Mixed Monday Messages

 I spent more than fifty years working in the restaurant business. This is just a personal observation, but fast food hasn't been fast in more than a few years. When I was a district manager with Taco Bell in the early 1980's, I would sit in the dining room and clock service times with a stopwatch. I think that they use a calendar now. It's not just Taco Bell; it's an industry wide epidemic. 

Most fast-food places are geared towards drive-through service now. They must think that the long wait is easier in the comfort of your car with the kids screaming in your ears. At least, the employees only have to look at one carload of people waiting for their food at a time. I am not a fan of drive-throughs. Of course, drive-throughs give them the opportunity to increase revenue by doing a ten-minute oil change while you wait for your customized order. 

Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina announced Sunday that he would not be running for re-election in 2026. I would like to think that he was inspired by my post yesterday about what a loser he is as a Republican Senator. Maybe he should have just switched parties. Thank God he is only serving two terms. 

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York City talks about how great it will be for people to live in rent-controlled housing. Muslim Mayor Mamdani knows absolutely nothing about economics. When the income is restricted, the quality of the product is reduced to deal with economic pressures from cost increases. When their toilets are out of order for years at a time, some renter will explain the downside of rent controls to the Moron Mamdani. The unhappy renter should express his feelings by taking a shit in front of the mayor's home.

If God made anything dumber than Jasmine Crockett, he sent it to some other galaxy.

What's the best thing about Jasmine Crockett? She makes Marjorie Taylor Green look like some kind of conservative intellectual.

Bert and Ernie, Amos and Andy, Lucy and Ricky, Rowan and Martin, Andy and Barney, Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, none of the great duos can compare to the stupidity of Jasmine and AOC. Not only that, but you could laugh at all of the other pairs and not piss off all of the talking heads at MSBNC.

NASCAR has eliminated innovation from their racing teams and wonder why people compare the joy of watching a race to the thrill of setting your own ass on fire. I am sorry NASCAR, but when you started holding races in Los Angeles, Chicago and Mexico City, you abandoned your fan base. 

NASCAR has actually penalized two of their drivers for making negative comments about Mexico City after racing there. If the fines weren't bad enough, I think that they are having to take some kind of sensitivity training. I can't remember the driver's name who called Mexico City a "shithole", but I challenge NASCAR to prove that he's wrong. Sometimes, it just has to be said. 

Maybe they should have started by holding "rat races" in Mexico City and worked their way up to stock cars?

Is Jasmine Crockett just Barack Obama in drag? Or is it Michelle Obama in drag? I am confused.

Bernie Sanders is involved in some kind of campaign to make people start missing Diane Feinstein.

If Gordon Solie was still alive and doing "Championship Wrestling" on television, he could get John Thune and Chuck "The Schmuck" Schumer to compete for the Senate Championship. It would be the first wrestling match where the fans fought each other to be the first out of the arena before being bored to death. Evidently, Jolting Joe Scarpa taught both Senators the famous "sleeper hold". These two guys are "Political Sominex".  Mike Huckabee should be doing commercials for these two yawners instead of Relaxium.

We call them "Democrats" because in some places you aren't allowed to say "dumbasses".

On A Sunday Morning Senate Sidewalk?

 It's Sunday morning and in the United States Senate chamber, staffers are reading the "Big Beautiful Bill" aloud to those in the chamber. This is a result of Sen. Chuck "The Schmuck" Schumer invoking some rarely used rule to delay debate on the bill. Let's make a change in this process. Let's require those who voted for the bill to be read aloud, to be in the chamber to hear it being read. 

Requiring a bill to be read with a scattering of lawmakers actually in attendance to hear it is "political masturbation". This is nothing but a waste of employee time and taxpayer money. Those voting to have this read should have the cost deducted from their official paychecks. We aren't allowed to deduct anything from all of that money they take "under the table".

If in my many years in the restaurant business, I had been asked by an employee to read a policy change to them, I would have read it to them and then fired them. This is exactly what we should do with Senators. The United States Senate has less turnover than the old Soviet Politburo. We need to change that statistic.

Sen. Thom Tillis springs to mind immediately when I think of the need for change in the United States Senate. I know that Tillis is running for re-election because every time that I turn on the computer there is an ad from some group supporting Tillis. Thom Tillis is a walking case for term limits in Washington. He is closing in on the end of his second term. If it's a two-term limit for Presidents, why not Senators?

There are people in Congress who have been there for thirty or forty years. Slopping at the public trough should not be a career field. Let's have term limits for all elected officials. After that, we can start on term limits for all federal employees. If that bothers you, tell me what federal government operation is your model of productivity to be emulated by other government operations.

There is a mandatory retirement age of 65 for commercial airline pilots. We won't fly with a guy over 65, but we let a senile old guy named Joe run the country for four years. Am I the only one who sees a problem with this? By the way, the pilots have to pass a physical exam every year. 

In New York City, the Democratic primary was won by a guy who claims to be a "Democratic Socialist". This is a political term that the media uses for "Communist". Twenty-four years after a group of Islamic terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center, Democrats voted for a Muslim Communist to lead their city. What could possibly go wrong? In a year, Miami could replace New York City as the financial center of the nation. 

The biggest business boom in New York City if Mamdani is elected will be U-Haul dealers and moving companies. Mamdani's vision of government owned grocery stores will cause us to redefine "Cluster F*ck". It's Sunday, I left out the "u".

Saturday, Satire Day, Sat All Day???

 Why is it while making the case to let illegal immigrants swarm into our country, liberals say stuff like "Who will pick our crops?" or "Who will take care of our children?" or "Who will clean our houses?" Have you ever heard one say, "Who will cure cancer?" or "Who will represent me in court?" Of course not, liberals are just looking for the next slave class to serve them.

Why was Supreme Court Justice Kagan opposed to nationwide injunctions when Biden was President but is okay with them when Trump is President? Do you flip flop much Justice Kagan?

The Colorado Rockies have the worst record in major league baseball at 18-64. They might have a chance at the World Series if they can win every one of their 80 remaining games. The good news for fans is that they will probably give away a lot of free stuff to get you to go to the ballpark for the rest of the season.

The Rockies aren't as bad as the Tampa Bay Bucs were when they started. In the first season, they went 0-14. However, they did win one exhibition game. In their second season they started off losing six straight games. At that point, a friend started selling T-shirts that read "Go For 0". His business remained brisk until they won the thirteenth game of the year at New Orleans. They came home for the last game of the season against the St. Louis Cardinals. I was there on December 18, 1977, when the Bucs won their first home game. I watched as the fans stormed the field and tore down the goalposts for a 2-12 season. 

The Bucs won that game with a sellout crowd of more than 72,000 on hand. In the 48 years since then, I have talked to more than a quarter of a million people who all claim that they were there for that game. "Victory has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan?"

If you have read this swill for a time or two, you know that I am a bit of an historian. The prelude to the Civil War was a more than forty-year argument about "States' rights". Like millions of other Americans, I thought that the Civil War had settled that argument. Today, I am fascinated that the states that opposed the Confererate states idea of "states' rights" are now pushing that same idea as their own.

Look at the states that are screaming about their rights. You have New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maine, Michigan, Illinois, Minesota and California all claiming that the federal government cannot regulate illegal immigration. These are all the same states that more than 160 years ago were claiming that not only did the federal government have the right to end slavery, but they also had the obligation to end slavery. Liberals are nothing if not flexible 

Is Donald Trump the new Abraham Lincoln? I just threw that in to piss off any liberal who had read this far down.

Is Gavin Newsome the new Jefferson Davis?? Somewhere a liberal reading this just jumped from a window. Or is Gavin Newsome America's Lenin? A few more liberals just jumped from the roof.

Finally, yesterday the Supreme Court ruled that Federal District Court judges are indeed only "District" Court judges and should not issue nationwide injunctions. Another Democratic scheme to strip the President of power goes down the crapper. We went a couple of hundred years without national injunctions; we can go another couple of hundred.

Happy Truth Day!!!

 Today is the first annual celebration of Truth Day. It is celebrated on June 27 because last year on June 27, Americans finally learned the truth about President Joe Biden's mental condition. After more than three years of Democrats across the nation lying to us all about Biden's, the truth showed up, incredibly enough, on a Presidential debate hosted by CNN.

The most obvious question from that television appearance is "Why didn't Democrats tell us how bad Biden's condition actually was?"

My questions, of course, aren't the same as that. Here's a few questions that I would like to be answered.

Who made the decision to agree to a debate with Trump? This debate took place just a few weeks after the bogus conviction of Trump in a New York City court. Biden could have just said, "I am not going to debate a felon." and moved on. Wasn't the purpose of that trial to keep Trump from being elected again? Democrats went to all of that trouble and the Biden campaign didn't use it to their advantage.

Who made the call to allow Biden to walk onto that stage before a nationwide live audience? Jill Biden and Biden's closest staff members were there with him. Did they not look at him or talk to him? How could anyone who doesn't use a seeing eye dog, have looked at Joe Biden that night and said, "Hell, yeah!! He's ready to go out there and trounce Trump." Was Biden chanting, "Put me in the game, Coach!!"

Was Jill not there? Did she not see Joe before he hit the stage or was Hunter balling her in a spare dressing room at showtime? 

CNN hates Donald Trump. Why didn't they go to an Andy Griffith rerun or something when it became obvious that something was wrong with Biden? Was Jake Tapper actually already working on his book about Biden and realized that this could be a couple of good chapters? Was there not a Democrat on hand to throw in the towel foe Joe?  Again, where was Jill Biden while all of this happened? My wife wouldn't have let me leave the house if I was in that condition. Is Jill also working on a book?

Then, we get into the post-debate activities. Why didn't they pack Biden's ass into Air Force One and head home to the White House? No!! They went to a scheduled appearance where Jill sounded like Miss June from Romper Room saying, "Joe!! You answered all of the questions." That's a pretty low bar, even for a Democrat with dementia.

I guess that we will have to wait for the Jill Biden book to get the answers to all of these questions. I am too cheap to buy the Jake Tapper book, but friends who have read it told me that I haven't missed anything. 

Happy Truth Day!! 

What's the value of Citizenship?

 "A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."-Barry Goldwater.

"Illegal immigrants are like the uninvited guy who shows up at your birthday party, scrapes a handful of icing off the cake and then eats it. After that, he demands that you share your gifts with him. Throw them out!!" -Gilbert Jones

Joe Biden flew in illegal immigrants in the dark of night so that they didn't have to swim the Rio Grande or sneak across the border from Canada. How many free flights has the government provided to American citizens? I haven't found anyone who was flown free and without a valid ID.

As an American citizen, I have to produce a government-issued ID to board a flight. Did all of these illegal immigrants have to produce a government-issued ID and be searched before boarding a plane? If you think the answer is "yes", call me immediately about some real estate investment opportunities.

I use a flip phone. The government provided free smartphones and service to illegal immigrants. How does this make sense? I pay taxes and get nothing. Some wetbacks illegally cross the border breaking several laws in the process and the Dims treat them like royalty. In what dimension does this make any sense?

Have you ever been flown to a strange country and been provided with a free flight, free smartphone and free lodging? Is it only in an America, run by a Democrat with dementia, that a foreigner can get that kind of deal?

Why don't citizens get the free shit and other benefits that illegal immigrants received? Is this just an attempt by the Biden Administration to buy the votes of future Americans?

Dating from the time of the ancient Greks and the Romans, citizenship has provided benefits to the holder that separated them from strangers from other lands. The apostle Paul was treated better than other Christians because he was a Roman citizen. If Paul shows up tomorrow, tell him not to claim that he is an American citizen. He won't get shit.

What other nations fly immigrants into their country and provide them with free lodging and free smartphones?

In several cities, including Washington D.C., they allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. Like I asked at the top of this rant, "What's the value of Citizenship?"

Just for the record, the Constitution is the guidelines for the rights of American citizens, not the rights of every schmuck that the Dims will let into the country. 

It is time to restore value to American citizenship.

If you don't blow your own horn???

Ed Wolfe at the Waffle House once told me, "If you don't blow your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon." With that in mind, I offer this post.

I spent last Friday and Saturday sweating my ass off at the 301 Endless Yard Sale in eastern North Carolina. For the past five years I have set up at the Selma Elementary School in Selam, naturally enough. It's always hot in June and out on the parking lot blacktop it's even hotter than hell. This year may have been the hottest so far. Or maybe I am just getting older and my hate for heat is growing.

Anyway, the sale is on Friday and Saturday. On Saturday afternoon, a guy wandered into my spaces and asked if he could take a picture of me. After determining that it was not for a "wanted" poster or a Gay Pride protest, I agreed. The next day I searched online and found this post on Facebook. It was also on the website "The State You're In," which is all things North Carolina. Other than getting the age of the Life magazines that I sell, I thought that it was great.  (My Life magazines are from 1937 to 1972.)

In the "comments" section they posted two of my sale signs which I have also added. 

The State You're In

June 21 at 3:40 PM  · 

#NorthCarolinaFieldNotes # 5 Mr. Jones & Me

Meet Gilbert Jones, seller, storyteller, and unofficial vibe curator of the 100 Mile Yard Sale.

Now listen, for every hot, sweaty, slightly grumpy soul we passed baking beside a folding table full of mismatched Tupperware and VHS tapes, there was someone like Gilbert, out there with a grin, a lawn chair, and a whole lot of joy. He wasn’t just participating in the yard sale, he was the yard sale. If this thing had a mayor, it’d be him. Self-declared, of course. And I believe it.

Gilbert had the best signs on the whole 301 stretch. You know how I know? Because he told me. And honestly, I didn’t need proof. I believed him the moment I read one on a box of tools said, “Things to loan your kids.”

This man doesn’t just sell, you get a full on front porch experience. Half the folks stopped by for the conversation and forgot to even look at what he had. And maybe that was the point. Gilbert’s table might’ve been covered in rusty wrenches and stacks of LIFE magazines from the ‘80s, but what he was really offering was something you can’t buy at Lowe’s or scroll past on Facebook Marketplace, genuine human connection.

In a world of swipes and screen time, Gilbert’s got the kind of easy charm that can’t be downloaded. He’s lived some years, got some stories, and can make you laugh so hard you forget it’s 95 degrees and your shirt is clinging to you like regrets at a high school reunion.

You see that grin? That’s a man who’s found his happy. A folding table, a hand painted sign, and a steady stream of folks who stop to talk, that’s all he needs.

Be like Gilbert. Be the light.

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Coonskin Cap?

 I guess that we should be thankful that Donald Trump's birthday isn't July 4th or the leftwing nutcases (Dims for short) would be trying to cancel that holiday.

Should Jasmine Crockett trade in one of her many wigs for a coonskin cap to match the classic Crockett image?

Democrats claim that their "No Kings" rallies on Saturday attracted more than five million people. They claim that this shows that they are more popular than Trump. They also claim that there were only about 250,000 people at the US Army Birthday celebration in Washington DC. They also claim that they had 2,000 gatherings around the country on Saturday that attracted five million losers and whiners. Of course, they might not have used those actual words to describe their followers, but they have a disdain for the truth. Trump held one event and had 250,000 in attendance, not counting those watching on television. Did any network televise a "No Kings" rally from start to finish? Call me when you are serious guys!!

If you are a liberal and still don't understand the preceding paragraph, let me break it down for you. You claim that you had twenty times as many people attend your events as Trump had who attended his single event. So, you held 2000 times as many events as Trump did but only drew 20 times as many attendees as he did.  You lose, deal with it. 

I have been offered a chance to appear on the new To Tell The Truth game show on Fox. I turned it down because I was unable to say "I am Tim Walz" without laughing like a mad man. Then they told me that I wasn't fat enough to appear with Alex Padilla.

Alex Padilla should simply "put a sock in it" because no one not named Joe Biden has less credibility than Alex Padilla. 

Tim Walz and his supporters are claiming that while Tim Walz did appoint shooter/murderer Vance Boelter to some government commission, he did it without knowing anything about him. That sounds a lot like dereliction of duty. I have never even been approached about serving on some government advisory board. Who makes appointments without at least running a background check? It's not like Walz didn't have a police force that could have done that for him. Can the governor not get the state police to do that? Minnesota, where any kook can get on a government commission. 

Looking back, the best thing to happen to Alex Padilla last week was that neither Tom Homan nor Kash Patel was at that press conference with Kristi Noem. 

In Utah at a "No Kings" rally on Saturday, an innocent man was shot and killed by a "peacekeeper". Only at a liberal protest do "peacekeepers" kill those in attendance. Nobody can keep the peace like a liberal. I thought that liberals were opposed to the "commoners" owning firearms. Or is that only at Republican events?