Month: December 2017

Taxes, Mueller, the FBI, Roy Moore and more records broken in the stock market. Oh, and a lawyer attempting to pay-off women to accuse the President of sexual misconduct.

These are just a few things that made for a fun filled week in the news.

First, taxes. You have to love the Dems. They were on television slamming the Republicans because the GOP didn’t include the Dems in the tax discussions. These are the very people whose leadership refused to attend a meeting with the two Republican leaders and the President regarding, you guessed it, taxes. You can’t make this stuff up. You (the Dems) have a seat at the table, with name plates, no less and what do you do? You don’t show up. How do people like you get elected in the first place?

If the new tax law didn’t change anything except removing the individual mandate I would have been happy with it. Note to Washington; “don’t you ever tell me again what I must buy and from whom I must buy it”. While the left wing media and congress spew all their hatred for the bill I would simply say that any tax cut is a good tax cut. Nearly every dollar sent to Washington is a dollar wasted. The only exception to that would be dollars for the military. It is crucial we remain at the top of the heap when it comes to protecting ourselves.

Second, Mueller & the FBI. Well what a week it has been with the Mueller investigation. We always knew that his team was stacked with Democrats and Hillary/Obama supporters but, we didn’t know just how stacked, did we?

The senior FBI agent and his wife, who worked for the company who produced the dossier against Trump are something else. The agent alone was going to take matters into his own hands, should Hillary lose. Then there is Comey.  He takes the advice of this super FBI agent and changes his talking points regarding Hillary and her private server. So Comey worked to rig the election and protect Hillary.  I’m sure she was someone he was certain would be his new boss. Wrong! This whole investigation is falling apart at the seams but the Dems don’t give up easily, do they? That’s ok though, they are using their old play book as their backup in case the investigation doesn’t work out in their favor. Yes, if all else fails, fall back to the made up “war on women.”  Only problem with that is that more Dems are being exposed than Republicans for their mistreatment of women. That’s ok too because they still have their final playing card and this is their holy grail. The race card! It is so amazing to me how they can tout these things with a straight face. Their last leader was the biggest racist of all time. He did more to harm race relations than anyone before him over the past 50 years. He actually made people who weren’t racist, racist.

Third, Roy Moore.  Roy Moore lost the election and the left is trying to sell this loss as a road map for the 2018 mid-terms. They’re right.  All they have to do is accuse every republican who is running in 2018 of child molesting and ta da! They will win. Great strategy.

Last, Lisa Bloom .  Ms. Bloom attempted to pay-off the women who accused the president of sexual misconduct.  Isn’t Ms. Bloom Gloria Allred’s daughter? Need I go on? She’s a scum bag just like her mother. I have no doubt Trump had his moments with women. He was a single man who was at least a millionaire. Pretty sure there were plenty of women interested in him.  Being the betting man I am, I’m pretty sure they were willing to do just about anything to hook up with him. It could have been much worse, he could have been the President at the time…

All in all, it was a good week for the President and for America. This horrible President of ours, through his actions has given us another record breaking week on the stock market. Americans with 401Ks must be dancing for joy! Any losses they had during the Obama years have long since been made up. Thank you Mr. President.  Those holding stock are also doing well. Good for them! But wait, the poor are still poor. News flash, there will always be poor people. With more and more jobs being added each month though there is one more way for the poor to get out of that category. All they have to do is get a job! Start with a minimum wage job if you have to and then move up the ladder from there. It works, trust me, I did it, my kids did it, my wife did it and in fact most tax paying American’s did it, even many of the evil one percenters.

 

This week the President attended and spoke at the grand opening of a new Civil Rights Museum in Mississippi. The new museum honors civil right leaders throughout history and provides a place for greater education toward the cause. One would like to believe such an institution with it’s history and education which translate to understanding and healing would be a welcome addition to our country as a whole and it is but…

The President of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) announced he would not attend the opening because President Trump would be speaking. He said, and I quote “We don’t need this President telling us about Civil Rights”. So let me see if I have this right. The President of the NAACP, with the mission of advancing people of color, refuses to attend this grand opening celebrating people of color and their plight for freedom and rights. Instead, he took a stand against the American President who can actually help make a huge difference in the advancement of people of color, of all people for that matter. Shameful.

Then the so called civil rights champion, Senator John Lewis announces he will also skip the ceremony. He, of course is the one that also refused to attend the President’s inauguration, claiming Mr. Trump is not a legitimate President. Not legitimate because, in his view, Russia got him elected.  I guess my vote for the President didn’t matter after all…

I find it amazing that people like those in the NAACP and Senator Lewis can actually claim they care about people of color and even more amazing are those men and women of color that actually continue to support the Sentaor and so many like them. Why can’t people see that keeping people of color down and keeping the civil rights issue alive is a business.  This is the business these so-called leaders of civil rights are in? They make matters worse and they do nothing to actually help the country heal, much less advance those of color.

I keep hearing people like this and many others label the President as a racist yet I am unable to see it.  In fact, through President Trump’s actions, not words, actions, I see just the opposite. The President treats all people the same, no matter your color.  If he disagrees with you he will let you know. If he agrees, he will also let you know. What more could anyone ask?

I honestly believe that past President Obama did more to harm and set back relations in this country than any president before him. Certainly more than any modern president. His own racist views were clear.

People like Obama, Lewis and organizations like the NAACP or the Senate Black Caucus do more harm than good. These groups can actually turn a non-racist individual into a racist, which is horrible and unfair to people as a whole. I do not believe and would argue that the vast majority of the American people are not racist. The pot-stirrers will claim that I think this way because I am white and don’t understand. Well, I am white and they’re right, I don’t understand.  I don’t understand why the color of someone’s skin makes any difference in anything. Here in 2017, people are people in my eyes and in most people’s eyes. I don’t care what color you are. What I care about is the type of person you are.  I care about what kind of heart you have and if you are a man or women of your word? Do you care about our country, do you love and take care of your family? Do you work hard to make a good life for you and your family? Do you take responsibility for your actions? Those are the things I care about and those are the things on which I will judge you.

Finally, let me say, no matter color or lifestyle I do not hate anyone. Disagreeing is not hate. I didn’t like how President Obama ran the country and this had zero to do with his color. I don’t like Senator Lewis’ policies nor the way he disrespects the President but, I don’t hate him, I don’t even know him. The President of the NAACP should be fired.

So I finish as I started.  Is Civil Rights really civil? No, it’s not. Not every black person has been held down and not every white person is racist. Not every black person is racist either. Maybe Rodney King was more intellectual than he was given credit for. “Can’t we all just get along?”

The jurors in the Kate Steinle case announced their NOT GUILTY verdict last night.  Both my wife and I (and most loving Americans) almost came out of our chairs. The verdict left us both feeling empty inside. How could the jurors possibly come up with this verdict?

You know the horrific story. Ms. Steinle was walking along pier 14 in San Francisco with her father when suddenly she was struck in the back by a bullet. Laying in her father’s arms, looking up at him she said, “Help me Dad.” Kate later died in the hospital.

Jose Zarate, an illegal Hispanic man shot her. According to his defense attorneys it was an accident.  The jury bought it.

The claim is that Zarate, who had been deported over five times found the gun under a park bench wrapped up in something. When he took the gun out he dropped it and it fired. The bullet bounced off something and struck Ms. Steinle in the back. That’s the claim, that’s what the jurors believed.

There are probably many things that we, on the outside don’t know that the jurors do know. I understand that and respect it. But, yes there is a but… what I don’t understand and can’t accept are the facts that 1. He was here illegally, something the jurors were not aware of. You might say “what does that have to do with anything?” Well, it has everything to do with the character of the man.  In what way, you say? It shows the man has no regard for the law, he is a law breaker.  2. During his illegal time in the country, he had been arrested on several occasions. This was another fact that the jury was not privy to.  Now we know we have a man in the country illegally who broke our laws on several occasions. This again shows the character of the man, he is a lawless person. 3. He picked up a gun off the street that was reportedly not his. So what! What does that have to do with anything? “He” picked up the gun. So now we have an illegal man, who has prior convictions walking around with a loaded gun.  He had the gun, the bullet that came from the gun killed the young women. He had the gun, the gun didn’t jump out from under the park bench, out of the wrapping and pull its own trigger. Remember, guns don’t kill people, people kill people.

That’s about it, how much clearer can this be? How is the case more complicated than that?

Let me recap; a man is in the country illegally, he has prior convictions, he has a gun, the gun is fired, an innocent women is killed, period. I will even accept the story that Zarate didn’t mean to kill Kate so no first degree murder charge.  I don’t like it but, I can close one eye and live with it. But no charge at all? Not even man slaughter? This is an awful and unjust verdict.

As a father, picturing this just turns my stomach.  It makes me so sad for the family and so angry.  Justice has let the family down; let us all down, really. It makes me despise the state of California even more than I did before. The leadership in this beautiful state endangers all those who legally reside there and all of us throughout the U.S. with their sanctuary city policy. They actually passed a law that basically says “go to hell America, screw federal law, we accept all illegal people and care nothing about your background”. Is this the world we are living in today? This is truly dangerous and unacceptable. To top it off, this arrogant state is suing the Federal Government because they are (the Feds) threatening to stop all funding to the state for breaking federal immigration law.  They’re suing the Government which is you and me, because they are breaking the law.  That’s where we are in this country. It’s like the bank robber suing the bank because he slipped and broke his ankle while jumping over the counter… And in California, the robber would probably win the case.

Stay strong Steinle family, our thoughts and prayers are with you.