P.A.D. and Me

 I graduated from A.P. Leto High School in Tampa, Florida in 1971. It seems like it was just in the last century. 

When I was in high school, the state had a required course for graduation. I am not sure that you had to pass it, but you had to take it. The class was PAD, Problems of American Democracy.  The year that I took it, it was a yearlong, two semester course. It had been a one semester course for years and they decided to expand it. I think that they changed it back to one semester the next year.

Today, PAD is no more. It was replaced by a one semester US Government class, which is only required for people attending a state supported college or university. Both PAD and US Government are basically a class in Civics. We had Civics as a required class in the ninth grade in junior high. One of our problems today is that many people have no idea about how the government is supposed to operate. You may as well ask a ninth grader today to spell "antidisestablishmentarianism" as to ask them to describe the functions of the three branches of the federal government.

When I was in school, PAD contained a three-week unit called "Americanism vs Communism". I don't know when they eliminated the "Americanism vs. Communism" unit, but it was a mistake. More than 55 years later, we have Communists holding elected offices in the United States. Many call themselves "Democratic Socialists". You can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig. From Bernie Sanders to AOC to Zohran Mamdani, these people are all Communists. Their gods are Marx, Lenin, Mao Tse-tung and Castro.

Communists in the United States are all telling us how great that socialism/Communism would be for our country but can't cite an example of a nation where it works. As of today's writing, western Europe is basically on fire, but no one will acknowledge that the issue is Communism. 

What's the real issue here? It's the lure of "the free lunch". Zig Ziglar said it best, "There ain't no free lunch!" Our problems will start to heal as soon as we will acknowledge that fact. For all of us to have free milk, someone has to milk the cow. Someone has to raise, feed and shelter the cow. Someone has to process the milk, and someone has to deliver the milk to you. Communists/Democratic Socialists want you to believe that everyone in that chain is willing to do that for free. There is a load of Americans now who won't work for money, they damn sure aren't going to do it for free. All that I want from American Communists is to give me the name of ONE country where Communism has succeeded. Call when you have a name!!

Which Communist country is it that liberals want to emulate? Is it Russia? I will just take a cheap shot here and point out the obvious. The new Obama Presidential Center looks like something straight out of Stalingrad. How about North Korea? That Kim Jong Un is such a charmer that even the leftist Wikipedia describes it as a totalitarian state. The People's Republic of China? Maybe if we go the Communist route, we can have slave labor making cheap shit for them. 

The Communists in today's United States are screaming about "the oligarchy". They conveniently ignore the fact that Communism is dependent upon an "oligarchy" to run the system. If you are a Democrat, a Democrat Socialist, or a Communist and are reading this; if you will immediately remove your head from your ass, you will be able to see that this is a fact. The people pushing Communism want to be the ruling class in Communism.

At the age of nine in 1962, I knew more about Communism than the average college student does today. We lived in Tampa, Florida. I went to school with kids who had fled the new Castro Communist Cuba with their families. I went to school with a few kids who were waiting for their parents to join them here. Some of those parents never made it to America. Those parents were not able to get free of Communism. If Communism is so great, why did they have to force people to stay? 

I left Cuba out of my rant about Communist countries that Democratic Socialists want to emulate because as described in the previous paragraph, Cuba is the Communist country where I saw the results firsthand. When a sizable percentage of your classmates are refugees from Communism, you can't avoid the issue. I have seen the effects of Communism on people's lives firsthand. Don't waste your time trying to bullshit me!!

I will end this rant with another quote from Zig Ziglar. He said this about refugees fleeing Cuba and Communism. "In all the years people have been crossing the Straits of Florida on inner tubes, homemade rafts, and leaky boats, they have never yet passed anyone going in the other direction."

Is Bernie Sanders or AOC going to become America's Castro??

Ridiculing Democrats and more?

 Obama is bragging about his "long form birth certificate" that he showed us in 2011. Where was that birth certificate in 2008 during his campaign? What took so long? I got a copy of mine in 3 days and I was adopted. Three years for the Big O to get his??? Do you lie much, Barack??

If there are any real Americans who didn't already hate Obama, his endorsing the "Muslim Madman", Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan is adding to the list of haters. I can't believe that a Muslim like El-Sayed is bragging about being endorsed by a gay, half-black guy.

I always check the source before reading any "news" articles online. If the name of the source includes "Learning" or "Learing" or "Public", I don't bother to read it. I used to donate to PBS. I used to have hair. Neither statement is true today. Can "Public" television sources even spell conservative? 

Three or four times a year, I get the urge to contact someone that I knew many years ago. I mentioned this in a post a few years ago when I wrote about sending a letter to one of my favorite teachers in school. I checked with a classmate who was able to confirm that the teacher was still alive. I found an address for him and verified that with another source. Then I wrote a nice letter thanking him for being such a good teacher that I would contact him fifty years later. I mailed my letter and waited to see if I would get a response. 

It took about ten days for me to get a response. I opened the mailbox one day and there was my letter to the teacher, stamped by the Post Office as "REFUSED". Hell, I didn't even know that you could officially refuse mail. I am going out on a limb here, but maybe I wasn't his favorite student.

The more I read about Ilhan Omar, the more I am convinced that the Democratic Party is the largest cult in America. Someone needs to tell Omar that this is the United States of America, not Somalia. Ilhan, you are going to have to pick a side. 

Asked if she had married her brother, Omar said that she didn't think so. WOW!! There's an answer that no one saw coming. Could we get a "yes" or "no", Ilhan??

I saw a bunch of signs this week that read, "Republicans who stay home elect Democrats." Get your ass to the polls!!

US Senate candidate Adam Hamilton in Kansas is one of the leftist leaders in the United Methodist Church who engineered the split in the church. He has built a large church, unfortunately, that's not the job of a United States Senator. "Republicans who stay home elect Democrats like Hamilton."

In the spirit of "Truth in Labeling", how about "Republicans who stay home, elect Communists".

Krooks, Kooks and Kuntz

When I was in high school, the library had Newsweek available to read. I looked at a couple of issues and realized that it was a second rate, horseshit, alleged news magazine. I never read it again. Fast forward more than fifty years and that swill keeps popping up on my screen when I try to find out what is happening in the world. Some things never change; Newsweek is an example.

Newsweek has survived for more than 55 years after I first read a copy. I can't believe that they have lasted that long without a swimsuit issue. Or do they have one? 

Is "Pravda" Russian for "Newsweek"?

The Pittsburgh Steelers played the New Orleans Saints in Paris this weekend. That game will keep the French playing soccer. and never taking up American football.

The Steelers have a long snapper named Christian Kuntz. To send a guy named Christian to the Islamic city of Paris was kind of risky. Apparently, he survived the experience. I am not even going to start any comments on the last name of Kuntz. Maybe the "K" is silent?? Is it a long "U"? I am not sure that would be much better. With "long snapper" and "Kuntz" in the same space, the jokes should just write themselves. I will just stop here!

Due to the constitutionally deficient "blue slip" system that the US Senate Politburo uses for political appointees, President Trump has not been able to get a United States Attorney confirmed for the Eastern District of Virginia in almost two years. This is the district that indicted L. Louise Lucas, the "Generational Wealth Pot Queen" of Portsmouth, VA last week. With an investigation that has gone on for several years, is it more than a coincidence that President Trump has been unable to get a US Attorney confirmed for that district? Todd Blanche had to step in, take over, and announce those indictments. 

There seems to be a bad smell around Virginia's US Senators Warner and Kaine on this issue. Were they protecting Loser Louise Lucas from prosecution by the DOJ by keeping the office without a US Attorney? What did Warner and Kaine know and when did they know it? The whole thing sounds pretty sketchy to me. If they were trying to keep an investigation from being pursued by limiting leadership, these clowns need to go to jail with Loser Louise.

Despite a senior state law enforcement officer telling Loser Louise TWICE that she was breaking the law by selling pot in her stores, there was never an investigation by local or state officials. There's nothing here that makes sense other than blatant political corruption. 

Loser Louise was taken to her first federal court appearance in handcuffs and shackles. We need to see more politicians wearing that kind of jewelry.

I watched two innings of the World Series game on Saturday night. If the Series goes seven games, I might be able to squeeze in watching another inning, maybe two.

Political Corruption in the Old Dominion?

First and this may be the most important thing that I write today, my most recent post title, "L. Louise Lucas, Loser-at-Large" was my 1600th post on what now seems to be an endless mental road trip, this blog.

If I had known more than twenty-one years ago that I would still be scrawling this swill today, I might have picked up a National Enquirer at the grocery store checkout lane and read instead.

Having got that historical footnote out of the way, let's move on.

I will start with where I left off the other day, writing about Virginia State Senator L. Louise Lucas. I read the federal indictment against Virginia's biggest proponent of creating "generational wealth". Here's a link to the 45-page story of government corruption. https://www.virginiascope.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/gov.uscourts.vaed_.608205.3.0_1.pdf

Allow me to share a few thoughts with you. According to the indictment, Loser Louise is running her pot store enterprise on the basis of creating "generational wealth" for herself and her family. I pity the poor voters of her district who elected her to represent their interests. Typical corrupt politicians share an attitude, "it's all about me."

Here are a few excerpts from the indictment.

E. On June 10, 2020, LOUISE LUCAS participated in certain protest activity in Portsmouth, VA. The Portsmouth Chief charged LOUISE LUCAS with two felony charges arising from the protests. After the filing of these charges, the Chief was placed on leave. In November 2020, the Commonwealth Attorney for Portsmouth dismissed the charges against LOUISE LUCAS. The Police Chief was fired the same day.

That protest involved a Confederate statue that was damaged by the "peaceful" protestors with L. Louise Lucas being one of the protest leaders.

Here's a Facebook post from the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund. 

"In June 2020, a crowd gathered in Portsmouth, Virginia to deface and dismantle a Confederate monument—with State Senator Louise Lucas amongst them.

Lucas is captured on police body worn camera telling officers on scene “I’m Senator Louise Lucas. I know I’m in disguise, but they are going to put some paint on this thing. You can not arrest them. You need to call Dr. Patton (the city manager), because they are going to do it. You can’t stop them. This is city property.”

When Angela Greene, then police chief, told protesters to stop their vandalism and alerted Lucas that they were “not authorized to be on the property,” Lucas replied “They are now. They are now. This is city-owned property.”

Greene assured Lucas that she had, in fact, just spoken to the city manager and confirmed that no such action was permitted.

Chief Greene refused to back down. She later launched an investigation and announced felony charges (including injury to a monument and conspiracy) against Senator Lucas and several others for their lawlessness that day.

Shockingly, the felony charges against Senator Lucas and the other defendants were dismissed later that year... 

And Chief Greene was wrongfully terminated for upholding the law.

LELDF was proud to support Greene's lawsuit against the city and various officials—and though her suit was not successful, it is undeniable that she was severely wronged for standing up for law and order."

It may be time for Chief Greene to tell her story to someone in the suddenly interested press.

K. Following his hiring in 2022, a senior law enforcement officer warned LOUISE LUCAS that selling marijuana was illegal and was going to get her in trouble one day. At a subsequent meeting between the senior law enforcement officer, another Virginia state legislator, and LOUISE LUCAS to discuss the various issues related to law enforcement, the senior law enforcement officer reiterated that LOUISE LUCAS needed to stop selling marijuana and asked her why, given that she was a state senator and a wealthy Woman, she would engage in criminal behavior. LOUISE LUCAS did not answer this question. The legislator agreed that LOUISE LUCAS should not associate herself with selling marijuana, while it was still illegal.

O. No state criminal prosecution has ever been initiated concerning the activity of The Cannabis Outlet.

The indictment also lists payments made by Lucas to Prince Albert William Hudson III, who seems to have been her weed supplier. Prince Albert may end up back in the can. Yeah, I know that's an old joke. Prince Albert owns a store in Danville, Virginia, about twenty miles from my home. His business is called "Exotic World". If you guessed that I have never even driven by there, you are correct.

I believe that Sheriff Buford T. Justice said it best. "What we are dealing with here is a complete lack of respect for the law." 

The law enforcement agencies in the state of Virginia, have completely ignored the illegal activities of L. Louise Lucas. The state law enforcement agencies knew what was going on and ignored it. Having indicted Loser Louise, the Department of Justice needs to investigate Virginia state law enforcement agencies. The Department of Justice needs to expand their investigation into corruption in Virginia's state government. Obviously, if the second highest member of the state legislature is illegally dealing in pot sales and local police aren't doing something, something is radically wrong. 

Would the Virginia law enforcement agencies have had their heads so far up their asses if it had been a thirty-year-old white guy with Trump stickers on his truck? We all know the answer. What we are looking at here is racial and political injustice in Virginia. This is everything that is wrong with government.

It's not looking good for the Old Dominion. Governor Spam-Burger and others need to man the pumps. Virginia's ship of state is taking on some serious water. Spam-Burger is outraged that they announced the indictments just before an election. She just leaves out the part where Lucas is not up for election this year, as are no other state offices in Virginia. If you didn't get the memo Spam-Burger, this year is local offices.

L. Louise Lucas, Loser-at-Large??

Virginia State Senator L. Louise Lucas surrendered this morning to federal authorities in Norfolk, Virginia. A federal grand jury returned the indictment last week.

This from CBS News, "According to a 45-page indictment filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, Lucas and six other co-defendants are charged with conspiring to distribute and possess marijuana, conspiring to launder money, laundering money and committing bribery by distributing large quantities of illegal marijuana under the auspices of her legal medical cannabis business."

Virginia Governor Abigail Spam-burger criticized the DOJ for releasing the indictments just before the elections. Attorney General Todd Blanche pointed out that Virginia is not electing state officials this year, they did that last year. He also said that the 60-day-rule is an unwritten protocol and is not in the DOJ Policy Manual. 

So, in Spam-Burger world you can't arrest anyone in an election year. Of course, that rule obviously only applies to Democrats, you can drag a former Republican President into a New York City courtroom at any time. For Democrats to bitch about Republicans prosecuting Democrats is a comedy from the DC Theater of the Absurd. Blanche also pointed out that the investigation started several years ago in a different administration.

Attorney General Todd Blanche pointed out the fallacies of both Senator Lucas' and Governor Spam-Burger's comments. To his credit, Blanche is a much more restrained man than I am. If Spam-Burger had said that to me, my response would have been a simple, but eloquent, "You're shitting me, right?"

Senator Lucas, of course, blames this all on Jim Crow laws. I realize that she is 82, but can someone tell her that the Jim Crow laws are gone with the wind. An 82-year-old black female is the Speaker Pro Tempore of the Virginia legislature, and she is complaining about Jim Crow. She is actually responsible for making the laws. This is the kind of leftist, Communist, racist thinking that you can't even make up today. She has been in the state legislature since 1991. This is the best argument for term limits that I have heard this month.

I am delighted that Senator Lucas did not try to take all of the graft and corruption money by herself. She has six co-defendants, including her two daughters and a grandson. There may be Italians and Sicilians somewhere who are following this story and thinking, "Why didn't we do that?"

The charges show that Lucas directed the purchase and sale of over 100 kilograms of illegal marijuana. The motivational posters on her pot shop walls must read, "Go Big or Go Home!!"

Just to demonstrate that I am not just now ranting about the disgraceful Sen. Lucas, I posted about Sen. Lucas and her "pot plantation" on May 7, May 11, and May 15 on this blog. Here's three links:

It's All Black and White for Democrats Random Moments of Lunacy: It's all black and white for Democrats

Miscellaneous Monday Mentions Random Moments of Lunacy: Miscellaneous Monday Mentions

Mid-Week Musing?? Random Moments of Lunacy: Mid-Week Musing??

The Political Wit and Wisdom of Wednesday

 Ilhan Omar, missing for several days, has been spotted in Texas. Shoppers across the state are reporting that her face is now on the sides of milk cartons, replacing James Talarico who finally surfaced again last week.

I am still trying to understand how a devout Muslim woman and her devout Muslim husband, owned a winery. Who do they think that they are, Baptists??

It has been revealed that the explosion in autism rates among immigrants in Minnesota is somehow related to the fact that recipients with autism get paid more. Helen Keller could have seen that one coming.

The walls in the Walmart restroom are alive with the sound of poetry. Spotted in the Reidsville store's men's room today was this masterpiece:                                                                                                         "Here I sit on the pooper,

 giving birth, 

to a voter for Cooper." 

If you are not in North Carolina, former NC governor Roy Cooper is running for the United States Senate. After screwing the citizens of North Carolina for 40 years, Roy is taking his campaign of graft and corruption to a national market. I don't think that Roy is healthy enough to last the six years. I will post more about this when I get a "cease and desist" letter from his attorneys about that remark.

My beloved and I will be out of the state on Election Day, so we went to the county seat of Yanceyville to vote early today. There were more people there than I expected. 

There is only one location in Caswell County for early voting. Unlike college students in Greensboro, no one gathered a mob to march and protest the lack of a polling place within a five-minute walk. We just drove to the early voting location.

At the polling location, you have to present a Photo ID to vote. In the twenty minutes that we were there, I saw exactly ZERO people turned away for lack of ID. Everyone had a photo ID. They actually verify your ID against the voter registration rolls. If little Caswell County can do this, the leftist dickheads in North Carolina's larger cities and counties should be able to pull it off. 

 The county liquor store in town also requires a photo ID. I saw no one protesting there, either.  Maybe we just aren't as stupid as people in large cities.

Let me go ahead and put a couple of other leftist claims to rest. Libtards (Democrats) are claiming that women who are married and have changed their names will have trouble getting a photo ID with their married name on it. My wife and I have shared a last name for 47 years, she's never had a problem getting an ID. NEVER!! The loser libs also claimed that adoptees would have trouble getting an ID. Sorry dumbasses, but I was adopted as a child. I have never had a problem getting any kind of ID. If you see me, I will show you my photo ID, if you will show me yours!!

Top Ten Tuesday Tales, Topics and Taunts

 1. Angie Nixon, Democratic US Senate candidate in Florida. has caused me to expand my definition of "whacko broad". This woman has left "whacko broad" in the dust and has moved to "lunatic bitch". If she were a dog, someone would have put her down by now to keep the breed from spreading. 

2. Is Angie Nixon just Gavin Newsome in drag? Are there any pictures of them appearing in public together? Inquiring minds want to know!!

3. In the absence of a President with dementia, Federal judges are trying to run the country. From what trees can be cut to what fountain people can use as a swimming hole, Federal judges think that they run the nation. Attorney General Todd Blanche needs to get the attention of the judges by pulling all of the US Marshalls out of the federal courthouses. Once they have experienced the peril in which they have placed all of the rest of us American citizens, maybe they will come to their senses. 

4. Regardless of their political affiliation, I will vote for the first son of a bitch who proposes five-year terms at each level for federal judges. Five and farewell!!

5. Texas Senate candidate James Talarico disappeared for nine or ten days a couple of weeks ago. He then claimed that he had the flu. Democrats are spending more than half a billion bucks on this guy's campaign, and nobody hired a spokesman? You're shitting me, right? What happens if he gets elected and decides to take a powder for ten days while the Senate is trying to pass some actual legislation? Is CNN on his campaign payroll?

6. Can you imagine the state of the news media if Trump didn't show or call for ten days? Of course, this is just another example of the hypocrisy of liberals. Rules for thee, but not for me??

7. No one has seen Ilhan Omar in days. Who does she think she is, James Talarico? Just to be fair, she could be doing a Mitch McConnell impression.

8. Democrats hate successful people. Why? Because successful people don't need all of the free shit to which Democrats are trying to get the rest of the population addicted to so that they will vote Democratic.

9. Next weekend is the GHOE. That is the Greatest Homecoming On Earth at North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro. If you hate waiting in lines, stay away from liquor stores, restaurants, bars and hospital emergency rooms. By the way, this will be the 100th celebration of homecoming at A&T.

A local bookie is taking bets on the body count for the annual festivities. He works on a Thursday to Sunday total if you are interested. He won't take bets from law enforcement people. He claims that would be "insider trading".

10. Adam Hamilton is the Democratic candidate for the US Senate seat in Kansas. Hamilton is the lead pastor at The Church of the Resurrection, a United Methodist Church. Hamilton is a talented speaker/preacher. However, five minutes of listening to him reminds me of why the United Methodist Church split. If you live in Kansas, vote red!! Think of Dorothy's ruby slippers!!