The Only Way to Stop Me

is to shoot me in the back.

Uvalde memorial CNN.com

Yet another very difficult post to write.

Before commenting on something, I prefer to get as much information as I can. That way, I don’t sound like the idiot most people think I am. But at this point, it just isn’t possible.

All the information about the Uvalde, Texas school shooting isn’t available yet, and won’t be for some time. But there are a few established facts. Security protocols were not followed, doors were left open, security personnel was nowhere to be found, inadequately trained and ill-equipped police officers used poor judgment,  and children died.

Again, the facts about this horrific catastrophe are not yet available, but already I hear people saying that we need to learn more from this tragedy. We must stay calm, refrain from casting blame, study the facts, debate them, and finally, legislate to keep disasters like this from ever occurring again. If that’s the correct course of action, where are the lessons learned from Columbine?

I agree that we need to do something. I even have some commonsense solutions of my own, but the time for that isn’t now.

At the moment, I only have two questions. First. How much learning do we need to do?

If I see a four-year-old child standing in the middle of the road, I don’t have to see her hit by a speeding car to know that I need to pull over, dodge rush-hour traffic, and get that child to safety.

If I know a heavily armed gunman has breached security and entered an elementary school, I don’t need to wait for children to die before I go in and do what’s necessary, especially if that is my job.

When I think about what happened, I try to empathize with the parents of those children. If I saw that police ignored 911 calls from inside the school and refused to do their job, I’d have no choice, I must go in myself. The only way to stop me would be to shoot me in the back.

It’s really simple math. If the gunman is shooting at me, he isn’t shooting at my kid. The gunman only has as much ammo as he can carry, and the more he wastes on me, the better. If others go in with me then our chances of success greatly increase. Sadly, this fact eluded the trained police officers at the scene.

I’m appalled.

Oh yeah. I almost forgot my second question. Did any of those police officers, waiting around for over an hour, lose a son or daughter?

I Thought,

I was the only one.

The silent majority isn’t so silent anymore … and people are listening.

Hallelujah!

Compare: 40 Billion For Ukraine, Funding a War with the Green New Deal | davyd’s blog (wordpress.com)

New York Shame

When is It, Not an It?

 (Please bear with me on this; it was a very difficult post to write.)

When Does Life End and Murder Begin?

In the State of New York, abortion is legal until the moment of birth. I’m not an OBGYN, but it seems to me that late-term abortion is similar to a caesarian section. When a section is performed, a live baby is removed from the mother and lives. When a late-term abortion is performed, a live baby is removed from the mother and dies?

If a living human being is terminated by the act of another just before birth and then removed from the mother, isn’t that murder? If a live baby is partially removed from the mother and then terminated, isn’t that murder? Is a nine-month-old baby placed on a countertop to die from hypothermia a murder victim?

I have more questions.

Is the difference between a caesarian section and an abortion tantamount to murder for hire? If not, why?

Is a baby alive at conception?

Is it alive in the first trimester?  

Is a baby alive in the second trimester?

Is it alive in the third trimester?

When does a fetus become a baby? When is a baby not an it?

Why is it necessary for me to have to ask these questions?

Is it a baby yet?

When does Life End and Murder begin?

Doctors, do no harm???

What happened to common sense? Doctors, what happened to your sense of decency? What happened to your Hippocratic Oath?

Tell me, New York, at what point in life does an embryo, a fetus, or a baby feel pain?

I have a question for the Supreme Court.

When is it, not an it?

40 Billion For Ukraine, Funding a War with the Green New Deal

And the Budapest Memorandum

If you read my blog then you already know that we have a legal responsibility to defend Ukraine. It’s called the Budapest Memorandum. That said. Nowhere in the contract does it say that we have to be stupid about it.

Democrats and Rinos (aka. socialist/communist) are once again looking at poles and reading their own press. They’re reacting, not thinking. Presto, 40 billion dollars of taxpayer money goes to Ukraine while American Moms can’t feed their infants.* Add that to all the other domestic crises under the Biden Administration, and what’s a country to do?

Does this mean we turn our back on the responsibility to defend Ukraine? NO!

Just call me Lucifer

I Did That 😉***

It means we should be the superpower that we are and settle this thing by defeating the Russian invasion without shooting a single round. Fire up our oil production and the price of gas drops immediately; within weeks, maybe a month, Russia goes broke. No money, no war.

Right now, we’re paying more for a gallon of gas than we ever have. It’s double the price we paid just two years ago. Sure, our money isn’t headed directly to Russia anymore, but everyone else’s is. And when the price of oil is artificially high because we aren’t producing our own, more money goes to Russia and its war machine.

We’re still funding the war, just not directly. This deserves repeating. We (the USA) are still funding the war in Ukraine by keeping oil prices artificially high. It’s all due to our lack of domestic oil production and Joe Biden’s Green New Deal.

Forty billion dollars does nothing to end the war in Ukraine, just extend it. Low oil prices will end the war, and fast.

At some point, we as a people need to realize that throwing money at a problem only makes the problem bigger. Without sufficient monitoring and controls in place to make sure that the money is properly allocated, we, as a nation, are suckers.

Thank G-d for Senator Rand Paul. He has done what he could to buy us time.

THINK America!**

*Curiously, illegal aliens crossing the border have plenty of free formula right now. No supply chain issues there.

** Too late. We didn’t think, and now we are suckers. The Dems and Rinos (socialist/communist) did it again. The 40 billion dollar bill passed. All Biden has to do is sign it (if he remembers how).

*** “But what’s puzzlin you is the nature of my game” The Rolling Stones … no better explanation.

Six-year-old Marathoner

What were they thinking?

 I know this is last week’s news, but I wanted to add my two cents because I haven’t heard anyone else point out a blaring fact.

First, let’s discuss the obvious.

The parents are stupid. No Six-year-old should be running a marathon. Even if the kid wants to do it with all his ignorant heart and soul, this is where parenting comes in and both mom and dad say, NO. You can’t run a marathon. You’re too young. Wait until you grow up.

That didn’t happen. Colossal fail.

The organizers of the event are stupid. When parents fail their responsibilities, it’s the organizers who need to pick up the ball and run with it. See what I did there? By enforcing minimum standards for qualification and safety such as age, say eighteen years or older, Junior doesn’t run. But when the people in charge don’t set reasonable rules or make regulations and then don’t enforce them, the judge of culpability rears its ugly head. What if that kid had to be hospitalized or worse? Colossal fail for the Flying Pig coordinators.

Then there’s the psychological and physical abuse this child suffered while hundreds, if not thousands, were firsthand witnesses, and no one did anything to stop it. Colossal fail.

But Davyd these topics have already been talked about by the major media outlets. You mentioned something missed by most if not all of them.

Yes. Yes, I did and here it is. I’ve linked to a video of it on ABC (not a frequent source of information on this blog for obvious reasons). Click below:

 Parents of 6-year-old marathoner speak out after they say child services visited family – ABC News (go.com)

Did you see it? If not, watch again.

Flying Pig

Hint: Two for One

OK! Enough games. Here’s the punch line. For every step mom and dad take, Junior takes two and a half. The six-year-old didn’t run one marathon; he ran two marathons plus half of another and he did it all at once.

Everyone involved should be ashamed.

P.S. – You need a license to drive a car or get married, but no license is required to be a parent. Regarding these two parents (watch the video again), COLOSSAL FAIL.

Dog in the Abortion Fight

Tyrus on the Clay and Buck show

Abortion is one of the headline topics of the current news cycle and Tyrus (on the Clay and Buck show) voiced his opinion. I heard the segment during my lunch break last week. Tyrus was candid about the fact that his mother chose not to abort him, a win for the pro-life side.

How Cute!

My two favorites on Gutfeld.

The conversation continued and Tyrus commented on the Supreme Court leak regarding the draft opinion reversing Roe vs. Wade.  He said, “I don’t have a dog in that fight”.

I took that to mean he doesn’t have standing when it comes to a woman’s decision to abort. The phrase stuck with me and I began to wonder, what if he did have a dog in the fight? Would he then have standing?

It took me a while to work through the conundrum but this is what I came up with. Despite the current liberal dribble to the contrary, it still takes a man and a woman to become pregnant the way nature intended. So, a woman discovers that she’s pregnant. She begins to consider her options and one of those options is whether or not to tell the father. If the mother elects to tell the father, does that mean he has a dog in the fight? Does he have standing? What if the mother is the father’s wife and she elects not to tell him. Does that mean he doesn’t have a dog in the fight? Does that mean he has no standing?

I’m just scratching the surface here. There are countless scenarios, but all have two things in common. A life is (naturally) created by a man and a woman. And, a woman has a choice: she chooses whether or not, to tell the truth. The question is; does the truth or a lie by omission, change a man’s standing?

Personally, I think men in general are lazy about this issue. If they get a woman pregnant, they’re more than just a little relieved when she handles it on her own. The less involved they are, the more relieved. I think women are lazy about the issue too. Pregnancy, as well as giving birth, are both hard work, and that’s just the beginning. None of this speaks to what’s right and just. It doesn’t speak to what’s moral and decent. It does speak to the poor values instilled by parents … and taking the easy way out on both sides of the equation.

P.S. – Tyrus. If somehow you get the opportunity to read this, I would greatly appreciate some clarification.

Why Ukraine?

We shouldn’t be concerned … or should we?

I’ve heard it said many times. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a European problem. Let them deal with it.

Over the past month reports about the Russian atrocities in Ukraine moved from the headline story down to fourth or fifth place behind the economy, the border, and whatever the Biden administration is currently screwing up. I’ve heard more than a few news commentators and their guests speak about our problems at home. They raise the point that we should fix things here first. Ukraine is halfway around the world. Why are we even involved?

Yes, I agree we have our share of problems. We have a huge border crisis, massive inflation, and a supply chain issue that simply never impacted Americans the way this one has. Imagine empty grocery store shelves like the ones in Russia. Oh, wait! We don’t have to imagine that do we? The list goes on and on, and on some more.  

The ineptitude of the Biden administration doesn’t change the truth (not to be confused with fact). An imperial Russia illegally attacked a smaller sovereign country because it could. Why did it think an invasion of Ukraine was a good idea? Because America is weak. That’s the truth.

A weak America means a world in conflict. All you need to do is look at the last 100 years of world history. You may not like the fact, but that doesn’t change the reality, the truth. America’s role is a stabilizing force in world politics. Turning a blind eye shows weakness.

Then there’s the Budapest Memorandum (see Lesson to the World: | davyd’s blog (wordpress.com) ) which by the way, is being ignored by everyone on both sides of the Atlantic. Did you know that not only do we have a legal responsibility to defend Ukraine, but so does Russia? Talk about a war crime, Russia is legally bound to defend Ukraine from itself.

Mariupol

Today Russians take Mariupol, tomorrow Times Square.

Look. The reality is this. If Putin is allowed to continue unabated, he will not stop. Yeah, just like Hitler. If we don’t stop him now, we will have to stop Putin later. Only then, he’ll be much stronger.

And if Putin succeeds with his invasion of Ukraine, why wouldn’t China think they’ll succeed with Taiwan? They’ve already made it clear that Taiwan is a target. If they are allowed to invade without consequence, then they too, will not stop. Eventually, America will have to fight a two-front war; one on her Atlantic shore, and one on her Pacific.

P.S. – It’s not just a matter of our future survival; it’s a matter of human decency.

P.S. – FYI, Bill Clinton made the commitment to the Ukrainian people. Bill Clinton, husband of Hillary Clinton. Did Bill lie? Did Hillary lie? If we don’t stand by our word, does that make us liars? Hmmm …