Wednesday

 - SCOTUS unanimously stated states do NOT have Constitutional authority to prohibit national candidates.  The thing that amazes me is it took a SCOTUS ruling to realize the insanely obvious

- Just read that before the invention of crowbars, crows had to stay at home to drink

- I for one abhor the idea that yet again, presidential election essentially rely on how 5-7 states vote. It’s as if the people in the other 45 or so states might as well not even bother.

- No…we didn’t watch SOTU, nor were even aware of its presence until well over. All those things piss me off, and I really don’t appreciate parading around certain individuals.  It’s been a dog and pony show for most of my life. 

- Speaking of which…Biden announced he was capping credit card late fees at $8.  That’s really making a very real and significant impact [/sarcasm]… but…that doesn’t do one damn thing for those paying their card bills on time, or those (of us) that don’t have such things.  When I did have a card and was “late” for whatever reason, the late charges did impact me pretty hard.  So I did what I thought was responsible-paid the damn things off faster than humanly possible, and refuse to have another one. 

Besides, I’m not sure how any government official has the authority to magically waive agreed to debts…oh, wait, student loans. Never mind

- Many years ago I was appalled at Google for their lack of information security, sharing information, and just because, switching everything to Mac products (computers, phones, etc). Since then it seems Google has seemingly become an unimaginably vast entity. After the IMO morally corrupt release of the AI system that would not allow depictions of any white people, I started wondering how much social engineering manipulation has gone into systems relied on by, well, everything. Google classrooms, Google docs, maps, financial software, you name it…defense systems…search engines…telecommunications… home security…the list is basically endless.

Apple not much better, but at least their softwares work as intended. Facebook also. Microsoft.  In my view these entities are more powerful than any government. It’s at best disconcerting, at worst it’s terrifying.

Yes, I understand my apparent hypocrisy in using a a Google based platform from which to blog. Yes, some algorithm somewhere flagged my thoughts more than once as inappropriate.  Which basically leads me to the inevitability of dropping a carrier, and posting my musings in raw form on Facebook or whatever until I just do do them anymore. My livelihood doesn’t depend on these things, never once having received a shiny penny.

Quoting my own song title: it was fun while it lasted, it’s just lasted way too long. Thanks for reading these things

Monday, Finally March

 - California ‘governor’ trying to pass a law raising minimum wages, except for places that sell bread products by themselves. Quick peek into how much $ places that sell basically anything and bread reveals not so surprising connection between them and ‘campaign’ funds. I’m more sure now than ever that most laws in the modern era are glorified extortion, in that paying into campaigns is protection from incumbents 

- John Cornyn has thrown his hat into the ring to be Senate Majority Leader…just HELL NO. Cornyn needs to be bum-rushed out of his senator’s seat, out of Texas altogether.

- The media issue isn’t them pushing censorship. The fundamental issue is that people make up outlandishly false info and try to pass it off as researched truth.if people in general would just stop bullshitting to achieve agendas 

- I wonder what percentage of post civil war settlers actually had to fight hostile Indians, tornados, etc.  My bet is pretty low.

- Apparently there is a ‘book’ out now called White Rural Rage detailing how people living outside major metro areas are a threat to democracy. Uh, gentlemen, rural has nothing to do with contemporary government media fundamentally reshaping the American landscape (sound familiar? Think Obama made that his platform) nor does white, but hell yes we are enraged. Exactly NOTHING the urban transformations have jammed down our throats has been good for anyone (in this country). How about the authors spend a bit of time in Wink Tx, Anniston Al, Farmington NM, or any other place. We are pretty sick of urban shit, sick enough y’all might not like the way we fix it

- Last week a guy participating in the NFL combine set a 40 yd dash time of 4.21 seconds. Big deal you say? For a short time this guy was running at almost 20 MPH. That…is fast

- A popular saying compares lyrics from the 70s (Stairway to Heaven, Bohemian Rhapsody, etc) to the verbal tripe vocalized by Beyoncé and other such acts.  While funny, I’d like to remind everyone that our generation was also responsible for Yummy Yummy Yummy, Love in My Tummy…stupid lyrics are not exclusive to modern pop.

- I don’t recall this inane level of political warfare before the multi-faced Obama referred to political opponents as the enemy. Since then, it really has been an escalating Cold War, and soon to be a national hot one.

- Sen Ted Cruz appeared on my news feeds pontificating how Biden campaigned on opening our borders.  Well, no chit. You sir are a senator, one of just a handful of people who can force the ‘president’ to actually obey the laws your predecessors wrote. Please stop talking about it, and do it.

Thursday

 - Great Britain has upped the age requirements to see the movie ‘Mary Poppins.’ Apparently the crazy old sailor uses a word (twice) that is a Dutch slur for natives.  I guess it’s safe to go visit the UK again.

- Heard a comedian say the other day he went to cash his very first paycheck as a pro. The cashier asked him if he wanted his money heads or tails. I can dang sure relate

- As tragic as the Georgia student killed by an illegal alien is, it’s not the only one…by any stretch of the imagination.  Illegals directly murder,rape,rob, and who knows what else every damn day, but those are not political fodder. Pro tip: illegal aliens have ALL committed a crime by entering the nation without legal basis. They are rewarded with housing, money, food, medical needs, so why on God’s earth should they stop with just one felony? To survive, our nation MUST treat illegal aliens as criminals, with zero assistance from any government agency. Regardless of their nationality, skin color, religion, etc.  

Equal protection for citizens starts by equal prosecution of criminals. Not a hard concept, at all

- This seems pretty counterproductive.  We did our taxes the other day, just to find we no longer qualify for earned income credits at all, now that Deb is over 65. My mind sees this as a tax penalty for being senior citizens. Age discrimination maybe? 

- Sadly there has been a noticeable uptick in shootings in this area. Oddly not one single shot was fired because of the gun; someone had it, and used it for criminal purposes. Perhaps guns aren’t the problems, since they don’t do anything by themselves. 

- Continuing the notion that well placed academics are more likely than not to be morons is the story of a professor at Cal State strongly suggesting that Taylor Swift fans are racists…this imbecile is getting paid a TON of money to be a dumbass. Although I’ve been a dumbass for free, that service is no longer gratis, as I’ll need half of what she’s being paid to say things equally stupid

- This week so far has been hot, pleasant, hot, then near freezing. And it’s just Wednesday. 

- Been reported Senate Majority ‘Leader’ Mitch McConnell is stepping down in November. He should has been gone 2 decades ago. Cocaine Mitch has for years waffled on every conservative (not republican, conservative) matter thrown his direction. We the people NEED younger representation but all we get are media mouthpieces regurgitating what news people tell them is American hot topics. 

- The most impressive thing about the texas Panhandle fires is the response of other communities offering firefighters, equipment, land to hold cattle and horses, feed, whatever…all at no cost. There really are some magnificent humans in this part of the world.

- Interesting how this date, 29 February, rolls around once every four years…the same as Presidential elections. Two disasters in one year are plenty, so please change one or the other

Unbelievable Monday

 - A magazine called New Scientist is suggesting humans consider cannibalism as a means of ending world hunger. The article also says perhaps we’ve got such an aversion is because of colonialism views that cannibals were typically black, and it’s a form of racism. To this, I say: eat me

- There’s a thing going around called RSV…some sort of respiratory virus affecting over 65s (check), smokers (check), and various conditions (check.)  About 20 min after the shot started feeling like absolute chit, pretty much floating on air and indecisive whether to be hot or cold. Next day woke up much better, but halfway thru mowing the front lawn started feeling like I did yesterday. Y’all might think of getting it but if you do plan for at least 2 days of lightheaded ness, dizzy, alternating hot and cold, and Jimmy Carter  level malaise. 

- Out and about the other day, a brand new vehicle pulled up at the stop light next to me.  Deb asks ‘what is that?’ and I told her that was the new line of Ford Broncos.  Without missing a beat she then asked ‘where’s the rest of it?’  That’s my girl.

- If your politics relies on calling people racist, sexist, or homo/transphobic…you are a moron. You’ve contributed NOTHING to our national milieu but have gained attention, which gets you on talk shows.  

- Disgruntled means unhappy…gruntled means happy. Yet Miscreant and creant have vastly differing meanings. Now you know 

- I’m not a republican…I’m DAMN sure not a democrat…I don’t even fall into the category of independent.  I make my choices based on the person, not the party, and never ever because endorsement, crowd influence, advertisements, or any other such easily manipulated stuff.  Before they went absolutely insane, I voted democrat as much as republican.

- Administration is imposing 500 or so sanctions against Russia in reaction to some political prisoner dying, likely at Kremlin’s insistence. My take: so what? Dang near every government on earth does things to its citizens that someone else deems morally wrong, but, it’s their government not ours. We’ve got far too much crime and corruption inside The Beltway to worry about some other guys on the opposite side of our planet. Let’s clean up our own yard before getting the vapors over some other guy.  The adage good fences make good neighbors has never been more true

- The things being focused on are merely (as recently seen) low hanging fruit, instead of actual issues that affect the safety, security, and literally the continuation of our nation and our species.  Instead of eliminating gas stoves, how about working to recreate equal justice? Instead of giving away OUR money to illegal aliens who break the law, how about using that money to protect our own citizens? Instead of paying pensions to people creating the problem for 50 years, we start actually fixing what they broke?

- Those ‘threatening’ to leave the country when Trump is re-elected: don’t wait, do it now. We damn sure won’t miss you, and this move gives you the opportunity to prove you aren’t just a bloviating drama Queen.

Thursday-ish

 - Have any member of the ‘panel of historians’ stating Biden ranks among the best presidents ever, ever read…anything? Seriously 😂

- Having solved runaway crime, drug trafficking, homelessness, and most other societal ills, New York City tackles the most dangerous situation of our time: single use laundry and dishwasher pods. Apparently these things are so deadly they could wipe out our species.  Start spreading the news.

- In areas where governments encourage regular folks to house, feed, basically adopt illegal alien families, do those adoptive families receive any compensation? Insurance against theft, damage, etc? Do they get a refund on taxes generated specifically to offset illegal alien expenses?  

- I just learned that a just struck match burns at about 1,120 degrees Fahrenheit.  That’s  pretty hot. Conversely dry ice maintains a temp of -109.3 degrees.  That’s pretty cold. We are exposed to some pretty wild temperature fluctuations yet still manage to survive.

- I often wonder who decides if we as a nation are better off than our parents and grandparents had it.  They had WW2, we have untold numbers of illegal invaders taking their own stock in lives and property; ancestors had arguably the best music, we have some seriously advanced technology involved in producing crap; they had single income families providing a good life, we have dual income families barely getting by each week; etc. What we seem to share in common are governments being more civil masters than civil servants, corruption in every aspect of life, and (I think) a declining ability to appreciate life and its blessings.

- I’ve long believed the smell test to be most reliable, in that if reports from whoever just don’t seem right chances are they aren’t reliable. Case in point: a British team of ‘scientists’ recently announced that hormone enriched milk from transgender women is just as good for infants as natural breast milk. Does this seem believable? Of course not, but here we are. The questions I have about this include: who thought this was necessary? Who thought it was believable? Who do they think will benefit from this? 

Another aspect is hormones in general. For countless generations humans ate meat and grains with no artificial hormones, now just about every consumable product has been injected by God knows what…and  from what I see, the hormones used to fatten up cattle and fowl have been passed along to us in the food chain, resulting in we the people being fattened up in similar ways to what we eat. How can 60 years of hormones directly consumed and passed along by genetics be good for us?  I suspect at some point we’ll see this practice as pretty maladaptive, but in the meantime we just keep getting more damaged (self included)

- Seen: I don’t mind old age, but the side effects can be brutal 

- An Indiana couple has had their child removed by state child protective ‘services’ for failing to call the child by its chosen pronouns and gender opted name. To me, the criminals here  are the state people (none of whom were elected by anybody) and the bureaucracy scared to death of trans-Nazis. This kind of bullshit will continue until we the people put our collect foot either down or up someone’s butt.

- Also seen: I keep asking what LBGQT means. No one has given me a straight answer

- Why isn’t the word ‘lisp’ spelled ‘Lithp,’ how it sounds when affected by it?

Monday

 - Gun control only works when bad guys start obeying gun laws…which ain’t gonna EVER happen. Ever. Any talk about restricting our shall not be infringed rights is nothing more than pablum for those incapable of understanding this very basic concept.

- Theory: Few years ago, rioters, shoplifters, illegals,  false lawsuit filers, etc, were basically forgiven because the entities they were stealing from were not individuals but entities. That has spilled over to blatant theft and destruction being green lighted because the entity in question is seen as a bottomless pit of money, IE the government.

- This moral midget Fani Willis, Fulton Co GA DA who filed RICO charges against Trump, could not be any more corrupt if she tried.  Difference is she’s caught with her hands in the jar.  I’d hazard a guess exactly ALL ‘cases’ against Donald Trump are just as crooked, and will fall apart just like this one.  But, just like Hillary Clinton, no one will see jail or verifiable consequences.  

- A 90 yr old woman was forced to step down as a volunteer from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The volunteer, with 60+ years as an unpaid advocate for MS, was kicked out because when she was directed to start using the stupidity of preferred pronouns, she had to ask what those were. The MS society declared she was unfit for duty as she violated DEI guidelines.  

Never again will I give a plug nickel to them.  

- A new to me disturbing trend in spam callers using bogus phone numbers: prepaid funeral services.  Pretty sure there is not an international call center for such things in Coyanosa TX (population 163)

- Regarding foreign aid: the US should cut off ALL funds to other nations, unless we have direct control of how those funds are spent. Put another way, if someone receives a federal grant and then misuses that money, chances are pretty good someone goes to jail. We should have the same rules in place for any money sent to any nation.  I as a taxpayer am fed up with 2d and 3d world ‘leaders’ having blank checks when we the people have dust in our wallets

- A couple of places in San Angelo have ‘rough road’ warning signs…the roads in question are in better shape than brand spanking new, just opened roads in Midland/Odessa.  The stretch of road in Midland county with the absolute worst trash and garbage collecting on the shoulders is the stretch of road adopted by the Midland Bar Association.  People here drive either 20 miles per hour over the posted speed limit, or 20 MPH under it. Gas is $2.85 a gallon here, $2.30 in San Angelo. 

- Sacramento State baseball player has a weird way of getting in the record book. Seems the young man has appeared at bat 8 times this season, and has been hit by a pitch 7 of those 8 times. 

Thursday?

 - Hopefully the Travis Kelsey memes have subsided by now. 

- Speaking of the Super Bowl…we watched it via Paramount+ thru Amazon Prime.  OK, but it seems we were not subjected to several TV commercials, specifically the ones put on by beer companies. In one way I appreciated this, but in a different way, I’m not sure I appreciate this form of censorship…or any censorship. The vast majority of people are not wafer thin skinned crybabies who will collapse into a coma if exposed to something moderately different. I for one was a tad miffed at the so called black anthem, but didn’t pass out, cry, or anything else. I got up for a trip to the kitchen.  It’s not difficult 

- Right on cue, media and hyper liberal democrats are claiming Hur’s report about biden is inaccurate since he’s not a neurologist.  OK then, let Hur come out and say he isn’t a neurologist, Biden is not out of his mind, and file criminal charges. In college, no one in Psych 101 is a psychologist yet everyone understands the concept of learned helplessness, in which none of the available options will alleviate hostile environmental conditions.  

- The other day I was in the mens department of an upscale store…I didn’t see what I was looking for, a grey ish brown bar of a personal hygiene product on a hemp based twine of heavy string. So I asked the lady behind the counter “do you have taupe soap on a dope rope?” She said nope, and went back to folding shirts.  I was downtrodden but determined to recover on how to deal with his, a period of cope hope.

Not really…none of that happened, but I do wonder whatever happened to soap on a rope

- I don’t understand most modern language.  No, I don’t want to go for A coffee. A signifies singular, and I’ll probably want much more. Purposely misapplying verbs (she be going? WTH) makes my suspect the speaker/writer is striving to be ignorant. But whatever toots your horn.

- Sen John Cornyn, Texas sort on a Republican, has proven yet again he doesn’t understand…he voted to pass the $50billion package called Immigration something or other, all the while knowing the VAST majority of funds goes to protect Ukrainian borders while essentially ignoring ours.  Never again will he receive a vote from our household

- A huge estate called Gordon Pointe outside Naples FL is for sale…the asking price of $295 million would be the most expensive realty exchange in history.  Pass. Just the lawn is bigger than our entire block, three ginormous houses, surrounded by water on 3 sides. The excessive everything is just outside of my ability to understand.

- A California (duh) democrat (duh) state representative running for the US Senate (duh) wants to enact legislation to raise the minimum wage to $50 an hour. Stupid people in high places is why we can’t have nice things.

- I’m thinking the American dream became pretty much past tense when Bill Clinton left office. Yes, he was impeached for lying to us, but things really have been out of control since then. 9/11, wars based on unrelated stuff, media emerging as policy makers, police, and judges, Occupy, BLM, the insanity of George Floyd’s reaction, democrats throwing the constitution out because they can’t get things done legally, immigration becoming a multinational invasion force, inflation in the process of erasing peoples lives…

- I wonder what the security clearance of janitorial staff at the CIA, NSA, etc is.  Guys with mops and toilet brushes exposed to some of the planet’s most sensitive information doesn’t bother me…people in congress with that same information scares the hell out of me.