Leonard Cohen

How can a man/singer/poet/artist so revered by so many and who dies at the age of 82 ... see: NY Times Obit .... yet I don't recall ever knowing any of his songs or hearing him sing or know really anything about the man? I must really be an out-of-touch doofus ...

Immigration Facts

There are oodles of hype and  misinformation surrounding our immigration issue ... I strongly suspect this is on purpose. If the real numbers cannot be easily discovered, then politicians can demagogue to their hearts content. So when reliable statistics are reported ... such as 71% of illegal immigrants with children are on welfare (a 2009 statistic) and as many as 400,000 births to illegal immigrant households (anchor babies) occur in the U.S. every year (10% of all live births in this country) ... we are not surprised ... see: National Review Article.

Previously, during immigration surges, new arrivals had to forswear that they would not go on home relief ... and had to have an existing resident guarantee this condition. Now things have swung 180 degrees and liberal politicians often prefer that immigrants become wards of the state ... so that they might control their votes.

And, if you believe than non-citizens are not voting in this country, you are a bigger doofus than Adam Sandler in one of his silly movie roles. I strongly suspect that "community organizers" are responsible for much of this circumvention of the Constitutional restrictions re our voting laws  .. they are just ground operatives of the Democrat party ... and very often the U.S. taxpayer picks up the tab for this outrage.

Bowe Ties

Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl is being charged with desertion as a result of his AWOL disappearance  and eventual imprisonment by the Taliban some five years ago ... see: Washington Post Story. Can we get the five vicious Taliban prisoners back that we traded for this piece of pond scum? Can the Rose Garden ceremony ... where our fearless leader extolled this misbegotten exchange with his arms around Bergdahl's parents ... somehow be erased from the minds of the American people? Can the six or seven soldier's lives that were lost in searching for this troglodyte traitor be somehow resurrected? Can our joke of a National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, please apologize for claiming on national TV that Bowe Bergdahl served "with honor and distinction?"

Yes, leaders are entitled to make mistakes ... but you would think that, if the evidence was so overwhelming that Bergdahl had deserted his post in Afghanistan, they should have at least taken a couple of beats before this administration made such a gigantic and embarrassing set of blunders. I suppose that the hubris of this mob just won't allow that they could be so very wrong ... and, of course, this was not the first of their boners.  Need I try to recount all their many public miscues? Send me a note if you have forgotten ...

And now they say "trust us" regarding the upcoming Iran nuclear deal ... which may not be written down ... but would exist only in the imaginations of the agreeing parties. Isn't this just another recipe for a doofus-done disaster?

Afterward: At least three of the five Taliban prisoners released in exchange for Bergdahl are trying to rejoin the battle ... see: Daily Caller Story.