More Wyoming And Less Washington, Please

We literally blew into Cheyenne last night. Wyoming never disappoints but yesterday was one of their epic High Wind Alert days, complete with Interstate closures to “light high-profile vehicles.” I’m not positive exactly what sort of vehicle that is but I’m pretty sure empty semi-tractor trailers qualify as you always see a few of them flipped over on the side of the road when the wind socks are flying parallel.

It was also inauguration day for Mark Gordon, Wyoming’s new governor. We should have known something was up as all the hotel rates were hyper-inflated. Another clue: when we checked in the lobby was filled with tuxedos and cocktail gowns.

Still, this was hardly the shindig an inauguration is in other states. It started with the swearing in ceremony early yesterday morning:

No, Governor Mark Gordon was not acting in solidarity with France’s "Gilets Jaunes" – although for some reason gas prices are about 30 cents higher here than any other state we’ve been through on this trip. Apparently the state capital building has been closed for renovations for over 3 years and safety restrictions required the vests. This is a bigger story than you might initially think: if the halls of government in Wyoming can be closed for over 3 years with no major complaints I think Washington better sit up and take notice. “Essential” employees might not mean what they think it means.

Other oddities associated with yesterday’s inaugural: the day started with a prayer service at Saint Mark's Episcopal Church. The newly minted governor took communion in his cowboy boots:

Based on the hem in his slacks I’m going to venture a guess that he  was not wearing a bespoke suit.

Don’t ask: I don’t know, I just notice these things.

The inaugural ball was held at the Little America ballroom, the swankiest place in town now that the historic Plains Hotel closed down. The new Guv sabered a bottle of champagne,

Wyoming style: with a Bowie knife.

I think we need a little more Wyoming and a little less Washington. What do you think?

What’s More Newsworthy: An Uncharismatic A**hole or A Small Town First Responder Killed In The Line Of Duty?

I see on the news this morning that the first of this year’s self-congratulatory award shows took place last night. As we’ve come to expect and ignore, the Golden Globes produced the standard hate-spewing that accompanies every such gathering of the self-anointed illuminati. Last night Christian Bale decided to distinguish himself by thanking Satan as his inspiration in playing the role of  Dick Cheney in Vice, he went on to call both former vice-president Dick Cheney and Senate Leader Mitch McConnell “uncharismatic a**holes.” He would know.

Last year the Grammy broadcast lost 6 million viewers from previous years, I expect a similar decline this year. Nevertheless, if you tune into network national news on any network anywhere in America this morning you’ll see coverage of Mr. Bale’s performance.

But let me share a much more important story that won’t get any national coverage. I wouldn’t have seen it myself if I hadn’t specifically gone looking for it; this is why I did:

We switched drivers at Le Claire, Iowa yesterday and it was my turn to drive. Raj was playing with his phone when I noticed a few fire trucks, lights flashing, on the overpass up ahead in what looked like a standard traffic incident. A few miles ahead, at the next overpass, there was another collection of fire trucks and other vehicles, lights flashing, lined up. By the third overpass that also displayed a lights flashing assembly of fire vehicles you didn’t need to be an expert at recognizing patterns to know this was not a series of unfortunate incidents but rather a salute for a fallen fire fighter. First responders have a great tradition of respecting and honoring the loss in the line of duty of one of their own.

What was remarkable about this particular salute was its sheer length: it stretched from  Ankeny, outside Des Moines, to Clinton IA – a distance of 200 miles. We witnessed it from LeClaire to the west side of Iowa City. Some overpasses had just a few vehicles, others, near bigger cities, were lined the full length with emergency vehicles and ladder trucks, ladders extended, flags unfurled.

The fallen hero was Lt. Eric Hosette, who lost his life Saturday in an explosion at a grain storage facility where he and other members of the Clinton fire department were battling a fire inside a silo. The overpass procession was accompanying Lt. Hosette’s body as it made its way home from the state medical examiner’s office in Ankeny. Fellow firefighter Adam Cain was also seriously injured in the blast and remains in the hospital in Iowa City.

Fire departments across the state lined the route along Interstate 80 to pay their respects to Hosette. - KCCI

Lt. Hosette leaves behind a wife and young daughter. He was only 33 years old. I don’t doubt for one minute that he did more good and contributed more value to this planet during his short life than the entire lot of self-absorbed actors gathered together last night to honor each other for play acting their way through life.

RIP Lt. Hosette, and thank you for your service.

P.S. In the “small world” department I note that Lt. Hosette was raised in Comanche, Iowa, which many of you may recognize as Creeper’s hometown before she pulled up stakes and relocated to Oklahoma with her beloved Guinea pig and orange Challenger.

We’re Going To Build A Fence And The Antelope Are Going To Pay For It

Well kids, you’re on your own today. We’re heading out into the mountains. We’ve got clear forecasts for the 3 day trip but things can change on a dime and traveling across the Continental Divide through Wyoming is always iffy this time of year. Even if it isn’t snowing the wind can whip the fallen snow into whiteout conditions. Mountain passes in the winter aren’t for wimps.

Interesting side note: See those structures on the left? They’re snow fences, somewhat ubiquitous on highways in the northern climes now days but apparently they were originally researched, designed and tested in Wyoming. Their purpose is to stop the migrating snow from simply charging forward and dumping on the highway, making it’s removal very difficult and expensive. Apparently they work quite effectively. And even though they are clearly designed to keep the white stuff out nobody ever accuses them of being racist. Of course there has been some grousing about the impact they have on the migrating Pronghorn Antelope population. As if their lives aren’t tough enough as it is.

Did I mention the fences were 15 feet tall?

And they work? Go figure.

Hope you all have a good day, with no snow and no earthquakes.

I’ll see you from somewhere along the road.

What a Hoser, eh?

No, I’m not going to post the cute video of Sandy O.C. and her college friends dancing to Listomania. It is cute, and it was made 10 years ago when “lip-dubbing” videos were all the rage. But let it serve as a warning to the children of the social media age who plan on ruling the world some day: the innertubes are forever.

So today I’m going to help Jettie G shoulder the responsibility of making fun of Canada’s socialist-open-borders Prime Minister. The article comes compliments of Ed Driscoll who titles all of his coverage of our neighbors to the north as DISPATCHES FROM PRIME MINISTER ZOOLANDER: Trudeau demands organic garden, apiary, treehouse (with zip line) and more for Harrington Lake residence.

And you didn’t think anyone could give the Obamas a run for their money! Wrong. But it’s a bit disheartening that Justie Fek™ isn’t a bit more original. I mean it’s one thing to emulate your idol and love object,

it’s quite another to just copy cat them straight away.

• Organic garden, check:

• Apiary, check – and don’t get excited, it’s an a-p-i-a-r-y people – bees you know, not that other thing that will end you up in Janice’s corner.

Lady M’s Bee house for her Organic Garden of Good and Evil

I wonder if JF knows he can make beer with his honey?

I’m guessing he does.

• Tree House, check, sort of. The Obamas have a house IN the trees:

Which now has a wall around it:

Even though walls are immoral.

Now a zipline, that’s original. As far as I know the Obama’s do not have a zipline, although it has been said that Michelle has her own zip code.

Butt I think that’s just an urban legend.

Anyway, Justie, what a hoser, eh?

Still, if you want to see a really cute video of one of our socialist betters dancing even our cute little Sandy will find this to be compelling competition.

Brainwashed Again Motherf*****s?

Remember when the WaPo published Willard’s op-ed criticizing President Trump? Yeah, like 2 days ago. Several pundits pointed out that this was a sure-fire way for him to become the media’s latest RINO darling, showing up favorably in print and appearing frequently on all their propaganda shows. And BAM! Just like that, there he is, squawking, on CNN yesterday. Quelle surprise! Non?

Only problem, he was backpedaling. But that’s just Mitt, being Mitt. Or Romney, being Romney. Just like his Daddy, George, who claimed he’d been brainwashed by military generals about Vietnam, Willard was brainwashed by the generalissimos of the Deep State.

Mitt and George Romney. They look like they’d be perfect on the set of Mad Men

He may have embraced the advice of Deep State tacticians a bit too soon:

It shows that his potshot against Trump bombed, particularly with Republicans, who were all out there and ready to be his friend but can now see that he's got other priorities, such as filling the towering boots of...Jeff Flake.

And then there’s Michigan’s other legacy candidate: Palestinian-America Rashida Tlaib, D-Representative of Michigan’s 13th District which includes most of the city of Detroit. She was sworn in yesterday on Thomas Jefferson’s Qu'ran, which is ironic as President Jefferson recognized the marauding “Musselmans” as a threat to civilization over 200 years ago. He got the Qu'ran to study his enemy in order to defeat the Muslim pirates from the Barbary States who were attacking American trade ships, stealing the cargo, and enslaving our sailors.

True to form Tlaib started her term sounding like a blood-thirsty Muslim pirate demanding death to the infidel’s presidency. To be clear, she did so in remarkably unladylike fashion: “We’re going to go in there and impeach the Motherf****r.” Yes, we now have an elected (Democratic, Muslim) official calling our President a “Motherf****r.” 

And we’re supposed to think Donald Trump is too crude to be president because he said “pussy?” Nah, I don’t think so. As I recall it was the Obama/Biden campaign that originally encouraged their female constituents to vote with their “lady parts.”

 

So as far as I’m concerned all bets are off “Motherf****rs”  - wait! What?  Did I just say that out loud!?!!

Please accept my apology, somebody seems to be coarsening the culture in a America. H/T Kirstin Gillibrand, Beto O'Rourke, Kamala Harris, DNC Chair Tom Perez – even Michelle!

And the last time I looked, Donald J. Trump does not own Hollywood. So I’d suggest the Left save their phony sanctimony for their own.

P.S. December Jobs Report: an additional 312,000. Economists expected 175,000. I mention it only because you won’t see it on CNN.

" What Kind of a Woman Do You Think I am…”

Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?"

Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... "
Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?"

Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!

Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price”

Yes, it’s a very old joke, variously attributed to Churchill. George Bernard Shaw and a multitude of other powerful men. We might consider adding President Donald J. Trump to that list of powerful men, with the role of “socialite” played by Congressional Democrats.

In support of my case let the record reflect that Democrats haven’t always been opposed to the concept of funding a physical barrier on the border.

Democrats haven't always had such a hard position on the border wall. Over the past decade, Democrats have supported billions of dollars in funding for physical barriers…

The current Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer voted for it, so did Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. Then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama praised the bill in a floor speech saying it would "certainly do some good" and "help stem some of the tide of illegal immigration in this country."

In 2013, all Senate Democrats and most House Democrats backed comprehensive immigration reform legislation...It included $46 billion for border security and around $8 billion to repair or reinforce barriers along the 700 miles of the border as required under the Secure Fence Act.…

"The Democrats don't oppose border infrastructure, they oppose President Trump," explained RJ Hauman, government affairs director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform. "It wasn't long ago that Democrats, including Schumer, supported border barriers. Now they are letting their hatred of President Trump cloud their ability to judge the merits of the proposal." – WJLA

So with the Democratic whores, it’s really not the money. It’s the custodial account.

Alternately we could cast Mitt Romney in the role of “socialite” in this little morality play.  Mitt Romney, the man who accepted - embraced even - President Trump’s endorsement of his Senate run. He loved him before he hated him. No wait, that’s not quite right: he hated him before he loved him…before he hated him.

Now, instead of taking the opportunity to help PDJT explain the logic flaw in conflating illegal entry with legal immigration Mitt chooses to attack the sitting President for not properly “shaping the character of the country.” I guess Senator Romney would prefer the country’s character be shaped in the image and likeness of a snake like himself.

 you knew what I was before you took me in

I would have preferred it if Romney was honest enough to just come out and call us Deplorables racists, like his GOPe and Democrat cohorts always do. Anyway, I guess we still don’t know the price of his principled vote, but we certainly have established his profession. I can’t quite believe I once made excuses for this viper. My only defense is that in 2012 I had no idea just how deep the Deep State roots were.

A pox on their houses.

Let Our Better Angels Prevail

“US agents fire tear gas into Mexico at 'violent mob' near border”

“US agents fire tear gas into Mexico at violent mob near border”

See the difference? One is fake news (aka propaganda) the other is just news.

“Once again we have had a violent mob of migrants attempt to enter the United States illegally by attacking our agents with projectiles. The agents involved should be applauded for handling the situation with no reported injuries to the attackers.” - Katie Waldman, Homeland Security spokeswoman

But America’s elite class has determined that you are not smart enough to noodle facts through on your own so they have implanted an education system, media system and political system to ensure you don’t get have to do that for your self.

Of course if you have been properly indoctrinated informed you are on board with the leftist billionaires who have orchestrated the complete transformation of America for their own purposes. If that’s the case then you will be down with Amnesty International’s view that protecting and enforcing our borders is a violation of human rights. You will think it quite rational for us, as a country, to follow the wishes of international agencies and international law rather than those established for our own citizens by our own citizens.

You will see no problem with people attempting to “shape reality” by using a throng of barbarians at the gate:

In addition to rock-throwers, the migrants also began to try to push women and children from among their group forward onto the border boundary, U.S. officials said, forcing some juveniles to climb over razor wire that the American government has posted in recent weeks as a deterrent to unruly crowds itching to jump the border.

Ms. Waldman said the migrants appeared to be trying to stage a photo-op of their actions in front of “conveniently invited media.” – Washington Times

And if you have been either properly indoctrinated or improperly informed you will naturally see President Trump as an agent of the  devil for trying to protect the sovereignty of our country. Unfortunately that makes you an agent of the devil, wittingly or not.

Yet - against the establishment Republicans’ choice, against the Deep State’s wishes, against the media’s choice, against all odds - America elected Donald J. Trump president. Precisely because he put America first.

"I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." – VSGPDJT, June, 2018

It’s almost as if our better angels prevailed.

Detail from Raphael’s ‘St. Michael Vanquishing Satan,’1518

Happy New Year! Don’t Let Those Notions of Virtuous Behavior Intrude

Happy New Year to all of my most favorite deplorables!

No, I didn’t make it till midnight, but then I barely remember the last New Year’s Eve I did. In addition to being tired around 10:30 or so I also had zero interest in watching any of the network buffoons assembled on various rooftops and concrete canyons of New York City waiting on the drop of a crystal ball.

Nevertheless, 2018 was a pretty awesome year. Expect more of the same from 2019. Here is my primary prediction for the coming year:

Dozens of dolts will announce they’re running as the Democratic candidate for president of the United States. If you thought the 2016 Republican field was deep, wait till you see that of the 2020 Democrats  – it’s more like the Grand Canyon.

Not so much because it will be awesome but because it’s a really big hole, populated with a lot of goats.

I’m not making any more predictions because I just realized they’d be mostly pessimistic which somehow doesn’t seem appropriate for a New Year post. I’m still optimistic about some things but at my age it takes infinitely more effort to convince myself that logic and circumstance warrant such irrational exuberance. So I tend to conserve my optimism these days for really important stuff, like saving the world.

It being a new year and all does give me pause to reflect on how much I do miss that bottomless, unbridled optimism of youth that convinces you, against all odds, that somehow everything will work out for the best. Only after years of experience does it dawn on you that not only is that not always true, but that sometimes what’s “for the best” isn’t necessarily what you want, or even what you think is for “your” best. Now if I could just get the Left to understand and accept that, my work would be done here.

Happy New Year!