• CALIFORNIA CHAOS: “Combining unchecked illegal immigration with a refusal to prosecute crimes and promise of ‘sanctuary’ is a perfect mix to attract the terrible kinds of people who live violent lives and impose that violence on others through extortion schemes. Summer in southern California has been a hotbed of gang crime, including: (1) a series of home invasions and extortion plots; (2) execution of a marijuana dispensary owner in broad daylight, by a cartel over ‘protection’ money; (3) federal charges against 37 L.A. street gang members for murder, fentanyl trafficking & extortion. Truth is stranger than fiction, but in SoCal, the two are equally violent.”  [WASHINGTON EXAMINER – 8/28/24]
  • BELIEF IN ALIEN VISITORS HAS BECOME A WIDENING SOCIETAL PROBLEM, with over a third of Americans believing that UFO sightings “offer likely proof of alien life,” and a quarter saying they’ve ‘seen’ a UFO. Politicians are increasingly calling for disclosure of info about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP vs UFO) after reports of supposed “sightings, abductions and reverse-engineered alien technology… Most prominent current advocates of document ‘disclosure’ are Senate Leader Schumer and Pentagon officials, who began disclosure during the early days of Biden’s presidency… All this is ultimately encouraging conspiracy theories which could undermine trust in democratic institutions, including calls to storm Area 51.”  [REAL CLEAR SCIENCE – 9/3/24]
  • MOST COUNTRIES REGULATE THE QUANTITY & TYPES OF ITEMS which foreign visitors can bring with them on a trip without paying some form of entry taxes on luxury goods, tobacco products and alcohol.  In Mexico, a favorite American vacation spot, a 19% Duty on ‘value of extra devices’ applies to more than one personal computing device (laptop/ iPad/ Notebook/ GPS), or binoculars, or set of portable speakers.  Even if solely for personal use, restrictions also apply to entry with more than two cameras, camcorders or musical instruments, and to more than three cell phones. [FORBES – 8/31/24]
  • THE U.S. DEP’T OF DEFENSE IS A MAJOR PLAYER IN HOLLYWOOD FILMS & TV PROGRAMS – some 140 reality series, game shows and documentaries each year. DOD supplies expertise, props & locations in return for creative control over scripts which might otherwise show “unflattering depictions of America by portraying the military as corrupt, ineffective or inhumane (like where top brass are baddies, or where Chinese or Russians infiltrate the White House), as well as support a 2023 Nat’l Defense Act stipulation which forbids the Pentagon to help films that agree to changes from Chinese censors.” Airforce, Army, Navy, Marine & Space Force all dedicate people to approve, oversee and “jostle for space with soldiers & crews, since military routines do not stop just because shooting begins.”  [ECONOMIST – 8/24/24]

THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK:

We may well have entered the Twilight Zone. You can’t justify this insanity. We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind!  [INTERNET ANON]

  • If a man pretends to be a woman, you are required to pretend with him.
  • Somehow, it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America.
  • Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good.
  • It was cool for Joe Biden to “blackmail” the President of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquiries about it.
  • Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but eighteen is old enough to vote.
  • People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves.
  • People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees.
  • Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you’d better be able to prove your dog is vaccinated.
  • Doctors and engineers who want to emigrate to the US must go through a rigorous vetting process, but  illiterate gang-bangers who jump the southern fence are welcome.
  • $5 billion for border security is too expensive, but $1.5 trillion for “free” health care is not.
  • If you cheat to get into college you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country you go to college for free.
  • People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding a female President.
  • We see other countries going Socialist and collapsing, but this seems like a great plan to many.
  • Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they are doing right now.
  • Criminals are caught-and-released to hurt more people, but stopping them is bad because it’s a violation of THEIR rights.
  • And pointing out all this hypocrisy somehow makes us “racists”?!

Wake up America, the great unsinkable ship Titanic America has hit an iceberg, is taking on water, and is sinking fast.