The Word from Biden, published in the Wall St Journal 31 May 2022

 Biden, or his handlers, ran a long piece in the Wall St Journal today explaining what he would do to save the country.  It was written in politician's bafflegab.  I cite a few of the more outrageous statements translated into plain English.  

“In January 2021 when I took office, the recovery had stalled and Covid was out of control.”

Not True.  When Biden took office the United States was self sufficient in oil and Trump had gotten a two working vaccines into production.  Trump had to twist arms of the paper pushers to get the paperwork done and approve the vaccines and twist more arms at Big Pharma to producethe vaccines, but he succeeded and Trump’s vaccines were ready to be administered when Biden took office.

“The US is in better economic position then almost any other country.”  

If this is true than a lot of other countries must be in terrible shape.

“I ran for president because I was tired of the so called trickle down economy.”    

Actually the Democrat party ran you for president for reasons that escape me.

"The price at the pump is elevated because is elevated in large part because Russian oil gas and refining capacity are off the market."

Not true.  Gasoline prices are outrageous because you shut down the Keystone XL pipeline on your first day in office, you stopped issuing leases to drill for oil and gas on federal lands and ANWR, and you convinced the bamks and money people not to lend to drillers and you threatened them with legal action if they lost any money financing oil and gas drilling.

“My plan would reduce the deficit even more by making common-sense reforms in the tax code.”

In plain English, I would hike taxes.

Every American should vote a straight Republican ticket to avoid destroying our beloved country.

 

 

 

 

Biden trying to sound like a real gun buff.

 He isn’t.  And he sounds dumb talking about stuff he knows little to nothing about.  He was describing ordinary 9mm handgun ammunition as “powerful” and “strong enough to rip your lungs out”.

  In actual fact, 9mm is an ordinary handgun round.  Convert mm into inch measure (25.4 mm to the inch) and you get .36 caliber, about the same as the .38 handguns the cops carried back before they all converted to 9mm Glock automatics.  9mm is a perfectly reasonable pistol cartridge, widely used, but nothing special in the power department. 

   You want real power in a handgun?  Try the old .45ACP round used in the 1911 army automatic.  Try 357 Magnum or 44 Magnum. 

What should parents do to raise decent children and not Texas shooters?

I am writing as a veteran parent.  I had three children, they are all grown up now, they all graduated college, they all stayed off drugs. The oldest is married, the middle daughter is sadly doing a divorce, and youngest son has found a very nice girlfriend.  I count my parenting as a success.

For openers, parents of young children should try to stay married, at least until the children have grown up some.  To the point where I think state child services should seize children of divorced single parents and put them up for adoption, should those children fail to obey teachers or get into crime.

Kids need to be loved by their parents. They need encouraging words, praise, stories.  They need to be scolded, not too often, when they mess up.  They need a lot more love and encouragement than scolding.

All parents ought to take the kids to church on Sunday.

Small children ought to have a regular bedtime, say 8 PM, every night.

Kids ought to get fed three squares a day, with no, or at least very lightweight snack times in-between.

Kids ought to do a few hours of homework every school day.  Doing homework on the kitchen table while a parent prepares dinner is good.

Kids ought to go outdoors and play with neighboring kids as much as possible.  Playing with peers is far better for kids than letting them watch TV or play computer games.

Parents should read a bedtime story to their kids, every night.

Older kids ought to have bicycles, and ride them to school, baseball games, and other kid activities.

Kids ought to have good kid’s books to read at home.

Kids ought to be taught to swim as early as possible.  It is a tragedy to have a child drown.

Kids should go hiking and climbing.  Kids should be enrolled in Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, and summer camp.

Kids should have pets, dogs or cats or something.  And be responsible for their care.

Some of this stuff may be beyond the means of some parents.  As a parent you do the best you can.

 

 

 

 

 

So what about the Texas shooter?

The TV newsies have not said much about the shooter, Salvador Samos I think his name is.  They did mention that he was a high school dropout.  A bad sign.  High school is great fun, you get to meet friends and girls, they have sports and activities.  Even if your grades stink, they will graduate you and having a high school diploma is very helpful when you start job seeking.  If I could go back and do high school over again I would be right there, especially if I could become 15 years old again.  Looks like none of this good stuff mattered to Salvador. 

    We have not heard much from Salvador’s parents and grandparents.  The TV said his mother was a druggie and his father was a felon, not an encouraging background for parents who are supposed to be teaching their son how he should behave.  For some reason, tension at home? Salvador spent time (I wonder how much) with his grandparents.  The grandfather claimed on TV not to know of his grandson’s attitude problems.  For some undisclosed reason Salvador shot his grandmother in the face the morning he attacked Robb elementary school.  I had two grandmothers, I loved them both dearly, I cannot imagine even raising my voice to them, let alone shooting them.  This is weird behavior on Salvador’s part.

   Salvador bought two AR15 rifles.  The TV did not say but I assume he bought them new at a gun store.  Those things cost like $500 apiece, two of them is $1000.  And he bought either 360 or 1000 rounds of ammunition.  Last time I bought center fire ammunition it was $1 a round.  So that’s $1360 or $2000 depending upon whose story you believe.  I wonder where unemployed high school dropout Salvador got that kind of money.

   Then to shoot 19 appealing young kids in cold blood is beyond my belief.  The kid’s pictures are so cute, I would adopt any or all of them in an instant, Salvador kills them. 

   And we have not heard from any of Salvador’s teachers, doctors, priests, any grownup who knew Salvador.

Assault Weapon Ban

 Trouble is, there is no real difference that you can measure with a ruler between “assault riles” and deer rifles.  An “assault weapons ban” would be a ban on all rifles because there is nothing you can point to that makes assault rifles different from any other rifle. 

  In actual fact, there are styling differences.  The “assault rifles” are, or look like; AR-15’s, black plastic stock, detachable magazine, chambered for .22 center fire, and finished in some military antireflective and water resistant finish.  Hunting rifles usually have walnut stocks, any kind of ammunition feed, chambered for any cartridge ever manufactured, and blued metal work.  I submit that these are styling differences and do not make one more deadly than the other.

 

   The anti gunners pushing to revive the old “assault weapons ban” are perfectly happy to ban anything that shoots, so they don’t care. 

Gun Violence

 The newsies are using this phrase all the time.  Makes it sound like the gun did the crime.  “Gun violence” on the media is better described as either murder or armed robbery.  Both of these crimes are listed in the Ten Commandments. 

   Use of the “gun violence” phrase suggests the speaker is anti gun and wants to ban all the guns in America. 

Biden will switch us to battery cars

 rather than increasing US oil production.  He said as much on the last news conference.  "Transistion" he called it.  

Trouble is, new battery cars cost $60K as compared to a new econobox for a bit more than $20K.  And, cars last ten years nowadays so it would take 10 years to re equip everyone with a $60K battery car.  That's assuming people only buy new cars when the car they are driving needs replacement.  And the best they have claimed for battery range is 400 miles.  And it takes 2-3 hours on the battery charger to charge it up.  So a trip more than 400 miles will take 2-3 hours longer while you cool your heels waiting on the battery charger.  Whereas my old Buick with a full gas tank will go 500 miles (far enough to reach my daughter's place in Maryland).  And the gas tank refills in a couple of minutes.  And want to bet the 400 mile claim of battery range is inflated?  And nobody is talking about how long the battery lasts, and what a replacement might cost.  Ordinary car batteries only last 4 winters up here.  I have no idea how long a lithium battery might last.  Or what the chances of it bursting into flames are.  

Let's elect Republicans who will increase US oil production.