Random Thoughts 12

 It seems as though it is time for more Random Thoughts. This allows me to free up time with my therapist for real issues he deems “critical.”

In any case, sit back and enjoy the ride. And thanks for reading!

• I’d like all those sanctuary cities to let me know when we have enough refugees

• Speaking of which, I’d like a new, free cell phone

• There are too many stupid people in America; look at who was elected to office, and who elected him

• I’m exhausted with the Balance of Nature commercials

• Liberty Mutual ads, too

• What exactly is John Kerry’s job?

• Just where are we going to get all that e-vehicle recharging electricity from?

• How much Fentanyl does Representative Nadler need in America before it’s a crisis?

• Maxine Waters gets stupider by the day. She wants to confiscate private American businesses, but insists she is not a socialist

• AT&T and Direct TV are the worst for silencing Newsmax

• My parents, when I was a little kid, taught me our backyard was ours; the neighbors’ was theirs. Time to teach foreigners about the U.S. border

• If you want to invade a country, simply fly giant balloons into their territory

• Gen. Mark Millie and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are quite a comedy duo

• How lucky can I get? I won a free colonoscopy from the White House – as if one a day already isn’t enough

• Seventy-four percent of the country believes Joe Biden is doing a terrible job. That means 26% is totally stoned and on public assistance

• Did Joe Biden teach a young Hunter Biden how to fall off a bicycle?

• I’m looking to sell my gas stove that the guvment wants to outlaw, but not really, however sooner rather than later, maybe, until they’re illegal - perhaps

• I keep confusing Karine Jean-Pierre with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Sorry.

• Remember those landfills that are too full? What are we going to do with all those gas ranges and non-electric vehicles?

• If you’re an illegal alien and don’t like your free housing, free phone, free food, free transportation, and free debit cards, don’t complain. JUST LEAVE

• There should be some sort of stern punishment for people who, “Axe,” rather than “Ask.”

• Since I haven’t watched a baseball or football game since all that kneeling crap began, I’m curious if they are still televised

• Is Secretary of Transportation, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, still nursing his twins?

• What is America going to do with all the non-electric vehicles once they are outlawed?

• The next time you’re pumping gas, think of all the electric vehicles (EV) attempting to be recharged alongside your new EV

• So, Joe Biden could care less about the train derailment and toxic chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio

• An Arizona hospital is filing for bankruptcy because they are $20,000,000 in debt due to treating massive numbers of non-paying illegal aliens

• Is Commie La Harris, Vice President, still the border czar?

• Do all those women wearing Spandex britches think they look good?

• Tell me again why I should pay for some unfamiliar young puke’s college tuition

• CNN: R.I.P.

• So, Mayor Lori Lightfoot thinks she is being discriminated against? She needs medication

• For the record, I hate Venn Diagrams

• Cops need to distinguish between criminals with guns and honest citizens with guns. Just saying

• Military personnel under the age of 25 cannot legally buy a personal firearm. Unfortunately, they are given a free gun at the age of 18 by that same military

• Why is no one upset that social justice warrior Lebron James has slaves making his expensive sneakers?

• Too many people want to ban gun possession; until they need protection from a criminal with a gun, that is

• Now the guvment wants to ban incandescent light bulbs, gas ranges, washing machines, lawn equipment, and oil-related products

• What is wrong with AOC? I’m sure there’s medication available for whatever it is

• And finally, it seems Lululemon is giving away FREE clothes: simply run into their store, then run out with arms full. Easy-peazy!

Reinventing the Wheel

  It was in the mid-1980’s when my Mother was in need of an alarm clock.

Timing couldn’t have been better inasmuch as I found myself able to get her a birthday gift she really wanted, help her migrate away from traditional analog clocks, and shop at a store that was new to me.

As it happens, this “new” store was called Service Merchandise, and was not new at all. Established in 1934, Service Merchandise was a store that sold everything from “jewelry, toys, sporting goods, and electronics,’ according servicemerchandise.com. As I earlier mentioned, I was interested in electronics.

I visited this chain store and was amazed to see there was little in the way of goods on display. Rather, it consisted of a sizable showroom, peppered with glossy, color catalogs.

Not unlike the Sears Roebuck, and Montgomery Ward catalogs of yore, Service Merchandise’s almost instantly transformed a fairly sterile “showroom” into a land of fantasy of seemingly endless possibilities.

Finding a digital alarm clock wasn’t difficult. One in particular has space-age looking dials plus little black cards with white numbers that flipped to changed to reflect the time. It also had an AM/FM radio and a contact paper exterior that was supposed to closely resemble wood grain; it didn’t.

Still, it was a Panasonic brand device whose reputation was solid and growing.

Mom's Panasonic digital alarm clock

In order to buy one, I needed to complete a paper form, which was handed to a Service Merchandise employee. I was directed to another room adjacent to the exit door where I was supposed to wait for my purchase. In the meantime, I dutifully paid for this clock at a counter. Continuing the austere surroundings that were far divorced from their merchandise catalog.

Eventually my proudly labeled Panasonic box made its way out of an opening, reminiscent of an airport baggage conveyor belt, directly behind the cashier’s dais.

All this stuck firmly in my mind as a quick, efficient way to sell products without boxes damaged by nosy customers, actual items broken by feral children, while eliminating shoplifting altogether.

It was this alarm clock shopping episode that I first thought of when first hearing about today’s world chock full o’ boxes damaged by nosy customers, actual items broken by feral children, plus shoplifting.

In fact, shoplifting is of little consequence due to overly lax laws: refusal to prosecute many crimes, as well as turning a blind eye toward not only property crimes, but also deadly personal offenses. It’s as if Saul Alinsky’s sordid brain has spilled into Earth’s reality atmosphere.

This Leftist turn on society nearly instantly transformed all law-abiding citizens and visitors into potential – no, likely – victims who have little recourse against a new class of conscienceless thugs who now have virtual immunity from trials, much less prosecution.

As of late, retailers such as Banana Republic, Giant Supermarkets, Kohl’s, Nordstrom, Macy’s, are shuttering their doors, while Starbucks, CVS, Walmart, and Bed, Bath, & Beyond, are closing their stores in select cities because of lack of police response to fights and thefts in their businesses.

Angst has been continuing for a few years now at Walgreen’s, a chain drug store. Walgreen’s has been the recipient of copious thefts – most of which are brazen – because of their policy of not interfering with criminals.

Along those same lines, a women’s clothing chain, Lululemon, recently announced they, too were excited about giving away free high-end clothing to anyone and everyone with a yen for ‘snatch-and-grab’ property crimes. In fact, two Lululemon employees, who tried to prevent a non-violent theft captured on camera, were summarily fired for not following corporate rules regarding not interfering with miscreants.

Of course all these social and legal gyrations would be rendered moot, if only these woke corporations took a page out of the Service Merchandise handbook.

Only the other day, Walgreen’s announced their new store arrangements to include most of their goods henceforth being locked inside Plexiglas panels. And not unlike Service Merchandise, Walgreen’s retail modifications will require the addition of more in-store personnel to retrieve desired items from their locked cubbies to minimize property losses.

Now seems like a terrific time for retail corporate giants to stop the politically correct hand wringing and conjure up some preventive ideas. Hiring visible, armed security is one thought; another idea is one borrowed from Service Merchandise.

Reinventing the wheel is not necessary since it already exists. Simply use it because it works.

Stalemate

 Before the American Civil War in the 1860’s, the Democrat Republican Party was largely in favor of the whites in Southern states, while the Federalists were the party of the New England and Mid-Atlantic states.

During the reconstruction period – 1865-1877 – “the majority of the majority of the white South identified with the Democratic party,” according to studentsofhistory.com.

Thereafter, the Federalists became a political party simply known as the Republican Party which included both blacks and whites.

Modern Democrats offered newly-freed blacks incentives to now vote for the Democrats who held them as slaves by offering promises of land and wealth to compensate for their incarcerations. Most slaves were unable to read and write so, an agriculture-related life was meant to seem appealing to them rather than one of business, writing, or medicine.

But many freedmen were now gravitating toward the modern Republican Party. To discourage them, Democrats tried a variety of smarmy methods of dissuasion including the creation and operation of the Ku Klux Klan – terrorists who frightened blacks, through coercion and fear, into believing only Democrats could save them.

As time passed, the Democrats were primarily viewed as comprised of blacks, liberal whites, and progressives, who also identified as those still desiring to enslave Americans and destroy America’s melting pot of success-for-all goal.

Fast forward to today and the 21^st century.

Since the Reconstruction Era, blacks have primarily settled in the Democratic camp, voting almost exclusively for anyone the Dems roll out for election, while Republicans have been struggling for over 100-years to attract more people of all colors and religions to achieve a more cohesive, inclusive society.

A rear-view mirror look at our history will show how desperately Democrats have fought to demonize and lie about the roles the political parties played in elections, taxing, creating legislation, establishing education programs, founding social initiatives, as well as managing financial incentives.

For example, “The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing,” per endasianhate.org

That being said, this wedge has been used with impunity by Democrats against conservatives, Republicans, and whites, to remain segregated along racial lines.

Need proof?

Since the anointed in our more elite and prestigious college and universities began using some of those above-mentioned smarmy initiatives, placement in their schools became an exercise in discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race. Sound familiar? Backup two-paragraphs.

This seemingly innocent effort to micromanage societal outcomes by ignoring and circumventing the law is, actually, anything but. Instances such as this disprove the Left’s mantra that “No one is above the law!” In fact, lawyers at these once-esteemed law schools are proving their own hired lawyers are due a tuition refund.

Discriminating against white males, Asians, and Americans-in-general, has proven to become business-as-usual for the Ivy League crowd. Insisting they are merely attempting to reverse ages of discrimination by admitting a “protected class” of students only demonstrates how racist and misandric Democrats really are.

Of course, the Democratic Party has been over-enthusiastically slanting their policies – as well as the country’s laws toward division and hatred – as if a page had been directly torn out of a Marxist playbook.

We have reached a pinnacle of disharmony, regularly agitated by guvment-approved domestic terrorists, all in the name of unity and equity.

Riots in major cities over the manslaughter of Saint George Floyd, a street thug with a long history of his inability to follow the law, should be compared to supporters of President Donald Trump and his supporters during the infamous January 6^th demonstration scam; the law was employed very differently in both instances, with Lady Justice turning a blind eye to only one of those fiascos.

Illegal aliens have been streaming across our Southern border since the day our 46^th president, Joe “The Liar” Biden, was sworn into office in 2020. Swimming across the Rio Grande River, being smuggled through Customs inside semi-trucks, or ferried to American shores via rubber rafts, all resulted in an invasion of monumental proportions without as much as a peep from the administration-in-charge.

Guvment officials have been seemingly complicit, lying to Congress, about the influx of “refugees” all seeking a safe haven from some boogieman of their own making. To assist in their illegal trespassing crime, Biden officials – including his vice president and his Homeland Security Secretary – have all been really thin with the truth about their embarrassing lack of attention to stem the tide at the border.

Fabrications regarding the Democrats’ monumental “Defund the Police” initiative has resulted in Democrat district attorneys being elected to positions where their influence has enabled them to decriminalize, minimize, or simply ignore, violent crimes against society – all based on race.

To make this intentional crisis seemingly disappear, Biden officials have been happily giving these illegal border crossers free debit cards, free housing, free transportation, free health care, free entertainment, free education, and are now working to make voting rights available to them in order to continue their Free Gravy Train ride in perpetude. Too bad this is funding being taken away from American blacks.

Democrat sexual perverts who pleaded with Americans to simply accept them and their “partners” into humanity are now wielding a large, sharp stick against anyone and everyone who is not of their ilk. In fact, witness the unwelcome indoctrination of sexual shenanigans of elementary school children by some of these deviants.

Serial fabricator Randi Weingarten

Attempting to turn their sordid lifestyles into mainstream living, the American Federation of Teachers, along with its president, angry Randi Weingarten, publicly applaud this effort to normalize this sick subversion of innocent children behind the backs of busy, disinterested parents. But then, the American Federation of Teachers is another shill that’s Democratically-controlled.

In the event you may have forgotten, we are waist-deep in a proxy war with Russia into which the Dems dragged us into. Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, invaded the corrupt country of Ukraine about a year-and-a-half ago. Biden has been sending copious amounts of military arms and pallets full of money to Ukraine, supposedly to stop Russia’s infiltration and repatriation of its land, once a part of the U.S.S.R.

Democrats were apoplectic when then-President Trump telephonically contacted antebellum Ukraine officials for information regarding then-Vice President Biden’s connection to a corrupt Ukrainian politician who, according to Biden himself, admitted to coercion bordering on extortion to ignore illegalities of his son Hunter.

No, there were no repercussions for Biden, but Trump was impeached for his reaching out to inquire about these questionable circumstances. Unfortunately, the U.S. Department of Justice could find no wrongdoing of Biden or his soon-to-be-canonized son.

But since the Ukraine invasion by Russian troops, Biden has gifted more than $77,000,000,000 to Ukraine in arms and cash in less than two-years; as a note of interest, NASA’s budget is a mere $29B.

All this spending is teetering on the brink of a massive economic collapse of the American financial system due to overspending and weak-minded, child-like environmental policies established to punish capitalists along with a well-oiled business state of affairs.

Democrats of all ilks, along with the complicit mainstream media (MSM) have been spewing propaganda, interspersed with blatant lies, to employ the ol’ smoke-and-mirrors tactic of fooling the uninformed public.

The Republican strategy is to stifle spending while employing cuts in the budget.

The Democratic strategy it to spend, spend, spend, to increase our national debt already reaching $31T.

A normal, sane individual with monumental debt would stop spending in order to pay down that debt. Unfortunately Democrats are using other people's money making this exercise in self-destruction a guarantee of total failure.

There’s and old saying that is applicable here: If you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

No Turning Back

   Where have they been all this time?

“Who?” you say. I’m talking about the smart people in the world.

During our trying times under the Trump administration years, we heard pundits – who were climbing over one another to point their crooked little fingers at all the terrible things Trump had done, along at the awful dolts who voted for him.

We repeatedly heard about Russian collusion, nefarious Ukraine dealings, hookers, payoffs, misogyny, racism, our dying planet, corruption, bribes, payoffs, and mopery on a public steamboat landing, all of which were eventually deemed one lie after another.

Upon entry of the current Biden administration, America was instantly, publicly informed the country was now in good hands because suddenly, we have “adults in charge.” Sure.

Almost before the swearing-in bible had cooled, newly-elected President Joe Biden took to signing one Executive Order (EO) after another. They were largely reversals of successful policies created by Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump.

Wearing a gleeful grin, Biden signed EOs ridding the United States of the burden being one of the leading world producers of oil, oil refining, eliminating internal combustion-driven vehicles, along with new hiring practices that are now becoming troublesome for America’s future.

Ever since those historic inaugural moments, we, as a nation, have been subject to clever Democrats and Democrat shills leading the press, and subsequently the rest of the world, through a maze of fantasy ginned up by creative hacks.

The nation was told there was really no news to report, although we were in the midst of a COVID-19 medical pandemic, our national unity was breaking down, drugs were being legalized, criminals were being released from jail, prosecutors were failing to prosecute, and our new, adult president was dragging us into a proxy war with Russia.

White House spokespersons daily ignored questions, failed to answer inquiries, or simply noted they would “circle back,” when presented with a question more difficult than their favorite color.

Because everything today needs an identity, some apparent old-movie buff decided to term this regular diet of misinformation, and lack of substance as “gaslighting.”

Gaslight is the title of a 1944 movie starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman. Set in the 1870’s, when the primary sources of light were candles and gaslights, it spins a tale about a man who misleads his wife about his sordid affair by attempting to make her question her own sanity. He did this by secretly adjusting the gas flow, giving her the impression she was losing her mind.

After a successful four-years of gaslighting Americans about President Trump, the Democrats decided to continue their charade of daily life in America by merely extending the gaslighting mockery.

This public scam is currently being applied to conversations regarding the economy, schools, racism, sexism, roads, the national debt, over spending, taxes, health care, environmental matters, electric vehicles, renewable energy, open borders, military deficiencies, dumbing-down of our students, light bulbs, gas stoves, laundry dryers, refrigerators, and oil drilling, all with some success.

But perhaps the biggest “win” for the adults with all the answers has been the all-out promotion of sex change.

My informed childhood years were spent in an industrial city whose population graced the battlefields of World War II. Many of those soldiers and sailors returned from Europe, Africa, and Pacific theaters proudly wearing not only their uniforms, but some new and permanent tattoos.

Impressionable youngsters like myself were more than curious about this hand-drawn art. Of course some tattoos were better than others, some were in full color, some depicted war scenes, while others were displays of Vargas-type girls. Nonetheless, all were intriguing, all with personal stories.

Grandpa getting his now-wrinkled tattoo during WWII

Kids, usually the tougher ones, got some homemade tattoos, and they showed. Blue stick figures with dates that were significant only to the bearer, emblazoned arms, wrists, and hands. It seems this exercise was, in fact, an exercise in intelligence – being a better indicator than an IQ test.

The smarter kids put their tattoos somewhere they could be readily hidden; under a shirt sleeve, an upper thigh, back, but also avoiding one altogether. You see, many of the homemade tattoos resulted in cases of hepatitis C, resulting from multiple needle use.

Kids were young and uniformed, though, not unlike today. That is one reason why kids are considered minors when it comes to driving a car, quitting school, marrying, and being subject to the criminal/penal system of the law.

People under the age of 18-years are considered below the age of consent – minors – largely because their brains are not yet fully developed to realized the consequences of their actions.

Smoking cigarettes. Drinking alcohol. Using marijuana. Vaping. All those activities are highly restricted for anyone under 18. In fact, smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol require an adult to purchase, possess and use, in most states.

However, somewhere along the way, we seem to have crossed the Rubicon of common sense. Listening to the newly placed “adults” would have you believe that mere children are able to make informed decisions.

Some Democrat politicians, eager to maintain their anointed status at the public trough crawl out from their seedy lairs around the time of every election. They proudly announce how informed, well educated, and chock full o’ knowledge of today’s kids that the voting age should be lowered to permit 16-year olds to vote.

Until this day, acquiring a tattoo from a legitimate tattoo parlor requires a legitimate state ID demonstrating its holder is 21. Want to buy a beer? Need a pack of Marlboro’s? You can still use your identification stating you have reached your 21^st birthday. Otherwise, get lost.

Here’s the kicker. Those same Democrat politicians who rant about the dangers of smoking and vaping for your lungs, and the alcohol for your mental and physical development and well-being, are the same politicians who are now calling for six-year old children to secretly get sex change operations.

You read that right. Sex change operations for little children seem to be of the utmost importance to the current cadre of sickos in schools, homes, and the Democratic Party, covertly indoctrinating countless children into this sordid existence, against the will of most of their parents.

The definitive question is: Why?

Sexual transition is not merely a boy donning a dress, wig, and women’s shoes for a lazy afternoon; it is the surgical removal of parts that are germane and critical to growth in a healthy individual. This same scenario applies to girls having certain body parts removed and replaced to satiate their immature fantasy.

In other words, this is transgender reassignment – the physical modification of the person to attempt to match that person’s psyche. Cross-dressing, on the other hand, is the wearing of clothes more common to the opposite sex, while retaining their identity at birth.

Many of these transgendered individuals are now rueing the surgical change made when they young – some as young as preteen age. Unfortunately, that transgender surgery is no more reversible than grandpa’s naked woman tattoo from WWII.

I foresee a ten-year hence future of depressed, regretful teenagers who will need psychotropic drugs and extensive therapy to merely cope with their uninformed decisions, reinforced by school administrators and Leftist activists. That’s when their response to this will be a collective, “OOPS.”

Of course, the definitive solution will be state-sponsored living, along with regular doses of drugs to soothe the already damaged minds and futures of these snookered Guinea Pigs. Perhaps their future jobs will be a slaves of a government who didn’t care about them at age six. Kinda like China is today.