Make My Day, Pal

Losing The High Range, Presidential Debates, &tc.

Dear Friends,

Don’t you hate it when you agree to do things that you later begin to regret? I let a group of local singer-songwriters twist my arm into performing at a special concert this coming Saturday. The problem? I haven’t performed solo in years. I am sure I’ll be fine and it will be fun, but boy am I feeling rusty. I am dusting off some solo songs that have been orphaned (i.e., The Bailey Band and doesn’t play them), only to discover that my singing voice over the years has lost quite a bit in the upper registers. Up until now that hasn’t bothered me at all because ever since Bailey started singing lead vocals, I’ve had zero interest in singing anything other than the occasional harmony anyway! Oh well, I’m going to just confidently belt it all out and hope for the best.

Things are heating up in the studio. It helps when your producer happens to be the very best bass player in, oh, let’s call it the Tri-State region. There is no “Tri-State” region out here in the Rocky Mountain West; that’s just a euphemism for “he’s awesome.” He’s laying down bass tracks that exceed our wildest expectations, and I told him he’s making it really difficult for some poor future bassist we might need to hire. He told me that’s exactly how he likes it. That’s your album update!

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It looks like the Biden Administration has decided to switch sides in the Israel/Hamas war. In the wake of the horrors of October 7th, it was obvious to anyone with a functioning moral compass that the only solution was the eradication of Hamas as an organization. Now that the only way to accomplish that task is the invasion of Rafah, and now that his electoral fortunes are tied to the pro-terrorist wing of his party, Joe Biden has turned on Israel and is not only pausing military aid but also attempting a solution that leaves Hamas a participant in post-war settlement for Gaza.

I am pretty sure this is called being “on the wrong side of history.” Which is not surprising. Joe Biden has been wrong on every significant foreign policy question for the past 50 years. After all, this is a man who even opposed the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. And who handed Afghanistan to the Taliban and armed them with all-new military equipment. He’s a “tough guy” only when he needs to make himself look tough; then he drops a bomb on an innocent aid worker and his seven kids.

I suspect that Israel doesn’t care what Joe Biden thinks.

[Update: Biden backtracks and sends the military aid.]

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Speaking of Biden the “tough guy,” he released a video today challenging Donald Trump to a debate. It was 19-seconds long, and had no fewer than five video cuts. That means he couldn’t make it through a 19-second statement without splicing at least five different takes together. The video ends with Tough Guy Joe saying, “Make my day, PAL!”

Friends, I do not believe at the end of the day there will be a single debate between Biden and Trump. Somebody will get “sick” or find some debate rule intolerable. In the meantime, we can relive old times by watching this video. It is supposed to be comedy, but it sadly and unwittingly captures the maturity level of this real-world election:

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