Maduro Sees Options Narrow; Western Nations Line Up Behind Trump in Battle Against South American Thug; With Updates on Ron Wyatt and Maryland in NCAA Basketball Tournament

BALTIMORE, Maryland Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - In Venezuela, a real true thug, not just some fool who acts like a thug, but a real dyed-in-the-wool evil thug, bounces into absolute control.  Now the 'good guys' running the Western World have banded together trying to figure out how to put him - 'him' being Nicolas Maduro - out to pasture.  And by 'out to pasture,' well, think about the way the French put Napolean out to pasture.

It's not that getting Maduro off the world stage is a problem for rocket scientists.  The challenge for the west is getting rid of the sadistic nut without seeming to be as bad as Maduro is.

Already, nice and civilized solutions have been suggested.  More than one nation has stepped forward and volunteered to take Maduro as a refugee of sorts; in other words allowing him to live there in a reasonably protected status, so long as he agrees to stay off of the world stage.  Predictably, a nut like Maduro turned this down.

[Not to change the subject, but some years back Bernie Sanders said nice things about Maduro and the socialist revolution he was running down there in Venezuela.  It was typical goofiness coming out of the mind and mouth of the USA's very own Anti-American.  As the years passed and the Maduro regime was knocking off its citizens by the truckload, people got back in touch with the Bernster and asked him if he was ready to walk that bit of pro-Maduro insanity back.  Bernie has refused.  He doesn't want to hear anything negative about the good socialist Maduro, not matter how many Venezuelans are slaughtered.  And this is the mindset Bernie wants to bring to the USA.  As the immortal Vin Scully once said, "socialism just doesn't work."

More recently, Bernie said a shower door jumped in front of him without giving fair warning.  The result, for the Socialist, was a black eye and other facial reminders.  The shower door said it doesn't even know Bernie and wants to keep it that way.]

Most of the Western World has declared that the far-more-respected and decent Juan Guaidó, the Venezuelan opposition leader,  is the real and recognized leader of the oil-rich South American nation.  Guaidó took the personally risky step of returning to Venezuela last week despite not-to-subtle threats from Maduro and his operatives to arrest his opponent and his family.  When Guaidó refused to be intimidated, Maduro backed down on his threat, at least for now.  In the meantime, however, Maduro has refused to allow shipments of humanitarian supplies, sent to thousands of starving Venezuelan citizens by President Trump, the French and other western nations, to enter the country.  Military types, deployed to border entry points in Venezuela by Maduro, have prevented the aid vehicles from entering Venezuela. 

Maduro gets his dwindling international support from those freedom-loving folk in Russia, China and Cuba.  

Guaidó took the personally risky step of returning to Venezuela last week despite not-to-subtle threats from Maduro and his operatives to arrest his opponent and his family.  When Guaidó refused to be intimidated, Maduro backed down on the threat, at least for now.  

There is no apparent end to this stand-off, at least not a peaceful one.  Thugs like Maduro don't have a history of going quietly into the night.

I am still a few days away from our report on Ron Wyatt.  If you are too curious to wait, there is plenty of material out there.  Unlike secular folk at places like Wikipedia - which does a real hatchet job on Wyatt - our report will be positive and an endorsement of his work.

And a word on the NCAA Tournament:  it is apparent that the Selection Committee did a fine job in picking and seeding the field.  Some choices are open to debate, of course.  I don't know that Maryland deserved so high a seed.  The Committee gave the Terps a sixth seed in the East, meaning that Maryland's first game will be against the winner of a play-in game tonight between Belmont and Temple.  It worries me that TV types have tapped Belmont as a Tournament Darling.  If Belmont gets by Temple - I think I'm the only pundit taking the Owls in tonight's game - that 'darling' tag will get totally out of control by Maryland's Thursday afternoon, 3:10 pm, tip-off. Tru TV will have the TV coverage of the game.

I hope, against hope, that Maryland Coach Mark Turgeon begins to put down those criticisms about his ability to prepare a team for the postseason.  Under Turgeon, the Terps have never gotten past the round of 16.  His record in the Big Ten Tournament is worse. There is a path for that to happen this year, but a lot of brackets will be shot down in the process.

Against God, Against America, The Democrats Pound All Things American; Announcement About Pending Coverage Concerning Ron Wyatt; With Sports and 3 Verses From Second Timothy

BALTIMORE, Maryland Thursday, March 7, 2019 - Within the next week or two I am going to be so audacious as to write about one of the most amazing persons I have come to learn about.  That person is Ron Wyatt.

He is an extremely difficult person to write about.  It may be just me.  But it absolutely has to be done; the man was that amazing.  He passed on in 1999.  Before I knew about him, he was gone.  One of his three children - who spoke about his father in a breathtaking You Tube video - passed on in 2015.

But I need a bit more time to collect my thoughts about Wyatt. (And be aware, the man has his critics, chief among them, I am sad to report, is Wikipedia).  Until then, I am compelled to report on the Anti-American Blitherings of the leadership of the Democratic Party, now more accurately known as the Socialist Party (formerly known as the Democratic Party).

I am a life-long Democrat.  There was a time that was something I was proud to say.  But that was a long long time ago.

Sooner, rather than later, it may not even be true for me to say I am a Democrat.  Why should I be?  I am not a racist like most Far Left Wing Democrats.  I am not Anti-American, like most Far Left Wing Democrats.  The titular head of the party, Hilary Clinton, is not a jailbird.  But that is a blemish on the nation, since she belongs there for the rest of her miserable life,  Name one other American who could get away with what she did, or did not do, with the nation's supply of uranium, with American lives at Benghazi, with what she did with material under subpoena and a certain computer program known as Bleachbit.  What other American could have her husband hold a face-to-face with the Attorney General of These United States only a few days before a public decision about whether or not she was going to be indicted.  

I do not brow-beat fellow citizens about their so-called 'carbon footprint' while, at the very same time leaving such footprints so large that they can be viewed without mechanical aid from the International Space Station.  It would not cross my mind to do to President Trump what the Far Left Goons that lead the party are doing and have been doing since the second Trump was elected by USA citizens to lead us for the next four years.  For those like Jerrold 'Jezabelle' Nadler and Adam "Believe Me, Please!" Schiff, Trump's election was their signal to begin the Democratic Party's Neolithic attack on their prey; i.e., Caucasians of all description, Jews of all description, etc.  During a recent interview on some mainstream media festival, Nadler explained that the word of the day was "investigate" Trump, followed forthrightly with "impeach" Trump.  Other, more typical issues that come before the Congress, such as defense spending, agricultural support, environmental concerns, well, they will have to wait.  Afterall, what the heck were they elected for?

Nadler said all of this with a straight face.  Schiff talks like that also.  My absolute favorite Schiff moment on the mainstream media was when some joker, imitating a Russian operative, called him up to say he had some real good dirt on Trump, and wanted to know if Schiff had an interest in it.  Well, let me tell you, Schiff was slobbering right there on the telephone trying to hurry the caller into sending the material to Schiff.  No matter what the caller suggested, it wasn't quick enough.  Schiff wanted it now.

April fool, Adam.  There was no such garbage.  To the everlasting frustration of Schiff and Nadler, there never is any real dirt on Trump.  No matter what they come up with, it ends up being benign, and even worse, entirely legal.

This is my question:  what kind of person goes into a voting booth and actually votes for folk like Schiff and Nadler?  

Really.  How would you describe such a person.  I keep getting stuck on the part where the so-called potential voter has to fill out the little form when they register to vote.  If you are so mindless that you would actually vote for such people, how do you also manage to muster up the intellect to register to vote?  That is a one and one that does not ever equal two. 

Am I the only one in America who watches Schiff and Nadler and wonders how can these two be assigned the job of tracking down liars, cheats, thieves and fools?  How do they get past a mirror?  Schiff manages to mix a couple of humdingers into every statement he tries to make.  When either Nadler or Schiff get started on Trump, they immediately blow every fuse in the box.  

Just this week Nadler really, honestly, said that Trump would certainly be indicted for calling the Mueller investigation a "witch hunt."  What's worse, the Nadler said, he's done it hundreds of times.  Imagine!

Tell me this, Nads, Do you lose your First Amendment rights when you become President?
If you put Trump's statements before the American public, a whole lot of people - a majority? - would agree with the President.  Ole Nads probably thinks it was perfectly OK for Mueller to staff his witch hunt with Far Left Democrats, most of whom had contributed to Hilary's so-called campaign.  I wonder if Nads had any trouble with Hilary sending thugs to Trump's campaign appearances to rough up the citizens who were in attendance.  

Just wondering.

Who, in the party leadership, actually thinks the 2020 election for President will turn on the way Nads and Schiff dominate the nightly news on the highly objective national newscasts with their latest pop of pure secular evil.

I have to say that, for the moment, even some charter members of the media think Nads and Schiff are going way too far and way too fast.  Even Shifty George "I Still Love Hillary" Stefanopoulos was dumbfounded the other day when he interviewed Nads on National TV.

And it is only getting worse.  The Democrats are going open and obvious in their attacks on the Christian Faith.  At a Congressional Hearing the other day, Bernie Sanders declared that a Trump nominee who honestly stated that he was a Christian could not be approved for the position he sought because of his faith.  Sanders and other Democrats say that Christians cannot serve most government positions because of their faith.  Bernie never has gotten around to reading the Constitution.  And I wonder if old Bernie has the same convictions about Islamists.

During another hearing, the Dem running the proceedings left "under God" out of the oath all witnesses take before giving testimony.  When a member of the GOP complained, the Democrat in charge said witnesses would not have to give oath "under God" unless they chose to.

Leave it to the Ultra Left.  They gore and a trash the Good Lord, but strike out when they attempt to find an agreeable way of sanctioning one of the two Islamic members of Congress - who had made a number of openly Anti-Semitic Statements.  As I am about to post this, agreement was escaping the Dems.

And if you think all of this is so much banality, consider the fact that the Dems will not do business with your business or even talk to you if you let on that you voted for the President.

This is what St. Paul wrote in his Second Letter to Timothy, Chapter 1, beginning at Verse 8:  Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner:  but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God. Verse 9: Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, Verse 10: But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

A few Sports Notes:  Maryland has lost 6 of its last 11 games.  The Terps have but one regular season game left, then enter the Big Ten Tournament.  One of the four double byes in that get-together has apparently escaped Maryland, again.  The late season semi-fade seems to be an annual affair.  There is a ton of outstanding talent on this Terrapin Team.  If you listen to Coach Mark Turgeon speak after these later games, he seems to know what the problems are.  But transferring that knowledge to corrections in subsequent games always escapes Maryland.  You know, I get the idea that Jalen Smith isn't playing up to his potential, but many others are exceeding potential.  Both starting guards, for instance, are wonderful.  And Bruno Fernando has a double-double every game.  Yet they manage all of these narrow losses.

Another slumping team is Burnley, and the Claret are playing with Relegation Disaster.  A check of the Premier League Table shows Burnley in 16th place, five points clear of relegation.  Only the poor play of the teams that are fighting with the Lancashire lads have kept Burnley where they are.  Burnley is 16th with 30 points, while Southampton is 17th with 27 points.  The three teams holding relegation spots are 18th place Cardiff City, with 25 points, the two bottom-dwellers, Fulham and Huddersfield, who have played themselves out of contention with 17 and 14 points, respectively.  If Burnley can find some points, a considerably higher position is easily within reach.  Brighton is actually tied with Burnley in points, but Brighton Hove Albion has a game in hand.  Newcastle is in 14th place with 31 points, Crystal Palace is 13th with 33 points, Bournemouth is 12th with 34 points, and Leicester City is 11th with 35 points.  

And finally, despite the bleak prognosis given the Orioles as Spring Training opened, the young collection of no-names is playing well and with spirit in Florida.  Particularly effective is Catcher Chance Sisco, who in 6 games and 12 at bats has hit 4 home runs and knocked in 9 runs. Sisco is also hitting .417.  Shortstop Jack Reinheimer, who is a non-roster invitee, is batting .462 with 6 hits in 13 at bats.  And Anthony Santander, who played plenty during the Orioles' late season games, is batting .444 with two homers and 4 doubles among his 8 hits in 18 at bats.  There is also bad news.  Chris Davis is 1 for 12.  Mike Yastrzemski is one for 10, although he has hit a home run and has two runs batted in. His grandfather is, of course, Hall of Fame Member Carl Yastrzemski.   At age 28 he is a non-roster invitee and everybody - including me - is rooting hard for the young man.  Another offspring of a member of baseball's royalty is first baseman Ryan Ripken, Cal's son.  He is 25.  With the Orioles this spring, he is 0 for 1.  He is not under anywhere near the pressure that Yastrzemski is.