Friends, DJT has made a big decision: he has nominated Kevin Warsh as the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Opinions differ about whether Warsh would deliver the kind of changes at the Fed that Trump has been pushing for, such as more accountability and lower interest rates. Time will tell. All I know is that Warsh played tennis in high school, which shows promise, in my book!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx1qrx5jgzo
In other news, a "massive armada" of U.S. warships is steaming towards the Persian Gulf, but to what purpose? Trump is hinting that strikes against the mullahs may be in the offing, but a lot of key players in the region are advising caution. I say: MAN UP!!! This is the best opportunity to topple the regime in decades, and it would be unforgivable to let it pass. Frankly, it may already have passed, and that is most unfortunate.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-iran-armada-mideast-allies-turkey-oman-qatar/
Lastly, don't miss this week's Newsmakers show, featuring moi! Brian and I discuss a number of intriguing historical topics, as well as Trump's war of words against the Fed, the incredible shrinking Conservative Party in the U.K., the prospects for a shutdown in D.C., and more!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Why, its well known that having played tennis is an indispensable prerequisite for the office for which this man is nominated. Therefore, have no doubt about your evaluation of him.
ReplyDeleteI am almost completely ignorant on economics but its enough for me that our canny President needs this man to greatly enhance the benefit he, the President , is doing already for our material security and well being. I think DJT's devotion and close attention to this is very wisely taken and is in large part the antidote to the Marxism which still plagues our free country.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: This news just having broken I'll be as presumptuous as to comment on it and then return to the content of your posting and broadcast:
ReplyDeleteNY Gov. Hochul has proposed a new law forbidding NY state localities from entering into the legally established 287(g) agreements with ICE which endorse localities working with ICE. She justifies this by expectorating that "This is about a rogue federal (sic) agency that's been unleashed on American streets with the sole purpose of creating chaos, carnage and fear" . My, my but these are serious charges . . . in their literal sense anyway . . . but they shame and offend our state beyond measure. They are hyperbolic as much as to be absurd. Why would President Trump want to create disorder?
On the other hand our Governor, who betrays her common sense Western NY origins (as far away from NYC as you can be in our state) is subjugated by and obsequiously subservient to, the NYC and "American" far left. And those openly treasonous factions most certainly do seek to foment societal dissolution to pave the way for their totalitarian takeover. Our Governor obviously subscribes to the Slick Willy school of unapologetic preemption of theretofore opposite policies. "Wha, ah've allus bin a small gov'mint man" ,so please reelect me, he amorally slimed. Our NYC , pardon me, NY nominally (state oriented Governor is running for reelection and must secure her NYC far left base. This latest decree ( when you have a one party far left/Dem legislature to "propose" legislation to, that's what it amounts to most of the time) is a sincere and heartfelt gift to them.
But she must be careful. At present NY "allows " despised ICE access to state prisons and local jails. She cannot go as far as to eliminate this "injustice" now lest she be compared to hapless Gov. Walz of shamefully misrepresented Minnesota. But should she be reempowered at the polls I do think she will summarily act to end that "arrangement". (Witness the deceitful betrayal of her heretofore claimed "moderation" by Virginia's new far left interloper Governor). The result would be thefully intended daily spew of illegal immigrant recidivists upon the most unlikely of citizens to experience the "keep NY Safe " maxim she touts - the LAW ABIDING! She clearly shares the Marxist ( though we cannot credit her with intellect sufficient to define the term)principle that criminals are victims and those who obey the laws are their victimizers and should accordingly be held so, both by the thugs and the state which succors them.
For out of NY state readers of this site , please take heed of what has already engulfed our state; it could come to you next! When our legislature meets and our Dem Governors assure it of their approval, our common sense people wait only to learn not what is in our interest but what common sense defying strictures are being forced on us this time. Majority rule is not always just, especially when it is disdainfully imposed by a lala land multitudinous outlier like dreamy, now commie ruled NYC.
Dr. Waddy from Jack : Re the latest Newsmaker broadcast: Last things first: The Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War. I think it is right to view it as an effort on the part of the commies mostly meant to very negatively public opinion in the U.S. (In the event they actually got their asses kicked on the battlefield). Certainly it had an effect on our politicians but mainly , I suggest, through our MSM (which then was the ONLY influential mass media ) but equally importantly by radicals empowered by the extensive cynical Marxist corruption of so much of the massive and massively naive baby boom generation which flocked to university and the embrace of long deservedly suppressed commie faculty in the '60s ( I was part of it in'65, I saw it first hand).
ReplyDeleteBeloved CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, with probably good intentions and possibly even misleading information, told the American public that Tet was a military defeat which levelled grave doubt on the further prosecution of the war. He was supported by Dan Rather , who has long since demonstrated his willingness to mislead America. "In country " veterans of the war told me that they knew that MSM on the spot reporters were lying about them and the military success they knew they had achieved and that some of those "bastards" disserved to have been "fragged".
N. Vietnamese murderous commie General Giap later chortled " it was those protestors in the U.S. which kept us going" . Those who helped to create that tragically wrongheaded and often America hating reality deserve everlasting shame for what they wrought: 300, 000 Vietnamese sent to "reeducation 'camps' " ( eh, not like summer camp in the U.S. ) where they were tortured, starved , deprived of family and home and , why yes boomer radicals, even killed. Ethnic Chinese in Saigon were savagely attacked for age old racial animi, and the Hmong Mountain people were massacred. Many , many thousands of "boat people" (who knew full well that they were outlawed and condemned by the triumphant Marxist saviors) , were treated to extended luxury cruises in the sultry S. China Sea (the questionable comforts of which I had extended experience but not in the leaky open tubs the boat people desperately used to save their lives from Marxist savagery). THAT was the product of the "antiwar movement" together with the emotional and mental anguish imposed on so many returning dutiful Vietnam veterans ; years and years of bad morale in our armed forces and the shameful election of a draft dodging President.
Subsequently, America has returned to its senses and its fundamental values by honoring Vietnam vets and all following vets; it has reasserted its respect and gratitude for our military and assured those of us who endured the viciousness so characteristic of the Marxists who still threaten all we cherish and value , that they will never again be tolerated.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Re Newsmaker cont. : taken by themselves the votes of individuals may be of miniscule importance but that friendly neighbor Dem party office holder is part of the foundation upon which the now nationally disgraced far left/Dem party sits . Their one vote eventually helps to empower some pretty unsavory people at the head of that once loyal institution.
ReplyDeleteAgain I am much encouraged by your observation that the UK's Conservative Party is being gutted by very significant defections to the Reform Party. The Conservatives, especially under Churchill and Thatcher did so much good for the UK but now they are too willing to countenance unrelenting far left woke imposition on the freedoms of Brits. Its time for them to step aside for those who, like Pres. Trump, understand that that incipiently totalitarian far left cannot be dissuaded; it must be overpowered! I think much of the UK has caught on to this existential threat. Looks like Reform and Farage are just the ticket to reaffirm the integrity of the cradle of democracy.
Also looks like voters in several European countries you mentioned are fed up with their far left's increasingly obvious tyrannical intentions. That's good news; the far left always and everywhere seeks to force "fundamental transformation" on countries which do not need or want it , thank you.
Soviet defense policy of the 70's and 80's was dominated by a school of thought which held that a nuclear war was winnable. Perhaps its vast geographical reaches encouraged them to think it.
It is reasonable to think that if say, the US and/ or China's and /or Russia's nukes were all detonated, that the world would be enormously damaged. But maybe a lot of them would be intercepted, off target , malfunctioning or held back in horror. I visited ground zero in Nagasaki 23 years after the bomb dropped. You would never know that it had happened but for the monument there. Yes. that bomb was about 20 kilotons and H bombs generate many megatons but at ground zero conditions were no doubt of a hellish degree comparable to that of an Hbomb. And now its a verdant park.
The Soviets were not stupid and many of them manifested a fierce affection for their much savaged country. Maybe there was some realism in their strategy, unthinkable as it seems.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Newsmaker broadcast cont.: Methinks Guy Fawkes did himself well by summarily precipitating himself into the hereafter. The punishment for treason was prolonged and hideous in
ReplyDeletethe 17th century and even beyond. And if he was perceived to have Catholic connections he was probably doubly condemned.
D day : Allied fear of Russia making a separate peace was intense .In WWI the separate peace Russia made with Germany loosed many hundreds of thousands of Boche onto the Western Front and they came within 70 miles of Paris in their final all out offensive.
Too, the allies anticipated needing Russia's aid against the Japanese. I think the key to the success of D day was Ike. His skilled diplomacy may well have helped keep FDR and Churchill from allowing Stalin to play his horrid games. ( FDR made some brilliant choices for military command : Marshall and Eisenhower were inspired appointments) . I guess Stalin's "reasoning" was that the sooner the Allies were engaged in Western Europe the more time he'd have to enslave Eastern Europe and maybe more (?) Eg. The Red Army almost did take Denmark, the key to the Baltic. Maybe my guess is counterintuitive. But Stalin, who we know was ridden by anxiety, was frantic for a Second Front. My guess is that Ike could not have been ready by late 1943 and Churchill's reputation, rightly or wrongly, probably still suffered because of Gallipolli.
Ike was right in the middle of the hugger mugger, subordinate , yes ,to the President and in effect to those foreign leaders with whom FDR had to get along and to General Marshall but also carrying a very grave command responsibility himself.The German Army was reeling but it remained a harrowingly competent and hard fighting force, as Ike had learned in N.Africa. Churchill wanted Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke to command on D day but would Alanbrooke have manifested the patience, affability and yes, humility Ike did? ( Alanbrooke would have been directly subordinate to Churchill, who could at times be "adventurous" and was certainly decisive). In his personal qualities Ike in command reminds me very much of Washington.
He is criticized as not having been President in trying times. Perhaps that was in part because of him. I think he belongs in close company with other highly celebrated Americans.