Title 42.

They have been talking about a court ordered repeal of Title 42 as another disaster on the southern border.  Title 42 was something CDC got passed requiring the Border Patrol to immediately send back to Mexico anyone who might be bringing COVID into the US.  The talk says repealing Title 42 will swamp us with yet more undocumented immigrants.

This discussion seems like malarkey to me.  Anyone crossing into the United States lacking proper paperwork should be immediately returned to where they came.  No Title 42 required.  If they have not gotten proper paperwork from a US consulate abroad or a US Customs station on the border, out they go. Right now.

What’s so hard about that? 

What to do about the FBI?

 Start at the top, fire Wray.  Fire the next three levels of management.  Prosecute them if possible.  Cut the FBI appropriation in half.  They have too many people.  Sell all the FBI's aircraft.  When FBI people travel they can fly commercial, like the rest of us do.  Repeal the law making lying to the FBI a crime.

Ticket splitting?

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel blamed the “red trickle” in the mid term elections on “massive ticket splitting”.   Ticket splitting is not a cause for defeat.  The cause for Republican defeat is candidates that failed to impress voters. 

   Do we still need an RNC Chairman who lacks such basic understanding of elections?

Parents against Fentanyl.

 

 

Parents want to make sure their children know that street drugs will kill.  Fentanyl is cheap and extremely powerful.  So powerful that the slightest error in mixing fentanyl with other ingredients leaves a pill with enough fentanyl to kill.  A few months ago a survey of street drugs showed that one in six pills bough on the street had enough fentanyl to kill.  A later survey a few weeks ago showed things were worse.  This survey found that one in a mere three pills bought off the street had enough fentanyl to kill you.  The newsies will call it an “overdose”.  I call it deliberate poisoning.

   Anyhow, you ought to tell your kids that street drugs will kill them.   If they just have to get high they ought to stick to alcohol or pot.  They are safer than street drugs.  

Pearl Harbor. Japan’s greater error.

 Up until Dec 7 1941 America was controlled by isolationists who believed we should stay out of any foreign wars, no matter what.  Isolationists pointed to Versailles Peace Treaty that ended World War 1.  Despite serious American participation on the Allied side, we did not get anything much from the Versailles treaty.  Mostly this was because the Versailles Treaty mostly concerned divvying up European colonies between the winners.  After suppressing the Philippine insurrection before WW1 we had little interest in obtaining more overseas colonies.   The Philippines taught us that running a colony is expensive, in lives, in money, and reputation.  There was still plenty of unsettled land in the West to settle countless farmers on. Up until Pearl Harbor the United States was solidly against any kind of military action, anywhere.  We knew that Japan was doing quite a bit of aggression in the East, gobbling up bit parts of China, Manchuria, and other tasty parts of the Far East.  We disapproved.  We send Japan a series of diplomatic notes, (nasty grams) letting them know we disapproved.  But no way were we gong to go farther than nasty grams.

Things drifted on, and we got more difficult.  We finally stopped selling crude oil and scrap steel to Japan.  Many historians said after the war that the embargoes on oil and steel forced Japan to do Pearl Harbor.  This is not true.  The Dutch East Indies had (still have) plenty of oil.  The Nazis had just invaded and occupied the Netherlands, which left the Dutch East Indies just hanging in the wind.  Japan could have sent a fleet of tankers, and some bankers with thick check books to the Indies and they could have bought all the oil Japan would need for years.   And scrap steel is easy to buy, in most places it ranks as ugly junk and people are happy to find someone to haul it away.

Instead Japan decided to declare war on America and deal us a heavy blow.  The Japanese government thought that after a solid blow the Americans would sue for peace.  Serious misunderstanding #1.  After taking a blow Americans never sue for peace, they get mad and start breaking things and enemies.  Most of Japan’s government leaders had never been to America, did not speak English, and had no idea of whom or what they were dealing with.  The one exception was Admiral Yamamoto.  He had done college at Harvard, served as Japan’s naval attaché in DC, spoke English, played poker, and traveled throughout America.  Too bad few people in Japan listened to him.  When they asked Yamamoto how the war with America would turn out he said “for the first six months we shall run wild.  But after six months I have no confidence at all.”

Yamamoto had it right.  Within 6 months of Pearl Harbor we met the Japanese navy at Midway and sank four of the Japanese carriers.  Japan never recovered from that blow.    

Why do democrats want open borders?

 Open borders gets us a flood of Mexican and South American immigrants.  Do democrats believe these immigrants will vote democrat?  Give them a majority somewhere?  How long will it take for illegal immigrants to become registered American voters?  Five years?  Ten years?  That’s a long time to wait for new democrat votes.  Are democrats that patient?  Or do the democrats have some scam to get illegal immigrants registered to vote inside of a year? 

   Or do democrats think we need a lot of low cost labor?  Employers think so, but every illegal immigrant hired puts a real American citizen out of a job.  Those losers were the dependable democrat voters.  Will they stay democrat voters while on unemployment?

   Or is there some other reason to want a flood of illegal immigrants? 

Rail Strike Coming. What does Biden do?

    Trains carry a majority of the freight in America.  Manufactured goods, spare parts, fuel oil and gasoline, coal, metal ores, smelted metals, steel, wood, darn near everything.  A rail strike would cut off all these things, and all the others I haven’t thought of.  All the factories and businesses that depend on stuff will shut down, deepening the recession.  Perhaps so deep we cannot pull out of it. 

   Trains use far less fuel to move cargo than trucks.  A truck has a 400 horsepower diesel engine to move one big 57 foot trailer.  A 100 car freight train, made up of  100 trailer train cars, flat cars built to move two truck trailers, uses 6000 horsepower to more 200 big trailers.  That’s 30 horsepower per trailer, a huge saving of fuel compared to over the road trucking. 

   Way back when the newspapers would talk about the Taft Hartley act which empowered the government to declare a “cooling off period” in the event of a economy threatening strike.  I think the Taft Hartley act is still on the books, and could be used to delay the threatened rail strike.  I have not heard a whisper about Taft Hartley and cooling off periods in any of the media.  Either the newsies are so poorly educated that they never heard of Taft Hartley, or someone, probably Biden, has demanded the msm not mention it.

   So far Biden has let the rail strike get going while he enjoys Thanksgiving on Nantucket.  If the rail strike happens it is going to be bad for all of us.  If Biden does get into the rail strike at this late date would the unions and management believe anything he might say?