MY THOUGHTS ON THE CARR FIRE NEAR REDDING

The fire near Redding, California is making national news: Governor Brown has declared it to be in a state of emergency and President Trump is invoking rules to provide for Federal assistance.  This fire started last Monday in the mountains due to a flat tire on a motor vehicle causing sparks.  That night, the fire stood at 65 acres.  Tuesday night, it had grown to 265 acres... and then things blew up.  Wednesday, it was almost 3,000 acres; Thursday, over 28,000 acres; Friday over 43,000 acres; Saturday it hit 83,000 acres and Sunday morning it was 89,000 acres. 

In the process, it burned into the northwest section of Redding, destroying businesses and houses, and started to take lives. 

Unfortunately, a lot of bad things have been happening: some jerks are driving around with their cameras, trying to get a fire shot; some have taken to looting; and some are refusing to leave areas that are under evacuation, meaning that fire personnel now have to worry about them instead of fighting the fire.  Some techie sportsmen are even flying drones over the fires, creating potential dangers for helicopters and tankers.  

Most people mean well, but simply have no clue.  They want to donate food, water, clothing and other items to evacuation centers and to firefighters.  Firefighters are ell-equipped and adept at setting up their own food centers and the logistics involved in that.  But, picture this: I'll pick up two cases of bottled water and take them to the evacuation center down the road; that sounds like a good idea, right?  In a city of 95,000 residents with another 35,000 or so within reasonable driving distance, if just 1% follow through with two cases each, that's 2,600 cases of water that are going to show up.  

The center has to store that water someplace where others might want to sleep.  It has to provide someone to haul the water in.  If the evacuation center has to move, it now has to contend with moving 2,600 cases of water along with cots, food and people.  Add to that... baby diapers, blankets, clothing, cases of hot dogs, chips, dips... it becomes a nightmare.  

The best thing to do if you want to help, is donate to a local veterans group, a civic club, a church, the Red Cross or the Salvation Army; all of these organizations can use the funds to help their own members who may have been burned out, or they can funnel the funds to evacuation centers which can then order in what they actually need and as supplies run low.  

These fires can move suddenly and erratically.  If you get told to get out... get out.  If you're within ten miles of an evacuation area, you should already be packed and ready to go... and you should have a destination and route planned.  

Be safe, be smart. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

JANE FONDA

I was in the Air Force during the Viet Nam War.  I remember very well when Jane Fonda climbed on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi and virtually told our members of the American military to go to hell.  She was totally outspoken against that war and was involved in several groups opposing it.  

Over the years, she has been appropriately lambasted for her anti-American, anti-GI actions.  There's a picture of her plastered in virtually every men's urinal in every veteran's organization in the United States.  During this time, she has made excuses... even said she "regretted" having that picture taken.  

After all of these years, she has now finally apologized and says she is very sorry, and that she never intended to hurt or upset America's brave military men who were fighting for their country. 

You know what?  She is correct that we should never have been there.  We were not there to win.  We put the lives of our American service men and women on the line to fight a war that Washington was not willing to fight.  You fight wars only when you have to and you fight them to win.  Otherwise, you don't go to war and spill the blood of Americans on foreign soils.  

I don't appreciate what she did or said.  Nevertheless, she has finally... finally... apologized for it and I am willing to accept it.  

We've got far bigger things to be upset about going on right here within our country that we really need to get focused on.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

RYAN REFUSES TO HOLD ROSENSTEIN ACCOUNTABLE

House Speaker Paul Ryan has betrayed America.  

He's going to let Rod Rosenstein get away with refusing to comply with House subpoenas and turn over documents.  He's single-highhandedly refusing to recognize the petition of impeachment. 

Rod Rosenstein and James Comey conspired to let Hillary Clinton get away with so many crimes, I cannot list them here.  

Paul Ryan and his so-called Republican House can all go to hell.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

WHERE IS OUR LEADER?

Make no mistake about what I'm going to say: I admire and respect President Trump for what he is trying to accomplish for our country.  

That being said, I am totally baffled by how he reacts to North Korea or China or Russia or Iran... letting them know in no uncertain terms where we stand... while at the same time letting far more dangerous adversaries within America get away with figurative murder.  Take the Justice Department for example: they are actively refusing to cooperative with the constitutionally legitimate Congressional inquiries and oversight.  They refuse to respond to subpoenas, fail to turn over documents and heavily redact what they do provide... and they flat-out lie about things.  The FBI is no better; they are totally complicit in coverups beyond our ability to comprehend.   

We have a Speaker of the House and a Senate Majority Leader of the President's own political party who openly flip off the President and his agenda, and who work actively to subvert it at every turn... and they're joined by a hoard of  fascist, socialist Democrats  and recalcitrant Republicans who apparently don't believe in American democracy or our right to have our government respond positively to our wishes or directions.  

But, when it comes to those culprits, President Trump is nowhere near the firm leader he is with nations.  He doesn't even huff and puff effectively.  He whines, but he doesn't threaten and he allows the status quo to continue to erode the foundations upon which this country was built.  

Sessions, Mueller, Rosenstein and Wray all need to be fired.  Ryan and McConnell need to be dressed down publicly.  We elected President Trump to end this internal bullshit, but we're afraid to even wear his hat in public because we might just end up in a hospital bed.  

In the meantime, Obama continues his "community organizing" and his domestic terrorism... and the country is suffering every minute of every day from infernal, internal Presidential malaise. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

NFL SHOULD GO OUT OF BUSINESS

Enough is enough: The NFL Player's Union has forced the NFL to continue allowing players to kneel, flip their middle fingers or do whatever else they want during the presentation of the American  flag and the playing of the National Anthem.  The recent decision by the NFL regarding conduct during the playing of the anthem and presentation of the flag has been scuttled.  

Let the bastards go play futbol in Venezuela and we'll start up a new league with real Americans in it.   

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

ABOLISH WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS

It's been awhile, but I listened in Wednesday to a good portion of the White House Press Briefing.  I have to say that I was more than appalled at the decorum and rancor of the press corps. It was obvious very early on that this drill was not about asking legitimate, pertinent questions, but that it was a well-orchestrated arrogant and blood thirsty attack on Sarah Sanders and Donald Trump.  The participants were actually snarling and did not hesitate to talk over, interrupt or outright badger Sanders.  

Frankly, it was disgusting to see that what was, in days past, an intellectual search for relevant facts of the day has turned into nothing more than a disgraceful exhibition of venom and ill will.  I feel sorry for Sarah Sanders, having to enter a den full of poisonous and treacherous snakes every day.  

Why the White House gives these immature boors a stage is beyond me.  This country has far better things to do with its time and energy. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

ONTO THE ANT PILE

Shame on President Trump; he let Putin pull the wool over his eyes.  

Trump needs to be stripped naked, coated with sweet honey and staked down on the ant pile, while the Baja Marimba Band plays "The Lonely Bull" in the background and the audience indulges in the Baskin Robbins ice cream of the day.  Maybe we could get Maxine Waters to deliver a poignant eulogy as the ants devour their prey, and while Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell fun it up on the sidelines.  

That should please everybody.

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

ISRAELIS AGAIN SHOW HOW IT'S DONE

According to a FOXNEWS.COM report, the word came out yesterday that Israeli agents covertly extracted documents detailing Iran’s nuclear program in a dramatic 6½-hour operation in Tehran in January, removing a trove of materials that included partial designs for a nuclear warhead, senior Israeli intelligence officials said.  The team secretly reached the warehouse holding the materials and broke in during a tight time window when it knew the building would be unguarded, the officials said. To avoid drawing attention to the nondescript facility, Iran hadn’t posted full-time guards, they said, but rather relied on alarm systems that the Israeli agents disabled. 

Barack Obama would never have even considered such a move; he had his precious Nobel Peace Prize to uphold.  Hillary Clinton could not have managed to pull off such a move because every country in the world was tapped into her private servers and they'd know in advance what was up. 

And nobody has said word one about the successful raid for six months.  

Well, we all know the Israelis came back empty handed, because the Iranians knocked off their nuclear program entirely when Barack sent them those cargo planes full of cash, right?  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

MAD DOG DEMOCRATS FUME: WE'LL IMPEACH THE SUPREME COURT

DNC Deputy chair Keith Ellison told attendees at a Supreme Court Community Forum in Minneapolis Monday that Democrats might impeach Supreme Court justices if the party regains a majority following the 2018 midterm elections.  

I surmise that means the Constitution is destined for the trash can.  Not only do they intend to impeach President Trump, but they're going to throw out Gursuch and Kavanaugh as well.  Why stop there?  How about tossing out Alito, Roberts and Thomas while they're at at?  

Where I come from, it's called "Mob Rule."   I presume the next step is going to be to resume the practice of gun duels... two of them vs. one of us... that's a "duel."  

November 13, 2018... a day that will live in American infamy.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.   

AMERICA NEEDS AN EXORCISM

The Democrats have been unanimously and diametrically opposed to any nominee by President Trump of any prospective member of the Supreme Court.  Even before Kavanaugh's nomination was announced, Elizabeth Warren and others were standing on the steps of the Supreme Court protestinfg whoever it was going to be.  California Representative Kamala Harris flatly refused to accept even a courtesy call from the White House to let her know that a nominee had been picked.  According to an account, the Democratic California senator’s office told White House Counsel Don McGahn, “We want nothing to do with you.”  

They want nothing to do with our Constitutional processes?  They don't want to participate in dialogue or discourse on the merits?  If they can't have their way, if they cannot impose their will on the American people, then piss on America?  

They have become rabid dogs, foaming at their collective mouths.  

It's disgusting, it's sickening... it wrenches my soul  to consider the State of our Union.  We must remove these cancers on our country.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

ANOTHER PUTRID DEEP STATE AND DOJ COVERUP

You may remember the story of Imran Awan, the Pakistani who took up residence on Capitol Hill as their I.T. guru.  Awan was born in Pakistan, but came to the U.S. with his family when he was a teenager. He was arrested at Dulles International Airport outside Washington during the 2017 summer before trying to board a flight to Pakistan.

Awan had access to dozens of House Members' computer information and an investigation was initiated early in 2017 regarding possible theft of such information, transfer of information to "outside sources," equipment theft, access to sensitive computer systems, destroying hard drives, and more.  He was immediately fired by every House member except Debbie Wasserman Schultz who kept him on the payroll for months, although he no longer had access to House computer systems.  A laptop computer belonging to Schultz was found in a House men's restroom stall and confiscated by Capitol Police.  Schultz want totally off-the-charts ballistic and demanded return of the laptop and insisted that it not be examined.  All evidence at the time indicated something big and sinister was brewing. In the meantime, it was discovered that Awan had committed bank fraud by obtaining fraudulent loans. 

Schultz did everything possible to thwart any further investigation into the laptop or Awan's relationship with her office. 

The FBI announced over the June 30th weekend that it had reach a plea deal with Awan, whereby he pleaded guilty to only one lesser charge involving the bank fraud and all charges regarding the House computers were totally dropped.  Prosecutors said they "uncovered no evidence" that Awan "violated federal law with respect to the House computer systems."

In early June, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) alleged on the House floor that the FBI had actually instructed witnesses to not bring documentary evidence to them about the Awan brothers’ case so they could say there’s no evidence for them to investigate. 

The DOJ plea deal with Awan and his wife means no one will ever know what really happened... and the Deep State Establishment remains firmly entrenched and in charge. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

GONE

GONE FOR THE HOLIDAY

NO, GOD CANNOT BE ON THE SUPREME COURT

The Democrats have made it clear: It doesn't matter who President Trump nominates to the Supreme Court vacancy, he or she cannot be confirmed.  It doesn't matter what the credentials of the nominee are; he or she cannot be allowed on the Court.  Period.  

God, of course, would be automatically disqualified for two reasons: God has no place in our government and God doesn't like Satan.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.