A Weekend and Year-End Summary With Holiday Wishes

So it is the Saturday before Christmas and Hanukkah, and I have decided that I plan to take the next few days away, resting my brain and relaxing with the family. This is the 352nd commentary I have written this year, 347 since July 1.

 

There have been many topics which, to me were important enough to research, and address with my readers. I have tried to succinctly explain, knowing some will not agree with anything, and others who agreed with most, if not all.

Certainly, a lot of it involved the election, which we all can agree was the most important election in many years. It was quite definitive, and depending on your viewpoint, it was, as elections go, fairly contentious.

Ostensibly, we thought it would divide us irreparably, but we showed the world we could agree to disagree, passionately, and in the end, come together as Americans again.

Of course, I wrote about the events I saw happening in the State I lived almost my entire life. While I no longer live there, I am still a New Yorker at heart.

And as a New Yorker, I can state emphatically that I am not afraid to say what is on my mind.

Finally, I shared my passion about the depths and the heights my New York Mets sank and achieved. I have bled Orange and Blue Since 1962, and sank as low as the team sank, and then, celebrated their unexpected rise to glory as they missed out on making it to the World Series by one game.

As a consolation prize, they signed the most dynamic player to a fifteen year contract, with hopes he will put them over the top in 2025 and beyond.

There were other commentaries of interest to me, but these were my leading stories.

In any event, I want to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas, a Joyous Happy Hanukkah, and know I will be back next week with my batteries recharged, and ready to go to entertain and inform as I know you enjoy.

See you Next Week.

Congress Needs To Do the PEOPLE'S Business - Not Their Own

The Congress is expected to pass a 118 page Continuing Resolution with very little pork in it. At least a lot less than what was in the original CR, which was well over 1,500 pages. It had nothing critical to keep the government running.

 

Like the 40% pay raise and the refurbishment of RFK Stadium, which had nothing to do with essential services.

This afternoon, Karine Jean Pierre tried to call out the Republicans for listening to Donald Trump, JD Vance and Elon Musk, and their criticism of the original CR. But in 30 days, Karine, they would be obligated to live with it.

Just in case you didn’t get the update, Biden will not be President soon, Karine. So, sit down, get a coffee, and be quiet.

Even Biden knows he is not going to be responsible. So, take a lead from your boss.

As for what is left in the substantially reduced CR, military and law enforcement will get paid. Federal employees will not be denied their pay over the holidays and into the New Year. National parks and museums will continue to operate.

No need to pack in goodies for Congress to take back to their districts. These are NOT ESSENTIAL to keep everything running.

Dick Durbin, in spite of his whining, does not need a pay raise. He and Schumer and Pelosi, and all the rest, can live off the millions they have already siphoned away over the years from the taxpayers.

And they don’t need the exemption from Obamacare that they force the rest of America to buy. Or their free, taxpayer-funded healthcare. They can buy their own healthcare just like the rest of America does.

So, while the CR is a stop-gap measure, soon the new Congress will be forced to create a real budget for the rest of the fiscal year which ends in September. And begin working on the next year’s budget right after that.

This is what Americans voted for.

It is time for the Congress to do the job WE THE PEOPLE demand they do.

Or in less than two years, some Senators and Representatives will be collecting $405 a week on unemployment, rather than $174,000 or more, working less than 180 days per year.

The Biden Presidency Is the Big Deceit

On July 21, 2020, I wrote a commentary called, Joe Biden, Likeable Man, Lost Forever and said he was suffering from Dementia. And maybe Alzheimers.

 

Well, this kicked up a firestorm against me, from both sides because a: at the time, I admitted I still liked him and found he was likeable, but wacky; and b: since I was not a psychiatrist, I had no business diagnosing his mental health. I lost many friends on both sides of the political divide.

But I was adamant that he was unwell, though, ultimately, I admitted he was actually UNLIKEABLE, with anger issues, speech impediments and horrible memory lapses. Hence, a true Alzheimers patient.

Finally, it is being reported and revealed by reporters all across the political landscape that his staff has struggled to conceal in his lack of mental and physical acuity from us for FOUR YEARS. Including the current Vice President.

It was reported by Tina Fey in Baseline, an online read and in the New York Post. Even one liberal journalist, Chris Cillizza,  admitted in a video that he was wrong for blocking what he had learned over the years because he did not want to be seen as “age-shaming”.

But all of this now begs many questions. Who was really making decisions? Who was running the country? Are the “Biden” Executive Orders invalid? INCLUDING COVID mask and vaccine mandates? Were “Biden’s” 1,900 pardons, including Hunter Biden’s, legal? Was this all considered Unconstitutional?

And do the media and the Democrat leadership beg for a “Mea Culpa” for criticizing those of us who found EVERYTHING done in Biden’s name morally questionable and probably illegal?

How do we prevent Presidential staff people from taking charge of a President’s authority and running a “mini-coup” against the people and the Constitution again?

And finally, do we EVER trust the government and the Media to tell us the truth? Or, should we question EVERYTHING because they lied so many times to us in their quest to fulfill a political agenda?

I have said for many years that I love my country and distrust my government. I was criticized for having taken this positon, for not blindly following what our “leaders” have told us.

If I had doubts in my own feelings that I was too harsh or a “conspiracy theorist”, those doubts were washed away by this revelation that the Biden-Harris Administration was a fraud perpetrated on the American people. And it almost worked, until it was found to be a Big Deceit.

Now, more than ever, I feel I am vindicated.

Fani Willis Has Been Ordered to Stand Down and Shut Up

The Internet has been screaming all over. Donald Trump is celebrating with the news today.

 

Why? Because the Georgia Court of Appeals decided to remove the corrupt Fulton County, Georgia DA, Fani Willis from the Trump Election Interference trial. And her entire Team.

Ir will be up to the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia to decide IF it wants to appoint another prosecutor OR even if it wants the case to continue. Unless, of course, she wants to pursue an appeal to the State Supreme Court.

And wins.

She would have to convince five of the nine Judges that she should continue as the Prosecutor. But she has damaged her chances based on her conduct with her subordinates, Nathan Wade and others, and allegations of her own misconduct.

So for now, President-Elect Trump can consider this another win against all the cases of lawfare by corrupt democrats against him.

Time to Overhaul the New York MTA

There is no chance any reasonable person will support a request from MTA CEO and Chairman Janno Leiber to increase the fares by a minimum of 4% in 2025 and again, in 2027.  Except, of course, Governor Krazy Kat Hochul.

 

Keep in mind, I DID say REASONABLE.

This would mean the average one-way trip for some of the following:

      - Bus           2.90         3.15

      - Subway    2.90         3.15

      - LIRR        20.00      21.50

      - Met/No  20.00       21.50

      - SIRT          3.25         4.00

      - Bridges   11.50      12.75

These are numbers based on current average costs and anticipated projections reported in today's New York Post. The article only discusses the buses and subways, but past increases generally are applied to all properties and conveyances controlled by the MTA.

This is all on top of the implementation of congestion pricing scheduled for early in the new year. In addition, the MTA approved a $1.27 billion order of 435 new subway cars, including 80 “open-gangway” cars, to be purchased starting in 2025.

Between Krazy Kat and Janno’s total imcompetence, according to Joe Borelli, Minority Council Member from Staten Island, “So given the MTA’s incompetence factor, multiplied by their waste, abuse and mismanagement, paying only double a few years later seems par for the course,” he said. “Congestion pricing was supposed to solve all these capital shortfalls, but apparently now it won’t.”

He was careful not to mention that these two are the biggest grifters since Henry Gondorff and Johnny Hooker, when they took down Doyle Lonigan. (Courtesy The Sting)

Seriously, taxpayers, riders and commuters cannot continue to fork over their hard-earned, dwindling, limited resources as this mismanagement continues to exist unchecked, with no real audit consequences.

Perhaps, NOW, the federal Department of Transportation needs to step in and demand accountability, considering that the MTA receives funding from the feds via Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants program, Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grants, and Capital Investment Grant (CIG) program.

The abuse by this corrupt governor and corrupt MTA board cannot be permitted to continue unabated.

Making Money Talk

Uber and its CEO are just the latest who have donated $1MM or more to President-Elect Donald Trump's Inauguration fund. It seems Big Tech is trying to curry favor with him this time around.

 

Others who have donated to the Inaugural Committee include Tim Cook and Apple, Jeff Bezos and Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg and Meta, Google, Target and Walmart.

It is expected that the fund will top $150MM or more by January 20. It seems the goal is to have face time and with the the Donald, in Mar-a-Lago, and meet incoming officials in the Trump 2.0 Cabinet.

It seems that these companies will expect that the Administration will not be too overbearing, in light of how critical they all were in the first Administration of him and his policies. 

It is the power of the Almighty Dollar which they all hope will make him more forgiving.

But it remains to be seen if this ploy will work. And since the Inaugural Fund is a 501-c charity, if nothing else, tax credits will be taken by any and all who donate.

Not a bad end results for anyone, don’t you think?

After all, as the saying goes, money talks and BS walks.

Mayorkas Needs to Confess and Biden Needs to Step Away

On Monday, I posted a commentary called Is No One Responsible or Accountable in the Executive Branch? where I discussed the drones flying over the New York and New Jersey corridor. In that op-ed, I mentioned the remote possibility of anthrax or radiation being involved.

 

Well, in today’s afternoon New York Post, it was reported that the Mayor of Belleville, NJ, Mayor Michael Melham said the drones flying in a grid-like pattern over his Essex County township appear to be “looking for something.”

He told the local Fox affiliate, “What might they be looking for? Maybe that’s radioactive material.”

It was revealed in the news article that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued an alert earlier this week regarding a piece of medical equipment used for cancer scans that was “lost in transit” December 2 while being shipped from the Nazha Cancer Center in Newfield in Gloucester County in southern New Jersey.

But of course, the Biden-Harris-Mayorkas regime, led by the Big Liar, Alejandro Mayorkas, attempted to deceive us and dissemble the truth. Why? Because the Secretary of Homeland Security and the current, demented President of the United States failed us. On so many levels.

Secretary Mayorkas insisted that we trust him. Between his treasonous dereliction of duty to protect the border, his constant lying to the Congress and this attempted distraction, there is no way he can ever be trusted.

And what of the missing radioactive waste? There is every possibility that a bad actor, potentially an illegal immigrant that Mayorkas allowed in, has the material to create a dirty bomb. Would that now be an impeachable AND criminal offense?

He needs to be arrested and brought in for criminal negligence. And for his unwitting and ongoing part in crimes against America.

And Biden? How much more danger will we be subjected to before something terrible really happens? Someone MUST call for the enactment of the 25th Amendment to have him at least be temporarily removed and have Vice President Harris assume the role of Acting President for the next 33 days.

The missing radioactive material is a problem which should concern everyone. At every level of government.

Both parties are also responsible should any further issues arise from their failure to complete their Constitutional duties.