The Color of the Litmus Test

Just as Justice Thomas was the wrong "black guy" and Justice Kavanaugh was the wrong "white guy" and Donald Trump was the wrong "orange man" for the White House...so the slander continues with only different targets regardless of color, as long as that color is a conservative one.

David Copperfield

David Copperfield. Not the magician. But the boy of Blunderstone Rookery. Trotwood as he was later called by his aunt, Betsy Trotwood, was born in a novel written in serial form between 1849 and 1850. I just finished the account of what was a wonder-filled life that I cannot imagine had only existed in the mind of a mere mortal. Can one mind contain such goodness in all its superior splendor and evil in all its Murdstonian magnitude? I have to wonder if it all must not be real. Truly it is more real than MSNBC or CNN. Truly it is true in a way fabricated facts are not. Certainly this truth of goodness and purity and generous uncompromised caritas exists in some world outside of this one. Exists in a world where goodness does indeed triumph, where feminine loveliness can indeed exist unsullied by the soot and sacrilege of a corrupt culture, that masculinity can remain cheerfully heroic and manly in the face of all the forces of hard times. Where tthe Uriah Heeps and Litimers can be overcome by the Traddles and Peggoties. And where there is such a girl as Agnes. With much thanksgiving at this Thanksgiving, Mister Dickens, for such a world as you have given us, a world running on the fossil fuels of goodness and its irresistible winsomeness. May your book be read and imbibed in and feasted upon as the dinner that will await so many tomorrow.

The Impeachment Hearings and My Faith Failing

Now first forgive me for a little, just a tad, a smidgen, a slightest and thinnest of faith in the folks testifying at the impeachment hearings. Part of it I think is I just can't keep clear whether it's collusion with Russia or a quid pro quo with Ukraine or an intimidation of the Ukranian ambassadress (if she is so intimidated she certainly has a different skin gene makeup from her nemesis, her former employer)...So much to keep up with! I wouldn't, in my incurable skepticism, be surprised if one of the new whistleblowers will be Christine Blasey Ford (of Judge Kavanaugh fame). Her stellar acting was certainly worthy at least of an off Broadway play. What first reminded me of Miss Ford was I found that Ambassadress Yovanovitch had that same little voice in her answering the questions at the hearing. Thus Blasey was brought to my mind and I can't see that the Most Gratuitous Gavel, Mr. Adam Shift as Director of this theatrical masterpiece, would not make use of such an actress who could really sway the audience with a tear or a righteous smirk at will. She would certainly be an indispensable Hepburn by which the play would jump to Broadway and play for years.

The Revived Veracity of the Boy Who Cried Wolf

It turns out that the old fairy tales were wrong about the boy who cried wolf. It appears that the boy can cry wolf over and over and over again, and still be believed.

Did Impeachment Begin at Inauguration?

Well I am not shocked that we are on the cusp of the impeachment hearings. For the Comeys and Mullers and Shifts it is quite a convenient truth that Trump did something, anything, that was quite criminal, quite demanding of something like the Nuremberg Trials. Yes, he had talked to Ukraine. That certainly is something we must get to the bottom of. Especially with two anonymous whistle blowers---doesn't their title suggest something worthy of a certain conviction? In sports the refs have whistles if there is an infraction. Penalties must follow.

Of course another benefit of the new Ukrainian narrative is that it gets Russia off the hook. I think most everyone was beginning to taste stale Russian rye after these three years. And it amazes me still the quality of mercy the Dems displayed where despite all the evidence and witnesses and the fact of the obvious criminality in our president's every breath in his certain collusion with comrade Vladimir Putin nothing was charged. And regardless of this certainty of conviction over this I so appreciate the Dems ideology of inclusion: to also get other countries involved. Certainly the more countries the better. Why, if one country doesn't work search out another. Many to choose from in any world atlas. Remember not very long ago everyone was talking about Russia. Now with Ukraine we have a fresh face. A new geographical accusation. Surely in this new land Trump can be found guilty of something. And if Ukraine doesn't pan out perhaps we may look to our socialist neighbor to the North. Who would doubt that Trudeau would be a willing ally in getting to the truth. He would be happy, no doubt, to volunteer some Canadian whistle blowers. With such witnesses it shouldn't be hard with all the new virtue signalling laws in the North Country to score an impeachment. I mean, I for one, can't conceive of Donald Trump not saying something that couldn't be construed as hate speech or even a thought infraction that was not worthy of a Trudeauian scolding. Something that would make Justin (his very name suggests 'justice' doesn't it?) wince? In the end we can be assured that there must've been something said or thought in some country somewhere that doesn't suit the politically correct palate of the UN. You may call a thing like this a coup but isn't it more like just ousting the Commander-in-Chief? Why wasn't it only the pollyannish deplorables blinded with bigotry and indoctrinated in intolerance that voted for him? Couldn't they see that Hilary would be the one to heal us of our Hate and make America, instead of Great Again, a wonderful Hate Free Zone without borders.