Thoughtless Thoughtful Thursday?

 How many more innocent children get killed by an angry transsexual before we realize that these folks are mentally ill? The whole trans thing used to be considered a mental illness until doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies realized there were billions of dollars in profits to be made taking advantage of these folks.

The "medical professionals" treat a mental illness by mutilating someone's sex organs and sentencing them to follow that with a life of expensive drugs to maintain their choice of genders. It's obvious that the medical "profession" has given up on the whole medical ethics thing.

Parents who sign off on this surgery for their minor children need to be charged with child abuse and imprisoned. If your kid wants to "identify" as an amputee, will you let them have a healthy arm or leg cut off?  Of course not. But somehow mutilating your sex organs seems to be socially and medically acceptable.

Naturally enough, when a mentally ill person shoots up a school, Democrats like Chuck "the Schmuck" Schumer call to ban guns. Why didn't Chuck call for an end to tranny tolerance? Why didn't he call for more mental health treatment for "trans" folks? If the kids had been hit by a car, would Schumer be calling for a ban on automobiles or highways? 

This is the Nashville school shooter all over again. We still haven't seen all of the evidence in that case because those in power are afraid to let us read what the mentally ill trans person in that case wrote. Of course, the Minneapolis maniac left messages on his guns, magazines and shirt. We are left wondering what caused a maniac to attack a group of small children.

It is past time to realize that we need to address the issue of mental illness with those who purport to be transexuals. How many more kids die at the hands of mentally ill transsexuals before we do something? Minnesota is one of the most liberal states in the nation. Is this the price for that tolerance?

How about that lard ass governor of Illinois doing a video the other day by the lakefront in Chicago at 6:00 AM? He told us about how safe it is there. He forgot to include pictures of his security detail in the video. He even forgot to include any pictures of himself, if indeed he was even actually there. It's amazing that Democratic politicians are now telling us that there is an actual acceptable level of crime. Like everything else, perspective is everything in this discussion. "Crime waves" will be in the news when a liberal politician or news reporter gets robbed, raped, carjacked or beaten.

The most liberal anchor, Joe Scarborough, on the most liberal news network, MSNBC, asked the mayor of Chicago if 5,000 more cops would help with the rising crime rate in Chicago. He asked several times, but Communist Mayor Brandon Johnson was unable to answer the question with a simple yes or no answer. WOW!! If you are a Communist getting hammered by MSNBC, it might be time to rethink your position.

Increased police presence in the national crime capital of Washington, DC has resulted in a dramatic decrease in crime. Have Governor Prickster of Illinois and the Chicago Commie Mayor Brandon Johnson not watched the news from DC? 

Boothers and the Barrel

 I have two words for Cracker Barrel leadership: "New Coke". I realize that was before most of them graduated from high school but there's a lesson for them in that debacle. 

I know that the folks at Cracker Barrel have engaged the services of companies that do consumer research and all kinds of polls and surveys, but that doesn't carry any weight in the real world. In real world of the restaurant business the cash register talks, and all other opinions are just bullshit and theories.

If the leaders at Cracker Barrel want to make changes in their business, they need to do them gradually. It's like piloting an ocean liner, you don't make a hard left turn and just hope that everything stays in place. It won't. By trying to make dramatic changes, the brainless at the Barrel are throwing their loyal customers overboard to satisfy people who don't eat at Cracker Barrel. You don't blow up your business to build it. Ask the folks at Coke.

Forget the sign change which has now been scrapped. Forget about whitewashing the walls and changing the decor. Wait!!! An auctioneer that I buy from is one of a very limited number of auction companies to be selected by Cracker Barrel to sell all of the old decor they are removing. He's not allowed to advertise that the items are from the Cracker Barrel but anyone with more than a room temperature IQ can see that. Cracker Barrel is actually making a bigger mistake than the decor change that will cause them more operational problems in the long run.

What is that bigger mistake? They are putting booths in at their newly remodeled locations. Why are they doing that? They are doing that because that is what their "research" says that people want. People may also want drugs and sex when they make a pitstop from the highway but hopefully the Barrel will not pay attention to that research.

I am willing to share some of the knowledge that I have acquired in a more than fifty-year career in the restaurant business. I am not a "boother". I go to restaurants to eat, not to lounge on the furniture. I am perfectly happy to put my ass in a chair and eat. But there are people who must have a booth. I had a customer tell me one day that he couldn't eat unless he was seated in a booth. Naturally, I asked him about how big a booth he had at home for his dining pleasure. He told me that the only reason that he went out to eat was to sit in a booth. This guy made my Top Ten "Dumbest Son of a Bitches" that I have met in my life list.

Just to confirm my "I Love Stupid People" belief, I offer a few thoughts. Countless times, I have watched as a host or hostess asked a customer, "How many in your party?" and the person replied "Booth". I never missed the opportunity to point out to these people that "booth" is not a number. Of course, then you have the "closet boothers". These are people who you take to a table, but if a booth empties before they get their food, they jump up and go sit down at the dirty booth. Then you have to explain to them that someone else has been waiting for that booth and they need to get their asses back to their table. Yeah, it's never easy.

People sit longer at booths than they do at tables and chairs. This cuts the table turnover rate in the dining room. So, while you may have happier customers in those booths, you have fewer of them. Will the "boothers" spend more to make up for the lower turnover rate? 

Booths will increase the wait times for those waiting in the Country Store area for a table. At some point, they are going to tire of waiting and just buy a candy bar and get back on the road. Those waiting outside in the rockers won't even bother buying a candy bar, they will just leave. So instead of booths driving up sales, they are actually going to reduce sales. By the way, the check average for "boothers" is no higher than for the peasants at regular tables.

This is the problem with market research and surveys. First, people lie on surveys. Second, there is no such thing as a perfect sampling. Coca-Cola did much more research than the Cracker Barrel did and they still pulled off a screwup of epic proportions, New Coke. The New Barrel won't hold water. 

Several years ago, fast food restaurants started putting the soft drink dispensers in the dining room so people could get their own drinks. Those of us who opposed that pointed out the flaws in that system. What happened? After about a ten-year period of experimentation, soft drink dispensers are now going back behind the counter. Why? People steal.  That never turned up in surveys.

Go get those chicken and dumplings while you can!! Don't wait for a booth.

I Love Stupid People, The Saga Continues

 The average IQ of federal employees skyrocketed after AG Pam Bondi fired the dumb son of a bitch who threw a sub sandwich at a federal officer after cussing him out for being in DC.  Sean Dunn, who was an "international affairs specialist" at the Department of Justice before he decided to assault a federal officer, was fired by Bondi without a lot of discussion of his value to the DOJ. 

While Gavin Newsome wages a war against Donald Trump and the enforcement of immigration laws, people in Los Angeles cannot get permits to rebuild their homes. Memo to Greasy Gavin: People who can't get their homes rebuilt are not going to vote for a piece of crap like you and are going to share that idea with their friends and anyone else they encounter.

If Democrats had half a brain and there are many who have less, they would quit wasting all of their time trashing Trump. Regardless of what you claim, Trump can't run again for President. I am pretty sure that he isn't  even going to try. While Dims waste all of their time attacking Trump, Republicans like Vance, Rubio and Bondi are busy building their bases. It's not like Trump will wake up one morning and say, " I'm going to do things today that Greasy Gavin Newsome wants me to do. I should have known that he was right."

How about the world famous pencil-necked geek, Adam "Shitty" Schiff? It is beginning to look like the DOJ will soon be trying to prosecute Shitty Schiff for mortgage fraud. Schiff's pre-emptive pardon from Biden isn't going to help him with the mortgage issue. I don't believe that the pardon will help Shitty with the case coming about Schiff disclosing secret documents either.

It wouldn't be a complete list of buffoons without mentioning the Democratic governor of New Mexico, Michelle Grisham. On Monday, Mouthy Michelle was attacking Trump for ordering Federal law enforcement officers into the District of Columbia.  She said, "President Trump’s massive executive overreach in Washington sets a dangerous precedent and undermines safety in our nation’s capital." Less than 48 hours later, she declared a state of emergency in Rio Arriba County and the city of Espanola and area Pueblos. The hypocrisy of Democrats is breathtaking!!

Over the last few months, Dims have decided that if they use profanity, they will get more attention from the public. I have met nuns who were better with profanity than Democrats. Give it up guys, it's not making you look any better. 

Chuck "The Schmuck" Schumer is no better with profanity than he was at grilling burgers last year. More on that at Random Moments of Lunacy: Chuck is Bi???  Chuck said that he doesn't have any problems with feeling safe in Washington. He failed to mention the security detail that taxpayers provide for him. What do you expect from a guy who doesn't even know how to wear a pair of glasses?

We will cover the stupid people on the television who report the news when I have more time. Thanks for reading!!

GJ Word of the Day

 Robert Francis O'Rourke goes by "Beto" because "Useless, loud mouthed, unelectable, liberal piece of shit" is too honest and too long for a business card.

Stacey Abrams should be making commercials about her need to join Weight Watchers instead of ripping off the taxpayers for a living. Didn't I see her on "The Biggest Loser"?

ICE isn't removing all of the scum. The leftists in Hollywood are all trying to move to other countries on their own. Promise me that you won't try to talk any of them out of leaving the country. This might be the best side effect of Trump's entire time in office. 

You will notice that none of the Hollywood scum is getting citizenship in Cuba and threatening to move there. Let's face it. Outside of California, Cuba is the closest Communist country to the United States. They could get there quicker than they boxed up Rosie O'Donnell to ship to Ireland.

There was a protest in Washington DC the other day where the protesters were all singing some song trashing Trump. They weren't real protesters, they were from one of those "rent-a-crowd" places. The first tip off was that the group was overwhelmingly white. You would have to go to the Senate chamber to find a whiter group in DC. Second, they were actually singing and not rapping. Finally, they didn't try to rob anybody walking by the protest.

Governor JB Prickster of Illinois is a real gem. There's nothing like a fat billionaire born into riches telling you that he is on the side of ordinary people to cause you to realize that everything coming from Democrats is a lie. He and the communist mayor of Chicago are quite the team. I still can't decide if it is Mayor Brandon Johnson's hair or his head that actually comes to a point. 

I subscribe to Merriam-Webster's "Word of the day" e-mail service so that I can broaden my vocabulary. Yeah, right! The e-mail list that I really want to be on is the one where the Democrats send out their "Word of the Week". This week's word is obviously "authoritarian."  Trump can't go to the crapper without some leftist, halfwit, organ grinder's monkey describing him as an "authoritarian". I haven't heard "authoritarian" twenty times in the last seventy years and suddenly it is coming from the lips of every brain-dead liberal in the land. Give us break, guys! Everything that liberals do and say is scripted. The last time that a liberal did something unscripted was on the White House lawn when the Easter Bunny had to turn Joe Biden around and keep him from wandering down the street.

I did try to Google "Democrat Word of the Week" and all that I got was a link to a site called "Talking Points for Twits". The antivirus blocked me from going there.

It's almost a year away, but Democrats are already screaming about the possibility of a UFC event being held on the White House lawn. I can only surmise that they are concerned that putting up "The Octagon" may turn up some more of Hunter's stash out in the lawn.

If you don't believe that District of Columbia US Attorney Jeanine is serious about change in DC, I offer this story.

"So President Trump has vowed to make D.C. safe and beautiful again," Pirro said. "And the president's message to the criminals was, if you spit, we hit. Well, we didn't quite do that the other night when an individual went up to one of the federal law enforcement officers and started jumping up and down, screaming at him, berating him, yelling at him, and then he took a Subway sandwich about this big and took it and threw it at the officer," she explained. "He thought it was funny. Well, he doesn't think it's funny today because we charged him with a felony, assault on a police officer. So there, stick your Subway sandwich somewhere else!"

I am still waiting for some braindead broadcaster buffoon to call Pirro an "authoritarian".

Finds and Whines

 The political leaders of the city of Washington, DC are telling us that crime is actually going down as Trump moved to take control of the city police department. I have written several times that the maximum number of words on a sign should be seven. Here's a billboard for Washington DC's leaders, "Figures don't lie, but liars can figure." 

While DC leaders were crowing about how safe their city by the sewer is, they had their 100th murder of the year. Put me down for skeptical of their claims about dropping crime rates. By the way, they don't even take juveniles to court in the District of Criminals, so I doubt that those stats are included in their forged figures. Like every other city that ends cash bail, they have experienced an increase in repeat offenders. Who would believe that? Everyone without a (D) behind their names.

I heard that the DC Mayor has hired the woman Trump fired at the Bureau of labor Statistics to handle her crime statistics. 

Bernie Sanders continues his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour. A guy flying around the nation attacking "oligarchy" while traveling in a charted private jet takes a bigger set of balls than the average voter possesses.

New York's Zohran Mamdani is touring the boroughs of New York to attack Donald Trump. Hell, I didn't even know that Trump was on the mayoral ballot in New York's mayor race. 

Why are all of the "socialist" candidates rich? Mamdani recently visited his family "compound" in Uganda to celebrate his wedding. The "compound" is guarded by armed men. Naturally enough, Mamdani thinks that guns are a problem in New York. Bernie Sanders owns three homes, yet has never held a real job outside of politics. This isn't socialism, it's old style Soviet communism.

Trump and Putin are slated to meet in Alaska for talks about Ukraine. Rumors that Sen. Lisa Murkowski will join the talks as the spare Communist may or may not be true.

I graduated from Leto High School in Tampa almost 55 years ago. About ten days ago, I was reading the Tampa Free Press online and found an interesting article. It seems that the school's recently appointed principal had been arrested for DUI and possession of cocaine by the Tampa Police Department. Speculation among the alumni was that he was trying to identify with the student body. Either that or he is just stupid. By the way, he has been suspended awaiting trial.

I should have known that the school board wouldn't react as I would. If I had a new employee call in and tell me that he couldn't come to work because he had been arrested for DUI and possession of cocaine, I would have just gone ahead and fired him. I would just take my chances with the unemployment claim.

There's a Nobel Prize for Medicine for anyone who can develop a vaccine for Trump Derangement Syndrome. Dr. Fauci is ineligible.

If you are thinking that the Nobel Peace Prize judges will ignore anything that Donald Trump does to get peace, you are absolutely correct. It's been more than sixteen years and we still don't know what Obama did to even get nominated for his Nobel Peace prize.

The guy who claims to be my only friend is traveling to Ireland with his wife for vacation. I asked if they were going to visit Rosie O'Donnell. I may be short an only friend.

My wife and I experienced our best sight of the week as we were returning from a trip to Greensboro today. On the I-85 North loop on the south side of Greensboro, we saw an immigration bust going down. In the right lane and the merge lane and on the shoulder of the road were at least six cars with flashing blue and red lights. They had a couple of women standing there with their hands behind their backs and in cable ties. There was a crowd of guys in ICE vests surrounding a car. Hell, yes!! My tax dollars at work. There was a Wal-Mart tractor trailer parked about 100 feet past the scene with reflective markers out on the shoulder. My wife's theory was that they used the Wal-Mart truck as bait for illegals. That's cleaner than any thoughts that I had.

Twain was Right

 Mark Twain was responsible for popularizing the phrase "There are lies, damned lies and statistics." The origin of the phrase is a little murky, but Twain once attributed it to Benjamin Disraeli. It really doesn't matter who said it first, it is still the truth.

Low IQ leftists or as some call them, Democrats, are screaming because Donald Trump has fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Bureau went back and revised the "jobs numbers" for some previous months. They had also done the same thing last year in the Biden/Obama/Jill Administration. 

Let's clear the air on the "jobs numbers". These are not actual numbers of people working in America. The Bureau of Labor Statistics takes a sampling from participating employers. From that data, they extrapolate the "jobs numbers" that they pass off on the American people as "facts". This is like using polls to decide the winners in elections. Do you believe that a poll of a few thousand people would be enough data to determine the next president? Of course not, but we do that regularly with the economy. 

If you are a regular reader, you may be thinking, "I have read this swill before." You would be correct. I published "Mark Twain on Lies" in August 2024. Read that rant for an account of my personal experience with "jobs numbers". Here's a link to that post. Random Moments of Lunacy: Mark Twain on Lies

Trump should not have fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics; he should have shut down the entire bureau. Why are we wasting millions of dollars on people who are making up data that they pass off to the American people as "facts"? Trump could probably get information on job growth with the same accuracy by calling one of those "California Psychics" that you hear advertised. Hell, he could have called me. I could have made up some numbers and picked up some serious spending money for a couple of hours work. I could get as close as those schmucks taking our money and posing as employees.

In an age of everything being computerized, surely there must be a better way for the government to get "jobs numbers". Let's find it!!

Random Ramblings on a Saturday Morning

"Fill in the blank" sentence of the week is "Democrats express outrage that President Donald Trump ______________________________."

My beloved and I spent last weekend roaming the foothills of North Carolina and Virginia for the annual US 21 Road Sale. We returned home with a pickup truck loaded to the brim with "treasure". Much of this will be sold in my "Stuff for sale" enterprise and the rest will join the other decor in our home. What's the best part of all of these goods? Naturally enough, there is a story with every item.

My younger sister won several Presidential Physical Fitness awards when she was in school. I emailed her the other day and told her that Trump was bringing back the program and that she needs to get back into shape and pick up a couple more of those award patches. I will keep you posted.

Ten days ago, I had never heard of Sydney Sweeney or AE jeans. Now whining, moaning, bitching liberals have made AE more famous than Levi's. A political party that claims beautiful girls wearing jeans is racist, has no future.

Zohran Mamdani turned out to be the biggest tap-dancing son of a bitch in politics as he struggled to defend the police in New York City after spending years attacking them and claiming that they needed to be defunded. He was able to turn on a dime after discovering that not all cops are old white guys. Who knew that? Everybody, but Mamdani.

Someone on the news just spoke about Ghislaine Maxwell and said that she had been moved to a "cushy" minimum security prison. I don't believe that "cushy" is an accurate description of any prison. 

There is a lot of reporting about how Kamala Harris being unable to answer Colbert's question about who the leader of the Democratic Party is. Can you answer that question? If you said Jasmine Crockett, you may be too stupid to keep reading this blog. Democrats are the ship without a rudder, they are the bus without a driver, they are the news network without an anchor. You are free to make your own analogy.

About twenty years ago, I had a waiter working for me named Vince. Vince was a big, loud guy who was a great waiter but required regular coaching and counseling. That wasn't a problem for me. One day, we were having a discussion about a situation that had happened at the restaurant on my day off. One of the assistant managers had experienced a "problem" with Vince and had complained to me about it. I asked Vince to tell me his side of the situation. He said, "The problem is that when you aren't here, nobody is driving the bus. There's nobody who takes charge and drives the bus. They are afraid to make a decision. They won't give direction. Nobody is driving the bus." It must have been enlightening as I remember it twenty years later.

What Vince described is the situation in the Democratic Party today. Nobody is driving the bus. Nobody is trying to keep the Dims focused and working together. Whether they like it or not, over in the Republican Party, Donald Trump is driving the bus. There is no question about who is in charge at the GOP.

The Constitution requires that States sue each other at the Supreme Court. Let's amend the Constitution to require the same thing when States sue the President. Let's remove federal district court judges and circuit court judges from this process. We could save a lot of time, and it would end a lot of frivolous lawsuits.

The Mayor of Cincinatti finally finished his vacation and returned home to make a statement about the racist attack in his city. It's interesting that neither the mayor nor any City Council member has spoken to the victims. However, US Senator Bernie Moreno of Ohio has spoken to at least one of the victims. It's not looking good for Cincinatti.