Posse Incitatus

Spartans Come From Behind, Win Epic Battle!

Congratulations to Coach Mel Tucker and the Michigan State Spartans, 37-33 winners over the Michigan Wolverines on Saturday. I predicted MSU would win, but was way low on the score (24-20 was my projection).

And let me get the self-flagellation over with: I was dead wrong about superstar running back Kenneth Walker III. I figured Michigan would do a great job of bottling him up like Nebraska and Indiana did. Nebraska held KW to 61 yards and no touchdowns; Indiana limited him to 84 yards and zero touchdowns.

So what happened Saturday? Well, the awesome Kenneth Walker III, a legitimate Heisman Trophy candidate, scored FIVE touchdowns and gained 197 yards on the ground. And that vaunted Spartans passing attack I thought would be the difference-maker? Zero touchdowns, albeit star receivers Jayden Reed and Jalen Nailor both contributed, including each one making a crucial fourth down catch to keep a drive alive. 

The Spartans' rushing defense also stepped up. While Michigan was averaging 253 yards rushing per game, the Wolverines were held to 146 yards on the ground. On the down side, Michigan quarterback Cade McNamara often had all day to choose his receivers, and he carved up the Spartans secondary, finishing with 383 yards passing. His two touchdown passes were to freshman wide receiver Andrel Anthony, ironically an East Lansing High School product.

I kept screaming at the TV, "He's got all day! Gotta do the cornerback blitz!" Indeed, it was a fourth quarter cornerback blitz by the Spartans' Justin White that prevented Michigan from converting on third down in its own territory, forcing the Wolverines to punt. I think the coaches need to look at putting more pressure on quarterbacks, because this isn't one of MSU's better secondaries.

It was a highly entertaining, emotional game. But I am relieved it's over. MSU having a bye on Saturday Oct. 23 made for a VERY long two weeks leading up to the game, with the trash talking and speculation getting tiresome.

All week long, I heard Michigan fans and so-called "experts" from ESPN and Fox Sports talk up Michigan's ground game and boast about how the solid U-M defense would bottle up Walker. Some of the Wolverine regulars who call in to Lansing's 730-AM "The Fan," with host David "Mad Dog" DeMarco, are downright insufferable.

A substitute slappy this past Monday must have said 100 times, "I like Michigan's chances in this game. I think their ground game and run defense are a bad matchup for Sparty." This guy happened to be a CMU grad, so that explains it. I wonder if any of these blowhards will go on the air this week to eat crow and congratulate MSU. (Don't hold your breath.)

I have to credit K.N. McBride, founder of Posse Incitatus, for predicting last summer that MSU would be much better than people were expecting and could win up to 10 games. Looks like he was prescient. Some "experts" picked MSU to finish last in their division. I figured they would be 6-6 or 7-5, not having any idea how talented the new additions obtained via the transfer portal would be. Should've done my homework.

Looks like I'll be paying off on a bet in a few weeks, but I'll be happy to do so. This has been a tremendous season, and the fun's not over yet. Next up for MSU is a trip to Purdue, and the Spartans must guard against the infamous "letdown' performance after an emotional win -- a problem that's plagued them in the past. Road games in the Big Ten can be very tough, even against inferior competition. But Coach Tucker has done a tremendous job conditioning his players, hiring competent assistant coaches, motivating the players, and keeping them focused.

Tough games remain, including a home game against Penn State, which gave Top 5 Ohio State all it could handle Saturday night in Columbus, and a road trip to the Horseshoe to face those Buckeyes. The Buckeyes are young and have shown some vulnerability, but on any given weekend have the talent to blow out most teams.

As for Jim Harfraud -- er -- HARBAUGH, well, his days may be numbered. He's 3-4 vs. instate rival MSU, and still hasn't beaten U-M's main rival Ohio State in five tries (2020 game was canceled due to COVID-19). Loss number six is coming up in a few weeks. There are few who will shed any tears should this abrasive and strange man be shown the door.

As with many things involving the University of Michigan and its rabid fans, the Harbaugh hiring in December 2014 was full of off-the-charts hype, big talk and giddy expectations. But the reality is a cruel slap in the face for the legions of M-GO-BLOW loudmouths. Couldn't happen to a nicer fanbase. Sweet schadenfreude, indeed!

Game Day at Last!

Today at noon EST, the Michigan State Spartans will host the Michigan Wolverines in the annual grudge match between two longtime arch-rivals.

The oddsmakers have made U-M a 3.5-point favorite (down from 4.5 points a few days ago). Both teams were horrible in the wretched 2020 season, and both are now 7-0. The Wolverines are ranked No. 6, and the Spartans No. 8, in the Associated Press top 25 poll. This will be the first time since 1964 that both teams are ranked in the top ten when they face each other.

But truth be told, both teams have fattened up their records on mediocre or bad teams. I highly doubt that either of these squads is good enough to defeat the Ohio State Buckeyes, and both will get their chance to play OSU in a few weeks.

If by chance one of these teams ends up in the college football playoff, I shudder to think what Georgia or Alabama would do to them. (Painful memories linger of the Crimson Tide pummeling my beloved Spartans 38-0 in the national playoff following the 2015 season.)

It would be exhausting to summarize the history between MSU and U-M, or to proffer a statistical comparison, e.g. pass defense, rush defense, points per game, etc. In the past, we've learned that you can (Cliché Alert!) throw out the record when these two teams clash. And that means not just the win-loss record, but the statistical record.

Often, special teams plays, turnovers or penalties play an outsized role in determining who comes out on top. Much is made of the fact that the team finishing with the most rushing yards has won 45 of the last 51 matchups. I suspect that statistic may be a bit overrated, as comparing teams and games of 30-50 years ago with today's style of play is like apples and oranges. Hybrid offenses and a lot more passing and play action passes are the norm these days as opposed to the ultra-conservative ground attacks back in the days of fullbacks, halfbacks and 8-track tapes.

Too, it's easy to misinterpret statistics. A team that has given up more passing yards than most other teams may be stout against the run, prompting opponents to dramatically increase their passing attempts. Lots of nickel-and-dime stuff like screen passes and slant patterns can add up in a hurry. Conversely, giving up lots of ground yards may be due to your lockdown cornerbacks who make opposing quarterbacks leery of throwing.

I'm a homer, so I'm going to pick MSU to win. I don't expect the fantastic Kenneth Walker III, who already has nearly 1,000 yards rushing, to run wild as he has in several games this season. Michigan has a solid run defense and will be keying on him. (Even Barry Sanders was stuffed many times when the Lions played at Green Bay back in the day. The talent level of the offensive line plays a major role, and MSU's O-line is good but not great.)

I believe MSU's dangerous receivers, Jayden Reed and Jalen Nailor, (both of whom will play on Sundays, IMO), plus the talented but unheralded Tre Mosley, will prove too much for the Wolverine secondary. And let's not forget tight end Connor Heyward, son of former NFL great Craig "Ironhead" Heyward, who played for the Atlanta Falcons.

I am also confident that MSU's punting and place kicking are better than U-M's. But perhaps the main reason I think MSU will prevail is that U-M head coach Jim Harbaugh has a dismal record on the road against quality competition. He's 0-8 in away games vs. Top 10 teams. Harbaugh is an excellent recruiter, but an average coach and often a poor game manager.

I'll go out on a limb and predict a score: MSU 24 U-M 20. If I'm wrong, I promise to eat some crow in my next post. Happy Saturday, everyone! Let the games begin.

Joe Biden: Vindictive Hater

In recent weeks, I've been thinking about the destructive, insane policies and statements by Joe Biden and his cabal of despicable pathological liars. Do they really believe what they're saying? Do they honestly think the American people fall for the bullshit? Do they sincerely think their failed policies will benefit the United States, and that they should double down on the insanity?

I suppose some of these true believers, who have been marinating in Marxist indoctrination for decades, really do believe the nonsense they are espousing. But I also suspect that a considerable number of them know it's a load of crap, but are doing it out of sheer spite and vindictiveness.

It seems that the petulant Joe Biden and many of his sycophant, cult-like followers, absolutely loathe the American people and American traditions, and -- pardon my crudity -- want to piss all over us.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the administration is in talks to offer immigrant families that were separated during the Trump administration around $450,000 a person in compensation. That's right: Biden wants to give $450,000 to law-breaking non citizens (in some cases, families would rake in nearly $1 million), despite the fact the United States is $30 trillion in the hole and millions of our own citizens are homeless, without healthcare coverage, and / or unemployed. I would be fine with giving that money to families of service members who gave their lives, such as the 13 soldiers killed at the Kabul airport in August, and also giving generous payouts to all American Veterans. But give to illegal aliens? NO!!!

This is, hands down, the most outrageous and loony policy I have ever heard of in my entire life. Just when you think the chaotic shit show of the grossly incompetent and buffoonish Biden administration cannot get any worse, it does. Will we even have a country left by the time November 2022 rolls around? I'm not so sure.

Once again, misinformation and faulty reasoning are being used to justify an idiotic policy. Thousands of children were supposedly separated from their parents and endured unspeakable trauma as a result, say the whiny leftists and media jackals. I've said it before and I'll say it again: In most cases, it wasn't their parents who helped them break the law by illegally crossing our borders. It was paid coyotes, drug dealers, sex traffickers, or gang bangers.

News flash: When you break the law, bad things happen. Someone who gets busted for drunk driving or leading police on a high speed chase would undoubtedly be traumatized if he got into a scuffle with police, was thrown down on the pavement and handcuffed, then hauled off to the slammer. But does that trauma, remorse and regret entitle the accused to a fat payout from Uncle Sam? To far more money than most Americans' can declare as their net worth? Of course not!

Let's just take this one step further to illustrate the sheer absurdity of this policy. The PC term "undocumented immigrants," a euphemism to avoid "illegal alien," is usually stated in the context of non-citizens who don't have documents to show they're entitled to be in the United States (e.g., a green card or work visa).

But it goes way beyond that. Many of the indigent coming from Third World hellholes don't even have verification of their names, ages and place of residence from whence they came. Data bases, record keeping and the rule of law are sketchy and rudimentary in many of these godforsaken nations. Counterfeit documents are easy to come by and carried by many of the illegal immigrants. My point being that even if the harebrained scheme the Democrats came up with were to be enacted, it would be extremely difficult to determine who's really eligible for the money. It would be an administrative nightmare. But harsh realities never stop the Democrats from coming up with asinine ideas. 

So this leads me to my conclusion, which is summarized by the headline. Even the naive fools of this horrendous administration aren't stupid enough to think this proposal will fly. They just did it to poke conservatives in the eye. Out of sheer spite. Joe Biden is a self-serving, narcissistic, soulless, nihilistic sociopath who has contempt for millions of Americans. The same can be said for many of the cretins who work for him. Nothing else could explain such utter stupidity.

Let's Go Brandon!

Up until now, I have refrained from commenting on the "Let's Go Brandon" phenomenon that is sweeping across the country. But it has become so huge, it's definitely worth mentioning as a barometer of the public's disgust and cynicism regarding the corrupt, mendacious and incompetent Biden administration and the legions of destructive leftists in charge of cities, counties and school districts from coast to coast.

It started, you will recall, early in the college football season when thousands of young people would chant "F*** JOE BIDEN!" over and over in large stadiums. In early October, NASCAR driver Brandon Brown won a race at Talladega Speedway in Alabama. As NBC NASCAR reporter Kelli Stavast interviewed him, the chant grew louder in the background. She made a laughable attempt at gaslighting, telling her viewers with a straight face that chants of "Let's Go Brandon" could be heard in the background. The video went viral, inspiring widespread, merciless mocking of Stavast and the mainstream media.

First off, let me say that I've never been a big fan of profanity, and would never use it against other people with whom I disagree -- in person, on the phone, on social media or via any other form of digital communication. With that being said, it angers me that liberals and some of their propaganda rags, including the Washington Post, are indignantly enraged, pointing the finger at Trump supporters and conservatives in general (aka "deplorables") because of this mean-spirited vulgarity.

Pot, meet kettle. Have they forgotten about Kathy Griffin holding a severed, bloody Trump head and tweeting out that hideous picture? Or the Public Theater production in New York that adapted Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" to show Trump rather than Caesar being pulled off the throne and stabbed to death? Or Madonna talking about blowing up the White House?

There were many more examples of vile hatred and threats against Trump that are far more egregious than a profane chant. As usual, the left can dish it out, but they can't take it. Freakin' hypocritical cowards is what they are.

Well, as often happens in 21st century America, the "Let's Go Brandon" chant has become a veritable franchise. First there were the T-shirts, bumper stickers, signs and ubiquitous Internet memes. Then there were a couple of songs that have rocketed to the top of the charts. One of them is by New Jersey rapper Loza Alexander. His version is sans the contraction apostrophe: "Lets Go Brandon." A British singer, Bryson Gray, has a different song with the same title (this time with the apostrophe): "Let's Go Brandon."

And just a few days ago, another video went viral. This one from an Arizona convenience store in which a Marine Veteran was standing in line at the counter when a couple of young gang bangers came in to stick up the place. The Marine, James Kilcer, didn't hesitate. He quickly grabbed the gunman's piece and knocked him down, then held him down at gunpoint until police arrived. The perp's two scrawny accomplices immediately turned tail and ran.

A few days later, when Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot presented Mr. Kilcer with a commendation, the Marine was wearing a -- you guessed it -- "Let's Go Brandon" T-shirt. This salt-of-the-earth patriot, a good man, is just the type of person the vile progressives love to demonize (while at the same time coddling criminals and putting reprobates up on a pedestal).

God bless James Kilcer and Loza Alexander. And God bless all of the patriots across the land -- parents of K-12 students pushing back against Marxist school boards; ranchers near the Mexican border who are threatened by incoming hordes of illegal aliens; struggling families facing high home heating costs, rising food prices and $5 per gallon gasoline; pro-life people who've been given the middle finger by the nihilist, virulently pro-abortion Biden administration; gun owners (especially those in urban areas) who are leery of rising crime yet whose right to possess arms is under assault; and all of the other lovers of liberty who abhor totalitarian government.

The pushback is robust; it's healthy; and it's highly encouraging. We live in strange times, as the Democrats continue to make a hash of things, and the more they fail, the harder they double down on failed policies and the more brazen and frequent their lies become. Oh, and I almost forgot: The worse things get, and the more the left feels its political enemies won't bow down, the more these fascists weaponize government against said enemies.

I'm not a theologian, but I do believe in Satan and demons. And I strongly suspect they're having a field day. LET'S GO BRANDON!!!

Shut Up And Sit Down!

The arrogance of the left has been put on full display by the egregious Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe and the Democrat propaganda rag the Washington Post.

As Powerlineblog's Steven Hayward pointed out, The Post recently ran an op/ed piece with the headline, "Parents Claim They Have the Right to Shape Their Kids' School Curriculum. They don't."

And of course, McAuliffe shot himself in the foot a few weeks ago by stating, “Parents have no right to tell schools what to teach." Talk about bad timing. Has this clueless idiot not watched one minute of the Loudoun County School Board meetings in recent weeks?

Is he aware that hundreds of parents have lambasted the school board for Critical Race Theory being taught in the schools, as well as for draconian mask rules for children? Does he know that a transgendered biological male wearing a dress sexually assaulted a female student in the girls restroom? And that reprobate Loudoun County Schools Superintendent Scott Ziegler lied through his teeth in claiming he had no record that the assault took place? 

Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin is demanding Ziegler's resignation after it was revealed Ziegler had sent out an email to board members several months ago alerting them of the assault.

Over the weekend, uber-demagogue Barack Obama was stumping for McAuliffe, and he made the asinine claim that concerns about Critical Race Theory being taught in schools are just a phony issue full of "fake outrage." What an arrogant ass!

Here's some good news: A Cygnal Poll states that in blue Virginia, McAuliffe and Youngkin are tied 48-48 percent, and that Virginia voters with K-12 age children are breaking for Youngkin by about a 60-40 margin.

Additionally, voters are shifting to down-ballot Republicans, as well, with the GOP holding a R+1 advantage on the generic General Assembly ballot. 

Sleepy Joe Biden has been like a wrecking ball these past nine months, and he will do more damage in the months to come. But the great news is that voters are waking up, and the pendulum promises to swing back tremendously in the opposite direction a year from now.

In the meantime, expect the Democrats to continue melting down with off-the-charts arrogance, conceit and obnoxiousness. It's who they are and what they do.

Idiocy in Government: Part XMLXXXVIII

Nothing is certain but death and taxes, the adage goes. In 2021, we must expand that observation. Certainties now include hypocrisy, idiocy, and mendacity by the ruling class.

I'd be just spinning my wheels if I started ranting about the mountain of lies told by the legions of disgraceful hacks abiding inside the Beltway cesspool. And it goes without saying, the pandemic itself has done a wonderful job of exposing blatant hypocrisy among our so-called leaders -- especially the nauseatingly sanctimonious Democrats who look down their noses at the common people and arrogantly think they're above the law.

The Biden administration's 24/7 lying (complemented, of course, by the vermin of the corrupt media), comes with a backdrop of nonstop, in-your-face hypocrisy by a long list of Marie Antoinettes -- Gavin Newsom, Lori Lightfoot, Bill de Blasio, Andrew Cuomo, Gretchen Whitmer, and Nancy Pelosi, to name just a few.

Occasionally we get a two-fer: A transparent, idiotic and expedient attempt at covering up a conflict of interest or double-standard. (Maybe I should have used "frequently" instead of "occasionally"...)

Case in point: The Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) is seeking to hire a new executive director to replace an interim director who is moving on. The MSHDA board voted to conditionally hire Amy Hovey, who had previous experience with a major nonprofit foundation. There's just one catch: Hovey's husband is an active developer with MSHDA, with a number of properties that have received help from MSHDA in the past.

Not a problem, says the MSHDA board. According to MIRS, a Lansing-based political newsletter, the board plans to set up a "conflict wall" between Hovey and the MSHDA employees who work in the programs associated with her husband's properties. (Kinda reminds me of Jamie Gorelick's infamous wall between law enforcement and intelligence operations that helped grease the skids for the 9/11 terrorists.)

According to MSHDA, Hovey would not be allowed to communicate with her own staff on the other side of the conflict wall about programs dealing with at least four federal and state programs. This is ludicrous! The board  voted to approve a resolution to conditionally offer the job to Hovey, with the idea that if the "wall" is determined to be unworkable, her offer will be withdrawn and another candidate chosen.

Talk about a convoluted Rube Goldberg management structure. This is beyond the pale, and speaks to horrible judgment by board members who voted in favor of it. This cockamamie scheme screams UNWORKABLE.

MSHDA is going to ask for an advisory opinion from the State Ethics Board to see if the measures it is implementing to address the conflict is permissible under state law. Gee, don't you think that would've been part of the due diligence before extending the offer of employment?

If MSHDA gets the all-clear from the State Ethics Board, the next step would be to go to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to ask for exceptions for a few of the affected federal programs. If the MSHDA board succeeds in jumping through all of these hoops, Hovey could start her position. (Why do I suspect it may be a moot point by the time this dog-n-pony show is wrapped up, as Whitmer looks to be going down to defeat in her re-election bid a year from now.)

It's a given that in government, and to a lesser extent in the private sector, unsavory practices like nepotism, cronyism and favoritism play a big part in hiring decisions. Hovey definitely has connections, but also screams CONFLICT OF INTEREST! so loud that the board has to be delusional to think it can circumnavigate around this ethical disaster in the making.

Your tax dollars at work!

The Benjamins Trump PC Wokeness at Netflix

Dave Chappelle is what a comedian should be: Someone who indiscriminately gores sacred cows and doesn't give a shit who he offends. Like the old-school guys I grew up with who really kicked butt -- the likes of Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, George Carlin, and Sam Kinison, among others.

Contrast Chappelle with the rigid, ideological left-wing parrots of late-night TV -- egregious bores like Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon. These guys are angry leftists with tiresome potty-mouths. And they bow down to the uber-woke PC bullshit that is corrupting our culture. They are utterly, entirely predictable, and that's a big reason why they're so worthless.

Chappelle, on the other hand, mocks the LGBTQ alphabet soup sociopaths who maintain there are dozens of genders. He doesn't so much as oppose trans-genderism as he is against the trans gender community's tendency to want to ramrod their beliefs down everyone's throat and demonize those who object.

“Gender is a fact,” Chappelle said. “Every human being in this room, every human being on earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on earth. That is a fact."

Trans activist groups like GLAAD "pounced," to use a favorite term of the media jackals when they describe Republican criticism of idiotic Democrat policies or statements. There are threats of boycotts against Netflix, and the usual denunciations by the likes of the trans activists, pandering politicians and dim bulbs on "The View," MSNBC and CNN. Yawn.

Well, how about a breath of fresh air? The Netflix co-CEOs, Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos, have defended Chappelle and increased their financial contributions to his comedic endeavors. Now, granted, the two executives have canned or disciplined several lesser known, white employees who uttered politically incorrect words or proved disruptive to company operations with their protest actions. But those are the type of employees who can be thrown under the bus without hurting the bottom line.

Chappelle is a cash cow, and Netflix revenues have been on the rise. He's also black, and once again the left-wing calculus must balance appeasing or offending one identity politics faction vs. another. Hastings and Sarandos are doing what CEOs are supposed to do: Looking out for the interests of their shareholders.

I am no fan of Netflix -- I happen to think it's a sewer of violence, graphic sex and general garbage. (I also shake my head in disgust at the galling hypocrisy of Barack and Michelle Obama taking millions from this company, yet continuing to bash America as if they're struggling peons who are down with the revolution.

But it's good to see this corporation at least has the cojones to bluntly confront the militant trans lobby. It's about time someone faced down the bullies.

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Tyrant

Today's headline is a paraphrase of a Beatles song title from "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart;s Club Band." The original title (substitute "Mr. Kite" for "Mr. Tyrant") was a goofy composition of the strange 1960s milieu probably emanating from the drug-addled mind of one John Lennon. Today's reality is much more stark.

What it refers to is the Biden administration's unwitting support and furtherance of totalitarian regimes via a lame-brained energy policy.

Recall that the Obama administration complained and obsessed bitterly over income inequality (the second coming of Satan, in their opinion), yet pursued wrongheaded policies that worsened income inequality. And so today does the Biden administration talk a good game about human rights and continue to harp on the tired Trump/Russian collusion fantasy, yet pursues policies that enrich the coffers of the most oppressive despots on the planet. Biden has done more to benefit Putin in six months than Trump has done in his entire lifetime.

The Bidenites have sought to kiss ass with the green lobby by demonizing fossil fuels, suppressing oil exploration and cracking down on fracking. Their fantasy of quickly converting the United States into an economy dependent upon renewable sources of energy promises to bring about widespread blackouts and brownouts, a la California. It has already resulted in gasoline prices rising over $1 a gallon in the past 8-10 months.

Sleepy Joe made quite a show of it when he signed a stack of executive orders on his first day in office before heading off for his afternoon nap. One of his actions was to halt construction of the Keystone pipeline. You can bet Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, the mullahs of Iran, the brutal Venezuelan communists and the corrupt Saudi royal oligarchy were delightedly licking their chops.

It's really quite simple: Former President Trump encouraged domestic exploration and production of oil, petroleum products and natural gas. This marginalized the tyrants of Russia, China and the Middle East while lowering prices for American consumers and helping our economy roar. Our old nemeses, the Middle Eastern extremists who have supported terror networks for decades, were rendered impotent.

But leave it to Biden and his cabal of incompetent hacks to reverse that progress in short order. They have succeeded in spiking fuel prices, weakening our economy, making us more vulnerable to the extortion of dictators, and beefing up the resources for despots to oppress and spy on their own people, support terrorists, and engage in imperialism and mischief across the globe.

Heckuva Job, Joe! Build Bumbling Bureaucracy.

Failure of the Magic Wand

 

Getting right down to it, the basic philosophy of leftists is that humanity and life can be perfected with the right recipe of laws, regulations, mandates and indoctrination. They believe in the perfectibility of man in the temporal world -- that we can in effect create our own utopia right here on earth.

Those who believe in God and understand human nature regard that as utter rubbish, which it is. What limited writings of Karl Marx I've read, I've shaken my head at how simplistic and sophomoric it is.

But millions of progressives and ultra-liberals believe they have the answers and can make the world a better place in large part because many of them are atheists, agnostics or lukewarm at best when it comes to their religious faith. Of course, there are plenty of Democrats who are people of faith, and not all of them are all-in for what the far left is dishing out. But too many of them are naive and easily gulled by the sophistry of the left.

When Barack Obama was president, the so-called Affordable Health Care Act promised all sorts of fantasies about "bending the cost curve" and putting severe caps on prices for pharmaceuticals and health care services. But as the expression goes, something's gotta give. When artificial price controls are implemented in disregard of market realities, scarcity (i.e., rationing, long lines and waiting lists) occurs. And/or, monthly premiums and deductibles are exorbitant.

And so it goes with Obamacare, which dramatically increased individual and family premiums, yet retained high deductibles. Many of the new enrollees were simply dumped into Medicaid, which is a flawed program on shaky fiscal ground. And because large employers were mandated to provide coverage to full-time, permanent employees under Obamacare, many of them simply resorted to hiring temp workers, offering contract positions, and reducing full-time jobs to part-time jobs. They also off-shored many of their jobs to evade the mandate. So "Bending the cost curve" really means distorting the market -- human fodder be damned.

In recent weeks, we've been noticing a ripple effect of President Biden's ill-advised and totalitarian vaccine mandate. Although official regulations have not been implemented, the president wants to mandate that most federal employees and members of the military be vaccinated, as well as private sector employees working for businesses with at least 100 employees.

As this piece notes, the mandate is having a deleterious effect on companies, healthcare providers, families and the economy. Across the nation, police officers, firefighters, nurses, teachers, and many others are either being fired, suspended or are walking off the job in protest. Some have quit and are seeking employment in other fields. 

Southwest Airlines claims that its recent cancellation of thousands of flights, which snarled airports and disrupted travel plans for thousands of passengers, were due to technical issues and weather. I call major league gaslighting. It's no coincidence that the cancellations came shortly after the pilot's union filed for a restraining order against the vaccine mandate. This appears to be similar to the corrupt media's blatant lies about the Hunter Biden laptop story ("It's Russian disinformation!") shortly before the 2020 election.

The media jackals have something in common with Joe Biden and many members of his cabinet full of hacks: They have no qualms about brazenly lying to advance a narrative. Mendacity is a given with politicians; lying is a given with politicians and the media. And it's like Goebbels on steroids. It just doesn't quit; it grows worse by the day. Is it any wonder tens of millions of Americans hold the government and media in utter contempt?

Progressive Left: Not Just Ignorant and Asinine, But Downright Stupid!

If I wanted to, I could rant 24/7 about misguided progressives and the havoc they wreak throughout society and the world. I have chastised them many times in past postings, but truth be told, it gets to be downright wearying.

So for many months, I avoid pummeling progressives because it's kind of like bitching about how much I hate pedophiles, cock roaches, pornography and Adolf Hitler. It's a given.

But today I read something that really caused me to shake my head and grumble under my breath. It was further evidence that progressives are not just idiotic and sick in the head,;they may well be unwittingly doing the devil's work. (They most likely don't even believe in the devil, so I'm sure they think I'm a P.O.S. for suggesting this!)

Kendall Qualls reports in The Federalist that some leftists are now calling two-parent families ....wait for it...RACIST!!! Yes, you heard me right.

The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) contends that the two-parent home represents 'family privilege' and create barriers to equal opportunity. It claims that the nuclear family — consisting of father, mother, and children — is merely an extension of white supremacy. And no surprise here, Black Lives Matter is simpatico with this warped perspective. Why, it fits right in with that steaming pile of Marxist garbage known as Critical Race Theory.

It's obvious, from years of studies as well as anecdotal evidence, that children raised in two-parent homes are much less likely to engage in criminal activities, abuse drugs or alcohol, or end up dying at a young age. Chances are slim that they will ever spend a day in jail. Rather, they're likely to be productive, law-abiding citizens who impart their wisdom and values to future generations.

But as is customary for the left, they put depravity up on a pedestal and glorify dirtbags (see rap music), while demonizing good people (e.g., the police) and lifestyles that are pleasing to the Creator. It takes a certain amount of humility to admit that we don't have all the answers, there is a Supreme Being, and we will benefit if we get on our knees and engage in that tried-and-true Christian acronym of PAT: Praise, Ask, and Thank. Praise the Lord, for he is good! Ask for wisdom, judgment, patience and strength to navigate life, and ask for other important priorities, such as the safety and health of loved ones, or the ability of your spouse to survive cancer or some other health scare. And thank the Lord for your many blessings, including good health, plentiful food, and freedom.

We're in an uphill struggle. The NCFR website states that its members come from more than 35 countries and all 50 states, and work as teachers, program developers, and counselors. It has thousands of active members, who participate in focus groups, discussion, and networking. NCFR has 10 state and regional-level affiliates and 26 student chapters at universities. No doubt the reprobate George Soros has seeded this diabolical organization with millions of dollars.

I guess if I wanted to play the progressives' juvenile games, I would tweet out complaints about "progressive privilege" (i.e., Big Tech, academia, the federal government and mainstream media all are on their side). But being a whiny wimp ain't my schtick. I've long complained that progressives tend to behave like two-year-olds. Why would I want to imitate them?