Reflections From the Road 11/24

 I just returned from a six-day road trip to Moultrie, Georgia for the 35th Annual Fall Moultrie Car Show and Swap Meet. Yeah, I just call it the Moultrie car Show. The 530-mile ride down there leaves me lots of time to ponder the meaning of life and other topics while cruising down the Interstate. The back roads require a little more attention.

There are several prominent Democrats urging people in the military to disobey what they consider to be unlawful orders. I think that some folks are out over their skis on this advice. Sen. Mark Kelly comes to mind for some reason. I think that a retired officer urging active-duty military personnel to disobey orders is probably against the law.

South Georgia is a big agricultural area. I was reminded when I walked into a convenience store/gas station on Friday evening around 7:00 PM and encountered about 30 likely illegals. Apparently, they had just been paid and were stocking up on cases of beer and bags of chips to get through the night. There was a bright side to it. At 5'7", I was the tallest guy in the store. First time for that in my life!

There used to be a "Southern Style" buffet in Moultrie. The sign is still there, but now it is an Asian buffet/Hibachi. I guess that it is "Southern" Asian food. I did eat there, and it was reasonably priced and actually pretty good.

My fears that we are a nation of fat, lazy people were once again confirmed at the car show by the horde of people riding those electric handicap vehicles around the show. They need to get off of their fat asses and walk. You have to know that it is bad when I am giving fitness pointers.

Does anyone outside of the federal government and the news media really even give a shit about Jeffery Epstein? Why didn't the Democrats release all of these files when they were in power? Just for the record, this paragraph did not write itself.

The JFK assassination was less controversial than the death of Epstein. Kennedy didn't kill himself, either.

Despite Congressional protestations to the contrary, I cannot find anything in the United States Constitution that gives a Federal Court District the right to appoint a United States Attorney. This power was given to them by a bill in Congress, which did not have the right to do that. For anyone to have the right to make appointments other than the President requires an amendment to the Constitution. This is just a case of Congress and the courts colluding to strip power from the Executive Branch. The Supreme Court needs to address this order immediately. 

I relived the days of my youth and had dinner at the Waffle House one evening. Conversations revealed that no one on the staff or their parents had been born when I started working at the Waffle House. One employee asked if I needed help getting back to the truck. I flipped him and they all laughed.

If you are ever in Wrens, Georgia, be sure to stop at the Stuckey's factory and outlet store. They have a lot more than just the nut logs there. It's on US 1 at the south end of town; tell them Gil sent you.

My plan to make my usual stop on the way back home at the Buccees in Warner-Robbins was sidelined when I saw that the line of cars waiting to get in the lot was backed down I-75. I don't possess the patience needed to make that kind of wait.

I saw that Comey's case was dismissed by a federal judge. Comey's only problem now is all of the other laws that he violated.

North Carolina Governor Josh Stein is the new standard for worthless. If he cared as much about North Carolinians who lost their homes during Hurricane Helene as he does about illegals in Charlotte and Raleigh/Durham, this would be a great state.

Just Resign, Josh Stein!!

 When Josh Stein took the oath of office as the Governor of North Carolina, he took an oath that included these words; "support and maintain the Constitution and laws of the United States". Today, Josh Stein is breaking that oath.

Josh is not supporting the federal government as they attempt to remove illegal immigrants from North Carolina. He claimed that the actions of ICE were only making things worse in Charlotte. Do NC State Troopers writing speeding tickets on I-85 "only make things worse"? Does Carolina football only make things worse for Chapel Hill? ( Sorry, I just couldn't pass up the cheap shot.) Do health inspectors closing restaurants "only make things worse"? Does requiring automobile insurance and license plates and driver's licenses "only make things worse" for North Carolina motorists? Does collecting a state income tax "only make things worse"?

The men and women of ICE are being harassed by mobs of morons as they try to do their jobs in Charlotte. The Governor has taken no action to help the people of ICE as they try to do their jobs. If a crowd of leftist loons surrounded a state trooper who was trying to write a ticket for a speeder, it would not be tolerated. Yet, Stein is mute as the Charlotte charlatans try to prevent federal law from being enforced in North Carolina.

Josh Stein took an oath to "support and maintain the Constitution and laws of the United States". It is time for him to step up and take action against those trying to prevent ICE from enforcing the law or to resign and step down.

What we are seeing in North Carolina today is the 21st Century version of slavery in the United States. The illegal immigrants are just modern day slaves for who people want them to perform jobs that some Americans don't want to do. Let's face it! There aren't any Nobel Prize winning physicists being picked up by ICE.  ICE isn't showing up at hospitals trying to drag surgeons off to detention facilities/jails. 

The people on the left who support illegal immigration are the same people who tell you how inexpensive their new yard guy or housekeeper is. I saw on the news a woman complaining that ICE had scared off the two guys that she had hired to hang her Christmas decorations. I can only assume that she had already worked her way through all of the native born population in her search for cheap labor. There's a certain irony in breaking the law to celebrate the birth of Christ that I just can't understand.

I haven't seen the results of Stein's test yet, but I can safely assume that he has contracted Trump Derangement Syndrome. Does anyone have any evidence that he opposed Obama's removal of illegal immigrants? Is he a long term supporter of violating federal immigration laws or is just another liberal who hates Donald Trump? Inquiring minds, none of whom have a (D) after their name want to know.

Crime is a serious issue in Charlotte. Recently a police chief resigned saying that he could no longer live with making the claim that "Uptown Charlotte is safe". But, what would a cop know? The nation watched as a young legal immigrant from Ukraine was killed by a career criminal on the Light Rail system train. What did Josh Stein do about that? Did he order state police to patrol the Light Rail cars? Of course not. Are the lawbreakers all Stein voters?

The reality is that Donald Trump is doing more about crime in Charlotte than the Governor of North Carolina is doing. Why?? Is Stein more concerned about offending his voter base than cutting the crime rate? There's a correlation between cities with Democratic Party leaders and cities with high crime rates. Even McGruff the Crime Dog can figure that one out.

It's time for the band to start playing "Happy Trails" for Josh Stein.

 

Mid-Week Morons

Topping the charts of stupid people already this week are the late-night liberal lords of loon. They are ripping some Democratic Senators for voting to end the Democrat induced government shutdown. Yes, the late-night loons want people to go hungry for lack of food stamps, federal employees not to get paid, federal offices to be shut down, all of the airplanes to be grounded and the issues with the hysterically ironic name of the Affordable Care Act to end when the subsidies keeping it alive end on December 31.

Leftist Democrats would rather the government shut down than have to work with Trump. This is "Call the Shrink" time for the Dims. This exceeds even my standards for "deranged," which are actually pretty reasonable.

The Democrats set the expiration date for these tax subsidies to expire when they passed that bill back during the plandemic. They have known for years that they would expire at the end of this year, why didn't they vote to extend them last year when they controlled the Senate? Oh wait!! Last year was an election year, they didn't want to do it then. 

This is the worst case of Trump Derangement Syndrome ever recorded. These folks are the poster children for a TDS vaccine campaign. They need a slogan for the TDS vaccine campaign. What they need is a television ad with video of Hakeem Jeffries, the Chuck E. Cheese Barack Obama talking. The voiceover in the ad should say, "Get the TDS vaccine before you end up talking like this shit!" 

The good news is that Chuck "The Schmuck" Schumer finally took my advice and gave up on those Dollar Tree reading glasses hanging on the end of his rather prominent nose. He finally is wearing real glasses. He's still an idiot but at least, he can see that now.

It's like the old question of which came first? The chicken or the egg? It's a similar issue with polls. Do polls report public opinion or are they designed to have the results drive public opinion? I see a lot of polls where they poll less than one thousand people in a country of 350 million. According to liberals, that's left than ten people of each gender known to exist by the left.

I must admit that I was a little surprised that there were eight Democrats in the Senate with the stones and/or the brains to vote to end the filibuster. 

Chuck the Schmuck Schumer was offering to settle the shutdown with Republicans for 12 easy monthly payments of $4.5 billion to subsidize the Unaffordable Care Act. Just say no to wasting any more tax money on Obama Doesn't Care.

Will Democrats ban the Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028 if the IOC decides that biological men cannot play in Women's sports?

Free Us From the Filibuster!!

 I was going to go with a more "earthy" title, but I didn't want Google to have to put a warning label on another blog post of mine. 

The federal government has been "shut down" for almost six weeks now and it's time for this crap to end. I just want somebody to justify the actions of 45 Democrats and Socialists and the damage that those actions have caused. 

I checked my US Constitution Pocket Guide and there is no provision for the Senate filibuster. If they can create it in the Senate, they can modify it and/or eliminate it in the Senate. They have already eliminated the filibuster for nominees for federal appointments. 

Donald Trump is right about one thing in this discussion. That is that the Democrats will eliminate the filibuster when they want to pass controversial legislation so the Republicans should just go ahead and end it now. They can start by ending it on bills that will result in a government shutdown. 

For more than 100 years U.S. Senators were elected by the state legislatures. Then we changed that to popular election. Essentially today, the Senate is just the House with longer terms. The whole notion that the Senate is somehow a group of older, wiser legislators is simply a bad joke on the public. 

Senators like to talk about the history of the Senate and the wise men who have worked there. That's simply an attempt to put lipstick on a pig. Let me be kind, Senators. What have you done for us lately? The military and government employees aren't getting paid. Thanksgiving travel may soon be cancelled. What's the level of wisdom in that?

Senators like to think and act like that they are some kind of august body of worldly geniuses. In reality, they are simply the 21st Century version of the Little Rascals and their "He-Man Woman Hater's Club". And yes, I am including the female Senators in that group. They may actually be worse than the men.

Right now, our government is shut down because the Democrats in the Senate want to get $1.5 trillion dollars in spending reinstated that they lost earlier this year. During the contrived COVID crisis, they passed legislation giving their voters financial assistance in paying for their insurance under the poorly named and damned near fraudulent Affordable Care Act. The Democrats scheduled those payments to end on December 31, 2025. Now, they want to extend that despite the fact that the whole COVID crisis is history. Only cockroaches can live longer than government programs. So, like pouting children, Democrats are holding their breath and claiming that they will kill themselves if we do not continue those payments. We need to stop spending our tax money to help Senators and Representatives get elected. Buy your own election!!

Simple question, if it is "Affordable Care", why do we need to subsidize it for them? Beyond that, why do we need to shut down the government in October for something that doesn't expire until December 31? This is Trump Derangement Syndrome at work in your Congress, America.

How can we eliminate these government shutdowns? First, let's reduce the benefits of being a US Senator. When government employees are being paid, neither should legislators. Second, let's cut the perks for being a Senator. I have visited the offices of several Senators, and they are much nicer than the offices of almost every private business that I have ever seen. Third, let's limit Senators to a single term. If you can't get it done in six years, pack it in. Six years in the "He-Man Woman Haters Club" should be enough for anyone.

As long as we are working on Congressional reform, let's limit House members to three terms. The idea that our representatives become more effective with experience is easily disproven with a quick glance at the operation of the government. Yesterday, Nancy Pelosi announced that she is retiring next year at the end of forty years in the House. She now has a net worth of over $300 million. She claims that she and her husband never talk about investments and that he gets no "inside information". All of those stock trades just before government actions were announced is just coincidence. 

All of these side rants bring me back to the subject at hand. It's time for the Republicans to end the filibuster on federal spending bills and put the government back to work. Trump can't run for another term, so he thinks this is a good idea. If Senators could not run for another term, they would think so too.

X marks the spot?

 On the days when I don't feel like writing a post here on Blogger, I share a few thoughts and/or insults on X. Here's a collection of quick thoughts from yesterday.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is demanding that Democrats reopen the federal government so that they can bail out New York City when it fails under Communism. It will only take a few weeks.

Democrats outnumber Republicans in NYC, Virginia and New Jersey. Why are they acting like it is such a big deal that they won an election? Call me when you win in South Carolina!!

Does yesterday's election and the results prove anything? Yes, it proves that people are stupid. It also establishes the need for voter ID and probably even returning to literacy tests for voters.

Democrats in Virginia just elected an Attorney General who fantasized about killing his opponent and the opponent's small children.  These are the same folks who call Trump names for trying to deport criminals. We need a 12-step program for Democrats.

If Donald Trump could not carry Virginia and New Jersey, did Winsome and Jack ever really have a chance?

Having been elected Governor, will Mikie Sherill now tell us how she made six million dollars trading defense stocks while in the House? At least, tell us why they didn't let her walk with her class at Naval Academy graduation.

U-Haul announced this morning that their 2025 Man of the Year award is going to Zohran Mamdani. The award goes to the person or entity who does the most to stimulate business at U-Haul. Congratulations to Zohran!!

Memo to Mamdani: What is your Plan B when the rich respond to new taxes by leaving New York City?

Nobody woke up in Florida this morning and said, "Honey, we can move back to New York City now."

Will the last American out of New York City please bring the flag??

Dimocrats are trying to extort 1 1/2 trillion dollars from taxpayers to reopen the government.  The Affordable Care Act is a joke. They called it the Affordable Care Act because "Let's Screw the Taxpayers Act" was just too honest.

Having seen Nancy Pelosi's latest rant online, it's a good time to start that mandatory retirement age for Congress. She's in the final throes of death by Trump Derangement Syndrome. Damn, I was sure that Hillary or Whoopi would go first!

Wouldn't it be cheaper for the New York City taxpayers if Mamdani just stayed in his subsidized apartment and didn't move into Gracie Mansion? Or should Trump offer him a free place in one of his buildings??

Would a real socialist live in Gracie Mansion at the expense of the poor taxpayers?? You know the answer. Hell Yes!!!!!

There's got to be a morning after?

 My apologies to Maureen McGovern for citing the song from the Poseidon Adventure but it fits the day after an election that a few places had yesterday. The results were expected but you still have to hold out hope for a return of basic intelligence. It didn't happen.

Does yesterday's election and the results prove anything? Yes, it proves that people are stupid. It also establishes the need for voter ID and probably even returning to literacy tests for voters. 

In the interest of full disclosure, which I really don't care about, I have never been to New York. To be honest, I have never even wanted to go to New York. Working for the Waffle House in Florida, I met and experienced enough New Yorkers to know that I didn't want to go there. 

Here's everything you need to know about New Yorkers. At the Waffle House in Tampa in 1973, we had a waitress who was from Pennsylvania. Her name was Grace Swank. One night, some customer was giving her a hard time about something he was trying to order. She told him, "You don't have to be rude!" He responded, "I'm not rude, I am from New York." Another Yankee pearl of wisdom. Whenever I hear Chuck Schumer speak, I wonder if he was that guy.

In New York City, the traffic jams on I-95 heading south are already starting this morning. There's no need to wait for the collapse of civilization to get out of Dodge or New York City. Yes, the city that never sleeps is obviously in some kind of stupidity induced coma. It's too late to stage an intervention, they are going to need to work through those twelve steps for themselves.

After 250 years of freedom, New Yorkers have decided to give Communism a spin. Don't waste your time telling me that it is Democratic Socialism and not Communism. At the danger of paraphrasing a Shakespeare quote, " A Turd by any other name would smell as foul." You can call it anything you want, it is still Communism.

How stupid are Yankees? As a student of the American Civil War, this is a question that I have spent my entire life getting ready to answer. "I love stupid people" is a recurring theme over the last twenty years that I have spent scrawling out these pearls of wisdom. So, here are a few starting points to consider.

Mamdani has exactly zero experience in management. At the age of 34, he has never held a real job. There are claims that he had a brief, but failed career as a rapper. He was elected to the New York state legislature where he failed to vote more than 75% of the time. A guy who can't get hired as a clerk at the Dollar Tree is about to become the Mayor of America's largest city. What could possibly go wrong?

As a politician, Mamdani realizes the appeal of "free shit" to the masses. What he hasn't figured out is how to pay for the afore mentioned "free shit." I guess this may turn out to be the best example of "robbing Peter to pay Paul" that we have ever seen. Mamdani may try to charge people a tax to leave New York City.

What are the "free busses" going to look like? Nobody is paying to ride, so what's the motivation to provide good service or clean busses? You get what you pay for, and busses will be free.

Mamdani thinks that the police are evil and wants to send social workers out on domestic calls. There is a role for social workers in resolving issues, but to send them to an active incident is going to raise the body count in NYC. "Don't bring a knife to a gun fight."

Mamdani wants the city to open grocery stores. I am certain that Mamdani has no idea of how thin the profit margins are in the grocery business. Please direct me to any retail business that is operated by the government at a profit. They just don't exist. They won't exist when Mamdani is the mayor either. I want them to open grocery stores just so we can see how the Communists will deal with shoplifters.

What's the best thing about Mamdani? He was born in Uganda, so he can't be legally elected President. But since Obama has offered to mentor him that may not be an obstacle. Obama may be able to help him get another birth certificate or the Dims could amend the Constitution. 

New York City has been the financial center of the United States and maybe the world for the last couple of centuries. That's all about to end. You don't need to go to New York for financial transactions. You can do all of that on your phone or for us old guys, on your computer. Why put up with New York City if you don't have to do that? Broadway shows go on tour and the Yankees and Mets play road games. The Jets and Giants play in New Jersey anyway. There are more New York delis in Miami than we need. Let's move the Statue of Liberty to a more welcoming location which would be almost anywhere but California.

For those of you who insist on doing your financial transactions in person, Texas is getting ready to open a stock exchange there. They are calling it "Y'all street." The Yankee monopoly on financial transactions is ending.

Memo to the last American out of New York: Bring the flag!!