The (Daily) Vent 2

(Pathologies. . .) What is it called in the DSM 4 ? This is a series of codes used by medical professionals to classify mental disorders. What is a code for compulsion ? Or obsession ? A syndrome where logic gets replaced with intense emotion and an inability to rationalize common sense. That is what happens with so-called climate ac activists. And it is what is happening with Donald Trump. Those suffering from these conditions have a fatal fixation where their only vision is a myopic view where no other options can be considered. When President Biden was campaigning, he promised to end fossil fuels. People should have taken him at his word because there has been nothing else that has caused more damage to the economy than that singular action. But the President has been cancelling appliances as well on the same philosophy as the war on fossil fuels. It has also been gas stoves. It has been toilets. Dishwashers. Air conditioners. And everybody need to drive an electric car. Wh...

(Bad Managers. . .) Hoe many stories are there when there is a winner of a multi-million-dollar lottery only to be broke a few years later ? Or a trust fund kid who had a million dollars inheritance only to have spent it all and then, God forbid, have to get a job ? There are probably more money mis -managers than there are money managers. One of those in the former category is the Biden Administration because, as it is now a lottery winner or a trust fund kid, the credit rating agency, Fitch, downgraded the U.S "credit" from AAA to AA+. This had happened before under the Obama Administration and for the same reason; too much spending and no political mechanism to curtail the excess, namely the inability of Democrats and Republicans to reach any compromise because the fiscal aims of each Party are not compatible. The Biden Administration has been the author of current economic conditions, the President is proudly calling it Bidenomics. Republicans in the House have stated the...

(Options. . .) How might one kill two birds with one stone ? Democrats have a problem with the Biden-Harris ticket. To be sure, the President has not had a good week. House Republican investigations have all but definitively connected linkages between Hunter and his various foreign income sources. Biden Sr. is on tape some 20 times discussing Burisma issues, an exercise to which the President has denied. That puts paid that father Biden had no dealings, business and otherwise. Therefore, impeachment by the House is all but certain. However, if Democrats want to lose the Biden albatross altogether, Democrats in the Senate. could join with Body GOP, to vote to convict. Biden would be the first Chief Executive to be impeached and then removed because Biden committed "high crimes and mis-demeanors" A Biden removal would provide a clean slate going into the campaign season next year. President Biden is in a delectate position and this will assuage those who want to m...

(COME AND TAKE IT !) Defending the State of Texas is unlike the defense of any other part of the Border. The Lone Star State was itself once a Republic and spilled "Texian" blood against Mexico with battles such the Alamo, Goliad, and finally San Jacinto. At an early skirmish near the town of Gonzalez 1835, when a Mexican contingent advanced on the small Texas town seeking to acquire a six-pounder cannon but after a brief engagement, in which the Texians prevailed, a flag was crafted COME AND TAKE IT ! In 1835-36, Texas was under siege from Mexico and its Dictator for Life, Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana, who led his armies against the Alamo and then the massacre at Goliad before Sam Houston cornered him on the plains of San Jacinto and all but annihilated his force and, as the Mexican leader was forced to capitulate, Texas was granted its independence and was eventually made a State in 1845. Today, the State of Texas faces a war on two fronts. The legions of illegal migrants...

(Tough Crowd. . .) Writing this clear on the wall is called Graffiti. Iowa held its Lincoln Dinner event the other night, an opportunity for GOP candidates for President to make an appetence. Donald Trump was there. So was Mike Pense. Nikki Haley. And Will Hurd. Hurd, a former Texas Congressman and Central Intelligence officer, has emerged as a Trump critic and is the camp that is convinced that dominating the Republican Primary perhaps a straight line to the Nomination, but he still cannot win the General. Hurd attempted to present these facts to the Lincoln attendees but he was booed off the stage. Hurd's experience is emblematic of those within the GOP who are seeking to de-rail the former President because it is their shared conclusion that Trump will not ultimately prevail. That has been consensus of these Pages for some time now, but, and speaking of now, the President Biden who is slated to defeat Donald Trump, again, is not as formidable as one might have original...

( By The Numbers. . .) Everything has a quantity these days, There have been GDP numbers, inflation numbers, temperature numbers, instances where the Biden Administration "coerced" Facebook to censor certain American expressions and only a small percentage of Biden's renewal energy sources have been connected to the Grid, The Gross Domestic Product for the last quarter was at 2.1% annualized growth. That is a number that has been an improvement over recent reading but still significantly below the total domestic potential. Inflation was moderated some but that broader point is that these conditions have absolutely nothing to do with Bidenomics. These numbers, as anemic as they are, were achieved in spite of the President's program. Anyone who has seen a thermometer recently could tell that things are hot. Temperatures have either breached 100° or have come close. Heat advisories have been posted nationwide. And, as if...

( Is The Truth Out There ?) Remember, the X- Files was cancelled. Twice. Since the so-called "Roswell Incident," where something "strange" crashed on a farm near the Roswall Army Airbase and when whatever it had been made an article in the local newspaper but, when the Base Public Affairs Officer, Captain Jesse Marchel presented the "wreckage," it was only a weather balloon. Since then, there has been a great mythology that has arisen over the whole UFO phenomenon, There has been an endless litany of government control, secret organizations like Majestic 12 and how all witnesses are silenced somehow. The old Fox science fiction show, X- Files . Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) investigate the "X-Files" for the FBI and Muder, an Oxford trained psychologist who saw his sister kidnapped by aliens. He and Scully uncovered a conspiracy led by the Cigarette Smoking Man, part of a global Cabel that meant to manage an a...