Democrats are anxious at every turn to tell us that Judge Brett Kavanaugh is simply undergoing a "job interview" for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
An "interview" which could conceivably result in him being criminally charged with aggravated assault, attempted rape, kidnapping and attempted murder should he be unsuccessful in his quest, and perhaps even if he is.
Is it just me, or has the allure of public service lost some of its luster lately?
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Wanna' Know the Real Reason?
There's a very simple reason why the Democrats don't want Brett Kavanaugh to be confirmed to the United States Supreme Court:
$530,000,000 a year!
What's that you say, Mr. Chuckmeister? Over Half a Billion a Year? Yes Siree Bob! Or Bobette, as the case may be.
They won't say it, but I will; the reeeeel reason Democrats don't want Kavanaugh to occupy for life a nice, comfy, overstuffed leather chair behind the dais at the Supreme Court of the United States to be the next, and definitive Conservative vote at the Supreme Court,* and are willing, as recent events have proven, to do anything at all to keep him off the High Court, is that they'd fear losing their annual Pity Payment from the U. S. Treasury to Planned Parenthood (PP) of more than $530 Million a Year.
What's that have to do with the Supreme Court, you might ask? Welllll, Pilgrim, PP gets that money from us, the U. S. Taxpayer. And then they turn right around and give more than $480,000,000 of it right back to the Democrat Party. In fact, more than 98% of total political donations made by PP and its employees and staff go to Democrats!**
(It's a long sentence, I know. But hey, it's my blog, and it's free. Don't like it, don't read it...)
And once again why, Mr. Chuckmeister, does any of this matter? Well, my friends, the Dems are afraid that a lawsuit somewhere down the line might make its way up to the SCOTUS, and Roe v. Wade, the case that made abortion legal way back in 1973 could be overturned,* and with it PP's, and ultimately the Democrats,' $530 Million Bucks a Year.***
You can buy a lot of elections with Half A Billion Dollars. And with election victories, comes POWER! Power which they're currently Fresh. Out. Of. And that, my friends, is called the bottom line...
Is this all news to you? Then you're watching the wrong TV channels...
* (Current 5 - 4 Conservative to Liberal, would become a reliable 6 - 3 Conservative majority for the very first time in more than 70 years)
** (Source: IRS Tax Filings)
*** (Reimbursement for lab tests, birth control pills and more than 97% from abortion-related services)
$530,000,000 a year!
What's that you say, Mr. Chuckmeister? Over Half a Billion a Year? Yes Siree Bob! Or Bobette, as the case may be.
They won't say it, but I will; the reeeeel reason Democrats don't want Kavanaugh to occupy for life a nice, comfy, overstuffed leather chair behind the dais at the Supreme Court of the United States to be the next, and definitive Conservative vote at the Supreme Court,* and are willing, as recent events have proven, to do anything at all to keep him off the High Court, is that they'd fear losing their annual Pity Payment from the U. S. Treasury to Planned Parenthood (PP) of more than $530 Million a Year.
What's that have to do with the Supreme Court, you might ask? Welllll, Pilgrim, PP gets that money from us, the U. S. Taxpayer. And then they turn right around and give more than $480,000,000 of it right back to the Democrat Party. In fact, more than 98% of total political donations made by PP and its employees and staff go to Democrats!**
(It's a long sentence, I know. But hey, it's my blog, and it's free. Don't like it, don't read it...)
And once again why, Mr. Chuckmeister, does any of this matter? Well, my friends, the Dems are afraid that a lawsuit somewhere down the line might make its way up to the SCOTUS, and Roe v. Wade, the case that made abortion legal way back in 1973 could be overturned,* and with it PP's, and ultimately the Democrats,' $530 Million Bucks a Year.***
You can buy a lot of elections with Half A Billion Dollars. And with election victories, comes POWER! Power which they're currently Fresh. Out. Of. And that, my friends, is called the bottom line...
Is this all news to you? Then you're watching the wrong TV channels...
* (Current 5 - 4 Conservative to Liberal, would become a reliable 6 - 3 Conservative majority for the very first time in more than 70 years)
** (Source: IRS Tax Filings)
*** (Reimbursement for lab tests, birth control pills and more than 97% from abortion-related services)
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
The "ELEPHANT" in the room...
Okay, if nobody else will say it, I will:
The reeeeeeeeeeel reason the Democrats don't want to give one Judge Brett Kavanaugh a cushy, overstuffed, lifetime leather chair behind the dais at the Supreme Court of the United States, is because they don't want to lose $480,000,000 a year!
What's that you say, Mr. Chuckmeister? $480 Million a year? What's that all about, please tell, sir?
Well, children, we, the Taxpayers of the United States, give that 501(c)(3) public charity, non-profit corporation, Planned Parenthood (PP), an average of $530,000,000 a year in grants, awards and Medicaid reimbursements.* Year after year after year. And Democrats are afraid Kavanaugh might mess up that little arrangement if he's seated.
And those self-safe PP'ers turn right around and give $480,000,000 of it right back to the Democrat Party and to various and sundry individual left-wing politicians. Year after year after year.**
Why? They've got to keep that money flowing if they expect to continue influencing elections, right? And if you doubt me, it was reported in a September 24th Press Release (not feeling it necessary to keep their election meddling quiet, are they?) that they had just earmarked another $4,000,000 in an effort to "...help turn the House back to Blue."
Think of it: We give PP a wagon load of cash. They in turn give it to Democrats, who use it to topple Republicans. Fair? You be the judge. But as for me, I say, "Live and let live!" If this is their little hobby, so be it. Why should I get in the way?
However, I think it's high time Conservatives had a little hobby, too, don't you? Maybe we could just get the Treasury Department to give, say, the National Rifle Association, heretofore funded ENTIRELY by its members' annual membership fees, oh, I don't know, say $200 Million a Year.
And maybe we could send along $100 Million to help those seeking to find shale oil tar sands deposits so we can make lots and lots of petroleum-based products to further insulate us from foreign influences over our energy requirements.
And say, maybe $200 Million More to fund various and sundry public education programs to teach young people how to determine their gender, which has seemingly become a problem of late, and which bathroom to use, and why paying a tax to try and get the climate to improve a bit is kind of like giving a tornado the finger in the hopes that it will stop, and why socialism isn't the ideal form of Gummint, and why tearing down statues will not erase the past, etc., etc., etc.
So that's roughly $500 Million Dollars. A year. About the same, but a little bit less than PP extracts from us. But that's fair. They need all the help they can get. And then these fine organizations and causes could all then turn around and donate 90% of it back to the Republican National Committee. Fair is fair, doncha' know...
That should make us even, the Democrats and the Republicans; we all tap the rich, who pay almost all the taxes, to pay a little more so that Progressive excesses can be counteracted before they destroy our Great Country once and for all. As I see it, there's not too much time to spare...
Agree?
(Source: U. S. Treasury Department)
(Source: PP Annual Statement and IRS Filings)
Saturday, September 22, 2018
(More) Stuff I've Learned...
I've learned quite a lot in three score-plus-ten-plus...oh well, some more.
And among that "lot" are the thoughtful prounouncements I'll put forth below. Read carefully, children. They may contain the Wisdom of the Age.
Or then again, they may not...
- Opinions are like as*holes. Everybody's got one.
- The older you get the more you know. And the less you're able to do about it.
- The way couples stay together for 35 or 40 or 50 years is first you lose your hearing, and then your eyesight.
- The more you give someone the less they appreciate it. The harder they work for something the more they appreciate it.
- There are two kinds of people: Those who divide people into two kinds, and those who don't...
- The worst thing about growing old, is...growing old. The best part about growing old is...growing old.
- There's really no other reason to live except to to be of service to others.
- Near as I can tell, the major accomplishment of the last Administration was enabling people to pee pretty much anywhere they want to...
- I'd rather live my life in the belief that God exists, and then be disappointed to find out otherwise, then to live believing in nothing, and then to find out He does...
- Don't worry, whatever current medical thought tells you will kill you today, 20 years from now will be proclaimed the Medical Miracle of the Age!
- You can elect a brilliant, pious, well-educated, military veteran to run our country like Jimmy Carter, and wind up with a feckless bozo who nearly bankrupts the country. Or you can elect a crass, craven, womanizing, braggadocios orange blustery businessman to run the country, and unleash the Very Greatest Economic Boom in the History of America...
- There are two words you can use to open any door; Push, and Pull...
- The true economic genius is Barack Obama. He was able to hold the economy back, keeping it bumping along at a paltry 1 - 2% growth rate for eight years, only to unleash it at the exact moment a businessman replaced him in office...
- Owing to their remarkable ability to attract and ensnare extremely tall basketball players, I've learned that the average height of the Kardashian's is now 6', 9."
- The best way not to make mistakes is to observe the ones others make. And then don't make them...
- The recent attempted confirmation hearing of a new Justice at SCOTUS tells me something incontrovertible: Whether a sexual assault occurred or not is in the eye of the beerholder...
- If you're a guy and you're on the lookout for a lady friend, don't go to bars. Go to Target, or Albertsons, or to Bed, Bath and Beyond, perhaps, and then look at the shelves quizzically, "shopping list" in your hand. They'll fall all over themselves trying to help, and they're already out shopping for crap they don't need. They might as well take you home too...
- I'd rather have a gun and not need it, then to need it and not have it.
- Never, ever handle a piece of paper more than once. If it's trash, throw it away. If it's a bill, pay it. Don't file it to handle later. Later may never come...
- Deciding not to decide...is a decision.
- I've learned the best way to save money on our space program is NOT to hire the Russians to airmail our astronauts to and from the ISS on their rockets at $61,000,000 a trip! Maybe NASA should buy a rocket or two of their own, ya' think?
- I've found out that pain is relative. I just hope it stays with a relative.
- I've learned that if our elected leaders really believed "Gun Free Zone" signs would keep crazed, would-be shooters out of schools, they'd erect road signs at the State Line saying, "Illegal Aliens: Do Not Enter." Oh, I'm sorry! How rude of me. "Undocumented Workers..."
- I've learned that the chance of a buttered slice of bread falling on a carpet buttered side down, is directly proportional to the value of the carpet...inversely.
- Lastly, and definitely bestly, there's never time to do it right, but there's ALWAYS time to do it over...
Remember, my friends, and you are my friends, the information put forth above is worth exactly what you paid for it. Ummmm, well, maybe a bit more than that...
And among that "lot" are the thoughtful prounouncements I'll put forth below. Read carefully, children. They may contain the Wisdom of the Age.
Or then again, they may not...
- Opinions are like as*holes. Everybody's got one.
- The older you get the more you know. And the less you're able to do about it.
- The way couples stay together for 35 or 40 or 50 years is first you lose your hearing, and then your eyesight.
- The more you give someone the less they appreciate it. The harder they work for something the more they appreciate it.
- There are two kinds of people: Those who divide people into two kinds, and those who don't...
- The worst thing about growing old, is...growing old. The best part about growing old is...growing old.
- There's really no other reason to live except to to be of service to others.
- Near as I can tell, the major accomplishment of the last Administration was enabling people to pee pretty much anywhere they want to...
- I'd rather live my life in the belief that God exists, and then be disappointed to find out otherwise, then to live believing in nothing, and then to find out He does...
- Don't worry, whatever current medical thought tells you will kill you today, 20 years from now will be proclaimed the Medical Miracle of the Age!
- You can elect a brilliant, pious, well-educated, military veteran to run our country like Jimmy Carter, and wind up with a feckless bozo who nearly bankrupts the country. Or you can elect a crass, craven, womanizing, braggadocios orange blustery businessman to run the country, and unleash the Very Greatest Economic Boom in the History of America...
- There are two words you can use to open any door; Push, and Pull...
- The true economic genius is Barack Obama. He was able to hold the economy back, keeping it bumping along at a paltry 1 - 2% growth rate for eight years, only to unleash it at the exact moment a businessman replaced him in office...
- Owing to their remarkable ability to attract and ensnare extremely tall basketball players, I've learned that the average height of the Kardashian's is now 6', 9."
- The best way not to make mistakes is to observe the ones others make. And then don't make them...
- The recent attempted confirmation hearing of a new Justice at SCOTUS tells me something incontrovertible: Whether a sexual assault occurred or not is in the eye of the beerholder...
- If you're a guy and you're on the lookout for a lady friend, don't go to bars. Go to Target, or Albertsons, or to Bed, Bath and Beyond, perhaps, and then look at the shelves quizzically, "shopping list" in your hand. They'll fall all over themselves trying to help, and they're already out shopping for crap they don't need. They might as well take you home too...
- I'd rather have a gun and not need it, then to need it and not have it.
- Never, ever handle a piece of paper more than once. If it's trash, throw it away. If it's a bill, pay it. Don't file it to handle later. Later may never come...
- Deciding not to decide...is a decision.
- I've learned the best way to save money on our space program is NOT to hire the Russians to airmail our astronauts to and from the ISS on their rockets at $61,000,000 a trip! Maybe NASA should buy a rocket or two of their own, ya' think?
- I've found out that pain is relative. I just hope it stays with a relative.
- I've learned that if our elected leaders really believed "Gun Free Zone" signs would keep crazed, would-be shooters out of schools, they'd erect road signs at the State Line saying, "Illegal Aliens: Do Not Enter." Oh, I'm sorry! How rude of me. "Undocumented Workers..."
- I've learned that the chance of a buttered slice of bread falling on a carpet buttered side down, is directly proportional to the value of the carpet...inversely.
- Lastly, and definitely bestly, there's never time to do it right, but there's ALWAYS time to do it over...
Remember, my friends, and you are my friends, the information put forth above is worth exactly what you paid for it. Ummmm, well, maybe a bit more than that...
Friday, September 21, 2018
Let's All Display Our Allegiances!
The time has come for us to formally display our political allegiances for all the world to see!
Yes, my friends, no more skulking around, hiding your true feelings and dispositions and predilections and preferences and probabilities under a bushel; no Sir-Ree-Bob! Yell it from the rooftops! Proclaim it to all who might hear! You're a proud (Democrat, Republican, Independent, Socialist, Communist, Vegan, KKK Grand Imperial Wizard, Devil Worshipper, Global Warming Believer, Whatever) and you don't give a Good Goddam who knows it!
What brings me, The Chuckmeister, your loyal scribe without portfolio, your dedicated, highly unpaid "Map Through the Media Minefield," to report that the major league rift dividing our Great Nation is growing ever wider. The Democrats and Republicans are fighting like "something" and "something" (don't want to denigrate one or the other, depending upon your personal pet preferences). And it should be made to stop. And I think I know how...
Prompted by the courageous action taken by that stellar ex-football star and kneeling coach, Colon Kaepernick, who chose to show his allegiance for all the world to see by kneeling at an NFL game while our National Anthem played, while additionally displaying socks that read: "Kill the Pigs!" Oh yeah, the socks displayed a picture of a pig dressed as a cop. This was the weekend after five policemen were assassinated in Dallas. The very next weekend. Nice...
So, at one swell foop, Mr. almost-to-be-benched-for-life-because-he-could-no-longer-scamper-or-throw-a-football-very-well Mr. Koopersnick gave the finger both to our Flag and to our police. I think one could reasonably assume that Mr. Klapperdick is a Democrat. Or maybe even a full-blown socialist. Or worse. He's also a dumbass. He should just say so and stop beating around that pile of human feces and used hypodermic needles there on "The Streets (and sidewalks) of San Francisco."
We should all follow Mr. Kooperdoop's lead and wear clothing showing our true colors (pun intended). Dems should wear Che Gueverra T-shirts (Cologne did that too!), picket with professionally-made signs denigrating cops and the Flag provided by their local union bosses, yell and scream at diners or theater-goers who in their opinion chose the wrong political party with which to affiliate (doing that really well already!), and generally make a complete ass out of themselves anywhere and everywhere.
Oh yeah, and they should all wear Nikes. Yeah, Nikes. Those sneakers made by sweatshop slaves for a quarter a day in Bangladesh. Mr. Phil Night's Nike Co. came down on the side of anti-Americanism when he signed Mr. Kooperscooper to a long-term, multi-million$ deal. And proclaimed Mr. Klapperstink a hero for having given up so much.
I believe the words were, "Believe in Something...Even if it Costs You Everything."
And by "everything," did that include the $49,000,000 that Klippersmacker had already received?
I wonder if Arizona Cardinals' Pat Tillman's family wear Nikes?
Republicans, Conservatives, Independents, normal, ordinary, intelligent Americans, please throw away your Nikes or burn or donate them to the first homeless person you see. Now. Or, alternatively, you could give them to the local Democrat Party office so their underpaid staffers can wear stylish political shoes just like their smarmy leaders.
Republicans should all wear New Balance, or Keds, or maybe Converse All Stars, if for no other reason than the management of these companies were smart enough to avoid pissing off half of us by affiliating with a socialist prick. Or, even if they did, we didn't hear about it. Makes me think good ol' Nike may have needed a boost to its flagging stock value, and thus decided to declare war on half the country. I mean, if the other half wears Nikes, it wins, right? That's a whole lot of Lefty feet! Kind of like the Hollywood model; proclaim your socialist sympathies loudly, turn off "flyover country," and still make scads of dough because there's enough dummies on either Coast turning the turnstiles to keep them in Cristal and caviar.
And all this has been in furtherance of the impending "Balkanization" of America, brought to you by the New Progressive Movement that's subsumed the Democrat Party, and is threatening to destroy America from the inside out. Exactly as Alinsky taught, and desired. I have another form of "movement" in mind for them, but let's just leave it at this...
Yes, my friends, no more skulking around, hiding your true feelings and dispositions and predilections and preferences and probabilities under a bushel; no Sir-Ree-Bob! Yell it from the rooftops! Proclaim it to all who might hear! You're a proud (Democrat, Republican, Independent, Socialist, Communist, Vegan, KKK Grand Imperial Wizard, Devil Worshipper, Global Warming Believer, Whatever) and you don't give a Good Goddam who knows it!
What brings me, The Chuckmeister, your loyal scribe without portfolio, your dedicated, highly unpaid "Map Through the Media Minefield," to report that the major league rift dividing our Great Nation is growing ever wider. The Democrats and Republicans are fighting like "something" and "something" (don't want to denigrate one or the other, depending upon your personal pet preferences). And it should be made to stop. And I think I know how...
Prompted by the courageous action taken by that stellar ex-football star and kneeling coach, Colon Kaepernick, who chose to show his allegiance for all the world to see by kneeling at an NFL game while our National Anthem played, while additionally displaying socks that read: "Kill the Pigs!" Oh yeah, the socks displayed a picture of a pig dressed as a cop. This was the weekend after five policemen were assassinated in Dallas. The very next weekend. Nice...
So, at one swell foop, Mr. almost-to-be-benched-for-life-because-he-could-no-longer-scamper-or-throw-a-football-very-well Mr. Koopersnick gave the finger both to our Flag and to our police. I think one could reasonably assume that Mr. Klapperdick is a Democrat. Or maybe even a full-blown socialist. Or worse. He's also a dumbass. He should just say so and stop beating around that pile of human feces and used hypodermic needles there on "The Streets (and sidewalks) of San Francisco."
We should all follow Mr. Kooperdoop's lead and wear clothing showing our true colors (pun intended). Dems should wear Che Gueverra T-shirts (Cologne did that too!), picket with professionally-made signs denigrating cops and the Flag provided by their local union bosses, yell and scream at diners or theater-goers who in their opinion chose the wrong political party with which to affiliate (doing that really well already!), and generally make a complete ass out of themselves anywhere and everywhere.
Oh yeah, and they should all wear Nikes. Yeah, Nikes. Those sneakers made by sweatshop slaves for a quarter a day in Bangladesh. Mr. Phil Night's Nike Co. came down on the side of anti-Americanism when he signed Mr. Kooperscooper to a long-term, multi-million$ deal. And proclaimed Mr. Klapperstink a hero for having given up so much.
I believe the words were, "Believe in Something...Even if it Costs You Everything."
And by "everything," did that include the $49,000,000 that Klippersmacker had already received?
I wonder if Arizona Cardinals' Pat Tillman's family wear Nikes?
Republicans, Conservatives, Independents, normal, ordinary, intelligent Americans, please throw away your Nikes or burn or donate them to the first homeless person you see. Now. Or, alternatively, you could give them to the local Democrat Party office so their underpaid staffers can wear stylish political shoes just like their smarmy leaders.
Republicans should all wear New Balance, or Keds, or maybe Converse All Stars, if for no other reason than the management of these companies were smart enough to avoid pissing off half of us by affiliating with a socialist prick. Or, even if they did, we didn't hear about it. Makes me think good ol' Nike may have needed a boost to its flagging stock value, and thus decided to declare war on half the country. I mean, if the other half wears Nikes, it wins, right? That's a whole lot of Lefty feet! Kind of like the Hollywood model; proclaim your socialist sympathies loudly, turn off "flyover country," and still make scads of dough because there's enough dummies on either Coast turning the turnstiles to keep them in Cristal and caviar.
And all this has been in furtherance of the impending "Balkanization" of America, brought to you by the New Progressive Movement that's subsumed the Democrat Party, and is threatening to destroy America from the inside out. Exactly as Alinsky taught, and desired. I have another form of "movement" in mind for them, but let's just leave it at this...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
- - Public Announcement - -
I'd just like to let everyone know right now that I tried to nail a little girl on a bail of hay in the back of a feed store quite a number of years ago, and I've kept it to myself for far too long.
I was six, she was five.
We lived in the little town of Bosworth, Missouri, population 325.
"It" didn't work, and so I was unable to consummate the arrangement. In fact, I remember not even knowing what the "arrangement" was.
As such, I hereby finally confess to all that this is the reason I've never run for public office. Oh, I've been asked. Lordie, I've been asked. Jimbo, tell 'em, I've been asked. But I never said yes. And now you know why.
I knew the truth would come out. I mean, if they're going back 36 years to high school for Brett Kavanaugh, what's next? Middle school? Grade school? The feed store? I mean, is this "Justice delayed = Justice denied?
So, being proactive, I've finally fessed up. I apologize to family and friends. I'll try to do better in the future. I may even go to rehab. Look at Robert Downey, Jr! Worked for him, didn't it?
I was six, she was five.
We lived in the little town of Bosworth, Missouri, population 325.
"It" didn't work, and so I was unable to consummate the arrangement. In fact, I remember not even knowing what the "arrangement" was.
As such, I hereby finally confess to all that this is the reason I've never run for public office. Oh, I've been asked. Lordie, I've been asked. Jimbo, tell 'em, I've been asked. But I never said yes. And now you know why.
I knew the truth would come out. I mean, if they're going back 36 years to high school for Brett Kavanaugh, what's next? Middle school? Grade school? The feed store? I mean, is this "Justice delayed = Justice denied?
So, being proactive, I've finally fessed up. I apologize to family and friends. I'll try to do better in the future. I may even go to rehab. Look at Robert Downey, Jr! Worked for him, didn't it?
Monday, September 17, 2018
Fixing Puerto Rico...
I, your bosom bud, your "Map Through the Media Minefield,: The Chuckmeister, will henceforth proceed to solve the "Puerto Rico Problem:"
- Hurricane Irma/Ralph/Tony/Whatever, a couple of Big Ass Storms hits this quaint old colonial province a year or so ago. It/they pretty much wiped out the Island. That was not hard to do...
- Trump flies there, tosses out paper towels, The Media brands him a heartless loser.
- Melania joins him and the Media hates here shoes.
- 16 - 18 folks died in that/those storms. Or so the Media told us at the time.
- Time passes. Tick, tock. San Juan's Mayor says Trump is a heartless, racist loser over the Fed response. P.R.'s Governor says he did a great job. Somebody's wrong. Or maybe there's some politics involved.
- Now, a year later, a study by a think tank decided that 3,000 people died in this disaster. No bodies, no death certs, no proof, no nothing. Just an "educated" guess from those paid to guess the "right" way. Trump thinks that number is a direct swipe at him. He swipes back. The Media pillories him for doing so.
- Melania's shoes still disappoint the Media, PETA and Save the Whales Foundation. That's hard to do with just one pair of pumps. But, then again, she's not Michele.
- Conclusion: Trump can't win. If I were he, I would keep the salary...
- Suggestion: Since 40% of all Puerto Ricans, all citizens of the U. S. of A. anyway, are already living in New York, I suggest that the remaining 60% get on a boat and follow them. And then these millions of new New Yorkers will delight Democrat Guv Mario Cuomo, who just loves illegals, so must reeeely love legals, as they each represent a solid Democrat vote. NYC Mayor "Big Bird" Bill de Blasio, is an ardent, proud, declared communist. He's proclaimed NYC a "sanctuary city" for illegals, so he shouldn't mind feeding another few million legals.
Of course, this failing City's 27 remaining taxpayers, just might...
- Hurricane Irma/Ralph/Tony/Whatever, a couple of Big Ass Storms hits this quaint old colonial province a year or so ago. It/they pretty much wiped out the Island. That was not hard to do...
- Trump flies there, tosses out paper towels, The Media brands him a heartless loser.
- Melania joins him and the Media hates here shoes.
- 16 - 18 folks died in that/those storms. Or so the Media told us at the time.
- Time passes. Tick, tock. San Juan's Mayor says Trump is a heartless, racist loser over the Fed response. P.R.'s Governor says he did a great job. Somebody's wrong. Or maybe there's some politics involved.
- Now, a year later, a study by a think tank decided that 3,000 people died in this disaster. No bodies, no death certs, no proof, no nothing. Just an "educated" guess from those paid to guess the "right" way. Trump thinks that number is a direct swipe at him. He swipes back. The Media pillories him for doing so.
- Melania's shoes still disappoint the Media, PETA and Save the Whales Foundation. That's hard to do with just one pair of pumps. But, then again, she's not Michele.
- Conclusion: Trump can't win. If I were he, I would keep the salary...
- Suggestion: Since 40% of all Puerto Ricans, all citizens of the U. S. of A. anyway, are already living in New York, I suggest that the remaining 60% get on a boat and follow them. And then these millions of new New Yorkers will delight Democrat Guv Mario Cuomo, who just loves illegals, so must reeeely love legals, as they each represent a solid Democrat vote. NYC Mayor "Big Bird" Bill de Blasio, is an ardent, proud, declared communist. He's proclaimed NYC a "sanctuary city" for illegals, so he shouldn't mind feeding another few million legals.
Of course, this failing City's 27 remaining taxpayers, just might...
Saturday, September 15, 2018
The Battle of the Billionaires!
Don't know 'bout you, but I've grown weary of Liberals bitching, moaning and complaining about the supposed right-wing bias of Fox News. And similarly, Conservatives have been howling incessantly for years about the obvious bias shown against them by the so-called "MainStreamMedia."
(NOTE: For those unaware, "MainStreamMedia" refers to the the entirety of the old-line, broadcast "Alphabet" TV, radio and print media, as well as some cable offshoots like MSNBC, NPR, CNN, and MSN, due to the fact they are owned/controlled by those same MSM corporations.)
(NOTE: For those unaware, "MainStreamMedia" refers to the the entirety of the old-line, broadcast "Alphabet" TV, radio and print media, as well as some cable offshoots like MSNBC, NPR, CNN, and MSN, due to the fact they are owned/controlled by those same MSM corporations.)
Yes folks, the weenies among us just HATE Fox News, because it's "Fair and Balanced." That means they have representatives from both/all sides of any issue they're debating just to make sure all points are made, and there's no favoritism or bias shown toward one position or the other.
That's unlike MSNBC, for instance, which would normally have a mainstream Democrat, a hard-core Leftist, a dedicated socialist, a Marxist and an all-out communist in an average debate, with no opinion to the Right of Joe Biden even considered. Like Joe Biden ever had an original opinion (tossed out of law school for plagiarism. Google it.).
Yes, Fox tends to lean "Right," but not concerning "hard, fact-based" news, which it reports straight down the line (Fox doesn't start opinion programming until 5:00 p.m., EST. But you knew that, right?). Fox is considered Right-of-center in its programming, unlike all the other channels, both broadcast and cable, which are solidly, desperately cast-in-concrete take no prisoners Liberal, especially illegal ones.
(NOTE: That may all change soon, as the entertainment assets of 20th Century Fox Corp., Fox News' parent, was just sold to Disney for more than $70 Billion. And Disney, as we all know, owns ABC. And ABC is solidly Leftist in its politics, which is proves everyday in its programming and commentary. Think about it: The News Director there, and one of Trump's fiercest critics, is George Stephanopoulous, who was Pres. Clinton's roommate in college, and later, his Chief of Staff.)
But on matters of ideology and politics, Fox conducts debates where each side is given a fair shot. Example: You'll note that their go-to opinion guy Juan Williams is kept idling in the corner, waiting to be injected into many of their debates, as he's a loyal, mainstream Liberal Democrat. I mean, he's not only Black, he's also Panamanian, having been born there to stationed U. S. military parents, and therefore ticks off three separate and highly-desirable minority boxes. It would be even better if he was a transgender albino Gypsy, recovering drug addict, but hey, you can't have everything.
That's unlike MSNBC, for instance, which would normally have a mainstream Democrat, a hard-core Leftist, a dedicated socialist, a Marxist and an all-out communist in an average debate, with no opinion to the Right of Joe Biden even considered. Like Joe Biden ever had an original opinion (tossed out of law school for plagiarism. Google it.).
Yes, Fox tends to lean "Right," but not concerning "hard, fact-based" news, which it reports straight down the line (Fox doesn't start opinion programming until 5:00 p.m., EST. But you knew that, right?). Fox is considered Right-of-center in its programming, unlike all the other channels, both broadcast and cable, which are solidly, desperately cast-in-concrete take no prisoners Liberal, especially illegal ones.
(NOTE: That may all change soon, as the entertainment assets of 20th Century Fox Corp., Fox News' parent, was just sold to Disney for more than $70 Billion. And Disney, as we all know, owns ABC. And ABC is solidly Leftist in its politics, which is proves everyday in its programming and commentary. Think about it: The News Director there, and one of Trump's fiercest critics, is George Stephanopoulous, who was Pres. Clinton's roommate in college, and later, his Chief of Staff.)
But on matters of ideology and politics, Fox conducts debates where each side is given a fair shot. Example: You'll note that their go-to opinion guy Juan Williams is kept idling in the corner, waiting to be injected into many of their debates, as he's a loyal, mainstream Liberal Democrat. I mean, he's not only Black, he's also Panamanian, having been born there to stationed U. S. military parents, and therefore ticks off three separate and highly-desirable minority boxes. It would be even better if he was a transgender albino Gypsy, recovering drug addict, but hey, you can't have everything.
And there's at least another half-dozen similar Liberals that appear regularly on Fox, just to make things fair (and balanced). And the result is that Fox outdraws all the other cable news channels put together! In fact, fully 43% of all self-confessed Liberals self-confess to watching Fox regularly (they want to find out what's going on, after all!). For example, the (in)famous CNN, the very first, and at one time the very best cable news network, now ranks No. 25 on the cable lineup, just behind Home and Garden TV. Trump will happily tell you the reason for that network's rapid descent into the ratings cellar. And often...
No matter. The Liberals hate Fox and will continue to hate Fox until the bovines stop by for a visit on their way to the abattoir. And the Conservatives among us will likely never give up trying to make our broadcast and print media act like something other than the public relations arm for the Democrat National Committee, which it often proves to be. It's been that way for a generation, and it will likely remain that way until or unless something or somebody puts a stop to it.
But there's a solution to this problem: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and children of all ages, I give you:
But there's a solution to this problem: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and children of all ages, I give you:
"The Battle of the Billionaires!"
And here's how it'd work: Fox, as well as CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN, are all publicly-traded corporations. That means you could buy up all their stock, or all that's available, and wind up controlling any or all of these companies for mere fractions of their total authorized, but as-yet unissued stock valuation. The same holds true of the newspapers and groups of radio stations, which are usually owned by large public corporations as well. And then you could turn any or all of them away from their current business models (Fox = Fair and Balanced, MainStreamMedia = Trump Sucks) and into "Shark Week, 24/7/365" if you were of a mind.
So, where's Georgie Soros when we need him? He's the Hungarian billionaire ex-felon jailbird who was forcibly shown the door by Europe a few years back for trying to use currency manipulation to bring down the Bank of England (he nearly succeeded!). He moved to Long Island, NY after his exit from prison, from where he spends $80 - $100 Million each Election Cycle trying to turn 'Murica into Venezuela. And he uses his playthings MediaMatters, ThinkProgress, MoveOn and Snopes, among others, to sow hatred and discontent (Google it). Oh yeah, he personally funds (liberal) journalism studies departments at 26 of our colleges and universities, just to make sure that tomorrow's crop of reporters is even more socialistic than ours of today. So, you Lefty bigwigs, give ol' George a call and ask him to take one for the Home Team. Have him cough up $1 Billion or $Twelve and maybe he could wind up the Chairman of the Board of 20th Century Fox Corporation.
And if Georgie won't play? How about Tom Steyer, Uber-Lefty CA tech billionaire who thinks Global Warming is killing us all, by like next week, and is spending hundreds of $Millions to try and make it stop (what is it about being a super-rich Lefty that makes you think you can control the weather?).
Or Little Mikey Bloomberg, ex-NYC Mayor and the 17th richest person in all of the world ($57 Billion personal fortune). He hates guns, sugary drinks, cigarette smoke, tall people, the Bill of Rights and Conservative news channels, so he could probably find enough cash between the cushions of his Hermes Eve St. Laurent Givenchy Bijan divan to buy control of Fox.
Or how about Jeff Zuckerburg of FB? He's worth multiple billions. Everybody knows he's a Big Lib and could be shamed into investing. Or Bill Gates? He's worth $50 - $60 Billion. Or Gates' ex-Microsoft partner Paul Allen, owner of the Seattle Mariners, the Supersonics, the World's Largest Yacht and quite possibly, Canada. Between them they're worth more than $250 Billion!
And if you run out of billionaires, how 'bout a few multi-millionaires? Like Fat Mikey Moore. He pretends to be poor but has $Millions and several mansions. He's probably good for some spare change. Or how about Oprah? Damn, that babe has, like $BILLIONS laying around! She wrote a $50 million check for her Montecito mansion. She could probably take control of Fox and still have enough left over to buy a new Mustang convertible for everyone in Missisisiisssiisisiisippi! Or, maybe just challenge the "Main Stream Media" to form a consortium and pool their loose change to swamp Fox (get it, "Swamp Fox?" Google it.). Or just drop a Tweet at Hollyweird and surely the Spielberg-Clooney-De Niro-Cher-Babs clan will kick in $50 - $100 Mil each and - "Voila!" - you've got Fox in your pocket.
(And don't call me Shirley!).
Or, we could just put a sock in it by mentioning one Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. He's now the Richest Person The World Has Ever Seen! With more a personal fortune of more than $150 Billion, he could pick up Fox in a heartbeat. Remember when he wrote a personal check for the Washington Post? Ummmm, yeah. Spare change. In fact, Bezos could buy ALL the cable and broadcast media corporations, All. By. Himself. In fact, he is worth more than the Gross National Product of Zambia, Chad, Lichtenstein, Belize and Vanuatu combined. And if you could get Jeff Bezos and Tesla magnate Elon Musk to together, they could probably buy Everything! In other words, making this happen is NOT a problem...
Or, conversely, how about the Koch Brothers? The Left hates these multi-$Billionaires because they're religious Christians and support Conservatives. For shame! Or Sheldon Adelson, the Big Guy (literally!) who owns the Venetian in Vegas and a whole lot of other stuff. Or his buddy Steve Wynn, the only guy with his own name on a LV casino. Together they're worth $Billions. Stop pissing and moaning about how unfair the Lap Dog Media is and just buy it, you limp-wristed, panty-waisted Conservative weenies! Or, continue whimpering about it like inbred, wet miniature poodles.
The Bottom Line, as they say, is that there's enough Liberal billionaires running around (320 out of our total of 492, per the AP) that an auction between them should put the Fox trophy in one of their backpacks. And the remaining 172 Conservative Fat Cats (including Trump?) would more than likely step up and snatch a few Liberal networks just to show those other guys who has the biggest cajones.
In fact, we could put all these billionaires who elect to participate in the Garden Auditorium in the MGM-Grand in Las Vegas. Each media asset comes up for bid and the billionaires go wild, bidding out their arses to own and control The Enemy! The crowd roars! Cacophony ensues! Oh goodie! The Garden seats 18,000, so charging even a small fee to witness this once-in-a-lifetime event, coupled with the worldwide, Pay-Per-View crowd, I've estimated to be in the $BILLIONS, I'm thinking we could raise enough to pay off our National Debt and have enough left to Build. Trump's. Wall!
The Democrats will be happy they won't have to pay to try and keep their future voters out; the Republicans will be happy that sometime in the future illegals might actually be kept out; and We, the People. might actually wind up getting the straight story from the the Fourth Estate without any political tweaking or favoritism from a bunch of Left-wing dimbulbs.
Or Little Mikey Bloomberg, ex-NYC Mayor and the 17th richest person in all of the world ($57 Billion personal fortune). He hates guns, sugary drinks, cigarette smoke, tall people, the Bill of Rights and Conservative news channels, so he could probably find enough cash between the cushions of his Hermes Eve St. Laurent Givenchy Bijan divan to buy control of Fox.
Or how about Jeff Zuckerburg of FB? He's worth multiple billions. Everybody knows he's a Big Lib and could be shamed into investing. Or Bill Gates? He's worth $50 - $60 Billion. Or Gates' ex-Microsoft partner Paul Allen, owner of the Seattle Mariners, the Supersonics, the World's Largest Yacht and quite possibly, Canada. Between them they're worth more than $250 Billion!
And if you run out of billionaires, how 'bout a few multi-millionaires? Like Fat Mikey Moore. He pretends to be poor but has $Millions and several mansions. He's probably good for some spare change. Or how about Oprah? Damn, that babe has, like $BILLIONS laying around! She wrote a $50 million check for her Montecito mansion. She could probably take control of Fox and still have enough left over to buy a new Mustang convertible for everyone in Missisisiisssiisisiisippi! Or, maybe just challenge the "Main Stream Media" to form a consortium and pool their loose change to swamp Fox (get it, "Swamp Fox?" Google it.). Or just drop a Tweet at Hollyweird and surely the Spielberg-Clooney-De Niro-Cher-Babs clan will kick in $50 - $100 Mil each and - "Voila!" - you've got Fox in your pocket.
(And don't call me Shirley!).
Or, we could just put a sock in it by mentioning one Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. He's now the Richest Person The World Has Ever Seen! With more a personal fortune of more than $150 Billion, he could pick up Fox in a heartbeat. Remember when he wrote a personal check for the Washington Post? Ummmm, yeah. Spare change. In fact, Bezos could buy ALL the cable and broadcast media corporations, All. By. Himself. In fact, he is worth more than the Gross National Product of Zambia, Chad, Lichtenstein, Belize and Vanuatu combined. And if you could get Jeff Bezos and Tesla magnate Elon Musk to together, they could probably buy Everything! In other words, making this happen is NOT a problem...
Or, conversely, how about the Koch Brothers? The Left hates these multi-$Billionaires because they're religious Christians and support Conservatives. For shame! Or Sheldon Adelson, the Big Guy (literally!) who owns the Venetian in Vegas and a whole lot of other stuff. Or his buddy Steve Wynn, the only guy with his own name on a LV casino. Together they're worth $Billions. Stop pissing and moaning about how unfair the Lap Dog Media is and just buy it, you limp-wristed, panty-waisted Conservative weenies! Or, continue whimpering about it like inbred, wet miniature poodles.
The Bottom Line, as they say, is that there's enough Liberal billionaires running around (320 out of our total of 492, per the AP) that an auction between them should put the Fox trophy in one of their backpacks. And the remaining 172 Conservative Fat Cats (including Trump?) would more than likely step up and snatch a few Liberal networks just to show those other guys who has the biggest cajones.
In fact, we could put all these billionaires who elect to participate in the Garden Auditorium in the MGM-Grand in Las Vegas. Each media asset comes up for bid and the billionaires go wild, bidding out their arses to own and control The Enemy! The crowd roars! Cacophony ensues! Oh goodie! The Garden seats 18,000, so charging even a small fee to witness this once-in-a-lifetime event, coupled with the worldwide, Pay-Per-View crowd, I've estimated to be in the $BILLIONS, I'm thinking we could raise enough to pay off our National Debt and have enough left to Build. Trump's. Wall!
The Democrats will be happy they won't have to pay to try and keep their future voters out; the Republicans will be happy that sometime in the future illegals might actually be kept out; and We, the People. might actually wind up getting the straight story from the the Fourth Estate without any political tweaking or favoritism from a bunch of Left-wing dimbulbs.
Don't you love a plan where everybody wins?
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Perhaps you Could be of Help...
(This letter was posted today. Let's see if they print it...)
September 13, 2018
San Francisco Chronicle
ATTN: Editor
San Francisco, CA 94102
Dear Sir/Madam/Other;
I'm an aged Republican doing my best to become a Progressive. That's because I live in deep-blue California, and I know I won't get any of the goodies from living here unless I add a "Z" to my last name, or select a different political party with which to hang my hat. I'm choosing the latter.
And I'm also a football fan! So I also try to meld my newfangled need to balance social justice and community awareness and diversity and racial harmony and saving the planet and all that stuff with the realities of Modern Day America. And that reality would include the San Francisco 49'ers...
I am additionally a voracious consumer of the news. I suck it up daily like a Hoover vacuum cleaner, and still I've yet to find out the racial and ethnic and religious makeup of this team. Now I know that almost all of the Team is Black. But I'm willing to overlook that because most NFL players theses days are as well. But are the 49ers trying to institute any diversity policies to try and add in some Asians? Some Indigenous People? Maybe an Eskimo or two?
And what percentage of the 49ers are gay? Or transgender? Or Muslim? What percentage are socialists? Or Communists? Or all-out Marxists? How many (if any) didn't donate to Planned Parenthood and Hillary? Do any of them have Bernie stickers on the back bumpers of their stretch Hummers? Are any of them members of the Sierra Club? Or vegans? How many are of mixed race, especially those highly-desirable, double-minority kind. Unlike Kaepernick. They had to let him go. He was half White...
Do you know the answers to these questions? I don't. We budding Progressives need to know this stuff. And try as I might, I cannot find out.
And I know that the Good Citizens and non-citizens (not that there's anything wrong with that!) of San Francisco would not attend local football games there if the Team were guilty of any racial, social, ethnic, religious, sexual, humanitarian or ecological bias or sin of any kind. Except Conservatism, of course. So, just like the citizens of Pyongyang are pleased to see those long range ballistic missiles tootling down Revolution Boulevard, I'm sure even they would appreciate knowing just how this all-too-visible representative of their Progressive Wonderfulness serves to publicize their carefully-crafted and honed ideologies.
And I'm absolutely certain if they're willing to step over or around piles of used hypodermic needles and human excrement to avoid offending their homeless "residents" (oxymoron?), I'm sure they'd likewise avoid supporting a team that didn't demonstrate acceptable social norms and values.
Do you know the answers? If so, please get back to me so I can change my voter registration in time...
Yours for better governance,
Sincerely,
The Chuckmeister
Somewhere Holed Up in So. California
September 13, 2018
San Francisco Chronicle
ATTN: Editor
San Francisco, CA 94102
Dear Sir/Madam/Other;
I'm an aged Republican doing my best to become a Progressive. That's because I live in deep-blue California, and I know I won't get any of the goodies from living here unless I add a "Z" to my last name, or select a different political party with which to hang my hat. I'm choosing the latter.
And I'm also a football fan! So I also try to meld my newfangled need to balance social justice and community awareness and diversity and racial harmony and saving the planet and all that stuff with the realities of Modern Day America. And that reality would include the San Francisco 49'ers...
I am additionally a voracious consumer of the news. I suck it up daily like a Hoover vacuum cleaner, and still I've yet to find out the racial and ethnic and religious makeup of this team. Now I know that almost all of the Team is Black. But I'm willing to overlook that because most NFL players theses days are as well. But are the 49ers trying to institute any diversity policies to try and add in some Asians? Some Indigenous People? Maybe an Eskimo or two?
And what percentage of the 49ers are gay? Or transgender? Or Muslim? What percentage are socialists? Or Communists? Or all-out Marxists? How many (if any) didn't donate to Planned Parenthood and Hillary? Do any of them have Bernie stickers on the back bumpers of their stretch Hummers? Are any of them members of the Sierra Club? Or vegans? How many are of mixed race, especially those highly-desirable, double-minority kind. Unlike Kaepernick. They had to let him go. He was half White...
Do you know the answers to these questions? I don't. We budding Progressives need to know this stuff. And try as I might, I cannot find out.
And I know that the Good Citizens and non-citizens (not that there's anything wrong with that!) of San Francisco would not attend local football games there if the Team were guilty of any racial, social, ethnic, religious, sexual, humanitarian or ecological bias or sin of any kind. Except Conservatism, of course. So, just like the citizens of Pyongyang are pleased to see those long range ballistic missiles tootling down Revolution Boulevard, I'm sure even they would appreciate knowing just how this all-too-visible representative of their Progressive Wonderfulness serves to publicize their carefully-crafted and honed ideologies.
And I'm absolutely certain if they're willing to step over or around piles of used hypodermic needles and human excrement to avoid offending their homeless "residents" (oxymoron?), I'm sure they'd likewise avoid supporting a team that didn't demonstrate acceptable social norms and values.
Do you know the answers? If so, please get back to me so I can change my voter registration in time...
Yours for better governance,
Sincerely,
The Chuckmeister
Somewhere Holed Up in So. California
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
The Federal City.
I used to live in D. C. I was stationed there for a time while saving my country from the Soviet Union as a uniformed soldier. And as you've no doubt noticed, I did...
You're welcome. You're welcome.
They put me in Military Intelligence. I know, I know. No need to comment. While there I became aware of some very obvious, serious, and troubling truths; the residents of Washington, the District of Columbia, our "Federal City," are almost all Democrats. Like 95% Democrats. And you'll soon learn why...
On any given day you could shoot a canon off down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D. C., and not hit a Republican. The populace of "The Swamp," (a hard-earned, derisive term for what used to be a stagnant backwater Chesapeake Bay tide pool basin, and at some times of the year, still is), is made up almost entirely of Democrats, as well. Why?
When Republicans are elected, they pack their bags and trundle off to Washington, focused intently on changing all the bad stuff that's been plaguing us 'Muricans for far too long. Once they get there, however, they usually begin to "go along to get along," elsewise their Friday night Georgetown cocktail party invitations dry up. And when they find out they can't make a difference, they head on back to Wenatchee, Washington, or Nachez, Missississisisipi, or Pumpkin Center, Missouri (yes, it exists), to the family farm, or lumberyard, or Chevy dealership to keep on doing what they'd been doing before.
When Democrats are elected, however, that's for them the beginning of a life-long career. That's the Brass Ring! They hit the lotto! They're headed off to D. C. to keep doing all the nasty, wasteful excesses they so dearly love while increasing them whenever possible. And, oh yeah, to start running for reelection the day after they arrive.
Democrats believe, wholeheartedly, in the State. They believe that the State should be given absolutely unfettered power and control over our lives, and that we'll all be better off for having done so. They actually believe the State (meaning the overarching, over-controlling "government," in whatever form it may take, but primarily ours) is better at spending their money then they are. They believe in growing Government, ever larger, so that it may, in turn, provide its increasing amount of largesse to an ever larger number of deserving residents. Notice I didn't say citizens; and you know why...
And thus, even after a new and somewhat conservative administration has tried to reshape Washington, D. C. for a year and a half, upon its departure the Lobbyists and the Lawyers and the Lobbyists and the Handlers and the Worker Bees will still be there, awaiting the next wave of newly-elected, stars-in-their-eyes politicians under the mistaken illusion they'll actually make a difference for "the folks back home." They won't.
And that's because the cake is baked long before they arrive; the die is cast, as they say. There are 535 lawmakers, 435 Representatives and 100 Senators. Annnnnnd, for these few, there are more than 5,000 Lobbyists, each with almost unlimited budgets, trying their Dead-Level-Best to influence them away from whatever foolish quest they'd chosen and toward whatever their masters dictate.
The results are predictable: Those who are for the Status Quo, as in the "Swamp," the "Deep State," the ever-larger Gaping Maw of Gummint that sucks up half-a-trillion dollars every year more than we give it, even though we give it record amounts of our cash ($4.3 Trillion last year!), will emerge victorious; the change-agents will get changed. With extreme prejudice...
Here's a few little factoids for your reading (dis)pleasure:
- 7 of the 10 richest counties in America are packed tightly around the District of Columbia.
- The average Federal employee's compensation is $112,000 per year. Plus a benefit and retirement package that more than doubles that amount.
- 8 out of every 10 construction cranes operating in the world are humming along in and around D. C.98%,
- There are 1,187,000,000 Federal employees in the U.S. 343,000 are working in D.C. That's roughly half of the Metro area's total population of 703,608. Most live outside the Beltway, the highway system that rings the City. Those living inside, with the exception of those within the Government Zone proper, are mainly poor, Black and on Federal subsistence. They vote on average 112% Democrat.. I may have exaggerated that a bit, but you know...
Here's the facts: Republicans have been in charge of all three houses of the Government, House, Senate and White House, only 20% of the time since FDR was in office. Think of that: as Heartland Folk wax melodic when a Republican finally wins, the D.C. folk go into a deep depression; they gird their loins and batten down the hatches and fight tooth and nail and wait it out until one day soon freedom and light shall return and peace will be upon the land.
Except in Trump's case, however. They didn't stop with bitching and moaning and complaining. This time they pulled out all the stops; they enlisted the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the MainStreamMedia to try and bring down Trump from the day he won the Republican nomination. And if Hillary had won, we wouldn't have found out a Goddam thing about it. Hmmmm...
Yes, my put-upon friends, sometimes the Democrats are not quite so pacifistic. Some are radical, Left-wing bomb-throwers who will do anything, anything at all to bring down any attempt to return us to a smaller, more responsive and responsible Country. And you are watching it unfold in real time...
You're welcome. You're welcome.
They put me in Military Intelligence. I know, I know. No need to comment. While there I became aware of some very obvious, serious, and troubling truths; the residents of Washington, the District of Columbia, our "Federal City," are almost all Democrats. Like 95% Democrats. And you'll soon learn why...
On any given day you could shoot a canon off down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D. C., and not hit a Republican. The populace of "The Swamp," (a hard-earned, derisive term for what used to be a stagnant backwater Chesapeake Bay tide pool basin, and at some times of the year, still is), is made up almost entirely of Democrats, as well. Why?
When Republicans are elected, they pack their bags and trundle off to Washington, focused intently on changing all the bad stuff that's been plaguing us 'Muricans for far too long. Once they get there, however, they usually begin to "go along to get along," elsewise their Friday night Georgetown cocktail party invitations dry up. And when they find out they can't make a difference, they head on back to Wenatchee, Washington, or Nachez, Missississisisipi, or Pumpkin Center, Missouri (yes, it exists), to the family farm, or lumberyard, or Chevy dealership to keep on doing what they'd been doing before.
When Democrats are elected, however, that's for them the beginning of a life-long career. That's the Brass Ring! They hit the lotto! They're headed off to D. C. to keep doing all the nasty, wasteful excesses they so dearly love while increasing them whenever possible. And, oh yeah, to start running for reelection the day after they arrive.
Democrats believe, wholeheartedly, in the State. They believe that the State should be given absolutely unfettered power and control over our lives, and that we'll all be better off for having done so. They actually believe the State (meaning the overarching, over-controlling "government," in whatever form it may take, but primarily ours) is better at spending their money then they are. They believe in growing Government, ever larger, so that it may, in turn, provide its increasing amount of largesse to an ever larger number of deserving residents. Notice I didn't say citizens; and you know why...
And thus, even after a new and somewhat conservative administration has tried to reshape Washington, D. C. for a year and a half, upon its departure the Lobbyists and the Lawyers and the Lobbyists and the Handlers and the Worker Bees will still be there, awaiting the next wave of newly-elected, stars-in-their-eyes politicians under the mistaken illusion they'll actually make a difference for "the folks back home." They won't.
And that's because the cake is baked long before they arrive; the die is cast, as they say. There are 535 lawmakers, 435 Representatives and 100 Senators. Annnnnnd, for these few, there are more than 5,000 Lobbyists, each with almost unlimited budgets, trying their Dead-Level-Best to influence them away from whatever foolish quest they'd chosen and toward whatever their masters dictate.
The results are predictable: Those who are for the Status Quo, as in the "Swamp," the "Deep State," the ever-larger Gaping Maw of Gummint that sucks up half-a-trillion dollars every year more than we give it, even though we give it record amounts of our cash ($4.3 Trillion last year!), will emerge victorious; the change-agents will get changed. With extreme prejudice...
Here's a few little factoids for your reading (dis)pleasure:
- 7 of the 10 richest counties in America are packed tightly around the District of Columbia.
- The average Federal employee's compensation is $112,000 per year. Plus a benefit and retirement package that more than doubles that amount.
- 8 out of every 10 construction cranes operating in the world are humming along in and around D. C.98%,
- There are 1,187,000,000 Federal employees in the U.S. 343,000 are working in D.C. That's roughly half of the Metro area's total population of 703,608. Most live outside the Beltway, the highway system that rings the City. Those living inside, with the exception of those within the Government Zone proper, are mainly poor, Black and on Federal subsistence. They vote on average 112% Democrat.. I may have exaggerated that a bit, but you know...
Here's the facts: Republicans have been in charge of all three houses of the Government, House, Senate and White House, only 20% of the time since FDR was in office. Think of that: as Heartland Folk wax melodic when a Republican finally wins, the D.C. folk go into a deep depression; they gird their loins and batten down the hatches and fight tooth and nail and wait it out until one day soon freedom and light shall return and peace will be upon the land.
Except in Trump's case, however. They didn't stop with bitching and moaning and complaining. This time they pulled out all the stops; they enlisted the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the MainStreamMedia to try and bring down Trump from the day he won the Republican nomination. And if Hillary had won, we wouldn't have found out a Goddam thing about it. Hmmmm...
Yes, my put-upon friends, sometimes the Democrats are not quite so pacifistic. Some are radical, Left-wing bomb-throwers who will do anything, anything at all to bring down any attempt to return us to a smaller, more responsive and responsible Country. And you are watching it unfold in real time...
Sunday, September 9, 2018
The "Cuisinart Effect"
The earliest case study I recall being assigned back in bizz school was about the "Cuisinart Effect."
Only a scant few of you were alive back in those halcyon, early days of television, I know, but to give you young whippersnappers a bit of background, there was once this company called Cuisinart. They were the "My Pillow" of their day. They vaulted upon the scene, promising home cooks they too could become Julia Child. All they'd have to do is just buy one of these new-fangled (and uber expensive!!!) food processor contraptions.
And they did. By the hundreds of thousands. Cuisinart soared to the top of the stock market. They were media and business darlings. They were swimming in Benjamins. Life for them was good.
Until one day...it wasn't. That's because there was this one day when everybody who wanted one of these things...had already bought it. And they had no second act. No plan to gradually change and upgrade and modernize to meet changing market demands. And then...nothing. Bankruptcy. It happens. Often...
There's another rule of business that comes into play about right here. That's the "Buggy Whip Rule."
There's this town in New Hampshire. Back in the pre-auto horse-and-buggy days, you had to have a buggy whip if you wanted to guide old Nelly down the trail. But then, toward the shank end of the 1800's, electric cars came along. And then gas powered cars. And more and more ordinary folks took the plunge and parked old Nelly in the barn and cranked up New Nelly in the driveway.
And the buggy whip bizz, as they say, went the way of the Cuisinart; primary market dead, secondary/subsequent market yet to be established.
From a high of more than 30 buggy whip manufacturers in this one single town at the height of the market, there's now only one left. And that one is making custom whips for specialized needs, and so it continues to prosper (but only) in a highly-defined niche.
The others updated their resumes. Just as the management and employees of Cuisinart did, and Tesla, Inc., in my opinion, will soon do.
There's this guy named Elon Musk. He's our modern day Howard Hughes, in my opinion. He's a biiiiig-time dreamer and inventor, and even bigger-time B.S. artist, spinning his gauzy web of implausibilities. He's managed to make himself into a billionaire by leaving a lot of losing investors along the way. And he's about to lose a lot more.
Tesla is a Wall Street darling! People throw money at this idea with abandon. I say an idea because it's yet to be proven a real, honest-to-God regular-production automobile. And Musk's going through that cash like shit through a Christmas goose! Need an example? Sure. Tesla's current burn rate, meaning its income versus outgo, is more than $One Billion Dollars a Quarter!
Think of that. It raises scads of cash from investors, and then loses it in an effort to reach sufficient manufacturing volume to become profitable. That volume would be 5,000 units per week, Tesla's self-chosen target. Current production of the long-awaiting Model 3, is less than 2,000.
Oh yeah, and that Model 3 was supposed to debut at $35,000 a copy. A year ago. Now, the cheapest one you can buy goes out equipped at $56,000. Seems like they've got a problem.
And then there's Musk's mercurial personality. He was just videoed smoking a giant doobie during a podcast. He Tweeted an offer to take Tesla private at $420 a share (get it?), and said he'd locked up financing to do so. He hadn't. He, and the Company, is in Big Time Kimchee with the Securities and Exchange Commission. People go to jail for kiting stock. Or at least they used to. I guess it depends upon how you vote...
And now back to Cuisinart. When everybody who wanted one of those high-priced gadgets had bought one, they promptly went upside down. I predict Tesla will meet a similar fate.
And just for good measure, the current resale value of a 2015, 3 year-old Tesla Model S, which went out the door for $130,000 when new (it costs a lot not to have to buy gas!), now has a resale value of $43 - $48,000. Think of that: If you can afford $2,000 a month depreciation, you can afford a Tesla...
Tucker couldn't make cars profitably. Neither could Stutz. Nor DeLorean. Nor Auburn. Nor literally dozens and dozens of other would-be auto manufacturing magnates over the decades. I predict Musk and Tesla will join them. Don't know when, but I think sooner rather than later. And so will a couple of $Billion dollars in investor money...
Only a scant few of you were alive back in those halcyon, early days of television, I know, but to give you young whippersnappers a bit of background, there was once this company called Cuisinart. They were the "My Pillow" of their day. They vaulted upon the scene, promising home cooks they too could become Julia Child. All they'd have to do is just buy one of these new-fangled (and uber expensive!!!) food processor contraptions.
And they did. By the hundreds of thousands. Cuisinart soared to the top of the stock market. They were media and business darlings. They were swimming in Benjamins. Life for them was good.
Until one day...it wasn't. That's because there was this one day when everybody who wanted one of these things...had already bought it. And they had no second act. No plan to gradually change and upgrade and modernize to meet changing market demands. And then...nothing. Bankruptcy. It happens. Often...
There's another rule of business that comes into play about right here. That's the "Buggy Whip Rule."
There's this town in New Hampshire. Back in the pre-auto horse-and-buggy days, you had to have a buggy whip if you wanted to guide old Nelly down the trail. But then, toward the shank end of the 1800's, electric cars came along. And then gas powered cars. And more and more ordinary folks took the plunge and parked old Nelly in the barn and cranked up New Nelly in the driveway.
And the buggy whip bizz, as they say, went the way of the Cuisinart; primary market dead, secondary/subsequent market yet to be established.
From a high of more than 30 buggy whip manufacturers in this one single town at the height of the market, there's now only one left. And that one is making custom whips for specialized needs, and so it continues to prosper (but only) in a highly-defined niche.
The others updated their resumes. Just as the management and employees of Cuisinart did, and Tesla, Inc., in my opinion, will soon do.
There's this guy named Elon Musk. He's our modern day Howard Hughes, in my opinion. He's a biiiiig-time dreamer and inventor, and even bigger-time B.S. artist, spinning his gauzy web of implausibilities. He's managed to make himself into a billionaire by leaving a lot of losing investors along the way. And he's about to lose a lot more.
Tesla is a Wall Street darling! People throw money at this idea with abandon. I say an idea because it's yet to be proven a real, honest-to-God regular-production automobile. And Musk's going through that cash like shit through a Christmas goose! Need an example? Sure. Tesla's current burn rate, meaning its income versus outgo, is more than $One Billion Dollars a Quarter!
Think of that. It raises scads of cash from investors, and then loses it in an effort to reach sufficient manufacturing volume to become profitable. That volume would be 5,000 units per week, Tesla's self-chosen target. Current production of the long-awaiting Model 3, is less than 2,000.
Oh yeah, and that Model 3 was supposed to debut at $35,000 a copy. A year ago. Now, the cheapest one you can buy goes out equipped at $56,000. Seems like they've got a problem.
And then there's Musk's mercurial personality. He was just videoed smoking a giant doobie during a podcast. He Tweeted an offer to take Tesla private at $420 a share (get it?), and said he'd locked up financing to do so. He hadn't. He, and the Company, is in Big Time Kimchee with the Securities and Exchange Commission. People go to jail for kiting stock. Or at least they used to. I guess it depends upon how you vote...
And now back to Cuisinart. When everybody who wanted one of those high-priced gadgets had bought one, they promptly went upside down. I predict Tesla will meet a similar fate.
And just for good measure, the current resale value of a 2015, 3 year-old Tesla Model S, which went out the door for $130,000 when new (it costs a lot not to have to buy gas!), now has a resale value of $43 - $48,000. Think of that: If you can afford $2,000 a month depreciation, you can afford a Tesla...
Tucker couldn't make cars profitably. Neither could Stutz. Nor DeLorean. Nor Auburn. Nor literally dozens and dozens of other would-be auto manufacturing magnates over the decades. I predict Musk and Tesla will join them. Don't know when, but I think sooner rather than later. And so will a couple of $Billion dollars in investor money...
Saturday, September 8, 2018
The Hearings Are Now Over...
The Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings in D.C. for the next Justice to the Supreme Court of these United States has been happening in front of God and everybody over the past couple of days. Did you watch it?
I did. Unfortunately.
After watching this circus from beginning to end (retirement has its benefits...or, in this case, drawbacks), I'm reduced to a couple or three or four reeeeely big observations:
Firstly, as they say, we now for sure have the clowns, but where, perchance, are the cars?
Secondarily, I couldn't help but notice that everybody, everybody in D.C. is a lawyer. EVERYBODY! The conversations are so boring, so stultifying, so gut-wrenchingly, other-worldly inane to us mere mortals that about 87% of this hearing would and should have been better placed at a NALL seminar.
Oh yeah, "NALL" stands for the "National Association of Lefty Lawyers."
Thirdly, a subset of that thought is what happens when everybody in the future's a lawyer. Everybody... but once last guy? I mean, 9 out of 10 of these Congressweenies are attorneys, so I'd have to think that becoming a lawyer is a prerequisite for membership in this august body. And it's amusing to watch those who have not been thusly anointed as they attempt to minimize their own lack of educational pedigree, shuffling their little Gucci-clad feet in faux-humility
Would all those sharkskin-suited, well-manicured, blow-dried barristers rush to sue this last poor, non-lawyer bozo out of hand? Would they pile writ-upon-writ, subpoena-upon-subpoena, lawsuit upon lawsuit at his doorstep? Would they just bury this dude in paper? Would he be forced to go into the Witness Protection Program in order to get a little peace and quiet?
Fourth-ish, how old are these folk? I mean, I'm old, but these bozos are OLLLLLLLLLLLD!
Fifth-ish, I'm wondering if any of those aged, doddering old Senators sitting behind the dais are wearing pants?
Sixth-th-th, I'm wondering also exactly which of these Democrat Committee Senators are NOT planning to run for Prezzzz...
And last, i.e., Seventh-th-th-th, would this last remaining guy's only recourse be to attend law school?
I did. Unfortunately.
After watching this circus from beginning to end (retirement has its benefits...or, in this case, drawbacks), I'm reduced to a couple or three or four reeeeely big observations:
Firstly, as they say, we now for sure have the clowns, but where, perchance, are the cars?
Secondarily, I couldn't help but notice that everybody, everybody in D.C. is a lawyer. EVERYBODY! The conversations are so boring, so stultifying, so gut-wrenchingly, other-worldly inane to us mere mortals that about 87% of this hearing would and should have been better placed at a NALL seminar.
Oh yeah, "NALL" stands for the "National Association of Lefty Lawyers."
Thirdly, a subset of that thought is what happens when everybody in the future's a lawyer. Everybody... but once last guy? I mean, 9 out of 10 of these Congressweenies are attorneys, so I'd have to think that becoming a lawyer is a prerequisite for membership in this august body. And it's amusing to watch those who have not been thusly anointed as they attempt to minimize their own lack of educational pedigree, shuffling their little Gucci-clad feet in faux-humility
Would all those sharkskin-suited, well-manicured, blow-dried barristers rush to sue this last poor, non-lawyer bozo out of hand? Would they pile writ-upon-writ, subpoena-upon-subpoena, lawsuit upon lawsuit at his doorstep? Would they just bury this dude in paper? Would he be forced to go into the Witness Protection Program in order to get a little peace and quiet?
Fourth-ish, how old are these folk? I mean, I'm old, but these bozos are OLLLLLLLLLLLD!
Fifth-ish, I'm wondering if any of those aged, doddering old Senators sitting behind the dais are wearing pants?
Sixth-th-th, I'm wondering also exactly which of these Democrat Committee Senators are NOT planning to run for Prezzzz...
And last, i.e., Seventh-th-th-th, would this last remaining guy's only recourse be to attend law school?
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Building Trump's Wall, Part Deux...
Did you know that there are 192 countries in the United Nations?
And did you know that about five of them are our friends? The remainder vote against us in that fetid, feckless, tepid and teeming swamp known as the United Nations, as a bloc, routinely. Yet we give them, friends and enemies alike, more than...
And did you know that about five of them are our friends? The remainder vote against us in that fetid, feckless, tepid and teeming swamp known as the United Nations, as a bloc, routinely. Yet we give them, friends and enemies alike, more than...
$51,000,000,000 a year in Foreign Aid!
BTW, that's Fifty One Billion Dollars. Paying for all sorts of stuff for our friends and foes, including a wall in Tajikistan to protect them from warring neighbors. No kidding. Or, as a Nawth Ca-lana senator once said, "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money!"
Trump's wall is supposed to cost $25 Billion, more or less. The Democrats have apparently turned over a new leaf and are now horrified about spending money. They now, for the very first time ever, just cannot abide the monetary waste of building a wall, which they say won't work, and will cause all sorts of ecological disasters, and interrupt natural wildlife corridors, and hurt the feelings of our little brown neighbors to the south, and stem the flow of today's illegal immigrants, which those on the Left pray are tomorrow's brand new voters!
Yep, that's the dirty little secret they WILL NOT talk about; today's "undocumented workers," the Left's term for illegal immigrants, will become tomorrow's brave, new citizen voters. And they will ALL vote for the Party that brought them all this largesse, starting with their freebie legal driver's licenses which the State issues to illegals. CA issued more than 850,000 of them in 2017, more, in fact, than to legal citizen residents!
So I say to all my legions of followers, just back up a tad on our annual pity payments and use the savings to build Trump a Wall. He wants it. His voters want it. That's about 60 Million Americans, by the way, which is a fairly large number.
Of course, most of them live in "Flyover Country," which means they really don't exist to the "Coastal Elites" who are calling the shots. It's kind of like today's example of the Golden Rule: He who has the gold, rules. And the Democrats' continual bleating and foot-stamping and histrionics against the Wall is beginning to ring hollow to those of us not-so-safely ensconced in the People's Republic of California...
Annnnnnnnd, do not forget that Billy Jeff (Blue Dress) Clinton signed the "Motor Voter" bill into law back in the early 1990's, which enables one to sign up to vote when they get to their driver's license by simply checking a box on the application. Of course, that app is signed under penalty of perjury, but a fairly careful Lexus/Nexus search turned up exactly ZERO prosecutions or convictions for this crime, although there is tons of evidence all around that it exists.
Anyway, it's simple: trade the Wall for ushering the DACA "kids" onto the Citizenship fast-track, for his Wall; won't cost a farthing, will put lots and lots of folks to work, will help to starve repressive regimes and dictatorships of needed cash, and might well keep out a bunch of border hoppers.
The Democrats are famous for telling us that warmly embracing gun control is worth it if it SAVES JUST ONE LIFE. Given that hardly a day goes by without an illegal alien drunk driver wiping out a family, I offer up that building this wall might keep one or two of our citizens alive.
We have Mollie Tibbett's family's vote...
So I say to all my legions of followers, just back up a tad on our annual pity payments and use the savings to build Trump a Wall. He wants it. His voters want it. That's about 60 Million Americans, by the way, which is a fairly large number.
Of course, most of them live in "Flyover Country," which means they really don't exist to the "Coastal Elites" who are calling the shots. It's kind of like today's example of the Golden Rule: He who has the gold, rules. And the Democrats' continual bleating and foot-stamping and histrionics against the Wall is beginning to ring hollow to those of us not-so-safely ensconced in the People's Republic of California...
Annnnnnnnd, do not forget that Billy Jeff (Blue Dress) Clinton signed the "Motor Voter" bill into law back in the early 1990's, which enables one to sign up to vote when they get to their driver's license by simply checking a box on the application. Of course, that app is signed under penalty of perjury, but a fairly careful Lexus/Nexus search turned up exactly ZERO prosecutions or convictions for this crime, although there is tons of evidence all around that it exists.
Anyway, it's simple: trade the Wall for ushering the DACA "kids" onto the Citizenship fast-track, for his Wall; won't cost a farthing, will put lots and lots of folks to work, will help to starve repressive regimes and dictatorships of needed cash, and might well keep out a bunch of border hoppers.
The Democrats are famous for telling us that warmly embracing gun control is worth it if it SAVES JUST ONE LIFE. Given that hardly a day goes by without an illegal alien drunk driver wiping out a family, I offer up that building this wall might keep one or two of our citizens alive.
We have Mollie Tibbett's family's vote...
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Buh Bye Bail Bonds...
Those of you who do not live in the once-Golden State probably think those of us who do are joshing them when we retell the strange, outrageous, ludicrous, outlandish, stupid, weird, insane, inane, ridiculous, idiotic, foolish, sophomoric and otherworldly laws those doofuses up there in Sacrataxyou (mis)manage to conjure up.
Yes, folks, they are waaaaaaaaaaaay past legalizing maryjowanna! Which they did last year. They're into something much, MUCH more hallucinogenic to have decided it was in the best interest of their citizens to consider intentionally infecting one another with AIDS, without warning, to no longer be a felony! Or that pre-pubescent hooking should no longer be a crime (don't wanna' saddle little girls with a felony, now do we?). Or for their adult pimps, for that matter (!).
But now they've really outdone themselves! They just passed a law outlawing cash bail for bonds of less than $50,000! So, if the judge thinks your crime warrants a bail of less than $50k, you're sprung on what's called an "own recognizance." Meaning, I guess, you're expected to somehow be responsible enough for your actions to appear in court one chosen day in the future when you were irresponsible enough in the past to get in trouble in the first place.
The "cash bail" process usually works like this: You put up 10% of the bail amount the judge gives you with your or somebody else's cash and/or assets securing the remainder. This permits us to use our Constitutional rights to achieve bail when we might otherwise not be able to afford it. Which would leave us wasting away in a prison somewhere, just as it was back in King George's day. Which is kind of why we had it out with George, and the rest as they say is history. So, a low-level BandK (breaking and entering) felony might bail out at $10,000 and the perp walks for $1G.
Our Guv Jerry (Moonbeam) Brown doesn't like that system. He apparently thinks that nothing less than Capital Murder deserves incarceration, and the bail to try to escape it. He's proven that by kicking more than 61,000 hardened felons out of our prisons over the past two years. So for everybody else, I guess he feels they should go on home and have some nice warm milk and cookies. And so he's (mis)managed to overturn our entire bail system, which employs more than 25,000 nationwide, and produces gross revenue in excess of $7 Billion annually.
Remember ever driving past one of those little trailers just outside of nearly every town in 'Murica, with their giant signs all around screaming "Bail Bonds" to the High Heaven. There's 17,000 of them. Approx. 30% of those bonding firms are located in California. And I'd offer they'd say, "Unfortunately." 95% of California's bail bond business will disappear, and along with it all the jobs, by this time next year...
And what is the advantage to the public? None I can imagine, except that hundreds of thousands of low- to mid-level criminals will be out there running around in your neighborhood, bond-free, while Jerry Brown is enjoying a nice, comfy retirement on more than 143 years of public service (not sure on that number, but after 8 years as Secretary of State, 8 years as Mayor of Oakland, 4 years as Dog Catcher, and 16 years as Governor, it's pretty close to that).
Lemme' ask a rhetorical question: If illegal aliens don't bother to make their immigration court dates, why should criminals who have no skin in the game?
Yes, folks, they are waaaaaaaaaaaay past legalizing maryjowanna! Which they did last year. They're into something much, MUCH more hallucinogenic to have decided it was in the best interest of their citizens to consider intentionally infecting one another with AIDS, without warning, to no longer be a felony! Or that pre-pubescent hooking should no longer be a crime (don't wanna' saddle little girls with a felony, now do we?). Or for their adult pimps, for that matter (!).
But now they've really outdone themselves! They just passed a law outlawing cash bail for bonds of less than $50,000! So, if the judge thinks your crime warrants a bail of less than $50k, you're sprung on what's called an "own recognizance." Meaning, I guess, you're expected to somehow be responsible enough for your actions to appear in court one chosen day in the future when you were irresponsible enough in the past to get in trouble in the first place.
The "cash bail" process usually works like this: You put up 10% of the bail amount the judge gives you with your or somebody else's cash and/or assets securing the remainder. This permits us to use our Constitutional rights to achieve bail when we might otherwise not be able to afford it. Which would leave us wasting away in a prison somewhere, just as it was back in King George's day. Which is kind of why we had it out with George, and the rest as they say is history. So, a low-level BandK (breaking and entering) felony might bail out at $10,000 and the perp walks for $1G.
Our Guv Jerry (Moonbeam) Brown doesn't like that system. He apparently thinks that nothing less than Capital Murder deserves incarceration, and the bail to try to escape it. He's proven that by kicking more than 61,000 hardened felons out of our prisons over the past two years. So for everybody else, I guess he feels they should go on home and have some nice warm milk and cookies. And so he's (mis)managed to overturn our entire bail system, which employs more than 25,000 nationwide, and produces gross revenue in excess of $7 Billion annually.
Remember ever driving past one of those little trailers just outside of nearly every town in 'Murica, with their giant signs all around screaming "Bail Bonds" to the High Heaven. There's 17,000 of them. Approx. 30% of those bonding firms are located in California. And I'd offer they'd say, "Unfortunately." 95% of California's bail bond business will disappear, and along with it all the jobs, by this time next year...
And what is the advantage to the public? None I can imagine, except that hundreds of thousands of low- to mid-level criminals will be out there running around in your neighborhood, bond-free, while Jerry Brown is enjoying a nice, comfy retirement on more than 143 years of public service (not sure on that number, but after 8 years as Secretary of State, 8 years as Mayor of Oakland, 4 years as Dog Catcher, and 16 years as Governor, it's pretty close to that).
Lemme' ask a rhetorical question: If illegal aliens don't bother to make their immigration court dates, why should criminals who have no skin in the game?
Saturday, September 1, 2018
29.9792458 0 Degrees North...
The number listed in the title to this blog posting above represents the circumference of the base of the Great Pyramid of Giza, in Egypt. Or, by its formal name, The Pyramid of Khufu.
Why is that number important? I'll get back to that later, but for now, a little background.
I've been fascinated by ancient Egyptian history and lore all my life. I've read and studied and ruminated on the enormity of it all for decades. From more than 4,500 years ago until the end of Cleopatra's reign in the early 1st Century, Egypt was the single most powerful country on Earth for that entire period. They somehow managed, this is the Bronze Age remember, no wheel, to build the largest man-made structure in the entire world, and for 3,800 years, the absolute tallest!
How utterly enormous is the Great Pyramid? Well, let's start with the fact that it's 488 feet tall. It was built, we're told, by the 4th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom between the years 2,589 and 2,566 BCE. However, there's a serious minority of the archaeological community that believe it, and the Sphinx, may be 11,000 or more years old.
It is the only one of the original "7 Wonders of the World" still standing.
It is constructed of more than 2.3 million hand-cut stone blocks, each weighing an average of 20 tons. The base is an incredible 756 feet square, covering a land area greater than 13 acres. Or, approx. 10 football fields. Some stones near the base weigh an incredible 50 tons! They were quarried and shipped down the Nile from Aswan, a city more than 525 miles away. And each was custom-carved for the space it was intended to fill. Accuracy, in fact, to an average of 1/100th (0.02) inch.
How? That question is being debated throughout the scientific community. How could a society devoid of iron, and draft animals, and made to do with soft copper, quarry and shape and fit millions of enormous stone blocks from hundreds of miles away? Damn fine question.
The Great Pyramid is built so as align with the Cardinal Points on the compass (N. E. S. W.). And, is is so carefully constructed with this in mind as to be the most exact physical placement of any structure on the planet. Still. It is also built at the exact confluence of the great land masses on Earth; the latitudinal and longitudinal lines converge directly at the Great Pyramid. In other words, somehow, some way, these guys managed to plop this place down in the exact geographic center of the Earth.
The Great Pyramid is so big (how big is it, Chuckmeister?) that you could construct three average sized Costco big box stores inside its footprint. It is 30 x bigger in land area than the Empire State Building, ferGod'ssake!
And here's a little factoid you'll enjoy. It and its other pyramids are built so as to mimic the exact layout of the Orion Constellation at the time of its construction. And the shaft built from the King's Chamber out through to the upper side points directly to where the Orion Belt would have been 11,000 years ago.
Did you know that the Great Pyramid has eight sides? Well, it does. But those "other" four sides can only be viewed from directly above on two days per year: the summer and winter equinoxes. And those subtle demarcation lines aren't visible from any other direction at any other time. Now why, I wonder, would these boys create something they could not see, or enjoy, or even verify they had accurately constructed? Or maybe they had a little help...
And here's one more little fact I think you'll find reeeely interesting. The mortar ancients Egyptians used to hold these monstrous blocks together was made of a substance we still cannot recreate today. It is so strong, in fact, it is stronger than the blocks it holds together; and it keeps getting stronger even to this day.
So, in the midst of all these fascinating and astounding numbers and facts, here's another one that will make you think these guys had some sort of insight into a far greater intellect: the number in the title, 29,9792458 0 Degrees North, is exactly the speed of light! The speed of light is 286,000,000 miles per second, or more than 299,792,458meters per second!
Hello! What's the chances of this being an accident? According to the Bureau of Weights and Measures, we're talking One in Three Billion!
So, Mr. and Mrs. 'Murica, how'd these guys do this stuff? And know this stuff? A large and significant minority believe there was an intervention from extraterrestrial visitors. To impart knowledge, and abilities, and skills that vaulted these people from just post-Stone Age to the world's leading military and industrial power.
Think it's laughable? Ask yourself this: How did people working without the aid of animals, or the wheel, or forged tools, manage to quarry and transport and lift 20 ton blocks 488 feet into the air? And fit them together so finely, so tightly, that a playing card cannot be inserted between them even today? A feat we cannot reproduce even today?
I'm waiting...
Why is that number important? I'll get back to that later, but for now, a little background.
I've been fascinated by ancient Egyptian history and lore all my life. I've read and studied and ruminated on the enormity of it all for decades. From more than 4,500 years ago until the end of Cleopatra's reign in the early 1st Century, Egypt was the single most powerful country on Earth for that entire period. They somehow managed, this is the Bronze Age remember, no wheel, to build the largest man-made structure in the entire world, and for 3,800 years, the absolute tallest!
How utterly enormous is the Great Pyramid? Well, let's start with the fact that it's 488 feet tall. It was built, we're told, by the 4th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom between the years 2,589 and 2,566 BCE. However, there's a serious minority of the archaeological community that believe it, and the Sphinx, may be 11,000 or more years old.
It is the only one of the original "7 Wonders of the World" still standing.
It is constructed of more than 2.3 million hand-cut stone blocks, each weighing an average of 20 tons. The base is an incredible 756 feet square, covering a land area greater than 13 acres. Or, approx. 10 football fields. Some stones near the base weigh an incredible 50 tons! They were quarried and shipped down the Nile from Aswan, a city more than 525 miles away. And each was custom-carved for the space it was intended to fill. Accuracy, in fact, to an average of 1/100th (0.02) inch.
How? That question is being debated throughout the scientific community. How could a society devoid of iron, and draft animals, and made to do with soft copper, quarry and shape and fit millions of enormous stone blocks from hundreds of miles away? Damn fine question.
The Great Pyramid is built so as align with the Cardinal Points on the compass (N. E. S. W.). And, is is so carefully constructed with this in mind as to be the most exact physical placement of any structure on the planet. Still. It is also built at the exact confluence of the great land masses on Earth; the latitudinal and longitudinal lines converge directly at the Great Pyramid. In other words, somehow, some way, these guys managed to plop this place down in the exact geographic center of the Earth.
The Great Pyramid is so big (how big is it, Chuckmeister?) that you could construct three average sized Costco big box stores inside its footprint. It is 30 x bigger in land area than the Empire State Building, ferGod'ssake!
And here's a little factoid you'll enjoy. It and its other pyramids are built so as to mimic the exact layout of the Orion Constellation at the time of its construction. And the shaft built from the King's Chamber out through to the upper side points directly to where the Orion Belt would have been 11,000 years ago.
Did you know that the Great Pyramid has eight sides? Well, it does. But those "other" four sides can only be viewed from directly above on two days per year: the summer and winter equinoxes. And those subtle demarcation lines aren't visible from any other direction at any other time. Now why, I wonder, would these boys create something they could not see, or enjoy, or even verify they had accurately constructed? Or maybe they had a little help...
And here's one more little fact I think you'll find reeeely interesting. The mortar ancients Egyptians used to hold these monstrous blocks together was made of a substance we still cannot recreate today. It is so strong, in fact, it is stronger than the blocks it holds together; and it keeps getting stronger even to this day.
So, in the midst of all these fascinating and astounding numbers and facts, here's another one that will make you think these guys had some sort of insight into a far greater intellect: the number in the title, 29,9792458 0 Degrees North, is exactly the speed of light! The speed of light is 286,000,000 miles per second, or more than 299,792,458meters per second!
Hello! What's the chances of this being an accident? According to the Bureau of Weights and Measures, we're talking One in Three Billion!
So, Mr. and Mrs. 'Murica, how'd these guys do this stuff? And know this stuff? A large and significant minority believe there was an intervention from extraterrestrial visitors. To impart knowledge, and abilities, and skills that vaulted these people from just post-Stone Age to the world's leading military and industrial power.
Think it's laughable? Ask yourself this: How did people working without the aid of animals, or the wheel, or forged tools, manage to quarry and transport and lift 20 ton blocks 488 feet into the air? And fit them together so finely, so tightly, that a playing card cannot be inserted between them even today? A feat we cannot reproduce even today?
I'm waiting...
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