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DAILY BIBLE VERSE
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
Proverbs 3:5
Veterans Day
Today is Veterans Day, and with so much going on in the news, it would be tragic for it to be overshadowed or overlooked. Today is about something far more important than politics. It’s about the men and women who make it possible for us to enjoy the freedom of having elections and the Constitutional right to protest and seek redress when we think our government isn’t doing right by us.
Memorial Day in May is to honor veterans who gave their lives in defense of America. But Veterans Day is to honor all veterans, living or dead, past and present.
It began as Armistice Day, declared by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919, to commemorate the end of World War I. In 1945, World War II veteran Raymond Weeks of Birmingham, Alabama, began a personal crusade to expand Armistice Day into a state holiday honoring all veterans. In 1953, an Emporia, Kansas, shoe store owner named Al King launched a campaign to make it a national holiday. Just one year later, in 1954, he succeeded. It helped that the President was a retired army general from Kansas named Dwight Eisenhower.
Not only is today Veterans Day, but yesterday was the 247th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. It commemorates the day in 1775 when the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Marines to serve in the war against Great Britain. After the Revolutionary War ended, the Marines were disestablished for a time until President John Adams reestablished the Marines as we know the Corps now, on July 11, 1789. But November 10th, 1775, is still considered the birth of the US Marines.
So if you see someone in uniform, this is a great day to say “Thank you” for protecting America’s freedom. Then again, any day is a great day to do that.
“The Long Count Fight”
Welcome back to the week that’s going to knock the Dempsey-Tunney bout out of the history books when people discuss “The Long Count Fight.”
While Georgia gears up for a run-off and election officials in Arizona sign up for remedial math classes, the Senate remains stuck at 49 Republicans, 48 Democrats.
As for the House, Politico has a handy page that’s tracking the results to show which side is nearing a majority of 218 seats.
https://www.politico.com/2022-election/results/house/
As of this writing on early Friday morning, the Democrats have 192, and the Republicans 211. That means the Republicans need just 7 more wins, but the Democrats need 26. Out of the remaining races, two are rated as “likely GOP,” nine are “leans GOP” and seven are “toss-ups.” Five are “solidly Dem,” two are “likely Dem,” and seven are “leans Dem.” To get to 218, the Democrats need to win every race where they have an advantage plus all the “toss-ups” and five of the GOP-favored races. Let’s pray there are no sudden appearances of 100% Democrat ballots to deliver them a miracle.
(Speaking of House races, one of the most unfairly vilified Republicans, Rep. Lauren Boebert, has now pulled ahead of her opponent by 1,100 votes. I hope the hypocritical leftist pigs on MSNBC who love to say vile, sexist things about her have to eat their words, and with no ketchup.)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/boebert-inches-ahead-colorado-votes-continue-tallied
In Arizona, the latest batch of ballots extended the leads of Democrats Katie Hobbs for Governor and Mark Kelly for Senate. But those are the last batches that are expected to favor Democrats. There are still over 571,000 to count that Republicans expect will lean heavily in their favor. So stay positive that those races will still go Republican – if the counting ever ends. They’re now saying it will take until next week! I could count how many holes it would take to fill the Albert Hall faster than that.
Depending on the Arizona and Nevada results, the Georgia Senate run-off might be crucial. Many Republicans are imploring former President Trump to put off his planned Tuesday announcement of his future plans to avoid stirring up more anti-Trump voters against Walker, likening it to handing the Warnock campaign a gift on a silver platter. Although one could argue that at this point, it might be impossible to make people infected with TDS any crazier than they are now.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/georgia-runoff-trump-factor-shortened-schedule-challenges-walker
Federal judge to Biden administration: NOPE
In a major victory for American taxpayers and people who never took out any student loans or who paid theirs off, on Thursday, US District Judge Mark T. Pittman of Texas struck down President Biden’s plan to forgive upwards of half a trillion dollars in student loan debt. And by “forgive,” I mean, “shift the debt to taxpayers who didn't take it out.”
Judge Pittman was extremely clear that this was an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers, with the power to appropriate funds restricted to Congress, not the President. I’m not an attorney, so forgive me if this isn’t the correct legal terminology, but the Judge found it not only unconstitutional, but super-duper unconstitutional. He wrote:
"Whether the Program constitutes good public policy is not the role of this Court to determine. Still, no one can plausibly deny that it is either one of the largest delegations of legislative power to the executive branch or one of the largest exercises of legislative power without congressional authority in the history of the United States…
In this country, we are not ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone. Instead, we are ruled by a Constitution that provides for three distinct and independent branches of government…The Court is not blind to the current political division in our country. But it is fundamental to the survival of our Republic that the separation of powers as outlined in our Constitution be preserved.”
The White House replied that it “strongly disagreed” with the Judge (I’m sure they especially disagreed with the part about America not being ruled by an all-powerful executive with a pen and a phone – in Biden’s case, one who probably often mistakes his pen for a phone.) They vowed to appeal it to a higher court.
Good, take it straight to the Supreme Court. I look forward to hearing how Alito and Thomas will phrase that exact same lesson in basic Constitutional law.
Incidentally, this probably won’t win much sympathy for those who want somebody else to pay off $10,000 to $20,000 of the money they wasted on their gender studies degrees. A survey by (ironically) Intelligent.com found that 73% of anticipated deft relief recipients say they expect to spend our money that Biden wants to give them on non-essentials like travel, dining out and new tech gadgets.
Hey, who can blame them? I like to spend my money on those things, too. The only difference is: It’s MY money!