The holidays are fast approaching, so it was time for the Leftist imbeciles to take yet another shot at our Christmas traditions.  They’ve already made a number of attacks on Christmas.  They say Christmas is too Christian to be good for America, and of course, only these left-wing, self-hating A-holes know what’s good for America.  We can’t have creches on public property,  or Christmas trees in schools, and we shouldn’t sing Christmas carols in the public schools either.  It’s threatening to non-Christians, you see.  They might be uncomfortable.  To which I must reply, “Bullshit!”  At the risk of sounding like an old fart, things were simpler when I was a kid.  By which I don’t mean things were easier back then.  I grew up in the 1960’s, hardly an uncomplicated time.  Our town was about half Christian and half Jewish.  Come the holidays, the Christians sang the Hanukah songs and the Jewish kids sang the Christmas carols, and to my knowledge, nobody ever felt pressured to convert.  That’s not good enough anymore.  Merely saying “Merry Christmas” can be considered Islamophobic in Britain.  Yet another example of the Left’s mindless obsession for exhibiting unquestioning tolerance to the least tolerant people on the face of the Earth.  But that wasn’t enough.  Now the Left has set it’s out-of-focus sights on one of the most popular Christmas figures, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.  The Rudolph animated TV show, a holiday staple, has been declared by the Huffington Post no less, and there is no less, get ready for this, “problematic.”  The show is now unsuitable for children because in it Rudolph’s father verbally abuses him, it’s also “problematic” that Rudolph’s classmates bully him.  According to these left-wing wing nuts, “In the end, Rudolph & friends learn the bitter truth”… that “deviation from the norm will be punished unless it is exploitable.”  You see, Rudolph isn’t accepted until he proves himself useful to the fat guy driving the sled.  Once again, let me proclaim, “Bullshit!”  For the Left, you see, there are no victors, only victims.  A comment to the Huff Post from Lisa Boothe succinctly sums up this nonsense, “Why does the Left try to ruin everything?  Leave Rudolph alone you nut jobs.  I think your kids have more to worry about with you as parents than watching this movie.”  Amen Lisa.  Then again, maybe the leftists are on to something.  Perhaps all the reindeer need to be reexamined, to make sure they are sufficiently progressive for modern times.  We have Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen.  Dancer and Prancer are probably alright, but if Prancer is gay, isn’t it about time he/she comes out of the closet, or is it the stable?   Cupid was the son of Venus, who shoots people with arrows to make them fall in love.  First of all, it’s not politically correct to have a reindeer named for a heterosexual dating website.  Also, the idea of a male shooting arrows into females to make them fall in love with males is repugnant.  So Cupid is out.  How about a new reindeer – Grindr.  Vixen apparently is female, but we must keep up with the times.  We need a transgender reindeer, how about Vince?  Blitzen is fast as a bolt and can electrify others.  Not acceptable in the age of alternative energy.  We need a green reindeer – how about Windmill or Tesla?  Dasher is derived from the German Dascher, which means purse maker.  He’s good at sewing, and that reminds us of third world sweatshops.  Maybe we need a more stylish purse maker, how about Hermes or Fendi?  Comet is reputed to love the attention of little children.  That could be problematic nowadays.  He bears watching.  Donner means Thunder in German.  Thunder is frightening, so that’s not good.  Also, he has a deep baritone voice which denotes toxic masculinity.  We need a non-threatening male soprano reindeer, so how about Castrato?  And why stop with the reindeer?  The traditional Christmas songs are equally “problematic.”  Baby, It’s Cold Outside has been dropped from some radio station play lists because the lyrics encourage sexual harassment, non-consensual sex and date rape.  No, I’m not making this up.   It got me thinking.  Most of our traditional songs are “problematic.”  Dreaming of a White Christmas?  You better not, Hallmark Channel Christmas movies have been denounced as being “too white.”  So, let’s take the racism out of Christmas – White Christmas is out.  God rest ye merry gentlemen?  Don’t women get any rest?  Out.  Come oh ye faithful?  What about the atheists?  “Come let us adore Him?”  What about his poor mother, who had to give birth in a stable?  So much for the Roman healthcare system.   I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus?  Why a heterosexual song.  How about, I saw Daddy kissing Santa Claus?  All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth?  If government healthcare included dental coverage, the poor kid could look forward to something better for Christmas than oral surgery.  Santa Baby?   A woman begs a man for a sable coat, money, jewelry and a car.  Fur is offensive to PETA.  She shouldn’t have to beg.  She should just sue the prick and take what she wants.  Grandma got run over by a reindeer?  What was Grandma doing out in the snow, while Grandpa was sitting on his fat ass watching football?  Jingle bells?  Some of the lyrics foster ageism and misogyny. “Now the ground is white, Go it while you’re young, Take the girls tonight, And sing this sleighing song.” Out.  Santa Claus is coming to town?  “He sees you when you’re sleeping, He knows when you’re awake, He knows if you’ve been bad or good, So be good for goodness sake!”  This encourages home invasion, peeping toms, and is way too judgmental.  Out.  Winter wonderland? “Walking in a winter wonderland.”  What about poor Hondurans.  They can’t enjoy a winter wonderland.  Another reason not to have borders.  Feliz Navidad and Donde esta Santa Claus are OK for now.  Get the picture?  The only thing left for us may be Silent Night.  Not the song, mind you, it’s just too religious.  Just stay silent for Christmas, so as not to offend those with superior faiths, or a lack thereof.  Sit around your wasteful, ecology destroying tree with your mouth shut, and have a Merry Christmas, sorry, I mean Happy Holidays, or as happy as the intolerant, left-wing imbeciles think is good for you.

Long before the mid-term elections, we received news that a group of 5,000, or 10,000, or was it 15,000 Central Americans from Honduras, or was it Guatemala, was headed toward the United States.  The story was that this group of migrants, refugees, or was it marauders, was going to enter the U.S., at some unspecified point, and apply for political asylum, because they were fleeing gang violence, and/or political oppression, and/or they just wanted to find work in the land of the free and the home of the brave, and/or they just wanted to suckle at the teat of America, a/k/a, good old Uncle Sucker.  I say a “group,” because CNN, a/k/a, the Fake News Network, declared that this assemblage of humanity was not to be called a “mob.”  It was a caravan, whatever that is.  “Mob” is such an ugly word after all, and after all, these poor people were just seeking a better life, so we must welcome them.  In October, we were assured that they were not violent, and that, after all, they were hundreds of miles away and no threat to the U.S.A.  Of course, we saw video of these poor benighted souls breaking down the fences on the border separating Guatemala from Mexico.  We saw indisputable evidence that the group,  dare I say “mob,” was comprised largely of young, able-bodied males, and we saw indisputable evidence that, whenever the cameras were on, these mild-mannered, innocuous, would-be philosopher kings, pushed the available women and children to the front of the mob … sorry, group, to portray the notion that this assemblage was the vanguard of a humanitarian crisis.  President Trump was understandably concerned, and he raised the alarm.  Predictably, the mainstream media told us that Trump was delusional.  There was no invasion.  These poor people were hundreds of miles away, and there was no evidence that they would approach the U.S. border.  This in the face of interviews of the migrants, and/or refugees, and/or invaders, who steadfastly professed that entering the U.S. was precisely their intention.  Trump’s crazy, they said.  He’s just trying to make political hay using these poor refugees as pawns.  It’s not a crisis, not even an issue, or so they said.  Election day came and went, but the mob moved relentlessly northward.  The President vowed that they will not be admitted to the U.S.  He called up the military to assist the border patrol people.  The media protested that this was illegal.  It’s not, of course.  The military can’t enforce the law of make arrests, but they certainly can provide support.  When I ran the Essex County, New Jersey Narcotics Task Force, I had a National Guard Sergeant on my staff to provide support, and we had access to military aircraft for overhead surveillance.  The main job of the military is the protection of our homeland, not passing out rations to ingrates in Somalia.  CNN doesn’t accept this fact.  Anyhow, the media assured us that the mob, a/k/a caravan, was a figment of the President’s imagination which was not a threat, and would never approach the border.  Then they were at the border, having been transported to the Tijuana area in buses or trucks.  Despite video of the mob at the border, the media continues to claim it’s not happening.  The President vowed that people entering illegally would not be processed for asylum claims.  He was immediately sued and the federal court in San Francisco, hundreds of mile from the border, broke all records for speed of litigation, and entered a nationwide Order blocking the President’s policy.  Understand what that means.  One piss-ant District Court Judge in a jurisdiction far removed from the scene of the problem decided that people entering in violation of U.S. statutes, criminals, must be admitted to the U.S. to make their phony asylum claims.  The President has detained them on Mexican soil.  The Mexican government agrees that these people are invaders.  On Sunday, the mob, a/k/a/, caravan stormed the border, trying to break down the fences, much as they had at the Guatemala-Mexico border.  Using the tactic of Palestinian terrorists, the pushed women and children ahead of them, while the young, strong males hurled rocks and bricks at border control agents.  President Trump shut down the Tijuana border crossing, and tear gas was used to repel the invaders.  The photograph of one woman with two children was plastered all over the media, and Trump was denounced as an oppressor, on the order of Stalin or Hitler.  The fact that Il Duce Obama used tear gas to repel border invaders 80 times during his tenure was ignored.  We were assured that Trump is despicable, and that, boy how I hate this crap, “these are not American values.”  Exactly what American values have to do with people who seek to destroy America by overwhelming us with foreigners who: (A) don’t know or share our values; (B) are waving Honduran flags and spitting on America; and (C) are just looking for a better deal than they are getting from their shit-hole homelands, is unclear.  The goal is to destroy Trump by any means necessary.  Here’s the truth.  The caravan was sent by rich left-wingers who are probing for advantage.  It may be 5,000 this time, but if they can get this 5,000 in on “catch and release,” next time it may be 100,000, or more, until they break down our system of government, and complete the “fundamental transformation” of America began by Il Duce Obama.  This must be stopped.  Luckily, Donald Trump, and not Hillary Clinton is President.  Fixing this mess is the job of Congress.  I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for them to act.

With Thanksgiving this week we hear lots about Black Friday sales.  This used to be a big event, the one time of the year when merchandise was sold at serious discounts.  Like everything else, however, the sellers have ruined the Black Friday experience.  First, they diluted the Friday sale day by opening the stores on the night of Thanksgiving.  Never mind giving thanks and setting aside time for family and friends.  Not good enough.  Now some choke down their turkey so they can jump in the car and stand in line at crowded stores.  At least when the women leave to go shopping, the NFL gave us a third football game on Thanksgiving night.  The value of Black Friday discounts has further been diluted by the prevalence of mail orders through Amazon and Ebay, and other catalog companies, who deliver the goods right to your door, permitting you to avoid the the lines.  Personally, I’d rather pay 20% more not to sit in bumper to bumper traffic, hunt for parking, and brave the mall.  Black Friday also has been downgraded because it’s not just once a year anymore.  Now there’s Cyber Monday, Small Business Saturday, and Black Friday in July.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.  If everything’s always on sale, then nothing’s ever on sale.  The Black Friday rant aside, let me remind the gentle reader that the title of this work is Black Thursday.  That’s because I’m not talking about sales on November 23rd.  Black Thursday was last week, Thursday November 15th.  We here in the New York Metropolitan area were paralyzed by – what?  A natural disaster, like a hurricane?  No.  A tornado?  No.  How about an earthquake?  No, not an earthquake.  It was … It was … six stinkin’ inches of snow.  That’s right, six inches of wet snow ground everything to a halt in northern New Jersey, New York City and environs.  For those of you who, blessedly, don’t have to contend with snow, understand that, while it’s true that November 15th is a bit early for us to see any significant snowfall, we’ve had heavier snow totals without the mayhem that reigned last week.  This time was different.  There were lots of excuses like, “The weather people got it wrong.”  Sure, the expected temperatures were teetering right at or near the freezing mark, and there were some reports that we’d get a dusting, or an inch, and then it would turn to rain.  On the other hand, The Weather Channel forecast pretty steadily warned of 5 to 8 inches of snow before the changeover to rain.  In any event, snow, rain, freezing rain, or whatever was likely to fall could have been minimized had the various governments in our area simply put some salt down on the roads.  They did not.  Where I live, the snow began falling just after 1 p.m., and yet no salt spreader or plow ever made an appearance, until it was too late.  My office is but 0.3 of a mile from my house, and I had a tough time getting home before 4 p.m.  I stopped to pick up some food for dinner.  I knew we were in trouble when the restaurant had closed 4 hours early.  Two school buses stuck in the snow near my street slowed me down at 4 p.m.  An hour later, it took my wife 40 minutes to navigate the 2 blocks home because the same two buses were still stuck.  The bus problem could have been avoided if someone had looked out the window and sent the kids home early, or if some salt was put down on the roads.  They didn’t, and it wasn’t.  My daughter teaches in Newark, some 12 miles from my house.  It took her 4 1/2 hours to cover those 12 miles, and she was lucky.  A friend of hers spent 11 hours in the car, going nowhere.  At one nearby school district, the buses never came.  The teachers and students spent the night at school, the teachers breaking open the cafeteria to cook dinner for the kids.  For six stinkin’ inches of snow.  Thousands were stranded on the roads.  Highways were closed.  Cars were abandoned.  The Port Authority Bus Station in New York became overcrowded.  Their solution?  They threw everybody out in the street and suggested that they “find an alternate way to get home.”  So much for the value of mass transit.  For some 3 years, they have been rebuilding the Bayonne Bridge, which has been closed every night and weekend for the construction.  It recently reopened, but whoops, it was made steeper than the old bridge, and no cars could get up the incline on the snow, so the bridge was shut down.  So much for modern engineering.  So where were the spreaders and plows?  New York can’t use this excuse, but then again, there is no excuse for New York, but in New Jersey, on November 15th, all the crooked, thieving politicians were out of town.  That’s right.  They spend the week after election day carousing in Atlantic City at the N.J. League of Municipalities Convention.  There, they celebrate their reelections, put their feet up, and are wined and dined by hundreds of potential vendors, who line up for a chance to peddle their services to the government.  Wednesday night, November 14th, featured the annual drunken bacchanal when the politicians let down (or take off) their hair.  They doubtless were not up early on Black Thursday, and in Atlantic City, it was just raining.  With their fearless leaders away, the salters and plowers failed to play.  While the politicians ate free food, the people really got screwed.  Government on all levels failed miserably, done in by six inches of snow.  If any of the elected crumbs felt guilty, they didn’t mention it.  And, luckily for them, they have till next August before they raise taxes again.  People won’t be thinking of snow then.  So let’s hear it for the politicians – HIP HIP HOORAY!  YOU STINK!  YOU STINK! On six inches of hot ice!

Well, well, well, on election night, more than a week ago, we were told that Republican Rick Scott had beaten 3 term Democrat Bill Nelson.  Scott, currently the Governor of Florida, was about 50,000 votes ahead of Nelson on November 6th and 7th.  Then something happened.  Broward County decided that there were still votes left uncounted.  Nobody really knows where these votes came from.  The Broward County Election Supervisor Brenda Snipes (who coincidentally looks eerily like my aunt Josie, if she was an African-American), began to find masses of uncounted ballots.  Now, Florida law is very clear on these matters, because, as some of you will no doubt remember, Florida in general, and Broward County in particular were smack in the middle of the mess that became the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election in Florida.  George W. Bush was about 1,700 votes ahead after election day.  Four or five recounts later, he was 537 votes ahead and elected president.  Of course, that took until mid-December and a Supreme Court decision, but we thought Florida would learn its lesson.  Clearly, it did not.  Despite the weeks of incessant madness that was the 2000 Florida recount, the State of Florida has clung to its absolutely crazy system of having each of its 67 counties have its own voting system.  For some reason, perhaps because it it’s cheaper, most Florida counties use paper ballots, that are run through machines to tally votes.  Anyhow, back to Florida 2018, and guess what?  No progress has been made.  Brenda Snipes has managed to hijack the Florida election.  What was a 50,000 vote win by Rick Scott, began to shrink after election day.  Theoretically, and that means in this case, according to Florida law, Broward, and the other 66 counties, were supposed to have all early votes tallied and posted by 7:30 on election night.  They failed to do that.  Mail ballots were supposed to be received by the end of November 6th, or else they wouldn’t count.  That’s Florida law.  Unfortunately, whenever ballots came in, Broward County counted them.  It would be nice to know how many such ballots were illegally tallied, but we don’t know.  And if we are to believe Brenda Snipes, she doesn’t know either.  In fact, if we are to believe bumbling Brenda, she has no idea how many voters actually cast their votes this year.  She’s supposed to know that.  It’s her job.  But she says she doesn’t know, or if she does know she’s not telling.  Brenda was supposed to disclose the number of voters.  She didn’t.  Brenda was supposed to report vote totals from mail ballots every 45 minutes.  She didn’t.  Brenda felt no duty to obey the law.  You see, she was elected, so the law be damned.  That’s how it works.  Government consists of the elected and the appointed.  The appointed are the people who actually do all the work, and the elected take the credit.  Except when there’s a screw-up.  When that happens, and it happens frequently, the appointed serve a higher purpose.  They take the blame for the elected crumbs who couldn’t find their own asses with both hands if you spotted them the left cheek.  Broward County has found tens of thousands of ballots just lying around.  Ballots have been found in storage rooms, and even in a car at the Fort Lauderdale Airport.  We extremist conspiracy theory believing conservatives are not permitted to suggest that what’s going on in Broward County is not incompetence h as election theft.  As this is written, Rick Scott’s lead in Florida is down to 12,000, Brenda Snipes having counted every vote, pseudo-vote and even having admittedly mixed in illegal ballots with real ballots, but she can’t remember which are which.  After all, she’s a public servant and she’s very busy.  Democrat lawyers have descended on Florida, and are circling like buzzards.  The gubernatorial election, in which Andrew Gillum conceded, has been thrown into the mix.  Gillum unconceded.  Recounts are ongoing.  Broward County, surprising no one, is lagging behind.  It’s decrepit counting machines overheated, so they have to start again.  When the machines are done, the hand counting will begin, and Democrat lawyers will demand that votes that are not cast for either Senate candidate, or were cast for both candidates really belong to Nelson.  Don’t doubt me.  Democrat lawyers already have argued that votes admittedly cast by illegal aliens should be counted, and the Dems are currently in Federal court, arguing, with a straight face, that the Federal court should order Florida to ignore its own statute that requires the signatures on ballots to be matched to the signatures on record.  God forbid that only real votes from real voters should be counted.  Count all the votes.  Or else. At some point, the courts will have to stop this travesty.  The Democrats lost, so they will scream foul, and their deranged donors will write more checks.  What needs to happen, assuming that the Dems don’t manage to steal the election for Gillum, is to have the Florida Legislature change the election law to standardize the method of voting in all Florida counties.  Florida, please, enter the 20th Century, never mind the 21st, and install voting machines that print out the vote tallies.  Enact laws that make it harder for people to cheat, including the elected A-holes who are supposed to fairly tally the votes, and then, and I know this is a radical proposal, enforce your Goddamn laws.  No system is perfect and no system is foolproof, but Florida’s system sucks.  Please fix it.   The election was supposed to be done by now, and we were supposed to be thinking of Thanksgiving and Christmas.  This has to stop.  You counted every vote twice.  Enough already.

Two years ago Donald Trump shocked the world, not to mention the establishment contingents of the Democrat and Republican Parties, when he was elected President.  At the risk of sounding like Captain Queeg, from The Caine Mutiny, they fought him at every turn.  They illegally surveilled him before the election.  The tried to frame him for collusion with Russians.  They appointed a special counsel to hound him, his family and employees, in hopes that they could rid themselves of this meddlesome populist.  Every action they have taken, aided by their media lapdogs, has been calculated to destroy Donald Trump.  Up to now, their series of failures to get rid of Trump has reminded me of something my late grandmother used to say about my late grandfather, “Every time he says he’s dying, he puts down another root.”  Every time the establishment has declared, “we’ve got Trump now,” he has emerged stronger than before.  If you thought the last two years has been fun and games in Washington, you ain’t seen nothing yet.  This week, Republicans added several new Senators to their majority, but they lost control of the House of Representatives.  The Dems will now run the House, which is supposed to do things like raise revenue, and deal with taxes, and all that other good stuff in Article I, section 8 of the Constitution.  Think their new control of the House will inspire them to pass legislation to help Americans?  Not likely.  According to ABC News, Democrats gained power having campaigned on the promise of providing a stronger check on the Trump administration.  That pledge could initiate bruising legal battles over congressional subpoenas, a stack of demands for documents and testimony from federal agencies — including Trump’s tax returns — and withering investigations into facets of Trump’s personal life, his family business, and his government.  Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have been frustrated by Republicans’ decision to focus their investigation into Russian election interference on the conduct of the FBI, rather than any possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.  In other words, they’ve focused on what really happened, rather than on anti-Trump fantasies.  Now Democrats say they intend to seek testimony from more than 30 witnesses, including Trump family members and confidants, to address lingering questions they have about the Trump campaign’s activities.  In other words, how could he win if we decided he had no chance to win.  Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Maryland Democrat who is poised to take control of the powerful House Oversight Committee was more blunt, “I want to look at all the things the president has done that go against the mandates of our Founding Fathers in the Constitution,” said “We need accountability, transparency, integrity, and honesty from this Administration.” (At least he has an open mind).  NPR says “for months, Democrats in the House have been sending strongly worded letters to the Trump administration demanding documents and other information.  But if they win, rather than toothless letters, their requests would have the bite of subpoena power.  Former White House Counsel Neil Eggleston said, “When the subpoenas started coming, they start coming pretty fast and furious.  Congress puts a lot of pressure on to respond quickly and is quite vocal in the press about failure to respond quickly, and so there’s a lot of pressure on the White House counsel’s office.  (Maybe the President should let the Justice Department answer the subpoenas.  They’ve managed to stall the Administration for 2 years, denying Congressional Republicans subpoenaed materials).  Then there’s crazy old Maxine Waters.  Maxine has vowed to move from resistance to retaliation.  “First of all, if we take back the House, most of the members of the Congressional Black Caucus will be chairs of the committees of the Congress of the United States of America.  I will be the first African-American, the first woman to chair the powerful Financial Services Committee.  That’s all of Wall Street.  That’s all the insurance companies, that’s all the banks.  And so, of course, the CEOs of the banks now are saying, ‘What can we do to stop Maxine Waters? Because if she gets in, she’s going to give us a bad time.’  I have not forgotten you foreclosed on our houses.  I have not forgotten that you undermined our communities.  I have not forgotten that you sold us those exotic products, had us sign on the dotted line for junk, and for mess that we could not afford.  And in doing that, I have people who are homeless who have never gotten back into a home.  What am I going to do to you?  What I am going to do to you is fair.  I’m going to do to you what you did to us.”  Economic growth, we don’t need no stinkin’ economic growth.  So the Empire has struck back, and I don’t mean just Democrats.  Establishment Republicans took their balls and went home.  44 retirements of veteran Republican incumbents.  Some didn’t want to return having been term limited on their Committee Chairmanships.  A few were old enough that it was just time.  Many of the them were from the Never Trump wing of the lemming Republican Party.  At their core, these are people who simply can’t handle prosperity.  They bitched and moaned for years that they needed control to get their policies enacted.  We gave them control, but they rebelled at the fact that the chief executive, from their own Party, is not the mealy-mouthed, colorless appeaser that they prefer.  The accomplishments of the Trump Administration are meaningless to these people.  He’s not one of them.  Good riddance to RINO rubbish.  The President would work with the Dems if they’d play ball.  They won’t, and when they embarrass themselves and gridlock the government, Trump will put down another root.  Buckle up.