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. 

Snow Saturday Satire

 This is the Year of the Snow here in the Piedmont area of North Carolina.  I realize that it is nothing compared to what the Yankee states receive but it is unusual here. It is pretty for about twelve hours and then it is just a pain in the ass. It wasn't as bad when I worked and had a reason to leave the house, but now it is just a pain. Moving on........

Sen. Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Nitwit, has announced that he won't vote on approving anything until the DOJ ends their probe into whether or not Jerome Powell misled Congress about the causes of the massive cost overruns in the "renovation" of the Federal Reserve's palace in Washington DC.

This has been going on for three weeks now and exactly no one that I have spoken to here in North Carolina has said, "Hey! That Jerome Powell guy is really getting treated badly by the DOJ. I hope Thom Tillis will stand up for him." Yes, given three weeks, exactly ZERO people here in North Carolina have uttered any concern for Jerome Powell. So naturally, this is at the top of the list for Senator Thom Tillis.

The Federal Reserve project is a little more than half a billion dollars over budget right now. The cost has gone from $1.9 billion to $2.5 billion. I realize that's not a lot of money to Senator Tillis, but for those of us who pay taxes, we would like an explanation. 

In the BS ring down at the corner store yesterday, several taxpayers/voters were discussing this issue and came to a simple conclusion. Our lives would be much better if Senator Thom Tillis cared as much about North Carolinians as he cares about Jerome Powell. Before you asked, I have already expressed that sentiment in a note to Sen. Tillis.

The national village idiot, Chuck "The Schmuck" Schumer, wants to change how ICE can enforce the law. He wants to eliminate "roving patrols". Yeah, let's do that for all law enforcement, Chuck. The Highway Patrol can just sit at the station and wait for a call to come in identifying a speeder before they can go write a ticket. No more drunk driving arrests until the suspect turns themself in. If your kid is missing, don't worry. Schumer doesn't want the police looking for him. I am sure that someone will find your missing kid, eventually. 

 Before I go into any more examples of how stupid this is, here's a quick solution, put all 100 US Senators on a plane to Minneapolis. Have them put on an ICE uniform and go out in the streets of Minneapolis and try to arrest people who are breaking the law. Let's expose the US Senate to the conditions that actual law enforcement works under and give them a quick dose of reality.

Our problem in the United States is that our liberals are like spoiled children who throw a tantrum every time that they don't get their way. If you don't believe me, turn on your television. 

Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura is telling Minnesotans that they need to secede and join Canada. Jesse has obviously been talking to "Retarded" Tim Walz or maybe it's just brain damage from wrestling or the body building steroids. Walz is making statements asking if this is a "Fort Sumter moment" or a "John Brown moment". It's obvious that Walz failed history. If this is a "Fort Sumter moment", then Minnesota is playing the role of South Carolina. If this is a "John Brown moment", then Tim is playing John Brown. It didn't end well for either South Carolina or John Brown.

Congratulations Tim, you made Trump look like a prophet when he called you "retarded". Just for your info Tim, Hillsdale College has some free online history classes. Check into passing one before you decide to secede from the Union. 

I have mentioned this several times, but I am fascinated by the fact that the states supported the federal government in the Civil War are now on the States' Rights side. The states that lost the Civil War are now on the side of the federal government. Well, other than Virginia which is a border state now. All you need to know about Virginia is that their new Democratic governor has decided to declare war on gas powered leaf blowers. 

Time to go move some snow. Wonder if that gas powered leaf blower would do that?

Open Letter to Congress:

 Dear Congress, 

You Suck! Allow me now to expand on that thought. As I write this, Congress is on the verge of starting another partial government shutdown. You people are the gold standard for "slow learners". It has been less than ninety days since the last government shutdown ended. What the hell are you idiots thinking? What will it take for one of these shutdowns to be a learning experience for you?

I just don't understand how hard it could possibly be to actually do your job. Passing the budget/spending bill may be the most important thing that you do. I think we need all of you to take a course on prioritizing your job functions. In last year's shutdown, the government was shut down for 43 days. Were you guys on the job in Washington for the entire 43 days while the government foundered? Of course not, you aren't that committed to doing your job. 

After making a deal to end the last shutdown and setting a deal deadline of January 30, did you work every day until you came up with a new spending bill? Of course not. You took several days as a break at Thanksgiving and then another break for Christmas and New Year. Why not just work on the budget until it passes before taking time off? If you weren't getting paid during shutdowns, maybe it would heighten your interest in solving the problem.

Federal employees who do not work during shutdowns and are not considered essential like air traffic controllers should not be paid for the shutdown period after the situation is resolved. Why do we give federal employees their full pay not to work? Let them collect unemployment like the average American workers do when their employers shut down. Let's motivate members Congress during shutdowns by not paying them at all for those days.

Congress exists to vote on legislation. We need to start docking the pay of Representatives or Senators who do not cast votes. I don't care why you didn't vote. All I know is that we pay you to create and vote on legislation. If you aren't voting, why the hell are we paying you? Try doing your job!!

Just for the record, in 2025 the Senate had 659 roll call votes.  Three senators Collins, Moreno, and Husted did not miss a single vote. The worst of the Senators was Ruben Gallego, who missed 95 votes. He's rumored to be testing the waters for a Presidential run in 2028. Obviously, he won't have to worry about having a record to stand on. In second place was Thom Tillis, the shitbag senior Senator from North Carolina (my state) who missed 77 votes. Tillis had already announced that he would not seek re-election, so I guess that he just checked out early. With almost a year to go in his term, we just need to ease his ass on out the door. Third place was Bernie Sanders, The Green Mountain Commie from Vermont. Bernie missed 58 votes while winging across the country on a private jet for his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour. He's too much of a schmuck to appreciate the irony in that named endeavor. In fourth place was Tammy Duckworth of Illinois who missed 57 votes. I am sure that she was somewhere talking trash about conservatives and couldn't be bothered to vote. In fifth place was Mitch McConnell, who missed 55 votes but has probably forgotten why. Mitch has been in the Senate longer than my older son has been alive.

If any of this bothers you, tune in tomorrow for "Let's Bring Democracy to the US Senate!!"

This has nothing to do with anything else here, but Thursday afternoon I actually saw a Tesla going down NC 14 with a "Newsome 28" bumper stick. It had to be a joke!!

Wet and Wild Wednesday

 A headline this morning read "Ilhan Omar sprayed with unknown substance". Since no one in Washington, DC actually works, I assume that liquid was sweat. Maybe it was just some water from where she and her husband have laundered all of that fraud money.

I won't say anything else unkind about Omar, but I will point out that if your net worth jumps from a few thousand dollars to $30 million in a year, you better have a winning Powerball ticket to show for it.

While we are "regrouping" in Minne-Somalia. let's send in 1000 CPA's and 1000 IRS agents to get to the bottom of the whole daycare, transportation and feeding fraud. We will probably need a couple of battalions of Marines to protect those folks from "peaceful" protesters.

In a discussion the other day about the insurrection in Minne-Somalia, someone pointed out that the rioters or peaceful protesters were overwhelmingly white people. That's because only about 7% of Minnesotans are black. That 7% is probably the players on their sports teams and the Somalians. Yeah, one of the whitest places in the country claims that the rest of us are discriminating against blacks. The guilt-ridden white liberals in Minnesota are willing to let the Somalis steal all they can as some sort of perverted reparations program. I believe that the current slang response to this would be "Make it make sense, Minnesota!!"

I pray that after Thom Tillis' current term ends, he comes back to North Carolina and runs for a statewide office just so that I can vote against that piece of crap. 

If I were Minne-Somalia Mayor Jacob Frey, I would be looking for a defense attorney who specializes in fraud defense. I think that Governor Tim Walz may decide to cooperate with Trump to keep that pardon thing a possibility.

For businesses who are criticizing ICE, I offer this story. Michael Jordan was once asked for his opinion on supporting some Democrat political issue, He declined to comment. Pressed for an answer by the reporter, Michael said, "Republicans buy shoes too."

All of these politicians who are screaming about ICE are telling us that they support mob rule. In 2024, we held an election that was a national referendum on immigration. The pro-illegal immigration side lost at the ballot box so now they are trying to riot their way to victory.

I don't believe in coincidences. Things in Minne-Somalia did not reach riot level until the story broke about all of the daycare centers that appear to be phony. Have you seen a story about all of the fraud over the last few weeks? Of course not, CNN (Communist News Network) and all of the other bogus news reporting networks are too busy complaining about ICE harassing people who are trying to kill them.

Did all of those Minne-Somalia transportation companies haul in van loads of demonstrators to help the cause? If there are pictures of that, it would be the first pictures of them transporting anything.

Apparently, in Minnesota "government oversight" is limited to businesses owned by "uppity white folks". Well, that and Minnesota claims that they can tell the federal government what to do.

I am sorry liberals, but when you start claiming that invading a church and disrupting a service is acceptable behavior in this country, you have officially lost your minds. I guess that you were okay with those Ku Klux Klan church bombings in the 1960's. After all, those poor guys in the white sheets were just "speaking truth to power", right??  You can't have it both ways, guys. Attacking churches is either right or wrong. You have to make your own decision.

Last, but certainly not least, Don Lemon needs to go back to that church and apologize to the pastor and the congregation. If not, the ACLU needs to file a suit against Lemon on the church's behalf. Or do they believe that only liberals have civil rights? 

Random Shots From Random Moments

"Remote Learning" isn't learning.

Kids who attend school for less than one half of the days in a year don't really need a snow day. That causes them to develop a habit for doing that which won't work out in the real world of jobs.

Why do libs take guns to "peaceful" protests?

Shouldn't United States citizens have more rights and privileges than people who sneaked across the border?

If you answered "No" to the preceding question, then please explain to me the value of United States citizenship.

A lot of people here in North Carolina had an issue with the Buddhist monks and their March of Peace coming through the state. There were a few guys talking about it down at the corner store. I realized that I was in the presence of mental midgets when one guy said, "I have never seen a Baptist monk dressed like that before." I laughed my way out to the truck.

We all see different things when we look at pictures of an event. Some people saw a guy being shot by federal law enforcement. What I saw was an armed man who injected himself into a situation involving several armed law enforcement officers who have spent the last several weeks being assaulted and harassed by a leftist mob. Maybe if the Minne-Somalia terrorist protesters had not been disturbing the officers' attempts to get some sleep, things might have been different.

Memo to Minne-Somalia Morons, when you decide to make war on American federal law enforcement, you should expect to take some casualties.

I understand that Trump wants to work out a solution before more people get killed. I'm sorry Donald, but I don't believe in negotiating with terrorists. Kill 'em all, let God sort them out.

There's something wrong with a city (Minne-Somalia) where they stage a massive riot every five years

I do know that the 3-M Company is based in Minnesota. Evidently 3M is "Minnesota's Mainly Morons".

Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. What's going on in America today is reminiscent of the prelude to the Civil War. The sides have just swapped their political viewpoints.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul's last facelift did not go well. If you take a guitar pick and strum her face, it might sound a little like "Dixie".

Donald Trump needs to start claiming that he is the 48th President of the United States. Jill Biden appears to have been the actual 47th President.

Later this week, look for Senate Democrats to kick off another government shutdown. It's time to end the filibuster, at last for spending bills.

The Democrats still don't understand that they lost the election of 2024. 

Are we going to redistrict the House every two years now? 

What we need is a federal "resign to run" law. You shouldn't be able to hold on to your current job while you campaign for a different office. Good example is Sen. Amy Klobuchar. It looks like she is going to run for Governor of Minnesota. If she loses, she still keeps her Senate seat. The only good thing about Klobuchar is that she's more of a man than wispy Walz.