Trump’s Trials & Tribulations

It’s been a while since we’ve discussed what’s going on with Donald Trump’s many trials, but it’s also been a time when a lot has happened. So, with that in mind, let’s look at the four trials with some 88 charges against the former (and future?) president!

The trial in Georgia hit a major snag for the prosecution when the Trump legal team appealed the judge’s decision to allow Fani Willis to remain on the case if her boyfriend would resign as the prosecutor. He did, and she stayed. But the Georgia appellate court agreed with the Trump team’s appeal to hear why Willis and her office should be disqualified from the trial. As it stands now, that’s going to push the trial way past the election. The Georgia appeals court has two sessions, the next one starts in August, and it’s doubtful that the attorneys can be prepared by then, and the court’s docket is probably full anyway. That leaves the second session, which doesn’t begin until the spring of 2025, well after the election. The overall feeling is that if the appellate court sides with the Trump team and removes Willis and her office from prosecuting the case, it will basically be yanked.

Next you’ve got the case regarding Trump’s classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago. Judge Aileen Cannon has postponed the trial indefinitely, citing issues surrounding the eight motions that have been made by both sides. She said she needs until at least July to reach a determination as to those motions. Of course, the FBI kinda sorta screwed up in the paperwork department. And that’s going to play rather large going forward as well. I don’t really think this one is going to have any chance of being heard before the election at all.

You’ve got the case with Jack Smith prosecuting the whole January 6th protest at the US Capitol. That has gone before the US Supreme Court, as to whether Donald Trump has immunity of things he’s said and done while president. Based on the questions the Justices asked during oral arguments a while back, one can surmise that they don’t side with either Smith, nor the Trump legal team, but will fall somewhere in the middle. The smart money says they are going to send it back to the lower court to outline under what circumstances a president should be considered to have immunity, and under what circumstances. That alone will push the start of any trial well past the November election.

And of course, there’s the ongoing circus in lower Manhattan where chief clown, Juan Merchan is holding court. That’s basically referred to as the Stormy Daniels trial. What’s been interesting about that trial is that pretty much everyone and their third cousin believes that this has been a political show and nothing more. The witnesses have pretty much solidified Trump’s position that it’s a witch hunt. And you can add to that the fact that every single person on the prosecution’s side (and the judge), are heavily vested in the Democrat party. Merchan hasn’t done much in the way of helping Trump at all, yet it seems that 55% of the public think the trial has been unfair. The real question is will it become a hung-jury, a conviction that needs to be overturned on appeal, or an outright acquittal, which would be rather stunning seeing how it’s being held in one of the most heavily Democrat areas in the entire country. But with each day that passes, it becomes clearer to most of the talking heads on TV, even at CNN and MSNBC, that Alvin Bragg is way over his head on this one and should go back to trying subway marauders.

Overall, Trump is holding up better than Biden is, who’s free to move about the country and campaign. And like I’ve mentioned at least once or twice, at this point, it really doesn’t matter. This is a fundraising phase of the presidential election and not many people are paying attention yet. That won’t occur until after Labor Day, holding this trial now is the best for Trump. He’ll get his campaigning and fundraising in, with plenty to spare.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

WHEW! Made It Back!

It was a journey to say the least! A 7 hour flight to Honolulu, 9 1/2 days at sea sailing to Vancouver, an unplanned night in a very nice hotel because we missed our flight due to a medical emergency on board the ship that caused us to be late (the emergency didn’t involve us at all). And then a 3 hour flight back to the AZ from Vancouver, which is a really pretty city by the way.

But, I’m back. I got a good night’s sleep last night and am back at the keyboard early this morning. Thanks for putting up with our crazy adventures!

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Joe Needs To Make Up His Mind

OK, fresh from a cruise that I really enjoyed, but didn’t get a lot of opportunities to catch up on the news. But it seemed like since the beginning of the month, only two things happened… the college riots in favor of Hamas (that are eventually getting booted from the various campuses), and Donald Trump’s trial that goes on ad infinitum. But the one thing that I did hear that struck me was that Joe Biden was going to pull some 1,800 2-ton bombs from his shipment to Israel and some 700 other bombs because he doesn’t like the way Israel is advancing toward Rafah.

Joe needs to make up his mind.

He’s out there telling the world that our commitment to Israel is “ironclad”, yet he pulls back weapons that could certainly shorten Israel’s war to wipe out Hamas. And he’s in a world of hurt when it comes to making up his mind (what’s left of it?) So, he has this tightrope to walk that’s not very wide, but it is very long.

Do you favor our strongest ally in the region if not the world when they need it the most? Or, do you turn your back on your BFF, and stand behind the 20% of America that supports Hamas, like the 18-29 year olds that are on the college campuses rioting?

See, if Biden goes for the Israelis, he is turning his back on the youth vote, which has already called him “Genocide Joe”. They don’t like him for a number of reasons, and it seems that his giving over $1 trillion in student debt cancellations hasn’t been helping much. In the 2024 Harvard Spring Youth Poll, Biden leads Trump by only 8 points among the 18-29 crowd. In 2020, Biden beat Trump by about 25% with the same group. That’s a stunning loss! So, in key battleground states, if Biden were to back Israel, and the youth vote stays home or votes for either Trump or third party, Biden loses the election.

And, if Biden goes with the students to save the youth vote, which is doubtful he can do anyway, he’s going alienate the 5.8 million adult Jews living in this country. That’s a lot of votes considering in 2020, Jewish people voted for Biden 68 to 30 percent! And if Biden turns his back on those folks, he loses.

I guess you can say, he’s damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t.

So, why not pick a side and get on with it, rather than upset both sides? That would be the more prudent thing to do. Back Israel, as every president since the Jewish State was formed has done, and get on with life. But Biden has consistently been listening to the extreme left wing of his party, and he needs the Islamic vote in Michigan in order to gain reelection. Of course, he needs to get the Jewish vote as well, or places like New York are going to come into play.

I’ve seen the latest poll numbers showing the race has been tightening in the key battleground states. That’s something that was bound to happen anyway. But Biden can’t be wishy-washy. It’s what Trump has been saying about him for months, and Biden proves it every time out.

Joe, you need to pick a side, and stick with it. America is waiting.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Who’s Gonna Win The White House? Here’s What A Democrat Says…

If you ever watch Fox News’ show The Five, you know that one of the two regular Democrats they have to “balance” the show out is Harold Ford Jr. He’s a former Congressman from Tennessee, now retired and like Jason Chavitz, working for Fox News. And what Harold says about the upcoming election is interesting.

Now, I’m not a fan of Ford, but of the two Democrats that they have on that panel, the other being whack job, Jessica Tarlov, who’s about as liberal as those students protesting on college campuses, he is a real moderate. And he has some interesting things that he says will determine who will win the White House this November. He even goes so far as to say when all of these things will occur.

The first thing you need to look at in a presidential election year, according to Ford, are gasoline prices. And you need to look at them just before Memorial Day. That’s when the summer driving season kicks off. If gas prices are high, it’s not a good sign for the incumbent president. How high? That’s up for interpretation, but it makes sense.

The second thing you need to look for is the cost of food around the fourth of July. That’s because most Americans hold parties and cookouts then. If the cost of hamburger, hotdogs, chicken, and steaks are up then again, it’s not the sign the incumbent president wants to see. Americans will not be happy.

The final thing that we all need to watch for according to Ford, is in August, and the back-to-school prices. If clothing, student needs such as backpacks, pens, paper, notebooks and the like are up, it’s a terrible sign. And if all three are up, then you might as well start packing up your belongings if you’re the incumbent.

Now, I get that those three times are when Americans are paying attention to the economy probably more than others. But what this is really telling me is that Ford believes in the age-old adage that voters vote their pocketbooks, and that, as James Carville once said, it IS the economy, stupid! If that’s the case, then Biden should just plan on moving to Rehoboth Beach now and running the country from there. There’s no need for debate, there’s no need for campaigning.

The economy is locked into whatever it’s going to do for the next six months, regardless what Biden does at this point. But I can point to a couple of things that he’s intimating he’s considering doing that isn’t going to bode well for him.

The first mistake he’s making is raising the Capital Gains Tax to 44.6% for “qualified individuals” and corporations. That means if you live in California, New Jersey, Oregon, Minnesota, or New York, and you have capital gains (usually through the sale of stocks or mutual funds), then your effective tax will be over 50% because those of those states’ high capital gains tax. That federal margin, by the way, is the highest in history. And, most likely it will make Nancy Pelosi’s head explode with all the trading she does!

The second mistake he’s making is to say today that he’s going to let the Trump tax cuts expire at the end of 2025. That means that he will be breaking his promise not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $200,000 a year, as letting these cuts expire will certainly do that. Of course, should he be elected, he’ll be a lame duck at that point, and doesn’t care what anybody thinks. It harkens back to 1984 when Ronald Reagan said that Walter Mondale (the Democrat nominee) has promised to raise your taxes ahead of the election. That election was the last landslide we’ve had in this country, as Mondale could only carry Minnesota. He couldn’t even carry Massachusetts, which at the time was the most liberal state in the country.

We’ll have to see if Harold Ford Jr. was right about his prediction. He claims it’s pretty much a fool proof way to determine who’s going to win a presidential election…and we’re just weeks away from the first prediction date.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Maxine’s Words Come Back To Haunt Her

Let’s go back in time a little bit, shall we? How about six years ago. Donald Trump was the President of the United States, and he was doing an admirable job. The economy was humming along nicely. People of all races, creeds, colors, religions, and even sexual orientations were working. Unemployment was at record low levels. Trump had succeeded in putting “America first”, much to the chagrin of some of our allies who really wanted America to pay for their foibles.

So, what did the prissy little Maxine Waters have to say about it all? Besides screaming, “Impeach 45” anytime there were cameras near her, she demanded that her supporters harass Donald Trump, and those that worked for him any time they saw them. She wanted her minions to follow these folks to the bank, the grocery store, the dry cleaners, and scream constantly at them.

My how the times have changed!

Six years later, the shoe seems to be on the other foot. Nowadays, Maxine is the one that seems to be getting the people following her, and calling her out. And she doesn’t like it one bit! Her comment was, “As a member of Congress, when people, you know, who evidently had a racist attitude, and recently one of them even confronted me in a restaurant. And they don’t say racist things, but what they say is they don’t like something I said, they don’t like a position that I took, but you know that, you know, if you were not black, you would not be approached that way.”

She played the race card.

And of course, video of that comment took off and became viral on X after her tirade. Apparently, it’s OK for us regular folks to go after Republicans in power, but as a “member of Congress”, you are racist if you disagree with someone that is black, or certainly a long time member of the House of Representatives! That’s unforgivable.

The hypocrisy here is about as loud as it can get. Maxine doesn’t like it when she’s called out for her uber-leftist views and racist comments. But she’s alright if Donald Trump and his staff feel that the heat. First off, let’s be clear, questioning someone’s policies, or their stance on an issue is not necessarily racist. It happens all the time to members of both parties, and race doesn’t play a part in probably 99% of it. I’m sure there are some folks out there that are indeed racist, but that’s not the overwhelming minority of what we’re talking about. I’m sure those are isolated examples. And I have no idea how Maxine Waters can determine that someone “evidently had a racist attitude”, or whether they just didn’t like her position on an issue.

The mere fact that she was about as unprofessional and rude as a politician could get toward Trump and his staff is not lost on the fact that anytime someone disagreed with her, it was because of race. Maybe SHE was the one that was racist when she was attacking Trump. Did anyone ever think about that?

The good news in all of this is, Maxine Waters is 85 years old. She doesn’t have much time left on this earth, so we don’t have to put up with her for long. And I’d say that if she were black, white, brown, red, yellow, or green. The color of her skin doesn’t matter. When you’re an idiot, it transcends race.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Are Dems Thinking Of Replacing Biden?

Oh, it’s only a rumor right now…but it’s one I’ve heard coming from several different sources. Here’s what’s going around.

Sometime in May (as opposed to sometime in March, which was the last rumor), the Democrats are going to get together and decide they aren’t going to nominate Joe Biden for reelection. He’s going to have to come up with some reason, possibly his health, as to why he’s not going to run again, but he’d drop out of the race. Then, K-baby Harris is going to say that whomever gets the nod to be president, she’s fine with that as long as she’s on the ticket for VP, but she’s OK with being the VP for now. And in steps Gavin Newsom to take over for Joe.

That’s the rumor in a nutshell. I’ve heard it from several different places, with only minor changes. One had K-baby Harris taking over the top spot, and one had Michelle Obama reconsidering a run for president. Other than that, the rumor was basically the same.

And here’s what I find to be interesting with all of this. First off, let’s get rid of the Obama theory. Michelle Obama has made over $200 million with her hubby since getting out of the White House. They have a house in Hawaii and one in Martha’s Vineyard. And she gets $200,000 per speech when corporations or countries want to hear what she has to say. She’s not going to be handcuffed to running the country. However, should she change her mind, polls show she COULD beat Donald Trump.

Then there’s the Gavin Newsom angle. He’s been an absolutely terrible governor in California. Their economy is in shambles, people are leaving the state, and while he may look like the younger, more energetic candidate with the slicked back hair, he’s got a long way to go to be on the national stage. Ron DeSantis absolutely destroyed him in the debate that was held earlier this year on the Sean Hannity show on Fox News. Trump would eat him as a snack before breakfast.

As for Harris, there isn’t any way she could compete with Trump either. Her approval rating is lower than Biden’s. She’s viewed as vapid and stupid by pretty much every media outlet, even the liberal ones. But rumor has it that she would be boosted by a media-makeover. They’d start by saying what a great Attorney General she was in California. And it would go on to say how much she had done in the US Senate (very little actually). She co-sponsored 80 bills during her time in Congress, but co-sponsoring is easy and most every person on the Hill has co-sponsored something from time to time. She would lose in a landslide to Trump

Personally, I think win, lose, or draw, the Dems are stuck with Biden. I don’t think it’s going to bode well for him, as he has a number of problems besides all of the issues. His party is splintered over his waffling on the Israel/Hamas war. And he has solidified (somewhat) the youth vote because of his expansion of the student loan debt elimination. But he’s also upset more of the working class folks who see themselves as paying for doctors’ and lawyers’ educations while they work more menial jobs. That’s not even to start talking about inflation, the economy, or the southern border. He is upside down on every issue except abortion, and we’ll have to wait and see what happens on that one since Trump has come out saying the states will have to decide it for themselves (which is exactly what the Supreme Court said).

Carry on world…your dismissed?

Should Presidents Get Immunity?

It was less than two weeks ago, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments that Donald Trump (and presidents in general) should receive immunity from criminal prosecution for acts they have committed while in office. Now, the high court won’t rule on this until most likely the end of June so we’ve got about another couple of months before we hear the outcome. But there are some interesting points that Trump’s legal team makes.

First of all, presidents are immune already from civil prosecution for acts committed while in office. That ruling came down about 40 years ago, right after Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate affair. But no one has tried to get that immunity expanded to criminal prosecution until now. And the only reason it’s before the high court now is because of the lawfare that we’ve been witnessing in New York, Georgia, and with Jack Smith, and the January 6th fiasco, as well as the Mar a Lago classified documents case.

I’m going to refer to a couple of things I’ve talked about for quite some time. The first is the Harry Reid Rule (or that’s what I call it). It was when Harry Reid was Majority Leader in the Senate and passed a rule that appointees other than Supreme Court Justices needed a simple majority, not 60 votes to get appointed to whatever position they were up for. It backfired on Reid because when Mitch McConnell took over as Majority Leader, he expanded it to include the SCOTUS nominees. And that’s what led to the 6-3 conservative court we have today.

The second thing that is going to come back to bite Democrats is what Chuck Schumer did in the Alejandro Mayorkas impeachment. He basically made a motion that the impeachment was unconstitutional, and it passed along party lines. What this basically means is that if there is an impeachment dealing with the out of power party in the Senate, the party in power can simply state that the charges are unconstitutional, and kill the impeachment without a trial. And while you know I’m not a fan of impeachment unless you’ve got enough votes to not only impeach in the House, but convict in the Senate, this was a really stupid move on Schumer’s part. It will come back to bite the Democrats as soon as the Republicans lose the House and take over the Senate. Wait and see.

Well, in this case, with presidential immunity on the line, what happens if a president is worried that he’s going to be charged with a crime if he makes the wrong decision. Does that top him making the right decision because of his fear of getting charged and prosecuted? Take the case of Bobo Obama, who ordered a drone strike in the Middle East and took out a 16 year old American citizen, who just happened to be a member of ISIS. Could Obama, without immunity, still today be charged with that boy’s murder? After all, there is no statute of limitations on murder.

And what about Joe Biden, and the problems he’s got with the whole Hunter Biden fiasco? Could he be criminally charged with accepting bribes from Ukraine, Romania, and China in exchange for favorable outcomes to those countries while he was Vice President or even President? Presidents, of both parties, need to have the ability to make tough decisions without the fear of being called on the carpet for it later on. Now, that’s not to say that a sitting president has carte blanche to go after anyone they choose anyway they choose. There has to be some sort of litmus test. But that could very well be decided by the lower courts. I doubt the Supremes are going to get that involved in it. But I certainly can see them sending this back down the line and having the lower courts come up with what circumstances would need to exist before a president could invoke immunity on a criminal charge.

And for Donald Trump, that would mean victory. That would mean that there would be no way to hold this trial prior to election day. It would take months at the very least for a lower court to gather the information, hold hearings, and decide what constitutes immunity and what doesn’t.

And if that happens, Donald Trump could very well have skated on all four of his trials on his way to reelection.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Time To Re-Think “Higher Education”

With the recent spat of riots, protests and college campuses forced to shut down to allow pro-Hamas agitators and students the ability to protest on campus without much retribution at all, I think it may be time to start to rethink how we handle “higher education” in this country.

Let’s start with the reasons why.

Universities used to be a place of higher learning. Now, it’s basically a place of liberal indoctrination. It used to be you could attend a decent state school, even with out-of-state fees for around $3,000-$3,500 a year. Now that won’t even pay for your books. Schools like Harvard and Yale have enormous endowments. Harvard’s was recently estimated to be $50.8 BILLION. Yale wasn’t far behind with an endowment of $41.6 billion. And the average of the top 15 schools endowment wise was $21.7 billion. That’s a lot of scratch. For the students, they have to pony up $51,143 per year for the privilege of saying they went to Harvard. On top of that, room and board is additional $18,941 for a grand total (minus books and spending money) of $78,028! That’s $312,000 if you can get through in four years!

So, these elite universities are super expensive. And why? Well, the average Harvard professor makes $129,675, and there are 2,400 full-time, full-professors at the school. So, just to pay the teaching staff (not including TA’s and associate professors) will run you over $300 million a year. That includes no maintenance, no secretaries, no administration, no cooks in the cafeterias or anything else.

Let’s try these things to bring college more in line with today.

First off, all universities are taxed 10% of their annual endowment amounts that aren’t given out to students in the form of student scholarships and aid. That would bring in over $32.5 billion (and would be almost enough to pay for Biden’s student loan forgiveness!) Next up, tuitions need to be rolled back. While inflation is rearing it’s ugly head now, education costs rose higher than inflation. In fact, when accounting for inflation, tuition costs at private colleges have risen 64% since 1964. For public schools that average is half, at 32%. That’s on top of the inflation rate. So, let’s say we roll back 25 years of that inflationary spiral and bring in the cost of education to what it was in 2000. Yes, professors would have to take a cut.

Next up, higher education needs to be cut from receiving all taxpayer dollars. If you can raise endowments as high as what was shown up above, you don’t need taxpayer support. You need to start paying back to the community instead of being a printing press for yourselves. No federal or state dollars should go to even “state-supported” schools.

Tenure for all professors needs to be abandoned. Professors and teachers of all kinds need to be kept on the payroll for one reason only…they are the best at what they do. They shouldn’t be giving a lifetime appointment to work there just because they are afraid of saying something that could get them fired. That makes about as much sense as saying we’re not going to punish home-grown terrorists that claim “they are Hamas” because they are college students.

And all majors offered at a college or university need to publish on an annual basis the rate of employment that that year’s graduates received in their majors. So, “Women’s Studies” would have to show how many of their graduates got jobs in that industry and the pay that they received the first year. Same for CPA’s, and journalists, and engineers, and anything else you can think of. If you’re going to charge for educating and training a person for a job in a particular field, you need to be able to back up that you’re worth what you’re charging. That’s just common sense.

There is currently a backlash going on in this country against higher education because of the student loan crap. If you can’t make enough money to pay back your loan after you’ve gotten a job in that industry, you need to know that before you take out the loan, not after.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

Can There BE A Fair Election?

When I look at all of the shenanigans the Democrats have pulled over the past four years, trying to insure that Donald Trump doesn’t get a second term as president, it makes me really wonder to what lengths they will go to in order to achieve that end.

Having said that, I will tell you that I’m really sure that seeing them pull the impeachments, the media blitz, the lies, and now the lawfare on Trump, having people disrupt the voting come November through several different means in order to deny Trump a victory, regardless what the polls say, may indeed come into play.

And when you look at a new poll from Heartland Institute, and Rasmussen, it bears witness to it. 28% of those folks polled said that they would commit voter fraud in order to help their side win come November. That’s almost three in ten voters! And there were several things they said they could do to destroy the integrity of the election: voting in multiple states; destroying mail-in ballots of friends or family members; paying or offering rewards to fellow voters; deliberately providing incorrect information about the place, time, or date associated with casting a ballot; and/or altering candidate selections on mail-in ballots.

I found that to be quite shocking to say the least. Now, to be fair, I have always said that yes, there probably was voter fraud in the 2020 election. However, I didn’t see (nor did the courts) any proof that would suggest that there was enough of it to overturn the election from Trump to Biden. I know that some of you doubt that and probably will go to your grave believing the election was stolen, just like Democrats who will believe forever that the Republicans stole the 2000 election when George W. Bush beat Al Gore by 500 or so votes.

But to hear that upwards of 44 million Americans may be inclined to commit voter fraud this far ahead of the election? That’s downright scary! And by the way, these weren’t just Democrats saying they would violate the law. This was Republicans as well.

One of the easier ways to commit voter fraud is through the mail-in ballots. When you don’t have a physical person at a physical voting station, with ID in hand to check against the voters’ roles, and you’re relying on a signature that is rarely if ever checked, and you hear of stories of bags of votes that were “found” in a closet somewhere that show up only after the election is over, and the race isn’t going the way the person wants it to, it makes you wonder.

There are a ton of countries around the world that have banned the use of mail-in ballots unless the person is living abroad or serving in the armed services. Some 47% of the world’s countries have such a law. And it’s a law that needs to be implemented here. Mail-in ballots are the easiest to defraud, and the easiest to manipulate. That’s why they should be banned.

I’ve often decried the need for a change in our election process. It should be one day, no more. It should be held on a federal holiday so everyone is able to vote. There should only be mail-in voting or early voting allowed for people that are living out of the country, or service in the military. And everyone should have to show an ID. Once you’ve voted, you get your thumb dipped in a vat of purple dye that takes two weeks to wear off. That will solve most of the problems with election fraud.

To even think that a third of Americans, regardless of party would consider committing this offense is beyond reason. And to that end, Congress should stiffen the penalty of voter fraud to life imprisonment without the chance for parole. Period. If we can’t trust our electoral process, we have no right remaining a country.

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!

This One Will Upset Some Of You

And with that headline, you’ve been warned. So, if you’re not able to accept a couple of the absolute truths in this one, better to skip it and wait for tomorrow’s blog. You’ve been warned!

The top two campaign issues, according to just about everyone this year are #1 the economy (stupid…thanks James Carville!) and #2 the crisis at the southern border. However, Democrats are putting their eggs in the 2022 election cycle basket and are calling abortion the top issue, even though only 12% of likely voters feel that way. Today, we poke a hole in their argument.

But in order to do so, we have to realize there are two things that are just plain false in the liberal way of thinking when it comes to abortion. The first is, they call it “women’s health”. It’s not. It’s the taking of a fetus, and in some cases, where a beating heart has been detected, it’s a living fetus. I don’t care where you decide life begins, whether at inception, or with the first heartbeat, we all can agree that sometime when that baby is in the womb it is capable of living on it’s own outside the womb. Whenever you personally feel that is, is when life begins.

You also have to understand (and most liberals don’t want to do this) that there is a higher power that we refer to as God that makes a lot of the rules we live by. Why is it that most of us know the difference between right and wrong without being taught. Why are there so many rules to how things are? Who made those rules that seem so steadfast? Christians call this force God. Muslims call it Allah. Jews call it Yahweh. Same thing. It’s a higher power that creates all that is.

So, with that in mind, number one is realizing that abortion does involve the killing of a living being. And according to most religions, most philosophies, most feelings of right and wrong, that would be placed in the “wrong” category. And again, I don’t care what religion you are or IF you are religious, it’s pretty much the same for everyone, even athiests.

The second fallacy is that liberals like to use the phrase “a woman’s right to choose”. Let’s be 100% clear on this one. I believe fully that a woman DOES have a right to choose. However where I differ from liberals on this is WHEN that right to choose goes into effect. The liberal will tell you it goes into effect whenever the woman doesn’t want to have the baby, even in some cases up to the moment of birth. I believe that a woman’s right to choose starts and ends when they have made the decision to have intercourse with a partner. They have made that choice. And I’m not saying that right should be taken away. They always have the “right” to say “NO!” and that should be followed. So, coming up with a woman’s right to choose after she’s gotten pregnant isn’t fair to everyone involved. Make that choice BEFORE you get pregnant.

The one thing I’ve noticed this campaign more than any other, and the other day we were talking about it when we were discussing the student loan transfer to the taxpayers. It’s called personal responsibility. You have choices in life. Some are good, and some are bad. If you make the wrong choice, you’re going to feel some sort of pain, be it going through an unwanted pregnancy, or having to payback a student loan for an education that didn’t afford you enough opportunities to make enough money to pay the loan back. No one put a gun to your head in either situation. You need to take personal responsibility for your actions, good and bad. And you can’t expect the government to come to the rescue just because you screwed up. It’s YOUR problem, not all of ours.

And that’s why abortion isn’t such a big campaign issue this time around. Think about it!

Carry on world…you’re dismissed!