CENTCOM FACT CHECK: “3 U.S. jets shot down over Kuwait by ‘friendly fire‘.” – Really?
“Kuwait primarily utilizes an advanced U.S.-supplied Patriot missile defense system, featuring a mix of PAC-2 GEM/GEM-T and PAC-3 MSE interceptors to counter tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and aircraft. These systems are heavily upgraded with modern radar and software (Configuration 3+) to enhance capabilities against regional threats.” – Google AI
Considering the above, what are the odds of three U.S. aircraft being shot down within minutes or hours of each other be by “accident”?
An integral component of all – ALL – nations missile defense systems is a capability called Identification Friend or Foe (IFF). All U.S. military aircraft – in fact, all commercial aircraft in the world – have this capability on board in order for both commercial radars at airports and military missile defense systems to do just what it says: to identify “Friend or Foe” or, in the commercial airline world, to identify type of airliner or civilian aircraft.
The U.S. Patriot missile system is factory programmed to identify U.S. military aircraft in such a way as to eliminate the possibility of misidentifying friendly U.S. aircraft as enemy threats.
In order for a U.S. Patriot missile system to misidentify a U.S. aircraft as enemy the system’s programmed algorithm would have to be manually altered.
For it to occur three times within hours are astronomically against the odds of “error.”
Add to the calculus that Kuwait is a Muslim oligarchy. When it comes to killing the enemy, which enemy gets killed first? Another Muslim in Iran or a U.S. Infidel?
Iran is Persian – not Arabic but they both believe in the Q’uran.
The MAGA media “public intellectuals” proclaim an unexpected coalition of Middle Eastern countries joining with the U.S. and Israel in attacking Iran.
Continued dependence on Arab countries cooperation in Trump’s chaos-creating war against Iran is like Putin depending on criminals to win the “special operation” in Ukraine.
Putin and Xi are gleefully watching Trump expend the supply of U.S. ordinance on Iran – paving the way for them to play everywhere else in the world.
Remember, it was during a large pass-in-review CENTCOM parade during the build-up to Desert Storm that Saudi officials in the reviewing stands were overheard to remark joyfully at having American “slaves” do the fighting for them.
“Friendly fire”? CENTCOM lied about it in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria (see: 3 U.S. servicemen killed during KLE).
In my opinion, the odds are they are lying to cover up Kuwait’s surreptitious reprogramming of the U.S. Patriot missile systems to identify U.S. fighters as “Foe”.
As Hamas gaslighted Israel into thinking relations between Gaza and Israel were hunky dory for two whole years, how better to gaslight American Administrations that Arabs are on our side by buying the best weapons systems in the world – for eventual use in the restoration of the 7th Caliphate against the Great Satan?
It’s just a matter of time before the American public sees another Mogadishu-style display of U.S. servicemen being dragged through the streets of Tehran.
“‘Tis singular how the victims of this melancholy madness [Trump Administration] expect grass to grow from iron.” – Rumi: 6:1964
When will Melania Trump be called to testify before the Epstein Committee? She is in at least one photo smiling between Don and Epstein and Ghislane. What was her relationship with the Epstein couple? How could she NOT have “known” if her husband knew?
On Walden’s Porch:
It’s amazing the number of metaphysical epiphanies one can have about Life, Nature, and Mankind by simply sitting in a rocking chair watching a sunset from your front porch. – Ligon
Just because you disagree with someone doesn’t necessarily make you a Leftist or MAGA. It just means you’re one of those rare individuals thinking for yourself and seeing the Truth as opposed to emotionally-based, myopic and biased opinions demanded by either side. – Ligon
“The height of Wisdom is being able to disagree with someone without losing your temper [or resorting to Labeling]. – Plato
Department of Homeland Security (DHS):
It violates the most basic premise of Public Administration Principles to believe – much less create – an added layer of federal bureaucracy can effectively oversee, supervise, and coordinate the operations of 23 separate subordinate federal agencies – particularly in light of the Peter Principle so pandemic in the federal government.
Next to COVID, the establishment of the Dept. of Homeland “Security” is the greatest grab for centralized control by America’s government since Lenin’s Revolution of 1917.
Bondi and Noem:
Bondi “The Bitch” and Noem “The Numb Skull” should resign immediately.
It didn’t take long for Trump’s “out of central casting” babes to reveal how their lack of Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs) required for basic entry into Civil Service were not compensated for with Botox, Collagen and make up.
Bondi’s recent appearance before the congressional committee investigating Bondi’s impeding the Epstein investigation revealed Bondi’s lack of character – much like her boss Trump. Resorting to personal epithets when backed into a corner by the inconvenient Truth instead of responding to legitimate questions is childish behavior. It cheapens her reputation, her office and the legitimate congressional investigative process.
She was totally and obviously in contempt of Congress and should resign.
She would actually be doing herself a favor. Perhaps if she removed her nose from Trump’s ass she might retrieve some self-respect.
Noem’s appointment to the Bush’s knee-jerk response to 9/11 set her up for failure. The Department of Homeland Security violates every rule of efficient public administration. Instead of addressing the two reasons 9/11 occurred, Bush and Congress created a monolithic agency further centralizing power from the States to the federal government. Rather than strengthening the two agencies with steller reputations for protecting America, the DHS has only gotten in the way of formerly smooth, coordinated operations between the CIA and the FBI.
Bush and Congress (as usual) fixed something that wasn’t broken – and we continue to spend billions on another unnecessary, redundant, and politicized layer of federal bureaucracy. (see also: TSA! Go Away! this blog site)
Further concern is warranted when the recently released National Defense Strategy (NDS) refocuses its’ attention from foreign threats to “homeland security issues.” That’s bureaucratic code for an impending Police State controlled by which side of the Uni-Party is in the Oval Office – as Noem clearly created in implementing Trump’s agenda in Minnesota.
Bondi and Noem should resign and the DHS should be D.O.G.E.’d.
Memorandum To: ICE Agents
SUBJECT: Non-Lethal Force Options
- I empathize with your plight being assaulted on a daily basis by a bunch of brainless, social maggots who making the Walking Dead look like Disney characters.
- You are caught between two extremes of the Left and the Right and it is a No-Win situation for you. The best you can do is survive – physically and legally.
- Consider this: the correct response to supposed “Non-Violent Resistance” is Non-Lethal Consequences.
- One of the questions asked applicants to the L.A. Sheriff Department during the oral interview was “You are making the rounds in the L.A. County Jail and an inmate throws a cup of his urine (or worse) at you. What do you do? Well, if you want the job you don’t tell them you call for back up and beat the shit out of the asshole.
The correct answer is “Take the cup away from him.“ - One of the real world scenarios related in a Criminal Justice graduate seminar at Cal. State L.A. was: “The Ku Klux Klan is demonstrating in downtown L.A. on Martin Luther King’s birthday. They have a gorilla (well, a guy dressed as a gorilla) marching back and forth among them. The NAACP is counter-demonstrating across the street and, seeing the gorilla, the situation is on the verge of escalating into a full-scale riot.
What do you, as the on-site officer-in-charge, do to de-escalate the situation?
Obviously, the correct answer is to remove the gorilla. - From the comfort of my lawn chair this afternoon, basking in the sunshine of another 68 degree January Arizona winter, my three Harleys sitting cozily in the garage behind me, I was pondering on your plight and wondering how I could help from my advanced decrepitude – too old to join the fight with you.
- Remembering the cliche’ “work (fight) smarter not harder,” I came up with this brilliant (IMHO) idea fairy:
Call it “Rules for Cops Confronting Radicals“:
– Stop Sticks: the short, hand-held kind (not the long, collapsible ones). Like flex-cuffs you can carry a couple and, being impeded by the brain dead, if they don’t leave you alone or get out of the car when you ask, throw the Stop Sticks in front of their tires then wait for them to leave. Attach a lanyard to the Stop Sticks so you can retrieve them leaving no evidence and so they can’t re-use them (like the used LAAW cannisters the VC used to stuff with grenades – well, we may have used them on the Ho Chi Minh trail too but “I don’t know anything about that.”)
Make the maggots have to pay several hundred dollars replacing flat tires once or twice and see how eager they are to get “danger close” to another ICE agent.
– Ice Picks: easily concealable and deployable into the sidewall of a maggot mobile’s tires. Rather than stupidly standing in front of a vehicle, an agent on each side of the detained brain dead adroitly applies an ice pick to the vehicle’s sidewalls.
– Caustics: like battery post cleaner (though I think it is messier than other options); or Electric component/ Brake disc cleaner has more psi producing greater range and accuracy onto the nice paint job of the maggot’s car.
– Paint: brightly colored cans of spray paint on the windshields and the nice paint jobs of these Useful Idiots. It will identify them to the world as STUPID and require them to pay for an expensive paint job. What insurance company is going to reimburse an insured who committed a crime resulting in the defacement of their vehicle? With a little help from the DOJ, insurance companies might even drop the insured from their insurance? Worth investigating.
– Microwave Pulse: a hand held device that makes maggots feel like they are cooking inside. It worked on the Maduros!
There’s a whole industry specializing in non-lethal force out there. Some of it is really cool shit and aches to be used against Useful Idiots, Walking Dead, and Zombies of the Apocalypse.
During Officer Survival training at the Rio Hondo Police Academy, Whittier College, Ca., L.A.P.D. Swat officers (Capt. McKinley, Sgt. Preciado, among others) taught us “The car is the target; you are the bullseye.”
By inflicting expensive consequences on the vehicles of the impeding offenders, perhaps they will think twice before exposing their prized “target” to injury?
Head on a Swivel!
Which reminds me, (if you don’t already know) don’t get target fixation. As you execute warrants or approach a vehicle, always have someone on your side watching your six “High” and “Low”. Don’t get caught in a “Mogadishu” situation where you are concentrated on the Target and ignore the surrounding hostiles. Just sayin’.
Good Luck.
Re: Trump “granting” Ukraine “Security Assurances”:
They aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. “Security Assurances” didn’t stop war from breaking out during WW I, WW II, Korea or Vietnam – the Kaiser, the Nazis, or the communists. It didn’t stop Russia from invading Ukraine after signing the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances of 1994 in which Ukraine agreed to surrender its Soviet-era nuclear weapons in exchange for promises from the US, UK and Russia to respect its sovereignty, independence and existing borders.
Everyone except Ukraine violated that Agreement: Putin by invading Ukraine; the US and UK by failing to support Ukraine.
Ukraine would be a fool to trust a man like Trump.
Memo to Congress RE: Senator Mark Kelley:
Is Sedition by insinuation Conduct Unbecoming an Officer (CUBO) within the UCMJ? I’ve seen it used so “flexibly” and “selectively” (the higher the rank the less it’s used) that it depends on the bias of the person in charge.
The trouble with megalomaniacs like Trump in power is they use a sledgehammer in every diplomatic situation to gain the greatest glory to bask in. Reagan, on the other hand, simply supplied democratic movements with the means to fight for their own freedom – knowing it is the only kind an oppressed people appreciate and will maintain at the greatest cost. Venezuela was unwilling to pay that price two years ago – and therefore doesn’t deserve it.
Ligon Law: You only get as much oppression as you are willing to put up with.
Maria Corina Machado is no Aung San Suu Kyi – or she would be occupying the presidential palace today.
After a long hiatus (lack of motivation), I felt so good coming home from the gym today I thought -instead of soloing in a Cessna again – I’d go to Ranger school for my “75th” birthday in four months. (Get it?)
Like Rapunzel, Trump thinks his hair (what’s left of it) is spun gold. According to his MAGA admirers (what’s left of them!), how could it not be?
Russian Lt. General Fanil Sarvarov was killed by a car bomb in Moscow. “He is the third military official to have been killed in bomb attacks in the Russian capital over the last year. One theory being investigated was that the bomb was planted with the involvement of Ukrainian intelligence services.” – Alex Boyd, Laura Gozzi, BBC, December 22, 2025
Another theory could be Putin is punishing such public and abominable operational failure in achieving Putin’s goal to “restore the glory of the former Soviet Union” – serving as an example to his other generals.
Another theory could be Putin is purging officials who, through the expert counterintelligence capabilities of the FSB, have expressed disagreement with his failed “special operation” in Ukraine – or participated in efforts to remove Putin from office before he totally destroys Russia.
Based on historical precedent, killing high government officials on the streets of Moscow is more a Russian solution than a Ukrainian strategy.
Ukrainian operatives would have selected more Highly Valued Targets.
It also wouldn’t be the first time the Western media have been the manipulated puppets of Russian disinformation. – Ligon
News of the World: Kirk, Bondi, Brown and Bombers – Chum for frenzied, Mainstream and MAGA Media sharks; Hyenas howling over carrion of communications, Profiting off the Paradigm “If it bleeds, it leads!” and, “the bloodier it is, the more it is broadcasted!”
Coordinators of Consumers’ Colosseum Curiosity. – Ligon
MAGA hats are brake lights for the brain. – Ligon
MAGA Media sees world affairs through Trump’s eyes because they also suffer from hubristic, political myopia (know nothing about other countries’ ideologies) and lack the same moral compass absent in Trump from living their whole lives in a small, ethnocentric bubble – New York City and Washington, D.C..
This makes them even more vulnerable to the fawning effect of the “presence” of Power – and an overwhelming emotional need to kneel in obeisance at the throne of it.
See: Lehi’s Dream and the Great and Spacious Building, Scripture Central.org and Trump Tower Moscow.
“Plato (428-347 B.C.) had a strong belief that what we know in this Life is recollected knowledge obtained in a former Life – and that our Soul has all the knowledge.” – Researchgate.com
– John 17:5 “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.”
– Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou comest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee.”
– Revelation 12 Detailing Satan and his angels being cast out from heaven to earth, implying a spiritual realm where such conflict occurred.
– Ecclesiastes 12:7 “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.”
– Judaic Law: The Chabad contains the concept of the neshamah (soul) in a pre-mortal life in a heavenly state. Chabad.org
– LDS doctrine contains the doctrine of a literal pre-existence where all spirits lived with God (“Heavenly“Father”; “children” of God) and the purpose of life on earth is a test for growth detailed in the Pearl of Great Price books of Abraham and Moses 3:5-6.
The term “glimmer” is the opposite of “trigger.” Glimmers are those moments in your day that make you feel joy, happiness, peace, or gratitude. Once you train your brain to be on the lookout for glimmers, these tiny moments will appear more and more.” – Substack.com
No Socialist government anywhere in history has improved their populations’ quality of Life.
But everywhere Socialism has won politically, it has been because of – and in reaction to – the corruption of the elitist Right. – Ligon
Considering Trump’s political fellatio of Communist Russian leader Putin, meeting with recently elected “Socialist-Democrat” Mayor of NYC “Mullah” Mamdani is no surprise.
The only thing journalists should keep a watch out for is whether Trump will do business with Mamdani like he does with Putin at the cost of liberties of NYC citizens’ like he wants to give away the liberties of the Ukrainian people.
Political commentator Fareed Zekariah blaming the Affordability Crisis on Democrat mayors is only half the Truth.
The meteoric rise in America’s national debt has been going on for over forty years – since way before Reagan’s 1982 Grace Report.
The Affordability Crisis has been – and will continue to be – the result of elected officials in both Political Parties kowtowing to Special Interests in order to maintain their luxuriant seats of power and privilege.
Kudos to Lt. General Kellogg!
Lt. General Kellogg, Trump’s Special Envoy to Ukraine, resigned after the ludicrous “peace” agreement between Trump and Putin was presented to Ukrainian President Zelensky. Congratulations for having a Moral Compass, General!
Trump’s Boy “Clueless” Kilmead’s Ignorance on Daily Display:
Once again Trump and Clueless Kilmead have publicly displayed their ignorance of all things. Their labeling Democrat veterans and retired intelligence officials as “Traitors” is incorrect.
On the surface, what they are encouraging military and law enforcement officials to do is not only perfectly legal but morally correct. The key phrase in their campaign is “illegal orders.”
At least during my military service, every enlisted and officer initial training included Rules of Warfare. One of the first cases taught was that of Breaker Morant – until My Lai occurred. (see: The Consequences of Ethnocentrism: A Multi-Racial Malady this site dated March 30, 2023)
I’ve heard recently that no such training takes place – setting the stage for another My Lai.
The probable motive behind the Democrats’ commercial is sedition.
The absence of moral guidance anywhere – family, school, military – has left the servicemember and law enforcement officer bereft of the ability to determine morally what an “illegal” order is.
And that is what the Democrats are depending on.
As far back as the ’80s, a study was conducted in which Marine lieutenants attending The Basic Course at Quantico, VA. were asked “If ordered to open fire on peacefully demonstrating U.S. citizens would you obey?” 80% said yes.
FLASH! HISTORIC EVENT! TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER WITHOUT PRESS CORPS PRESENT! WHY? Ordering his DOJ to release the entire Epstein files.
Trump’s betrayal of his MAGA base to “expose all those elitists” in the Epstein files by strenuously resisting their release – even calling his MAGA base loyalists “stupid” – was based on Trump having been a New York City Democrat most of his adult life – long before he saw the personal economic advantage in posing as an icon of the “conservative” movement.
In resisting the release of the Epstein files, Trump was protecting his life-long Democrat social and business friends of both Parties – until his personal risks for reneging became untenable.
Trump ordering AG Bondi to investigate Democrats involvement with Epstein miraculously resulted in the immediate release of Democrat names.
Trump granting the DOJ a 30-day “grace” period to release all the documents gives AG Bondi even more time to reshuffle the deck of documents loading Democrats’ names to the top of the deck and Trump’s name at the bottom of the deck.
Much like the Main Stream Media hides the true criminal nature of “innocent” illegal aliens – who have serious criminal records at the bottom of 32-paragraph articles -arrests by ICE agents. (see: ICE arrests 70 year-0ld grandfather)
Trumpty Dumpty: MAGA Becoming MAGMA? Trump and his sycophants may not know it yet but, as Trump’s oral diarrhea continues to expose his lack of intelligence, integrity and character, MAGA loyalists and independents who had no choice but to vote for him are becoming like slow-moving MAGMA (Make America’s Government More Accountable)- drifting inexorably away from Trump’s Golden Calf and toward the exit of the Oval Office of Chaos and Deception.
Conservatives not blinded by Trump’s demagoguery are beginning to follow John Bolton – a bona fide conservative public servant of real integrity and character – out the Oval Office Door of Chaos and Deception.
Trumpty Dumpty’s “Great” fall will be entirely due to Trump being his own worst enemy.
Prediction: Trump will continue his ego-centric trajectory making 2028 a disaster for the GOP – and America – again.
Vance’s Faux Virtue:
In a recent interview with Sean Hannity, J.D. Vance said the Dems recent victories are a result of the “youth of America being radicalized because of the Biden administration’s policies.”
Really?
There have been Republican president administrations as well during those “youths” lives.
The “youth of America” haven’t been “radicalized” – they’ve been anesthetized against personal responsibility by the creeping, soft Socialism of both Political Parties who created the nanny state to ensure their reelection.
(see: The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek who dedicated his book against Socialism to both Political Parties)
Trump’s Drug Policy of killing fast boat drug smugglers is like a city mayor ordering cops to kill UPS or FEDEx truck drivers.
Both smugglers and drivers are just earning a living providing a service created by the “GREAT” capitalist system of Supply and Demand – as long there is a Demand there is going to be a Supply….regardless of how many “truck drivers” Trump kills.
As a pseudo-economist, Trump knows this, but, like the P.T. Barnum and Nero he is, Trump really knows how to appeal to the bloodlust of the masses to divert their attention from his illegal and unethical behavior (see: Trump Pardons Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao …from whom Trump’s sons have reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto currency).
Trump is the heir apparent to Joe Biden as “The Big Guy“. – Ligon
Trumph’s Foreign Policy is best described as “pushing a string.”
You can push a string from the back and it looks “Great” from the ass end. But, without overcoming inertia (or ideology) at the head, all that’s really being accomplished is the middle of the string becomes jumbled up into a mass of confusion. The head of the string hasn’t really moved at all. – Ligon
MAGA Media hacks like Bubble-headed Brian Kilmead recently took great delight in showing Bill Clinton preaching Border Security.
Have they forgotten Clinton’s “Citizenship 500,000” project tasked to Vice President Gore to expedite the citizenship of half a million immigrants?
To accomplish this before the next election, Gore directed the Immigration & Naturalization Service to dispense with not only the oral interview testing the applicant’s knowledge of the English language and the US Constitution but also, to entirely omit the background investigation.
This resulted in granting citizenship to thousands of criminal aliens – only a small percentage of which were later tracked down and deported.
Like the candy commercial, Brian Kilmead has been popping too many Airheads. He is as politically astute as he looks: a confused, clueless sportscaster posing as an obscenely overpaid news analyst. Here’s more BS from Bubblehead Brian:
– “Trumph is the first president since Teddy Roosevelt to ‘deal’ with Latin America.”
Uh, excuse me?
As one who was deployed to Latin America several times under President Reagan, ask the El Salvadoreans who enabled them to have legitimately free elections for the first time in their history?
– Ask the Contras who supported their efforts to kick the communist Noriega brothers out of Nicaragua.
– Ask the rescued students on Grenada.
– Ask the imperiled US citizens living under Noriega’s Panama!
There are multiple classified missions Green Berets went on under Reagan’s orders to enforce the Monroe Doctrine.
[The International Force sent to Gaza] “can’t be the guys wearing white helmets.”
Duh, the UN personnel wearing white helmets were representatives of UNHRA – the refugee relief organization. The UN peacekeeping forces wear blue helmets or berets.
As someone who saw first hand the feckless peacekeeping forces in Mogadishu, place your bets now on any peace observers being able to monitor Hamas – much less Arabs!
Already, the Arab countries “aligning with Trump’s Peace in the Middle East” are refusing to send their own troops into the Gazan hell hole. They’re offering to pay other countries to do it!
Just like the Saudis paid the US to fight for their liberation during Desert Storm.
Another stunning Trumph revelation seen on MSNBC that you won’t see on MAGA TV or talk radio (Brian Kilmead) when a reporter asked Trumph if would suspend habeas corpus.
Trumph replied “Who?”
The president of the United States does not know what the main pillar of our Constitution is and how it impacts the limits of his authority. So Trumph’s ignorance is appearing more and more like Biden’s senility.
How long will Trumph’s sycophants cover for their bosses incredible ignorance? How far will they manage his presidency?
Within the legal profession it is often said “You can convince a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.”
Within America’s two-Party political system, the Dems and Repubs can convince the voters to elect just the “ham“! – Ligon
“Mullah” Mamdani, the communist camouflaged as a benevolent “Democratic-Socialist” (like all communists), is ahead by 20 points because significant numbers of ignorant, hedonistic New Yorkers actually prefer what they think is the ideology of Socialism versus Capitalism. They believe The Big Lie that the government can take care of their needs while preserving their freedom – without costing them anything individually.
And they are fed up with the corporate cannibalization of the consumer enabled by both Political Parties.
Like throughout history, it’s going to take Mamdani being elected and turning NYC into Havana, Cuba to wake up the ignorant masses.
Lenin is laughing his ass off.
Trumph’s appearance and speech at the Charlie Kirk memorial was like laying a turd in the community swimming pool. Trumph was the only speaker to inject himself so shamelessly onto the same pedestal of moral equivalency.
I can’t help but wonder if Trumph would have bothered appearing if Erika Kirk wasn’t (as Trumph likes to say) “from central casting” – blond, big breasted and beautiful. Doubtful.
Trumph’s “best friend for ten years,” Jeffrey Epstein testified Trumph “likes F__ing his “friends” wives – and proved it by slobbering over Kate with her husband standing next to her at Marine One.
Trumph’s “No Tell Nobel”! He claims – ad nauseum – to have “solved” seven wars throughout the world in his first seven months of office – but don’t ask for details on how really involved he was in the processes!
Any odds his “20 Points for Peace in Gaza” will actually produce results?
Petraeus was awarded a “V” device for his Bronze Star – but don’t ask about the political pandering he did to get it!
Mattis, the “philosopher-warrior” read “10,000” books – but don’t ask to see his bibliography!
“In war, the first casualty is Truth.” – Aeschylus
Trumph’s “Om”: a myopic, misguided, self-appointed omnipotent and omniscient Midasian; ruling the world from atop his golden Tower of Babel.
Trumph earned the moniker “T.A.C.O.” because he is like the nerd who does a Chuck Norris Kata safely in front of his laptop monitor but lets Putin slap him in the face like Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. A real man would have kicked Smith (Putin) in the balls and punched him in the face hard enough to knock him off the (world) stage.
Vice President Vance is certainly not learning Statesmanship from Trumph – and the world may not tolerate such offensive bluster and humiliation for another four years.
SECDEF Hegseth: the GOP version of California governor Newsom; trying desperately to be “one of the guys” and failing. Hegseth and Newsom share the same hair gel and have the same hirsute preoccupations. Neither have the slightest clue how to govern.
Are Trumph’s Tariffs setting up America for another Pearl Harbor the same way FDR’s started World War II? – Ligon (see also: The Great Deformation by David A. Stockman)
– “The laws of History are as immutable as the laws of Physics.” – Isaac Asimov
The Greg “Beavis” Gutfeld Show:
– A mental midget sitting in a high chair on an elementary school stage surrounded by fawning, unsilly sycophants greedily seeking the camera.
– New York City’s GOP version of The View.
– A commiserating committee of shallow minds and narrow lives.
– The GOP’s version of Bond’s Blofeld and Scaramanga combined.
– Consistently mistaking sleaze for satire.
– Pithy, profane epithets in lieu of substantive criticism.
– Infantile intelligence from a cartoon cast of profane publicity seekers.
– Desperately seeking affirmation from a low information audience titillated by crowd propaganda.
– A cast of Napolean-worshipping puppets vomiting profanity to a canine audience greedily lapping it up.
– Zoo caricatures posing as “Public Intellectuals” (see: Posner)
– “shock jock” Howard Stern wannabes.
– Crying for attention like the playground’s spoiled brat.
– A hyena audience howling at vultures gnawing carrion.
– B-List gossipers tittering at tea. – Ligon
Things one learns from watching “Mainstream” Media you won’t see on MAGA Media:
– Vice President Vance has taken his family on EIGHT vacations at government expense in the last seven months. In the words of MSNBC: “It didn’t take Vance long to get used to the perks of his office.”
– Trump is getting rich ($47 million so far) off bitcoin through his sons while pushing legislation through congress to make a totally hypothetical system of monetary exchange a viable alternative for the dollar. Pelosi and her husband ain’t got nothin’ on Trump!
Bitcoin will be the nation’s 21st century version of Wall Street’s “derivatives“ that was mostly responsible for the 2008 Mortgage collapse.
– Trump “quietly” diverted $934 million dollars of taxpayer funds from refitting America’s Sentinel Missile Defense System to expedite upgrading Qatar’s 747 gift to Trumph with gold inlay in time for Trumph’s use before leaving office.
That’s who MAGA calls a “GREAT” American “patriot”?
– “According to Norwegian newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv, Trumph phoned NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg – a former Norwegian finance minister – “out of the blue” to ask for a Peace Prize nomination, on the eve of his most recent [Alaska ‘Sinkhole‘] meeting with Vladimir Putin. (laura.esposito@thedailybeast.com)
If Trumph has been president during those critical 13 days in October 1963, Cuba would now be a Russian missile base and our grandchildren would still be practicing nuclear attack drills at school.
Memo to “Mullah” Mamdani: ” Socialism means the abolition of private enterprise, of private ownership of the means of production and the creation of a system of “planned economy” in which the entrepreneur working for profit is replaced by a central planning body. ….We have progressively abandoned that freedom in economic affairs without which personal and economic freedom has ever existed.” – F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, 2007; 238 pgs.
“Doubts about a public intellectual’s character gives rise to rational doubts about the soundness of his views.” – Richard A. Posner, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, 2001; p. 50
Every time Trumph listens to Putin, every time Putin gets Trumph to say “It’s up to Putin!” (capitulating the diplomatic driver’s seat to Putin) hundreds more Ukrainians die. So much for Trumph “wanting the killing to stop!”
The MAGA media says Putin could stop the war in Ukraine in a day. So could Trumph. Trumph knows exactly how to. Trumph has the authority to do so. But Trumph hasn’t. Why?
Contrary to White House claims that Trumph’s mineral deal will “tie Trumph to Kyiv” it doesn’t specify who it ties Trump to – who is going to be in charge in Ukraine‘s capital.
Trump spent the last few decades building economic relations with Putin, bragging about what a “genius” and “a great friend” Putin is to Trump (the same he did with Jeffrey Epstein; the same way Jane Fonda praised Ho Chi Minh, the same way the congressional Socialist quorum praises Che’ Guevara)
Trump has said nothing so laudatory at any time about Zelensky.
Trump has proven he’s a political agnostic. He doesn’t care one whit who runs Ukraine.
It would be quite revealing to read the unredacted phone transcript of the “Great” conversation between Trump – the “most transparent administration in history” and Putin to ascertain if Trump Tower: Moscow was discussed.
Trump’s demonstrated loyalty to Putin – to the extent of political fellatio – means he has no intention of intervening to prevent Putin’s eventual invasion of the rest of Ukraine.
When Putin invades the rest of Ukraine, Trump‘s “Great” mineral deal with Ukraine will have only fronted Putin the hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayers’ money in start up cost for mining strategic minerals. That could be the only reason Putin hasn’t invaded the rest of Ukraine already – waiting for the mines to be dug and becoming profitable. At which time Trump, out of office, could share in the profits by prior agreement over the phone. We won’t know if he won’t give us access to the phone transcript – much the way he discusses his gerrymandering bitcoin legislation to enrich himself by 47 million dollars last year in bitcoin through his sons – a la Joe Biden’s access auction and Pelosi’s insider trading.
Or it could be the increasing number of mutinies by Putin’s own troops against their commanders as they die in a useless war.
If all the psychiatrists in the world offered free advice on how to deal with the vicissitudes of Life, they would still not have the same therapeutic effect as listening to just one melody written and played by Karen Marie Garret has.
New York City media talking heads need to learn the difference between “less” and “fewer” – as in “fewer foreign students (not “less”)
As usual, Trump’s self-congratulatory “Greatest trade deal in history” with the European Union is fake news. It displays his gross ignorance of American history. It pales in comparison with President Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase and Secretary of State Sewell’s purchase of Alaska.
One has to wonder if Trump has Houdini-esque double-jointed shoulders from patting himself on the back so often. And, once again, when EVERYTHING is GREAT, NOTHING is great – especially if, like charity fundraising events, the promised investments don’t equal the actual amount promised – from an international economic community who has been bullied, humiliated and extorted into tariff demands by a MAGA-maniacal bully.
There’s something eerily familiar with what Trump is doing to the international community and what FDR’s embargos did to Japan that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Trump’s “They got NOTHING!” (the Epstein files) reminds one of the scene in the 1987 Brian de Palma movie The Untouchables in which Robert de Niro as Al Capone shouts at Elliot Ness “YOU GOT NOTHING!” – just months before Capone was arrested, tried and sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for tax evasion – something Trump has a special proclivity for pardoning.
Trump calling his formerly loyal MAGA supporters “stupid,” “dupes” and “doing the Dems work” in his feckless attempt to divert attention away from his campaign promise to release the Epstein files is very revealing.
Trump is getting very good at the “Newsom Wiggle.” He’s being dragged by his fingernails and heels into imposing the obvious key economic sanctions necessary to end the war in Ukraine by his own Senate.
Giving Putin another 50 days to “solve” the war? While Trump insists he wants the killing to stop? Why give the murdering dictator another 50 days to continue targeting innocent women and children? Is this Trump’s version of Newsom’s virtue signaling hypocrisy?
White House Chief Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt was asked about the radicals’ attacks on ICE agents. Leavitt replied “We need to be a nation of law and order.”
That’s really “rich” coming from an administration whose president pardoned and paroled hundreds of tax cheats, government fraudsters, murderers, drug smugglers and financial scam artists (including his real estate buddy) during his first administration. It’s the height of hypocrisy when Trump appoints a unanimously-convicted cocaine smuggling cartel ring leader as a “Pardon Czar” enabling criminals to avoid the consequences of their crimes when legitimately convicted by unbiased, often GOP-appointed attorney generals and judges, and unanimously by a jury of their peers.
None of Trump’s pardons during his first administration nor during his current administration can even be distantly described as relief from “lawfare” persecution.
A “nation of law and order”? Trump’s Pardon Czar is no better than Democratic mayors proclaiming their cities “sanctuaries” and establishing “no-cash bail” release from jail that has been so disastrous to those cities.
It’s going to be interesting to see how long the Trump administration remains sycophantic as his character, egoism and hypocrisy exceeds their willingness to shill for him.
If Trump “walks away” from the liberation of Ukraine, for the first time since prior to Reagan more free people will have returned to live under communism than who were liberated – and he will have set the stage for more to fall. – Ligon
Gratitude from the Past:
On June 13, 2025, While waiting for my order at my favorite fast food joint, instead of sitting down and waiting for my name to be called, for some reason I remained standing near the serving counter. To my immediate left was a Hispanic woman leaning against the wall. We shared exasperated looks at the wait time. I asked how she was doing today.
“Fine,” she said, “How are you?”
“Oh, I’m still vertical – a good sign for a guy my age!” I said. She laughed.
I asked “Where are you from?”
“I’m from Douglas” (Arizona), she said.
“Oh, I used to work at the Port of Entry there as an immigration inspector!” I said.
“I know. I remember you. I know who you are.” she said.
I thought “Uh oh. This could go bad real quick!”
“Are you sure you recognize me? I retired from there in 2007 and I was on military leave for that last year?” I said.
“Oh, I remember you.” she said.
“Were you one of those teenaged girls that crossed the line into AP (Agua Prieta, Mexico) to get drunk every weekend?” I joked.
“No I was a good girl. But I did visit family there.” she replied.
“You must have been a young girl then?” I judged.
“I had a baby boy in 1999. I drove back from AP in your lane one afternoon. You asked me if I loved my child.” she said.
“Oh, boy! How could I have been so rude?” I thought.
“I told you I did love my child then you said ‘If you love your child then you will put him in his car seat and buckle him up.” she said. “Because you said that, I pulled over and buckled him up. Right after I left the Port of Entry, at 10th and Pan American Blvd. I was going through a green light when a guy ran his red light and T-boned my car. I went to the hospital but my son was OK. If you hadn’t asked me if I loved my son, he would have been killed.” she said.
I was stunned. I got a little choked up. “Are you sure it was me?” I asked because I didn’t remember asking anyone that question.
“Oh, it was you alright. Mothers remember things like that.” she said.
“Well,. . . how is your son doing?” I asked at a loss for anything else to say.
She smiled and said “Oh, he’s 25 now and married! And he still remembers that incident.”
“I’m so glad!” I said with some difficulty.
And, as it was soaking in, she looked up at me with those deep brown eyes with so much gratitude and said “And thank you.”
What else could I do but give her a hug.
If the poignancy of this moment doesn’t grab your heartstrings -having children of your own- read my book 10 Years on the Line: My War on the Border to understand and appreciate how my time there was the worst 11 years and nine months of my life (and those who know my past know that’s saying a lot). There was very few other incidents working on the border in which I felt I helped innocent people.
If for no other reason than this, I know now my time on the border wasn’t wasted.
Musk or Trump?
To paraphrase from the movie Ghostbusters: “Who you gonna TRUST?” in the dust up between Musk – who volunteered his time and money to a. ensure Trump won the election as opposed to Harris, b. dared dive into the miasma of the D.C. swamp to save the average taxpayer his hard earned money from being spent on ludicrous handouts doled out behind the scenes by our elected officials of BOTH PARTIES through government fronts such as USAID; c. who dared eliminate lazy, governmental bureaucratic Deep State jobs; and who And spends his money on improving human existence on earth?
-or Donald Trump – who was elected by pardoning his financially corrupt New York business associates, tax cheats, financiers who ripped off government programs; calls a “Big Beautiful Bill” a budget that adds 2-3 trillion to our national debt written by a Congress who on its own volition has never failed to screw the American taxpayer; cuts deals for his children to get lucrative monopolies in China and the bitcoin world for him and his children; commits a federal felony by selling citizenship in America for a five million dollar Trump gold card with his picture on it; and blames Ukraine for being invaded by the Russians while withholding lifesaving international sanctions against Russia? And who spends his money building golden monuments to himself?
My vote goes to Musk on this spat.
Yes, Trump closed the border and is deporting the criminal illegals. That’s a no-brainer. But he and almost every counterfeit media mouthpiece calls them “Illegal Immigrants.” Nowhere in federal law will you find those two terms together. There are Illegal Aliens and there are “Immigrants” The persistent mislabeling of Illegal Aliens by supposedly “conservatives” on Newsmax and Fox surrenders the Illegal debate to the Democrats by using their terminology. Using “immigrant” grants Illegal Aliens a legal status they have not earned and don’t deserve.
And don’t be fooled. Once the public fury dies down to a politically accepted level, Congress will stop deporting the mass majority of “non-violent” illegal aliens. Because the UniParty wants them: voters, cheap labor, and consumers – continuing the demographic subterfuge they’ve been doing since the 1970s by allowing a million LEGAL immigrants into this country every year for forty years.
That’s why Trump was only elected with just 52% of the vote in a campaign against such an obviously incompetent opponent.
That’s why every moral and social issue that should be approved of by a 70-80% majority (when the population was HALF what it is now) is now only supported by slightly over 50% –the open border of legal aliens immigrating to this country and failing to acculturate. (see: Damn Diversity! dated 2019/11/01 this website)
Well, that and the historically proven paradigm of serial social entropy.
Brian Kilmead: You continue spewing ignorant opinions out of your mouth. I’m amazed how much you and your New York media bobble heads are paid to speak on subjects you know so little about. On May 7th, 2025 you interviewed Bessum regarding upcoming trade talks with China. You said “Once you meet you can work things out.”
How’s that working out with Russia? Iran? Hamas? How many people have to die before Trump and you and your ignorant, overpaid ilk realize you can’t “deal,” “compromise” or “negotiate” with communists or radical Islamists?
Here’s some news for you:
Communism’s basic paradigm is that capitalism and communism cannot exist on the same planet.
Islam’s primary ideological tenet is that Islam and Christianity cannot co-exist.
Repeating Chamberlain’s “Peace in our Time” only results in the same consequence – a worse war than if it had been nipped in the bud by an administration with a backbone and resolve that bullying will not be rewarded or appeased.
WAKE UP! – Ligon
If Trump really wants to save tax payer money shorten the time Congress is in session to about a month every year. This would reduce the time lobbyists have to bribe congressmen; force them to prioritize actual issues affecting the nation; and cut the cost of running government by about 80%. As it is now, they have too much time to think up all kinds of mischief. – Ligon
Two of the reasons I am a registered Independent voter is: 1. George Washington and many sages since advised against the establishment of Political Parties (combinations); and, 2. listening to Never Trumpers and Always Trumpers is like hearing pigs squeal when a hog usurps their trough. – Ligon
A careful reading of the history of American Tariffs shows they are really just ruses to ensure State and Federal Legislators – and the people behind them – get their “cut” at the expense of the consumer and manufacturer who passes on the extortionate costs to the consumer. – Ligon
Ever notice how every Trump appointee robotically hails Trump by name in every response to a question by an inquiring media? Spooky. Very Orewellian. They know their boss’s need (and requirement) for constant adulation. – Ligon
Every once in a while (though hardly ever lately) a political corruption scandal becomes so egregious and sufficiently public as to enrage the electorate to the degree Congress is forced to be “smitten with a spasm of virtuous curiosity” resulting in feckless virtue signaling – but never prosecutions. It has been so since before the Kennedy assassination. Congress doesn’t want to know the Truth. Congress can’t handle the Truth. That would require action; holding someone responsible – and THAT is something politicians will never do. Politician and responsibility are oxymorons. That’s why the legislative process is conducted in “closed session” committees.
If the American voter could see the “horse dealing” – the exchanging of bribes – that goes on behind those closed doors they would tar and feather their elected representatives and run them out of D.C. on a wooden rail.
Trump’s Memorial Day speech and wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is tempered by his cowardice. He and his father lied about Jr. having “shin splints” to get a draft deferment avoiding serving in Vietnam. He compounded his cowardice with contempt of those who served and died in Vietnam by telling friends “I’m not stupid. I’m not going to Vietnam.”
I respect the conscientious objector who went to prison for his belief more than I do Trump for what he did. Nothing he does now –his gold worshipping life-style, his rectifying a destructive and treasonous Biden administration; his political fellatio of Putin – will compensate for his cowardice and continued lack of character since then.
I am sorely disappointed to see Tammy Bruce take the job as spokesperson for the Trump administration. I thought she was better than that. How’s the Kool-Aid Tammy? Your fire has already been extinguished – and it shows.
Congress can get a bill through to rename the Gulf of Mexico in days but flounders to pass a nationwide tax relief bill. They really hate giving up control of our money – and love giving our money to those who don’t deserve it – just to get votes to stay in office. Our tax dollars are being really well spent.
The Source of “Shrinkflation”:
Is it such a surprise that as the wealth of the nation has been funneled to fewer and fewer “capitalists” since the 1990s mania of Mergers & Acquisitions and Leveraged Buyouts, the cost of everything has been going higher and higher? (see: Stockman, The Great Deformation, 2013)
This is Robber Baron strategy #1: control resources into the hands of few; combine into a monopoly whereupon prices can be increased to the consumer at will – all due to the incestuous relationship between Wall Street and Congress. (see: Myers, History of the Great American Fortunes, 1934)
This is the real economic “Deep State” danger of Trump’s New York Economic Model of tariff’s: mandating businesses relocate in the U.S. and discourage foreign competition. This violates the basic premise of the free enterprise system: supply and demand buying the best product at the lowest price and selling where the producer can get the best price. Allowing competition is the only thing that keeps prices down for consumers.
Restructuring Tariffs to be “equitable” will eventually lead to monopolies and rising prices to the consumer facilitated by an acquiescent Congress (whom both Parties rescinded all remedial laws to correct the 2008 Mortgage Financial Crisis).
I’ve never believed Trump and Musk were friends or had that much in common (other than their penchant for air-headed beauties for arm candy).
The big difference is what they spend their money on:
Trump spends his money on memorials to himself.
Musk, on the other hand, spends his money on efforts to improve the lives of mankind.
Which one will be able to go through the “eye of the needle”? – Matthew 19:24; KJV
Terminal Trump Euphoria Case #765: Fox Business May 14, 2025: Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, in another pre-orgasmic, wealth-worshipping pandering eruption claimed Trump is a “self-made millionaire.” That is as false as it was for J.P. Morgan who paid his newspapers to foster that false image.
Who in the real world considers a young man whose father gives him a million dollars to “start out” considers that person “self-made”?
Absolutely no one.
What New York bank would’ve given John Doe (see movie Meet John Doe, 1941) a multi-million dollar loan based on just his name?
Not one.
Although J.P. Morgan and Trump do have several things in common: both fathers ripped off the public in obtaining their ill-gotten wealth – a practice both sons continued in their rise to infamy. (see: Trump Townhouses)
Who pays for their bankruptcies? The tax payer.
Trump’s Alien Self-Deportation: Paying illegal aliens to “self-deport” is reminiscent of Cheech and Chong in the 1978 movie Up in Smoke in which they board an immigration bus taking illegals back to the border – knowing they can re-enter at leisure when they wish to return.
Trump is really giving illegals a paid vacation. It may not be as easy to re-enter the U.S. for the moment while securing the border continues as a reflex to Biden’s treasonous open border policy. But within a short time Trump will leave, congress will mask demographic subterfuge with fixing “broken” immigration laws and re-open the border under a different label.
Once the public fury dies down the UniParty will feel safe to resume it’s disastrous million alien immigrants per year program supplemented with amnesty in some legalized form to achieve the goals of voter registration, cheap labor and increased consumerism.
Congress: 1. those that love the twilight (closed door sessions); 2. a cacophany of timorous and flocking birds; 3. hereditary legislators; 4. pettifoggers: lawyers whose methods are petty, underhanded, or disreputable; shyster, one given to quibbling over trifles. 5. grasping cupidity: inordinate desire for wealth; avarice, greed, lust. 6. pernicious: something that is harmful or destructive in a subtle or insidious way, implying a gradual but lasting harm that can ruin or corrupt.
It’s a sure sign of a megalomaniacal bully who initiates new economic policy by first bullying and threatening. A Statesman would have held an economic summit where his intentions could be expressed around a table and negotiations begun in an INITIAL atmosphere of cooperation and voluntary reciprocity.
Trump’s New York, mafia-style extortion threats announcing increasing tariffs was offensive, clumsy and unnecessary. All it did was massage his ego thinking he was exercising supreme power – all the while insulting and angering every other country in the world. Very, very clumsy.
Trump reminds me of a mean drunk: drunk on wealth and power frightening those around him to obey or else. He’s Mr. Nice Guy as long as you don’t prove him wrong. – Ligon
Interesting that, despite PR claiming Trump isn’t a politician, he is every bit one. What Trump has to be and isn’t is a Statesman and a Diplomat (and neither are those he appointed to be them). – Ligon
It’s interesting watching a wealthy man without a moral compass floundering in an ocean of endeavor requiring one.
It’s as if a yacht owner realizes too late his boat in not unsinkable; having decided he didn’t need life preservers. – Ligon
Trump thinks he’s being smart proclaiming his tariff program is what existed prior to the Income Tax and that America did just “GREAT” before.
He doesn’t mention that the reason tariff’s were done away with was the routine avoidance by the rich industrialists like John Jacob Astor, J.P. Morgan, the Rockefellers, etc. not paying tariff’s on their imported products, and taxes in general; Instead they routinely – through bribery, blackmail, fraud, or simple theft- refused to pay taxes, fees and duties to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars all the while profiting off the average worker having to pay the cost of the rich’s fraud, bribery and theft of property and businesses.
Not to mention leaving city governments bereft of hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue that had to be loaded onto the backs of the average working stiff.
That’s why Congress switched from Tariffs to an across-the-board Income Tax. (see: History of the Great American Fortunes by Gustavus Myers, 1936; p. 180-181
Feckless former Secretary of State “Topo” Blinkin (what a name for a diplomat!) reminds me of the puppet Top0 Gigio on the Ed Sullivan show – looked, talked and acted exactly like him.
Secretary of State “Rube” Rubio, reminds me of a campesino groveling hat in hand before his Patron, grateful for any indulgence from his pontiff. Rubio’s posture and speech betray his ingratiating attitude to his “King.” His lisp gets worse when he is stressed – a “tell” our communist adversaries surely notice. At Trump staff meetings Rubio is like the high school “spring butt“- always leaning forward eager to be the first to raise his hand and be recognized.
“Rube”: Calling someone a rube is another way of saying “You sound like an idiot and you don’t know what you are talking about.” – Vocabulary.com
(see: Rubio’s Rabbits dated 07/20/2013 and Marco Rubio: The Hispanic Obamadated 07/13/2013 this website)
Border Czar Tom “Hammer” Homan” – I had bumper stickers made proclaiming “Homan Is My Homey!” (in Gods of War font) and they adorn all three of my vehicles.
“Back in the day” (1969), at the REAL Marine boot camp (Parris Island), the recruit who beat all comers at pugil stick fighting earned the moniker “Hammer.” (I won’t say who won in my platoon but he’s writing this.) Homan dropping the hammer on ALL ILLEGALS is pre-orgasmic porn to me. After being harassed and threatened with being fired for enforcing the law at the Douglas, AZ Port of Entry on almost a daily basis for eleven and a half years (see: 10 Years on the Line: My War on the Border at Amazonbooks.com), I’m in Nirvana seeing those maggots rounded up and doing the perp crab walk into a max security prison in El Salvador.
More than a few supervisors and Port Directors at our more than 300 Ports of Entry should accompany those being deported. (see: President Trump! BRAC our Borders! this web site dated 2017/01/28).
Truman famously told the press “I don’t give congress hell; I just tell the Truth – and they think it’s hell!” That’s Homan with the Left in Congress and the media (and more than a few shadow RINO Republicans.)
(Note to Homan: “Drop the Hammer!”
“Pasha” Kash Patel: “Pasha” is a high-ranking title typical for governors and generals. In Hinduism it refers to a supernatural weapon often depicted as a noose or lasso – perfect for the Director of the FBI.
(Note to “Pasha” Patel: Lock them UP! Lock them Up!)
Of all the many boastful promises Trump made on his campaign, “Anyone with half a brain could end that war in Ukraine in 24 hours!” So far Trump’s brain hasn’t met that metric or time frame.
It’s interesting that Trump was so quick to publicly criticize Ukraine’s president Zelensky’s black clothing yet has never criticized Elon Musk’s garb of the same style. Hmmm. No elitist hypocrisy there!
Elon Musk believes (or hopes) the changes his DOGE team are making will be permanent because they’re basic accounting procedures that will enable bureaucracies to pass audits.
Musk, bless his heart, is ignoring the adage “You can’t legislate morality” – as will be proven by the UniParty in Congress failing to make his changes law. All of Musk’s DOGE changes depend on the integrity of politicians and bureaucrats following his changes for efficiency. Neither politicians nor bureaucrats are known for integrity or efficiency. Graft? Yes. Corruption? Yes. But not passing audits.
Remember! Two years after the 2008 Mortgage collapse, the UniParty in Congress rescinded every remedial piece of legislation passed to remedy the 2008 financial collapse and prevent a future one – enabling the same circumstances for “more frequent and worse crises in the future” in the words of Brooksley Born. (see: Brooksley Born: American Joan of Arc; Published this site 2020/07/02.
Want to really know if there is a two-Party system in America – or a Uni-Party?
1. Close down the Congressional slush fund that pays members of congress legal fees for hush money and legal fees.
2. Publish all the names of those partying at Epstein’s Island.
3. Publish the names of those who requested funding for all those ludicrous expenditures through USAID.
4. Ban “closed door” committee hearings.
5. Ban lobbyists from contributing to political candidates’ campaigns.
6. Most of all, increase the number of years required for retirement from elected congressional office from A MEASELY SIX to twenty years – like the rest of us working stiffs! – Ligon
Politics is not only an opiate, it is an aphrodisiac. – Ligon
When I see politicians standing in front of cameras in the halls of congress, or sitting with a media talking head “I see dead people.” And like the movie, the dissembling platitudes pouring out of their mouths is just putrid vomit. – Ligon’s “Sixth Sense”
Congress and the bulk of the U.S. government is an icon of the normalization of deviance. – Ligon
Note to Andre’ Rieu: Thank you so much for your concerts. There is healing power in music. However, IMO, I feel Nessum Dorma should be sung by only one tenor – one with passion and personality – neither of which is projected by the three tenors you now have singing it. They’re more like a barber shop quartet – minus one.
Having more than one tenor sing that song in unison ruins the soulful, plaintive nature of the song portrayed in the opera. Operatic solos should remain – solos!
If Trump had been president after Pearl Harbor, Great Britain would be speaking German and Hawaii would be speaking Japanese because there would have been no Lend-Lease. Just “Stop the Killing!” (see: Trading With the Enemy by Higham)
Could the national health crisis of childhood chronic ailments be caused by the dramatic increase in mothers’ use of pills to deal with the reality of living? For their: 1. nerves, 2, to sleep, 3. for headaches, 4. for depression, or 5. for their susceptibility to New Age angst about being a traditional wife and mother? All exacerbated by their media orchestrated orthorexia? – Ligon
A Statesman wouldn’t have bothered with such trivia as renaming the Gulf of Mexico. But if he did, he would have renamed it the Gulf of Americas. There’s a difference between “thinking outside the box” and being insane, obnoxious and a bully. – Ligon
“Zelenskyy’s lack of humility will prove his downfall.” – Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ)
Wow! Talk about projection! Coming from a Trump acolyte that is really laughable! – Ligon
“Beware the Perfumed Prince who becomes King!” – Machiavelli
Has it occurred to any politician that – by definition – dead bodies are not hostages? Hamas is screwing Israel twice. – Ligon
Memo to British Prime Minister Starmer: Presenting a letter from your “king” to our self-styled “King” offering to visit the United States and Trump is not historic – or important, or, really, relevant. (see: The Coronation of an Anachronism this site) – Ligon
Elon Musk’s grandiose display of a chain saw will soon become a Damocles’ Sword over the head of “King” Trump. – Ligon
Interesting watching Trump’s cold indifference to Little Musk. How could any real grandfather not resist staring at the kid in amusement and at least smile at him. Trump not only did not look at the kid but stayed locked straight ahead as if he was really uncomfortable with the kid’s antics. How could any normal grandfather resist not having that cute little tyke sit on his lap for a photo? Or pick him up and sit little Musk on his desk? No eye contact, no play, no interaction at all. Instead he sends his whole desk out for “refurbishing” for a few boogers. Weird. Makes one wonder how involved he was raising his kids. If he ever changed a diaper? How much “husband” and “father” are for “show”? Very cold – for a “family man.”
I’d love to see a reporter ask Trump if he’s ever changed a diaper!
– Ligon
P.S. Reagan to Trump: “You see Don, when you’re President of the United States you can’t let your mouth overload your ass. That has real repercussions for countries of the former Soviet Union and nations like Taiwan – especially when you denigrate Ukraine as ‘being on the other side of the ocean!” That pretty much gives Putin and Xi carte blanche!
– Ligon (see: Reagan Shows Trump What “Hell” Looks Like)
“Real men don’t use straws.” – Jesse Watters, Feb. 10, 2025. What does a metrosexual, bubble-wrapped, pre-pubescent, beardless, makeup-masked, script reader who sends his suits to the cleaners every other day – or any other of his ilk – know about being a ‘real man‘? I bet he squats to pee and puts paper down on the seat every time.
Real men don’t hide in front of cameras for a living. They dive into the deep end of the pool of Life and live in The Arena. – Ligon
Federal employees union leadership is not suing Trump out of altruistic motives for their union members. Fewer government employees – who by law are prohibited from striking – means fewer membership dues. That threatens the cushy union leaders’ positions.
It is nauseating to see GOP politicians’ hypocrisy appearing on TV grandstanding for Trump’s MAGA agenda.
Memo to Laura Ingraham: Trump and Musk are upsetting not only the Dems gravy train but also that of the GOP. If Musk does publicize those individuals requesting fraudulent government payments, he will find just as many Red requestors as Blue. For that reason I anticipate closed-door congressional “hearings” on whether to release the authors of the massive fraud – the same cover up as the guest list to Epstein’s island.
It’s easy to mouth “the will of the people” when talk hosts pontificate prior to asking politicians if they agree with them. Without host prompting, none of those career politicians could articulate Trump’s agenda with any concealable level of comfort. Career politicians of the UniParty are complicit in the empire building of the federal bureaucracy up to the moment Trump took the oath of office. It’s how they stayed in office – and got rich doing it.
By commission or omission, politicians are expert at reading the political tea leaves and hitching their political futures to the winning band wagon – while waiting for the tide to change.
And it will change. As surely as the ocean recedes at the onset of an earthquake, it will return with a tidal wave of public resentment sufficient to overcome the “mandate.” There are easily enough voters on the public dole to reverse the “mandate” when their free ride is ended.
The “mandate of the People” was earned by Trump. The GOP has earned nothing to erase their historic subterfuge of the people’s will – nor the backstabbing of Trump during his first presidency.
History is replete with examples of great reformers leading the charge only to be destroyed by the hedonism of human nature for their efforts.
Like Caesar, Trump may well end his reign by asking the electorate “Et tu?” – Ligon
My sources tell me the media reporting D.O.G.E.‘s exposure of $50 million for condoms to Gaza was a classified CIA operation. They were trying to imitate Israel’s ingenious cell phone campaign to decapitate Hezbollah’s leadership by blowing off Hamas’ “other head.”
Should Congress cancel automatic Cost of Living Adjustments? It seems to be a self-perpetuating, hamster wheel of inflation: beneficiaries receive pay raises and corporations raise prices. They can’t let the middle class catch up to them!
A friend of mine was strolling down Hollywood Blvd. one night when suddenly he felt the muzzle of a gun pressed to the back of his head. “Give me your wallet or I’ll blow your brains out!” demanded the robber. “Go ahead and shoot!” said my friend. “What? Why?” asked the dumbfounded robber. “Because, in Hollywood you can be very successful without brains but you can’t live without money.”
Crusader RFK, Jr.‘s constant quoting of national health statistics is reminiscent of the adage: “Figures can Lie, and Liars can Figure” – especially true in Big Pharma and the health food industry struggling for public legitimacy – and a share of the market.
He won’t be the first office-seeker who lied his way through confirmation hearings to get a prestigious, high-paying federal job with no hard professional qualifications. – Ligon
UniParty: Why did the vast majority of Republicans vote for all (minus two) of Biden’s cabinet appointees when Dems are stonewalling every one of Trump’s? Begging the question: Is there really any difference between the powers-that-be within both Parties? The answer to that is a resounding NO! – Ligon (see: Annals of America by Mortimer J. Adler)
Further proof of the above is the Florida State legislature – with a GOP Super Majority – showing its true colors by passing legislation that actively resists Trump’s immigration policy – exactly like those of Blue States’ sanctuary cities. Florida won’t be the only GOP legislature to backstab Trump on immigration. This is when the influence of the National Chamber of Commerce over the RNC and GOP comes out into the open.
I saw both Parties interfering with immigration law as an immigration inspector on the southern border. (see: 10 Years on the Line: My War on the Border available on Amazonbooks.com).
They aren’t RINOs – they are the real Republicans. The ones who paid their way up the Party hierarchy “earning their turn” to run for elected office and, once elected, represent the special interests who financed their successful campaign – not the taxpayer.
Election 2024: Satan 0 God 1. Thank You, Jesus!
If Americans think God saved Trump from assassination twice and woke Americans up from their hedonistic political slumber to thwart the malicious intentions of the One Party controlling our nation, what have they done to show their gratitude to Him? – Ligon
“You can’t wait until it stops being hard before deciding to be happy. ” – Nightbird Jayne on America’s Got Talent.
Once again the IDF is outsmarting Hamas. If I were a Hamas terrorist imprisoned in an Israeli jail I would think twice about being released into an area the IDF has leveled to the ground and can blow up specific individuals cell phones. Quite ingenious to relieve themselves of the cost of caring for terrorists when they can release them into a free-fire zone. The Israelis have made killing terrorists as easy as some Americans kill buffalo. Maybe the IDF can offer to their victimized public the opportunity to “pull the trigger” on released terrorists and those involved in the October 7th massacre. Market a new video game in which real terrorists are targeted and taken out – like that movie in which a boy commanded a stellar battle he thought was a game but was real. – Ligon
Meaningful Movies
A few months ago
my six-year old grandson wanted to watch
a John Wayne movie
His dad taught him about The Duke
Looking at the menu
he chose Sands of Iwo Jima.
A week ago he came over
And didn’t want to play in the tree fort as usual.
He wanted to watch another John Wayne movie
There are 30-year olds who
don’t even know who the “Duke” is –
And probably don’t care.
He not only watched a John Wayne western
He picked John Ford’s classic movie Stagecoach!
As he watched the introduction
I mentioned it was in black and white
And he said that was OK!
This afternoon he came over
and wanted to watch another John Wayne movie.
We sat side by side
and watched The Green Berets.
He asked questions about almost every scene
Why do they “pop smoke”?
He wore my old 5th Group beret
going down to his ears
but still at a jaunty angle.
Beside him, I wore my old 7th Group beret.
At the end of the movie
he almost demanded
I trade my 5th Group beret
for my old Marine dogtags from Vietnam
Which he assured me he keeps in a safe place.
Which made the final scene in the movie
poignant beyond compare.
I assured him that eventually
he would have it – but not now.
Disappointed, he still gave grandpa
a hug around the neck.
And I thought of those
who would never have a tree fort
or watch a John Wayne movie
with their sons or grandsons.
And thanked God
For them and the day. – Ligon
[Dedicated to: SFC Ryan J. Savard, Feb. 27, 1983 – October 13, 2012; Khan Abad, Afghanistan]
Snow Day
Today I intended to go to the gym after lunch,
But it was snowing here in southeastern Arizona.
Leaving home it was just a gentle, beautiful dusting
But coming out after lunch
It was blowing big, fat, wet snowflakes
So hard I decided to just go back home
And stay warm.
I opened the living room curtains
And sat in my cushy recliner
Covered in a cozy blanket.
And found myself gazing pensively
Out the picture window
At the falling snow
Like I have done in countless
Campfires,
In countless countries thousands of miles
from home
And hundreds of miles from civilization.
Often with men speaking foreign languages,
Of different cultures,
Really different worlds.
And suddenly felt so grateful
That with the exception of one week
In my long life,
I have always had enough to eat
And been warm from the cold.
And I silently prayed
The Lord would do the same
For my children
And grandchildren. – Ligon
Senator Cruz told Sean Hannity a few nights ago Republicans “have a record of getting things done“. LMAO! That didn’t happen during Trump’s first presidency when GOP leaders like McConnell in congress fought Trump’s agenda tooth and nail until the public outcry forced him and the GOP elite to perform a parody of cooperation. – Ligon
Hamas is not the only happy party to the ceasefire. So is America’s Political-Military-Industrial Complex – and for the same reason: neither will be exterminated. The DOD spends HALF of American taxpayers’ dollars. That in itself in criminal and immoral on a seismic scale. Eisenhower warned us. We ignored it. We’re paying the consequences.
Is there a moral equivalency between Obama and Biden giving Iran hundreds of billions of dollars to finance terrorism and Trump forcing Israel into surrendering 900 murdering terrorist for what will surely be only three hostages? This is as close to pre-negotiation concessions as it gets.
You are:
What you think
What you do
What you say
What you read
What you use your money for
What you choose to do with your free time.
Don’t waste it, invest it;
choose wisely
You don’t get reruns. – Ligon Law
Memo To the Media: United States law does not recognize hyphenated Americans. “Israeli-American, Mexican-American, British-American citizens are not legally recognized in American jurisprudence. Read the Oath of Allegiance taken by every legal immigrant who becomes a U.S. citizen.
“The people who say they have not time to attend to politics are simply saying that they are unfit to live in a free community.” – President “Teddy” Roosevelt; http://www.artofmanliness.com/duties-of-american-citizenship-by-theodore-roosevelt/
It is supremely ironic and oxymoronic to have Joe Biden sitting in the Oval Office at a desk named “Resolute”
I’m no currency expert – but what’s the difference between the Brics considering a currency alternative to the U.S. Federal Reserve dollar and Trump being the “first crypto president“? Aren’t they both alternatives to the dollar?
Instead of the alarmist media cowering in fear of Putin‘s nuclear posturing, why don’t they investigate how the Russian people feel about Putin putting them at nuclear risk? There’s been absolutely no effort by any U.S. media to investigate the Russian population’s attitude about their leader getting them involved in another Afghanistan.
– Ligon
Reagan tried returning education back to the states – and they didn’t want it. Neither the responsibility nor the accountability. – Burning Money: The Waste of Your Tax Dollars by J. Peter Grace, Chairman of the President’s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, 1984
Coming Soon to WWF! The Trump Ram vs. The Civil Service Dam! – Ligon
“I’m going to let him [RFK, Jr.] go wild on health!. I’m going to let him go wild on vaccines!” to thundering applause – Trump at his post-election Mar a Lago banquet. Exactly what Biden let Fauci do. Unbridled rhetoric reminiscent of Mussolini on the balcony of the Palazzo. – Ligon
“Think not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.” – Hemingway
Never underestimate the legacy GOP‘s proclivity for snatching Republicans’ defeat out of the jaws of victory. – Ligon
Josh Monson on Brian Kilmead November 13, 2024 said offhandedly if it weren’t for GOP infighting the Republicans would have a 20-30 seat majority in the House of Representatives. Monson also said “All wars end in negotiation” in reference to Trump forcing negotiations to end the Russo-Ukraine war. Tell that to Hitler, Hirohito, and Ho Chi Minh.
BTW, Hirohito did not surrender unconditionally until Truman promised the third atomic bomb would be dropped on Tokyo – where Hirohito lived. Unlike the State Department then and now, Truman did not negotiate by granting our enemies pre-negotiation concessions. – Ligon
The Old Guard / RINO GOP elite and their minions are as anachronistic as the British monarchy. Trump was not elected by them – but in spite of them. – Ligon
Brian Kilmead demonstrates on a daily basis he is not a subject matter expert on anything – because he’s never done anything but speak into a can. – Ligon
Memo to Laura Ingraham: Democrats are not the only “War Hawks.” Remember Bush, Jr‘s two twenty-year wars? – Ligon
For a show titled The View its’ panelists are monumentally myopic. Rather than viewers receiving a panorama of public issues they’re given a hamster wheel of witches. – Ligon
RFK, Jr. claiming “You can choose your vaccines” sounds eerily like Obama promising us “You can keep your physician” and Kamallah avowing “My values haven’t changed.”
– Ligon
Kamallah is and always has been an ideological hologram of the Left – an Icon of Solipsism.
Based on her professed policies, I believe VP Harris’ first name should be spelled K.a.m.a.l.l.a.h. – Kamallah.
Congress: an entrenched bastion of buff00ns where atrophied shame becomes paralyzed; where patriotism becomes prostitution; and where politicians audition for Dante’s 9th Circle of Hell – the City of Dis. – Ligon
Kamala’s Campaign Catchphrase: “Otro dia mas sin verte!” – Jon Secada (literally “One day more without Truth” or, colloquially, “Another day, another lie”)
Who issued the gag order to all the allegedly “conservative” talk show hosts preventing them from using the legally correct term illegal “Aliens” rather than the term granting them legal status – “immigrants”? Or are they revealing their true political bent by consciously granting them legal status by intentionally using the word “Immigrant”? Is it the New York liberal squeamishness to tell the Truth? Either way it is the height of hypocrisy for “conservative” bobbing heads to “rage” against the Dems for the border crisis when they participate in the Big Lie by using the Left’s vocabulary. – Ligon
I’ve never seen a “comfort” dog who looks happy. I’ve seen the same look on the faces of Secret Service agents assigned to protect Hillary Clinton. – Ligon
In addition to her obvious avoidance of substantive thinking, Kamala’s biometrics indicate deception. Her head nodding, emotive voice pitch, up facing hand gestures, her entire body language all reveal she is lying but begging everyone to believe her. – Ligon
RE: City officials’ denial of Venezuelan gangs taking over: A city manager – or any elected official – is the last person to ask to verify whether illegal aliens are committing crimes in their communities. Remember the mayor of Amityville in the movie Jaws? – Ligon
Human nature often justifies “License”- as in licentious – under the mask of “Libertarian” License and licentious come from the same root word in Latin: licentia whose meanings range from “freedom to act” to “unruly behavior, wantonness.” – Ligon
The GOP’s emphasis on Kamala as co-pilot of failed policies is doomed to fail because everyone in America has always considered the office of Vice President as just a figurehead – like Pence. – Ligon Law
Political Parties, Politicians and Dictators who are in complete control of the government don’t have to do interviews or answer questions – but they do take names.
– Ligon Law
“Democrats, Socialists, Communists and Nazis always campaign to the middle but govern to the Left. It’s the core of their Big Lie.” – anon
Classical liberal Democrats vs. Socialist Utopias:
“In an article titled “Utopie” by Hippolyte Passy, which summed up the thinking of the liberal political economists on this topic just two years after Bastiat’s death, Passy stated that Bastiat had provided key insight into the difference between the socialists’ vision and the economists’ vision of the future of society; the Socialist vision was a “factice,” or artificial one, with an order imposed by a ruling elite, Party, or Priesthood; while the liberal vision was a “natural,” or spontaneous one that flowed “harmoniously” from the voluntary actions of individuals in the marketplace.” – Frederic Bastiat “The Law,” “The State,” and Other Political Writings, 1843-1850; Bastiat’s Political Writings: Anecdotes and Reflections; p. 401
For:
For every citizen who hates to read, falls asleep at the first printed word;
For every American who prefers to “live in their own little bubble” and not be pestered by politics;
For every Party member who blindly follows their elites’ dictatorship;
For every member of the electorate who gives up and doesn’t vote;
For every consumer who fraudulently exaggerates their aches and pains to suck Social Security benefits from other taxpayers;
For every member of society who shuns military service on one pretext or another – or made choices precluding military service;
For every mother or father who praises all servicemembers far beyond what they deserve – but adamantly proclaims not my son or daughter;
For every media icon through guilt at not having served due to monetary or political selfishness, exaggerated medical exemption (Rush Limbaugh), or just downright cowardice;
For every veteran who laughingly boasts of gaming the system and fraudulently increasing the percentage of their “disability;”
For every reservist or national guardsman who has sought refuge in the “shallow end” of military service in their “good ‘ol boy club” who then abandons their comrades when the balloon goes up;
The nation spirals exponentially toward the Tyranny prophesied by de Tocqueville’s demise of democracy through apathy and self-interest.
And they shit on the graves of those who made these ingrates’ freedom possible.
Their “patriotism” rings hollow and are bigger hypocrites than those honest radicals who burn the American flag in protest.
– Ligon Law
D.E.I. – The Truth Behind the Lie:
Diversity: basing government’s special considerations and privileges on race, religion, and political affiliation rather than merit, ability or competence.
Equality: the government taking property from someone who earned it and giving it to another person who wants it but didn’t work for it. synonym: legal plunder.
Inclusion: Everyone wants something, and everyone expects the government to provide it. As it is used today, inclusion means nothing more than citizens trying to despoil each other through the costly intervention of the State. Once the spirit of mendacity becomes systematized, imagination knows no bounds with regard to ruinous institutions.” – Bastiat, p. 312
Elon Musk’s idea that AI will make everyone jobless and work will become a hobby is nothing new. It is described in detail in Sir Thomas More’s book Utopia (1516). The word itself is an ironic oxymoron meaning both “a place of ideal perfection” and from the Greek “ou” meaning “no, not,” and topos ” meaning “place” – ergo: no such place exists.
The Secret to Life:
Cows do not give milk – as any dairy farmer will tell you.
Communism v. the Kingdom of God on Earth:
“Between 1690 and their expulsion from Latin America in 1767, the Jesuits organized among the native people of Paraguay [what they thought was] a community based on Christian and communist principles [an oxymoron if ever there was one!]. The Jesuits‘ aim was to Christianize the native people, organize the social and economic life of the communities, and create “the Kingdom of God on earth.” (see: The Law by Frederic Bastiat, (1843-1850), page 128). Marx would be the first to tell the Jesuits that “Religion is the opium of the people. It is the sigh of the oppressed, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of a soulless condition.” Lenin would tell the Jesuits religion and communism cannot coexist. Even a blind man can see Christianity and communism are diametrically opposed ideologies – socially, economically and spiritually. Communism is Satan’s alternative to God’s Plan of Salvation – his Big Lie to draw God’s children away from returning to His presence for eternity. So is any “religion” which takes away free agency.
Those who mistakenly believe communism is a higher way of living God’s economic law are confusing communism with the United Order practiced by Melchizedek and those living in the City of Melchizedek (see: Genesis 14: 18-22 and Josephus Antiquities 1:181). The most significant difference being the United Order (having all things in common) is voluntary (as opposed to communism which is INvoluntary). The United Order worked so well the whole city was “taken up to heaven” by God.
Communism works so badly. . . well, read The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror and Repression by Courtois, Paczkowski, Werth, Margolin, and several others – all reformed communists who compiled this work to convince French voters not to elect a Socialist as president of France.
Similar efforts in England and America in the 19th century failed as well – not due to communism but to their unwillingness to give up their natural Human inclinations.
As in so many cases of neurotic projection,
Trump can use the ditzy Dems’ labeling
as a winning campaign slogan:
– “Win with Weird!”
– “WEIRD and WINNING!”
– “I’m MAGA and I’m WEIRD!”
– “MAGA WEIRD!”
– “WOMEN for WEIRD!”
– “Make WEIRD Great Again!”
– “Weird: suggesting something SUPERNATURAL!”
– “Weird: archaic; connected with FATE!”
– “Weird: archaic Scottish – a person’s DESTINY!”
from Oxford Languages.
I wonder how so many Americans can
attribute the survival of Trump
to intervention by God when
as a nation we have been worshipping
Mammon, Alcohol, Sports,
Gambling, and Pornography
for so many decades?
When otherwise zealous clerics
and “worshippers” are so quick to
heap vitriol and calumny on
anyone who doesn’t believe
exactly as they do – and have
exerted no effort in discovering
for themselves the Truth
about others or sincerely
followed the admonition of James?
How can anyone believe we deserve
the intervention of Almighty God? – Ligon
I grew up thinking Hans Christian Anderson’s fable The Emperor’s New Clothes was a fable. It wasn’t until the Trump and Biden Administration that I realized fact became stranger than fiction.
Joe Biden Adminstration’s Buncombe: “Asses playing the lyre” (Erasmus‘ In Praise of Folly); “surrounded by thick mental darkness” (Robert Owen, p.61); “blinded by believing nothing but what is proportionate to their reason.” (Baynes, Art, or the Logic of Thinking, 1350 AD; p. 349); suffering the dementia of absolute power. “The funeral procession of a still living man.” –Durant VII:391. Professors of Peculation. Icons of Incompetence. Arguing like people proving it is night at noon. People of paralyzing stupidity – a mass of imbecilic enthusiasms. “Firm friends of arbitrary government” (Plutarch, p. 785); Cozen Cousins.
Donald Trump, Jr. “poses as if he were his own monument and lacks the modest man’s ability to mask his own vanity.” – Durant, IX:30, 583; “He ha[s] character without morals and intellect without wisdom.” Durant VI:919
Hillary Clinton: A twaddling, venal virago in a constant state of hysterical spite, screeching like God dragging His nails across His celestial blackboard; soaked in sophistry; sounding grotesquely irrelevant, like the mirth of a half-wit, emoting the sincerity of the dishonest; High Priestess of Vagina Voodoo.
The GOP: A Potemkin majority. Congress: a towering Babel of cacophony; a collection of the catatonic; the gibbering swamp of mediocrity, the dead fog of the meaningless; the odor of people on the public payroll, protected from the world around them by that last armor: indifference; sons and daughters of sophistry; petrified in their own putrescence; speaking the language of fog. Experiencing Damascene Conversions on a Daily basis; Patriots of Psychogenic Blindness; hiding in the camouflage provided by networks; worshipped by Pavlovian patriots;
Biden’s ’24 Victory
Biden could be bedridden
in a deep state coma
(and many think he is)
from now ’til Nov. 4th
and still win.
Because that’s basically
how he won in 2020.
Americans throughout society
from media pundits to those
who watch them
still haven’t let it sink in
the impact of what
happened in 2020.
The Germans called it
The North Pole Syndrome–
refusing to believe the obvious.
“The more we do to them,
The less they believe we’re doing it.”
– Goebbels.
“Remember, it’s not how many
votes are counted that’s important.
What’s important is
who counts the votes.” – Stalin
Texas is America’s Dunkirk
November 4th is America’s
Bastille Day.
The Caucus
Democrats say Iowa doesn’t matter
because it’s a Caucus process.
What they’re protesting is
the preservation of the power
of direct, individual voter choice.
And notice the GOP isn’t
demanding it replace
ballot harvesting and
voting centers.
– Ligon
“It is better to give with warm hands
than with cold.”
– TV show Northern Exposure, Season 5,
Episode 10, First Snow
Trump the American Novalny?
Is Trump America’s Novalny?
History says he will be.
Insurgency paradigms ensure it.
God IS – and He’s everywhere:
Raton Pass
Driving back from Sturgis
2016 (the “Hangover” Rally)
climbing the interstate’s curve
around the Colorado
side of the mountain
and down the other side
into New Mexico.
Looking to my right
onto a vast, low-hanging,
gray-clouded pasture
was a thick column
of brilliant, golden sunlight
shining straight down onto
the green grass
and contentedly grazing cattle.
Looking ahead I saw raindrops
on my windshield
and looked left for
the anticipated rainbow.
I saw it completely
from end to end about a mile away
against the white granite of the hills.
But as I gazed in wonder
it suddenly moved toward me
and settled on the guardrail
bordering the opposite lanes.
And stayed there for minutes
glistening so brilliantly
I could see each droplet of rain
coursing downward through
each band of color
almost alive with motion.
It was as if He was declaring
I Am!
I have rarely felt so close
to God.
Moses had his burning bush.
I have my Raton Rainbow.
Noah in Africa
I’ve walked this earth
in many climes and places
The Sahara, the Sudan,
jungles and mountains,
the Nile and Vietnam.
Lying on the ground
on the Kenya – Tanzania
border one night
nervous and anticipating
waiting, waiting…
I imagined I could smell
the creation of Man in the soil.
As morning rose and
we made our way back
through Hell’s Gate pass,
I looked back and saw the back of
the Rock of Gibralter –
the broad, grassy plain
climbing to the narrowed top.
And saw a parade of African animals
going two by two up to
the storm clouded pinnacle.
It’s biblical beauty was spellbinding.
The only thing missing was the Ark
(and maybe it was in the clouds?)
No one else saw the animals
but me.
Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for President
2024 (just in case) but definitely 2028.
Words I want to hear from the President:
My first executive order as
President of the United States will be
to abolish the government office
that tells Americans when and for whom
the American flag should be lowered
to half staff.
Our enemies exult in seeing our flag constantly
lowered.
Brave Americans died by the thousands
to raise that Flag throughout our History.
To honor them that flag will never be lowered
to half staff.
There is a proper procedure for flag saluting
others who deserve national respect.
Lowering it and keeping it at half staff
for days, weeks and months is not it.
Mother Nature’s Warning
On June 8, 1794, Robispierre presided
over a “Feast of the Supreme Being” –
an attempt to establish a Rousseau-style, secular
religion during the French Revolution.
Before 100,000 men, women, and children
assembled at the Champ de Mars (a Roman god),
Robispierre, the mostly self-proclaimed embodiment
of Virtue, applied a torch to the statue of Atheism
but an “ill wind” diverted the flame to the
statue of Wisdom.” – Durant, XI:79
[It was about this time the American Congress
discovered its’ authority to get rich off
the people who elected them.]
Blinkin the Mouse
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s
manner is reminiscent of Topo Gigio,
the big-eared, mouse who appeared
on the Ed Sullivan show.
(see YouTube, Topo Gigio “Topo’s
Chicken Friends” on the Ed Sullivan
Show).
Not only does Blinken look like Topo
but their personalities and deferential
demeanors are a perfect match. – Ligon
Seeing the Light
Physicists affirm that “light”
is not a naturally occurring
state in Nature.
Darkness is.
Light must be Created.
Doesn’t that end the debate?
One might also avow
with equal veracity
that darkness is the
natural state of Mankind,
and that Light in him
must also be created
(or accepted). – Ligon
[read Darwin’s Doubt by Stephen Meyer, June 3, 2014]
“Civilization”? Really?
In the Introduction to Volume VIII,
Will Durant, author of the epochal
eleven-volume Story of Civilization,
defines “civilization” as “social order
promoting cultural creation.”
That is not what happens
in Volumes 5,6,and 7
by any stretch of the imagination.
As I read the Durants’ Story of Civilization
I shake my head in bewilderment,
sadness, and repugnance at the
unimaginable brutality
humans commit against one another.
How can such enduring and pervasive
barbarity be ascribed
the honorable title of “Humanity“?
How macabre to call such mayhem
“Civilization”!
What depth of Love the Savior
has to suffer the anguish of an Atonement
for such undeserving souls as we. – Ligon
Love Hurts
“It is far, far better to have loved and lost
than to have never loved at all.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H.
Puppy Love (to Sandra Key of Midwest City)
It was the first recess of the first day of school – ever.
Kindergarten was a new and lonely world to me.
Already bullied by older and bigger boys;
A pretty girl approached me on the playground
She said her best friend wanted me to play
“Wild Horses” with her “herd.”
Tanned Sandra was the lead mare, dark brown eyes,
long, golden brown mane and a shy smile convinced me
I was her cowboy.
Catching the “horses” meant a kiss for a brand
On the cheek cuz she hid her face
thwarting my best effort for a real kiss.
I chased only Sandra.
I kissed only her.
I took the beatings from the jealous bullies;
Recess was heaven compared to home.
I carried her Girl Scout cookies home for her.
It was the last time we saw each other. – Ligon
To Kathleen P.
“There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved one woman with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.” – Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Truth Eternal
Regarding my 3-Volume Collectanea of Conservative Concepts, I have been asked how I determine facts stated in my discoveries of literary archaeology (the 5-Foot Bookshelf and other antiquities) are as True today – if not more so- as when they were written:
1. I do not believe Truth is “relative” or “situational.” Those who claim Truth is “relative” are like mariners who only sail coastal waters and never venture out into the depths of the oceans; like explorers who tread only the edges of unknown lands and rely on second hand tales for their opinions and perceptions of what lies deep into unexplored territory (like the Pilgrims disastrous dependence on Columbus‘ pamphlet).
2. Truth – like Freedom – has a “ring” to it. The sound of Truth rings in the heart and soul through eyes that see and ears that hear.
3. Anyone who listens with “an open heart and a contrite spirit” can know Truth when they read, hear, or see it. This is what the Savior meant in James 1:5 “If any of ye lack wisdom,… .” If God’s children trusted in this scripture and asked God, there would be no need for over 500 different “versions” of the King James Bible or the obscene plethora of commercialized scriptural “aids” -many, as Erasmus declared- horribly wrong and totally absent the Holy Ghost.
4. Truth, like music, conveys a feeling that words cannot describe.
5. Recognizing Truth is a universal God-given gift at birth that can be nurtured or starved according to each person’s choices – literally “Livin’ and dyin’ by the choices we make.”- George Jones
6. From the responses of my readers who see the application of my selections to current events, they agree. – Ligon
Karl Rove: GOP’s Biden; saturated in the status quo of Party politics; Gold merchant capitalizing on consumers’ fears. – Ligon
Hope
Some say “As long as there is Life
there is Hope.”
That is a tenuous assumption.
The sign above Dante’s Gate
reads “Abandon Hope
All Ye who enter here!”
There are many Hells
on this side of the Gate.
Standing at any one of them
it is usually better to choose Life
than apply a permanent solution
to a temporary Hell. – Ligon
Political Justice
“About 664 B.C., Zaleucus gave to the Locri
their first written code of laws
in the history of Greece.
The Locrians liked it so well
that they required any man
who wished to propose a new Law
to speak with a rope around his neck,
so that, if his motion failed
he might be hanged with
a minimum of public inconvenience.”
– Durant, II:167
This is one law that has not outlived
its usefulness. – Ligon
Choices
Should I steadily pursue the
path of Truth and Loyalty, or
follow in the wake of a
corrupt government?
Should I court danger
with outspoken words, or
fawn in false tones upon the
rich and great?
Should I be pure and clean-handed
in my rectitude, or
an oil-mouthed, slippery,
time-serving sycophant?” – Ch’u P’ing, Durant, I:694
Cruelty
One of the cruelest things
a person can do
is to destroy the Hope
of a better, happier Life
in an innocent and
trusting child.
The next worse thing
is to teach them things
that will guarantee
that despair. – Ligon
Biden: America’s Brutus
“The day after Caesar was assassinated,
Marc Antony convened the Senate
and astonished all by his amiability and calm.
He accepted Cicero’s proposal for a general amnesty,
and agreed that Brutus should receive a
provincial governorship.
The Senate, convinced of Antony’s sincerity,
acclaimed Antony as a statesman
who had snatched peace out of the jaws of war.” – Durant, III; 199
So what does our Senate call
their Brutus who repeatedly
snatches War out of the jaws of Peace?
God give us an American Antony
to wreak vengeance on the corrupt
and restore our freedom
and our Republic! – Ligon
The Boy
Classical music has long
been a source of therapy
against my travails in Life.
Classic FM, a British station
is a beacon of emotional salve
that makes Life just a bit more tolerable.
Today I read and listened to their Music News
article about a 9 year old boy’s response
to an symphony’s performance.
It made me weep. It still does.
It was such a pure, poignant moment.
In a world filled with ugliness,
His simple, innocent outburst of appreciation and joy;
and I sorrowed for the monumental Lack
of parents’ exposing their
children to the beauty of classical music.
What a better family, society we would be
if all our children were soothed to sleep
by Brahms, Chopin or Lily’s Lullabye.
If their days were nourished with
Mozart or Beethoven.
If their studies were accompanied
by Tchaikovsky or Grieg.
Against the cacophony of sewage
killing their tender brain cells with
hate, discord, rebellion and salaciousness. – Ligon
Ideas
Ideas drive me nuts.
Especially when they wake me
in the middle of the night.
First one, and I have to rise to
write it down.
Then another, and another
until the drip becomes
a deluge
And I sit there knowing
I have to stay up
and write it all down
before the sun rises.
Because a.m. is an abbreviation
for amnesia.
Oh, to sleep through the night! – Ligon
I’m FOUR!
Seen on a precocious, 4 year-old boy’s T-shirt:
“I do all my own stunts!”
I bet he does!
God bless his sainted mother.
Golda Meir on Peace
Gold Meir once said “There will be no
Peace in the Middle East until the
Arabs love their children more than
they hate the Jews.”
America will continue to be a war-based
economy until Americans love their children
more than their defense contract paychecks;
And stop swallowing the political-military-industrial
swill justifying using a “Golden Sledgehammer”
instead of a stainless, steel scalpel against
threats that pose no danger of destroying America. – Ligon Law
Rush Lembaugh and the U.N.
I lost a lot of respect for Rush Lembaugh
several decades ago after discovering he
avoided the military draft with a medical
exemption for a pilonidal cyst.
A pilonidal cyst is “an abnormal skin
growth located at the tailbone that contains
hair and skin. It forms from lack of hygiene
and physical activity. It is easily resolved
with a local anesthesia, incision, drainage
and packed with gauze for up to four weeks.
Rush Lembaugh, through his cowardice, has
more in common with the United Nations
than the United States: 1. The U.N. is also cowardly
in all its’ military virtue signaling, money-Making
“peacekeeping” missions around the world; 2. the U.N.
can be removed from the ass crack of America by some
brave President of the U.S. administering his political
scalpel and excising the U.N. from its comfortable
quarters in New York City; and draining it by removing
it to Paris or some other equally-minded, politically and
militarily timid European Union country.
Peace on Earth
Golda Meir once said
“There will be no peace
in the Middle East
until the Arabs
Love their children
More than they hate us.”
True. But I believe
if we could discover
how doves remain
monogamous for Life
without arguing
there would be
Peace on Earth –
or is that
why they’re mourning?
Mike and Mike
“Hi, Mike! Whatcha reading?”
“It’s a horror story written by an
author known for his horror stories.
I don’t really like it because it has
a really horrible plot.”
“That’s a really colorful shirt
you’re wearing.”
“Thanks, Mike!”
“Where’d you find
a shirt like that?”
“I found it on the Internet.”
“So you intentionally sought
it out and bought it on purpose?”
“Yeah!, I just like cats
that eat sushi!”
“I don’t like either one
of those.”
“You must be a dog
and steak guy.
“Yeah, I guess I am.”
And the world kept turning.
PTSD
The book Stolen Valor.
Says it all. Read it.
Clinging to memories
many made up
fantasies of Walter Middys
Holding on to
the naive public’s pity.
What would those who died
say to those imposters?
SHAME!
And to the real warriors
who suffer in stoic silence?
“Get over it!” “Let it go!” Get on with Life!”
“Cowboy Up!” “Ranger On!” “All the Way, Airborne!”
“Return [and live] with honor!”
It’s the only cure. – Ligon
“Any man who is willing to risk his life for his country deserves an even break. Nothing more, nothing less.” – Teddy Roosevelt.
Guilty Conscience?
I don’t want – nor do I need – your thanks for paying my debt as a citizen for serving in the military. I didn’t do it for you. Only the dead have the right to thank me. It is to them I owe being a good citizen. But I will accept your apology on their behalf for you not paying yours. – Ligon
MCRD
Years ago I attended my oldest son’s
Marine boot camp graduation.
A few short years later
I attended my youngest son’s
Even fewer years later
I attended my middle son’s
They ask the folks in the grandstands
if they are current or former Marines
to stand and be recognized.
The first time I stood.
The second time
I and my oldest stood.
The third time I, my oldest
and youngest stood.
And I couldn’t help wonder two things
as the platoons passed in review:
Where do we still get
such fine young men?
And will I live long enough
to stand with my sons again?
The answer to the first
is from the ones who stand.
The answer to the second
is in the clock of sand.
Love
If some genius in physics
could harness the Love
a man has for his children
and their children.
If some enterprising soul
could bottle the pride
he feels hearing “Dad!”
or “Grandpa!”
uttered from those he lived
his life for
and lived to see them blossom
into good citizens
and loving parents of the sweet,
innocent children
they once were;
that man would harness
more energy than the Sun
has produced
in its’ entire existence
and still fall short. – Ligon
Few, Fewer, Fewest
Few there are who seek the Truth
Fewer there are who recognize the Truth
Fewest there are who choose to live it.
Few there are who seek Knowledge
Fewer there are who know its’ value
Fewest there are who use it for Good.
Few there are who love Music
Fewer there are who know good Music.
Fewest there are who appreciate what it takes.
Even fewer there are who try to make it.
Few there are who know Love
Fewer there are who give Love
Fewest there are who Love
in the face of Hurt and Hate.
Few there are who know Gratitude
Fewer there are who show Gratitude
Fewest there are who are Grateful
in the face of Ingratitude.
Few there are who know Respect.
Fewer there are who show Respect.
Fewest there are who earn Respect.
Few there are who know Reverence.
Fewer there are who Revere.
Fewest there are who know
How and Whom to Revere.
Few there are who Worship.
Fewer there are who know the difference
between Worship and popularity.
Fewest there are who sacrifice to Worship.
Fewest there are
who will use all these things
To obey God’s will
and reap the blessings
Promised to those
seeking all these things. – Ligon
- Exiting the Ft. Huachuca, AZ Health Center, I encountered an old codger slowly using a walker up the sidewalk to the front door. He was wearing a black baseball cap with “USS Forrestal” emblazoned across the front. “Were you on the Forrestal?” I asked. “Yes, I was. 1967-68.” he answered. “Were you there when it caught fire?” I asked. “Yes, I was.” he said seriously. He began describing in detail how a 2.75 air-to-ground rocket had been armed on an aircraft “at the apron – which is wrong six ways from Sunday” and how it fell off and shot across the flight deck into the engine running A-6 Attack fighter piloted by John McCain. The rocket penetrated the fully loaded fuel pod beneath his aircraft resulting in an immediate inferno. McCain’s fighter jet also had a 500lb bomb attached beneath. “I’ve seen the video of McCain jumping off the nose of his fighter seconds before it blew up” I said. “Yeah, I saw him do that.” he said. “How many were killed or injured from that fire?” I asked. “134 sailors died fighting that fire.” he said sadly. “The video I saw showed a lot of sailors running toward the fire to help their comrades.” I said. Like the old mariner he is he said “There’s a book you should read “Sailors to the End“. I’m mentioned in it twice. There were pallets of 500 lb. bombs sitting on the flight deck beside the aircraft and the fire was getting close to them. I jumped on a forklift but the battery was dead. I got it started somehow and got a pallet of the 500 pounders up and away from the fire. A Chief told me to dump it over the side. I drove the forklift to the edge of the deck as fast as it would go and jumped off just before it went over the edge of the deck into the ocean.” he said. All I could do was shake his hand and ask his name -“Ashton” he said. “Thank you, Ashton.” Go Navy. (see also: The United States Navy in World War II by S.E. Smith, 1967; for inspiring, personal accounts from Pearl Harbor to the deck of the Missouri. A retired CPO loaned me his worn copy. The book is simply stories told by sailors who were there. It gave this Marine a much deeper respect and admiration for the Navy.)
- I often feel the more I learn about human nature the more I envy the catatonic. Then I see a youth baseball team flood into a fast food restaurant like they’re taking the field. I watch them running about getting food and drink as if they hadn’t already played nine innings. The only girl on the team is, of course, taller than the others. She has beautiful long brown locks and by her posture is clearly more mature than her fellow male teammates – and secretly adored by most of them. Boys of all sizes and colors sit side by side practicing high fives and cram to make room for more of their teammates at the tables. Their exuberance recharges me somehow. Perhaps there is hope for America.
