New Year's Greetings & Wishes!

Happy New Year to my grand and wonderful readers!

Let's shake the dust of 2021 off of our shoes and get

ready to welcome 2022! Great prospects lie ahead on

our political front, and there will be many other beautiful 

blessings awaiting us as well. 

One of my most beautiful blessings is having you all for 

my readers! My health is getting better and this will 

translate into more and better blog posts for you to 

enjoy. 

We shall meet again here after New Year's Day, and 

rigorously examine the news of the day as always.

May you all have a fantastic New Year's Eve and a 

terrific New Year's Day! 

MEM

A Very Merry Christmas!

Your favorite Peasant wishes all of you, my dear, 

wonderful readers, a most Merry Christmas!

May you be able to get together with all of your 

family and friends, have a grand Christmas dinner, 

light a Yule log, sing Christmas carols and 

contemporary Christmas songs, make out under 

the mistletoe, and engage in that most eagerly 

anticipated Christmas activity of all, exchanging

and opening Christmas gifts --- some open them

on Christmas morning, some do so on Christmas 

Eve. 

But let us not be remiss in acknowledging the 

Reason for the Season, the Christ in Christmas!

It is the birthday of our Lord Jesus Christ, our 

Lord and savior, who had come into our world 

to show us a better way and to live our lives 

thus. And let us never, ever, be ashamed nor

apologetic about proclaiming this day as what

it in fact is: Christmas. Some people may find 

that offensive to their politically correct 

sensibilities; Jesus Christ and the magic of 

the day and the season are stronger and more 

soul nourishing and fulfilling than their 

shriveled, restrictive, dictatorial, and 

narrow political notions. After all, it's Christmas,

for Christ's sake! And Christmas with all its

heavenly brightness has illuminated our oftentimes

dark world long before political correctness and 

"wokeness", its jumped-up version, came into being; 

we must never be reticent about this beautiful, sacred

day nor the man, who was more than mere man, 

for whom the day was named. Neither government

edicts regulating our ability to gather in our houses 

of worship or in our own houses with family and 

friends, nor bands of radical thugs can force us to

abandon our traditions, our practices, nor our faith

in something higher, bigger, brighter, and more

soul nourishing than the realms of government, 

entertainment, or anything else devised by man.

Rest assured that Christmas will be around long 

after this gruesome twosome has died out! 

Something good, so incredibly and indescribably 

good, will come out of what we as a nation are going 

through at present, and nothing will be able to stop it.

And the fetters of authoritarianism, totalitarianism,

and radicalism will crumble into dust.

God bless us, everyone! 

From Tiny Tim, "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens

MEM

 

Bob Dole, R.I.P.

Ten days ago a statesman who never made it to the presidency

nor the vice presidency yet still left an indelible mark on our

country and our politics passed away; Retired U.S. Senator

Robert J. Dole was 98. 

The native Kansan made service the core of his life. Service in

the Army,  the Kansas state legislature, the House of Represen-

tatives, and the Unites States Senate (where he was at various 

times Senate Majority leader and Senate Minority leader), an

advocate for various charitable causes and organizations, 

and in his political career was an advocate for and practitioner 

of bipartisan cooperation and teamwork. While being highly

critical of his Democrat colleagues, the Republican Senator

Dole made friends with and worked closely together with 

many of them to pass important legislation for, to name but

one effort, an international school lunch program to help

impoverished children around the world, for which Dole 

and Sen. George McGovern (D-SD) were awarded the 

2008 World Food Prize. What made the receiving of this

honor was the fact that Dole was one of the most conservative

members of the Senate when he was a member while

McGovern was one of the most liberal senators (some say 

THE most liberal senator). They bridged the partisan gap 

to do phenomenal work together. 

Dole earned two Purple Hearts for his grievous injuries 

as well as the Bronze Star with a "V" device for valor 

while serving in the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division in

Italy during WWII. He never regained the full use of his right

arm, but never regretted his efforts to gain victory in battle;

he would later write a war autobiography about his battle 

experiences and his battle to regain as much of the use of 

his wounded areas of his body that he could.

Dole also was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by 

President Bill Clinton, to whom he lost the 1996 presidential 

election. Dole made many friends and forged alliances with 

people that held much different politics and political ideas.

Your faithful Peasant knows of no one from either major

political party today who has picked up where Bob Dole left 

off in this regard. 

Farewell to a unique statesman and a great American.

Requiescat in pace.

MEM

Pearl Harbor: Eighty Years On

This week contains the 80th anniversary of the attack

on Pearl Harbor, a U.S. naval installation in Hawaii;

the day was yesterday, while today is the 80th anniversary

of the day that the United States formally entered WWII

by declaring war on the Imperial Japan, as it were the 

Japanese planes of their air force and navy that attacked us.

Our military didn't hesitate to respond, and after nearly four

full years of fighting against not only the Japanese but 

Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy we had defeated the Axis

powers to win the war. Our people had the grit, the deter-

mination, and the will to build their fighting forces at a 

breakneck pace to ready to fight our foes. Victory --- 

total and absolute --- was the goal; failure was never 

an option, nothing less than victory no matter how long

it would take.

Fast forward a few decades, and one sees that we had 

walked away from Afghanistan, leaving her army, her

people, and some of our people abandoned and vulnerable

to the Taliban, which quickly blitzed it way over the land

to take control of the beleaguered country. All because 

our current president thought it would be politically popular

to bring the troops home after their being away for so long. 

Never mind the fact that we had beaten back the terrorist 

forces in Afghanistan and were still working with the Afghan

army to get them to be able to fend off their enemies on 

their own; sadly, they were not at that point when our troops

were brought home in a swift exit.

Presently, the Communist Chinese have built up and modernized

their navy and have developed a budding nuclear arsenal. Their 

navy has surpassed the U.S. Navy as the world's largest navy

(they have had for some years, and still have the world's largest army) 

and they are making menacing overtures to Japan, South Korea,

and of course Taiwan. Two survivors of the bombing of the 

USS Arizona, which now serves as a monument and has a chapel

just above the waterline to offer up prayers for the rest of the ship's

crew, entombed below in the submerged wreckage. I have a nagging

question: If we were to soon go to war against China, would we

battle on to victory as we did in WWII, or would we just walk away

and go home like we did in Afghanistan? Would the pair of USS

Arizona survivors see us fight as doggedly as we did in their 

war, or would they see us leave the region and our allies to what

might be a sorry end, thinking nothing of it? Would they have 

a last earthly memory of our being brave and gallant, or would

their final memory in their lives be of their country turning its 

back on its duty and its friends? 

MEM

Climate Change Chicanery

Well over a decade ago former Vice President-turned-climate-
change-huckster Al Gore warned us that we are "true planetary
emergency" and "unless drastic measures to reduce greenhouse
gases (were) taken within the next ten years, the world (would)
reach a point of no return." Not unlike the ever-failing gambler
who claims that the next roll of the dice, the next flip of a card,
the next horse race will result in the payoff of his strategy and
the bucks will come rolling in like a tidal wave, global warming
fearmongers never reflect on their past erroneous predictions,
always instead looking toward the future and the validation of
their wild prognostications. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(D-NY) claimed that "the world was going to end in twelve years
if we don't address climate change." Unlike Gore, she attempted
to do a CYA by following up with claiming that she was engaging
in "dry humor and sarcasm" when she issued her warning.
No go for both Gore and AOC.  

Now comes a bitter-sounding, self-righteous 16-year-old girl from
Sweden, Greta Thunberg, who led a worldwide children's strike,
resulting in many schoolchildren skipping school to join said strike
against inaction on climate change. Her high on emotion, low on
facts and logic speech at the United Nations' Climate Summit
on September 23 was a Tour de Force in public hysteria which
was of course hyped to the heavens by the lamestream media
with their shared hope that governments the world over, including
the United States, would at last "do something". 

Now, climate change is a phenomenon that should certainly be
observed and studied; Mother nature can sometimes be in high
dudgeon with her behavior causing a catastrophe somewhere in
the world (hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, etc.),
but two things should always be remembered: These events
have nothing to do with any actions of humanity, or the lack
thereof, contrary to the dogmatically held beliefs of the
enviro-alarmists, and that the scare-tactics of a child likely
coached and verse-fed by grownups with nefarious intent,
scaring both impressionable youth as well as adults who
should know better. Con artists like our former Vice President
are bad enough; we certainly don't need children programmed
and pimped by malicious mischief-makers pestering us as well. 


MEM