My Latest Thoughts

By Mike Bibb

Semi-truck involved in recent Florida crash killing three motorists, shows the driver made an illegal U-turn in an area prohibited from making U-turns. The driver, allegedly, was not proficient in the English language or did not  fully comprehend highway signs. _________

When I learned the commercial truck driver from India involved in the recent horrific accident in Florida was not very proficient in the English language and could only comprehend a few road signs, I thought to myself "How is this possible? How could he obtain a Commercial Driver's License (CDL) if he could not read and understand the Motor Vehicle Department's CDL written test?"

Then, I also discovered he was granted his CDL in California. Nothing more needs to be said to explain the total irrationally of the situation.

By Mike Bibb

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." — First Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified Dec. 15, 1791.
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Years ago, before passage of the 16th Amendment and shelves of tax regulations became an accepted reality, politics and government polices were frequently discussed within church chapels and classrooms.

Baby Rabbit, Sheriff's Department and Discombobulations
By Mike Bibb

Good grief, has the entire law enforcement system in Silver City, New Mexico gone haywire?

Silver City police forces are experiencing personnel difficulties within their ranks; Grant County Sheriff's Department is having similar problems; and the Magistrate Court is acting in a peculiar manner.

Down the road in Las Cruces, another Magistrate Judge and his wife were arrested a couple of months ago at their home by federal authorities for cavorting with Venezuelan gang members.

What the heck is going on in Southern New Mexico? Is everyone eating too much Hatch chili — or not enough?

Whatever it is, it's obvious the wheels of various police agencies and local courts have become a little wobbly.

"Next Time, We'll Meet In Moscow"
By Mike Bibb

Wizzard of Id, Aug. 16, 2025 By: Mick Mastroianni and Johnny Hart, as published at https://www.grantcountybeat.com/comics/wizard-of-id-comic-for-august-16-2025 
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Upon completing their big joint meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, and President Trump suggesting another get together might be necessary Russian President, Vladimir Putin, suddenly suggested — in plain English — "Next time, we'll meet in Moscow!"

No translators were required to interpret the message.

Old Vlad, he's a clever one.

By Mike Bibb

While I'm not yet considered a totally incapacitated primate — at least not physically — I do have the fortune of living through 15 U.S. Presidential cycles (since Harry Truman) and still recall most of them.

Some with more fondness than others, and some I'd rather forget.

I suppose that opinion would be acceptable to most folks, other than hard core political party aficionados, placing "Party before country" tripe. Which I've really never fully understood. There must be a reason they think the way they do, but it's beyond me.

By Mike Bibb

Buzz Aldrin salutes the first American flag erected on the Moon, July 21, 1969. (photo by Neil Armstrong)

"Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
And let me see what spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars." — Fly Me To The Moon by Bart Howard, sung by Frank Sinatra, 1964.
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"The Trump administration aims to accelerate the construction of a nuclear reactor on the moon, Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy wrote in a memo distributed internally on Monday." — The New York Post, Aug. 4, 2025.

By Mike Bibb

"...no public evidence of any wrongdoing on [President Donald] Trump's part..." regarding involvement with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. — The Washington Post, July 17, 2025.
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The above admission by The Washington Post has been included in the growing list of media organizations who are, reluctantly, coming to the realization that President Trump, while knowing and occasionally attending public events with Epstein, was not involved or participated in any way, in Epstein's perverted sex trafficking with young girls.

A fact Trump has repeatedly reminded us.

Adding further influence to the topic, the WaPo is not normally a pro-Trump organization. An announcement of this sort must feel to them like being stung by a Murder Hornet.

By Mike Bibb

"Boot Hill . . . Boot Hill,
So cold . . . so still.
There they lay side by side,
The killers that died,
In the gunfight at O.K. Corral" — Gunfight At The O.K. Corral (movie), 1957, title song performed by Frankie Laine.
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A rising star in the Democrat Party, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), 35, has piled up over $15 million in campaign funds. Most of it coming from out of state. — New York Post, July 19, 2025.

AOC, along with a few other Democrat notables, is becoming the new profile of the party.