Weekend at Trump, Hillary and Bernie's

Some thoughts on the events of the weekend....

• The Commie (Sanders) swore to one of his California audiences on Saturday that he plans to continue to "fight" (isn't it great how all liberal politicians "fight" all the time?  It's like they all think they could go eight rounds with Ali) "all the way through the convention".
  
  What this actually means is that he's getting ready to concede the nomination to Hillary Clinton if he loses California on Tuesday, and end his campaign.  If you remember back to the day before the Indiana GOP primary, Ted Cruz also swore to stay in the race "all the way to Cleveland" to an audience of supporters.  By 8:00 Central Time the next night, after a crushing loss to Donald Trump, his campaign was over.
  
  If California goes for Hillary, the Commie is toast.  Best bet of the week.

• Donald Trump has a legitimate concern about the impartiality of the judge in his Trump University case, but doesn't appear capable of appropriately expressing it.  Instead of focusing on the judge's "Mexican" heritage (he was born and raised in Indiana), Trump should be talking about Judge Gonzalo Curiel's membership in a radical organization called "La Raza Lawyers of San Diego", a race-based group that is so racist that its name - La Raza - literally translates to "The Race".
  
  Given Trump's support for a border wall and other strategies to secure the U.S. border with Mexico, he has every reason to be concerned about having this case heard by this specific judge.  Unfortunately, the judge's obviously biased conduct of the case only serves to reinforce that reality.
  
  Trump's unfortunate focus on the judge's "heritage" is entirely wrong-headed.  A focus on his associations and membership in a race-based organization like La Raza is entirely appropriate.

• Many of our fake "news" outlets this morning are focusing on the fact that The Most Corrupt Woman in America, in an interview with George Stephanopoulous yesterday, would not affirmatively state that the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution confers a right to keep and bear arms to American citizens.  Instead, she would only talk about the "right" of the government to regulate firearms ownership.
  
  To me, this focus is kind of a big yawner. After all, all Hillary was doing was expressing the commonly-held belief by pretty much all of today's "progressives" that individual Americans don't have rights, but the government does.  That is the basic, fundamental, driving principle behind American progressivism today.  Tell us something we don't know already.
  
  My big question about that particular interview is why in the hell is ABC still allowing George Stephanopoulous, who served as senior advisor to Bill Clinton, has contributed more than $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation, and is really nothing more than a lifelong Clinton toady, to interview Hillary Clinton under the pretense of objectivity? 
  
  Even more to the point, why does anyone still watch that crap?  I mean, am I the only one who understands that every question and answer in that "interview" has been vetted and rehearsed beforehand?  This is not "news", it is theatre.  No different than Broadway, though not  nearly as entertaining.

•  Matt Damon took some shots at Donald Trump during a commencement speech at MIT on Saturday. Some of the lines were pretty funny.  Good for him.
  
  My only question is, what is it in the makeup of most actors that compels them to start taking themselves seriously once they have achieved major fame?  We see this happen over and over and over again:  Actors who begin their careers focused on making great films or TV shows, perfecting their craft to the point at which they become fabulously wealthy and start winning awards, who then decide that winning those awards somehow makes them smart people who should then start dictating to the "little people" out in flyover country how they ought to behave.
  
  Rob Reiner, having won an Emmy for All in the Family, has been out there telling us all how to act for 40 years now.  Ted Dansen was great in Cheers, and then spent most of the '90s making all manner of environmental pronouncements that turned out to be false.  Susan Sarandon has been doing it for 25 years or so.  Barbara Streisand has been babbling non-stop for 30.  George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, the list can go on and on and on.
  
  What is it in their makeup that makes such people believe that, because they can act or sing or dance, that means that the "little people" should suddenly look up to them as authority figures?  Even more to the point:  What is is in the make up of so many "little people" that they possess so little self-esteem that they actually do listen and give these pompous Hollywood asses a platform from which to pontificate?
  
  Truly one of life's great mysteries.

The Texas "Permanent Drought" Goes Bust

                                               The Brazos River Flooding Ft. Bend County

Some random thoughts as my home city of Houston faces another day of torrential rains and flooding…

·         Ten years ago, Al Gore released his climate alarmist film, “An Inconvenient Truth”.  Ten years later, not a single fright scenario he casually tossed into that masterpiece has turned out to be true.  The Arctic is not free of ice, snow has not disappeared from the United States or United Kingdom, the rate of sea level rise has not increased from its historic rate, and major hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin, despite Al’s prediction that storms like Katrina would become an annual occurrence, has instead virtually disappeared. But Al got filthy rich out of it all, and the climate alarmist industry has grown at an exponential rate, so they’re all no doubt satisfied.

·         I got to thinking about that this morning when I saw a tweet that pointed out it was two years ago that the Obama Administration and the Climate Alarmist community authoritatively announced that Texas was mired in a “permanent drought”.  That announcement actually came just as the drought was ending, but no matter – some Austin-based media outlets are still running pieces that cling to that absurd notion. 

·         Five years ago, in August of 2011, I came in after watering the front yard on our designated watering day at the time, and announced to my beautiful wife that “I swear I will never complain about rain again as long as I live.”  The last couple of months have made keeping that pledge difficult, but I’ve managed to stand firm so far.  And I’m not complaining about rain in this piece, but when you see so many people suffering and being put out of their homes, it’s hard not to at least say a little prayer, asking God if he couldn’t at last shift it around to another location for awhile?

·         But I’m not complaining about rain, let me be clear about that.  Because I lived through that seven-year drought that Texas did actually experience from 2007 through 2014, and know that the absence of rain is worse than too much of it.

·         August 2011 was probably the very deepest point of that drought.  Every Texas lake was far below normal levels, with some, like Medina Lake, being proclaimed by the “experts” as dead.  The Pedernales River was not even visible from the Highway 71 overpass.  Homes that had been built as “waterfront” on Lake Travis now found themselves high and dry.  The entireties of South Texas and the Texas Panhandle country were nothing more than gigantic tinder boxes awaiting a spark, and wildfires raged across the state.   Some Texas towns ran completely out of drinking water;  others teetered on the brink.  Crops failed all over the state, and livestock died by the thousands from lack of anything to drink.  In November of 2011, when we had a thunderstorm blow through Houston, I realized it had been over a year since I had heard the sound of thunder.

No, I’ll take too much rain any day over that alternative.

At any rate, we Texans can be thankful that the Obama Administration and the Climate Alarmist industry were wrong about the alleged “permanent drought”, as they are wrong about pretty much everything else.  And maybe we all ought to be asking more loudly why it is that this industry continues to be funded by billions of federal dollars so it can continue being wrong and misleading the public about so many things.