Random Thoughts 13

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• Please tell me John Kerry is back on his medications

• Why has Kamala Harris stopped laughing? Does she finally realize she’s not going to be VP in 2025?

• I’m starting a GoFundMe page to raise money for postage to send Jennifer Granholm back to Canada

• Is ammo so expensive that store security guards can’t shoot store looters?

• Has it become too expensive to hire a cab tor Uber that criminals would rather resort to carjacking?

• A city bus is pretty affordable, FYI

• I hope Taylor Swift goes the way of Eva Longoria (I know you said, “Who?”)

• Biden wants to take away your guns...he should be giving people guns to protect themselves

• I thought that legalizing drugs would end drug-related crimes. What happened?

• So, Harvard is the finest school in America. President Claudine Gay couldn’t prove it to me

• What a surprise to learn most college protesters are American-Palestinian Nazis

• LeBron James is still anti-American; he still refuses to stand for the National Anthem. Yep

• I’d love to see Hillary Clinton find a real job. Maybe just any J-O-B

• Same holds true for those deadbeats: Barack Obama and her husband, Michelle

• Mimes are still the worst

• I heard the guvment is putting chips inside of people. I hope I get Doritos

• And where do they find all these whiny, screaming women “singers?”

• You live in a land run by idiots where it is illegal to kill unhatched bald eagles, but it is legal to kill unborn babies

• Liberal scientists can prove climate change is real. Too bad they can’t tell the difference between boys and girls

• Every dead body on Mt. Everest was once a highly motivated person

• Protesters should step their game up and start blocking railroad crossings

• Kids eating Tide Pods...Adults don’t know what gender they are...Trust me, guns are not the problem

• Mark Twain said: “No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.”

• According to Biden the economy is going great! He created 5,000,000 jobs this year. Too bad a lot of people have three each to make ends meet

• Don’t believe what you see in cartoons. No matter how hard you throw a toilet plunger it won’t actually stick to someone’s face. Don’t ask me how I know this!

• A pound of sliced ham, loaf of bread, a pack of napkins, gallon of milk in a plastic jug, ketchup and mustard in plastic bottles, and the store won’t give me a plastic bag to take it all home because it’s bad for the environment

• Taylor Swift has written 100 songs about guys dumping her. Not one song about making a sandwich for her man or fetching a beer. Coincidence?

• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. And stupid. We should be scared to death by stupid

• “X, formerly Twitter.” Do newspaper writers believe we have the attention span of a goldfish?

• Everyone wants me to rate them after every visit. At a store, at a restaurant, the dentist’s office...i can’t wait for my next colonoscopy!

• Does Volodymyr Zelenskyy have a key to the White House yet?

• So, Nikki Haley who is pro-baby killing calls herself a Conservative. Hmmmm.

• Electric vehicles aren’t faring well with all the cold weather we’ve been experiencing

• How about those fantastic NY Giants? Last again!

• The Eastern Shore has about 45,000 residents and exactly 2 EV chargers. How does Transportation Secretary Mayor Pete think that will work out?

• I hope the Superbowl committee will be able to find a half-time performer as annoying as last year’s

• Joe Biden is clever; he’s making me pay for some college puke’s tuition. BTW, I paid for my own

• I saw Robert F. Kennedy, Jr’s. picture on a milk carton...is that the Dem’s idea of a democracy?

• Barry Manilow is gay!?! Who knew?

• I’m wagering “Big Mike” is on the ballot for the Democrats in 2024

• Poor Fani Willis – boo hoo

• I miss Rush Limbaugh

• I won’t miss Plugs Biden, though

• Striper fishing sounds good just about now

• Who picked paint colors for some of the new cars and SUVs? I’ll wager Stevie Wonder

• Whitewall tires need to make a comeback

• Eric Adams got the job he wanted, and the voters got what they deserved for voting for him

• Ron Wolff, we’ll miss you

• NYC DA Leticia James should be in the market for a larger mirror to accommodate her overinflated ego

• Soros sycophant Alvin Bragg can’t be trusted to bring suspected criminals to court; ask Rachel Mitchell

• It’s almost opening day of baseball season...time for the Yankees to promise a pennant next year

• I thought Ukraine was beating Russia. Another Biden and Zelenskyy fabrication?

• Biden just gave the State of the Union Address behind 13’ tall fences ar the Capitol. I wonder why fences work at the Capitol, but not at the Southern Border. Perplexing

The True North

This story is another recycled adventure that bears repeating.  It is a brief rundown of when former President Donald Trump assumed office in 2017.  Once again, this essay is just as germane to today as it was years ago.

Please enjoy it and return next week for another brand-new literary trip.  Thanks.

  Well before the presidential elections, I began learning another foreign language. Yes, I actually know several, including Polish, German, a bit of Italian, and a smattering of English.

I needed these different tongues to get me through my jaunts around the world. My latest endeavor was Spanish, inasmuch as my neighbor, who is a native Peruvian, is a terrific guy with a great family.

To better communicate with them, I decided to make an effort to demonstrate inclusion. For the Christmas holiday, I learned to wish him “Fleece Navidad. Unfortunately, that has more to do with sheep than Baby Jesus. I stand corrected, though.

So, because our new president is threatening to build a wall to keep out illegal aliens, I realized we would have very few new Spanish-speakers breaking into America. To stay ahead of the curve, I thought it would be prudent to ready myself for a new influx from the north rather than the south.

Canada is often referred to as “America Lite,” and “America’s Hat,” terms that are not necessarily offensive, but not really flattering, either.

Fact: Florida triples in population during the months of November through April, mostly because of the invasion of Canadians. Canada actually closes during those winter months forcing our northern neighbors to seek residence elsewhere; the last Winnebago driver turns the lights off.

Florida is much warmer and has better health care than Canada, hence the flood of bodies.

Just as with countries to the south of the United States, countries to the north utilize a different language than we Americans do. With the exception of Louisiana and New Jersey, most of America speaks American English.

Of course, some speak the language better than others but, for the most part, a word is a word, is a word. Unless it is Canada. You see, they use English and French which is akin to setting your hair on fire.

Let’s examine this international phenomenon I like to call “annoying.”

The country of Canada consists of 3.86 million square miles, or 375 trillion square kilometers. Because it’s a foreign country, they feel it necessary to distinguish themselves from the United States by using an archaic system of measurements. Of course, the only nation to put a man on the Moon was the country not using the metric system. I’m just saying…

In any case, Canadians drive on lines, a northern name for small roads; and they don’t use napkins, they use serviettes.

Back bacon is term for thinly-sliced ham, which you would buy with a loonie. A loonie is not only someone native to California, but a hard currency in Canada, too.

And if a Canadian were to stay home from the job, they would book off work. Perhaps they’re home because they had a two-four last night, which is reference to a 24-pack of beer. I’m guessing it would be Labatt’s.

If someone accused you of mucking down something, you’d stand accused of shoveling food into your mouth.

Plus, while conversing with ANY Canadian, you need to work the words hockey, snow, and “eh,” into every sentence.

There you have it. You are now ready to accept visitors form the Great White North into the lower 48 with open arms without spending a lot of time trying to figure out what a “S'il vous plait” is.

You’re welcome.

Unreal World Expectations

  
It was 1959 when Dinah Washington recorded a tune, “What a Difference a Day Makes,” one of about 340 re-recordings since its original recording in 1934; that initial version was in Spanish and under a different name. But that’s another story for another day.

This song is, of course, regarding a woman singing her heart out over a fellow – or another woman – extolling his ability to bring flowers and blues skies and rainbows to her mundane life. As an aside, if you’re a particular Supreme Court Justice, you’re likely still unsure as to the sex.

Today, however, I’m stopping after the first stanza where this song can move in many directions. This story isn’t concerning the song at all, rather its title is the key.

For generations, Americans have been playing by a set of rules governing voting and, subsequently, elections. It is well known that if a person is arrested and convicted for a felony their privilege to own a firearm, drive a car on public roads, and vote, is curtailed.

The reason for this seizing of freedoms is not a hard stretch to fathom. If the felon continues to be able to vote, they have the potential to elect and re-elect their felon and miscreant buddies. Once in office, those buddies are difficult to remove. All the while, they have the abilities to change, introduce, and modify current legislation to suit their own sordid lifestyles of crime.

Witness some major American cities today. New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Portland, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Baltimore, and Milwaukee, are just a few that appear to have crossed the Rubicon between law and order.

“How so?” you ask. It seems as though the above-mentioned municipalities have been socially re-engineered by people who have little in the way of law and order in mind, and more about making America more beholding to convicted criminals.

For decades we have heard the drum beat of equality; that has now been modified to read “equity” which is quite different from “equality.”

Equality is the ability for everyone to achieve the same goals as everyone else through a good education, hard work, initiative, and civility. Equity, on the other hand, is achieving the same results as the balance of Americans simply by using race, sex, or minority status as a barometer of value.

An earnest effort has been underway for years to move this equity-push into society in order to modify the norms through racial discrimination; in other words, moving the finish line. And it’s working.

With help from private organizations using legislation and twisted logic, laws are being modified nearly weekly to accommodate the perpetually-biased Democratic Party to help get more and more black criminals out of prisons and back onto the voter’s rolls.

It’s amazing how easily the words, ‘He/she served their time and now their voting/gun/driving privileges should be reinstated,’ roll off a liberal’s tongue. End of discussion.

Those using the above words like to add that it is largely the black population suffering from this form of “racial” and “systemic racism” so that they may be further disenfranchised. That’s a lie.

A deeper dive into this simple-minded approach is to look at who is being subjected to this so-called discrimination.

Beginning with facts that are even difficult to muster, the number blacks living in America is between 12.1 and 14.2% of the population, depending on whose reporting is utilized. For the sake of this story I’ll use the 14.2% number for the sake of argument.

Americans have been indoctrinated into believing that at least half – 50% - of the population is comprised of blacks. As is evidenced above, roughly ¼ of that number is more accurate. Still, television ads are peppered with at least one black actor in nearly every commercial and TV show.

If that were the case, every sports team – to include NBA, NFL, and MLB, team would have a ‘balanced’ team roster reflecting equality. But as noted previously, it’s not about equality. Equity being king, jumping places in the fairness line of life is paramount. Too bad anyone in post-slavery America still believes it’s okay to discriminate. Just sayin’.

Still, the crux of this story is about forgiving people for their indiscretions in their lives. Just because the law-breakers-in-question are in prison because of firearm, narcotics, sex abuse, child abuse, even manslaughter and murder charges, we, as a society, are expected to put our faith and hope and trust into these criminals, once again.

That’s a tall order, since all those aforementioned crimes are serious against actual immediate victims, as well as the balance of society, the results of which are that others were hurt or killed. Not insignificant consequences at the hand of another.

Forgiving people is supposed to be biblical in nature, but must include atonement for proven and tried indiscretions. Without further bloating guvment – either local, state, or federal – I believe a review committee or board should be in-charge of overseeing restitution of societal privileges.

There’s been much in the way of fairness, as well as perceived interwoven racial discrimination, being bandied about over justice.

Yet here we stand watching and listening to self-righteous Democrats scream the words “fairness,” “rule of law,” and “democracy.” Unfortunately, it’s clear they don’t know what those words mean.

While they carp and argue and file countless lawsuits over an election that was said to be stolen, an election that was rightfully settled by the Electoral College, and foreign guvment interference as yet another issue, former President Donald J. Trump is being subjected to one baseless lawsuit after another.

But it’s not because he was convicted for crimes. It’s because he is feared by Democrats and their sleazy supporters who so dearly need to maintain control over our disjointed guvment run by imbeciles and child thinkers.

Zero wars were started under Trump, four wars were thus far started under Biden.

We’ve gone from flowers and rainbows under President Trump’s administration, to a hurricane of ineptness under a Biden administration.

What a difference a day makes.

Border Shmorder

 As of late, handwringing has apparently become the new pastime in Democratic circles. Once proud Democratic politicians and supporter, alike, have been wringing their hands so much their fingerprints have disappeared.

Most of this exercise is largely due to Democrat President Joseph Robinette Biden living long enough to actually run for re-election in the coming months. The other reason for this excessive display of distress is that the mainstream media (MSM) has finally admitted America is flush with crime.

We need to go all the way back to the Barack Hussein Obama administration for when most of this crime began to percolate.

Obama, a god-like figure who represented the freeing of people-of-color from their slave chains, rose to meteoric heights in a very short time. Once inside the Oval Office, the most powerful sanctum in the world, Obama addressed the immigration issue to better serve the Democrats over that of American citizens.

He so desperately wanted more people to vote for his Democrat buddies; the means to that end was more people. Unfortunately, even after enthusiastic voting registration campaigns, it was realized more is better. Suddenly, in concert with non-government organizations (NGOs), the magic, happened.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) became policy in 2012 that allows some individuals with unlawful presence in the United States after being brought to the country as children to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation, according to Wikipedia, and can become eligible for even more benefits.

However, the big kick-in-the-pants here is that to meet the criteria for the deferred action from deportation, as well as obtaining a work permit in the United States, illegal aliens cannot have felonies or serious misdemeanors.

As such, a path to this influx was needed in a way only a lawyer could muster. Suddenly, lone children were being dumped over the mediocre border “wall” which amounted to two-strands of barbed wire in some places. That qualified for the DACA program.

But what was Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) expected to do with hundreds of small children?

One of Obama's actual border cages

The obvious answer was: build cages in which to place those children until their parents could find relief for entry. This seemed both legal and humane – end of story.

Until Donald J. Trump was elected as 45^th president, that is. As if by magic, bartender clown Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), Democrat Congressional Representative, learned America had a Southern border. This land shared with Mexico demanded her anointed presence, post haste.

She quickly gathered a gaggle of compliant MSM members to visit Texas’ ICE facilities, and she did not disappoint. While photographers snapped seemingly countless pictures of pathetic-looking youngsters, that aforementioned flock of eager sycophants wrote story upon story until the ink had disappeared. Someone needed to be blamed for this debacle.

Headlines across print, and electronic media showed a teary-eyed AOC sobbing over the mistreatment of these brown people – children – being held behind bars like criminals. Oh, the travesty.

Gleefully making the rounds for more air time, AOC pointed her crooked little minority finger at the likely culprit, President Trump. With instant calls for impeachment and incarceration for mistreating these victims of societal racism, she was gaining steam toward fracturing an already broken nation, even more. After all it’s for “the children.”

This dog and pony show continued until word got out that these brown-people cages were designed and built by her buddy Obama. And just a quickly as her exposé on this inhumane treatment began, it vanished. But the damage was done, and without as much as an “OOPS.”

With the inauguration of Biden in 2021, Executive Orders were signed willy-nilly to reverse any and all Trump programs. One program that was critical to this criminal invasion of America was the DACA program. Of course it was Obama’s brainchild that created DACA, but that didn’t matter.

As if riding the interstate highways with Stevie Wonder at the wheel, Biden blindly drove this once-great nation to the precipice of oblivion by ceding rights and monies to admitted lawbreakers all in the name of mo’ votes.

Issuing perpetual freebies amounting to tens-of-thousands of dollars to anyone crossing the once-sovereign borders of America, the Biden administration claimed the border was secure, and that this invasion was good for our future.

This pandering is driving our national debt into the stratosphere. For those phonies claiming this intentional corruption of our nation is for the children, they need merely look at our tax obligation to erasing our debt. With estimated costs of $100,000 per man, woman, and child, this debt will clearly never be repaid. But that’s another story for another time.

Good luck on your re-election, Joe.