Sister Slug's Traveling Salvation Show

 The White House announced that VP Kameltoe Harris will travel to Bahrain, Germany and Singapore on a five-day trip from January 13-17. 

According to the White House, in a statement issued Tuesday, “Throughout her trip, the Vice President will discuss the accomplishments of the Biden-Harris Administration over the past four years in each region, the U.S. partnership with the respective nations, the contributions of U.S. military forces to regional and global security, and the enduring national security interests of the United States." WOW!!

She's traveling halfway around the world at taxpayer expense to try to do something that a hired writer could do in the 280 characters allowed to the free "X" users.  

She is taking Doug Emhof, the "Second Gentleman" with her on this trip. So, the taxpayers are on the hook for one last vacation for Kameltoe and Doug. I have to admit that the cost of that trip is trillions less than what her getting elected would have cost us. 

Couldn't she have just taken a vacation with some of the more than a billion dollars that they raised for her campaign? I'm sorry, I forgot that they actually spent more than they raised.

Somewhere in Singapore, there's some poor son of a bitch who works for the government, pulling out his English-Word Salad dictionary so that he can translate Kameltoe's remarks into some form of English that can be understood. They won't even waste their time and money bringing in someone to translate her remarks into sign language.

Is Kameltoe traveling to foreign countries because it isn't safe for her to travel to Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York or Washington DC? Will she be recycling some of her campaign speeches in those foreign countries? 

Is she going to those countries because they haven't heard her prattle on about "big yellow school busses"? Will those countries have to bus in paid spectators for her appearances? Will they have to build a set that looks like "The View" before she does an interview in Bahrain? Is she going to tell the "I want feedom" story in Singapore? Will she go shopping in Germany to restock her wine cellar at home? Or is she just spreading "The Incoherent Gospel of Joe Biden"?

There is talk about Harris running for Governor of California in a couple of years. If she wins, we just need to go ahead and cede California to Canada. Throw in Washington and Oregon just to make it contiguous. 

I have been to the mountain top!!

 Last night, I turned on the computer to check on the news and possibly scrawl out a blog post. As you are reading this post, I was obviously successful in that endeavor.

I saw a news story that confirmed my long-held belief that government is run by morons. But to be honest, I don't recall ever seeing a story that would contradict my belief. But last night was special. This was like winning a thousand dollars on a one-dollar scratch and lose ticket.

There was a news story from here in North Carolina. Yesterday was the deadline for paying property taxes in North Carolina counties. I always pay my property taxes between Christmas and New Year's to beat the crowd after New Year's Day. I would pay earlier, but there is no discount for paying early.

In Buncombe County, the county seat is Asheville. There was a lot of damage in that area from Hurricane Helene three months ago. Today, the Buncombe County Tax Office announced that there will be no waivers or adjustments for people who had their homes damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Helene. Taxes are due regardless of the condition or presence of your home. The Buncombe County Tax Office says that there is no provision for waivers or adjustments in North Carolina State Law.

Our new Governor Jerk-off Josh Stein visited Asheville last Thursday and talked about all that he was going to do to help the people who had suffered so much damage. Apparently, this does not include any relief on their property tax bills.

What are they going to do to people who watched their homes float away in the storm? Is the county going to recover their home and put it back onto the property? Are they going to track it down and seize it to sell? If you can't afford to get your home repaired, how can you afford to pay taxes on it? People have lost their homes and their jobs, but Buncombe County just doesn't care.

I will take a moment here to point out that Buncombe County and Asheville are the heart of the Democratic Party in western North Carolina. The counties surrounding it may vote Republican, but Buncombe never does. Obviously, Democrats aren't even interested in taking care of their own.

That the government waited until the last day to issue this public statement tells you everything that you need to know about government. Did anyone in Buncombe County government discuss this with Gov. Jerk-off Josh when he visited last week? They are all Democrats. Didn't anyone see this crisis coming before yesterday?

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, Buncombe County is a "sanctuary county". While they long to shelter illegal immigrants, they do nothing to help their residents who have lost their homes. You have to love the insanity of liberal priorities!!

Martin Luther King used to say that he had been to the mountaintop, and he had seen the Promised Land.  Well, I have been to the mountaintop, and I have seen the dumbest bastards in government. 

The Governor and the legislature need to start work on resolving this issue today. There is no time to waste. This is the kind of stupid shit from the government that pushes people over the edge. There's a mental health crisis brewing in Buncombe County. It's being caused by morons in government.  let's find a cure!!

Just a footnote, but if Trump has to ride to the rescue on this situation, the Dims can write off Buncombe County.

Right?? Again??

 There's nothing better than being right about something, unless you are debating with your spouse in which case, it's best not to be right. But this one is about the FBI and not my beloved, so I am free to celebrate.

Early Friday morning I published "Rants, Raves and Ruminations" in this space. In it, I wrote this, " A news report about the FBI searching the killer's Houston home mentioned that the door to his home was half torn off and left open after the FBI had finished. Leaving the door open gives others the opportunity to come in and see what the FBI missed. This is sloppy law enforcement. Are we to believe that there is no way the FBI overlooked anything? If they come back later, the entire scene has been tainted. Of course, the FBI doesn't worry about legal principles."

What happened? The FBI and Harris County officials returned to the home on Friday to collect more evidence. They returned to a home where they had left the front door half torn off and open. They had failed to secure the site before leaving on Thursday. Neighbors reported that people had been seen inside the home recording videos after the FBI left on Thursday. But ignoring all of this, the FBI returned on Friday to "collect more evidence".

Fox 26 television news in Houston had this in a story:

"The Harris County Sheriff's Office bomb squad along with four unmarked SUVs returned to the address with large evidence collection trucks to gather items and evidence, sources reported. Authorities are returning a day after Jabbar's home was left open and people were seen videoing inside the home and roaming around."

Is this how the nation's "premier law enforcement agency" works? The only good news is that the perpetrator is dead and won't have an attorney to challenge the FBI's results. Anything that comes out of this investigation is now subject to challenge. They left the crime scene open to people who just wanted to look around. Does it get any dumber than this?

Even worse, they brought the Harris County Bomb Squad with them on Friday. So, the FBI left open an investigative scene where they thought there might be a bomb or at the least, bomb making materials. This might belong on an old blog post called "Stupid Trooper Tricks".

In New Orleans, they left dead bodies in the street for several hours while they did an investigation of the murders. But in Houston, they couldn't board up a door or leave a policeman there to watch the mass murderer's house until they returned. What kind of sense does this make? 

This is the same FBI that has spent millions of man-hours pursuing people who committed a misdemeanor by walking through the Capitol on January 6, but didn't have the manpower to post a guard at an actual crime scene. Maybe they could have pulled someone off of a school board meeting or a Latin Mass at a Catholic church to cover the murderer's house? 

If the FBI could send a SWAT team to arrest a guy who prayed outside of an abortion clinic, surely, they could have posted a guard at the home of someone who killed fourteen people and injured more than thirty others. The vocabulary quiz to become an FBI agent should include the word "priorities".

At the end of the day, the nation's "premier" law enforcement agency failed to secure a site involved with one of the deadliest crimes in the country. This whole incident is just another reason that demonstrates that it is time to shut down the FBI and start over again. 

Carville the Clown??

 Just when you think that James Carville can't say anything that is measurably dumber than anything he has said before, the "Rajun Cajun" comes through with another gem.

Appearing on Anderson Cooper's show on CNN, Carville was discussing the two recent terror incidents and the two guys responsible for them. He mentioned that they had both been in the Army and should have known how to handle explosives. From that observation, Carville left the liberal reservation with this thought, “These people have some kind of sexual problem. I think that most of them are incels. I’ll be wrong 20%, I’ll say that, but I’m not going to be wrong much more than that, if you dig into it.”

I actually had to look up the meaning of "incel". It is shorthand for "involuntary celibate". The Anti-Defamation League defines "incels" as “heterosexual men who blame women and society for their lack of romantic success.”

So, liberals think that these guys are trying to cause mass deaths, including their own death, because they can't get laid. WOW!! This is a whole new perspective. Add this to the list of things for the FBI to check when we have the next terror incident. Based on this thought process, I was in high school with hundreds of potential terrorists. I must have slept through all of the mass shootings at high school. I was either asleep for three years or Carville's theory is bullshit, you pick.

I can't believe that Carville is advocating this theory after the New Orleans incident. I don't think that on a New Year's Eve in the French Quarter, in New Orleans, that there are a lot of people practicing celibacy. Call me cynical, but I just don't believe that is a reasonable idea. 

I think the bigger question here is why did they even run Carville's comments on Anderson Cooper's show? I have to ask because there are no actual "inquiring minds" at CNN.

By his own account, Carville's political experiences started when he was attending a Catholic high school in Louisiana. He tore down the political signs of an opponent. More than sixty years later, not much has changed.

Do You Believe in Magic?

 No, I am not talking about the Lovin' Spoonful song from the 1960's. I am talking about the vote yesterday in the House of Representatives to elect Mike Johnson as the Speaker of the House. I had mentioned in previous posts that I didn't have much faith in the ability of the House Republicans to come together and accomplish anything. So, I was stunned by the news that they had elected Mike Johnson as Speaker on the first ballot.

After a couple of votes were changed, Thomas Massie was the only Republican who didn't support Johnson. I am a contrarian by nature, but even I am trying to understand Massie's position. Sometimes, we have to put our feelings and our egos aside and do what is best for the country. Massie just couldn't do it.

I doubt that anyone who has a pulse thought that Johnson would win on the first ballot. I told someone that I thought that he might win on the second ballot, and they expressed the idea that I might be insane. Just call me crazy!

What did we learn from this election for Speaker of the House? We learned that Donald Trump may have unified Republicans in a way thought previously to be impossible. For the skeptics, this is certainly Donald Trump's Republican Party. The vote for Speaker proved that point.

 In the last nine years, Trump has dramatically altered the Republican Party. The Country Club Republicans have given way to the Home Depot Republicans. Somebody needs to go tell Mitch! We don't need to tell Mitt. He left on his own. Mitch needs to go ahead and leave before he just dies at his desk one day. I won't even ask "How will anyone know?"

Over in the Senate, Vice President Harris bungled the Pledge of Allegiance in the ceremony to swear in new members of the Senate. My thirteen-year-old grand-daughter can recite the Pledge of Allegiance. But the Vice-President of the United States cannot do that. Every time I see Kamala; the same thought runs through my mind. "We really dodged a bullet on that!"

I was reading an online article about the new senators who were being sworn into office. The writer mentioned that two of them had habitually mispronounced Kamala's name. Apparently, this is viewed by the left as some kind of sin. Memo to parents: When you make up a name for your child, there is a risk that no one will be able to either pronounce or spell it. Give it some more thought. 

Where do we get all of these names? Who decides how they are spelled? The prevailing theory goes like this. The hospital worker comes into the room where the mother is with the newborn child. The worker asks, "What do you want to name the child? I am filling out the birth certificate." The mother responds with the name. The worker asks, "How do you spell that?" The mother responds, "Just like it sounds." And that's where all of these names originate. Right?

My first name is Gilbert. It is English or French in origin. That depends on the nationality of whoever you are talking to about it. It is easy to pronounce. But over the last fifty years, I had several employees and customers mispronounce it. Many called me "Mista Gibbut". My maternal grandmother called me "Gib". I survived and so will Kamala. If you work for CNN or MSNBC, find something else to bitch about other than the pronunciation of Kamala. Or just call her Kam.

Once again, welcome to the new Republican Party.

Rants, Raves and Ruminations

 A guy who was a Green Beret in the army and on leave from his unit in Germany killed himself and tried to blow up a Tesla "truck" yesterday at the Trump International in Las Vegas. Experts have stated that his choice of blasting materials was consumer based and not really reflective of what a career soldier would choose. But they are sure that he did it all himself. I can't decide whether to advocate for more kooks or fewer experts. I would settle for some actual facts.

The Las Vegas loon shot himself in the head as his rental car/truck(?) caught fire. He didn't even break out a window in the hotel despite being parked just a few feet from the doors. His skill in the Army was not explosives. I have set bigger fires at home trying to burn leaves in the fall.

I am working on the theory that he didn't like Trump. Did the "suicide bomber" go to see Alvin Bragg before killing himself? If he did, Bragg will soon charge Trump with causing this loon's death. 

Still waiting for Phony Fani Willis to announce that she is charging the Las Vegas Police Department with a RICO charge for interfering with the guy trying to damage the Trump Hotel.

The House of Representatives will meet today to try and elect a Speaker of the House. I am not sure what time the cat herding exercise will begin, but I expect it to run well into the evening. As I mentioned the other day, several Republicans appear to be confused about how to succeed in anything. Mom said, "You aren't going to get everything you want in life. Get used to it!" I guess that is why she never ran for Congress. 

As children, several of the discontented Republican group must have threatened to hold their breath until they got their way. One of my sons did that as a child and caved in at about the thirty second mark as I headed to the bathroom to read the newspaper.

The superintendent of police in New Orleans told us that the killer had found a way around the vehicle blockades on Bourbon Street. That will be the biggest understatement of the year and there are 362 days left for someone to try and top it. They won't.

The FBI said that the News Orleans killer was working by himself and was not part of a group. This came a little more than 24 hours after the shooting. Do I believe them? Of course not. This is the same agency that hasn't told us the truth yet about what happened at Waco and that was 32 years ago. Those guys lie for a living. We won't even take up Ruby Ridge.

The FBI was so busy monitoring parents at school board meetings that they didn't have time to check on a former soldier who had gone over to the other side. If only Shamsud-Din Jabbar had become a Republican? Then they would have been all over him. If he had held a sign on a sidewalk outside an abortion clinic, he would have still been in prison instead of on Bourbon Street. 

A news report about the FBI searching the killer's Houston home mentioned that the door to his home was half torn off and left open after the FBI had finished. Leaving the door open gives others the opportunity to come in and see what the FBI missed. This is sloppy law enforcement. Are we to believe that there is no way the FBI overlooked anything? If they come back later, the entire scene has been tainted. Of course, the FBI doesn't worry about legal principles.

Did the FBI SWAT team take a female agent with them to search the killer's mobile home? I realize that it wasn't Melania's dresser at Mar-a-Lago but weren't they going to search the guy's underwear drawer? Isn't that standard Bureau procedure? 

I am fascinated by the fact that both of the killers rented EVs to use to commit their crimes. I guess that the EVs are quieter, and people don't have a noise warning them of your arrival before the murder or suicide. Is this a plot by Secretary of Trans Pete Buttgig to popularize EVs? 

At least now we know what kind of people rent EVs.

Liz Cheney was awarded the Presidential Citizen's Medal by senile Joe Biden. We have tried people who were more honorable than Liz for treason. I guess that her pardon will come next week. She and Bro Benny Thompson have to be protected from the Justice Department.

I haven't seen an announcement yet from the White House, but are the three cops who engaged in the shootout with the New Orleans killer going to get a Presidential Medal?

  

 

New Year, Same old Stuff

 Someone asked how I could have titled my last post of 2024,"The Last Blast of 2024" after the incidents in New Orleans yesterday. It was easy, I wrote it about 5:00 PM on New Years Eve. I am only sarcastic, not psychic.

The FBI has confirmed their position as a group needing a major overhaul by immediately denying that the New Orleans disaster was a "terrorist attack". They had to retract that later in the day. Maybe they should have checked the scene for ISIS flags before issuing their first statement? Did they even talk to the New Orleans Police Department before issuing a statement?

Was the Tesla truck explosion in front of the Trump Hotel another terrorist incident or just another dumbass liberal offering himself up as some kind of human sacrifice? Tell me again about how the conservatives are the violent ones.

I have covered this before, but it is time for a cultural transfusion at the FBI. It's so bad that Biden suggested that he would reappoint J. Edgar Hoover to the job of FBI Director before January 20. Biden claims that he and J. Edgar spoke yesterday after the New Orleans tragedy.

The FBI is our national joke. The only solution is to destroy the current culture at the FBI and start all over again. Fire everyone in leadership positions and burn the FBI headquarters in Washington to the ground. You will have to tear the entire organization of the FBI down to rebuild it. There's nothing there worth saving. Don't waste your breath telling me what a great agency that they used to be. Build a new headquarters somewhere in a small town in middle America and start again.

WAIT!! I was wrong. It's not just the FBI; it is the entire Department of Justice. Rest assured; the word "priorities" is not in the vocabulary at the Department of Justice. They demonstrate this on a daily basis for all of the world to see. Burn the DOJ headquarters as well. Move their headquarters to Nebraska or Kansas.

While Ma Garland has spent the last four years pursuing Donald Trump and anyone associated with him, it is obvious that "Justice" has not been the objective of the Department of Justice. I won't even bother mentioning Hunter Biden. It's time for the DOJ to look at itself in a mirror. Maybe Pogo was right. Maybe he was talking about the DOJ when he said, "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

How much time and manpower has been spent pursuing the people who demonstrated at the Capitol on January 6? How many millions of man-hours have been used trying to jail those protestors for a host of misdemeanor charges? Now that the FBI has finally admitted that the New Orleans attack is a terrorist action, should they have spent those millions of man-hours investigating real terrorist groups instead of harassing those who have different political views?

Could the terrorist strike in New Orleans been averted if the FBI had spent more time investigating real terrorists and less time looking through Melania Trump's underwear drawer at Mar-a-Lago? If only Jack Smith, Chris Wray and Ma Garland had been more interested in real threats to our safety than harassing Donald Trump. January 20 can't come too soon.