First off, I was able realize that coming back this soon will raise eyebrows but some very nice people asked me to stay.

I know this because the forum sent me the replies of my post for some reason. After discussing it with my old hippie dude ( who obviously said " Do what you want to do, honey") I've got him trained pretty well.

Anyways, I was thinking about this at work and came to a conclusion. I really can't have a fulfilling life without reading h**e filled posts after work.

I don't remember who asked if I was a snowflake but no I'm not. That's why I'm back. Besides, when I lived in Phoenix, it was all year long.

Albert, Albert, Albert. you called it, I'm back and USING MY NAME I DID BEFORE. I know you don't care but I really don't either.

I am no sock puppet for anyone. Besides, who in the hell would come up with a handle of Knightlady for an alias on here. Unless you've played World of Warcraft or Diablo, something like that, with an old hippie dude with the name of KnightHawk, i doubt you'd think of it.

I dare you to actually debate me on anything except personal. No insults or name calling. Do you have the wits to do that? Or are you the school yard bully that's all blow, no show?
Perhaps you're just the s*** that you just can't wipe off your ass no matter how hard you try. You know all about that, huh?

Just like your president whose speech today was laughable. All he has to run on is 1*6 , a******n and Trump's going to be Hitler and a dictator. Why didn't he even bring up his big accomplishments besides " saving democracy " because it's bull squirt.

I'm sure I'll hear about " what about no insults or name calling. " I am getting it out now in case he actually takes me up on my challenge.

I don't think you can, Albert. Especially since you keep using the same crap over and over again.

I'd tell you that you need to get laid more often but that hand is busy typing. Don't forget batteries for your pink dildo.

You are nothing but a right fighter ( as Dr.Phil would say). You don't care to share actual information, you just want to be the loudest in the crowd screaming I'm right and everyone is wrong unless they agree with me. To me, that's being the bottom of a cow pond.

Take me up on my challenge. I double dog dare you, you stupid piece of dog crap.

Biden sucks! GO TRUMP!!!

December 19, 2023—printed off 12/23/23
Victor Davis Hanson
Crime
We have experienced high crime in the past, especially following the racial tensions and hippie “let it all hang out” unreality of the 1960s, and the erosion of norms and general breakdown as fantasized in the Escape from New York/Death Wish/Dirty Harry days of the 1970s and early 1980s.
But once again, as in the case of i*****l i*********n, this time the cause is not just counter-culture, drugs, racial tensions, liberal judges, shrinking police budgets, and the 60s cult of the selfish individual, but a systematic effort to destroy jurisprudence as we know it.
In the 1970s, we saw private outmanned security guards at stores who tried to apprehend criminals. Today, they watch them steal with impunity. Everything from toothpaste to Zyrtec is locked up in big-city drug stores.
“Smash-and-Grab” was spawned by the decriminalization of theft in many of our major cities. Parked cars in our major cities have signs like “Nothing of Value here” and leave their doors unlocked for criminals to confirm there is no reason to smash their windshields. Carjackers now hit the vehicles of congressional representatives and bigwigs—many of them the very ones who greenlighted defunding the police.
Post-G****e F***d arrays of prosecutors in most large American municipalities warred on written law, either ignoring most of it, applying it selectively, or destroying it altogether. In the worst days of the 1970s, police said they could do nothing to the tourist whose car was smashed or l**ted, or the clothing outlet manager whose store was swarmed by 10 teens with gunny sacks vacuuming up his inventory—“Sorry, we don’t investigate these minor crimes. There’s too many of them. We have too few officers. And the DAs don’t consider them crimes even if we arrest the thieves.”
So, the change is not that we do not have the resources to enforce laws, but we do not believe in the laws themselves.
Under “critical legal theory,” we insist statutes are white-man constructs with no relationship to natural laws or innate morality, but only reflect the self-interest of the “ruling class.” Ergo, it is against the law to steal Adidas sneakers only because the rich and white do not steal Adidas sneakers and therefore make laws that harass and persecute those who are supposedly forced to steal Adidas sneakers. And therefore, it is not worth it to stop teens from fleeing stores with boxes of $300 Adidas sneakers.
There is no escaping carjacking, smash-and-grab, and home invasions—not in Beverly Hills, not in Malibu, not in Presidio Heights, not in Brentwood. Our legal theorists, our prosecutors, our judges, and our legislators all variously believe the necessary correctives to the epidemic of lawlessness, the medicine, is apparently worse than the disease of rampant lawlessness itself.
Who wishes to re-jail the freed felon, or build more prisons, or say the felon got what he deserves?
Energy
In the 1970s and 1980s, gas and diesel prices spiked. Gone were the days when your electric bill did not terrify you, or you automatically filled up rather than put $20 worth in the tank. But now energy craziness has returned with greater vengeance, with sky-high electricity, natural gas, propane, gasoline, and diesel prices that question whether we can drive where we wish or to stay warm in winter, and cool in summer.
And again, this time around the causes are different, self-inflicted rather than externally driven. It is not an Arab embargo of the U.S., not played-out wells, and declining production, not gas-guzzlers with fins and chrome that get 10 miles per gallon.
No, the problem is us.
We are the ones decommissioning nuclear plants, claiming clean-burning natural gas generation is antithetical to civilization, blowing up hydroelectric dams rather than building more, banning natural gas stoves, claiming that unreliable wind and day-only solar are all we need to a “zero-net future.” Undoing the sinews of civilization itself, regardless of the baleful consequences that will fall upon the poor and the middle classes.
We have the power to become completely independent of the Middle East, Russia, and other illiberal oil and gas producers by merely increasing oil production by 2-3 million barrels, building nuclear plants, expanding hydroelectric production, and realizing natural gas is a non-polluting fuel.
Instead, our elites, never subject to the dire consequences of their utopianism, believe reduced standards of living for others ensure their own privileged lives are less crowded, less polluted, less intruded upon by hoi polloi.
Again, we, are the enemy of ourselves. We wish to destroy the fuels and power by which we beat away the elements and can live humane and prosperous lives. We, not the Saudis this time around, not the Soviets, are the nihilists, the creators of our own crises.