Sunday Sundry Stuff

 Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina announced that he is not running for reelection in 2026. As I fight back the tears, I can only hope that this time we can elect an actual Republican to take his place.

There's a story that Roy Cooper will run for Thom's seat in the Senate. That will give us a chance to discuss Crapper's handling of the COVID crisis in North Carolina. I am getting ready to recycle some of my works about Governor Crapper for the campaign season.

Some "news" article online this morning is trying to blame Kristi Noem for the flash floods in Texas this week. I think that it is a horrible natural disaster and that only a world class shitbag reporter would try to blame the Department of Homeland Security for a flash flood where the water rose thirty feet in a matter of minutes.  But that's just what liberals do.

The re-election of Donald Trump has eliminated unemployment among the Communist lawyers as the American hating Democratic Party puts them all to work filing frivolous lawsuits against the Trump administration. Trump can't take a dump without a Democrat seeking an injunction because the Constitution does not specifically say that Trump can take that action. 

If I were Chief Justice John Roberts, I would be slapping some District Court Judges into line right now. With the "Big Beautiful Bill" passed, Congress has time to start calling in some District Judges for impeachment hearings. It's time to remove some judges and adjust some attitudes in the federal court system. Some of those folks aren't even putting up a facade of impartiality. It's time to flush the toilet over in the judicial branch.

Growing up, I was a Los Angeles Dodgers fan. I gave up on watching baseball sometime in the 1970's for other pursuits. My wife is a Houston Astros fan. How did that happen? In October of 2017, we were visiting the Pigeon Forge-Gatlinburg area. One night, I turned on the television and the World Series between the Dodgers and the Astros was on. I hadn't seen the Dodgers play in years, so I left it on.  I fell asleep after a few minutes, but my wife stayed up and watched the whole game. By breakfast time, she was an Astros fan. I still don't watch much baseball, but she does. Where is this leading? On Friday night the Astros and the Dodgers played in Los Angeles. The Astros put the biggest ass-whipping in the more than 60-year history of Dodger Stadium on the Dodgers. They beat them 18-1. They scored ten runs in one inning. How bad was it? The first pitch of the game was hit out of the park for a home run by an Astro. It went downhill for the Dodgers from there. I have been to funerals that turned out better than this. Just another reason to make me glad that I have given up watching baseball.

In 1983 I was talking to a customer in the lounge at the Casa Gallardo Mexican Restaurant and Bar that I managed. There was a NASCAR race on the television in the bar, and he asked, "Who's your driver?" I said, "What are you talking about?" He replied, "This is NASCAR country, and you need to have a driver to follow." Forty-two years later, I still don't have a NASCAR car jockey that I follow. 

Why do they still call it "stock car racing"? None of the cars are stock. In fact, they are basically all identical. There's not a single part on any NASCAR racer that is on an actual production car. They don't even use real lug nuts anymore. 

NASCAR is staging a street race in Chicago, of all places, today. How do you tell if you are at a street race in Chicago or a riot in Chicago? Ticket prices at the riot are lower. NASCAR controls the in-car cameras to make sure that none of them show the door gunner positioned in every NASCAR racecar in Chicago. 

I want to see if NASCAR will fine drivers for saying unkind but truthful things about Chicago. After fining a driver for saying that Mexico City was a "shithole", what's in store after a race in Chicago? Is this just the "ghetto" segment of the season?  Are they just hauling illegals in with the racecars? Will drivers be compelled to complain in Spanish? What driver does Mayor Brandon Johnson follow? Will Illinois Governor Pritzker bring his enormous ass and his security detail to the post race ceremonies? 

The base of NASCAR's fan base is in the South. Why don't they work on building that up instead of taking races away from tracks in the South and giving them to septic tanks like the LA Coliseum, the streets of Chicago or the slums of Mexico City?  If they want to do a street race, how about a race on I-285 around Atlanta? Forget Chicago, they could have the Great Perimeter Road Race in Atlanta. They wouldn't even need to close off the road. There are people speeding on that road that a NACAR driver would be hard pressed to pass. NASCAR wouldn't have to worry about diversity; there's two chicken places at every exit on I-285. How about it, NASCAR? Did I mention the Varsity?? The drivers can all get their oil changed with the onion rings.