Scripts news arrogantly declares “TRUTH BE TOLD.” I guess it depends on how one defines truth. Most recently the headline says that “No, Harris did not refer to Trump as Hitler.” The article goes on to criticize Trump for posting the following: “”Comrade Kamala Harris sees that she is losing, and losing badly,” “She is increasingly raising her rhetoric, going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler…“.

Truth Be Told: No, Harris did not refer to Trump as Hitler

One notes that technically Harris did not say Trump was Adolph Hitler, she just said he is a fascist who said Hitler did a lot of good things. Hitler was born in 1889, so if alive today, he would be 135 years old. So, it is highly unlikely that Trump was claiming Harris said he was literally Hitler. But apparently Scripts felt compelled to correct the record. While Harris did not say Trump is Adolph Hitler, she absolutely said he is a fascist who admires Adolph Hitler. Most of this based on discredited comments by John Kelly who has recently said many things absolutely denied by everyone else around, including people who hate Trump.

By the way, there actually was a U.S. President who admired Hitler. His name was John Fitzgerald Kennedy. A Democrat.

If you doubt that, here is what Kennedy wrote about Hitler when he was 28 years old:

JFK diary calls Hitler ‘stuff of legends’ – BBC News

“Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.” Hitler “had a boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the manner of his death that will grow after him.”  He wrote this AFTER World War II, while working as a newspaper reporter following the war.

Kennedy changed his viewpoint, at least publicly, and said that Winston Churchill was his idol. No one called Kennedy a fascist during the 1960 election.

Scripts failed to consider the seriousness of Kamala Harris saying she felt Trump was a fascist who admired Hitler. Incredibly, when asked if she really thought Trump was a fascist, she said yes. Something Scripts either failed to notice or simply did not bother to report.

She continues to moan about the hateful discourse by Trump and his supporters. But while Trump says she is stupid and incompetent, which is definitely insulting. She is the one who says he is a fascist.

Sadly, this is exactly how the MSM operates far too often. In may cases we read reports in the MSM are not only wrong, they are not only politically biased, but at times they are dangerously wrong. Is it any surprise that some people listening to this kind of rhetoric would decide that assassinating Trump was necessary to save the country?

Last night Trump spoke before a massive crowd in Madison Square Garden. This scared the crap out of the Harris campaign and its fawning idiot supporters in the MSM. No, this was not racist. Racist is choosing someone to be VP and now candidate for President solely because she is a black female. They are comparing this to a Nazi influenced event held in Madison Square Garden before World War II. That is not only absurd, but also extremely insulting to those in attendance and to those who watched this on TV.

Truth be told, the truth is seldom told. But it is still the truth. Trump outshined the neon signs on Times Square and Kamala Harris paled in comparison. The MSM knows this, and they are terrified, which is why they feel compelled to lie about it. If you want to know what Trump said, watch the video. If you want to know the impact on this, watch the weeping and wailing by those who are horrified by the truth.

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Scripts news arrogantly declares “TRUTH BE TOLD.” I guess it depends on how one defines truth. Most recently the headline says that “No, Harris did not refer to Trump as Hitler.” The article goes on to criticize Trump for posting the following: “”Comrade Kamala Harris sees that she is losing, and losing badly,” “She is increasingly raising her rhetoric, going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler…“.

Truth Be Told: No, Harris did not refer to Trump as Hitler

One notes that technically Harris did not say Trump was Adolph Hitler, she just said he is a fascist who said Hitler did a lot of good things. Hitler was born in 1889, so if alive today, he would be 135 years old. So, it is highly unlikely that Trump was claiming Harris said he was literally Hitler. But apparently Scripts felt compelled to correct the record. While Harris did not say Trump is Adolph Hitler, she said he is a fascist who admires Adolph Hitler. Most of this based on discredited comments by John Kelly who has recently said many things absolutely denied by everyone else around, including people who hate Trump.

By the way, there actually was a U.S. President who admired Hitler. His name was John Fitzgerald Kennedy. A Democrat.

If you doubt that, here is what Kennedy wrote about Hitler when he was 28 years old:

JFK diary calls Hitler ‘stuff of legends’ – BBC News

“Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.” Hitler “had a boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the manner of his death that will grow after him.”  He wrote this AFTER World War II, while working as a newspaper reporter following the war.

Kennedy changed his viewpoint, at least publicly, and said that Winston Churchill was his idol. No one called Kennedy a fascist during the 1960 election.

Scripts failed to consider the seriousness of Kamala Harris saying she felt Trump was a fascist who admired Hitler. When asked if she really thought Trump was a fascist, she said yes. Something Scripts either failed to notice or simply did not bother to report.

She continues to moan about the hateful discourse by Trump and his supporters. But Trump says she is stupid and incompetent. She is the one who says he is a fascist.

Sadly, this is exactly how the MSM operates far too often. In may cases we read reports in the MSM are not only wrong, they are not only politically biased, but at times they are dangerously wrong. Is it any surprise that some people listening to this kind of rhetoric would decide that assassinating Trump was necessary to save the country?

Tonight, Trump spoke before a massive crowd in Madison Square Garden. This scared the crap out of the Harris campaign and its fawning idiot supporters in the MSM. No, this was not racist. Racist is choosing someone to be VP and now candidate for President solely because she is a black female. They are comparing this to a Nazi influenced event held in Madison Square Garden before World War II. That is not only absurd, but also extremely insulting to those in attendance and to those who watched this on TV.

Truth be told, the truth is seldom told. But it is still the truth. Trump outshined the neon signs on Times Square and Kamala Harris paled in comparison. The MSM knows this, and they are terrified, which is why they feel compelled to lie about it. If you want to know what Trump said, watch the video. If you want to know the impact on this, watch the weeping and wailing by those who are horrified by the truth.

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For many people, one of the vital ingredients in an early breakfast is toast. This year there are increasing signs that the Kamala Harris campaign is toast. The early voting results are starting to come in and if the results are any indication of what will happen on election day, Kamala Harris and Democrat candidates down ballot are in serious trouble. In previous years, Democrats always outperformed Republicans during early voting. This is partly because of the Democrat ground game and partly because Republicans are skeptical about mail-in voting. But this year, Republicans are showing up strong in early voting results and in some cases outperforming Democrats. That has to be setting off alarm bells all over the country for the Democrat party.

In addition, Kamala Harris continues to perform very poorly during interviews, even from “News” Organizations typically favoring Democrats. She often can’t even hit a slow pitch soft ball question. She routine bombs questions that are far beyond predictable. In addition, her surrogates are not exactly doing well either. When pressed on the subject, Governor Josh Shapiro could not point out anything Kamala Harris is proposing that is different that what President Biden is doing. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Most people recognize insanity when they see it, but increasingly most people are not members of the Democrat party.

Then, shockingly, the Los Angeles Times refused to endorse Kamala Harris. Now if there is one newspaper in the country guaranteed to toe the Democrat line, it is the Los Angeles Times. If Kamala Harris has lost the LA Times, she has lost everywhere.

Kamala Harris is slowing down appearances and sometimes takes entire days off. Donald Trump is also cancelling some events, but probably for a hugely different reason. In the case of Kamala, many people think the less we see of her the less we hate her. The Democrat strategy for success in 2020 was based on keeping Biden in the basement. Trump, on the other hand, may be listening to good advice. “When your opponent is self-destructing, don’t get in the way.”  In addition, the assassination threat is very real, so choosing events carefully from a security standpoint just makes sense. This is one reason Trump has given up golf until after the election.

It is impossible to safely predict things two weeks before an election. Sometimes we really don’t know what is happening until the last minute. The same is true of the weather. Those of us in Florida were warned about the potential for a hurricane like Milton for about two weeks. Even after the storm had clearly developed and was heading toward Florida, it was far from certain where, exactly, it would make land fall. Then suddenly, in the very last hours, that storm veered to the right and hit land about 45 miles south of Tampa Bay. If that storm had veered north instead of south the rest of the country would have had trouble even imagining the damage that would have been done to the Tampa Bay region.

We still don’t know where this election is heading, but we can sure see which direction the wind is blowing. Even the strongest Democrat pollsters are saying an extremely narrow win by Kamala Harris is possible, but they are also admitting a very real chance of a Trump landslide. So far, it sure looks like Republicans are the ones showing up in the early voting. If that continues, the forecast is definitely improving.

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When I was in high school, we often watched the Twilight zone. I don’t know who the writers were, but there was some seriously weird stuff. One of my favorites was a show called: To Serve Man. A spaceship will with nine-foot-tall aliens land on earth, in the midst of international crisis. They were invited to address the UN and say that their mission is to provide humanitarian aid by sharing advanced technology that will inexpensively solve all energy and food storage problems and by the way, facilitate world peace. I later learned this is identical to the promises made by the Democrat Party.

To Serve Man (The Twilight Zone) – Wikipedia

Hysterically, they were called the “Kanamits.”  (I only learned this after researching this blog). Remind you of anyone? At first everything seems to be going great and several people volunteer to travel to Kanamit. Just as the ship is getting ready to take off, some actually translates the book they provided and screams: “It’s a cookbook.”

The hero(?) Michael Chambers stupidly gets on the ship preparing him for supper. He goes on a hunger strike and the Kanamits let him address viewers on earth directly, at which point he warns them that the Kanamits intend to cook and eat all humanity.

Now no one would confuse Kamala Harris with a brilliant alien. There are a lot of words to describe her, but brilliant is not on the list. But in terms of promising everything while delivering nothing other than a plan for permanent domination, she fits right in with the Kanamit value system. Coincidence?

Like the people who believed the Kanamits, far too many people are buying this nonsense. But, unlike the movie, a lot of other people aren’t fooled at all. Every time the MSM interviews ordinary people they are shocked to discover they are not on the Kamala Harris bandwagon. Although the MSM tries to troll Trump about the size of the crowds at his rallies, the reality is that he draws a multitude compared to Kamala and any of her surrogates. For example, when Trump decided to serve food at a McDonalds, people lined up for what looked like miles. The reason is quite simple. Whether you like Trump or not, he is very real. At a minimum this is fun to watch.

As for Kamala, well she is acting like she is the one in the Twilight Zone. All of her attempts to be relatable have backfired. Most recently she sat down and chatted with Liz Cheney in Michigan. Perhaps she didn’t remember or more likely didn’t know that Dick Cheney is not exactly adored in the Arab world. He was mostly focused on killing them. There are recent reports that Michigan Arabs now prefer Trump to Harris, in spite of daily efforts by Harris to trick Israel into snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

I guess it just makes sense that Kamala Harris does this just as her campaign is entering the twilight period of her campaign. Unless somethings changes, and soon, the margin of victory for Trump will be more than Democrats can hope to steal. Like the Kanamits, Kamala belongs in the Twilight Zone.

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Someone decided it would be a great idea to have Kamala Harris interviewed by Fox News. Then they stupidly chose Bret Baier to do the interview. This was a colossal mistake. It was so bad the Kamala Harris staffers were desperately begging Bair to end the interview.  According to Baier she showed up late and they limited the time to the minimum possible.

Bret Baier was, at times, rude and he interrupted her on several occasions. This has been done routinely by the MSM when interviewing Trump surrogates, but apparently this type of interview is just not acceptable if the candidate is a liberal black female Democrat.

Baier interviewed Donald Trump and he asked tough questions.  But Trump kept his cool and was able to handle it. Harris lost control of the tropics and her own emotions. In addition, she gave ridiculous answers when challenged. For example, when Baier asked her if she still supported using taxpayer’s dollars for transgender surgery on prisoners, her response was that she would follow the law.

People in the MSM are pretending that Harris did great. Newsweek said she “dominated” Bet Baier:

Kamala Harris ‘Dominated’ Bret Baier in Fox News Interview—GOP Speechwriter (msn.com)

The problem for the MSM is anyone watching this interview will have no difficulty understanding Kamala Harris’s performance. Granted, her strongest supporters will remain her strongest supporters and predictably viewed this through Rainbow Colored lens. But they don’t matter. The only people who really matter are the few people still deciding who they will vote for in a couple of weeks. I don’t think this performance is likely to cause very many people to decide “she is great!” They may hate Fox News and they may despise Bret Baier, but that does nothing to elevate Kamala Harris.

This reminds me of an incident years ago during the O.J. Simpson trial. We were watching TV and Marcia Clark, the lead prosecutor, came on. One of the attorneys in our foursome, who had just gone through a bitter divorce, said: “That’s everyone’s ex-wife.” I still laugh about that years later.

Kamala Harris is a poster child for the modern arrogant insufferable liberal woman who can’t even fathom how other people think. She is the Dylan Mulvaney of American politics. Dylan Mulvaney is the transgender social media personality stupidly chosen by Bud Light to attract a whole new class of consumers. Instead, there was an instant boycott, people just stopped buying Bud light. Prior to this idiotic mistake, Bud Light had 12.5% of total beer sales. A recent report by Harvard shows that Bud Light sales dropped by about 32%.

I think this interview may have more impact on the Harris/Walz campaign and Democrats in general than the Dylan Mulvaney commercial. While the talking heads on the MSM still won’t understand, most people not viewing the world through rainbow glasses saw this quite clearly. They understand one thing. This person is totally unqualified to be President of the United States. They will also have visions of  four years of seeing this Joke of a Person pretending to be our Commander-in-chief. This was so bad drinking Bud Light looks good in comparison.

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I still remember when I got my first set of hearing aids. I knew that my hearing had deteriorated, but didn’t realize the significance of this. Quite simply if you can’t hear what you are missing you don’t know what you have been missing. I put on those hearing aids and everything changed. First, I noticed the ability to hear what people were saying. But I also noticed a lot of other sounds, some of which were startling to me. It took me a few weeks to adjust to a world that was suddenly a whole lot louder.

Yesterday, I was driving my tour of duty for the Sun City Center Security Patrol. It is pretty tame; we just drive around and look for anything to report. In the meantime, I was listening to Fox News which happened to be broadcasting the on-stage interview of Donald Trump on economic policy by Bloomberg. The person asking the questions, Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief, John Micklethwait had a very distinct British accent. He is clearly an anti-tariff guy and he was obviously on a mission to challenge Trump.

Now if you listen to MSNBC, then you probably think Trump was horrible and rambled on inconsistently. Here is their report:

Why Trump’s on-stage interview on economic policy was such a mess (msn.com)

This is typical of the MSM, and once again, they totally missed the point. They didn’t really listen and as a result they did not hear. Trump more than held his own in this conversation. He debated Micklethwait and he didn’t hesitate to respond when challenged. Frankly, it was a classic example of why Trump has been successful. He listens to the experts, but he isn’t intimidated by them. He made several excellent arguments explaining exactly why tariffs can be extremely helpful. Mr. Micklethwait obviously believes in free trade and that includes between countries. But Trump pointed out that free trade requires reciprocity. We can’t allow someone like China to take over manufacturing, move jobs overseas, and then refuse to allow American companies to compete in China. He explained why he warned American companies seeking to move plants to Mexico that they wouldn’t be allowed to sell their products in the U.S. with no restrictions. It should be pointed out that it was Trump, not Micklethwait who was getting applause for his answers. One may love Trump, hate Trump, or be indifferent, but listening to this conversation it was impossible to ignore the reality of Trump. His accomplishments as a businessman and a leader are incredible and they are not accidental. The real leaders are not those who follow the crowd and mimic talking points, they are those who see the world as it really is and more importantly figure out how to change things.

Several years ago, friends of our had a Chinese exchange student visiting. They him shopping, to try and find a souvenir from the U.S. to  bring back home to China, but he was disappointed to learn that almost everything was made in China. The sad reality is that far too many American business owners moved manufacturing to China and other places, destroyed large swaths of American Industry and ignored the impact on the American economy. Trump understands this and he understands how to fix the problem. It would be wise not to underestimate him. The cultured elite think they know the answers to everything but in reality, their plans have been a total disaster because they don’t understand the skill necessary to make a deal. Trump does. He knows how to play the game and that interview showcased what makes him special.

The MSM was too focused on trashing Trump to listen. There is none so blind as those who will not see and cannot listen. However, people who actually listened to this conversation were confronted with the reality of Donald Trump.

The contrast between him and Kamala Harris could not have been more obvious.

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My parents were far from rich, so they never considered wasting money on something as silly as “silly putty.” But I used to watch other kids play with it. Pretty amazing stuff. They could shape it into almost anything and it would bounce and even float. But it was still mostly silly, and when you were done one often ended up with a stinky smelly blob, because it was also good at attracting things like dirt, ink or even pet hair. It acted a lot like rubber, but it was not a good enough product to replace rubber. It was properly named “silly putty.”

This reminds me of the current political climate. We have a Democratic Party and its fawning supporters in the MSM who can twist, stretch, and manipulate things to create the illusion of something useful. The few times I read something on the Drudge Report or watch CNN, MSNBC, CBS, or ABC the more stunning the deliberate distortion and flat-out misrepresentation. One recent example was where some reporter tried to get J.D. Vance to say the reports about Venezuelan gangs taking over an apartment complex was a lie. The story is true. A Venezuelan gang did take over an apartment complex. But because it was against the Biden Harris administration, the reporter thought this was a lie. How many times, exactly, does a Venezuelan gang need to take over an apartment complex before it matters?

But there is a problem. Silly putty is still just silly putty and it doesn’t take long for most people to figure this out. Play around with it for a while and then just throw it away. In the end, it is only useful as a distraction. There are numerous signs that a significant percentage of Americans have figured this out. While some of the polls show this as a close race, the answers to key questions indicate the opposite. Blacks and Hispanic support for Kamala Harris is stunningly low. Barack Obama got 93% of the black vote. She will be lucky to come within forty points of that. The same is true when people are asked about the two most critical issues, the border and inflation. Quite simply few appear to be buying the Democratic MSM lie that these issues are just an illusion created out of the delusional mind of the boring uneducated Trump Maga supporters.

Just go the grocery store, buy anything, then look at your wallet. Look at the headlines with all the illegal aliens trashing up sanctuary cities all over the country. Find out that FEMA needs more money because it spent a ton of money helping people who aren’t even here legally. Watch Kamala Harris try, and try, and try again to answer a simple question. She mucks it up every time. Watch Tim Walz, the great American pheasant hunter forget how to load a shotgun. Now find out, maybe, that Kamala Harris’s great book was copied word for word from Wikipedia. Now convince yourself that ordinary people, not throwing up word salads on the View, are buying this crap.

Early voting is down, way down. There are more Republicans registering than Democrats. Bob Casey, desperately trying to keep his Senate seat in Pennsylvania refused to be on the same platform with Kamala Harris. Jon Tester doesn’t want here anywhere near Montana. The man supposedly going to push Ted Cruz our of the Senate happens to have a father who was convicted for helping the cartel traffic drugs.

But most importantly watch the faces on the MSM, if you can stand that for a brief moment. You will see pure panic, getting worse by the hour. In addition, they are running out of silly putty. All that’s left is dirt, stink, and slime.

We better hope Trump wins and wins big, because while we may be able to survive a Kamala Harris presidency, it is far from sure we can survive being stupid enough to eat silly putty.

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The Harris/Walz campaign was already wobbling and leaking fuel. Then Tim Walz embarrassed himself on national television. That was bad enough that the chances of Trump winning the election were increasingly rapidly. Then three things happened that made this worse, much worse.

The first was Hurricane Helene. Now neither Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris can be blamed for the damage done by this hurricane. But they can and will be blamed for how they respond. This started out in the worst conceivable way with Kamala Harris out of action, because she was at a Democratic fundraiser in California while Joe was out of action because he was sunning himself, again, at this vacation home in Delaware. They both showed up with too little too late other than a couple of photo ops, demonstrating zero leadership during this crisis. Kamala Harris even poised for a photo on Air Force Two pretending to talk to FEMA, without realizing she had not connected the cord on her headset to her smart phone. Not a good look. Joe said he had been in command because he had spent a couple of hours on the phone. Few believed him and those that did were not exactly impressed.

That would have been bad enough, but now Mayorkas says that FEMA doesn’t have enough money to manage this crisis. It turns out that the Biden/Harris administration has spend about $1 billion in FEMA emergency funds to pay for hand-outs to illegal immigrants. This is beyond bad and it is doubtful they can come close to explaining this one away.

Then, to make things even worse, Iran launched somewhere around two hundred ballistic missiles at Israel. It is clear that Israel is going to attack Iran. Biden even hinted that this might involve an Iranian Oil Depot which created speculation about a catastrophic rise in fuel costs. At the same time the U.S. is telling Israel to avoid letting this escalate, failing to consider the fact that Iran has already escalated this. This is the opposite of effective leadership regarding international affairs.

This would be bad enough, but there is still more. There is a major strike regarding all the ports in Texas and the East Coast. So far, this is not going well. Joe Biden says he is with the unions and will not even consider using Taft Hartley to stop this strike. In the meantime, the union workers who apparently are already earning over $100k per year want a 75% wage increase and a stop to automation. No one knows how long this strike will last, but if it doesn’t end soon and very soon, the impact on the economy will be through the roof.

All of these is a direct result of either incompetence of a lack of leadership by the Biden Harris administration. Just at a time when people are seriously considering who they can trust to be next President of the United States, Harris and Walz are putting on a case study in why it shouldn’t be them.

It is hard to imagine any of these cases working out satisfactory in time to affect the election. If anything, the problems are likely to become more severe and increasingly impossible to ignore.

In addition, blaming Trump is not exactly a good option. The problem with placing all your hopes on an impossible scheme is that mission impossible is the new reality.

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Read the full transcript of the vice presidential debate (usatoday.com)

The ?debate? between J.D. Vance and Tim Walz was a complete mismatch. Walz managed to behave like an adult and didn’t go into one of his rants. But he made serious mistakes so obvious that even the biased CBS anchors were unable to rescue him. I was surprised when one of the CBS anchors asked him directly about his recent lie regarding being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests. Unfortunately for Tim, there were contemporary newspaper accounts of him showing that this was a lie. He didn’t even pretend that this was true, just called himself a “Knucklehead.”  One of the few things he got right.

This went viral with reports on Mediate, USA Today, MSN, BBC, Yahoo, and a cast of thousands. This is destined to be known as the “Knucklehead debate.”

He also was so nervous answering the first question that he confused Israel with Iran. First, he said “Iran – er – Israel’s ability to defend itself is absolutely fundamental.” Then he said: “The expansion of Israel and its proxies is an absolute fundamental necessity for the United States.” Huh?

Then, in trying to explain the need for an assault weapons band he said: “I’ve become friends with school shooters.”

J.D. Vance, on the other hand, was extremely focused. He made his points and introduced himself to the American people, but he also answered questions clearly and concisely. CBS “fact checked” him regarding Haitians in Springfield Ohio, and muted his microphone before he could respond. Unfortunately, the internet came alive and quickly proved that it was CBS that had its’ facts wrong.

At one point Norah McDonnell arrogantly muttered that “The overwhelming consensus among scientists is that the earth’s climate is warming at an unprecedented rate.” She did not give J.D. Vance a chance to respond.

I really wish someone would have responded by saying “if scientists are so concerned about global warming, why did they stop saying global warming and replaced it with climate change?”

Most scientists do believe the earth is getting warmer, it has been getting warmer since the little ice age that lasted from the 14^th to mid-19^th century.

What Was the Little Ice Age? | Britannica

One notes that humanity managed to survive the little ice age.

J.D. Vance put this in a very different perspective. He pointed out that forcing us to take drastic measures while ignoring the much more serious pollution from places like China doesn’t make sense.

Normally a VP debate makes no difference. But this year may be an exception. The problem for Democrats is Kamala Harris who only impresses the extreme left who can only see an abortion supporting black female and ignores everything else. They needed Tim Walz to impress. He did, but for all the wrong reasons.

The real polls, the ones showing how people really feel about immigration and the economy favor Trump. In addition, almost every poll shows rapidly shrinking support for Kamala Harris among blacks and Hispanics. But more importantly the world looks really scary with Iran launching hundreds of ballistic missiles toward Israel and Ukraine looking on the verge of a catastrophic defeat. In a real crisis, people don’t look toward the smiling person with the great personality, they look for the mean looking dude in the corner, the only one who looks capable of taking on the bad guys. That ain’t Kamala Harris and after last night, that ain’t Tim Walz either.

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Most of you are aware of Hurricane Helene. It did an incredible amount of damage. While those of us living in the Tampa area did not experience hurricane force winds, people living along the cost were pummeled by the 8 ft. storm surge. I have friends whose homes were a near total loss because of the high water.

Prior to 1983, Casey Key and Siesta Key was separated by an inlet. But in 1983, the Army Corps of Engineers decided to deepen Sarasota Bay as part of the intercoastal waterway, and they deposited the dredged material in the inlet. Two property owners finished the job.

People have been griping about this for decades. Few listened. Michael Jenkins, an engineer with Applied Technology and Management was asked about this on September 10^th, 2024, and he said the following:

County takes a pass on alternative to opening Midnight Pass | Your Observer

“I’m fully aware of the history of Midnight Pass,” Jenkins said. “It is well known within coastal engineering circles in Florida. It is a well-known discussion that’s gone on for many decades.” Instead of just reopening the inlet, Jenkins suggested pumping water from the Gulf into the bay at strategic locations to dilute pollutants.

County takes a pass on alternative to opening Midnight Pass | Your Observer

Well guess what. God made the decision for them, because low and behold Hurricane Helene, in addition to trashing beachfront property, reopened Midnight Pass.

Hurricane Helene reopens Midnight Pass, naturally ends controversy for now (msn.com)

Some boaters have allegedly already used the new/old short cut to the Gulf of Mexico.

Sometimes, it appears as though God has a sense of humor. I mean people have been bitching about this for over 40 years, and God appears to have fixed the problem in a couple of hours. My prediction is that it will take just as much time and effort by politicians to decide to “re-close” midnight pass as it has taken to try and get it re-opened. In the meantime, Midnight Pass is back.

This is a reminder that God can change the best laid plans of mice and men in an incredibly short period of time. Up until now most of us had never heard of Midnight Pass. Yet, in the course of a few short hours, God decided Midnight Pass was a good idea and man was helpless to prevent that.

This is also a reminder that God is in control, including our elections. Many of us are genuinely afraid that Kamala Harris will become President of the United States. Perhaps an even worse fear is that this country would be stupid enough to let that happen.

I earnestly pray that wisdom will prevail and that Donald Trump will win in November. It is hard to imagine God wanting someone like Kamala Harris to win. But regardless of what happens, it will be his will. Eventually, that will  be best for everyone.

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