Thursday, October 31, 2024
So am I garbage with an apostrophe?
So am I garbage with an apostrophe? - American Thinker https://t.co/EKiyLlmp4r
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) October 31, 2024
Well, how did this happen? How does a sitting president refer to half of the country as garbage? Was it a slip of the tongue or was he trying to sabotage VP Harris’s closing speech? Your guess is as good as mine, but the White House is in full cleanup mode. Let’s check the story:
The White House and its media allies ran a coverup for President Biden after he maligned former President Donald Trump’s supporters as “garbage” — going so far as to edit an official transcript of his remarks, to the outrage of conservatives and other critics who called out “flat out lying” by Democrats and their allies.
Democrats went into damage-control mode Tuesday night due to the president’s trash talk, claiming that Biden hadn’t intended to demonize his party’s political opponents just seven days before voters head to the polls.
“The President referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage,’” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement.
The White House in a transcript of the speech also added an apostrophe to the 81-year-old’s poorly timed criticism less than five days before the 2024 election.
When in doubt use an apostrophe? I guess that the cleanup crew at the White House thinks that we are that stupid. Yes, he didn’t call the Trump supporters “garbage” because they added an apostrophe in the transcript. Why didn’t I think of that?
In the end, this is a president who is now a full victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome. He got the virus and is behaving the same irrational way that all the others do.
Of course, the problem with a sitting president referring to the other side as garbage is that he may have to send their sons to war. As far as I know, we don’t have a D or R next to the soldiers’ names who may have to tackle Iran or China.
So a bad night for those who want to unite the country. Hard to unite people when you call them garbage for thinking differently. Even if you edit the word by conveniently adding an apostrophe.
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We remember Michael Collins (1930-2021)
We remember Dave McNally (1942-2002)
Dave McNally was one of my favorite Orioles. He was born on this day in 1942 and passed away in 2002.
Just a great lefty who kept you in every game.
He was 7-4 with a 2.49 ERA in 9 post seasons series with Baltimore.
Happy Halloween cubano!
Fidel Castro died in 2016. So we remember him this Halloween.
This is the story of a Cuban Halloween!
(The CubanAmericanpundits.com website!)
Happy Halloween, and don't forget to vote
(My new American Thinker post)
Halloween was totally new when our family came to the U.S. The idea of kids wearing masks and asking for candy was totally new to us. I mean totally new. I don't remember watching a Disney cartoon about it, and we learned a lot about the U.S. in Cuba watching Disney cartoons.
So we went out on our first Halloween and could not help laughing whenever my mom said "trick or treat." She couldn't get the pronunciation down and said "tree ka tree." The three of us couldn't stop laughing at my mother's accent until she got mad and said that if we didn't like her accent, then we could eat breakfast somewhere else. We did not laugh anymore after that because we really didn't have another place to go for breakfast. I should add that the McDonald's across the park did not serve breakfast in 1964.
My kids have grown up, pursuing their careers, interests, and other things. Therefore, Halloween just doesn't mean as much as it used to. I still enjoy seeing the little kids in their costumes, but it's different. My grandkids are cute wearing their costumes, but they're still too young to get into the Halloween spirit. I'll wait a couple of years to take them trick-or-treating.
A few years ago, I had Dr. Ileana Johnson, author and native of Romania, on my podcast. We spoke about her book Echoes of Communism, her story about growing up in communist Romania. We found a lot in common about leaving communist countries and settling in the U.S. She is also a wonderful economist who has a lot to say about socialism and what's going on in our colleges.
Dr. Johnson wrote about Dracula and the castle during a recent trip to Romania:
Bram Stoker chose Transylvania, the western province of Romania, as the location of his 1897 gothic novel "Dracula" because of the dark, foreboding feel of the area even when it was bathed in sunshine. The myth of Dracula was so attached to Vlad Tepes and Bran Castle that the locals, when asked about it, shrugged their shoulders with amused looks, and went about their business.
The real Vlad Tepes, the inspiration source for Count Dracula, was known for his strong resistance and valiant battles against the advancement and occupation of the Ottoman Empire. "Voievode" Vlad was a real hero and founding father to the local population.
Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431–1476), was named posthumously "Vlad the Impaler," for his habit of impaling his enemies and those condemned for capital punishment. Tepes was his Romanian moniker for "Impaler." He ruled mainly from 1456–1462, the incipient period of the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans. Of the house of Draculesti, Vlad III, son of Vlad II Dracul, was born in Sighisoara, Transylavania and died in Bucharest, Wallachia.
Dracula is Romanian for "the son of the Devil." Historians argue over the meaning of the Latin "draco" (dragon). Vlad was of the order of the dragon bestowed on his father to defend Christianity. However, the Romanian word for dragon is "balaur." "Dracul" is identified in modern parlance as the "devil." The Ambras Castle portrait of Vlad III, c. 1560, is reputedly a copy of an original made during his lifetime.
I catch this article every year and and enjoy it a lot. Who knew that Dracula and a castle could be so interesting? Well, it is, and I hope you read her full article about Dracula before the kids come to your door.
And then play "The Monster Mash" to make Halloween complete.
Happy Halloween, and don't forget to vote.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Talking with Voz Media
📹 | #ENTREVISTA: Análisis de la recta final de la campaña electoral
— VOZ (@VozMediaUSA) October 31, 2024
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A message from Jeff
A message from Jeff - American Thinker https://t.co/eaT2b8bBmE
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) October 30, 2024
As you probably know, there are some hurt feelings over at the news rooms. This is because some of the nation’s liberal newspapers have gone uncommitted on presidential endorsements. No Kamala endorsement, and that’s driving a lot of liberals over the cliff.
Why didn’t the Washington Post do its usual endorsement of a Democrat? Maybe we should listen to the guy who signs their payroll checks. He is not happy with his newspaper or the state of the media.
This is the message from Jeff Bezos:
The billionaire then argued that presidential endorsements “create a perception of bias… of non-independence” and the decision to end them was a “principled decision.”
Bezos wrote he wished “we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it,” but chalked the issue to “inadequate planning” rather than “some intentional strategy.”
The Washington Post owner said there was no quid pro quo at play, and neither of the candidates or their campaigns were consulted or informed about the decision beforehand.
Bezos cited surveys showing declining public faith in the news media and framed the decision as an effort to restore trust and avoid being replaced by “off-the-cuff podcasts, inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources.”
Bezos is right on target and his comments are must reading in newsrooms. Bezos is correct that trust in the media is down, way down. Honestly, I’m not sure that the presidential endorsements have destroyed the media’s credibility. What Bezos is more concerned is the biased coverage.
And the perception that the media is in the tank for one candidate, such as VP Harris is 2024, is real.
It’s an important message from a man who obviously wants to sell more newspapers or subscriptions. I see it more as a man who sees what’s going on in the industry and doesn’t like it.
Good for Bezos.
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024
The battle of the sexes goes crazy
The battle of the sexes goes crazy - American Thinker https://t.co/RJpt8ahTPa
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) October 29, 2024
Maybe you’re old enough to remember that tennis match from the early 1970s billed as “The Battle of the Sexes.” I didn’t watch it but they told me that it involved a young Billie Jean King and an aging male pro named Bobby Riggs. Nobody took that show seriously, but I guess they made a few dollars of the whole thing. Hope they made enough money to buy a ‘73 Sabre. It was a beauty!
The Battle of the Sexes has now gone political. In fact, the divide is pretty big. If only men voted then Trump would sweep. If only women voted then Harris would win. It’s probably more complicated than that but you get what I mean.
The Harris campaign has apparently given up one men and gone “girl” all the way. Let’s take a look at this story from Andrew Stiles:
Vice President Kamala Harris was briefly interested in reaching out to male voters in the final weeks before Election Day. Recent events suggest the candidate has abandoned those efforts in favor of joyless fearmongering intended to rile up the Democratic base of #resistance-obsessed single ladies who scream at children. (No, we’re not making this up. A deranged young white woman accosted a little girl in a stroller outside a Harris rally in Houston on Friday. “I don’t give a f—, your dad’s a b—!” the female Harris supporter yelled just inches from the child’s face.
Harris appeared in Houston alongside Beyoncé, a female musical artist of some renown. The former Destiny’s Child member echoed the candidate’s women-focused closing message. “We are so happy to be standing here on this stage as proud, country, Texas women supporting and celebrating the one and only Vice President Kamala Harris,” Beyoncé said. “I’m not here as a celebrity. I’m not here as a politician. I’m here as a mother. A mother who cares, deeply, about the world my children and all of our children live in. A world where we have the freedom to control our bodies.”
Once on stage, Harris wasted no time attacking Trump on the issue of abortion. “No one is protected,” Harris warned, joyfully. “Because a Donald Trump national ban will outlaw abortion in every single state.” Trump, who was also in Texas last week to tape an interview with celebrated male podcaster Joe Rogan, has said he “would not support a federal abortion ban, under any circumstances.”
Unlike King vs Riggs back then, something that everyone understood as a joke and nothing more, the current divide is between men worried about the future and a group of young women who have lost their common sense. Keep the women in your life away from this virus specially if they are talking about majoring in gender studies. Don’t co-sign that loan!
Our battle of 2024 is not just a threat to our politics. We may be seeing a generation of young men and women with nothing in common. What are they going to talk about when they go on a date? Maybe they won’t date and young men will look for wives overseas. At least those girls, many of them super educated and from good families, would want to be your wife, have your babies, and enjoy a future without arguing about politics or abortion.
In the meantime, the Harris team wants to energize all those women with empty lives and a cat. I’m not knocking cats but it’s tough to reach old age without little kids running around and bringing Christmas presents.
Save the girls from this madness because it won’t end well.
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We remember Denny Laine (Moody Blues and Wings)
We remember Denny Laine who was born on this day in 1944 and died in 2023.
My favorite of his songs is "Go now", the first big hit in the US by The Moody Blues...
Our 2016 Halloween chat with Leslie Eastman
Guest: Leslie Eastman joins us for our annual Halloween show......we will the website that Leslie has been the Project Manager for, which Girl Scout Emma Kahn created as part of her Gold Star Project: Black Cats Need Love! The purpose of the site is to encourage people to adopt black cats from animal shelters.............and a few stories about the 2016 election.......
Monday, October 28, 2024
They are calling it ‘narcoterrorism’
They are calling it ‘narcoterrorism’ - American Thinker https://t.co/4xUUadzu6g
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) October 28, 2024
Over time, we’ve associated car bombs with terrorism. We saw some of that in Afghanistan and Iraq. Israel has seen a lot of it over the years. Well, they are now seeing it in Mexico. Let’s check out the story:
Two car bombs exploded in the Mexican state of Guanajuato on Thursday, Oct. 24, in what state officials have described as an act of “narcoterrorism.”
The explosives went off in the southern municipalities of Acámbaro and Jerécuaro, just miles outside of Guanajuato’s border with the State of Mexico (Edoméx).
The Acámbaro explosion, which occurred outside of the local police station, left three local police officers injured in its wake.
Numerous schools and businesses in the municipalities said they had suspended operations for the day after the car bombs went off.
A day ago, a Mexican friend told me that people are in a bit of shock. After all, to paraphrase another friend, Mexico’s had a lot of problems over the years but car explosions is not one of them. Let me add that I’ve taken many trips to Mexico before, even lived there for four years working for U.S. company, and cars exploding is not among them.
Over the last month, Mexico has been hearing a lot about violence in the news. In the state of Guerrero, on the Pacific coast and home to Acapulco, the mayor was decapitated. In Sinaloa, or closer to the border, a truck was discovered with at least five dead bodies. And now lovely and colonial Guanajuato has been shaken by two car explosions.
So far, no policy shift from the administration that wants to hug its way to peace with criminals.
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2016: Our Halloween chat with Leslie Eastman
Guest: Leslie Eastman joins us for our annual Halloween show......
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Who wants to see men wearing those 'golf' skirts?
Who wants to see men wearing those 'golf' skirts? - American Thinker https://t.co/NSsz4lFpP2
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) October 27, 2024
A confession about women’s golf? It’s a great TV sport because we get to watch these lovely lady golfers and their wonderful legs. Guys are great golfers, too, but there is something lovely about watching those ladies. Okay, confession made.
And now let’s talk about another episode of woke. Who would have believed this 10 years ago? Who would have believed that women would be writing a letter asking an organization to keep men away from their sport?
Let’s check this out:
A total of 194 players will be competing in this week’s LPGA Qualifying Series in hopes of punching their ticket into December’s final stage of qualifying school (Q-School) to earn an opportunity to earn an LPGA card. Among the nearly 200-person field is transgender golfer Hailey Davidson, whose inclusion may align with LPGA’s current gender policy, but not with the vast majority of fellow competitors.
Davidson advanced through the pre-qualifying stage of Q-School in August after finishing in a tie for 42nd and was allowed to do so despite more than 275 female players voicing their concerns over a biological male competing in women’s golf.
As the Independent Women’s Forum shared with OutKick, over 275 female golfers sent a letter to the LPGA, United States Golf Association (USGA), and the International Golf Federation (IGF) on August 19, three days before the opening round of the pre-qualifying stage of Q-School.
Those letters clearly fell on deaf ears with the LPGA allowing Davidson to compete and advance in pre-qualifying, taking an opportunity away from a biological female in the tournament field.
In all seriousness, or lovely legs aside, women’s golf is a beautiful thing. It allows young women to compete and win trophies. It gets some high schoolers into college scholarships. It gives young women the opportunity to pursue a professional career.
So why does woke want to destroy that? I don’t know, but let’s hope that it doesn’t. Men and women should not compete against each other in sports. It’s unnatural and unfair. It is a threat to women’s rights, and we need to stop it.
Let’s support these ladies who want men out of their competitions.
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We remember President Teddy Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest man who ever became president. He assumed the presidency at 42 after President McKinley was assassinated. (Kennedy was the youngest elected at 43 in 1960)
In 1906, President Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for brokering a peace treaty between Russia and Japan. Mr. Roosevelt became the first American ever to win a Nobel Prize in any category.
Overall, a very dynamic president who left his mark in many areas.
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Saturday, October 26, 2024
Bad guys not into hugs
Bad guys not into hugs - American Thinker https://t.co/17DzDLQovA
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) October 26, 2024
Mexico’s new president is getting a very in-your-face lesson about hugs and bullets. As you may remember, her predecessor Andres Lopez-Obrador changed the approach and implemented the idea that hugs were more effective than bullets to fight criminal elements. It sounded good until the message was returned to sender address unknown, to paraphrase Elvis. I guess that the bad guys are not into hugs!
Lots of bullets south of the border. Let’s check it out:
A shootout between two battling criminal groups in Mexico’s southern Pacific state of Guerrero on Thursday left 16 people dead, authorities said, as the country has been hit by a wave of recent violence.
Around 5 a.m. on Thursday morning, warring cartels were facing off in the state’s rural, mountainous region, which has become a battleground in past years as groups work to expand their territory.
Local police were caught up in the attack and two officers were killed and four injured, Mexico’s defense ministry said in a statement. The wounded are now stable after receiving medical attention.
There is Guerrero again, and I am not talking about Pedro, the great Dodgers’ power hitter of the last time that New York played Los Angeles in the ’81 World Series.
I am talking about the state of Guerrero, one of the states under fire at the moment. I don’t want to spoil your party but Acapulco is in the state of Guerrero.
Will all of this violence change the strategy of bullets and hugs? Well, “la presidenta” blessed her predecessor’s policy. I guess that she wants to hug a little tighter and hope a woman’s touch will fix the problem. Time will tell but don’t be on it.
Last, but not least, I’ve noticed something in the conversation in Mexico. Years ago, most of my Mexican friends discounted all of the talk about cartels and simply blamed the U.S. for consuming illegal drugs. Here recently, I hear more and more about violence and “crimen organizado” or organized crime.
No one seems to discount the topic anymore. Yes, we need to stop buying these drugs but more is concerned, especially what’s happening in the small states and cities.
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We remember The Shah of Iran (1919-80)
Back in January 1979, The Shah of Iran and family fled Iran. He had ruled Iran since 1941. Under The Shah, Iran was a strong ally of the US, specially during The Cold War.
On a democratic scale, the Shah was not Jefferson or Washington. At the same time, Iran was stable, women were allowed to pursue university degrees and we didn't have to worry about him passing nuclear material to terrorists.
Give me the Shah. He was not perfect but he was a lot better than what we've known since.
Moral of the story: Stability matters, specially when anti-West religious fanatics come into power looking to get a nuclear weapon.
For more on the Shah, see this book below.
1881: The real shootout at the OK Corral happened this day
The story has been featured in several books and the 1957 movie with Burt Lancaster is the best.
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Friday, October 25, 2024
Trump & Harris in Texas on Voz Media
📹 | #ENTREVISTA: Análisis de la campaña de Trump y Harris en Texas
— VOZ (@VozMediaUSA) October 26, 2024
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“Caravana esperando
“Caravana esperando" (Caravan waiting) - American Thinker https://t.co/0MILWYvtks
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) October 25, 2024
Down in Southern Mexico, there are lots of people following the U.S. elections. They are "la caravana" in waiting or the people deciding when they go north. This is the story:
This town near the border of Guatemala holds a migrant time bomb ready to go off just after the US presidential election.
The fuse was lit in December 2023, when the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration sent senior lieutenants to Mexico to work out the details of what remains a highly mysterious grand diplomatic bargain.
Worried about what the optics of the southern border would do to their re-election chances -- though not the migrant crisis itself -- the White House wanted to stop the pictures of crowds of people gathered at the wall.
The deal was to have Mexico deploy 32,500 troops to the US border to round up untold thousands of intending border crossers from the northern precincts and force-ship them -- “internal deportation” by planes and buses -- thousands of miles to Mexico’s southern provinces and entrap them in cities like Tapachula in Chiapas state behind militarized roadblocks.
Mexico closed off most of its freight trains to migrant free riders, bulldozed northern camps, and patrolled relentlessly for more deportee targets.
Meanwhile, the administration increased “parole” programs that flew migrants directly from countries like Venezuela, thus avoiding the border entirely.
Worried about optics? I guess you would be if you are presidential candidate trying to explain the disaster on the border.
What do we do? How does the Biden administration handle this? My guess is that this caravan will start to move north if Trump wins to try to sneak in before January 20th.
Let's hope that the next president, hopefully Trump, will sit down with "la presidenta" in Mexico and rewrite the rules. We can start by making it clear that these caravans will not cross the border and demand that Mexico do its part. I'm not sure if "la presidenta" will have the ability to stop these caravans because there lots of criminal elements moving these people. No matter what, we need to change the rules of the game and stop this madness or human trafficking.
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My reaction to VP Harris on CNN
📹 | #ENTREVISTA: Análisis político de las intervenciones de Kamala Harris
— VOZ (@VozMediaUSA) October 25, 2024
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We remember Bobby Thomson (1923-2010)
A few years ago, Bill Katz of URGENT AGENDA alerted me to the passing of Bobby Thomson.
However, he will always be remembered for hitting the greatest home run in baseball history: A 1951 NL pennant clinching home run by a Giants team that was 14 games out of first place Brooklyn in June! And the greatest radio baseball call ever!
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October 25, 1764: Remembering the day that John Adams married Abigail Smith
