Mid-Week Wit, Wisdom and Worse

 Since this is already all over the Internet, let me add it here. Someone said that this year's election is an IQ test for the masses. If you vote for Kamala, you have failed.

I am amused by all of the liberals in the media who refer to Nancy Pelosi as the "Speaker Emerita". I questioned someone who used that label, and they told me that it was done by an act of Congress. I looked it up. They are almost half right. The "House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee" voted to do that. There is no record of the actual complete House or even the complete Democratic Caucus voting on that motion. If the Republican Steering Committee voted to name Trump as President Emeritus, would those in the news media fawn over him and the title? 

Why doesn't anyone talk about Pelosi and her husband Paul's skills in trading stocks? She claims that she doesn't own any stocks, they are all her husband's. I will believe that when I start believing that guy who broke into their home and hammered Paul was his stockbroker.

More than fifty years ago, Bob Woodward peaked with All the President's Men, and he is just living on the fumes of that success today. He is basically a Democratic Party spokesman now. His most recent book, War, is not even worth reading the whole review. Pack it in Bob!! 

While people are trying to restart Three Mile Island to produce electrical power for AI and other high tech, high electrical power users, the Biden administration keeps pushing EVs that no one wants. Batteries are an electrical storage system, not an electrical production system. There's a test coming up on that fact. 

If there is one reason to vote for Trump, here it is. Donald Trump understands that the cost of energy affects the cost of everything else in the United States. Until you bring that cost down, we are screwed. Right now, oil makes the world go around. Reality doesn't care what Democrats think. Wind and solar are bit players in the Big Energy Show.

If there were no government tax credits, how many solar panels and electric vehicles would actually be sold? 

Just for the record, a lot of the dams that were built to control the rivers and generate power are getting old. Hurricane Helene demonstrated the potential problems of dams failing. I haven't read anything about planning to replace older dams.

The Hoover Dam is almost ninety years old. If it fails, Las Vegas and the more than two million people who live in the area are screwed. Cities without water aren't very big. Remember, nothing last forever and those dams were all built by the low bidder. 

I saw a story about all of the military leaders who oppose Donald Trump and will not be voting for him. Gen. Mark Milley was about three years old when Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex. All of these liberal schmucks celebrating the military leaders who oppose Trump should go back and study Eisenhower's words. Milley is the poster boy for the military in the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about. 

I love ads that claim that intelligence experts and foreign policy experts all oppose Trump. When was that collection of schmucks last right about anything? Like Biden, they have been on the wrong side of every issue in the last fifty years. The British, the Russians, Alexander the Great and the Greeks all failed in Afghanistan, yet our experts had us move on into Afghanistan.  Who knew that the Russians might invade the Ukraine? Everyone, but the United States intelligence agencies.

In 1832-33 we had the Nullification Crisis with South Carolina. South Carolina believed that they had the right to declare federal tariffs null and void in South Carolina. They were eventually able to come to an agreement that delayed the War Between the States for seventeen years. 

Why did I mention the Nullification Crisis? Because I love pissing liberals off with logical questions. What's the difference between South Carolina declaring tariffs null and void and sanctuary cities like San Francisco declaring that they will not recognize the enforcement of United States immigration laws? How can states declare themselves sanctuary states? What gives those liberal cities and states the right to say that they will not enforce the laws? Or are they just delaying the next civil war? We in the South have spent the last 160 years listening to liberals telling us that the supremacy of the federal government on these issues had been settled by the Civil War. Does that only apply to the South?

Trump has said that he will end sanctuary cities. The Civil War showed us that he has that power. Sure, I hate making gender-based statements BUT, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

What's a "Fair Share"?

 Kameltoe the Krazy Kommie keeps talking about "everybody paying their fair share".  So, what exactly is your "fair share"?

If we are really going to be fair, this means that everybody needs to pay taxes on their income. Before any Communists reading this suffer from brain explosions, let me elaborate. Everyone should pay taxes on their income, regardless of the source of that income. Speaking for old farts everywhere, I will remind you that 90% of Social Security benefits are taxable. Why aren't welfare benefits taxable?  Why aren't food stamps taxed as income? Why isn't AFDC and similar handouts taxed? I thought that Kamala wants everybody to "pay their fair share".

The problem we have in the United States is that those who receive the bulk of the benefits from the government pay the least into the system. If we want to be "fair", everyone needs to pay the same percentage of their income in taxes. It's that simple, send the government a fixed percentage of your income. How much of a percentage? I will gently remind you that tithing is ten per cent of your income and if Jesus can make it on ten per cent, so can Uncle Sam.

The reality is that those who benefit the most from government social programs are not paying anything into the system.  This goes back to my point about motivation from an earlier post. What you reward, you reinforce. We are giving people all kinds of freebies without making them contribute their "fair share". For many, this is like winning the lottery without having to deal with the tax man. If they had won this amount of money in the lottery, it would be taxed. Get money by doing little or nothing and it's free and clear. WOW!! What a stupid system. At least they had to buy a lottery ticket. The government freebie system doesn't require buying a ticket.

The government is just a big business. The citizens are the stockholders. If you don't buy in to the business by paying taxes, you shouldn't be able to get anything out of the government. You shouldn't even have a vote. If you don't have any "skin in the game", you should just be a spectator. People shouldn't be able to vote on how much to give themselves if they aren't paying into the fund.

Kamala the Kommie is just fanning the flames of class warfare by talking about the rich. This is rich since she is the favored candidate among the rich, she purports to want to tax. Kamala is the one who has raised more than a billion dollars in just a few months for her Communist campaign agenda. If you don't believe that Kameltoe is a lying Commie, ask her where the McDonalds where she claims to have worked is located. Hundreds of journalists have talked about how she was a middle-class kid working at McDonalds, but no one has asked her, "Which one?" No one has surfaced who claims that they worked with Kameltoe at McDonalds. Surely, someone who worked with a potential future President of the United States would remember that.  But everyone's memory is blank on this. It may be time to redefine "selective amnesia".

This is what happens every four years. Democrats mobilize the recipients of all of their handout programs to vote a straight Democrat ticket. They keep telling their followers how much more they are going to get from the rich to do this. It just never happens, and they tax the middle class a little more instead.

"No Mo Fo Mo"

 Maurice "Mo" Green is the Democratic candidate for Superintendent of Public Education in North Carolina this year. If you don't live in North Carolina, be thankful. At least you are not being exposed to an avalanche of signs calling for you to support "Mo". 

About fifteen years ago, Mo was appointed as the Superintendent of Schools for Guilford County. His first major act was to divide the school district into four sub-districts with an executive in charge of each. He's not an educator, he's a bureaucrat. His first big act was to enlarge the bureaucracy. Then he told us that it would take a few years to see if it worked.

While Mo's campaign website claims that the school system made major progress during his term, the reality is that the quality of the product produced, educated students, failed to improve. They spent millions of taxpayer dollars on new programs, but the quality of learning did not improve. "Educators" keep telling us about all of these fabulous programs that we have in schools, but Billy still can't read at a high school level. Hell, they can't even read at a junior high school level.

We keep dumbing down standardized tests, but the teachers' unions are failing to educate our children at record rates. If you don't believe me, check out the literacy rates in Chicago. No one there knows enough about math to tell you what percentage of the kids can't add or subtract. It's a safe bet that no one in Chicago will read this and complain because no one there can read. I am not worried about an angry response from Chicago. If I do get one in the mail, it will be the one in an envelope with my address scrawled in crayon and a notice from the Post Office of "postage due" because they couldn't figure the postage.

There are billboards across the state telling us that we need to pay North Carolina teachers more. They also tell us that "public education works". Memo to billboard writers, it doesn't work. Every business is judged by the quality of the products that they produce. Public education is failing. It is failing at warp speed. 

People are confused about "public education". People think that church schools and home schooling are experiments. Sorry, but we have been using those methods for hundreds, if not thousands, of years to educate our children. Public education is the experiment. It is failing badly. It may soon be time to end the experiment. Look at all of the money we could save. I am not sure that there is actually a downside to that idea. 

How do you spot a public-school student? If you give a cashier a penny or two after they enter the amount tendered on the cash register, the public-school student is the one who pulls out their smartphone and uses the calculator to determine the amount of change that you receive. 

Of course, some state governments are starting to use schools to house the flood of illegal immigrants being flown in by Dims. Readers are left to decide if this will affect the quality of public education.

We need more education, not more bureaucracy. So, in November I will vote for whoever is running against Mo and bureaucracy. I don't care if it is Atilla the Frigging Hun, there's No Mo Fo Mo from this guy.

Miscellaneous Moans and Groans

 Barack Obama has told black men that if they don't support Kameltoe that they are being sexist. Thanks to Barack for reminding us that getting older does not always result in getting wiser. You might think that he could hide the arrogance long enough to ask for votes, you would be wrong.

Barack is pissed because he feels that his fourth term as President is in danger. I think that he screwed up when he and Nancy took out Joe Biden. I think that they underestimated Jill Biden's reaction. She has taken Joe off his meds and is letting him run loose.

Every day in the White House, Joe Biden makes Democrats regret that they didn't use the 25th Amendment to remove him. I think that he has dropped any pretense of even liking Kameltoe. He's now a walking meme factory. One day, Biden's picture will be in the dictionary next to "lame duck".

My biggest political fear is that when Kameltoe loses, Biden will resign and let her be President for the last couple of months. That way, Democrats can claim that they gave us the country's first woman president. 

Kameltoe is on the cover of Vogue magazine. If only Mad Magazine was still being published. Thank God it wasn't another Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue!

CBS News is demonstrating that they have abandoned their history as the network of reporters like Douglas Edwards, Eric Sevareid, Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite. They have aired two answers to one question posed to Kameltoe on 60 Minutes this week. Which one is it?? At this time, they still have not released a transcript of the interview.  Just for the record, they did release the transcript of an interview with Donald Trump a few years ago.

Lock up your daughters!!! Bill Clinton will be starting a bus tour of eastern North Carolina next week. While the Harris campaign claims that he will be trying to boost support for Kameltoe, Bill refers to the bus as his "rolling Oral Oval Office". 

There is an old axiom that goes something like this, "To the extent that you give other people what they want, they will give you what you want." Democrats believe that if you feed and house illegal immigrants at the taxpayers' expense, they will eventually vote for you. 

There is a theory that the government is bringing in millions of immigrants to change the political makeup of the country. Liberals always deny this but are unable to tell us why they are bringing in millions of liberals when we can't afford to shelter and feed all of our own citizens. What is it that we gain by bringing in all of this people? Inquiring minds need to vote.

The most basic principle of human motivation is this; whatever you reward, you reinforce. If we give people money for sneaking across the border, people will continue to cross the border. If we let people out of jail after robbing others, they will continue to rob people. If we reward people for not working, they are not going to work. This isn't rocket science!! It even works with your kids. Surely, it will work on adults. Let's go back to doing this.

Can anyone speak without a script? If you are making a long speech, I might be able to understand that. I can't stand to watch the news with anchors and reporters reading to me from tablets and smartphones. If you are out at an event, can't you just look up and tell me what you see? I am not looking for the Gettysburg Address, but you are only doing a 30 to 60 second shot. Television would be much more interesting if you just winged it. 

More on Morons?

 There is no one with less credibility than a news broadcaster sitting in New York telling me what is happening in North Carolina. I actually live in Piedmont North Carolina. We were not affected by the flooding Helene caused in the mountains. However, I have several friends who live in the mountains. No one who I have talked to has the same story that the federal government is hustling, and their media accomplices are broadcasting.

Let's start with the planning and leadership of the North Carolina state government. Less than 48 hours before Helene hit North Carolina, Governor Roy Cooper was at some kind of climate conference that I believe Time magazine was holding in New York. His aides and his media butt buddies insist that he was back in Raleigh by 3:00 PM that day. How does one focus on preparing your state for a hurricane when you are in New York? This is reminiscent of his trip to Tampa for an election year fundraiser in 2020 just as COVID-19 was a breaking crisis. That was where his aide tried to block a reporter's cameraman from getting Cooper on camera. Another camera caught all of that on film. Leaders lead. Cooper's not a leader, he's a politician.

So, was North Carolina ready for Hurricane Helene? There was nothing in the government's reaction that indicated they were ready. In fact, the only group less prepared than the NC state government was the United States federal government. Cooper and his band of bandits not only failed the preparation test, but they also failed the reaction test. It wasn't enough that they couldn't get ready, they didn't know what to do after the event.

If you have a storm of "Biblical proportions", you should react in "Biblical proportions." They didn't. Two weeks later, they still haven't reacted adequately.

If this is not your first visit to this blog, you probably know that I spent my life in the restaurant business or as one set of my business cards proclaims, "Foodservice Industry". Allow me to share some wisdom from the restaurant business with you.

The problem we have with people like Biden, Harris, Kerry, Pelosi, Cooper and that piece of crap come lately, Josh Stein is that they don't understand the "public service" concept. They are supposed to be in the business of serving the public, but they think that the public is supposed to serve them.

If you turn on the television, you can see some of these clowns telling you that we should be grateful for all that the government is doing. They keep telling us what a great job that they are doing. They tell us that we should understand how hard they are working.

In the restaurant business, if the soup is cold, it does us no good to tell you how hard we are working and how much we are spending on getting you your soup, the soup is still cold. The person receiving the product, or the service is the one who makes the judgment on the quality of whatever is provided. If your steak is tough, it doesn't matter what I think or the cook thinks, the steak is still tough. If the waiter doesn't check on the customers, it doesn't matter how many waiters we have or how much we pay them. The only thing that matters is whether or not they gave the customers the service that they expected. In the restaurant business we operate in the real world. The government is doing time in some kind of Twilight Zone.

The government needs to quit telling us what great service we are getting and actually serve the people. People in government operate in some kind of fantasy land. There isn't anything at Disney that tops the illusions and delusions of those folks in government. We need to start reminding those in government that they exist to serve us. We do not live to provide for them.

When there was an earthquake in Haiti in 2010, the U.S. Air Force 1st Special Operations Wing (my brother-in-law's old unit) restored service to the Port Au Prince airport within 48 hours. Within that same period, United States military helicopters arrived in Haiti to start rescue operations. Contrast that with western North Carolina last week where it took more than seven days for Army helicopters to show up and they were only a two-hour flight away.  Is the US Army's prime mission to protect Haiti or the United States? Inquiring minds want to know. If Obama can get helicopters to Haiti in two days, what should be Biden's reaction time in North Carolina?

Finally, the woman in charge at FEMA has set their first goal as "instill equity as a foundation of emergency management". Bad news Bozo! Natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes don't discriminate on race, gender or income.  Hurricanes are color blind. Your reaction should also be colorblind. That woman needs to be gone tomorrow. Biden needs to start the recovery process by firing her. 

Fifty years ago, at the Waffle House on Dale Mabry in Tampa, we had a customer who was a captain in the Tampa Fire Department. He used to tell us that almost everyone in the Fire Department was a captain. Late one night, he went on a rant about how the city wasn't hiring based on ability and performance. He said something that I remember so vividly that I can close my eyes and still see it. He said, "Affirmative action won't carry Grandma's ass down the ladder at three o'clock in the morning."  Thanks, Kelsey.

If you are a public servant, you are here to serve us. It's not about us serving you. Somebody go tell Biden!

 

Misinformation?

 KJP, Biden's mouthpiece, or as we call her, the chick with the Jiffy Pop Hair, attacked Peter Doocy from Fox claiming that his question to her about FEMA was "misinformation". I thought that she was just playing some kind of early Halloween joke as she was wearing one of her father's old suits to work that day. Was it some kind of lesbian "Dress Like Daddy Day"? She walked off the platform and left the press sitting there wondering what they had missed. How is asking a question "misinformation"?

Harris had announced that we were sending $160 million to Lebanon. Mayorkas had announced that FEMA was running out of money. Jiffy Pop claimed that by asking about these statements, Doocy was using "misinformation". Put me down for "confused".

It was also announced that Jiffy Pop had been promoted to the position of "Senior Adviser to the President".  At this stage in the Biden Administration, that is the equivalent of being promoted to First Officer on the Titanic right after it hit the iceberg.

I have heard all the swill that I want to hear about "disinformation" and "misinformation". The administration and the political party that has spent the last five years covering up the mental decline of the President is accusing others of distorting the facts. That's not misinformation or disinformation. Those are facts.

Democrats have the biggest balls in all of the land. They accuse everyone else of lying while they can't even admit that Biden is a mental basket case

What is misinformation? It appears to be anything that liberals don't want to hear. This is what you can expect to hear from a party that thinks "The View" is a news program. Apparently, some podcast named "Call Her Daddy" is the new "Meet the Press". The Democrats must have stepped into Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine after having Kameltoe appear on the Howard Stern Show. Howard's been out of the loop longer than Joe Biden. Then Kameltoe closed out the day by having a can of Miller High Life with Stephen Colbert. That must be the new "Presidential" look. She should have popped open a Schlitz Malt Liquor.

The Dims are claiming that a lot of "misinformation" is coming out of the North Carolina mountains about FEMA. Pardon me, but Mayorkas was not in the mountains when he proclaimed that FEMA was almost out of money. When reporters ask hurricane victims about FEMA and the response is that no one has seen anyone from FEMA, that's not misinformation. That's a fact. The Democrats are telling us all that things aren't what they appear to be. That's disinformation.

When someone says, "I haven't seen anyone from FEMA", we call that a "fact". A statement made by a talking head at the White House several hundred miles away does not trump a live report from the scene. 

While Americans look for survivors in the mountains, liberal college students in New York march against Jews and Israel. Where have we seen this before? 

Liberal American college students are the new "brownshirts" as they march demanding the end of Isarael and threatening the existence of Jewish college students. But in their search for "disinformation" and "misinformation" from conservatives, the liberals are all able to overlook this. I guess that they just traded in the brown shirts for those checkered tablecloths that today's Jew haters wear in parades. There is no difference between the marches on the streets of New York in 2024 and the marches in Munich in 1934. Unlike the Democrats, at least the Nazis were honest about it.

Maybe all of these college students could get on busses and go south to help rebuild Florida, Gorgia, Tennessee, Virginia and the Carolinas. They could burn all of that excess energy shoveling some mud. But they would make too much sense.

Finally, here comes the cavalry!!

 I thought that I needed to broaden my circle of friends, but that was before Tampon Tim Walz said in the VP debate, "I have become friends with school shooters". Thanks for clearing that up, Tampon Tim.

I will be gentle with this observation. I thought that after more than fifty years in the restaurant business, I had witnessed some complete cluster f*cks. Write this down! I was wrong! I have never seen a situation go downhill any faster than the Federal and North Carolina state government's handling of the Hurricane Helene disaster. This is the standard by which future clusters will be judged. There is no official in Raleigh or Washington, DC capable of exhibiting anything resembling "leadership". Hell, I don't even believe that they even have someone who can spell "leadership".

Every sunrise is a chance to show that government officials are even more worthless than they were the day before. I was talking to a couple of guys from Georgia today and they agreed that they are actually missing Carter.

Why don't Kameltoe and Tampon Tim have Kamala's best buddy Oprah, do a show from Asheville and then she can give everyone there a brand-new car? Maybe they can all get $10,000 each from all of those billionaires who have flooded the Harris-Tampon Tim campaign with hundreds of millions of dollars. Why isn't Kameltoe calling out her rich friends for not helping out all of these "middle class" folks? Is she going to donate any leftover campaign funds to house the NC refugees? In another couple of weeks, Kameltoe will be telling stories about how she was washed away by a flood while walking over one of those perfectly manicured lawns in her middle-class neighborhood while on her way to her job at McDonalds. Has she told anyone which McDonalds she worked at?

The 18th Airborne Corps made it to the North Carolina mountains today. They brought with them 6 Chinook helicopters and 30 Blackhawk helicopters. It only took a week for the DOD to mobilize 1,000 men and their equipment and move it 275 miles to Asheville. I guess that the rapid reaction team was on vacation. Either they were on vacation or on their way to relieve Custer who may still be waiting for them at Little Bighorn.

Just for reader info, the flight time for either of those aircraft from the 18th Airborne Corps is less than two hours to get from their base to Asheville.

For a historical comparison, on Sept.23,1957 black students were brought in through a side door to integrate Little Rock High School. Fearing an escalation of mob violence, they returned the students to their homes. On September 24, 1957, Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne to help with security. Within an hour, there were soldiers in the air and on the way to Little Rock. On September 25, the soldiers provided security for the desegregation of the school. If Ike could get the 101st there in a few hours, why can't today's army get to Asheville?  Do we blame Biden, the DOD, the Army or all of the above? Who is the commander of that unit? Dudley Do-Right?

I think that the length of time someone might survive trapped in the mud without food or water is probably around four to five days. Today was Day seven, after the storm hit. How long does it take the Border Patrol to pick up an illegal migrant stranded on a trail in southern Arizona? Hint: It's less than a week. But we don't want anything happening to those guys before FEMA can fill their pockets with taxpayer cash.

On Friday, the government released more info about the increase in jobs rate. I just want to make sure that everyone understands, the government does not actually take a count of everyone who has a job.  They take a sampling of data from selected employers and extrapolates that data to project some sort of national average. I worked in the restaurant business for more than fifty years and only know of one year when we were asked to participate in the data gathering process. Government statistics are not encyclopedia grade facts. They are more like dime store romance novel grade facts.

The federal government has spent the last couple of days trying to "kind of" deny the truth in Mayorkas' statement about FEMA being out of money.

If the illegals are being put up by the government at chain hotels, did they at least have the illegals join the appropriate club at those chains so that they could get some free nights and other benefits? 

I would like to complain a little more, but there is an estate auction happening down the road and there is a bid card with my name on it.