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 Here it is if you’ve forgotten: my most serious prediction ever…

 

Make a note of this.  January the Sixth, Two Thousand and Twenty-One.  Just before 1 p.m. EST.

If I’m wrong about this I’ll eat my fedora.  No really, I will.

Here it is:

I
do declare that four years from today, the United States will be in the
WORST condition it has been in, in at least the past fifty years.

Hold me to this.  Do it.

I am dead-#@%$ serious.
 
 
 That was ten months ago.  Much less than the forty-eight I allocated to Biden.
Out of control inflation.  Soaring gas prices.  Less food.  Energy costs set to skyrocket.  A military more dedicated to being “woke” than defense readiness.  Americans still stranded in Afghanistan.  Supply chains strangled because of over-burdening regulation on truckers.  Vaccine mandates.  No effective counter to a China becoming more belligerent by
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The United States federal government may soon be taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Anyone else out there know how much raw badness this portends?

Nobody I’ve spoken to about this in the past couple of days – and y’all might be surprised at who this includes – believes that either of these two mortgage houses is solvent. And nobody in the government seems to be talking about anything but a bailout at the expense of the taxpayers.

More shades of that “Hell Époque” thing that I wrote about back in January....

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The United State Supreme Court has ruled that police can search and seize evidence even though the search itself is illegal.

This will be abused. The high court has just given “law enforcement officers” (God I hate that term) a blank check to stop, search and seize from everyone on even nonexistent grounds.

No doubt there are good cops out there who wouldn’t abuse this… but that does not diminish the fact that this will be abused. And enormously so.

Hell, this would even open the way for corrupt police to plant evidence.

Folks, it’s now patently obvious that this government is no longer of the people, by the people and for the people. It is now government protecting its own sorry ass. And that kind of government, friends and neighbors, is not a government worth our respect or support in the least bit.

Maybe it’s time for good people ...

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Every politician, corporate executive, and management-type in America who believes that globalism is “a good thing” and that there’s nothing wrong with outsourcing our jobs to China, had better take a damned good hard long look at this photograph…

This is what passes as a high-grade pharmaceutical plant in the village of Xinwangzhuang, in the Juangsu Province of China. The guy is harvesting the mucous membranes from the intestines of dead pigs.

The tissue is then processed to make heparin: a drug widely-used in surgery and kidney dialysis here in the United States and elsewhere.

There have now been 19 deaths and numerous allergic reactions reported because of the drug.

I defy anyone to look at that photo, and still tell me that China is a responsible trading partner or that it’s “sound policy” to entrust it with so much industry that we could be doing far better at ...

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If nothing else has convinced any among my fellow citizens who beyond all reason yet hold to an opinion but that the government of George W. Bush is completely and hopelessly insane, then perhaps this will persuade them otherwise. It’s about the disastrous North American Free Trade Agreement. From the Associated Press story…

The White House on Friday vigorously defended the 14-year-old free-trade agreement among the United States, Mexico and Canada against sharp criticism from Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

“There’s nothing broken. Why fix it?” said Dan Fisk, senior director of Western hemisphere affairs for National Security Council. He acknowledged the administration must do a better job of explaining the benefits of the agreement.

(snip)

Bush has suffered a major setback on the trade front with the derailing of a proposed free-trade pact with Colombia. Bush sent the agreement to Capitol Hill earlier this

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Averaging about $3.39 a gallon. Up about 10-15 cents in just a few days’ time. And $4.45 has been spotted in at least two places around town. I had to pay a bit more than $50 to fill up my Toyota Camry.

While gassing-up at a convenience store on Scales Street I had a spirited conversation with one guy and his mom, about the high gas prices. We all agreed: we are being led by “lunatics and madmen” who probably can never remember the last time they had to touch a gas-pump nozzle.

The funny thing of it is, it’s not necessarily that the oil is “running out” or even refinery problems right now that’s causing the outrageous jack-up of prices. It’s inflation, a primary reason for that being that the federal government for the past few weeks has been injecting about $38 billion per day into the economy to ...

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The federal government will soon be taking DNA samples from EVERYONE that it arrests.

It took almost five years, but the dam has finally burst on this blog.

If you have any small children reading this blog, now would be a good time to escort them away from the monitor. Because I’m about to use a word that until now, I’ve never, ever used of my own volition here. Why am I going to do this? Because I know of no other way to express the anger that I’m feeling right now at how out of control this government has become, and I really don’t give a damn any more about “polite society”. If I use this word, God won’t hold it against me. But He might have something to say if I stand before Him someday, unable to tell Him that I did whatever I could in the ...

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Someday, there will be a need to give the times in which we currently live an appropriate moniker. A few days ago, while driving through snow on U.S. 29 back from Greensboro, the idea for one crossed my mind.

I’ve already started calling our present American era “the Hell Époque”.

Obviously this is a pun on “the Belle Époque“, which was the last real “golden time” that Europe had before World War I escorted us all into the modern world.

A future history book or Wikipedia entry might describe our own time thusly…

Hell Époque

The era of United States history that stretched from the early 1990s until the end of the first decade of the 21st century, that has come to be regarded as the final years of America’s long-time domination of the world’s culture and economy.

Although noted for considerable achievements in computers and telecommunications

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