Omnibus 2022-23

McConnell (the Turtle) did it again.

As a man of words, I hear and use many terms that I’ve become accustomed to using without retaining the precise meaning. I’m not the only one who does this, of course, and when words are used like that often enough, their meaning changes. For example, when I hear the word omnibus used to describe legislation, there exists an almost ominous preconception. But that’s not entirely fair to the word.

The precise meaning of omnibus is a collection of previously published novels, tomes, catalogs, or other items originally published separately. Hmmm …  doesn’t seem very ominous, does it? Well, perception is relative, and here’s another example.

The Turtle (Mitch McConnell) has struck again. He TURTLED in the face of pressure from the democratic left (Chuck-U-Schumer and Bitter Nancy Pelosi) and voted for the $1.7 trillion Omnibus Bill. Why? Because it’s patently bad for America, and it helps the Turtle stay in power. Remember, he’s the senate minority leader. He needs support from moderate democrats to have any influence at all. Good for Mitch, not so good for taxpayers like you and me, who have to fund this monstrosity.

They say Biden-flation is only 7.5%. But I’m old enough to remember back to the Carter years and Carter-flation of 14.0%. If we’re only at 7%, why does it feel like 14% (see this)? Adding another 1.7 trillion to the national debt, nearly half of which is discretionary spending (stuff we don’t need), is only going to make things worse.

Why Mitch, why? Maybe the Turtle doesn’t think Americans have suffered enough (see ….).

September 1977, Washington, DC, USA — President Carter Speaking at Press Conference — Image by © Wally McNamee/CORBIS

Which of the above is the worst President ever? Trick question: there is no wrong answer.

The 1.7 trillion Dollar Omnibus Bill of 2022-23 is a perfect example of why the word omnibus is so ominous when it refers to spending bills. This bill is over four thousand pages long, and not a single elected official has read every page. Do they know what they’re buying with our money? Do you? It’s all very ominous indeed.

It’s an Ominous Omnibus, and I’m not the only one who thinks so.

PS – After clicking the link above, listen to Kudlow, and don’t forget to scroll down to see Rand Paul with the actual bill.

Judeo-Christian Americans

Read this before you vote.

As I’ve pointed out before, Israel must stand as the Promised Land. It must stand as the Jewish State. These are facts that the bible is unequivocal about.

Joe Biden, in his unwavering support of the State of Israel (ha-ha), and his steadfast belief in the … Oh, you know, the thing … has once again, screwed the pooch on the world stage.

With its latest election results, Israel, has started on an irrefutable journey to reverse her past woke mistakes. Riding a wave of conservative logic, Mr. Netanyahu, in a decisive victory, won a third term as Prime Minister. This event occurred on November 01, 2022.

Meanwhile, here in the US, the man democrats call Mr. President, has yet to pick up a phone and call Prime Minister Netanyahu to congratulate him. Everyone else has. But Joe, among other things, seems to have forgotten the Prime Minister’s number.

Do you know who has called from the United States? And do you know to whom the call was made?

Our esteemed Secretary of State, Blinken, made sure to call Palestinian Leader Mahmud Abbas. The reason for the call was to confirm United States’ support for a Palestinian State on Israeli land. This — at a time when Ned Price, spokesman for the Biden administration, has publicly acknowledged great concern over Iran’s threats to attack Saudi Arabia.

In a sea of political instability and turmoil, the Jewish State of Israel plays an extraordinary role in maintaining world peace. It’s impossible to overstate the importance of a strong, enduring, democracy in the Middle East.

I guess Joe (LGB) Biden, forgot about Moses, and the promise that the Thing made to those people … you know, those people in the desert.

Moses at the precipice, as are we.

Elections have consequences, and the journey for America to correct her Woke mistakes starts tomorrow.

Biden’s College Loan Forgiveness

Master’s Degree and Mortgages

I woke up this morning to the news of Biden’s college loan forgiveness program. Ugh, my reaction was visceral, and here’s why. I went to college, I borrowed money, I worked while attending class, and when I graduated, I got a job and paid every penny back because I said I would. My word means something and has value.

With the Biden Administration crowing about low unemployment, low gas prices, reduced inflation, and the improving economy, why are they forgiving hundreds of billions in college loan debt? It’s confusing to say the least. I needed a little clarification, and who should come to my rescue? None other than the immortal and all-knowing Susan Rice.

Bus Driver Warning: The gobbledygook goes on for more than an hour. You only need to listen to the first twelve minutes (or so).

(929) White House answers questions on Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan | full video – YouTube

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Focused by conservative lensing and forged through years of bus driver experience, my takeaway from Susan’s scholarly explanation was straightforward and simple.

If I have to pay for someone else’s Master’s Degree, then someone with a Master’s Degree (or higher) needs to pay for my mortgage.

Keep in mind, I’m a prime example of what she’s talking about; a college graduate working in the Biden economy as a bus driver with no viable means to pay off my debt.

Dr. Susan Rice (Ph.D. Philosophy), or better yet, Dr. Jill Biden (Ed.D. Education), my mortgage is due on the 15^th. Guys, don’t worry, I live within my means (to the best of my ability) so my home isn’t extravagant. The bank needs $1,894.38 per month for the next 30 years, give or take. I’ve never been late, so I don’t know the penalties, but I’m sure they’re steep. Remember, the payment is due on or before the 15^th.

Here’s a helpful financial hint for whoever decides to pick up the ball and run with it. You can save yourself a lot of money if you pay off the loan in its entirety. You’ll save on interest, insurance, and TAXES too. One low payment of only $221,193.07 and your financial responsibility to me, and my family, will be satisfied forever. Think about it … it makes cents. 😊

PS – Lest you think this is a farce. Here’s a list of supporting topics from Heritage Action:

Will Cause Inflation here  and here

Benefits top half of income earners, at expense of bottom half earners.

Benefits Educational Industrial Complex

It’s an election year gimmick

Sue, Jill, thank you in advance for your progressive and completely woke generosity.

Title IX, America Needs Her Schools Back

Just say NO to Biden’s Title IX rule change.

Biden’s Title IX revision opens the door to all sorts of safety concerns and sets women’s rights back to before Susan B. Anthony.

From the start, I think it’s important to keep things as simple as we can. Allowing the gobbledygook that the left uses as diversionary doubletalk just wastes time. So let’s stop allowing it. Here’s an example.

Bus Driver Calculus:

XX chromosomes equal female (XX=female).

XY chromosomes equal male (XY=male).

The math couldn’t be simpler.

Our schools are where children go to learn reading, writing, arithmetic, and TRUE AMERICAN HISTORY. When it’s time to use the restroom, they need only two choices, Boys or Girls. When they compete in sports during PE (physical education for those in Rio Linda), or try out for team sports, they need the same two choices, Boys or Girls. It has worked for eons and doesn’t need fixing.

Honestly, the fact that we’re having this conversation is strong evidence that the US Department of Education needs to go away. And there are many more US Departments in serious need of extinction too, but we’ll explore those agencies in future posts. For now, let’s just KISS (keep it simple stupid).

Jessica Anderson and Janae Stracke of Heritage Action hosted a Parental Rights Symposium. It’s taken the left years to infiltrate our schools, but we don’t have that luxury. Act now.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/activists-experts-train-advise-parents-engaging-their-kids-education

Jessica Anderson, Executive Director of Heritage Action.  (Aesthetic Images Photography.)

PS – Until you reach the age of majority, any permanent physical alterations should be illegal unless we’re talking about progressive, life-threatening diseases, like cancer. Gender dysphoria is a mental disorder; it should not be treated surgically or with hormone therapy in minors.

Personally, I think this would be a good legal parameter for tattoos as well. Sixteen is too young, but that’s for another post as well.

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act

Has Biden done anything right since he took office?

These are the facts as I, a lowly bus driver, understand them. Government spending is by nature, inflationary. That means the money supply increases, so there’s too much money chasing too few goods (prices go up). If that increase is matched by an increase in wages, the net effect is zero. But inflation is over 9% while wages have only gone up about 2.5%. That’s a 6.5% deficit that all of us absorb as a tax increase on disposable income. Simply put, you can buy 6.5% less stuff today than you could a year ago, even though you got a raise, and keep in mind, not everyone did.

For those too young to remember the Carter years, when inflation outpaces wages, demand falls, unemployment increases, and the economy shrinks. When it lasts more than two months, you go into recession. Jimmy Carter tried to spend his way out of recession; it didn’t work for him, and it won’t work for Joe Biden. When Biden calls his plan the Inflation Reduction Act, he’s putting lipstick on a pig.

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act _oink, oink, oink

Find your congress members here: KEY VOTE: “NO” ON THE “INFLATION… | Heritage Action For America

By the way, don’t let your liberal friends tell you that this thing will reduce prescription drug costs by requiring price negotiation. If you read the bill, you’ll find that it requires offers and counteroffers based on established government price limits.

So a drug manufacturer submits a bid, the government counters, and this is supposed to be the negotiation process at work. The problem lies in the details. Under Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, under no circumstances can the government accept a price above a predetermined limit.

Call me naïve, but I don’t think that’s how a negotiation works, it’s how extortion works. Ultimately, drug supplies will be limited, and if drug companies can’t earn a profit on what they sell to the government, they’ll just pass the cost on to their other customers, you and me.

PS – Contact your congressmen (women) by any means necessary, and let them know that you know, this is a bad deal.

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)

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.

Biden’s Election, Putin’s War

Biden forgot his own rules.

The events in Ukraine remind me of the 2020 election in many ways. There are rules for the proper implementation of a fair election. There are rules for the proper implementation of war.

By now, it should be clear to you that the only reason Biden is your president is because the democrats broke election laws and cheated the American people out of a fair and honest election. Why? They did it because that was the only way they could win.

Putin is conducting war in Ukraine; he is bombing schools, hospitals, civilians in flight, civilian infrastructure, nuclear power plants, and now, journalists. He has already used vacuum bombs. Individually and collectively, these are war crimes. He is breaking all the rules because Ukraine is fighting back regardless of American assistance, and Russia hasn’t won, not yet. He has threatened escalation in the past, acted upon it, and will do it again without hesitation. Putin doesn’t take Biden seriously as a leader, which only encourages him to make more threats. These are not opinions; these are facts.

Really?

Biden is an incompetent leader. That is also a fact. He was supposed to be a unifier; look what we got. He was supposed to be experienced in diplomacy; look what we got. He was supposed to be tough (remember Corn-Pop and taking Trump behind the shed for a beating); look what we got.

Trump is the enemy! Putin and Xi are insignias just like the Uraniums …

Putin can’t lose because if he does, he’ll be prosecuted for war crimes. If we send jets to Ukraine and establish a no-fly zone, then Putin threatens Biden with chemical, biological, and nuclear escalation leading to WWIII. As far as Putin is concerned, it’s just another war crime. What does he have to lose? And what does the Pansy in the Whitehouse do? He backs down. Why? Because Putin is conducting WWIII right now, regardless of Joe Biden’s attempts at appeasement.  

And winning is the only option— just like the democrats in 2020.

War Against the Innocent, Ukraine

Provoked by Insipid Weakness

This Morning, 9:00 a.m. 02-26-22, Ukraine Stands

As I explained in my last post, I was in a foul mood all week. In fact, I wasn’t even going to post today.

But this morning, everything changed. I turned on the news and Ukraine is still standing. Its people are defending themselves, fighting for their freedom with everything they have. Meanwhile, I was feeling sorry for myself because I had a bad week. How self-absorbed is that?  

Halfway around the world people just like me, are fighting an existential war. There is killing and dying on both sides and … It hit me hard. I really don’t do much, not much at all. I drive a bus. How insignificant is that?

What I do has no effect and does nothing to help the people who are hiding in bomb shelters to survive a needless war. A war waged against the innocent and provoked by insipid weakness. Putin is guilty of waging war on a country that did nothing wrong. But Biden is guilty of provoking the war by being insipidly weak. He imposes sanctions that do too little—too late, and then buys Russian oil. Yes, the United States is still buying Russian oil because of Biden’s domestic energy policy. If you finance an insane tyrant, don’t you share in his blame? Think about it.

So simply put. Guilt has me at the keyboard. Even if I only reach half a dozen, it’s something … at the very least.

Please watch the entire video below and listen to Olena Gnes. Yesterday, her children were in school. Today, she is hiding them in a bomb shelter.

Yo Joe. This is the result of your insipid weakness.

Ukrainian mom pleads for help from bomb shelter: Putin won’t stop, until he’s stopped | Fox News Video

PS – While Olena hunkers down in a bomb shelter and cares for her children, her husband fights for their freedom in the streets of Kyiv. They have the real potential to lose everything.

I don’t know what you did yesterday but I … I drove a bus.

PPS – She apologies for not being articulate enough (in English) to convey her feelings. What do you think?

https://www.ldavydpollack.com/audio-blog-posts

You Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks

Name one good thing Joe Biden has done

Look. I know it’s only been a year, but six months into the Biden rein of incompetency, most of us were asking, could it get any worse.

And then the BLM/ANTIFA riots happened.

And then Afghanistan happened.

And then the crime wave happened. And then runaway inflation happened. And then the Putin/Xi accord happened. And then Americans, even those who actually (not figuratively) voted for Joe Biden stopped asking if it could get any worse. They already knew the answer. Instead, they started asking what’s next.

Yet, there are still Biden supporters who can’t see the naked emperor. I work with one. He’s a good guy.  Also, he knows that I write this blog, but because he’s a staunch progressive and liberal to his core, he refuses to read anything I write. I can safely publish this post knowing that he (let’s call him Bernie) and I will still be friends.

The other day at work, we were talking about Joe. Why? Because there’s a TV in the employee lounge and Bernie never misses an opportunity to tune in CNN. They were talking about some nonsense or another, and I happened to blurt out, “Name one thing Joe Biden has done right.”

Bernie laughed that sarcastically demeaning way all liberals do when someone from the right speaks. Then he says, “Biden stopped the war!”

Bernie is older than me, and I consider him a friend even though he’d be a communist if he were truly honest with himself. Still, he’s older, and out of respect, I do my best to give him as much leeway as possible.

    I simply said, “No, he didn’t.”

    Bernie did his liberal laugh again. “Yes, he did—he ended a twenty-year war.”

    “NO. Joe didn’t end the war.”

    “Oh yes, he did.”

    “No, he didn’t.” At this point, it was time for me to leave because there was only one thing left for me to say. “I’m running late. Gotta go guys. Drive safely out there.” I started to walk away.

    There were the normal return salutations, You Too, Be Safe, Have a Good One, and then there was Bernie and his ideology. “Remember! No more war … No War!”

What I wanted to say, but didn’t, out of respect for Bernie, was this. “Joe Biden didn’t end a war; he surrendered it. There’s a big difference. It’s why there are still American hostages in Afghanistan. It’s why the Taliban had a big victory parade with 85 billion dollars worth of our military equipment. It’s why Putin and Xi are becoming so aggressive on the world stage. Biden didn’t end a war; he laid the groundwork for a new one.”

In hindsight, maybe I should have said something. But it wouldn’t have registered with good ole Bernie, so I didn’t risk an argument.

Suffice it to say, Joe has driven America off the road and fallen asleep at the wheel with his foot on the accelerator. He’ll never learn to do what’s right for anyone but himself. And Bernie? Good ole Bernie will never learn to see the naked emperor cloaked in communist ideology.

Old dogs—no New tricks.

Name one good thing Joe Biden has done.