4th Circuit Blocks Transgender Sports Law

The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has told the state of West Virginia it cannot enforce a law prohibiting biological males from competing on girls' sports teams.

The case stems from a 13 year old biological male, who identifies as a girl, and who filed suit against West Virginia for a law which specifies sports participants must compete on teams of their biological sex. The "girl," who has been taking puberty blockers from the age of nine, wants to join the girls' track team. West Virginia said no. The 4th Circuit said "You can't do that."

A lower West Virginia court had already ruled the state could not enforce the law against that particular child. The state appealed. The appeals court ruled they cannot enforce it at all, citing discrimination. The court obviously doesn't understand the science of biology and the differences between males and females. Or they simply don't care. The court, which was once one of the most conservative in the country, has become liberal since Barack Obama appointed six liberal judges, and Biden nominated two, to the 15 member bench. Several others were nominated by Clinton.

Rather than ruling in favor of biological males participating in girls' sports, America would be better served by a child abuse investigation of parents and doctors who put a nine year old boy on puberty blockers. But we already know that won't happen.

The Sham That is Trump's New York Trial

Donald Trump is in court in New York again, facing numerous felony charges for which, once again, there is no victim. D.A. Alvin Bragg found an ancient misdemeanor with which to charge Trump, elevated it to felony status, dumped a bunch more similar charges on it, and dragged Trump back into court. Even Johnathan Turley, a well known Constitutional law professor at Georgetown University, says the charges are ridiculous.

Bragg's star witness will be disgruntled former Trump attorney Michael Cohen. Cohen has served prison time for tax evasion, making false statements to a federally-insured bank, and campaign finance violations. What's interesting about Cohen is that he has also done time for perjury, admittedly lying in court... something Bragg's "Statement of Facts" in the case and the left-wing media do not mention.

I would say Bragg has to prove his case beyond a shadow of a doubt, but it's New York. The case is brought by a leftist District Attorney, before a blatantly biased judge, and there is no doubt the jury will also be biased against Trump.

The judge has issued a gag order against Trump, threatening to jail him for exercising his First Amendment rights. Despite Trump's alleged crimes being no danger to the public, the judge has also threatened to jail Trump if he attends his son, Barron's, high school graduation on Friday instead of being in court. (The judge recently allowed an alleged murderer to skip a day of court for his brother's funeral.) Biased much?

Trump will be convicted of at least some of the charges. Of that I am convinced. It won't be because he's guilty, but because he cannot and will not get a fair trial. It's election interference at its finest... through lawfare. But that's the main goal... to prevent Trump from becoming President again. Funny thing... a conviction of any kind and/or putting Trump in jail will only cause more people to move to his side. Anyone with a working brain can see and understand Trump is being railroaded, not only by local D.A.s, but by the Justice Department. Anything goes to prevent a Trump Presidency.

The Democrat Assault on Our Legal System

We are witnessing the destruction of our legal system and Constitutional rights before our eyes. And all it took to begin was a single term of a President the Washington establishment didn't like.

When Donald Trump won the 2016 election the left not only went nuts, but began planning their assault on the Constitution, our legal system, and our election system.

First, they impeached President Trump for a perfectly legal (and justified) phone call that Trump, as the President-elect, made to the President of Ukraine. Even with Democrats holding a majority of both the House and the Senate, he was acquitted. So they began plan B.

The Democrats also attacked and railroaded Mike Flynn in a different assault, but that's another story for another time.

Over the next three years the Democrats planned, and then executed the first and most openly covert steal of a national election in history. Aided greatly by a pandemic, partisan judges in swing states, Democrat controlled polling places, questionable counting procedures, and billions of dollars spent paying people for ballot harvesting, they managed to snatch the election in a manner that convinced courts there was no reason even to hear evidence challenging the election results. As I have said before - Democrats aren't stupid.

Then, after Trump was no longer President, they held an impeachment hearing, charging him with incitement of an insurrection for the events that occurred at the U.S. capitol on January 6, 2021. (No legal charges of insurrection were ever filed against Trump or any other person.) Democrats again failed to convict him, thus rendering the entire proceeding futile, and a waste of time and taxpayer money.

Trump and his attorneys, along with witnesses to the irregularities of counting procedures in swing states, filed numerous cases citing election interference with various courts. Judges, including Supreme Court Justices, refused to hear evidence. They didn't say there wasn't evidence, but only refused to hear it. Those are two different things. Personally, after the Bush/Gore fiasco, I think the SCOTUS simply refused to get involved in an election dispute. But that's me.

The highly partisan January 6th Committee, even after the prime time drama and professional TV production, failed to produce any real results. Yet in December of 2023, the Colorado Supreme Court and the Maine Secretary of State, citing provisions of the 14th Amendment, found Donald Trump guilty of insurrection, without charges, presentation of evidence, an opportunity for a defense, a jury.... without any due process whatsoever, which is also a provision of the 14th Amendment. Both entities decided Trump could not be on their state primary ballots, because of his (supposed) guilt, enforcement pending appeal to a higher court. Both decisions are in blatant disregard of the Constitution.

Donald Trump, and Trump Derangement Syndrome, have caused Democrats, aided by the left-wing media, to manipulate and/or compromise our Constitution and our legal system in their efforts to control election results. Leftist media pundits praised the decisions to remove Trump from the ballot, many saying Trump's guilt is obvious. Any honest and reputable media outlet would be challenging the Democrats' violation of a citizen's Constitutional rights rather than supporting and praising such abuse of power. 

What those praising the unconstitutional actions against Trump don't seem to understand is that if courts and politicians will ignore the Constitutional rights of a former President to get their desired results, they will do it to anyone who dares to oppose them. If the SCOTUS, for whatever reason, refuses to decide on the legality of what Colorado and Maine have done, our elections will forever be rendered useless and our justice system will be changed forever.

Election Interference at its Finest...?

Are you, or someone you know, one of those who agrees that Donald Trump is ineligible to run for President because he committed insurrection, according to the 14th Amendment? If so, I likely can't change your/their mind(s). But here are a few facts to think about or present to others.

1) No one involved in the January 6th disturbance has been charged or convicted of insurrection. That includes Donald Trump. U.S. Attorneys have charged about 1000 people with various crimes, from trespassing to assault, but no one has been charged with insurrection. The closest thing to insurrection was a Proud Boy who was convicted of sedition. But sedition is not mentioned in the 14th Amendment. And that man isn't running for office.

2) Insurrection against the United States is a federal crime and does not fall unde the jurisdiction of state courts. Secretaries of State, whether federal or state level, have no authority whatsoever to decide guilt or innocence in a legal matter. Have you noticed both Colorado and Maine have put their rulings on hold pending a challenge in a higher court? In their rulings Colorado referred to an appeal to the SCOTUS and the Secretary of State in Maine referred to "an appeal to a superior court." They know their decisions are faulty, with no basis in law.

3) Section One of the 14th Amendment says "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

Officials in both Colorado and Maine have ruled to deprive Donald Trump of his liberty to run for President of the United States without due process. Both have declared him guilty of a federal crime, of which he has never been charged, without due process of law and without jurisdiction. As such, the Colorado Supreme Court Justices who voted to remove Trump from the state primary ballot, as well as the Maine Secretary of State, should be individually charged with intentionally conspiring to deprive Donald Trump of his liberties in blatant violation of the 14th Amendment. The Amendment they used to remove him from the ballot should be used against them in a real court.

Both Colorado and Maine have stated that voters cannot write in Trump's name for President because Trump has been found by them to have committed insurrection. Both Colorado and Maine are depriving Trump voters of their right to vote for the candidate of their choice without the legal authority to do so. I know Trump's attorneys are filing appeals in both cases but I hope Trump voters in both states sue those states for said deprivation of rights again, under the 14th Amendment. 

I realize as of yesterday the Colorado Secretary of State said Trump would remain on the ballot. But as I said yesterday, I believe that to be a ploy... a calculated gamble, intended to avoid a Supreme Court ruling on the matter so they can remove Trump from the ballot on a date closer to the primary so he has no time to appeal before the election. As I also said... Democrats are treacherous... but not stupid. Insidious.

As the caption under the picture says... "The rules have changed."

"Long Live The Intifada"... And Other Nonsense

American protesters supporting Hamas terrorism have recently been heard chanting "Long live the intifada!" But what is an intifada?

intifada /ĭn″tə-fä′də/  noun

"A protracted grassroots campaign of protest and sometimes violent resistance against perceived oppression or military occupation, especially either of two uprisings among Palestinian Arabs in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, the first beginning in 1987 and the second in 2000, in protest against Israeli occupation of these territories.

"An uprising, such as the Palestinian resistance to the 1987 Israeli occupation of the West Bank of the Jordan and the Gaza Strip or the 2011 revolt against Assad's rule in Syria.

"An uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000."

The key phrases here are "violent resistance," "perceived oppression," and "Israeli occupation," the first being justified by people ignorant of history, and the others being ignored by those same people, thus in their minds justifying the first.

The Palestinian people have never been oppressed by Israel. In fact, the Palestinians in Gaza were given their complete freedom/separation from Israel in 2006. They proceeded to elect a terrorist organization as their government. That act is where the oppression began, but the oppression was by Hamas.

When the Israelis left Gaza they left behind the ability for Gazans to grow their own food (greenhouses), a water supply and a power supply. The Gazan people possessed the ability to support themselves - until their newly elected government allowed those systems to fail.

Palestinians have long had the freedom to leave Gaza - at least until October 7, 2023. They could work in Israel, shop in Israel, seek medical attention, and even live there. They choose to remain in the cesspool (of their own making) that is Gaza. But they believe they have a right to the entire country that is Israel. Except the Jews, historically, have been there far longer.

The Jews were conquered many times in history but the land has been theirs since the time of Abraham and, more recently, since Moses led them out of Egypt in 1300 BC. It's the main reason the land was given back to them in 1948.

Historically, the Palestinians have never had a valid claim on the land that is now Israel. History shows that the Philistines arrived from the Aegean region and settled on the Southern coast of Judea (Gaza) in 1100 BC. As they spread their wings militarily they were defeated by David (who slayed Goliath) in 1020 BC.

The Philistines were still in Gaza while the Jews controlled the rest of the area. The Romans took the region in 63 BC. When the Romans put down the Judean revolt in 132 AD, they renamed the area Palestine (after the Philistines) in an attempt to minimize Jewish identification with the land of Israel.

Despite what modern, left-wing, revisionist history teaches, historic timelines verify that the land of modern day Israel was controlled by the Jews far longer than any Palestinian claim. Young people today are being taught false history in school, and they demonstrate it on a regular basis. It's truly a sad world when people worldwide support murder and butchery because they're simply ignorant of the truth.

Who's Controlling The Strings?

 

To anyone paying attention it's obvious Joe Biden is incapable of running the country. From the symptoms he displays, many mental health professionals conclude he likely suffers from dementia. It's not his fault. His brain is tired because of his age. But if Biden lacks the capability to perform effectively as President - who is really running the country?

Many have speculated. I personally believe it to be Barack Obama.

The Biden administration has done nothing but push Obama's agenda since day one. Failing green energy projects. A weak military and weak foreign relations. Alienating our allies and allowing our enemies to increase their aggressive behavior. Although what Biden has done differently is take large payments from our enemies.

Now look at Obama. In an interview in 2020, Obama expressed his interest in running the country behind the scenes. Was it a glimpse of what the Democrats were actually planning? You decide.

“If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a frontman or frontwoman, and they had an earpiece in, and I was just in my basement in my sweats, looking through the stuff, then deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking — I’d be fine with that,” Obama said.

Obama is the only President who did not leave Washington DC after leaving office. Coincidence? Again - you decide.

Someone is controlling Biden's puppet strings. It's not Dr. Jill. She's not savvy enough. So who?

An Evening With Disney

We watched Disney's original "Swiss Family Robinson" with our granddaughters last night. It was filmed in 1960. There were obvious blunders in the show that I never noticed as a kid. Zebras, a tiger, ostriches and an African elephant on an island in the West Indies. I guess they weren't to worried about authenticity back then. The girls enjoyed it.

I couldn't help but wonder when Disney will remake this movie to their newly adopted woke standards.

If the new Disney is true to form, the Asian pirate's will become a diverse group of all skin colors and ethnicities and the "Swiss" family Robinson will be black or Hispanic. One of the boys will be changed to a girl, or the girl rescued from the pirates will become a boy so Disney can work a same sex relationship into the movie.

Some may think this is satire... and to an extent, it is. But at the same time it's not. Look what they did to Snow White, Buzz Lightyear and The Little Mermaid. Apparently Disney worries about being woke more than profits because they've lost $900 million in the last couple of years from their woke movies.

Many woke minded people will say "That's wonderful! Disney doesn't care about profits!" Except it won't last long. I doubt Disney stockholders are pleased about it. Look for some major changes soon.

"Go woke, go broke," seems to be the norm these days. I'm not sure why corporations don't get that. Anheuser Busch seems to be getting it. Bud Light doesn't seem to be rebounding. AB is still losing money, along with Disney.

Hey, Disney... here's an idea. Stop destroying your classic movies and simply create new ones for your woke audiences. You're losing fans big time.