Free Stuff

 

  People everywhere love free stuff. You’re living in a fantasy world if you don’t agree with that last sentence. If you disagree, please read on.

A quick trip to Sam’s Club, Costco, even some upscale grocery stores will lead you to a portable kiosk attended to by a usually perky person offering tastes and examples of some product for sale in that store. Occasionally, those offerings are for disposable sponges, miniature packages of laundry detergent, or mouthwash. However, more often than not those products are edible.

They’re pretty easy to spot; that’s where shoppers are cued up for a smidgen of a new cupcake mix, orange drink, even a green olive or two. And, without fail, at least a half-dozen potential consumers huddled about that kiosk will beg for a second sample just to be sure.

Of course, they rarely buy that free sample product; rather, they are merely seeking a cost-free snack, and little else. It’s a game played between the product representatives and the not-buying public.

But other people who like to get things for nothing are politicians. Politicians are those grubby slugs who promise potential voters everything in exchange for nothing. I’ll bet you can easily name at least one of these pols who, after guaranteeing you the world, gave you nothing but lip service for your vote.

This betrayal didn’t seem fair at that time, but time heals all wounds. Right? Until the next time these grifters dish out another helping of “next time,” that is. And since there are so many of these weasels, finding examples of the truth escaping their mouths is far rarer than finding a pink unicorn grazing in your flower garden.

The odd part is that this gaming of the electorate has become commonplace in America and readily accepted as business-as-usual. During re-election campaigns, these incumbent defrauders are quick to point out they only had a few years to attempt to address and rectify your concerns, hence the need to give them another term. Unfortunately, that term will likely require another re-re-election. Wink, wink.

And so the cycle goes until their mummified cadavers are wheeled out of either the Senate or House of Representatives with a vacant chair ready for another chiseler-in-training.

There are quite a few names that quickly come to mind as con artists, but the loudest current squeaky wheel is that conniver, Bernard “Bernie” Sanders.

Senator Sanders has been largely living off pie-in-the sky dreams since his years before his political career began. Sanders was part of a commune in the early days of the Vietnam War, which he protested; that is not surprising. But this same man left his commune to find himself as a carpenter.

Senator Bernie Sanders.  Maybe.

He gravitated toward politics as the elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, winning that position in 1981. Evidently, his appetite was whet during his eight-years as mayor, when he ran for state office several times, alas losing every time.

But the taste of politics remained, and he eventually secured a position as a United States Senator from Vermont. He did so as an Independent after leaving the Democratic Party. His roughly four-decades in public office allowed him to accumulate money from a guvment salary.

Currently making about $174,000 per year, Senator Sanders has amassed an estimated gross income of $3,000,000. That’s a lot of money for a guy who always looks like Salvation Army donation box shopper, while sporting hair in desperate need of a comb.

Senator Sanders seems to have emerged from his shell lately as is evidenced by his sharp, unwarranted criticism of nearly everyone with business acumen. Personally taking on the wealth of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk for their wealth, Sanders feels as though they have something he calls “Too much money.”

Too much money is a subjective phrase that is both misplaced, as well as intentionally false.

Take, for example, Edwin Castro. Never heard of him? He’s the winner of the largest lottery prize in American history. It was in November 2022, when Mr. Castro won $2.04 billion in the Powerball Lottery game. Which begs the question: Is that too much money?

I dare say you only need to ask Mr. Castro. I also believe I know his answer.

Yet, Bernie Sanders has a particular axe to grind with Messers. Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Musk, all of whom are private citizens who accumulated their wealth without the benefit of a handgun used in conjunction with a getaway car.

These three entrepreneurs created ‘things’ in the form of social media, internet shopping, electric vehicles, and reusable rockets, among others. And these three gentlemen employ countless associates – all of whom pay taxes – to the same coffer Senator Sanders regularly dips into to fund his latest financial redistribution scam.

But lately, Senator Sanders – not unlike a young child who learned a new word – has grasped, and been overusing, the word “oligarch.” It’s too bad Senator Sanders uses the word but doesn’t know what it means.

An oligarch is a person who, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, snapped up monies, properties, as well as government treasures, for their personal benefit. Sorry, Bernie...you’re not even close labeling Bezos, Zuckerberg and Musk as oligarchs. President Trump doesn’t fit the term, either.

On the other hand, Senator Bernie feels as though the earned monies from the above businessmen belong to him and the rest of Americans who are less affluent. Because of poor educations, inferior family conditions, lack of ambition, or even misperceived sleights that they are entitled to what others have, Sanders wants it all, no questions asked.

Still, pointing his crooked little finger in a different direction these days, he hopes the average low IQ voter isn’t paying attention to the words oozing out of his often indecipherable-accented yap.

For many of his years as a politician, Sanders has been exuding greed and envy as means to an end. Always looking to take the ‘other guy’s’ cash – Robin Hood-style – Ol’ Bernie had been using the term millionaire to describe the enemy. Now he describes the enemies as billionaires, including one trillionaire.

Of course, those terms are suddenly flexible inasmuch as The Senator has shifted his net worth into the millionaire category. Oops.

Yet here we are listening to this 85-year-old rumpled mess of a cartoon character spouting his vitriol to anyone and everyone who has at least one ear. With a pension from his City of Burlington Mayor’s job, plus his Senatorial salary, besides his upcoming U.S. guvment pension, along with his book proceeds, Senator Sanders can enjoy the balance of his life in financial comfort.

Not unlike the aforementioned Sam’s Club and Costco gimme-gimme shoppers, Bernie Sanders along with his constituents want more and more for nothing. But someone is paying for that free stuff: you. And Uncle Bernie wants to keep his earned salary while he forces you to pick up the tab for everyone else.

Two things bother me, though.

Why is he not also picking on George Soros and Neville Roy Singham to cough up their dough, both of whom regularly gift billions of dollars to Leftist, anti-American political campaigns?

And why does this relic hate America so much he feels the need to utterly destroy it from the inside out?

Just curious.

The Great Cholesterol Reprieve

 

  Here’s something to consider: While Joe Biden was president, he intentionally caused gasoline prices to skyrocket to affect his minions’ plans to eliminate fossil fuels altogether. Rising from less than $2 per gallon to well over $5.50 per gallon, that same legacy media feigned blindness to this grift.

Of course, it was Biden’s inept steering of the sovereign United States of America that brought us to these rocky shores. The complicit media gleefully pointed their crooked little fingers at not only President Trump, but all associated MAGA supporters.

Naturally, the ignorant Democratic voters suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) blindly blamed and wildly attacked Americans desperately trying to maintain a sense of civility and sanity.

All the evidence was summarily dismissed by Leftist television talking heads besides print rags such as the Old Gray Lady along with the Washington Compost, all of which excel at giving their idols daily tongue baths.

Further, each day across the entire globe, roughly 202-million chickens are sacrificed for food. Winding up as sliced deli lunch meat, nuggets, soup starters, wings, even pet food, these tasty birds also provide an added bonus in the form of eggs.

Eggs are those things that chickens use to propagate the next generation of fowl, thus continuing the circle of life. Loaded with protein, these hen byproducts are considered ideal for athletes and laborers because of the lasting stamina they provide.

Back in the 1980’s and ‘90’s, doctors and researchers came to the conclusion that eggs also have a dark side inasmuch as they are loaded with cholesterol. So, those aforementioned doctors and researchers have been warning consumers of hen fruit about the dangers associated with ingesting too many eggs.

Here’s the odd part. If a patient is found to be suffering from high cholesterol, their doctor will likely place them on a low-cholesterol diet consisting of – please be seated before you continue – chicken.

Please re-read that previous paragraph.

This double-edged sword is a rare case of having it both ways. But this is not the gist of today’s story.

Anyone who has the ability to read and comprehend English will likely remember news from earlier this year, 2026, that the same world that daily exterminates those multi-millions of chickens, was facing a world-wide plight of H5N1, also known as “bird flu.”

A January 13, 2025, CBS News story described this avian-related pandemic in which, “More than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. died last quarter because of bird flu, data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows, marking the worst toll inflicted on America’s egg supply since the outbreak began.”

Boneless Chickens

Here’s some good news, though. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as well as the USDA have been working on a vaccine to prevent and curtail the spread of the bird flu. Yea!

But here’s the bad news. That same CBS News item mentioned, “officials said it’s unlikely the vaccine will be used. The Biden administration has been weighing the possibility of vaccinating poultry for bird flu for years.”

No need to hurry.

Upon taking office following a lopsided electoral victory, newly-elected President Donald J. Trump (47) was quickly targeted by the legacy media for causing the rising price of eggs. Drawing a line from high egg prices to Trump’s fresh term as Commander-in-Chief consumed gallons of ink due to the circuitous length to meet the two points.

Never mentioned were the bird flu infection and associated unused Biden vaccine. Only mentioned were the rising costs of eggs hovering around the outrageous $7 per dozen mark. Implying President Trump was secretly attempting to break the financial backs of the average Americans, this sleazy reporting crept over the edge into propaganda from The Left.

Yet no one thought about looking at this egg crisis with a positive eye. Turning lemons into lemonade should have been the answer to the question, Why are egg prices so high?

The answer would’ve been, To lower your cholesterol.

Problem solved.

The Rightless Right

 

  Let’s have some fun and begin today with an ever-popular quiz. If you’re reading this with friends, no wagering, please.

We find ourselves quickly approaching the downward slope of summer. Traditionally, Independence Day – also known as the Fourth of July – roughly denotes the midway point between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Both of which are still legal federal holidays but are tucked between others that are less rigid.

Allow me to explain.

Depending on how revered these commemorations feel to the masses, some are moved to a ‘less important’ status and thus termed “floating holidays.”

A floating holiday is a paid day off that an employer offers in addition to regular company holidays. It’s called “floating” because you can choose when to use it instead of taking it on a fixed date.

Keeping that in mind, not all holidays are floating. And not all employers recognize floating holidays. But they can be very important to those employed in critical public safety professions, such as hospitals, fire/rescue, police, air traffic controllers, prison employees, and gas station attendants, who must work providing aid as well as comfort to the remainder of society.

That being said, please try to name which holidays have been relegated from absolute hard-and-fast holidays to floating holidays.

Go ahead. I’ll wait for you.

Martin Luther King’s Birthday, and Presidents’ Day are federal holidays. Almost. If those days fall on a weekend, an employee celebrates on the Friday before. Unfortunately, Presidents’ Day was remanufactured from Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday into one Presidents’ Day.

Memorial Day is an absolute holiday, as is Juneteenth; Juneteenth, however, is celebrated on the 19^th of June. That being said, The Fourth of July should be celebrated on the – uh – fourth of July. But we’re going to apply the rule exemption to a Friday, this year (2026) because the 4^th is on a Saturday. That means the Third of July has now become the Fourth of July. Got it?

So, if you guessed Fourth of July, you’re wrong.

Onward to Labor Day which is celebrated on first Monday in September. That’s pretty succinct.

Although when we reach Columbus Day, the anti-Americans in America have decided Columbus doesn’t deserve a holiday and have changed the name to Indigenous Peoples’ Day in some places to prove their ignorance. This is one of those floating holidays.

Veteran’s Day is next on the calendar to honor those U.S. military veterans who served in the armed forces. Again, celebrated on November 11^th, this holiday has been hijacked by Leftists who feel our military is an internal enemy and should not be observed. They couldn’t be more wrong.

In any case, this holiday if one that has morphed into floating status for the sake of snubbing those who did the heavy lifting.

Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the last Thursday of November. A National Day of Gratitude traditionally celebrated with a holiday meal and gatherings, Thanksgiving Day celebrants find themselves facing vegans and other malcontents who are desperately trying to alter history, largely because they’re bored.

And finally, we arrive at Christmas Day. Christmas is celebrated on the twenty-fifth of December – again occasionally falling on a weekend – we’re going to apply the rule exemption to a Friday when appropriate. But here’s where the wackos again try influence our society along with our national direction.

Suggestions were raised that Christmas Day should be eliminated altogether due to its nonsecular nature. Perhaps, they claim, all religions should have the opportunity to honor and praise their gods and religions equally. In fact, they do possess that ability, just not on the company’s or taxpayer’s dime.

Our nation is unique as it was founded on Christianity prohibiting discrimination based on other religions. Everyone is quite free to exercise their own religions, providing they do not curtail the ability by others to worship.

For decades, the Right has been under attack for formulating and continuing our great nation without prohibiting the Left from expressing themselves, no matter how wrong they are. That is all covered under The First Amendment. For your information, we, on the Right, have rights, too.

Ultimately, I blame this on the same super-genius elected officials (Read: Representatives and Senators) who created, then modified, and subsequently remanufactured these holidays. Don’t forget what a terrific job they did when they decided to manage Daylight Saving Time. They have plenty of trouble managing their own extramarital affairs.

Stop trying to change our culture; it’s been doing just fine for 250-years without their obnoxious, boorish added value. Enough, already.

Congratulations

 

  Save yourself some time and divert your attention to something more productive if you think this story is about extolling the accomplishments of our recent graduates. It is not.

Rather, this is to extend praise to all the voters in Minnesota, California, Maine, and New York. You should be proud. You WON!

Following decades of ignoring social issues such as the homeless, tax increases, illegal alien invasion, overburdening of the healthcare system, including the enactment of punitive legislation, the voters finally made their point. Hooray.

After years of protesting, marching, seeking-out media cameras and microphones, their pontification about replacing business-as-usual life has morphed into anything but, for the voters who so desire change. Reaching back into history – which they were never taught in school – these nitwits believe they discovered something new called social unrest.

Social unrest is a state of constant flux with every faction uniting within tribes. These divisions have been occurring for decades, largely begun in the tumultuous 1960’s when the former Communistic Soviet Union (USSR) began infiltrating our long-held institutions with Commies.

In an attempt to try again to change yet another nation into a Socialist and Communist bastion, the USSR groomed American college students into good “reds” by indoctrinating them to admire and follow the Soviet style of government.

Overly restrictive former USSR nations included Eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, and, of course, Russia. They built walls to curtail migration, but not to keep citizens out; rather, they were designed to keep them from escaping.

These were largely dissolved beginning in the 1980’s with Soviet leader President Mikhail Gorbachev who moved toward a more social democracy a few years later.

But the wheels of infiltration were already in motion overseas with college campuses becoming chock full o’ reds who found themselves in positions of influence in academe, ready to change the world. And change it they did.

In fact, it worked so well, they began infiltrating high schools as well as middle schools, eventually down to elementary institutions of learning, to include pre-K. It all seemed so innocent with educators and writers introducing likable characters into stories, books, television shows, movies, plus cartoons.

It wouldn’t be long before the kids began begging for materials they saw in schools; the powers-that-be were glad to oblige with modifying classes of substance – history, geography, arithmetic, reading, English, and foreign languages – into lessons on how to use condoms, protest, acquire abortions, and sue your own parents if they balked at any of these modernistic classes.

This decades-long march toward dumbing-down students proved very, very successful in finding the solution, then creating the problem. That problem was with nosy parents who weren’t too busy to pay attention to their kids’ homework. Suddenly, the schools found themselves in quite a pickle trying to defend themselves from their curricula reaching daylight.

It is said: Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Along those lines, the sneaky propagandist educators found themselves desperately trying to remain hidden in the shadows to continue their mission of altering America.

Enter: transvestite parades, gay pride events, anti-gun and hunter programs, empathetic collections for the United Nations’ international relief efforts, gender swapping, planet-saving exercises based on contrived data, and sexual education classes that included eugenics. All these efforts were both hard-hitting and simultaneously informational, even though they were based upon propaganda.

Not unlike Cosa Nostra, otherwise known as The Mafia, which had infiltrated politics, finance, money laundering, as well as other avenues to lucrative crimes, the teachers and professors found themselves scrambling to find “protection” against any and all citizens desiring to stop their nefarious ways.

The solution was rather simple. Become the watchdog.

Running for school superintendent and school board positions would guarantee the fix was in. With teaching credentials and teacher-of-the-year awards dangling from their necks, educators were easily elected to these positions to not only hide the insidious lesson plans but also run interference.

It was foolproof.

To further guarantee success, city and county political positions were filled with cronies ready, willing, and able to keep those agenda-driven teachers-turned-schemers in positions of power. Ever heard of tenure?

Eventually eliminating competency examinations, reading, math, and geography, they gleefully removed civics classes and government, only to substitute empathy exercises as a way to build camaraderie.

With the voting age decreased from 21 to 18, the kids were now willing and able to effect the change they were taught, as well as utilize their newly-found skills.

But this movement was only beginning.

Women’s movement, black reparations, anti-religion push, and other tribalistic motilities helped further divide America. To assist broken families, sustenance programs were instituted by well-meaning politicians. Cheap housing, school immobility, extracurricular activities, medical care, and other freebies were enthusiastically distributed.

With no need for a two-income household, families dissolved, father figures became oddities, crime soared, as did mayhem and subsequent homicides. It didn’t take long for societal leaches to realize they had found an ideal solution to trading a permanent job for perpetual leisure. Period.

Illegal drugs flooded city streets and schools, tenement housing became breeding grounds for lessons on how to become a thug, while girls with only a dim hope to escape this nightmare often found themselves pregnant with all hopes dashed. It was a perfect recipe for disaster.

Politicians took full advantage of this mayhem to run for office promising even more goodies and a brighter tomorrow. After elected, though, things didn’t get better. They were often too busy feathering their own nests with bribes, scandals, graft, corruption, and fraud scandals. All in the name of empathy, of course.

Books have been written for roughly a century on the pitfalls of stealing other people’s money in the name of societal good under the guise of Socialism. They usually point to the same sordid paths to oblivion, only to be resurrected by those who are smarter than everyone else. Just ask them.

California is in the throes of several elections with non-taxpayers voting to raise taxes on the working class. This exercise is taking the cities, as well as the state itself, in a self-destructive direction. Homeless numbers have skyrocketed, only to be addressed in a flippant way. With taxpayers leaving the state in record numbers, their tax base is also dissolving.

New York State is in a similar bind, as Gubenor Kathy Hochul just signed a bill placing her state $9 billion further into debt, while New York City’s grinning Commie Mayor Mamdani is plunging his once admired metropolis into a chaos/hate-inflicted tornado where Jews are openly called evil. Keep smilin’, bro.

Minnesota mastermind Aimee Bock, who stole 
$250 Million in charity funding

Minnesota, on the other hand, finds itself with hapless Gubenor Tim Walz repeatedly lying to Congress about fraudulently obtained tax dollars, along with icky Congress member Ilhan Omar alleged to have funneled billions of taxpayer bucks to her once-home sewer known as Somalia. Wink, wink.

And we now arrive at Maine. That very blue state hates America as much as President Trump. They detest both so much, they just elected a Democratic Socialist Senatorial primary candidate, Graham Platner, who is a piece of something. To summarize, he hates women, law and order, President Trump and his supporters, plus Jews, while expressing love for killing people, hating women, and sodomizing criminals. Quite a guy.

It’s unfortunate America finds itself looking in the mirror and not liking what it sees. But we did it to ourselves. We permitted this havoc to not only occur, but to flourish. We, as a society, cannot see the forest for the trees. These mentally ill politicians need to be expelled from office. Elections need to be secured by only in-person voting, and those illiterate young voters need to realize there no such thing as a free lunch.

In any case, kudos on voting absolute losers as candidates for office. It’s your money, your safety, and your freedom that hangs in the balance, though.

Congratulations! You won!

Semiquincentennial

 

  If you’re familiar with this modest venue of reality combined with truth and fun, you know I take lots of liberties with the English language. In fact, every one of my English teachers – probably all of whom are now deceased – are rolling over in their graves as I type. Please file those liberties under ‘Freedom of Speech.’

Along the way I also find myself struggling for appropriate words to make my point. Since I’m old enough to remember when the Dead Sea was just sick, it’s hard for me to believe there aren’t words to accurately describe my thoughts. If I can’t recall or find an appropriate word, I simply make one up because my time is too short to be wading through blah blah, blah, nebulous information.

So, I looked up “number of words in the English language.”

It seems as though throughout this lengthy list of referenced sites resides an equally lengthy list of numbers. Ranging from between 171,476 to 470,000, those numbers are not even close to one another, but several websites note that the numbers change daily as new words are added. It’s apparent these articles were written by lawyers who like to avoid finite information.

In any case, the reason for all this tiring research is for a really big event. The event of which I mention is America’s Semiquincentennial Celebration. For all those readers using the metric system, that denotes the 250^th anniversary. (I believe someone made that word up just as I would have.)

The United States Semiquincentennial Commission and the White House Task Force on Celebrating America's 250th Birthday published this word in its announcement of this historic event recognizing the longevity of America’s experiment of making a new country out of whole cloth.

To simplify this exercise of new land colonizers breaking away from Mother England in the 1770’s, then-King George III demanded a tax increase on British tea sent to America. Although these settlers were loyal to the King, they were doing all the heavy lifting, so to speak, and being punished for it.

Mayhem involving British-taxed tea being thrown into Boston Harbor, and the games began.

In any case, British soldiers were dispatched to America in order to regain control of, and punish, this insolence. Kind of like watching the movie Titanic, we all know how this saga ends.

A fledgling country was born anew uniting the already established thirteen colonies, also known as The United States.

African, European, Asian, and other conglomerations of nations at that time were being ruled by monarchs. They largely took over land masses through colonization and never left. Often exploiting natural resources along with strategic geographical advantages, these other nations eventually collapsed under their own mismanagement or civil unrest generated by natives.

But the United States was different. It created a new door to government, one that took in consideration of all its citizenry – of the people, by the people, and for the people. This “We the People” concept had never been tried before.

How could it ever work, much less succeed?

After 250-years of rules begun with the Bill of Rights, the United States has become an example of what can be achieved by incorporating its citizenry in the decision-making process of keeping our widely varying now 50-states cohesive.

Through free and fair elections, legal citizens are given the right to cast ballots for leaders who are elected, along with issues that affect its taxpayers. Via voting and representation in both the Congress and Senate, constituents are able voice their opinions as to how their government and representatives deal with day-to-day operations.

With those operations comes the duty to pay for all considerations managed by the government to fairly keep Americans safe. From police and fire protection, the military, infrastructure, health, as well as countless other categories affecting the entire nation, the preparedness and salaries of those critical civil servants is beyond important.

Maintaining equipment, training supplies, outreach, plus dealing with obsolescence, gets very, very expensive very quickly.

But it’s keeping the masses united that is key to longevity, camaraderie, peace, and integrity. All of which are critical unless or until envious outside forces feel the need to cripple our great experiment.

Other nations tried and failed at creating sovereign country built by a smattering of colonists driven to the edge by a king 250-years ago. King George III thought ruling with an iron fist was the definitive answer to keeping his subjects under his control. He was wrong.

There’s an old saying: The beatings will continue until the morale improves.

Nothing could be further from the truth. When everyone has a seat at the table, everyone has a stake in the game. And everyone needs to band and work together lest the entire system collapses, ending without any winners.

After 250 years of working at this noble experiment – and thus far succeeding – we all should be very proud. We stand alone as the only country in the world to have lasted this long giving freedom, security, and future hopes to over 350,000,000 citizens. Let’s not stop now.

It’s too bad we still had to have somebody conjure up the word semiquincentennial. I’m pretty sure it’s not a real word.

Helping the Unhelpable

 

  Fate is a fickle mistress.

This idiom was unable to be attributable to anyone in particular. Mentioned having a hand this quote were William Shakespeare as well as Mary Shelley. Alas both were summarily dismissed following a lazy, halfhearted interweb search as to its origin.

Plus, I made up the word “Unhelpable” in the title. Still, none of those trivial touchstones are as egregious as the shenanigans going on in local, state, and federal guvment agencies, today.

A few months ago you may have learned of shady goings-on in a purgatory named Minnesota in general, Minneapolis in particular, on this blog site. Of course some of this information squirted out via equally halfhearted news stories in dribs and drabs for a few years. But they, too, were reported in such a way as my earlier idiom search.

Be that as it may, “the Unhelpable” mentioned herein consist of arrogant, weasely, self-centered, anointed, and greasy politicians who find glee in antagonizing the proverbial ‘hand that feeds them.’

That hand belongs to “taxpayers.” To be precise, taxpayers are people who pay taxes. ‘Nuff said.

People who pay taxes are those legal citizens – otherwise know as those who are natives, whose financial status is derived from legal employment and legitimate means, and meets predefined criteria for household income.

Too many overly-smart pundits are quick to point out that everyone pays taxes; they do not. Sure, if you buy goods, fuel, or nearly anything else where money is exchanged for trade, you will likely pay some form of tax. But that sales tax is different from income tax inasmuch as income tax is calculated on income. Hence, the name.

Simply put, if you cannot legally work as a non-citizen, you pay no income taxes since you have no legitimate income. It’s all based upon your Social Security Number (SSN); if you’re not considered an American citizen you can’t get a SSN. Amen.

Onto the next critical fact.

If you believe that a biological boy or man can become pregnant and have babies, I have money for a wager you’ll likely lose.

Males of any species are incapable of conceiving children because males do not have ova (eggs); only females have ova. It doesn’t really matter what you think you are, what you want to be, or which pronoun with which you identify, you’re out of luck in the children bearing department if you are male.

I dare say it’s a good thing someone who is delusional enough to believe males are able to produce offspring are incapable of understanding the mechanics of the human body, reproduction parts, or even how to change their own drool cup.

Speaking of mental illness, our last fact of this week’s adventure involves a modicum of sanity which, I’m delighted to report, will soon hopefully be rectified one way or another. This course correction is apparently beginning at the federal guvment level.

It seems as though the only thing this apparent course correction needed was the installation of adults at the administrative level. Realizing our nation has been hemorrhaging cold, hard cash from every guvment level, the ersatz Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was cobbled together to uncover and ultimately plug sizable moolah leaks from porous guvment capital ineptitudes.

A union created by the collaboration of President Donald J. Trump (47) along with Elon Musk, this ‘kinda’ federal guvment entity was thrown together to identify and end the suspected fraud being conducted inside the marbled Halls of Congress. And boy, was it massive.

That sacred venue has always been considered off-limits to the hoi polloi by those known as ‘anointed politicians.’ They are anointed because they think they’re special. They’re not, though.

Their magic that is conjured up by them happens with debates, raucous shouting, charts, witnesses, and bargaining, all of which is largely for elementary-style show-and-tell exhibitions scripted for television.

It’s actually often behind the scenes, though, where the shady stuff is produced – much like sausage is made. Hand shakes, winks, nods, “special” gifts, and promises paid-on-delivery regularly become part of deals that shape and affect their constituency. And that’s awfully unsettling.

But these backroom shenanigans, although well known around Capitol Hill, are usually ‘uncovered’ with Congressional and Senatorial colleagues over-emoting replete with audible gasps, faux fainting, and grasping ones pearls, in front of cameras. Oh, the humanity.

DOGE’s noble efforts easily exposed many billions of dollars of fraud and waste, all voted on and approved by Congress. After all, Congress controls the checkbook. Revealing all the palm grease and aid for disadvantaged children, non-English speakers overseas, plus needy illegal families living in the United States, opened an ugly, smelly can-o’-worms.

Stench therefrom demonstrated how simply playing ‘hide the bologna’ was when hundreds of professional thieves known as Congressional Representatives put their hearts and minds into projects that stick it to the taxpayers – the people who actually fund these grifts.

Feigning ignorance once the rocks under which they are hiding are upended, these holier-than-thou types quickly change the narrative to blaming those on the other side of the aisle. And why not?

Sleazeballs Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Elizabeth Warren, Ilhan Omar, Eric Swalwell, Nancy Pelosi, Charles Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib, along with a gaggle of other greasy America-haters, are currently busy contriving excuses for the graft and corruption they helped perpetuate in an attempt to sucker, uh, secure votes for Democrats in upcoming elections.

Independent video journalists have been inundated with work making the rounds throughout Minnesota, California, Maine, Michigan, and Illinois while gathering eye-opening evidence of unimaginable thievery from hard working Americans to benefit arrogant illegals and terrorists abroad.

A recent shakeup at the U.S. Department of Justice helped open doors to literal mountains of hard cash being spirited away to Third World toilets such as Somalia – home to Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar – whose district in Minnesota gives boatloads of hard currency to its 84,000 Somali residents.

What could possibly go wrong?

Let me give you a clue.

Many of those America-hating Somalis have opened shell companies for child care, home care for the elderly, transportation services for the home-bound, and something called a “Learing Center” whose employees misspelled on a prominent sign. Imagine the education attendees receive there.

The arrogant Minnesota gubenor Tim Walz

The painful part is that billions upon billions of tax dollars were given to fund these front operations. The money, however, wound up being allegedly funneled to terrorist camps in Africa – a breeding ground for animals with a penchant to kill Americans for simply being Americans in America.

Sure, it sounds crazy, but only to sane people. Sane people applauded DOGE’s efforts to stymie pouring unaccountable billions of American dollars to injure or kill as many Americans as possible.

In fact, a fraudster was convicted and sentenced to 41-years in prison for stealing tons of folding money from these charitable efforts. Oddly absent were news stories about this attempt to seek justice. Ponderous, indeed.

On the other hand, protests, rallies, marches, attempted riots caused by the very representatives elected to prevent this mayhem occurred to demonstrate that the powers-that-be were not on your side. In fact, they hate you.

Asserting all this out-of-control fiscal beating was good for the working population, it sailed smoothly until Donald Trump was reelected in 2024. Not unlike vermin scurrying for safety from a sinking ship, Democrats pretended what hard working, honest constituents needed was a more thorough beating.

Unfortunately, the familiar Blue states are hell-bent on keeping their pick pocketing Congressmen, Senators, gubenors, mayors, and local representatives greedy. The making of the perfect storm.

Which summarily leads us back to our fickle mistress.

The rest of the country – the Red states – have simply had enough and have been morphing back into the once great America: the one that inspired the infamous Make America Great Again (MAGA) slogan.

We’re a few short months away from midterm elections. Some will be for gubenors, some Senators, some for Congressional Representatives, while others will be for mayors.

Now is the time for deciding in which direction you’d like to see your 250-year-old nation head. Teetering on the precipice of self-destruction, our nation needs a thorough, honest look into the mirror.

Otherwise, we’ll all be beyond the unhelpable point of history.

Random Thoughts 17

 

  It’s been some months since we opened the door on those random thoughts running around my head like a squirrel attempting to cross an interstate highway. Yep, we’ve had 16 others already.

Please sit back and enjoy this compilation of both brilliant and inane musings. And thanks for stopping by.

• Where, oh where, is Jasmine Crockett hiding these days?

• I’m delighted the Noo Yoik City voters elected Comrade Zohran Mamdani. Wise choice

• Funny how people gladly paid over $5 for a gallon of gas under Plugs Biden, but now complain when that same gas is $4.50 per gallon during a military action

• College kids who gleefully had AI write papers for them throughout their school years are now having trepidation about AI stealing any possible jobs. Kinda perplexin’

• We’re well into May, and it’s too cold to plant vegetables in the garden. At least my lettuce enjoys chilly temps.

• Why are so many stupid Americans in favor of wiping their butts with The Constitution? I know...because they’re stupid

• By the way, this year is the 250^th anniversary of the United States!

• I certainly hope some pharmaceutical company finds a cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)

• How great is it that almost no one in Minnesota is upset their politicians are openly giving their tax dollars to Somalia? That’s pretty cool

• American morons are apoplectic about President Trump building a new ballroom in The White House without public funding. Sane people don’t know why

• Remember when chicken eggs were $7/dozen? Representative Ro Khanna publicly lost his mind that President Trump was doing something nefarious to raise the price

• Now jumbo eggs are $1.86 a dozen and apparently a cat’s got Representative Ro’s tongue

• I’m more impressed by Marco Rubio nearly every day

• I hope KommieLa Harris runs for the presidency for the Democratic Party

• Abigail Spanberger, Virginia Gubenor, has proven to be every bit as weasely as she appeared to be on the campaign trail

• The State of Maine must be delivering weed to every voter based upon for whom they regularly vote and elect

• I hope Santa brings me a new laptop this year. With extra USB ports and a 1TB memory

• Hummingbirds are back drinking out of my feeders!

• Why doesn’t someone make bourbon flavored toothpaste? I’ll bet oral hygiene would dramatically improve

• It seems as though the annoying, married Eric Swalwell may soon be unmarried because of his very public display of affection with his Chinese spy girlfriend. Talk about character

• A Five Guys burger with fries and drink costs $25 in California! At least until they close all their shops

• Burger King is not far behind. A friend and her daughter recently spent $36 on two BK meals, and my last visit to a BK was ultimately my last due to ordering SNAFUs

• My doctor put me on a low-potassium diet. And why not? EVERYTHING contains potassium! Except lite water and lo-cal ice, that is

• I find it odd that during baseball season there’s more football on television than baseball. Who got the incentive award for this stupid idea?

• There’s so much fraud in guvment that the entire system should be summarily shut down with everyone incarcerated – WITHOUT EXCEPTIONS!

• So, Saint Anthony Fauci was lying about COVID-19. Get a prison cell ready with fresh linens for him, at least for lying to Congress. He could use an attitude adjustment

• I actually went to a doctor who told me dihydrogen oxide would kill me. No lie. FYI, that scientific terminology is another name for “water”

• Is it just me, or are Democrats hyper-racist? Suddenly, black Dems – who compose about 13% of the population – feel they deserve 100% of the representation. No, that’s not racist at all

• Are college kids back to hating and advocating for killing Jews?

• So long, Senator Bill Cassidy. Now you’re free to find a real job

• Police officials fear summer will offer opportunities for destructive kids to attack innocent citizens and police officers, for no apparent reason, plus street takeovers. Cops should’ve thought about this years ago

• One-third of high school 12^th graders tested lack basic reading skills. That should frighten everyone who expects intelligent, informed people to vote and find employment

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) appears to be auditioning for a new job as president

• I’ll wager the above sentence is what our current and potential politicians are hoping for

• I know. You shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition.

• Step aside, Gubenor Newsom

• You, too, Gubenor Pritzker

• And Gubenor Hochul plus Abigail Spanberger

• That goes double for Congress Embarrassment Jasmine Crockett

• Weather had better improve soon; I need to get my plants in the ground

• What is wrong with today’s drivers? At least stay on your side of the road!

• I’m still looking to buy a kayak. Cheap

• And finally, Greenbackville just held its inaugural Community Yard Sale, and it was quite the success. Congratulations! Lil’ Ben did a great job with his lemonade stand, too! Get prepared for another sale this autumn.