Monday Morning Meaningless Medley

 Yes, I love alliteration!

Penn State finally hired a head coach for their football team. I can turn my phone back on now. See Thursday's post "Thirteen Thursday Thoughts" if you don't understand this.

They announced the schedule of games for the College Football Championship Playoffs today. Nearby Duke University has the worst record of any team in the group. Even if they lose in the first round, they will have outperformed any preseason expectations. They surprised Virginia in the ACC championship game, maybe there's another surprise left in that team. Go Duke!!

That's my limit on sports for the month!

There's a process for everything in government. Members of the House and Senate who participate in anti-ICE protests cannot claim that they are just using their investigative authority. I am pretty sure that participating in an anti-ICE demonstration would be considered a violation of their oath of office. I am certain that their job is to uphold the law. If they don't like the law or agree with the law, there is a legislative process that they can use to change the law. I am pretty sure that screaming obscenities at ICE agents is not in the process prescribed for changing the law. You were elected to be a legislator, legislate the changes that you seek.

As long as we are on legislators, how about that Moron Mark Warner, the junior Senator from Virginia? The sad thing about Warner is that he is probably the smarter of Virginia's two Senators. Not every Senator is lucky enough to be paired with some other dumbass from their state like Tim Kaine. Tim should have resigned right after he ran with Hillary in 2016. 

Moron Mark blamed the Trump Administration for taking almost a year to arrest a suspect in the attempted pipe bombing in DC on January 5, 2021. He also blamed government staffing cuts for causing to take so long to solve the case.

There are just a couple of flies in the ointment of Moron Mark's analysis. First, the Biden Administration was in office for four years and produced exactly zero arrests in the case. Forget about an arrest in the cases, how about the simple acknowledgment that they were even working on the case? Trump had been in power about ten (10) months before the feds made an arrest. So, by complaining that staffing cuts were the cause of how long it took to solve, then maybe Biden should have made some staffing cuts, and his guys could have solved it after ten months? 

Moron Mark's remarks on staffing should be applied to the Senate and their staffing. Let's cut Senate staffing by about 50% and see what happens. Let's get Senators and Representatives to punch a time clock. We just spent several weeks in a government shutdown because the Congress could not get a budget deal passed. Congress should not adjourn for the holidays until they pass a spending bill. These guys are procrastinating professionals. The motto of the Senate apparently is something like "Why put off today what you can wait and put off tomorrow?" Pass a frigging spending bill!! Don't go home for the holidays until you do!!

Yesterday, I accompanied my wife to the local Wal-Mart. Wandering the store while my wife was shopping, I saw a display of pocketknives. Knives are an all-purpose gift in my world, so I stopped and picked up one that I liked. When I returned to the front of the store, my wife had already checked out so I went to the checkout. There was a guy training a woman in the self-checkout area. When I scanned the pocketknife, he came over with the trainee and said, "I need to see your driver's license."  I asked, "Why?" He said, "We have to make sure that you are over 18." I may have actually snarled at him and said, " I am 72 years old. I am a fat, old, bald guy and if you can't tell that I am over 18, then you're just too damn stupid to work here!" It went downhill from there. I opened my wallet and pointed to my driver's license. I said, "Now you have seen it." The woman said, "I couldn't see the year you were born." I told her, "I am 72, do the math." At that point the trainer took the trainee and decided to go learn something else. I headed out the door. About three hours later, I checked my blood pressure. I decided to wait until morning to write.

What did I learn today? Next time, just order the knife from Smoky Mountain Knife Works. It will be less stressful. I won't need my driver's license.

Let's take bets on the body count during the 2026 World Cup. Horse racing may be the sport of kings, but soccer spectating is the sport of coroners.