The Liberal Left - Protectors of Criminals

 What criminals are they protecting?  Specifically, illegal immigrants, and more specifically those who have a history of other criminal activities.

Getting a little tired seeing these left wing anarchists attacking ICE, Border Patrol, the military and local law enforcement.  

First, illegal immigrants are criminals.  If a person enters this country through other than the legal methods they have committed a crime.  Now what about those that do have other crime sin their backgrounds?  Talking about child molesters, folks who have committed battery on others including domestic violence, murder, theft......need I go on?

Why does the liberal left want to protect these folks?  Do they really want them in their neighborhoods?  Heck no, just remember what happened when Texas shipped a bunch up to Martha's Vineyard.  They were pretty quick to get LEO and the Guard involved to relocate them.

Oh, arresting these criminals is bad because it separates and breaks up families.  What a crock of s**t that statement is.  Any time someone is arrested it separates them from their family.  Why isn't the liberal left screaming not to arrest those folks that are arrested and are citizens?  Hypocritical trash, that is why.  There was even a protest about a gentleman (term used politely) who was arrested after a traffic stop and separated from his child.  Heck, that happens every day.  If you have a child in your car and get arrested you will be separated from that child.  Social services will be brought in and hopefully a close relative will be found to take custody of the child.

Donald Trump was very open about what he wanted to do about the illegal immigration problem.  He didn't hide it, and he was elected to handle it.  Bit, the liberal left is so stuck with TDS that they can't understand that.  BTW, how many of these protesters are illegal immigrants themselves?  How many are hired hands?  Yep, there are companies that will provide crowds for demonstrations.  

Anyone who assaults or attempts to cause bodily harm to a member of law enforcement (any level, fed, state, local), should, if found guilty, be punished by receiving the maximum penalty for the offense.  That includes attempted and actual murder.

Final thought:  Some of these protesters carry banners and/or flags representative of other countries.  If those other countries are so great, why the f*$k did they come here?

Veteran's Day 2025

 This is why they served:

This is who they are:

What is a vet?

He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.

He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the38th parallel.

She or he is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.

He is the POW who went away one person and came back another or didn't come back AT ALL.

He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat, but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.

He is the parade riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.

He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.

He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb of the Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.

He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket-palsied now and aggravatingly slows who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.

He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being, a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.

He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.

So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say "THANK YOU."  That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.

Two little words mean a lot, "THANK YOU."

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.  It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag."

Local Election Results 2025

 First, congratulations are in order to those who were elected to the Shawnee City Council.

Second, sympathies go out to the citizens of Shawnee.  When you start seeing mill levy increases, coupled with rising home values, please, if you voted for these tax and spend liberals, don't complain.  When you see funds expended for incentives for questionable development projects, and if you voted for these tax and spend liberals, don't complain.  Same for any far left social programs.

For those who sat home and didn't vote because it was "only the city council, but I vote in the gubernatorial and presidential elections", you too need not complain when the above happens.

Good luck Shawnee, you'll need it.

Distler Is the Last Person to Question Anyone's Integrity

 I was sent the information that former mayor Michelle Distler had this critical comment concerning the four candidates that have the support of various elements of the Republican party. Apparently she didn't like a mailer that went out on their behalf.

She reportedly said that all other candidates had run their campaigns with honesty and integrity.

She is the last person to question anyone's honesty and integrity.  Why?  Simple.  She is the only Shawnee mayor who was ever arrested and charged with a felony.  The result of that was that she got diversion.  That's where you perform some form of punishment (usually community service) and if it is completed successfully the charges are dropped.  Lucky for her, because in Kansas a sitting mayor if convicted of a felony is, by statute, removed from office.  The court ordered diversion stipulated that none of the community service could be related to her position as mayor, and that she could not use the community service to further her political ambitions. As an example, she couldn't say "golly gee I even picked up trash along K-7 to help clean up Shawnee", or whatever her punishment was. Here's the rest of the story.  Not only was she charged with a felony, but she never apologized publicly to the city council, the people of Shawnee, or the person whose name she illegally used.  The only apology was the standard cop out by her lawyer.  But never anything from her own mouth.

It takes chutzpah for an individual like her to question anyone else's honesty and integrity,  If ya read the affidavit for the arrest warrant you'd see how many different stories she gave the investigator.

PS......was Morgan Rainey referring to Dave Myres as a racist and classist honest and did it show integrity.  I'd bet her grandfather is rolling over in his grave..

Say NO to the "Say Yes" Slate

 The "Say Yes" group is the remnant of the force that was pushing Shawnee a few years back to waste taxpayer dollars on a community center.  This included burying deep down in various reports the true costs to the community. What happened?  The citizens of Shawnee did not fall for the garbage that was being thrown at them and that item was defeated at a citywide election 72% to 28%.

The "Say Yes" group with their liberal, tax and spend, social justice ideology is a threat to the city and beyond. City council positions become the training ground for far left candidates.  It may start on the coasts, but it can and does work its way into the middle of our country.

To maintain a city government that will truly work for the citizens of Shawnee and not a bunch of far left idealogues, please do not vote for the "Say Yes" slate.

Please do not vote for:

Ward 1 Steele Reynolds

Ward 2 Eric Persson

Ward 3 Morgan Rainey

Ward 4 Erin Aldridge

If you care about good government, reducing taxes and still maintaining city services at high levels, then please, vote for:

Ward 1 Tony Gillette

Ward 2 Dr. Mike Kemmling

Ward 3 Dave Myres

Ward 4 Laurel Stiffler

The Hullaballoo About The Fed Shutdown and the Continuing Resolution

 OK, here we go.

In speaking with folks it appears to be that many do not understand what a continuing resolution is all about.

A CR as it is referred to is a temporary extension of the most recent budget. No more no less.  During the Biden admin there were a total of 13 CRs.  All other pluses and minuses are hammered out in the negotiations for the NEW full budget.  Sometimes, more than one CR is needed to keep the government going, while discussions for the NEW full budget are ongoing.

What the dumba$$ Democrats are doing is trying to add stuff to the CR.  That is not the vehicle for that.  The CR is supposed to be "clean", just like all previous CRs.  But, they do allow for operations to continue, employees to get paid, and items like SNAP funding to continue.

Let me take it a step further:

Wife gives husband $50/week to use for lunch.  Hubby says he needs $75.  Wife says OK, let's make that a CR at $50 for the next four weeks and we will sit down and discuss the family's budget and see if we can do it a higher amount.  EZ PeeZee

Treat or Trick - Shawnee Election Day - Tuesday, Nov.4th 2025

Let's keep it simple:

TREAT:

If you want to treat yourself to good government in Shawnee and want to have councilmembers who will truly look out for the citizens of Shawnee then vote for the these candidates.  They will be the ones who will push to reduce taxes, control spending, monitor tax payer incentives and really insure that needed services are properly funded.

Ward 1 Tony Gillette

Ward 2 Dr. Mike Kemmling

Ward 3 Dave Myres

Ward 4 Laurel Stiffler

TRICK:

If you want to see your property taxes increase, a helter skelter distribution of tax incentives, far left liberal social policies, a push for big government, then these are the candidates that will do that.  They will trick you into thinking they care about the citizens of Shawnee, but they don't.   

Ward 1 Steele Reynolds

Ward 2 Eric Persson

Ward 3 Morgan Rainey

Ward 4 Erin Aldridge