Georgia Finally Wins the Civil War

At the American Thinker Joe Fried has a piece entitled 2020 GA Election Fraud is Confirmed. It is the most complete explanation of the Fulton County Democrats rigging of the election of 2020, and is must read. But here is the thing nobody is saying: "So what happens now?" Will anyone suffer any consequences whatsoever? And what does the country as a whole do? This didn't just affect the state. We all suffered under Biden and the Democrats. Theoretically, all the laws and executive orders supposedly signed by Biden and possibly laws passed by Georgia Senator Ossoff were illegitimate. What do we do about it?

Fulton County has in effect shrugged its collective shoulders stuck their collective tongue out at us, and said to the nation, "Yeah, we fraudulently rigged the election. So what?" And the thing is, they continue to do so. They won't release information, and they won's seat two Republican members defying a court order. It as if they as still fighting reconstruction after the Civil War.

Which brings us back to the question of what to do about it?  What I fear is that there is nothing we can do. Which means they have gotten away with it, will get away with it in the future, and there will be no justice. So, except for hobbyists and historians, but I repeat myself, there is really no reason to look into the matter, because nothing will come of it. There is also no reason to vote, because your vote doesn't matter. And I frankly don't believe our republic will withstand it. Sorry.

Democrats Want You Dead

 At the American Thinker today Mike McDaniel has a post entitled Democrats really do want you dead. He ends the post with this:

Normal Americans want everyone, Democrats included, to have the ability to defend their lives, the lives of those they love and even strangers. Democrats want everyone, except their publicly funded security, disarmed. Normal Americans want mass murderers dead and fellow Americans alive. Democrats want mass murders to have free-fire zones and want Normal Americans dead.

What other result can their disarmament policies bring?

Indeed, what other conclusion can one draw? What D. Parker at the American Thinker calls "gun grabbing ghouls" have been after our guns since I was a youngster and probably before that as well. This despite the fact that gun control laws have not proven to stop a single shooting anywhere. Oh, and the police have no requirement to protect any individual. Rather, the police are there to protect and serve the public at large. But there are not enough police available to be everywhere all the time, and in any case the weapons they carry are for their own personal protection. As McDaniel notes:

The police would love to be able to stop a shooter, but even if they’re present, which was reportedly the case at Bondi Beach, they may do nothing which gave the killers a free-fire zone for from 10-20 minutes. At Uvalde, some 300 officers allowed a 70+ minute free fire zone. At Brown, they had no role in stopping the attack.

In any attack, someone must call the police. A dispatcher must assimilate the information and dispatch the call. Officers must race to the scene--if any are available. In some places, the nearest officer might be an hour away. When they arrive, they must orient themselves and close with the attacker or attackers without getting killed before they can do any good. And in all that time, unarmed innocents are dying. Or even worse, as happened at Bondi Beach, the police, who are rushing into a dangerously ambiguous situation, might shoot an innocent.

Normal Americans given this indisputable set of facts want willing citizens to go armed. They trust their fellow citizens with motor vehicles, which are far more deadly than guns. They’re willing to extend that trust to guns as well. Do away with gun-free zones, to be sure, but to deter attacks, and to limit damage when they occur, the only sane, effective solution is allowing honest Americans the means to save their own lives and the lives of others. If they’re present when an attack occurs, they know precisely who the good and bad guys are and they’re able to quickly end the attack.

Democrats see things very differently. Just as officials in Australia and Rhode Island did in the immediate aftermath of those attacks, American Democrats reflexively want to disarm Americans. Despite the failure of near-absolute gun-banning laws and regulations, they demand even more, and more punitive, anti-liberty/gun laws.

Taken together with the other policies of the Democrats such as defunding the police and releasing violent people to prey on normal Americans, one can only conclude that McDaniel is correct: Democrats want you dead.

Liberty and Justice for All

 J. B. Shurk, over at the American Thinker today has a must read article entitled Freedom Lovers Aren't 'Fascists'. It sounds like Shurk is getting just a bit tired of being called what he manifestly is not. I am tired of it too. Those who want freedom for themselves also want it for everybody else. They are far from the dictatorial totalitarianism that characterizes fascist regimes. I don't think even the media folks calling us "fascist" believe it to be true. They just think it's a bad name they can throw out there. The money quote is here:

Those of us who identify as liberty lovers and defenders of freedom harbor profound distrust of government. It is therefore galling when Big Government leftists, socialists, globalists, Marxists, and even outright communists (especially those exercising power as so-called “journalists” working for multinational corporate news organizations) call us “right-wing.”

What is “right-wing” about wanting government bureaucrats to just leave us the hell alone? I try to put myself in the small wingtips of someone such as CNN’s Brian Stelter. When I say, “I want government out of my life,” how does he hear, “Right-wing fascism is overtaking America”? Is Brian obtuse? Maliciously dishonest? Both?

I find it perplexing to hear Stelter, Jake Tapper, and their fellow ideological clones on cable news describe those of us who most ardently defend the Bill of Rights as somehow being threats to American freedom. Look around the universe of political writers today, and you will find that almost all of the staunchest advocates for free speech, freedom of religion, the right to bear arms, and protections from warrantless government searches and mass surveillance are Americans whom Stelter, Tapper, and their cohorts would describe as “right-wing.”

Please go and read the whole article. Please also realize there is a difference between "liberty," in which people govern themselves, and "libertine," in which people indulge their baser instincts. Some will inevitably use their liberty for nefarious purposes, but that does not negate the idea of liberty for the vast majority who choose to govern themselves.

Having Fun Playing the Organ

 Today, at the American Thinker Mike McDaniel has a post noting that The Mar-A-Logo raid was always a fraud and the American people knew it. Now, it seems, the FBI has come clean with an internal memo. So, let's see if any heads will roll.

I have not been posting much as a couple of you may have noticed. Mrs. PolyKahr has pointed out to me that I am an old fart (true), am not working (true) and especially no longer working in the government (also true.) I have no special insight anymore, nor any influence. Nobody listens to me. All true. Therefore, she concludes, I spend too much time on the computer, getting stirred up and failing to do things that I actually have control over. She is right again. So, while I have a lot to say about current events, I have kept my thoughts to myself. Which leads me to what I am doing with the time I would have spent prattling on about this or that.

I may have mentioned from time to time that I play the organ. Many years ago, when I was around 15 or so, I bought a little Thomas organ and switched from piano to organ. I haven't played any more than a scale or two on a piano since.  The piano and the organ both have at least one keyboard, but the piano's keyboard is sensitive to how hard the keys are struck.  This sensitivity to touch allows the pianist to create expressive music by varying how hard they strike the keys.  The organ, by contrast is insensitive to how hard you strike it.  Varying the loudness of the music is controlled by the expression pedal.  

The Thomas organ was a portable version of their popular home organ. It broke down into three boxes, one for the manuals and controls, one for the lower pedals, expression control and speakers, and a third for the Leslie speaker. You could switch the Leslie on by pressing a switch while seated at the organ.  The Leslie had rotating baffle inside that created a warbling effect simulating a tremolo. I have looked, but could not find an image of the Thomas, but the layout was like this one.  Leslie was popular in the day because they also made a box for the Hammond B3, featured on such hits Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum.

I still have the books from I learned the organ. My organ teacher's marks on them indicate I switched from piano to organ in July 1968. Back then I was still trying to play the whole organ, which includes two manuals and a pedal board. Unfortunately, when I went to college, I stopped playing music and concentrated on my career.  Eventually, the Thomas was sold, and I didn't touch an organ for at least 3 decades.

 At some point, Mrs. PolyKahr happened on a Kimball organ for something like $100 and brought it home. I played on it some. After retirement, I started taking lessons at the local piano and organ store on a Lowery instrument. Typically, these lessons, for old farts like me, involved a song a week. While others had Lowerys to practice on, I was using the Kimball, and had trouble keeping up.

Lowery had a patent on a system whereby you pressed the key to the left had chord that you wanted to play. So, for instance, to play a "C" chord, you pressed the "C" on the lower manual. This is true for all 12 major chords. The minor chords are similar, though these require two fingers, one on the key and the other on the flatted third. So, for "C minor" you would press "C" and "E flat". These chords include the pedals. All together the available chords include most that you might need to play any popular song and a bunch of hymns as well. So, I bought a Lowery Majesty and have played that ever since.

The Majesty is what is called a Theatre organ.  As such, in includes a huge number of sampled instruments and accompaniments.  As wonderful as the Lowery Majesty is to play, I have always felt like I needed to go back to the roots of my desire to play the organ, which began with a Hammond C3 in church. Beneath the theatre organ overlay, there is a traditional organ in the Majesty. You can set the stops and play as a traditional organist. So, I dug out the old books, now 57 years old, and I have been reacquainting myself with playing an organ the right way.  Oh, and I am having a lot of fun doing it.  Perhaps in a few years I may play a voluntary at Church.  Not that we need another organist at church.  Our cup runneth over with talented organists.

I haven't given up entirely on this blog, I am just facing the fact that the world is going to be what it is going to be. I can only influence myself in the end.

A Treacherous Ideology Growing Among Us

 Today, at the American Thinker Sloan Oliver has a piece entitled More Violence from the Religion of Peace in which he catalogues the number of people killed and injured by Muslims in their ongoing war to impose "peace" on us. It is interesting to note that while they kill a number of people in the West, they kill more of their own. If that is their idea of "peace," I think we can do without it.

Listening to the news, how often do you feel gaslighted? Lied to? I’m guessing quite often. Again, we’re being lied to about Islam; you know, the “religion of peace.” Last week, a practicing Muslim gunned down two National Guard (NG) soldiers in Washington D.C. Immediately, the claptrap media warned against Islamophobia, that the murder had nothing to do with Islam. Right, and abortion has nothing to do with infanticide. Do people actually believe such lies? Obviously, they do, because media such as MS-NOW (former MSNBC), CNN, the NY Times, NPR, and all the other leftist media blamed President Trump for instigating and inciting the Muslim to action. A quick review will help.

Prior to the late 1960s and early 70s, most in the West didn’t think much or often of the Middle East or threats posed by Islam. We were more occupied with the Soviet threat. Nevertheless, Muslim/Islamic terrorists were killing people all over the world -- particularly targeting Israel and Jews, hijacking planes, shooting up airports, bombing embassies, and the like. When Iranian Muslims captured the U.S. Embassy in Tehran (1979), and held Americans hostage for 444 days, we took notice. In the ensuing decades, Muslim terrorists and Islamic madmen have been on the march across the globe -- the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was bombed (April 1983 -- 49 killed); the Marine barracks in Beirut were bombed (October 1983 -- 241 killed); Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed (1988 - 270 killed); World Trade Center was bombed (1993 -- six killed); the Khobar Tower was bombed (1996 -- 19 airmen killed); U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed (1998 -- hundreds killed, thousands injured); the USS Cole was bombed (2000 -- 19 sailors killed); and the 9/11 attacks (September 2001 -- killed thousands). Since 9/11, Islamic terrorist attacks targeting Americans, both here and abroad, have almost become routine -- the Shoe Bomber, the Underwear Bomber, the Fort Hood shooter, the Boston Marathon Bombers, the San Bernadino attack (2015 -- 14 killed), the Orlando Nightclub Shooting (2016 -- 49 killed), the NYC truck attack (2017), the New Orleans truck ramming (2025 New Years Day -- 14 killed), and last month’s shooting of two NG soldiers in D.C.

The above attacks were some of the major ones against American targets. Muslims have targeted just about every country in the world beginning with attacks against Israel’s Olympic Team (Munich 1972 -- 12 killed); Beirut became a hellhole (1970s and 80s); the Bali Nightclub attack (2002 – 202 killed); the Madrid Train bombing (2004 – 193 killed, thousands injured); the London Subway bombing (2005 -- 56 killed); the Mumbai, India attacks (2008 -- 175 killed); the Charlie Hebdo attack (2015 -- 17 killed); the Paris Nightclub suicide bombings (2015 -- 130 killed); the Nice, France truck attack (2016 -- 86 killed); and the Moscow Theater Attack (2024 -- 145 killed). Let’s not forget the Hamas Oct 7, 2023 attack on Israel that killed over 1,200 and took 250 hostages. These were the Muslim attacks that garnered large media because they were against western countries and killed westerners.

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If you think these attacks by Muslims are one-offs and happen infrequently, think again. According to the website “thereligionofpeace.com,” worldwide last month there were 92 Islamic attacks in 17 countries that killed 378 people and injured 210. The website admits they don’t catch all attacks, because some are not immediately reported or claimed by a terrorist group. Actually, November was a light month. The previous month saw 152 Islamic attacks in 18 countries that killed 2,548 and injured 458. In all of 2025, there have been 1,875 Islamic attacks in 48 countries, 13,337 people killed and 6,139 injured. In 2024, worldwide there were 1,762 Islamic attacks in 52 countries, 9,587 people killed and 8,464 injured. Every year prior had similar numbers, all carried out by Muslims.

Oliver wonders if Satan designed a religion, what would he do differently? I have news for him, though don't tell anyone. Satan is precisely the one who designed Islam. Oddly enough, even though we are sinful people, Christianity attracted numerous people, in part because God promises to forgive your sins if you repent and try to do better. Also, they noticed that Christians lived much more peacefully with each other and their neighbors. In contrast, Islam can only recruit new members by the sword and offering young men their most prurient fantasies (having constant sex with 72 virgins in eternity.) He has described it perfectly as an "ideology of oppression that wraps itself in the cloak of a religion."

Islam is dangerous and its adherents will never assimilate into American culture and life. Indeed, America is antithetical to Islam.  We already have Leftist; we don't need another treacherous ideology growing among us.

We Dodged A Bullet

At Zero Hedge, there is an article by Tyler Durden entitled "The Whole Model Is Broken": 'Tech Mafia Wife' Admits 'We Were Klaus Schwab's Useful Idiots'. The article features an interview with Nichol Shanahan, the ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin and former vice presidential candidate. As an aside, we dodged a bullet when RFK,Jr dropped out of the race because this woman shouldn't be anywhere near the levers of power.

Now, I am sure Nichol Shanahan is a perfectly nice person in the normal sense of the word. I am sure she is compassionate and kind. The kind of woman who bakes cookies for the school fund raiser.  But one has to think that if a person with this kind of wealth, who because she has access to a staff, and did not figure out long ago that the Davos crowd was a total fraud...she must be a total idiot.

Remember that Klaus Shwab wanted a 'great reset' so we could "build back better."  Hmmm. Wouldn't you think it might be a good idea to ask what "building back better" would look like? Wouldn't you also think that maybe it would be a good idea to ask how we were supposed to pay for it?  You don't have to get too much in the weeds to read that "BBB" means we will own nothing and be happy. Said with that German accent, it sounds more like a threat.  She owns a lot, so I would think that might bother her. And when you think about it, if no one owns anything, no one takes care of anything, and everything without care turns to crap.

Digging just a little deeper, there is the idea that AI and robotics will do everything for us. Of course, that won't happen either. Someone has to build things, pave roads, repair electrical lines, and do other stuff robots cannot do.  But the disturbing part is the belief that there will be too many useless eaters and that we will have to shed...oh, I don't know...some 8 billion of us? Murdering 8 billion people doesn't sound too compassionate to me. No, it sounds hauntingly like the adage attributed to Lenin that 'To make an omlet you must break a few eggs.' We know how that turned out.

She claims that the other members of the 'Tech Wives Mafia' believed the same things as she did. If so, it just proves that these women, who, remember, did not make the money themselves, they just had access to it by virtue of their husbands, do not deserve it. As I say, we dodged a bullet. If, as it sounds like in the interview, she has repented, then good for her. Please note that the United States as founded was not and is not perfect. No human government can be. But the government the Left would put upon us is even less perfect. Keep that in mind.

On Being Grateful This Thanksgiving Day

Today, November 27, 2025 is our official Thanksgiving Day.  But while we have one official day, we should practice giving thanks and praise to God every day.  Like so much in our tradition, giving God the thanks and praise he so richly deserves from us was brought down to us by our friends, the Jews, who practiced it and preserved it so that when the Messiah came into the world, the world was set up to receive Him.

So, it is fitting that the best Thanksgiving message today comes from Yael Eckstein in an article at Townhall.com entitled Hineni: Thanksgiving's Answer to Ayeka. As we learn in Eckstein's article, "Ayeka: means "where are you?" and "hineni" means "here I am" in Hebrew. But knowing this doesn't convey the full spiritual meaning. That you only get by first having an attitude of gratitude.

This Thanksgiving, my heart turns again to the quiet strength that comes from gratitude, not for what we wish we had, but for the blessings God has already placed in our lives.

In a world of constant comparison and societal pressures, it is easy to forget this spiritual truth. In the Jewish tradition, we observe gratitude not only as a feeling, but as a response to a sacred question.

That question is Ayeka? Where are you?

It is the first question God poses to humanity in the Garden of Eden, and it continues to echo through the generations. It is not a request for an exact location. It is a calling: Where are you in this moment? What do you decide to stand for when the world around you feels uncertain, frightening, or unfair? Who are you choosing to be?

And the answer our tradition gives us is the answer of our forefather Abraham: Hineni. Here I am.

Hineni reminds us that everyone can do something. Everyone is empowered. Hineni is the language of faith in action, even in the hardest times. It is the courage to step forward even when the path ahead is uncertain. When there's nowhere left to go but to jump into the abyss of the unknown. It is answering God’s call not because life is easy, but because we know He walks with us, especially during the tough times.

Seen through the lens of Hineni, Thanksgiving is not just a holiday on the calendar that comes around once a year. It is part of a daily spiritual practice – a way of standing before God with presence, purpose and an open heart. And it is often in the moments when gratitude feels the hardest to find that we need it the most.

Before you have your family gathering, your turkey and ham, and sit down to watch football, I urge gentle readers to read Eckstein's article and consider all the many blessings he has given us, and how we might bless others as a result.