Freestyle Friday Ver. 5.7

 Charlotte police have seized 60 vehicles and arrested more than 50 people in a crackdown on illegal street racing. Just a hint about the level of intelligence of some of these drivers, many have posted videos on You Tube of their activities. Just another reason not to drive through Charlotte.

Alleged Republican Liz Cheney is struggling to maintain her position in the House Republican leadership. I guess that it is just part of the legacy from her father, but I have heard that she offered to take Rep. Elise Stefanik hunting with her.

The two deputies killed in Boone last week were buried yesterday. Franklin Graham was there, Gov. Roy Cooper was not. Since they were not drug dealers, the event was not broadcast on live television in the Triad.

If you think that your life is pretty dull as you resort to reading this blog, relax. Yesterday, I had 39 page views from Sweden. Unless it was Greta Thunberg checking to see if I was talking trash about her, Sweden may be more boring than previously thought.

The 301 Yard Sale will be taking place in North Carolina this year on June 18-19. I will be in the Selma/Smithfield area. The Selma Middle School, where I have set up the last few years is not renting spaces this year. There are plenty of other locations available. I will be in one of them.

Rep. Henry Cuellar, Democrat from Texas, is accusing the federal government of playing a shell game with refugees to make it look like they are being moved. He claims that they are moving refugees from one tent to another one right beside it and then taking pictures of the empty tent as evidence of progress. 

My wife and our younger son received their J&J vaccines on Wednesday at Walgreens. Yesterday they were both sick with fevers. This may completely remove the remote possibility that I will get a vaccination.

Governor DeSantis of Florida told the unemployed in Florida that they will need to start looking for work. It seems that Florida is returning to the pre-pandemic standard that unemployment recipients must be actively looking for work.

South Carolina and Montana have both decided to stop paying the federal unemployment subsidy. Look for the unemployment rate in both states to drop.

The news media is telling us that the idea that people aren't looking for work because they are getting paid not to work is wrong. The media claims that "It isn't as simple as that." Sorry news nerds, but it is that simple. 

The simplest principle of human motivation is "Whatever you reward, you reinforce." If you pay people not to work, they won't. Case closed.

Soon the federal government will be paying people the child care tax credit in a monthly check. Note: Read the item above about  motivation. Brace for a tidal wave of new births. 

You can't turn on the television or look online without being deluged by claims of "racism" and "white supremacy". I have encountered some REAL racists and some REAL white supremacists. The idiots on the box don't have a clue about these real subjects. My experience is that racists come in all colors. The same idea applies to "supremacists". 

 A good example of supremacists being a diversified group  is NBA star and one year Duke attendee, Kyrie Irving. Irving said "Black Kings Built the league!  (NBA)". The former Duke attendee also voiced his opinion on several occasions that he was a believer in the "flat earth" idea.

Yesterday, I made stops at both Lowes and Dollar General. No one at Dollar General was wearing a mask. At Lowes, most of the masked were Lowes employees, although there were a few customers wearing them. Mask usage is dropping rapidly. Despite Democrats knowing what is best for all of us, "The will of the people is the law of the land."