Bid Adieu To 2022

  By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

As 2022 comes to a close and 2023 beckons, best wishes to all for the holidays and the new year ahead.

Two earlier articles here encapsulated the “Helter Skelter” that lots of Americans and their counterparts globally were experiencing.[2]  The same thing is true today.[3]

Covid is still with us, although it has mutated and keeps on doing so, which is something that the world attributes—and ascribes correctly—to China.  It should have paid trillions of dollars in reparations globally, but it hasn’t paid a penny.  Quite to the contrary, it is threatening World War III.[4]

We do not have a legitimate President in the White House.  Rather, we have a mentally-challenged buffoon and crook, whose “Vice President” is waiting in the wings for him to croak.  Both are the laughingstock of the world.[5]

In the final analysis, however, there is always reason for hope and optimism—and Divine Order—because God exists and loves us.[6]  Do I expect you to agree with everything that I have written above and elsewhere?  Certainly not.  Each of us is a unique, one-of-a-kind creation of God, living this always-challenging earthly existence.

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© 2022, Timothy D. Naegele

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[1]  Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass).  See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6  and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/   He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University.  He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service).  Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams.  He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/global-chaos-and-helter-skelter/ (“Global Chaos And Helter Skelter”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/global-chaos-and-helter-skelter-revisited/ (“Global Chaos And Helter Skelter—Revisited”)

[3]  For example, Lmg from Oklahoma commented on MailOnline:

“Mercy, mercy, mercy. There’s so much going on in our world.  So many feel such a sense of doom.”

See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11573869/China-deploys-71-warplanes-skies-Taiwan-chilling-strike-drill-blames-US.html?ito=twitter_share_comment_text#comments

See also https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11574497/Bloody-Christmas-weekend-14-people-shot-dead-16-injured-US.html (“Bloody Christmas weekend as 14 people are shot dead, including boy under the age of five, and 16 others are injured across the US”) and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11574631/Manhattan-neighborhoods-terrorized-thieves-shopkeepers-powerless-stop.html (“Swanky Manhattan neighborhoods are being terrorized by thieves shopkeepers are powerless to stop, with grand larcenies spiking by SIXTY-THREE percent in Times Square alone”) and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11575137/Career-criminal-arrested-string-deadly-stabbings-NYC-including-Manhattan-pediatrician.html (“Career criminal is arrested for string of deadly attacks in NYC – after randomly stabbing man and leaving him for dead on Manhattan street before murdering pediatrician in Harlem park”) and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11575047/Buffalo-plunged-chaos-brazen-looters-death-toll-rises-27.html (“Buffalo is plunged into chaos with brazen looters destroying stores as death toll from devastating blizzard rises to at least 27: Gov. Hochul declares a state of emergency amid deadliest storm in 50 years”) and https://www.npr.org/2022/12/26/1145156342/2022-marked-the-end-of-cheap-mortgages-and-now-the-housing-market-has-turned-icy (“2022 marked the end of cheap mortgages and now the housing market has turned icy cold”)

The madness even extends to end-of-season college football bowl games, which should be celebrations.

See, e.g., https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/Pitt/2022/12/23/sun-bowl-assures-schools-fans-safe-experience-despite-state-of-emergency-in-el-paso/stories/202212230073 (“Sun Bowl assures Pitt and UCLA fans a safe experience despite state of emergency in El Paso”)

[4]  See https://naegeleblog.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/timothy-d.-naegele.pdf; see also https://apnews.com/article/health-china-beijing-covid-d0718b53ded7fb1a70c2db8e564ed072 (“Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: COVID roils Chinese towns”)

It is worth noting that “China deployed 71 warplanes to skies around Taiwan in a chilling ‘strike drill’ then blamed the US for ‘provocations’ and ‘collusion’ with self-governing island.”

See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11573869/China-deploys-71-warplanes-skies-Taiwan-chilling-strike-drill-blames-US.html; see also https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11576503/Putin-overruled-generals-personally-ordered-encircled-troops-fight-death.html (“Putin ‘overruled his generals and personally ordered encircled troops to fight to the death’ in Ukraine, claims report that reveals how he wakes to a daily 7am briefing on the war’s progress”) 

[5]  See also https://www.dickmorris.com/why-special-prosecutor-will-fail-in-his-prosecution-of-trump-lunch-alert/

[6]  See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/what-and-where-is-god/ (“What And Where Is God?”); see also https://youtu.be/yumoqNlaPCE (perhaps the finest portrayal of Jesus’ life on film—with Robert Powell and other acclaimed actors—which is worth watching in its entirety, skipping over ads as they appear)