Is anyone else tired of hearing "We are all in this together!"? I sure am. I think it is training us to think that we all need to share our resources with someone who is not willing to take the effort to gain their own! In other words, SOCIALISM!!! I'm not responsible for your health and you are not responsible for mine! If that is NOT so, I need to go down to McDonalds and Pizza Hut and chastise everyone in line for getting their Big Macs and Supreme Pizzas! And while we are on the subject, we need to outlaw tobacco and alcohol. I don't smoke and rarely drink alcohol. After all, I'm responsible for your health! But see, we can't do that, because you can't tax a virus, but you sure can tax something that people use, and causes WAY more problems than a bad cold!
Just the brilliant musings of a Okie displaced in Texas. My motto...."Often right, seldom wrong, never without an opinion" Mostly my observations are about politics...there's a reason the Right Wing is called right, by the way...golf and the trials and tribulations of living in DFW.
Friday, December 18, 2020
Monday, November 30, 2020
I Know Sidney Powell. "She Is Telling the Truth"
I Know Sidney Powell.
Friday, September 11, 2020
Hey, Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi, what do you say about THIS?
We all know that Joe Biden is beholding to China. Who knew he is also beholding to Iran!
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
I only make boxes.....
This was penned by my good friend, David Sutton. He is known affectionately as "Box"....because he makes boxes. Lots of boxes! And he says "Hey, I only make boxes!" But he is a 2 time cancer survivor, a recovering alcoholic going on 20+ years and one of the best gin players I know. Used to be a pretty good golfer too! But I digress.
In just three months, it will be over. The U.S. presidential election, I mean. Not the end of the world. But maybe the end of our nation, as we have known it.
No, I will not be voting for Biden.... I am not voting for a man. I am not rallying for a personality. I am not pushing a person. At this point, I am voting for one thing and one thing only. I am voting for the principles for which this country has stood since its founding. I am voting for Constitutional government. I am voting for a strong and viable military. I am voting for a vibrant economy. I am voting for the right to keep and bear arms. I am voting for the freedom to worship. I am voting for a national recognition of the founding of our nation on Biblical principles. I am voting for the ability for anyone to rise above their circumstances and become successful. I am voting for my children and grandchildren to be able to choose their own path in life, including how and where their children are educated. I am voting for our borders to be open to everyone who enters under our law and closed to everyone who would circumvent or ignore the law. I am voting for the Electoral College to remain in place, so that a few heavily populated liberal centers do not control the elections. I am voting for a Supreme Court that interprets the Constitution rather than rewrites it. I am voting to teach history, with all of its warts, not erase it or revise it. I am voting for the sanctity of life from conception to birth and after.
Now,
there are some things I am voting against. I am voting against open borders. I
am voting against a rampant welfare system that enslaves its recipients. I am
voting against socialism, in all of its forms, including health care,
redistribution, reparations, economics, governmental control, pedophilia, and
criminal releases, etc. I would rather pay for prison reform then see the
criminals released to repeatedly commit the same crimes!
So,
although I don’t give blanket approval to everything our President has done or
said in the past, I do support him as our president! I am not voting against
Joe Biden, but I am voting against everything that the party backing him and
propping him up stands for. It is not the Democratic Party of the past. Three
months is all we have.
Monday, August 10, 2020
A New Discrimination Route: The COVID Hoax! The virus is real but the response is political!
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By: Richard Finger
August 9, 2020
The disease may recede, but the stigma lingers. I have experienced it first hand as earlier this summer; my twenty-one-year-old daughter tested positive for COVID-19. Placing this data bit in the atmosphere receives hushed condolences as if revealing the contraction of an incurable venereal disease. Exile to a leper's colony purged her Mark of Cain. She remained asymptomatic throughout her convalescence.
Paradoxically, neither my wife nor I tested positive, despite close contact with her in the days preceding. Over a month later, I cheerfully introduce her as a recent COVID survivor. The mood changes, the unease is palpable, and all confirm face coverings are hermetically sealed.
Humanity has fallen into dystopian existence. Incessant media bombardment convince COVID to be the Armageddon that will forever redefine the human race. Permanent radical behavioral shifts, masks, social distance, no restaurants, bars or theaters, social seclusion, become the new future. Methodically, through all the redundancy, a tectonic reposition of thought patterns occur.
Bike riders secure their face coverings, yet no humans stray within a hundred feet. Ditto to the shrouded fools riding alone in their cars or solitary women with strollers. Masked hikers on the mountain trails of Colorado assiduously avoid my uncovered appearance.
My advance reeks panic of approaching death. They move aside, bow heads in prayer-like posture, and for extra protection, place their hands over already camouflaged faces.
Such demeanor presupposes COVID disperses from the trees, the rivers, and mischievously lurks in crisp mountain air. People transform to vapid souls listlessly wandering the landscapes now devoid of internal electrical impulses remotely prompting they might question, much less rebel against, directives mandated by public officials. Shunning or worse for the pariah who dares resist the new orthodoxy. A complete indoctrination.
DEATH BY AGE
What if it's all orchestrated misinformation?
CDC statistics show through August 1, there were nationwide, a total of 45 deaths of children 14 years old and younger. With 60.7 million children in this population demographic, the odds of dying from COVID calculate to about 1 in 1.35 million, well outside the top ten causes of death for this age group. I hypothesize most of these unfortunate 45 suffered from previous underlying medical issues.
Conversely, during the past four years, over 100 children younger than five years old annually died of seasonal flu. In the 2017-18 season, influenza deaths for this age group were as high as 600; yet no schools closed. More than halfway through 2019-2020, officially 186 have succumbed. Yet COVID has claimed only 25 lives of those less than five years old, or 14 percent of seasonal flu numbers. The fifteen to twenty-four-year-old group remains nearly as bulletproof with a loss of around 225 people on a 42 million population base.
California, breaking through 10,000 COVID deaths, recently reported its first death of a "young person" with the passing of a 17-year-old male. Like most, he suffered from a preexisting health condition. Approaching six hundred thousand cases, yet only one confirmed school-age death, disingenuous teacher's union's and politicians miraculously deflect "safety of children" as one justification to keep schools shuttered.
The CDC discloses in only six percent of all coronavirus deaths, "COVID was the only cause" mentioned. For the other ninety-four percent, "there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death." There were 115,495 fatalities where patients got admitted to the hospital with "influenza and/or pneumonia." Another 93,393 checked in with respiratory failure, while 35,167 arrived amid cardiac arrest. Yet hospital administrators sign COVID on death certificates one hundred percent of the time. Early on, Dr. Deborah Birx publicized the probability that medical facilities overstate numbers of actual coronavirus fatalities.
Of U.S.165,000 casualties attributed to COVID, six percent translates that less than ten thousand fatalities were otherwise healthy. Eighty percent of all deaths occur in those over 65. One-third of the deceased is over 85, even though this group represents only around four percent of the total population. With 165,000 dead, approximately 133,000 have been these older adults. It is impossible to know the precise age breakdown of the unlucky ten thousand victims in robust health, but the CDC published that half of all eighty-year-olds entered hospitals free from other maladies. Given the asymmetric sacrifice the elderly have made, many of these victims must have been previously in sturdy condition. Therefore, probably more than eighty percent of healthy deaths were also over sixty-five. This leaves 2,000 or fewer vigorous individuals killed by COVID under sixty-five. The under 65 population represents 272 million or 84 percent of America's total. That's outstanding odds you will be a survivor.
American behavior now far transcends sensible risk aversion sliding toward a surreal Twilight Zone.
Hospitals have every incentive to treat every admission as a coronavirus patient. Medicare will make a lump sum payment of $5,000 to a hospital for a pneumonia diagnosis, but the amount ricochets to $13,000 if the doctor determines COVID with pneumonia. Stick that COVID patient on a ventilator for 96 hours, and the reimbursement skyrockets to $39,000. How many manipulated for-profit death certificates signed "COVID" were in actuality from other medical issues? I confirmed with a doctor at a major Houston hospital pressure tactics exist, that, if a patient has COVID, to designate COVID as the cause of death, regardless of whether the victim was a 500-pound diabetic with cancer who had a heart attack.
Hospitals become even more motivated since many locations have continuing restrictions on elective surgeries, depriving a significant income source. In another questionable practice, to "earn" more federal dollars, some states, most notably N.Y., allow for "presumptive COVID cases." On April 14, New York magically added 3,700 COVID fatalities to include "people who had never tested positive for the virus but were presumed to have it." That equates to tens of millions in additional federal funds with the stroke of a pen. Andrew Cuomo maliciously carried out death sentences of thousands of New York nursing home residents consigning infected patients to join healthy populations. At nearly 33,000 victims, New York alone, with less than six percent of the country's people, accounts for 20 percent of U.S. fatalities.
Back in California, with cameras rolling, Dr. Rais Vohra, Fresno County's interim public health officer, tearfully recounted the 17-year old's death. "It's a huge trauma for everyone…., including the hospital workers who are still coping on this case. I am speechless when it comes to anything that I could say to the family……It just brings home the reality that this is not sparing even the youngest members of our community." Really. One dead of over 8.5 million California kids 17 or younger. While nothing can equal the catastrophe of losing a child, the doctor's tone sounds as if COVID confers exponentially more tragedy than death by mundane seasonal flu, cancer, or getting hit by a city bus.
Would a cancer death have warranted an equally hyperbolic and apocalyptic press briefing highlighted with sensationalized melodrama? A politicized COVID end translates to being victimized by the willful malfeasance of wicked Donald Trump. Liberals narrate that without the White House bungling, all of this cataclysm and economic destruction would have been avoided. Yet when Trump announced the very early January 30 China travel ban, Joe Biden and ilk were swift with stale cries of "xenophobia and fear-mongering."
Dying by coronavirus becomes a symbol, a logo of martyrdom to rid our country of the real virus, Trump. Hence, leftists and media collaborators promote ideas of "second waves," tacitly cheer rising fatality counts, and demand ever more economic lockdowns.
Over the past couple of weeks, the media, with lackey doctors Fauci and Gottlieb providing imprimatur, double down on hysteria as for several days, COVID cases spiked above 70,000. Even Republican governors cowed under pressure as many states slow or halt reopening economies. For perspective, for the six-month Oct-April 2020, CDC reports up to 56,000,000 seasonal flu cases.
This calculates to over 300,000 per day. Currently, the official COVID count stands just over 5 million. Does anyone, ever, refer our annual flu "tradition" as a pandemic? During the recent case spike, deaths never got above 55 percent of the April peaks.
This recent case uptick comes from more testing, now approaching twenty percent of Americans. The muted death rates stem that most of the new cases are from the younger demographics that went back to work and mingled in reopened restaurants and bars. In California, 18-49-year-olds encompass over 60 percent of cases, yet comprise a little over 43 percent of the population.
Significant numbers, 35 percent or much higher in some studies, of those infected with COVID, show no symptoms. With such a high prevalence of asymptomatic virus response, the number of coronavirus cases certainly is much higher, perhaps by orders of magnitude than official reports. The CDC estimates the real numbers at six to twenty-four times larger. If 50 or 60 million people have been exposed, then realized death rates must be adjusted commensurately downward.
The Meaning of Pandemic
The fourteenth-century Bubonic Plague classifies as a genuine pandemic. Forecasts that 100 to 200 million perished, erasing perhaps 50 percent or more of all inhabitants of Europe. Some guess it eclipsed 20 to 25 percent of the world's total residents.
Proportionally overlay these numbers to the twenty-first century and visualize over 100 million dead Americans and billions vanished worldwide. Yet the current 735,000 worldwide coronavirus fatality census corresponds to less than a 100th of one percent of all people on the planet.
For this, governments worldwide, deprive millions of businesses and perhaps hundreds of millions of individuals a right to earn a living. With death rates among most demographics far less than one-tenth of one percent, the world economy gets forced into collapse.
Other Things To Worry About
While we hyperventilate over COVID, around the world, humans continue dying, sometimes in much higher numbers, from other things. So far this year:
---over a million dead by HIV/AIDS
---over 3 million dead from smoking
---over 1.5 million dead from alcohol
---nearly 5 million dead from cancer
---over 630,000 dead from suicide
---nearly 600,000 dead from malaria
---over 7 million dead from communicable diseases (not including COVID)
---nearly 4.6 million dead children under five years old
---25 U.S. deaths from COVID for children under five years old on a population of 19.7 million
---over 6.5 million dead from starvation
---over 500,000 dead by water-related diseases
Every year over 450 million worldwide cases of pneumonia end around four million lives. Headlines seem sparse on almost all the above disasters. These figures transform COVID into an afterthought.
The newly radicalized proxies of the Democrats, teachers' unions nationwide keep the education system hostage to specious safety concerns. Twitter and Facebook both removed a Donald Trump video clip announcing children are "almost immune from the disease." While not immune, the above numbers reveal they rarely get sick, and it's seldom fatal. Such universal coordinated censorship shields truth from the public. Empirical evidence from both a German study and a French survey found school settings not to be hotbeds of transmission. They bore out the hypothesis that kids are much less prolific transmitters of the virus than adults.
Conclusion
With all the pecuniary incentives for hospitals to bilk the federal government, I believe the number of COVID deaths vastly exaggerated. Given eighty percent of fatalities are over those over 65 and 94 percent have underlying health problems, young, healthy people have little to worry about.
So, if you're over 85, take a leave of absence from work, or if you chose, just keep on living; at the end of the day, no one's getting out of here alive. If your're over 65, obese with diabetes, perhaps you should tread lightly as well. Everyone else should use common sense. But unsavory Democrats drill into heads an evil ethos of government as a benign omniscient protector. American society has long abrogated any concept of personal responsibility.
The recent multi-trillion-dollar COVID rescue or stimulus packages with another brewing further inculcate Democratic welfare ideology.
Coronavirus represents a culmination of a generation of leftist warfare to deracinate two and half centuries of American spirit. History might look back at this media-driven fabrication as the nail that irretrievably shut the coffin.
Open the hood of the car and discover there is no engine. Read all the numbers, not just those curated to dissemble. COVID is a flu, not a bubonic plague-like killer pandemic the media has programmed us to believe.
COVID is a hoax.
Friday, July 10, 2020
Let's Talk about Black Privilege By Rich Logis
There are approximately 250 million Americans aged 20 and over. How many don't believe that black lives matter?I want a number, backed up by evidence — not a dissertation, pontification, polemic, manifesto, or Socratic dialogue. A number.Not having to provide a fact-based number: black privilege — yes or no?Take NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, who imagined a noose the way the narrator in Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart imagined a droning beating heart. A hysterical black American creates unnecessary panic over a noose found in his garage; draws 15 FBI agents to investigate, at a total of tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money; investigation confirms the black American's story was paranoia; FBI goes home; nothing happens to the black American for making a false accusation and creating unnecessary panic; continues to receive fawning press in the DMIC (Democrat Media Industrial Complex). Black privilege — yes or no?Lincoln County, Ore. exempted from mandatory mask-wearing "[p]eople of color who have heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment due to wearing face coverings in public."Black privilege — yes or no?Black Americans saying the "N-word" without fear of recrimination of being called racist: black privilege — yes or no?During the recent George Floyd–related terrorist looting and riots, retired St. Louis, Mo. police captain David Dorn was shot and killed; he was 77. His death was recorded on a phone for the world to see, in a grotesquely grim The Truman Show moment for the nation. Dorn's alleged murderer, a 24-year-old ex-felon named Stephan Cannon, was convicted at 18 for violent felony robbery and was supposed to serve a seven-year sentence. But he never served a day thanks to leniency from the presiding judge. The violent ex-felon subsequently twice violated his probation but, alas, never went to prison. Cannon is black; his two accomplices were also black. So much for gun control.Cannon is entitled to Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed rights. Our legal system is so "systemically racist" that Cannon will (once again, as a repeat offender) benefit from liberties 39 white guys decided over two centuries ago should be the law of the land. As a free black ex-felon after committing a violent crime and then violating his probation:black privilege — yes or no?Sadly, black privilege did not save Dorn's life. Rest in peace, Captain Dorn, who left behind a wife, five children, and ten grandchildren.When a free black man, with dozens of priors, allegedly kills a white cop, and no one hears about it on CNN or on the pages of The New York Times, was the black man privileged? Such was the case in May, when Officer Cody Holte, of the Grand Forks, North Dakota Police Department, was gunned down. Holte is survived by his wife and infant son.DMIC blackout of black-on-black crime: black privilege — yes or no?Do the members of the Congressional Black Caucus have privileges by virtue of their race?Would a blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman as white as the driven snow garner more looks of suspicion in West Baltimore than a black woman? If no, then doesn't the black woman have black privilege?White and Black PrivilegesEither we all enjoy some privilege or we have none at all. I happen to consider everyone who lives in America privileged, including blacks — and illegal aliens, which I discuss in my upcoming first book, 10 Warning Signs Your Child Is Becoming a Democrat: How to Make America Grown-Up Again.Ask a black American about black privilege. If he says none exists, then neither does white privilege. If, however, he concurs that there's black privilege, he will likely immediately pivot from an abstract argument to a quantification argument — that whites have more privilege than blacks. Once he makes this pivot, he has now TKOed himself, because a quantification argument requires a number; the onus and burden of proof is on the black American.How much more privilege, then, does a white have? The black American will never give a number because:1. He doesn't know the number.2. Any number he provides cannot be confirmed by anything other than the outcome he wants to come to.I want a mathematically determined number — not a Washington Post narrative.What's frightening and unnerving about most black Democrats is that they actually do believe that they are manacled victims of a multi-century, furtive, surreptitious, systematically racist cabal of the affluent Caucasian patriarchy enacted in 1619 or 1776.If you believe this, you're not going to grow up wondering if your problems have anything to do with your own decisions and actions. Black Democrats are not like affluent white Democrats, who believe none of the balderdash that comes out of their mouths.What I see in Black Lives Matter is a group in pursuit of revenge, not equality. Inequality is the new equality.No matter how much Goebbelsian public relations Black Lives Matter receives from the DMIC, no reasonable American is mistaking the group for those who attended Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963 or the Selma to Montgomery marches two years later.The conditions where black Americans have it worse — including problems with the police — are in cities run by Democrats for tens of thousands of consecutive days. Machine gun–owning Jeffersonian constitutionalists living in towns whose local diner menus read "breakfast, lunch, dinner" aren't enslaving black Americans, despite what Don Lemon says nightly.Would it be fair to say all participants of Black Lives Matter are violent? No, but it's not the peaceful ones I'm worried about.When Black Lives Matter colludes to tear down statues and monuments, they're not doing so to rewrite their Democrat history — they don't know anything about history. They destroy and deface because terrorists kill, annihilate, and terrorize just for the sake of it, indiscriminately.What we're discovering about the professional Democrat protest class is that they think quite similarly to Islamic supremacists. The Woodstock generation has produced lite versions of Osama bin Laden — this is the actual legacy of the Democratic Party.Islamic supremacists always recruit the young, the vulnerable, and the ignorant and always seek to expand.The only substantive difference between Democrats and Islamic supremacists is that the latter have just been doing it longer. If some of these Democrat terrorists could obtain suicide vests, I have no doubt some would detonate it in a crowd of women and children.Many don't associate the Democratic Party with Islamic supremacists, Nazis, Soviets, and Maoists because the Democrats don't have genocides associated with their party. But terrorists of similar feathers flock together.The sympathy well has run dry, black America. You may not want to hear that, but you need to hear it.Rich Logis is author of the upcoming book 10 Warning Signs Your Child Is Becoming a Democrat: How to Make America Grown-Up Again.