The Debt and Good Will

For John, BLUF:  The Debt Clock is incresing every minute.  It cant go on.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Mew, mew, mew!

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Evangelical Christians Bad!

From The Bugscuffle Gazette, by Ian, 3 November 2025.

Here is the lede plus one:

I know better than to check social media first thing in the morning.

The first thing that popped up on my feed was a long-winded whinge about field hospitals in Myanmar being closed due to cuts in US aid. The whinger then goes on to opine at length about how Evangelical Christians are responsible because they put Orange Man Bad into office, and they’re just big hypocritical meanies who are hypocritical. And mean.

Setting aside the fact that — boy, howdy — am I not an Evangelical Christian, I’d like to gently drive a single point home:

The United States of America is $38,111,295,151,230 in debt.

We can't sustain that kind of spending without consequences.

When that debt collapses — and it will — the consequences will be catastrophic and global. Closing field hospitals in Myanmar may be bad, but it doesn’t touch the hem of the garment of Bad that will land on the world when the U.S. has to default on its debt.

If we had bothered to vote into office politicans who were financially literate and fiscally responsible there’s a chance we could keep funding field hospitals in Myanmar — but, instead, we voted into office parasites who burned through pallets of cash at a rate that caused drunken sailors to exclaim, “Hold on, now.”

The current US debt is 38 trillion dollars. It will pass 40 trillion dollars in the next calendar year.

This. Is. Unsustainable.

I have been told that all we have to do it print more money and as lonng as people have faith in the doller it can continue for ever.  except the interest cost is at $960 Billion, and growing.  If we pay for the interest by printing moore money, then it will begin to speed up.  The thing is, all that printed money is backed by bonds issued by the US Government.  What happens when people and institutions stop buying those bonds?  Default and global pain.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

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City Life Show on Short Hiatus

For John, BLUF:  The Producer of City Life Show, and its leadin, The Dawn Patrol, is on a one week break, but the discussion goes on.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Last Time we Said it. This Time it's True.

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Je Suis Charlie Isn't Just a Slogan Anymore

From The Conservative Historian, by Blogger JIM MCCOY, 13 September 2025.

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Once upon a time, I sat in a classroom at Wayne State University and, having listened to a faculty member scream offended and threaten to have me expelled because I wouldn’t kiss her ass, told her that the only way to silence me would be to kill me. I meant it then. I mean it now. If standing up for what I believe in costs me my life then know that I am content to have died in service to a good cause and that, given the chance, I’d do it again.

But, not everyone is sensitive to the events of last week.

1. First we had the horrid murder of Ukrainian Refugee Iryna Zarutska, on August 22, 2025, on the Lynx Blue Line in Charlotte, North Carolina, by a mentally unstable career criminal.
2. Then, the next day, we had the assassination of Turning Poit USA Head, Charlie Kirk, by , it ppears, Mr Tyler Robinson, who was arrested peacefully.
3. Then we had the outpouring of vile comments following the Assassination, from Office Depot, to social media, to classrooms and the media.

Mr Robert Sterling on X wrote a long piece on this last ooint, which started:.

My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue. I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll through Facebook posts and Instagram reels from the Dutch Bros drive thru line. Political moderates who have water cooler chats about Mahomes touchdowns and Bon Jovi concerts, not Twitter threads or Rachel Maddow monologues. Millions of them. Tens of millions. They’re logging on, they’re engaging, and they’re furious. And I’ll be candid: They blame you guys. They blame the left. Regardless of whether you believe it to be justified, they think you’re the bad guys here. And they are reacting accordingly.

Let us emulate Charlie Kirk and engage in respectful debate.  Let us not resort to comparing our fellow citizens to the worst of our opponents (or Allies) in WWII.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

Naming the Problem

For John, BLUF:  In the process of writing about how we are mischaracterizing racism in these United States, Blogger Sarah Hoyt touches on how we have misnamed some serious problems, by grouping them under the name homelessness.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Telling The Truth

From ACCORDING TO HOYT, by Writer Sarah Hoyt, 9 September 2025.

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We need to have the courage to teach the truth to the young.

You know other truths we need to teach to the young? The “homeless” or “unhoused” aren’t in fact normal human beings in need of a house. The names are a lie.

Naming them that, pretending that, just points at the wrong problem and calls for the wrong action.

Yes there are a lot of people in the US who can’t afford a place to live, or are in trouble house wise, because times are hard right now, particularly for the young.

BUT–

But that doesn’t mean that people who have any skills/ability to navigate the normal world are living on the streets. Oh, there will be some: orphans without friends exist. But they’re rarer than hen’s teeth.

Most people on the street are mental health tragedies, and/or criminal and/or willfull mooches, or some combinations of all three.

And I’m torn on this, because mental health is a slippery thing, but on the other hand there’s such a thing as an obvious danger to himself and others.

Different people see different aspects of what we call homelessness.  What we call Homelessness includes people who are mentally ill, who are drug addicts,♠ who suffer from other substance abuse, and who are legitimately without housing.  There is no "one size fits all" in a situation like this.  We need a new aaproach, and perhaps the best approach would be to drop homelessness and adopt "continuum of care" for all such effortts. .

For sure, what we are doing now is not working well.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  For example, Lowell Resident David Prestipino has been posting videos, appear before the City Council and appearing on City Life Show to talk about drug addiction and its pernicious imipacts..

The Undocumented

For John, BLUF:  We have an immigration system, given us by Congress but the Biden Administrationo decided to bypass Federal Rules, and it has been a disaster.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Boston whistleblower warns of migrant crime spillover as Trump’s crackdown looms

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“The Healey hotels were well known for having sex trafficking, domestic violence,' said Fetherston, 'Now, you've opened it up to all of the cities and towns'

From Fox News, by Reporter Peter Pinedo, 30 August 2025, 9:00 am EDT

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As Democratic leaders in Massachusetts triple down on resistance against federal intervention to clamp down on crime, a migrant shelter whistleblower is sounding the alarm about an increase in crime in neighborhoods across the state and especially in Boston.

Jon Fetherston, who ran one of the state-funded migrant shelters in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and blew the whistle about rampant crime and sex abuse taking place in the hotel shelter system. He now says that since Democratic Gov. Maura Healey closed down the shelter system, there has been an uptick in domestic violence, sex trafficking, shoplifting and even auto accidents.

"The Healey hotels were well known for having sex trafficking, domestic violence. We've reported cases of rape, unfortunately, in there," Fetherston said. "Now, you've opened it up to all of the cities and towns in Massachusetts."

Mr Fetherston further elaborates:

"Governor Healey wants you to think she just snaps her fingers and closes all of the hotels and then disperses people into the communities that the thousand incidents that were reported back in 2024, and the state has refused to release the data for 2025, she just thinks that those serious instances aren't going to happen in the communities that now she's forced people into."

Yes, in the past, we have had immigrants who have formed criminal gangs.  However, the vast majority have come to peacefully build lives based on freedom and family.  This recent wave of undocumented immigrnts, thank you President Biden, seem to be more on the criminal side than the peaceful side.  This makes it harder for them to be accepted by the rest of us.

In the mean time, Democrts seem to want us to just accept these undocumented immigrants as though they had put in the hard work legal immigrants have.  Thanks to the US Congress, legal immigrants have to follow an ardous path to become legal residents and then citizens.  What lesson do the undocumented draw, aside from the partisan disaster on Capitol Hill?

Hat tip to my Friend Randy Gweleman, who recommends i move down South, "while you still have a chance!!"

Regards  —  Cliff

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Being Safe between Home and School

For John, BLUF:  Young men and women are reacting to confronting criminals on the streets.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Teen Girls Defend Themselves

From @Rightanglenews, by Right Angle News Network, 25 Aug 2025, 9:34 AM.

Here is the Text to accompny the video in the text:

BREAKING - Police have arrested and charged a 14-year-old girl after she was forced to brandish a knife to defend herself and her friend against a migrant who attempted to assault her near St Ann’s Lane in Dundee, Scotland.

It is a sign that the local Government is fialing the Citizens when young teen girls are going around armed to protect themselves from predators.

It is no surprise that Member of Parliament Nigel Fargage's UK Independence Partyparty is getting attention in Great Britian.  Labour and the Conservative Parties should pay attention

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

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End of Bombing in Cambodia

For John, BLUF:  History may be boring, but it is important.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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1973 – Vietnam War: The USAF bombing of Cambodia ends.

From Wikipedia.

Here is the extract:

August 15 – The U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, officially halting 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia according to the Case–Church Amendment-an act that prohibits military operations in Laos, Cambodia, and North and South Vietnam as a follow-up of the Paris Peace Accords.

This is just a very small note on the last USAF mission into Cambocia.

In August of 1973 I was the Wing Commander's back seater in the F-4E, at Korat RTAFB (Royal Thai Air Force Base).  I had the position because I was an Instructor Pilot and Flight Examiner.  Five years laterr I again worked for Colonel Robert Crouch, although several layers down in the NATO Air Headquarters in Naples, Italy (AIRSOUTH).

It was public knowledge that our efforts in support of the Cambodian Military was coming to an end.  The US Congress had voted to quit.  I decided that there would be press present and I further decided that I would not wish to be interviewed.  I didn't expect I would have nice things to say.

So, I took leave and flew back to be with my family in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.  Sitting in our Florida Room I watch Colonel Crouch on TV News, nding the last official flight, taxing into his parking spot and deplaning, alonog with Major Paul Schwimm, who was his back seater for the day.  That was my war [termination] protest.

In researching this blog post I came across a New York Times article from 16 August 1973, "No Champagne or Cheers as Last Plane Comes In From Cambodia;" which said the last to land from Cambodia was Captain Lonnie 0. Ratley, an A-7 Pilot.  I knew Lon Rstley, from Ramstein Air Base, in Germany.  He was a Suadron Commander in the 86th Tactical Fighter Wing.

Retired in Lowell, MA, every week I run into Refugees from Cambodia, or their children.  My State Rep is a Cambodian Refugee.  I know a couple of City Councillors, including our Vice Mayor, who are Cambodian Refugees.  Sometimes I apologize for our failure in our support of the Cambodian Army, which led to the Cambodian Genocide.

UPDATED.

Regards  —  Cliff

Whom to Trust?

For John, BLUF:  Question everything.  Tear and compare.  Trust few, unless they have proven themselves worthy of trust.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Meet the Leakers!  Russiagate Was More Incestuous Than You Could Believe

From PJ Media, by Columnist Stephen Green, 13 August 2025, 11:20 AM.

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Many years ago, Bill Whittle gave me the sharpest definition you might ever read for the proper role of journalism in a healthy republic:  "They're the antibodies of the body politic." But we do not live in a healthy republic — and journalists too often are part of the cancer we're trying to eliminate.

Case in point:  So-called journalists who, instead of investigating Russiagate claims, performed as marionettes for the Obama-era intelligence community, determined to rig and then undo a presidential election.

And now we have at least two names.

I'll get to those in just a moment, but first, this important reminder.

At the center of the Obama White House’s fabricated Russia collusion narrative is Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) — currently under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland for mortgage fraud.

The two are Reorter Ellen Nakashima, of The Washington Post, and Reporter Michael Schmidt, of The New York Times.

Then there is this:

John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy reported late on Tuesday that "Columbia University law professor Daniel Richman admitted to [FBI] agents in interviews he routinely communicated on behalf of [then-FBI director James] Comey, his longtime friend, with Times reporter Michael Schmidt, whose work was among the newspaper's 2018 Pulitzer-winning stories on Russian election interference."

Pulitzer-winning fake news — good grief.

The sad part of this, for me, is that a Pulitzer Prize was awarded and likely won't be revoked.  Just as Reporter Walter Duranty's Pulizer for what turned out to be the Holodomor, was never revoked.

I am counting on the Press to aim for the target and to come close.  For them to be a partisan hack is not only very disappointing, but is bad for our Republic.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff