The ranting and rumbling of a grumpy old man in the twilight of a mediocre career. Hosted by, Alan N. Webber.

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More Ramblings from A Grumpy Old Man…Are you sick of the anti-Israeli protesters. I am. But honestly I have never thought much about pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian groups. Those people have been fighting since 1882 when an Arab man was accidentally shot by a Jewish guard during a wedding. Every time you think the dust has settled there, a conflict springs back up. It’s beyond tedious.But, to paraphrase the late Andy Rooney, I have Jewish friends. Good, upstanding people they are. They don’t seem any different than my non-Jewish friends. They put their pants on one leg at a time, breathe the same air, and bleed red just like me. I do have empathy for them in this most recent battle.I don’t think I know any Palestinians, though. I’m sure there are many good ones who only want peace.

Say Death to American Just One More Time

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Congressional Deadbeats presently have an approval rating of 12%, about the same as dirt. Disgraced president Richard Nixon’s approval rating never got that low. Inept president Jimmy Carter’s rating never got that low. George Santos from NY was recently expelled from Congress. His 13% favorability rating was higher than the collective body tossing him out.Members of Deadbeat Nation are paid $174,000 per year, plus the unconstitutional payout they voted themselves last year of $34,000 for expenses encountered in the Swamp. None of that expense has to be documented – they all just get it. This makes their salary, according to my Chebanse Elementary education, to be $208,000 per Deadbeat. They are paid higher than 93% of Americans.The Deadbeats were in session “working” a mere 117 days in the last term. Only fifty bills have been passed under their governance, about half what is normal. They spend as much or more time begging for money to stay in their cushy position in the Swamp than working for us.

Inside The House of Deadbeats

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Respected journalist Mollie Hemingway and The Federalist has reported that Liz Cheney and her Cabal suppressed evidence during the sham January 6th committee proceedings. Turns out Trump requested 10,000 National Guard troops to be present for assistance at the Capitol for the gathering crowd. This information has been hidden from us for over three years. You may want to read that last sentence again.The Cheney Cabal falsely claimed they had no evidence to support Trump’s claims he offered troop assistance. This information came from the interview of Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato that Cheney herself participated in January 2022. Oranato’s description of the events match that of testimony by Kash Patel, the former acting secretary of defense.In the interview, Ornato stated he heard White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on the phone advising DC Mayor Muriel Bowser for troops to defend the city. He also testified under oath that Trump suggested 10,000 soldiers were needed at the rallies scheduled for January 6. Both Trump backers and left-wing groups were planning protests the same day.

J6 Committee Corruption

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<h4>“Andy came to Shawshank Prison in early 1947 for murdering his wife and the fella she was bangin’.“</h4> That was the famous line spoken by Morgan Freeman, aka Ellis “Red” Redman in the movie The Shawshank Redemption. How old were you when you found out that the movie was filmed at an Ohio State Reformatory rather than the fictional Maine prison the story led us to believe. Did you also know the movie was adapted from a book written by Stephen King named Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. Me neither.Tim Robbins got the leading role as Andy Dufresne, sentenced to life for the murders of his wife and her lover,despite his innocence. Interestingly, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and Kevin Costner all wanted the part of Andy. Could you imagine any one of those others in that role instead of Robbins? Me neither. Personally, Morgan Freeman as Red,the contraband smuggler was the best character in the movie. His acting was superb, his narration even better.The prison where the movie was shot is equally interesting. Located in Mansfield Ohio, construction began in 1886 on ground formerly used as a training camp for Northern Civil War soldiers. After many funding delays, the facility was completed 24 years later in 1910 at a cost of $1,326,769.

Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption

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Webster tells us a scholar is a person who has done advanced study in a special field. It also calls a scholar a learned person. I’m going to show how that is not always true.Consider Webster’s words as you read the politically biased rubbish that 154 so-called-scholars unleashed for the liberal media to gobble and regurgitate last week.As gleefully reported by the main-stream media, “scholars” produced a presidential rating system that, of no surprise, ranks Donald Trump as the worst president in history. Those so-called scholars might have as well thrown a ham hock into the middle of a pack of coyotes to match the feeding frenzy by the media.We shouldn’t be surprised of a last-placed ranking for Trump by a band of collegiate professors. The report smacks of so much malarky that it points out the rot exists in American academia. Sadly, most professors today have about as much credibility as an Anthony Fauci report. Pathetically, these 154 “scholars” rated Joe Biden the 14th best president of all time, and then Barack Obama 7th. Go ahead and chuckle now before continuing to listen.

Presidential Popularity Polls

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After being shot at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade the poor Lisa Lopez-Galvan had not been buried yet nor the family time to grieve before anti-gun zealots stomped all over her memory. The mother of two was the only person to die in the shootout. At least 22 other innocent people were harmed.As of the time of this writing, there have been three people arrested. One has been released and two kids charged. It appears the gun violence was a result of a dispute, and in my mind, bad parenting.The anti-gun organization known as March for Our Lives was out quickly doing a great deal of the stomping. This is a student-led organization which promotes demonstrations in support of gun control while the rest of us are out working.MFOL began shouting that the shooting was “depressingly American.” The group claims to be young activists “promoting civic engagement, education, and direct action to eliminate the epidemic of gun violence.”Epidemic of gun violence? Did you know on the day of the shooting, there were 82,880,000 legal gun owners, owning 393 million guns that did not kill anybody?

Don't Outlaw Guns, Outlaw Ant-Gun Groups

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you must be aware there are major issues at our southern border. At the same time, we are financing a war in Ukraine, fighting another war in the Middle East, struggling under Bidenomics, fearing China will glob onto Tawain, and evidently, white supremacists are plotting to take over the country. Thanks Biden voters. To make matters worse, California is about to slide into the ocean, Tucker Carlson ran off to Russia to make nice with Vladimir Putin, Tobey Keith died, and Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce stories are burying us. They are the shiny thing we’re supposed to notice while political gamesmanship continues. Politicians in Washington play partisan politics over Americans biggest concern, the invasion by illegal immigrants at our southern border. We are being besieged, folks. This is not some humanitarian issue as some would like us to believe, it’s an attack by foreign countries invading us. The numbers are now in excess of 300,00 people per month – it’s insanity we’re allowing this. Countries worldwide are sending us their criminals, their terrorist, their poor, and most curiously young men of military age. They bring with them drugs that kill our kids, terrorists and diseases we long thought were exterminated.

We Are Being Besieged From Within

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According to a 2019 Pew Research Center report, 38% of Americans claim to be Independent. However, only 7% of voters are actually really true Independents.But then I read further, you know, past the first paragraph. Turns out, of the 38% claiming to be an Independent, 17% of them nearly always vote Democrat. In full disclosure, I thought this number would be much greater. But then, it occurred to me, why would anyone admit they voted for Biden? He supposedly won with 81 million votes, but it is nearly impossible to find anyone that admits to voting for Biden. But that left 13% that usually vote Republican – another surprise to me. (I must be easily surprised) At 13%, it was a much higher number than I thought it would be. You suppose those folks voted for Trump but didn’t want anybody to know about it? Bet they do it again though! I can’t blame them, the media like to portray Trump voters as mouth breathing ignorant troglodytes.Pew did another poll in 2021 on the subject, but my eyeballs crossed trying to understand it. The poll showed there are actually 9 different voter groups calling themselves Independents. In case one is confused where their views place them in their spectrum, they included a handy-dandy 16-question poll to see where one might fit on the political spectrum.

Independent Voters

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Ask yourself, are you better off now under Biden?A commentary appeared in a newspaper I also write for that bears mentioning – not so much for its journalistic excellence and insight, but for its lack of accuracy. This piece was so far left it could have been written for the Washington Compost or Russia’s Pravda.The piece I’m referring to is another hatchet job written about Donald Trump. Readers to that paper would have expected nothing less. Trump seems to be Darth Vader to liberals.A vote for Biden would mean the writer is fine with the millions of illegal immigrants flooding this country and over-taxing the economies of states and cities. They bring drugs, diseases, and terrorists with them. Many of those poor illegals are now freezing in the cold.Voting for Biden means the writer is okay with the effects of Bidenomics that has crippled the budgets of so many Americans.Voting for Biden means warmongering, paid for by taxpayers would continue. We would continue to keep pouring billions into Ukraine and Israel so kickbacks can be funneled to Congressional Warhawks? It also means it was fine to leave billions of dollars of military equipment to the enemy.Voting for Biden means being is peachy with the Biden Crime Syndicate misdeeds and kickbacks at the expense of Americans.A vote for Biden means a man showing signs of dementia at age 81 at the helm of the world’s top job, would remain there until 86 years old. Worse, if Biden become incapacitated, his replacement might be Kamala Harris!Voting for Biden means being cool with the Democrat ploy of keeping Trump embroiled in nefarious court proceedings to prevent him from being elected or worse, doing his job. How is that good for America. Yet, when Trump speaks of retaliation, he’s labeled a dictator.Folks, the list of people actually hurt by Trump while in office is small – minute compared to Biden’s time in office. In fact, most people thrived while Trump was in office, something that can’t be said of Biden.Ask yourself, are you better off now under Biden than you were when Donald Trump was your president?

Voting For Biden

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Ever hear of the “27 Club?” It’s not something you want to subscribe to, and given the demographics of my readership, the opportunity has long passed us by. The 27 Club is a list of well-known musicians who “bit the dust” at the age of twenty-seven. The term took off in 1994 when Kurt Cobain of Nirvana shot himself. The drug-addled musician was depressed and obsessed he might lose his house. At that point the media began to link the fact Cobain was 27, the same age as the demise of rockers Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Brian Jones. One publication stated the 27 Club is “one of the most elusive and remarkably tragic coincidences in rock history.” You suppose the author of that last line had a flair for the dramatic.

Welcome To Club 27

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As a grandfather of eleven grandchildren, I cannot imagine a worse day than to be told one of them has cancer or some other catastrophic disease. In my opinion that’s the place whale dung sits on in the totem pole of life.. We have a grandchild mysteriously losing her hearing, which pales in comparison to cancer, but even that nearly drives me to tears. I acknowledge life is precious to everyone, and that cancer is a bastard, but I would think most adults would willingly take their child’s disease if they only could. I bet the good Lord hears that prayer hourly. Disease may be a fact of life for “thinning the herd”, but children shouldn’t have to be subject to it. For that reason, my charity of choice is always the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. It costs them $1.7 million daily to operate that facility. Marlo Thomas and her colleagues do such a Herculean job of raising money and hammering the message home of what that wonderful organization is doing. And the fact that families never receive a bill from St. Jude for anything so they can help their child survive is incredible. That last sentence, “so they can help their child survive” is profound.

So Their Children Can Survive

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Next November 5th, I will be voting for Donald J. Trump for president. It will be the third time in nine years throwing my support his way. Initially, I voted for Trump because he was not a politician. He’s a self-made, wealthy businessman without political baggage. I admire people who can start from nothing and make something of themselves. My father was like that.Given my disdain for most politicians, I admire the fact Trump isn’t one. Politicians don’t own him – he answers to banks and shareholders. To do that, you have to have a good relationship with people. ﻿Trump’s presidency had some ups and downs, but few people suffered under Trump as they are now under Biden. Yes, Trump is brash and vain. Do you want a church mouse as your president? Trump knows how to wheel and deal. He’s used his business acumen and tough-nosed NY persona on the national and world stage, leading by being an America-first president. What the hell is wrong with that?

Webber's Endorsement for President

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So, let me regale you this Christmas season with the rich history of this ballet. Most people know the Nutcracker as a musical written by Tchaikovsky, the Russian composer, in 1892, and little else. In fact, Tchaikovsky only wrote the music; about nine months before the ballet, which was choreographed by Marius Petipa. The original story, named the Nutcracker and the Mouse King, was written by ETA Hoffman in Germany in 1816. His version was considered “dark and disturbing” and even “creepy.” I read the plot for the Hoffman tale, and he could put Stephen King to shame. The ballet was unsuccessful initially, though Tchaikovsky’s music, which was debuted before the ballet, was considered a classic score. Tchaikovsky, however, was unimpressed with the music he produced for it. In a letter to his employer, he complained “the awareness that things are not going well torments me and agonizes me to tears, to the point of sickness… As we now know, it would become a classic. Through years of adaptations, the ballet and its music have become a Christmas staple.

A Christmas Story, A Nutcracker, A Mouse, And A Ballet

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I have had a mild interest in the modern technology called AI, or artificial intelligence. With my limited knowledge of computers, I might know more about women than AI technology. And even though I have been married to a great woman for over 43 years, I do not have much of a clue about her either. Wikipedia states AI is the intelligence of machines or software, as opposed to humanities intelligence. Invented in 1956, but not developed until 2012, eleven years later it is in use throughout industry, government, and scientific communities. Google, Netflix, Amazon, You Tube, Siri, and Alexa are examples of companies already using AI. Did you follow that, folks? AI is already here and in use. While we were busy raising kids, trying not to die from COVID, trying to eke out a living and all of other life’s mundane activities, artificial intelligence has already been employed all around us. This is particularly aggravating to me as I read AI is able to author novels at a time when I just finally got the time to do it myself. The thing about AI is it never stops learning and does so at speeds we cannot wrap our head around. Its goals are general intelligence, including reasoning, knowledge, representation, planning, learning, natural language processing, perception and support for robotics. Wait – support for robotics? Does that suspiciously sound like colluding against us?

The Ménage à Trois From Hell

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By now, you’ve probably heard of the efforts by certain states to remove Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot. Rhode Island is the most recent state to reject that effort. This rejection comes after similar dismissals from Florida, Colorado, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Michigan, and the District of Columbia. There are eighteen more states considering denying Trump on the ballot. The reason is Trump supposedly engaged in insurrection due to his actions related to the January 6th protest at the capital. The disqualification decree comes from Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars people from holding office if they have engaged in insurrection or rebellion. This Section was enacted to prevent members of the Confederacy from the Civil War from running for office. As it pertains to the court cases to remove Trump, I assumed this was another avenue the Swamp was using to derail the Trump train. It was a reasonable assumption when one considers the various bogus indictments that have been leveled at him by various corrupt states attorneys like Latitia James and Jack Smith. At present, there is only one individual filing all these cases through various law firms. Supposedly a Republican presidential candidate from Texas, John Anthony Castro is the man filing these frivolous suits. I say supposedly Republican because until 2020 Castro was a Democrat, which would include the time Trump was in the White House. My suspicion radar was piqued, despite the fact my late father always called me a suspicious bast***.

Call Me Suspicious But I Smell A Swamp

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Not only do I not believe Biden will get the Democrat nomination, I also don’t believe the others running on the Democrat side will be the ultimate candidate. That would include Robert Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, Marianne Williamson, Dean Phillips, or somebody named Cenk Uygur. (If you’ve never heard of Mr. Uygur either, he’s a Turkish-born politician, commentator, and media host. This begs the question; I thought one had to be born here to run for president.) The Democrat party leadership, although seriously flawed in their ideology, are no dummies. In fact, these comrades are as intellectually formidable as they are socialist. They’re taking their time until after the Republican convention, held a month before the Democrat convention, to see if Trump has been tossed in prison for their considerable sham efforts, and if so, who has taken his place. At that time, they will decide if they want to run California Governor Gavin Newsom or Hillary “But It’s My Turn” Clinton. Clinton will be 77 years-old by the 2024 election and has gotten quite “frumpy,” seeing Russia behind every tree. They also believe they have Michelle Obama in the wings if they need a heavy weight, although it doesn’t seem like that is on Michelle’s docket right now. Another person who won’t be on the 2024 ticket is VP Kamala “Giggles” Harris. It will be very interesting to see what they figure out to do with her. She probably sees herself as heir apparent once Biden has been put in the Alzheimer’s ward of the nearest Delaware retirement home. You can bet, she will not be instilled as Vice President again either. After those candidates, there’s not much else available. I can’t see them running Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, or Bernie Sanders up the flagpole again. Perhaps they might throw up (pardon the pun) Michigan’s socialist governor Gretchen Whitmer, but I think Trump could beat her from prison. Same for the worthless Pete Buttigieg. It appears right now it will be Trump against Newsom. If the Dems are successful at reserving a prison cell for Trump, then it will be DeSantis against Newsom. Are we dumb enough to run our country like California.

Biden Will Not Win

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It’s official. In the words of Buddy Guy, “Well I done got old.” In a moment of bitter sweetness, I got my first Social Security (SS) check this week. I could have received it 4 ½ years ago, but decided to wait until full retirement age, 66 years, 6 months. For the rest of my life, I will get paid by the government on the second Wednesday of the month, minus Medicare insurance. According to the government earnings site, starting in 1972 when I paid in $228, I allowed the government to keep $210,073. Then my employers kicked in another $214,492, totaling $424,565 over 50 years. Imagine the amount had I been able to make interest off that money. SS was originally the brainchild of Dudley Leblanc in his failed 1932 attempt for Louisiana governor. Edwin Witte, known as the father of SS, a political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, used Lablanc’s idea to develop the concept for federally funded pension plans in 1934. It was then pushed through Congress by Frances Perkins, the Labor Secretary in the Franklin Roosevelt’s cabinet in response to the Great Depression. At that time, poverty rates for senior citizens exceeded 50 percent. The SS Act was enacted on August 14, 1935, during Roosevelt’s first term in office. He established the President’s Committee on Economic Security, using the infamous Keynesian Economics as part of the New Deal. This was the first time this country had established federal assistance for the elderly, identified as Title 1. Also hung on the New (Raw) Deal was Title 111 for unemployment insurance, Title 1V for Aid to Families with dependent children, Title V - Maternal and child Welfare, Titel V1 - public health services, and Title X for the blind. I wish they had established a Title for pleasingly plump good-looking truckers too.

Well I Done Got Old

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<h4>Democrats, the dumpster fire that is the world right now is your fault. </h4> With heartfelt apologies, perhaps it’s time we take a break from the wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Matthew Perry to address other issues going on in the world. I’m surprised the media hasn’t gotten around to asking Biden, Trump, and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu want they think of Mr. Perry’s demise. The world seems to be on fire right now. Russia is pounding Ukraine into oblivion, while Israel, in retaliation is doing the same to Hamas in Gaza. Iran is probably next, which will catapult the world into further chaos. China is looking on while waiting for a chance to glob onto Tawain, figuring nobody would notice. Meanwhile back here in US, useless professors at liberal colleges are stirring up impressionable and ignorant students. They use this opportunity to voice anti-Semitic sentiments to further divide an already deeply divided country – sentiments they would have never uttered on their own. The fact that Hamas bombed Israel first seems inconsequential to those now busting their spleens to defend Hamas, described as an Islamist political and military organization Our border is hemorrhaging people coming here illegally, while we have no clue who some of them are nor what to do with them now that they are here. Some of those illegal immigrants are even importing China’s drugs with them, killing our kids. As usual, the Democrats want to fork over large sums of other-people’s-money at the situation. $105 billion is currently the going price this month, although there will be more requests coming behind that. Methinks that some of those massive amounts of money have a way of being skimmed and finding its way back to politicians’ pockets, but there again, I’m suspicious and from Chebanse.

Democrats Are Destroying This Country

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Perhaps they have picked their guy by the time you read this, but I’m doubting it. The Republican party has failed miserably when it comes to naming a Speaker of the House. As of Tuesday, the country has been 20 days without a Speaker. This has become embarrassing and shows just how fractioned the GOP is and a time when the world seems on fire.

Speaker of The House Fiasco

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How long will it be until we see the first billion-dollar player?Bleacher Report listed twelve major league baseball players who should get contracts of a hundred million dollars or more during the off-season. Sadly, for Cubs fans, Cody Bellinger is on that list, meaning he won’t be a Cub next year. Last season, there were fourteen $100,000,000 contracts issued. Not one led the major leagues in any positive stat this year. In fact, the Yankees Aaron Judge’s 37 homers tied him for tenth in home runs, the best showing by any of these top fourteen entrants to the hundred-million-dollar club. He’s coming off a new contract paying him $360 million over 9 years. This means the Yanks paid him over a million bucks per homer.

Hey Ball Fans, Stop The Insanity

The ranting and rumbling of a grumpy old man in the twilight of a mediocre career. Hosted by, Alan N. Webber.