From May 6, 2021
Click on the link to read the column. The link still works and the column is really worth reading PD
If public education were a car, would you buy it?
But that’s a silly question, because they force you to buy it whether you want it or not, whether you use it or not.
We are getting a raw deal. Our country is “educating” itself to death. I don’t mean that as a figure of speech.
Look at our government. We Americans must be the biggest suckers ever to walk the earth.
From November 7, 2019
Is there a state that’s short a governor?
I keep asking myself how long this crazy stuff can go on; and I don’t know the answer.
Why do we have a “transgender” movement? Was there some kind of demand for it? Really? Why do you get kicked out of your job for saying only women can give birth to babies?
Why does the government tell you how many points your high school football team’s allowed to score? Why does the governor of New York insist there were no hurricanes until we came along with our SUVs and created Climate Change?
Who thinks it’s a good idea to keep the crazies in the driver’s seat?
From March 4, 2021
For four years-plus, it was Donald Trump: he was the boogie man, and Democrats used our Free & Independent Nooze Media Inc. to attack him every day, every night, non-stop.
But now he’s out of office and they need a new super-villain to scare the plebs. Looks like it’s going to be… “militia.”
People have been wondering why all those troops have been kept in Washington D.C. Some think it’s because Democrats can only govern us at gun-point. Maybe. But–!
Today is March 4; and today’s session of Congress has been canceled for fear that “militia” are going to swoop down on Washington and re-install Donald Trump as president, even if they have to wipe out Congress to do it. The… they call it “news coverage”… by the New York Times is remarkable for both hysteria and shabby pseudojournalism (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/us/politics/capitol-riot-qanon-trump.html). It would be funny if it weren’t real.
The Times hyperventilates about “Trump loyalists and extremists,” led by a not very important group called QAnon, that are supposedly going to route the troops and grab the government: “pro-Trump conspirators may be planning an attack.” Gee, I thought we were the ones who were into conspiracy theories. And of course the “militia group” that’s the focus of all this “intelligence” and panic is… you guessed it: “un-named.” Heck, it could be anybody!
As Mark Simone said, “If they’re that scared of a dozen hillbillies in a pickup truck, they should all resign and go home.”
And no NYT article would be complete without saying “Mr. Trump repeated his false claim” about the election being stolen. How do they know it’s a false claim? The courts have refused to hear the case. How do they know the evidence is false? They have refused to look at it. But this is what is called, in modern journalism, “The Narrative.” It used to be called “lying.”
So here we are on March 4, Congress off cowering somewhere, Capitol surrounded by razor wire and riot fences, and troops all over the place waiting for the hillbillies.
Fantastic. They subvert our whole electoral process, follow it up with a raft of executive orders for stuff that nobody wants–and they’re dumbfounded that a lot of people, an awful lot of Americans, are mad at them? Say it ain’t so!
It would never, never occur to them to stop doing all that commie stuff that makes us mad at them. I mean, what is the whole point of being big shots, if you’re going to be scared of the peasants?
From April 20, 2021
I’m so excited by Secretary of State Whatsisname’s promise! “We’ll provide our fellow Americans with pathways to new, sustainable livelihoods.” Pure genius!
See, it’s gotta be done Because Climbit Change. We’re all gonna need new jobs: after all, we can’t all be rioters. We can’t even all write cowboy poetry.
But we can all lug big stones around and pile them into heaps. Someday you’ll be able to get a Ph. D. in that. And certainly we can all spy on each other and report every discouraging, disloyal, demoralizing word to the government. And we’ll need a lot more prison guards.
First you’ll have to go to college–universal free tuition, of course: and don’t worry about the cost, they can just print more money–and then you can go on to a sustainable career of swabbing out bathtubs or raking the lawns of Really Important People. You might even wind up working for a social media influencer!
People will also be compensated for standing in line all day, which is a very sustainable activity, and you can make extra cash for attending Biden rallies, even when The Big Guy himself forgets to show up.
And you won’t need to earn much money because, as might be expected, Climbit Change will make it obsolete to live in houses that you own, drive cars, stay up after sundown, or say things the government thinks you shouldn’t say. Hey, how much money can it cost to live in a cardboard crate? And think how close you’ll feel to Mother Gaea!
And once Climbit Change is over, and there are no more germs in the environment, they’ll give us all our freedoms back!
But only if you still want them.
From July 19, 2020
Are you stupid enough to be in state government? Here’s a test to help you find out.
Let’s say your motor vehicle inspection stations have been closed for three months and only just re-opened. Do you decree that everybody who would’ve ordinarily shown up for inspection during those three months… all come now?
That’s precisely what the idiots running New Jersey have done. The result is colossal lines at all the inspection stations. At some stations, drivers kept their cars in line all night and slept in them, in hopes of getting the agony over in the morning.
Would it have killed New Jersey to announce, “Due to unforeseen circumstances that are not going to be repeated, motor vehicles that would have been inspected in April, May, and June need not be inspected until next year”?
But as usual the knot-heads running the show lay grievous burdens on everyone but themselves. Drivers can wait for hours and hours, maybe even all day, all night, as employees toil through the scorching days of July trying to get all these cars through the test and very likely getting blamed for it by motorists who’ve been tried beyond their strength.
Yeah, let’s give more power to the government… They’re so clever with it!
From March 3, 2023
And if there’s no one else to push down, you’re out of luck.
Do you believe this? Sheesh, it’s getting harder and harder to tell what’s satire and what’s… well, “news.”
The National Park Service’s official Twitter account has advised park visitors “Never push a slower friend down” in a bear encounter (https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4135399/posts)… because “feeding another human to a bear is never the answer.”
So if you and your hiking partner should be chased by a bear, it’s really bad form to shove the slower human to the ground so you can escape while he (or she) gets eaten. Although how they would know you’d done that–unless someone else saw you–is a mystery.
Has this actually been a problem over the years? Or has the National Park Service, like so many other departments of the government these days, become infested with kooks and dindles who have no idea what they’re supposed to be doing? “They may be idiots, but we really need more [plug in your favorite grievance group] in government service!”
They’ll get nice pensions, though. If they can avoid getting eaten by bears.
From June 9, 2020
I’ve been told I shouldn’t write satire because there’s always going to be somebody out there who takes it seriously and acts on it.
J. Henry Fuzzybottom, an unofficial member of the Minneapolis City Council, has picked up on a wee satirical flourish that after the city abolishes its police force, it can rely on poets to pick up the slack.
“We should have thought of that!” he exclaimed. “People worry about what’ll happen to them if somebody robs or assault them and there’s no police force. Well! Who better than a poet to defuse a dangerous situation? How many crimes would never be committed if only the offender could hear some exfoliating lines of poetry? He’d stop right in the middle of a mugging! Imagine a couple of lovable youths robbing a liquor store and suddenly confronted by a poet. It’s simply impossible to engage in violently antisocial behavior while listening to poetry!”
But what if Minneapolis doesn’t have enough poets to keep the city safe from crime?
“First of all, there’s no such thing as crime!” Mr. Fuzzybottom said. “If you just stop calling certain actions ‘crime,’ your crime rate plummets toward zero.
“I think we probably have more poets than we realize. But if we do run short–well, we can back them up with folk singers! Would you commit fraud if someone was sweetly singing to you? Would you steal a car if someone was standing next to you playing bongo drums?”
Mr. Fuzzybottom said he has already sounded out most of the official council members “and they’re gonna go for it! Minneapolis will be the first crime-free city in the world!”
Thirteen percent–yes, 13%–of British voters say they approve of the job being done by their current premier, Keir Starmer. Thirteen percent. How the devil did this guy ever get elected in the first place? Sheesh. Richard III was more popular than this Labor Party twaddler.
Among Starmer’s more unpopular actions, we find, in his first 400 days, let in 50,000 migrants, freed 26,000 convicted criminals (way what?)… but it would be tiresome to continue.
Will the United Kingdom still be here in 2050? Where are the Britons going to go after they’re pushed out of their homeland… by aggressive Muslims aided and abetted by police forces who act like they were put on this earth to chase the Britons out of Britain.
Time is running out, Brits. This won’t be the first time you were conquered by an alien nation. But it’s fair to ask, “How many chances do they get?”
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They fled to Illinois to avoid voting
Politics, politics! Where the normal rules of civilized behavior go to die.
Texas Republican legislators want to enact a redistricting plan which would get them more votes. Democrat reps want to stop it. So they did what legislators always do when it seems the vote won’t go their way.
Forty of them ran away before the vote could happen (https://www.independentsentinel.com/gov-abbott-might-remove-the-40-fleeing-democrats-from-office/).
It’s all a lot of poo-poo. They can delay the vote, but it’ll only be held when they come back. Meanwhile, Gov. Greg Abbot has threatened to remove absconding Dems from office. And then I guess it’s off to the Supreme Court.
Before we break out the handkerchiefs and smelling salts, let’s remind ourselves that Democrats have used redistricting exactly as the Republicans mean to do in Texas.
Anyhow, the governor’s deadline is today afternoon. Let’s see if he makes good on his threat.
The Democrats could use a harsh lesson or two.
The sacrifices we make for Diversity!
Former Secret Service Director Ron Rowe has finally resigned (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/just-ron-rowe-secret-service-after-female-agents/).
Let’s see… Two presidential assassination attempts (they’re supposed to prevent those), a couple of scandals here and there… oh! And two female agents getting into a loud dust-up in front of Barack Obama’s home (https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/1925628895665017114). The one was late for a shift change: that’s how the brawl started.
No, check that. This business started when Mr. Rowe’s Secret Service decided it needed way more Women And Minorities, period. Time out from protecting the president! What could be more important than Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion? So the Service concentrated on that stuff. Our president was almost killed, but what the heck? More where he came from.
What if some yobbo got past security and murdered the president while those two ninnies were pulling each other’s hair?
Democrats would defend them.
