While this was more than a week ago, the meanies are still hurling insults at me, saying who am I to talk, I am ugly and so old and stupid and how could one woman criticize another woman and I must be mentally ill and I am a dinosaur so my opinion doesn't count and I should get therapy.
Thank God I hadn't written what I was really thinking.
I'm wondering what is wrong with people these days that makes them act so crazy. Is it something in our food? You know, like Red Dye #3, which has been linked to cancer, and Yellow Dyes #5 and 6, associated with behavioral problems in children. They are outlawed in Europe but added liberally to processed foods consumed here in the States, especially our kids' favorite breakfast cereals.
Two news stories today got me thinking this way. First, on the news this morning I saw a video of a stopped Detroit city bus being boarded by two enormous, saddled-up horses that looked ready to race in the Kentucky Derby (see photo). They trotted up the steps in the front of the bus and quickly exited through the rear doors. Dana Perino, the FOX News anchor presenting the video, was plainly stymied as to what the reason was, candidly saying she "wondered what was going on there."
A few hours later I read that the family of the beautiful (now dead) Iryna Zarustka is suing the City of Charlotte, North Carolina because she was stabbed to death there in August of 2025. They claim the city "failed to provide adequate safety measures on the city's light rail." Meanwhile, the crazed POS lunatic killer, DeCarlos Brown Jr., who sat behind her and slit her throat, then calmly exited the train while the other passengers did nothing to stop him, is in jail but has been deemed mentally unfit to stand trial.
Can any American city keep psychotic lunatics off their subways? I'm guessing not, since Detroit can't even keep horses off its buses.
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| Instructions for incoming congressmen. |
I'll save you the trouble of surfing the web or reading a newspaper, freeing up your time to do better things. Here's a hint of how our country is doing:
1. Democratic Socialists are infiltrating the halls of Congress, quietly carrying out Obama's 2008 vow to "fundamentally change America." One upcoming battle is in Pennsylvania, where a Gazan-born Socialist is preparing to make a run to unseat Democratic Senator John Fetterman in the next election.
2. A Broadway show opening this week is about a group of men living in a home for sex offenders convicted of crimes against minors. One critic called it the playwright's "finest drama."
3. The "new normal" in many of America's hospitals includes up to a 24-hour wait to be seen in Emergency Rooms. It's about to get worse.
4. Waymo's driverless taxis have been seen passing stopped school buses and going through stop signs. The company promises to "fix its software" to make them safer.
Have a nice day!
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| "Water Lilies" by Claude Monet |
I read my old blog posts whenever I can't sleep and get up in the middle of the night. Like this night. They are funny and interesting and always contain at least one fact worth knowing.
My paintings adorn the walls of my house and make me happy. Each one is beautiful in its own way. Every one I finish becomes the best painting I've ever done, until the next one.
Here's the fact: Claude Monet, the French Impressionist, completed a new painting every 10 days and left behind 2,200 canvases when he died. I am not a fan of his work -- too sappy, and they all look alike -- but he must have loved it.
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| Irena, at left, and a crowd of citizens watch a public hanging. |
A grim Holocaust movie set in Poland during Hitler's reign, its focus is on a young Polish girl separated from her family and forced to work as a housekeeper and cook for a powerful German General. After witnessing the incredibly brutal deaths of a mother and her infant -- you'll want to cover your eyes for this one -- Irena vows to do whatever it takes to save lives. As it happens, there are a dozen Jews working as tailors in the General's basement who are slated for death in the coming weeks, and Irena devises a complex and daring plan to save them.
First and foremost, Irena's Vow offers a gripping depiction of the unimaginable horrors endured by people who were caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Superb acting by every cast member, most of them foreign actors unknown in our country, makes the story unforgettable. That said, several scenes are curiously off-kilter and stretch believability, breaking the film's intense hold on your emotions. In one way that might be a good thing, since as it was I was sobbing on and off throughout.
Even with a relatively happy ending for Irena, one comes away frightened of what's brewing right here in America. Everyone with a beating heart should see this movie, currently streaming on Netflix.
The most important thing is NOT how much you are attracted to your partner or how you both laugh at the same things or how you both love Thai food and Scottish Terriers and the rest of that rot. The most important thing is to look closely at your beloved's immediate family and assess their potential for future disaster.
Are you sure you want to spend every Thanksgiving, Christmas, Passover or whatever with them? Are they going to make good grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins? Does one or more of them drink too much, do too many drugs, or look like the Goodyear Blimp already? Because these problems will only worsen over time.
Ask yourself: Are there Al-Anon meetings in the offing? Will family gatherings require the involvement of child protective services, or possibly the riot police? Trust me: Family matters, and I don't mean yours.
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| Imam Hakim Jeffries addressing the new Congress. |
President Trump sucks. Elon Musk sucks as much, maybe more. All MAGA voters suck. In fact, everyone connected to the President sucks. Democrats promise to impeach Trump and anyone who ever looked at him, sat next to him or supported him. The Republican Party is finished. The Democrats are in the driver's seat, and the Muslim Socialists, led by new Imam of the House Hakim Jeffries, are at the wheel. Oh, and don't forget -- Trump sucks, now and forever, always has and always will.
That's about it. Now you are fully up to speed and can engage in a thoughtful conversation about politics with every Democrat you meet.
Answer: You might have guessed Barack Hussein Obama, or his loathsome spouse, or maybe even one of their daughters. You'd be close, but wrong. Instead it was an Obama disciple, just one of the newly-elected, anti-American victors in Tuesday's election debacle.
Now a Darializa Avila Chevalier, also known as DAC (Oh, how cute -- just like AOC!)
Question: Who once said, "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America."?
Answer: Barack Hussein Obama, October 30, 2008, while campaigning for the presidency. It took a lot more than five days, but mission accomplished.
They hate his wild hair, his fake tan, his daughter Invanka, his beautiful wife Melania, his gold toilets, his White House ballroom, his rough personality, his name-calling, his tweets, and whatever else you can think of. That's it. The average Democrat -- most notably a recently-arrived Somalian who doesn't even speak our language but still voted in our election -- knows little about Trump's policies. They just hate his guts for being too rich, too smart, too powerful, and most of all, for knowing more than they do about just about everything.
Which is why simpletons like AOC, Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris, average dummies who are non-threatening, are at the top of the list of Democrat favorites. In their world, the dumber the candidate the more the public can relate to him/her.
End of story.
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| The popular "Troy Jackson" Halloween mask. |
Last night the Nazis, a.k.a Democrats, won the midterm elections all across America. Here in Maine it's especially poignant, with our fabulous Senator Susan Collins, the first female Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee which holds jurisdiction over all discretionary spending for the entire federal government, losing her seat to a pudgy career logger who fathered two kids with his second cousin and was recently ejected from his own Facebook group for being rude to his supporters.
But here in Maine, that's okay. While Maine law prohibits marriages to an individual’s parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, siblings, nieces, nephews, aunts, or uncles, cousins are fine. The law initially banned first cousin marriage, but an amendment passed two years later (in 1987) allows such unions "if the would-be betrothed present a certificate of genetic counseling signed by a physician certifying their potential children have an acceptably low risk of physical deformity or cognitive impairment."
Today I'll start packing up the house, as I certainly can't stay here -- that's obvious. Florida is hot, but at least the lion's share of residents are intelligent --- and naturally Republicans.
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| Two of the beautiful people. |
I can only conclude that the fatter we get as a nation, the more we tell ourselves that's the way things should be. Only it isn't.
Although it's kind of early, I definitely know what my New Year's resolution will be this time around: I will never post a comment ...
