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Steven Maikoski Author:  The Real Constitution and its Real Enemies

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January 1, 2025

 

Today we start writing on our checks and letters 2025, a year which holds great promise.  

President Biden has said that if he had stayed in the presidential race, he would have beaten Donald Trump; it is a statement that confirms his diminished abilities.

A year ago, a woman set fire to a building that was under construction in Casper, Wyoming. The building was going to be an abortion clinic and the arsonist was anti-abortion, so some wanted the crime of arson to include a hate crime enhancement. 

But it was argued that the building was a construction site, not yet an abortion clinic, so the hate crime enhancement would not be justified.  The pro-abortion people then realized the irony of their request, that by claiming the building would eventually become an abortion clinic, they were validating the pro-life philosophy that a fetus should be considered the same as a human being. 

They stopped and the arsonist was sent to prison.

Each of us can identify events that changed our nation for the worse.  In the last hundred years I believe the worst was the war against poverty developed by President Lyndon Johnson in the 1960’s, because it professionalized indolence and fatherless families.  Over the years it has created a cancer of laziness, dependence and corruption that continues to metastasize.

But there is another cancer that started in 1977, when the US Supreme Court ruled that lawyers could advertise. It seemed fair at first, but the abuses of that practice have been increasing the costs of health care, auto insurance, and sadly, hurting some small businesses.

In Concord, California, a popular restaurant, Lima, is closing because a discrimination lawsuit over its Ladies Night has become the final straw. 

Newsweek reported: 

“Gender-based promotions, such as ladies' nights, have faced legal trouble under the California Civil Rights Act. In 1985, the state's Supreme Court ruled that ladies' day promotions at car washes and elsewhere and ladies' night promotions at restaurants and nightclubs violated the act.

Lima's ladies' night promotion offered women drinks, including wine, at half price for three hours each week, a deal that had been going on for years.

The attorneys have an ever widening playing field with the lawsuits brought up by gay rights, transsexual rights, special public bathrooms and, most recently, tampon dispensers in boys’ restrooms.  This has been made possible by politicians, many of them lawyers, who promote the business of rights litigation by proposing legislation such as the “Hate Crimes Prevention Act,” which introduces a legally permissible case of double jeopardy.  

In response to that ridiculous tactic, in 1997 I wrote a proposed law called “The Prevention of Illegal Acts Act.”  It was a law, if enacted, that would stop all crime by making law-breaking illegal.  One congress staffer told me that one of the Senators considered reading the proposal on the floor of the Senate, but backed off at the last minute.

Darn.

While on frivolous lawsuits, I must give an update.  Today I received three fundraising letters (update: make that four!) from that liberal civil rights group.  They need your money to fight Trump’s campaign to take away all our civil rights! Funny thing is that I cannot name one actual right he wants to take away. 

Personal Note:  When I was sky diving I was guided by a real champion, Bill Jones. We were jumping when the round parachutes, mostly ParaCommanders, were the norm. Bill set a record in national competition by scoring eight dead-center accuracy landings out of ten round canopy jumps; a record that still stands today. Bill designed, modified and built parachutes, harnesses and containers.  He was the head of the Air Force Academy’s airmanship program for years. Bill died of natural causes on Christmas Eve.  Blue Skies, Bill!

A bit of irony hit today.  As I am pet-sitting for my brother, the movie Point Break, with Patrick Swayze, is on right now.  The skydiving stunt work in that movie was managed by Jeff Jones, the son of Bill Jones.  Jeff took his own life two years ago.  His brother told me that Jeff had dug a hole so deep that there was no way out of it for him.  A few other friends made the observation that Jeff was another Robin Williams; same energy, same humor, same presence.  

I hope that Jeff and Bill are together.

Some Internet writer compiled a list of hoaxes that were waged against Donald Trump by the fake news services; it is substantial:  

- Russian collusion

- The Inflation Reduction Act reduces inflation

- Trump called neo-nazis "fine people"

- Jussie Smollett fake assault by MAGA people

- Bubba Wallace garage pull

- Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation

- Covington kids

- Governor Witmer kidnapping plot

- Kavanaugh rape

- Trump said drinking bleach would fight COVID

- Russia bombed their own pipeline

- Trump pee tape

- COVID lab leak was a conspiracy theory

- Border agents whipped migrants

- Trump saved nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago

- Steele Dossier

- Russian bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan

- Muslim travel ban

- Andrew Cuomo showed the best COVID leadership

- Ghost of Kyiv

- Trump built cages for migrant kids

- Austere religious scholar

- Trump overfed Koi fish in Japan

- Build Back Better will pay for itself

- Trump tax cuts benefited only the rich

- Cloth masks prevent COVID

- If you get vaccinated you won't catch COVID

- SUV killed parade marchers

- Trump used teargas to clear a crowd for a bible photo

- Don't Say Gay was in a bill

- Putin price hike

- Ivermectin is a horse dewormer and not for humans

- Mostly peaceful protests by Black Lives Matter

- Trump overpowered secret service for wheel of "The Beast"

- Officer Sicknick was murdered by protesters

- January 6th was an insurrection

- Trump mocked a reporter's disability

- BYU students hurled racist insults at Duke volleyball player

- Rocket that hit Poland was launched by Russia

Get ready for more. Over the last week the internet postings from left-wing groups has increased in quantity and anger; they are warming up for the new president.

Andy Huggins is a comedian who is approaching 80 years old.  He’s single.  He just commented that he has joined a dating site for older people, called Carbon Dating.

Praying for a great year! 

Steve