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!!!

The Wit and Wisdom of Wednesday

 Chief Justice Roberts is warning against personal attacks on judges.  He might want to warn judges about personal attacks on Donald Trump. Roberts said that impeaching judges is not the answer. Sorry John, but impeachment is the only available answer. Who wants to live in a nation run by unelected judges who are not held responsible for their actions? Roberts may want to call in Judges Bozo Boasberg and Tonya Slutkan from the DC Circuit for a conference about Trump.

The percentage of Jesus's twelve disciples who didn't make the grade is higher than the percentage of federal judges who have been impeached and removed. What's wrong with that picture?

If you are questioning my above statement, here are a few facts. There have been 4351 appointments as federal judges. There have been 15 impeached and of those 8 were convicted and removed. That means that while one out of twelve disciples failed and was removed, only one of every 544 judges fails and is removed. 

We could end a lot of these problems with judges, representatives and senators by simply eliminating pensions. Why are we rewarding people for a lifetime spent making our lives miserable? Isn't it bad enough that we are sitting quietly as people like Clinton, Biden and Obama all entered the White House as paupers and left as multi-millionaires? Compare any of their homes now to where Harry Truman lived after his presidency ended.

As TSA employees are not showing up for work and quitting in droves, Democratic Senators are asking their staff members to research why TSA employees won't show up when they are not getting paid. Yes, Senators have connections to the real world that are more than a little tenuous.

It is painfully (for some) obvious that our NATO allies are like Facebook friends. If you don't understand this, the next time that you have a flat tire, post it on Facebook. See who gets there first, the Facebook friend or the truck driver just trying to help someone. 

Our NATO allies and others "allies" like Japan, all get more of their oil shipped through the Strait of Hormuz than we do. So naturally, none of them want to help us keep the strait open for oil shipments. Screw them! When the lights go out in Europe, China and Japan, they will figure out what they need to do.

If Trump won't take us out of NATO, I won't vote for him for President again. If you don't get the humor there, get out your pocket copy of the Constitution. Or put up a "Trump 2028" sign and wait for your Democrat neighbors to explain it to you.

Here's my weekly plea to bring democracy to the United States Senate and end the filibuster. While they are at it, end the "blue slip" system on nominees for judges and US Attorneys. The idea that the United States Senate is some kind model system of democracy is more than 230 years out of date. 

We are closing in on the 170th anniversary of Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts being beaten with a cane by Rep. Preston Brooks on the floor of the Senate. If Rep. Brooks ever returns to life on the floor of the Senate; can someone please direct him to Senator Thom Tillis's seat?

In starting to write the previous item, I could not remember Senator Sumner's first name, so I looked it up. The AI summary that popped up said that Sumner suffered from head trauma and PTSD. I believe the "head injuries", but to claim that he suffered from PTSD 170 years later, strikes me as something that doesn't meet the threshold for "facts".  Yes, AI has the same bias as all of the other research tools.

Don't get me wrong!! I don't think that all of the incompetent people are federal officials. The sheriff in Arizona handling the Nancy Guthrie case is setting a new standard for incompetence. How long before he wins a seat in the Senate??

Tuesday Topics, Taunts, and Tantrums

 If John Wilkes Booth comes back from the dead, somebody needs to give him directions to Thom Tillis's office.

I am not saying that Virginia Governor Abigail Spam-burger is a real leftist piece of shit but, somewhere right now, George Washington is telling Martha, "Don't tell anyone that we are from Virginia,"

Judge Bozo Boasberg keeps getting assigned to handle cases involving President Donald Trump. The DC District Court claims that judges are assigned cases through a lottery system. There are two possibilities in this circumstance. The first is that the DC District Court is lying. The other is that they are not lying and Boasberg is actually winning the lottery. If the second is the case, Boasberg needs to quit his job and start playing Powerball and Mega Millions for a living.  He could win enough to retire in the space of a week, and the Trump Administration would then actually be allowed to exercise their constitutional responsibilities without some leftist, schmuck judge trying to stop them. We elected Trump, no one voted for Bozo Boasberg.

Michigan has the largest concentration of Arabs in the country. I saw a press conference this morning where some of their state leaders were expressing shock about the recent attack on a Jewish synagogue in Michigan. On what planet are these folks living? Their Attorney General tried to place some of the blame on ICE for using federal resources to remove illegal immigrants. She thought they should all be fighting anti-Semitism. I was more than a little confused by some of her statements, so I looked up some data on her. I found this: "In her private practice, she was lead attorney for the plaintiffs in DeBoer v. Snyder, a precursor to the landmark ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which codified same-sex marriage and granted adoption rights to same-sex couples nationwide. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University Law School, AG Nessel lives in Southeast Michigan with her wife, Alanna Maguire, and their twin sons." Yeah, now it all makes sense.

Government officials are surprised when a synagogue is attacked in the state with the highest concentration of Muslims in the United States. WOW!! There's a bumper crop of dumbasses. Those people may actually be too stupid to hold office.

Talking politics with someone at the flea market on Saturday, he said that he believed that Thom Tillis was leaving the US Senate to come home to North Carolina and run for Governor in 2028. I responded, "That son of a bitch better be running as a Democrat if he wants to get any votes."

Two-Faced Thom Tillis announced that he opposes the SAVE Act. That can only mean one thing! Yeah, he is going to run as a Democrat. 

There is an upcoming referendum in Virginia about new Congressional redistricting/gerrymandering. Dims are complaining that Republicans are distorting the facts by publishing Gov. Spam-burger's earlier comments on gerrymandering. She opposed it until she was elected as Governor. Virginians elected a "moderate" who was actually a "moderate Communist". Who can be surprised? Spam-burger makes Tim Walz look like a person with principles. Virginians would have to have elected Kamala Harris as governor to do any worse.

Reflections on Elections?

 We voted a couple of weeks ago in the North Carolina primary elections. In what was probably the most expensive primary contest in the state, State Senator Phil Berger ran against Rockingham Sheriff Sam Page who wants Berger's Senate seat. As of this morning's scrawling of this screed, Page leads Berger by 23 votes. Yes, this message is for those folks who think that their vote doesn't count.

Here's something that will surprise almost no one; I don't like either one of them. Page was elected Sheriff in 1998, and Berger was elected to the State Senate in 2000. So, from my perspective, they have both served for too long already. 

Berger has served as the President of the State Senate since Republicans took the majority in 2011. Since he is in his 26th year in office, Berger is someone who I believe should have moved on from his office a long time ago. As the State Senate Districts are in what seems to be an endless state of flux, I have voted for Berger a couple of times. I think.

Page has been sheriff longer than Berger has been a state senator, so if you are guessing that I believe he should have moved on years ago, you are correct. I don't actually live in Rockingham County, so I have never voted for Page, but I still think that he has been in that job too long.

What do I know about their job performance? Sam Page can't run a jail, and Phil Berger can't pass a budget. Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the theater?

I realize that this may be damn near heresy in this age, but I don't believe that elected office should be a career field. If you are motivated to public service, serve a couple of terms and get the hell out. We aren't going to get new viewpoints and solutions to old problems with the same old faces every year. If you don't believe me, look at the US Senate and the House. We keep fishing the same pond in every election and throwing back some to run again later. Let's find a new pond or restock the old one.

Sam Page did not have anywhere near the money spent on his campaign that Berger did. Rest assured that neither candidate could even see the high road from where they were running. I frankly think that the abundance of negative advertising may have cost Berger the election. Everyone's favorite station is WII-FM. That is "What's In It For Me"? People want to know how their lives will improve if they vote for you. Hell, I already thought that Sam Page was unfit to run a jail, I don't need a reminder every four minutes on television. Likewise, I don't need to be told about Berger's failures, I have lived through them. If you are running for political office, give me a realistic view of how you will improve my life or the state of the government.

Is there good news in all of this? Yes! First, I don't live in that Senate District, so neither clown will represent me. Second, this means that someone else will get the chance to be the President of the NC State Senate. Maybe they can get more done. And there will certainly being a fresh face running that Rockingham County jail. There's no way to go but up!

Berger is almost certainly going to ask for a recount this week. In counting the provisional ballots, two were discarded because the voters died before Election Day. Another was actually allowed because while the voter died before Election Day, it was just the day before and his family didn't have time to notify the elections board. How many die and don't tell us? This is just another nail in the coffin for "early voting". 

If you are one of those folks who say, "My one vote won't make a difference", you are in the process of being proven wrong. 

Does Gov. Spam-burger blow?

 Somebody ought to sue Gov. Abigail Spam-burger of Virginia for fraud based on her campaign claims of being a "moderate". 

The grammar junkie in me has risen to the surface and I want to point out that Spam-burger used "moderate" as a noun when she actually should have used it as an adjective. What she should have said was "I am a moderate Communist" or "I am a moderate Socialist" or "I am a moderate Dimocrat". But unfortunately, all of those statements mean the same thing. Complete honesty would have required that she should have said, "I will be a moderate dictator."

Inspired by Governor Spam-burger's threats to pass more gun laws, a convicted felon shot and killed an ROTC instructor yesterday at Old Dominion University in Norfolk. Unfortunately for the liberals who support him, he was subdued and killed by a group of students, including at least one with a pocketknife.

 Look for Governor Spam-burger to move to outlaw or regulate pocketknives today. It's part of her leftist, lunatic strategy to only allow criminals to be armed.

As Governor Spam-burger also wants to outlaw gas-powered leaf blowers, I can only assume that somewhere in Virginia, some poor, unsuspecting liberal Virginian was robbed or accosted by a random desperado armed only with a Stihl BR 700 backpack gas-powered blower. Oh, the humanity! Governor Spam-burger is only trying to make Virginia safe for unblown leaves. 

My sources in Virginia tell me that the Virginia State Police detail charged with protecting Governor Spam-burger has created a 500-foot radius area around the Governor which is declared to be a "gas-powered blower" free zone. 

 I don't believe that the Virginia State Police actually understand the situation as there have been reports of several people being searched for gas-powered blowers at public appearances of Spam-burger. The head of Governor Spam-burger's security detail, Sergeant Dudley Do-right, was interviewed by an RMOL correspondent about these searches. Do-right refused to confirm or deny that troopers were frisking people looking for gas powered blowers. However, Do-right did accidentally disclose that the security detail's codename for Governor Spam-burger is "airhead". Do-right insisted that this codename has nothing to do with gas-powered blowers.

The owner of The Mower Store in Ridgeway, Virginia told RMOL that gas-powered blowers are flying off the shelves as people stock up for the next four years of mowing grass and dealing with fallen leaves. He even expects a black market to develop for gas-powered blowers. I think that he's running a Spam-burger Special right now on gas-powered blowers. 

At the nearby Rural King, an anonymous employee said that the gas blowers were flying off the shelf like toilet tissue during COVID. Don't get caught with your pants down again. Get a gas-powered blower today!! Tell them that Governor Spam-burger sent you.

Thom Tillis, Won't you please shut up???

 Yeah, sing that to the tune of "Bill Bailey, won't you please come home?"

Since announcing that he will not be seeking re-election, Thom has been unable to shut his mouth. Like a bottomless barrel of bullshit, the swill and lies have just poured from Thom's mouth. Do us all in North Carolina a favor Thom. Just Shut Up!!!

Isn't it bad enough that North Carolinians will be forced to listen to Roy Cooper's lies every day for the next eight months as he runs for the US Senate seat that Two-Faced Thom Tillis is leaving? Can't we get any kind of a break here?

The fact that Cooper is running on his record as Governor and Attorney-General gives Republicans an opening that they should drive a truck through. What the hell are they waiting for? 

Thom Tillis should join Bruce Springsteen on his upcoming "No Brains, No Pains" themed concert tour. Tickets to hear Springsteen whine about Donald Trump start at around $200. I am pretty sure that tickets that range from $200 to $3000 pretty much destroys that whole "Springsteen is for the working man" image. But to be honest, I have always disliked Springsteen. His politics just give me a better reason.

Democrats are keeping DHS shut down just to protect their voter base. Dims also oppose the SAVE Act. If you oppose Voter ID, you support cheating in elections. There is no discussion needed. 

The number of adult Americans without a legal ID is miniscule. If you are from Minnesota, "miniscule" means a really small number.

If any major news show wanted to end all of these stupid liberal claims about people not being able to get IDs, I have their solution. Put a camera guy and a reporter outside of a liquor store. Offer $20 to anyone who can produce a legal ID on live television. They will run out of $20 bills before they find someone without an ID. If you can get an ID to drink, you can get an ID to vote. You will probably need that ID to drink after you vote.

Meanwhile, Democrats need to produce a real, live, married woman who is unable to get an ID. If they can find one, my wife has agreed to show her how to get an ID. 

On a personal note, I was adopted as a child. I have never had a problem getting an ID. It must be only Democrats that can't get IDs. Oh wait!! I forgot about the illegal immigrants who are the Democratic Party base.

Somalis in Minnesota are suing to keep Trump from ending their Temporary Protected Status. What part of "Temporary" do the Somalis not understand?? But to be honest, I wasn't aware that the federal government understands "temporary" either. They pass "temporary" taxes that last forever. Federal excise taxes on tires come to mind. I am reminded that the government built "temporary" buildings on the National Mall in Washington during World Wars I and II that Richard Nixon finally had torn down in 1970. 

If you don't believe my comment about those DC buildings, here's a link to a site called "Ghosts of DC".  Temporary Structures Reshape Washington's Monumental Core