Biden's Lies and the Developing Crack with the Media Alliance

It would seem that just maybe the bloom has started to come off of the rose in the Biden leftist garden of corruption.  Even many reliable allies on the left have begun to criticize the egregiously corrupt Biden and his crime family.  The fact that even the democratic industrialized media (DIM) has started criticizing let alone covering the latest Biden classified documents debacle is telling in and of itself. 

Are they beginning to realize what average Americans with common sense have seen all along?  Biden is suffering from some form of mental degradation and in conjunction with his congenital lying and corruption and the fact that he knows where his co-conspirators’ skeletons are hidden has now made him a huge liability to the left.  Is this the beginning of the end for Biden?  Is the leftist establishment seeing enough real and potential problems with ol’ Joe to think it is time to throw him out?  Is the broadcasting of his lies and corruption to the American people a sign that they are even willing to put up with a President Kamala? 

Even Biden’s “reason” for running for the oval office was based on a demonstrably false lie.  When he announced his candidacy in 2019, Biden accused Trump of describing white nationalists who engaged in violence at Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 as “very fine people.”  That was patently false.  Indeed, Trump said, “I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally”.  Nonetheless, Biden hammered that lie over and over on the campaign trail.  Biden’s supposed reason for running was predicated on a lie from the beginning.

There have been a lifetime of lies told by Biden, often repeated even though they have been debunked as false.  This has been such a fixture of Biden’s “character” that The Republican National Committee compiled a list of 21 times Biden’s been truth-challenged since moving into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

1. Biden claimed — on multiple occasions — he “used to drive” an 18-wheeler.  Biden rode in an 18-wheeler once nearly 50 years ago. He’s never driven one. https://t.co/o7Za8LaR4J

2. In November 2022, Biden claimed that he met with the “inventor” of insulin, but multiple scientists are credited with discovering insulin, and two died before the president was even born.

“Dr. Frederick Banting and professor John James Richard Macleod were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1923 for their 1921 discovery of insulin. Banting died in 1941 and Macleod in 1935. Biden was born in 1942,” the New York Post reported.  https://t.co/LJtBwkxeG5

“At the same event, Biden incorrectly stated that his late son Beau lost his life while serving in Iraq,” the Post further noted.  His son died of brain cancer in the United States.

3. In October 2022, Biden said he “had a house burn down with my wife in it” and said they “almost lost a couple firefighters.”  But the truth is in 2004, there was a “small fire” in Biden’s house caused by a lightning strike that was contained to the kitchen, and “there were no injuries.”  https://t.co/smEweQxg4E

 4. Also in October 2022, Biden claimed during a visit to Puerto Rico that he was “raised in the Puerto Rican community” in Delaware.  “We have a very, in relative terms, a large Puerto Rican population in Delaware relative to our population,” Biden said.  “According to the 1970 US Census, Delaware had about 2,154 people who were either born in Puerto Rico or descended from Puerto Rican parents — roughly 0.39% of the First State’s population of nearly 550,000 at the time,” the Post noted.  There is no evidence of Biden being raised in such a community accordingly.  https://t.co/OAziqOd0es

5. In September 2021, Biden recounted visiting the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh following the Oct. 2018 shooting that left 11 dead.  “Barb Feige, executive director of the Tree of Life, said that Biden did not visit the synagogue in the nearly three years since the anti-Semitic attack,” the Post reported, nor did he visit prior to it.  The synagogue said Biden never visited. https://t.co/9z0C8jo0fl

6. In December 2021, Biden said that he served as a “liaison” to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir during the Six-Day War in 1967. Biden was in law school at the time, and Meir didn’t become PM until 1969. He was apparently referring to the Yom Kippur War, which took place in 1973, but Fox News reported it is unclear what he meant about being a liaison during the war, because the record shows a then-Sen. Biden met with Meir nearly six weeks before hostilities broke out.  https://t.co/c5k0UvApj7

7. In September 2021, Biden said his first job offer was from the Boise Cascade lumber yard in Idaho.  However, Boise Cascade spokeswoman Lisa Tschampl told the Post, “We have no record of President Biden’s application or of him having worked for the company.”  https://t.co/xLYMpUa1z9

8. In January 2022, Biden said the “first time I got arrested” was at a civil rights protest. Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler pointed out that Biden has made similar claims in the past. Kessler gave Biden’s remarks, which the journalist’s research could not substantiate, even after reaching out to the White House, four Pinocchios, the Post’s worst rating.  There is no evidence Biden has ever been arrested and he was not a civil rights activist. https://t.co/NqZoxg7DVj

9. In June 2021, Biden repeated a claim he’s made multiple times of having a conversation with an Amtrak conductor Angelo Negri about traveling over one million miles on Air Force 2 as vice president. “Biden’s account simply does not add up. Biden did not reach the million-miles-flown mark as vice president until September 2015, according to his own past comments. But Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993 and died in May 2014,” CNN reported.  https://t.co/92RvdxUtFc

10. In June 2022, while speaking at the Naval Academy’s graduation, Biden said he was appointed to the school in 1965.  The New York Post reported that there is no record of Biden being nominated to the academy, and he graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965.  Further, no record could be located of Biden being appointed to the school between 1960 and ’65. .https://t.co/2kVar3COyI

11. In July 2022, Biden said he had cancer due to emissions from oil refineries.  The only cancer the White House said Biden had is skin cancer, which is caused by the sun, not fossil-fuel emissions. https://t.co/cKFXXoZNCp 

12. In February 2020, while campaigning for president, Biden said that he “became a professor” after leaving office in 2017.  Biden was in fact named the “Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor” with the University of Pennsylvania in 2017, “but neither the school nor Biden expected him to teach any classes, according to comments at the time,” the Daily Caller reported.  Further, he never taught a class. His work was based in Washington, D.C., at the Penn Biden Center, where those classified documents recently showed up.  https://t.co/SJyp6rA5nh

13. In May 2021, Biden said that his “great-grandpop” was a coal miner. There is at least some truth in this claim.  “Biden’s great-grandfather, Edward Blewitt, went to college and became a civil and mining engineer, and eventually a state senator,” The Washington Post reported.  Biden probably called him a coal miner, rather than an engineer, because it made him sound more working class. https://t.co/qbKkOW64V5

14. In December, Biden claimed after he was elected vice president in 2008, he awarded his uncle Frank Biden, the Purple Heart for his service during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.  The president said he did so at the request of his father, Joe Biden Sr.  Biden even recalled how he and Joe Sr. went over to Frank’s house to deliver the award to him, but his uncle refused it, saying those who died deserved it.  But the New York Post pointed out that Frank Biden died in 1999 and Joe Sr. in 2002, making the account impossible to be true. Further, there is no military record of Frank ever having been awarded the Purple Heart, which would be required for Biden to have one to try to give him.  https://t.co/QmZWvxx3c6 

15. In July 2021 while hosting the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, Biden told the players that, in his second congressional baseball game in 1974, he hit a baseball 368 feet off the center field wall.  However, he actually went 0-2 at bat during that game, according to a newspaper account from the time.  pic.twitter.com/dXbPJJrfEP

16. In October, while stumping for now-Sen. John Fetterman in Pittsburgh, Biden said his grandfather, Ambrose Finnegan, was an all-American football player at Santa Clara University in California.  Finnegan did attend the school, according to Newsweek, but there is no record of him being an All-American football player. The news outlet noted he may have been a second or third-team All-American, for which records were not kept at that time.  Or he may have received some other special local recognition that people (or just the Biden family) equated with being an All-American. pic.twitter.com/sQbpTMT3se

17. Last year, Biden took his football tales a step further and said in January 2022 that he “could have been an All-American” football player.  He seemed to be joking, saying if Fetterman had been blocking for him, he could have been an “All-American.”  But it’s doubtful. The president played just one semester on the freshman football team for the University of Delaware. He did not letter because he left the team before the season was over due to low grades, NBC News reported.  So it would have taken a lot more than Fetterman as a teammate for Biden to become an All-American.  pic.twitter.com/rgBhoddAwp

18. In December 2021, while promoting an infrastructure bill, Biden said he thought he could have made it to pro football. He even asked a friend of his who played in the NFL if he could help him get a walk-on tryout.  Maybe this is more delusional than a lie, but again, Biden barely played college football. pic.twitter.com/YgejcjFFcQ

19. In February 2021, Biden told State Department employees that he got “shot at” while he was overseas.  The New York Post reported that the president made a similar claim during a CNN Democratic presidential debate in 2007, recalling it occurred in Baghdad’s Green Zone in Iraq.  Biden later revised his claim saying, “I was near where a shot landed.”  It never happened.  https://t.co/kX424rAwhE

20. In February 2022, Biden told attendees of the National Association of Counties conference that when he was county council member, he received a call from a woman demanding he remove a dead dog from her lawn, Fox News reported.  He said instead of doing that, he put it on her doorstep.  However, Biden had reportedly previously told the story, saying he drove to her home and removed the animal. pic.twitter.com/2MiWKOWQwU

21. In October 2021, Biden said he was “involved in the civil rights movement.”  When this issue came up when he was running for president in 1987, he was forced to backtrack, The Intercept reported.  At a news conference in September of that year, Biden said, “I was not an activist.”  “I was involved, but I was not out marching. I was not down in Selma, I was not anywhere else,” he added.   Rather Biden said he was aware and concerned about civil rights.  pic.twitter.com/ijty46nY83

If those 21 tall tales are not enough, Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler and his team put together a list in 2021 of the “false and misleading claims” Biden made just in his first 100 days in office.

They include his claim that former President Donald Trump had not ordered enough COVID-19 vaccines and had no plan to distribute them.  Biden also falsely asserted that the vast number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. are those who have overstayed their visas.

The president also said there was a broad consensus of economists that his tax and spending plans would be good for the economy, but the Post pointed out some prominent economists warned the proposals would be inflationary.  Evidently Biden has such a penchant for telling falsehoods, coming up with over 21 of them was not too hard.  If someone is going to lie about little things, it makes the likelihood of lying about larger things all too likely… like being in business with Hunter and his international pay-off schemes.

All of this leads to the question of why hasn’t our “fourth branch” of government been doing its job and investigating/ reporting on Biden instead of simply fabricating false evidence on the Republicans all along?  Don’t get me wrong; we need to hold all parties accountable, but up to this point, it has typically only been Republicans that have been held accountable by the DIM allies of the left.  The media has always ignored or excused Biden’s lies in the past simply by chuckling and saying that that is just ol’ Joe with another gaffe.  Yeah, well someone who seems to have an intrinsic ability to lie repeatedly, even when the lie has been proven to be exactly that, perhaps the media and the left, (but then I repeat myself) are simply reaping the rancid fruits of the rotten seeds they have sown.

 

Creating Right Wing Cranks From Leftists Normalizing Deviancy

I have been blogging for thirteen years more or less now.  During that time, I have reported or commented on everything from God and faith, politics, current events, history, comedy, travel, and people that have been important parts of my life.  I have made what I consider to be good friends on the interwebs along the way.  Some of these people (gasp!) were even left-leaning in their politics or held views on God that were radically different than my own.  Indeed, some of the most rewarding and informative discussions I have had have been with precisely such friends of differing opinions.  Unfortunately, some of the most unpleasant encounters I have had have also been with a few leftists whose seemingly only agenda was to burn the place down, just like the liberal cities after a mostly peaceful BLM riot.

As an example of atheist liberals with whom I formed friendships, I look with great fondness to the past repartee between John Myste and myself.  John had a wickedly sharp wit and a great sense of humor in trying to make his often erroneous points.  I miss his contributions as he has disappeared from the internet, it seems.  Another example is my leftist but God-fearing friend, Burr Deming.  Burr is an amazing writer and story-teller whom I consider to be a good man and a real friend.  That said, I have noticed a distinct shift with him and nearly all left-of-center bloggers as the Overton window has lurched leftward dramatically in the last few years of what is now acceptable as policy. 

When the “norm” is now even more left-leaning as a starting point in conversation, it only serves to make someone on the right who has held consistent in nearly all of their views over the last 13 years to appear as a “conservative crank”.  Evidently it doesn’t occur to the self-proclaimed party of science that it is their views that have become wildly outside of the norm and are actually what the average American now considers to be left-wing extremism.  (Or their adherents to be the “leftist cranks”)

I recall a time not too long ago when gay couples insisted that they only wanted the right to marry the person they loved and that would be the end of it.  Today, the LGBTQ lobby insists on sexualizing kids with age inappropriate drag queen story hours and shows.  They indoctrinate our youth to tell them that their gender is fluid and that there is nothing wrong with mutilating one’s body to conform with the gender that they identify with at a given moment.  This is nothing short of evil.

Liberals have decried racism and inappropriate actions of some law enforcement personnel.  All good people on the right concur with this.  Indeed, I don’t know of a single person on the right that condones the actions of the police against George Floyd and others who were murdered by law enforcement actions.  And yet, the left, instead of working with the right to root out the bad cops and punish those that deserve it would rather destroy our cities and defund the police in order to embolden criminals that have even less to fear now.

Let’s look at abortion next.  The left used to say that they wanted to keep abortion legal and rare.  Nowadays that has shifted to a position of abortion on demand and without apology.  Indeed, the Democrats in the house, nearly to a person, voted yet again the other day against a bill requiring medical attention to be given to the surviving baby of an attempted botched abortion.  In other words, these ghouls voted for infanticide.  Pro-life pregnancy centers and churches sustained 52 attacks in 46 days after the Supreme Court’s leaked Dobbs decision on May 2, while the FBI did nothing.  This is the extremism that is now present on the left. 

The left tells us that men can get pregnant, gas stoves are bad for people and the environment, spending trillions of dollars for special interest groups has nothing to do with inflation, outrageous energy prices that disproportionately affect the poor have nothing to do with Biden’s anti-fossil fuel policies, and men identifying as women should be allowed to compete in women’s swimming, track and other sports.  And these wildly radical ideas are merely the tip of the leftist iceberg.

Yes, when the left has shifted so far to the extreme end of the leftist spectrum as their norm, no wonder why those of us on the right must appear as conservative cranks to these misguided people.  It is an epithet I will embrace and proudly wear.

Barry Goldwater at the GOP convention in July of 1964 uttered perhaps his most famous quote, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.”  One cannot help but wonder what the leftist equivalent to that would be today?  Extremism in the furtherance of leftist utopianism is a “moral” imperative?  I guess it would depend on what the left’s definition of “moral” is.  I guarantee it won’t be the same definition that our parents and grandparents understood it to be.  But what do I know?  I’m just cranking along here on the right.  

Out of Egypt

Since I was a little boy, I was absolutely fascinated with the great pyramids and absolutely anything regarding ancient Egypt.  The year after my father died, the King Tut exhibit toured the nation and my mother took my brother and me to see it up in Seattle.  I was mesmerized!  The awe of seeing such beautiful antiquities that predated Christ by more than 1300 years was spell-binding to me.  Since then it has always been a bucket list item of mine to travel to Egypt and see these wonders in person.  This last month, my beloved wife and I were finally able to realize this dream of mine.  

I literally took thousands of pictures, but wished to share some of the ones that were most striking to me.

 

 

First are the great pyramids of Giza lying on the west side of the Nile River.  The dead were to be buried in the west and the living lived on the east side of the river.  

 

  

Of course this is the Great Sphinx in front of the Great Pyramid of Kufu (or Cheops as the Greeks named him.) The air quality in Cairo and on the Giza plateau was full of dirt and pollution which greatly saddened me to see; however, it did not diminish from the grandeur of these last remaining seven wonders of the ancient world.

 

 

 

The sheer size of the pyramids was truly breathtaking.

 

  

 

My wife and I did opt to go inside Kufu's pyramid and climb up to the burial chamber.  This is not something I would recommend if one is claustrophobic or has breathing issues as the air gets rather close at spots.  As you can see in the picture above, there is one stretch of roughly 100 yards where one has to ascend this rather steeply inclined  walk-way in a hunched over manner.  (Coming down was equally fun!) 

 

 

 

For those tough or crazy enough to crawl through the passages to the burial chamber, one is rewarded with the view of a large barren room with a giant stone sarcophagus located towards the far end.  While some seemed to think it was anti-climatic, I found the 4500 year old tomb to be fascinating!

 

 

We then later that day went to see the even older (4700 years old) step pyramids of Saqqara.  They were similarly beautiful and other-worldly.

 

 

 

Here is King Tutankhamun's chair (throne) that was found in his tomb from the Valley of the Kings and now resides in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.  My apologies as I was not entirely able to eliminate glare and reflections from the glass case.  The artistic detail, even for such a minor king, was stupendously beautiful!

 

 

This is the gold leaf covered case that held the four alabaster jars containing King Tut's organs.  King Tut's death mask and sarcophagus was also displayed in the museum in their striking beauty; however, security would not permit photography in that room, to my great chagrin.

 

Next we visited the Mosque of Muhammad Ali which was built on the fortress of the existing citadel constructed by the great Saladin.  Cairo is considered the city of a thousand minarets due to the myriad of mosques throughout the city; however, today I suspect that number of minarets far surpasses even that.  This beautiful mosque's architecture was modeled after the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. 

 

The stained glass, chandelier, and beautiful craftsmanship throughout made this place an unexpected treat.

 

 

This is a view of the city of Cairo from the citadel where the mosque was perched.

 

 

 

The following day we flew from Cairo to the city of Aswan in the south of Egypt.  From there we drove three hours south nearly to the Sudan border to see the incomparable temple of Abu Simbel.   This temple was carved into the stone by Pharaoh Ramses II to serve as a monument to him.  A smaller and less grand temple sits nearby to honor his wife Nefertari.

 

 

The temple of Abu Simbel was built in the 13th century B.C. but was relocated in 1968 by archeologists to higher ground when the high dam at Aswan was constructed, otherwise this priceless treasure would have been submerged under the massive Lake Nasser that the dam created.

 

 

Statues of King Ramses II inside his temple at Abu Simbel.

 

 

 

This next one was an unexpected delight as well.  This is the Temple at Philae, which is a temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis.  It sits on an island in the middle of the Nile river near Aswan.  

 

 

It would seem that a not uncommon theme was the defacing of some Egyptian temples by later inhabitants.  The outside of this temple of Isis was co-opted eventually by the Coptic Christians and there were several spots where a Coptic cross was carved into the walls. 

 

 

This is looking out on the Nile from the east side of the Philae Temple courtyard.

 

 

 

Part of our tour included a three day cruise on the Nile from Aswan to Luxor.  I found the dichotomy of the lush verdant vegetation along the banks to the stark beige of the sand shortly past its banks to be striking.  Truly the Nile is the source of life for this nation still to this day as a vast majority of its population remain living along its banks. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also took a felucca boat (Egyptian sail boat) ride on the Nile to an island botanical garden which I found very peaceful and thoroughly enjoyable. 

 

 

One of the things I found fascinating, hidden in the hieroglyphics of an ancient Egyptian hospital at the temple at Kom Ombo, is a depiction of their surgical instruments.  This can be seen in the upper center part of the picture above.  At one point a depiction of what could only be described as a sperm cell was carved into the stone.  No one has been able to explain how a microscopic cell could be known by these ancients prior to the invention of the microscope.... and yet, there it was.  Amazing.

 

 

Part of the Temple of Kom Ombo was dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek.  The Egyptians would pray to Sobek for protection from the numerous gargantuan crocodiles that proliferated in the river at that time.  Luckily, now there are no crocodiles in the lower Nile anymore since the construction of the high dam at Aswan.  Evidently these prayers did not always work.  Above are the mummified remains of some intimidating specimens!

 

 

 

We also were able to tour three of the tombs in the Valley of the Kings.  Currently there are 63 known tombs that have been discovered here, including the famous tomb of Tutankhamun. The picture above shows the intricate artistry adorning the walk way to the burial chamber of Ramses IV.  The vibrancy of the colors and lack of degradation of the tomb was astonishing in its beauty.  You can see the large stone sarcophagus in the center of the picture above.

 

 

This is the burial chamber of the Pharaoh Merenptah, which many archeologists believe is the Pharaoh of Exodus in the Old Testament that pursued Moses and the Jews to the Red Sea.  Supposedly they have come to this assertion based on the unique salt content in the wrappings of the mummy of Merenptah that are found only at the Red Sea.

 

 

This last carving was found by us in the tomb of Ramses III.  Beautiful! 

 

 

This is the temple of the Queen Hatshepsut.  She was the second confirmed female pharaoh to rule Egypt.  Her temple was near the Valley of the Kings on the east side of the Nile from Luxor. Indeed, if one was looking from the entrance of Karnak Temple, one could see across the river to see this grand temple carved into the mountain on the west side.

 

 

One of the interesting things about Queen Hatshepsut's temple was the fact that part of it was unfinished, which gave a remarkable insight into how the ancient Egyptian's decorated their temples and tombs.  You can see the red ink on the wall outlining two figures that were to eventually be carved into the stone of the temple.

 

 

The next day we proceeded to the temples of Karnak and Luxor.  Above and below are some of the striking columns from the remains of Karnak.

 

These columns constitute the Great Hypostyle Hall in the Precinct of Amun-Re, a hall area of 50,000 sq ft with 134 massive columns arranged in 16 rows.

 

 

This is one of the three remaining Obelisks that adorn the temple at Karnak.  One of them was damaged in a great earthquake many centuries ago, and only the top of it is still displayed at this temple.

 

 

The architecture of most of these ancient temples was such that the common people were only allowed into the first courtyard of the temple.  The wealthy and more elite of society were allowed to worship in the second section of the temple, whereas only the pharaoh and high priests were allowed to access the "holy of holies" in the third section.  Above is the stone altar at Karnak, where a idol would have been placed in its day.  Karnak was dedicated to the gods Amun (god of the sun & air), Mut (goddess mother), and Khonsu (son of Mut and god of the moon.)

 

 

These are some of the statues in the second (wealthy) courtyard of Karnak.

 

 

Towards the back of the Karnak temple is a carving of an "ankh" in the wall which recent superstition says will bring you luck if you place your hand upon it.  I don't know that it works, but they say it does whether you believe it or not. :) The ankh is the symbol of life for ancient Egyptians.  My wife, with her Nubian henna tattoo couldn't resist the opportunity to garner good luck and touched it accordingly. 

 

 

Next was the Temple at Luxor, which is located down a three kilometer road lined with sphinxes from the Temple of Karnak. The expanse of this is not fully open yet, but you can see the beginning of the path from Luxor and its sphinxes below.

I am still trying to wrap my head around all of the beautiful things we saw and reflect upon each location.  It is interesting as I still have been unable to determine a "favorite" as each was spell-binding in its own way.  I am truly blessed to have been able to realize my childhood dream and spend this time in the land of the pharaohs!