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We…can…do…this…2025

Wednesday, January 1st, 2025

We…can…do…this…2025

January 1st, 2025

2025…We…can…do…this

What the heck is that beeping sound?

(Knocks the phone off the hook, keeps banging the snooze alarm)

A voice tells me it’s my pager. My pager is black, so finding it in the dark is the needle in the haystack equivalent. A lucky smack knocks it against the wall, where it may or may not have shattered. The beeping continues. Why does anyone need a pager anymore anyway?

Who the heck is texting me at this ungodly hour of…(either 7 a.m., 1 p.m., or 1 a.m. …it looks blurry)?

Oh, no. It is 5 a.m., and my first radio interview of the New Year is with the morning man of an East Coast station. Time to pretend to sound coherent and go back to sleep. Oh no, wait, that radio interview was several years ago.

Great, happy wishes for the new year. Thanks. Whoever you are, it is too early to talk to you.

One year the person on the telephone insisted it was 1 p.m. After explaining to them that they were on the East Coast, and that 1 p.m. EST is 10 a.m. in Los Angeles, they grew impatient. They knew how to tell time, and that it was 4 p.m. EST, hence 1 p.m. my time.

Sure, getting up and writing my column is an option. It’s a new year, and starting the year off with a flurry of brilliance might be helpful. Forget it. This column is recycled from years ago. It’s also hours late. That is what happens when people get no sleep because of stressful December football games followed by New Year’s Eve revelry.

Election 2024? The first person to talk politics gets blistered in my column … tomorrow.

Bowl games? There is DVR. Besides, does anybody care who wins the Poulan Weed Eater Bowl, the Lack of Insight.com Bowl, the Fishbowl, the RU486 Morning After Bowl, The California Metrosexual Pride Bowl, or any other game that may or may not be made up?

Speaking of the morning after, does anybody remember the David Byrne Talking Heads song from the movie “Less than Zero? (which the temperature feels like right now in some parts of the country. No wonder I live in this insane city of LA)” The song is called “Once In A Lifetime.”

“This is not my beautiful house. This is not my beautiful wife. What have I done? How did I get here?”

It then occurs to me that the beeping sounds are the voices in my head telling me I am too old, even at 52, to stay out this late. Even without alcohol, exhaustion has set in.

Get out of bed? Work calls in (whenever) hours. Better rest up before my tyrant of a boss complains. Such is the life of the self-employed.

Get up now? Somehow stagger to the shower, get dressed, make it out of my condo to go … where?

The stores are closed. Maybe they are open. Too tired to find out.

My birthday is in just over a week. Time to pace myself.

Work on my website? All that takes is staggering to my couch. Oh, no. My IT guy has not finished it yet. Oh, wait, he did years ago. I clicked on the wrong site.

Go on Jdate and search for women? Not a bad idea, except it is too tiring to check their Adams Apples. This is not the year for a boyfriend, and am not sure that my eyes can tell the difference right now. Besides, Jdate is so 2014. Now it is Tinder, JSwipe and JCrush. Oh, wait. I’m married. No more Internet dating.

Shop on eBay? No. bad idea. Buying stuff when not at full capacity is problematic. Who needs another mountain goat? Dang creature gets his horns in my hide. Not a comfy way to wake up. Calm down boy, you’ll get some straw to graze on upon my waking up.

Work on my record album? Although again, world, just because my hair is long, that does not mean my band exists. The best instrument is the triangle, because that tells me lunch is ready. Oh wait, my hair is not even that long anymore. I could work on that, although I didn’t do much. I sat. It grew.

Ahh, yes, lunch. Get up and eat something. My microwave is slow, and a five minute microwave dinner takes almost 15 minutes. Read the paper? It is cold outside my building where the stand is, and it only takes coins. Reading the paper online is tiring, and my printer is not working. At least the lifestyle section makes a great placemat for eating. Oh, wait. That stand does not exist anymore. Reading the paper online it is.

Staying in bed for only a couple more hours until (whatever the big and little hands say) would allow me to stay up all night and be totally exhausted for work tomorrow. Again, my boss is a tyrant.

Running errands … not gonna happen.

Every morning, a four word prayer starts my day. My elbows are used to try and leverage them against my bed to prop me up. Placing my alarm clock on the other side of the room failed, since ripping the cord out of the wall solved that problem.

As for the Jewish brunette who stole the covers, her voice was not a problem last night, although if she opens her trap today she will receive a more caustic reception than usual.

Oh wait, she already left. Here is a note. “Tried to wake you, but that was a losing battle. By the way, you have nothing but soda in your fridge. Talk to you soon.” oh, wait, I think that happened over a decade ago. My wife stocked the fridge. 

There are also potato chips in my fridge as well. Why they are there remains a mystery, but it saves having to remember which cabinet they are in. One-stop shopping  is the way to go.

Besides, combing my hair for her was enough. Not doing it this morning, proud “retrosexual” that is me.

At least having the decency to say some morning prayers would be appropriate.

“Hey God…those people I pray for every night…yeah those people, the same ones…look after them again.”

Back to sleep, despite every attempt to wake up. The home phone is turned off, the cell is off as well, and the pager is still shattered, in addition to being disconnected years ago.

There may have been a car crash outside my building followed by 911 calls and sirens, but telling everybody to “keep it down,” solved that problem. A brief nightmare of me being late for work was averted when I realized my location to me was known if necessary.

Four televisions in the living room, and none in the bedroom. Who thought that up? Oh yeah, a television in the bedroom would promote laziness. Besides, trying to figure out which remote to use would cause me to break them all as if they were my pager.

Ok, here it is. Come on, elbows, do your stuff. Rise, young lad, rise! Awaken thy exhausted tired eyes!

Why is God shouting? Oh wait, that is my over-dramatization of God.

Time to set the alarm now to avoid missing work tomorrow. Where was it thrown? Threw it? Oh, screw it.

Ok, time for my four word prayer. It has gotten me this incredibly terribly far. Time to contemplate getting out of bed.

“We…can…do…this.”

Happy 2025 all. Except for the person who woke me up earlier. Whoever you are, I still can’t stand you, even though you are doing me a favor.

Ten hours and 16 bowl games later, there is only one thing left to do.

Time for a nap. Happy 2025.

Zzzzz.

eric

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The Top 10 Powerful Bald White Guys (PBWGs) of 2024

Monday, December 30th, 2024

Top 10 Powerful Bald White Guys (PBWGs) of 2024

This list is dedicated to the late radio host Austin Hill. He was a great guy who left us far too soon. He loved this list and gave it more attention than it ever deserved. May he never be forgotten.

This list was inspired by Dann Florek, who played Police Captain Donald Cragen on the “Law & Order” franchises for a couple decades.

A lot of people did not make the list. President Joe Biden is ineligible because he never admitted his baldness, choosing instead to hide behind hair plugs. Vladimir Putin is ineligible because he is a ruthless killer and I do not wish to die. If he asks, I think he has lovely hair. Congressmen Bob Good of Virginia and Chip Roy of Texas came up short. Let’s see if these House Freedom Caucus members do anything in 2025. If they get a conservative agenda passed, they will make the list.Rupert Murdoch seems to be retired. He was on this list for many years.

With that, here are the 2024 Austin Hill Awards dedicated to the Top 10 PBWGs of 2024.

10.) Jeff Bezos: He is no longer the richest man in the world or the CEO of Amazon. Being rich is not the same as being powerful. Bring powerful requires doing things. Bezos is now obsessed with space. He is determined to beat Elon Musk in the space race and retake his position atop the world’s wealthiest list. If he succeeds, he will move up the PBWG list as well.

9.) Kevin O’Leary: Shark Tank’s “Mr. Wonderful” is one of the sharpest investors around. He speaks plainly and with common sense. He actually ran to be the leader of Canada’s Conservative Party in 2017. He should have been on this list for years but 2023 was his breakout year in terms of exposure. He went from being almost everywhere to everywhere. His insights are valuable. He would rank higher except sometimes it is hard to figure out exactly what it is he does.

The next 4 guys are all incoming members of the Trump administration. Normally they would not make the list until they take office, but the Trump administration has gotten an unofficial early start. These guys are already up and running. If they succeed in passing the Trump agenda, they will rank much higher on the list.

8.) Stephen Miran: He is the incoming Charman of the Council of Economic Advisers. For those who have no idea what that even means, he is the head pontificator. Yet unlike many pontificators, he does real work. He is the senior strategist at asset management firm Hudson Bay Capital Management. This means that unlike the rest of the pontificators, he actually knows what he is talking about.

7.) Howard Lutnick: He is the incoming Commerce Secretary and the current head of Cantor Fitzgerald. That was the firm that lost 658 employees on September 11th, 2001. Lutnick will be a unique Commerce secretary. Unlike previous Republican Commerce Secretaries, Lutnick is pro-tariff. Lutnick will be the first Commerce Secretary who will have to navigate cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin. Lutnick is pro-crypto.

6.) Tom Homan: He is the incoming Border Czar. He has over 35 years of experience dealing with the Border. He came out of retirement to take this job. He has threatened to arrest elected officials who run illegal sanctuary cities. Time will tell if the Trump administration is truly willing to cross that bridge. That will drastically affect Homan’s position on the 2025 PBWG list.

5.) Steven Miller: He is the incoming Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy. He is seen as an immigration hardliner, a badge he wars with honor. Like Homan, his fate on the 2025 PBWG list depends on whether or not his tough talk can be transferred into substantive actions.

It’s one thing to be a powerful incoming member of the government. It’s quite another to be a current member of the government. Biden administration officials have a ton of power until they leave office. They will not be on this list in 2025, but they absolutely deserve to top the list in 2024. Three of the top four spots including the top two spots are the same as last year.

4.) Gary Gensler: The Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission is a political activist with a thirst for regulating everything in sight. With the stock market hitting all time highs, he again threw cold water on the party. Gensler implicitly mandated that corporations enact woke DEI policies. His calls to regulate cryptocurrencies gave Gensler even more power. He is a former Goldman Sachs guy, which propelled his access to power. Republicans will be firing him on January 20th, 2025. He would rank higher but most of what he has implemented is already being reversed, limiting his long-term impact.

3.) Alejandro Mayorkas: The current Border Czar will also be fired on January 20th, 2025, but he is implementing his border vision up until the last moment. Unlike Gensler, Mayorkas’s policies will have much longer lasting effects and be far more difficult to reverse. While he will not be on the 2025 PBWG list, he has the ability to completely derail Homan and Miller from the list as well. That is power. Until Inauguration Day, he is the highest ranking PBWG in the current Executive Branch.

2.) John Fetterman: The Pennsylvania Senator might be the most confounding member of Congress. He spent his early years as a rich white leftist doing hard drugs and leeching off of his parents. After getting elected, he was expected to vote leftist down the line. Then he shocked the political world by offering startlingly lucid thoughts that broke from leftist Orthodoxy. He came out as a staunch supporter of Israel in a Democrat Party with an increasingly influential and militant anti-Israel left wing. He also called for more border security. He even declared that he was not a progressive. When he was verbally accosted by an angry leftist who accused him of betrayal, he showed a surprising sense of humor. He pointed out his recent stroke and claimed that this left him unable to understand what the angry protester was saying. Senator Fetterman is less than two years into his term, and he has already angered people across the political spectrum. He has at least four more years to confound people without consequences. That is power. Yet for the third year in a row, Fetterman comes up one spot short.

1.) David Solomon: Normally the Head Sled at Golden Sachs is the top PBWG because Goldman Sachs runs the world. Goldman Sachs has a history of flitting in between corporate power and government power. Jon Corzine, Hank Paulson, and Lloyd Blankfein are all former Goldman Sachs PBWG top dogs. Solomon initially missed out on the top spot in recent years due to tough economic times, war raging across the world, and an anti-Wall Street climate. Yet in 2024, happy days are here again. The stock market hit an all time high. Goldman Sachs now has its usual level of undue influence over the government. The company that is too big to fail with executives who are too big to jail escaped scrutiny during financial meltdowns. They are not going to lose power when Wall Street is making money hand over fist.

For being the most powerful guy at the most powerful company, for the second consecutive year in a row, David Solomon is the Top Powerful Bald White Guy of 2024.

eric

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The Top 10 B*mbos of 2024

Thursday, December 26th, 2024

Top 10 bimbos of 2024

10.) Azeez al-Shaair — The Houston Texans linebacker was suspended for three games for what was deemed a dirty hit on Trevor Lawrence. Lawrence missed the rest of the season. al-Sha-air is a repeated offender. Normally a collision in football would not be news but al-Shaair decided to embrace his role as the villain by bringing global religious events on to the field. al-Shaair, a devout Muslim, wore sneakers praising one of many Islamist groups trying to wipe Israel off the map and eliminate Jews. For being pro-Jihadist, al-Shaair is a cancer to football and an unenlightened dolt. al-Shaair would rank higher but athletes are barely regarded higher than Hollywood celebrities.

9.) Luigi Mangione supporters — Luigie Mangione is a rich, handsome young man with plenty of young female fans. He is from a wealthy family. He also murdered an innocent healthcare executive named Brian Thompson. Mangione is evil. His supportive fangirls are idiots. Mangione has become as much a darling of the socialist left as Che Guevara and Charles Manson. Even Senator Liz Warren implied that the United Healthcare CEO had it coming. This would rank higher but most of these morons have no power or influence.

8.) The ladies of The View — This is an entire program created specifically for imbeciles. Joy Behar, whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin are constantly reading on-air apologies through clenched teeth to avoid being sued for slander or libel. These women just can’t shut up and stick to the facts. So they make stuff despite repeated warnings not to do so. These imbeciles would rank higher but most Americans have tuned them out. They only have influence over other idiots with no influence as well.

7.) Kimberly Cheatle — In 2024 she was the Secret Service Director. She did not climb through the ranks of the Secret Service. She was a former Pepsi Executive who was a Biden Administration Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) hire. She was only hired because of her gender, not any merit. Her inability to do her very serious job resulted in former President Donald Trump being shot and nearly killed at a Butler, Pennsylvania campaign rally. A rally attendee named Corey Comperatore was killed. Due to her utter failure to do a job she was never qualified for, America was a millimeter from Trump’s death and global upheaval. The only good news is people like her might result in the death of DEI itself in 2025. We can only hope.

6.) Ivy League Presidents — Harvard’s Claudine Gay, Pennsylvania’s Liz Magill and MIT’s Sally Kornbluth are among several Ivy League University presidents who allowed anti-Semitism to flourish on their campus. At a disastrous congressional hearing, these three pointy-headed academics explained why threats of violence were within the bounds of their university honor codes. Jews lived in fear and under threats of violence on their campuses. They shrugged and bleated that the First Amendment essentially allows anti-Jewish violence. It does not. Gay resigned die to also being caught as a serial plagiarist. Magill stepped down as well. So far Kornbluth has survived. Things will not improve on campuses until the leftists and Islamists in power are all removed root and branch. Jewish and other pro-Jewish donors are starting to pull their alumni support. Trustees and boards need to be put on notice as well.

5.) The Squad — These leftist and Islamist anti-Semitic congresswomen have been annoying since they began infecting Congress in 2019. They primaries out Jewish Democrats in favor of leftists with hostility toward Israel and Jews. Yet their biggest power play came during the 2024 election. when Vice President Kmala Harris seized the Democrat nomination away from Joe Biden, she needed the support of Pennsylvania voters. Josh Shapiro is the Keystone State’s popular Governor. Yet Shapiro is also Jewish. A token Jew on the Democrat ticket probably would have worked on easily gullible liberal voters. Yet the Squad, led by those more concerned about Arab voters in Michigan, deemed Shapiro unacceptable. Harris was pressured into dropped the idea of Shapiro on the ticket in favor of a doofus would fall in line on all leftist issues. The Squad’s move was more than anti-semitic. It was politically stupid. Voters across Normal America rejected the Democrat ticket. All swing states swung Republican, including Pennsylvania. America may have reached peak Squad. Two of them were voted out in primaries in favor of non-crazy candidates.

4.) The Lawfare Squad — Rather than just try and defeat Trump at the ballot box, Democrats used the legal system to torment Trump and anyone who supported him. First there was the attempt by states to remove him from state ballots under some non-existent interpretation of the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court rejected those arguments 9-0. So then various District Attorneys and Attorney Generals tried to imprison Trump. New York District City Attorney Alvin Bragg, New York Attorney General Letitia James, Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis, and United States Attorney Jack Smith in Florida all invented cases out of thin air. These cases all eventually collapsed. Voters saw through the targeted political harassment and reelected Trump anyway. Smith resigned and Willis was disqualified. Bragg and James are hoping to keep their cases alive for five more years so they can prosecute Trump after he leaves office again. Meanwhile, New York is being destroyed by real crime that gets ignored. Bragg deserves another dishonorable mention for prosecuting subway hero Daniel Penny solely because Penny is white and non-liberal. Penny was acquitted, adding to the failures of these ideological zealots.

3.) anti-Biden coup plotters — Former President Barack Obama and Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi Democrats claim to represent the party of democracy, but their version of democracy is overthrowing a legally elected government whenever they feel like for any reason. In their world, the ends justify the means. Joe Biden was selected President despite his obvious mental decline. Yet liberals denied he was declining and hid Biden from the press and the voters until he was safely installed. After a miserable 2024 debate performance against Trump, Biden was finally exposed as senile. Biden was no longer useful, so former Obama and Pelosi blackmailed Biden into stepping down. Kamala Harris was installed as the 2024 Democrat presidential nominee. Replacing an old white male with a younger multi-racial woman angered Democrat donors who preferred an infirm Biden to his replacement. The strategy backfired and Democrats lost the White House. It was poetic justice for the formerly sainted Obama, who has been exposed as a scheming naked emperor. His influence is gone, but that does not justify trying to overthrow two successive legally elected governments.

2.) Tim Walz — He was the Minnesota Governor who let the George Floyd rioters burn his state to the ground. So when Biden was overthrown and Harris needed another running mate after Shapiro was rejected, Governor Walz was Tapped. His selling point was that he looked like a Normal American who enjoyed football and hunting. The problem is he lied about his experience as a football coach and had no idea how to load a shotgun. He was a doofus who admitted on television to being a knucklehead. He kept calling his opponents “weird” despite his own support for placing tampons in boys’ bathrooms in schools. He was an emasculated beta male, making him a laughingstock among real non-emasculated men everywhere. Campaigns to show men crying while watching “Love, Actually” did not win over male voters. For having zero substance, Walz was the perfect number two for a Democrat Party running on vibes, joy and failure.

Yet while Walz was awful, the real person with even less substance was the woman who made it her first big decision to hire him. That leads us to the Top Bimbo of 2024.

1.) Kamala Harris — This annoying, grating, cackling hyena of a woman has coasted life on her looks, charm and sexuality. Her boyfriend and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown introduced her to all the rich Democrat donors living in Snob Hill. Her entire life was a lie. She was never from middle class family. She was was the daughter of upper class white collar professionals. She repeatedly spoke in “word salads” designed to hide her views. She ran for President as a leftist Radical for the 2020 election. She dropped out without receiving a single primary vote. Yet the Obama’s loved her, so they forced Biden to a dd her to to the ticket. She returned the favor by helping the Obamas overthrow Biden. Yet Harris was simply terrible. She was a DEI hire who was terrible at governing, terrible at campaigning, and just terrible at anything requiring substance rather than style. Despite an election that was repeatedly rigged in her favor, she wasted over one billion dollars and lost anyway. Yet her worst quality is her refusal to get it through her thick skull that she needs to go away. Instead, she is debating whether to run for California Governor in 2026 or God forbid run for President again in 2028.

For her utter clueless lack of self-awareness on the biggest stage possible, Vice President Kamala Harris is the Top Bimbo of 2024.

 

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The Top 10 News Stories of 2024

Thursday, December 26th, 2024

Top 10 news stories of 2024

10.) The Detroit Lions — For decades, these lovable losers were about as likely to be successful with a football as Charlie Brown. They epitomized a losing culture, even becoming the first NFL team to ever go 0-16 in 2008. Yet Coach Dan Campbell came along and changed the culture. The Lions began this calendar year by reaching the NFC Title Game. Proving they were no fluke, this season’s team has a legitimate chance of reaching their first ever Super Bowl. They last won a championship in 1957. For the first time in their entire history, they were even favored by the betting markets to win it all. History matters. It took decades of suffering, but Lions fans can now roar with pride.

9.) Dow Jones 45k, Nasdaq 20k — Over time, the stock market always goes up. While not a completely accurate reflection of the overall economy, more Americans than ever directly or indirectly own stocks. United States corporations continue to provide the ingenuity that revolutionizes the world. The first three American business revolutions were agriculture, industrial, and the information age that began in 1995. Now the artificial intelligence revolution could remake society in ways we cannot begin to fathom. AI itself would be a bigger story, but we are at least one year away from seeing what it does. For now, this new technology has made many big and small investors far wealthier than they were. The business of America remains business, and the stock market remains its beating heart.

8.) United Healthcare CEO murdered — Not all business stories are positive. In an act of evil, United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot to death by a young man with a grudge against healthcare companies. In an even more vile display, the killer became a hero to many leftist Americans disgruntled with CEOs in general and healthcare executives in particular. Ghoulish comments from leftists in government including Senator Liz Warren tried to rationalize the killing as understandable frustration. Despite the “eat the rich” rhetoric from the left, the real victim was Thompson, a husband and father. He started with nothing and rose to success through honest, hard work. The killer was a rich white leftist heir to a multi-million dollar business empire.

7.) SCOTUS Chevron Doctrine reversed and Presidential immunity decision — The United States Supreme Court alway matters, but this year brought two blockbuster decisions that will reverberate for years if not decades. The most famous case dealt with presidential immunity. The High Court split the difference, even answering questions that were not asked. The court ruled that presidents have immunity from prosecution for official decisions made in the capacity of their presidential duties. This means a president after leaving office cannot be indicted for bombing another nation and killing people. The court also ruled that a president does not have immunity from actions taken in office that were unrelated to the job. Illegal activities are still illegal. Yet on the issue of whether President Trump’s January 6th actions deserved immunity, the Roberts Court basically said “We’re not touching that powder keg” and continued its long tradition of deciding not to decide.

Yet while presidential immunity was the most high profile case, the most significant was Chevron. For decades, the Chevron Doctrine required that businesses and individuals defer to administrative agency state bureaucrats under the notion that these administrative staters were “experts.” This horrendous anti-business ruling allowed the government expert leviathan to exponentially explode, with diminishing results. The overturning of Chevron finally lays bare a message that conservatives have been screaming for years. The supposed experts don’t know everything. In fact, many of them don’t know anything. The Chevron ruling restores sanity to the business world by returning decisions on what businesses do to the people who actually have expertise in doing those things. This ruling if properly followed should lead to the defanging of the administrative state altogether.

6.) Ivy League anti-Semitic violence — Jews have always felt comfortable in America. 2024 was the year where that ceased to be the case. College campuses in recent years had always had pockets of leftist radicals promoting anti-Jewish attitudes. In 2024 the radicals became the norm. Anti-Jewish violence exploded on campuses, funded by everyone from leftist George Soros to Islamists backed by Iran. During a congressional hearing on the matter, the female presidents of Harvard and other universities refused to condemn overt anti-Jewish violence. Thankfully, that disastrous hearing led to a backlash. Several university heads were fired or resigned under pressure. Wealthy Jewish donors canceled their donations. Anti-Jewish protesters were put into a database so that Jewish businesses would know not to hire them. The Jew-hating left crossed the line from hateful but protected speech into physical violence. The response from a largely pro-Jewish nation put the Jew-haters on their heels. The battle for the campuses is ongoing.

5.) The Middle East is being remade — The October 7th, 2023 attacks on Israel shocked the conscience. Israel has a history of waging war successfully but then stopping short of finishing the job. They buckle under cruel intentional pressure motivated mainly by antisemitism. Yet this time was different. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to finish the job, and that “total victory” was his goal. He was derided by the world’s leftists, who insisted that such a goal was impossible. Under heavy pressure from his own left flank, President Joe Biden pressured Mr. Netanyahu to fold. Netanyahu defied the world and was proven right. Hamas was smashed. Hezbollah was blasted. Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Nasrallah were liquidated. A brilliant operation involving exploding pagers had Hamas and Hezbollah on their heels. While not permanently eliminated yet, they were devastated militarily and financially. This tightened the noose on Iran, and indirectly Syria. A domino fell when the Syrian government collapsed. Syrian Dictator Bashar Assad fled to Russia. The incoming Trump administration has given Israel the green light to do what it needs to do to defend itself. Targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities remains an option. Israel’s biggest military victory since 1967 is already having reverberations. A full normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia is back on the table. Outside of college campuses, “Palestinians” are an afterthought. Israel seems to have finally won.

4.) Biden forced out — For the first time in 56 years, an incumbent president was forced out of the race for reelection. In 1968, anger over the Vietnam war split the Democrats and led to RFK threatening to take down LBJ. President Lyndon B. Johnson backed down and decided not to run. Yet at least 1968 was a legitimate fight over policy. 2024 was far more sinister. For several years, Democrats hid that presidential candidate and then President Joe Biden was in a state of deep mental decline. Anyone pointing out his mental decline was ostracized. Democrats have a history of such shenanigans, covering up Woodrow Wilson’s stroke and FDR’s polio. The Biden health coverup collapsed during his 2024 presidential debate with former President Donald Trump. Biden was exposed on live television to 100 million debate watchers to be mentally shot.

When Biden refused to voluntarily drop out, former President Barack Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi effectively blackmailed him. Either he drops out, or they publicly leak damaging information to force him out. The party that was all about “saving democracy” engineered a coup. Rather than have an open primary process like in 1968, Obama and Pelosi forced Vice President Kamala Harris as the nominee. This was expected given that the Obamas forced Biden to put her on the 2020 ticket. Harris, not Biden, was the true ideological heir to the Obama presidency. Biden was forced out for only one reason, that he looked like he would lose. This was craven unprincipled political opportunism. The plan backfired when it became clear that Harris was terrible at campaigning. She did worse with some constituencies than Biden did in 2020. Yet the real story was that Biden and Harris were both puppets. Obama won a third term, and was unable to secure a fourth term. By backing losers, Obama damaged his own brand. His endorsement no longer matters and his party no longer worships him.

3) Trump law fare cases collapse — Terrified that Trump might win reelection in 2024, Democrats devised a complex law fare scheme to ban him from running. They tried arguing that he was an insurrectionist even though neither he or anyone else was ever charged with insurrection. Democrats in multiple states tried to cite the 14th Amendment to have him removed from state ballots. The U.S. Supreme Court tossed out those challenges in a unanimous 9-0 ruling.

Trump also became the subject of four different criminal matters in three different states that were designed to financially bankrupt him or even imprison him unless he dropped out of the presidential race. Rules and laws were contorted and justice was turned upside down. His personal home was raided as Biden Department of Justice officials seized former First Lady Melania Trump’s underwear. These various cases each began to unravel when it became clear that Trump was the only person being charged for words and deeds that had never been criminal before him. These cases were carefully coordinated with the Biden White House. One by one the cases collapsed when it became clear that there was simply no there there. Democrats will keep insisting that he was guilty, but the voters saw through the ruse. Trump rightly reminded the world that if the law can be weaponized against him, it can be weaponized against anyone. Democrats keep bleating that no one is above the law, but the lesson of 2024 is that nobody is below the law either. If they were going to remove Trump, they would have to do so at the ballot box, not in the courtroom.

2.) Trump assassination attempts — When having Trump disqualified and imprisoned failed, the next step for his enemies was simply to try and kill him. America was rocked by the political assassinations of the 1960s and terrified by the shooting of President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Then came a lull of normalcy that was shattered on July 13th, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. A young assassin with possible ties to Iran fired off several shots a Trump rally, killing one person and nearly murdering Trump himself. At the very last moment, Trump turned his head, resulting in a bullet grazing his earlobe rather than hitting him straight between his eyes. As expected, many people on the left blamed Trump’s rhetoric for him getting shot. The overall American electorate was more kind than ghoulish, as decent Americans prayed for his recovery.

Immediately after being shot, Trump raised his fist in the air in an act of defiance. Serious Secret Service Breakdowns had people questioning whether the Biden administration deliberately short-shifted Trump from a security standpoint. That investigation is ongoing. Trump faced a second assassination attempt when someone tried to fire at him while he golfed at his Mara Lago resort in South Florida. Despite facing multiple assassination attempts that nearly succeeded, Democrats from Biden and Harris on down kept ramping up the incendiary rhetoric. They kept calling Trump a “fascist” and a “threat to democracy.” The assassination attempts themselves were horrifying, but the reaction was just as evil. Far too many people have gotten to the point where the assassination of a person they hate is “understandable,” a code word for “justified.”

They tried to disqualify him. They tried to bankrupt him. They tried to imprison him. They tried to kill him. Then they finally tried to beat him at the ballot box. This brings us to the top news story of 2024.

1.) Trump returns — The 45th President is now the 47th President-Elect. Trump became the first President since Grover Cleveland to win the White House, lose his reelection, and then win reelection to serve two non-consecutive terms. His return sent a pair of forceful messages. First of all, Reagan’s maxim “Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?” still matters. Voters were dissatisfied in 2020 due to COVID. In 2024, with the pandemic having subsided, voters determined that the quality of life under Biden was worse than it was under Trump. Harris tried to run as a change agent while being the sitting Vice President. That strategy failed for Al Gore and Hillary Clinton, the sitting Secretary of State at the time of her run.

Yet beyond basic economic conditions and worries about the border and the overall world, Trump’s return was an anti-establishment revolt. Despite having been a sitting President, Trump remained an anti-establishment figure. He was a giant middle finger to the elitist snobs in government who live for regulations, mandates and bans. Voters just want to be free and be left alone. They do not want government taxing and regulating them out of existence. Trump voters were called deplorable, irredeemables, neanderthals, smelly Walmart people, racists, bigots, and other names voters do not appreciate. The voters struck back.

Most importantly, Trump now knows who to trust and who not to trust. His first term was undermined by subordinates defying his orders. Trump is the ultimate disruptor, and now he has bringing in a team of disruptors to root out insubordinate officials. This time his orders will be carried out. Eight years ago business leaders openly worked against him. Now the business community is falling all over themselves to kiss his ring and get on his good side. Even though Trump retakes office on January 20th of 2025, his dominating presence plus Biden’s decline and disappearance have world leaders treating Trump as president already.

Trump shocked the political world in 2016. Yet “The art of the deal” is less impressive than “The art of the comeback.” Trump’s business comeback from financially tough times in the 1990s was impressive. His political comeback is one for the ages. Richard Nixon came back, but not with this much drama and fanfare. Nixon’s victories did not end the Kennedy legacy. Trump’s comeback smashed the Obama and Clinton dynasties to pieces. He remade the entire Republican Party of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Paul Ryan into a populist party not seen since Teddy Roosevelt.

For these and other obvious reasons too numerous to mention, the return of Donald J. Trump to the White House is the top news story of 2024.

eric

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248 fun reasons to love America

Thursday, July 4th, 2024

248 fun reasons to love America

Thursday, July 4th, 2024

248 fun reasons to love America

1980 Olympic Gold Medal Hockey Team

1980s hard rock hair metal

2 Live Crew’s Banned in the USA

7-Eleven Big Gulps and Slurpees

ACDC’s You shook me, Thunderstruck, Moneytalks

Adam Sandler

Aerosmith

Airheads band The Lone Rangers

Al D’Amato’s singing

Alf

America the Beautiful sung by Ray Charles

American soldiers and veterans

Animaniacs

Anthony Clark

Bad Touch’s Discovery Channel

Batman: The Dark Knight

BB King and Lucille
Belker on Hill Street Blues

Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia

Biff Henderson

Bill Cosby, Himself video

Bill Murray’s Quick Change

Bill of Rights

Bill the Cat

Billiards

Blue Collar Comedy Tour

Blue Bloods

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Bluegrass Junction

Bounce houses

Bouncing 25 cent rubber balls

Boxing promoter Don King

Brooklyn

Bubblebaths for two

Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck

Burgertime

Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise movies

Caddyshack

Capitalism

Capture the flag

Cards Against Humanity

Chabad Houses

Charitable people

Cheerleaders

Cheers’s Sam Mayday Malone and Norm Peterson

Cherry Lime Rickeys

Chocolate covered cherries

Chris Berman

Chris Gardner’s The Pursuit of Happyness

Chris Noth’s Mike Logan

Chris Tucker singing Barry White

Coca-Cola

Coed touch football

Colorwar

Commando and pantsless Wednesdays (until HR intervened)

Conan O’Brien’s In the Year 2000

Corn Fritters

Cosmic Bowling

County Fairs

Dale Intimidator Earnhardt’s 1998 Daytona 500

Dana Carvey

Dann Florek’s Captain Donald Cragen

David Letterman’s Top Ten Lists
Dazed and Confused — Mitch Kramer

 

Dennis Farina

Desperate Housewives

Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo

Dick Cheney and the Neocons

Die Hard

DirecTV NFL Package

Dog-riding monkey

Donald Trump–from the Apprentice to the White House to Twitter

Doritos

Dr. Brown’s Black Cherry Soda

Dr. Charles Krauthammer

Duck Dynasty

Ebay

Edible underthings

Entrepreneurship

ESPN

Eye of the tiger

Fireworks

Flavored massage oil

Founding Fathers

Fox News

Fraggle Rock

Freedom, liberty, right of dissent

Gaga (dodgeball using closed fist and cherry ball)

Game nights

Garlic knots

Gatorade dumping on coaches

George W. Bush picks up bullhorn

Glow sticks as fake cigars

Golden Corral

GPS trackers

Greg the Bunny

Greg Gutfeld

Hamburgers

Happy face emoticons

Harmonicas

Hawaii

Henny Youngman

Hot Chocolate’s You sexy thing (I believe in miracles)

Hot scantily clad women

Howard Stern

I once finger-(blanked) a hermit crab (whoever said that)

In n Out Burger

Independence Day BBQs

Instant messaging

Internet dating

Iphones

Italian ices

J. Geils Band’s Centerfold

Jack Nicholson’s Colonel Nathan R. Jessup

Jacuzzi romps

Jell-O

Jell-O wrestling

Jerry Orbach’s Lenny Briscoe

Jerry Reed’s Eastbound and Down

Jim Carrey’s Ace Ventura, Pet Detective

John Cougar Mellencamp’s Pink Houses and Hurts so good

John Facenda’s The Autumn Wind

John McEnroe’s tennis tantrums

Judaism celebrated in peace
Justice Clarence Thomas

Justice Scalia’s scathing dissents

Karl Rove’s whiteboard

Kazoos

KFC Popcorn Chicken

Kickball

Kim Kardashian’s bare bottom

King of the Hill

Kool-Aid

Kosher imitation bacon and crab

Krispy Kreme Donut Hamburgers

Laff-Olympics

Larry Hagman’s J.R. Ewing on Dallas

Las Vegas

Lee Greenwood’s God bless the USA and Bandit Express
Lilo and Stitch — Ohana means family––––––––––––––

Louie Armstrong’s It’s a Wonderful World—————————————-

Louisiana Cajun Cooking (Especially with Justin Wilson)

Lucky Charms

Madden Football

Magnum, P.I.

Mardi Gras, New Orleans

Mark Levin’s rants

Married with Children’s Al Bundy

Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing and Let’s get it on

Mascots

McDonalds

Meat and potatoes

Michael J. Fox’s Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties

Mills Lane yelling Let’s get it on

Miniature golf

Monopoly

Morris Day and the Time’s Jerk Out

Mountain Dew Code Red

MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch

Murder, She Wrote

Nathan’s Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest

National Federation of Republican Women

National Football League

Neocons

New Years Eve noisemakers

New York Post front and back page

New York Stock Exchange opening and closing bells

NFL Films

NFL Network

Oakland Raiders

Old School with Will Ferrell & Vince Vaughn & Godfather Luke Wilson

Overtime playoff hockey

Pajama parties

Peaceful transition of political power

Phil Hartman

Pizza

Political Conventions

Pool volleyball

Pringles

Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio

Q-Bert

Queen’s I want it all

Raider Nation

Rainbow Sherbert

Redeye with Greg Gutfeld

Republican Jewish Brunettes

Republican Party Animals

Riptide

Robin Williams

Ronald Reagan’s self-deprecating jokes 

Rudy Giuliani’s New York toughness

Run DMC

Rush Limbaugh

San Diego Wild Animal Park

Satellite TV

Save a horse, ride a cowboy

Scrabble

Sean Hannity’s Freedom Concerts

Seinfeld

Sexting

Sherman Hemsley’s George Jefferson

Sizzler

Sky high skyscrapers

Skype

Slim Jims

Snoopy’s Joe Cool

Snow football

Social networks for building businesses

South Beach, Miami Spring Break

South Park

Spiderman

Sportsbars

Stock trading

Stratego

Strip chess

Stuart Scott

Sudoku

Summer camp

Super Soakers

Supply-side tax cuts

T-shirt originals

Taco Bell

Talk radio

Thanksgiving with John Madden

The Color of Money

The Counter Build Your Own Burger

The Expendables

The Frat Pack

The Honeymooners

The Muppets

The Onion
Tim McGraw’s Indian Outlaw ——————————————————

Tivo

Toby Keith’s Courtesy of the Red White and Blue

Train rides

Trampoline Dodgeball

Tygrrrr Express

USA Cartoon Express

Video Arcade Games

We’re not France

Weekend at Bernie’s

Western medicine

Whitesnake’s Here I go again video

Wifi on planes

XM Sirius Satellite Radio

Yoo-Hoo

Young Jewish Conservatives

Yummy bouncies and badonkadonks

ZZ Top’s Sleeping Bag and Sharp Dressed Man

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The Top 120 Political Yummy Bouncies of 2024

Friday, June 21st, 2024

YBs 2024

Welcome to Summer. Every June 21st, I release my list of the Top 30 hottest women in politics. This list was originally known as the Top 120 political yummy bouncies. Anyway, this is a bare bones list. You can Google the photos yourself. The top 10 liberals, centrists and conservatives are listed for your viewing pleasure. I threw in one major curveball due to the changing times. 

Racist whitey-hating bully Angel Reese and her white target Caitlan Clark did not make the list. Clark’s refusal to become black, woke or a lesbian is leading to her being physically attacked. Nevertheless, nobody cares about the WNBA. 

Taylor Swift did not make the list. If you’re not over the whole Swift thing, you should be. Enough already. 

Liberals:

10.) Eva Longoria — The Eva Longoria rule is simple. When this Desperate Housewives star intentionally says or does anything political, she automatically tops the list. This year she is on the list but not at the top because her actions were unintentional. President Joe Biden tried to grope her in full public view in 2023. She pushed his hands off of her body. Don’t expect her to show any self-respect beyond that. She will likely make excuses for his behavior and campaign for his reelection. Inadvertantly exposing more hypocrisy in the #MeToo movement puts her on the list, but not at the top. If she makes another speech for him at the 2024 DNC Convention, she will show that self-respect matters less than power. 

9.) Julia Louise-Dreyfuss — She plays Kamala Harris on television as a completely incompetent Vice President in Veep. She is famous because she road Jerry Seinfeld’s coattails on his hit television show about nothing. Her obnoxious speech at the 2020 DNC Convention has been followed up with her criticizing Seinfeld for demanding freedom in comedy. She believes political correctness has a place in comedy. A comedian who favors censorship is not funny. 

8.) Gretchen Whitmer — She locked down her state of Michigan with draconian Covid restrictions that she and her husband openly disobeyed. She bashed Florida during Covid while secretly visiting the state. Somehow, she managed to get reelected. She is a future presidential candidate only because Michigan is a swing state and Democrats have abandoned all pretenses of moderation. If Biden or Harris is ousted, she will try to make the leap.

7.) Kathy Hochul — The failed New York Governor was initially appointed when Democrats forced out the more moderate Andrew Cuomo over a few cases of grab-@ss. Hochul is a radical leftist who was elected to a full term by the skin of her teeth. Her arrogance cost Democrats five congressional seats and control of Congress. Her total failure at everything makes her a perfect future Democrat presidential candidate. If Biden or Harris are tossed aside, she will try to make the climb up. She has managed to take solid blue New York and make it competitive for Republicans. 

6.) Sheng Thao — The Mayor of Oakland had her home raided by the FBI in a corruption probe. While Democrats usually skate on such matters, taking down a low level Democrat would allow the FBI to maintain a phony cloak of non-partisan neutrality. You have to be very corrupt to be held accountable as a Democrat, especially in a Democrat administration. She grew up in poverty, and supports policies that will enrich her while keeping her constituents in poverty. She with significant help from her predecessor Libby Schaaf have helped rid Oakland of all remaining professional spots teams and their pesky job-creation mechanisms.

5.) Letitia James — The only thing bigger than the New York Attorney General’s ego is her badonkadonk, and it’s a close call. She campaigned on a promise to frame Donald Trump for crimes, and in the short term she has succeeded. She would rank higher but her work will most likely be overturned by a sane judge. However, if Joe Biden gets reelected before this happens, James will rocket up this list. 

4.) Bailey Anne Kennedy — Miss Maryland is transgender. This means she is more confused about women than Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. For those wondering why beauty pageants are failing, it is because they keep putting politically correct insanity over what has always been normal. Putting Kennedy on top of the female beauty pyramid is not groundbreaking. It is simply crazy. 

3.) Claudia Sheinbaum — Mexico’s first female president happens to be Jewish. She is also a hardcore leftist socialist, which means she will be a nightmare for Jews. If she messes up in office, her critics will remind everyone that she is Jewish. If Karl Marx were a Mexican woman, he would have nothing on Sheinbaum. She is expected to allow the few people still living in Mexico to illegally enter the United States. Any fentanyl that crosses the border and kills Americans is just coincidental. 

2.) Kamala Harris — This giggling, cackling hyena became an affirmative action hire when Barack and Michelle Obama ordered Joe Biden to put her on the ticket. Despite being terrible at everything, Harris has outlasted rivals Ron Klain and Susan Harris. She does virtually nothing, and what little she does, she does badly. Yet because of her race and gender, Biden cannot fire her from the ticket. He is stuck with her. She has the ultimate no-show job. She will have absolute power if anything happens to Biden. 

1.) Tiffany Henyard — The Mayor of Dolton, Illinois might be the most corrupt politician on earth. When a constituent criticizes her, she sics the police on them to raid their home. Her profligate spending is matched only by her brazenness. She is living proof that being a black female Democrat is an automatic license in politics to do whatever she pleases whenever she pleases without consequences. For having absolute power and bragging about it, Mayor Henyard is the hottest political liberal of 2024. 

Centrists:

10.) Kirsten Glavin — This New England NBC reporter covers Cape Cod and surrounding areas. Being non-controversial in New England is a rare talent. 

9.) Liz Cho — This New York City ABC reporter has managed to work in media in the most leftist market outside of New England while coming across as sane and reasonable. For refusing to politicize virtually everything, Cho may face career setbacks. So far she has survived, although to be fair, there is a lack of a talent pool in the triple-state area. 

8.) Courtney Friel — This former Fox News personality avoided partisan commentary. She decided that all politics is local, leaving Fox News for Fox KTLA in Los Angeles. She remains gorgeous, bright, and non-partisan. 

7..) Erin Burnett — It’s hard to call anyone a centrist at CNN, but Burnett seems far less crazy than most of her colleagues. She has managed to avoid disgracing herself at her network, not an easy feat. She would rank higher but virtually nobody watches CNN.

6.) Melissa Theuriau — This French journalist works for M6, the most profitable TV news entity in France. As beautiful as she is, her stories often get overlooked due to a global apathy toward the irrelevant nation of France. President Emanuel Macron suffering severe legislative election losses may cause a ripple if she reports on it. If she covered any other nation, she would be an even bigger superstar. The upcoming French elections will not make France relevant, but it could propel her to greater career heights. 

5.) Megyn Kelly — This former attorney turned Fox News personality left the network and sued her former boss Roger Ailes. Her stint at NBC was unsuccessful, but she has now rebounded as a top internet reporter and analyst, She is a tough as nails questioner who plays it straight down the line. She would rank higher if she were on a major television network. As great as she is, the internet just does not allow for the same exposure. 

4.) Susan Li — She was born in China and raised in Toronto, Canada. Now she is a Fox Business correspondent. She has interviewed top political and business leaders in Canada and the United States. 

3.) Robin Meade — This lead morning news anchor for Headline News was once Miss Ohio. In 2021 she even released a country music album. She is an example of drop-dead gorgeous and multi-talented women who deserve to be taken seriously. 

2.) Melania Trump — She is married to the former Republican president, but she has never been overtly political. She is a former model, not a political activist. Her stint as First Lady would have been completely non-controversial had the media not despised her husband so much. She is drop dead gorgeous but ranks low on the list for staying out of the spotlight this year. If Donald Trump wins the White House again, Melania will top the list again.

1.) Princess Kate — The Royal family does not have any political power, but they do have influence far beyond Britain. The death of the beloved and respected Queen Elizabeth led to the ridiculed Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles taking over. If they somehow do not permanently destroy the monarchy, Kate and her husband Prince William could restore it. Kate and her husband both conduct themselves with propriety and class, a sparkling contrast to the publicity seeking grifters Harry and Meghan. Kate’s role is more vital than ever given the wreckage around other family members. She has been a beacon of dignity and grace as she wages a brutal battle against cancer. For her kindness, boldness, and overall strength and dignity, Princess Kate is the hottest political centrist of 2024. 

Conservatives:

10.) Kristi Noem — This great South Dakota Governor achieved plaudits for keeping her state completely open during the Covid pandemic. She has kept the state normal but lost the battle to have July 4th fireworks at Mount Rushmore an annual event. She was considered a presidential candidate and an even stronger vice presidential choice, but she ranks lower on this list for giving her dog the Old Yeller treatment. The issue of her shooting her dog is overblown, but she fumbled the media part of explaining her actions. 

9.) Lauren Boebert — While nobody should celebrate divorce, many single men perked up at the news that Lauren Boebert is about to be single. This stunning brunette is a sexy pistol packing hot mama. This Colorado congresswoman  barely survived her reelection, but is now fighting back hard against the anti-American Squad. She is held Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s feet to the fire. She will need to get reelected again to move up the list. She was involved in a sexually inappropriate incident in a movie theatre, but to be fair her date was a Democrat. 

8.) Anna Paulina Luna — She is the first Mexican-American to be elected to Congress in Florida. She is a warrior, leading the charge to have Merrick Garland and other corruptocrats impeached and Adam Schiff expelled from Congress. To move higher on this list, she needs to show staying power by getting reelected. She also needs to get results from her inquiries. So far, no Democrat she has targeted has been held accountable. 

7.) Mollie Hemingway/Miranda Devine — These are two of the hottest and smartest reporters in America. Hemingway writes for the Federalist, while the appropriately named Divine writes for the New York Post. Hemingway has done extensive work on exposing corruption involving the 2020 presidential election. Divine has brilliantly revealed the various controversies surrounding Hunter Biden and his laptop from hell. The more information dribbles out, the more these two women are seen as right. 

6.) Winsome Sears — The Lieutenant Governor of Virginia is a rock star. She is a proud black woman who served her country in the United States Marines. In her citizen life, she ran a homeless shelter. She has broken plenty of barriers in Virginia politics, which would make her a media darling if she were a Democrat. She has to settle for being loved by Republican voters nationwide. The Governor of Virginia is limited to one term, making her the logical successor to Governor Glenn Youngkin in 2025 or earlier if he becomes the Vice President. 

5.) Victoria Seaman — This gorgeous and successful businesswoman has a real chance of being the first Republican woman elected Mayor of Las Vegas in a very long time. She is a real conservative who understands the needs of small business owners. 

4.) Nikki Haley — This successful former South Carolina Governor and spectacular Ambassador to the United Nations is more than qualified to be President. Yet she ranks near the bottom of the pack. Some are seeing her as a candidate for Vice President. She has been more than competent at every government job she has ever held. Although she did not win the GOP nomination, coming in second place out of everyone is not bad. She still has a block of support. If she campaigns hard for Trump in 2024, she will earn good will in 2028. If she does not, she may be finished. 

3.) Sarah Huckabee Sanders — She was Donald Trump’s White House press secretary. Now she is the first female Arkansas Governor. Her father previously held that job when Bill Clinton’s successor Jim Guy Tucker resigned due to the Whitewater scandal. Succeeding the more moderate Asa Hutchinson, Sanders has battled critics while raising several children and moving her state sharply to the right. She has beaten back the Woke mob and largely won the culture wars in her state. She is drastically reducing taxes in an attempt to get her state income tax to zero. She could be President some day. 

2.) Amy Coney Barrett — This United States Supreme Court justice is everything her supporters could have hoped for. She is Superwoman. A mother to seven children including a racially diverse mixture of adopted children, she went through her entire SCOTUS hearing without needing to take notes. She has sided with the conservative bloc on almost every issue, including the biggest decisions regarding abortion and guns. 

1.) Judge Aileen Cannon — This young smart judge was randomly chosen to oversee one of the indictment cases against Donald Trump. Because Trump appointed her, the left is already launching baseless attacks against her for bias. She has not backed down. She would rank higher but the cases against Trump are overrated in terms of significance. Very few if any people who love or hate Trump will be persuaded, regardless of the results. Once this is over, she will fade into the background. If she rules against Trump, she will briefly become a liberal hero until her next conservative ruling. A governor can influence a state. A Supreme Court justice can influence the entire nation. For being a key player in the 2024 presidential election, Judge Cannon can influence the entire world for several years to come. For this reason, she is the hottest politically conservative woman of 2024.

eric

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The TYGRRRR EXPRESS Turns 17

Monday, March 11th, 2024
On this day in 2007, I began the TYGRRRR EXPRESS. Everything I have done in life since then emanates from that decision.
Thank you all for supporting me in my endeavors. It’s been a wild 17 years.

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In praise of Warren Buffett

Thursday, February 15th, 2024

“I Don’t Believe In Imposing My Views on 370,000 Employees And A Million Shareholders. I’m Not Their Nanny.”

— Warren Buffett

Politically, Mr. Buffett happens to be a Democrat. He believes taxes are too low and has pushed for higher taxes. I disagree with him. Yet what matters is that he keeps his personal politics out of his investing.

There is nobody on this earth better at picking a stock than Buffett. He believes in real companies with real products and services that produce real earnings.

He refused to take part in the internet tech boom of the 1990s. He was vindicated when the boom went bust in the brutal bear market of 2000-2002.

Mr. Buffett refuses to put money into Bitcoin. In his words, cryptocurrency “doesn’t do anything.” There’s nothing there.

Yes, Buffett has missed out on some spectacular gains. Yet he is an investor, not a speculator or gambler. He likes value stocks. He invests in solid companies with strong management that are undervalued and have long term growth potential.

Many companies have been letting politics interfere with investing goals. Some companies have even mandated that politics be considered a key investing goal. This has several names, from “Woke investing” to “socially responsible investing.”

Buffett absolutely believes in social responsibility in his personal life. He has vowed to donate the vast majority of his wealth to charity before and after his death. He has even cajoled many other billionaires into signing a pledge to do the same.

Yet Buffett separates his personal life from his job as a CEO. The evidence is overwhelming that his approach has succeeded. Berkshire Hathaway stock just hit an all time high.

What Buffett does with his personal fortune is none of my business. As a shareholder in his company, what he does with company money is absolutely my business. He is a great CEO because he understands this.

The greatest investor in the history of investing believes all politics should be removed from businesses. He is 100% right.

The Oracle of Omaha gets it. Long Live Warren Buffett.

eric

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What Jews (and all of us) can learn from the Super Bowl

Sunday, February 11th, 2024

This offering by Rabbi Sholom Rodal of Chabad Mount Olympus was so brilliant that I felt it deserved sharing.

eric

Weekly Inspiration

 

Rabbi’s Spin on the Super Bowl
Super Bowl Sunday is just around the corner.

Whether you’re a casual fan, a football aficionado, an armchair quarterback, or a diehard devotee, you’ve probably already chosen which team you’ll be rooting for.

Many of us who watch from the sidelines think that football players are mainly brawn, but more goes into a player than brute strength. Speed, hand-and-eye coordination, agility, brain power, teamwork, and a willingness to get bashed up if you’re on the front line, are a few of the qualities of this all-American sport.

In keeping with the teaching of the Baal Shem Tov that everything we see and hear is a lesson for us in our Divine service, let’s peruse just a few aspects of football and a couple of the rules, to see what we can learn from the game.

Close to 120 million people tune in every year to watch at least part of football’s championship game. But why?!

Compare that with the approximately 15 million who tune in to your average World Series game-the difference is pretty stark, and certainly not reflective of the fan base of the respective sports.

The reason? A single winner-take-all game is much more exciting and important than a seven-game series. No one game of the series that determines the basketball, baseball, or hockey champion is as consequential as the Super Bowl. So your team lost one? No reason to panic, there will be another game…

The Super Bowl is also more interesting because anything can happen in a single game. This gives the weaker team a better chance of winning; the outcome is less predictable.

So where am I going with all this?

Every day we have different struggles; we’re always facing one sort of contest or another. How important is it to be victorious? So you want to skip that one obligation..you want to post that unkind comment on social media..you want to bypass that important Jewish ritual that your Bubby used to do…or you want to take a pass on doing that favor for another… Is it a big deal? Tomorrow you’ll get it right!

I guess it depends whether you view each struggle as part of a series, or a Super Bowl. If every moment is a Super Bowl then every victory is HUGE!

And if you’re in Super Bowl mode, you get another advantage: in any one game, anything can happen. You can win even if you think you might be outmatched in this particular area!

And one more thing to think about:

You have to keep your eye on the ball at all times. Keeping your eye on the ball means being aware of one’s lifetime goal as an individual and the Jewish people’s goal as a nation. As individuals, we each have our specific G-d-given mission in life and it is our responsibility to accomplish this mission.

In football, and all sports, there are players and spectators. If you’re a spectator and the game is tough, you can get up and leave before the end. The players always has to stay on the field until the very last play. If we all see ourselves as players in our role as Jews, then before we know it, we’ll merit to be a part of the great historic event–and we don’t mean Superbowl Sunday!

So whether you are rooting for the 49ers or the Chiefs, we wish you a winning Shabbat

Shabbat Shalom & Chodesh Tov!

— Rabbi Sholom Rodal, Chabad of Mount Olympus in Los Angeles

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52 happy memories upon turning 52

Tuesday, January 9th, 2024

My birthday: 52 happy memories upon turning 52

I entered this world 51 years ago today on January 9, 1972. On my 49th birthday, here are 49 happy memories.

1.) Every moment I ever spent with my grandparents. They are gone now, but I had all four of them when I graduated college and three of them when I turned 30. I am blessed.

2.) January 9, 1977 — The Oakland Raiders won the Super Bowl on my fifth birthday. I saw the logo and became a Raider for life.

3.) August 15, 1980 — Smokey and the Bandit II came out. I saw the original and the sequel and became a lifelong fan of the Bandit and the Snowman.

4.) January 22, 1984 — The Raiders won their third Super Bowl. I still remember telling the kids at school the next day one simple message. “Just win baby!”

5.) January 21, 1985 — I had my Bar Mitzvah, the Jewish passage into manhood. My Orthodox Rabbi grandfather led the ceremony.

6.) July 13, 1990 — I watched Bill Murray in “Quick Change” for the first of over 100 times. This movie is true New York, and Murray remains a national hero.

7.) August 26, 1990 — I flew from New York to Los Angeles for college. I immediately fell in love with this city and never left.

8.) September 26, 1990 — I joined the campus radio station and developed my lifelong love of radio.

9.) May 10, 1992 — I wrote my first song. 70 more would follow.

10.) January 9, 1994 — The Raiders won a playoff game over arch rival Denver on my 22nd birthday. We all had a big party to celebrate afterward at 1950s Cafe Ed Debevic’s.

11.) June 14, 1994 — The New York Rangers won the NHL Stanley Cup and ended the 54 year curse.

12.) September 13, 1994 — I passed the Series 7 stockbroker’s exam. At that moment I was now a professional.

13.) June 1, 1997 — I saw my friend doing something on a computer that seemed different. He was in a chat room. It was my first time using the Internet.

14.) July 4, 1999 — My friends and I crashed an Independence Day party on the beach and escaped moments before police busted up the party.

15.) September 23, 1999 — I finally got my driver’s license. I never needed one before.

16.) December 31, 1999 — Ringing in the Millennium in Las Vegas.

17.) March 1, 2000 — I flew from Los Angeles to New Orleans for Mardi Gras 2000. I still have my Calvin and Hobbes t-shirt, “Life is short. Party naked. Mardi Gras 2000.”

18.) February 13, 2003 — I watched the movie “Old School.” I will forever thank Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell and “The Godfather” Luke Wilson for inspiring me at age 31 to finally start going to Florida for Spring Break. Years of South Beach, Miami revelry ensued at the Clevelander and Ocean’s 10.

19.) March 14, 2003 — I flew to Singapore and Thailand and got to experience five days of beauty in each country. I met the Jewish communities of both nations.

20.) November 4, 2003 — NFL Network was born. Finally, a television channel worth watching existed.

21.) November 2, 2004 — Enjoying the 2004 election with my closest friends.

22.) February 12, 2006 — I flew from Los Angeles to Hawaii. I met the Jewish community of Honolulu and attended my first NFL Pro Bowl. I met ESPN’s Chris Berman.

23.) April 28, 2006 — I flew from Los Angeles to New York and went to Radio City Music Hall. For the first time, I got to attend the NFL Draft and meet a bunch of great football heroes.

24.) August 4, 2006 — I flew from Los Angeles to Ohio and drove to Canton. I visited the Pro Football Hall of Fame, saw the induction ceremony featuring John Madden, and attended the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game.

25.) March 11, 2007 — I Started a blog called the Tygrrrr Express. That column somehow turned into five books and a national speaking career.

26.) September 11, 2007 — On the sixth anniversary of the attacks, I flew from Los Angeles to New York and then drove to Great Adventure in New Jersey. I attended Sean Hannity’s Freedom Concert and saw New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani light up the crowd.

27.) October 17, 2007 — I joined Facebook. Between that and Twitter, I have met many good people, increased book sales, and built my business.

28.) February 2, 2008 — I flew from Los Angeles to Phoenix and attended my first Super Bowl. The New York Giants shocked the previously unbeaten New England Patriots.

29.) March 30, 2008 — My friend adopted a child from Guatemala. On this day “the boy” turned one. Being “Unca Eric” is the best job in the world.

30.) May 13, 2008 — I flew from Los Angeles to Washington, DC. I attended the Republican Jewish Coalition Leadership Conference and met Dr. Charles Krauthammer.

31.) August 6, 2008 — I flew from Los Angeles to Israel and spent a week in the Holy Land.

32.) August 30, 2008 — I flew from Los Angeles to Minneapolis for my first Republican Convention. For a week, friends and I slept in a sports bar. It was like being Norm Peterson from “Cheers.”

33.) April 5, 2009 — My first book “Ideological Bigotry” was published.

34.) September 1, 2009 — I left Wall Street after 15 years and began my career as a full-time professional speaker.

35.) November 11, 2009 — I flew from Los Angeles to Galveston and spoke at the Texas Federation of Republican Women Convention. I made TFRW and other lifelong friends in the Lone Star State.

36.) March 11, 2010 — I flew from Los Angeles to Oklahoma City to speak at the National Federation of Republican Women Spring Conference. That launched me nationally since the NFRW run the world.

37.) May 1, 2011 — In Aiken, South Carolina, I saw the news that Osama bin Laden was killed. That night I told my very best political joke. “Osama bin Laden is now burning underground with 72 Helen Thomases.” It was the bookend to my very first political joke. “Never rely on a Palestinian GPS tracker. I took one wrong turn, ended up at a cemetery, and a sinister voice said, ‘You have reached your final destination!’ I got so angry I threw the thing out the window, which was good because 5 seconds later it exploded.”

38.) February 9, 2013 — I met Vice President Dick Cheney and spoke in front of him at a dinner.

39.) September 25, 2013 — I spoke to a Tea Party group in Hays, Kansas. At that moment, I had officially spoken in all 50 states.

40.) November 4, 2014 — I spoke at an election night party in New Jersey.

41.) March 20, 2015 — After writing four political comedy books, I finished my first religious comedy book “Jewish Lunacy.” This allowed me to move beyond political speaking into religious speaking.

42.) May 12, 2015 — I met President George W. Bush and shook his hand.

43.) November 8, 2016 — Enjoyed a raucous election night party in Raleigh, North Carolina.

44.) Any woman whoever let me play with her yummy bouncies or at least was nice enough to send me pictures of them.

45.) January 9, 2018 — On my 46th birthday, the return of Chucky as Jon Gruden returns to the Black Hole to rejoin the Raiders. Like me, Gruden has unfinished business.

46.) November 9, 2018 — I met Angela Lansbury in Beverly Hills and got my picture taken with her. She remains one of the most talented people in the history of entertainment.

47.) 2019 was the year I branch out beyond books and into t-shirts. I started with 2 or 3 designs in 2017 and 2018. By the end of 2019 I had 49 mostly original t-shirt designs. Now I have over 250 mostly original designs. My best seller remains “Stop judging women by their tops. #BackSidesMatter!”

48.) 2020 was a brutal year for so many people because of a global pandemic. Yet thank God I was healthy and in better financial condition than previous years. On January 9, 2021, I watched the NFL Wildcard playoffs with friends. Normally there would be 2 games as has been the case for the last 30 years. Yet for the first time, there were 3 games, with 3 more to occur on January 10th. I watched football all day and had a great day with people who matter to me. I was besieged with well-wishes from hundreds of people by text, phone call and social media. My birthday evening capped with a special someone. I am blessed as can be to have had such a great birthday.

49.) August 9, 2021 — Rabbi Yaakov Perman of Chabad Leawood, Kansas helped me put on Tefillin. At that moment, I had finally put on Tefillin in all 50 states. 

50.) On February 14, 2022, I achieved the American dream that I thought was forever beyond my reached. I finally bought a home. I own a condo in North Miami, Florida. 

51.) On August 14, 2022, I achieved another dream that I thought would never happen. After a life of bachelorhood, I got married. She is a Republican Jewish brunette. 

52.) On April 7, 2023, I purchased my second home, a condo in Aventura, 4 miles from the first home in North Miami in South Florida. 

I would like to thank my parents for raising me right and Angela Lansbury’s JB Fletcher of “Murder, She Wrote” for catching murderers and making the world safer.

Anything I could possibly wish for has already been granted. Between my parents, my wife, and the best friends a guy could possibly ask for, I am truly blessed.

eric @ Tygrrrr Express

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