The foliage on our property must read The Observations. Because 2 days after writing that the Dogwoods needed to catch up with the other plantings, what do you know; the Dogwoods are in full bloom! Beautiful!
And our Japanese maples are flowering. Things are really looking like Spring. Of course, then why is it so cold and windy in Clarke County, Virginia?
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullins is considering the withdrawal of Customs and Border Patrol agents from airports in “sanctuary cities”. The effect of this policy would be to bar international travelers from clearing U.S. customs at those cities. Ha, ha, ha, ha! That would frost their flakes! If sanctuary cities will not cooperate with DHS, why should DHS cooperate with sanctuary cities? WINNING!
Under China Joe, public schools were penalized for not adhering to students’ “preferred pronouns”. Under President Trump, the Education Department is vacating those penalties. WINNING!
“Eviction is an act of violence. And we have to do everything to prevent it. It degrades the health of communities. There is great stigma associated with it. Housing is a human right.”
–Representative Aynna Pressly (D. Ma.).
You know how to avoid the “great stigma” associated with eviction? Pay your rent!
What about the rights of landlord with respect to their property? Has Representative Pressly ever heard of the Constitution’s 5th Amendment?
And housing is a “right”? If the Democrats give us any more rights, we will not have any rights.
Senator Chris Van Hollen (D. Md.), drinking buddy of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, claims ICE agents recklessly crashed into an illegal alien who was driving to work one morning, in Baltimore, Maryland. That is a lie. The truth is that when ICE agents attempted to arrest the illegal alien, he got into his automobile, and then drove recklessly through the streets of Baltimore until he crashed into other vehicles. The illegal alien then fled on foot before being apprehended. Meanwhile, 2 ICE agents were seriously injured and hospitalized, while countless other innocent persons were endangered by the illegal alien’s evasion.
A federal judge has rejected Minnesota’s bid to force the Trump Administration to continue funding the State’s Medicaid program, finding that the State’s program was riddled with fraud. COMMON SENSE!
The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled that it believed that a 72 hour waiting period to purchase a gun was constitutional. So. A fundamental God given right can be suspended for a period of time. Is that how rights work? Would the Court rule that one could not speak out on an issue until after 72 hours had passed? Or that a newspaper could not publish a story until waiting 72 hours? No, of course not! That is not how rights work. The First Circuit is wrong.
The Washington Post has discovered an inconvenient fact. It seems that Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger (D.) is enjoying the lowest approval rating in her initial months in office than any Governor since Doug Wilder (D.). She is far behind Governor George Allen (R.), who was wildly popular as Governor. But she is also significantly behind Coonman (D.), who was a terrible Governor, and terribly unpopular. Hmmmm. Maybe she should not have lied about her views while running for office.
When the Obama Presidential Center opens, Illinois residents will be given free admission on Tuesdays. That is, if they can prove that they are Illinois residents by presenting photo ID. Something that they need not do to vote. But to gain entrance into Obama’s Ministry of Truth? Oh, yes.
Democrat led States are hemorrhaging residents, as higher taxes push high, and medium, earners to pull up stakes and move to low tax States. Now Democrat led States are considering imposing “exit” taxes, that these earners would have to pay after leaving a high tax State for “greener pastures”. My goodness, is this still the United States of America?
The California State government is implementing a program whereby tax dollars will reimburse electric vehicle owners up to $7,500.00 to repair the car batteries. If the battery is unrepairable, the State will provide the EV owner up to $10,000.00 to buy a new battery. Is this what government is for, to pay for some people’s personal car repairs, using other people’s money? Really?
Maine Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner called Jesus “a zombie”, and the Virgin Mary “a skank”. Words fail me.
“The illegal U.S. blockade of fuel to Cuba—90 miles south of the United States—adds to the longest embargo in world history and is causing untold suffering to the Cuban people. The United States prevented a single drop of oil from entering Cuba for over three months. This is cruel collective punishment—effectively an economic bombing of the infrastructure of the country—that has produced permanent damage. It must stop immediately.”
–Representative Pramila Jayapal (D. Wa.).
Huh? The Cuban people are “suffering” because of communism, you twit! And now that that country’s brutal regime is on the verge of collapse, you want to throw it a lifeline? Is this the Democrat version of strategic foreign policy thinking? That we should always side with our enemies?
The Democrats are a bunch of surrender monkeys, no better than the cheese munching French. Look below at another example of what passes for astute foreign policy thinking by the Democrats:
“We need to end the war and we can do it with three things. We need an immediate ceasefire, stop the bombing. We need to make sure that we give Iran an ironclad guarantee that Israel or we will not attack again, and involve China and Russia in that. And then we need to look at some of the sanctions and have a diplomatic solution . . . The only way we’re going to get out of this is to have some kind of diplomatic solution. And that would require us to stop the bombing and to figure out how we convince Iran that we’re not going to continue to bomb them.”
–Representative Ro Khanna (D. Ca.).
Notice that Representative Khanna says nothing about actually preventing Iran from building a nuclear weapon. This reflects the Democratic approach as a whole: celebrate talks and claim progress while America’s adversaries maneuver around us. And why would we empower Russia and China—our nation’s enemies—to enforce a deal, and secure Iran’s safety? That is madness!
Democrats would settle for no war and symbolic victories. President Trump is aiming for real results: total victory. Bomb Iran back to the Stone Age.
A resolution was introduced at the United Nations Security Council, addressing the reopening of the Straits of Hormuz. It failed due to vetoes cast by China and Russia.
The vetoed resolution, which was introduced by Bahrain, “strongly encourages states interested in the use of commercial maritime routes in the Strait of Hormuz to coordinate efforts, defensive in nature, commensurate with the circumstances, to contribute to ensuring the safety and security of navigation across the Strait of Hormuz.”
The resolution also demanded that Iran immediately halt attacks on merchant and commercial vessels and stop impeding their freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz and attacking civilian infrastructure.
The resolution encouraged defensive action. The resolution called on Iran to stop attacking civilian commercial traffic. And Russia and China vetoed it. These countries are who Representative Khanna wants to enforce a peace agreement, and guarantee Iran’s security? Really?
Iran called on its youth to form human chains around the country’s power plants in advance of expected U.S. bombing raids this week. Holy Hamas! What kind of barbaric government uses innocent civilians as hostages to prevent military strikes?!?
President Trump should ignore any human chains. Bomb away!
French President Emmanuel Macron, speaking in South Korea, urged smaller and medium sized countries to unite against the United States and President Trump. Really? Wow. Big talk for a cheese munching surrender monkey.
Does President Macron really think that South Korea wants to unite with France against the United States? Because the only thing keeping the North Korean Army from swarming over the border is the presence of 47,000 American army troops.
The late Iranian General Soleimani’s niece and her daughter have been living the high life in Los Angeles, California. No more. The anti-American pair had their green cards revoked, and were arrested, pending deportation. Next stop: Tehran.
Hey! Maybe they can get to Tehran in time to participate in a human chain around a power plant!
In Oxfordshire County, England, the leader of the county council blasted acts of intimidation, promising that the police would arrest and punish all those guilty of such criminality. What was the crime, the awful act of intimidation? Flying the English flag.
Cheers and congratulations to the University of Michigan men’s basketball team on winning the NCAA men’s tournament championship. Jeers and boos to the University of Michigan fans, who decided to celebrate their team’s victory by setting everything in sight on fire.
Tom Nieto, former coach for both the Yankees and the Mets, has died at age 65. R. I. P.
GFK
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