Friends, prior to 1867, as most people know, Russia controlled Alaska. Now they're up to their old tricks again! That's because President Trump has agreed to a summit with President Putin in Alaska next Friday. The main topic of conversation will be a negotiated settlement to the Russia-Ukraine War. Might Trump offer Putin the Aleutian Islands as a sweetner to get him to give up the Donbass? Probably not. The outlines of a settlement are starting to come into clearer focus, but then again Russia could simply be playing for time and trying to avoid even more crippling sanctions. Either way, a face-to-face meeting between Trump and Putin will be a sight to behold!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dxed639n7o
Kudos to Gina Carano, the Mandalorian star fired by Disney for daring to speak out against censorship. Kind of ironic, that! Disney has caved to, or at least settled with, Carano, and it's possible that Carano may even be reemployed by the entertainment colossus. How far we've come from the bad old days of Joe Biden! Kudos also to Elon Musk, who took up Carano's cause and has been a stalwart backer of free speech.
https://www.outkick.com/analysis/gina-carano-lawsuit-victory-disney-lucasfilm-cancel-culture
Not everything that Secretary of Health and Human Services RFK, Jr. does may be universally acclaimed, but there's no question that some important victories have been won for the MAHA movement. Will America actually become healthier? That remains to be seen.
Finally, not so long ago New York State Attorney General Letitia James had DJT in her crosshairs, and it looked like Trump couldn't possibly escape the full court press of lawfare that had been instigated against him. Now, Trump is POTUS again, and it's James's turn to feel the heat. Could she really be charged with some kind of crime related to lawfare? Much depends on the evidence that the DOJ can assemble...
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Corporations are often caught between a rock and a hard place. In a proven sound free enterprise capitalist economy it is their duty to their investors, employees and faithful customers to conform to the standards set by that public and professionally perceived so by the corporations' experts in marketing. Their honorable purpose is profit and it is a purpose to which our country's miraculous material well being is directly attributable.
ReplyDeleteWhen the corporations' perceptions are changed by measurable public reaction, the successful ones change their policies, including their reaction to lawsuits challenging their past reactions to the criticism levelled them by contractors or employees . The corporations did what they thought best for their businesses , both before and after these changes.
I choose to exercise my freedom to shun present day Disney productions because of the contrast I see between them and the Disney I loved and still cherish in recorded form. But I don't blame Disney ( a business after all) for pursuing its best interests. If they go far left, then let's deny them our business and yes, declare why we are doing so. Then let the free market decide.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: "What goes around comes around". I heard a commentator on MSNBC lament that "all these Magas want is revenge". Silly baby; when you play with a player you better expect to be played.
ReplyDeleteThe Dems shot the bolt when they tried to hound DJT to personal ruin and political death. They failed and now they are paying the price for their vicious injustice. A principled DOJ is well within its professional scope to bring a blatant misuser of her authority for declared politically partisan purpose, to account. Perhaps NY's one party dictatorship can at least be held within its state borders rather than seeking to work its incipient totalitarian intent on our nation as a whole.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Pres. Trump is a proven miracle worker. Perhaps he can do it again in Alaska.
ReplyDeleteDr. Wadfdy from Jack: Agree with you on Musk. He is still a tremendous asset to America though I hope his new party does not benefit the dems.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: The article you cited on the reasons why NY AG James deserves prosecution encourages the common sense electoral minority in NY state to anticipate that we may at least be relieved of her onerous authority. The author is right; lawfare was a low point for our country. And for our NY state it is lower than low. Our state is a pariah , a laughingstock before America but it does provide a very useful example of what is in store for any state , or any organized entity, which hands the keys over to the Dems. Give them an inch and they take unlimited miles on their journey to forceful imposition of their totalitarian rule on all of us.
ReplyDeleteBTW, criminals are fully aware of the obvious emphasis this kind of "Attorney General" - Chief Law Enforcement Official - places on using the law chiefly to pursue her political antitheses. This one we have glories in it and believe me, from 20 years working among them, I know they see in her a law enforcement officer they need not fear. Oh no, they will never come face to face with her but they know she puts the "skeer" in her subordinates. She is no friend to law enforcement except that which serves her vicious biases and intentions. And gee , when criminals aren't scared of the consequences, well, they do crime and lately a whole lot of it in their NY city and state playground.
Sorry America, we simply do not have the numbers to out
vote the people who put this kind of person in authority. But most of you can ensure that your state need never endure misrule like that which we experience under this presumptuous and lawless high official. We would be very glad to see her face legal consequences for her misconduct but probably we'll just get another one like her. Past NY AGs include Cuomo and Spitzer and our Governor is a real case too.
RAY TO DR. WADDY
ReplyDeleteI think Putin is NOT going to give up in getting Ukraine, and bringing it back into Russia as "The Ukraine". This has nothing to do with morality, but with Putin and Russia's national interests.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Very interesting development today; President Trump is putting the National Guard on Washington , DC's mean streets. Frankly, I think they should be on the streets of every big American city. I mean that as no knock on any police dep't. They are doing their best against hateful opposition from influential decision makers.
ReplyDeleteDC Mayor Bowser reacted critically but with some welcome good grace; she indirectly credited her police by citing apparently lower rates of violent crime in DC. She also noted that if DC were to have Congressional representation that that would help to alleviate the crime "problem" in DC(?!). Thankfully, she did not express any approval of resistance to the National Guard.
Again, Pres. Reagan said it best when he said "there are no solutions, only choices". With endemic city crime that is very true. Our urban crime rate is unconscionable and shameful beyond measure and is made infinitely more so by the fact, proven by Mayor Guiliani in NYC, that it can be controlled where the will to do so is in command.
So, we must make the decisive choice in our land to place the benefit of the law abiding and the vulnerable ALWAYS above that of criminals, period!. We have made the opposite choice up until now and the consequences are completely predictable. Countries like Japan and Singapore have decided not to tolerate crime, no matter its motivation! And prospective criminals there know their place and what draconian penalty to expect and , surprise - surprise, they relent. Until we make that choice we will continue to be a very swamp of unbridled , vicious and presumptuous crime . The very commission of vicious crime must be the sole requirement for permanent custody, either by electronic monitoring enabling instant disablement of a recidivist or by incarceration, period. To hell with ALL the excuses.
Will injustice be done by this? Yes. Would it be equal to the injustice done every day, without any due process, to the victims of violent crime? No.
The criminologist Karl Menninger wrote a book with the revealing title of "The Crime of Punishment". I read as much of it as I could endure. It is that attitude which makes the misplaced compassion of judges, DAs , legislators and Governors, known in every detail by cynical, sometimes completely sociopathic, criminals ,which enables the continuation, unto absurd and inhuman reaches , of the terrible victimization of those who lead lawful lives. President Trump's mobilization of the National Guard in DC is a thumb the very nose of such destructive idealists.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: It is folly to try to reform or persuade demonstrated vicious criminals. To do so unjustly exposes their potential victims (for each offender , how many victims ?) to limitless depredation. A few of them might choose to live lawfully but cannot and should not be trusted to do so. We must make the choice to always place the well being of the law abiding above the freedom violent criminals desire. They must be unrelentingly , permanently, CONTROLLED. A judge in a recent infamous murder case told the convicted offender" there would be no use in trying to 'rehabilitate' you". That's the spirit; that is the kind of compassion which a civilized society should show to the lawful, rather than the detached "touchy feely" spinelessness shown to thugs by their ridiculous apologists.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Plus, we must make it lawful for the law abiding to exercise WIDE discretion in using deadly force to protect themselves from vicious victimizers without having to face counterintuitive and ruinous legal liability for it.
ReplyDeleteGood point, Jack, that arguably corporate America's toadying to the Left has been mainly a reflection of what they perceive as being in their self-interest. That being said, we ought to see a massive shift in their behavior, given the new realities that obtain. But do we, in fact, see that massive shift? I would say...not yet. They are still hedging their bets.
ReplyDeleteJack, I haven't heard a peep out of Musk or anyone else about his new party lately, so I'm guessing it was just a passing fancy.
Exactly, Jack: we might succeed in shipping Letitia James off to Alcatraz, but whoever replaces her could easily be worse.
Ray, you may well be right about Putin and Russia, in which case he's only appearing in Alaska to try to drive a wedge between Trump and Europe/Ukraine. And it might work, too.
Hmm. You make me wonder, Jack, where all those bad guys caught up in Trump's D.C. dragnet will be sent. To courtrooms presided over by lefty judges? In that case, we might as well not bother.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: A possible solution to lefty DC judges turning savages loose is to accuse the criminals of Federal crimes as much as is possible. That would bring the possible "compassionate" rulings of trial Court judges closer to higher Federal Court review. Single Scotus justices acting as Chief Justices of Circuit Courts of Appeal might render remedial summary judgement on egregiously light sentences reflexively leveled by far left Federal Judges . SCOTUS could also discipline, even unto dismissal, Federal judges who display such blatant dereliction of duty and contempt for equal protection.
ReplyDeleteBarring that, as it were, if the trial Court Judges insist on succoring criminals at the expense of the safety of the law abiding, then perhaps martial law, including summary military courts, must be declared in DC.
I don't blame corporate America for waiting and seeing if this miraculous return of America to common sense will continue. The financial well being of so many depend on their reading of the signs. Some of them may be trying the waters (eg. food companies responding to Maha). Continued discrediting of the Dems may well motivate corporate America to gradually shed its fear of totalitarian leftist punishment for spurning DEI. I'm going to guess most corporate leaders would be glad to be so relieved.
Jack, as far as I know, SCOTUS has never disciplined, much less dismissed, any federal judge. As far as I know, only Congress has the power to do so. I'd love to be proven wrong, though!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: You are probably right. I forgot about impeachment of Federal judges.
ReplyDeleteWell, never say never, Jack. Trump breaks all the rules, and, if there's a way to dismiss these judges, he'll find it!
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