Pay the Dadgum Teachers??

 There's a new campaign to raise public teacher salaries in North Carolina called "Pay the Dadgum Teachers." They are running television commercials featuring former Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams. They also have a bunch of billboards out on the major highways. It is run by a group called Public Ed Works. Every time that I pass one of those billboards, it's a test for my blood pressure meds. If you haven't figured it out by now, I don't believe "Public Ed Works".

While I understand that Coach Williams brings a certain folksiness to the advertising angle, I just don't think that using "dadgum" is a winner in a campaign about improving education. But let's move on to more serious issues.

So where do we start the conversation about these asinine billboards? Let's start with the basics, a practice that they don't use in public education. I attended a Zig Ziglar seminar more than forty years ago and Zig's take on this topic was simple. It was this: There is no correlation between funds expended and educational excellence. There's just not. That was true in 1985, and it is still true today. Parochial schools turn out some great students at a fraction of the cost per pupil as public schools. It's the same story with many other private schools. Say it with me, there is no correlation between funds expended and educational excellence.

How can this be true? Well, you get what you pay for, and public school is relatively free. I say relatively because public education is funded by property taxes and other taxes that some people just don't pay. 

My kids spent their lives in private schools. I may have driven a ten-year-old car, but the kids went to a private school. We went without some things so that they could go to a school where they actually learned. They have been out of school for more than twenty years, but we still have this discussion periodically. They tell me how much better off they would have been in public school.  I always point out that they would not have the knowledge or verbal skills to argue with me if they had gone to public schools.

If you want a visual illustration of one of the big problems in public education, compare the crowd at a high school football game with that at a high school spelling bee. Which turns out a better crowd, a basketball game or a science fair? America's obsession with sports is destroying our goals in education. But I will rant more on that in a future post.

In many homes in America, there are more television sets in the home than there are books. How many years have we been told, "Reading is Fundamental"? I hate to break it to you but, your retention of subjects read in books is higher than your retention of things watched on television. Don't waste your time telling me that books are too expensive for poor people to buy and own. I regularly visit the Salvation Army, Goodwill and other charity stores. At the Salvation Army, books are a dollar or less. At Goodwill, they are a couple of bucks. At a Habitat for Humanity ReStore a couple of months ago, they had books on sale that day, twenty for a dollar. You can get a book for less than the cost of a candy bar or soft drink.

There are lots of kids who have never been in a library. When I was growing up, the bookmobile from the Tampa city library was at the 7-11 parking lot in our neighborhood every Thursday except Thanksgiving. We all went down there and checked out books. I realize that doesn't have the allure of playing a mindless video game all day, but it's worth a shot. 

My mother used to drop me off at the Tampa Public Library in downtown Tampa on Saturday morning and pick me up around four o'clock in the afternoon. I spent the day reading books and rummaging through what they referred to as the "vertical files". The vertical files were filing cabinets filled with old newspaper and magazine articles, as well as some pamphlets. This probably led to my reputation as a "Master of Meaningless Minutiae". The old Tampa Public library was one of the Carnegie Libraries. See photo below.

In April, the North Carolina Association of Educators called for an across-the-board pay increase of 25%. How many people who work 12 months a year will ever get that kind of increase? Did they need that raise to fund the billboard campaign?

North Carolina teachers (and teachers everywhere) need to learn a basic business principle that I have demonstrated to thousands of people over the years. People don't get paid for what they are always "going to do". They get paid for what they have done. I had hundreds of employees tell me that if I would just pay them a little more, they would do more than anybody. The reality was and still is, that people get rewarded for what they have accomplished, not what they promise to do. I don't believe in rewarding educators for a system that produces people who can't read, write their name or count. To the NCAE, get back to us when you are serious about educating people.

Tampa Free Library

Opened in 1917

This ain't AI?

Imagine how crazy nursing homes are going to get when trans people get Alzheimer's and start wondering where their dicks went.

I don't know anything about Lindsey Graham's sister, but I don't believe that political positions should be something that one inherits from a relative. I realize that this idea is contrary to what actually happens sometimes in the House or Senate. The framers of the Constitution obviously failed to recognize that government would become a "family business".

The Florida Attorney General is issuing a subpoena for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the world champion liar, who recently lied to the nation just for shits and grins. If Fauci did nothing wrong, why did Braindead Biden or Shadow President Barack Obama give him a pardon?

I think that it is time to investigate whether Pretend President Joe or Co-Presidents Brack Obama and Jill Biden conspired with AI to decide who got pardons. Let's face it! Any intelligence at the Biden White House was surely "Artificial".

Roy "Con man" Cooper is running ads telling us what a great job he did as Governor and why we should send him to the US Senate. Replacing Two-Faced Thom Tillis with Roy Cooper would be the best example of "going from bad" to worse in the history of this nation.

It's been six years and I am still waiting for Roy to explain how you can have 200 people in a Walmart, but only ten people in a church.  Even today, there are more social disease carriers at the Walmart.

I read an article ripping Sen. Rand Paul for publishing Dr. Faucio's diary. Attention morons: Fauci was keeping that diary on a government server. Putting something on a government computer was probably not the best way for Fauci to keep his diary secret. It's the year 2026, if you want to keep something secret, write it in cursive in a spiral bound notebook. If anyone under sixty finds it, they won't be able to read it.

I write my thoughts in a spiral bound database that fits into my shirt pocket. I just throw them into a box when they are full. In my younger days, I submitted my notebooks to Letters to Penthouse. If you believe that, contact me immediately about some oceanfront investment property in Arkansas.

I saw where a couple of former NBA players have declared themselves to be women for the purpose of entering the Woman's National Basketball Association's draft in 2027. One wonders what the next step will be for the WNBA? Will they compel all women's athletes to wear cups? 

The Leto High School Class of 1971 will hold their 55th reunion in October. If you are reading this and will be attending, tell them to start without me!!

Martha, Please Stop!!

 Memo to Dana Bash at CNN: You are fighting above your mental weight when you argue with RFK Jr.  Stick to interviewing Democrats and Communists. I will join with scores of others who reported that Dana got "Bashed".  RFK Jr. fought a battle of wits with an unarmed reporter.

I was wondering how all of this information from Dr. Fauci's "diary" became public. It turned out that the "smartest doctor on earth" kept his diary on a government server. Memo to Fauci: I use a spiral bound notebook. Give it some thought!!

Is there any word less understood by Federal judges than "temporary"? Temporary Protected Status means "TEMPORARY". Only in the federal court system is "temporary" a lifetime. We need add to the vocabulary of many of these judges by acquainting them with the word "impeachment".

 What's the difference between God and a federal judge? God doesn't wake up in the morning thinking that he is a federal judge.

The House Ethics Committee has recommended that the full House vote to censure Republican congressman Chuck Edwards of North Carolina. The committee found that Edwards made "unwanted advances" towards two female staffers. It found no evidence that he engaged in sexual activity with either woman. I am amazed that a bipartisan group had the time to investigate all of this and come to a conclusion while the Congress is unable to fulfil their constitutional obligation to pass a budget that funds the entire federal government for a full fiscal year. I am pretty sure that the word we are looking for here is "priorities". 

I think that a 65-year-old Congressman should not be trying to date his staff of much younger women. But given the sexual atmosphere in the nation today, I am just glad that he was accused of doing this to young women and not young men. If he had tried this with male staffers, Democrats wouldn't know whether to shit or go blind.

If you always do what you always did, you will always get, what you always got. People keep complaining about how things are going, but they keep electing the same schmucks. Stop voting for clowns!!

Finally, at the first game of the new Women's Professional Baseball League, Marth Reeves of Martha and the Vandellas conspired with two other alleged female singers to deliver the absolute worst performance of our national anthem that I have heard in my life. I can only assume that Tiny Tim was not available to perform. Martha, you're 85 years old, it's time to pack it in. Next time, lip sync it!!

Random Moments, Memories, Moans and Mentions

 My mother's ancestors settled in what is now Lancaster County, South Carolina in 1701. They immigrated to this country in 1696 and took a few years to work their way to what is now South Carolina. So, we have been here about 325 years. Sadly, it's still not long enough for me to have ever considered liking Lindsey Graham. Sorry, Lindsey!!

While I didn't care for Lindsey Graham, that's nothing compared to the total hatred that I have for Thom Tillis. Of course, Democrats are running their version of Thom Tillis as their candidate for the US Senate. Yes, I am talking about Roy Crapper. If there is a bigger piece of political shit than Roy Crapper, I can only hope that he lives in California.

Since the North Carolina Constitution (Article 3, Section 3) says that the LT. Governor is in charge when the governor travels out of state, Roy Cooper spent eight years as governor and never told the Lt. Governor that he was going to travel out of state. Why would a lawyer who had spent 16 years as the NC Attorney General not follow the NC Constitution? Extra credit if your answer is more than "He's a Democrat."

Democrats are using the casting couch at Clown College to come up with their candidates for this year. They replaced the oyster farming guy with the Nazi tattoo who hit on any female that breathed, with a guy who married his cousin. I guess that Maine Democrats are trying to win the West Virginia voters back.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is the daughter of two evolutionary biologists. She is only 44 years old, but I think that it is time for her parents to admit that their secret evolutionary experiment has failed. Her parents still send her money to help support Wilson's only child. The good news is that this may mean that she hasn't picked up on the payoffs in politics thing, yet. She attended Oxford and dropped out six weeks before graduation. If only she had dropped out of the mayor's race?

Her grandfather was Sloan Wilson, the author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. I can only assume that he was able to foresee the future of his family and was just working with a grainy picture of Katie.

Mayor Katie's husband is the "voluntarily unemployed" Scott Myers. His position is described as "activist". He is also described as a "home baker" and a "street musician". The average voter IQ is Seattle is obviously somewhere in the "below room temperature" range. Obviously, Seattle voters don't want to furnish an ID to vote because they can't spell "ID".

I want don't want voter IDs in Minnesota. I want voter IQ tests. I want to bring back literacy tests before they can vote. What law gave morons the vote? Just another reminder that democracy still needs work.

Here's a sign for the Dims that there is trouble ahead. James Carville, the Louisiana Loudmouth Lunatic, is talking trash about Democratic candidates. Somebody needs to tell Carville not to open any packages from Dr. Fauci.

Fauci? Fact, Fiction, Fascist or Fairy Tale??

 Thanks to Dr. Anthony Fauci for settling any remaining controversy about whether or not he is/was a power-hungry egomaniac posing as a public servant. The little man with the enormous ego was returned to earth yesterday by Republican senators in a public hearing.

My personal favorite was when Sen. Josh Hawley asked him what color his tie was and Fauci took the Fifth Amendment. I combed the Internet but was unable to find a single incident of a man jailed for misstating the color of his tie. It was the same story when Hawley asked him the color of the carpet on the floor.

Fauci should have contacted me before he started keeping a diary. I have read many of the excerpts and I must admit that the biggest surprise is that it was written by a grown man and not a teenaged girl. Personally, I have avoided the risks of keeping a diary by writing my thoughts in this blog and placing them here online where no one will ever read them. But back to Dr. Fauci's diary, how did a grown man actually write shit like, "Is this the beginning of a relationship?' I stopped reading his diary excerpts when I ran out of motion sickness equipment, pardon me, barf bags.

Is Anthony Fauci America's Napoleon? Is he just another little man with enormous balls? Was he really "America's Doctor"? We need to sue him for a return of all the money that we paid him. Exhibit "A" in that trial will be his diary. At some point, he must have scrawled, "Dear Diary, I fooled them all again at today's press conference." If P.T. Barnum was still alive; he would have Anthony Fauci under contract. 

Does he also have a pension from the people's Republic of China? Can we check his diary and find out when he started work for them? Evidently, he had business deals in China when other people only dreamed of those things.

Anthony Fauci was the North Star for Democrats in the COVID years. Power hungry bastards like Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina followed Fauci's guidelines to stripping Americans of freedom, all in the name of "medicine". The common people weren't allowed to do anything while power hungry politicians sought to remake the nation to keep themselves in power.

In the end, it has been finally revealed by Dr. Fauci's diary to have all been bullshit. From the origins of the disease to their absurd ways to stop the disease, it was all lies and bullshit. Who can forget "Two weeks to flatten the curve?" You couldn't go to church, but there were no attendance limits at George Floyd riots. 

Here in North Carolina, Governor Roy Cooper limited church attendance to ten people. You could have 200 people in a Walmart, but only ten in a church.  Then, Cooper marched in a Black Lives Matter protest parade with thousands of people and his mask hanging by his neck. Did COVID not spread during parades and riots? Make it make sense, Roy!! After a few weeks, Cooper allowed some things to reopen with 7% of their capacity. He pulled have pulled that 7% number straight out of his ass! Between Crooked Roy Cooper and his accomplice Mandy Cohen, they sought to control every aspect of North Carolinians' lives. No detail was too small for them to not want to control.

People lost their jobs, others lost their businesses, old people died alone in nursing homes, lives were destroyed, fortunes lost, children went without real education, billions were spent on vaccines that killed rather than protect and it can all be traced to that arrogant little greedy bastard Anthony Fauci and his disciples, like Governor Roy Cooper. To be honest, there were thousands of politicians like Cooper who were emboldened to seize power by Dr. Fauci's lies.

What can Americans do to right these wrongs by the Fauci and his disciples? There is an election coming in November, vote the lying, power hungry bastards out!!

I actually had a case of COVID before it was all the rage. I ended up at the Emergency Room where it was diagnosed as pneumonia. After 12 hours in the ER, they sent me home. I spent a couple of weeks recovering but survived. I never took any kind of COVID vaccine. I didn't find out that I actually had survived COVID until a few months later when I participated in some medical study and my blood tests showed that I had experienced COVID at least once. 

You may not believe in Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny, but COVID was brought to us by the COVID Elf, Anthony Fauci. Hang him high!!

Rainy Days and Wednesdays always get me down??

 In the news, Greasy Gavin Newsome has hired Abbe Lowell to represent he and his wife. When you hire the same guy who represented Hunter Biden, it's basically an admission of guilt. What do you expect from a guy who brags about low test scores?

Why are we seeing Hunter Biden on television now? Did he not get the memo about his father not being the President anymore? There's a rumor that he stopped by the White House claiming that he had left something there when he moved out.

Am I the only person who hates Progressive Insurance commercials? 

The US House of Representatives passed a bill that bans members of Congress and their families from trading stocks. They had to wait until Nancy Pelosi was about to retire to pass that bill. Nancy has always maintained that she doesn't trade any stocks and that her husband is the one who does that. If you believe that she doesn't share insider information with her husband, you are too stupid to read the rest of this post. Sign off now!!

Rep. Ro Khanna leads the Congressional League of Insider Traders with a "trust" that made 4772 trades last year. He, of course, denies having anything to do with the trust other than benefitting from it. He blames his in-laws for setting the trust up for him and his wife.

Don't worry! There are a bunch of members from both houses who are stock trading wizards who all purport to be innocent of any use of information gained by their political position. If you believe that members of Congress get rich by accident, you might be too stupid to keep reading this blog. Wait! That was wrong. If you believe that members of Congress get rich by accident, you actually are too stupid to keep reading.

If God made anything dumber than a Democrat, he kept it to himself. I submit Joe Biden as evidence of this theory.

I bought gas yesterday and it was $3.79 a gallon. Fifteen years ago, I mentioned the price of gasoline here in a post, and it was $3.49 a gallon. I don't recall a war happening at that time. When I was in high school, gas was about $.30 a gallon. Of course, I was earning $1.10 an hour at my job. Like they say in West Virginia, it's all relative.

If Senator Thom Tillis was a dog, we would be at the vet discussing putting him down. The only good news is that his term will end in a little over five months. 

We went weeks without rain and now it won't stop raining. My wife and I were in the Martinsville, Virginia metroplex area yesterday and it was raining so hard that I pulled into a parking lot to wait it out. I just happened to stop in front of the Dippers ice cream shop. I had a couple of scoops of pecan pie ice cream in a waffle bowl, and my wife had a couple of scoops of fresh peach ice cream in a waffle bowl. In what was certainly a miracle, the rain let up enough after we finished our ice cream to head on down the road to home. Oh, the miracles of ice cream!!

Miscellaneous Monday Mentions and Moans

 Mercifully, the World Cup "competition" has come to an end. Who among us knew when we were playing kickball in 1960, that in 2026 thousands of foreigners would travel to America to watch a kickball tournament?

American retards liberals all now officially hate foreign visitors who have come to America to watch the World Cup and have ended up raving about how great things are here. There's nothing like watching a foreigner talk about what a great place America is to a reporter hoping to find a foreigner willing to talk trash about Trump and the United States.

Foreigners are merely confirming what we have been telling disgruntled, demon possessed Democrats for years. The United States is a great place, and the looney leftists should be thankful that they are here. 

I read an article about how several stadiums that hosted World Cup events had to put in real grass fields for the World Cup games and are now pulling up the grass and reinstalling the artificial turf or as it is better known, "fuzzy concrete". All of the research and statistics shows that artificial turf causes more injuries than real grass. Yet, owners stick with the artificial turf. Honk if you don't understand that, either.

My wife and I attended a conference this weekend where we were at the same table for lunch with the only guy there who wanted to trash talk Donald Trump. I struggled to hold my tongue at lunch. Later, waiting in the hallway with my wife in the restroom, I managed to share a few of my thoughts with him. Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Mayor Zero Mamdani is devoid of even a high schooler's grasp of the US Constitution and any other laws. The Moron Muslim Mayor thinks that he has the power to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu when he visits New York later this year for a UN meeting.  New York City can't even collect parking ticket fines from foreign diplomats, yet Mamdani thinks that he can arrest Netenyahu based on a warrant from a court that the United States government does not recognize. People get robbed walking down the street in New York City and Mamdani does nothing about it. Tell me again about how people this stupid get elected.

On June 9 in Maine, 156,084 people voted for Graham Platner to be the Democratic candidate for the US Senate election in Maine. A few days from now, about 600 Democrats will convene to decide who will be the "real" Democratic candidate for the US Senate election in November. Is that "Democracy in Action" or "Democracy in Decline"? Forget about "darkness", democracy is "dying in daylight" in the Democratic Party.

On a serious note, my wife and I drove to Asheville Friday morning for a weekend conference. We have not been in that area since Hurricane Helene hit there almost two years. We got off I-40 to travel down to Chimney Rock and Lake Lure. After traveling less than thirty miles in almost two hours, we gave up our effort and fought our way back to Asheville on 74-A. The level of destruction in the mountains is unbelievable. 

Almost two years later, the state has still not been able to clean up all of the downed trees that still threaten the highways. There's nothing that compares with driving down a one lane highway because the other lane is several hundred feet down at the bottom of the mountain. The good news is that I left the blood pressure monitor at home.

Cleaning up messes like this is the responsibility of the state government. The North Carolina legislature, Gov. Josh Stein and former governor Roy Cooper all share in the responsibility for this debacle. All of these people have failed the citizens of western North Carolina.

Now, Roy Cooper wants to "serve" the people of North Carolina in the US Senate. Just say "NO!"

Of course, not all of the blame is on the state of North Carolina. It was six days after the storm before President Brain-Dead Biden signed an order allowing federal resources to be used. Did they have to wait for a day that he was coherent? Did they not have television news access in the White House? Private citizens used their personal helicopters to rescue victims and fly in supplies until military helicopters that were based less than two hours away were authorized to be used. 

If you are an elected or appointed official, write this down! Government exists to serve the public. Helene was the test for service and government failed miserably.

Coincidentally, my granddaughter and her church youth group are in the mountains this week cleaning up damage. They were there last year, also. A church group is doing the work that the government won't or hasn't done. 

Incredibly enough, Josh Stein and his wife visited western North Caolina this weekend also. I saw plenty of pictures of the Governor at various tourist attractions, but none of him with a chainsaw and a cleanup crew. He said that visiting western North Carolina helps give the local people the money they need to rebuild. He needs to get his ass off of I-40 and see what's going in the real world.