STEEL PENCIL NEWS REVIEW

SEPTEMBER 14, 2026

VOLUME 162

CENTER-RIGHT PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT NEWS EVENTS WITH A LITTLE FLAG WAVING INCLUDED

Don’t waste your time perusing the obituaries, I’m still alive and well up here in the deep blue Pacific Northwest. Believe me, I had no idea what the political climate was when I moved here. Shudda done my research, I guess. Turns out California essentially covers the entire west coast, just goes under different flags as it moves northward. Anyway, I’m alive and well, I have numerous other irons in the fire, so sometimes my writing suffers. I have been doing some artwork lately, see the picture below. BTW, I’m an architectural fan, and love to design buildings.

I’m a huge fan of the 1950′ and 60’s “modern look” architecture. I designed this house to mimic the architecture found in the Palm Springs area of Southern California. The “butterfly” roof was created in this part of California by one particular builder. He and his entire family perished in a private plane crash at the peak of his career. Hope you enjoy the picture as much as I did creating it. As you probably guessed all of my artwork I put up on my blog is copyrighted.

WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE DEMOCRATS

I think if you speak truthfully about the new identity of the Democrat party (DSP) it’s just window dressing. The Democrat party has always been about socialism at its core. The old Dems that say they don’t recognize the party anymore weren’t looking deep enough to see the truth. However to be fair, the young Democrats today are more aggressive and willing to cause trouble to get quick results.

Labor unions have always been a key component of the Democrat party. Currently they are, and always have been pro socialism. Labor unions are about empowering the workers, bringing the pay scale of blue collars more in line with the white collars. The whole principle of equality when it comes to incomes is naked socialism. The quest to make everyone equal whether they deserve it or not.

When I was working in a union shop as a young man, that was an issue that bothered me. On one hand it was good for me, on the other hand I didn’t feel it was fair to the more experienced journeymen. I didn’t have anywhere near the experience of the older journeymen, but because I served my apprenticeship and became a full-fledged journeyman I hired in at the same wage as a 25 year veteran.

As I gained more experience, I dropped out of the union and started working in shops that would pay union scale with benefits, but would reward you for your extra effort. Workers in union shops rarely ever went the extra mile because there were no rewards. It was not uncommon for me to receive extra pay, plus perks like a company truck or a credit card to pay for my commuting expenses. I made more money and gained more management experience than I ever would have in a union shop.

Are you getting my point? Union shops are nothing but a scaled down version of what a socialist society is. Everyone is equal, so why put forth any extra effort when there are no rewards. I wanna be the best at what I do, and I damn sure want to be rewarded for it. Workers like me, are good for the company. Efficient and smart employees make the company more profitable. When the company benefits, you benefit. It the company doesn’t reward you, find one that does. You’re a free agent.

So, I think when you examine the people making all of the noise in the Democrat party, they are brainwashed morons. Their brains have been destroyed by communist educators, none of whom have ever had to fend for themselves in the open job market. They have poisoned the minds of thousands of youngsters that could have been hard working patriotic Americans, working to make America a better place for all. The big burning question is; why can’t they see the glaring example 90 miles south of Miami? The whole of Cuba is a hell hole and is the direct result of Communism.

LINDSAY CLANCY CIRCUS

This is not an isolated story by any means. This has happened numerous times in my lifetime. Fortunately, it doesn’t happen often, but when it does it always has the same effect on my mind. How can a parent kill their offspring? My late wife and I raised two daughters, and our mission 24 hours a day, 365 days a year was to protect them and keep them safe from all manner of harm.

You sometimes jokingly say “if that kid does that again, I’m gonna kill ’em”. Realistically, you wouldn’t do that in a million years. That said, you surmise that to actually kill a child (three) you would have to be totally insane. Turns out that isn’t the case. People can be totally sane, able to plan the killings, come up with very creative stories to blame someone else. They show no remorse and go to great lengths to defend their actions. In my mind, that’s not insanity, that’s pure evil.

When we think of an insane person, we imagine a person who acts incoherently, yells at passing cars, acts out at people for no apparent reason, sometimes doing great bodily harm and sometimes actually murdering another individual. The difference is that anyone that has come in contact with an insane person, knows what the person is capable of and steers clear of them. People like Lindsay Clancy, Corie Walsh, and others like them quietly harbor these thoughts and the people around them never imagine what is about to happen. Seemingly normal people suddenly do unthinkable things.

People tend to categorize behavioral problems. Using my description above, I see quite a lot of what I would term “crazy” folk around homeless encampments. Doing things like being down on “all fours” picking up imaginary things off the sidewalk. Standing on the curb yelling at passerby’s in foul language. Waving large sticks around in the air. I highly doubt anyone ever looked at Lindsay Clancy through that Lense.

There is definitely something amiss in that woman’s brain, as well as the others that have committed similar crimes. I think insanity is the wrong call entirely. She is not insane, she clearly knew what she was about to do was very wrong, yet she went through with it anyway. For that, she deserves at least life imprisonment. if not the death penalty.

AI HOOPLA AND POSTURING

This is a very interesting topic to me, and I know very little about it. What I know is that it’s obvious at this point in time, AI operates on known knowledge. It takes the known knowledge and manipulates it. Apparently, the data centers that are causing such controversy are simply housing this knowledge and making it available for people like ChatGPT, and Canva to use in their companies.

Here is what I think would be great. If AI collected all of the data available and then processed it to find real truth and discarded the rest. For example, something simple; there could be a100 different ways of doing a particular task. AI examined all of the data and said; all of the collected data combined says that this method would yield the best results for the least amount of money. How great would that be?

I think what is truly scary about AI is that it could manipulate data for political purposes which could cause mayhem in spades. It could actually bring down governments. It could make claims of false information and destroy age old religious institutions. It could become the sole provider of data and information, causing people rely on it and believe whatever claim AI made. It could become the all-knowing oracle, becoming the undisputed truth sayer. In essence it could replace God in people’s minds. I can see people begin to look at it as divinity.

To bring this AI conversation to a close, I think we are years away from AI being the holder of all knowledge. But even as I say that, Google amassed most of the world’s knowledge and even created the most comprehensive mapping the world has ever known in just a few years. So maybe, I’m underestimating the time frame. It may be happening faster than my little pea brain can comprehend.

Right now, as I write this, I use AI for all sorts of things in my life. The picture above, of the California house, was drawn by hand, by me, a plain pencil sketch. I fed it into AI and gave it final instructions regarding weather, time of day, colors, geography, even the types of plants. AI completed the task in minutes. A task that would have taken me days to complete, and it never would have looked that good. Right now, AI is great fun, a great tool for an artist to use to create beautiful projects. As long as it is used to enhance people’s lives and assist them in their chores, I’m perfectly OK with that. Somebody needs to erect some guardrails, but I sure as hell don’t trust the government to do that.

I’ll try to get back on the keyboard more often now as winter is closing in, and my outdoor activities are going to be curtailed by the Pacific Northwest rain. Thank you fo taking the time to read my stuff. I appreciate all of you for making this one of my best years of readership yet. God Bless all of you and the USA.

VERITAS VINCIT ~ LIVE FREE OR DIE

THE ONLY PURE TRUTH

STEEL PENCIL NEWS REVIEW

MARCH 2, 2025

VOLUME 99

POLITICALLY INCORRECT, CENTER-RIGHT PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE ARTS.

Our family produced several natural born artists that possessed multiple talents. Only one chose to follow his talent as a vocation. He has been working in the movie industry his entire life and is recognized as one of the top animators and story board artists. He just happens to be my nephew (my sister's son) We grew up together as a very close family. He developed and produced three well known cartoon series that were shown on Nickelodeon for several years. He is currently working on a feature length animated movie.

Even though he is my nephew, he is really more like my little brother. We remain close even though we live in adjoining states. We talk on the phone usually once a week, and of course art and family usually dominate our conversations.

During our last conversation, we discussed artificial intelligence. He and I both have very similar feelings about it, so the following opinions and observations should be considered mutual.

Mitch has created numerous characters for his projects. Those characters are strictly products of his imagination and creativity. In other words, those characters although just images on the screen, Inbody a little bit of their creator. They came from his mind, created from his energy. The likelihood of another artist creating the same exact character on the other side of the world is not even remotely possible.

So, as AI grows and develops, I think it's inevitable the human involvement in creativity begins to shrink. I think it's sad to think that someday, young people may not have the opportunity that my nephew had to be part of a world of creativity, to be able to produce entertainment strictly from imagination and talent.

I have seen the power of computers and robotic machines and it's a bit scary. I recently watched a YouTube presentation of a shop that has a large array of computer driven robots, and they are producing metal body panels for automobiles in minutes from raw flat sheets of metal. You might say ; "what's the big deal? Auto manufacturers have been stamping metal panels in minutes for years. The big deal is these machines are miniscule compared to the large hydraulic presses, and a form doesn't have to be made to put into the press. These robots simply make the parts from scratch. There is no "tooling" required, they just command the robot to make a different part. So again, you are taking the human being out of the equation, you no longer need machinists, welders, millwrights, crane operators and etc. Just a robot, and a programmer. This is brand new territory; we are going to a place we have never been before.

Admittedly I'm nowhere near being an expert on AI. Here is what I have heard the experts say, As AI learns a task, it can actually figure out how to improve its performance on its own. They say it can analyze data such as computer programming and figure out how to improve it and even begin writing programs on its own. If I understand correctly what I am hearing, you could upload dozens of novels, or movie scripts and AI could actually learn to write on its own. I jokingly told my nephew it looks like AI is already at work, the plot on the average TV show looks like an old story line that has simply been modified. I think most of what we see on TV is regurgitated crap. That said, maybe AI could come up with some better stuff. Seriously, could we see a time in the future when a human tells a computer to write a story about a fictitious event and the computer churns it out in an hour?

This is sounding to me like humans are voluntarily making themselves irrelevant to a large degree. Are computers going to be calling the shots in government, creating art, and humans are going to be manual labor? I'm serious, how far does this go? Does it get to the point that it can't be turned off? Can it get to the point humans can no longer control it?

What makes this more likely to happen, is humans historically love to create machines that do their work for them. I have owned several homes with swimming pools. Pools require a lot of maintenance to keep them beautiful and inviting. One of the mundane tasks that takes a lot of time is vacuuming. I am seeing this new "crawler" vacuum that even climbs the walls of the pool and sticks it's nose out of the water and cleans the perimeter tiles. This machine learns the shape of your pool and cleans every square inch. How great is that? This is simply an illustration of how lazy we are and how quickly we are willing to hand off our responsibilities to machines.

The bottom line is that being 84 years old in mid-April, it's highly unlikely that I will see any significant results of this. My world is not likely to be seriously impacted by any of this stuff. However, it is highly interesting me, and stirs my imagination. If any of my readers have real-world experience with AI, I would love to hear from you.

In closing, I will treat you to a sample of my nephew's creativity.

VERITAS VINCIT ~ LIVE FREE OR DIE

STEEL PENCIL NEWS REVIEW

DECEMBER 11, 2024

VOLUME 92

POLITICALLY INCORRECT, CENTER-RIGHT PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT NEWS EVENTS

THE DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY IS EQUIVALENT TO A BOTTLE OF TABASCO SAUCE IN A DONUT SHOP.

As a former drone pilot and enthusiast, I know a little bit about this subject. I bought my first drone years ago, a small basic machine for beginners. A few years later, I did some trading and ended up with a DJI Inspire which is a very large drone, very popular with Hollywood for filming action shots. Very fast, great camera, and dual controls so you can fly, and your co-pilot can man the camera. Very powerful, able to lift 3.5 lbs. It has a range of just over 1.5 miles away from the controller. I have flown many times by camera only, the drone was out of sight. That will make you a little nervous with a $4,000.00 aircraft.

To fly a drone of that size, you have to be an FAA licensed pilot. There are two classes of pilots. I had a sports pilot license. I was not allowed to fly over people or traffic, and I could not market my photography taken during flights. If you are using your drone for commercial purposes, you have to have the same license as a manned aircraft. Then you can fly at night, above populated areas and trafficways. You can also market your photography, which is totally amazing.

I chose to sell my drone because of the new laws and regulations that were coming out requiring me to affix a transponder to my drone so it could be tracked and identified by the FAA officials. The rules were going to continue to become stricter in the future on drones of that size. There has even been discussion in Congress to outlaw DJI drones from being sold in the United States. DJI is the world’s leading drone manufacturer, and they are made in China. The concern is that the very sophisticated software the drone uses can be used by the Chinese for spying. When you register the software to control the drone, it is connected to your email address. This is concerning.

So, the reason I told you all of this, is because all of these laws and regulations are only good, as long as law abiding citizens are willing to comply. If you are not a law-abiding citizen, then you can operate whatever you want, whenever you want until you get nabbed. Exactly like gun laws and driver’s licenses. The average person complies with these nonsensical rules because they don’t have the money or time to fight with the Feds.

The Feds cannot identify the drones flying around New Jersey, because they are illegal, flying without transponders. That tells me immediately that they are rogue pilots intentionally breaking the law so they can’t be identified. That is also an indicator they may be up to no good. This flys in the face of the story the FBI and Homeland Security are telling you. John Kirby is saying today they don’t believe they have any malicious intent. He can’t know that, because he has no idea who is operating them. Also, they haven’t been able to identify the operating system used to control them. You can’t jam a signal if you don’t know what it is.

These are the same people that allowed a Chinese spy balloon to fly across the Pacific, entering our airspace in Alaska, and allowed it to continue it’s flight unimpeded almost all the way across the lower 48 before taking it out with a missile. I think they only reason they destroyed it, was due to the mounting public pressure. Otherwise Slo-Joe would have just let the damn thing drift off over the Atlantic. I’m sure he didn’t want to upset those folks that greased his palm for years.

These drones have been operating in the New Jersey area since mid-November. It is now mid-December and they still have no clue as to what the hell is going on. This doesn’t give me a “warm and fuzzy” feeling. Is the FBI, Homeland Security, and the Military really this inept. I told you earlier my drone would lift 3.5 lbs. These drones are much larger than the one I owned; they could probably lift upwards of 10 to 15 pounds or more. That is one hell of a lot of sophisticated explosives. I would be very nervous if they were flying around my neighborhood.

Here is another point for you to consider; My drone was small compared to these, which are over 6′ in diameter. My drone fully outfitted with accessories was over $4,000.00. A drone of this size can cost upwards of between $20-50,000.00. So, who can afford to fly these many drones with this kind of a price tag? I am watching this with great interest to see how the geniuses in our so called “Homeland Security” and the FBI deal with it.

Well folks, you can rest easy toight knowing that the Federal Government is watching the borders and the skies, keeping you safe from intruders.

VERITAS VINCIT ~ LIVE FREE OR DIE

STEEL PENCIL NEWS REVIEW

DECEMBER 2, 2024

VOLUME 91

POLITICALLY INCORRECT, CENTER-RIGHT PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT NEWS EVENTS

SORT OF A STRANGE THANKSGIVING, BUT A GOOD ONE NONETHELESS.

My wife and I have four offspring between us. I use the word “offspring” because all of them are old and couldn’t be remotely referred to as children. My oldest daughter turned 68 years old this year. Don’t bother trying to do the math. Anyhow, they are scattered from heck to yonder, and no way are they all going to show up for Thanksgiving. The only time all of them will show up at our house is for the reading of the will. Boy they will be surprised; I already spent their inheritance and then some. Don’t look at me expecting to see a sad face of regret, I had one hell of a lot of fun.

Anyhow, they all checked in by phone, messaging, and Face Book. I’m considering myself lucky ’cause all of ’em are apparently doing well, not one of ’em asked for money. I’m thankful for that, because I just saw a great deal on some 9 mm. ammo. Thinking I’m a little short of .45 cal. as well. The Democrats have been unusually quiet, I don’t trust those suckers. I’d feel better with a little more fire power.

How could Thanksgiving be any better with Trump back in the Whitehouse? Is that great or what? He saved us from the crazy Commie Harris and Tampon Tim. Now, stop and really think about that for a few minutes. Kamala and Tim are a couple of knucklehead clowns themselves, can you imagine what Kamala’s cabinet would be like? It would likely look like the latest Jaguar commercial. Could she even find enough freaks to fill the slots? I break out in a cold sweat just thinking about it.

Did you think even for a nano second that “Crooked Joe” wouldn’t pardon his crackhead son? When you really think about it, Joe couldn’t afford to have Hunter on trial, because he was bound to get entangled in the details. He had no choice, he had to pardon Hunter for his own protection. I can’t believe we had a crime family in the Whitehouse.

I don’t think Joe Biden actually knows what the word “truth” means. One of the biggest collection of lies is in the following short video. Click on the link below.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/biden-ill-always-tell-you-the-truth/2020/03/12/4b1bc4f5-62a8-4a80-85c5-73d55d2d0bad_video.html

When you reflect on the past four years, you have been lied to like the wife of a drunken gambler. I challenge you to tell me one thing that came out of the Biden Whitehouse that was true. It was literally a full time “smoke and mirrors” show.

I have never been more proud of my fellow Americans who saw through the lies and deception and made the right decision at the ballot box. My faith in America has been restored and I am extremely thankful for that. God bless you all, you stayed vigilant, you acted courageously, and I am proud to be counted amongst you.

VERITAS VINCIT ~ LIVE FREE OR DIE