Who's Who?

                        

I found this picture the other day while searching through my photos.  I thought it was a good example of how similar Juliet and I look.  We always joke that we share a body because we look so similar.  In fact, it is often difficult to figure out who is who in pictures,

This one is close enough where it's easy to decipher.  Despite Juliet being taller than me, our legs are identical. You can see how our ankles, knees, and waists line up exactly.  We definitely share a lot of DNA.  In fact, I share more DNA with Juliet than anyone.  Over 50%.  Just the way the DNA recombination chips fell.

I don't know where this picture was taken or when.  But it looks like early to mid 90s.

Here is another example.  This is my spring break trip to Hawaii in the mid-90s. Juliet's shoes are a little taller than mine but still very similar.  By the way, Juliet on the left and me on the right.  :-)

Who is who?

Juliet or Tammy?

Actually, I think the easiest way to decipher is by our attire. I am always wearing the longer shorts and skirts.  :-)

By the way, I am in the black skirt and Juliet in the pink dress.  In case you couldn't tell.

It's fun to look back at old pictures, back in the good old days.  I may have a few more fun pictures to post in the next few days.  If I feel up to it.  So be on the lookout.  :-)

That's my two cents.

Trump on Fire

Trump was on fire last night.  He mopped the floor with Joe Biden during the debate.  He rendered Joe speechless.  I mean it wasn't even close.  If the heavily biased Democrat mainstream media is calling the debate a tie or draw, then you know was a blowout.

Joe flat out lied several times.  That's pretty much all he did.  And Trump burned him on his lies.

Talking about kids being separated from their parents while crossing into our country illegally, Trump mentioned that coyotes and cartels bring them over here.  To illustrate how stupid Democrats are, a Georgia State Representative, Dar’shun Kendrick, tweeted something to the effect of, "How does a coyote bring a whole human across the border?"  Seriously Representative Dar’shun Kendrick?  She thinks he's talking about the animal.  Who doesn't know that a coyote is a human trafficker?  Here's your sign.  And she represents people in Georgia?  That's how stupid Democrats are.  These are the people voting for Joe Biden.

Anyway I digress.  How about Trump calling Joe out on who built the cages?  Since they wanted to talk about the poor kids in cages.  The Obama/Biden administration built them and used them.

I also liked how President Trump kept asking Joe, "Why didn't you do anything as vice president?  You had eight years to get it done and did nothing.  You're all talk and no action."  Good point, Mister President.  Joe had no response except that he didn't have a Republican Congress.  Then Trump got him again by saying, "Sometimes you have to talk them into it."  Proving that he knows how to get things done despite opposition.  Another burn.

And how about President Trump getting Joe to admit that he will get rid of the oil industry?  That was huge.  And Joe is still lying about claiming that he never said anything about getting rid of fracking.  President Trump said it's on video.  Joe told him to put it on his website and continue to deny that he said it.  Not only is there video evidence, but there are multiple videos at different times of him saying that he will get rid of fracking.  Thanks for ammunition, Joe.

Another burn was the foreign money scandal.  President Trump was able to give several examples of Joe taking foreign bribes and using his family to fence the money. President Trump said, "“His son, his brother and his other brother are getting rich. They’re like a vacuum cleaner, they’re sucking up money,”  Meaning taking money from foreign countries.  This is all validated on the laptop.  Yet Joe still continues to deny it.

There was a bunch more like raising your taxes by taking away the Trump tax cuts.  Obamacare, COVID, minimum wage, climate, the green new deal etc.  Trump burned him on all of those.

Here is a video of the top five must watch moments from the debate last night posted by Donald J. Trump.

 If you didn't watch the debate, you missed President Trump at his finest. He was really en pointe last night. He was on fire and left Joe Biden in a heap of ashes.

Trump 2020!

That's my two cents.

A Nice Fellow

 I don't know why people hate President Trump.  I like him.  He seems like a nice fellow.  He reminds me of my great uncle John.

There are so many people who don't understand President Trump like I do.  He is widely misjudged.  A lot of people think he is arrogant, brash, rude, mean, self absorbed, and the list goes on. If you believe that, you are misjudging him.

You've heard the saying, actions speak louder than words.  Let's look at what he's done.  President Trump had a life of luxury.  Moving to the White House was a downgrade for him and his family.  He did not have to serve as President of the United States.  He chose to serve because of his patriotic love for America and it's people.

President Trump has been a very successful businessman his entire life.  He is a born leader.  He is confident. He is assertive.  He is manly.  These are all qualities that can be misconstrued as negative traits.

For example confidence can be easily misconstrued as arrogance and self absorption.  Assertiveness can be misconstrued as brash, rude, and mean.  Manliness can be misconstrued as overbearing and haughty.

Most of the reasons I like President Trump are reasons other people don't.  I like his boldness.  He doesn't beat around the bush.  I like his fierceness.  He isn't one to be pushed around.  He stands up for what he believes in.  He says it like it is.  I like his honesty.  It's a refreshing change from most politicians.  Perhaps I like these qualities in him because I like to think I possess many of the same qualities.  And perhaps I am also misjudged.

I discern that President Trump has a big heart, is a very caring person, loves his country and his fellow men, and wants to do what's best for America and it's citizens.

President Trump is very smart and savvy.  He has proven that not only in his business dealings but also in his accomplishments as President of United States of America.  He has accomplished things that his predecessors couldn't do.  For example moving our embassy to Jerusalem.  The China trade deal.  Building the wall.  Building the strongest economy in my lifetime. Unprecedented tax cuts.  Just to name a few.

President Trump has kept his campaign promises -- despite all the opposition he is facing.  And it is huge.  Even he had no idea how much opposition he would face.  But he finds a way to get things done.  He works hard.  What is there not to like?

Okay, yes he has made mistakes in his life.  As have we all.  President Trump has actually apologized for some of the things he has said and done wrong.  Unlike any other politician on the planet.

President Trump brags about his accomplishments because if he didn't, no one would know about them.  Certainly the media doesn't report his accomplishments.  The media spins anything President Trump does into a negative. 

And like Mac Davis said, "It’s hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way..." I have found that people who like to talk about how great they are are in one of two different categories.  Either they are very insecure and haven't accomplished much and don't live up to how great they say they are.  Or they are highly confident people who have accomplished much, yet are very humble in reality.  President Trump falls into the latter category.  I understand this about President Trump because I also like to tease about my greatness.  Yet, I like to think that I am still humble.

President Trump is a fighter and stands up America to all of the foreign governments who have, for so long, taken advantage of us.  President Trump cannot be bought, like Joe Biden.  Or any other politician.  President Trump is not a Pansy -- and perhaps this is why he is misjudged and not liked by so many.

President Trump is in my corner and fights for me and my country every day.  That's more than I can say for Joe Biden and most other politicians who are only concerned with themselves and what's in it for them.

I would go so far as to say President Trump has integrity and will always do what's right for America.  To the best of his ability.  President Trump is a very likable fellow-- if you understand him like I do. 

Despite how hard the media has worked to smear President Trump's good name and reputation -- he is still working hard to make America great and keep America great.

I know there are a lot of people who are voting for President Trump because the alternative is unthinkable -- but still don't like him.  But I wish there were more people who understood him like I do and wouldn't misjudge him and his character.  Because President Trump is actually a very likable person.

That's my two cents.

Especially Lovely

Mercedes, Lisa, Tammy, Juliet, Mom, Dad
1998

I came across this gem yesterday while searching for a photo for Juliet.  I don't remember seeing this before and I'm not sure the circumstance.  Looks like an airport.  Anybody remember?  Looks like around 1998.  Michael's Mission homecoming?  My memory is terrible.

But since we all looked especially lovely, I thought I would post it.  :-)

Biden Scandal

This is getting way out of hand.  There is a huge story in the New York Post about the Hunter Biden, Joe Biden Ukraine scandal.  Proof found on a laptop in a repair shop.  And of course the story is being suppressed in the media and censored on social media.  That right there is interfering with the election.  It's got to be illegal.  And I'm not just talking about Facebook and twitter censoring average people posting or talking about the story.  Twitter literally banned the White House Press Secretary, Kayleigh McEnany because she posted the New York Post story to her twitter.  Twitter also banned and censored James Woods the actor, for posting the story.

It's insane!  So much censorship and suppression of the truth.  We are not talking about opinions.  We are talking about facts.  Proven facts taken from Hunter Biden's laptop.  His own words!

From Rush Limbaugh.com:

"But the American people need to know, because this is about serious political, criminal corruption — Biden family corruption. It’s about tech industry corruption involving Facebook and Twitter, and the American people need to know about this before they vote. Now, there are a number of stories out there concerning the Biden family. You probably have seen them.

It’s not the first time the Bidens have been in the news for shady deals.

But what we’re learning must impact the November elections. It must have an impact. This cannot be suppressed. We cannot let the tech industry and others get away with suppressing or hiding or basically disappearing these stories. The past 36 hours of news and news suppression confirms what most political observers have already known, that Joe Biden, like Hillary Clinton, sold his office for millions of dollars.

...And this is when James Comey rode to her rescue on July 5th of 2016 and proclaimed that she had not done anything anybody would prosecute. Today another massive scandal has been confirmed by emails. These are emails from the laptop of Hunter Biden. These are emails from the laptop of Joe Biden’s son. Now, this scandal — it honestly is, folks — this scandal is so big and so dangerous, like it was with Hillary, that an enormous cover-up is underway to save Biden’s presidential bid. Nothing less than an effort to save Biden’s campaign is underway.

That’s why the story is being suppressed. It’s why people that trade in the story are being –well, their accounts are being closed. They’re being doxed. The FBI had in their possession and controlled Hillary’s emails. Because of that, the Obama deep state never allowed the details of Hillary’s violations of the Espionage Act or her grotesque abuses of power to see the light of day. The FBI had in their possession and they controlled Hillary’s emails.

It was a massive government-run cover-up led by the FBI, led by James Comey. Maybe we’ll get full details someday. That can wait because Hillary’s scandal is different from Biden’s. The FBI does not control the evidence of Biden’s corruption. But the FBI had Hunter Biden’s laptop the entire time when they were trying to impeach Trump. They had all this. The FBI had his laptop. His laptop had been turned over. His laptop turned in to a computer repair shop in Delaware. They knew what they had. They chose not to act on it.

The evidence contained in Hunter Biden’s laptop of financial malfeasance of government payoffs, of blackmailable events, makes what Hillary Clinton was trafficking in really small stuff. Joe Biden is no different than Hillary Clinton in that he was selling access to his family and to him for huge amounts of money and for the enrichment of his son Hunter. 

"... [Joe] Biden had been at the Council on Foreign Relations — we played you this audio I don’t know how many times — bragging about how he got the prosecutor, who was looking into his son’s malfeasance, fired." -- Rush Limbaugh.com, October 15, 2020

I'm not going to go into all the details.  You can read about it if you wish.  You certainly won't hear on mainstream media.

This is a huge scandal.  It's really unethical for the media to suppress this information.  But when has the media been known to be ethical?  After all, they are an arm of the Democrat party.

This is the Gadianton robbers on steroids.  Yet how many people still think Joe is just Joe?  And are still going to vote for him?!  Unthinkable.  Seriously, anyone who votes for Joe Biden is extremely ignorant and oblivious or stupid or just plain evil.

The man is involved in very serious crimes.  Not just the Ukraine scandal with his son, Hunter.  I can't begin to name all the crimes associated with that.  But Joe Biden is also a pathological liar, a pervert to put it mildly -- predator is a better word.  Joe is also a known racist who spoke at the funeral of his good friend, Robert Byrd, a former KKK member.  Not to mention the simple fact that Joe Biden is suffering from dementia.  He can't even run his own life, let alone the free world.  "Hidin' Biden" is a good nomenclature for him -- he won't even answer policy questions before the election.  He keeps flip-flopping trying to tell people what they want to hear knowing full well that he intends to destroy this nation and take away our liberties and freedoms.

Donald Trump has done so much for this nation in the nearly 4 years that he's been in office.

Here is a list of some of his accomplishments from an article in the Federalist:

"Trump’s list of first-term accomplishments has been truly impressive:

• Building the strongest U.S. economy in my lifetime through historic business and personal tax cuts, resulting in millions of jobs created and record-low unemployment
• Cutting federal government regulations that had a stranglehold on American business innovators and entrepreneurs
• Confronting China’s trade abuses and negotiating fair trade deals with Canada, Mexico, South Korea, and Japan
• Eliminating the Obamacare individual mandate
• Rebuilding our military through investments in our defense capabilities as well as securing the largest military pay raise in a decade
• Nominating and confirming more solid conservative circuit court judges than any other first-term administration
• Nominating and fighting for the confirmation of two originalists, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, to the Supreme Court and then nominating Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacancy left by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and then brokering the Abraham Accords peace deal between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain
• Consistently fighting Democrats to build the wall to secure our southern border, reinforcing and repairing hundreds of miles, with more construction on the way

This is just a brief summary of the Trump administration’s accomplishments." -- The federalist.com, October 9, 2020, "I Didn't Vote for Trump in 2016 But I'd Crawl over Broken Glass To Vote for Him Now".

Not to mention, President Trump is the most pro-life president we've ever had.  He stands up for religious freedom.  President Trump is a true patriot who loves America and the American people.  He has made America great again in four short years.  But there's much more to do.  President Trump will fight for us.  He has proven that.

Don't believe the lies the media and Joe Biden and the Democrats continually spew.  Their efforts to tarnish President Trump don't work because we Americans are smart and see through their lies.

If you're voting for Joe Biden, you're not smart enough to see through the lies.  You are buffaloed.  Don't be buffaloed.  Be smart and vote for Donald J. Trump for United States President on November 3!

That's my two cents.

Good Versus Bad

Yesterday Rush Limbaugh had President Trump on his radio program for two hours.  I read most of the transcript and this exchange jumped out at me.  It is spot on and sums up this election. 

From Rush Limbaugh.com:

 RUSH: Let me try to simplify this. You know, one of the things I’ve tried to do, learn to do over the course of the years is make the complex understandable. I think this election, Sir, is really simple to explain, particularly people who are the undecided, and I don’t know how many of those there are. I, frankly, don’t know how you can’t be decided by now.

THE PRESIDENT: (chuckles) Right.

RUSH: But this election really boils down to two propositions. One is it’s between a man, you, who believes America is good and decent and great, against people —

THE PRESIDENT: Right. It has great potential.

RUSH: — against people who are behind Joe Biden who think America isn’t good. They think America is unjust and immoral from the days of our founding, and they are trying to undermine and transform this country as founded. And that’s why you are undermined. And that’s why your successes are hidden. That’s why your successes are distorted and lied about. It’s no more complicated than that.

Folks, if you love this country, if you love America — the America you think exists — you don’t have a choice in this election. Your only choice is President Trump. If you don’t support President Trump here, you are gonna end up facilitating the transformation of America into a country it was never intended to be. You’re gonna have $13-a-gallon gasoline with the Green New Deal.

You’re gonna have so much disruption in your life that you can’t possibly imagine — and don’t doubt me. They’re not gonna be honest with you about this. But that’s really what this is about. You are good. You believe America is good. You believe America is great. You want to keep it that way, and you want to solidify it, and you want America’s greatness to be enshrined and empowered for decades beyond you.

Rush is exactly right.  This election is between good versus bad.  President Trump loves America, believes America is good, believes the American people are good, decent people who can think for themselves and make their own decisions, and President Trump can see the potential to make America better.

On the other hand, Joe Biden and the Democrats hate America.  They think America is bad.  They believe it's been bad from its founding.  They think the American people are stupid and need the government to tell them what to do. Joe and the Democrats don't care about you or the American people.  All they care about is power and control and destroying our great nation.

If you want the government to control you and make your decisions for you and destroy America -- vote for Joe Biden.

If you treasure your freedom and want to make your own choices and want America to be even better -- vote for Donald Trump.

Elect Joe Biden if you want to be controlled, oppressed, destitute, and miserable.

Elect Donald Trump if you enjoy freedom, prosperity, and happiness.

That's my two cents

Vice Presidential Debate

Mike Pence crushed Kamala Harris like a bug. She, like her running mate Joe Biden, have no interest in telling the truth.  All Kamala did was spew lies just like Joe. And just like Joe, when Vice President Pence would set her straight by speaking the truth, all she knew how to do was smile and laugh nervously.

I honestly didn't know much about Kamala Harris personally, before the debate, I had never seen her speak.  But she came across as defensive, angry, arrogant, pretentious, deceptive, repetitive, chiffy -- overall very unlikable.  She obviously thinks she's smarter than she actually is.  She wouldn't answer direct questions, but instead would repeat the same garbage she had already stated several times which had nothing to do with the questions she was asked.  She can't think for herself obviously.  She had to go off of her list of lies she was told to spew.  The vice president said it best when he told her, "But look, Senator Harris, you're entitled to your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts."

On the other hand, Vice President Pence came across as genuine, caring, knowledgeable, truthful, confident -- and very likable.  Unfortunately he had to spend a lot of his time correcting Kamala's lies.  But he was still able to answer the biased questions asked of him, very well and with confidence -- sometimes in the next round, but he got to them.  The difference between the two people, tickets, parties was obvious.  It's good versus evil.  That's what it boils down to.

I think this quote from Vice President Pence sums the whole thing up:

"The difference here is President Trump and I trust the American people to make choices in the best interest of their health. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris consistently talk about mandates, and not just mandates with the Coronavirus, but a government takeover of healthcare, the Green New Deal, all government control. We're about freedom and respecting the freedom of the American people."  --Vice President Mike Pence, October 7, 2020, Vice Presidential Debate, Salt Lake City, Utah.

President Trump and Vice President Pence are about freedom and choice -- agency.  They know that people should make their own choices and not be forced into doing what the government dictates they should do.  Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are about all government control and no freedom -- no agency.

If that doesn't sound like good versus evil -- Jesus' plan versus Satan's plan -- I don't know what does.

That's my two cents.

Do Masks Stop Tiny Particles?

I read an article the other day with the following video linked to it. It's about a three minute video.



Obviously, masks don't do much to stop very tiny particles. Viruses, vapor, smoke, and even dust particles from sheet rock easily go through masks.



I thought this photo would be helpful in showing size differences. A micrometer is 1000 times larger than a nanometer. Therefore the bacterium shown is 2000 nm. The SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus which causes COVID-19) is around 100 nm or .1 µm. So on this graphic novel coronavirus would be between Zika and HIV in terms of size.

"Upon analysis of negative-stained SARS-CoV-2 articles by electron microscopy, researchers have determined the diameter of this virus to range between 60 nanometers (nm) to a maximum diameter of 140 nanometers (nm)." 1

Comparing the size of the novel coronavirus to something we are all familiar with, human hair, we see that the virus is anywhere from 400 to 1000 times smaller.

"A human hair has a thickness that is typically in the size range of 60 to 120 µm... The size of a single human hair is comparable to the size of as little as 400 SARS-CoV-2 particles to as many as 1,000 particles." 1

There is no way to experiment on the effectiveness of masks regarding SARS-CoV-2 using typical microbiology experiments using agar and incubation. Those are great for showing the spread of bacteria which is huge compared to viruses.  And I have no doubt that masks do help stop the spread of bacteria.  But viruses are too small to see even with the most powerful light microscope.  They can only be seen with an electron microscope.

Therefore it's only logical to me that if the mask won't stop water vapor, smoke or even fine dust particles, it certainly won't stop a virus.

If you've noticed, mask mandates are everywhere, yet the virus continues to infect people.

As I've said before, the only way to stop a viral pandemic is by letting it run its course and achieving herd immunity.  Or through effective vaccination which will also create herd immunity.

It's quite simple.

Like President Trump said, don't be afraid of COVID.  Its mortality rate is akin to a bad flu year.  Yes, some people will die.  But that's part of life.  Even in the last few months therapeutic treatment has advanced and fewer people are dying from COVID-19.  There's no reason for normal, healthy people to be walking around with masks on their face everywhere they go.  Masks belong on people in hospitals not in Wal-Mart.

That's my two cents.


References:

1 --https://www.news-medical.net/health/The-Size-of-SARS-CoV-2-Compared-to-Other-Things.aspx

RIP Mac Davis

 Another great singer-songwriter has graduated from mortality.  Mac Davis, born January 21, 1942, died September 30, 2020.

I used to listen to Mac Davis a lot in my 20s. "Baby, Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me" is one you might remember.  Catchy little tune. Of course my favorite was, "It's Hard to Be Humble".  I used to sing that song to my companions on my mission all the time.  What can I say?  Humility is a hard characteristic to acquire. Mac and I both know the struggle.  :-)

"You know it's hard to be humble, when you're perfect in every way, I can't wait to look in the mirror, 'cause I get better looking each day.  To know me is to love me, I must be a heck of a man, you know it's hard to be humble, but I'm doing the best that I can..."

I didn't learn until a little bit later in my life that Mac Davis also wrote several songs that Elvis cut.  The most famous probably being "In the Ghetto".  He also wrote, "Memories", "Don't Cry Daddy", and "A Little Less Conversation". 

Mac Davis singing, "In The Ghetto" 1972

RIP Mac Davis.

That's my two cents.