Trains in West Chester: The magic and exuberance of a thriving economy

For the second time in my life I had the strange privilege to gain the viewpoint of foreign visitors and their intense interests in American trains. In America, we take the length of our trains for granted as most of the rest of the world, particularly Europe and the East do not have they type of freight trains that we do in the United States. But I remember the magic of when my future son-in-law visited over a decade ago how he thought the length of our trains were simply amazing which surprised me because I took them more as a nuisance that was in my way when I wanted to cross a road. Then over this past week I had visitors from Japan and we were in a new office space that overlooked a very active railroad line that moved through West Chester, Ohio and they were simply amazed by the length and frequency of the trains. We were working on some very important things, but I had the seating in such a way that they were able to look out the windows, so they had a prime seat for several hours of the day to see how many trains moved along that track in both a north and south direction.

I noticed that they seemed very interested in what was going on outside the window which made me wonder if I had the seating arrangements correct—and after a few days of this they simply asked me how long those trains were. My reply was that most of them looked to be a mile long—or 1.6 kilometers as they understand it. Some of the trains were longer clearly. This information was simply stunning to these guys who spend a lot of time in places like Tokyo and London—even France. The length of American trains told them a lot about our culture and it was worth taking a moment to consider.

I’ve always loved trains—and like a lot of old men who have train sets in their basements, and like to visit the popular tourist destination in West Chester—Entertrainment Junction which features some of the largest model trains in the world—trains have an essence of optimism about them that largely goes unexplored. We love them, but often don’t understand why. After visiting Europe recently with this topic fresh on my mind I have some unique thoughts on the matter which might unlock better our understanding of this condition. From my vantage point in both Japan and England I admired their train systems which was mostly regulated to passenger transportation. People needed to get someplace fast so they took the train and it worked pretty well. I was impressed with the complex way the trains ran in England particularly around London. However, what was missing was the way that trains are used in the United States—you don’t often see the magic of an American train any place else even in places that are supposed to be the most popular and largest cities in the world.

Over the last year I had some very nice lunches in both Tokyo and London over looking their train systems and neither was as impressive as that display in this new office space where I had these Japanese guests. After all, it was a fabulous spring day on this occasion where my guests were so enamored with the trains going by my window—so we brought in some good ol’ American pizza from Donatos and you’d think I took these people to a 5 star restaurant. One of these guys had said that during this business trip they wanted to try some authentic American pizza—so you can image the elation that was experienced with a stack of five different pizzas with all different toppings sitting there being enjoyed while watching three, mile long trains all traveling south by our window while having lunch with a brilliant sun pouring in making us enjoy life that much more. Just a bit beyond the train tracks was the endless energy of the American highway system which was unique also in the world. Our big cars and trucks pouring endlessly by all day and night was another thing unique to American culture and we sat for about an hour eating our pizza and talking about trains and trucks in a way that impressed me with its philosophic content.

Japan for a small island economy produces about 4.4.trillion dollars a year which is impressive. To achieve that their people work very hard and intensely 365 days a year—you can feel the energy when you land there. The people are vigorous, industrious, and extremely well-mannered and it shows in what they make. And England where London is certainly one of the most important financial centers in the world produces somewhere between 2.2 to 3 trillion dollars if you count all the coins in your pockets on a rainy day—to be generous. You can feel the energy there too—but in both cases, you can tell something is missing from an American perspective. I knew what it was as I poured garlic sauce all over my nice juicy pizza watching the traffic under that morning spring sun in Ohio—and my guests were getting the gist of it too. The American economy produces an astonishing 18.5 trillion dollars over a larger land mass, but the effect was clear by counting the trains and trucks up on I-75 going by then multiplying that over the land mass then dividing it by the hours of the day. What we were looking at was a vibrant economy which was a product of mankind in all its glorious creativity emerging unencumbered by the powerful locomotives pulling freight from the north to destinations in the south.

The trains were a large part of that 18 trillion-dollar economy as some of the cars were double stacked and loaded with product headed toward distribution centers awaiting shipment. China has a nominal GDP of 11.3 trillion although they have a PPP projection of over 23 trillion this year which equates out to $11-15,000 per pupil. All that sounds impressive until you consider that they have over 1 billion people and in the United States our per pupil capita is roughly $53,000—quite a bit higher and that’s with 7 million people still unemployed as of this writing. What we could see from our vantage point looking at trains and highway traffic was a very efficient and productive country making a lot of money and our big trains were a tremendous part of that. Even the big tractor trailers cruising by down the highways couldn’t move the sheer volume of product that was chugging along by our train system. And none of us said it at the time, but the American economy has been stagnant for a long time functioning at only a fraction of its potential due to the weaknesses of several decades of American presidents and destructive politics seeking to duplicate Europe instead of continue on with the polices that built America in the first place.

The trains didn’t just represent massive power by the large diesel engines which propelled them—they were aspects of a very powerful economy and contained within them many hopes and dreams which spill over into the enthusiasm that old men who build train sets in their basements share with their grandchildren. It was the length and frequency of those trains that caught the attention of my guests. It’s one thing to read about the powerful American economy in a trade publication, or to watch a news story about it on television—it’s quite another to see it up close and personal and to see those trains going by our window was to confirm the majestic nature of American capitalism and the land of abundance that it produces. That’s exactly why we love our trains and they continue to hold a special place in our hearts. Trains are vital arteries of American capitalism and they continue to be impressive as the world watches jealously at how we took a relatively small country and made it into such an economy powerhouse. Many can hope through colleges and other liberal institutions to hide just how powerful the American economy is—but when they see our trains—they can’t escape the reality of it. Trains in America isn’t so much about taking people from one place to another—but in taking big things to large markets for income producing utilization and that is their specific purpose which is truly unique in the world. And that is a truly majestic concept worthy of all the imagination ushered forth by our human race.

Rich Hoffman

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The Betrayal of Kirsten Powers: A grim reality surrounding all the women accusing Bill O’Reilly of sexual harassment

I always knew while watching The O’Reilly Factor that Kirsten Powers was bad news. As a liberal political pundit from USA Today Bill O’Reilly put her on constantly and I often wondered if Bill put up with her because she was having occasional sex with him. Otherwise, who would put up with that terrible mouth of hers, obviously not her husband whom she was only married to for a short time from 2010 to 2013. Putting her on Fox News almost every night was dangerous in my opinion and given the way she piled on disrespectfully as Bill O’Reilly was pulled off the air at Fox during an Anderson Cooper interview—my instincts were certainly correct. She sounded like a train wreck and her motives were clearly exposed. What I saw speaking to Anderson Cooper was a spiteful woman who was in her middle years and not so cute any more that had pushed away everything good in her life—including Bill O’Reilly and she was resentful. Ultimately that was the cost of trying to be fair and balanced on Fox—you put on spiteful, aging pundits who want to suddenly make a living without the aid of their youthful beauty—and they are scared.

And the same could be said of the several women who accused Bill O’Reilly and specifically Fox News for sexual harassment. Egged on by Media Matters behind the scenes and many liberal activists—the women took every opportunity to swipe at the older generation men who ran Fox News in an effort to make the place more progressive—and ultimately more like the other loser networks in competition—overly concerned with silly PC culture and modern nonsense that will be out of fashion with the very next generation. What you find at the bottom of the complaints are a bunch of women who were fine to make good livings off their looks—but now that they are arriving at those middle ages where estrogen doesn’t come so naturally and skin wrinkles don’t look so good on 4K 70” televisions—a new generation of younger women doing just as they did twenty years ago is coming along and pushing them out of a job—and women like Kirsten call that “sexual harassment.” I call it getting old.

If you peel the onion away that’s all that is really going on with the sexual harassment claims against Fox News. The women used their looks to get into the doors at Fox then they changed the rules of engagement mystifying the older men who came from a time when you could call women “blonds” even when they artificially dyed their hair to increase their supernormal sign stimuli to evoke the image. The women’s complaints against O’Reilly and Fox News specifically are only defined by Obama era politics as harassment, when at any time prior or likely in the future will be considered normal human interaction. The real hope of liberal ladies like Kirsten Powers is to stay relevant into her 50s so people will still want to listen to her without the visual quality behind someone who might lure men to sleep with them for attention. Because lets face it, that was the only reason Bill put her on Fox News. Whether or not he had occasional sex with any of these women it was important for the audience to wonder about such things because that’s what drove the ratings. Nobody wanted to hear what Kirsten had to say from a fair and balanced point of view. They wanted to think about what she looked like naked and in suggestive sexual positions. Surely Kirsten understood that when she came on The O’Reilly Factor many times.

Women watch The View during the day, and other shows geared toward women—and that’s the only way that garbage heaps like Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar can make it in modern television—by bitching and squawking like a bunch of hungry baby birds that were knocked out of their nest during a heavy storm. People feel sorry for them, the might actually listen—but they aren’t going to change their behavior patterns—they’ll just watch. Yet to the wider audience which might include men—there is no appeal. Men and women are still and will always be—men and women. Men biologically want to have sex with women and women will always look for ways to make their assets work to their advantage. And that only works for them pre-menopausal. After that, they become spectators in the games of life. That may seem vicious, but take it up with God, because it’s the design of the universe.

Even knowing all this however it was shocking to hear Kirsten speak out so blatantly against Bill O’Reilly. I watched her so many times come on his show and eat out of his hand all the while I knew she was a nasty person waiting for a moment to strike like a snake. I used to tell my wife anytime she appeared that she reminded me of spit—because that’s just what she reminded me of. The way she spoke, the way she made eye contact—her politics—virtually everything about her evoked something you’d want to spit out of your mouth—not put in it. It actually made me trust O’Reilly less because he had her on so much. I figured he was either having sex with her, or wanted to. But so what? Kirsten got exposure she never would have otherwise obtained—which she’ll never get again and she should be grateful.

In the demise of Fox News, these women accusers had some air time on all the major networks rejoicing that their rival had one of its major stars knocked off a prime time slot. But those same women have labeled themselves for life as a pain in the ass so we won’t see them again. Kirsten is certainly done. She might be praised now, but she’s still a woman approaching 50 who won’t be desired to be on television. She may still write for USA Today for a while, but nobody is going to want to see her face or hear that terrible noise that comes out of her liberal mouth. Because people tune into Fox not to see O’Reilly, or the hot chicks he had on as pundits—they are just visual icing for the cake. They want conservative viewpoints on the news of the day. Anybody else can come along and do the same job and if Fox moves into an even more progressive direction—some upstart will take over what they do now—because ultimately the audience is in charge—not the networks. And nothing in the world can make people tune into a show they don’t want to watch to see a wrinkled up Kirsten Powers utter liberal nonsense. They might put up with it to have her flirt with them as a youthful woman—but not as a serious political commentator. There are plenty of ugly people who already do that work—one more used up old woman won’t change the conditions of the marketplace.

Rich Hoffman

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The Value in Judging Other People: How a McDonald’s employee prevented murder

Steve Stevens, the cold-blooded murderer from Cleveland who killed an innocent man on Easter Sunday claiming to be emotionally deficient after breaking up with his girlfriend was in Erie, Pennsylvania ordering a 20 piece chicken nugget meal at McDonald’s. There a drive-thru employee spotted Stevens and after taking his money notified police. The McDonald’s staff tried to stall the killer at the pick-up window, but the fugitive knew something was up and fled the scene without his French Fries. Police were quick to get there and give chase leaving Stevens with no choice but to take his own life, just as the inmate murderer Aaron Hernandez just did hours after. When the law painted these thugs into a corner where there was no other option left to them—they simply killed themselves—which is a good thing. The former professional football player facing life in prison hung himself knowing that his life was ruined forever for the murders he committed, and this Steve Stevens guy knew that the Facebook testimony he gave would see him convicted of murder for sure—so he shot himself in his car before authorities could arrest him. The whole event was set off by a McDonald’s employee who was keenly aware of what was happening in the world. Bravo.

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And that is really how crime is fought—by individuals doing the good work of observing their environments and taking action when necessary. Luckily in this case the citizen action didn’t require guns, but sometimes it may. However by having eyes and ears on the ground level, police were able to pin down Stevens and force him to take his own life—which makes everyone happy. Our society saves the money of prosecuting the loser, and further killings were avoided as this guy was obviously spiraling downhill fast. If Stevens hadn’t been arrogant enough to go through a McDonald’s drive thru, there is no telling how long the ordeal would have transpired. And in this case it was a slam dunk of a case—but if he had to be prosecuted the cost would have been enormous to the state of Ohio—and the media frenzy would have been very distracting. Things are much better this way—with him killing himself.

The Aaron Hernandez case was never in question, yet it took the former Patriots tight-end turned murderer years to move through all the legal gates to arrive at his sentencing and eventual fate in a single cell prison. Once there and all the means of appeal exhausted, he had no other choice but to kill himself, which if he had done so sooner would have helped everyone out. Hernandez committed a horrific crime, and there was no question of his guilt during the trail—and we could have all saved a lot of money if we had removed the hope he had of getting away with it. If he had committed suicide years ago the entire legal profession would have been less strained. But here’s the problem, there are so many parasites who work in the legal profession that make a lot of money off long celebrity trials like Aaron Hernandez’s case—that justice is not the objective—milking the crime for all that can be obtained is.

If this Facebook killer—Steve Stevens had been arrested, the same kind of long legal proceeding would have occurred—it would have taken years to get that guy in jail convicted for life. And if he turned out to be a death penalty case—he would have cost the state of Ohio many millions of dollars of maintenance for the next twenty years until the justice system could finally enact the penalty. But when the threat of quick justice is present it certainly puts pressure on fugitives from justice to either escape or to kill themselves before someone else beats them to it. So without that McDonald’s employee’s sharp eyes, this terrible ordeal would have prolonged for many more years unnecessarily.

Citizen action is paramount to our free republic. Without it, we cannot have justice in the world. You have to engage suspicious people and to always question intentions. This of course goes against the progressive tendency against passing judgment on other people. It is in fact our ability to judge that makes us a civilized nation. For instance, if that McDonald’s employee had not judged that the drive-thru customer handing her money might be the killer of the elderly person from Cleveland on Easter Sunday, the killer would have driven away and he’d still be free to terrorize people. But that’s not what happened. The McDonald’s employee passed judgment on the physical features of Steve Stevens, the kind of car he was driving, the manner of his voice, the amount of eye contact that he made—and she acted accordingly. That is the first line of defense in our society—judgment. And when we pass judgment on bad guys, they often don’t expect to deal with civilians as part of their antagonism, or their escape plans. It is absolutely true that a well-armed population in America prevents many lunatics like this Steve Stevens murderer from stepping into a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere and doing what they desire unimpeded. There is no way that America as a vast rural landscape could ever hope that the police might defend each and every person. Just like with all the police, FBI, and CIA that are out there spying on us constantly with input from the NSA and Homeland security, they can’t prevent us from harm. They can discourage bad guys from doing bad things, but when people like Steve Stevens or Aaron Hernandez who realize that if they wanted to, they could pluck off a large part of society on a whim and nobody could do anything about it. When people get involved and the bad guys are put on television complete with social judgment against them—there is no place for such people to go—not even a McDonald’s in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Villains depend on people to be terrified of them and to rely on the inefficient “state” to evoke justice. They also require that good people hide their thoughts from the court of public opinion so that progressive insurgents can hopefully get them off the hook when they do commit crime—which was the hope of Aaron Hernandez. Once his fate was eventually sealed and he had to admit to himself that he was no O.J. Simpson—and that he was going to do hard time for the rest of his life—he killed himself—and for that we are all better off. Steve Stevens was at least smart enough to know that the legal system would chew him up and spit him out because of the vast testimony he provided against himself—himself. The reason that statists and criminals alike push for society not to “judge” is so that they can roam about unmolested harming anybody they wish whenever they wish. That’s also why those same people are against personal ownership of firearms. However, when each and every citizen in the United States has the right to a firearm—and the power of judgment between right and wrong in their arsenal of living—they are very dangerous to bad guys. And even a worker at McDonald’s can be a hero with just their judgment as their weapon and the courage to act on instinct. That is how justice is enacted in the most efficient way possible. People need to be involved, personally. The cops are there to build a case. They can’t always be there to prevent harm from happening and that must be understood in any civil society. You can’t drive evil from the world with good intentions and a progressive education. You need guns and people who are able to judge good from evil.

Rich Hoffman

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Beating the Drums of War: Time to take North Korea away from the stupid fat kid

Obviously I’m not a dope smoking libertarian who wants the United States to be a live and let live Constitutional Republic which allows for the legalization of pot and ignores threats around the world hoping everyone just behaves. While I like the Constitutional Republic part I am an expansionist—I think the world would be a lot happier if they’d just become another state in the United States. They can keep their integrity and culture so long as the pledge allegiance to our flag. The world is simply too small now to allow lunatics of theocracy like Iran, North Korea, and Syria to host tyrannical dictators. I knew what I was getting with Donald Trump and he’s doing exactly what I wanted him to do—flexing the muscle of American military around the world fixing the numerous problems that 28 years of weak American presidents let brew out of control. I understand that the only way to get to the kind of prosperity America enjoyed in the past is to be the top dog on the world stage—and we should be. We are the best country with the best ideas and we are open to sharing those ideas with places not so fortunate. But the bad guys need to be taken out-of-the-way.

I’ve written and written, and written about the effects of Socialist International around the world and how dominate it is really everywhere. Russia has a former KGB agent from their communist days as their president and China is an all out communist nation. Europe is all diseased with socialism and all the poor countries of Indochina are rotten with communism. Stop by Cambodia sometime and walk the streets and 12-year-old girls will throw themselves at your feet offering sex because that’s the only way they can make enough money to eat. The same in Kenya, Vietnam and the east European nations still trying to develop economies after the collapse of Russia—the world is unstable and many people are suffering for it. So the grim reality is that nobody in the world is a reliable trading partner with the United States until these problems are solved. The biggest difference with Trump is that he’s not in love with United Nations group hugs approach. He’s fine to let NATO and the UN ride on America’s back as long as they shut up and do what he says. The minute they don’t, they lose their United States funding and they’ll drown with the rest of Europe. That is the Trump message to the world and as my representative, that’s what I sent him to Washington to do, along with about a 1000 other little things.

America can’t have peace so long as North Korea and many other countries empowered by the 20^th Century failed experiments of social engineering remain alive—and that means cleaning up on all the unresolved issues started by past American presidents and getting back to polices that put North America the center of the world, not Brussels. Since the Korean War ended in 1953 North Korea has been a pain in the neck and the excuse of many United States presidents to have reasons to have military spending as a cover story for their other failures. And now there is this fat kid who runs the country like a spoiled brat teenager who was given a Lamborghini by his dying dad and he has nuclear warheads which can threaten United States partners in South Korea and Japan. For the uneducated in the ways of geography, South Korea makes Samsung phones and televisions as well as Kia cars. So right now, they are a very important partner in the United States economy, so we do have a major interest in the area. Then of course there is Japan who we fought in World War II, and beat. We took away their weapons and now they are completely dependent on United States protection to produce one of the most powerful economies in the world—so we gave ourselves the responsibility to protect them from China and North Korea both of which have been making moves against that tiny little island in Pacific Ocean. The American general Claire Lee Chennault warned what would happen if America left the region after World War II and our stupid government allowed communism to spread into China, the Korean peninsula and down into Indochina. That pulled us into two major wars and essentially a half century stalemate which needs to be broken before there will ever be peace in the region.

This mess extends right in front of the Himalaya Mountains across the impoverished continent of India and into the chaos of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran which then borders Iraq and Syria. The average dope smoking American anti-war pacifist couldn’t find any of those countries on a map, so they have no idea what the dangers are in leaving those places free to produce dictators and theocratic nightmares. There is a tremendous economic cost to the United States in addition to the moral cost of turning away and letting millions of people rot or rush American borders so they can try to escape. Melania Trump happens to be one of those East Europeans who were lucky to have perfect super model features, like long legs, the proper height and facial features to be a top model in Paris. If she had been two inches shorter she would have had to be a prostitute of some kind to escape the poverty of her native country in Slovenia. People who don’t travel much and see the world for what it is who preach legalization of pot and think they can play video games through life leaving everyone alone, have no idea how bad things are out there beyond the borders of the United States. And open border progressives love all this chaos because they want refugees of the wars they have caused to over burden our American capitalist system and to change it from the inside out. Just listen to the average American college professor who preaches to our youth to hate those “rich white guys” so that the displaced refugees will flee to America and replace freedom with the only thing they’ve ever known, domination by dictators and failed economic opportunities.

So I say to hell with North Korea. Let them send their “pre-emptive” strike. Because I’m tired of hearing about them—it’s time to call the bluff of that ruling family. The solutions have always been there in these hostile countries—we just didn’t have the political will to do anything about it. But now we do and the world needs to see what will happen to North Korea. Let them try to fire a missile at the VP in South Korea or at any of the American Navy vessel parked in the waters off North Korea—and the THAAD system that is now in place will shoot them down and that fat kid running things will learn a hard lesson. Trump can take that victory and negotiate all kinds of good stuff with China and Russia for the first time in over two hundred years of American foreign policy, which is exactly why I supported and voted for Donald Trump for president—to end these problems instead of just letting them simmer from one generation to another.

The best way to put America first is to defend American ideas around the world and to stand up to the bullies who want to end it everywhere. The human race has to make a decision—will it be freedom or tyranny, because the world is too small to have both. The world must pick—and they have to do it now. Smoking another joint and listening to old Led Zepplin songs won’t solve the problem—instead, America must have peace through superior firepower and let bad guys know it when they step out of line. That’s the way it has to be for a while until all those untied disputes are finally settled. And based on Trump’s performance as Commander and Chief—it won’t take long.

Rich Hoffman

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The Terrible Customer Service of Airlines in America: United’s horrible public relations nightmare is just the tip of an incberg

We’ve all heard by now about the Poker playing doctor who was dragged off a United Airlines flight in Chicago because the airline company had overbooked the flight. The policy is ridiculous, the mistakes made by everyone numerous, and the degrading condition of airline travel in the United States made embarrassingly clear. For what we pay for an airline ticket, the airlines should be a lot more appreciative. Instead, they have come to treat the experience—especially in the economy class—as a miserable endeavor. And it was on full display for everyone to see.

Here’s the main problem, that doctor should never have even been flying from Chicago to Louisville—it would have been quicker to drive the distance. The only time I’d fly such a short flight would be a connecting flight after a much longer journey—which often occurs when traveling overseas. When doing such a thing most flights arrive domestically in Charlotte, Chicago, or Detroit then you have to catch a transfer flight to your home destination. But for just flying from one city to another within the United States such as from Chicago to Louisville—a car is much faster by the time you waste all your time with the TSA and the booking process. Airlines have lost their way and become entirely too callous to the service of their passengers. Flying now is like riding on a public bus—and that is just a miserable state of affairs for something that should be a luxury experience. So if I were that doctor who was singled out to lose his seat on an overbooked flight which the airlines have a right to do unfortunately—I would have taken the money and rented a car—and just drove down to Louisville. I wouldn’t have allowed myself to be stuck in Chicago one more night waiting for another flight the next day. That is just a ridiculous waste of time. It’s only a four to five-hour drive from Chicago to Louisville taking your time—so the people on that flight had options that were much better than the violence that eventually occurred.

And that’s what I would suggest that people do—just don’t fly unless you have to. When I need to travel overseas, there isn’t much choice but recently on a trip back from Europe I noticed that the British Airways flight crew was top-notch while the American Airlines crew just sucked. They had bad attitudes and were miserable to deal with—and that comes from their labor unions and essentially the lack of competition that the airlines have enjoyed for half a century. Well, those days are coming to an end, other transportation modes will be competing with the airlines soon and that will change things significantly—such as the upcoming Hyperloop. But even while in Europe I watched the flight attendants union for British Airways protesting at Heathrow for better wages and benefits which looked terrible. All the employees in the commercial air professions have a lot to relearn about customer service—because presently it is just terrible and that is the first problem that United had with their policy which failed so spectacularly in Chicago.

The other major issue is the authority that the TSA and the airlines now have over individual sanctity—which is a direct cause of over-reaction to terrorism. The United States response to terrorism after 9/11 was just wrong to become a bunch of scardy cats afraid of their own shadows. What should have been done then is what Trump is doing now—single out the terrorist activities and throw aggression at them making them think twice about attacking us again. Airline travel should be as easy as the air shuttle is at Lunken Airport in Cincinnati. The air shuttle there flies people to New York, Chicago, and Charlotte at just a little bit over what a commercial flight costs—but the hassle is much less. They are very respectful of your time and person at Lunken and that makes it a much more desirable option. They still work for people’s business there and don’t take it for granted that you have to do what they say.

On another flight, recently from overseas a flight attendant who thought she had way too much power was harassing a young couple who were trying to keep their baby quiet with videos on their smart phone. It was working and the noise level was next to nothing. But that didn’t stop the woman from telling the young parents that they needed to put head phones on the baby because open sounds were not allowed on the plane. Their response was that what they were doing was quieter than a screaming baby. The stewardess very nearly pressed the issue—which under the airline rules, she had the authority to do. Luckily, she let the situation slide, but not before tempting the desire to throw her weight around—which was considerable as she was an obviously union protected monstrosity who could barely fit down the aisle of the plane. Not a good image for the airline to begin with. Obviously, the tendency toward customer service was missing—customers these days are treated as a nuisance when they fly. They are practically raped before getting on the plane and once there you are at the mercy of questionable pilots and power-hungry stewardesses who are well into their 40s and miserable because they feel guilty leaving their families behind to fly around the world for a living. I mean really, if I want my mom to serve me drinks I can go to her house—part of the flying experience should be to be pampered a bit and to get where you want to go with a bit of adventure and zeal to it. Not misery and some menopausal deformity with hairs coming out of their noses pouring you a Coke on a bumpy plane. It’s a lot more palatable to have an attractive female in her mid-twenties tell you to fasten your seatbelt than some angry relic from the baby boomer generation. I’m just being honest. For what we pay, airlines are not giving us customer service and the issue is not looks—it’s just respect for the whole experience. Ugly people as employees are just the icing on the cake—airlines don’t even go that far as to care about such things. They are too busy overbooking flights and ripping people off airplanes to cover their management inefficiencies while the TSA is pulling down the paints of little boys and checking them for bombs they know aren’t there. But the little pedophile in them hope to find something—likely unrelated.

I hate flying these days unless it’s in first class. Even then, the last time I flew overseas on a United flight in the nice seats they gave me a gay guy as an attendant. My ticket cost as much as a car and that was all they could give me? I mean it’s not about sex, it’s about taste—it is much nicer to have an attractive woman passing you drinks on a psychological level and working around you while you are trying to sleep than the hairy arm of some guy who acts like he wants to molest you. Even for women, a flight to Japan or to a destination in Europe that isn’t encumbered with a PC culture of old people is more pleasant with a 25-year-old women full of wonderful estrogen handing you food—purely from a sanitation point of view because they at least care about their appearance so you can deduce that they at least washed their hands. And if airlines can’t at least give you decent looking people to serve you, then they should just leave you alone. But flying is extremely intrusive and personally violating so with the uncomfortable burdens of jet lag and time zone adjustments—these added problems are just not worth the experience. So whenever possible, I find some other way to travel these days—and that’s the best way to correct the behavior. Take money out of their pockets and they’ll have to adjust.

For passengers of that United flight where the guy was drug off screaming like a trapped raccoon, they all should have been taking a car to Louisville—because the distance just doesn’t justify the extreme hardship of flying. By the time most of those passengers arrived at the airport, checked their baggage, went through security, found their gate terminal in that large airport—they could almost have driven to Louisville from Chicago. Then there is the time it takes to taxi out and take off and actually fly to Northern Kentucky along the Ohio River, which is very fast—but still part of the process. But that’s not all, once you land, find your bags, get a car—you could have long been at your hotel if you had just driven the distance. And if I were you dear reader, that’s what I’d start doing. Don’t give those slugs at United your money for a terrible experience. Don’t reward terrible behavior. If they can’t give you something special for your time and money—then don’t give them the money. It’s that simple, and if everyone did that United Airlines and the rest of them would be forced to become more customer friendly. And from my vantage point—that is long overdue.

Rich Hoffman

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The End of Hollywood: Why the movie industry is dying

When I say that Hollywood is done my point of reference is from a business perspective and as a person who spent twenty years writing and pitching screenplays, attending film festivals, and sometimes working as a stunt coach. Films were something I was very interested in—and still am, but the business of Hollywood motion pictures was something I used to spend a lot of time thinking about so I know it quite well. Well enough to say that the time has finally come—Hollywood’s studio system movies are coming to an end and its right on time to what I said would happen over five years ago. Hollywood’s current filmmakers do not represent most of America and like the national media companies, are much more interested in being a liberal propaganda machine. Now that the costs of making a movie have intersected the declining box office receipts—such as in the case of Ghost in the Shell—the latest embarrassment with Scarlett Johansson—it’s just a matter of time now before the entire industry folds.

I suspect that Disney will always do something with film, as will Warner Bros. and a few other companies, but they will have to drastically change their habits. After I watched the Blue Rey interviews for Rogue One—which I couldn’t wait to watch, it became very obvious—the filmmakers who are in the story group now replacing George Lucas have no idea why Star Wars movies work. They only know to follow the basic formula that he created and that means they can get some semblance of a Star Wars movie—which is better than nothing, but not the whole experience. I thought Rogue One was a fabulous movie, but it was missing the pop of a George Lucas production. The San Francisco hippies who now work at Lucasfilm cited during the Rogue One interviews the fact that George Lucas had originally written that the “Force” was called “The Force of Others,” meaning mass collectivism and that kind of 60s communist philosophy. Under tremendous pressure from Twentieth Century Fox Lucas had to whittle down his script and movie down to the bare necessities so he ended up following more of a Walt Disney approach to the themes of the movie which led to a great story rooted in Joseph Campbell myth interpretation.

But the “hero’s journey” is not a collective one. Red State Americans do not think in collective terms and they cannot be made to. We aren’t all better “together” and teams are not the supreme law of the land. When North Carolina recently won the NCAA championship game over Gonzaga it wasn’t a “team effort” but actually the five to six guys who spent most of the time shooting the ball and the few individuals who shot clutch shots at just the right moment. All the bench warmers sitting on the sidelines didn’t contribute equally—yet as members of the collective team they all celebrated as a single unit. The cinematic story in telling such a movie would have been in the individuals—not the collective whole otherwise the mythic theme gets lost in the circumstances. Luckily for the Rogue One people they killed everyone at the end so that washed out the ineffectiveness of the lack of individual performances. By that I mean the mass collective sacrifice that all the members of Rogue One committed to save the Rebellion. If the Star Wars story group continue to make those Lucasfilm projects with the progressive values of their San Francisco culture—they’ll see their Star Wars product losing its mythic effectiveness. It’s still a good product, but it’s certainly less effective as a storytelling device than it was under George Lucas’ care. Just as the current collective decision makers at the Disney Company don’t understand what made Walt Disney work—they copy the formula and sometimes they get lucky.

Recently while I was in England for an extended period of time I noticed that there were a lot of westerns on television. England was playing a lot of our old 50s era westerns because their society was fascinated by the individualism on display in American cinema. They had committed themselves already to socialism for most of the 20^th century and were looking for ways out of that mess—and American westerns were doing the trick. They weren’t making much that was originally good as far as cinema in England, so they played old American westerns—and that seems to be a theme around the world. And the best westerns are not about mass sacrifice for the greater good, but in individuals standing up against the masses in the name of suppressing collective evil—such as a band of cattle rustlers taking over a town and one gunman standing alone to face them down—or some bounty hunter like Clint Eastwood getting individually wealthy by killing all the bad guys and riding off into the sunset. The best movies find some way to tell an individualized story about love, wealth, or power. But movies lose their luster when they become instruments of statism.

Let me put it like this, when Wolfram Von Eschenbach wrote his King Arthur stories in the 12^th century his subject was the individual casting off the limits of the collective. The same kind of thing occurred with the Twin War Gods story of Navaho legend. The society is in trouble and the individual must go out into the world to save everyone with their acts of heroics—alone. When Hollywood adds all this “team” crap—and this “force of others” idiocy, the product on the screen gets watered down. American audiences are by their nature individualists. They don’t accept collectivist messaging in movies. They might endure them if there are cool action sequences or the leading lady takes her top off—but they won’t go out of their way to see the movie. Now that China has bought up Legendary Pictures they are learning the hard way. Their movie with Matt Damon about the Great Wall of China bombed in America big time. And even the latest King Kong movie fell short—which I wanted to like badly.

I knew Kong: Skull Island was in trouble after the scene where the natives on the island were a bunch of utopian hippies who didn’t have any personal property or individualized desires. They were autonomous robots who had learned to love serving King Kong as sacrificial elements. As a result the movie only made 150 million in the domestic market but it did very well in communist China taking the film up and over the 500 million mark worldwide. That paid the bills for the movie, but just barely considering that King Kong has almost 100 years of film history to build from. It should have made a billion dollars—and could have if the filmmakers made a movie about individuals instead of collective salvation. Audiences don’t attend movies as a collective. They might share that experience with others—collectively, but they watch movies as individuals.

I watched with pain studio executives trying to explain why Scarlett Johansson couldn’t make Ghost in the Shell work. With a production budget of 110 million it only had a domestic take of 26 million dollars. The studio thought that Johansson did well in the Avenger movies so obviously she’d bring 100 million dollars to Ghost in the Shell? No. People don’t go to movies to see stars—you’d think that Hollywood would have learned this by now—they go to see stories about individuals. At least that’s how it is in America—which then drives the world market. And if Ghost in the Shell would have been cast by a Japanese woman—it would have done even worse—just for the record. The content of the film is what hurt it—not that Scarlett Johansson was “white.”

Here’s the bad news, kids growing up today are interested in other things. Their video games and phone apps are much cooler and individual based storytelling then modern movies and they just aren’t going to be there as adults giving Hollywood money. The labor unions have driven up the cost of making movies to the point where small budgeted risky projects can’t be made. For instance, you never see today movies like Days of Thunder or Top Gun being made where a Tom Cruise character who is over-the-top individually confident but loses his nerve after some tragedy, and the whole point of the character is in overcoming his individual fears and returning to the glory of being an arrogant son-of-a-bitch. But that’s what American audiences want and Hollywood isn’t giving it to them so the movie industry is on life support held up by my generation who still goes to movies out of nostalgia. The generation after mine will do something else because these movies don’t speak to them as individuals. And those are the cold hard facts.

Rich Hoffman

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The Art of a President: Donald Trump’s brilliance is the best gift I could ask for

Donald Trump must have known that it was my birthday because I couldn’t have received a better gift. After all, the world has been poking the fences since his election.

China has been advancing in the South China Sea against Taiwan and Japan. North Korea is threatening to lunch missiles into America with their constant tests—Russia has continued to buzz American naval vessels in contentious waters. Iran is sponsoring terrorism everywhere they can, Democrats are fighting everything Trump tries to do in the White House including trying to block the Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Supposedly Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner are fighting it out in the Oval Office in front of Donald Trump and we’ve discovered that Susan Rice under Barack Obama’s direction had spied on the Trump transition team—illegally. The CIA, FBI, and all connecting intelligence agencies have been caught in a DEEP STATE scheme that has them all looking horrible and in the face of all that—Trump launched an airstrike against Syria while hosting the Communist Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Winter White House in South Florida. After the press conference announcing the strike you could almost hear Trump say (nonverbally) “Xi, if you don’t straighten out North Korea—you’re next. And by the way—I’m going to tax your exports. Have a nice day. Would you like some more wine?” This was the art of the deal at its finest and I can say that this is my most satisfying birthday in my life—because I’ve been waiting to live in a country with this kind of winning record since the beginning.

PALM BEACH, Fla. — North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and the U.S-China trade imbalance as well as other points of tension between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are being overshadowed by the U.S. missile strikes on Syria.

Nonetheless, the two leaders are meeting for a second day at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as planned Friday. Their first-night summit dinner wrapped up shortly before the U.S. announced the missile barrage on an air base in Syria in retaliation against Syrian President Bashar Assad for a chemical weapons attack against civilians caught up in his country’s long civil war.

The US military fired more than 50 tomahawk missiles at al-Shayrat military airfield at 8.45pm EDT Thursday

Moves comes just hours after Trump said ‘something should happen’ following Tuesday’s gas-attack atrocity

Trump took action after more than 80 were killed and many more were injured in the sarin poison gas attack

‘Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack,’ he said after launching the strike

Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a furious response calling airstrike an ‘illegal act of aggression’

US says airfield was used to store toxic weapons and was the base for the aircraft involved in the sarin attack

Claims that nine were killed, and more were injured, in the strike which has severely damaged the airbase

US told Moscow it was launching an airstrike about 30 minutes in advance – but did not ask for permission

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4388834/America-launches-airstrikes-Syria.html

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-xi-meet-again-in-shadow-of-missile-strikes-on-syria/ar-BBzvF6Q?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=iehp

I know Constitutional purists like Rand Paul are upset at the Syrian airstrike—but when America is the only country in the world capable of taking an authority position against bullies—there is an ethical obligation to act when we see poor little children suffering under the failures of politics—and that’s what happened in Syria. It was the right thing to do under any circumstance. But, if Trump had to pick a target to pull the world in behind him and dispel the rumors of his alliance with the Russians—Syria was it. Even as Gorsuch was nominated to the Supreme Court even Chuck Schumer was singing praises for Trump’s decisive move. It was rather astonishing.

Trump has not suddenly become a globalist. He’s not about to become an interventionist. But he needed to take a shot to set the stage for all the challenges going on around the world—especially with China and North Korea. And he had to set up the relationship with Russia. Nobody ever thought Trump was going to eat out of Russia’s hand—as I have been saying for a long time. It will have to be the other way around—and this was the first step. Trump had the moral high ground and he took it—and now the world is wondering how they didn’t see it all along.

This is how it is different having a real executive in the White House as opposed to a typical politician always sticking their hand out looking for campaign donations. Trump doesn’t care if Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner want to kill each other. He’s more interested in the result of their conflict—he needs different points of view to flush out a truth. That’s what good leaders do, they don’t necessarily want everyone to get along. They want a competition of ideas and through conflict truth justice and reality are defined. So the Trump White House thrives in conflict. It doesn’t want everyone sitting around a campfire singing songs and giving each other reach-arounds. It wants action, and when it comes time to make hard decisions, Trump can make them because he can see the truth through the combat of opinion. He has a wife for the softer times in his life. But at all other times, he loves the battlefield of conflict because that’s where life thrives and honesty, bravery, and valor emerge.

I’ve been waiting for this all of my life. The closest I’ve seen to this kind of American decisiveness was when Ronald Reagan sent an airstrike against Libya—and I remember the effect that had on the world. Trump has had his moment and now he can negotiate with everyone from a position of strength. It had to come sometime and now that he has done it there are many more opportunities for peace than there was before the attack. Without this bombing the chances for violence by North Korea against South Korea is much greater. The threat of China moving against Japan has much larger odds. And Russia would continue to buzz American ships without wondering when or if Trump would react. Now he has and even considering more aggression against America might provoke war. So Trump has captured the high ground against every single one of his global rivals including his political ones with one swift stroke. And it was just a brilliant time and place to do so.

I’m sure this won’t be the last time and I’m also sure that all this new power won’t go to Trump’s head. Why—because he is used to being at the top of everything he does and he’s battle hardened to the perils of success. Out of all the people in the world who could do this very difficult job as a modern American president with all the factions that are ankle biting out there, only Trump presently is qualified to perform the tasks. This is precisely why I voted for Trump and I am very proud to see him doing such a very excellent job. I feel very sorry for the kids involved in all the evils around the world who are suffering under bad people. And this bombing in Syria won’t save them all. But many more will be safe because of it—and like all good things in life—there are many more positives than negatives with the action. For us in America—it’s good to see a president who finally knows how to juggle all these bananas—because it’s long overdue.

Rich Hoffman

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The Crimes of Susan Rice: How to prosecute the people who are supposed to enforce the law when they are guilty

RICE ORDERED SPY DOCS ON TRUMP? https://t.co/bL2nZRFxk9

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) April 4, 2017

The way that the Obama White House worked, “legal” meant anything that could be manipulated between the Executive Branch and the Department of Justice—both of which he controlled. There has been much evidence to the obvious coercive tactics used by the Obama administration to pull America further to the political left and the wake of that effort has caused the present civil war in the United States where half the nation refuses to join the other half that is now openly socialist leaning. Those legal lines were manipulated during Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS scandal in targeting conservative groups for their 5013C status, the way in which Obamacare was created and implemented, and worst of all—the Hillary Clinton deleted emails which were obviously designed to destroy evidence so that they could never get caught—which of course they were caught—destroying evidence. The evidence itself didn’t reveal the crime, but the destruction of evidence did reveal the Obama administration’s motivations.

And with the dependability of a German clock they did it again—under the guidance of Susan Rice the Obama administration spied on Donald Trump using the power of government to attempt to secure the fate of their political party. But who could blame them—after all, Wikileaks had just made them look like the fools that they were and they knew they needed some dirt from the other side to recover—which they never found. So now they went out and committed a crime to get information that turned out to be nothing. Their plan would have worked if they had found something—but instead all they really found was that General Flynn spoke to a Russian ambassador and neglected to inform Vice President Pence about it—which in the scheme of things is a small technicality. But the crime of the cover-up and the abuses of power are immense and might surprise people, except for readers who frequent here.

Former President Barack Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice ordered U.S. spy agencies to produce “detailed spreadsheets” of legal phone calls involving Donald Trump and his aides when he was running for president, according to former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova.

“What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. Rice were detailed spreadsheets of intercepted phone calls with unmasked Trump associates in perfectly legal conversations with individuals,” diGenova told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group Monday.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/03/susan-rice-ordered-spy-agencies-to-produce-detailed-spreadsheets-involving-trump/#ixzz4dHi9dUJU

The word “legal” when it’s used by thieves like this is dangerous—because what it implies is that nobody did anything wrong. Make no mistake about it—what Susan Rice did obviously under the guidance of the president of the United States was unethical and it could only be made legal by the means that Hillary Clinton destroyed evidence with her email server—by denying prosecutable evidence the way any lawyer might defend a client. Their client might be guilty as hell—but if there isn’t DNA or something that links a murderer to a crime, then they can’t be convicted. That is the grand danger of allowing people who worked in the legal profession to also work in such a powerful position as can be found in the Executive Branch of our government.

Rice won't agree to testify because she won't get away with lying to Congress like she did with Benghazi?

— Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) April 4, 2017

Based on the Clinton years and now the Obama years we may want to rethink ever doing such a thing again—because they actually used the law as a weapon to cover their crimes—which is never good. And that is what they have done to Donald Trump. They created a “legitimate” cover story—such as spying on Russian connections—which is why the political left is pushing that story so aggressively—because they were caught doing it. Obama could justify the order because of comments Trump made tongue in cheek about Russians finding Hillary’s deleted emails. But the real target of the spying wasn’t spies to Russia—it was Trump’s political strategies so that they might be able to counter them and win the election.

Thankfully Trump was smarter than they were and most of his campaign strategies were done on the fly literally from his Trump airplane where he spent most of his time in the last three months of the presidential campaign. He came home every night and the employees of the campaign chattered the way that employees do, which is what the Obama people were listening to—but Trump had his team on his plane flying all over the country and most of the arrangements regarding strategy were made there giving the Democrats very little to go on.

Yet the Obama people led by Rice intended to commit a crime hidden behind a legal precedent. And like the IRS case, many people should go to jail—but they probably won’t because the same people who are supposed to enforce the law are the ones who committed the crime. The only thing this time that’s different is that we have a president and an attorney general who will see it as I’ve just described it and they are inclined to action. The constant reminder from the political left that Russians hacked our American election process is to provide a cover story for this legal argument when the courts finally catch up to everything—once the smoke has cleared.

Now we know why Obama was so nice to Trump on the first days of the White House transition and why he hasn’t had much to say about Trump unraveling all the Obama era policies—for which only health care remains. Because he’s guilty and he needs the Russian story to stick to keep his administration out of hot water. And under those conditions, you don’t want to get caught providing further testimony on the matter—good or bad. Without proof that the Russians actually did anything—their cover story is pretty thin which Tucker Carlson on Fox News started to uncover during his show on 4/3/2017. The truth is, there isn’t any proof that the Russians hacked the American election process.

Lyin', leakin' Susan Rice stammered through her soft ball interview with Dem PR person Andrea Mitchell.

— Dan Scavino Jr. (@DanScavino) April 4, 2017

F.B.I. Director Comey blundered the whole case himself when he uttered during testimony before Congress intentions that the Russians had without bringing forth any evidence to support it hoping that his spectral access to intelligence might be enough to sell the story—but it wasn’t. It was embarrassing testimony for which Trey Gowdy challenged him on—politely. Gowdy knows that there is no evidence that can be produced that the Russians did anything to get Trump elected. The fault for the Democratic loss is squarely on the Hillary Campaign and the failed policies of the Obama administration. They had lied, cheated and manipulated their way to the top only to crash and burn once caught—which at this point they all have.

The Susan Rice news is huge, and the only reason it’s not Watergate level big is that our media is in on the act. The story is actually too huge to cover because so many people who present the news and temperament of our times to us are guilty. It will likely take decades for it to settle into the American consciousness because all the people involved will deny everything for the rest of their lives and only fresh faces will have the courage to deal with these massive tragedies. But it all starts with Trump and without him, we wouldn’t have this much. That’s why I elected him—and so far he’s doing exactly what I want him to do—including golfing with Rand Paul to make a deal on health care. When Obama played golf he was scheming. When Trump does it, he’s making deals for America—and that’s all the difference in the world.

Rich Hoffman

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The Dream of Cabela’s: A pizza guy from Westgate Towers

When I was a kid my idea of a great day was any day I had a chance to go to the Army Surplus Store in Fairfield, Ohio. Most of my cloths and equipment that fueled my childhood came from that one store. So it is no surprise that as an adult, some of my very best days still come from that same place, but now there are many more options for me than I ever dreamed of. Now when I need a good day free of the politics from the outside world, I go to Cabela’s in West Chester right across from the Liberty Center shopping complex and every single visit is just a wonderful experience. Specifically I go there to buy 209 shotgun primers for my Cowboy Fast Draw Association activities. I shoot between 50 to 100 rounds per day at my private range, so I go through a lot of primers and Cabela’s carries them in their reloading section which is easy to get to without a lot of hassle. At Bass Pro in nearby Forest Park they keep the primers behind the counter which means you have to get someone to help you, and I most of the time don’t feel like talking to anybody, so Cabela’s is where I buy most of them.

I love to have a hobby that gives me a reason to go to Cabela’s so often. I remember when it wasn’t so easy to get outdoor related equipment, and to get the best stuff you had to order it through the mail. This idea of everything you might need for some grand adventure being available at the slightest impulse is something I treasure greatly. On this latest visit it was a very nice spring day and I had a particularly stressful week. I enjoy the reloading section at Cabela’s because it oozes self-reliance and American ingenuity. I had recently returned from Europe where guns are extremely taboo so it was very nice to look around and see all the pro-American clothing, knives and guns that surround that section of the store. Then to consider that with the items you can get at Cabela’s you can pretty much become your own ammunition factory. If guns represent freedom from the tyranny of political mistakes—which happen all the time—the ability to reload your own ammunition is the next step and I never get tired of looking through their selection of dies, brass and powder to see what’s new.

I did see some .500 S&W Magnum ammunition that had only 350 grain bullets, which might not break the arm of guests I let shoot my big gun the next time I’m entertaining out-of-town clients. The price was only $32 for a box of twenty which was really good. People who come to America from places where you can’t have guns love to shoot guns if they get the chance. Back in the old days before the world went mad, such people went to strip clubs to see things they might not be able to see in their more rigid cultures. I’m personally not a fan of that kind of thing—but shooting is another matter, especially since West Chester now has a very good shooting range at Premier. Men especially, would rather shoot the big .500 Magnum which as I’ve stated has its own pillow in my bed with my wife and I, than they would seeing some T&A. You can see that anywhere these days, but shooting a big “man’s” gun isn’t, so reasonably priced ammunition at Cabela’s was a welcomed site.

Cabela’s is a purely American invention. Nowhere in Japan would anybody see anything like Cabela’s, where you can buy various nuts to eat and other snacks just twenty-five feet from guns, knives and ammo and each time I visit I think about just how nice it is. Everything at Cabela’s is big, like the way that American’s think. And even though we take them for granted in the United States, the water fountain at Cabela’s works really good—the bathrooms are big, and clean—it is just a really good place to visit to recharge your batteries. I was literally just in Paris a few weeks ago and I didn’t see a single water fountain anywhere—not in the train stations, not in the museums—nowhere. In the United States you can see them just about everywhere in public, but not in other places in the world. So in defiance and to celebrate the kind of abundance that American society produces, Cabela’s has a nice, beautiful water fountain that pushes up a nice stream of water that doesn’t require you to put your head too close to the fountain itself. In more primitive times you’d have to search out a creek that some animal hadn’t pissed in upstream to get some fresh water. But in modern society, especially at nice outdoor shopping complexes like Cabela’s, you can get a nice drink from the drinking fountain and come away stress free and hydrated to continue the hunt for whatever you were looking for.

I often think about the logistics it requires to offer things like drinking water to a water fountain, keeping bathrooms clean and ensuring that customers get everything they are looking for in a shopping experience that might not sell some items on the shelf for months after they had been acquired for display. It can be complicated. But at Cabela’s they feature a nice waterfall in the back of the store that has fish in it. It’s not nearly as nice as the one they have at Bass Pro in Forest Park, but the running water does give off a fresh air feeling that you might expect to feel on an early morning hike through the mountains. I’m aware of it as I go through the reloading section each time and I catch myself looking at the items on the shelf just a bit longer because it’s an enjoyable experience.

To a lot of people it probably seems like a small thing to think about, but I thought it worthy to note. I really appreciate my Cabela’s in West Chester. It is one of my favorite places to go and just knowing that I can get away for an hour or so and put my mind in such a positive place is very valuable. I’m more aware of it now because of my recent trip overseas. If I wasn’t doing a lot of shooting and had a reason to visit so often, I probably wouldn’t notice much. But having the ability to shoot in my garage and get my materials just a few miles away is something that is very unusual in the world. I recently spoke to a guy from Morocco who was working as a pizza guy in Canterbury just outside of the Westgate Towers and he was very interested in me and my cowboy hat that I wore in there to pick up food several times over the course of the month of February 2017. He wanted to know all about Donald Trump and if we could buy guns in our grocery stories. When he asked me that I thought of Cabela’s and I had to tell him truthfully that we could. He gave me the most exasperated look of excitement. “Really, you Americans are crazy,” he said with a smile. For which I replied, “ but nobody will try to invade us.”

At that moment the kid handed me my stacks of pizza and we exchanged money quietly saying nothing more, but both of us aware of some hidden tension coming from his direction. “Except for Obama.” I looked at him and thought for a moment of what he said. “You’re a pretty smart guy. You should come to America and make pizzas there. You might even get rich.” He smiled and said, “and I’ll be able to buy a gun?” I looked at him and said, “you could buy a gun, a nice pair of shoes, some new underwear and a giant can of almonds all under the same roof. And if you wanted to you could drive home with your very own boat attached to the back of your car. It’s called Cabela’s.” He smiled and said—“You make it sound like such a dream.” For which I said—“because it is. Have a nice day!”

Rich Hoffman

CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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The Dying Democratic Donkey: Russians were not a factor in the 2016 Election

As if we didn’t already know, Evelyn Farkas, the former DOD Obama deputy told us everything we needed to know about the Trump case involving Russia. Let’s review shall we, what we know about the case of Russian tampering of the Election of 2016—at a press conference shortly after Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination for president he revealed that he hoped that the Russians had information about Hillary Clinton’s lost emails because Wikileaks had revealed very damaging information about the DNC and John Podesta himself on how they conducted their business. The cause of all the commotion was Hillary Clinton herself who had obviously destroyed evidence and broken the law. Yet to stay in the race, the Democrats needed some kind of diversion so they made a big deal about Trump’s obvious tongue in cheek statement about the Russians hoping something might stick. Trump continued to feed that line of dialogue saying often that he could see himself meeting with Vladimir Putin before his inauguration just to stir up the pot in the final days ahead of the 2016 Election and the Russian president publicly stated that he supported Trump over Hillary. That’s it. All this noise about Trump and Russia having some kind of relationship is complete nonsense. Trump would never make a deal with Putin to win an election because the leverage game would have been too great in Putin’s favor and that’s where the proof of the case will take us. And as Jessie Watters illustrated in the below clip, all Democrats are getting really desperate since the story isn’t sticking and now that Evelyn Farkas screwed up big time and ran her mouth on television about how the Obama White House spied on Trump—they all have big trouble and things are going to get worse for them.

Because the progressives in the swamp of Washington D.C. have built a giant coalition of global suck asses, talking to members foreign countries is a part of the job, and in the closing days of the election when it looked like Trump might actually win—according to Evelyn Farkas, the Obama White House advocated spying so they could get something on Trump since literally nothing else had worked even though they had thrown the kitchen sink and the soap at him. They hoped since he was wealthy that somewhere someplace he was up to no good and that in his joking around Trump had revealed some secret into the release of all the Podesta Wiklileaks reports.

NY Times editorial on @realDonaldTrump . Liberals in state of panic. GREAT!https://t.co/W4UAKU5M5z

— Wayne Allyn Root (@RealWayneRoot) April 2, 2017

They couldn’t take responsibility for the situation themselves, so they had to somehow pin it on Trump—which of course he never allowed. So only by abusing the rights of Trump’s transition team did the Obama Democrats think they had some chance at staying viable as a party after a crushing defeat. After all, Obama would soon be out of office and he’d lose the ability to spy on enemies which his White House and Justice Department had continuously done all through his presidency. Remember Bill Ayers the domestic terrorist who launched Obama’s political life from his living room in Chicago? This is what you get when you give such people power—they cheat, steal, and do whatever they must to advance their ideological causes. From the viewpoint of red state Republicans—which is most of the North American continent, Barack Obama was a domestic terrorist who simply used a different method of attack than Ayers did toward the American way of life. And now Obama has been caught.

Because Trump had stated that he thought he might get along with Russia, Trump’s people probed those potentials shortly after the election and that involved General Flynn but as it will turn out—it was nothing more than courtesy calls, no different from other discussions with other countries. Trump had won the election on his own by capitalizing on Democratic mistakes. Hillary Clinton made it easy because she had so much to hide and had made so many errors. Additionally, Russia does not have nearly as much power as the Democrats are trying to advocate they do leaving them in a very bad place. Now that Trump has been president for a measly 10 weeks, the direction of the country is going somewhere they can’t handle and they are literally freaking out. Evelyn Farkas just happened to be someone from their team who revealed the playbook on an MSNBC show that nobody watched—so it took a month for the information to come out.

At this point it should be remembered that I predicted the end of the Democratic Party right before the election on the Matt Clark radio show, and all this noise about Russia by those same dying Democrats is the realization that the end is near for them. They are a wounded animal that is bleeding out and they are surrounded by the hunters that will soon skin them down to the bone—and they are aware of it. Now for them it’s tough because they have so many tentacles into so much of our modern world, especially through all the various media platforms that Democrats literally dominate. But the Election of 2016 is as close as they will come to power again as Obama’s White House will always be known as the most corrupt America had ever known. The abuses of power that have taken place will have come at a terrible cost for them and since they didn’t get their person in the White House—they are now out of power and dying of a bleeding they can’t stop. This talk about Russia is the last cries of a dying animal who can feel the end closing around them.

Typically Republicans can’t walk and chew gum at the same time and much to the exasperation of the Democrats, who control the media, Trump is defending himself very well and the Russian distraction story isn’t stopping his White House. This is precisely why I voted for Trump in the first place, because he was battle hardened and I always knew that the only way to get these vile insurgents out of our American politics was to fight and beat them out of it. There is no coexistence with modern Democrats and that was their own choosing. We are in a modern fight for our very lives and they are the ones bleeding out, soon to die as a party. Trump is unusually passionate about winning everything he does which works out well for right-sided Republicans because after another year of this 2017 kind of White House, people won’t want to go back. Trump does more in one week than Obama did during his entire terms of presidency and its all adding up very quick.

The swamp isn’t happy about any of this so they are colluding with that desperate media to do anything to sink Trump—but their efforts are pointless. Donald Trump has them on the ropes and he knows it. And the facts are on his side and he knows that too. He knows the Democratic Party is bleeding dry and he’s not going to lose that advantage. It’s kind of like a champion team has the lead with just a quarter to play and its obvious the other team can’t do anything even with a miracle to come back. Trump’s administration has the game won and they are beating everyone over the head with it—Republicans and Democrats.

I also predicted in that same radio show that the new two-party system would split between the current Republicans. When Trump came out against the Freedom Caucus the battle lines were clear between the former “Never Trumpers” like Glenn Beck’s people, and the more moderate Ryan types. Trump truly is not ideological—he just likes to win, so whoever gives him a repeal on Obamacare will be within his alliance—but doing right for Trump is only defined by winning. That is the only way we’d even get a consideration of Obamacare repeal, because the swamp grows even under banners of indecision. Holding a position of pure ideology doesn’t work when you get so many people in a room. If that were the case we never would have had a Constitution to begin with. Jefferson had to make lots of concessions to his ideology to get the votes needed to even have the Constitution that we do have today which I think is way too “Federalist.” I much prefer the Anti-Federalist viewpoints so no matter how constitutionally pure the “Never Trumpers” pat themselves on the back for being—I’ll still be disappointed by the end result. So I’m more inclined to support a winning strategy that walks things back over time than a stalemate that ends in a circling of the wagons and a loss by circular gunfire. At this point Trump doesn’t care if Rand Paul gets his way or if it’s Paul Ryan. Trump just wants results which is yet another spear in the side of Democrats and the Republicans like John McCain who desperately want the swamp to remain. Trump was sent to Washington D.C. to drain the swamp, and that’s exactly what he’s doing.

When the smoke clears the Russian story will be a complete fabrication by a desperate party and the media that supports them to continue living. The hard facts are that the Democrats destroyed themselves by constantly trying to rig the game and they finally got caught by it and their old tactics of trying to off load their problems onto the nice Republicans who have always taken away their burdens. Trump just kicks their problems off the wagon and laughs about it—because that’s what he has done for many years and why he’s been so successful in real estate. It’s why we should have actual business people in political office as opposed to political hacks because they are molded through real world achievement and not scholastic theory. The media that is using this Russian story as a narrative to destroy Trump will find that all they’ve done in the end was strengthen the President and weaken their place in the future. People do love a winner and in spite of all the controversy, people love Trump. If he ran for office right now his margin for victory would be even greater—because people know what’s going on deep down inside. It might be hard to articulate it through the current noise, but once that Democratic Donkey dies—everything will be very clear.

Rich Hoffman

CLIFFHANGER RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

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