DON'T ??

 What English language word do Iranians not understand? Joe Biden and Kameltoe Harris saying "Don't". Three US Army reservists from Georgia were killed by an Iranian-backed drone strike in Jordan this weekend. Two days later we have failed to respond to this attack. What is the purpose in spending trillions on defense if we do not defend ourselves? 

Don't waste your time telling me that they have to carefully decide on a reaction. If our military does not have a plan on what to do if attacked, we need to bring them all home. Do we really station soldiers and sailors around the world without a contingency plan to react to an attack? There have been more than 160 attacks since mid-October on American troops in the Middle East by Iran backed fighters. How many attacks do you absorb before striking back? What's the magic number? Is it 165, 200, or 225? 

The world is not the place it was when I grew up. Now, when I leave the house, I carry a knife, a boxcutter and a loaded gun. By now, you are thinking "boxcutter?" It's a habit. You are always cutting boxes open at a restaurant. I carried one for years, it's just a habit now. I like the flip open style; it gets people's attention quickly. It comes in pretty handy. If I am going to town, I carry a spare magazine for the aforementioned firearm. I carry my flip phone, but I don't use it to call home for permission to defend myself. Why don't our commanders on the ground in Jordan, Syria and Iraq have the same freedom to react to attacks? It is one thing to set parameters for what the local commanders can do. It's pure stupidity to prevent them from reacting.

Biden's actions in this case don't encourage me to believe his bullshit story about standing up to "Corn Pop". Maybe if we could just get the Iranians to hang out at a pool in Delaware? Joe could deal with them right after all of black kids rub his hairy legs.

Is the Biden administration too busy trying to jail Donald Trump or rig the next election to take action against these attacks? Is all of our military power tied up in the Ukraine? They won't close the border here, they won't defend our troops abroad, what the hell are the Dems doing? We need to vote these pussies and pantywaists out in November. We need to bring back some of that "toxic masculinity" stuff.

This is the same Iran to which Biden has released impounded funds. This is the same Iran for which Barack Obama filled a plane with gold and cash and dispatched it in the middle of the night.  What do the Iranians have on Democrats? I realize that with Obama it was that Muslim brotherhood stuff, but Biden claims to be a Catholic. I doubt that there are many Catholics in Iran or Syria. So, what is it?

In a completely unrelated situation, why hasn't the Pope excommunicated Biden for supporting abortion? If killing babies won't get you thrown out of a church, what will?

As long as I am on this tangent, I hate the new language that liberals speak. Dems don't speak of "abortion". The new terms are "reproductive freedom" or "reproductive rights". None of those rights apply to that child you are carrying. Abortion clinics don't "kill babies", they "terminate pregnancies".  Having your child's sex organs mutilated and removed is "Gender affirming care". All of this is "male bovine waste".

 Why do libs make the "my body, my choice" argument about abortion, but then claim that everyone must take a shot that doesn't work or killed thousands? Pardon me. the CDC didn't report that anyone was killed by the COVID shots. They called death after a shot an "adverse reaction". 

In that last sentence is the answer to my question about reacting to Iran's actions. We just let the Iranians die in an "adverse reaction" to bombing. We didn't kill them; it was an adverse reaction to bombs falling among them.

Time to go take a breath!

Monday Morning Madness

 Memo to the morons in the United States Senate: Stop passing bills that are "the best deal we can get right now". Something is not always better than nothing. As Miss Mona told Sheriff Ed Earl in Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, "One day there's going to be a hook in that turkey, that's going to drag your ass to a wedding chapel." If you don't understand that, go watch the movie!

If Joe Biden can shut down the border tomorrow, why can't he shut it down today?

A better question is why doesn't Joe Biden want to stop the flow of fentanyl across the border?

What are the chances that the FBI will investigate Fani Willis for colluding with the White House on the Donald Trump election case? Why would her attorneys need to consult with the federal government to determine if state laws had been broken? 

Has anyone challenged the constitutionality of a law that the state claims prohibits citizens from challenging the results of an election? Does the state have a list of prohibited activities? On a good day for Willis, this is a chickenshit case. On a bad day, this law is so vague as to be rendered unconstitutional by any judge with a room temperature IQ who is not involved with the Democrat Party's plot against Trump.

In the defamation trial against Donald Trump, they introduced a photograph of Trump with E. Jean Carroll and some other people as evidence that Trump knew her. How many people have actually been photographed with Donald Trump? Does he actually personally know all of those people?

Ten years ago, at a leadership conference for Bojangles, Scotty McCreery made an appearance. Before the concert, we all had a chance to have our picture taken individually with Scotty. That picture is on a wall at our home. Does Scotty remember meeting me?  Does this mean that Scotty and I are friends?

I had my picture taken with Bob Dole when he visited Tex & Shirley's in Greensboro. Can I claim a political endorsement from the late Sen. Dole if I run for office? I loved talking to Bob Dole, but I am certain that he couldn't recall my name the next day.

If Carroll's encounter with Doanld Trump was such a traumatic experience, why did she wait for years to write about it in her recent book? Is her entire defamation case a plot to sell books? Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?

There is exactly zero physical evidence that something happened between Trump and Carroll. How do judges make decisions without evidence? At least Monica Lewinsky was smart enough to keep the famous blue dress. Carroll is a writer but made no note of the day this happened. This prevented Trump from claiming that he was not even there on that day because no one knows what day it was. 

In the case of New York trying to take Trump's business, they claim that he undervalued his properties for insurance purposes. They claim that this cheated insurance companies out of millions of dollars. If you undervalue your property, you get less money if something happens to it. That's not a crime, it's a gamble. When did the state of New York start worrying about insurance companies not making enough money?

I am more than a little tired of all of the laws that apply to no one other than Donald Trump. Justice is supposed to be blind, not hopelessly corrupt and biased. 

These cases are all about election interference. If we had an honest news media, they would report on that.

Saturday Night at the Movies?

Joe Biden said that he will secure the border if Congress passes a new bill being written under cover in the Senate. What's been holding him back from doing that for the last three years?

The President and the Senate have already been told that if that bill contains what is rumored to be in it, the bill is "Dead on Arrival" in the House. Based on what Ted Cruz, Rick Scott and others are saying, it might not make it out of the Senate.

There are rumors that the bill will allow 5,000 illegal immigrants a day to cross the border. At that point, the government will close the border. That 5,000 illegals a day transforms into 1,825,000 illegals a year. This is considered "secure". It's just more liberal bullshit.

Has Biden got approval from the Mexican cartels before implementing this new plan? Are the cartels funneling money to Hunter also? Or do they just buy his art?

The government is giving illegals a smartphone and service. I use a flip phone. What other kind of criminals do we provide smartphones and service for? 

If someone tries to break into your home by breaking a window and cuts their arm on the glass and bleeds to death, is it your fault? Of course not, but the Biden Border Buttheads are blaming Texas for three immigrants who drowned in the Rio Grande. Did Mexico have signs proclaiming, "No Swimming"? This is Dawin's theory at work.

I am so old; I remember when Congress passed a budget before the fiscal year started. February is a couple of days away and they still don't have a budget. They changed the start of the year several years ago but still can't get it done. They need to start working weekends and holidays to get caught up on "the people's business". 

A "Pathway to citizenship" does not start with illegally entering the country.  

Kevin Morris has been described as Hunter Biden's "sugar brother". He has loaned him money to pay his taxes and has purchased some of his art. He has also made payments to Hunter's ex-wife and to the mother of Hunter's daughter Navy.

FYI: Here's link to the House Oversight Committee report on the transcribed interview with Kevin Morris. Comer Statement on Transcribed Interview with Kevin Morris - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

Last week on Gutfeld, Gutfeld talked about this situation. When Gutfeld asked Tyrus for his opinion, Tyrus told him that this was not a "sugar brother", it was a "sugar daddy" situation. He said that this was a love affair, not a couple of buddies. Nobody "loans" a buddy six million dollars. I have to agree with Tyrus on this one. 

Just for the record, the Russian Empire controlled the area now known as the Ukraine before the United States existed as a nation. What has happened in the last few years to cause the Ukraine to become so important? Was it Lt. Col. Vindman's riveting testimony about how the Ukraine is the lynchpin of our national security? Was it the Biden's getting payoffs from the Ukraine? Only the bankers know.

I Miss Ron Popeil

 A couple of weeks ago, Fox Nation rolled out a three-part series called "The Infomercials That Sold Us". It was pretty good, but it came up way short in the coverage of Ron Popeil. In the three-part series, they gave only a few minutes to the story of Ron Popeil.

How could this happen? Ron Popeil is the stuff of legends when it comes to selling on television. Unlike Dionne Warwick and the Psychic Friends Network, Popeil's products actually worked. I will admit that Suzanne Somers and her ThighMaster infomercials might have been a little more stimulating to young men than Ron's Showtime Rotisserie, but there was a better chance that you would end up with a rotisserie or a Pocket Fisherman than with Suzanne.

In his excellent book "What the Dog Saw", writer Malcom Gladwell wrote a chapter about "The Pitchman". He covered a lot of the Popeil family history. Ron came from a family of sellers and manufacturers. Yes, Ron's family actually made a lot of the stuff they sold. In today's business jargon, I think that would make their enterprise "vertical". Ron sold a lot of the things that his father manufactured. Then he started designing and manufacturing his own line of Ronco products.

Gladwell tells the story of how Ron was going to be on QVC one day more than 20 years ago. His daughter was working with him, and they were starting with an hour at midnight. Gladwell recounts how Popeil started his rotisserie presentation and in his usual sales style demonstrated how it worked and all of the features. Like everything else he sold, he would show you how it worked several times before telling you what a great deal you were getting and then asking you to buy it.  So, Ron Popeil was selling a $129 rotisserie on television at midnight in America. When that hour ended, Popeil had sold a million dollars' worth of Showtime rotisseries.

The best of Gladwell's points about Popeil was about VCRs. He wrote that if Ron had built VCRs, they would have a traditional clock instead of digital. They would have had big buttons and large numbers. They would have been brightly colored and sat on top of your television. Then when your neighbors came over, they would see it and say "Wow, you have one of those Ronco Tape-o-Matics!"

But what Gladwell missed in his analysis is that Ron's products sold because he explained how to use them. He just didn't tell you once how to use your Showtime Rotisserie or your Veg-o-matic. He went over how it worked, several times before asking you for your money. The problem with VCRs was that all you got was an instruction manual. Americans don't read! People bought them and didn't use even all of the limited features. Did you ever see a VCR with the clock not flashing? That would not have happened with the Ronco Tape-O-Matic! Ron missed a big opportunity there.

A lot of people laughed at Popeil and his products. Comics would imitate Ron's presentations for laughs. Yet two years after his death, Americans are still buying Pocket Fisherman and Showtime Rotisseries. Ron had the last laugh.

I love to watch a good pitchman selling his products. About 25 years ago, my older son and I were working a booth at the North Carolina State Fair for an organization to which I belonged. Across the aisle was a guy selling kitchen knife sets. This guy wasn't as good as Popeil, but he was pretty good. When we got ready to leave, I walked over to him while he was taking a break and bought a knife set. He appeared surprised and I told him, "I don't even need the knives, but I have enjoyed the show for the last four hours." It was worth it to watch him attract a crowd and then draw them in to make the sale. I may have picked up a few pointers there on selling.

It's time to grab my Mr. Microphone and do a few songs! Thanks Ron.

Cheap shots!

 Mitt Romney says that Trump supporters are out of touch with reality. Just for the record Mitt, we aren't hog-ass wild about you either. The Republican Party leadership must have been on drugs when we ended up with Romney and Ryan in 2012.

Don't you just love hearing Phony Fani Willis complaining about all of the racism coming into play against her? The one black defendant in the case is the one getting treated the harshest by the prosecutor who is black. I will just sit here and work the Sudoku while Fani explains this.

Fani is too busy to give a deposition in her lover's divorce case, but she is always available for an interview by a liberal network reporter.  

Why does the border problem in our nation have to be coupled with aid for the Ukraine and for Israel? Why does Biden want to spend more money in the Ukraine than in Texas? Are Texans not as important as Ukrainians?

It's time to stop playing around with Iran and the Houthis in the Middle East. They shoot missiles at our guys, and we shoot back at empty warehouses. We need to bomb these guys until they glow in the dark.

Trump needs to pick Tim Scott tomorrow for his VP candidate so we can spend the next nine months labeling the mainstream reporters attacking Scott as "racists". Let's put that shoe on the other foot for a change.

Here's an early prediction. If Trump wins the election, there will be a flood of people leaving the Department of Justice. They won't even wait for the inauguration. Trump should take the oath of office and immediately say "Chris Wray, You're Fired!!"

Trump needs to put Vivek Ramaswamy at the FBI to clean house. That's enough daydreaming for now.

We need term limits for federal judges. This guaranteed lifetime employment shit just isn't working for us.

Let's move a busload of illegals into the studio where "The View" is filmed and watch all of their attitudes change in a couple of weeks. 

If Biden is counting on the black vote to win, he hasn't listened to anyone from Chicago or New York lately.

Adan Schiff is running for the US Senate from California. I got a fund-raising letter from Steve Garvey. I responded by telling them that as soon as I heard Garvey describe Adam Schiff as a "pencil-necked geek" the check would go into the mail. Garvey did point out yesterday that Adam Schiff had lied to 300 million Americans about the whole Russian collusion bullshit.

Have you heard Kamala Harris talk about the time that at some kind of march she was in a stroller and her mother said, "Kamala, what do you want?" And Kamala said "Fweedom". Different versions have her falling out of the stroller and her parents having to go look for her. If you want the origin of that story, it was the Playboy interview in the January 1965 edition. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was interviewed by Alex Haley. King told about a similar incident happening in a march in Birmingham and the girl was seven or eight. In King's story a policeman asked the little girl what she wanted. The little girl responded "fee-dom". Kamala was three months old when King told Haley that story. Biden hasn't cornered the market on plagiarism in the Biden Administration.

Mid-Week Wit, Wisdom, Rants and Raves

There was a Democratic primary held yesterday in New Hampshire from which no candidate will receive any delegates. What was the purpose?

Democrats don't want an actual election to choose their candidate. They have anointed Biden as their choice, no others need apply. It's hard to believe that the word "Democrat" is derived from "democracy". 

Nikki Haley and Boeing. Why isn't anyone talking about this?

It's time for Mitch McConnell to step aside and let someone under a hundred lead the Senate Republicans. Rick Scott needs to stage an insurrection for Republicans to set them free from "Cocaine Mitch".

The leaders in the Senate are trying to put together an immigration bill in secret that they can cram it down the throat of House Republicans. Sen. John Kennedy said it best when asked about the new Senate bill. He said that there was a guy living under an interstate bridge who knew more about the bill than he did.

Any law establishing a "pathway to citizenship" needs to require people to enter the country legally. We should not reward people for breaking our laws.

I will repeat it for about the tenth time. There are more illegal immigrants in North Carolina than there are Russians in the Ukraine. Yet Biden is worried about the Ukraine. The Russians should have just walked over the Ukrainian border claiming they were there to harvest crops.

I read an article the other day about "food deserts" created by grocery stores closing. Tell the locals to stop stealing everything and they will have a place to shop.

Scott McKay, who writes for the "American Spectator", has the best idea for solving the immigration crisis. He says that Abbott and other governors should ship all of the illegal immigrants to Washington, DC. The entire situation at the border would then change within a couple of weeks. Let all of those folks wander into the Senate chamber and even McConnell would spring to life. 

Why do we keep paying Merrick Garland? He's useless, except as human toilet tissue. When the revolution comes, put his ass on trial first!

Georgia is considering some more RICO laws including one to deal with littering. That means if your kid asks, "What do I do with this napkin?" and you respond, "Throw it out the window", you are guilty of racketeering. 

Conspiracy is what they charge people with when they can't find anything else with which to charge someone.

It's starting to look like the NFL is desperate for the Kansas City Chiefs to go to the Super Bowl. The Chiefs were aided by a couple of questionable calls in Sunday's game against Buffalo. It would be quicker if they just gave Taylor Swift a team of her own.

A few days ago, Blogger posted a warning label on my post, Saturday Morning Confusion. They wouldn't tell me what part they considered offensive, so I didn't bother trying to edit said post. It was my most viewed post since Christmas. I guess that it was the lure of the "forbidden fruit".

Contrary to reports, Joe Biden is not campaigning from his basement again this year. They have arranged for him to stay at a Dairy Queen for the next ninth months. The Secret Service is delivering a cone-shaped motor home to the front yard of Biden's Delaware beach house.  With all the ice cream that he can eat and young girls to sniff, he may never go back home to Dr. Jill.

Take the pledge. Don't watch the Super Bowl this year. One of my homies told me that they have their own national anthem because the Star-Spangled Banner favors the Hispanics. When I asked, "How so?" He said, "It starts off with 'Jose can you see?'"

Chunky Chicks and wannabee Broads

The news this week is that Sports Illustrated is laying off writers and is about to shut down. Evidently revenues are dwarfed by expenses. There are many among us who believe that this is the result of self-inflicted wounds. From chunky chicks in bikinis to twice putting a transexual person on the cover of their annual swimsuit issue, they have overdosed on political correctness. Putting a transexual on the swimsuit issue cover once was kind of stupid. The second time that happened showed a total lack of knowledge about what your readers want to see. The last gasp of SI to attract the old guys who still read magazines was the Martha Stewart swimsuit edition cover. It was too little, too late. Sorry, Martha.

One of the biggest stories in sports, if you exclude Travis Kelce balling Taylor Swift, is men claiming to be women playing women's sports. This is the height of liberal stupidity. One might imagine that a magazine dedicated to reporting on sports would be all over this. You would be wrong. Go woke, go broke. Attention Sports Illustrated!! It's a sports magazine, not a journal of the DEI movement!  

In the last several days National Geographic announced that the magazine would no longer be available on newsstands. A few days earlier, Popular Science announced that they were ceasing production of their print issue and would be available only as an online magazine. 

I like to read magazines. I am talking about real magazines. A magazine is made of paper and has actual pages. Online magazines are just words on a computer screen. I want to hold a magazine in my hands to read it. I want to be able to carry it around and just open it and read. I don't want it on a phone, a laptop, on a tablet, or on some kind of reader. I want it on paper. I want to be able to make a note on a page. I want to fold over a corner to mark my place. I want to be able to read it while waiting in line at the drive thru at the bank or Hardee's. I want to tear a page out to "share" it. 

I read National Geographic when I was in school. I read it at the library because we couldn't afford magazine subscriptions. I am sorry to see the Geographic in a downhill spiral. 

Popular Science was not a regular read until I was in high school. I learned a lot from Popular Science, but I think that access to the Internet will ultimately put many magazines and newspapers out of business.

I was a subscriber to Popular Mechanics for most of the last 55 years. I started in high school and read it until June 16, 2020. That was when they published an article on their online site titled "How to topple a statue using Science". I heard about it and went online to see for myself. I read it and then I canceled my subscription and told them to keep that shit out of my mailbox.

Here's Popular Mechanics' description of the author of that piece. "James Stout, Ph.D. is a historian of anti-fascism in sport and runs a nonprofit that uses exercise to empower Indigenous people to live healthier and happier lives. He was born in the U.K. and lives in California." California is obviously some kind of magnet for crazies.

This is the issue. Publishers lose track of what their readers are buying the magazine to read. The Sports Illustrated cover with the transsexual is a perfect example. No guy is looking at that cover and showing it to his friends saying something like "Uh Huh! Gotta gets me some of that!" Does Popular Mechanics think that their readers are at some riot saying, "Let's check with Popular Mechanics on tips for tearing down this statue." Are you serious?  Memo to Popular Mechanics: Rioters don't read your magazine. They are into tearing things down, not building something.

Time to go find my old copy of Sports Illustrated with Sandy Koufax on the cover. Martha Stewart was in her twenties then. Maybe she's in an ad.

Monday Morning Quarterbacking

 Let's go to the land of "make-believe" where all of the liberals live. Pretend for a minute that you are a purchasing agent for the state government. You sign a contact with a lady you know who operates a lawn mowing service for suburban homes. So, you sign a contract with her to do all of the landscaping services at the courthouse. She's going to take care of all of the plants, the trees and the walkways, despite lacking any experience in this area. Of course, they are also going to mow the grass. Because she is an attractive woman, you pay her twice what you were paying the previous landscaper. A few months after starting work, she takes you on an all-expense paid cruise to the Caribbean. Your relationship continues and she takes you to the California wine country and she pays for all of the expenses. As the county purchasing agent, have you broken the law? Of course you have.

Welcome to the world of Phony Fani Willis, the Fulton County District Attorney. She hired a guy who has never tried a felony RICO case and paid him more than she was paying two other prosecutors who were also hired. If that's not enough, the actual RICO expert is in one of the firms that has been paid less than 15% of what Fani's boyfriend has been paid. Why not use the guy who actually has experience in these cases? Maybe he wasn't willing to take Fani to the Caribbean?

There is also an allegation that the "Special Prosecutor" has not been legally sworn into office. This is starting to sound like the Jack Smith story.

She was paying the actual expert in RICO cases $150 an hour and then $200 an hour, both rates are less than she was paying the attorney who is sleeping with her and has no RICO experience.

All of this racketeering talk is crap. The real issue in this case is "Is it illegal to challenge the results of an election?" If it is, you need to put Hillary and Al Gore in jail. In Georgia, they need to put Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Whale, in jail.

If anyone in the Fulton Couty DA's office could read a book, they would discover that in several past Presidential elections, there have been two slates of electors from the same state go to Congress. Congress decides which slate of electors to accept. No one has ever been charged with RICO offenses before this year. 

Is this whole case a political scam? Of course it is. Fani Willis cries about people doing things to her because she is black. She fails to point out that all but one of those charged is white. Did she charge Stacy Abrams for contesting the results of an election? She and Trump are both making the same complaints. Why hasn't she been charged?

The guy to pity is poor Harrison Floyd who is being prosecuted for being a black man who supported Trump. This is what Negroes in power do to those who go "off the reservation." 

Governor Brian Kemp could stop all of this if he could just grow a pair. Fulton County has destroyed a large portion of the ballots from that election. They have no actual proof that Biden won the election. They should just drop the case before it explodes in their face. 

An acquaintance of mine in Tampa many years ago was a policeman who became an attorney. One day in a conversation about some issue happening in Tampa, he told me this. "Those who seek to enforce the law are compelled to first obey the law." Take that Fani!!

It's a numbers game

There is ONE national anthem in this country. We don't have an anthem for every ethnic group.

There are TWO genders. Anything more is a figment of your imagination.

There were THREE Wise Men and they never got to Washington D.C.

There are FOUR horsemen of the Apocalypse. They are Obama, Biden, Pelosi and Soros.

There are FIFTY ways to leave your lover, and none should involve nude pictures on social media.

There were THREE little Indians, and none looked like Elizabeth Warren.

There are THREE little Indians: Haley, Ramaswamy, and Raj at the corner store.

There are THREE co-equal branches of government. Read the Constitution.

1619 was not the beginning of our history as a nation.

With Six You get Eggroll, with half a million you get a Hunter Biden artwork.

There were Ten Commandments in Exodus and then 27 chapters of rules in Leviticus.

A few thousand years later, there are 7591 words in the United States Constitution. As of November 4, 2019, the electronic version of the Code of Federal Regulations contains nearly 103 million words and 1.07 million regulatory restrictions. Talk about inflation!!

There are hundreds of 12 Step programs. There are millions of people who need to get into one.

At the time of this writing, the national debt of the United States is $31,462,154,854,903.  That's trillion with a T.

More than ten million illegal immigrants have entered our nation through a "secure" border since Biden took office.  How many illegal immigrants have entered Mexico from the US? 

There are 535 members of Congress. There are approximately 31,000 legislative staffers. 

The Carolina Panthers won TWO games this year. I just threw that in to piss off Panthers fans.

By the time that the United Staes entered WW1 in 1917, Ford had produced 1.3 million Model T's. So naturally enough, we sent 60,000 horse drawn wagons and more than 250,000 horses and mules to Europe to move our army. Today, liberals expect electric vehicles to take over by next week. Horses still start on cold days.

The last cavalry charge by the US Army was in the Philippines in 1942. Horses were actually used to carry US troops in Afghanistan in 2002.

In 2020, boneless, skinless chicken breasts were $1.99 a pound at Food Lion. Yesterday, they were $2.99 a pound. Yet we are told that inflation is at 3%. Somebody failed math.

There are SEVEN deadly sins. EIGHT, if you include voting for Biden.

Remember your SIX P's. They are Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

Batteries lose power when the temperature drops below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Yes, even batteries in electric cars.

There are SEVEN wonders of the world, EIGHT if you include Trump's hairstyle.

Wait! I will give Trump a break. There are SEVEN wonders of the world. EIGHT if you include the apple fritters at NC Jelly Donuts in Burlington.

Joe Biden finished 76th out of 85 at Syracuse Law School. He failed a course in his first year for plagiarism. He should be the new president at Harvard.

Jesus had 12 disciples. Biden's White House has a staff of 524 with an average salary of $104,505. The Trump White House had a staff of 412 with an average salary of $98,614. See how inflation works?

Google started keeping statistics on this site in June of 2010. I actually started writing this in 2005. Yesterday, the number of visits recorded by Google passed 100,000. So, you aren't the only one reading this swill! 

Saturday Morning Confusion VER 1.20

In a post earlier this week, I praised the realignment of the 6th Congressional District. Yesterday, I checked the new Congressional District map of North Carolina. If by now, you have guessed that I am no longer in the Sixth District, you are correct.

I am now in the Thirteenth District. The closest point of the Sixth District is about thirty miles away somewhere in Guilford County. The Fifth District is just down the road. I am on the western edge of the Thirteenth District. How close to the edge am I? I can see the Fifth District from my front yard. 

The new Thirteenth District consist of seven rural counties and some suburban areas in Wake County. That's where they found the Democrats to balance the area. 

This is not the first time that we have been redistricted so I guess that I should get used to it. Here in North Carolina the Democrats are screaming about how the Republicans are keeping them out of Congress by redistricting. Of course, the Democrats ran that game in North Carolina for the about 150 years or so and we never heard a word from them. Democrats created the Twelfth District about thirty years ago which basically ran the width of I-85 to Charlotte from Greensboro. The United States Supreme Court would later describe it as the most racially gerrymandered district in the nation.  

My mother used to attach the phrase "until Jesus comes" for things or people that annoyed her. So, in a tribute to Mom, I will just let stupid redistricting run loose until Jesus comes. 

By now, the world has probably seen the female shaman from the Amazon rain forest bless the attendees at the World Economic Forum by coughing or blowing air onto their heads. So, they flew this woman across the ocean to Switzerland to chant and hock up a blessing for rich people. What's the carbon footprint on that?

The only thing more amazing than the shaman's performance is that many of the attendees stood and applauded when she was finished.

Roy Cooper took Joe Biden to a Cookout restaurant for lunch the other day. Naturally, lots of people took pictures. Biden also visited a Cookout when he was here in 2020 campaigning. Phil Berger, the President of the NC Senate, posted pictures of Biden standing by the menu board where a Cookout tray was priced at $7.69. A picture from Biden's 2020 visit showed the Cookout tray priced at $5.99. According to Berger, that's a 28% increase in price. What inflation?

Interestingly enough, a White House spokesman confirmed to Newsweek that Biden had "a bacon-cheeseburger, fries and a black and white milkshake."  Does anyone really care what flavor shake he ordered? Let's get to the real Biden priorities. Did anyone at the Cookout offer to rub Biden's hairy legs? Did he sniff the cashier's hair? Did he claim that he used to work at a Cookout in college or maybe when he was appointed to the Naval Academy? Did he go to the Cookout on Sunday after going to the Catholic church, the black church and the synagogue. Wait! The synagogue was on Saturday before the pool and the faceoff with Corn Pop.

I actually checked with another news source and found that Biden had ordered a vanilla shake with chocolate syrup. Newsweek or the White House felt compelled to make it all about color. They are betting that someone will be offended by that shake.

King Charles of England will go to the hospital next week for treatment on his enlarged prostate. It's amazing that we know a week beforehand about the King of England's medical issue, but we had to wait a couple of weeks to find out that Secretary of Defense Austin had prostate surgery and didn't tell anyone. 

If you haven't seen the ad that Rep. Dean Phillips is running about Sasquatch and Biden in New Hampshire, here's a link. 

(1) Big Foot is looking for President Joe Biden in New Hampshire - YouTube

 

Thank You, Mrs. Waterhouse

 Sixty years ago, I was in the fifth grade at Alexander Elementary in Tampa, Florida. My teacher was Mrs. Waterhouse. She may have had a first name, but none of us knew it. It was a different time.

Mrs. Waterhouse had a habit of asking for questions after she finished discussing a subject. If there were no questions, she would always say the same thing, "You aren't going to learn without asking questions." About halfway through the year we had all learned to ask questions about things that we didn't understand. This blog post is dedicated to Mrs. Waterhouse.

Is John Kerry really the arrogant, pompous ass that he appears to be on television?

Is Joe Biden really the senile old fart that he appears to be every time we see him?

Is Kamala Harris really that stupid or does she have no pride?

Can Karine Jean-Pierre even spell "truth"?

Can we get space aliens to kidnap Mitt Romney?

Do the hookers at the World Economic Forum in Davos really charge $2500 a night?

How many times has Al Gore predicted the melting of the solar ice caps?

Did the reporter who asked Tampa Bay Bucs coach Todd Bowles about getting his team prepared for the weather at the game in Detroit really not know that they would be playing in a dome?

Is that same reporter related to Karine Jean-Pierre?

What would the crowd at the border look like if it wasn't as secure as Mayorkas claims that it is?

Why does the NFL believe that there is a "black national anthem"?

How much would it cost to get a high school band to play "Dixie" outside of the Super Bowl?

As Subway is now advertising that they are slicing their meats fresh, does they mean they have been serving us out of date slop for the last fifty years?

Will Doanld Trump pick Kristi Noem of South Dakota to run as Vice President?

Does the cast of The View have a mutual suicide pact in case Trump wins the election?

Is the unemployment rate decreasing because they don't count the people who have stopped looking for work?

How many reporters will kill themselves if the courts rule that Jack Smith is not legally a Special Counsel?

Where do the government workers who measure inflation on food prices actually shop? Bonus question: What are they buying?

Why is there no relationship between government statistics and grocery store prices?

Why did people in the electric car business not know that extreme cold weather temperatures drain batteries?

If Biden is forced out of the race, will Big Mike (Michelle Obama) take his place?

How many millions of immigrants will be needed to pick Jerry Nadler's vegetable crop?

Is Nadler's Garden bigger than his belly?

Was anyone surprised to hear that there was cocaine residue found on the pouch containing Hunter Biden's pistol? Did anyone even feign surprise?

Will the Carolina Panthers trade for a whole new team for next season?

Why don't they just elect Gavin Newsome to be President of the People's Republic of California?

Why are you still reading?

I Love Stupid People Ver 1.18

 Scanning the news online this morning, I saw the most incredibly stupid headline that I have seen in years.

"Family of woman unalived by illegal migrant now suing Biden administration for $100 million"

This was from "The Independent News". In the story they later admitted that a young woman had been raped and murdered by an undocumented immigrant affiliated with MS-13. Later in the article they mentioned another person who had been "unalived" by an illegal immigrant from Romania.

"Unalived" may be the peak of the stupidity of political correctness. Everyone in the media needs to be compelled to watch one of George Carlin's presentations on words. Why describe someone as "murdered" when "unalived" is ripe for the using?

The article was quite a relief for me as I discovered that I will never die, I will just be "unalive". That means that I will be "Biden-like". Will I still get ice cream?

If you have seen one of those electronic highway message boards on a highway with a funny message from your state highway department, don't worry. It won't happen much longer. The Department of Transportation has issued new regulations to prohibit humor. The DOT order says “Messages with obscure or secondary meanings, such as those with popular culture references, unconventional sign legend syntax, or that are intended to be humorous, should not be used as they might be misunderstood or understood only by a limited segment of road users and require greater time to process and understand. Similarly, slogan-type messages and the display of statistical information should not be used.” 

Signs like “Only Rudolph Should Drive Lit,” are obviously too difficult for the average Democrat to understand, so they must be banned. I rarely travel outside of Dixie, but my personal observation is that Mississippi has the most entertaining signs. I doubt that are any funny signs in New York.

 People are speeding down the highway talking on their phones, watching videos, and arguing with their family, but somehow a funny sign on the highway is going to cause the end of civilization as bureaucrats know it. How does that happen?

Here's where I interject my experiences into the discussion. The rule on effective outdoor advertising is seven words. How long can it take to read seven words? Humor sells! Which sign will you remember, "Only Rudolph should drive lit" or "Don't drink and drive"?? Let's face it! You will tell your friends about the Rudolph sign. Nobody goes to work and tells their friends, "I saw a don't drink and drive sign on the highway today.".

The DOT is concerned that some people will not understand some signs. Basically, the DOT is telling us that people are stupid. Maybe people that stupid should not be driving. Forget about Rudolph, the sign that most people don't seem to understand is the one that says, "SPEED LIMIT". The sign that seems to take the longest time to understand is the one that reads "Lane Ends," as people tend to remain in that lane until it actually ends, and they swerve into your lane in front of you.

The Department of Transportation is telling us that some people are too stupid to understand the signs. The reality is that bureaucrats are too stupid to understand drivers. What's stupid is for us to keep paying bureaucrats to crank out hundreds of pages of regulations a year on the content, size and placement of highway signs. There is no facet of your life that is so inconsequential that the federal government doesn't want to control it.

Here's a part of the rules that makes me want to redefine "obsessive-compulsive".

2 Trapezoidal-shaped signs (see Figure 2M-2) may be used to display recreational and cultural interest area destinations on conventional roads.

Standard:

03 Whenever the trapezoidal shape is used, the color combination shall be a white legend and border on a brown background. When the trapezoidal shape is used for a sign with a directional arrow, a right-angled trapezoid with the wider dimension of the bases (parallel sides) at the top of the sign shall be used. The diagonal leg of the trapezoid shall be oriented in the same direction as the directional arrow. When the trapezoidal shape is used for an advance sign legend, such as with a distance or action message, an isosceles trapezoid with the wider dimension of the bases at the top of the sign shall be used.

Here's a link to more than seventy pages of bureaucratic BS on signs. Find your own gem in this bucket of slop!

. MUTCD 2023 Chapters 2H-2N (dot.gov)

Worth a thousand words?

 

Woeful Wednesday Wit

 If MSNBC was actually concerned about broadcasting false information, they would just shut down. No person of my age is looking at Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid and thinking, "Wow! They are the new Huntley and Brinkley." That pair doesn't have the intellect of Gomer Pyle and Sgt. Carter. Maybe they are the 21st Century Amos and Andy? Yeah, I am colorblind.

Must one fail an IQ test to be an MSNBC viewer? The only people at MSNBC dumber than Reid and Maddow are those people who keep paying Reid and Maddow.

George Washington's Continental army marched through snow and the dark to attack the Hessians at Trenton in 1776. The threatened walkout by federal employees in Washington did not happen yesterday due to a snowstorm. The pussification of America continues. If those federal employees really believed in their cause, they would have gone out in the snow yesterday. And since the offices were probably closed, they wouldn't have to worry about getting fired. They would have attracted more attention in the snow!

Fani Willis went to an AME church in Atlanta to blame her problems on the color of her skin. I have great news Fani! I would criticize a White or Asian or Indian for hiring her boyfriend to try a case for which he is completely unqualified. Fani's a crook! Corruption occurs across the racial spectrum. Y'all have worn out the "race card"! It's time to own up to what you have done and resign!! The irony in all of this is that Fani is doing this to keep a senile, old, white guy as President. Maybe Fani was one of those black kids at that pool who used to rub the hair on Biden's legs when he was a lifeguard?

I am sad to see that Ramaswamy dropped out of the race yesterday. He had some great ideas. There were a couple of issues on which he made Trump look like a moderate. We need to bring in younger people.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a microcosm of the Democratic Party. They raise millions of dollars in their struggle against "hate". Then they fight "hate" by hating and attacking the beliefs of others. The Democrats and the SPLC don't put out a workable, positive program for change. They just want to ban those with opposing views.

The Democrats are the people with the "Mean People Suck" bumper stickers. Isn't it mean to tell people that they suck? Yes, this a frequent complaint of mine. 

In today's news, the prosecutors in the Hunter Biden case revealed that there was cocaine residue on the pouch that contained Hunter Biden's handgun. I can't believe that this is news. Helen Keller could have seen that one coming. 

The only question left in the Hunter Biden case is "How many days after the election will Joe Biden wait to pardon him?"

It's a little cold in North Carolina this morning. If my private jet were not in the shop, I would be in Davos with the buffoons. How stupid are the folks at that Davos meeting? They claim that "climate change" and "disinformation" are the two biggest problems facing the world. This is confusing since "climate change" actually is "disinformation". Rich and famous does not mean that they are intelligent and reasonable. 

Tuesday's Ten Topics and Taunts

 The other day on The Five on Fox television they had a question for the panelists. The question was "What do we have today, that in ten years, we will look back and say, 'That was stupid'."  The winner was Greg Gutfeld who answered with "Women with penises".

I saw on the news this morning that Asa Hutchinson has "suspended" his presidential campaign after finishing sixth in Iowa. Hutchinson got 191 votes. Trump got over 50,000 votes. How many votes did "none of the above" get? Just to be honest, I thought that Asa had already dropped out of the race. Apparently, most Republicans in Iowa thought the same as I.

Just for the record, Texas businessman and minister Ryan Binkley, received 774 votes in Iowa. He finished fifth. He hasn't dropped out yet. He was actually the first Republican candidate to visit all 99 counties. I guess that didn't help.

Over the weekend there was a demonstration by Hamas sympathizers where protesters damaged a security fence at the White House. There was a statement by the Metropolitan Police Chief that some officers were injured by protesters at Lafayette Park across the street from the White House. Of course, no one was arrested in any of this. Let's have that "2 tiers of justice" discussion again.

In the coming election, tell your liberal friends or family members to practice "DEI" at the polls. That's "Don't Elect Idiots". Or they can just play "DEAD". Don't Elect Another Democrat.

After redistricting, the Sixth Congressional District is back to its old self. Our former Congressman, Mark Walker is running this year. After almost two years of Kathy Manning, I would vote for Chris Christie to get rid of her. Walker is already running ads proclaiming that he voted with Trump 97% of the time.

I was bidding on some items in an online auction that ended last night. One item that I did not bid on was a March 1990 issue of Playboy. The cover had a young girl and Donald Trump on it. Trump was also the subject of the Playboy interview in that issue. The closing bid on that item was $52 plus the 13% buyer's premium and Virginia state sales tax. I thought that surely the buyer was insane, but I looked on eBay and there are several copies of the same magazine where people are asking higher prices than that. WOW!!

My wife is a Houston Astros fan. We have talked about going to Florida for a few days in March to catch a couple of spring training games. When I was growing up in Tampa, my mother used to take us to a couple of games during spring training. Seats were cheap, the players were accessible, and it was a good time for all. I checked ticket prices for a couple of games in different cities just to see where we would go to see the Astros play. The prices took my breath away. Ticket prices ranged from $15 to $95 or more, depending on the location. The $15 tickets were sitting on a grass berm in the outfield. $15 to sit on the grass in the sun? Are you serious? $95 to watch some guys who won't be on the team in April. Somebody is smoking their shorts! Somebody's Fruit of the Looms are on so tight that their brain isn't getting any blood! I would not pay $95 to see Jesus and the Twelve play baseball. Don't bother asking me how the trip was, we aren't going. 

A friend and his wife both drive Teslas. Last year they went "Car Camping". This has become more popular recently, but I have no idea as to why. "Car camping" sounds like high grade homeless to me. My friends have a large motor home, so I don't understand why they go "car camping". I am chalking it up to being trendy.  I told my wife that we didn't buy a travel trailer to sleep in the truck. Some campgrounds have caught on to this fad and now ban "car camping". Many campgrounds prohibit you from charging your car from their electrical outlets. Buy a tent!

Your gods have feet of clay

 No, I am not talking about God, the Almighty. I am talking about the humans among us who have achieved a godlike following by the terminally stupid among us who seem to be always multiplying. 

Since it is Martin Luther King Day, we can start with him. I think that MLK accomplished a lot in the area of civil rights. But as a minister and a moral leader, he came up terribly short.

This post was prompted by two items in the news this morning. One was a story (I refuse to label it "news") about past Facebook posts made by North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson. In the past before his entry into politics, Robinson had posted less than flattering opinions about MLK. The other was an online headline proclaiming "Former MLK speechwriter: Slain civil rights leader would describe Trump as ‘moral fraud.’"

I will start with the second charge from Clarence Jones (no relation) about what MLK would do today. That is not a surprise statement from a lawyer who has made his living for the past 55 years milking his time spent with King. But let's be honest here. For Martin Luther King to label Donald Trump as a "moral fraud" is absurd. That may be the best example of "the pot calling the kettle black" that I have ever heard. Martin Luther King was a great leader of the civil rights movement. He did great work in that area. As a moral leader, King was a failure and a bad example for others.

In regard to Mark Robinson, I can't say that I am surprised that he said some "bad" things about MLK. I am glad to see that they predated his entry into politics, so he wasn't just saying them for political reasons. Those writing the headlines can't get over the image of a black man criticizing MLK.

Since the 1970's I have seen articles about the personal life of Martin Luther King that were less than flattering. These stories were usually published by what most would describe as extremist or fringe groups. It would take more than forty years for the facts to come about all of these stories. In 2018, the National Archives released a massive drop of documents about MLK. In 2027, the rest of the documents, which includes audio and video recordings will be released to comply with the law. 

These documents show that the MLK who pushed for civil rights for blacks was a different person when the reporters left the scene. There are stories of how his problems with alcohol grew in the later years. The documents paint a picture of a man who engaged in group sex. There is a case where he watched as another minister raped a parishioner while MLK watched and laughed. There are also claims that on his last night in Memphis, there were two or three women who spent the night with him. The man who it is claimed would label Donald Trump as a "moral fraud" was an abuser of women. There was also a woman who was basically his second wife. It should also be mentioned that one of his "girlfriends" has a daughter that he fathered.

So why don't we hear about all of this? We don't hear these things because in the United States, the media will not publish any of this. The big document release was in 2018. How many CNN stories have you seen about this? In the American media system, it is okay to attack people who died more than a hundred years ago and can't defend themselves. It's okay to trash conservatives. It's okay to trash people who died for what they believed. It's okay to criticize people who lived in the 19th or 18th Centuries for not complying with 21st Century moral standards. 

But Martin Luther King is a sacred cow. You can't criticize him or talk about his private life problems. The National Archives drop was more than five years ago, yet how many movies or books have been produced that cite these documents? The American media will not touch these stories, but the British will. FBI report claims MLK had 'all-night sex orgies' | Daily Mail Online

David Garrow wrote two books about MLK. He wrote "The FBI and Martin Luther King Jr." and he wrote "Bearing the Cross". In 2019 after going through more than 50,000 documents from the National Archives, he wrote an 8,000-word article for Standpoint Magazine in Great Britain. Standpoint went out of business a few months later but here is a link to that article on Garrow's website. DJGStandpoint2019.pdf (davidgarrow.com) It should be noted that no American magazine or newspaper was willing to publish that article. Why?

David Garrow also wrote a book about Barack Obama titled "Rising Star". It was published in 2017. It is more than 1400 pages. Yeah, I haven't read it. I think that there are around 170 pages of footnotes in that book.

Garrow doesn't say it, but Obama is also a sacred cow in America. Garrow had a couple of stories about Obama mentioning to two of his girlfriends that he had thoughts about homosexuality. One of Obama's girlfriends had sold her letters from Obama to Emory University for their library. Garrow asked a friend, who worked for Emory, to go look at those letters. Emory would not let him copy or photograph the letters. He had to write down the content and sent that to Garrow. When your letters can't be copied, you are at Sacred Cow level. Mere mortals cannot view them.

In 2019 on the online site theconversation.com, Jason Miller, an English professor at NC State, wrote an article about some of what is revealed by the National Archive documents. The article was titled "I’m an MLK scholar – and I’ll never be able to view King in the same light". Miller wrote about Garrow's article in Standpoint, Here's a link for your reading enjoyment. I'm an MLK scholar – and I'll never be able to view King in the same light (theconversation.com)  

Here's a link to a file containing more than 200 pages from the FBI records about MLK. Read at your own risk. docid-32989551.pdf (archives.gov)

The American media will not publish negative stories about MLK or Obama. They have no trouble writing trash about Trump and conservatives, but Obama and MLK are off-limits. This isn't what real  freedom of the press is about. Everyone should get equal attention and treatment. If you are going to examine every relationship that Trump had, Biden and Obama should get the same treatment.

What basic beliefs of mine have been reinforced by all of this research? First, holding an "extremist" viewpoint isn't the same as being a liar. People not wanting to hear the truth doesn't make it wrong. See the Bible for lots of examples. Second, folks who claim to hold the "moral high ground", don't. Last, Americans are smarter than the media folks think. Give us the facts, we will make our own judgments.

It's time for Americans to realize that we are wrong to take down statues, rename buildings, parks and military bases.  We are destroying our history in an attempt to spread blatant falsehoods and send our civilization to the dustbin of history.

Years ago, I read a few books by Roger Von Oech. I believe that the following observation is from one of his books. 

"Sacred Cows make the best burgers."

Sunday Sarcasm and Cheap Shots

Sen. Elizabeth "Fauxchahontas" Warren says that government employees and members of Congress all need a raise. Pardon me miss, but I have never heard this from anyone with more than a room temperature IQ. If you aren't making enough money, get a real job that pays more. I heard that Harvard is hiring. Didn't you work there when you were an Indian, Liz? I hate to alarm you Liz, but we don't want people to spend their lives in elected office. If you need an example of someone who has overstayed their welcome in government, drive over to the White House. "Politician" should not be a lifelong endeavor. GET A REAL JOB!! We will get by without you. Has anyone ever been forced into running for elective office? Has anyone ever been convicted of a crime and told to run for Congress as a condition of their probation?

In related news, the New York Times is reporting that John Kerry will be leaving his job in the spring to help with the Biden campaign. Kerry helping in the campaign? WOW! Maybe they will bring John Edwards back to help Kamala campaign. The article in the New York Time is causing me to redefine "puff piece". The person who wrote that article about Kerry did not just kiss Kerry's ass, she licked it dry. I thought that I was reading a script from "The View".

Government staffers are threatening a walkout on Tuesday in opposition to the administration's policy on Israel. The staffers are favoring the Palestinians and Hamas. Anyone who walks out should be immediately fired. This shows that these idiots don't know anything about government or history. I think that the last group of federal workers to walk out were the air traffic controllers. These people need to read a history book. At least, the controllers didn't support a terrorist group. 

After a lifetime of working with young people, I guess that I should not be shocked that they are supporting a terrorist group, but I am. Are they really that stupid or are they vocalizing their support for Hamas because they can't come up with words that rhyme with "Israel" to chant while they march? Let's face it! How stupid do they have to be to decide to stand with the murderers, rapists and baby killers? Here's a new chant for them: "From the river to the sea, there is nothing as dumb as me!" Let me hear a few choruses of that.

The big sports news on Sunday morning was that Taylor (Tay-Tay) Swift showed up for yesterday's NFL playoff game wearing a jacket that looked like her lover's football jersey. That will be the last time I watch the news without a barf bucket nearby!

I think that with John Kerry leaving his position as Climate Czar, his place as the leading American polluter in the Private Jet category will be assumed by Tay-Tay. She's probably in first place already. but there aren't any news sources willing to talk about it. If someone actually finds the stones to talk about her "emissions problem", I have a couple of small cans of "freon" that I have been saving for the last forty years. I will burn those in Tay-Tay's honor.

I am fascinated that people in government want to ban gas powered yard equipment. That's because those clowns don't do their own yard work, or they live in high rise somewhere and don't have a yard. I left out the probable fact that they are just plain stupid. California is banning gas powered equipment because they are stupid. They have those massive fires because they don't keep the brush and undergrowth cleared out. They probably can't get anybody with an electric trimmer to finish his own yard, much less knock out the undergrowth in the forests. 

I read about a woman at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio who has diverted more than $100 million of federal funds over the last seven years into her own accounts. She just wasn't sitting on the money. She purchased 31 pieces of real estate and 78 vehicles. That's more than $14 million a year. Does the government not have auditors? If she was getting $14 million a year, what have the Bidens been getting? 

But there is some good news in the story about this Army embezzler. She has acquired 31 pieces of real estate around the country and 78 cars. Several of those cars are collectible. I think that one was a 1966 Mustang fastback. There's a chance that all of these things that she purchased are worth more than the $100 million she took. Memo to the Army: Call an auctioneer!

 

Did some research on social distancing standards in other countries. In Europe, some nations use one meter as the distance. Other use one and a half meters as the standard. The British, who brought us the prudes of the Victorian Age, use two meters. The United States uses six feet, a little less than two meters. Where is the science that shows that any or all of these work? Is it in the rising virus rates??

In closing, the Washington Redskins have announced that they will change their team name. I was hoping for the Raleigh Redskins but that apparently will not be. If not, how about "The Foreskins"? This will pay tribute to all of the dickheads in D.C. and those who clamored for change. Plus, they can still be referred to as "the Skins". Also, if you have season tickets, they will have a special feature for the "Foreskin" fans. Just rub your seat and it turns into a club suite.

Is Atlanta burning again or Is Fani on fire?

 According to the news, Liz Cheney appeared on "The View" today. They had to tell us because no one would have noticed one more whacko broad rambling incoherently on the show. Somewhere in hell, Barbara Walters is regretting having started this show.

Hunter Biden showed up today at a committee meeting at the Capitol. Obviously, he has more balls than brains. If his father were not the President, he would be picking up trash on the side of the road wearing an orange jumpsuit. If not that, Hunter would be sharing a cell with a big guy telling him, "I liked you in that sex video you made."

Things are going so bad in the Trump case in Atlanta that the AJC (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), a poor excuse for a newspaper, finally had to publish a story about it.  Here's the Readers Digest version. The DA is sleeping with the attorney she hired to try the Trump case. They have already paid him more than $600,000 and the trial hasn't got a start date yet. He billed the county for two (2) meetings of eight (8) hours each with the White House Counsel's office. I guess that destroys the whole claim that this is not a planned effort among Democrats. The second meeting took place on the day they announced that Jack Smith would be the prosecutor. WOW!! What a coincidence!

In other news from Atlanta, Willis hired the lawyer on Nov 1. On Nov 2, he filed for a divorce from his wife. They have sealed the divorce case records, but the defense attorney is trying to get those opened. Also, there is no record of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners ever approving the contract with the "special counsel". Democrats are just never good with details.

How did Fani pick her attorney for the case? It wasn't legal experience, because he has never tried a case for a felony RICO charge. His work for another county had been trying misdemeanor cases. One would imagine that if you go outside for an attorney, you will hire someone with incredible credentials. Not in this case, this attorney was picked because he was ready and willing to sleep with Fani Willis. There really is one born every minute.

Finally, in reviewing the billing records of the hired gun, one day he actually billed the county for 24 hours of work.  That must have included the time he spent pumping the DA after work?

I used to work for a guy at the Waffle House who always told us, "Don't shit where you eat." That actually meant, "Don't do stupid stuff where you earn your living." I was filling in for a district manager for a couple of weeks in Atlanta, when I saw this concept explode in real life. 

At most Waffle Houses, there is a two-way mirror in the office so that the manager can see what is going out front while doing paperwork in the office. The two-way thing works as long as it is lighter in the dining room than in the office. After the sun goes down, it's just a see-through window if the light is on in the office. So, I walked into the store on Windy Hill Road at about 7:00 PM one evening. Two employees and about half a dozen customers were all facing the office window/mirror and watching the show. What show, you ask? The potential porn flick being made in the office by a waitress and the manager is the correct answer. When I arrived, they were naked and trying to see if the stool in the office would support their combined weights. 

I walked to the back and unlocked the office door, reached inside, and turned off the light. A couple of minutes later, the lovers emerged trying to arrange their clothing. In a rare combination of arrogance and stupidity, the manager asked me, "What are you doing?" I was more than a little stunned and my initial response was "You're shitting me, right?" He then claimed that they had been "talking". I sent him to the front and told him to tell me what he could see in the office with the light on. A few seconds later he was back with a stupid look on his face. I wrote him a warning notice explaining that having sex on the premises was unacceptable behavior.

A few days later, I got a call from my boss because I had sent him a copy of the disciplinary notice. He asked why I had not terminated the manager. I told him that first, I was there on a four-week assignment and I had no one who could take his place. The second problem was that we actually did not have a rule that said that you couldn't have sex in the office with the lights on. Yeah, this was way before all of that sexual harassment stuff started. He asked if I had done anything else about the situation. I told him that I had put up two posters, one on the office door and the other on the office wall. The posters read "Employees must remain completely dressed while in the office". Every time an employee read that sign, they laughed. Sometimes sarcasm works.

Is Fani Willis the next Waffle House manager?

Miscellaneous Monday Minutiae

 In a recent post I mentioned Beach Bum Biden and his sunburned face. A reader informed me that I might have been wrong on that comment. She pointed out that while Biden's face was bright red, his ears were not red. She advanced the theory that Biden had a chemical peel on his face by a doctor while he was in the Virgin Islands. She said that this is a process used to reduce wrinkles. I will defer to this reader's knowledge of cosmetic medical procedures.

 Let's go with the theory that Biden had some work done on his face to improve his appearance. So, which of his two or more faces did they treat? Compared to the hair plugs that he had, what's a chemical peel? Did his double have to get a peel also? Did the taxpayers pay for this? Why didn't Jill just put a bag over his face? 

On January 1 Defense Secretary Austin went to the hospital for problems from an elective surgery a couple of weeks earlier. On January 4, the Pentagon finally notified the President that Austin was in the hospital. For part of that time, Austin was in Intensive Care. On January 5, they finally issued a public statement about his hospitalization. While Austin was in the hospital, his deputy was on vacation in Puerto Rico. Who's driving the bus? There's a war in the Ukraine, one in Gaza and the situation with Iran is getting worse. So naturally enough, the government leaders go on vacation or head to the hospital. Who did they leave in charge? Don't worry, they will tell us after Election Day.

The NFL regular season ended last night. The first coach was fired right after midnight. The Carolina Panthers fired their General Manager today. They fired the coach weeks ago. Why wait? After their 2-15 record this year, the Panthers should cut ticket prices for next year. It's not like David Tepper needs the money. I mean, he threw a $300,000 drink on a guy.

When Ted Turner owned the Atlanta Braves, he did all sorts of crazy things to get people to attend games. This was when the Braves were not very good. Tepper should take some inspiration from Ted Turner. Here's an example: The coaches aren't making great decisions so let's give the fans a chance to call plays. Everybody in the stadium has a smartphone, let them vote on what kind of play to run on each down. It's first and ten at the twenty-yard line. Vote to run left, run right or throw a screen pass. Get the fans involved!! Let's face the facts. The professionals who were paid millions produced a 2-15 season. Could voting by the fans be any worse? Give it a shot! If not the fans, Tepper thinks he knows sports, let him call the plays for a game. If the Panthers lose, the fans can turn the tables and throw drinks on him.

If Trump wins in November, are liberals all going to move to other countries like they promised us they would do in 2016?

Joe Biden has reportedly hired Claudine Gay to be his new speechwriter. Did today's speech in Charleston start with "Four score and seven years ago"? 

Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson has scheduled the State of the Union for March 7. That's after the Super Tuesday primaries. I like it! Let's give the Dems a taste of their own medicine.

The National Parks Service is renovating Welcome Park in Philadelphia. They are planning to remove the statue of William Penn from the park. 

The parks service says it wants to "provide a more welcoming, accurate and inclusive experience for visitors". Let's just go ahead and replace all of those schmucks at the NPS. 

You can go online and offer comments on the Park Service plans. Here's that address: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/

What we need in the United Sates is a new family-oriented theme park called "Banned Land". This is where we can place all of the statues and monuments that the left is taking down. Then you can take your family there for an inspirational look at the history of how we became the greatest nation on the earth before Obama and the Communists came to power. 

We can do like they used to do at Disney and have "A,B,C,D and E" rides. That was before Disney went with the all-inclusive "We will bleed everyone dry" passes. That's a story for another day.

Dialing for Dollars??

 We live just a few miles from the North Carolina-Virginia border. As such, I am in Virginia frequently. A couple of weeks ago, as my wife and I were returning from our Christmas visit to Williamsburg, we stopped in South Hill, Virginia. to get cheap gas. At the gas station there were several machines that were turned around and had signs on them. They were "skill" games that the state is banning starting in the New Year. There were notices telling people that the state has banned video gambling machines and how to contact their elected representatives about this. Right beside the forbidden gambling machines was a vending machine for Virginia Lottery tickets which was in service. We may need to redefine "two-faced".

This is a result of a state law passed in 2020 but implementation of the law was paused for the COVID crisis and then for legal challenges. Do I need to mention that it was a Democratic legislature and governor who put this package together?

I read several news stories about this and found the same theme was prevalent in all of them. They all played the same tune. That is "This form of gambling is wrong because the state doesn't get any money from it." WOW!! So gambling is good if the state gets a piece of the action? So, as long as the state gets a cut, it doesn't matter if people gamble away the rent and grocery money? The people who gamble the most are frequently among those who can afford it the least.

An hour down the road from these now illegal video gambling machines, they are building a Caesar's Casino and Hotel in Danville. The state is promoting this venture. The casino will be filled with gambling machines. We may need to redefine the term "mixed messages".

Am I opposed to gambling? Not really, I buy a $2 lottery ticket about once a week. However, I don't spend hundreds of dollars buying Powerball tickets in an effort to win $400 million. Two bucks is my personal limit and that comes out of my recycling money fund. 

I grew up in Florida. In my years at the Waffle House, I met several folks who were involved in illegal gambling. At the time, there was legal gambling in Florida with dog racing, horse racing and jai alai. Since the state got a portion of the revenue, that kind of gambling was okay. Organized crime ran a "lottery" at that time. The state called it the "numbers racket". If you won that, the "mob" paid you in cash. They didn't take out for taxes. You could also find someone (bookies) willing to take bets on sporting events. Imagine that! But the state prosecuted the entrepreneurs who ran the "Numbers racket" and took bets on sports and put them in prison.

In 1988, Florida got into the lottery business. I often wonder if they freed anyone who was in jail on gambling charges when the state took over the gambling racket. Of course, they didn't. In simple terms, the State of Florida muscled the Mafia out of the "numbers racket". And it is a racket. The state controls how many winners there are in the games. They tax your winnings to get back some of the money you won. Even the Mafia didn't do "withholding".

In North Carolina and many other states, the state took over the "numbers racket" and it became the "Education Lottery". The only thing you learn from the "Education Lottery" is not to waste your money. Is education in North Carolina any better with the money from the lottery? Of course not. "Truth in Advertising" should compel the state to change the name from "Education Lottery" back to "numbers racket".

So, what's my point in all of this? The government is addicted to the revenue that "sin" taxes produce. It's not just the lottery. In North Carolina, as well as many other states, the government controls the liquor business. Liquor in North Carolina costs about twice as much as in Florida. Liquor taxes are that high. This is why some states are legalizing marijuana sales. That are taxing these sales and raising large amounts of revenue. It's all about money. The state doesn't give a rat's ass about your health or well-being. They don't care if families suffer because someone gambles away the grocery money buying Powerball tickets.

The first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem. The government needs to start by getting out of the "numbers racket".

January 6?

Today the media in the United States is focused on the disturbance/altercation/riot at the Capitol three years ago. 

As I believe that we have not yet been given all of the facts about that disturbance, I am not going to discuss it.

However, I am sharing with you a few pictures from Minneapolis after the George Floyd riots/disturbance/crusade for justice that took place there in May 2020. These scenes are what was described in the media as a "mostly peaceful protest".

 

First Friday Free Shots

 Last night I watched an interview with Alejandro Mayorkas. If Biden had any brains, he would fire Mayorkas before the House impeaches him for dereliction of duty. If Mayorkas had any balls, which is doubtful, he would resign and blame it all on following orders from the White House. Alas, Biden has no brains and Mayorkas has no balls, so we will watch the House try to impeach a guy who should have never been appointed to this job. Mayorkas lacked the courage to call the situation at the border a "crisis".  If this isn't a crisis, what would a crisis look like?

New York City is suing charter bus companies for bringing migrants to New York City. This is Mayor Eric Adams grand plan to handle the migrant influx. The bus companies should sue the residents of New York City for electing a moron to be their mayor. This is what happens when you choose to be a "sanctuary city". 

The Department of Justice has the Epstein client list in their possession. They have had it for years. Why have they not released it? This is actual evidence of the "Deep State" protecting their own.

Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for twenty years and Epstein has been dead for more than four years. No one has been prosecuted or even officially identified as being involved with any of these girls that Maxwell allegedly procured for them. Why not? Trump is right, it is the Department of Injustice. Prince Andrew has been involved in lawsuits, but here in America the DOJ protects our perverts and pedophiles.

There is a story today that Bill Ackman's wife had a plagiarism issue with her doctoral work at MIT. WOW! Who could have seen that story coming? So, finding someone else's failure justifies having a major league plagiarist at Harvard as President? Harvard can redeem itself very easily. All they need to do is be honest and say, "We hired Claudine Gay because she is a black, liberal female We weren't hiring for ability." Then move on to hiring a competent person, white or black, male or female. Replace the Harvard Board while you are at it.

The news reports that Joe Biden is going to Valley Forge to speak today to kick off his campaign to get a second term as Head Stooge. He was going to give this speech tomorrow, but there is snow forecast, so he is doing it today.

When I was in the third grade, we did a class play on the history of the United States. I was the narrator. We had a scene from the American Revolution set in Valley Forge.  We presented a scene with Washington and some Continental soldiers praying in the snow. Since the school was in Florida, it took a lot of scenery to make it look like winter in Valley Forge. You can bet your ass they wouldn't do that scene in a public school today. More than twenty years ago, our family went to Valley Forge in July while on vacation. As I walked around and looked at the reconstructed camp, that school play scene from 1962 came to mind. Depending on which historian you believe, that may have been the low point in the American Revolution for Washington's army.

So, Lyin' Joe Biden is going to Valley Forge on January 5, because the weather is better, to mark the anniversary of the January 6 demonstration in DC and kick off his campaign. I am not an expert on politics, but if I were, I would have my candidate go to Valley Forge in that snowstorm tomorrow and speak. I am going out on a limb here, but I don't think that anyone watching today is going to connect Lyin' Biden, fresh in from the Virgin Islands and his sunburned face and speaking in an auditorium, with George Washington and his army in deep snow almost 250 years ago. 

The story of Valley Forge was the struggle of a nation longing to be free of tyrannical rule. There are those in this nation who believe that the January 6 demonstration had the same theme. 

Trump can respond to the Valley Forge presentation easily. Set up cameras at a few spots along the southern border and just have a live feed online and on television commercials. Have a counter on the screen with a running total of illegal immigrants this year. For variety, show live shots from the homeless camps in liberal cities for those folks who get tired of watching the border. Help merchants by buying security video from them of their stores being looted and run that 24/7 online. Set up a Trump campaign rally at Eagle Pass, Texas. 

For every scene from January 6 that Biden shows, show the riots in Lafayette Park and in front of the White House. Let's find out what happened to all of the Antifa folks who attacked the Federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon for weeks. Let's run some stats on how the Justice Department actually works. That's all on the free campaign pointers!

Biden's also planning a trip to the black church in South Carolina where the mass shooting took place. The next time Biden talks about the government protecting Americans, let's show some of that video of the FBI slaughtering American citizens in Waco years ago. We need a new DOJ and FBI.

From the "I didn't think that was possible!" folder, this observation. Mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago sucks so badly that there are people claiming that they actually miss Lori Lightfoot. 

Finally, this note. A letter writer to the American Spectator AM newsletter this morning wrote about people leaving northern states and moving to the South. When they arrive here, they want to raise taxes, get more government and generally turn it into the shithole they left up north. I wrote a response mentioning the carpetbagger who I detest most, David Tepper, owner of the Carolina Panthers. While Tepper became a billionaire running a hedge fund, which is just high-grade gambling, his skills as an NFL owner are nil. When he's not ridiculing his fans and his employees (team), he tells us how he brought civilization to Charlotte. The phrase "arrogant, pompous ass" comes up a little short in describing Tepper. Here's some free advice David, hire a pro or two to run the team. Then get out and meet the folks who support the Panthers. Last, but certainly not least, hire a guy whose job it will be to keep you from throwing drinks at fans. 

Mid-week Wit and Wisdom

 Claudine Gay is blaming "racial animus" for her resignation from the Presidency of Harvard. She's a little confused. "Racial animus" is how she got her job.

Gay received her PhD in 1998. Since then, she has written exactly zero books. How many other Harvard professors have never written a book? Hell, I could have cobbled a couple of books together from the swill that I spread on this blog. 

Someone spoke on the news this morning about the level of confusion that the whole Claudine Gay controversy is causing. It's so bad that Harvard professors are now praising plagiarism and people who purport to be "journalists" are attacking journalism. Who saw that coming?

I am sure that you have heard this one but, the tech support folks at Harvard are overhauling Gay's computer to remove the "copy and paste' and the "cut and paste' functions. That should prevent future plagiarism problems.

"Don't ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee". The president at MIT, Sally Kornbluth is treading water as she tries to remain president of MIT. I was stunned to find out that she is Jewish. I am more than a little stunned to find out that she is Jewish after hearing her response to Stefanik's question. Maybe she is one of those "self-loathing" Jews that Rabbi Dov Fischer writes about in the American Spectator?

Joe Biden came back from the Virgin Islands with a sunburned face. He had some skin cancer issues last year. I guess that he may even be a slower learner than we thought possible. Maybe Dr. Jill isn't as smart as we are told?  I have had a few skin cancers removed over the last several years. I rarely go outside without a hat and long sleeves. Maybe Joe thinks that the skin cancer won't happen again. Maybe after the election, he can just move to the beach. That is instead of the taxpayers having to pay to have his ass hauled there most weekends.

Talk is that the younger people on the Biden campaign are wanting to start comparing Trump to Hitler. Somebody needs to pick up a history book. Biden is the guy who wants to prevent his opponent from running. Biden is the one causing the rampant inflation. Biden is the one claiming that three million refugees came in over a "secure" border. Biden is the guy having his opponents arrested. Biden is the one whose administration is trying to limit free speech. Democrats claiming that Trump is like Hitler are out of touch with both history and reality.

The Department of Justice is suing Texas because Texas passed a law allowing Texas police to stop illegal immigration. It's not like the federal government is doing anything. So, the federal government claims that the state of Texas is breaking the law by enforcing the law that the federal government will not enforce. WOW! That makes perfect sense to a guy with dementia.

Today with more than 50 House members at the border, there were very few migrants at that place. Coincidence? I think not. The cartels and the Mexican government knew that the news crews would be there, so they took their business down the border a few miles.

Almost three years too late, the House of Representatives has started an impeachment inquiry into Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas. How long can this take? Be ready to vote on Friday.

Last, but certainly not least, the NFL has fined David Tepper, Carolina Panthers owner, who threw a drink into the crowd at Jacksonville as the game ended on Sunday and the Panthers got mauled again. Tepper was fined $300,000 for his conduct. Here's a few words of wisdom for you, Dave, "Don't shit where you eat."

 

Happy New Year???