Wow.  If he doesn't make it to the Supreme Court, perhaps he'd like to be president.  Imagine that kind of backbone and power there.

A couple of quotes from him already, and this is just from his opening statement:

This confirmation process has become a national disgrace.

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You have replaced advice and consent with search and destroy.

Nov 6 2016 was truly a watershed day for me. More than likely greater than most others affected by Trump's win. In Jan 2016 we went to Belize to reconnoiter the place. We stayed in nice hotels, and did some diving and some tourist stuff, but I also rented a car, and went looking at the interior, did some land evaluation, talked to the local cops, and a mayor or two. I was getting ready to put some money down on a house there, and wanted to be sure we had full time power and water avail as I didn't want to get too native if we had to move.

In March we did the same thing in Grand Cayman. I got real close to buying a nice piece of land over on the North Beach area, with spitting distance to a small boat ramp and dock. By June, we'd decided on Cayman over Belize due to the nature of the Belize govt, and their lack of care outside of Belize city. I had an option on the land in Cayman, and by early Sept we were getting ready to close.

Unlike all the noisy angry libs who promised to move to Canada if Trump were elected, I was not kidding around. I was NEVER going to live under Hillary, and if it cost me some in lost funds, and living abroad most of the year - so be it. Cayman was a nice place, and I could visit the US easy enough. Also S America, and of course EU.

Something in Sept made me pause. I was tuned in pretty well to the election coverage, and the libs were starting to sound just a bit too frantic. Each 'poll' that came out showing Hillary ahead by 3 points, or 5 points, or 9 points or something was just a bit to staged, a bit too relieved by the left. Something - was amiss in lib-land.

So, I waited, and let the option expire in mid Oct and said - lets just ride this out, and see what we will see. I can go back and make another deal later, but hold off and let things play out. As we all know, it was a clean sweep. I stayed up all night, and with each passing state, each passing hour I just relaxed and knew that I didn't have to pull up stakes, and turn our lives upside down. We were gonna be fine. 37 Governors, 31 state houses, 52 senators, plenty of HR members, and we were gonna have a new conservative SCOTUS in a few months.

Now, I see things like the reversal of the idiotic climate lies, and tightening of border controls, the blocking of angry muslims coming in to the US, #walkaway, economy booming, intl crime down, and some frustration on the faces of what used to be our 'friends' around the world who have been using us like toilet paper for decades. I'm actually upbeat. I'm happy and seeing progress. Of course, there are still mountains to climb, and the colleges are one of those places that need a good laundering. But I thing the US has turned a corner, and is getting healthy again. I'm not shopping for a place to bolt anymore. I have gained confidence, and feel great about our future.

Ya'll know Trump is not in D.C. right now.

Those on the left have little respect for law.  It's a failing of theirs because respect for law is necessary for a stable society.  Without respect for law, we get Hobbe's brutish and short life; with respect for law, we have Locke's equality and mutual respect.

This is a major reason I condemn the Left.  I can ignore their belief system, but I cannot ignore how their belief system infringes on me.

I was born a poor black child. I remember the days, sittin' on the porch with my family, singin' and dancin' down in Mississippi...

Lots of sports have "changed".  Look at NFL Football.  In an effort to attract more women, and others, and be PC, they have alienated their base to the point where revenues are declining.

I played college football, so football has been an important part of my life. I used to have season tickets for the Bears before moving out of Illinois.

Even before this kneeling fiasco, I lost interest in the NFL. Part of it was it was becoming more about player personalities than about the team. “Look at me, look at me” self-congratulating dancing and mugging for the crowd after making a tackle when you’re down by 21 points on the 4th quarter and getting your ass kicked.  Winning for the team is less important than trying to get that ESPN Sports Center hit of the week. Also, players are starting to look at thuggish as the NBA. Not many good citizens out there any more. Lastly, the NFL has become so feminized it makes me sick. Rules have been so tightened that they are pushing manly aggression out of the sport. Pink shoes in October. Super Bowl halftime acts that don’t match the personality of the people that I used to sit with when it’s -5 degrees and snowing.

So the kneeling fiasco was a deal breaker, but the horse already left the barn. Trying to fix it won’t change my personal boycott of the NFL.

A more in-depth story - https://www.npr.org/2018/07/31/634373403/d-c-couple-killed-in-tajikistan-attack-were-biking-around-the-world-together

I'm not sure they were out to prove evil doesn't exist. But the quotes in that DC article I think represent a special kind of first-world naiveté. There are parts of this world that are absolutely brutal. It's a kind of brutality that most of us are forever shielded from in the safety of the richest country in the world. It's a kind of shocking brutality that could not be prepared-for, and which I think would make most of us violently ill if we witnessed first hand.