This, That and The Other Thing

Since sometime in the 1960's, I have watched as hearing aid makers worked to make their products smaller and less noticeable. All of that money and effort was in vain as today half of the American population walks around with shit stuck in their ears that you notice from across the street. The idiots of the smartphone nation walk around with their "buds" in their ears and their iPhone god in their hand. They get robbed or hit by cars because they can't hear anything because of the earbuds or they aren't paying attention to anything but their iPhone worship service. Get off the phone and check out the world!! Pay attention! It doesn't cost anything.

Last week when New York City was looking for people to shovel snow, they were requiring applicants to have two (2) forms of ID. They also wanted applicants to provide two (2) photos measuring 1 1/4" square. Apparently, these photos were needed for the ID card they were going to provide snow removal workers. They certainly did not want to take a chance on an unpaid worker showing up to shovel your snow.

I have a Leto High School Class of 1971 reunion this year that it is tentatively scheduled for the first weekend of October in Tampa. They have not actually finalized the date at this time. I have a conflict with that since I have already purchased tickets to see the Bellamy Brothers in concert that weekend, fifteen miles from my home. What a dilemma! Do I drive 700 miles to see a bunch of folks who never contact me, or do I see the Bellamy Brothers who have never called me either? If I find that a couple of people who I was friends with at school will be there, I might go. Otherwise, it's dinner with my wife, the Bellamy Brothers' concert and a fifteen-minute drive home. I can probably save about a thousand dollars with that plan. This is not exactly the definition of "on the horns of a dilemma".

Tuesday, March 3 is primary election day in North Carolina. I will be delighted as that will end the Phil Berger- Sam Page for the NC State Senate seat. You can't turn on a television set or drive down the street in this area with \out seeing a sign or hearing an ad. Democrats hate Phil Berger so badly that they are quietly funding Sam Page's campaign. 

The primary for the US Senate seat currently held by the useless Thom Tillis is also this Tuesday. Former Governor Roy Cooper is the favorite to win the Democratic Party nomination. Many in the news media here have already anointed King Cooper as our next US Senator. I have one word for those people, "COVID". Roy Cooper kept North Carolina in a "state of emergency" for 888 days for COVID. There aren't many state laws that Roy Cooper failed to break in his two terms as Governor and four terms as Attorney General. It hasn't been long enough for people to forget what he did.

The North Carolina State Constitution states this: During the absence of the Governor from the State, or during the physical or mental incapacity of the Governor to perform the duties of his office, the Lieutenant Governor shall be Acting Governor. During his eight years as Governor, Cooper left the state on scores of occasions, he NEVER notified the Lt. Governor that he was out of the state. At the start of COVID, he left the state to fly to Tampa for a fundraiser for his campaign for his second term. Apparently, there aren't enough people in North Carolina interested in funding his campaign, so he had to raise money elsewhere. The video of him going up the back stairs of a hotel in Tampa and his press secretary trying to block a camera's view of him was on the local news before Roy got back from Florida.

The North Carolina State Highway Patrol covered for Roy on his travels. Asked if they had transported Cooper to the airport, they would only disclose how far that they had transported him. An actual "reporter" drove from the Governor's Mansion to the airport and measured the distance. To the dismay of King Cooper, the world figured the rest of it out.

King Cooper would not allow Ace Speedway to hold a stock car race, but then he marched in a Black Lives Matter protest with his mask hanging off the side of his face. (See photo below) Churches had to go to court to be allowed to hold a church service with more than ten people. Cooper's Dr. Fauci, Mandy Cohen, advised Cooper on all of these absurd COVID decisions. She went on to head up the Center for Disease Control under President Jill Biden. I'm sorry, but I just don't trust doctors who have never actually practiced medicine.

In 2016 in North Carolina, Cooper ran for governor and Josh Stein ran for Attorney-General. Stein's biggest campaign issue was that he was going to reduce the backlog of rape kits being tested here in North Carolina. What Stein never said and what no "reporter" ever asked or mentioned, was that the backlog of rape kit testing happened under Cooper's leadership of the NCDOJ. Why has no one in the news media ever mentioned that?  Maybe, it is the same reason that no one said anything about this picture of Roy at the BLM protest.

Here's a link to more: Random Moments of Lunacy: Thoughtless Thursday- Things that don't make sense
Random Moments of Lunacy: Masks? Fact, Fiction, or Fantasy?