While your food spoils, we hold meetings

The devastation in North Carolina seems to be devastating for Democrats' chances in the election.
People have no electricity.
Bridges and roads destroyed.
Unable to contact family.
Joe Biden said he's on the case.
"I was on the phone for two hours yesterday."
Time to get off the phone and get helicopters into the mountains.

I see that Joy, Joy, Joy is down in the polls

Where? 

Down in the polls.

I see that Joy, Joy, Joy is down in the polls.

Hope til Election Day.

Our party-switchers are great. Not yours

It's weird to find back-to-back stories on Blue Virginia Monday - one praising Republicans who plan to vote for Harris and the next attacking Tulsi Gabbard for endorsing Trump.
Our political landscape is changing. Democrats can't depend on people staying on their side forever. Neither can Republicans.
Democrats seem more intent on insulting people when they leave.
The new converts should realize how quickly they will be ignored once the election is over.

DNC convention agenda

They will talk about things the past four years that voters don't like.
And talk about things they want to do going forward - without explaining why they weren't done last four years.
Good luck with that.

How about restrain Big Government?

Democrats have lots of big enemies.
Big Pharma.
Big Oil
Big Meat-packers.
Anyone they want to blame for price increases.
Except for the big group responsible for most of the problems.
Big Government.
Only because Democrats have a Big Blindspot.

Trump already won

How quickly the narrative turned once Joe Biden threw in the towel on the 2024 campaign for re-election.
It's like he disappeared from view.
Now the narrative attempts to say Trump is going down.
He completed the task he set out to accomplish - deny Joe Biden a second term.
Maybe too quickly, but Biden's time is up.
The team that ousted Biden needs to figure out the way to return to the White House after this unexpected change of opponent.

AWALZ

Saw this and liked it.
AWALZ.
They put Gov. Walz on ticket to help with rural white men.
The people who won't be impressed by a guy who left his unit when they shipped off to Iraq.
And claimed a higher rank when he didn't meet the qualifications.

Not so swift Walz

Democrats promoted Tim Walz's National Guard service in his introduction Tuesday.
But it appears he left his unit instead of going to Iraq in 2005.
Remember when Republicans brought out Swift Boat veterans who didn't like John Kerry in 2004?
I bet this year's Trump campaign leaders do.
Since Chris LaCivita was media advisor for the Swift Boat operation.
I think we'll see plenty of Walz's former unit members in the next few months - hanging out with Donald Trump.

How much tax does your cat pay?

Interesting thing about the childless cat lady" saga.
Why does it continue?
Because childless cat ladies have so much free time on their hands.
Wait until government programs run out of money.
How much can your cats and dogs pay to reduce the deficit?

Rewrite

Everything that's been written about Election 2024 - throw it out.
No Biden running now.
It looks like Harris takes the Democrats' top spot but we have four weeks to be completely sure.
Plenty of nice things being said about Biden now.
But you don't trash the deceased at the viewing or gravesite.
Buckle up.

Today's Liberal talking points meeting

"I got nothing."
"I got nothing."
"I got nothing."
"I got nothing."

Happy Immunity Day

A few minutes until the final Supreme Court rulings of the year.
How much immunity will they give President Trump?
Just enough.

Mr. President, what brand of adult diaper are you wearing?

 Perfect question for Thursday's debate.

Farewell to a furry friend

Shortly after I started this blog, we picked up a Yorkshire Terrier puppy we named Laila.

Her journey ended tonight after 15 and a half years. 

I found this new take on Henry Gross' song Shannon from the spring of 1976.

Joe Biden is too old

Posting has been sparse on the blog.
What's something that will stay newsworthy until the next post?
Saying Joe Biden is too old to be president.
And it's scary that Democrats won't notice.
Maybe they also suffer from early onset dementia.

Glenn Youngkin and Jerry Seinfeld

VCU students walked out on Governor Youngkin's speech Saturday.
Duke students walked out on Jerry Seinfield's speech Sunday.
Before this weekend, did you think those two were on the same team?

Biden staffers for Trump

Democrats are releasing videos with Mitt Romney, Mike Pence and Chris Christie says how they won't vote for Donald Trump.
Do they think Republicans and Independents will listen to those voices?
More likely, it will bring voters to Trump.
Thanks, team Biden-Harris.

Are you better off now than you were five years ago

It's officially Trump vs. Biden, the rematch.
Team Biden will try to tell you things are better under his watch.
Of course, life is better than COVID year 2020.
But what about 2019?
Are we back to where we were then?
If not, why not?
That's the question Biden needs to answer.
Now taunt progress from the bottom of the COVID pit.
But where we were before it happened.

Can 12 people decide the presidential election?

Now that the Supreme Court has said Colorado (and other states) can't keep Donald Trump off the ballot, Democrats turn to the pending trials.
Will Trump get convicted of a felony before election day?
Today's message is - no.
A jury trial between now and election day will potentially change the result.
Thus 12 jurors would disenfranchise millions of Americans.
So it won't happen.
No matter how much Democrats want it.

Hail to the returning chief

At the beginning of the day, there was a chance Donald Trump would be kept off the ballot in Colorado - and maybe other states.
At the end of the day, he's on a glide path to victory over Joe Biden.
Biden was basically declared senile by the special prosecutor.
Then he attempted to spin it as being cleared.
Before fighting with the press corps on a brief availability.
The Democrats pinned their hopes on Biden in 2020. Now, they are finding the cost of that decision.

I've seen worse

It's taken a few days to get over the Ravens' loss to Kansas City.
Taylor Swift instead of Lamar Jackson in Las Vegas in two weeks.
But I'm old enough to remember other losses - some worse than this week's.
Like the 1969 Orioles losing in the first baseball season I followed. I went to my first game at Memorial Stadium on June 28, 1969 and watched them lose the World Series - while the world celebrated the Amazin Mets.

The Colts left Baltimore bereft of NFL football until Art Modell brought his team to town.
I work at the University of Virginia. Hearing 2018 and UMBC still hurt.

Unfortunately, every sports season ends with one winner and multiple teams preparing for next year.

Winning a championship is sweet - but joy is fleeting.

Enjoy the game - even if your team is not on the sideline.

As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly

The holiday tradtion from WKRP.

Undefeated teams watch

The Eagles and Bucs are about to kickoff in the lone Week 3 meeting between 2-0 teams.
Only Miami and San Francisco have reached 3-0. 
Tonight's game might be the last matchup between undefeated teams in 2023.
The 1972 Miami Dolphins are watching.

Better call Saul

New Mexico's governor has to be in court this afternoon, defending her call to suspend gun carry laws for 30 days.
But she needs a lawyer.
Does she have Saul's number? He has experience in her city.

Show me the infrastructure

Blue Virginia's love affairs with electric cars seems to rely more on projections and hope than the desires of the motoring public.
He doubts the coming rules on auto sales are "bans."
But if 95% of the public buys gas-powered engines this year and the new rule only allows 65% in 2026, isn't that a ban on buying the type of car you want?
If the state goal has been met, no gas-powered engine for you.
Sounds like a ban to me.
The argument of the benefits of electric vehicles ignores the infrastructure issue - what good is a car if there's no place to charge?
If you run out of power before your destination?
If governments were serious about a transition to electric cars, they'd be building charge stations at government buildings and rest areas on the interstate where they would be needed.
Selling lots of cars doesn't help if they can't be used as the motoring public has come to expect.

Winning matters

Blue Virginia likes a Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial, but not sure they make the argument they think they've made.
The editorial thinks Governor Youngkin's "Parents Matter" agenda is not supported by the majority.
But he won election in 2021 with that agenda.

Does the editorial writer think the voters didn't really know what they're voting for?

The editorial mentions the Terry McAuliffe quote that Blue Virginia ignores.
“I’m not going to let parents come into schools and actually take books out and make their own decision. … I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
That was the majority maker.
That's how Youngkin's agenda can succeed.
There are more parents than teachers.

The Blind Guides

The Other McCain tries to understand Michael Oher's motivation in suing the people who helped him during his teenage years.
We can only speculate on Michael Oher’s motives in turning against the Tuohy family like this. If I had to guess, I’d imagine Oher’s experiencing some financial difficulty in his post-NFL life, and listened to some of his “friends” telling him he had been unfairly exploited. The explanation from the film producer makes that seem unlikely, and this sad chapter in Oher’s life is an unfortunate turn in what had been an inspiring story.

Oher's gone from "The Blind Side" to following "Blind Guides."

We must conserve liberal errors?

There's an interesting post on Blue Virginia today, calling out current Republicans for not being conservative like Republicans of the past.
The Supreme Court isn't conservative because it overturned Roe v. Wade
Ron DeSantis isn't conservative because he doesn't allow Disney to push a woke agenda without consequences.
And how can the family friendly support Trump?
The answers are obvious.
Democrats are worse.
Being conservative doesn't mean letting liberal changes be locked into place.
It means returning to the right way before liberals messed things up.
I know it's a hard concept for liberals to understand.
If you don't think current Republicans are following the historic conservative model, being conservative doesn't mean conserving liberal mistakes.

Should I stay or should I go now

Posting has been very light on this blog recently.
I figured I'd better put something up before July ends in a few hours.
The blog has been around almost 15 years.
There's new things to catch my attention.
The news has gotten boring - when offends you about Donald Trump today?
The links from the past are stale, and many bloggers I enjoyed in 2009 are no longer out there - or sadly departed.
But the best part about being on blogger - I'm not paying to keep the site alive.
I can review my past posts and remember the interactions.
So I'll stick around.
Maybe someone will offer me a lot of money - if it happens to Hunter Biden, it can happen to me.

Read before you opine

My favorite column about the Supreme Court's halting the Biden college loan scheme comes from Vox.
It's a lengthy rant about how Congress really intended a program that could waive past college loans.
It follows the path of the legislation and the update done in 2007.
Was the column's thesis correct?
Let's ask the Speaker of the House in 2007 - Nancy Pelosi. Chief Justice John Roberts remembered what she said about the program.
"As then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi explained: ‘People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not,’" Roberts quoted Pelosi’s July 28, 2021, press conference. "‘He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress.’"
If only the columnist had checked the opinion before sending the column to be published.