carefully, after full consideration, to preserve the relationships wherever and whenever possible - you don’t take a literal wrecking ball to them as this administration has so recklessly done  - and continues to do - over the last year and a half.

I hope above hope that the world will be able to distinguish between the American people and the lunatic fringe that currently represents their own interests above those of the country to the glory of one man.  We regrettably elected a person - I will not dignify him by calling him a Man or a leader - who is, I will continue to observe, a power hungry, paranoid, malignant narcissist with antisocial and megalomaniacal tendencies, delusions of grandeur, a hero complex, and possible bipolar disorder - all stemming from a massive inferiority complex - who, as time goes on, is less and less able to control those tendencies.  I hope the world can be persuaded that our core AMERICAN values continue to exist.  HOPEFULLY we will have the opportunity at some future time to once again manifest those values and reestablish the trust the world once placed in us.

Could Michigan Find Itself Represented By TWO Radical Muslims….?

Yahoo won’t permit me to post this in response to reports it posts, it immediately deletes them, so I post this here.

Michigan is potentially setting itself up for a nightmare scenario.

Let’s say Abdul el-Sayed wins the election for the open Senate seat in November 2026. With Michigan’s current political climate, Rashida Tlaib decides to run for senate against incumbent Elissa Slotkin when her current term ends in 2031, assuming Slotkin chooses to run again. There is a very real possibility that Michigan could be represented by two radical muslims in the foreseeable future.

Likely?  Perhaps not.

Possible?  Absolutely.

Michigan could become the first state in the country for which BOTH of its senators could be radical muslims.  As I said, a nightmare scenario.

Bernie Sanders: “MY PARTY….”

 

 

“If Mr. Carville doesn't want to be in my party, the party that I belong to, that Piker, that El-Sayed belongs to, he can start his own party,” Bernie Sanders.

“MY PARTY”? Sanders is an independent who happens to caucus with the democrats in his efforts to coopt the party. Sanders has no party.

Sanders is playing the long game. He figured out long ago that candidates who openly identify with openly socialist and communist parties rarely get elected. He is working to convert the democrat party to that political identity, gradually get voters on board with his political goals. It is a long, patient process. And he’s grooming/counting on AOC to take the party to that point after he is gone. He is more successful than many realize: AOC is actually polling as a serious contender for the dem nomination in the next presidential election.

If dem leadership let his “my party” remark go unchallenged, they are farther down that road than anyone would care to admit.  And if they are truly concerned about the direction this interloper is taking them, they had better begin housecleaning YESTERDAY.

Short Staffed: The New Business Model ….

 

Getting Fired Up: Objective Realities….

 Ok, I’m going to go there.  I didn’t enjoy the recent smoke out we had over the last few days any more than anyone else did, but some objective realities need to be recognized:

Canada population, 41.5 million; US Population: 348.7 million.

Canada total land mass: 3,511,023 square miles; US total land mass: 3,531,905 square miles.

Canada population density: 12.4/square mile; US population density: 93/sq mile.

Canada forested acreage: 1.3 BILLION acres; US forested acreage: 823 million acres.

Canada GDP: $2 trillion; US GDP: $38 trillion.

Does anyone else see the problem here?

Canada simply doesn’t have either the manpower or money to clear all the brush or control their wildfires, most of which are in remote areas where few people live and firefighter response is nearly impossible. And the complicating factor? Much of remote Canada, unlike the US, is covered in muskeg and peat bogs. Once fires get into those areas, they will continue to burn until they exhaust available fuel. During the winters, the fires go dormant; there is no VISIBLE flame, but the embers continue to smolder under the snowpack until conditions are favorable in the summer - and they reignite. These fires could be burning for the next DECADE or more - and there isn’t thing one the Canadians can do about it, any more than WE can do anything about the coal fire in Pennsylvania that has been burning since 1962.

And let’s not forget that the US currently has nearly 500 wildfires of its own burning right now; year to date we have had nearly EIGHTY ONE THOUSAND fires and burned nearly FOUR MILLION ACRES right here in the US (source: National Interagency Fire Center, a federal agency under the Bureau of Land Management). The smoke we experienced recently didn’t just come from Canada, part of it also came from uncontrolled wildfires in the Boundary Waters area of Minnesota, some of which, BTW, has crossed over into Canada. OK, so prevailing winds are supposed to change from northerly to west/southwest. What do you suppose THAT’S going to do? Uh huh, bring smoke from wildfires in those areas to us in the midwest/northeast; that was in the forecast today. 

Perhaps not as heavy, but affecting us nonetheless.

So let’s stop and think about what is actually happening here. I have actually spent time in some of these parts of Canada.  Most of them are nearly inaccessible. This isn’t incompetence or maliciousness on the part of Canada; at the end if the day, man is finding out just how little control he actually has over nature.

And frankly, I am tired of Trump peddling the notion that Canada, a country that has sent AND LOST people and equipment over the years assisting the US fighting wildfires, is somehow responsible for natural disasters and their effect on the US as a means of turning sentiment against Canada and building support for his notion that we should annex Canada.

Opposing MI HB 5801 And 5802, Commercial Walleye Fishing….

An open letter to Michigan legislators:

I am writing to voice my opposition to bills HB 5801 and HB 5802.

The idea of opening the Great Lakes to trawler based commercial walleye fishing cannot be seriously considered.  It will seriously deplete our population of walleye, not to mention the millions of bycatch fish that will be caught up in the nets of trawlers.

But more than just offering my opposition, I offer an alternative.

If the legislature is serious about opening walleye fishing to commercialization, I would suggest considering an approach similar to that implemented to protect the Atlantic bluefin tuna industry.  Michigan law prohibits individuals from selling the fish they catch.  Change it to allow charter passengers and captains to sell their catch to brokers to be located in Great Lakes ports.  Establish science based, data driven quotas to govern the commercial industry.  Catching walleye on fishing poles for distribution to stores is far more sustainable than trawler nets, and we already have a fleet of thousands of charter captains who would be thrilled with this opportunity to supplement their income; allowing their clients to sell fish caught during charters would allow them to offset at least a tiny portion of the cost.  It would contribute to the profitability and sustainability of the Great Lakes charter industry, and could easily be broadened to include other fish species.

It’s Past Time….

 DO YOUR JOB, CONGRESS!

Pres. Biden was just sleepy and forgetful.

Pres. Trump is sleepy and out for vengeance against anyone he perceives to have slighted or thwarted him in any way.  He is power hungry on a national AND global scale, paranoid, a malignant narcissist with antisocial and megalomaniacal tendencies, delusions of grandeur, and a hero complex - all stemming from a massive inferiority complex - to which I add possible bipolar disorder. If he hasn’t already gone completely over the edge mentally, he will in the very near future.  He is as dangerous as they come.  That is my observation.

25 - 47!!!

An Open Note To Firearms Manufacturers….

Folks, it’s time to play hardball.

Several states are beginning to line up to outlaw Glock and Glock-style handguns - except, of course, for state agencies and law enforcement.  These states know there are other manufacturers of firearms that stand ready to take Glock’s place.

This cannot be allowed to happen.

It is time for ALL firearms manufacturers to stand in solidarity with Glock.  Bans on Glocks and Glock-style handguns must be met with the cancellation of all standing orders for Glocks and Glock-style firearms, parts, and services.  Attempts by these states to procure firearms manufactured by other firearms companies must be denied.

Going through the courts takes too long and attracts attention of more gun grabbers.  It’s time to speak a language the states will readily understand.

He Makes Himself Out To Be Jesus….

After going after the pope, Pres. Trump posted this to his truth social account.  I’m not catholic, and I’m not a fan of the pope - any pope. But the image Trump posted of himself is beyond sacrilegious; it is downright blasphemous.