Tea and Vitriol

 Let's face it, in our automobile centered world, you're bound to get a violation ticket sooner or later. It might be as simple as a parking ticket, for being too long on one side of an alternative parking street or simply not being able to get back and put more money into your parking meter on time. Or being parked in a "No Parking" zone. I daresay these are the most common. And you generally don't see police officers on these occasions. Moving violations are a bit trickier. You might be driving on a road where the speed limit changes frequently and there is inadequate signage designating the speed for that stretch of the road. Police cars are equipped with devices that measure the speed of vehicles in traffic, and if you are going far faster than the speed limit designates, you ARE going to be pulled over, with police car sirens blaring and lights flashing. Then you had better pull over, unless you are some sort of criminal with warrants out for your arrest. The

 Rochester, New York has become a deadly violent place to live, work and play. I have been spending more and more time in Germany over the last five years and after each trip the thought of returning to Rochester usually unnerves me. My European friends wonder why I remain living in such a dangerous place, especially when, thanks to the internet, they can read for themselves what is going on here. There I can walk the streets at any hour, feeling safe and relatively secure. Here, in the neighborhood where I still maintain a residence, I won't walk my dogs after dark. There are some streets that I find it necessary to avoid because of the propensity for violence to occur there. Even when merely driving through them. And we no longer have beat cops walking the streets anymore. They were a usual feature in my youth, and I honestly believe that their presence in the neighborhoods helped prevent crime or at least provided a sense of security. Alas, beat cops vanished like the passenger

Let's face it. Our president and the entire Biden regime are eyesores and a humiliation to the US. Allies like the United Kingdom, India and Australia, to name three, openly mock Sloppy Joe on their news programs, and delight in pointing out his frequent gaffes and his deliberate telling of untruths (that is to say, outright lies) he and his spokes creatures always tell. Germany has been somewhat more discreet, but then they prayed that Biden would defeat Trump in 2020. It was a case of "Be careful what you wish for. You might get it." What they got in Sloppy Joe Biden was an impotent, incompetent senile horse's ass as "world leader" and his motley crew of hopeless incompetents who comprise his "administration." While that might provide endless hours of mirth for enemies of the US, it has become frightening for our allies. Both groups have come to realize that Sloppy Joe is nothing more than a waste of space and that he and his anti-Republican regi

World War I was billed as "the war to end all wars." Only it wasn't. There have been dozens of wars since then, producing mass destruction, death, genocide and ethnic cleansing to name just a few items on the bill of fare "civilization" offers to people who disagree with others. Justification for such acts are always publicized to absolve perpetrators of guilt or as a publicity stunt to make war mongers feel better about themselves. True, there is evil in the world, which most people choose to ignore if it doesn't affect them...at first. True, it can be nipped in the bud if the so-called "peace-loving" nations stand firm against it. But most of the time they don't. The industrialized Western nations are all willing to make deals with the devil in order to provide themselves with resources that they themselves do not possess, arguing that their various peoples NEED them, when actually it is the ruling elites who need them in order to preserve TH