You can see Vietnam from Kiev

 I received an email the other day from an acquaintance who asked, "How can you be opposed to helping Ukraine?" I responded, "It's pretty easy. I still read history books." "History is circular" is a phrase that turns up regularly on this blog. By now, even the slow among you should understand the meaning of that phrase.

I have read reports that claim the Russians have lost more than half a million soldiers killed in the Ukraine. Of course, estimates vary on this statistic. The number of Ukrainian deaths is estimated to be around 32,000. The "experts" tell us that the Russians have lost more than ten to sixteen times as many soldiers as have the Ukrainians. Put me down as being skeptical of these reported numbers.

Let's be honest here. We are really only getting reports from one side in this war. When did you last see a CNN reporter with the Russians? So, all of our information is coming from one side. Interestingly enough, that is the side that we are financing. Several days ago, the Russians broke through and captured a city that I cannot spell, but I believe that it starts with an "A". (Avdiivka) What happened? One day, the Russians are getting slaughtered and the next day they are kicking the Ukrainians out of a city. What is the truth?

In the early 1970's there was a Doonesbury cartoon series of strips about the war in Vietnam. In the start of one strip a US officer was on the radio. He reported that they had encountered the Viet Cong and defeated them. When asked about the number of enemy dead, he turned to a nearby soldier and asked, "What is today's date?" The soldier responded, "August 15th". The officer turned to the radio and reported "Fifteen enemy dead, Sir!".  And that's probably how we get the numbers of the Russian dead today in the Ukraine.

Retired US Army Lt. General Ben Hodges says about the Russians that "their navy sucks, their air force sucks, and they've lost half a million soldiers."  And yet today the Russian army is advancing. I guess that we should be grateful that such an astute observer as the general is retired. Maybe he is getting his data from Dr. Fauci? What is the General's plan for securing our southern border and getting the invaders out of the United States? 

We don't hear from the military about our level of military supplies here at home while the Ukrainians go through our 155 MM howitzer rounds like Hunter Biden goes through crack. They are going through missiles like Joe Biden goes through double scoops of chocolate chip.  Are we keeping enough supplies to defend ourselves?  More than that, after firing all of those rounds, is there anything left to save in the Ukraine?

Chuck Schumer is pushing for more aid for Ukraine. According to Chuck's comments after a White House meeting about the budget, this aid for Ukraine is our biggest concern in America right now. As for me, I think that Schumer's ass sucks wind and he needs to look at our border and not Ukraine's. There are more illegals in the United States than there are Russians in the Ukraine. People in Schumer's party don't know the difference between a man and a woman. The children in our schools can't read, write, add or subtract, but Chuck the Schmuck is all in on Ukraine.  Why is the Ukraine so important? How many US politicians are getting a cut of the money we send the Ukraine? When the Dems and their Ice Cream Cone King get our border closed, we can talk about the Ukraine. 

I think that we need to put our leaders into a twelve-step program for their addiction to foreign wars. It will start like this "I am Joe Biden and I love kickbacks from corrupt foreign governments." Maybe someone in the "news" media could do a story about Eisenhower warning us of the danger of the military-industrial complex? Maybe we can talk about Nikki Haley getting a seat on the Boeing Board of Directors after helping them in South Carolina? I just couldn't help that last shot.

Just like in Vietnam, we were winning until the media realized one day that we were losing. The media is starting to sense that the tide is shifting in the Ukraine. How long before they decide to tell the truth? On what network will the scales fall from their eyes first?

If we don't want young Americans to die in the Ukraine, let's get our stuff and go home. Let's have a plan and not duplicate that cluster in Afghanistan. The debacle in Afghanistan made the retreat from Saigon look like a media bailout from a Biden appearance at a Dairy Queen.

"That which deserves to live does."

Phony Fani Phux For Fame, Fun, & Fortune??

 In the news today was a story about how they have checked cell phone usage for both Nathan Wade and Phony Fani Willis. They both testified in court that their romantic relationship started after he was hired by Phony Fani. 

That must have been one hell of a "pre-dating" relationship as it involved more than 2,000 phone calls and more than 10,000 text messages. Maybe they didn't have sex before she hired him? Who had time for sex amongst transmitting the 10,000 or more text messages and the 2,000 phone calls?  

Where are all of these comments leading? If you are a regular reader or if you actually know me, you already know the answer. This is all leading to a story from my Waffle House days many years ago. So, we are off and running. 

In 1973 I was working at the Waffle House on Dale Mabry in Tampa. Four of us from the restaurant, myself, another male cook, and two waitresses bowled in a league at a nearby bowling alley. That year, one of our regular customers offered to sponsor our bowling team. The customer was an orthopedic doctor who was a frequent late-night customer. Dr. Bill offered to sponsor the team and to pay for our team shirts. Our team's name was "Bill's Pills". Just for the record, he also sponsored a women's league team named "Bill's Thrills". 

What does all of this have to do with Phony Fani? Hang on, we will get to there in a minute. Dr. Bill was known for over imbibing at a nearby club and then walking over to the Waffle House for a late-night meal. After he finished eating, we would call a cab and send him home. There were a couple of nights that the bartender at the club would call me and ask me to come get Bill to make sure that he got to the Waffle House safely. It wasn't a problem since we were a full service Waffle House. 

On one of those nights, Bill was sitting in a booth and the restaurant got a little busy. There were several people waiting for seats, so Bill motioned to two women waiting, to have a seat in the booth where he was seated. I saw that and recognized them as "ladies of the evening" who frequented the lounge next door at the Hawaiian Village Hotel. I didn't think anything would happen, so I stayed busy cooking orders.

A few minutes later some loud noise came from that direction, and I stopped to look around. I saw Bill standing at the table and before I could say anything, Bill spoke very loudly. "Let me repeat that, honey. I said that any man who would sleep with you is just too lazy to masturbate!" The girls threw some money on the table for their bill and headed out the door.

That was the night that Dr. Bill became a Waffle House legend. More than fifty years later, I am still telling that story. In the ten years after that happened, I must have met 200 people who all claim that they were there the night that Dr. Bill ran the hookers out of the Waffle House.

Every time that I see Phony Fani on the television, I am reminded of that story. Why doesn't Phony Fani just tell the truth? Why won't Nathan Wade tell the truth? At the end of the day, she hired a guy who had never tried a felony, never tried a RICO case and paid him more than she was paying a qualified, experienced attorney. Phony Fani found herself a man who was too lazy to masturbate.

Phony Fani, just admit your motives and drop the case. It's all going to come out anyway. 

One born EVERY minute?

 I saw a great story on the news the other night and then followed that up by reading several other articles about this. This is the story of Charlotte Cowles who is a columnist for the New York Times and an online magazine called The Cut. 

Charlotte was on the news sharing her story about how she was conned out of $50,000. It's a long, involved story involving a call from someone claiming to be with Amazon. This was followed by someone who claimed to be with the Federal Trade Commission and then someone who was a CIA agent or operative. There may have been a few others, but I think that was the main cast.

In a television news story about this, Cowles described herself as "highly educated". That's another nail in the coffin for education today. I know lots of highly educated people who don't know the basics of life. They can't pull off little things like putting on a coat when it is cold and not walking in the middle of the street. 

She said that what scared her was how much the scammers knew about her personal life. They knew about her children and the properties that she owned. She said they knew the last four digits of her Social Security number. 

Pardon me Charlotte, but have you heard of this thing called "The Internet"? Half an hour of Internet research would yield almost all of the information that she mentioned. If she had asked Mr. Google about a CIA agent contacting her, she would have found that this is illegal in almost all cases. When the person told her the last four numbers of her Social Security number, why didn't she ask them for the first five numbers? I forgot; she's highly educated.

Beyond that, when does anyone get a call from Amazon? Well, other than the driver calling from your driveway wanting you to come get the dog. I'm seventy years old, I have never had a call from the FTC or the CIA. That would actually mean that those folks are working which I don't believe. 

The story ended after she withdrew $50,000 from her savings account, placed it into a shoebox, and put it into a rear window of a Mercedes SUV in the street in front of her house. She went to her bank and withdrew $50K. Really? I am amazed that no one at the bank questioned this transaction. If I were to walk into my bank and ask for a large amount of cash, someone will want to know why. Bankers are usually familiar with fraud and will warn people. Maybe her bankers are also highly educated? 

This is just a cheap shot, but based on testimony from Fani Willis, if Charlotte was black, she could have just pulled the $50K from the cash hoard in her closet.

This whole thing makes no sense. Is this a Jussie Smollett moment in her life? If she is lying about this to garner attention, she is through as a financial columnist. If she is stupid enough to put $50K in cash in a shoebox and put it in the back window of a passing car, she is through as a financial columnist.

This "highly educated" woman has a BA in English from Columbia University. She can start her financial recovery by filing suit against Columbia to recover that money she squandered on a degree from that school.

There would be an actual use for most college diplomas if they printed them on toilet paper.

Mitt the Moron and More

 Mitt Romney spoke to the Senate a couple of weeks ago about the aid bill to the Ukraine. In his speech Romney said, “The vote we will soon take to provide military weapons for Ukraine is the most important vote we will ever take as United States senators.”

First, after having watched his Presidential campaigns, who knew that Romney had such a gift for hyperbole? I am fascinated by Romney claiming how important US military support is for the Ukraine. How did he feel about supporting Vietnam in the 1960's? All that I know is that he received four student deferments and a ministerial exemption for the draft until he finally got a high number in the draft lottery. I can only assume that age has changed his perspective.

Beyond that Mitt, why is the Ukraine so important? Mitt claims that if Russia takes the Ukraine, China will take Taiwan. Bad news Mitt!! The Chinese are invading the United States right now. There are thousands of illegal immigrants from China coming across the southern border. What is the reason for this sudden surge in Chinese immigrants? Inquiring minds want answers, Biden just wants them to register to vote.

The Chinese sent an enormous spy balloon over the United States last year. The Biden administration, which fervently seeks to preserve the Ukrainian border, refused to down the balloon until it had crossed over the nation and was headed out over the Atlantic Ocean. So, the President who is okay with our borders being violated, thinks that we must borrow money from China to build weapons to give the Ukraine to keep the Russians out of their country while the Chinese invade our country across our southern border. Can we get Kamala Harris to put all of this into some Venn diagrams so that she and Joe can have something to talk about over ice cream?

I don't really know anything about the Russian people. I have only encountered one Russian in my life and that was late one night at the Waffle House in Tampa. In 1973, a couple who were regular customers, brought in a young lady from Russia who was visiting the United States and may have been an exchange student. All that I remember after fifty years is that the young lady had a great smile and large breasts. I don't recall her trying to seize control of the Waffle House that night. 

But back to the Russian people and their culture. Our leaders who want to pump billions into the Ukrainian war effort have not read a history book. First, the Ukraine and/or parts of that region have been a part of Russia off and on for hundreds of years. Part of that region was Russia before the United States even existed. Then, let's move from the historical aspect of the region to the traditions of the Russian military. While Hollywood is not famous for historical accuracy, Mitt should go watch "Enemy at the Gates" or read a book. The Russian strategy is to just keep pouring manpower into the battle until they win. They are just not as concerned about high levels of casualties. If George Custer had been a Russian, they would have regarded Custer's Last Stand as a victory. Get a history book!! Look at the casualties at Stalingrad. More than a million Russian soldiers died to keep Stalingrad. Do you think the loss of a hundred thousand or more will end the war in the Ukraine?

Is the aid to the Ukraine depleting our own equipment and ammunition stockpiles? The military experts deny this but their record on honesty is pretty low. The Ukrainians are going through 155MM howitzer rounds faster than we can make them. Raytheon is having to restart production of Stinger missiles that we are supplying to the Ukraine. I saw a story on the news about how Raytheon had to bring in retirees to restart the production line and get Stingers made for the Ukraine. So, what's happened to our supplies? It doesn't sound good. If we send all of our munitions to the Ukraine, what will we use in a war? Asking for a friend.

For my final historical note, I will remind you that the Charge of the Light Brigade was against the Russian army. You would think that the British would have learned. They have not.

Last, but certainly not least, are we getting accurate reports on the war in the Ukraine? In the war in South Vietnam, we were told that we were winning the war until one day the news changed. In 1965 we were told that the tide of the war had changed, and we were running the North Vietnamese out of the South. Of course, that turned out to be bullshit. When will the news change from the Ukraine?

ISO

 Don't worry, it doesn't mean I am in search of anything. Nor does it stand for the International Standards Organization. Last, but most importantly, it does not stand for I Support Obama. What does it mean? I'm So Old.

ISO, that I keep waiting for an advertising agency to contact me because they want to run an advertising program using the last white, heterosexual, married couple on earth and they need my wife and me. Hopefully, they will pay accordingly. 

ISO that I still hope to wake up one morning and like Bobby on "Dallas" discover that the last three years have all been a dream. I am being too polite! With Biden, it's been a nightmare.

ISO that sometimes when I see cheap stuff in the Walmart that was made in Vietnam, I stop and think. Did my friend Frank die there so I could buy those cheap shoes today?

ISO that when I think about that war, I realize that not all of those who died from the Vietnam war, died in Vietnam. My wife's brother died a couple of years ago in Louisiana from lung cancer caused by Agent Orange exposure. Fifty years after leaving Vietnam, he died from the war. My wife and I were at a Jimmy Fortune concert a few months after her brother's death. Fortune sings a great song called "More than a Name on the Wall" about the Vietnam Memorial. I told him that not all those who died have their names on the wall. The guy who claims to be my only friend was a pilot in Vietnam. He's had prostate cancer and breast cancer from his exposure to Agent Orange. He's the only guy I know who has had a double mastectomy. Why aren't these names on the casualty lists?

ISO that I remember talking to my Uncle Bill about his time in World War Two. He was an aircraft engine mechanic in the U.S. Navy. That was all that he would tell me about his experiences. I found out later that he had been on Saipan late in the war. Was he there when Japanese families were committing suicide by jumping off cliffs into the ocean? He was my favorite uncle, but he struggled with mental health issues after the war and until he died twenty years ago. His copy of the Bluejacket Manual is on my desk. 

My sister's husband spent thirty years in the USAF. He was in Desert Storm. Now they get notices about side effects of all the oil fires the Iraqis set before retreating. Is this just Agent Orange all over again?

ISO that I know that a lot of our ancestors came to this land for the freedom to practice their religion. Our government gets closer every day to abandoning that principle. At the Branch Davidian complex in Waco, Texas the FBI used tanks and CS gas on those Americans. We had signed a treaty not to use that gas in wars, but the FBI used it against our own citizens. How many Americans were killed that day because of their religion? Just to be fair, we had the Mormon War in 1857-58. Nobody talks about that war on religion anymore, either.  

ISO that in the 1980's I contributed money to the drive to restore the Statue of Liberty that was being spearheaded by Lee Iacocca. Now, the leftist liberal bastards in this country want to tear all of the statues down.

ISO that I remember when there were only two genders, Of course, that was just a few seconds ago. I love the morons who say, "Follow the Science" and then shovel some bullshit about 56 genders. if you are in that crowd, I have your pronouns hanging right here. They are "fuck" and "you"!!

ISO that I remember when the Ukraine was known for farming. Today ii is known as the place where Chuck Schumer claims that we will one day soon be sending young Americans to fight. ISO that I have to ask "WHY?" What in Ukraine is worth a single American life? Let's let the old bastards in Congress getting the Ukrainian kickbacks lead the way into combat. Don't vote for anything that you aren't willing to participate in.

Sunday Salvos

 My wife and I were at Sam's Club in Danville yesterday for my weekly trip to people watch. If you see someone wearing a hoodie covering their head and most of their face inside a building where the temperature is 70 degrees, they are officially a slave to fashion. Bonus points if they are also a criminal.

Twitter, where the morons gather for a meet and greet. Truth in advertising should compel them to change the name to something like "Constant Moments of Lunacy".

Liberals are now accusing Tucker Carlson of "enabling" Putin by interviewing him. Does the liberal media in our nation "enable" Biden with their puff pieces about him?

In Ukraine, our 51st State, the Ukrainians are giving up a city to the Russians because, according to the media, we have not sent them enough aid. How long before the press starts the "Fall of Saigon" style pictures? For the Gen Z'ers out there, that would be the "fall of Kabul" style pictures.  

There is a "Truckers for Trump" group saying that they are going to stop hauling loads to New York City. Before you laugh that off, how many loads of groceries or gas would have to be left sitting somewhere before bringing the city to a halt?  It wouldn't even take a stoppage; a slowdown would cause havoc. Was it Napoleon who said, "An army marches on its belly"? Let's face it, how many liberal truck drivers do you know? Gov. Hochul should call Justin Trudeau for more info.

Kameltoe Harris proclaims that she is "ready to serve". My first reaction was "serve what?" She couldn't spell "cat" if you spotted her the "C" and the "A". But in her defense, unlike Biden, she probably does know what century we are in now. 

Also, a Harris presidency might cause some significant changes. They would give up the limousine, "The Beast" and replace it with a "Big Yellow School Bus" that she professes to love. Of course, that would not happen immediately, it would involve the "significance of the passage of time" that she likes to talk about. I would be pushing the Secret Service to make her official code name "Kameltoe". There would actually be an upside to a Harris presidency. We would no longer have live news reports with some reporter breathlessly describing the President's selection of ice cream flavors. The downside is that an analysis of a five-minute speech by President Harris would require a team of ten reporters. What kind of dressing do you put on a "word salad"? Russian, French, Italian, Ukrainian?

Someone on the news the other night pointed out that Kameltoe has never lost an election. They failed to point out that no one outside of California has ever voted for her. 

Speaking of California, Representative Barbara Lee, obviously a Democrat, is advocating for a $50 an hour minimum wage. This is the new standard for "stupid", even in California. This woman represents California in Congress and thinks that this is a good idea. If you are AOC, this is great news! You are no longer the dumbest son of a bitch in Congress, Barbara Lee now holds that title.

How do elected officials not understand how the price of labor affects the cost of goods? It's not just elected public officials. It extends to elected union leaders. The United Auto Workers are endorsing Joe Biden for President. Biden wants manufacturers to build more electric vehicles. The production of electric vehicles requires fewer workers than does the production internal combustion vehicles. So, Joe Biden is actually trying to put auto workers out of work, and they endorsed him. Am I the only one who thinks that somebody hasn't thought this one through?

This lack of understanding about economics is widespread. I am a member of Mensa, the international high IQ society, I was a member back in the 1990's and then took more than a twenty-year sabbatical before I decided to rejoin last year. A couple of weeks ago, I received the news that they were in the process of increasing the membership dues from $79 a year to $107 a year. If you have guessed that I immediately sent an email to the Board of Directors, you are correct. 

This incident was before Barbara Lee suggested a $50 minimum wage so I could not make any comparisons there. Instead, I pointed out that my experience, after more than fifty years in the restaurant business, was that the immediate reaction to every price increase was a decline in sales. It takes customers (or members) a period of time to decide whether to accept the higher price.  In Mensa, that would be a decline in membership. I asked those on the Board of Directors if they had projected how many members they would lose from a 28% increase in dues. I also pointed out that my IQ would not drop if I failed to renew. I sent my email to 15 board members and received two responses and neither addressed my question about a dues increase reducing the membership. One response was from the chairman of the board, and she said, "I am sorry that you are leaving us."  If she thinks that sarcasm will work on me, she's not smart enough to be a member.   I will save that $107 next year and spend it at Harbor Freight. 

Final shot: Nothing keeps the news about a crime off the front page like the crime being committed by one of the "favored minorities." We all know the favored minorities. Why don't we ever talk about mental illness and killings by transgenders? Why has the press just discovered crimes by illegal immigrants?  If a group of young, white Trump supporters had been involved in the tragedy in Kansas City, it would be on every network and newsstand. Instead, the public is left to wonder who did this and why it happened. In a crowd estimated at a million people, most toting smartphones, there have to be hundreds of pictures of those involved. Have you seen one?

Saturday Morning Confusion VER. Phony Fani 1.0

 Biden criticized the House of Representatives for taking two weeks off. Maybe they should have just gone to Rehoboth Beach with Joe? They could all take turns driving Joe's Vette and rearranging the classified documents stored in the garage next to Hunter's drugs. Maybe a boatload of illegal immigrants could land on the beach in front of Joe's place? Aren't Democrats always talking about everyone getting "their fair share"?

Yesterday, in New York City, deranged Judge Engoron sentenced a guy to death for a parking meter violation. 

Judge Engoron claims that Mar-a-Lago is only worth $18 million. Who does he do appraisal work for? I need him to appraise my house to eliminate my property tax bill. There are mobile homes in Florida that sell for more than a quarter of a million dollars. Engoron's next career is NOT in real estate. I think that they have been misspelling the judge's name. It must actually be EnMoron. I will pass that one on to Trump.

What will Letitia James do now with her time? Will she actually work to protect New Yorkers from those busloads of immigrants that her liberal buddies are sheltering? Maybe she and Fat Alvin Bragg can appear on America's Got Talent with a dance routine? 

Since AG James has destroyed the real estate business in New York, now she can go after those folks selling "Designer" clothes. Jeans that cost $5 to produce are selling for a couple of hundred bucks. This may actually benefit more of her constituents than the Trump case. Maybe she could find at least one victim in the overpriced jeans thing. That would be more than she found with Trump.

Judge Scott McAfee in Georgia used to work for Phony Fani Willis at the DA's office in Atlanta. That was about ten years ago when he was fresh out of law school and Phony Fani supervised some department in the DA's office. On Thursday, it looked like he still worked for her as he failed to rein in her theatrical production of "I'm a Black Woman" in his courtroom.  I kept waiting for some background music with Helen Reddy singing "I am woman, Hear me roar". Instead, I heard "They are coming to take me away" by Napoleon XIV. On Friday, Phony Fani was nominated for five Academy awards for her performance. I think that she is a shoo-in for "Best Performance by a Lying Black Woman".

We always hear that judges in these cases are randomly selected. I believe in an old saying that "Only God can make a random selection." So, a 34-year-old with less than a year of experience as a judge is handling a case of this magnitude. You're shitting me, right? This is even less believable that Judge Slutkan in Washington DC being "randomly" picked for Trump's case. Let's have the Powerball people start doing these drawings for judge assignments. At least they do it openly on television.

Judge McAfee was appointed to the bench by Governor Kemp and is running in an election later this year. If he rules against Phony Fani, what are the odds that he will get elected in Fulton County which is overwhelmingly black and Democrat? He's got that lawyer gig to fall back on.

I have heard the phrase "bat shit crazy" but watching Phony Fani in the courtroom on Thursday was an enlightening definition of the meaning of that phrase. They can list 'Phony Fani" as a synonym for "bat shit crazy" in the New Urban Dictionary.  

On Friday, they brough in Phony Fani's father to testify that he did not know when she and Wade started their affair, but he was sure it was not before the date Phony Fani claimed. That was like asking Joe Biden if he knew when and where Hunter was balling hookers and crackheads. At least Joe doesn't pull out a magnifying glass to read a document. That kind of destroyed Phony Fani's father's testimony about what he had seen while living at Phony Fani's house with her. 

"The heat is on" took on a new meaning as Nathan Wade went through three or four bottles of water during his testimony. No one else in the room seemed to be sweating as profusely as Mr. Wade. Wonder why? If he remains as the lead attorney to try Trump, they will have to station the Aquafina truck right at the curb by the courthouse. 

After hearing a question to Wade, I got up and went to the refrigerator for a drink. When I sat back down, he started to answer the question. I asked my wife if she had paused the television. She told me that he had to think about his answer. Then the answer was "yes" or "no". Who takes a minute for a yes or no question? A liar? If they had asked a tough question, I could have taken the dog out for a walk while waiting.

There was a sign that Wade is not as crazy as Phony Fani. When asked if he keeps large amounts of cash at his home, he responded by saying that it would be kind of stupid to announce that fact. Phony Fani is obviously crazy or stupid as she made it clear that she keeps lots of cash on hand at her home. Before she left the witness stand, 27 people had been arrested for trying to break into her home. The line of potential burglars was so long that they were giving out numbers to those waiting in line. The Sheriff dispatched a prison bus to the house to bring in those being arrested. Film at Eleven!!

The real test for fairness will be how long it takes the IRS to start an investigation of how much cash Phony Fani has accrued from "grinding". I am not sure of what that is, but that was her answer for the source of the cash. Meanwhile, over at Wade's office, people are apparently lining up to pay him in cash. He also charges everything to his corporate credit card and then lets his accountant sort it out. Will this be a new method of accounting that the IRS will approve for all of us?

Watching "The Five" later on Fox, Jimmy Faila said that if a cop asks you "Have you been drinking?" and you take 45 seconds to answer, you are on the way to jail. Does that mean Nathan Wade was lying? Is Phony Fani Willis "Bat shit crazy"?

For my entire life, I have heard Yankees ridicule "Southern Justice". Like everything else from a Yankee's mouth, it was a distortion. Watching the Yankees turn on one of their own, Trump, you realize that there is no justice in Mudville. There are only crooks. Yankee=Hypocrite

Is Biden just Putin in Drag??

 I saw Senile Joe's announcement today about the death of Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison. Navalny was the leader of the opposition to Putin.

Joe the Joke attacked Donald Trump's comments and basically blamed him for Putin's actions. It's worth noting that Putin did not invade the Ukraine while Trump was President. Liberal Americans may think that Biden is actually in charge, but Putin knows better. He knows that no one is clearly in command in Washington. We are being ruled by a committee lead by Jill and Barack. They just get Joe drugged up and send him out to speak. If that's not true, how do you explain those times when he is not even lucid?

After ripping Trump and Putin, Joe the Joke took a few questions from the pussies in the press. As I watched, Joe was turning the pages in front of him as he read. He must have thought he was taking an exam in college. He brought a crib sheet to the podium.

Had they preselected the people asking questions? We won't know until the truth comes out in January. I just think that if you are reading answers, you already know what the questions are.

Here's a simple question that anyone with more than a room temperature IQ should have asked. "Mr. President, What's the irony level in you attacking Putin for imprisoning his political enemies while you and your government are seeking to imprison Donald Trump?" That was the most obvious question to ask but it went unspoken.

The liberals want to put Trump into prison so that he can't beat Biden. That's straight out of the Communist playbook. The Communists in China do that. The Communists in Russia do that. The Democrats in Washington do that. They jailed hundreds of people for the Jan 6 disturbance, but how many people are in prison for the BLM riots in the same city? If you guessed zero, go to the head of the class.

Last night, they arrested and charged a guy for being near Obama's home in Washington. How many people were arrested and charged for demonstrating in front of conservative Supreme Court Justices homes after the Dobbs decision? If you exclude the one guy at Kavanaugh's house later, there were none. Keep in mind, there were scores of demonstrators, but no arrests. Federal law prohibits demonstrations at the Justices' homes. Despite this law, no arrests. People went to jail for a selfie at the Capitol but rioting at the White House gates was okay? Democrats have established a two-tier justice system in America and are not even shy about it.

In Georgia, Nathan Wade met twice with the White House Counsel. What does a prosecutor in Atlanta need with the White House? How many times did Fat Alvin Bragg meet with the White House Counsel? The Democrats are doing the same thing that the Russians are doing. They want to jail their political opponents. 

It's time to shut down the DOJ and start over. Burn their office building to the ground and fire everyone. Or we could pay the British to come back and finish the job they started in 1814. 

Stupor Bowl Sunday

They are playing the Super Bowl again today in case you are the other person in the United States who just doesn't give a rat's ass!! 

Duane Thomas was a running back for the Dallas Cowboys in the 1971 season. Before the Super Bowl, he was asked what it was like to be playing in the "ultimate" game. Thomas replied, "If it's the ultimate, why are they playing it again next year?" Some quotes can't be topped. 

They are having their first Super Bowl in Las Vegas. Las Vegas is emblematic of everything that's wrong in America today, but I will save that rant for another day.

Some people claim that they watch the Super Bowl for the commercials. These are the same people who tell you they drink beer for the shape of the bottles.

You won't need to get your world maps out for the game. Even though they claim that the winning team is the "World Champions," they don't play this game on any other continent. 

Joe Biden has declined an interview with CBS, one of his biggest fans, at halftime. Given his after Biden-bedtime press conference on Thursday evening, one might understand his reluctance to speak after dark. With Biden not willing to be interviewed at halftime, you can lock up the world maps or the globes that you might need to find the countries that he would mix up in the interview. Following his comments on Thursday night, someone remarked that they can now go to the border with Mexico to see the Pyramids.

I miss the old days when the Super Halftime show was a marching band. If we had a marching band tonight, they could spell out "Gratuitous" to entertain all of the leftists in the crowd. Follow that with "Senile Joe" for the conservatives and the crowd could go home happy.

I will have to wait for the news on Monday morning to find out if any entertainers lose items of clothing or offend the masses at halftime. 

Several news "sources" ran stories this week about Bud Light advertising on the Super Bowl. Can they un-offend the millions of people that they paid some transexual to piss off last year? It's hard to get mad at a Clydesdale. There is actually a simple solution. Have the CEO appear and say: "We are sorry. We screwed up. We are going back to just making beer. Give us a second chance." Then have the Clydesdales drag him and the alleged transexual off into the sunset. That would be the ad everybody talks about on Monday.

At the Waffle House, I worked for a guy who was so conservative that he thought the John Birch Society was a bunch of liberals. His favorite political theory was, "Everything that liberals touch turns to shit." He didn't live long enough to see Trump say that now or to see social media to prove he was right. 

I tried to watch the news last night, but it appears that the only problem bigger than illegal immigration is the world's concerns about whether or not Taylor Swift's private jet can get her from Japan to Las Vegas in time for the game. As far as I can tell, no one worries about the emissions from Tay-Tay's private jet. You may have to walk to the game from New Mexico to save the atmosphere, but Tay-Tay's jet will fly from Japan.

Last, but certainly not least, the Roman Empire collapsed just before the birth of Biden, can we ditch the Roman Numerals on the game number? They started off the early games with regular numbers. It wasn't even the "Super Bowl" at the start. I think the Roman numerals came with higher ticket prices. I would hazard a guess that most folks can't read the Roman numerals. You have enough pretension with the "ultimate game " term. Bag the Romans! 

Let's Go To the Audiotape!!

 Forty years ago, on the CBS morning news show sportscaster Warner Wolf used to say, "Let's go to the videotape!" when he was talking about a game or event. Today, with Democrats across the land wailing and moaning about the Special Counsel's report about Joe Biden, it's time to go to the tapes.

Either there are two President Joe Bidens or the Democrats defending him are deranged liars. Thinking about that makes me realize that there could be two Joe Bidens. One screws up everything that he says and the other appears to Democrats in their dreams. Alas, there is but one real Joe Biden. Biden once tried to explain some of his income after he left the Vice Presidency by saying that he was paid to make speeches.  If Biden got paid to make a speech, it was actually a payoff from something he had done for someone while in office. No one is paying to listen to that buffoon.

Joe's defenders are all over the news talking about what a great speaker he is and how sharp his mind is. That's just Bullshit!! Joe Biden is either the cause or the cure for insomnia. You are afraid to go to sleep for fear that you will miss the one real word in his message. On the other hand, the drone of his voice as he searches for words like "the" can easily lull you to sleep. 

In his report, Special Counsel Hur wrote this: "Mr. Biden's recorded conversations with Zwonitzer from 2017 are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries." This was in 2017. Do you really think that he has gotten better over the years?

Democrats are screaming about Special Counsel Hur being a Republican. As FBI Director Chris Wray also claims to be a Republican, the Democrats need to just shut up. Hur was nominated for his job as a US Attorney by two Democratic senators. The media morons have their asses ablaze from the fear that their meal ticket may be in trouble. What will they do without Joe's steady hand on the hair of some young girl while he sniffs it? Can Kameltoe continue to destroy the nation at the same rate as Joe? 

There's a simple way to settle all of this. Hur recorded his conversations with Biden and had those conversations transcribed. Zwonitzer had recorded his conversations with Biden. He probably did that so when he fell asleep while waiting for Biden to find a word, he could catch up later. To paraphrase Warner Wolf, "Let's go to the audiotapes!"

They could put this on Sixty Minutes, but at the rate Biden speaks, his term will be over before the tapes are finished. If I know that there are audiotapes, all of the Buffoon Biden's Booster Club members should know. Why aren't they calling for the tapes? Biden is such a lousy speaker than just reading the transcripts might lull people to sleep.

Kameltoe Harris was on the news tonight talking about what a great speaker Biden is. That's kind of like me telling you what a great head of hair Biden has. (For those who have never seen me, I am bald,)

Notes from the Special Counsel

 Mr. Biden's memory also appeared to have significant limitations-both at the time he spoke to Zwonitzer in 2017, as evidenced by their recorded conversations, and today, as evidenced by his recorded interview with our office. Mr. Biden's recorded conversations with Zwonitzer from 2017 are often painfully slow, with Mr. Biden struggling to remember events and straining at times to read and relay his own notebook entries.

In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden's memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended ("if it was 2013 - when did I stop being Vice President?"), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began ("in 2009, am I still Vice President?"). He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he "had a real difference" of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama.

In a case where the government must prove that Mr. Biden knew he had possession of the classified Afghanistan documents after the vice presidency and chose to keep those documents, knowing he was violating the law, we expect that at trial, his attorneys would emphasize these limitations in his recall.

The entire saga is available at:

Report on the Investigation Into Unauthorized Removal, Retention, and Disclosure of Classified Documents Discovered at Locatinos Including the Penn Biden Center and the Delaware Private Residence of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net)

Say it ain't so, Joe!!!

 No, I am not the kid talking about Shoeless Joe Jackson, I am the old guy talking about Braindead Joe Biden. Last night, Braindead Biden called a press conference for after his normal bedtime. To say that it was a disaster would be kind. In that press conference, Biden called the leader of Egypt the leader of Mexico. I think that MSNBC immediately sprang to Joe's defense and said that it is absurd to expect him to be an expert on geography.

The Special Counsel handling Biden's case with the classified documents stated in his report that Biden has troubles with his memory. He explained that in his interview of Braindead Biden, Sleepy Joe did not know what years he had served as Vice President and could not recall the year that his son Beau, died. The Special Counsel said that he would not be able to get a jury to convict Biden because of Joe's poor memory.

Biden delivered a speech to a gathering of Democrats yesterday and talked about how the Special Counsel had cleared him of doing anything wrong and the investigation was over. If only Joe had not left out all of the details? 

Who made the call to let Sleepy Joe talk to the media after bedtime? The Democrats just gave that person's name to Hillary. WARNING!!! Suicide alert!! 

The Democrats are trying to tell us that a guy who can't remember when his son died is fit to decide the fate of the nation. Did former Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley Vanilli ever gather his staff to tell them to ignore orders from Biden? Who are the people responsible for this coverup? This coverup makes Watergate look like a high school drama production. More than that, who is actually making the decisions at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? The media (liberal media is redundant) used to talk about invoking the 25th Amendment during Trump's Presidency, but I see no calls for that today from those same people. Cat got your tongue, Morning Joe??

This is the biggest coverup about the condition of a President since Edith Wilson was running the country. At least, she was smart enough not to send Woodrow out for a press conference. I guess that Wilson and Biden both being Democrats is pure coincidence.

Who is actually running the country? You can bet the rent that it isn't Kameltoe Harris. Why isn't the gaggle of alleged "news" reporters at the White House asking this question? Does anyone believe that this situation just popped up this week? 

What else have they not told us? Do they drug him for big events and speeches? In 2020 Trump offered to take a drug test after a debate if Biden would do the same. Did Trump or his staff already know something about Joe? It is interesting that Joe is at times is almost coherent and at other times appears brain damaged. This takes us back to that "Is there a Joe Biden double?" somewhere in Washington?

This whole affair is result of the failure of the press to ask questions and of the administration to not answer questions. How can we let a guy with dementia run the country?  If, in fact, he is running the country. 

That brings us back to Obama. He maintains his residence in Washington. There are hundreds of "reporters" in Washington, DC. Why aren't reporters staking out the Obama residence to see who comes and goes? Do they just not want to know? Why aren't reporters and television networks more surprised by the Special Counsel's comments than they are acting?

Inquiring minds want to know. Unfortunately, none of those minds are in Washington.

Not another frigging penny!!

Chuck "The Schmuck" Schumer wasted no time introducing his foreign assistance bill after the alleged "border bill". Surprise! It contains another 60 billion dollars or so for the Ukraine.  There's also money for Israel and Taiwan and a few billion for odds and ends.

There's an old saying, "That which deserves to live, does." Russia has controlled that area of land longer than the United States has existed. Why is it such a horrible thing now?

If you are a liberal, don't waste your time telling me about the evils of Russia and Communism. Our biggest foreign supplier of goods is China. I don't know if Democrats are aware of this, but China is run by Communists. So apparently, we have no fear of Communism but fear only Russia. Just as a reminder, Russia was our ally in World War 2. We were able to get a foothold in Europe because millions of Russians died on the Eastern Front taking loads of Germans with them.

History is circular. We claim that we are supporting democracy in the Ukraine, but Zelensky has said that there will be no elections until they drive out the Russians and that's not looking good. How long did it take for Chiang Kai-shek to allow free elections in Taiwan? 

We are borrowing money to support a country run by a comedian. What could possibly go wrong? Why are the Russians wasting their time and manpower in the Ukraine? They could land in Mexico and walk into Texas and Biden would give them money to do it. 

Why do we support corrupt regimes? Here's a quick list of countries from my lifetime. Formosa/Taiwan, South Korea, South Vietnam. Cuba, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. If you think that nothing could go wrong in the Ukraine, yesterday Chuck Schumer said that young Americans could end up fighting in Eastern Europe in a few years. We spent billions in Afghanistan. How did that turn out Chuck?

How many times does Charlie Brown try to kick the football before Lucy stops moving it?

I am amazed that the Democrats are willing to fight to keep Russians out of the Ukraine but are unwilling to secure our own border. There are more illegals in North Carolina than there are Russians in the Ukraine. So naturally, we borrow money from the Chinese and the Arabs and send billions to the Ukraine.  Is there anyone outside of Washington, DC who thinks that this is a good idea?

Call your Congressman and Senators. Not another frigging penny to the Ukraine!

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Tuesday

 BFU- On Sunday, Joe Biden told a group in Las Vegas that he met recently with Francois Mitterand, the President of France. If only Mitterand had not died in 1996. They need to get Joe a "large print" teleprompter. That's only a starting point. 

If we don't give the Ukraine another $65 billion, according to Democrats the world will end, I am willing to take that chance. 

The Senate "immigration reform" bill is out but no one has read it all yet. Among the hidden gems is a clause that says that any state objecting to the bill must file suit in the federal district court in Washington, DC.  They can't file it in the state being affected. The DC Circuit is the only district further left than California. Why is that in there? The liberals can't help themselves. They have to rig the game. The next question is, "What else is hidden in there?"

More than fifty years ago the "experts" were claiming that if Vietnam fell, Cambodia and Thailand would be next to go Communist. It's been fifty years and still no dominoes falling. Why are the same experts predicting that Poland will fall if the Ukraine does? Does anyone read a history book?

Some guy on X, nee Twitter, claims that Donald Trump ate secret documents before the FBI could seize them. Trump won't eat a medium rare steak, but some nutcases think that he is sitting around scarfing secret documents. Just another victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome. 

There is a story now that the FBI might have missed searching a "secret room" at Mar-a-Lago. That's what happens when you have decided on the outcome before you start the project. First, if you had let his attorney witness the search, you might not have this issue. Second, by not allowing witnesses, you have brought questions to your own credibility. Like, did you plant something? For the hundredth time, it's time to shut down the FBI. Burn their headquarters to the ground, fire everyone and start over in Nebraska. 

Let's bring Fauci out of retirement and have him lead the drive for a vaccine to use against Trump Derangement Syndrome. Adverse reactions may include orange skin, a hairstyle like your mother's and cravings for Big Macs and Diet Cokes. We should mandate that all media members and Joint Chiefs of Staff members get triple vaxxed. 

I saw a female Biden official claiming that they couldn't follow Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy because it "might be illegal". The Supreme Court ruled that Biden could not forgive student loan debt, but he keeps doing that. Obviously, "illegal" is not in the Biden vocabulary.

My beloved and I journeyed to the Newberry Opera House in Newberry, South Carolina over the weekend to see Jimmy Fortune perform. It was a great performance. It was my birthday gift to my beloved, so I bought front row seats. It's a whole different concert in those seats. There was a couple sitting to our left. The husband was obviously enjoying the show while his wife scrolled for messages on her phone. That guy is a better man than I am. I would have thrown that damn phone to the floor and stomped on it. But that's just me. 

We had been to three other Jimmy Fortune concerts before this one. He usually starts by saying, "We are going to celebrate God and country tonight." Just to make sure that I was in that patriotic mood, I wore my red, white, and blue bib overalls with my black dress top hat. Yeah, I got a few stares and lots of comments. After forty-five years, my wife is almost used to this. Don't look for any pictures online!

The Newberry Opera Hall is a great facility. Of course, they have a website. Plenty of events are on that schedule. We stayed at the Hampton Inn right across the street from the hall. The exterior of the Hampton is designed to look like it is from the same era as the Opera House. Go see for yourself.

Back at the hotel, a guy came up to talk to me and said, "I saw you from the back of the hall." It only took a few seconds for the talk to turn to politics. He sells Fords at a dealership in Georgia. He told me that Ford wants the dealership to spend $1.3 million to install EV chargers and the equipment that they need to service electric vehicles. The dealership is projected to sell nine EVs this year. They could save money by giving those nine people each a free gas vehicle. 

Coming home from Newberry, we were on US 321 south of Chester, South Carolina. I looked across the highway and there was a Ukrainian flag flying from a flagpole below the American flag. I didn't even know that Lindsey Graham lived near Chester. 

Waiting for my wife to renew her driver's license and get a "Real ID", I walked to a nearby thrift store to look around. I bought a book from "The Complete Idiot's Guide" series. It was about American History.  How bad was it? I read about 25 pages from four different chapters and stopped. It was so bad that I threw it away when I got home. I wouldn't donate it back to Goodwill for fear that someone else might read it. At least the title is honest. If you read that entire book, you will be a complete idiot. 

Figures don't lie, but Liars can figure

 I was watching some news show on television on Saturday when the alleged journalist and some politician were discussing our nation's economy. I was stunned to find out that according to these two schmucks, the economy is booming. They cited dropping unemployment rates and the growing stock market as evidence of our "robust" economy.

First, the only stock market that I have invested in over the last seventy years was selling goats and cows. The New York Stock Exchange and the other such markets are nothing more than governmental endorsed, semi-regulated casinos where fools invest their life savings in the hope that one day 2+2 will equal 5. Note to gamblers, give it up!! 

Unemployment rates are alleged to be at record low levels. The first thing that you need to know is that the government does not count those who have stopped looking for work. So, those who have decided to live on the taxpayers' largesse (social programs) are not involved in these statistics. What the statistics don't detail is the number of people having to get a second job to buy groceries and gas in this "robust" economy. These folks are why the unemployment numbers are dropping. There are still beggars on every corner and "Help Wanted" signs on almost every business. The government's numbers simply do not reflect the reality of the situation. Of course, the government has never lied to us about anything. To be honest they have lied about a few things like illegal immigrants, COVID, COVID shots, what vaccines do, weapons of mass destruction, the Ukraine, Hunter Biden's job skills, Obama's third term, Martin Luther King, George Floyd, BLM, the history of the United States, the 2020 election, and almost everything else in the last 200 years. So, for the government to lie about the economy is not exactly groundbreaking behavior. But I digress.

The Forever Feeding Us Falsehoods Feds tell us that inflation is down to about a 3% annual rate. Just for the record, gasoline has gone up thirty (30) cents a gallon in the last three weeks in North Carolina. That's at least a ten percent increase in three weeks. If you annualize that increase, you will have a stroke. The price of fuel drives the prices almost everything else as magic carpets are unable to supply stores. The real fuel price to watch is the price of diesel. Everything moves by truck. The Amazon guy in his electric vehicle can't stock the Wal-Mart.

Let's talk about groceries for a few lines. Eggs are somewhere between $3 and $6 a dozen. Butter is between $4 and $8 a pound. Vegetable oil that was $2 in 2020 is now $6 a bottle. "Margarine" has 80% vegetable oil in it. There is only one brand of "margarine" at Food Lion. Everything else in those tubs and sticks is "spread". Most of the "spreads" have somewhere between 30 and 60% vegetable oil. If you have ever wondered why that yellow crap won't melt on your toast, that is why. This is what happens when we try to burn our food as fuel.  Have you visited the meat department lately? In 1965, 70/30 ground beef was 35 cents a pound. Today, it is somewhere between $6 and $8 a pound. Cereal is somewhere between $3 and $8 a box. Have you bought a ham lately? I suggested to the grocery store manager that they have someone on hand to arrange financing for hams and beef roasts. 

In closing, these prices don't take into account the states and cities that allow people to just walk into stores and steal products. This is why businesses are closing. I walked into a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market a couple of weeks ago across the street from Guilford College in Greensboro. There were rows of products that were in locked displays. The Democrats have created a nation where their supporters are free to steal and loot.

Liberals talk about Trump being like Hitler. This is proof that Democrats don't study history. While I don't believe that Trump is a danger and is certainly not like Hitler, rampant inflation in Germany is what brought Hitler to power. Germans grew tired of hauling a wheelbarrow full of paper money to the bakery for a loaf of bread. They changed the government. 

So, I am back to where I started with this. Is the government lying about the economy to stay in power? Will anyone believe them?

Phony Fani Found Fleecing?

 Why are so many in Washington DC worried about the Ukraine? How many of our elected officials are on the take from Ukraine? The most prominent are Lindsey Graham and Joe Biden. Graham needs professional counseling and Biden needs to get into dementia care, but what about the rest?

Why does a bill about securing our own borders have to do with the Ukraine? What does the same bill have to do with Israel? Can't the Congress just address one issue at a time?  Watching these clowns is like watching Frank Fritz on American Pickers. "I like to bundle to get a better price!" But we aren't getting a better price, we are paying more. 

I am tired of bundling! Let's do one thing at a time. Do you pay your phone bill and tell them to give the rest of the money to Duke Power? This is how the Congress operates. They pass a "National Defense Bill" and throw in a paragraph dealing with what kind of mower you can buy or how fast you can drive. The best example of this is the Inflation Reduction Act which contained absolutely nothing that dealt with inflation. Just for the record, the government can't spend their way out of inflation. The Inflation Reduction Act is the new standard for "pork barrel" projects. Bills from Congress are obviously not subject to any "Truth in Labeling" laws.

If Congress actually does pass a bill and direct how the money is to be spent, the bill then encounters political whores like Phony Fani Willis. For local and state officials, "federal money" is like manna from heaven. Not that they have actually read a Bible but let me elaborate. 

I was at a Caswell County Commission meeting years ago and while waiting on my turn to excoriate the leadership about their desire for zoning, I listened to a woman from the school system requesting some additional spending. She mentioned that one aspect included "federal monies". She then said that since that was from the federal government, it wouldn't cost us anything. At that point my head exploded. If you guessed that when they asked for questions on this subject I jumped to my feet, you are correct. I pointed out to her that "federal monies" come from federal taxes that many of us, most of whom have jobs, pay every year. I suggested rather strongly that "Federal Monies" did not just fall from the sky. She appeared stunned. But like Congress, the County Commission voted to go ahead and spend the money.

Back to Phony Fani Willis. Her office received a $488,00 grant from the federal government for a "Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention". The person in charge of that project told employees that they were going to use some of that money for "swag, MacBooks and travel". Did they actually spend federal money on those goodies? I don't know, but three years later, that center has never opened and the county building where it was to be housed is closed. A woman who was a "whistleblower" on this issue was demoted and then fired by Phony Fani. The whistleblower claims that she was escorted from the building by seven armed investigators. It appears that getting balled by her unqualified "Special" prosecutor is not Phony Fani's only waste of government funds. All I want to know today is did Phony Fani fleece the feds for funds spent on "swag," travel and MacBooks?

So how is Phony Fani faring today? She has been subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee, the whistleblower is suing, and Ashleigh Merchant wants the details on Phony Fani's hiring of her lover, Mr. Wade. 

At what point does the Governor of Georgia awaken from his coma and decide that he needs to take action?

I miss Lewis Grizzard!

 I loved Lewis Grizzard's columns. I have also read several of his books. His books had great titles such as "Shoot Low Boys-They're Riding Shetland Ponies". Who can forget "Chili Dawgs Always Bark At Night"? I only wish that Lewis had not died so young. He passed away almost thirty years ago at the age of 47. 

If only Lewis could have held on for the Fani Willis Fiasco. This is a story made for Lewis to write about in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution or the AJC as those in Atlanta call it. Lewis would have given us the play-by-play as Fani lied to us all on the news. She's paying her boyfriend $250 an hour to handle a case for which he is completely unqualified. Could she not find someone to ball her for less than $250 an hour?  When she is accused of bad decisions, she takes the pulpit in a black church on Sunday morning to accuse the world of racism. Would Lewis have pointed out that Fani has the biggest balls in Atlanta? Maybe if Lewis had stuck around to write this story, Fani would not have needed to hire those two media-monitoring companies to inform her about her press coverage? I like to think that somewhere in heaven, Lewis is looking down and laughing his ass off.

Moving on, I hate the whole concept of Artificial Intelligence. We wouldn't need this if people weren't so frigging stupid. Last night, as I stood in the kitchen, the home phone rang. I rarely answer the phone because it is usually someone selling Medicare supplements. I looked at the caller ID and decided that I needed something to entertain myself, so I answered the phone. I said "Hello." The borg responded, "Hi! I am Marla, your Medicare consultant. How are you doing?" I responded, "Not worth a shit! And you?" My wife was sitting nearby and spit out her Diet Pepsi and started laughing. There was a pause of a few seconds and then came the response. "Oh! Thank you for asking." I hung up the phone. Now, I have to work on a better response for her next call.

I am fascinated by all of the people wanting to punish Trump for being successful in business. The Attorney General claims that this is all about Trump not wanting to pay the maximum rates for loans and insurance. Listening to her claims, one would think that the government in New York actually allows people to set their own property tax values. How many cases involving large businesses and former Presidents are heard by a judge who sends out bare chested pictures of himself to people who had the misfortune of being in a graduating class with him? Engeron put the "buff" in "buffoon". Engeron is the only judge who keeps his law clerk within arm's length in the courtroom to help him make stupid decisions. Did he ever "solo" on a case?

Clinton and Obama share a common background. Neither had a pot to piss in before they became President. Now they are both multi-millionaires. All of this on the President's salary of $400,000. WOW!!  So naturally, Latitia James investigates Donald Trump, who actually donated his Presidential salary to various agencies such as the National Park Service. 

Barry and Big Mike have book and movie development deals that have enriched them. When was the last time someone asked you, "Have you read the latest Obama book?" or "Have you seen the latest in the Big Mike movies?" Yeah, you can get back to me on that.  These deals are just deferred bribes and payoffs. 

We won't get into Hillary making a fortune in cattle future trading in ten-month period while Bill was Governor. She invested $1,000 and it generated almost $100,000 for her. No chance of something illegal there? Now, the Grifter family has the Clinton Foundation. Quick! Name a project that the Clinton Foundation is doing right now. No fair Googling an answer. 

Make no mistake about it, Letitia James, Fani Willis and "Fat Albert" Alvin Bragg are out to get Trump because he is a rich white conservative. 

If only Lewis was here today to write about this whole mess. I will leave you with this Lewis Grizzard column from 1993. It's one of my favorites.

If y'all don't like Dixie, Delta is ready

By: Lewis Grizzard

I don't care what they do to the Georgia state flag. They can put a big peach on the thing as far as I'm concerned. They can put Deion Sanders' smiling face on it.

And let it be known that the opponents of the flag, with its reminiscence of the Confederate banner, will bring down that flag.

One way or the other, color it red, white, blue and gone. It's politically incorrect and all the things that are deemed such have no future in this country.

We elected Hillary Rodham Clinton and the ban on the gays in the military will be lifted. It's a done deal. Like it or not, the Georgia state flag has no chance either.

The issue on my mind is white Southerners like myself.

They don't like us. They don't trust us. They want to tell us why we're wrong. They want to tell us how we should change.

They is practically every s.o.b. who isn't one of us.

I read a piece on the op-ed page of the Constitution written by somebody who in the jargon of my past "ain't from around here."

He wrote white Southerners are always looking back and that we should look forward. He said that about me.

I'm looking back? I live in one of the most progressive cities in the world. We built a subway to make Yankees feel at home.

And I live in a region the rest of the country can't wait to move to.

A friend, also a native Southerner, who shares my anger about the constant belittling of our kind and our place in this world, put it this way: "Nobody is going into an Atlanta bar tonight celebrating because they've just been transferred to New Jersey."

Damn straight!

I was having lunch at an Atlanta golf club recently. I was talking with friends.

A man sitting at another table heard me speaking and asked, "Where are you all from?" He was mocking me. He was mocking my Southern accent. He was sitting in Atlanta, Ga., and was making fun of the way I speak.

He was from Toledo. He had been transferred to Atlanta. If I hadn't have been 46 years old, skinny and a basic coward with a bad heart, I'd have punched him. I did, however, give him a severe verbal dressing down.

I was in my doctor's office in Atlanta. One of the women who works there, a transplanted Northerner, asked how I pronounced the world "siren."

I said I pronounced it "si-reen." I was half kidding, but that is the way I heard the word pronounced when I was a child.

The woman laughed and said, "You Southerners really crack me up. You have a language all your own."

Yeah we do. If you don't like it, go back home and stick your head in a snow bank.

They want to tell us how to speak, how to live, what to eat, what to think and they also want to tell us how they used to do it back in Buffalo.

Buffalo? What was the score? A hundred and ten to Zip.

The man writing on the op-ed page was writing about that bumper sticker that shows the old Confederate soldier and he's saying, "FERGIT HELL!" I don't go around sulking about the fact the South lost the Civil War. But I am aware that once upon a long time ago, a group of Americans saw fit to rebel against what they thought was an overbearing federal government. There is no record anywhere that indicates anybody in my family living in 1861 owned slaves. As a matter of fact, I come from a long line of sharecroppers, horse thieves and used car dealers. But a few of them fought anyway -- not to keep their slaves, because they didn't have any. I guess they simply thought it was the right thing to do at the time.

Whatever the reason, there was a citizenry that once saw fit to fight and die and I come from all that, and I look at those people as brave and gallant, and a frightful force until their hearts and their lands were burnt away.

I will never turn my back on that heritage.

But know this: I'm a white man and I'm a Southerner. And I'm sick of being told what is wrong with me from outside critics, and I'm tired of being stereotyped as a refugee from "God's Little Acre."

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, and I'll probably have to say it a thousand times again.

Delta may be hurting financially, but it's still ready to take you back to Toledo when you are ready to go.

-- Published Feb. 5, 1993

Thursday Thoughts and Shots

 If something happens and Biden can't run this year, who will serve Obama's fourth term?

New York City wonders why they have a crime problem. Then they release five guys who attacked two policemen in Times Square. Fat Albert Bragg didn't even make these guys post bail. Five illegal immigrants attack two cops and don't even have to post bail? Crime is on the rise in NYC. This might explain that?

Bragg is too busy inventing laws to charge Doanld Trump to have time to deal with real crime. Trump has done more for New York than all of those harassing him, and their street thug friends will ever do. 

Why does the federal government move illegals in the middle of the night? Is it because they know that they are doing something wrong?

Rep. Ayanna Pressley is ripping Walgreens for closing stores in her district. She claims this is "racist". What isn't "racist" for Pressley? Maybe if she could get her constituents to stop stealing, some business might be able to keep stores open in that area. 

Memo to Pressley: Businesses don't exist to give your voters a place to steal stuff. They exist to provide products and services for a profit. An American history class would help you understand what's going on in this country. A beginning business class might overwhelm you, Ayanna.

Why can illegals get on government paid airlines without having any ID, but US citizens have to provide ID and get searched to get on the same plane with them?

At Ellis Island more than a hundred years ago, you had to pass a physical exam to enter the country. We are so sophisticated today that we let anyone enter. They don't have to get any shots until they get citizenship.  The federal government required military members to get shots, but don't require that of people entering the country illegally. If any of this makes sense, consider communicating with Dr. Jack Kevorkian on a Ouija Board.

What do Fani Willis, Letitia James and Fat Albert Bragg have in common? They all hate successful white men. Let's talk about racism again.

The Biden Administration has certified Matha's Vineyard and Rehoboth Beach as low-income rural areas so that they can get government funding for EV charging stations. Biden and credibility should never be used in the same sentence paragraph chapter book.

My Hero of the Week is Ashleigh Merchant. She is the attorney who has filed suit against Fulton County and Fani Willis because they are not complying with Georgia's open records act. They keep telling her that there are no records available on lots of things. The Fulton County District Attorney's was asked for information on any attorneys that Fani Willis has hired. She was told that there were "no responsive records" available. 

At some point soon, someone in the Georgia State government is going to have to remove Willis from her job. It's going downhill at the speed of light.  It's pretty obvious that the grand jury indicted the wrong people. 

What the most telling detail in Merchant's requests? It seems that the District Attorney's office had engaged the services of a couple of media-monitoring companies. They let you know when you are mentioned or appear in the media. I think one was "Critical Mention" and the other was "TV Eyes". Why did they spend taxpayer dollars on this?

Would any of the New York cases have been pursued against anyone other than Donald Trump?

All of the experts on television are saying that abortion will be a big issue this year. When killing the unborn and letting illegals roam the streets stealing and killing are your main campaign points, it is time to check out as a civilization.

Tonight, my wife and I were watching "The Five" on Fox when a story came on about a robot being developed by Elon Musk. My wife watched the video and said, "He walks like Joe Biden". Forty-five years of marriage and something has finally rubbed off on her. I congratulated her. About a minute later, Judge Jeanine said the same thing. High Fives at the Jones house!!