Offsetting Malice

Anyone who follows the coronavirus new cases and new deaths closely and believes that they are not being manipulated by local officials for political advantage is criminally naive. However, at some point, the truth will seep though all this subterfuge because of offsetting malice ... and some gross incompetence.

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Obvious Truth

A police force that is forbidden from exercising soft authority, even hard authority when required to keep the peace, is not a police force ... it’s a Cub Scout troop. And those who automatically equate the exercise of authority with Fascism are not just gullible ... they are criminally naive.

Today’s Poser

Why do Democrats ignore or deny voter fraud while encouraging balloting processes that abate it (like mail-in voting)? Are they naive ... or more pragmatic ... believing that their favorable results are more important than a valid process? 

(Suggesting, of course, that Democrats ... not everyone but using Schiff, Pelosi and Hillary as examples ... are somewhat more devious than Republicans.)

Just Deserts

Praise and money are disproportionally meted out to those who excel ... whether through genius or guile. And there will always be those who suffer unjustly due to bad luck or bile.  Thus, equality of rewards is a chimera of those naive on life. — Anon.

Cotuit, Cape Cod (NSFW)

There was a girl from Cotuit

Who didn't know how to do it.

She jumped in the sack

With a guy on his back

But, still being naive, she blew  it.

Lightning Bolt

Today the liberal media (CNN) displayed its bias anew ... claiming that lightning kills more Americans than terrorists every year (actually not true -- 2016 lightning kills = 38, 2016 terrorists kills = 49 in the Pulse nightclub alone) ... see: Newsbusters Story. I also had a reader claim that even clothing kills more Americans every year than terrorists ... a claim that may be true but, to me, is clearly specious.

And why is it specious? Here is my answer in a nutshell -- no one in the world has been killed by an atomic weapon since 1945 ... over 70 years ago ... but no one who is able to spell "Obama" would claim that atomic weapons are not an existential danger? And the lightning analogy is also flawed in that, unless Zeus is in the heavens throwing down bolts at his enemies, death by lightning is random and usually singular ... whereas terrorist mayhem is purposeful and most often comes in grisly groups.

Why any loony lefties want to minimize and excuse terrorism seems markedly misguided, naive and even sinister. That anyone in the media would assume such a suicidal stance baffles me.

Too Big for His Britches?

This morning on “Morning Joe,” John Heilemann revealed a Governor Chris Christie flaw that has me in a funk.  He said that Christie told Mitt Romney that he could not do a 2012 presidential fund-raiser in New Jersey until Christie had endorsed him (see: Time Magazine Story).  If true, this was obviously one of the (possibly many) vetted reasons that Romney did not pick Christie as his vice-presidential running mate.  And, is the fact that Romney didn’t pick him, the reason why Christie, as retribution, gave President Obama a big bear hug right before the 2012 election?

Christie claimed in his recent two-hour televised denial of any involvement in the Bridgegate “scandal” that he is “not a bully.”  Now, after seeing him operate over the last two years, we all know that this is not quite true.  But his machismo was part of his charm and differentiated him as a possible presidential candidate … he (unlike Romney) could stand up to the take-no-prisoners tactics of the Democrats. But I think most of us believed that his gruffness would just be only directed to his opponents … not toward those in his own party.  Maybe we were naive.

Now if Chris Christie were to win the 2016 Republican nomination, would the American people then be forced to trade-in Chicago-style thuggery for New Jersey- or Arkansas-style thuggery?  Yipes, not a very happy thought!  Let us hope that, in losing some of his physical girth (as a result of his gastric bypass), Christie also loses some of his too-big-for-his-britches management style.  If he learns a little humility and fair-play, then maybe … just maybe … he might make a good President.  If not, choosing between Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie would be very painful indeed.