The Morning After??

 Almost twenty years ago, in the early months of this blog, I scrawled a few paragraphs about one of the best and worst experiences of my life. Yes, I wrote about my time at the Waffle House.

We never closed at the Waffle House. We were there for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Easter and even for Gilbert's birthday. Not everybody is off on holidays. About fifty years in the restaurant business was enough to make me appreciate that.

If people other than you didn't work "holidays", you would be sitting home in the dark. Power won't generate itself and get to your house on its own. If you venture out, the gas stations are closed, and the traffic lights won't work. The police wouldn't be patrolling so you would have to rely on all of the other drivers to be following the traffic laws. Fat chance of that!!  Do you want to wait until the next day if your house catches on fire? What would holidays be without cooks, waiters and waitresses and bartenders working? How about those clerks at the convenience stores or those folks at the emergency room? 

I stopped at a Dollar General on Christmas Eve. I was talking to the cashier as I checked out and asked her, " Are you working until closing time tonight?", She groaned and said, "Yeah, I have to close. We are closing at 10:00 PM." I said, "Let me go ahead and tell you this. It won't matter what time you close tonight but you are going to encounter two situations." 

I told her, "At 9:55, some nutcase is going to run through the door and yell, 'Are You open?' Tell them whatever you want, they won't remember it later. I like to say 'No' just to see the look on their face." She laughed. Then I told her, "At 10:05 while you are getting ready to leave, another nutcase will be outside trying to get the door to open. They will be screaming 'Are you closed?' as they pull on the locked door.  Don't even bother to answer. Act like you can't hear them. As long as you act like you can't hear, they will yell louder. It's just fun to watch. When you tire of watching them, point to the Closed sign and walk away."

Being off on Christmas is kind of like being off on Sunday. I had thousands of people over the years tell me the same thing on Sundays. Customers would tell me how we should close the restaurant on Sunday so that our employees could go to church. My response was almost always the same. First, I would point out that most of my employees were not church goers. Beyond that, if they were all in church and the restaurant was closed, where were those saying that we should be closed going to eat? Trust me, nobody had thought it through that far.

If you don't think that restaurants should be open on Christmas, don't go there to eat. If nobody goes out to eat, restaurants will stop opening on Christmas. Don't stop for gas on Christmas day. Go out for a drink on the day before Christmas. Watch the ball games from your living room. If your cable goes out on Christmas, wait until the next day to call for repair. You know that you won't do that!!

There are lots of people who work on holidays. Most get paid extra for working on holidays. What's the best thing about working on holidays? You don't have to visit with those friends and relatives that you don't like.  That's a bonus!! Probably for all involved.

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas!!

From a lifetime of Christmas pageants, this message:

2 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.

 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)

3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)

5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.

6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.

16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.

17 And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.

18 And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.

19 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.

20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.

21 And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

A Belated Festivus??

 I missed the big Festivus celebration yesterday. I mentioned this to my beloved and then had to explain the Festivus celebration. When I started to explain the Festivus tradition of "The airing of Grievances", she suggested that maybe everyday was Festivus for me. 

So, early on Christmas Eve I am going to get my list of grievances out of the way. Since I don't actually know anyone who celebrates Festivus, this should easily work out. Here we go.

1. Put your frigging phone away! Let's talk without you continually checking to see if someone more interesting is trying to contact you. Rest assured, there aren't many people who are more interesting.

2. Democrats need to just shut up about Trump and let him govern. You guys spent four years telling us that an old braindead vegetable named Biden was actually a functioning genius. In reality, Biden was a mannequin with a cabbage for a head. His handlers would not put him anywhere near a jar of mayonnaise for the fear that someone would make coleslaw out of Joe.

3. If you don't believe in the power of Festivus, Hunter Biden surfaced yesterday in an interview where he spent five hours trashing Dad and Democrats. It's a Festivus miracle!! 

4. Political corruption is a way of life in a lot of African and Asian countries. Why are we surprised when they come to America and start ripping off the taxpayers? Know any Somalis in Minnesota? I don't know anything about those government feeding programs, but I am fluent in food service. I can assure you that nobody served 5000 meals a day out of those Minnesota restaurants pictured in the news. 

5. Wait!! I am sorry, but I left South America out of the corruption listings. Those countries are included in the list of nations where political change happens when one colonel walks up behind another colonel and shoots him. You have to admit, it's cheaper than an election!! So, naturally enough we want a few million from those countries.

6.When you bring in ten to twenty million illegal immigrants in less than four years, you have decided to have food, housing, educational, medical and social service shortages. Nothing like increased demand for a fixed amount of products to drive up the cost of those items. "Expert Economist" is obviously some kind of oxymoron

7. I am tired of college football and the alleged "student-athletes". Those guys are all being paid. The only "student-athletes" left are in middle school sports.

8. I am tired of ministers, rabbis, priests or whatever they call them in your religion advocating for illegal immigrants. If laws don't matter, why do we have Ten Commandments? 

9. Memo to the ministers and others mentioned above: Who is going to help people after you finish destroying our nation with all of these illegals? 

10. We may have wasted more than 600,000 lives in the Civil War only to have Democrats trying to destroy the nation again today.

One-liners and more

 Hunter Biden came out against illegal immigration in a televised interview just before Christmas. This is why Republicans still believe in Santa Claus.

Does Hunter 's latest statement mean that he's not servicing Jill anymore?

Tyler Robinson, the killer of Charlie Kirk, is trying to have the entire team of prosecutors dismissed because they received text messages about the murder before they were on the prosecution team. Why don't Robinson's lawyers just try to prove that the son of a bitch didn't do it??

Robinson was in a relationship with a man trying to transition to a woman. Is that only a temporary homosexual relationship? I am sure that I don't understand that. If I were his lawyer, I might go with the insanity defense.

Let's not forget Luigi Mangione. New York should convict him and hang that piece of crap in Times Square. Police in Altoona should have shot him when they found the pistol magazine wrapped in a pair of wet underwear in his backpack.

Mangione and Robinson are walking ads for capital punishment. Also, for birth control. Somewhere, there are a couple of fathers who wished that they had just jerked off on that night, instead.

Churches who are redoing their Nativity scenes to support illegal immigration need to go back and read their Bibles again. Or maybe for the first time?

Gasoline at Sam's was $2.26 a gallon the other day in Danville, Virginia. In California, gas is between $5 and $6 a gallon. Remember that when Greasy Gavin runs for President. 

A consultant is a guy who knows one thousand ways to make love but doesn't know any women.

Thanks to Elon Musk and the Tesla Cyber Truck for knocking the 1975 AMC Pacer out of first place in the "Ugliest Vehicle Ever Made" competition.

The Cyber Truck is so ugly, that if were a gas-powered vehicle, it would have to sneak up on a gas pump to fill up.

Democrats are in danger of overdosing on the pictures of Bill Clinton in the Jeffrey Epstein photo collections.

Did they take pictures of Epstein with Michael Jackson because Epstein didn't know any real black pedophiles?

Why don't we ever see anything about female pedophiles on the news? 

Why are taxpayer funded universities giving scholarships to guys who make thousands, if not millions of dollars in NIL money? Colleges are just subsidizing a minor league pro football team.

Let's impeach Judge Boasberg first.

How badly does the business environment suck in California? Valero is spending about $1.1 billion to close their California refinery and leave the "Golden State".

This is the time of the year when Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D) likes to talk about his military service. He used to claim that he had been in Vietnam. It turned out that he ran the Toys for Tots drive in Washington, DC. Today, he would be safer in Vietnam than DC.

Since Dims are all excited about pedophiles, let's have them release Ashley Biden's diary where she wrote about showering with her father. The FBI had to recover her diary after she left it in a halfway house somewhere in the rehab process. They didn't put the FBI on the case because it mentioned some guy named Biff.

Why didn't Conan O'Brien just call the police when Rob Reiner's son Nick, caused a big disturbance at that Christmas party? 

Memo to self: Don't go to a Christmas party in California.

  

MADD?

No, this post isn't about Mothers Against Drunk Driving. It's about an epidemic sweeping our nation, Media Attention Deficit Disorder. This is when the news media pays absolutely no attention to something that they were consumed by 48 hours earlier.

The nation spent six days consumed by the story of Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, who killed three people in a rampage across New England before killing himself a couple of days before police found him in a storage unit in New Hampshire.

For six days, you couldn't sling a dead cat without hitting a reporter trying to find someone who could identify the killer. Depending on your perspective on competence, the Providence police may or may not have been spearheading a search for Valente. 

Valente came to the United States and to Brown University in 2000 to study physics. He was not happy with the education offered at Brown, so he left there some time in 2001. In 2017 he became a legal permanent resident in the United States. On Saturday, December 13 he killed two and wounded several more students at Brown University. On Monday December 15, he killed an MIT Physicist at his home in Massachusetts. Following that, he drove to a storage unit in New Hampshire and killed himself.

Two people who were classmates of his at Brown have commented to the media about Valente. I wouldn't rate either's comments as being complimentary of the deceased killer. In a nation of 350 million people, apparently there were only two people who knew him.

It appears that the media has lost all interest in the murderer. They are suffering from a case of "Media Attention Deficit Disorder". Once he was dead, nobody cared anymore. On to another media created crisis. 

We haven't seen such a sudden loss of interest in a killer since Donald Trump was shot in Pennsylvania. A few days later, the media was no longer interested.  What was the shooter's name? Rather than take a chance that you will quit reading this to go look it up, I will tell you that his name was Thomas Crooks. Actually, his full name was Thomas Matthew Crooks. I threw in the middle name to heighten the chances that you will remember his name. If you don't believe that will help you remember his name, who allegedly killed JFK? Lee Harvey Oswald. Who allegedly killed MLK? James Earl Ray. The memory retention rate is higher with the middle name. At least, that's my theory.

But back to Claudio Valente, what do we know about him today that we didn't know on Friday? Not a damn thing. The news people have lost their interest in the case. In their world, it's just one more immigrant killing a few people. That happens on a regular basis in this country. So, they don't want to talk about it anymore. 

I am a little more curious than the alleged "reporters" covering this story. Here are a few thoughts. What has Valente been doing the last 23 or 24 years? Did he have a job? What kind of work did he do? Was he a physicist somewhere?   Was he teaching? Was he married? Had he remained living in this country, or did he go back home? Did he live anywhere? Did he have neighbors? Did he just spend the last 23 years planning these murders? Did anybody in this country know him? Isn't anyone who "identifies" as a reporter the least bit curious about this guy?

I am inclined to believe that none of these questions are being addressed by the news media because they are afraid of the answers. They are afraid of any more bad publicity about immigrants. Rather than address the issue, they avoid the issue by not reporting.  That's one of the problems with a "free" press.

There is one fact concerning Valente about which I am certain. Valente is certainly not a follower of President Donald Trump. How can I be certain? Because if he was a Trumper, it would be on every television news show in the nation. There would not be a newspaper in the country published without that story on the front page! I can see it now; MAGA Maniac Murderer Slays Three Scientists!! Film at 11:00.

Kerry Me Back?

Democrats are aflame after the Kennedy Center board decided to rename the center as the Trump-Kennedy Center. Kerry Kennedy claims that she will go down there on January 20, 2029, with a pickaxe and remove the Trump name. Just another sad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

I can't believe that they even kept the Kennedy name on the building. I don't want to further inflame the enraged Kennedy chick, but I don't think that balling Marilyn Monroe made John F. Kennedy a patron of the arts. Possibly someone needs to share with Kerry the stories of how JFK and Kerry's father RFK, passed Marilyn Monroe around like a loaner car. What was it about JFK's support of the arts that caused them to name the center for him? Wasn't there a massage parlor or spa up for a naming?

Let's be honest about this, Kerry. The Kennedy Center isn't like the Lincoln Memorial or the Washington Monument. Millions of people visit those monuments a year. The number of tourists who have the Kennedy Center on their must-see list is pretty limited. Much like the Kennedy Administration, the Kennedy Center exists only to keep some of the wealthier locals entertained. 

Will your late uncle be best remembered for the Bay of Pigs fiasco or sending US troops to the quaint Asian tourism hotspot of Vietnam? Will they one day discover that Lee Harvey Oswald was just another jealous husband with a rifle? I have a free minute, tell me about all of the great things that your uncle did during his Presidency. I hate to be brutally honest, but the main memory that most Americans have about John F. Kennedy is that he was assassinated. If you think that I am wrong, stop a stranger on the street and ask them to list the five top accomplishments of the Kennedy Presidency. Be prepared to wait.

Maybe as a liberal Democrat, you might remember when your tribe removed the names of anyone who was on the other side in the Civil War from any public building, park or street? At least, Trump left the Kennedy name on the building. Deranged Democrats like yourself want to remove any mention of Trump because of your unhinged and unlimited hatred of Donald Trump. You guys need to get someone to put together a twelve-step program for treating Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Let's be honest here. Your judgments about Trump and other conservatives are called into question by your fifteen-year marriage to Andrew Cuomo. WOW!! A woman who slept with Andrew Cuomo hates Republicans. That's like finding out that the world is round.

I saw some highlights of your driving record online. I can only assume that you are emulating your Uncle Teddy with his driving skills and habits. I will bet that you are never asked to drive the carpool.

Finally, a pickaxe might not be the best tool to stand on a ladder with and use to remove letters. That statement shows how out of touch with physical labor and actual work that Democrats really are. 

Foul Mouthed Friday?

Jussica Tarlov on The Five on the Fox News Network has caused the folks who write the English-Profanity Dictionary to redefine "Cunt".

 Nothing in history has ever been the fault of the Democratic Party. That's their story and they are sticking with it.

If Democrats are correct, they will all see Donald Trump again when they arrive in Hell. Safe travels, fellows!!

In nearby Randolph County, North Carolina the Public Library Board of Trustees voted 5-2 in October to keep a book about a transgender boy titled, "Call Me Max" on the library shelves. Last week on December 8, the Randolph Couty Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 to remove the Board of Trustees. There's a lesson in there for anyone interested in learning. Voters talk; trustees walk!

The whole transgender thing is a plot by drug companies and doctors.  What happened in our country that caused a massive outbreak suddenly in people who claimed that they were transgender?  What happened is that doctors and drug companies realized how much money that could make by performing life altering surgeries that would cause people to have to take expensive medications for the rest of their lives. Boys have given up doing things that would irritate their parents and instead are claiming that they have decided that they are really girls. Things like this are making parents wish that they had just watched a movie instead on the night that their child was conceived.

What kind of horseshit parent thinks that a six-year-old is qualified to make a decision that will mutilate them physically, compel them to a lifetime of expensive drugs and which they may regret before reaching adulthood? If your kid tells you that they want to be a Marine, do you ship them off to Parris Island for boot camp at age six?

Just to question the whole process here, if your child comes to you and says that they "identify" as an amputee, are you going to let them have a leg removed? Of course not, but sexual organs are okay to remove? If you believe that, your child is not the only one who needs professional mental help.

When I was a kid, the teacher's pet was either the smartest kid in the class or the kid who was the biggest brown noser. Now the teacher's pet is the boy who wants to get his dick lopped off or the girls who wants her breasts cut off and to get fitted for an artificial penis. We need to end this shit! 

If you decide to host a Christmas party and have everyone bring some kind of dish, don't invite Kameltoe Harris. All she will bring is that damned special recipe word salad. Well, that and one of those gallon boxes of cheap wine. And she is only bringing one glass.

It's been six days, and we haven't heard from a single student who was in that classroom at Brown University during the shooting. Are they using Maxwell Smart's Cone of Silence? Authorities will neither confirm nor deny that the shooter shouted something. Is the Providence police force really this incompetent? Before identifying a shooter, do they first have to determine whether or not he (or she) was a member of some "oppressed group"? 

There's a Keystone Cops remake being filmed at Brown University. In the background music is a loop playing "Car 54, Where Are You?" The radio is blasting "One Adam 12, See a man about some murders at Brown!" Andy has told Barney to put his bullet into his gun. 

Doing some research about the Providence police chief, I "Googled" his name and got an article about DEI hires and a picture of the Frito Bandito. But the Bandito was much taller. 

My favorite piece of asinine wisdom in the claims from Brown University is that the building was too old to have cameras. Have any of those schmucks been to or even heard of the White House? Yeah, there's more than a few cameras at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. By the way, the White House is a little more than 200 years old. I don't believe that there is a space open to the public where every square inch is not on camera. Yes Brown, you too, can install cameras in an old building.

I can't believe that with the tuition rates at Brown that every student doesn't have a personal security guard.

A few days before Christmas fifty years ago, I went to a meeting of Waffle House managers from our area. After the meeting, several of us gathered for dinner. One of the guys was telling us about how his youngest son had lost a tooth a couple of days earlier. He went into detail about how he and his wife had the boy put his tooth under his pillow for the tooth fairy. He also described the struggle to get the tooth out and put a dollar bill under the pillow without waking the boy. When he finished, one of the other guys said, "I know exactly what you are talking about." Knowing that the second guy was neither married nor had children, I asked. "How do you know anything about the tooth fairy, as you have no children." He replied, "Every night, I put a pair of women's panties under my pillow before I go to sleep." I asked the logical question, "Why?" He laughed and said, "I keep hoping that the pussy fairy will visit my house!" Fifty years later, I can still see all of those guys laughing.

Ending where I started, Fani Willis testified before a Georgia Senate committee yesterday. The cunt in question had hired a lawyer who had never tried a RICO case at a rate higher than ever paid by her office to any other lawyer. I can only assume that any man willing to ball her was entitled to the extra money. It's a moot point now, but since she claimed that the decision to prosecute Trump was hers alone, I offer this question. Why did her employee/lover/friend/ fuck buddy meet with the White House Counsel twice? Inquiring minds, and there are none in the Democratic Party or their wholly owned subsidiary, the news media, want to know.