Pontificating on President's Day

 When I was a kid, we had Washington's Birthday as a holiday. That was celebrated on February 22. In 1971, the federal government started celebrating it on the third Monday in February. This came as a result of the Congress passing the Uniform Monday Holiday Act. There were some states that celebrated Lincoln's birthday on February 12.  For those of us in the South, Robert E. Lee's birthday was January 19. Stonewall Jackson's birthday was January 21.

Although all of the advertising and most media sources refer to the holiday as President's Day, the federal government still calls it Washington's Birthday.

I don't believe in the entire concept of Monday holidays. If you think that this is a good idea, why don't we celebrate Thanksgiving on the third Monday in November?  Christmas on the third Monday in December? How about New Year's Day on the first Monday in January? Easter on the first Monday in April? The Fourth of July on the first Monday in July? More on that in a minute. Let's face it, we moved Memorial Day from May 30 to the last Monday in May. Is anything sacred? 

Many years ago, an employee asked me, "Why do we celebrate the Fourth Of July on July 4?" I just looked at her and kind of stared in disbelief. She said, "I am serious. I don't understand." So, I spent about five minutes explaining that the holiday is actually called Independence Day and then explained why it was celebrated on July 4. When her father picked her up that afternoon, he thanked me for explaining it to her. He told me that she had asked him that morning and he just laughed because he thought that she was joking. He said that he and his wife were considering moving her to a private school for her senior year. I told him that would probably be a good idea.

The Federal government doesn't call Washington's Birthday President's Day because they don't want to deal with public complaints about the holiday name. One of the most frequent complaints is that Martin Luther King has a holiday of his own and that forty-five Presidents share one day. This is simply not true. The fact is that forty-four Presidents get no recognition from the federal government.

The question that begs asking about MLK Day is, would there have been an MLK Day if there was never a President Abraham Lincoln? If not for Lincoln and 600,000 dead American soldiers, would slavery have ever ended? Personally, I don't believe that Lincoln went to war to free the slaves. He went to war to keep the Union together. That cause did not generate the level of support that Lincoln needed to continue the war. He decided to make the war about freeing the slaves to get more public support in the North. The Emancipation Proclamation took effect in 1863. The Civil War started in 1861. What's your explanation for the delay? 

Do we need to replace Martin Luther King Day with King-Lincoln Day? At least one of those two guys was a man who didn't abuse women, cheat on his wife and have problems with alcoholism. That will give you something to ponder while waiting for the government to release all of the King files. Just out of curiosity, why don't the Democrats in Congress push a bill requiring that all of the King files be released within thirty days like they did with Epstein?

Happy VD!!!

 Yes, it's Valentine's Day! What did you think it meant? Nobody under seventy uses terms like "VD" or "venereal disease" anyway. Now we call them "social diseases". "Social diseases" sounds like something you can pick up waiting in line at the Walmart from someone coughing or sneezing in front of you. Apparently, that may be the only thing not available at a lower price at Wally World. 

Based on news reports this morning, the Democrats in the Senate didn't shut down the DHS based on anything happening here. They shut it down so that they could all fly to Munich and participate in some kind of international conference. It purports to be a conference about international security that started in 1963. 

I think that the word "irony" is not understood by Democrats or our European acquaintances. These are people who have never even read a history book, much less actually studied the subject. So, what's the irony of a "security conference" in Munich?

Just for the record, Munich is where Adolf Hitler and his friends first tried to overthrow the government of Germany in 1923 but failed. This was followed by Hitler going to jail, where he wrote his best seller, Mein Kampf. I have heard that it still sells well at international conferences.

In 1938, Munich was the site of another conference where France and England agreed to let Germany take the Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia, in exchange for a pledge of peace from Hitler. How did that Munich deal work out for us? Hell, the only thing worse than a deal coming out of Munich would be a deal coming out of Washington, DC!!

I saw the news early this morning and Queen AOC of the Democrats was in Munich along with the Clown Prince of California, Greasy Gavin Newsome. They were there telling their fellow Communists that Trump is Satan. Senator Slutkin is scheduled to speak there also. There are several other Biden-wannabes slated to make an appearance there. Today, Marco Rubio made what will probably be the only pro-democracy speech at the conference. 

With all of those Dimocrat politicians in attendance, there is a tremendous opportunity in this for Trump. With the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security due to the Senate's vote, the FAA needs to close our airspace to international flights until the DHS is fully funded.  Let those liberal leftist bastards take a boat back home from Munich.

How many people today will DIE from DEI?

Friday the 13th Thoughts

 Good news!! I don't worry about Friday the 13th any more than I worry about Thursday the 12th or Saturday the 14th.

Somedays I just wonder how long that it will take before the Democrats all just stupid themselves to death. There won't be any media coverage.

I saw Thom Tillis on the "news" yesterday and realized why I despise most, if not all politicians. I have already written him and explained why I think that he is a useless piece of shit, what more can I do?

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Thank God that I haven't waited until the last minute to buy my wife a card. I am going to the store right after I finish this.

I am completely fascinated by the television network news coverage of the case where Meta is being sued by a woman and her daughter claiming that META designed their system to be addictive. Hello? Has anyone looked into how addictive that television is? Have you heard of soap operas? Children's cartoon shows? Sports? Television folks calling social media "addictive" is surely the kettle calling the pot black.

How about that addiction that no one wants to talk about? The "smartphone" addiction is the top of any list of addictions. There are people who would rather lose their first-born child than lose their phone. People are walking down the street holding their smartphone like it is either some kind of electronic god or some kind of electronic divining rod leading them to water. People are worried about the Chinese hacking into our computer systems and then we have the Chinese make all of our smartphones. Does that make any sense at all?

I think that the kidnapping is a terrible offense and that those who kidnap others should be executed. I am sure that Nancy Guthrie is/was a fine woman. But would this event be getting all of this media coverage if her daughter wasn't a television new personality? Why do they keep searching her daughter Annie's house, which is four miles away from her home. She was apparently kidnapped at home, why keep searching Annie's house? It appears that Annie's husband has fallen off the face of the earth since the kidnapping. They still won't say who dropped Nancy off at her house on the night she was kidnapped? Questions are increasing faster than answers.

If some moron kidnaps me, will the FBI get involved?  I am not sure that my family would even report it.  On the plus side, I have learned more about Bitcoin than I will ever need to know this week.

I am not going to tell anyone how to do their job but, if I were the Sheriff of Pima County, I would not pick the week of a nationally televised manhunt in my county to take the evening off and go to a college basketball game. You can explain that forty ways to Sunday, it still looks like you are an idiot.

Getting ready for the flea market/car show/ antique show season, I picked up about a hundred pounds of sockets and wrenches at an auction. My favorite piece was a Plomb combination wrench that is about ten years older than I am. It has aged better than I have. It may be worth more.

"Moderate" Abigail Spanberger or "The blonde AOC", continues her campaign to turn Virginia into Eastern California. We only live a short drive from Virginia and frequently shop at the Rural King in Ridgeway. That's a free plug for my Rural King friends.  Just for the record, the folks in southwest Virginia are not Spanberger fans.  If you want an entertaining viewpoint on some of Spanberger's policies, especially the gas leaf blower ban, go to Facebook and check out "The Mower Store" videos.  The Mower Store is in Ridgeway just down US 220 from the Rural King.

Of course, AOC wannabe Spanberger can't hold a candle to Sheriff Garry McFadden of Mecklenburg County in North Carolina. On Monday, February 9, a NC State House committee had McFadden testify. Despite almost eight years as the Mecklenburg County Sheriff, McFadden was unable to state the branch of government to which the sheriff's office belonged. Even after being told by the chairman that there were three branches of government and they were legislative, executive and judicial, McFadden was unable to correctly guess which branch the sheriff's department belonged to. He guessed "judicial". Obviously, he belongs to the "Elected" DEI hires. The good news is that several people are running against him this year. Call it a hunch, but that video of McFadden testifying will soon be in someone's election ads, if it is not already there today.

The same Democraps who demanded that everyone in the country wear a useless mask during the contrived Covid crisis, are opposed to ICE agents wearing masks while taking illegal immigrants into custody.

The Senate is going to vote to shut down the DHS and then go home for the next week. We need to end this shit!! End the filibuster!! End the Senate "Blue Slips" dictatorship program. Term limits for Congress and federal employees. You have probably heard me sing this song before.

This is post #1501 for this blog. Yes, yesterday's swill was post #1500. But who's counting? Not me, I just happened to notice. Maybe it's time for Google to end their "shadow ban" of my blog. It's not working like they might think. My viewer numbers are way up since you can't "Google" Random Moments of Lunacy and find your way here. Thanks for reading!!

Post Traumatic Super Bowl Disorder?

 The alleged singer Bad Bunny provided the official halftime entertainment at the Super Bowl on Sunday. There was a lot of criticism of his act because he "sang" only in Spanish. Some television expert pointed out that 50 million Americans speak Spanish. The other side of that coin is that this expert failed to point out is that 300 million Americans do not speak Spanish. 

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell obviously subscribes to the "all publicity is good publicity" theory. I don't have the experience of Commissioner Goodell, but I don't think that insulting your customer base is a long-term growth strategy. I think that if more than five million people changed stations at halftime to watch a different halftime show, you might have a problem. Houston, we have a data failure!

If this was really the two best teams playing, why did it take one so long to actually score? No one turns on the Super Bowl to see a team take three quarters to put some points on the scoreboard.

Are the Super Bowl and the NFL America's Roman Coliseum? Do professional sports serve to detract Americans from the real issues of life, like the invasion of our country by millions of foreigners every year? 

Is the good news for Senor Goodell that the NFL can't hold a candle to the "music business"? It's obvious that the Super Bowl and the Brotherhood of the Bad Bunny can't hold a candle for offensive comments compared to the Grammy Awards the previous Sunday. I just saw the news reports of the Grammy Awards, and it made me decide to take the radio out of the truck. 

I will end my criticism of the Stupor Bowl with a quote from Dallas Cowboys running back Duane Thomas after his team won Super Bowl VI. Asked by reporters after the game about the importance of the game, he said, "If it's the ultimate game, how come they're playing it again next year?".

The Grammy Awards obviously have one of those "Check Your Brains at the Door" policies for people who win and then want to make a speech. How about that homely chick claiming that there were "no illegals on stolen land"? It turned out that she has a $15 million mansion on land claimed by some Indian tribe. You have to love the irony in that situation. Is she going to give it back?

There needs to be some kind of public protective order from the FCC that would prevent the television networks from broadcasting more than one useless event within a thirty-day period. It should be illegal to broadcast the Super Bore less than ten days after the Grammy Awards. There should be some kind of required waiting period.

Post Stupor Bowl Monday Medley

 There are rumors that there was a "musical performance" surrounded by a pro football game yesterday. Mercifully, there were some American pickers reruns on at the same time. Bad Bunny can't hold a candle to Mike, Franke and Danielle. There are those who believe that 'Tattoo Queen" Danielle is actually Bad Bunny in drag. It doesn't really matter; I nodded off after about ten minutes.

I am not going to bother to trash the Stupor Bowl, but when one team goes scoreless for the first three quarters, it probably was not a great game. But I would have had to watch it to know.

This morning on the news, the leftists were attacking Turning Point USA's alternative halftime show for those who didn't want to listen Bed Bunny serenade the nation in Spanish. Here's something that all of the TPUSA critics failed to acknowledge; if five to seven million people watched the TPUSA show, that's five million people who weren't watching the ads of the Super Bowl advertisers. It's all about money.

I am not a professional law enforcement officer, but something in the whole kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie just doesn't make sense. I am not saying that this Jussie Smollett style crazy, but there is just something that is missing.  I can only assume that this is kidnapping in the age of the Internet. Just a passing thought but, that sheriff in Pima County should give thought to some other line of work. 

What kind of moron kidnaps an 84-year-old woman with a pacemaker and heart issues? I doubt that you can keep them alive long enough to get the ransom paid. There had to be at least two people involved in the kidnapping. I am trying to picture two guys sitting around talking and one says, "Let's kidnap Nancy Guthrie." I just don't understand it!

Of course, as a matter of full disclosure, until last Monday I had never heard of Savannah Guthrie. The last time that I watched the Today show, Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters were hosting the program. I think that Joe Garagiola was a part of that day's show as well.

Commie Mamdani is doing exactly what anybody with half a brain would expect in New York City. The streets and sidewalks are blocked with snow; ice and the mountains of trash have not been picked up. But the good news is that the street in front of the mayor's house, Gracie Mansion, is spotless. Policies for thee, but not for me.

The polls are all telling us that Democrats are going to sweep the elections in November. In February of 2024, the polls showed that Joe Biden would be re-elected and that Donald Trump would be in prison. The polls may be right, but I am going to go vote in November anyway.

My beloved and I attended the 27th Annual Civil War Symposium presented free by Longwood University and the National Park Service in Farmville, Virginia on Saturday. It's great, you just have to be ready for the occasional Yankee author who tries to sneak in some erroneous opinions. My wife is no longer shocked when they ask for questions and my hand goes up. I asked one question but couldn't get anyone to call on me on a later presentation. I think that I will get one of those orange flags that the flagmen use on the highways and take that next year to get noticed for questions.

Finally, my wife likes the seminar but loves the place where we spend Saturday night before returning home on Sunday. We stay at the North Creek Ridge B&B in Appomattox. Jim and Holly own the B&B and are very hospitable. It's a beautiful building that they built as a B&B. The rooms are comfortable and each has a different theme. There's a lot of Civil War art and other art all over the walls. In the bathroom of our favorite room, there's an original Reagan Conroy drawing. Breakfast is great! It's not donuts and a paper cup of coffee. On this visit, breakfast was waffles, maple flavored link sausages and scrambled eggs.  Holly is a great cook and that's coming from a fat guy who spent his life in the restaurant business. The B&B costs about the same as the Super 8 Motel and breakfast at Hardee's. If you are headed that way, check with them for availability.

February's First Friday Freeshot Festival

 In the Minnesota city of Minne-Somalia, the mob of morons continues to prove that Darwin was correct by trying to fight with armed federal law enforcement officials. 

 I am fascinated by the reactions of the media about the release of the Epstein papers. There are millions of documents in this collection. The Trump haters would have us believe that these millions of documents have all been examined and verified as factual by a court somewhere. This is a sign that most of them grew up on the Internet and have no concept of "facts" or "truth". No, these are simply millions of pages of things that people claim are facts. It's like newspapers or magazines or doctoral theses by liberals.

Some schmuck posted in some forum that Trump was mentioned 50,000 times in those documents. I asked him how many times Bill Clinton was mentioned. His response was, "According to sources, Bill Clinton is mentioned less than 100 times." I pointed out that I had seen more than 50 pictures of Clinton with Epstein. I also asked him to identify his "sources". I haven't heard from him since. There really needs to be some type of cognitive test before you can access the Internet. 

I am fascinated by the Minneapolis Police Department. I have watched news reports and other video footage of Minneapolis police cars just cruising by those "checkpoints" that the local Communists are putting up and doing absolutely nothing. These people need an injection of reality to bring them back from this mental field trip that they are currently taking. I suggest that they load some of their checkpoint building pallets on their trucks and go to Polk County, Florida. It doesn't matter what city they go to in the county. I would hazard a guess that before they can even get all of their pallets set up for their "checkpoint", Sheriff Grady Judd will have enough deputies on the scene that they will regret the day they left Minne-Somalia for Polk County. As Grady says, "Those people need some "Jail Therapy".

Memo to Minneapolis Police Department: Grow a pair, ignore the mayor and Gov. Tiny Tim Walz and enforce the frigging law!! The future of your city depends on it.

If North Carolina U.S. Senator is going to operate as a Democrat for the next eleven months, the son of a bitch just needs to go ahead and leave. He's just setting himself up now for a run for the North Carolina Governor job in 2028. The smart money is on shape-shifter Thom running as a Democrat. I have already sent the schmuck a message conveying my displeasure. That means that I have done more work than Thom did this month.

We had a lot of snow over the last couple of weeks. Yesterday, I got out and used the tractor to clear the snow from the driveway. I had to justify spending all of that money on a tractor and a bunch of attachments about four years ago. Real men understand!

The Democrats want everybody in ICE wearing a bodycam. Let me be brutally honest with you Dims. This isn't going to work out for you guys like you think that it will. What the world will see now will be the behavior of liberal protesters and criminals. It hasn't worked out for the BLM folks and it's not going to work for criminally insane protesters who the Dims are funding. The videos are going to make the conservatives' point that Dims protesters are the agitators and the criminals. 

Finally, the Trump Administration has captured one of the leaders of the terrorist attack at Benghazi thirteen years ago.  No comment yet from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Maybe this guy will be able to answer her only question about the attack at the time: "What difference does it make?"

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?