World Cup Excitement? Really?

The World Cup competition has started. Watching soccer on television is just video Sominex. Wait! I don't want to slight Mike Huckabee or Bill O'Reilly in this matter. So, watching soccer on television or even watching it live is just a free sample of Relaxium. 

When I finish this rant, I am going to check with the bookmakers in Las Vegas to see what the spread is on the body count in soccer riots during this year's World Cup.

I read an online article by some schmuck complaining that the United States is making it difficult for and even banning some World Cup participants and/or fans from entering our country. The last two countries to host the World Cup were Qatar and Russia. I posted a comment suggesting that the writer call me back when they sober up.

When I was in elementary school, we played kickball. It was like baseball with a big-ass ball that you kicked when the pitcher rolled it your way. It was more of a contact sport than baseball since you could get someone "out" by throwing the ball at them and hitting them. Yes, we played "full contact kickball".

I must admit that the player celebrations in soccer are not anywhere nearly as absurd as in American football. In the United States, we don't celebrate the birth of a child or any major life event like players do when scoring a touchdown in football. NFL and college football players have choreographed and rehearsed dance routines that they perform when scoring a touchdown. You don't see celebrations like that when it is announced that a cancer patient has been cured. 

Let's face it! When an NFL player catches a pass for a touchdown, that's their job. Hell, Benny Hinn doesn't dance that much when he is celebrating a "healing." Do the rest of us celebrate like that when we do our jobs? In more than fifty years in the restaurant business, I never saw anyone spike a basket full of French fries when they were pulled out of the fryer. I never danced at the Waffle House when I pulled a waffle out of the iron or flipped a couple of over easy eggs in the sauté pans. Does your CPA highstep back from the mailbox after filing your tax return? Does your mailman kneel near your mailbox and put up a hand after delivering the mail? Does your plumber spike a turd into the toilet when he clears the stoppage? I hope that the answers to those questions are all in the negative.

But I digress. Soccer spectating is the "sport of coroners." The body count after major soccer games in other countries rivals that of a rap concert in Chicago. I checked out the schedule of the World Cup to see where they are playing. Naturally, they are playing all of the games in large stadiums in large cities. The final game is played in New York/New Jersey at the Meadowlands. They are also playing in Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Houston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Boston and a few other large slums. Most murders occur in the large cities in the United States where the games are being played. So, the fans in those cities may not even notice the spike in the murder rate caused by soccer games.

However, the organizers and schedulers are not as stupid as some Americans. They are not playing in Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, New Orleans or Washington D.C. Maybe avoiding these cities will help hold down the postgame celebration body count.

So, what's the point of this screed? Don't offer me tickets to any of the games. Don't invite me over to watch any of the games. Don't email me any updates. Don't ask if I watched any of the games. In short, for the next few weeks, I am incommunicado! That's a couple of miles south of Reidsville.

Somebody wake me when the national nightmare is over!

P.S. Just for the record, on the first game broadcast from Mexico City, the Fox Sports screen went black when two Hispanic men began fighting behind the television reporter doing a live report. You just can't make this shit up!!

Saint Scott of CBS??

Scott Pelley, the famed egomaniac king of CBS, is busy appearing before anyone with a camera to attack his former employer. I am waiting for him to show up on "Gutfeld" on Fox News. That would be a remake of "Clash of the Titans".

If Lord Scott had not been fired, we would have never found out about how many times that he served "in combat". Reporting in a war zone is a dangerous thing, but it's not the same as serving as a soldier, sailor or marine in a war zone. That's like a sideline reporter claiming that they played pro football.

Scott Pelley got fired because he was both stupid and arrogant. He thought that he was irreplaceable. Many years ago, I worked for a large restaurant company. One day at a meeting of general managers, our new vice-president of operations had us all line up and walk by a bucket of water. We were instructed to put our hand into the bucket and remove it. After we completed that, the new VP invited us all to walk up and see if there were any holes in the water where our hands had been. One guy, who may have been related to Pelley, actually walked up and looked. The message was that we could all be replaced. It turns out that Scott Pelley is also replaceable. Obviously, no one ever tried the bucket full of water thing with Pelley.

The arrogance level of Scott Pelley is also off the charts. He picked the first day of his new boss's administration to verbally attack him in front of the rest of the staff. I don't know of any job where you could do that and keep your job. I read a story online about his verbal attack on his new boss and most of the comments echoed my opinion. Memo to morons: You can't verbally attack your boss and keep your job. It warms my heart to know that Scott Pelley can't do that either. 

More than forty years ago, I was holding an employee meeting about a serious situation when one of my assistant managers stood and told me that I was wrong about the issue. I told him that if he didn't sit down and shut up that I would fire his ass on the spot. The meeting went on without further interruption. What level of egomaniac is Pelley operating at to believe that he could attack his new boss in front of the staff and keep his job? 

Sometimes, employees start believing that they are the sole reason that the business is successful. Pelley may have been a good reporter, but where would he have been without the producers, the camera operators, the editors and all of the other people who made the broadcast a success? What would Pelley have done if one of the producers had interrupted his rant against the new boss to tell Pelley to sit down and shut up? I guess that no one wanted to save his job.

Look for Saint Scott to show up at some other network soon. A guy with that kind of ego can't go gently into the night. The new ESPN? Egomaniac Scott Pelley Network?

Thirteen Thursday Thoughts

 Ignoring all of the liberal bullshit about justice in Texas and the never-ending accusations of racism, i offer this simple question. Why did Karmelo Anthony take a knife to a high school track meet?

After years of accusing everyone in the Republican party of being Nazis, the Democrats are running a guy for the US Senate who has an actual Nazi SS tattoo. Who knew that people in Maine were this stupid?

Apparently, Bernie Sanders has forgotten all about the SS and their work in Germany during Hitler's time in power. Sanders reminds me of Eisenhower's words after visiting a Nazi concentration camp in the closing days of the war. After touring the entire facility, Ike said, "Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." Bernie Sanders makes Eisenhower's statement correct.

Just for the record and for the further enlightenment of famed airhead Jasmine Crockett, it was Democrats who opposed integration in the South years ago. George Wallace of Alabama and Orval Faubus of Arkansas were Democrats, not Republicans. 

At a House hearing the other day, Jasmine Crockett criticized Dr. Alveda King for being a Republican. Kooks like Crockett are probably the reason that Alveda King celebrates being a Republican.

Jasmine Crockett joins Joe Biden, Diane Feinstein, Rosa DeLauro and Hank Johnson in demonstrating the need for cognitive tests for elected officials.

Jasmine Crockett is probably responsible for the old joke about Abe Lincoln waking up one day after a three-day drunk and saying, "I freed who?" Yes, I know that's tasteless, but Jasmine makes it work.

The primary election results of the June 2 election in California are making the case for election reforms in the "Golden State". Silicon Vally, the high-tech center of the world, is in California and yet California handles elections like the third world disaster that the state actually is today.

I haven't seen this covered in the media anywhere, but I am a big believer in the old adage, "Money talks, bullshit walks." If you want evidence of people abandoning California, here's what to do. If you live in the South, go to the U-Haul website and price a rental truck to go from your home to California. Then check the price to go from California to your house. Guess which will cost more. After this election, they may pay you to take the truck to Los Angeles. If you live in New York or New Jersey, check on a move to Florida. Same story.

We just haven't bombed Iran enough. Bomb the bastards until they surrender. Sooner or later, even the slow among them will rise up and demand change. Peace talks aren't enough of a reason to stop bombing. Stop when they sign and obey the peace agreement.

If you believe in unlimited immigration, look at what is happening in England and Ireland today. Hell, Ireland let Rosie O'Donnell in.

New Yorkers are blaming the Knicks losing Game 3 on Donald Trump. Apparently, he was the closest white guy to the court.

Talking to some guys in Dublin, Virginia on Saturday, I called their governor, "Spamburger". No one objected, so I used that line a couple of hundred more times.

Witless Wednesday Wisdom

I stopped at the McDonald's in Dublin, Virginia on Friday for lunch. I waited at the counter for four minutes for some form of human life to appear at the register. Finally, a young man approached and just stood there without saying a word. I was unsure as whether to speak to him first or to attempt some sort of sign language to communicate with him. I think that I possibly saw him breathe so I ruled out starting CPR. It went downhill from there. I will just go to the Waffle House next time.

The US Senate race in Maine is the only Senate race in the country with two Democrats running against each other in November. 

Adolf Platner was the winner in the Democrat primary for US Senate last night in Maine. Democrats who are always labeling Republicans as "Nazis" are now running an actual Nazi for the US Senate. Platner's sponsor is the self-loathing Jewish joke Senator Bernie Sanders. I am known to be a little different, but even I know that Platner is one crazy son of a bitch. Platner will have to be one hell of a liberal to top Susan Collins.

R. Dean Walker's hit song from 1970, "Indiana Wants Me" is now the anthem for the Chicago Bears and their attempt to shake down Illinois for a brand-new stadium. When that song came out in 1970, I was dating a girl from Indiana. She loved that song. She called me one day in January of 1971 to tell me that she was going back to Indiana. I hate Illinois, but don't chase the Bears, guys! 

I watched Bryan Fair; the head of the Southern Poverty Law Center, tap dance at the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. Deborah Ross, Democrat from North Carolina praised him during the time she was given to ask questions. The high point for the Democrats was Rep. Hank Johnson praising the guy for his five minutes without asking a single question. As least, Hank didn't ask him if Guam would tip over if we put too many SPLC informants on it. If you don't understand that, Google Hank Johnson and Guam.

The SPLC exists to take in money. That's all! Isn't accusing a bunch of organizations and people of being haters actually an activity done by a group of hate filled people? Those defending the SPLC are comparing the SPLC paying people in organizations to be informants to police agencies using informants. To what branch of government does the SPLC belong??

Georgia Foods, a large Bojangles franchisee, has put EV chargers at a restaurant in the Savannah area. As Georgia Foods' stores in my area are out of chicken every time I stop there, I think that this is a case of misplaced priorities. I pointed this out on a LinkedIn article yesterday, but I am not waiting on a reply.

California election returns are still being counted. They send out mail-in ballots to all voters. How do they know when you go to vote in person whether you have mailed in a ballot? What happens if you vote by mail and also go to the polls? How many votes will they throw out in this election for voting twice? How many were tossed in the last election? It's time to cut that umbilical cord connecting us to California and let them roam free. They claim the fourth largest economy in the world and the streets of their major cities are filled with the homeless, pardon me, unhoused and drug addicts. 

Most people in California are too lazy to rob you; they will just wait for the government to do it. 

AMF, Fox and Friends!!

The "A" in "AMF" is for "adios". You are left to your own imagination for what the "M" and the "F" mean in this context. It is not "mighty fine".

On Thursday morning, I turned on the idiot box (television) to watch a little of the morning national news. I was watching Fox and Friends and was stunned as Brian Kilmeade launched an attack on a statue of General Robert E. Lee being put back up in Charleston. After a couple of minutes, I turned the television off rather than listen to any more of his swill/screed.

I dispatched an e-mail to Fox and Friends earlier this morning letting them know that they have at least one less viewer today than they did yesterday morning. I doubt that they are concerned.

I am not an expert on television ratings, but I am going to hazard a guess that the Fox and Friends show is more popular in South Carolina than whatever the morning show is on MS NOW. But maybe not this morning.

I don't know how long Kilmeade's screed about Lee lasted, but I would like to see the video of his comments about the George Floyd statue in Minneapolis. Direct me to Kilmeade's rant about the mayor of Minneapolis on remembering George Floyd on Memorial Day. Did Kilmeade's comments on these issues compare to his attack on General Lee? 

I have spent my life listening to Yankees talk shit about the South and Southerners. Now that big liberal government is running the Northern states and the West Coast Commune of states into the ground, Yankees are pouring into Southern states. Why? Because the ideas of good governance are making the Southern states good places to live and to operate businesses. Is the real winner of the Civil War now in doubt? 

Yankees ridicule the culture of the South but take pay cuts to live here. Make it make sense! A Yankee is attacking a statue of Lee while New York has a Communist mayor. Sorry pal, but you have bigger issues.

Of course, Kilmeade is a Yankee boy from Long Island. Indoctrinated by a failed education system, I guess that Kilmeade's statements are the best that we can expect from some Yankee schmuck. What amazed me about his comments was that he just didn't take a quick shot at Robert E. Lee and move on, he just kept putting his foot into his mouth about it. His co-hosts tried to move on, but he just kept shoveling his self-righteous Yankee bullshit. He was still ranting about Lee when I turned the television off. By that point, I think his foot was in his mouth up to about his kneecap.

If you believe that controversy boosts ratings, then maybe today will be a good ratings day for Fox and Friends. They will have to do that without any help from me.

In the restaurant business, I used to tell people that customers voted with their feet for their favorite restaurants. If you weren't giving them what they wanted, their feet would take them to a different restaurant. Television is much easier; we just vote with our thumbs on the remote. This morning, my thumb will take me to a station where braindead Brian Kilmeade is not the host. 

Tuesday Tidbits

 The Dollar Store Barack Obama, Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck the Schmuck Schumer are pushing a bill in Congress that will keep the Trump Administration years from being counted in American history. They hope that this will give them a chance to get a Democrat elected before the Democratic Party's revised 250th anniversary of the nation's birth.

Democrats are attacking Americans for wanting to celebrate the country's 250th birthday. Incredibly enough, Joe Biden has broken with the Democrats on this issue. Not only does he want a celebration, but he also now claims that he was at Independence Hall when the Declaration was signed. He claims that he signed the back of the Declaration because there was no room left on the front.

It's election today in California where the "homeless-industrial complex" struggles to remain in control of the government. The drug addict lobby has been activated to try and save the day for Democrats.

Yes, today crackheads, addicts and other assorted homeless people are waiting to earn a little spending money by selling their votes in today's California primary. What's a vote for Karen Bass going to cost? There's a six-needle bonus if you vote twice. Rumors that Karen Bass will visit Ghana today are hopefully accurate.

There are three states that use the "jungle primary" system. Those states are Washington, California and Louisiana. 'Nuff said.

Governor Sherill of New Jersey has finally admitted what everybody else in America already knew. The protesters at the ICE facility are almost all from out of town and most are even from out of the state. One of those arrested was from Portland, Oregon. He must have just taken a wrong term on a late-night drug run and ended up in New Jersey at an ICE protest. Thank God that a Communist-Democrat like Sherill has finally owned up to the truth. I don't think that Mikie Sherill is as sharp as the Mikey who used to be in the Life cereal commercials back in the 1970's.

The illegal immigrant in Chicago who was charged in the killing of a girl who was a Loyola student was found with a "shank" in prison. His attorney claims that he needed the knife to defend himself in prison because he is small. Apparently, "irony" is not a word in this lawyer's vocabulary.

Any questions about how Bernie Sanders gets background info on candidates that he endorses are on full blast today with Graham Platner's candidacy exploding in Bernie's face. Is there anything that this guy hasn't fouled (second choice of wording) up in his campaign?? With all of the women who he is allegedly "sexting", when does he have time to campaign?  There are many in Maine who believe that Platner could be the next Bill Clinton. Is Platner really the best Commie that Bernie could find?? This guy makes AOC look like a Mensa candidate.

In California the legislature is trying to make "reporting on people who are helping immigrants" illegal. This bill passed the lower house of the California legislature easily. Every media outlet in the state of California should be complaining about this legislation. But media backbones in California are as scarce as hairs on my head, so don't hold your breath. This bill won't survive in the federal court system, if it can last that long. Wouldn't it be easier to just end the fraud?

Jimmy Kimmel received a Peabody award the other day. Apparently, the value of Peabody Awards has greatly diminished over the years. The Mr. Peabody and Sherman who appeared with Bullwinkle and Rocky are more deserving of recognition than Jimmy Kimmel.

Memo to leftist writers everywhere: Stephen Colbert is just unemployed, not dead. Believe me, the sun will rise again tomorrow, and Colbert will find a job at a drive-thru window somewhere.

In junior high school and high school many years ago, there was always some guy in phys-ed class who talked about how he was going to sneak into the girls' locker room and watch the girls take a shower.  It might have been every guy's fantasy, I don't know. It's been so long ago that I have forgotten. But there was always one guy working on a plan.

Anyway, after almost sixty years, it turns out that boys today are smarter than we were then. Guys today just announce that they are actually "women" and they just walk right in to check out the girls as they shower. Why didn't any of us think of that? Other than that, our parents would have beaten us to within an inch of our lives, I can't come up with another reason. 

Not only do these guys get to shower with the girls, but they also only have to compete with the girls. I am so old that I remember when "You throw like a girl" was an insult. Now it's a pass to watch the girls in the shower.

I love this year's elections. Every leftist in the nation is running against Donald Trump. If only Trump was actually running?

Rambling Reflections

Books published after politicians have left office should be compelled to have a disclaimer that says, "This book is a compilation of ideas that the author lacked the balls and/or brains to share while holding office." This may be related to the article that I just saw about a new book from Mike Pence. Mike hasn't been able to find his balls in years. I guess that they are being held in trust until he officially leaves politics.

Coming to a town near you!! This weekend (June 6 & 7) is the Dublin, Virginia Lions Club Flea Market. It is held at the New River Valley Fairgrounds in Dublin. If you find yourself craving live sarcasm and political commentary, I will be there. I am surrounded by other vendors who seem to all pretend to be deaf.

Memo to Martina McBride: Republicans buy music and concert tickets too. In trying to appease the loud obnoxious crowd of liberals, you are just pissing off the people who actually buy tickets to your concerts and pay to listen to your music. Best of luck as you travel the political wilderness ahead in your career. You might want to find a better grade of people to advise you. 

The people who have spent the last 5 1/2 years talking about violence against the Capitol Police on Jan 6 are strangely quiet about the Federal ICE agents and other Federal officers being attacked in riots at ICE detention centers. 

The level of violence against Federal law enforcement officers in Minneapolis was higher and more prolonged than the Capitol attacks on January 6. We will find out who actually killed John Kennedy before we find out who actually planned the Jan 6 riot. We will probably never find out who planned the Minneapolis riots.

We keep hearing about how Rennee Good and Alex Pretti were killed by ICE in Minneapolis, but no one wants to talk about Ashli Babbitt being the ONLY person killed on January 6. Unlike the "Minneapolis Martyrs", Ashli was completely unarmed when she was shot to death by a Capitol policeman. She wasn't trying to run over some cop with her car, and she wasn't packing a handgun and two magazines full of ammunition. She's still just as dead. Why aren't Dems enraged about this?

A federal district court judge has ordered Trump's name to be removed from the Kennedy Center. Maybe we should honor President James Monroe and call it the Monroe-Kennedy Center. The problem there is that people would think that you are talking about JFK and Marilyn Monroe. If they will ever publish the real truth about JFK, the Kennedy Center will just become the Trump Center. 

In November of 1948, two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate President Truman while he was living at Blair House due to White House renovations. One of the Puerto Ricans was shot and killed in the gun battle that ensued. One of the Secret Service uniformed agents was also killed. In March of 1954 four Puerto Rican nationalists fired about thirty rounds in the House Chamber and wounded five Congressmen. In 1979 Jimmy Carter commuted the sentences of all those involved. Now, Democrats want to make Puerto Rico a state.