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  • WHY DID TWITTER GIVE ME A LIFETIME BAN?

    10/11/2023 5:45:52 AM PDT · by shortstop · 44 replies
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 10//11/23 | Bob Lonsberry
    Tapping on the Twitter icon recently, as I have done for a dozen years, I found a notice from the company, under its new name, telling me that I had been permanently banned, that my account was closed and that I would never be allowed to open another.“After careful review,” it read, “we determined your account broke the X Rules.”No specifics, no citation, no offending tweet. Just, you’re gone. I’ve never been warned, put on probation or otherwise censured or chastised by the company. All I’ve ever heard from Twitter were entreaties – which I declined – to monetize my...
  • BIDEN BID MAKES FOR A DARK DAY

    04/25/2023 7:07:46 AM PDT · by shortstop · 44 replies
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 04/25/23 | Bob Lonsberry
    Joe Biden is enfeebled and evil, a dishonest man who promotes hate and division, and who threatens the very heart and continued existence of the United States of America. His only equal is Donald Trump. Both are insurrectionists who have violated the letter and spirit of their oaths; both are Vietnam draft dodgers risen through vile manipulations to the top of the dung heaps which are our two political parties. One ignores election results and the other ignores Supreme Court decisions and each is a tyrant of such vanity as to place all other interests beneath personal ambition. And so...
  • POLITICAL PROSECUTION IS INSURRECTION

    03/31/2023 8:31:19 AM PDT · by shortstop · 8 replies
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 03/31/23 | Bob Lonsberry
    It’s never happened before because we’ve never been this crooked before.We, not him. This isn’t really about Trump, it’s about the betrayal of the American system and our most basic assumptions of justice.Not since the Alien and Sedition Acts has criminal prosecution been used as a tool of political vengeance and governmental oppression.But here we are.Last night, in the run-up to spring break, Easter and Passover, word leaked that Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, had secured a grand jury indictment against Donald Trump, thereby commencing the first-ever criminal prosecution of a former president of the United States.The base charge...
  • WHY ARE THE CHURCHES SILENT?

    12/15/2022 5:52:32 AM PST · by shortstop · 50 replies
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 12/14/2022 | Bob Lonsberry
    You wonder where the churches are.As American society is awash in new morality, as ageless conventions are toppled and condemned, as the teachings of millennia are dismissed and the very definitions of humanity are changed, where are the shepherds of the Savior’s flock, and what guidance do they give?For the most part, they are passive and silent. Or worse, they have gone over to the side of confusion. But seldom are they heard, and seldom do they lead, and seldom do they seem to be a light of the world.Nowhere do you find the courage and clarity of Isaiah, who...
  • A Decent Man or a Bully- Our Pick for Governor (Tampa Bay Times)

    10/30/2022 9:32:11 AM PDT · by shortstop · 54 replies
    Tampa Bay Times ^ | 10/30/22 | Tampa Bay Times editorial Board
    A decent man or a bully? Our pick for governor.The governor should represent all Floridians, including those who disagree with him or didn’t vote for him. Charlie Crist would do that. Gov. Ron DeSantis does not — and would not. In 2018, DeSantis got 49.6% of the vote. In other words, more people voted for someone else. and a bully. Do you want the state governed by a decent man or a bully? The Tampa Bay Times recommends voting for Charlie Crist, a man of decency, for governor.A decent man or a bully? Our pick for governor.The governor should represent...
  • NEW GUN LAW: WILL YOU OBEY, WILL COPS ENFORCE?

    09/01/2022 6:06:28 AM PDT · by shortstop · 49 replies
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 09/01/22 | Bob Lonsberry
    Don’t ask, don’t tell.That’s how gun owners and law-enforcement officers should approach New York’s unconstitutional new gun law.I won’t tell you what I’m carrying, and don’t you ask me what I have.We may be the targets of illegal oppression, but we don’t have to be accomplices to it. Beginning today, carrying handguns is prohibited almost everywhere in the state of New York. They can’t be carried on public property, and they can’t be carried on private property unless the owner or lessee posts a large sign declaring that they are welcome.When you eliminate public property and private property, that’s all...
  • INFLATION IS A BITCH

    07/12/2022 5:15:22 AM PDT · by shortstop · 8 replies
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 07/12/2022 | Bob Lonsberry
    Inflation is a bitch.That’s the unspoken truth of our time.Over the last year and a half, the value of our dollar has shrunk, the price of our essentials has risen, and the difficulty of our lives has increased.Because a presidential administration played fast and loose with the economic rules and the working people got bit on the ass. And so we sit in Biden rallies, long lines of cars waiting for Costco gas, counting our pennies and cursing our fates.In the macro, it’s another $7,500 to $10,000 extra in annual expenses for the average American family. In the micro, it’s...
  • BIDEN IS WRONG ABOUT GUN CONTROL

    05/25/2022 6:11:01 AM PDT · by shortstop · 62 replies
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 05/25/2022 | Bob Lonsberry
    While a nation wept, a president raged.“When, in God’s name,” he seethed, “are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?”In a moment of sorrow, it was an attack. On me, and on millions like me, across the country, who own firearms or believe in the right to do so.It was a reminder that this is an election year, and politics never go away, and the agenda is always the agenda. And while a nation was dazed and broken, a senator dashed to the floor to make the speech he always makes and a president used the lines he...
  • BIDEN FAILURE LEADS TO UKRAINIAN SLAUGHTER

    02/28/2022 6:09:08 AM PST · by shortstop · 11 replies
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 02/28/2022 | Bob Lonsberry
    As Ukrainian civilians take up arms to repel an invading army, as grandfathers and teen-agers and nursing mothers shoulder Kalashnikovs against tanks and attack helicopters, it’s worth remembering that this is Joe Biden’s fault.America had a duty, Biden had the con, he dropped the ball.And the Russian military rolled, as many as 15 divisions of combat troops streaming from three sides into a peaceful country, with warships off the coast and thundering jets overhead, videos of missiles into apartment buildings and elderly women with blood streaming down their faces.That’s what happens when America breaks its promises.Yesterday was Kabul, today is...
  • HOCHUL UNBOOSTED EXTRACURRICULAR BAN IS PURE STUPIDITY

    01/14/2022 8:33:34 AM PST · by shortstop · 9 replies
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 01/14/22 | Bob Lonsberry
    It’s a good rule of thumb to avoid looking like an idiot in front of children.I mention this because New York’s governor and government are about to do exactly that. They are currently muddling through the implementation of an absolutely idiotic move.Namely, a ban on extracurricular activities for students 12 and over who are vaccinated, but not boosted, and who are exposed to someone with covid.This has “dumbass” written all over it.And students know that.Students know that this new rule is illogical, punitive and ineffective, that it isn’t about public health, it is about submission to government authority. It’s not...
  • A REPORT FROM AMERICA'S MURDER CAPITAL (ROCHESTER, NY)

    11/15/2021 5:17:13 AM PST · by shortstop · 51 replies
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 11/15/21 | Bob Lonsberry
    For weeks, and probably months, teen-aged gangs have assumed and exercised tactical control of the streets of Rochester, executing people and terrorizing the community, all without effective opposition from law enforcement.Seven people were murdered over three recent days, with three of those homicides coming after the imposition of a “state of emergency” by the city and state.In one execution, a young man in a crowd of people outside the city’s busy bus station was shot point blank in the chest, in broad daylight, and was then stomped savagely and homicidally by two men, all under the watchful eye of a...
  • NONE OF THIS IS AN ACCIDENT

    10/22/2021 8:40:27 AM PDT · by shortstop · 38 replies
    bob lonsberry.com ^ | 11/20/2021 | Bob Lonsberry
    An idiot is right half the time.It’s just the odds, like flipping a coin. If you don’t know what the hell you’re doing, you’re nonetheless going to get it right every now and then just by random chance.An idiot is right half the time.But when somebody’s wrong all the time, that’s something else. That’s not an accident, that’s on purpose. That’s not stupidity, that’s evil.That’s a plan.And that’s what’s going on with Biden and the Democrats. They are crashing the country. They are triggering systemic failures across the society and economy. And they are doing it on purpose.That’s the only...
  • GENERAL MILLEY IS A TRAITOR

    09/15/2021 5:21:12 AM PDT · by shortstop · 7 replies
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 09/15/21 | Bob Lonsberry
    Mark Milley is a traitor who has broken his oath and betrayed his country.And I don’t say that because I’m a Republican, I say it because I’m an American.Milley, a four-star general and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is reported to have, in the last months of the Donald Trump presidency, spoken with subordinate officers with the intent of convincing them to subvert the orders of the president of the United States. Further, he is reported to have contacted an officer of the Chinese army and promised to notify that officer of any looming American military action...
  • BOYCOTT VACCINE MANDATERS

    08/24/2021 6:22:56 AM PDT · by shortstop · 33 replies
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 08/24/21 | Bob Lonsberry
    I refuse to do business with any enterprise that mandates the covid vaccine for its employees.I refuse to be part of any sort of coercive scheme that holds a family’s livelihood hostage in order to take away a worker’s right to make her own healthcare decisions.I won’t be partner to that.And I don’t trust that a business which so disrespects its employees is going to have any respect for its customers.So I’m keeping my money and my patronage where they respect human dignity and freedom, and where they respect their employees’ right to decide what to or what not to...
  • BIDEN IS NUKING NURSING HOMES

    08/19/2021 6:04:03 AM PDT · by shortstop · 85 replies
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 08/19/21 | Bob Lonsberry
    Joe Biden is going to do to nursing homes what he did to Afghanistan.His decree that all nursing home employees must be vaccinated, or their employers would lose their Medicare and Medicaid funding, is going to set off a staffing crisis that may force some facilities to close. At best, it will create stresses and resentments in the American nursing home industry that will hurt residents and communities.He announced it yesterday. While the rest of the world was horrified by what is likely the most damaging international development of the generation, Joe Biden prattled on about Republican governors and booster...
  • BIDEN LOST THE AFGHAN WAR

    08/16/2021 6:55:38 AM PDT · by shortstop · 36 replies
    bob lonsberry.com ^ | 08/16/2021 | Bob Lonsberry
    The American intelligence community said Kabul would fall in 90 days.Instead, it was four.On Saturday, the Afghan president said he stood resolute against the Taliban.On Sunday, he fled the country.The American president said we would pull out on September 11. His ambassador struck the flag and abandoned the embassy on August 15.The United States said it would stand with the Afghan government and people.That’s ending in beheadings and firing squads, and the assignment of little girls and newly widowed women to their new Taliban “husbands.”Call them Biden Brides.And call the botched withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan the worst embarrassment...
  • DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS ON THE WAY OUT

    08/11/2021 5:47:11 AM PDT · by shortstop · 52 replies
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 08/11/21 | Bob Lonsberry
    Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out, you dictatorial son of a bitch.You have been at war with your state's residents since the day you swore in, and the only downside of your departure is that it comes a decade too late. You have destroyed one of the greatest states in the nation, and presided over and been the cause of some of New York's darkest days.You don't love anybody but yourself, and you have served nothing but your own self-interest.You leave our state more divided, embittered and impoverished than it has ever been....
  • CHICK-FIL-A OPPOSITION IS BIGOTRY

    07/13/2021 5:44:16 AM PDT · by shortstop · 23 replies
    boblonsberrry.com ^ | 07/13/2021 | Bob Lonsberry
    So is the New York State Thruway.And recent calls by activist politicians for Chick-fil-A to be banned at newly renovated Thruway service plazas are examples of intolerance and bigotry.Because America is a live-and-let-live country, and those who demand respect should be obligated by conscience to give it as well. And if gay activists insist that the world be big enough to accommodate them, they must accept the fact that it is also big enough to accommodate people who are different from them.If we are all brothers and sisters, and we are all free, and we all are free to pursue...
  • SOME ADVICE FOR CLAY AND BUCK

    06/22/2021 6:05:56 AM PDT · by shortstop · 36 replies
    bob lonsberry.com ^ | 06/22/21 | Bob Lonsberry
    Here’s some advice for Buck and Clay on their new job.Buck Sexton and Clay Travis, the guys who took over for Rush Limbaugh.This is some advice for them.First, Rush is dead. I know, it’s sad. We’re all sad. We all miss him. He did a great show. He was our radio friend.But he was Rush Limbaugh, not Jesus Christ, and it’s time to move on.No more theme song, no more archived audio, no more voice from the grave. Let the great man rest, and stand on your own two feet.On day one, you sounded like fill-ins, like somebody brought in...
  • DEMS HAVE DUTY TO DUMP CUOMO NOW

    03/02/2021 5:27:42 AM PST · by shortstop · 41 replies
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 03/01/21 | Bob Lonsberry
    Andrew Cuomo must be removed from office.Either by his own resignation or by impeachment in the legislature. His day is done, the hole is too deep, we have suffered enough.It is time for the progressive community to rise against him, for the Democrat establishment to throw off his yoke, for his intimidated subordinates to storm the castle. Conditioned to subservience by his harsh temper and spiteful vindictiveness, rank-and-file Democrats in the administration and in the press must unify around his removal.He deserves it, and so do we.His actions over the last several days are the icing on the cake, the...