Making enemies

It’s never wise to make enemies of long-haul truckers. That includes the beleaguered city of New York with its goofball judge and his arbitrary $350 million-plus civil fraud judgment against former President Donald Trump the other day.

To express anger and disapproval with Manhattan’s Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron, many truckers are telling the city and its merchants not to expect further deliveries.

Facts at trial showed there wasn’t one victim Trump allegedly defrauded. How can you have a legitimate guilty fraud verdict and resulting huge fine when no one’s been defrauded?

Nonetheless, Engoron, a 74-year-old Democrat appointed in 2013 and then elected by voters to the Supreme Court in 2015, presided over the contentious civil trial. He’s a longtime judge who once drove a yellow taxi and still writes an alumni newsletter about his high school. Figures, since he makes inappropriate clownish faces from the bench for TV cameras, as if in arrested development as a sophomore.

So now New Yorkers can thank him as they may be left to embrace the unexpected consequences, while their normal supply chains for food, medicine, clothing and so many other necessities dry up (as if New York City doesn’t already have enormous social and financial problems only amplified by ineffective and harmful elected leadership).

Jennifer Hernandez, a trucker supporting the boycott, told the conservative network NewsNation their collective action “could shut New York City down.

… If New York loses … just 10 percent of the trucks going there, their prices [would] skyrocket on everything, from milk to eggs to any type of goods that the consumer needs.”

PASS THE CAVIAR

Meanwhile, the disrespectful Fulton County Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis and her subordinate lawyer/employee/boyfriend Nathan Wade, who reportedly took extravagant vacations together, both testified last week as to their relationship.

Wade, a municipal judge and private attorney, has little prosecuting experience, yet Willis is paying hundreds of thousands in tax monies to prosecute our nation’s former president on historic and complex charges. Now the two potentially face serious professional problems of their own.

In often-unhinged rantings under oath, Willis repeatedly flailed about in the witness chair, frequently shouting at the attorney questioning her as she admitted to keeping a stash of many thousands of dollars in cash at home. She testified she paid Wade to cover her portion of their exotic vacations together.

We’ll patiently wait to see what ramifications, if any, these revelations prompt, along with Willis’ makeshift RICO case fashioned from ill-fitting patches of the cheapest, ugliest political fabric.

My, what tangled, expensive, problematic, foul and costly webs we weave with partisan assaults when first we … you know the rest.

Believe me, valued readers, I’d feel exactly the same way if the political parties involved were reversed. Politically weaponizing our sacred justice system should be a crime all its own and is the worst possible way to run a civilized, constitutional republic based in laws, as opposed to flagrant power-mongering, overt favoritism, strong-arming and corruptive cash.

However, those probably would be normal governance in totalitarian countries like Venezuela, Cuba and Iran, which it seems to me is increasingly what some in today’s America would have for our nation and the future of its children.

WE’RE NO. 1!

I wince in writing this, but we all need to know and ask who’s responsible for such poor and dangerous road engineering.

Dismuke Law in Florida recently analyzed data from the National Highway Travel Safety Administration and determined, of all the states, Arkansas has the most car-crash deaths due to poor road design. Yep, we’re finally Numero Uno!

The study focused on data where poor design, such as inadequate warning of exits, obscured pavement markings and inadequate construction were listed as contributing factors to accidents.

Our state topped the list; between 2017 and 2021, there were 101 crashes where poor road design was a contributing factor out of 2,664 fatal mishaps.

That translated to 3.79 percent deadly collisions attributed to road design. Our worst year was 2021 when 30 of 598 fatal crashes could be attributed to poor design.

So what are our state leaders going to do about correcting this and saving lives so we hopefully can lose our top spot on such a dubious list?

GODNOD?

Those who follow these words know I am always interested in hearing about mystical events that many people attribute to divine intervention, or what I call GodNods. If you or a relative or friends have ever had such an experience, please shoot me an email and tell me about it.

Now go out into the world and treat everyone you meet (regardless of political preference) exactly like you want them to treat you.