ROBERT GATES

Bob Gates served Presidents Bush and Obama honorably as Secretary of Defense and had compliments for both. He said that Joe Biden, on the other hand, was “on the wrong side of every major policy decision” that came before them.

We know, in the words of Forrest Gump, that Ol’ Joe “is not a smart man.” He is a boastful non-truth teller and back when there were actual journalists, they pointed that out and his run for the Presidency in 1988 cratered. His plagiarism spans from, at least, his law school days when he finished 76^th out of 85 at the Syracuse Law school to his 1988 campaign where he just stole stuff from others’ speeches.

He is weak. Putin is clever and strong, a back-alley fighter. All the liberal press can do is condemn Trump (how did he get into this?) for saying that Putin was smart and clever to use the ruse of “peacekeeping” in Ukraine. Joe has no idea how to use the tools he has or to creatively block Putin. How about China? They have renewed their claim to Taiwan that goes back many years and is resisted by the rest of the world.

If he isn’t, Robert Gates should be saying, “I told you so.”

SAN FRANCISCO

 What a lovely city, amazing history and now it is in the hands of people who seem to want to destroy it.

When Linda worked in the city, it was starting—she would walk from the train to work and had to dodge human excrement and all the homeless, but it was minimal compared to now. But I want to talk about the school board.

Three members of the school board were recalled in a recent election and blamed it on “white supremacy.” Facts do not, of course, support such a claim, but let’s see why voters really told them to hit the road:

1.       The school board was in the process of changing the names of 44 schools named after historical and current figures who did not meet their standards. Among them were these “inappropriate” names of schools:

a.       Paul Revere

b.       George Washington

c.       Abraham Lincoln

d.       Alamo

e.       Thomas Jefferson

f.        Daniel Webster

g.       Diane Feinstein

h.       John Muir, the environmentalist

The reasoning—fight for racial justice

2.       The premier school in the city will no longer select students based on merit. Lowell High School will get students in a lottery

3.       San Francisco schools have been closed longer than just about any other city

4.       Rampant anti-Asian prejudice

Was it the white supremacists? They had probably left the city years ago, but what really happened was that the Chinese vote turned out in record numbers and the non-citizen voters (yeah, non-citizens have voted in San Francisco for many years…go figure) were not the dependable Democratic voters that they have been historically. This is too weird for even them!

The black female mayor supported ouster of those goof balls.

All I’m saying is that the people in this country need to wake up and vote. Otherwise, we will all be governed by inept, evil people like were taken down in San Francisco with this recall election.