Friday the 13th Thoughts

 Good news!! I don't worry about Friday the 13th any more than I worry about Thursday the 12th or Saturday the 14th.

Somedays I just wonder how long that it will take before the Democrats all just stupid themselves to death. There won't be any media coverage.

I saw Thom Tillis on the "news" yesterday and realized why I despise most, if not all politicians. I have already written him and explained why I think that he is a useless piece of shit, what more can I do?

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Thank God that I haven't waited until the last minute to buy my wife a card. I am going to the store right after I finish this.

I am completely fascinated by the television network news coverage of the case where Meta is being sued by a woman and her daughter claiming that META designed their system to be addictive. Hello? Has anyone looked into how addictive that television is? Have you heard of soap operas? Children's cartoon shows? Sports? Television folks calling social media "addictive" is surely the kettle calling the pot black.

How about that addiction that no one wants to talk about? The "smartphone" addiction is the top of any list of addictions. There are people who would rather lose their first-born child than lose their phone. People are walking down the street holding their smartphone like it is either some kind of electronic god or some kind of electronic divining rod leading them to water. People are worried about the Chinese hacking into our computer systems and then we have the Chinese make all of our smartphones. Does that make any sense at all?

I think that the kidnapping is a terrible offense and that those who kidnap others should be executed. I am sure that Nancy Guthrie is/was a fine woman. But would this event be getting all of this media coverage if her daughter wasn't a television new personality? Why do they keep searching her daughter Annie's house, which is four miles away from her home. She was apparently kidnapped at home, why keep searching Annie's house? It appears that Annie's husband has fallen off the face of the earth since the kidnapping. They still won't say who dropped Nancy off at her house on the night she was kidnapped? Questions are increasing faster than answers.

If some moron kidnaps me, will the FBI get involved?  I am not sure that my family would even report it.  On the plus side, I have learned more about Bitcoin than I will ever need to know this week.

I am not going to tell anyone how to do their job but, if I were the Sheriff of Pima County, I would not pick the week of a nationally televised manhunt in my county to take the evening off and go to a college basketball game. You can explain that forty ways to Sunday, it still looks like you are an idiot.

Getting ready for the flea market/car show/ antique show season, I picked up about a hundred pounds of sockets and wrenches at an auction. My favorite piece was a Plomb combination wrench that is about ten years older than I am. It has aged better than I have. It may be worth more.

"Moderate" Abigail Spanberger or "The blonde AOC", continues her campaign to turn Virginia into Eastern California. We only live a short drive from Virginia and frequently shop at the Rural King in Ridgeway. That's a free plug for my Rural King friends.  Just for the record, the folks in southwest Virginia are not Spanberger fans.  If you want an entertaining viewpoint on some of Spanberger's policies, especially the gas leaf blower ban, go to Facebook and check out "The Mower Store" videos.  The Mower Store is in Ridgeway just down US 220 from the Rural King.

Of course, AOC wannabe Spanberger can't hold a candle to Sheriff Garry McFadden of Mecklenburg County in North Carolina. On Monday, February 9, a NC State House committee had McFadden testify. Despite almost eight years as the Mecklenburg County Sheriff, McFadden was unable to state the branch of government to which the sheriff's office belonged. Even after being told by the chairman that there were three branches of government and they were legislative, executive and judicial, McFadden was unable to correctly guess which branch the sheriff's department belonged to. He guessed "judicial". Obviously, he belongs to the "Elected" DEI hires. The good news is that several people are running against him this year. Call it a hunch, but that video of McFadden testifying will soon be in someone's election ads, if it is not already there today.

The same Democraps who demanded that everyone in the country wear a useless mask during the contrived Covid crisis, are opposed to ICE agents wearing masks while taking illegal immigrants into custody.

The Senate is going to vote to shut down the DHS and then go home for the next week. We need to end this shit!! End the filibuster!! End the Senate "Blue Slips" dictatorship program. Term limits for Congress and federal employees. You have probably heard me sing this song before.

This is post #1501 for this blog. Yes, yesterday's swill was post #1500. But who's counting? Not me, I just happened to notice. Maybe it's time for Google to end their "shadow ban" of my blog. It's not working like they might think. My viewer numbers are way up since you can't "Google" Random Moments of Lunacy and find your way here. Thanks for reading!!

Post Traumatic Super Bowl Disorder?

 The alleged singer Bad Bunny provided the official halftime entertainment at the Super Bowl on Sunday. There was a lot of criticism of his act because he "sang" only in Spanish. Some television expert pointed out that 50 million Americans speak Spanish. The other side of that coin is that this expert failed to point out is that 300 million Americans do not speak Spanish. 

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell obviously subscribes to the "all publicity is good publicity" theory. I don't have the experience of Commissioner Goodell, but I don't think that insulting your customer base is a long-term growth strategy. I think that if more than five million people changed stations at halftime to watch a different halftime show, you might have a problem. Houston, we have a data failure!

If this was really the two best teams playing, why did it take one so long to actually score? No one turns on the Super Bowl to see a team take three quarters to put some points on the scoreboard.

Are the Super Bowl and the NFL America's Roman Coliseum? Do professional sports serve to detract Americans from the real issues of life, like the invasion of our country by millions of foreigners every year? 

Is the good news for Senor Goodell that the NFL can't hold a candle to the "music business"? It's obvious that the Super Bowl and the Brotherhood of the Bad Bunny can't hold a candle for offensive comments compared to the Grammy Awards the previous Sunday. I just saw the news reports of the Grammy Awards, and it made me decide to take the radio out of the truck. 

I will end my criticism of the Stupor Bowl with a quote from Dallas Cowboys running back Duane Thomas after his team won Super Bowl VI. Asked by reporters after the game about the importance of the game, he said, "If it's the ultimate game, how come they're playing it again next year?".

The Grammy Awards obviously have one of those "Check Your Brains at the Door" policies for people who win and then want to make a speech. How about that homely chick claiming that there were "no illegals on stolen land"? It turned out that she has a $15 million mansion on land claimed by some Indian tribe. You have to love the irony in that situation. Is she going to give it back?

There needs to be some kind of public protective order from the FCC that would prevent the television networks from broadcasting more than one useless event within a thirty-day period. It should be illegal to broadcast the Super Bore less than ten days after the Grammy Awards. There should be some kind of required waiting period.

Post Stupor Bowl Monday Medley

 There are rumors that there was a "musical performance" surrounded by a pro football game yesterday. Mercifully, there were some American pickers reruns on at the same time. Bad Bunny can't hold a candle to Mike, Franke and Danielle. There are those who believe that 'Tattoo Queen" Danielle is actually Bad Bunny in drag. It doesn't really matter; I nodded off after about ten minutes.

I am not going to bother to trash the Stupor Bowl, but when one team goes scoreless for the first three quarters, it probably was not a great game. But I would have had to watch it to know.

This morning on the news, the leftists were attacking Turning Point USA's alternative halftime show for those who didn't want to listen Bed Bunny serenade the nation in Spanish. Here's something that all of the TPUSA critics failed to acknowledge; if five to seven million people watched the TPUSA show, that's five million people who weren't watching the ads of the Super Bowl advertisers. It's all about money.

I am not a professional law enforcement officer, but something in the whole kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie just doesn't make sense. I am not saying that this Jussie Smollett style crazy, but there is just something that is missing.  I can only assume that this is kidnapping in the age of the Internet. Just a passing thought but, that sheriff in Pima County should give thought to some other line of work. 

What kind of moron kidnaps an 84-year-old woman with a pacemaker and heart issues? I doubt that you can keep them alive long enough to get the ransom paid. There had to be at least two people involved in the kidnapping. I am trying to picture two guys sitting around talking and one says, "Let's kidnap Nancy Guthrie." I just don't understand it!

Of course, as a matter of full disclosure, until last Monday I had never heard of Savannah Guthrie. The last time that I watched the Today show, Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters were hosting the program. I think that Joe Garagiola was a part of that day's show as well.

Commie Mamdani is doing exactly what anybody with half a brain would expect in New York City. The streets and sidewalks are blocked with snow; ice and the mountains of trash have not been picked up. But the good news is that the street in front of the mayor's house, Gracie Mansion, is spotless. Policies for thee, but not for me.

The polls are all telling us that Democrats are going to sweep the elections in November. In February of 2024, the polls showed that Joe Biden would be re-elected and that Donald Trump would be in prison. The polls may be right, but I am going to go vote in November anyway.

My beloved and I attended the 27th Annual Civil War Symposium presented free by Longwood University and the National Park Service in Farmville, Virginia on Saturday. It's great, you just have to be ready for the occasional Yankee author who tries to sneak in some erroneous opinions. My wife is no longer shocked when they ask for questions and my hand goes up. I asked one question but couldn't get anyone to call on me on a later presentation. I think that I will get one of those orange flags that the flagmen use on the highways and take that next year to get noticed for questions.

Finally, my wife likes the seminar but loves the place where we spend Saturday night before returning home on Sunday. We stay at the North Creek Ridge B&B in Appomattox. Jim and Holly own the B&B and are very hospitable. It's a beautiful building that they built as a B&B. The rooms are comfortable and each has a different theme. There's a lot of Civil War art and other art all over the walls. In the bathroom of our favorite room, there's an original Reagan Conroy drawing. Breakfast is great! It's not donuts and a paper cup of coffee. On this visit, breakfast was waffles, maple flavored link sausages and scrambled eggs.  Holly is a great cook and that's coming from a fat guy who spent his life in the restaurant business. The B&B costs about the same as the Super 8 Motel and breakfast at Hardee's. If you are headed that way, check with them for availability.

February's First Friday Freeshot Festival

 In the Minnesota city of Minne-Somalia, the mob of morons continues to prove that Darwin was correct by trying to fight with armed federal law enforcement officials. 

 I am fascinated by the reactions of the media about the release of the Epstein papers. There are millions of documents in this collection. The Trump haters would have us believe that these millions of documents have all been examined and verified as factual by a court somewhere. This is a sign that most of them grew up on the Internet and have no concept of "facts" or "truth". No, these are simply millions of pages of things that people claim are facts. It's like newspapers or magazines or doctoral theses by liberals.

Some schmuck posted in some forum that Trump was mentioned 50,000 times in those documents. I asked him how many times Bill Clinton was mentioned. His response was, "According to sources, Bill Clinton is mentioned less than 100 times." I pointed out that I had seen more than 50 pictures of Clinton with Epstein. I also asked him to identify his "sources". I haven't heard from him since. There really needs to be type of cognitive test before you can access the Internet. 

I am fascinated by the Minneapolis Police Department. I have watched news reports and other video footage of Minneapolis police cars just cruising by those "checkpoints" that the local Communists are putting up and doing absolutely nothing. These people need an injection of reality to bring them back from this mental field trip that they are currently taking. I suggest that they load some of their checkpoint building pallets on their trucks and go to Polk County, Florida. It doesn't matter what city they go to in the county. I would hazard a guess that before they can even get all of their pallets set up for their "checkpoint", Sheriff Grady Judd will have enough deputies on the scene that they will regret the day they left Minne-Somalia for Polk County. As Grady says, "Those people need some "Jail Therapy".

Memo to Minneapolis Police Department: Grow a pair, ignore the mayor and Gov. Tiny Tim Walz and enforce the frigging law!! The future of your city depends on it.

If North Carolina U.S. Senator is going to operate as a Democrat for the next eleven months, the son of a bitch just needs to go ahead and leave. He's just setting himself up now for a run for the North Carolina Governor job in 2028. The smart money is on shape-shifter Thom running as a Democrat. I have already sent the schmuck a message conveying my displeasure. That means that I have done more work than Thom did this month.

We had a lot of snow over the last couple of weeks. Yesterday, I got out and used the tractor to clear the snow from the driveway. I had to justify spending all of that money on a tractor and a bunch of attachments about four years ago. Real men understand!

The Democrats want everybody in ICE wearing a bodycam. Let me be brutally honest with you Dims. This isn't going to work out for you guys like you think that it will. What the world will see now will be the behavior of liberal protesters and criminals. It hasn't worked out for the BLM folks and it's not going to work for criminally insane protesters who the Dims are funding. The videos are going to make the conservatives' point that Dims protesters are the agitators and the criminals. 

Finally, the Trump Administration has captured one of the leaders of the terrorist attack at Benghazi thirteen years ago.  No comment yet from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Maybe this guy will be able to answer her only question about the attack at the time: "What difference does it make?"

Wednesday's Wit and Wisdom

 In Minne-Somalia, a kook who allegedly sprayed apple cider vinegar on Ilhan Omar is being held in jail without bond. Meanwhile, thousands of protesters roam the streets throwing rocks and other things at ICE agents without any repercussions. In what alternate universe does this make sense? I just want the name of the last political figure who died after being sprayed with vinegar.

Some more demonstrators in Minne-Somali are obviously going to have to die before we can get their attention. Minnesota is a state in rebellion and Trump needs to respond accordingly. It's a civil war in Minnesota and the federal government needs to respond accordingly. For the hundredth time, declare martial law, send in the Army, end the insurrection.

I am completely amazed and fascinated by the demonstrators who hold out their smartphones and point them at people like smartphones are some kind of a weapon. This behavior will end when someone tires of this and turns some demonstrator's smartphone into an asshole ornament. Word will spread quickly, probably by that Signal app thing.

In the city of Minne-Somalia there are protesters setting up roadblocks to check people's ID and vehicle license plates trying to catch ICE agents. First, what are they going to do if they catch one? This is like the now world-renowned idiot Alex Pretti, trying to interfere with ICE while carrying a concealed weapon. I will just go ahead and tell you. It's not going to end well for the civilian. Stop an SUV with three or four armed ICE agents and let me know how that works out for you. 

Leftist lunatics in Minne-Somalia are slow learners. I live in rural North Carolina, and I can assure you that if you set up your own "checkpoint" here, it's going to end badly for you. I am sorry but if you try to stop me and harass or threaten me, you are going to have to die. I am too old to fight with you. I am just going to pull out my gun and kill you. The incredible irony here is that these leftist schmucks are doing exactly what they accuse ICE and CBP of doing.  Trump is correct. These are some low IQ people!

The Stupor Bowl is this weekend. What's the good news? There are a couple of hundred channels on cable, and some are showing some good movies. The NFL is offering a halftime show with some guy who calls himself Bad Bunny, who is going to wear a dress and sing in Spanish. WOW!! I can hardly wait to see that. I would rather watch pigs make pork.

The population of the United States is approximately 14% black. The NFL is approximately 75%% black. So, naturally, the NFL paints signs in the end zones that proclaim, "End Racism". Does that mean that the NFL is going to accurately reflect the racial makeup of the United States? Just for the record, there are more black bank presidents in the United States than there are white defensive backs in the NFL. Is there some kind of affirmative action plan to get more white players in the NFL?

How many Asian players are there in the NFL? Depending on your source, there are between two and five. Hispanics account for about thirty-five players. There are about 1700 players in the NFL. Given all of these numbers, how can the NFL pretend to lecture the rest of us with signs like "End Racism". It's a great idea, guys!! Clean up your own house first!!

We can talk about the insanity of mutilating our children's bodies with transgender surgeries until the cows come home, but nothing gets attention faster than a $2 million judgment against a surgeon in a lawsuit. 

They are having trouble with those driverless vehicles, like Waymo, passing stopped school busses. They need to stop this before a child gets killed. Work out the details in a lab somewhere. By the way, who gets a ticket when the driverless car violates the law? Are driverless cars excluded from obeying the law? 

Let's Bring Democracy to the US Senate

 Over the years, I have heard alleged experts on politics describe the United States Senate as "the greatest deliberative body on earth". Of course, these are many of the same folks who describe Joe Biden as being "sharp as a tack". When our founders wrote the Constitution, it is believed that they envisioned something like the Senate of Rome from the days of the Roman Empire. It is more likely that they were modeling it more after the House of Lords in Britain, since that was where most of the settlers in America had originated. 

More than 235 years after starting to operate, the "greatest deliberative body on earth" has devolved into a group that more closely resembles the British House of Commons without their level of civility or their National Health Service dental plan. It is well past time for a reset on the entire Congress, but today's topic is the US Senate. I will bash the House on another day.

We have a two-term limit on the President of the United States. We have the 25th Amendment which provides a path for a President who is not physically or mentally capable of performing his job to be removed. We have neither of those avenues available for members of the Senate. As of this writing, we have at least ten Senators who have served more than four complete terms. We have forty-six Senators who have served more than two terms. If two terms are the limit for the President, why not have two terms as the limit for the Senate? 

The Senate can expel members for various types of misconduct. The last time that a Senator was expelled was in 1862. In 1861-1862 they expelled 15 Senators because they represented Confederate States which were no longer in the Union. Let's just remove those from consideration. Prior to that only one man, William Blount had been expelled from the Senate. After being expelled, Blount went home to Tennessee where they named a county and other things after him. Oh, the humiliation!! Since 1862 they have tried to expel 18 Senators and expelled none. Six have resigned before their trial. There have been 2018 people serve in the United States Senate, and we have expelled only one. I just don't believe that we had only one person who was unfit to serve in the Senate. We need limits on how long people can keep that job. We need to give more voices a chance to be heard in the Senate.

Let's talk about that filibuster crap! We elect Senators by a simple majority of votes. If you get one more vote than your opponent, you're in. So why do we have to have 60 votes to do anything in the Senate? It appears that whether or not you favor the filibuster depends on the party in power and the party to which you belong. As a registered Republican, I favor eliminating the filibuster. The corollary to that is that I have never supported the filibuster.  

Right now, Republicans keep talking about what the Democrats would do if we eliminated the filibuster. When the Dims were in power, they said the same thing about Republicans and the filibuster. Here's a thought! Why don't we talk about what we could accomplish if we didn't have to deal with the filibuster? What could we do if we didn't have to accommodate that bastard Communist, Chuck Schumer? What great things are waiting to be legislated if not for the filibuster? It looks like we will never find out because there aren't fifty-one Senators with the courage/balls/backbone to regulate their own power.

 You can't help but notice that they don't have the filibuster in the House. In that body, reforms go to an endless number of committees to die a long and painful death. 

 Let's quit playing this bullshit government shutdown game. The future of the nation is tied up in this silly game that you are playing in the Senate. No one ever said that majority rule required a 60% majority for every bill to pass in the Senate. The Senate came up with this crap on their own. I am certain that the public has never had a vote on this.

They don't even have a real filibuster anymore. In a real filibuster, people have to be making speeches until they drop. Now, these pussy politicians just announce that they are having a filibuster. They need to get up and convince us why they are right. The way it is done now is just some form of oratorical masturbation. If you want a filibuster, we need a working man's filibuster again. I want to see some blowhard fighting to stay awake as he babbles incoherently. Senator Spartacus from New Jersey comes to mind on this. His performance was actually just a speech on policy as he wasn't trying to block a bill. He just wanted to share his Trump Derangement Syndrome symptoms with the nation. When filibusters end, a simple majority vote decides the issue. 

We are past the one-year mark of the Trump presidency, and the Senate has still not confirmed his nominees for various positions. This is how the party that lost the election tries to control the government. We need to end this crap now. The majority voted for Donald Trump. We voted for him to pick leaders, not for a minority in the Senate to keep the government from working. One day, the nation will collapse while the Senate waits on a "procedural vote".

It's way past time to end the "blue slip" thing on District Court Judge and US Attorney nominees in the Senate. For the will of the majority of the American voters to be thwarted by one or two United States Senators may be an even bigger affront to voters than the filibuster. We are told that the "blue slip" system is a "courtesy" to their colleagues. I am not the least bit interested in courtesy; I want the best damn judge or attorney. It reminds me of a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who said, "I hire for diversity." Sorry pal, but I believe in hiring for competence. If our choices are competence or courtesy, competence should win every time. Call your Senator and tell them to break from cocktails long enough to end the "Blue Slip" bullshit. They are both "BS".

 The Congress passed a law that says that district judges can select a US Attorney if the Congress fails to approve a nominee within 120 days. This is so blatantly unconstitutional that I can't believe that it exists. Congress needs to end this now. A federal court will never rule this law unconstitutional because it gives them more power. If you can find a place in the Constitution where it says that federal district judges can appoint US Attorneys, contact me at once. The law is that Federal judges are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. I don't believe that there could be a bigger conflict of interest than allowing federal judges to choose US Attorneys. This is just another way to circumvent the Constitution and the will of the people.

If Ted Sorenson comes back from the dead to rewrite Profiles in Courage for JFK again, he won't find anybody in the US Senate worth mentioning. That's an updated insult based on the old shot about Diogenes wouldn't need to bother stopping in Washington DC looking for an honest man. Somebody would just steal his lamp or tax it.

These clowns in the Senate are governing by a bunch of rules that voters have not approved. I understand that Congress can make their own rules, but when those rules block the will of the electorate or violate the Constitution, those rules must go or Congress must go.

I will stop here as the veins in my forehead are bulging visibly and I sense my blood pressure pointing to stroke level. I will go shovel some snow and settle down. 

Flag This!!

 One of the absolute worst things in sports will take place on Tuesday night in San Francisco. Yes, it is the dreaded NFL Pro Bowl. This will be the fourth time that the NFL Pro Bowl will be a flag football contest. It's kind of like the Major League Baseball All-Star game being turned into a slow pitch softball game using four outfielders. If it being flag football does not suck badly enough, it will be a seven-on-seven competition. I can only hope that they are going to use an actual NFL regulation football and not use a Nerf football instead.

I have actually attended an NFL Pro Bowl game. The Pro Bowl for the 1977 season was played in January of 1978 at Tampa Stadium. Why did I go? One of our suppliers gave me two tickets. It was a pretty dull game. I had to look up the final score because 48 years later, all that I can remember was that it was not an exciting game. My recollections were correct; the score was 14-13.

What have been the problems with the Pro Bowl over the years? First, most players don't want to play. Second, most fans don't want to watch it. Third, they can't even get people to watch it on television. I am 72 years old, and in that time, exactly NO ONE has told me, "I have to get home and watch the Pro Bowl tonight." Nobody has ever called in sick to watch a Pro Bowl. Other than that, it's probably a good event.

When I was in junior high school, we played flag football in Phys Ed class. In high school, we had a Powder Puff football game during Homecoming Week. That was when the girls played flag football. I seem to remember there being tougher hitting in that game than in the Pro Bowl that I watched several years later.

Here's a free marketing idea for the NFL. Pick All-Pro NFL cheerleaders and have them play a topless flag football game. 

Why does the NFL keep playing the Pro Bowl game? I can't believe that it is actually profitable. The Rin Tin Tin  reruns probably get a bigger market share in the ratings than the Pro Bowl.

This year they are playing it on a Tuesday night before the Super Bowl. I don't know what their marketing strategy for this game is, but I am pretty sure that no one with Super Bowl tickets is coming in three or four days early to catch a flag football game.

If the television networks really thought that people would watch this game, it would be on some kind of perverted Pay Per View. It would be one dollar to watch the game or ten dollars not to have it show up on your television set. That's the only way that they could make money with it on television.

The NFL can name an All-Pro team without having them play a game. AllStar games in any sport are rarely good games because the teams don't get enough practice time to work well together as a team. They are rarely events that showcase team talents. Does the NFL think that people are going to stop watching the Super Bowl if they euthanize the Pro Bowl? 

If there was a Humane Society for sporting events, they would put this dog down. The NFL needs to end the suffering now rather than waiting for the day to come when they will have to pay fans to attend this horseshit game.