Thursday, November 14, 2024
Juan, check out Jack
Juan, check out Jack - American Thinker https://t.co/XR8MRcZ5zt
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) November 14, 2024
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/11/juan_check_out_jack.html
It’s about time, because this “lawfare” has been devastating for the rule of law. It’s banana republic stuff!
This is what we hear from Smith:
Special counsel Jack Smith is planning to resign before Donald Trump enters the White House, a report claims.
The federal prosecutor’s two cases against the president-elect are on the brink of being closed.
Sources close to Smith told the New York Times he wants to finish his work and avoid being fired ‘within two seconds’ of Trump being sworn in on January 20.
The two complex investigations into Trump have cost the taxpayer around $50 million.
One involved classified documents the former president kept after leaving office following his first term.
The other focused on Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the lead up to January 6.
There you go. Hit the road Jack and don’t come back no more, as the song goes.
To paraphrase Professor Jonathan Turley, the 2024 election was the biggest verdict in U.S. history. The voters said “enough is enough. Stop these tactics of using our courts to prosecute political opponents.” The voters know that these cases were rooted in politics, not law, and the public smelled that rat quickly.
The next question is: what about Judge Juan Merchan in New York? When will he get the memo? I don’t know if the judge has the courage to dig himself out of the hole, but let’s hope.
Juan, talk to Jack and get out of the way. My good guess is that New Yorkers would rather have their courts prosecute the street criminals terrorizing their communities.
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1851: "Moby Dick" is published
The movie version is also great. In 1956, a movie with Gregory Peck was released. Many of us saw that version growing up.
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Democrats should take a page from the Nixon book
The New York Times called the election for then-Senator Kennedy just before midnight on November 8, 1960.NBC News didn’t call the race until 7 a.m. the following morning.All night, the newly empowered national television networks had forecast that Kennedy was leading, but in a race that was too close to call.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
It's Latino, not Latinex
It's Latino, not Latinex - American Thinker https://t.co/tBD7pM79Pw
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) November 13, 2024
As my late mother used to say, reality will eventually hit you between the eyes. She was a lot less diplomatic in how she said it in Spanish but we got the point. I think she would scream at a Democrats today: I’m Latina not Latinex, or Latinx, or whatever they want to call it, you fool, or something like that.
The Democrats had a bad day last Tuesday as more and more Hispanics voted GOP. Even The Dallas Morning News had to print an editorial about it. This is what they wrote:
While Democrats are still taking a hard look in the mirror after their devastating election night, they need to absorb an important lesson: Question your assumptions.
There have been a lot of headlines about Democrats losing the “Latino vote.” We would venture another explanation. There is no Latino vote. There are millions upon millions of independent-thinking individuals of Latin American origin who have different points of view and vote accordingly.
Well, that’s true. Latinos or Hispanics are different because we came here for different reasons. Our grandmother may speak Spanish or watch the nightly “telenovela” but we are different.
At the same time, we are the same in many ways. We love an opportunity society rather than handouts. We love the rule of law because we experienced banana republic tactics directly. We are not for open borders because it’s messy and illegal. We want good schools, safe streets, and the same things that everybody wants. This is why school choice is popular among Hispanics — because they want a good education for their kids.
Last, but not least, we are conservative on family values from abortion to men playing in girls’ sports.
To paraphrase the late Dr. Martin Luther King, judge my children because of the content of their character, not their skin color. In this case, it is something like judge me on my person but not my last name.
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We remember Buck O'Neill (1911-2006)
The great Buck O'Neill was born in Florida on this day in 1911. He died in 2006.
Most baseball fans were introduced to the late Buck O'Neill in Ken Burns' baseball series. Buck related so many stories of the old Negro Leagues.
O'Neill won't get in the Hall of Fame because of stats. He did not hit titanic home runs like Josh Gibson or cut down batters like Satchel Paige.
I should add that baseball created The Buck O'Neill Award in 2008.
We remember Mel Stottlemyre (1941-2019)
We remember Mel Stottlemyre who was born in 1941 and pitched for the Yankees, 1964-74. He died in 2019.
Stottlemyre pitched during a very difficult time for the Yankees. He came up in 1964 and pitched very well for the AL Champs. Unfortunately, he never pitched for another contender after that. In fact, the Yankees did not return to the post season until 1976.
Stottlemyre won 164, completed 152, threw 40 shutouts and retired with a fantastic 2.97 ERA. Wonder how many games he'd won with better Yankee teams? It's hard to say but 250 is a real possibility.
After baseball, Mel served as pitching coach for the Yankees.
1982: The Vietnam War Memorial Wall
It is an amazing place to visit, specially for those who remember that very controversial war.
My favorite book about the Vietnam War was written by President Nixon in 1983 after leaving office.
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Dollars didn’t make Texas blue… again
Dollars didn’t make Texas blue… again - American Thinker https://t.co/WUHfQ9WMfU
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) November 12, 2024
Another Texas election and a bunch of Democrats asking: Why didn’t money and TV ads persuade Texas? After all, our TV screens were bombarded with anti-Cruz abortion ads. We were also constantly reminded that President Trump is a felon who led an insurrection to overthrow the U.S. government. In the end, Trump and Cruz won easily, and the Democrat party state chairman resigned.
The blue wave didn’t hit Texas. What happened?
Well, let’s start with the Biden presidency. Very unpopular here. It was no better for Kamala Harris, who never even visited our border cities or took seriously her border czar position. The border issue was so bad that the GOP scored historic gains with Hispanics in border counties.
So what’s next for Democrats? It will be tough, as we learned from Congressman Allred, who challenged Senator Cruz. Allred has a profile that should win in Texas—he’s got a nice family image, and he’s a former NFL player and Baylor star. So what happened? Well, let me share this from Bill King:
First, the abortion issue flopped again for Democrats. In devising their strategy, Democrats read too much into polls that showed a wide majority of Texans oppose the abortion ban, at least in its current form. Texans are particularly opposed to the failure of the law to include an exception for rape and incest. A recent University of Texas poll found that 78% of Texans supported such an exception, at least, at some point during pregnancy.
However, if they had read that same poll a little more closely, they would have also learned that only 4% of Texans identified abortion as the most important issue in the election. Women and voters under 30 were only slightly higher at 6%. The economy and inflation were identified as the most important issue by a third of the respondents, with virtually no difference between men and women (35% vs. 32%). Immigration was the second highest at 14%. Abortion was a distant eighth.
Also, women under 30 make up only about a million of Texas’ 18 million registered voters and, of course, a fair number of those are pro-life. So, it is hard to understand how anyone ever thought this was going to be a winning strategy.
King goes on to explain how attacking the oil and gas industry is a loser in a state where thousands work in that field, especially Hispanics in South Texas. Furthermore, Allred was never able to explain why he voted in favor of boys playing in girls’ sports, but then ran TV ads saying that he didn’t believe in it. Why did he vote for it? He can thank Speaker Pelosi for forcing Democrats to vote on issues like that.
As 2026 approaches, and a governor’s race is coming, who can the Democrats count on? It won’t be Beto O’Rourke, because I think that donors must be tired of writing him checks. It won’t be Collin Allred, unless he does a massive transition to the center and deletes all of those votes from history. It won’t be one of the Castro brothers from San Antonio, because they can’t compete in rural areas.
The party is in trouble down here and that’s the truth.
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Happy # 79 Neil Young
We say happy birthday to Neil Young, one of our favorite rock performers. Neil was born in Toronto on this day in 1945. He recorded with Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills Nash & Young and on his own.
"Heart of gold" is one of my real favorites....
November 1970: "Lonely Days" by Bee Gees
Chapter 1 took place in Australia circa 1964-66 where they sang as kids and even recorded a few songs.
Chapter 2 is when they exploded on the US and world charts in 1967. They recorded international hits like "Massachusetts", "I started a joke" and "To love somebody". (My favorite is still "Holiday")
Chapter 3 is when they split up. Thankfully, it was very short!
Chapter 4 was the "reunion" of late 1970. It started with "Lonely Days" and a very interesting "Two years on" album. Shortly after, it was followed by "How can you mend a broken heart" and "Run to me".
Chapter 5 is everything from "Jive Talkin", to "Too much heaven" and the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in between. It was their most successful chapter. It certainly sold a lot of records!
Chapter 6 were the solo efforts of the 1980's. It also included the songs and production of albums for Barbra Streisand ("Guilty"), Kenny Rogers ("Islands in the stream") and Dionne Warwick ("Heartbreaker').
Chapter 7 was a collection of nice albums up to Maurice's unfortunate death in 2003 and Robin dying in 2012.
"Lonely Days" is from Chapter 4 and released in November 1970. It was one of the best harmonies in rock music.
