No secret what the Dems represent, and have for a long time, but brava! just the same

Brave soul Karen Whitsett

From the Detroit News

Michigan State Representative Karen Whitsett announced she will not seek re-election and will not run for public office again, saying the decision is faith-based and rooted in her commitment to Jesus Christ and the authority of Scripture.

Whitsett said on Monday (March 2) she will remain civically engaged and will support leaders across party lines who, she said, are committed to improving lives and strengthening families based on God’s Word.

Whether this is the beginning of a mass exodus from the party of immorality and death is difficult to say, but it is also difficult to understand why so many Americans in the party stay in it, given that only a small number of them agree with its radical left platform.

Regardless, congratulations are owed to Karen Whitsett for taking the big step dissociating herself from the Democrats, especially as she was a party official herself. She may pay a price at first, but it will be miniscule compared with her clear conscience and ease of mind.

An American car for an American pope

The Chairman of the Ford Motor Company has presented His Holiness the Pope with a souped-up Ford Explorer.

From the New York Sun

The Explorer is built at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant, which is the only automobile factory located within the city’s limits. Mr. Farley, who personally paid for the vehicle, pulled a few strings to have a unique version designed for His Holiness.

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[It] is equipped with a 318-horsepower hybrid powertrain that is not available to retail customers. Ford only sells hybrid Explorers to law enforcement and government fleets . . .

That seems appropriate. As pope, His Holiness is the supreme pastor and responsible for defining, upholding and safeguarding doctrine on faith and morals, as well as its enforcement (emphasis added).

According to AutoBlog,

“I can confirm the Holy Father enjoys driving a sporty ride,” Ford’s CEO remarked. Hooked to a 10-speed automatic transmission, the hybrid powertrain delivers a healthy 318 hp and 322 lb-ft of torque, enabling a 136-mph top speed.

AutoBlog also reports the pope and Mr Farley took a spin around the Vatican, with the pope driving his new wheels, and he professed his delight with them.

This blogger generally disapproves of attempts to “humanize” those in authority, but     imagining our pope driving a supercharged Ford around Vatican City is genuinely appealing.

They must be destroyed

(Note: the blog entry below is copied, slightly edited, from an earlier post by your Tatler on a spirited email debate among distinguished commentators on the merits of the Iran war.

Unless the present leadership of Iran is put out commission for good, they will be an ever-present danger to the world. They despise all nations where non-Islamic religions are practiced. Given the means, they would impose Islam on every one of us. Those who refuse to comply would be destroyed. This regime also brutalizes its own people. The regime must be destroyed Surrender or death should be the only options.

If ever there ever was an anticipatory war, this is. 

So much to learn in these confusing times

Recently, your Tatler saw a headline to an article announcing, “The war in the Middle East drags on.” That came somewhat as a surprise, since the war hadn’t seemed that prolonged to this blogger. Study, however showed that definitions of words and phrases as we know them are changing, the result, apparently, of Donald Trump occupying the Oval Office. To his opponents, mostly Democrats and all the left, the war commencing only a week ago is now said to “drag on.” In other words, a Donald Trump war exists in a different dimension of time, where a week may be years to them. No doubt other words and expressions as we understand them, will undergo transformations to fit the left’s needs.

Alas, your Tatler, as he continues to age, will no doubt find it increasingly difficult to adapt to the redefinitions to come, making him appear the fool to some. He can live with it, though.

Staying put

To my loyal readers: your host has spent considerable time and sums recently attempting to move the Tatler blog to a carrier calling itself Bluehost. Unfortunately, all attempts understanding the elaborate and arcane features of Bluehost have resulted in failure and frustration. Your Tatler, therefore has decided this modest blog shall remain with the barebones, but free, spinoff from WordPress it presently occupies.

Sometimes ’tis best to leave well enough alone.

Bickerstaff

P. S. The last dealing with the Bluehost people will be attempting to get money back from them. No doubt the attempt will be unsuccessful, but conscious dictates doing so, even if futile.

The Pentagon finally sees the light

Back in 1978, twice-Harvard graduate (College and Business School) John LeBoutillier published a book titled “Harvard Hates America,” in which he encountered, to put it in the author’s own words 40 years later,

a sense of inbred superiority where many people — teachers, administrators and students — thought they were smarter and therefore better than “regular” American people. These people were condescending and often demeaning in their views of traditional Main Street Americans. The thinking was, “I am so damn smart that I am here at Harvard while most Americans can’t hold a candle to my brains.”

50 years later, one may safely claim Harvard still hates America and has been joined by the Ivy League and most institutions of higher learning. The hatred of the left in the academy has spawned a movement by the radical left to end this country as we know it.

Also 50 years later, the scales have at last fallen from Pentagon eyes. For many years it has sponsored training courses for armed forces officers at Harvard and the other Ivies. Lately that has meant, according to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, officers being “Harvardized,” returning from their studies at Harvard, et al., spouting left-wing, anti-American rhetoric, making them unsuitable for combat.

Not quite the Manchurian Candidate, but give these America haters the time and latitude and they will succeed. The Pentagon is certainly a choice target of our internal enemies and it was wise to ax these programs, though it’s a pity it wasn’t done years ago, after LeBoutillier’s Harvard Hates America was published. Unfortunately, no one in the Pentagon possessed the backbone or desire to do it until now. Thank you, Mr Secretary.

Thanks to GR