Michael Avenatti Arrested On Domestic Abuse Charge

                Democratic presidential candidate Michael (“Stormy Weather”) Avenatti was arrested recently on felony domestic abuse charges. Avenatti and the as-of-this-writing unidentified alleged victim apparently had a confrontation November 14^th at a posh apartment building in Los Angeles’ Century City district. Reports claim the woman was seen on the sidewalk in front of the complex crying and yelling into her cellphone, “I can’t believe you did this to me. I’m going to get a restraining order against you!”

                Apparently, authorities escorted her back into the apartment building where Avenatti appeared shortly thereafter, shouting, “She hit me first,” and adding, “This is bullshit! This is f**king bullshit!”

                Avenatti did everything he could to derail the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, even using an unstable woman named Julie Swetnick, who briefly hurled utterly unsubstantiated and uncorroborated allegations of serial rape against Kavanaugh. Avenatti was adamant then that we all should believe Swetnick, indeed were obligated to believe all women all the time. It is deliciously ironic that Avenatti, whose law firm has been evicted from its offices for non-payment of rent, is now essentially saying, “I’m innocent! I didn’t do it! You gotta believe me! This woman is lying!” He may well be innocent of the charges, but he certainly didn’t help his cause if he shouted to authorities, “She hit me first!” Does he have the I.Q. of a radish?

                Leftists love to have their cake and eat it, too. (Just kidding, they know cake is bad for you. Try the Tofu Twinkies). One can’t logically deny others due process and the presumption of innocence and subsequently demand it for oneself. The same goes for free speech and other cornerstones of a society based on the rule of law.

                One would think a lawyer would know that.

    One would be wrong.

Tucker Carlson's Daughter Verbally Assaulted?

                Juan Granados recently verbally assaulted Tucker Carlson’s teenage daughter at the Farmington Country Club in Charlottesville, Virginia, allegedly asking her if she was Tucker’s “whore” and calling her a “f*cking c*nt.”

                Mr. Granados was a board member of an organization called “The Women’s Initiative,” a group with the stated mission of “empowering women in times of challenge and change.” Heaping utterly unwarranted abuse on women you don’t even know seems an odd way of empowering them. According to a semi-apologetic tweet from the president of The Women’s Initiative, Mr. Granados has offered his resignation, which was accepted.

Yet, Granados is planning to sue Carlson, his son and another unidentified man for alleged assault. He claims Carlson issued threats and told him to “f**king get out of here.” Carlson said Granados stopped his daughter when she was on the way back from the restroom and asked her if she was sitting with the Fox News host. When his daughter responded, “That’s my dad,” Granados asked her if she was his “whore.” Carlson admits his son dumped a glass of wine on Granados after coming to the defense of his sister. (The “unidentified” man allegedly lifted Granados up out of his chair). If the initial verbal assault on Carlson’s daughter occurred, Granados should have had more than a glass of wine dumped on him. I wouldn’t want to live in a world where a dad or a brother wouldn’t defend their daughter/sister against random, vile, obscene smears such as these.

                Granados, who is a gay “visual artist,” is no stranger to lawsuits. He and his partner, Will Trinkle (!), once sued an athletic club after it revoked a discounted family membership it had sold the partners and “their” child. The couple said their membership was revoked because the club defined a family as a “husband, wife, and their children ages 21 and younger.” (The club subsequently changed its “family membership” package to a “household membership,” offered for the same price).

                Care to guess who Mr. Granados’ current lawyer is? That’s right, none other than the sleazy solicitor himself, Michael Avenatti! What are the odds? I mean, there are currently well over a million practicing lawyers in the U.S.!

                Avenatti was arrested and booked on a felony count of domestic violence Wednesday, November 14^th, Los Angeles police said. (He was released after posting $50,000 bail).

                To quote The Women’s Initiative, these are indeed challenging and changing times. If we are to have a tenable future, reason, not feeling, must reign. Honesty must super-cede hypocrisy, and truth must trump tribal connections and identity politics.

               

                 

Professor Rebuked For Saying Men And Women Are Different

                This past June, University of Washington Professor Stuart Reges penned an op-ed in which he said that women generally aren’t interested in computer science. What’s more, he stated, “Men and women are different, and they make different choices.” Egads! Ready the guillotine!

                This simple statement of an obvious fact predictably sent many students and professors into paroxysms of rage and indignity. The school will not be summarily destroyed, however, as its officials did what university officials always do: they immediately caved and went into full-fledged appeasement mode, agreeing to numerous “grievance demands.” I will not list the full set of “demands” the snowflakes and their enablers put forth. Suffice it to say there was much talk of the school providing “inter-sectional diversity” training. The university will also pledge to thoroughly scrutinize every aspect of its computer science courses to ensure they promote diversity above all else. University of Washington spokesman Victor Balta went so far as to say the school will ensure that its “gateway courses are attractive and welcoming to the broadest group of students.” Really? A S.T.E.M. course? Is it going to provide beer? Cookies, warm milk and puppies? Free sex toys?

                Professor Reges is understandably troubled that his op-ed was deemed a form of “harassment.” He told PJ Media: “The graduate students are claiming that by merely discussing ideas they dislike that I have committed gender harassment. This would be an alarming precedent to establish.”

                You think? And they run for their safe spaces while chasing anyone to the right of Che Guevara out of restaurants?

                Leftists accuse those who are pro-reality of assaulting their human dignity and of being extremists. No, the extreme position is averring that abortion is “health care for women” and that truth does not exist or is unknowable. Their assertion that there are no set genders, but that an infinite number of them exist is an affront to human dignity. If you refuse to identify as either a man or a woman, you’ve made a mockery of all that came before you, and essentially declared yourself a non-person, an anonymous cyborg, a robot, artificial non-intelligence in a no-sex-bot form.

                There aren’t any magazines with centerfolds of Amoeba-like creatures who are unisex, asexual or reproduce with just their own gender, i.e. themselves. There is a reason for this. Would “yin and yin” be as good as yin and yang? Would “tonic and tonic” be as good as gin and tonic? Would Sonny and Cher have been no better than “Sonny and “Sonny?”

                Men and women are different. If they weren’t, none of us would be here. If they weren’t, many of us wouldn’t care to be here. That this is somehow controversial, that these are somehow “fightin’ words,” is proof positive that we human beings are now literally sowing the seeds of our own destruction.

Blue Votes Matter

            Blue Votes Matter! All votes don’t matter, mind you, just blue ones. At least in a contested election and after the fact. It’s truly remarkable the percentage of votes dead people and non-citizens cast for Democrats as opposed to Republicans. And now, lawyers for Democratic Senator Bill Nelson have filed a federal lawsuit that claims Florida is disenfranchising voters by not counting mail-in ballots it received after Election Day, even though state law requires all mail ballots to be received by the time the polls close, which was 7 p.m. on November 6^th. But most Democrats believe the law is only for chumps and Republicans to obey…as if there was a difference.

You can almost see the thought bubble above the heads of Brenda Snipes and the sleazy liberal lawyers: “Came into the country illegally? Fine. Step right into the voting booth, my friend. Sent your vote in days late? No problem, we’ll get it counted anyway. Screw the wishes of actual citizens acting within the law. Let’s just count votes in perpetuity, since we know all of them will be for our side, except for the few we threw in to make it look legit, hehe!”

Antifa, illegal immigrants, Democratic election supervisors, and liberal lawyers all pay no price—or are actually rewarded— for breaking the law with impunity. Why the hell should the rest of us pay any attention to it? And, by-the-way, I want my vote to be counted in German elections…and those to determine the Chief Dogcatcher in the Macedonian town of Bogdanci. I’d like to be a member of Israel’s Knesset, too.

It appears that an employee of Avis Car Rentals Fort Lauderdale location discovered two boxes, apparently containing ballots belonging to Brenda Snipes office, in the trunk of a rental car that a member of Snipes’ organization had returned Sunday night, days after the election. Ironically, shortly thereafter, the airport was closed down due to an alleged bomb threat, preventing GOP representatives and journalists from witnessing the handling of the alleged votes. I don’t know about you, but I hate that when that happens.

Oddly enough, thousands of votes have been “discovered” in Georgia long after the polls closed as well, the vast majority of them going for Democrat Stacey Abrams in that state’s gubernatorial race. Rumor has it that the “Ballot of Billy the Kid” was counted—for Abrams, of course—as was that of everyone else, dead or alive, real or imagined, after polling places closed.

            In Arizona, Kirsten Sinema “defeated” Martha McSally, after McSally was ahead for most of the counting. But, really, why wouldn’t a Taliban-supporting ignorant air-head like Sinema defeat a fellow woman who served her own country as a fighter-pilot and who has a working familiarity with logic and reason? Maybe some voters got confused and wrote in Sally McMartha.

            In any case, Republicans’ advantage across the South is diminishing rapidly, and will certainly be gone in the next few years due to demographic changes alone. “Blue Bayou” will soon be a reality instead of just a song title. The life is being progressively squeezed out of the American republic, and so it turns bluer and bluer.

            And, if progressive candidates don’t get enough votes to win fairly on Election Day, their aiders and abettors will simply “find” more votes…somewhere out there…in the vast, endless swamp.

I felt so bad I had a worried mind
I was so bitter all the time
Since I left my sanity behind
On Blue Bayou

Gonna try to steal power again
Others' beliefs we will cleanse
So we’ll all feel superior again
On Blue Bayou

Creating ballots, committing crimes
Working ‘til the sun don't shine
Looking forward to happier times
On Blue Bayou

We’ll stab your back today
Come what may
In Blue Bayou
Where the truth is spun
And the world is mine
On Blue Bayou 

Where we fish for votes
And blame other folks
‘Cuz we so love to see
That familiar surprise
In their sleepy eyes
Oh, how happy we be

Oh, that ballot of mine
Won’t be cast aside
We’ll be winning soon
You can’t turn the tide 

 As I tweeted today
 Gonna take away
 The votes I dislike
 ‘Cause It’s you we’ll screw
 Until our dreams come true
 On Blue, Blue Bayou!

The Center For Voter Information

                Prior to the recent mid-term election, I received, unbidden, a mailing from The Center for Voter Information, purporting to list the candidates positions on certain vital issues. It was addressed to me specifically, using my first name only in the “greeting.”  The CVI introduced itself thusly: “The Center for Voter Information works to provide information about candidates to voters like you across the country. This year, we asked voters in your congressional district what they would like to know about candidates for Congress in the general election being held on November 6^th.”

                Voters who allegedly took the time to respond to the CVI probably don’t need to rely on the organization to interpret the candidates’ positions on key issues. That said, this was the first question posed to “voters like me across the country:”

                “Air Pollution Regulation: Do the candidates support regulations to reduce air pollution contributing to climate change known as greenhouse gases? Democrat Angie Craig: YES. Republican Jason Lewis: No.”

                Not only is that a preposterously leading and biased way of phrasing the question, climate change wasn’t to be found anywhere in the list of issues those who voted said they were concerned about.

                The second question at least tangentially pertained to an issue about which voters did claim to care, healthcare: “Medicaid Cuts: Do the candidates support cutting funding to Medicaid (the health insurance program for low-income Americans) for 14 million Americans? Democrat Angie Craig: No. Republican Jason Lewis: Yes.”

                Roughly half of American households have at least one member receiving government benefits. In 2016 spending on human services such as Social Security, Medicare, health, and income security totaled 73% of the federal budget, whereas spending for national defense amounted to only 15% of the federal budget outlay. This is nearly the reverse of spending priorities at times in the country’s past. We have devolved from a nation of can-do people who only wanted a chance to “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps” to a soft one populated by entitled weak-tits who’d rather take someone else’s money than try to make their own. And, we are $21 trillion in debt because of this.

                The CVI flyer also stated, by way of disclaimer: “A candidate’s position is sometimes more complicated than a ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ We have done our best to represent each candidate in a fair and responsible way.” By using “yes” or “no” to explain the candidate’s positions, apparently. At the bottom of the mailer, it added, “The Center for Voter Information is a nonprofit organization that is not endorsing any candidate in this race.” Now tell me the one about the three bears.

                On to the third and final question, fairly and responsibly titled and posed: “Millionaire Tax Cuts: Do the candidates support legislation recently passed by Congress that reduces taxes paid by millionaires and corporations?”

                The tax cuts in question were broad-based and cut the rate on small businesses and almost anyone who actually pays taxes. As a result of this, countless numbers of employees received substantial bonuses. About 45% of Americans pay no federal income taxes whatsoever, while the top 1,409 filers pay as much as the bottom 70% combined. The rich do not pay their “fair share,” they pay astronomically more than that. It is on their backs that the welfare state has been created. It is a demographic, economic and statistical certainty that this cannot long continue to be the case. Even if Atlas doesn’t shrug, fewer and fewer Americans are working and paying taxes to pay for continually increasing entitlement (wealth transfer) programs for the ever-increasing number that aren’t. Moreover, the American population is aging, people are living longer, yet no one will give up their benefits. In fact, many demand more. Obamacare, Medicaid, free college tuition, etc., etc. It never stops.

               And this was all by design.

 Progressive Democrats knew all along that once a society reaches the point at which we are now arriving, where 50% of the citizenry receive more in government benefits then they pay in, and a significant percentage of the rest of the population works for the government, they will never be voted out of office, will never again lose power.  Voilà, Detroit. And then, Venezuela.

This is how a Great Society becomes a Late Society.

Yet, anyone trying to prevent this is considered cold, heartless and mean-spirited. Incredible. 

Here are some similarly unbiased, “fair and responsible” questions I would ask voters such as those constituting the Center for Voter (Mis)Information:

1)      “Slaughtering Unborn Babies: Do the candidates support legislation to declare the murder of small, defenseless humans to be a fundamental human right? Democrat X: Yes. Republican Y: No.”

2)      “Dispensing With the Presumption of Innocence and the Rule of Law: Do the candidates support legislation that would guaranty that arbitrary, unprovable allegations of any sort by any woman against any man would automatically, universally and irrevocably be deemed as legitimate cause to destroy that man’s life? Democrat X: Yes. Republican Y: No.”

3)      “Climate Change: Do the candidates support world-impoverishing legislation that would utterly destroy the global economy in order to possibly slightly reduce the ‘chance’ that the Earth will continue to experience dramatic changes in climate as it has since the beginning of time, including, but not limited to, repeated ice ages wherein mile-thick sheets of ice have traveled hundreds and thousands of miles south in northern hemispheres eviscerating everything in their way, followed by astoundingly rapid warming periods during which these pre-industrial ice sheets have retreated, leaving lakes and glacial till in their wake?”

4)      “Center for Voter Information: Do the candidates support legislation that would officially recognize The Center for Voter Information as the pathetically partisan, pandering, politically-polemic polling group that it really is? Democrat X: No. Republican Y: Yes.”

               

Older Dutch Man Identifies As Younger Dutch Man

                Emile Ratelband is 69 years of age, but he identifies as a 49-year-old. Yet, intolerant and bigoted local authorities flatly refused to amend his age on official documents, so Mr. Ratelband, a pensioner, is suing them. The case has now gone to a court in the Dutch city of Arnhmen.

                Ratelband says he is routinely discriminated against because of his age, and encounters problems in society on a daily basis. He is an entrepreneur and self-help expert who, though born on March 11, 1949, says he feels at least 20 years younger, and therefore requested that his birth date be changed to March 11, 1969. He says he wants to go back to work and have a better chance with women on Tinder.

                Ratelband stated: “When I’m on Tinder and it says I’m 69, I don’t get an answer. When I’m 49, with the face I have, I will be in a luxurious position. He added, “Transgenders can now have their gender changed on their birth certificates, and in the same spirit there should be room for an age change.”

                The court is due to deliver a written ruling within four weeks.

                I say more power to him. Ageism is a particularly pernicious form of bigotry in Western nations today, one that sentences those to whom society arbitrarily assigned a birthdate at birth to an unending succession of offenses big and small. If one is held to be “too young,” one can’t purchase cigarettes or liquor, drive a motor vehicle or even frequent a brothel. On the other hand, if a person is viewed as “too old,” he or she will be prevented from legally having sex with those under 16, likely find it hard to successfully seek gainful employment, and probably be discouraged from driving a motor vehicle, especially after imbibing large quantities of liquor and leaving a brothel. They may even, at some point, be expected to die! One would think progressive politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would be laser-focused on addressing obvious discrimination, inequality and marginalization such as this, but one would be wrong. 

                When will the “woke” truly wake up and smell the (Starbucks) coffee? Anyone can be anything they want. Society considers me to be “married,” but I often identify as single in bars after midnight. If I identify as a toddler, Maori tribesman, transgendered mulatto bisexual, elder statesman, deity, Maxine Waters, or a toaster oven, who the hell is anybody else to judge?

                It’s a brave new world. Inhabited by people deathly afraid……of the truth.

               

Florida Election Hanky-Panky...Again

                What the hell, Florida? It’s déjà vu all over again. We’re gonna party like it’s 1999…plus one! Incompetence? Legerdemain? Corruption? Let us count the ways. Avarice? Let us count and count and count…and count… and, hopefully, recount the ways!

                You can’t be counting “hanging chads” this time around, Broward County. (Come to think of it, the term sounds like the title of a gay porno). Are you looking for more “uncounted ballots” from people named Chad? In the country of Chad? It is obvious to anyone that wouldn’t buy the Brooklyn Bridge sight unseen with bitcoins that Democrats will do literally anything to win elections. The ends justify the means is an age-old tenet of leftists.

                “Wait! Don’t call it, yet! We’ve found more ballots in a clothes basket outside a Motel 6 in Carol Springs!”

                Broward County is to legitimate elections as Clintons are to integrity. Every other county can count ballots and wrap things up in a relatively efficient and unsuspicious manner, so why can’t it? Brenda Snipes (!), the county’s Democratic election head, bemoaned the long hours and days leading up to Election Day and the number of votes to be counted, and pleaded for more time. Perhaps there should be an official count of excuses given for Florida Fiasco II. No, that too would go on for days.

                Andrew Gillum conceded to Ron DeSantis on the night of the election. But, hey, just because you’ve conceded defeat days earlier doesn’t mean you’ve lost! Not if you’re a Democrat! Not in Florida!

                Turns out there were “many more uncounted ballots than were originally reported.” How? Why?

                And how are they (slowly) tabulating the votes? Are votes by Republicans being considered 3/5 of a vote because they’re not quite human? Perhaps the conversion rate is what’s slowing them down in Broward County. Maybe Snipes’ crew is bad with fractions.

                It’s not just one race, but two that are being contested in Florida in 2018. In addition to the afore-mentioned governor’s race, the senate contest between Bill Nelson and Rick Scott is also likely headed for a recount.

                Florida is famously a place where older folks go to retire. And play bingo. I have no doubt that a game of bingo between red-clad Republicans and blue-bedecked Democrats in the Sunshine State would go something like this:

                Caller Snipes: “And next we have…O 69…”

                Red-clad Republican: “Bingo!”

                Caller Snipes: “Um, hold on a minute…oh, I’m sorry, I’ve skipped a few numbers on my board here. Let’s put this right! Please sit down sir.”

                Caller Snipes: “How about B 4?”

                A different red-clad Republican: “Bingo!”

                Caller Snipes: “Whoops, my bad! Sit down ma’am. I meant G 55!”

                Blue-bedecked Democrat: “Bingo!”

    Caller Snipes: “We have a winner!!”

University Offers Students Concierge Service

                New Mexico State University is now offering its students the “Crimson Concierge” resource, a premiere program that provides amenities such as “moving & storage” assistance, booking “travel and vacation packages,” and making “dining reservations.”

                When I was in college, moving was done by your own two feet and storage assistance was provided by a small closet, a desk, and possibly a file cabinet.

                Inside Higher Ed reported that the Crimson Concierge program is part of an attempt by the school to “be more competitive with other institutions with flashier offerings.” It also stated that the concierge will: research travel plans both locally and abroad, find and make dinner reservations, locate events in the area, and, for an extra fee, clean and fold student’s laundry and perform “housework.” The university had previously stated, upon announcing the program earlier this year, that it would also offer students assistance with ordering gifts and specialty items, making doctor and automotive repair appointments, and other services. It’s a tough, grueling life on campus these days. No wonder the young scholars need their safe spaces.

                The competition among institutes of higher learning has ceased to be about higher learning, or even anything directly related to education. It is entirely about promising to make life as preposterously easy as possible for their potential scholars. In the past, most students held a part-time job to help pay their way, studied long hours, slept little, lived in a cramped dorm room and made their own reservations to eat…out of a SpaghettiOs® can or Ramen noodles container. Today, many students attending shockingly expensive colleges can essentially ring a bell and “Jeeves” will come strolling in, asking if they’d rather have him make reservations at a steakhouse or a sushi bar. These pampered pupils have access to the equivalent of a majordomo, secretary, personal lifestyle manager, butler and maid all in one.

                I can soon see, say, the University of Michigan touting its top-tier concierge service, which will offer students personal food and beverage tasters, free and unlimited use of the school’s vast new spa, on-campus gratis legal representation and accountant consultancy, and automatic admission to the mint-of-the-month club. This, of course, will be countered by Ohio State University promoting its complimentary dating service, bedding turn-down program, free customized protest wear, 24/7/365 chauffeur service, and the continual availability of personal masseuses in any of 63 different gender preferences.

                And, instead of schools touting “one instructor per 18 students,” for example, they will be advertising “at least one safe space per every dorm floor, replete with cookie dough, Play-Doh, a big screen television tuned to MSNBC, and several different kinds of puppies.”

                Is this properly preparing students for the future? Is this readying them for the real world? Or are these programs molding useless, entitled brats who will shortly preside over the decline and fall of Western civilization?

                But, I’m tired of thinking such thoughts. Can someone help me make a dinner reservation?

               

Gender Bender...III

                Clinical psychologist Michael Parent is nothing if not a man for the times. He teaches a class titled Human Sexuality at the University of Texas in which he reveals to the young scholars that gender and sex are merely societal constructs. He has also taught students that children as young as 7 should be permitted to take gender hormones so they are better able to “pass” for the opposite sex they desire to be.

                Professor Parent, a fellow of the American Psychological Association (imagine that), once conducted a study on “toxic masculinity” during which test subjects’ fingers were crushed and the length of time they put up with the pressure and pain was measured. He contributed to the development of the university’s MasculinUT program (!), though the program was subsequently suspended due to assertions that it treated masculinity as a mental illness.

                That’s fantastic! Homosexuality and transgenderism (gender dysphoria) have come off the list of mental illnesses and are considered to be a normal part of the “spectrum of sexuality,” but a male acting in a manner consistent with his biological sex is now often treated as a crazed monster. That’s putting the progress in “progressive” lefties!

                Parent remarked in a recent lecture that the very terms man, woman, gay and straight “are halfway out the window already.” In fact, he claims not to see females and males at all, but “people with vaginas” and “people with penises,” or PwVs and PwPs for short.

                So much for “the birds and the bees.” We’ll have to rephrase that quaint old descriptor to “fauna with beaks” and “fauna with stingers,” or FwBs and FwSs for short.

                I can’t wait until speakers across the world begin by addressing their audiences in the newly prescribed manner: “People with Vaginas and people with penises, welcome to…”

                I mean, like, “Ladies and gentlemen” is so Republican…so yesterday!

   PwVs and PwPs, welcome to chaos and insanity.

Elvira: Vote For Democrats

                Cassandra Peterson, aka “Elvira, Mistress of the Dark,” recently became the latest mind-numbed female robot to publicly urge others to vote for Democrats in the 2018 mid-term elections. She joins a long list of lobotomized, politically-correct ditzes from the entertainment field that have done the same.

                The ghastly pale Peterson began her lobbying effort by stating: “As a fan of Elvira, you may like her because she’s spooky, funny and sexy. But as my real fans know, she is also a strong, resilient, empowered woman who stands up for herself and what she believes in.”

                She added that she felt “compelled” to tell others, particularly women, to vote for Democrats, saying, “If you’re a woman or if you have a woman [or girl] in your life who you care about, it’s your obligation to VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS.”

                Well, then.

    This is a remarkable statement on many levels. This strong, “empowered” woman felt like she had to tell other women how they should vote? “If you’re a woman, it’s your obligation to VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS?”  

                Obligation (noun): an act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment.

                That’s right, all you strong, independent women out there, you must do your duty. Where once it was your duty to look after your family or do the dishes, now you must vote Democratic. Just as the Democratic Party disdains uppity blacks who #walk away from the plantation, they don’t much care for bitches who dare to vote Republican.

                Finally, by directing her instructions/marching orders to women and anyone who has a female in their life they care about, she is, of course, telling every American what to do. And I would remind you that, should you dare disobey her, she knows her way around a whip.

                Mistress of the Dark, indeed.

                                                    ****************************

                (Elvira and her cohorts will, sadly, likely be largely successful in their efforts to ensure a Democratic victory in the mid-term elections. There exists real intelligence and artificial intelligence. Too many Americans lack actual organic intelligence, while many “starlets” have artificial breasts and artificial opinions, but virtually no real intelligence at all).