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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

What Memorial Day Really Means

“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” Elie Wiesel

By Rich Kozlovich 

Victor Davis Hanson did a Memorial Day podcast about this on his website, Blade of Perseus, which much of this piece is based on, explaining that Memorial Day is an update of an old idea: 

.......that came out of the Civil War called Decoration Day where 700,000 died by putting flowers on their graves, which transmogrified into the modern idea of Memorial day, quite distinctly different that Veterans Day which evolved from Armistice Day in WWI.  Memorial Day we give thanks to the 1.2 million people who died in combat in behalf of us.  

Public education has become corrupted, especially education dealing with civic responsibility and war, getting a negative view of war.  I don't have a problem with exposing the negatives.  War is waste, it's brutal, it's a plague on mankind, but why do they fail to teach the whole story?

He notes they go on unending about the "Japanese internment, dropping the atom bomb the segregation of American troops", and rightly so, it's history.  However, educators no longer explain why WWII started in the first place, or about the sacrifices made to secure victory.  

When WWII broke out the American people were basically isolationist by nature, a stable society with 40% of the population living on farms.  People who were in the midst of the Great Depression, who had no desire to go anywhere, least of all to go and fight another war in Europe.  

America lost a lot of young men in WWI.  Young men who went over to Europe to fight a war that wasn't their own, and now Europe's was at it again, just 20 years later.  America wanted to stay out of it, in spite of the fact that FDR, just like Woodrow Wilson, was working hard in the background to get America involved.  

When WWII broke out on September 1, 1939, America's army was the 19th sized army in the world, Portugal had a larger army.  America didn’t have much of an air force and what they had was outdated, outgunned, and inferior to either Japan or Germany.  

Then Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and Hitler declared war on a bunch of farm kids who had no desire to go anywhere, just wanting to live a peaceful life, but the Japanese and the Germans just wouldn’t let that happen.    

As a result about 12 million people were sent overseas, fighting an dying in huge numbers, the Shweinfurt-Regensburg raid in August 1943 resulted in the loss of 60 B-17s, with crews of 11 men, young men.  

"They went into places like Peleliu, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, and the worst nightmare of them all, 53,000 casualties 12,000 dead on Okinawa.  They went to places like Normandy beach, they went to places like Sicily.   450,000 of them died, and why did they die?  Because fascist dictators in Europe and Japan decided to start a war, and declared a war, on us.   If they’d not done that these farm boys wouldn’t have had to go over there, who just wanted to mind their own business.

For those who think we retaliated in an excessive manner by fire bombing Japan or Germany, or dropping atomic bombs, let's get this story in context. If you're a moral person, you should be upset, if you're a rational person here's what you have to realize.  

In terms of the number of soldiers lost per killed, the greatest killing machine in WWII was Japan.   It lost about 2.5 million people, but it killed nearly 20 million, the vast majority of them civilians.  The next most lethal army in terms of how many they lost and how many they killed was the German army.  They lost somewhere between 3.5 to 5 million people, civilian and military, but they killed almost 20 million in Europe, especially on the Eastern Front. 

Hansen goes on to ask:

How do you stop those people?  How do you say to the Tojo government, quit butchering people in China, quit butchering people in Burma, quit murdering nurses that you take, Australian nursers, you take prisoners, you rape them and then kill them.   Quit experimenting on Chinese civilians with bio weapons, quit killing six million Jews, quit trying to threaten the U.S. How do you stop them?

On Friday, July 31, 2020 I posted this piece, War's Not the Answer! Well Then, What's the Question?, saying:

At my age I've heard all the smarmy spin by the left there is, and I can still remember when the meme was, "War's not the answer." And of course they're right. That is of course if the issue involves who should put the top in the tooth paste tube. Or, who should cut the grass. Or, ..... well....you get the idea. But what if someone - let's call them barbarians - wants to have a war with you?  A real war?  The fact of the matter is war can be avoided on each and ever occasion it's presented.  Just surrender.

Of course you realize once you surrender, you're no longer allowed to spout stupid stuff, because barbarians are now in charge of your life. And since they think war really is the answer, no matter the question, you'll be required to support their wars, or be shot! Remember, barbarians really think war, which is killing, destruction and mayhem, is the answer.  Do you really think they'll care what you think?  

How about this.

Law enforcement isn't the answer to rioting, murder, rape and mayhem.  Okay, then what is the answer to rioters, rapists, murders, and marauders? Oh, wait....wait...... I know....I know!  Social workers!

In the case of WWII a bunch of ill trained, ill equipped farm kids:

"that had no experience in fighting ....[were going to be sent] across the world......to fight people who, in the case of Japan have been fighting since 1933/34 in China, a militaristic government and......to fight the Germans who’ve been fighting since 1939, the third European war they’ve started.   That’s not an easy thing to do, and it’s not pretty."

It's long overdue for America to stop wasting American blood, lives, and money on foreign wars when America's interests and defense are not directly involved.  Memorial Day is about honoring the brave young lives that were lost, and it should also be about not wasting any more young lives on foolish ill defined goals with insane restrictions, as we've seen since Korea, Vietnam, and every Middle East conflict.   

The media and the leftist nitwits keep screaming about proportional responses in this latest Israel/Hamas war, and I keep coming back to this.  If you don't like disproportional responses, don't start a war, a lesson both Germany and Japan learned the hard way.  They lost.   

 

Libertarians and Reality

By Rich Kozlovich

Libertarians have much to offer that I find absolutely true and totally appealing, much of it I find irrational, such as open borders, illegal drugs, and  prostitution, all predicated on and absolute right to individual liberty.  Sounds good, but there are consequences for which they have no answers.

Libertarian thinking reminds me very much like military strategies.  Did you know that every military strategy ever devised was perfect? At least until they met the enemy. It turns out the enemy also had a "perfect" plan in place. That's when everything starts to fall apart and that's when perfect plans are so often found to be seriously flawed.

The one most able to recognize the lack of perfection in their “perfect plan”, and quickly adapts it to whatever difficulties the enemies “perfect plan” has, is the one who will be the victor.

Libertarianism is basic fundamental morality, a morality that's foundational to the human makeup. It is a reality that is imprinted in our makeup and governed by a force we call - conscience!

The trouble with conscience as an absolute arbiter of right and wrong is that the conscience can be changed, adjusted…..or…lets just say the conscience can be “trained”, and even seared "as with a branding iron', and scarred to be unfeeling with continuous acts that violate it. And what molds the conscience? Time and circumstance!

If the entire world practiced libertarianism as outlined as:

"moral premises and intuitions that in principle are shared by virtually everyone, including children, that being, don't hurt anyone. Don't steal from anyone, and mind your own business".

That would be very nice. At least until someone desired those things others have. Then what?

In spite of the governing morality imprinted on our conscience, The Ten Commandments apparently needed to be outlined as the ten "commandments", not the ten "recommendations". Why? Because people will always be people, and people will always find ways to rationalize their views to their own benefit.

While reading this start to think about the Jews as they entered the Promised Land. What form of government did they have? None to speak of! The land was broken up into tribal areas and those tribal areas were broken up into homesteads that became hereditary holdings. Even if they sold the land it was returned at some point in the future. But people were pretty much able to “do that which was right in their own eyes”.

What happened? It didn't work, and they eventually demanded a king to rule over them, judge them, and defend them against foreign enemies.

Libertarianism is a nice foundational philosophy that will be a moving force for conservatives, but it holds little appeal as a lasting, effective stand alone governing philosophy that will stand the test of time.

Why?

Because for libertarianism to work it would require people to become much more introspective and less self serving, and always be that way, and that just ain't gonna happen.

A Catholic priest once said:

"If you ever find the perfect organization, join it. However, once you have joined it; it is now become somewhat less than perfect!”

I have yet to find any flaw in that thought, because people will always be people, and the foundational social foundations, many times centuries old, will be the controlling force in societies.

Muslim controlled nations are nothing more than Medieval tribal cultures with modern trappings and military hardware. After you scrap away the surface horsepucky you begin to realize these countries are still tribal societies that are still fighting the same wars they have been fighting for centuries, and not a one of them are good guys.

They hate everyone except their own. They only love their own tribal members, their own brand of Islam, their own financial interests and their own power. All else, and everyone else is the enemy and in their minds their enemies deserve death delivered in any way that works best. 

Conclusion?  Libertarianism is a dream if put into practice becomes a nightmare.

The Nitwit Brigade on Parade, II

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags: The Nitwit Brigade on Parade

Michael Moore has been quoted as saying, “I am the center. I am the mainstream now of the Democratic Party”.   So, the Democrat election strategy will be rude, crude, and stupid?  

What could possibly go wrong?  

I think most people grew weary of the arrogant pontifications of celebrities long ago, starting with Jane Fonda and the communist cabal that finally came out of hiding in Hollywood.  One more thing. It wasn’t Joe McCarthy who went after Hollywood, he went after Communists in government.  It was the House Un-American Activities Committee that investigated Hollywood, and did so for many years.  For most of those years it was run by the Democrats, but that was before they were captured by communists, one of the 45 goals of the communist party. 

And let’s not be delusional, the American Communist party was a marionette with Joe Stalin pulling the strings, and anyone who was a member of the Communist party was in fact required to be an agent for Joe Stalin and the Soviet Union, and the Communist party, all working to destroy America. 

We now know from the release of the VENONA intercepts in 1996, all their fears were justified. Communists secretly infiltrated Hollywood, the media, government agencies, including the OSS which became the CIA, the unions, and academia.

The Soviet Union is no more, but these leftists are still pushing a globalist agenda for world domination, always working to impose an international socialist form of governance that’s blatantly irrational, misanthropic, and morally defective, and an unending insane failure.  After all the decades of history demonstrating that failure, for anyone to be promoting this insanity the only conclusion one can come to; they must also be insane.  

All the people listed below are ardent promoters of leftist philosophical concepts, which they're currently calling it being Woke, and while the term will change later, the philosophy remains the same.

Rosie O’Donnell says Trump suffers from "cognitive decline" and says he's "no longer in command of his mental faculties."  Mental faculties?  From Rosie O'Donnell, who moved to Ireland with help from her therapist.  Ya just gotta see the humor in that. 

Then there's Sean Penn who fears Trump will destroy the world.  Apparently a view he shares with disgraced "journalist" Jim Acosta.   And why does he think Trump will destroy the world? I have no idea, he doesn't say why, so I have to assume he has no idea what he's talking about.  How did anyone this stupid and this ugly, whose father was a fellow traveler who was blacklisted in the fifties, ever become a star? 

Bono gets hysterical over USAID cuts.  While Bono "has spent much of his activist life fighting for aid to Africa and combating HIV-AIDS", and should be commended for that.  But, I keep coming back asking how did all these problems become America's responsibility?  Why are we expected to fix all the ills of these nations, much of them self inflicted?  Answer?  Their problems aren't our fault, nor are they our responsibility.   This is the same nitwit that says:

  “Hamas, release the hostages, stop the war. Israel, be released from Benjamin Netanyahu and the far-right fundamentalists that twist your sacred texts.”

Hamas only wants to stop the war long enough to rearm and attack at a later date.  For Hamas and the rest of these Muslim terrorists, it's a forever war.  And I would love to know what texts are being twisted by "Netanyahu and the far-right fundamentalists that twist your sacred texts.” Perhaps the means the ones about the Koran's call to jihad and the slaughter of non-Muslims?  Ya just can't fix stupid. 

Cannes: Disney Star Pedro Pascal Drops F-Bomb Urging Filmmakers to Resist Trump.  Another good reason not to see his movies.  

Little Bobby De Niro went from a raging bull to a whining fool with his disgraceful hate Trump shtick, and while Hollywood gives him standing ovations for his foul mouthed rants, New York jeered him, and truthfully, I think that's the way it would play out in most cities.   The author thinks his rants are "probably the result of a deeply unhappy, troubled, and disturbed mind." Sounds reasonable to me.

Bruce Springsteen rants about Trump overseas who claims how much he loves America just before saying Trump is destroying America, abandoning civil rights, abandoning our allies abroad, and due process of law by deporting criminals who are here illegally.  His view of civil rights is an abandonment of the rule of law, and our allies are at best leaky vessel and leeches, who would sell us down the river in a heart beat. 

This is the same guy who hailed mass murdering communists like Stalin, and Castro's top executioner,  Che Guevara, and it wasn't Che's active revolutionary activity in Bolivia that killed him. Oh no, it was his love of humanity, since that was the driving force for his revolutionary activity.   Yeah, and rain isn't wet.   The real Che Guevara? My files depict a cowardly monster, here, here, here, here, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.  "The Fake News Media didn’t start their lying and propagandizing with the Trump campaign and administration. Cuba-watchers can testify they’ve been at it for much, MUCH longer."  And while it's proven the Democrats, especially under Biden actively forced and imposed censorship on conservatives he claims free speech is being restricted in America by Trump.  As an example he cites......... nothing!

But Trump being Trump won't sit back and take all that crap without striking back.  You start a war with Trump, and he attacks.  You give nasty, he's going to give nasty right back at you.  And Neil Young doesn't like that saying we need a real President.  One who doesn't answer back to rockers who slam him with lies.  Ya know, a real President like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, AOC, or perhaps Bernie Sanders?  Ya just can't fix stupid

 The left has a moral foundation that idolizes violence, and their goal is to imprison anyone who disagrees with them.  But, history is a great leveler of truth.  From the French Revolution until now, history shows once leftists are ensconced in the seats of power, they start imprisoning and murdering each other, until there's one master over all the leftists, Lenin, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro, Maduro, and the list goes on.  That's history, and that history is incontestable. 

Finally, this last item has nothing to do with celebrity nitwits, I just couldn't pass this up as it's just so rich depicting the insanity of leftists where billionaire-funded communists rally against billionaires.   Imagine that. 
 
Updates:
 

The Jeffrey Epstein Bombshell

By Rich Kozlovich

Today I posted this article Assessing the Fallout From the Patel, Bongino Interview by and truth is that interview hit the fan.  I'm linking two more articles dealing with this, with kind of opposing views.

First, Jeffrey Epstein and trust in the government by Dawn Merrill saying:

Ah, Jeffrey Epstein.  We finally have an official statement from our own side, and it contradicts every last thing our own side has believed now for years. Let’s all approach this analytically. I would be willing to bet that no one reading this right now was there in that jail cell.  No one reading right now was on the island, on the plane, or anywhere else relevant to the case.  We have secondhand knowledge at best.  It is easy to believe a conspiracy theory.  It is hard to admit it if you are wrong.......It is time to put faith in our government and move on from the Epstein cause of death......We have bigger fish to fry! 

Then there's this one by Todd Baumann, Kash and Bongino losing trust over Epstein saying:   
 
This past weekend on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, FBI director Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, made a stunning declaration: Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide.  That was it.  Case closed.  Bongino even said he’s “seen the file,” as if that alone should convince the American people to move on.  But that’s not how this works. I couldn’t tell if I was watching an interview or a hostage video.The public doesn’t owe Patel and Bongino blind trust, especially not on a matter this explosive.  In fact, their appearance on Bartiromo’s show torpedoed their credibility.  
 
He then went on to list all the amazing irregularities, some of which seem to me to be criminal:

  • The cameras outside Epstein’s cell mysteriously failed the night of his death.
  • Two guards assigned to check on him allegedly fell asleep and didn’t perform their rounds.
  • He was taken off suicide watch days after a prior “attempt,” against standard protocol.
  • He had no cellmate at the time, though he had had one shortly before.
  • The fractures in his hyoid bone and carotid artery were more consistent with strangulation than hanging, according to forensic experts.
  • Dr. Michael Baden, a prominent pathologist who observed the autopsy, publicly stated that the evidence pointed to homicide.
  • The staff at the prison were charged with falsifying records about their monitoring duties.  Those charges were later dropped.
  • Key documents and surveillance footage have never been released or are said to have disappeared.
  • The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) provided no meaningful accountability following his death.  The director of the BOP, appointed by Attorney General William Barr nine days after Epstein’s death, raises other questions.

He ends his commentary by saying:

Despite all this, the DOJ closed the case quietly and without holding anyone truly accountable.  This isn’t a tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory.  It’s a pattern of irregularities so staggering that any reasonable observer would demand real answers.

So, what's the answer? I have no idea, but I'm sure while this is going to pretty much end it officially, this is never going to end in people's minds.  Will we move on?  Yes, but this whole thing just stinks so badly.
 

Chaos and Order

By Rich Kozlovich

 On May 14 Allan J. Feifer published this piece, Out of chaos—a new world order saying:

Watching President Trump speaking from Saudi Arabia, I almost felt sorry for a moment for our enemies. They must ponder how to stay relevant as the world seemingly metamorphizes before them, powerless to stop the transformation. In his speech, the President said something so powerful yet unconventional that I had to stop and consider why he was the first leader of our country to say it......... Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia reveals a world vision that operates on shared prosperity, not the leftist and realpolitik shibboleths of failed post-war policies.

While much of what he said is relevant, it’s impressive, it’s good at heart, but much of it is foundationally flawed logically and historically.

There really are “forever enemies”. As long as Islam exists, it will be at war with Jews and Christians primarily, but also all other religions, or any secular forces that reject Islam, including the different sects of Islam who consider each other heretics, and the Koran demands the killing of heretics. That’s a foundational truth based on almost 1500 years of history that’s incontestable.

Islamists may be forced to retreat as it did for the last half of 19th and first half of the 20th centuries, but that’s what Islam does in order to realign itself, in order to start all over again.  Bush called Islam a religion of peace, and now it would appear Trump is embracing that in principle based on economics.  If he truly believes that, it's a mistake.  
 
But, no matter what people demand, perfection isn't an option.  The best we can hope for is the most acceptable imperfection, and in politics, finding the most acceptable imperfection often times isn't choosing between good and bad, but choosing the most acceptable bad in hopes of creating some kind of order out of the chaos.

 

History, Time, and Truth Are on the Same Side, Not Joe Biden's

By Rich Kozlovich

Joe Biden was not a decent man, nor was he a public servant.  History and time are on the side of truth, and neither history, time, or truth will look favorably on Joe Biden. It seems to me no matter that some are saying he can recover from his cancer diagnosis, he’s now facing what happens to old people with health issues, especially when neurological problems compound their health, they face negative cascade issues. 

I don’t see him lasting much longer, and when he’s on his death bed will he get his last communion after his unending support for abortion?   Will he, like Ted Kennedy, be buried in the church?   The root word for repentance means "to turn about", which requires a change of course to make amends for wrongful actions.  I didn't see that with Kennedy, nor will we see it with Biden.

Joe Biden was a puppet who already was demonstrating serious neurological issues, yet the Democrats knowingly promoted a man they knew was losing it because the Bernie Sanders would have been unacceptable to the public.   

And by now, everyone knows that Joe wasn’t running anything in the White House, he was simply being used, a presidential puppet. He could barely speak, read, reason or walk, yet they kept putting him through his puppet paces. A poor, senile old man being forced to pretend the lights were still on.

It also seems clear his dementia was rapidly becoming worse, and they were, in order to remain in power willing to put this sad sack back into the oval office for anther term, which they had to know he wouldn't survive, and then Kamala would be President, and the media was absolutely complicit in this fraud, remember his  clean bill of health!  They all knew his was mentally incapacitated and did everything they could to hide it.
Handlers or no handlers, the fact is Joe Biden was a mean, nasty, and vicious human being, the head of the Biden Crime Family.  It wasn't his handlers that made him so, that was his character long before he entered the White House. 
 
There is only one positive Biden will leave behind?  Absolute evidence the nation needs a Constitutional Amendment adding term limits for Congress, and especially the federal judiciary, which through it's leftist corruption has usurped the power of the presidency and is now demanding the Trump administration give "due process" to all these criminals who invaded the nation.  
The judiciary has now been so badly corrupted “due process is code for delay, obfuscation, and a constant stream of billable hours flowing throughout the legal “profession”.
 



P&D and The Week That Was

 Truth is the Sublime Convergence of History and Reality

De Omnibus Dubitandum, (Everything is to be questioned!)

This Link will take you to My Commentaries.

By Rich Kozlovich 

Trump has been in office for less than six months and before he was sworn in the Democrats already started their 2028 campaign with a truly remarkable bench like Newsom, Booker, AOC, Buttigieg, Emanuel, Kamala, Crockett, Shapiro, Beshear, and Pritzker.  Tough battle there. Don’t you think?  Well, one thing is clear, the Democrats have a lot of baggage to overcome.

The goal of the left has been the destruction of the Constitution in order to impose a socialist system of governance, here and globally, and will support anything that helps bring that goal to fruition.  And they really don’t understand the consequences as they delusionally believe they can control events, as they all suffer from the Henry Kissinger Delusions Syndrome. 

At the end of his life he acknowledged Europe should have ignored his views on immigration as the disaster of his views unfolded.  All highly educated, and under smart, suffering from the plague of preconceptualism, and anything that violates their preconceptual views are ignored….. arrogantly.  This really isn’t really anything new. It’s just old history repeating itself in a new forum.

Gibbons once wrote in his Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, “we tolerate despotism because of the things we own”. While the quote is from memory and may not be exact, the thought this conveys is.  In 1892 the steel workers at Carnegie’s Homestead plant struck because Carnegie cut wages. These were people surviving on marginal wages, and now, they weren’t going to be able to pay their bills. Violence eventually erupted when Carnegie hired Pinkerton’s to break the strike.

The point of the story is when people no longer have anything left to lose, they’ll act like they have nothing to lose, and that generally means violence. Is that where the elites governing western civilization’s nations are driving the people of western civilization?

The military budget is just under a trillion dollars a year, not counting the cost of intelligence gathering and un-publicized intelligence activity. That puts it over a trillion dollars a year, and yet America can’t produce what it needs because much of what’s needed for the military isn’t produced in America.  This article in Imprimis, New Thinking Needed on National Defense, deals with the intricacies of all that making it clear what we’ve lost, and that some very real, very serious changes need to be made.

The nation’s military is far more vulnerable than is commonly realized, all of which has been exposed by the Russo/Ukraine War. And I wonder where that trillion dollars has been going all this time. Is it any wonder the Defense Department consistently fails audits? That would land a corporation’s board of directors in jail.

While I had a blog before P&D, and a weekly e-mail newsletter before that, I've been publishing P&D since 2007 as a green issues only blog, here was my first post What Does It Mean To Be Green?, I realized I couldn't talk about green issues without discussing leftism, as environmentalism became the spear point for an effort to impose a worldwide socialistic form of governance.  Hence, I now deal with every social issue facing mankind.  

The platform for P&D is through Blogger, which is owned by Google, and guess what folks, Blogger censors.   About five years ago Blogger started deleting posts that offended them.  At one point they deleted a draft.  I protested all them and they were returned.   About two to three years ago Blogger got more aggressive, and now, when I protest their deletions they refuse to return them to publication, so I keep protesting, and they keep them deleted.  I seem to have my own personal censor at Blogger.

As an example, if I published an article like this one by Andrea Widburg, no matter that it's absolutely factual, after a couple of days Blogger deletes it.  Why?  Because it violates their “community standards.”

What are their community standards? They don’t say, and since they never tell you what standard you allegedly violated, and since everything I publish is sourced and absolutely accurate, I must assume truth, justice, and the America way is a violation of their ‘community standards.’

I keep publishing anyway, and they keep deleting them, and I keep appealing their decisions, and they keep them deleted.  I’ve eight of them now the deleted box, some of them for months.   What are the issues?  Each and every one of them deals with the social impact on western civilization by Muslims, or, publishing the facts about the massively negative health impact these false covid vaccines are having on humanity, an impact that's going to be felt for decades.  Long after these shots are removed from the market.  

Each and every one of them is highly sourced, and absolutely accurate.  A violation of their community standards I have to assume.  Don’t believe anything you read saying there’s no irresponsible censorship going on the social media networks.   That’s a lie.   

Some time back I decided what I was doing here at P&D was too much work.  So, I decided I would only post full articles, and no more linked articles.  Well, that was stupid, as it's ended up creating more work for me ... a lot more work ......tracking and storing a ton of links to use as sources.  Starting Monday I will be returning to the old system posting linked articles.  

Finally, SCOTUS Punts on Alien Enemies Act, in effect saying these gangsters, all of which are here illegally, deserve time to hire attorneys, and it was a seven to two decision.  In effect, they're saying they can never be deported because it would take years of litigation to get them out of the country.  

We're heading to a Jacksonian resolution, or Congress had better deal with this and put the entire federal judiciary, including SCOTUS in it's place.  Illegal aliens have no rights under the Constitution.  The only right is to establish if they're here illegally or not, and once that's been determined, case closed.  Send them back.  

I've six articles of my own, and twenty four by others in this week's edition, so, take some time and peruse them.  

Best wishes,

Rich 

My Commentaries

  1. Points to Ponder
  2. Just a Little Satire
  3. Let's Talk About Pope Leo XIV
  4. And You're Suggestion Is?
  5. Let's Get Our Priorities Right
  6. Immigration Jihad Isn't a Conspiracy Theory. It's a Conspiracy! It's History!

Points to Ponder

By Rich Kozlovich

There was a series of sarcastic/satirical cartoons I saved for use, but I can no longer replicate them.   I used to save them to my pictures file, and then transfer them to P&D, but Google, which owns Blogger, will no longer allow that unless I give them access to all my cookies.  As one commenter noted:

Since when has acceptance of 3rd party cookies been required for file access? I use Blogspot and have used it for quite some time. This evening suddenly I am required to allow third party cookies in order to access my files (photos to add to posts). 

Well, that's just ain't gonna happen, ergo, I'm posting the content, with a bit if paraphrasing.  So, let's start with - who are the real criminals?  How about:

  1. Elected and/or appointed government officials who break the law and then claim they have immunity.
  2. When the government starts passing laws that break other laws. 
  3. Judges and prosecutors who praise criminals and turn them loose to prey on society. 
  4. Elected and/or appointed government officials who encourage criminal behavior.
  5. A laptop from hell, tax evasion, two tier justice, shake downs and sweet heart deals, all of which involve a sitting President.

Then perhaps it’s time to admit we’re being governed by the real criminals, who should be subject to RICO investigations? 

No oppressor operates alone because no oppressor can be so strong they can oppress everyone unless their are accomplices among the oppressed. The problem isn’t that leftists are unethical, corrupt, criminal, lying dirt bags, everyone knows that. The problem is their supporters don’t care. 

Take for example all those boxes of ballots they keep finding.  Why is it we never seem to find boxes filled with missing Republican ballots?   Why is it there are so many missing boxes in the first place.  How do so many boxes of ballots get lost in the first place, and all over the nation?  Well, I know the answer.  They're were never lost, they never existed in the first place?   

Well, I have the answer.  They were replicated and beamed down my Mr. Scott of the Enterprise.  It turns out Scotty is a Democrat, so he only beams down replicated boxes with Democrat votes.   

Nah, that's all science fiction, just like all those "found" Democrat ballots. 

It’s amazing it was possible to find illegal aliens in order to send them government checks, but no one seem to be able to find them in order to send them back to their country of origin, at least until now.  

It turns out Kim Jong Un, the dictatorial man-god oppressor of N. Korea, was all in the dumps when Biden was President, but is much happier now that Trump is President.  You see, it's been his life goal to destroy America, and Joe Biden was beating him to it, so now he's back on track. 

When Hillary called Trump an illegitimate President she was called courageous. When Trump called Biden an illegitimate President he was called treasonous.   When Trump won his second term then Joe Biden called Trump an illegitimate President and when Karine Jean-Pierre claimed it was stolen, they were called inspirational.   Remarkable!

During the "pandemic" Trump was quarantined with Melania.  Bill Clinton was quarantined with Hillary.  Bill's comment?  Thanks, now she's home all day.   I'm gonna take a shot in the dark here and say, Trump won!  

So, is it true that during the creation of the Constitution it was made clear none of the rights listed therein counted if anyone was sick?  No!  Really?  Isn't that special.  It turns out America didn't like all that pandemic socialist tyranny, but Bernie said that's not real socialism.  The body count is way too low.   AOC was upset the pandemic would make it impossible for the homeless people to pay their mortgages.  

The Democrats say if they can't have power you can't have peace.   Like the kind they delivered to the cities in Democrat controlled  states, like Seattle, Portland, and Milwaukee.  But all of that was mostly peaceful "riots" with billions in damage, rapes, murders and violence in general.  

Now, does anyone besides me think that's a truly interesting concept of peace?

Let's Talk About Pope Leo XIV

By Rich Kozlovich 
 
Since Pope Francis died there's been a lot of accolades, and a lot of condemnations.  The conventional wisdom is to not speak ill of the dead, and I get that. But time, history, and truth are on the same side, and speaking truth about the dead isn’t speaking ill. It’s just the truth, and history will not be kind to this Pope. Time, History, Truth, and Pope Francis.
 
But now there's a new Pope, and chosen rather quickly compared to other Popes.  When it was announced Cardinal Robert Prevost was to be the new Pope, most of us never heard of him, an American who as a result of his long years serving in Peru became a citizen of Peru, which is the heart of liberation theology.  Although there are those who claim he didn't support that "theology".  It's also being claimed he's most likely more middle of the road on issues.  Yet, if he wasn't a pro-illegal alien advocate would Pope Francis have promoted him to Cardinal?  I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that. 

There was those who expressed hope for a change in direction from the Vatican.  Noting his choice of names, Pope Leo XIV, it's been assumed, which I consider wishful thinking, he was honoring Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) who was famous for his denunciation of socialism, yet at the same time he was a promoter of labor and unions, I find that to be a bit cognitive dissonant, but at that time it probably made sense.

As I said, I think this is wishful thinking that fails to take in his history of embracing so many of Pope Francis’ positions.   Positions so many considered heresy. This Pope will not deviate much from the previous Pope. He may not be a Jesuit, but based on his history, he’s as Woke as was Francis. As I see it, this pick was a continuation of the anti-Trump globalist movement under a guise of Christian ethics.  

There was a lot of surprise the conclave of cardinals, 80% of which were picked by Pope Francis, when they picked an American since so many of them were chosen by Pope Francis, and Francis pretty much had no use for Donald Trump.   While he seemed to think supporters of abortion like Biden and Pelosi were just fine and dandy.  Others viewed this as the obvious and perfect choice to counter Trump with Americans, and this is a big one - the Vatican gets most of its money from American Catholics.  And that's a big deal why?   The church is in trouble financially. Serious trouble, which the Wall Street Journal, claims is "a five-alarm fire and recently published this saying:

Twelve years ago, the new Bishop of Rome was Francis, a pontiff elected with a mandate to fix the Vatican’s finances. But the first pope from the New World wasn’t prepared for the degree of resistance at the Curia, as the Vatican bureaucracy is known, his close advisers and allies said. He hired a professional auditor to modernize the finances—leading clergy to move Vatican funds to an account under a cardinal’s name and stockpile cash in a shopping bag. The auditor was mystified that nuns kept account ledgers in pencil and paper. At one point intruders broke into his office and tampered with his computer. Eventually the Gendarmerie Corps of Vatican City State—its police service—got involved.

Professional accountants, encouraged by Francis, ran training workshops for clergy who balked at the rules like obtaining multiple signoffs for expenses. Prelates tried to hide funds from scrutiny, citing national security concerns for the secret ledgers of funding missionaries in countries where proselytizing is a crime. Other departments shrugged off the modern-day challenge of balancing the budget of a papal state whose origins stretch back more than a millennium. The pope himself shifted focus to other topics. Meanwhile, the pension fund kept falling farther behind. Scandals over a $400 million real-estate investment ended with a cardinal being convicted of embezzlement and fraud in 2023.

While Francis had some wrong views on a lot of things, dishonesty wasn't one of his shortcomings.  After years of trying to correct the mess and failing, just before he died he resorting to asking for more donations, much like leftist politicians who refuse to act fiscally responsible and just keep raising taxes. 

As of 2024 it's being claimed the Vatican has a budget deficit of $94.22 million, and a pension deficit of more than $1 billion.  While in a general way I knew there were financial issues, I had no idea it was this big a mess, and what the Vatican needs is Elon Musk.

I have absolutely no doubt Pope Leo is a mirror image of Pope Francis, or he wouldn't have been chosen.  He's already demonstrating that by taking a harsh view of Trump's deportation actions.  Tom Homan says he needs to mind his own business, and did so in no uncertain terms.   An interesting side bar to all of this:  Pope Leo’s older brother is a big MAGA supporter of Trump, and J.D. Vance, who the new Pope took a shot at for defending American sovereignty, and says his brother will be much like Pope Francis.   Which bodes well the question: Is a schism on the horizon? 

 

Just a Little Satire

By Rich Kozlovich

My friend Robin Itzler publishes a weekly e-mail newsletter called Patriot Neighbors, and she ends the newsletter with a section of humor is the best medicine.  This is a paraphrased version of that effort. 

If there was any doubt higher education in America is a vile snake pit this should dispel those doubts.  Parents are spending $500,000 to send their kids to Ivy League schools to learn how to scream "free Palestine".   And they think they're going to get jobs to run companies effectively, and many desire to run the country some day.  What could possibly go wrong?

Leftist politicos, and their bands of professional protestors never saw a reason not to travel unknown distances to riot, protest, and demand Trump be jailed.  Yet, none of them traveled in the United States to help hurricane victims, didn’t travel to the Middle East to help Americans kidnapped by Hamas, but they traveled to El Salvador to demand the release of a violent MS-13 gang member.  Does anyone besides me think that's a sign of mental illness? 

Then there's Senator Van Hollen who traveled to El Salvador to visit an imprisoned illegal alien who is not only a known criminal, he's a gang member, calling him a Maryland man.  How can an illegal alien be a Maryland man?  He's here illegally, he's not a citizen!   Van Hollen is really disgusted this criminal can’t be home in Maryland with is family.  In order to beat his wife some more?  Did I mention he's a known wife beater?

There's talk Trump wants to re-open Alcatraz to house illegal aliens, many who are known criminals.  Perhaps it would be a really good idea to expand Alcatraz by putting up a wall around San Francisco.

Character counts, and this little bit of sarcastic satire speaks volumes about all leftists.  Bernie Sanders is the kind of guy who comes to a potluck lunch empty handed, complains about what everyone else brought and then asks to take leftovers home. 

 

And You're Suggestion Is?

By Rich Kozlovich

Over recent months were seeing what's become an obsession with leftists, Democrats, RINO's, and the weak minded criticizing everything Trump says and does, and truthfully, I think he likes it as it gives him the opportunity to snark them. 

One of the unending memes among the Trump Dementia Syndrome crowd is how he's vile because he's been too accommodating to Putin who has been killing women and children in his attacks on Ukraine, in his efforts to get a peace plan put in place.  Yet, I think Zelenskyy got what he deserved, and everyone knows what a vile man Putin is, and everyone also knows he’s a reality that must be dealt with.  These critics never answer how he should be handled.  

But it really doesn't seem to matter what the subject is, the pattern's the same.  They claim his tariffs are going to destroy America, in spite of the fact all these nations are doing exactly what Putin said they would do.  Come to him wagging their tails to Trump, and headline after headline bears this out.

I’m not a knee jerk approver of Trump, which I find to be true among my conservative friends.  I think the Canada thing is insane, I think the Gulf of Mexico thing is foolish, yet how can anyone not recognize what he's accomplished, in both terms, but nothing like he has this term. These critics suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and that can’t be qualified as anything less than a mental disorder.

I've seen someone call Trump's cabinet a bunch of lemmings, toadies, yes men, sycophants, and mouth pieces for Trump, and I have to ask why?  Is he supposed to have picked those who agree with him or disagree with him?  Is he supposed to pick those who are philosophically opposed to his agenda, backstabbing him at every turn, or should he have picked believers in his agenda?  That was a failure from his first term he wasn't going to repeat again.   

The cabinet isn't an advisory board, they're hired help, and while it's their job to give their views on the agenda, once the President makes a decision, it's their job to salute and say yes sir, carry out his orders, or find other employment. 

Trump isn’t damaging America’s standing in the world, he’s repairing the damage of the Obama/Biden administrations by slapping them upside the head and letting them know there’s a new sheriff in town and they better get their acts together or else, and they are.   And truth be told, I don’t care what the rest of the world thinks, as they’re either enemies, leaky vessels as allies, or leeches, and we owe them … Nothing!

The western world's leaders are divided into three groups. The Winston Churchill’s, the Neville Chamberlain’s, and the Vidkun Quisling's, who are traitors that blend in well with the go along to get along crowd.  Everyone loves the Chamberlain’s, they’re go along to get along guys.  Everyone hates the Churchill’s, who just can’t seem to get along. At least until the go along to get along crowd’s failure to deal with what’s going wrong hits the fan.  Then, all of a sudden, they discover they need a Winston Churchill to be the answer, and they hate it, and they hate him. 

And no matter how successful a Churchill may be, they just can’t stop shooting arrows at the Churchill’s. Why? He’s not one of them, and that’s the only thing they’re any good at, criticism, not problem solving.  The Democrat party, epitomizes the Chamberlain/Quisling philosophical paradigm.  

Go along to get along elitism is a human physiological disorder that’s been ubiquitous throughout human history, and it’s always going to be with us.  Most leaders aren’t leaders, they’re managers who organize the direction everyone wants to go, no matter how foolish that direction may be. 

A real leader is willing to stand up and say: You’re all wrong, and I’m gonna tell you why.  And if they’re successful, they’re hated all the more.  So, that brings me to this.

  1. Is there anyone else in American politics that could bring all these nations wagging their tails to cut good deals?
  2. Is there any American politician who would have cut into the Deep State as Trump has?
  3. Is there any American politician who would have taken such a strong stand against illegal immigration and deportation?
  4. Is there any America politician who would challenge the corrupt out of control federal judiciary?
  5. Is there any American politician who would have taken on public and higher education for a major fix?
  6. Is there any other America politician who would have managed to cut billion of dollars in wasted and corrupt spending as he has? 

And that’s the tip of the iceberg as in this article by Andrea Widburg points out, and all done in less than four months.  If so, please tell us who it is. As it is, there are three choices.

  1. Democrats who are blatantly insane like Cory Booker, AOC, Buttigieg, Rahm Emanuel, Kamala, Jasmine Crockett, Josh Shapiro, J.B. Pritzker or Andy Beshear, who are all now testing the water to see how hot it is.
  2. RINOs, who are almost as insane, none of whom are even thinking of running in 2028.
  3. Or, a false conservative who will buckle at the first sign of trouble, and I don't see any of them willing to put themselves into that meat grinder, as they know they can't survive a history search from the alternative media. 

So, I'm asking these mentally and intellectually challenged TDS patients to name who they think is best qualified to lead America to social, economic, and international stability.  Oh, wait, I know. Karl Marx!