Wednesday: Actually Doing The Things

As part of my helpful “How To Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions For Sure This Time” tutorial I would like to post this public service announcement. It’s a gentle reminder that the most important part of accomplishing any resolution is, well:

Henceforth Wednesdays are dedicated to actually doing all those things you put on your “To Do This Year List” - the one’s you’ve been wanting to do, meaning to do, threatening to do or just feeling guilty about not doing. For example, #1 on my list: re-grouting the shower.

Yeah, that’s not happening today. Maybe not even this year. Next!

Tuesday: A New Year (Day), A New You

Consider this my contribution to your New Year’s resolution:

Take as many as you’d like. You’re welcome.

And hang in there! At least through the end of the week.

Monday: Heinlein’s Crazy Years

If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, Joey B has nothing to worry about.

It seems Joey voted for retaliation against Iran strikes against the U.S. in 1996 before he voted against it in 2020 A.D. (After Donald, in case you forgot). In fact he said straight out that Iran attacking U.S. service barracks In Dharan was an act of war:

As a U.S. senator in 1996, Joe Biden characterized a deadly bombing orchestrated by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as an “act of war” that gave the United States latitude to respond with any level of force it deemed necessary, a far cry from his current calls for President Donald Trump to explain his decision to kill Qassem Soleimani.

I should point out that Joey was also one of several Democrats who later claimed to have voted against the Iraq war  – before they voted for it -  or something. He claimed that he had somehow been tricked into voting for the war by the diabolical President George W. Bush…or something.

“I did make a bad judgment, trusting the president saying he was only doing this to get inspectors in and get the U.N. to agree to put inspectors in. From the moment ‘shock and awe’ started, from that moment, I was opposed to the effort, and I was outspoken as much as anyone at all in the Congress and the administration.”

Even the WaPo fact checker gave him a solid “false” on that claim, which is probably a good thing. Normally anyone that susceptible to brainwashing and mental confusion would automatically be disqualified from running for president; and if you don’t believe me just as Mitt’s dad.  But don’t expect any of this to make sense, as Glenn Reynolds has pointed out repeatedly, we are living Heinlein’s Crazy Years.

Everything’s Gotten Better Except Computers…and Democrats

In case you have forgotten - or didn’t need to take note at the time - I would like to remind you again to never, ever buy a HP computer. I’m having another (major) computer problem. Less than 2 years old and I’ve already had it repaired once (to no avail) and then replaced under warranty. The new one worked for 8 months until this recent snafu. All of my issues have a common thread: drivers that will not load or load incorrectly. I’m as far from a techy as you could imagine and if I can diagnose the commonality in what is obviously an ongoing problem with their very expensive computer why can’t they fix it?

I can’t send it in for repair until we arrive in Park City sometime in the near future so until then I will have use my old computer which was having its own problems or I wouldn’t have replaced it in the first place. All of which is a long way of saying posts will be short for the foreseeable future as both my computers have gone berserk. If I didn’t know better I’d think they were Democrats.

Newsflash: they already have.

It would be nice if an under 2 year old computer could work half as well as an over 50 year old camera. I know, I know: they’re much more complicated.

On an objective basis, and despite all my griping, most things have actually gotten better over the past half century or so. But it is important to identify the exceptions.

It’s Caturday, Behave

I haven’t hit the end of the Internet,

Nor have I even come close to breaking it, that task falls strictly within the purview of mainstream media who have it well underway despite their belief that climate “change” will precede this apocalyptic event. However, I do have cleaning and packing to do. So, since it is Caturday, I give you this and leave you on your own.

Behave.

Welcome To the Second American Century

Whoop! There it is.

That is correct: President Trump ordered the drone strike that took out Qassim Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s Quds Force. He was at the Baghdad airport (foreign country) orchestrating more terrorist attacks against  the American Embassy (sovereign American territory) – all of which translates to an act of war on Soleimani’s part. Just because previous American presidents didn’t see fit to respond to said acts of war does not mean it is “illegal” to do so.

And good grief. please tell me the Left and the Media (I know, I know - redundant) are not rooting for Iran on this one? Is that too much to hope for? Of course, because Orange Man Bad.

So predictable: Ilhan Omar Attacks Trump For Killing Top Iranian Terrorist, and Ms.NBC’s crack journo team opined that “if” this was the “right decision, it was the wrong Commander-in-Chief.’ What on earth does that even mean?

Ms.NBC mourns the death of a terrorist and wrings their hands over the President’s decisive action

Allow me to interpret: “no matter what President Trump does we will hate it.” This position is best illustrated by ‘Shameless’ Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy’s FAST one-eighty on his criticism of Trump’s response to Iran aggression after reports Soleimani was killed in airstrike:

Tweet on December 31, 2019 (didn’t age well)

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 31, 2019

Soleimani was an enemy of the United States. That’s not a question.

Tweet on January 3, 2020

     
The question is this - as reports suggest, did America just assassinate, without any congressional authorization, the second most powerful person in Iran, knowingly setting off a potential massive regional war?

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) January 3, 2020

Got it? It’s not illegal unless it’s Donald J. Trump. Because…well, you know.

Be the America Hong Kong Thinks You Are

According to a recent survey 70 percent of Millennials would be likely to vote for a socialist candidate. The survey also found that a disturbingly high percentage also “approve of communism.” A survivor of the former U.S.S.R. totalitarian regime offers some perspective:

This level of support for totalitarianism confirms the complete failure of the  U.S. education system. To which I can already hear a chorus of “OK Boomer” from the younger generations. Fine. But just remember: I told you so.

And trust me, that’s hard to do when you don’t have a gun. Don’t be so anxious to have your fellow citizens who actually know how to use one surrender their guns just because you don’t currently believe in the Second Amendment; you may need them someday if you get your way. Because if you do, trust me, you’re going to miss America.

Free stuff is never free and freedom lost is only regained with blood. So come on Millennials, you can do better.

Happy New Year 2020!

Happy New Year to my favorite deplorables!

Once again I failed to witness the Waterford ball drop but Raj and I did enjoy our traditional New Year’s Eve tradition as I explained yesterday:

We've been staying home and celebrating, just the two of us, in front of the tree and fireplace with caviar and champagne for 31 years now. During our crazy years it was an annual highlight. And yes, we once dressed up and danced at midnight. Now we put on our "best comfy” clothes, and are usually tucked in bed by midnight so dancing is usually not on the evening's agenda anymore.

I’m sure President Trump was still up and celebrating at midnight, as the man doesn’t appear to require any sleep.

Sure enough, The POTUS and FLOTUS at Mar-a- Lago for New Year’s Eve celebration

That’s a good thing, as I see it is the year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac.  And if you didn’t have enough controversy yesterday arguing over when the decade actually begins, get this: the Chinese New Year doesn’t even begin until January 25th! It’s as if we are living in parallel universes where one is out of kilter.

Like the one that Democrats inhabit. Which reminds me, I’d like to take this opportunity to point out that my prediction as of last January certainly came true:

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.

In fact, they went out of their way to prove me correct.

Some came and went so fast you don’t even remember them. For the rest, well let’s just say it’s a very deep canyon and they all seem to be headed in the same direction.

Sadly the 21st century is already a disappointment for most Democrats who expected free college tuition, flying cars, a cure for cancer and the perfect climate at all times everywhere on the planet by now.

Instead they got Netflix, Alexa, exploding Teslas…and Donald Trump! While the President doesn’t imbibe himself, he is very good at sabering.

So stay out of his way.

Happy New Year!