NCAA Tournament??

 If colleges and universities held professors and teachers to the same standards as they do for head coaches, your kids might actually learn something while in school. Evidently coaching contracts don't have the same legal longevity as "tenure". Can anyone even name a professor who has been fired?

UNC has fired their basketball coach, Hubert Davis, because they couldn't win in the NCAA tournament with the consistency that the fans/alumni demand. If you guessed that none of the players are jobless, you are correct. 

Why aren't teachers/professors held to the same performance standards as athletic coaches? If your kid can't score, he's off the team. If he can't read, he's on the Dean's List. If the athletes can't perform and win, the coach loses his job. If your kid can't read, nobody at school knows or cares. How many professors get sacked when your kid can't make change for a dollar? Call me if any of this makes sense.

On a personal basis, I have hired and worked with a lot of college students over the last 50 years or so. Put me down as decidedly unimpressed with the accomplishments of higher education. I have had employees who were college grads and didn't know why we celebrate July 4. Don't even get me started on the MBA's! Which Dollar Tree has the most "Gender Studies" majors working for them? By now, even the slow among you get my point.

Just a reminder, normally, you get what you pay for, and public education is ostensibly free. Of course, private colleges and universities are cranking out losers who don't know anything either. So, let's strike cost as a factor. Maybe, the schools and those running them are more into indoctrinating students than educating them. There's not a lot of calculus or American History being taught to people out protesting the arrests of criminals. 

The NCAA tournament starts with 64 teams. and ends with one team winning it all. Aside from the mathematics of the situation, which is that 63 teams are losers, the odds of the situation should teach us that you better have a Plan B in your life. But few "student-athletes" do.

The Final Four is like the World Series, the Super Bowl and the college football championship game. They are always described as the "ultimate game" and yet they are always played again a year later. They are all the same. A bunch of millionaires get together and do something with a ball. It's all going to happen again next year. Why should I even give a shit?

College basketball, baseball and football are just taxpayer funded minor league systems for professional sports. Is this really the best use of our tax money? How will the worship of sports help the United States endure for the ages?

The biggest beneficiary of college sports appears to be the sports gambling industry. It's grown so much that you can now bet on what the next play or score will be. When I worked for Casa Gallardo back in the early 1980's, we had a general manager in Tampa who would watch baseball games in the bar and bet with people on what the next pitch would be. Who knew then that he was setting a model for future sports betting?

This weekend in college basketball starts with the "Sweet Sixteen". That's the survivors of last week's games. Half of the teams will win and survive to briefly be the "Elite Eight." By late Sunday they will be down to the "Final Four". Next weekend will mercifully be the "Final Four." I don't want to tell the NCAA anything but, there's no alliteration in "Elite Eight". Pack it in on that name.  

Since it is "college sports" and all of the participants are "student athletes", let's get the NCAA to stop awarding the trophies until at least all of the starters on the winning teams have graduated. That would enable the NCAA to operate a museum that would probably have at least 99% of the trophies for fans to see all in one location. 

As the legendary broadcaster Charlie Harvill used to say, "That's the best in sports today!"

Short Shots or The ADHD RMOL Edition?

 If "Drag queen" is a guy dressed as a woman, is a woman dressed as a man a "drag king"? I think that calling some woman who looks like a man, "butch" is so 1950's. Let's go with "Drag Kings".

I took a quick poll on that subject this morning at a flea market. One guy, who may have been older than me, said, "What happened to bull dykes?"  I told him that animal rights activists were busy protecting the reputation of bulls.

If Trump declares a national war on cancer, Schumer and Jeffries are going to come out in support of the disease. 

You are reading the writings of a man who has never watched a "podcast". I don't even know where to find them. More important than that, I don't even know why I would want to watch one. Don't bother telling me how to see any!!

When I was in high school, the man who was our Sunday School teacher at Faith Methodist Church was a Hillsborough County Schools administrator. I remember him because he told us that his family did not have a television set at home. I ran into about ten years later and the first thing I asked him was if they had a television set. He laughed and said that they did. I tried to watch the news tonight and realized that he was on to something by not having a television at home.

In Tampa, we attended two Methodist churches in about a twenty-year period. Faith UMC is now a Spanish language Methodist church. First UMC is now The Portico, a part of Hyde Park UMC. Their website reminds me of why I left the United Methodist Church. If you are a church looking for a future, apparently you don't want me as a member.

I am still trying to convince my wife to start a consulting business for married women who don't think that they can get an ID after changing their name at marriage. She said that she doesn't want to meet that many stupid Democrats.

My problem with Republicans, other than Trump, is that they don't believe in payback, retribution, getting even, or whatever you call it in your dialect. Democrats do stupid stuff because they know that Republicans don't have the stomach for payback. Let's change that!!

Governor Prickster of Illinois is on a diet. The company producing Wegovy has seen a huge surge in their stock price with all of the free publicity from Governor Lardass. It doesn't matter what he weighs, he's still an arrogant, leftist prick. He just won't be fat, temporarily.

Governor Prickster could lose weight quicker if he just did a 24-hour fast every time someone was murdered in Illinois. 

There's enough fraud in California to last until the Presidential election of 2028 is over and Greasy Gavin will still be living in California. 

If California elects a Republican governor this year, Newsome can go ahead and cancel that Presidential run. There won't be enough water in California to wash away all of the dirt coming out about Gavin. Hell, they didn't have enough water to put out a fire in LA.

Jesse Ventura should be doing public service ads about the dangers of steroids. It could be one of those "Don't say stupid shit like I do" opportunities. He claims that the assassination attempt on Trump in Pennsylvania was faked. Ventura offered no explanation about the guy who was actually shot dead by the sniper or the two people who were wounded. If not a steroids warning, maybe Jesse could be pushing mandatory vaccines for Trump Derangement Syndrome?

Dem Dam Dumbass Dims Detest Democracy

The Dims are at it again. Unable or unwilling to change our immigration laws, they are trying to end enforcement of those laws. They think that if they make air travel a living hell for Americans, they can get their way. Memo to Dims: Air travelers vote too!

Schumer, Jeffries and the rest of the Communist are trying to keep the immigration laws from being enforced. This is all part of their support of the liberals and their 21st Century slavery revival. Yes, that's what illegal immigration is all about, the pursuit of cheap labor.

Unable to change the immigration laws, Dims seek to prevent the federal government from enforcing those laws. Shouldn't they at least be honest enough to admit this to the voters?

This is like admitting that highway accidents cause thousands of deaths a year while trying to defund the enforcement of traffic laws. I can't believe that liberals aren't pushing to eliminate the Highway Patrols or State Police in many states

The libs accidentally let Nancy Pelosi speak for their immigration policy a few months ago.  She went into a rant about how we needed people to harvest our crops and take care of our children. The news cameras all seem to have malfunctioned at that point, so we don't know what else Nancy thinks that illegal immigrants are needed for in our country. She hasn't been asked about illegal immigration since, I wonder why?

If you have video footage of a Democrat telling us that we need more illegal immigrants who are doctors or lawyers or nuclear physicists, feel free to post a link in the comment section. I am not going to wait by the comments section for those links to arrive.

Let's face it, Dims are looking for cheap labor to do our dirty work. You will notice that we aren't farming out political positions to illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants are doing the work that Americans don't want to do. This is just modern-day slavery! Democrats supported slavery in the 19th Century in America, and this is just the updated 21st Century version, that they are supporting today.

Slave quarters are now referred today as "public housing". In the 19th Century, slavery advocates talked about how much better off slaves were here than they were in Africa. Today, we are told how much safer it is for them here in the United States than it is in Third World countries. 

We are in this position because of LBJ's "Great Society". We decided that we would start paying people not to work. We decided to support single women becoming baby factories. We rewarded people for having children that they could not or would not support. We pay people who are not working and will never work. People who are given a choice between working and making a living or not working and just eking out an existence, are picking "not working". Or they are working at jobs like drug dealing or prostitution or shoplifting. Welcome to the 21st Century Democratic Party slavery system!

We are paying for illegal immigrants to be here while paying some Americans to do nothing. This is a system on the fast track to a national suicide. Other illegal immigrants are working hard on defrauding the government through manipulating government programs, the Somali community in Minnesota comes to mind for some reason. Do we not have enough native-born American criminals? Do we have to import people to steal our tax dollars?

It's an easy choice. You can either be a Democrat, or you can want the United States to thrive. Pick wisely!!

Mind Meld Monday

 Trump called Democrats " America's Greatest Enemy". I am shocked by the number of people who consider that to be news. I thought that everyone already knew that!

The filibuster and its ugly stepsister, the blue slip system are not law. They are designed to keep Senators in office as long as they can breathe. The US Senate is not the "greatest deliberative body" on earth!!

Clark Kent could leap from the tallest buildings. If only Joe Kent would give that a try? 

Rather than screaming about the bad things that might happen if they eliminate the filibuster, how about thinking of all the great things that we could accomplish if there was no filibuster?

"Make hay while the sun shines" is a phrase never used in the chamber of the US Senate.

When was the last time that a Senator or Representative collapsed from overwork?

If ICE agents start helping TSA with baggage checks, will Chuck "The Schmuck" Schumer and Half-Wit Hakeem Jeffries demand that they get a judicial warrant before looking at anyone's bags?

There is a really simple solution to the whole TSA mess. The federal government has on numerous occasions shut down private businesses for not paying their employees. Let's apply that same legal principle to the whole air travel system. Shut down all flights until the Democrats vote to fund Homeland Security and TSA. I doubt that the shutdown would last even 24 hours. 

At the start of the old Howdy Doody show, they asked "What Time Is It?" The answer was "It's Howdy Doody Time!" I was distressed to find out today that Joe Biden was not Howdy Doody. Even more distressing was the news that Jill Biden was not Buffalo Bob. I was just sure that Jill had her hand up Joe's ass making him talk. Another childhood fantasy down the crapper.

We could probably raise the average IQ in America by more than twenty points if we could get those damned "Liberty Biberty" ads off the television. Those ads are an embarrassment to the Statue of liberty in the background. The only good thing about those ads is that they are vocabulary builders for Americans. The use of the words "obnoxious" and "repetitive" has climbed to record rates.

Speaking of "repetitive", as previously predicted here, my Leto High School Class of 1971 55th Reunion is scheduled for October 2 and 3. They used to schedule reunions for June or July. Apparently, that wasn't deep enough into the hurricane season for them. It doesn't matter; we weren't going anyway. We have tickets for a Bellamy Brothers concert twenty minutes from home. I just wanted to complain about it. I attended the 10th, the 30th and the 50th year reunions. Based on that history pattern, the next reunion that I should attend would be the 70th year reunion. I am just going to hold off awhile on making hotel reservations for that one.

Hang in there!! There are only a couple of weeks and a couple of hundred games left in the NCAA basketball tournament. This tournament actually exists to weed out overpaid college basketball coaches. There were enough longshot teams that won in the first round to destroy everyone's "brackets". 

The US Navy has a ship named the Cesar Chavez. Apparently, it is a cargo ship that hauls fresh produce like mangoes and melons. Reports are that it is crewed by young women. Terrified of another scandal, the Navy has decided to rename it the "Prince Andrew". 

Sunday Evening Weekend Wrap-up

 Leftists are all pretending to be enraged by Trump's comments about the death of Bob Mueller. I think that almost no one would be able to praise a guy who tried to put you in jail. In America, we have all watched Trump's comments on almost everything for the last fifty years. Who in the hell is surprised by his comments on Mueller? I actually thought that they were a little bit of an understatement. The media should be grateful that Jack Smith or Letitia James didn't die.

How about Forbes magazine appraising Mar-A-Lago at $560 million? Who's going to break the news to Judge Engoron? he and Letitia were only about $530 million off the estimate. Just one more body blow to the concept of New York justice. New Yorkers are the people who have spent the last 150 years complaining about justice in the South. Maybe they meant the South Bronx.

I think the odds are rising that New York City will survive the Mamdani years. Even the Communists are hedging their bets on moving to the Big Commie Apple. Dallas is trying to help NYC by constructing a business district called "Y'all Street". Keep your bags packed, Zohran!!

I think that the colleges and universities use the NCAA basketball tournament as a way to get rid of coaches.  This is the time of year when small schools sneak up on large schools and end coaching jobs. Who knew that High Point University and Saint Louis University had high level basketball programs? I live near High Point and I didn't know. Of course, knowing that would require that I watch the sports part of the local news. No, thanks!!

Trump is planning on putting ICE agents at airports to help TSA agents who aren't getting paid. Many in Congress disapprove of this. Does Congress not want the travel lines to move quickly or are they afraid that ICE may spot an illegal? Don't worry guys!!The illegals are the guys cleaning the planes. Everybody getting ready to board a plane understands that whole "You need ID" rule. Look at the bright side, guys!! Congress can see for themselves that married women are actually able to get a photo ID!!

Now all that we need is for the airlines to announce which member of Congress is on each flight so that voters and constituents can engage with them in conversation on the flight. Wouldn't that be interesting?

The Senate passed on Friday a bill outlawing the special treatment that members of Congress have been getting at airport check-in lines. It's time for that assembly of schmucks to see what the rest of America has to do and tolerate. 

ICE needs to be told that anyone with a "D" after their name is a potential terrorist. Give them the body cavity search. On second thought, some of those guys might enjoy that.

Yesterday, I set up at the 311 Flea Market or Little Mexico, as we call it at the Jones house. I saw one of the first signs of spring in North Carolina. There were eight vendors within the sound of my voice selling yard care equipment. If you were shopping for a used trimmer, chainsaw, tiller or mower, this was the place. Anyway, the suspected illegal next to me had several chainsaws that he was selling. I heard him trying to start one chainsaw and looked over at him. I instantly thought that he was about to die. He pulled the starter rope with his right hand while swinging the saw to the left with his other hand. It was a technique that I do not recall seeing in the last 72 years. He kept repeating this motion as I looked away, pulled out my phone and got ready to hit "Send" for 911. Finally, another Hispanic guy came over. He took the saw away from the potential suicide candidate and placed it on the ground and tried to show the illegal how to stay alive. If I see a story about a guy dying while trying to start a chainsaw, I will know who it is.

My favorite flea market story which will last for years is this. Three young guys, probably in their early twenties, came up to my space. I had a tray of cheap pocketknives that were all priced at $3. One guy, ignoring the "Knives $3 each" sign, asked, "How much are the knives?". With my usual chipper disposition, I responded "Just like the sign says, $3". He said, "I will give you $2."  I replied, "No, I am not interested in selling them for $2". He pulled out his wallet and said, "I only have $2. I will give you $2 today and give you the other dollar next week." I looked around to see if there was a television camera somewhere and there wasn't. So, I said, "Give me the $2 and I will mail you the knife next week." He instantly said, "I am not going to do that!" I responded, "Neither am I. Give me the $3 or move on down the row." He pulled out the $3 and left with the knife. I guess that at his age, I might have thought that I was smarter than old people, too. He won't tell a soul what happened, but his buddies were pulling out their phones as they all walked away.

 

Stupid Restaurant Stunts??

 A few days ago, Governor Sarah Sanders of Arkansas was asked to leave The Croissanterie in Little rock because her presence was making the staff feel "uncomfortable". The story exploded on the news yesterday. Having spent more than fifty years of my life in the restaurant business, I am fascinated by the story.

It takes a special breed of dumbass to tell the governor of their state that they need to leave your restaurant. What the hell were they thinking? If, in fact they were actually thinking. 

Many years ago, US Senator Kay Hagan and a group of four or five other people came into Tex & Shirley's Restaurant at Friendly Center in Greensboro.  A waiter came back to the office and told me that Sen. Hagan was in the dining room. I walked out there and looked at the group. I nodded my head and said "okay" and walked back to the office to finish what I was doing. We didn't tell Senator Hagan to leave because I thought that she was some kind of leftist demon and would terrify the staff. I doubt that I or anyone on the staff could have picked Hagan out of a police lineup. It turned out that a customer who knew her actually told us who she was. We served the leftist demon anyway. We stayed out of the news.

There's an old story about someone asking Michael Jordan asking why he didn't endorse political candidates. He responded by saying, "The other party's people buy tennis shoes too." There's everything that the morons at The Croissanterie need to know. 

It's tough enough to make a living in the restaurant business without telling half of the population that you don't want their business. Do the schmucks at The Croissanterie think that conservatives are going to eat at their place while wondering when they will be asked to leave?

I checked the Facebook page for The Croissanterie yesterday and found a post talking about what great employees they have. If this is true, then it must be the ownership and management who are the morons. On what planet, do you tell the governor of your state that they need to leave because they make your employees feel uncomfortable?

If the presence of the governor makes you uncomfortable, wait until the health inspector shows up today. How about the fire marshal or the building inspector? Are you up for a sales tax audit? Have you heard of the IRS? You better pray that the person writing restaurant reviews for the newspaper is a liberal.

I am not a health inspector, nor do I play one on television. However, I have taken the ServSafe food handling course several times and had several perfect scores on the test. So, I will make some foodservice professional observations. Having blown my own horn on this issue, let's move on.

The picture on The Croissanterie Facebook post from a couple of days ago, is not one that I would have posted. Especially not with the massive attention coming from the national media. In the picture, one food handler is not wearing gloves. There is another food handler with a beard who is not wearing a beard guard to keep his whiskers out of your food. The most distressing safe food handling violation is the rack filled with sheet pans full of raw bacon on parchment paper waiting to be cooked. Raw meat MUST be held at a temperature of 40 degrees or lower, you can't store it at room temperature. It's dumb enough to ask the governor to leave your business, don't expose them to food poisoning on the way out. The alternative life stylers at The Croissanterie better be praying that Sanders didn't order anything with bacon.

Final point, we like to call the restaurant business the "Hospitality Business". The folks at The Croissanterie need to get the message!

Hail Cesar??

 Leftists, liberals and loons across the nation are racing to remove any evidence that they have spent the last forty years or so worshipping a sexual pervert, Cesar Chavez. A five-year investigation by the New York Times revealed that Chavez had sexually assaulted Delores Huerta, who worked with him as an organizer of the farm labor movement.

My favorite comment of the day came from Governor Gruesome Newsome who said that he is still "processing the news" and has not decided whether or not California will cancel the upcoming Cesar Chavez holiday. As that holiday is scheduled for March 31, Gavin Gruesome needs to "process" that information a little faster.

In addition to his rape of Delores Huerta, there are also allegations that Chavez assaulted young girls. In their story yesterday, the New York Times reported that Chavez had "groomed" and assaulted young girls who worked in the labor movement. I guess that means that Chavez picked more than melons.

All of the conservative media sites are running pictures of the bust of Chavez that Joe Biden put near his desk in the Oval Office when he first became President. Apparently, both of them enjoyed the company of young girls. Are there any pictures of Cesar sniffing the hair of young girls?

I wonder where that bust of Chavez is now. Will it be in the Biden Presidential Library? Maybe it is in the Biden garage in the back seat of the Corvette. Upon further review, Hunter probably sold it to help pay legal bills. 

With the upcoming March 31 Cesar Chavez birthday holiday, Democratic mayors and governors are working at warp speed to cancel or change the holiday and the "celebrations". Let's be honest, this is a disaster in many liberal states where this is an election year. Of course, like five o'clock, it's always election year somewhere. Thanks to Jimmy Buffet for that line!!

I have written a few times about the "your gods have feet of clay" concept. This is just another case of people worshipping someone who was a mere mortal. What will be the next tragedy for liberals? Will we find Obama's actual birth certificate? Will Monica Lewinsky start doing mouthwash commercials? Will Kamala Harris join AA? Will Michelle Obama identify the sperm donor for her children?

I wrote a couple of years ago in a post titled, interestingly enough, "Your Gods have Feet of Clay". If you didn't read that, here's a link. Random Moments of Lunacy: Your gods have feet of clay

That post was about Martin Luther King. There is ample evidence that MLK had some of the same issues that Chavez is being accused of having done. But as MLK has a godlike status among liberals in America, nobody talks about it. Maybe if the New York Times spent five years investigating Martin Luther King's story, we could lose that federal holiday in January? 

In 2027, the rest of the MLK files are scheduled to be released. Maybe we will get the truth at last. Your gods have feet of clay!

Adios Cesar!!!