Late Thursday Thoughts

 I made a trip to the Cone Health Urgent Care place in Reidsville today. It was my first case of poison ivy in the fall. Normally this is a spring experience for me. The usual cures of creams and ointments haven't worked for me since sometime in the 1970's. I normally end up getting some kind of steroid shot to knock out the rash and itching. This year continued the trend of shots. The bad news is that the steroid shot causes spikes in my blood sugar. I solve that by not checking my blood sugar unless I feel ill.

At this point, we are five days from the elections. If you have tried to call or text me, my phone will be back on by Wednesday, maybe.

The Democrats are on the road to hell by claiming that Republicans are a threat to democracy. The Democrats are running a Presidential candidate who did not receive a single vote in the primaries for President. In addition to that, thousands of Democrat voters donated more than $190 million to the Joe Biden campaign, only to have Joe give it to the Kameltoe Harris campaign. Did they offer any of the donors a chance for a refund before turning it over to Kameltoe? Of course not, they are Democrats. The Democrats are masters at "projection". This is accusing other people of what you are actually doing. Somewhere, Freud is turning over in his grave. This time next week, Biden will be turning over in his grave.

I have never done a Zoom call. What possessed the chick with the Jiffy Pop hair (KJP) to set Biden up on a Zoom call? My wife and children won't show me how to do a Zoom call. How stupid do you have to be to put Biden on a Zoom call? I just don't think that all of these Biden errors are accidents. The Dims are paying for dumping Uncle Joe.

Forget about wars around the world. Ignore the ballooning national debt and the horseshit economy. Dims are spending more than a billion dollars telling us about "reproductive freedom" or "reproductive rights" that they claim are the biggest issues facing the nation. They use code words like "reproductive freedom" because "killing babies" is just too honest. If they can decide whether babies can live, how long before they are wanting to decide how long old people should live?

Liberals scream about "Roe v. Wade" being established law for more than fifty years.It was never law, it was a judicial ruling on a law. The Burger Court found a right to privacy that enabled abortions despite neither right being mentioned in the Constitution. Just for the record, the Congress had fifty years to put that decision into law, but did not. This despite the Democrats controlling Congress for many of those fifty years. Why didn't they do it? Hint: They didn't have the votes. 

I am fascinated by people who believe that a court decision is the same as a law. It's not, it's a verdict on the constitutionality of a particular law. If you believe that the Roe v. Wade decision must stand forever, what about the Dred Scott decision? What about Plessy v. Ferguson? Call me when you are serious.

The loons on the left think that Congress can legalize "reproductive rights" by passing a bill. It can't. The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution does not give the federal government control of abortions. Pardon me, "reproductive freedoms". The Congress will have to amend the Constitution to legalize abortions at the federal level. News Flash!! They don't have thirty eight states willing to ratify that. Count them if in doubt.

I keep hearing ads about how many abortions are caused by rapes. Where are all of the arrests for these crimes? If  you tell me that rapes cause abortions, let's start enforcing the laws. Let's start jailing and castrating rapists. Hell, doctors are chemically castrating young male children who "want" to be girls. Surely we can castrate some rapists. If rapists are the cause of abortions, let's kill some rapists rather than babies.

 

Monday Moans, Groans and Fine Whines

 There's some whacko broad running for President who has more voices and accents than Rich Little. I think that she is trying to impersonate an intelligent life form. It's not working for her.

I am still waiting for JD Vance to do his Tampon Tim impersonation by walking out onto a stage with tampons sticking out of his nostrils. He should wear Tim's Elmer Fudd coat and hat also. That would redefine "mixed messages".

I watched a panel discussion on why Kamala picked Tampon Tim as her running mate. The verdict was that he was the only person in the universe who made Kamala look smart.

The UN is meeting today to discuss Israel's recent strike on Iran. There are reports that Israel is giving away free pagers and walkie-talkies to all UN members. Israel should just go ahead and take out the UN headquarters in New York with an air strike.

Forget about nuclear war, the environment, energy policy and wars around the world. Based on television advertising, the biggest issue facing the United States is abortion. Based on television advertising claims, one would assume that almost all abortions are the result of rape or incest. So, the question that begs asking is, where are all of the arrests being made on the men who committed these crimes?

Years ago, I had an employee who told us that she had experienced four abortions. This was somebody too lazy to take a pill every morning. There simply are not 700,000 cases of rape or incest every year, but there are 700,000 abortions. This is how liberals work. They highlight a few cases and claim that is the normal.

There are many forms of birth control available that do not include abortions. They range from pills to "I have a headache". Here's a thought. We control the deer population by killing the bucks. We don't need to kill the men but, vasectomies should be free and required for those who keep fathering illegitimate children. 

We are told that no one should tell a woman what to do with her body. We are told that the government has no right to do this. The loons claim that the government does not tell men what they can do with their bodies. WOW! How many draftees died in Vietnam, Korea or World War 2? Those guys were told by the government to take their bodies to war. Does that count?  Asking for a couple of deceased friends.

The Dodgers are ahead of the Yankees in the World Series. I just don't think that this is New York's year for anything. In case the Yankees lose, New York AG James is prepared to sue the LA Dodgers for beating the Yankees. The Dodgers are going to win anyway, probably.

Where will Barack Obama be offending black men this week?

After she loses, Kamala should cut a deal with Ancestry.com to test her heritage. Maybe she could beat Elizabeth Warren's less than 1/1000 Native American heritage. Maybe Kamala could get to 2/1000 African heritage? Remember, her father, who they have kept hidden this year, says that they aren't black.

I am going out on a limb here but, I forecast that my e-mails will drop by 90% after the election is over.

Election Reflections

 I had to go to LA to pick up my wife last week. She had spent a couple of weeks visiting her sister and I went to bring her home. By the way, in our world "LA" is Louisiana, although it sometimes stands for Lower Alabama.  My wife usually flies down there, and I go down there and drive her back so that we can visit all of those places that you see advertised on roadside billboards. We also have to make a stop at a Buc-ees. More on that later.

For only the second time in my life, I voted early in an election. We went to historic Yanceyville on Thursday and voted. I hate voting early and I don't think that it should be legal. But as I get older, I realize that I may have a stroke watching that lying, moronic bitch Kamala in another bullshit filled television ad and I need to vote early rather than take a chance that I will die before getting the chance to vote on election day. WHEW!! It was good to get that out of my system.

I have to limit my television watching to keep from having my head explode from watching Kamala ads or another ad from Josh Stein. For readers not in North Carolina, Josh Stein is the Democratic candidate for governor in North Carolina. He has served as the state Attorney General for the last eight years and his accomplishments will fit on a 3X5 index card, one side only. 

Despite my limited television watching time, there is one commercial for Stein that I have seen hundreds of times. It features "Debbie" from Cornelius, North Carolina. She talks about how her son died from an accidental fentanyl overdose. I feel sorry for anyone who loses a child to drugs. I don't even want to imagine that pain. But using that death as a reason to endorse the guy who is the Attorney General and candidate for governor opens the door to questions. One of the first questions should be "How do you know that it was accidental?" Maybe someone gave it to him intentionally. 

She claims that Stein "stood up for families like mine". What exactly does "stood up for" entail? Did Stein increase prosecutions of drug dealers? Show us the numbers. Did Stein join with Attorneys-General from other states to pressure the Biden Administration to close the southern border?  Of course not. Closing the entry points for illegal drugs to enter the country would make too much sense for a Democrat. The people carrying the drugs are future Democratic voters. Did Stein and his leader Gov. Roy Crapper start some kind of increased law enforcement pressure on drug dealers in North Carolina? Are there scores of more fentanyl dealers in North Carolina prisons? Did I miss the huge number of public service ads about the dangers of fentanyl? Maybe if Democrats had opposed fentanyl with the same intensity that they hustled COVID vaccines that don't work, things might be different.

Debbie said that "If he had known about fentanyl, it wouldn't have happened." Whose fault is that? Fentanyl is all over the news. Who takes a drug that they know absolutely nothing about? It's usually stupid kids succumbing to peer pressure. What if we stop trying to educate our children about gender and race and the evils of democracy and instead give them some lessons in staying alive? Maybe things might be better. Are kids going to listen to everything that their parents tell them? Not in this world. But as parents, we are obligated to at least make the effort to help them.

The roadsides of North Carolina are filled with billboards telling us to pay North Carolina teachers more. They also tell us that "Public Education Works". How about some billboards about the danger of fentanyl?

Josh Stein and "Debbie" have brought up the issue of fentanyl. I haven't heard any proposals from them to fight it. Call me when you are serious. 

Target is missing the Target

 I used to shop at Target pretty regularly. It's been a long time. When I stopped working in Greensboro about thirteen years ago, I stopped going to Target. I have aged out of any serious shopping for anything but groceries. The purchase of tools and hardware is not covered by any of these statements.

Anyway, yesterday at the grocery store, I was looking for some Chinese Chow Mein stir fry noodles that I like. Food Lion has stopped stocking the brand that I like. Neither Wal-Mart nor Lowes Foods in Reidsville stock these noodles. So, I decided to look online.

In my online search, I found that Target in Greensboro had these noodles in stock. Naturally, no Target closer to my home stocks those noodles. I ordered ten packs of them and got the usual e-mail that they would notify me when my order was ready. A couple of hours later, I checked my email and found the message that my order was ready. I read the message carefully about the pickup procedure. Armed with what I needed, I headed to the Target in Greensboro on New Garden Road.

 I walked into the Target at 4:50 PM and went over to the "Order Pickup" counter and that was the last thing that went well at Target. The young man behind the counter was wearing a face mask. I waited while he issued a refund to the woman in front of me in the line. When she was done and walked away, I approached the counter.

He offered some greeting, and I said to him, "My name is Gilbert Jones, and I am here to pick up an online order." He said, "Do you have your bar code?" I said, "No, I don't have a bar code." He told me, "I need your bar code to look up your order." I responded, "The instructions in the email that I received telling me that my order was ready said that all I needed was a government issued ID with my name on it. I have that." He said, "Just show me the barcode in the message on your phone." I told him, "I don't have a smartphone." He replied, "Then how did you place your order?"

As close as I can recall, that may have been the moment that the top of my head blew off. As I started to respond, I raised the volume level a bit and worked on my assertive conversational skills. "At home, I have a box on my desk and a keyboard and a video screen. I believe that they call that setup "a computer". It allows me to access that magic place called the Internet and communicate with Target. I don't know if you still do but y'all used to sell those things here. That's how I was able to order this without a smartphone."

He again told me, "I need a barcode to find your order." I raised the volume another notch and said, "The email that Target sent me said that all I needed to pick up my order was a government issued ID with my name on it." At that point, I slammed my driver's license on the counter and said, "There is my government issued ID with my name on it. You either need to find my order or find a manager for me to talk to about this." He said, "I will be right back."  

A couple of minutes later he returned. He looked at my license and entered my name on the magic device in his hand. He then said, "It will be out in a couple of minutes." I walked a few steps away to wait. I was actually a little disappointed that he had not brought back a manager.

While I waited, he handled a few other transactions that were refunds or exchanges. Then there was a woman who was there to pick up an order. He told her that it would be a couple of minutes for her order to be brought out. I decided at that point that if she got her order before I got mine, there might be a need to "go postal". Then I realized that I was driving Susan's car, and I had only brought one firearm. I worked on calming down. 

After I had waited about ten minutes, he walked out from behind the counter and walked outside. At that point, I was trying to decide whether to find intelligent life on the staff or just call the store and ask for a manager. About that time, he walked back in the door with my purchase. Apparently, it was in some other part of the store not in the pickup area. It may have been out at the drive-through pickup station. I really don't care. 

Between my problem communicating with the masked moron and waiting 20 minutes while they found my purchase, I will not be returning to Target. The next time my cardiologist tells me that it is time for a stress test, I will tell him that I have already had one.

I will be communicating with Target later this afternoon. They will probably feign surprise that someone that stupid is employed by them.

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 twenty seven 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.