Katie Hobbs Arizona Disaster

THE PLAYERS

In the governor’s race, Cari Lake (R), former newscaster, is up against Katie Hobbs (D), current AZ Secretary of State.

Katie’s duties in her current role include being the head election administrator. Despite the apparent conflict of interest in being in charge of administering an election where she’s the candidate, she would not recuse when asked.

ACT 1: HARDWARE SNAFU

On election morning, roughly a quarter of the tabulation machines in a GOP heavy area of Maricopa County didn’t work. For hours. There was a tweet around 6pm saying they’d been fixed.

The most generous scenario is that in an election on which she claims the future of democracy hinges… she either lacked the time or the good sense to make sure every piece of hardware in every county was tested and retested and certified to be functional BEFORE election day.

So the generous scenario is that Katie Hobbs exhibited gross incompetence and dereliction of duty in office. We have elections at two year intervals. You couldn’t PLAN for this.

THE RESULT

Some voters were turned away. Some that’d checked in and went elsewhere to vote would not get there vote counted for checking in multiple places. Some never got to vote because the state refused to extend the voting hours at locations where voters had been delayed by the state’s errors.

ACT 2: THE SLOW ROLL

That night when the first votes were announced, Katie was in the lead. She remained so until the vote dump the next morning, when the results brought Kari Lake to less than percent of her tally.

Suddenly the count became VERRRY SLOWWWW. The whole day the percent of votes counted remained at 66%.

That event, the percentage catapulted to 67%… and Cari Lake is now 2/10 of 1% behind.

Bear in mind, the one about to get passed is the chief election administrator for the state.

EPILOGUE

This disaster is still in progress. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. The optics are terrible. Florida had their votes counted so fast their races were called before polls closed in the next time zone.

What exactly is it taking Arizona days to do? Whatever it is, it isn’t vote counting.

ON A RELATED NOTE

Somebody told me Katie Hobbs is best suited for a job at Burger King.

I disagree.

Most people want to get their meal the same day they order it.

I’m Rob Jones… and I approved this message.

Wallace Flees to CNN

Chris Wallace, whose integrity suffered a horrible public death upon contracting TDS, just left Fox to go to CNN.

The move was roundly applauded by the masses who watch Fox, which contains virtually every top rated show on cable. No word on what either of CNN’s fans thought.

CNN: Where Journalism Goes to Die

I blogged about the set of headlines below when CNN published them less than a week apart. Same writer, contradicting his own work, simply because “orange man bad”. Facts simply don’t matter if there’s a chance to criticize Trump. It isn’t like their dwindling audience cares.

That’s the brand of trash for which CNN is now known. Sadly there are adults who can’t remember when they were a news network. They were once the real thing.

So I guess Wallace is finally home. His continued antics pissed off viewers so he went to a place that doesn’t have many of those.

Fiddling While Rome Burns

Was watching the movie Quo Vadis on TCM today. The movie is a historical fiction that takes place amidst the backdrop of the great fire of Rome under the emperor Nero. So I got to reading up on the actual events.

For those unfamiliar with the history, the historian Tacitus, who was but a boy at the time of the fire, tells us the great fire was covertly set by Nero.

His reason? The Roman Senate refused to let him tear down a large portion of Rome to construct what Nero believed would be his enduring monument, a complex to be called Neropolis.

As Tacitus told it, Nero not only made zero effort to stop the flames… he actually watched and played an instrument while Rome burned. Violent gangs of thugs prevented many citizens from escaping to safety. Many died.

Whether Nero really authorized the fire is not proven fact, but it is known that he immediately set forth building his long-wanted but until then denied complex atop the ruins where the inferno had ravaged the city.

That said Tacitus tells us that in the wake of the fire, the people blamed Nero. Clearly Nero needed someone besides himself to be blamed, so he blamed it on a growing but unpopular religious sect known as Christians.

He commenced to have them publicly crucified, slaughtered in the arena by lions, used as torches to light his feasts, and generally exterminated. It was during this hysteria the disciple Peter and the apostle Paul were arrested and executed.

There is of course no reason to believe the thousands he had tortured and killed had anything whatsoever to do with the flames. But hey, they were unpopular, they bucked the prevalent idiology. They were different. Religious zealots. Bottom line, very convenient scapegoats.

Besides, Nero was suddenly generously spending Rome’s money giving wine and grain to the Roman public, and the Christians were not.

I’m not going to try to draw your conclusions for you. I’m just going to point out once again that those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it, and the tactics and strategies of tyrants don’t necessarily change much with time.

Be careful out there.

The Buck Stops With Me

A sailor was on his way off the ship for a much anticipated liberty, but had to get past an hornery chief first. Naturally the chief looked him up and down and pronounced “Get a haircut.”

Dejected, he knew there were probably 5 others ahead of him with the same orders. Rounding the corner he saw that the line was actually longer than that.

Thinking quickly, he went back and presented himself to the chief and said… “How do my shoes look NOW?”

“They’ll do. Get goin’.”

Biden’s speech today attempted the same misdirection. He assertively defended the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, as if that were actually at issue.

Hey. It wasn’t even your IDEA. We all KNOW we need to get our troops out of Afghanistan. The problem was the total lack of planning, the sloppy execution, and the massive failure to recognize the respective capabilities of the Taliban or the Afghan Security Force.

Meanwhile, back in July….

“The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese army. They’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability. “There’s going to be no circumstances where you’re going to see people being lifted off the roof of a US Embassy in Afghanistan.”
Joe Biden – July 2021

Joe assured us this would be nothing like the fall of Saigon.

No. It’s even worse. They thought they had weeks, when they had hours.

You can’t boldly state “I’m the president of the United States, and the buck stops with me” while simultaneously blaming your failure on Trump, Obama, the Afghans, and everyone BUT yourself.

But hey Joe, your shoes look just fine.

OMG! THEY GAVE ‘EM TAX CUTS!

WHOSE MONEY IS IT?

Before everyone on the left spontaneously explodes into flames before a CNN camera… let’s discuss reality. A “TAX” takes money from the person who OWNS the money. So what these people are screaming about is that a law was passed saying the federal government will not TAKE AS MUCH AWAY from you when you make it.

Is that really GIVING you money?

HOW TAX CUTS WORK

To put it in real world terms… imagine, after a week of work you cashed a paycheck. You and your wife walk home via a dark alley lined with sleeping men with hands folded over paper bags covering bottles of Jack Daniels whiskey or Boone’s Farm wine.

From the shadows emerges a guy in a nice suit, who sticks a gun to your ribs and demands your money, your watch, and your wedding ring.

You comply, but as you hand him the wedding ring he relents, and in a moment of uncharacteristic largesse, allows you to keep it. You smile at his kindness. He begins handing your money to the guys sleeping in the alley.

THE AFTERMATH

Suddenly, from out of nowhere emerges Chuck Schumer… screaming to a camera that the guy in the suit didn’t “give” rings to anyone ELSE in the alley.

Joining him, Nancy Pelosi demands to know how the guy in the suit intends to pay for the LOSS of the wedding ring.

She points out that given their joint monthly expenditures on crack and prostitutes he can’t possibly afford such generous measures. “How in the hell will you pay for our crack if you run around giving away wedding rings!?”

Next, all the guys that’d been sleeping in the alley pull out the latest iPhone to share pictures of you on social media.

They complain that you were GIVEN a ring by the guy in the suit, but they were not. They discuss how unfair it is, wryly note that your paycheck just doesn’t seen to go as far these days, and gripe about the inadequate recognition of alley-sleepers in general.

They then make plans get together next week after the Superbowl party and protest.

Steinle Murder Verdict: “Not Guilty”

The illegal alien, 6 times deported / 7 time convicted felon who was illegally in the country when he used a gun stolen from a law enforcement vehicle to shoot and kill Kate Steinle, a 32 year old US citizen, as she walked along a San Francisco pier with her father… was found “not guilty” of murder by a California jury.

The man that did it stated he was in San Francisco specifically because it is a “sanctuary city”.

He admits firing the shot that killed her, but depending on which version of his story you use, he “found” the pistol… and either he was shooting at seals, or the firearm simply discharged 3 times all by itself. [That last explanation is of course perfectly plausible if you know less than nothing about firearms.]

Kate’s last words were “Help me Daddy.”

The case leaves me several things I’d really like to say about illegal aliens, sanctuary cities, California, Obama’s border enforcement, and bleeding heart liberals in general… but voicing these right now would definitely destroy the G-rating for my page. I leave it to your imagination. [Hint: It wouldn’t be highly complimentary.]

Suffice it to say you won’t find me banging the drum for a new “path to citizenship” for illegal aliens. We already have a path. It’s called “obey our immigration laws.”

Meanwhile… #BuildTheWall.

NOV 4 IT BEGINS! (and ends)

The RefuseFacism / ANTIFA twerps posted a FULL PAGE ad in the NY Times for their big protest. Turnout was about like an unadvertised open house. There were under 2 dozen in Austin, which is ground zero in Texas for their fans. Kind of underwhelming.

Nobody knows why turnout was dismal, but their groupies are reduced to going Twitter to claim it was all a prank. [Sounds legit. I blow money on full page ads in the NYT every April fool’s day myself.]

Theories abound as to why so few showed to depose the evil dictator:

Star Trek marathon conflict
Stayed up too late braiding each other’s hair
They TOLD Mom to wake ’em for it dammit!
Dad said they had to take out the trash or they couldn’t go

Whatever the cause, their big moment is as dead as the career of the chick whose former loyalists now admit she pretty much bought her party’s nomination. Guess we must live another day under the oppressive boot of people that want to lower our taxes and increase US jobs. The fiends.

Motive sought in Chattanooga Shooting

PC KILLS MORE US CITIZENS THAN EBOLA
A Kuwaiti born young Muslim male named Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, who blogged jihad flavored rhetoric, whose father was subject of a terrorism investigation… traveled to 2 military facilities 7 miles apart to murder 4 US Marines he’d never met.

The Media and FBI are just stumped trying to find a motive.

If a fat guy steals your ice cream… would you spend much time wondering about his motive?

Personally, I’m betting he was radicalized by the NRA.

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Fireworks Control vs Beer Control

Unless you’re beneath a rock you know a 22 year old died July 4 when he placed a “mortar” atop his head and it exploded. He was drinking at the time, though it may have merely been a coincidence. Right?

His mom is suing for controls on explosives. Cause ya know, who knew explosives might explode?

— Does the box mention it?
— How big is the font?
— Does it say NOT to launch from atop your cranial cavity?
— Are there guards keeping it from fitting on your head?

Before getting too rough on mom, consider she might have a point, albeit backwards. Should she sue Anhauser Busch for not having a warning that the product shouldn’t be consumed while playing with deadly explosives?

Granted if that suit won we’d need MUCH larger beer bottles for all the warnings needed.

— Do not operate motor vehicles, power tools, or trans-continental passenger jets.
— Avoid use while making life changing financial decisions.
— Not for use while considering matrimony.
— Product makes really bad ideas sound great.

Then again if we made separate bottles for men and women you could get more specific, with warnings such as:

— Men: Caution – Does NOT make you bullet proof or sexy.
— Girls: Warning – Promises heard during consumption may be intended to loosen your morals.

It’s a well known fact that men have gone to bars, picked up a 10, awakened with a weak 4. Yet nowhere on the bottle is there a warning about this. Women have similarly been duped into any number of regrettable decisions which may be directly attributed to the malicious refusal of big alcohol to provide sufficient labeling.

Just some food for thought. Let’s face it… we are all tired of seeing wedding videos after the fact and discovering we were duped by a memory of “awesome dance moves”.

Someone has to pay for this.

Mass shooters, hate crimes and other news diversions

KEEPING SENSATIONAL NEWS IN PERSPECTIVE
A lot of internet exposure about the guy that shot at police HQ in Dallas. Yes, he was white. He also killed NOBODY white or black before dying, but somehow ignited the race-baiters on the left to harumph a lot on the net.

Either way, kudos to the DPD for a job well done.

Meanwhile in the inner cities, life is so cheap nobody mentions the deaths unless a white cop kills a black guy. Then it is “news“.

Speaking of news, let’s talk for a minute on how they handle sensational murder stories.

INCREASINGLY USELESS NEWS CLICHES
“Hate Crime” – in general use this has devolved to simply mean either a white guy killed a black guy or a straight guy killed a gay guy. We realize some violence is motivated by hate of another’s race (or nationality, etc), but if a black crowd beating a Serbian guy with hammers is not a hate crime, don’t bother using the phrase just because the perp is white. I’m almost sure most murders, regardless of whether the participants are the same color/sex/etc, are not “love crimes“. At least try for some measure of consistency.

“Racist / Racism” – The simple act of disagreeing with someone of another race is not “racism“. Even violent conflicts between people of opposite colors is not automatically “racism“. If two guys start shooting at each other because their drug deal went bad or one cut the other off on the road, their respective colors are probably a superfluous factor. If the term is to have meaning, it should be applied only when a conflict is actually motivated by race. Throwing it out when it is not applicable ends the possibility of rational discussion.

“The suspect” – I gave a newsman grief on twitter for calling a guy that was killed inside a van from which gunfire was directed at a police station “a suspected gunman“. He was the only person in the van. The news guy replied he has not been convicted. Seriously? After he’s been shot with a .50 cal and baked in his van… It’s a tad late to worry about his civil rights. Just call him “the shooter“. Common sense, ya know?

“Disturbed individual”– When there is a mass shooting, news outlets helpfully point out that the shooter is a “disturbed individual“. Thanks a lot for differentiating this from all the mass shootings performed by happy and well adjusted individuals. It means a lot to us.

“Time for a national discussion…” – Don’t bother finishing. We KNOW what follows. Just say what you mean: “Hi kids, we’d like to use this tragic event to renew our objection to anyone but the politically connected having the opportunity to keep and bear arms.” If you have a problem with the 2nd amendment, see the methods noted in the constitution for removing that. Until you can accomplish changing it… Remember the words “shall not be infringed” are pretty unambiguous.

WHY MENTION THIS TODAY?
There was a shooting in SC yesterday. It very likely IS a true “hate crime“. The fact he shot 9 people tells you he’s definitely disturbed. And given that a white guy went to a black church he does not normally attend to shoot everyone present, he very likely IS a racist.

Hopefully he’s caught quickly. A good public hanging would probably discourage this type of behavior… But that’s not as politically acceptable to point out as is the “time for a national discussion” stuff.

But for the record… He does not reflect poorly on all white people any more than the plethora of black on black murders in Chicago every weekend reflect poorly on all blacks. He needs to be caught and hung, but so does every single gang-banger that killed someone of any color this weekend.

Nor does he reflect poorly on the NRA or all gun owners. We don’t have a “national discussion on car ownership” every time a drunk plows into a pedestrian.

Quit falling for the politicians and media’s use of every tragedy to promote their unrelated agendas.

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