Definition of Opinion:  A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof.

Please be respectful to others with differing opinions. 

Bill RIHS

My dad had a leather belt too and I had it across my butt more than once.

Michael Kelly

Boils down to  "Sometimes the Right Answer is the Most Logical Answer" We see on the National News that some Texas Legislators RAN AWAY TO CHICAGO AND OTHER VENUES TO AVOID PASSING A LAW IN TEXAS BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE SWORN IN AS LEGISLATORS, ASSUMING A DUTY TO EXERCISE THEIR LEGISLATIVE VOTE TO GOVERN ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS IN THEIR DISTRICT,THEY FLED THE STATE OF TEXAS TO AVOID EXERCISING THEIR DUTY.

DEMOCRATS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOVE THEM

DeWitt Bacon

My mom used a switch from our China Berry tree, and Mrs. Perry at Monte Vista used a paddle. Sometimes we still never learn.

Frank Wiley

Today Trump told a story about J.P. Morgan Bank and Bank of America that was unbelievable.  Apparently those two banks (and maybe more) told him he had to move millions of dollars from their banks because of orders from the Biden Administration.  It reminded me of 2006/07/08 when after 2005 Obama said, "Everyone deserves to be able to buy a home."  It was a misguided effort to open home buying to minorities.  I actually agreed that that market should be more accessible to minorities but what I didn't agree with was that those buyers didn't have to have much or in many cases NO skin in the game.  The S and L's and Banks were so intimidated by the threat of being racist they approved loans that none of us would ever approve.  The reason I remember it so well is because we had special sessions on how to handle the situation.  We had a program in our in house mortgage company that everyone had to have a 20% down payment.  We had to accept buyers with outside lenders but when the crash happened we still had to eat the homes under construction that lenders back out of.  Thankfully we didn't have that many and we moved them at some discounts.

Bill RIHS

De Witt, oh do I remember Mrs. Perry. She was one tough cookie. I was in trouble all the time with her and paid the price.

Michael Kelly

Frank W.  Your 15314 brought back to me a flood of memories. The Legislation that brought about the "Even some one With No Money' can get a Home Loan, like the Earl Scheib Car Paint Job for 100 bucks, Barney Frank, of the Basement Male order Companion Club ran from his Basement by his "Partner" whose last name was Moses, and a Senator Chris Dodd, who rammed through the Legislation that Forced Banks and other Loan Institutions who received Federal Funds to make the No Money Down Home Loans to our Friends from 3rd World SHoles, as Trump calls them. You had to make Minorities Loans, Period. Soooooo, the Banks etc. made these Loans and Bundled them together with Good Paying Paper to Sell in Bundles like Stocks in Corporations, and Investers were encouraged to "Snap them Up" which many did. As everyone In the Country could get Credit to buy a house, the Visitors from other Countries, got loans and bought houses based upon just the status of being a Minority, would sit on the house and never make a payment. They would sell the house based upon the increase in value after 3 to 6 months, harvest the Equity, and Rinse and Repeat each time at a profit. Finally the Market crashed, as was predictable, and houses fell th 50 % of their value. Buyers stayed and had to be evicted after Foreclosure. In the Antelope Valley, I had to have handled Post Foreclosure Evictions at a rate of 10 to 12 per day, and did a total of over 3500 in 3 years.

I know of one Man whose daughter handled his Person and Estate as his Conservator, and She created a personal Value for him by creating totally False Real Estate Holdings for her Father, and borrowed 600 K dollars on his Credit supposedly, then bought a house worth several millions of dollars, she and her Siblings never made a payment for their Dad, and they lost the House through Foreclosure. She then wanted to sue the Loan entity for Fraud, which she helped Create. These fraudulent transactions were commonplace between 2007 and 2011 when the Market just crashed so bad that some Mortgage Companies went Bankrupt. 

Barney Frank, a Congressman from Massaschusetts, and Chris Dodd, a Senator from Connecticut or somewhere, buth have passed on. Frank was one of the first openly Gay Fed. Legislators, and Chris Dodd, Senator, was a big buddy to Ted Kennedy, of the Ted Row the Boat Ashore days. 

Frank Wiley

So, Newt Gingrich (who I believe is one of the best political critics) was giving his opinion on the Democratic Party.  He was pointing out Liz Warren endorsing Mamdani in the N.Y.C. Mayor's race.  Newt opined, that with what the Democrats are doing, "Every day is Christmas!"  Because the Democrats have, over and over, come up with hoaxes, I have now come up with my name for them------The Hoax Dopes!  Maybe with the help of the internet it will catch on?  Michael, and remember, Ted Kennedy when informed by Mary Jo Kopeckny that she might be pregnant replied, "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it!"

Bill RIHS

Frank, I like The Hoax Dopes👍🇺🇸. Perfect fit. Mr. Kelly, love your posts! Dems, keep digging the hole deeper😎👌🏻, just can't make this stuff up!

DeWitt Bacon

LET THE GRAND JURIES AND INDITMENTS  BEGIN. I don't know if more than one defendant can be accused under one Grand Jury. Perhaps our resident legal eagle can tell me, but if not, we need several Grand juries convened.

Bill, I won't go into detail, but Mrs. Perry damaged me for life. All I will say is that if I knew where she was buried, I'd like to go there and dance on her grave.

Michael Kelly

DeWitt, et. al.  Grand Juries on the Federal Level can be used to Indict more than one individual at a time, for the purpose is to decided if the necessary elements exist to charge an individual with potential sufficient factual support to call for indictment for commission of a Crime, usually a Felony. States are using the  GJ with Indictment of individuals for commission of state crimes, and a State may limit the Grand Jury use to only one individual but this does not seem practical, nor a Constitutional requirement because the Indictment is not an actual adjudication of Guilt as in a Jury Trial. Now, DeWitt, because you have made me go into the above research and the dissertation of same herein. Please say what I just said above in Fewer Words, and with a content that allows more comprehension than my Sermonette, If you can do so, I will send you a Picture of Barack Hussein Obama making the Pitch from the Mound in New York in the  appropriate  apparel to start the Major League Allstar Basedball Game, in 2009. He is as is fitting for his Politics, a Lefty and it hurts me personally to watch it. 

Jim Coats

Regarding Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, IL, who professes to be Guatemalan BEFORE American (not sure where she was born), I have this to say....borrowed from and paraphrasing Teddy Roosevelt:

In the first place, we should insist that the immigrant who comes here in good faith shall assimilate to us.  If they do so, this person shall not be discriminated against for any reason.

BUT....this is predicated upon:

The person's becoming An American and nothing but an American.  There can be no divided allegiance.  One cannot be an American and something else at the same time.

Acceptance that we have room for one flag, the American Flag.

Acceptance that we have one language here and that is the English language.

And that we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is loyalty to the American people.

Congresswoman Ramirez is a disgrace and her serving in Congress is outrageous!

AMERICA FIRST!!

Michael Kelly

I don't want Congresswomen Ramirez here in my Country. She doesnt belong here. She wants to suck on the Breasts of Plenty afforded by our Country's prosperity, due to the System we follow, and Republic Form of Government with a Constitution and all the inalienable Rights recognized by Same, Yet, she simultaneously wants to talk my Country down. She can go to Hell and take her Burrito's and Chiliquitoes with her. Remember, Ramirez, "Dont Drink the Water" youve been here long enough that your Gut has gotten used to clean water, and Guatemala probably does'nt have the Same. 

And since you don't like it here, pony up all the Government Benefits you've received from us since you "blessed us with your  presence". You just assumed all that was Free, well, I think your Type needs to pay us back for our largesse.

Frank Wiley

The craziest thing about Congresswoman Ramariz is that she was born in the Chicago, Illinois.  (Google it). These people are wack jobs and the people who vote for them are no better.  If Mandami gets elected in N.Y.C., it's done for.  He has backtracked on almost all the things he's said and I think he's a worthless liar!  

DeWitt Bacon

Jim and others,

You make a good point. When you come into our country, either by legal immigration or birth, you must become assimilated into our language, our customs, our laws, our constitution, our flag, and our way of life. You don't have to leave your native language behind, but learn ours. You don't have to leave your customs behind as long as they are within our laws. 

As the Boreg says, "YOU WILL BE ASSEMBLED. ESISTANCE IS FUTI!"

Jim Coats

A friend of mine went to his gastroenterologist recently.  He asked the nurse where the bathroom was and she pointed to the door that had a Rest Room sign on it.  He thought of the irony and concluded that the "room" should be entitled:  Give it Hell and Pray For Luck Room.

Lester Cox

Thoughts?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM2p5Z8s-V4/?igsh=YWl3YXo0Z2ppc2th

Jim Coats

Sorry, Lester.  I don't venture into social media (i.e. Instagram).  That is social media, right??

Frank Wiley

Hi Les, My Wife and I were in Sweden about 12 years ago on a Rotary exchange.  The Swedish King and Queen were convinced by the Germans and the French to take a large number of Syrians (300,000 comes to mind) like they had done.  (Misery loves company) Sweden has a much smaller population than  France and Germany and the Rotarians told us most of the Syrians (who are Muslims) settled in Stockholm but were spread out through the Country and numerous problems surfaced such as overcrowding in their schools, the crime rate escalated rapidly, their Emergency Rooms were extremely overcrowded (if the Syrians got sick, the flu etc. they would go to the Emergency Ward).  The Swedes initially let the Muslims use their Church's for services which caused a problem because the Muslims go to services multiple times a week and even at times, multiple times a day.  The Churches tried to restrict the Muslim Services to one day a week but the Muslims then claimed the predominantly Swedish Christians were anti-Muslims and demanded that Sweden build Mosques for them.  The problem was that the Syrians wouldn't acclimate to the Swedish society.  When I say acclimate I am not implying that the Syrians should have converted to Christianity.  My opinion since you asked is that most do-gooders don't think through the ramifications of the decisions they make, and those decisions affect all of us.

Frank Wiley

Trump is taking over the Washington Police Department.  The lying Mayor claims crime is way down while at the same time one of her police leadership is fired for cooking the books to make the crime stats look better.  The D.C. Police Union has come out in support of Trump!!  Screw the Mayor, her Police Chief, and any of the politicians fighting this effort to clean up Our Capitol!!  Prosecute---don't pamper!!

Lester Cox

Jim, I'm not a fan of social media. I only have accounts due to my work with real estate agents nationwide who do use it to gain clients. But I'm also not a fan of CNN and MSNBC, but I tune in to those on occasion to get the drift of the other side.That instagram piece was a gal explaining the migration issues of Europe and conveying some quite staggering numbers. 

Frank, I totally agree with your assessment. I have not been to Sweden, but when I was last in Paris, the number of Muslims we observed was quite surprising. And yes, so much of the time, those who wish to do good things fail to assess the outcome of their so called good deeds. I also agree totally with you on your stance regarding the federalization of Washington DC policing. 

Rasmussen recently had a poll with the results being that 48% of the left favors punishment for those who believe the election in 2020 was rigged. The hell with free speech and now the hell with not believing as they would have you believe. There are a lot of sick people in this country. 

One more thing, I don't know about everyone else but before I donate to charities, I try to do a little research to determine how much of the money actually goes to those the charity is supposed to help. The heart wrenching ads with the suffering animals is hard to watch. But when I looked, what I found, and I'm not saying this is in concrete, but it looks like the CEO makes about $900K a year, they have about $20M in off shore accounts and about $.40 of every dollar actually goes to help animals. One of my favorites is T2T, where about $.945 of every dollar actually goes to help the veterans, first reponsders, etc. The CEO makes very little, has a very low net worth and actually running this in honor of his brother he lost in the 911 attacks. Also a fan of St. Judes. What are your favorite charities???

Decent News Tip: Take a look at Ground News. 

Jim Coats

Lester:  Definitely T2T.  In fact, they're in our Trust to receive $$ after we croak.

ASPCA....I can't watch the ads all the way through AND I have done some checking too.  Not enough $$ goes to the animals.  Seeing those ads makes me wish I could meet some of the people who have mistreated animals.  You know where I'm going.

I have NO use for the radical left and the slimeballs who are their heroes.  Democrats....TRUE Democrats....I get along with just fine.

DeWitt Bacon

The Democrats in Washington, D.C, are upset with Trump for taking over the city's law enforcement. It's not so much that they are against law enforcement as they are afraid of pissing off Democrat voters and voting criminals. Washington, D.C., is, in a way, the capital of the world. Other countries may disagree with us, but they all respect our power and would love to take that power away. Where with Biden, they saw weakness, they now see a very powerful President. The crime and dirty streets of our capital do not pay homage to our great power. President Trump has now mentioned that he is considering doing the same in other blue cities like Chicago and Detroit. Keep going, Mr. President. Clean up our entire country.

Patty Meyers (Anderson)

I also give to T2T and to our local animal sanctuaries.  I've pretty much dropped the other national charities.

Michael Kelly

i give to T2T, Samaritan'sPurse, and St. Judes, I also contribute to certain Republican Politicians, Nancy Mace, Kennedy of Louisiana, some in Arizona. SlavicGospelAssociation, and others. Right now, people are needing Food because the ability to grow food has been severely limited by Putin and in the USA, the  EPA and certain Environmental Groups have limited food production, and some States are peremptorily grabbing off water supplies for Ranching and Farming. This was a Biden originated move, he had many as do most damned thieves, and some of the Ranchers in Nevada and in Montana are having their water rights grabbed even though the water rights originated in the 1800.s but as you Say, Do Gooders don't think about all the consequences of their Acts. The Free for All at the Southern Border during the Biden Blight comes to mind. Now the Federal Government is having to build the largest detention Facility in the USA ever,  to hold the Illegal Aliens that are criminals, who need to be according to law, Deported. The stupid {I.m expressing my Opinion} do gooders now nave to come to grips with the extra costs of inviting in Illegal Aliens who must now be sent back in Jets, Fed, Given money to leave, and medical care while in our custody, just because of some of us who think with our Fannies instead of our Brains (an Assumption)

Some people will say How can you Say that, Well, I know about it from personal experience. Nuff Said.

Frank Wiley

Yes to T2T and I agree with Patty about local charities.  I don't give to charities that don't distribute at least 90% to the need.  St. Jude's Children's Hospital is very good and Rotary is excellent.  I'm not a fan of Red Cross or The Salvation Army because they have very high overhead.  Samaritans Purse is a better choice than Red Cross or Salvation Army.  Most charities permit you to "designate" where you want the donation to go.