Over Lake Michigan.

Soutbound (195). Looking west into the setting sun.

20 minutes later

So the Federal Election Commission fines the Clinton Campaign for their outright lies as to how they spent their money paying for the creation of the “Steele Dossier”….In other words, paying Fusion GPS to make up a bunch of lies about Trump.

The campaign chose to label the expenditures for the lies and the report as “legal advice and services” rather than “Make Up Dirt on our Opponent”. and got fined $113,000 for it…which is less than a rounding error in their finances and was, of course, really paid for by donors…No one in the Clinton campaign was in any way personally penalized for their lying…no individual person or persons went to jail or had to fork over their own personal cash for their malfeasance.

Will the Federal Government require them to pay for all the money spent investigating the claims in the fictional (but paid for by the DNC and Hillary campaign) Steele Report? How many millions of dollars were spent investigating a bunch of lies? Lies that the DNC and Hillary’s folks KNEW were lies, but allowed Mueller to investigate anyway….Shouldn’t the DNC folks pay for that cost?

The sad part is that lots of folks, (mostly rabid DNC supporters….. like some bloggers that used to be linked here),,, still believe the lies put forth by, and paid for by  the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Of course, many of these folks cannot tell the difference between News and Op-Ed, or even between News and Steven Colbert’s entertainment program (never forget that lots of them thought that Sarah Palin said “I can se Russia from my house!” as portrayed by Tina Fey on Saturday Night Live…they couldn’t tell the difference between comedy and real life)

The new “Billionaire Tax” that Biden wants to implement…

If he can figure out (and show) how taxing income that hasn’t happened yet is legal, and Constitutional. How exactly do you tax investments that are not yet sold and have not yet made the investor any money?

If he can show me (and I mean IRONCLAD Guarantee) that the Democrats (and, let’s face it, the current crop of RINOS) won’t simply spend it on some pet cause and leave us in the same ever increasing deficit mess we are currently in.

If he and his folks can explain how if that unrealized Capitol Gain that is taxed yearly will be refunded (with interest!) should that paper gain later become a paper LOSS if the stock that is taxed drops in value. (Nevermind any losses due to inflation).

His idea is poorly thought out, misnamed a “Billionaire” tax (’cause who doesn’t wanna see those super rich bastards get taxed more, amirite?) and if he would just stop using the term “Fair Share”. Fer chrissake, those people pay a far greater share of taxes per person than Joe or Jane Average.

Instead of raising taxes, perhaps stop spending money you don’t have.,,,, Reducing inflation would do more to help the average working stiff than all the taxes on the “Rich”.

And, remember, with the DNC types, the definition of “Rich” and “Wealthy” changes as they need more tax revenue. in a year or so, it will be down to those who make $200,000 a year….then $100K, the anyone who makes a wage that is grater than their ever moving poverty line.

“What’s the difference between a Ruble and a dollar?”

“About a dollar”.

The Federal Government is giving out a $10 gas card for each high-capacity-automatic-magazine-bullet that is turned in.

Details of where and when this exchange are to be made are unclear at this time as Joe Biden was incoherent and VP Harris was just cackling.

Urban Liberals are upset because they did not have time to buy any of those cartridges beforehand to get their share. Inner city liberal are upset because then what will they shoot each other with? Rural folks are upset because they need the gas since they have no pubic transportation and live father from work, and no one wants to turn in their ammo when there are ‘cans to shoot.

Enjoy your 4-1

he shows us his (or his staff’s) total misunderstanding of how the oil industry works, how the “supply chain” moves, and demonstrates again the ineptness of the Leftists.

Remember, he actively discouraged those oil producers from drilling in leases they already had secured and demonized them..

Now he wants to change the rules and tax the oil producers on wells they have not opened for production and leases that they have not yet drilled upon.

Funny, innit, how one minute Big Oil was the enemy for pumping oil, then when the price of oil led to Pain at the Pump, they were demonized for not producing enough.

The ever increasing stupidity of the leadership at the white house (and I don’t men our Potato in Chief) is becoming frightening….Surely the had to know that higher oil prices would be the result of their policy, right? And that the American People would be unhappy with those higher prices? And that that would affect them in the elections? Have they so little foresight? Or does their ideology blind them to everything until reality strikes them in the face?

And now he is releasing 1 million barrels Per Day of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to combat high prices….which is not, I believe what it is designed for. (nor will it have much impact on fuel prices). I just don’t see where releasing nearly a third of the SPR will help keep the Country safer or more able to be self sufficient if we have a war. But that seems to be the DNC goal…weaken the US whenever possible.

Of course, if he and his people would not have made all those changes from what Trump did, we’d not have such high prices….But they let Ideology overcome common sense. And now it is biting them in the ass. They know they are gonna lose big in the upcoming midterms and are flailing about trying quickly to fix that.

ETA 10:20 AM Central 4/1 (not an April Fools Joke): Well, that so far hasn’t worked….OilPrice.com has the price of oil UP 1% over the start of the trading day. 

Thanks Brandon!

So UPS has had a package for 4 business days now. Coming from Chicago to NW Indiana. (less than 60 miles) Shipped Friday. Was supposed to be here Monday. “Out for Delivery”. Then on Monday it was “delivery by tomorrow 7:00 PM”. Tuesday came and went. Delivery was rescheduled (again!) for Wed by 7.

Guess what?

I called them this morning and they assured me it is, rilly-rilly, fer-sure this time, actually on the truck.

I’ll go 8:5 it ain’t.

I coulda WALKED there and back to pick it up by now.

Good thing I didn’t need it right away.

One wonders how, if they have tracking of every package, their system can go from In-Transit to Out for Delivery back to In -transit, back to Out for Delivery . several times. Lost?

ETA: It arrived TODAY, Friday April the first. A week to go less than 60 miles.

UPS has it’s moments.

Biden says we need more budget for continued Covid vaccinations.

Bullshit. We should be getting a refund for the first round and the second round that didn’t work beyond 120 days.

A Full Refund.

Like BLM or the other Black Lives stuff…Call it “Crackers for Peace” or “Pale Folks for Decency ” or something.  Gotta find a name that rings with the Liberals so they will donate….Maybe “Decent Folks Care”…. Something that contracts like FJB or LGB,,,

I mean, I could use the money….I got guns to feed and a plane to fuel….

Boston BLM activist charged with…..(you can guess if you bother to try)

I wonder how low a percentage of the BLM donations actually went to something that might have actually helped the Black Cause rather than enriching everyone in the chain of BLM organizations. I mean, they took in MILLIONS, yet they can’t fix the issue of culture and crime with just money. ….But they sure can live high while the money lasts, can’t they?

I would like to believe that somewhere in the BLM movement there are decent people trying to Do the Right Thing, but more and more it looks like it was just a license to steal. …from their own “people”.