I watched the Green Bay - Rams game yesterday with interest.
Not just because good football, some reeeely good football in this case, is a good diversion, but because these two teams in particular stand out in one glaring respect: One is owned and operated to the benefit of its publicly-traded, shareholder-owners, and the other is owned and operated by a greedy capitalistic profit-mongering blight on the butt of humanity.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, you understand...
Yep, one of them, the Packers, is owned by more than 450,000 shareholders. About twice the population of Green Bay, by the way. Most, in fact, are located in and around the Chicago area, the locus of their arch nemesis, da' Bears.
The Packers were formed and still operate in Green Bay, and unless or until its Board of Directors votes to move it to the Bright Lights of Some Broadway Somewhere or Other, which stands the same chance of happening as a hurricane blowing through a junkyard resulting in a flight-ready Jumbo Jet, it will happily stay in Green Bay where it belongs.
Kind of like the Boston Celtics, doncha' know...
As to the Rams, on the other hand, it is the Poster Team for Greedy Excess. All you have to do to own an NFL team, it seems, is to marry its ancient owner, drown him in the surf, and then sell the team to the highest bidder. For those of you who are birthday-challenged, that actually happened. Yes, my friends, it really did. One Georgia Rosenbloom Frontiere left an entire city in PTSD for a generation, not that she gave a rat's patootie.
The good citizens of Saint Louis, where I used to not-so-proudly reside, had just suffered a Grand Theft Team. Its Cardinals picked up and moved to Phoenix. So it managed to screw another city as it had just been screwed by attracting the Rams. From Lost Angeles. So STL built a gigonda new stadium, sold it out for years and years, and everyone lived happily ever after, right? Ummm, no.
Nope, the same city which had suffered PTSD managed to pass it along to Beer City. The L. A. Rams, became the L. A. Rams once again, by way of a short two-decade detour to St. Louis. Pfftttttt!
Oh yeah, kind of like the L. A. Chargers became the San Diego Chargers became the L. A. Chargers. And now these two teams will wind up playing in the same arena, most likely to only a few thousand underwhelmed, yawning folks. Ain't that rich?
So now a region that had too many teams and then had too few, now has too many again. And most of the fans present are cheering for the visiting team. Oh well, you get it.
All of this demonstrates one simple thing: Sports teams should be owned by the cities in which they reside, and play, and live, and operate. Period. I, the consummate capitalist, believe the Laws of Capitalism should be suspended as it relates to NFL football teams, and basketball teams, and hockey teams, and all other professional sports teams.
Whadayou think?
Monday, October 29, 2018
Sunday, October 28, 2018
"Shelter in Place"
Three little words.
Three little terrifying, sad, indefensible, ridiculous, scary, needless, horrendous, warrantless, foolhardy and totally unnecessary words.
"Shelter in Place."
As this is written the smoke is clearing from a mass shooting at a synagogue in the Squirrel Hill area of Pittsburgh, PA. Another shooting at a soft target. Latest word is that 11 poor souls were murdered, including three cops, and several others were wounded by a lone gunman.
The cops somehow managed to bring this guy in alive after he had just murdered three of their own. That, in itself, was a miracle...
Not much is known at this point other than this is an enormous congregation, having been formed more than 150 years ago. A 46 year-old, Jew-hating, Trump-hating White guy chose to try and "Kill all the Jews," as he's reported saying.
Although yesterday was their high holy day celebration, there was apparently no security on duty. Rather remarkable, I think, considering the never-ending enmity toward the Jewish people. And considering they had sought, and gained, assistance from the Homeland Security Department in making sure tragedies like this didn't happen...it happened.
Let me restate the problem: No one in the synagogue of hundreds was armed, and it cost them 11 lives.
What's the usual cry from the "authorities" when gunfire erupts?
"Shelter in place."
The media will sound it. The police will sound it. The elected leaders from the affected community will, in effect, tell you to find a hole and crawl in it. Hide! Under something! Behind something! Anywhere! And that's not bad so far as it goes; but that's as far as it goes...
There is no other defensive measure taken, either before or after, to the threat of a mass shooter. Just "shelter in place." I have an idea! How about putting a sign up out front of this synagogue saying:
"All visitors welcome. Those coming with guns to hurt us will be blown out of their shoes! Have a nice day."
Or something like that. Perhaps that would go a long way toward preventing the next hate crime.
Or how about simply permitting good, solid, honest, honorable, tax-paying, God-fearing citizens, possessing the necessary training, to carry concealed weapons, as is guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. You know, like in the Constitution? You know, like "...to keep and bear arms?" And then advertise that fact? Broadly...
I'd like a show of hands; all those who believe this guy would have gladly brought his evil to this synagogue if he believed he'd be shot dead in his tracks before he got the chance to do so, please raise your right hand. Or your left. Go ahead. You choose...
Yeah, I thought so...
We tell our young people, "Never go out without protection." I think my kind of protection is better...
Three little terrifying, sad, indefensible, ridiculous, scary, needless, horrendous, warrantless, foolhardy and totally unnecessary words.
"Shelter in Place."
As this is written the smoke is clearing from a mass shooting at a synagogue in the Squirrel Hill area of Pittsburgh, PA. Another shooting at a soft target. Latest word is that 11 poor souls were murdered, including three cops, and several others were wounded by a lone gunman.
The cops somehow managed to bring this guy in alive after he had just murdered three of their own. That, in itself, was a miracle...
Not much is known at this point other than this is an enormous congregation, having been formed more than 150 years ago. A 46 year-old, Jew-hating, Trump-hating White guy chose to try and "Kill all the Jews," as he's reported saying.
Although yesterday was their high holy day celebration, there was apparently no security on duty. Rather remarkable, I think, considering the never-ending enmity toward the Jewish people. And considering they had sought, and gained, assistance from the Homeland Security Department in making sure tragedies like this didn't happen...it happened.
Let me restate the problem: No one in the synagogue of hundreds was armed, and it cost them 11 lives.
What's the usual cry from the "authorities" when gunfire erupts?
"Shelter in place."
The media will sound it. The police will sound it. The elected leaders from the affected community will, in effect, tell you to find a hole and crawl in it. Hide! Under something! Behind something! Anywhere! And that's not bad so far as it goes; but that's as far as it goes...
There is no other defensive measure taken, either before or after, to the threat of a mass shooter. Just "shelter in place." I have an idea! How about putting a sign up out front of this synagogue saying:
"All visitors welcome. Those coming with guns to hurt us will be blown out of their shoes! Have a nice day."
Or something like that. Perhaps that would go a long way toward preventing the next hate crime.
Or how about simply permitting good, solid, honest, honorable, tax-paying, God-fearing citizens, possessing the necessary training, to carry concealed weapons, as is guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. You know, like in the Constitution? You know, like "...to keep and bear arms?" And then advertise that fact? Broadly...
I'd like a show of hands; all those who believe this guy would have gladly brought his evil to this synagogue if he believed he'd be shot dead in his tracks before he got the chance to do so, please raise your right hand. Or your left. Go ahead. You choose...
Yeah, I thought so...
We tell our young people, "Never go out without protection." I think my kind of protection is better...
Saturday, October 27, 2018
Wanna' Stop a Caravan?
Simple.
First: Print up a whole bunch of those "Map to the Stars Homes" thingies. Nice ones. Four color. A few thousand should do.
Second: Supply them to the Border Patrol and our Army National Guard troops.
Third: Line up the Border Patrol and the Army Guard folks starting at El Centro, CA, where the fence is falling down, all the way across Arizona, where there is no fence.
Fourth: Instruct our patrol folks to hand out a Map to each marauding "migrant" as they invade, along with a bus ticket and instructions how to get to Brentwood and Bel Air. Kind of like an official "Welcome Wagon" reception.
Since we know that the Katy Perry's and the Babsy Streisand's and the George Clooney's of this world have excoriated all of us who wish our laws followed, stating flatly that they would gladly provide shelter and sustenance to any visiting "migrant."
Well, folks, let's have them put their expansive back yards where their famous mouths are. You'd be surprised how many "migrants" you can stack in one of those 5-acre compounds. All you need is some pup tents and a few butlers and maids to get them fresh sheets and blankies and supply sundown cocktails. Got to make them comfy, right?
Oh yeah, we've got to contact Howard Schultz and see if we can get some freebie coupons to Starbucks.
Guv. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, our Civil Servant-for-Life, has given The Donald the finger regarding illegal immigration. To Brown, no immigration is illegal. Well, let's put him to the test. Imagine the optics of 15,000 "migrants" living next to the Beverly Hills Hotel. Ya' think maybe Brown's phone would ring?
First: Print up a whole bunch of those "Map to the Stars Homes" thingies. Nice ones. Four color. A few thousand should do.
Second: Supply them to the Border Patrol and our Army National Guard troops.
Third: Line up the Border Patrol and the Army Guard folks starting at El Centro, CA, where the fence is falling down, all the way across Arizona, where there is no fence.
Fourth: Instruct our patrol folks to hand out a Map to each marauding "migrant" as they invade, along with a bus ticket and instructions how to get to Brentwood and Bel Air. Kind of like an official "Welcome Wagon" reception.
Since we know that the Katy Perry's and the Babsy Streisand's and the George Clooney's of this world have excoriated all of us who wish our laws followed, stating flatly that they would gladly provide shelter and sustenance to any visiting "migrant."
Well, folks, let's have them put their expansive back yards where their famous mouths are. You'd be surprised how many "migrants" you can stack in one of those 5-acre compounds. All you need is some pup tents and a few butlers and maids to get them fresh sheets and blankies and supply sundown cocktails. Got to make them comfy, right?
Oh yeah, we've got to contact Howard Schultz and see if we can get some freebie coupons to Starbucks.
Guv. Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown, our Civil Servant-for-Life, has given The Donald the finger regarding illegal immigration. To Brown, no immigration is illegal. Well, let's put him to the test. Imagine the optics of 15,000 "migrants" living next to the Beverly Hills Hotel. Ya' think maybe Brown's phone would ring?
Friday, October 26, 2018
Well, it's Finally Come to This...
Venezuela visits America, America!
Yes, my friends, if you've not had the occasion to visit San Francisco lately, you might be surprised to learn that it's been magically transformed from the Jewel on the Pacific Coast to the Trash Heap by the Bay.
Progressive politics have (mis)managed to turn this once beautiful town into the worst city in America. I didn't say that; the United Nations representative on human rights (heh, heh) has declared Oakland and San Francisco blights on the human condition. The only two American cities, he's proclaimed, that are "unlivable."
Maybe there's somebody at the U.N. who actually knows whereof he speaks...
Think about that for a minute. The home to Silicon Valley tech companies whose employees cannot afford to live there. A repurposed shipping container, a hole cut for a window, a single light bulb hanging from a string, now rents for $3,000 a month. And they're stacking them atop each other...
The homeless are living on the streets. And peeing. And pooping. In front of Union Square tony restaurants and department stores. You have to walk around them to conduct your bizz. But you can't ask them to leave; noooooooo! That would be insensitive! Immoral, even!
These people are dumber than a bag of rocks!
But one Sean Miller, a tech engineer, has finally grown weary of stepping over and around human feces. He's launched an app called "SnapCrap." You notice a pile of s**t, you notify those nice folks who work picking up poop and they'll be right there, Johnny (ahem!) on the spot, cleaning up all that poop and making life livable again for the nice rich folks who live in SanFran.
SFO just launched a new service to its beat-down residents called the "Poop Patrol." Yes, they really did.
And these Poop Patrol folks, who do not have to have a high school education or any experience (what sort of experience would one need to pick up crap?), start at $75,000 a year plus a bennie pack worth north of $50k per annum.
Perhaps they should hire the poopers to pick up the poop they're pooping, thus putting a homeless pooper to work de-pooping.
Just a thought...
I can't decide which is worse; allowing folks to live and pee and poop and build tent cities in front of your banks and bizznesses, or having to use a high-tech method to clean up the messes they make.
You decide...
Yes, my friends, if you've not had the occasion to visit San Francisco lately, you might be surprised to learn that it's been magically transformed from the Jewel on the Pacific Coast to the Trash Heap by the Bay.
Progressive politics have (mis)managed to turn this once beautiful town into the worst city in America. I didn't say that; the United Nations representative on human rights (heh, heh) has declared Oakland and San Francisco blights on the human condition. The only two American cities, he's proclaimed, that are "unlivable."
Maybe there's somebody at the U.N. who actually knows whereof he speaks...
Think about that for a minute. The home to Silicon Valley tech companies whose employees cannot afford to live there. A repurposed shipping container, a hole cut for a window, a single light bulb hanging from a string, now rents for $3,000 a month. And they're stacking them atop each other...
The homeless are living on the streets. And peeing. And pooping. In front of Union Square tony restaurants and department stores. You have to walk around them to conduct your bizz. But you can't ask them to leave; noooooooo! That would be insensitive! Immoral, even!
These people are dumber than a bag of rocks!
But one Sean Miller, a tech engineer, has finally grown weary of stepping over and around human feces. He's launched an app called "SnapCrap." You notice a pile of s**t, you notify those nice folks who work picking up poop and they'll be right there, Johnny (ahem!) on the spot, cleaning up all that poop and making life livable again for the nice rich folks who live in SanFran.
SFO just launched a new service to its beat-down residents called the "Poop Patrol." Yes, they really did.
And these Poop Patrol folks, who do not have to have a high school education or any experience (what sort of experience would one need to pick up crap?), start at $75,000 a year plus a bennie pack worth north of $50k per annum.
Perhaps they should hire the poopers to pick up the poop they're pooping, thus putting a homeless pooper to work de-pooping.
Just a thought...
I can't decide which is worse; allowing folks to live and pee and poop and build tent cities in front of your banks and bizznesses, or having to use a high-tech method to clean up the messes they make.
You decide...
Thursday, October 25, 2018
"The Fear of Loss."
There's an old saying that's worth coughing up about now. Here goes...
"...The fear of loss is a far greater motivator than the anticipation of gain."
What does that have to do with the price of an 1/8th in beautiful downtown Santa Ana, you might ask? Here's what:
Did you know that the political party not in power has retaken the House of Representatives in 19 out of 20 Mid-Term Elections, going all the way back to the 1940's? And the Senate has fallen to the out-of-power Party in the vast majority of mid-terms as well?
That's all to be expected. People don't get all worked up for the mid-terms. A POTUS battle isn't in the offing, people are usually either lethargic or resigned to their current political plight, and with exception of those who are clamoring to regain lost power, they're usually too busy to be bothered. That's the normal situation. Normal...
But now is not "normal." I've been paying fairly close attention to the news lately, and I've noticed hoards of folks chasing Republicans through airports, hounding them out of restaurants, doxxing them at their homes and work, screaming and yelling at them without mercy as if they had some God-given right to do so.
Assuming they believe in God, that is. An assumption I'm not prepared to embrace at the moment, by the way.
A MSMedia that for the most part reports only slanted opinion masquerading as "news," an overt and incessant hostility towards all things Conservative, and now a caravan of 10 - 15,000 individuals from Central America headed our way we're being told are "economic migrants," but since they tell us they have every right to be here, look suspiciously like an invasion, I offer up an observation (God, I love long sentences!):
The People are Very Afraid: They're afraid they're losing their country. Or perhaps have already lost it. And if they were ever complacent or lethargic or too busy to get involved, no longer.
It's for that reason that I suggest we may be just as surprised at the outcome on November 6th, 2018 as we were on November 8th, 2016...
"...The fear of loss is a far greater motivator than the anticipation of gain."
What does that have to do with the price of an 1/8th in beautiful downtown Santa Ana, you might ask? Here's what:
Did you know that the political party not in power has retaken the House of Representatives in 19 out of 20 Mid-Term Elections, going all the way back to the 1940's? And the Senate has fallen to the out-of-power Party in the vast majority of mid-terms as well?
That's all to be expected. People don't get all worked up for the mid-terms. A POTUS battle isn't in the offing, people are usually either lethargic or resigned to their current political plight, and with exception of those who are clamoring to regain lost power, they're usually too busy to be bothered. That's the normal situation. Normal...
But now is not "normal." I've been paying fairly close attention to the news lately, and I've noticed hoards of folks chasing Republicans through airports, hounding them out of restaurants, doxxing them at their homes and work, screaming and yelling at them without mercy as if they had some God-given right to do so.
Assuming they believe in God, that is. An assumption I'm not prepared to embrace at the moment, by the way.
A MSMedia that for the most part reports only slanted opinion masquerading as "news," an overt and incessant hostility towards all things Conservative, and now a caravan of 10 - 15,000 individuals from Central America headed our way we're being told are "economic migrants," but since they tell us they have every right to be here, look suspiciously like an invasion, I offer up an observation (God, I love long sentences!):
The People are Very Afraid: They're afraid they're losing their country. Or perhaps have already lost it. And if they were ever complacent or lethargic or too busy to get involved, no longer.
It's for that reason that I suggest we may be just as surprised at the outcome on November 6th, 2018 as we were on November 8th, 2016...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Prepare Yourself for the Coming Cat. 5 Meltdown, 'Murica!
Remember how crazy the Lefties became when The Donald was elected? Crazy, as in unhinged! Completely bonkers! Out of their collective minds! Or, what was left of their minds...
Yep, my friends, and you ARE my friends, the Democrats pegged their hopes for another Obama term on Hillary. It was her turn. She's a woman. She's managed to amass a personal fortune north of $500 Hundred Million Dollars from a career in public service! You have to be really, reeeeeeeeeely smart to save up that much money from the pay of an ex-POTUS and one lonely Secy of State! That's hard to do! I mean, she was qualified, right? She lived with Billy Jeff "Blue Dress" Clinton for all those years. That's enough to make her Prez right there! Right?
Wrong.
Come 2016 Election Day night, it was reported that Ms. Clinton threw a $100,000 bottle of Cristal Champagne, a "gift" from those nice French bubbly folks, through a $990,000, 100" Big Screen TV, a "gift" from those nice Samsung folks. I believe she had consumed plenty of other adult beverages prior to that ignoble feat, watching the election results come in as she no doubt was, but I cannot be sure. Word has it she had to be restrained and put to bed without the obligatory concession speech by that walking cadaver, Mr. John Podesta, her campaign advisor.*
Anyway, she lost, The Donald won, and the rest, as they say, is history. The Progressive Leftoids have been in full battle mode ever since. So much so that they have bragged about being the "resistance." And they've been doing everything they can to resist any legislation put forth by Trump or his people, hoping to deny him any victory, however minor, even if it meant a benefit to their constituents and the Country. No "reaching across the aisle" for them. No "go along to get along."
Nope, just resist. Scream, shout and stamp their little Gucci-clad feet. Seriously, America, this has reeeeely grown tiresome!
But all will be right with the world when November 6th comes around and the Democrats take back both houses of Congress. Or at least one, furGossakes... They're due at least one, right? I mean, that'd only be fair!
But something funny happened along the line; the polling firms, most owned and operated by the giant MainStream- Media companies, none of which have evidenced any strong Trump favoritism during the past couple of years, somehow failed to ask the people out there in "Flyover Country" their opinions.
And their opinions are the same ones that put The Donald in office two years ago.
And they're the same opinions that are likely to keep at least one, and quite possibly both houses of Congress in Republican hands. And if that happens, Katie bar the door!
I don't know Katie, or what door she'd be barring, but it's an old saying and I thought it seemed to fit, so I thought I'd throw it in right about here...
If these folks don't exact at least a token victory from the upcoming Midterm Election I predict they will go completely nuts! You think screaming at diners will be enough? Chasing people through airports? Noooooooooooo! Who knows what extremes will follow another Major Election Loss! Is there a restaurant that'd be safe for a Republican to try and grab a hamburger in after November 6th? Who knows? Whatever happens, if recent events give us any indication, it will be nasty to the extreme.
And I, for one, cannot wait...
* I only report the truth. Google any or all of this stuff if you doubt me...
Yep, my friends, and you ARE my friends, the Democrats pegged their hopes for another Obama term on Hillary. It was her turn. She's a woman. She's managed to amass a personal fortune north of $500 Hundred Million Dollars from a career in public service! You have to be really, reeeeeeeeeely smart to save up that much money from the pay of an ex-POTUS and one lonely Secy of State! That's hard to do! I mean, she was qualified, right? She lived with Billy Jeff "Blue Dress" Clinton for all those years. That's enough to make her Prez right there! Right?
Wrong.
Come 2016 Election Day night, it was reported that Ms. Clinton threw a $100,000 bottle of Cristal Champagne, a "gift" from those nice French bubbly folks, through a $990,000, 100" Big Screen TV, a "gift" from those nice Samsung folks. I believe she had consumed plenty of other adult beverages prior to that ignoble feat, watching the election results come in as she no doubt was, but I cannot be sure. Word has it she had to be restrained and put to bed without the obligatory concession speech by that walking cadaver, Mr. John Podesta, her campaign advisor.*
Anyway, she lost, The Donald won, and the rest, as they say, is history. The Progressive Leftoids have been in full battle mode ever since. So much so that they have bragged about being the "resistance." And they've been doing everything they can to resist any legislation put forth by Trump or his people, hoping to deny him any victory, however minor, even if it meant a benefit to their constituents and the Country. No "reaching across the aisle" for them. No "go along to get along."
Nope, just resist. Scream, shout and stamp their little Gucci-clad feet. Seriously, America, this has reeeeely grown tiresome!
But all will be right with the world when November 6th comes around and the Democrats take back both houses of Congress. Or at least one, furGossakes... They're due at least one, right? I mean, that'd only be fair!
But something funny happened along the line; the polling firms, most owned and operated by the giant MainStream- Media companies, none of which have evidenced any strong Trump favoritism during the past couple of years, somehow failed to ask the people out there in "Flyover Country" their opinions.
And their opinions are the same ones that put The Donald in office two years ago.
And they're the same opinions that are likely to keep at least one, and quite possibly both houses of Congress in Republican hands. And if that happens, Katie bar the door!
I don't know Katie, or what door she'd be barring, but it's an old saying and I thought it seemed to fit, so I thought I'd throw it in right about here...
If these folks don't exact at least a token victory from the upcoming Midterm Election I predict they will go completely nuts! You think screaming at diners will be enough? Chasing people through airports? Noooooooooooo! Who knows what extremes will follow another Major Election Loss! Is there a restaurant that'd be safe for a Republican to try and grab a hamburger in after November 6th? Who knows? Whatever happens, if recent events give us any indication, it will be nasty to the extreme.
And I, for one, cannot wait...
* I only report the truth. Google any or all of this stuff if you doubt me...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
"Pyramidism," Part Trois...
In response to my most recent posting on Egypt and pyramids and such, one of my oldest and dearest friends wrote this in response: "Hey Chuck: OK. You suggested "where" but not "why."
To bring those up to speed who were too busy trying to pay their taxes to read that posting (shame on you!), it had to do with the fact that there are Egyptian-style, reeeely-big stone pyramids all over the world. On at least 6 of the 7 continents, and maybe all of them. And they bear a strong resemblance to each other, even though there's no way there could have been any "collusion" between pyramid builders on difference continents 4,500 years ago.
So, with more than 15,000 pyramids dotting our collective landscape, all over the place, the question really has to be, WHY? And to a lesser extent, even HOW?
Lemme' cut to the chase. I'm one of those who tend to believe that if we couldn't build it today, with our amazing advancements in science, technology and materials over the millennia, and we couldn't, then someone or something had to build it for them, or teach them how to build it for themselves.
And whether that someone or something was from "Out There," or an emissary from "On High," or even if they're one and the same, matters not. It only matters that it simply had to have had help. The form or fashion that help took is for another debate.
As for this posting, I've stated my case. What say you?
To bring those up to speed who were too busy trying to pay their taxes to read that posting (shame on you!), it had to do with the fact that there are Egyptian-style, reeeely-big stone pyramids all over the world. On at least 6 of the 7 continents, and maybe all of them. And they bear a strong resemblance to each other, even though there's no way there could have been any "collusion" between pyramid builders on difference continents 4,500 years ago.
So, with more than 15,000 pyramids dotting our collective landscape, all over the place, the question really has to be, WHY? And to a lesser extent, even HOW?
Lemme' cut to the chase. I'm one of those who tend to believe that if we couldn't build it today, with our amazing advancements in science, technology and materials over the millennia, and we couldn't, then someone or something had to build it for them, or teach them how to build it for themselves.
And whether that someone or something was from "Out There," or an emissary from "On High," or even if they're one and the same, matters not. It only matters that it simply had to have had help. The form or fashion that help took is for another debate.
As for this posting, I've stated my case. What say you?
Saturday, October 20, 2018
Let's Shout 'Em Down! All of Them!
I don't know 'bout you, but I've grown weary of Leftist mobs disrupting Conservatives when they try to grab a cheeseburger somewhere or other.
Hardly a day goes by now that some Conservative leader and his family is heckled out of a restaurant somewhere by Leftist drones who seemingly have nothing better to do. And now with unemployment at the lowest it's been since the Earth cooled, one would think the protesters' time would be better spent working for living.
Unless, of course, they are working for a living by protesting. Hmmm. Being paid to protest. How about that. And since we've been told that it's true, that is is, in fact, happening, that people are being paid by their Leftist handlers to protest, it makes matters even worse.
And then the Leftist bozos have the temerity to tell us that those on the Right have done the same thing, and that this is just turnabout's fair play. Remember, they say, that time 8 or 9 years ago when one of those nasty Tea Party folks actually yelled at a Senator? Remember? Remember?
Me neither.
So I think it's High Time (especially where Pot is now legal!) for those of us on the Right to get together and begin some of that payback thing. You know, let's team up and go into restaurants and scream at paying customers whose political views we just happen to dislike. Or maybe follow them through airports, yelling and shouting like pre-schoolers, making complete and utter fools of ourselves, while we try and make them, uh, ummm, change their minds. Or something...
Oh wait. That won't work. We don't act like that...
Hardly a day goes by now that some Conservative leader and his family is heckled out of a restaurant somewhere by Leftist drones who seemingly have nothing better to do. And now with unemployment at the lowest it's been since the Earth cooled, one would think the protesters' time would be better spent working for living.
Unless, of course, they are working for a living by protesting. Hmmm. Being paid to protest. How about that. And since we've been told that it's true, that is is, in fact, happening, that people are being paid by their Leftist handlers to protest, it makes matters even worse.
And then the Leftist bozos have the temerity to tell us that those on the Right have done the same thing, and that this is just turnabout's fair play. Remember, they say, that time 8 or 9 years ago when one of those nasty Tea Party folks actually yelled at a Senator? Remember? Remember?
Me neither.
So I think it's High Time (especially where Pot is now legal!) for those of us on the Right to get together and begin some of that payback thing. You know, let's team up and go into restaurants and scream at paying customers whose political views we just happen to dislike. Or maybe follow them through airports, yelling and shouting like pre-schoolers, making complete and utter fools of ourselves, while we try and make them, uh, ummm, change their minds. Or something...
Oh wait. That won't work. We don't act like that...
Friday, October 19, 2018
The "Law of Attractive Nuisances"
I recall when my too-soon departed wife Elaine and I purchased our first home together back in early 1979.
It was bigger than we needed, more costly than we could afford at the time, but it had a pool, and DAMN!...we wanted a pool and nothing, NOTHING, including 13.5% interest rates (thanks, Jimmuh Carter!), could keep us from getting that pool!
So, my best friend Sam did two things for us that we could not have managed without; he loaned us $10k to round-out the down payment, thanks again, Sam, and he offered up some of his best lawyerly advice: "Lose the diving board!"
You see, this pool had been built shortly after the home had been finished, a couple of decades prior, and the pool sales guy back then no doubt convinced the previous owners to max-out the entire back yard with concrete and water. And they did. Big Time! The pool was only slightly smaller than the back yard. Only slightly. And it was a big back yard! You could barely walk around it. And it had a diving board. An old, rickety, ugly, corroded diving board that looked like it might crumble at any moment. It was truly a fearsome beast.
Well, Sam was then kind enough to explain to me the "Law of "Attractive Nuisances." That means, if it attracts stupid people to use it, or touch it, or smell it, or eat it, etc., and if they get hurt from having done so, it's your fault!
So, we tore out the diving board post-haste and used the pool happily during our 30+ years at what came to be known as "The Hotel California." No injuries, no lawsuits. Happy, happy, happy!
Anyway, I bring that up because we have a similar situation unfolding daily on our Southern Border. Because we, The People, have a mish-mash of outdated and ineffective immigration laws that do not serve us well, immigrants enter our country illegally every single day, and risk life and limb in doing so. And we will continue to have those stupid, dumbass laws unless or until our Congressweenies somehow manage to play nice and change them.
However, in what has to be the cruelest sort of irony possible, if these reeeely nice folks from Down South manage to get hurt crossing our border, it's our fault, and we have to pay to fix them up.
An item caught my eye on the news yesterday. In just one section of the Border fence near El Centro, CA last year, 1,500 illegals were hurt trying to jump over the 14' fence there and had to be patched up at one of their local hospitals. Fixed up at a cost to us, the American Taxpayer, by the way, of more than $3,000,000!
So, it seems they cost us if we don't prevent them from breaking in, and they cost us if we do.
This, my friends, is what's called a No. Win. Situation...
So, I'd like to sum it up with this:
- Trump was elected by a plurality of the Voters to Build The Wall. Some two years later, we haven't.
- But in the meantime illegal crossings are at an all time high, and so is the number of injuries from such entries. Proof positive of the "Law of Attractive Nuisances." We are the shiny object they reach for, and if they hurt themselves in doing, it's our fault!
So, we could simply build our walls higher. If 14' isn't enough, let's go to 16'. Or how about 18'? Or 20? Oh yeah, we can't do that, because there isn't the votes in Congress to do that. I guess we should be happy. Because if we jacked up the height of the wall and more people hurt themselves trying to get over it, then it would cost us taxpayers ever more to repair them. Counterproductive, it would seem. L
And proof once again of another of those immutable little Laws we're forced to live by: The "Law of Unintended Consequences."
It was bigger than we needed, more costly than we could afford at the time, but it had a pool, and DAMN!...we wanted a pool and nothing, NOTHING, including 13.5% interest rates (thanks, Jimmuh Carter!), could keep us from getting that pool!
So, my best friend Sam did two things for us that we could not have managed without; he loaned us $10k to round-out the down payment, thanks again, Sam, and he offered up some of his best lawyerly advice: "Lose the diving board!"
You see, this pool had been built shortly after the home had been finished, a couple of decades prior, and the pool sales guy back then no doubt convinced the previous owners to max-out the entire back yard with concrete and water. And they did. Big Time! The pool was only slightly smaller than the back yard. Only slightly. And it was a big back yard! You could barely walk around it. And it had a diving board. An old, rickety, ugly, corroded diving board that looked like it might crumble at any moment. It was truly a fearsome beast.
Well, Sam was then kind enough to explain to me the "Law of "Attractive Nuisances." That means, if it attracts stupid people to use it, or touch it, or smell it, or eat it, etc., and if they get hurt from having done so, it's your fault!
So, we tore out the diving board post-haste and used the pool happily during our 30+ years at what came to be known as "The Hotel California." No injuries, no lawsuits. Happy, happy, happy!
Anyway, I bring that up because we have a similar situation unfolding daily on our Southern Border. Because we, The People, have a mish-mash of outdated and ineffective immigration laws that do not serve us well, immigrants enter our country illegally every single day, and risk life and limb in doing so. And we will continue to have those stupid, dumbass laws unless or until our Congressweenies somehow manage to play nice and change them.
However, in what has to be the cruelest sort of irony possible, if these reeeely nice folks from Down South manage to get hurt crossing our border, it's our fault, and we have to pay to fix them up.
An item caught my eye on the news yesterday. In just one section of the Border fence near El Centro, CA last year, 1,500 illegals were hurt trying to jump over the 14' fence there and had to be patched up at one of their local hospitals. Fixed up at a cost to us, the American Taxpayer, by the way, of more than $3,000,000!
So, it seems they cost us if we don't prevent them from breaking in, and they cost us if we do.
This, my friends, is what's called a No. Win. Situation...
So, I'd like to sum it up with this:
- Trump was elected by a plurality of the Voters to Build The Wall. Some two years later, we haven't.
- But in the meantime illegal crossings are at an all time high, and so is the number of injuries from such entries. Proof positive of the "Law of Attractive Nuisances." We are the shiny object they reach for, and if they hurt themselves in doing, it's our fault!
So, we could simply build our walls higher. If 14' isn't enough, let's go to 16'. Or how about 18'? Or 20? Oh yeah, we can't do that, because there isn't the votes in Congress to do that. I guess we should be happy. Because if we jacked up the height of the wall and more people hurt themselves trying to get over it, then it would cost us taxpayers ever more to repair them. Counterproductive, it would seem. L
And proof once again of another of those immutable little Laws we're forced to live by: The "Law of Unintended Consequences."
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
The Chuckmeister's Rx:
Our current financing scheme for Federal-level elections in this Country sucks. Big Time!
There, I said it. And it needed said...
Ja' wanna' know how I would end the incessant problem of "money in politics?" You know, how can we, you and me, the 'Murcian Taxpayer, get Big Money from corporations, foreign gummints and major lobbying efforts out of our political equation?
Simple: Require Public Financing.
No, I don't mean "public financing" the way we've been doing it. And that way required the candidate to file for Gummint matching funds, which will never, ever be enough to buy an election. That's why Bush, Obama, Clinton and Trump all declined to accept Fed money in the last three General Election cycles. Rather, they thought, rightly so, I think, that they were better off trying to raise the enormous sums they needed privately. And they were successful in doing so.
Wildly so. And that is troubling...
Let's do a "CSI: D.C." thing here. What that meant, and means, is that if you have a populist message to sell, one that the general electorate would want to hear, you're blocked out from doing so because you likely don't have the wheelbarrow loads of cash necessary to pay for it.
And that, my friends, is the Bottom Line.
We require Representatives to run for re-election every two years. Stupid. By the time they've unpacked their bags in Foggy Bottom they have to start running for re-election. Stupid. And they have to raise an average of $18,000 a day in order to remain competitive! I say let these guys get a chance to make their case before their voters and make four-year terms the norm.
Senators have to place themselves before their voters only once every six years. Too long, I say. They get a little too comfy for my taste. They just wander around and bloviate. I say, every four for Senators.
As for POTUS-ses-ses, I say One Six Year Term! That's it. Six years. By the time anyone gets to this lofty perch, they should be able to present their agenda before the public and then be able to effect it in that time-frame. We do not need POTUS-ses running for re-election. Or trying to buy another term. Think Mikey Bloomberg. He spent more than $100 Million changing New York City's Constitution so he could run for a third term! We need them to do their worst in one term and then retire. On us. Unfortunately...
And speaking of Little Mikey Bloomberg, the 14th richest man in the world, ex-three term Mayor of NYC, just re-re-re-re-filed to change his voter registration back to Democrat from Independent. He likely did so as his first step in preparation for a run at the White House in 2020.
For him, the $Billion Dollars necessary to finance his own campaign could be found between the cushions of his couch...
The Trumpster, a guy worth somewhere between a few hundred $Million and several $Billion, depending upon whether you ask him or others, used his own cash to finance his run for POTUS in 2016. He coughed up north of $60 Mil to pay for his campaign. That's real money, my friends, and I don't care WHO you are! Of course, Hillary spent upwards of $One Billion, so money doesn't necessarily make people like you.
So here's the Chuckmeister's Rx for "How To Fix Our Election Financing."
- Require all candidates for Federal Public Office, Representatives, Senators and the POTUS, to file for, and use, Public Funds to pay for their campaigns. And that financing would depend directly on how many folks they would represent. The average Representative, for instance, represents about 850,000 constituents. The average Senator represents half the number of people in their respective states (two per state). And a POTUS candidate needs to communicate with all 325 million Americans in order to get his, her, or now its (remember California!) message out.
We should force them to reach their voters using a pre-determined number of bucks for each prospective voter. How about $Two Bucks per registered voter, to be measured against proven citizenship. That oughta' set the Leftoids' pointy heads a' bursting...
And then put them in jail if they reach in their own back pockets and try to buy an election.
That's it, my friends. Simple. Easy. Direct. Our using Public Funds to finance elections could mean that a self-educated poor rail-splitter from rural Illinois, like the next Abe Lincoln, could run for office and have a chance to compete with a guy who has his choice of which private jet to fly that day.
By the way, those whose ox would be gored would scream bloody murder. They LIKE having a unfair advantage: Cubic Money. These would include the George Soros-ses-ses and the Bill Gates-ses-ses and the Bloomberg-zes-zes and the Kock Brothers-ses-ses and the teenager who tries to run FB would be s**t out of luck; they'd have to compete on the field of ideas with those of us not quite so well off financially. And that, I say, is the way it ought to be...
Riddle me this: What could possibly be a better solution?
There, I said it. And it needed said...
Ja' wanna' know how I would end the incessant problem of "money in politics?" You know, how can we, you and me, the 'Murcian Taxpayer, get Big Money from corporations, foreign gummints and major lobbying efforts out of our political equation?
Simple: Require Public Financing.
No, I don't mean "public financing" the way we've been doing it. And that way required the candidate to file for Gummint matching funds, which will never, ever be enough to buy an election. That's why Bush, Obama, Clinton and Trump all declined to accept Fed money in the last three General Election cycles. Rather, they thought, rightly so, I think, that they were better off trying to raise the enormous sums they needed privately. And they were successful in doing so.
Wildly so. And that is troubling...
Let's do a "CSI: D.C." thing here. What that meant, and means, is that if you have a populist message to sell, one that the general electorate would want to hear, you're blocked out from doing so because you likely don't have the wheelbarrow loads of cash necessary to pay for it.
And that, my friends, is the Bottom Line.
We require Representatives to run for re-election every two years. Stupid. By the time they've unpacked their bags in Foggy Bottom they have to start running for re-election. Stupid. And they have to raise an average of $18,000 a day in order to remain competitive! I say let these guys get a chance to make their case before their voters and make four-year terms the norm.
Senators have to place themselves before their voters only once every six years. Too long, I say. They get a little too comfy for my taste. They just wander around and bloviate. I say, every four for Senators.
As for POTUS-ses-ses, I say One Six Year Term! That's it. Six years. By the time anyone gets to this lofty perch, they should be able to present their agenda before the public and then be able to effect it in that time-frame. We do not need POTUS-ses running for re-election. Or trying to buy another term. Think Mikey Bloomberg. He spent more than $100 Million changing New York City's Constitution so he could run for a third term! We need them to do their worst in one term and then retire. On us. Unfortunately...
And speaking of Little Mikey Bloomberg, the 14th richest man in the world, ex-three term Mayor of NYC, just re-re-re-re-filed to change his voter registration back to Democrat from Independent. He likely did so as his first step in preparation for a run at the White House in 2020.
For him, the $Billion Dollars necessary to finance his own campaign could be found between the cushions of his couch...
The Trumpster, a guy worth somewhere between a few hundred $Million and several $Billion, depending upon whether you ask him or others, used his own cash to finance his run for POTUS in 2016. He coughed up north of $60 Mil to pay for his campaign. That's real money, my friends, and I don't care WHO you are! Of course, Hillary spent upwards of $One Billion, so money doesn't necessarily make people like you.
So here's the Chuckmeister's Rx for "How To Fix Our Election Financing."
- Require all candidates for Federal Public Office, Representatives, Senators and the POTUS, to file for, and use, Public Funds to pay for their campaigns. And that financing would depend directly on how many folks they would represent. The average Representative, for instance, represents about 850,000 constituents. The average Senator represents half the number of people in their respective states (two per state). And a POTUS candidate needs to communicate with all 325 million Americans in order to get his, her, or now its (remember California!) message out.
We should force them to reach their voters using a pre-determined number of bucks for each prospective voter. How about $Two Bucks per registered voter, to be measured against proven citizenship. That oughta' set the Leftoids' pointy heads a' bursting...
And then put them in jail if they reach in their own back pockets and try to buy an election.
That's it, my friends. Simple. Easy. Direct. Our using Public Funds to finance elections could mean that a self-educated poor rail-splitter from rural Illinois, like the next Abe Lincoln, could run for office and have a chance to compete with a guy who has his choice of which private jet to fly that day.
By the way, those whose ox would be gored would scream bloody murder. They LIKE having a unfair advantage: Cubic Money. These would include the George Soros-ses-ses and the Bill Gates-ses-ses and the Bloomberg-zes-zes and the Kock Brothers-ses-ses and the teenager who tries to run FB would be s**t out of luck; they'd have to compete on the field of ideas with those of us not quite so well off financially. And that, I say, is the way it ought to be...
Riddle me this: What could possibly be a better solution?
Sunday, October 14, 2018
More Groovy Egyptian Stuff...
I received a lot of feedback from my dozen of trusty readers following my 9/1 travelogue on Ancient Egypt and all those neat old pyramids. Unlike religion, or politics, or modern culture, or nearly everything else, almost nobody dislikes pyramids.
But they sure have a lot of questions about them. And, having studied this stuff for decades, I have a lot of the answers they seek. I identify as an expert on Ancient Egypt. In fact, I identify as someone with multiple PhD's on the subject. And a few other subjects, as well. If a White woman in Washington State can identify as Black, so much so they make her Prez of the local branch of the NAACP, I can surely identify as a glasses-wearing, cane-needing, snappy-dressing Indiana Jones.
And so, having so announced my identifications up front, for God and everybody to see, let us now proceed...
I was gobsmacked to learn the true extent of "pyramidism," if that's a word, and if it isn't I just created it, in our oft-confusing world. It seems that those who preceded us started building gigantic masonry monoliths some 12,000 years ago, and kept doing it at flank speed across at least six of our continents, and perhaps all seven over several millennia. More on that later...
I'd guess you might be surprised to learn there are lots and lots of pyramids outside of Egypt. In fact, most are. During the pyramid building era, which appears to have been in full swing from about 7,000 - 2,000 years ago BCE, it's estimated no less than 15,000 pyramids were built around the world! And most of them bear a strong resemblance to each other, without any possibility they could have possibly "colluded" in their design and creation with each other.
I'm assuming "collusion" started happening later (heh, heh. Couldn't help myself).
For example, there are a confirmed 98 pyramids in Egypt, far more than the usually assumed 3 or 4. They were built on both sides of the Nile for more than 400 miles of its length, over a period of more than 2,500 years. And since the sands there have a nasty tendency to cover up almost everything given enough time, and considering the amazing advances in "LIDAR"* technology, we can't be sure more won't be discovered in the future.
We've discovered more than 300 pyramids in China. And 20 in Bosnia. And 35 in Italy. And more in Spain and France and Croatia and Slovenia and Russia and Greece and all over Europe. It's stunning to think all this was going on when we previously wrote them off as nothing more than pre-Bronze-Age cave-dwellers.
Try this on for size: We believe there are more than 10,000 full-blown, gigantic, big-time, Egyptian-style, really tall stone pyramids in Central America! Major recent discoveries point to enormous cities in Colombia and Peru and Guatemala and the area long-since reclaimed by the jungles. One major city has just been discovered there, which may be home to the largest pyramid in the world! It is six football fields long and three fields wide! Think of that: 1,800 x 900 feet! It was thought to have served a population of more than 1,000,000 more than 500 years before Columbus set foot on some insignificant atoll in the Caribbean.
And as I mentioned earlier, there have been many pyramidal-looking somethings discovered by Google satellite in Antarctica recently. They look suspiciously like pyramids. They may not be, but they may. And expeditions are already being planned for next season to go explore them.
But perhaps the single most astounding pyramid anywhere is the one located in Cahokia, Illinois. Yes, Illinois. If you'd like to find the single largest pyramid on Earth, as least to date, this one's it; more than half a mile long and a quarter mile wide! And over 300 feet tall!
It was built by the Cahokia Mound Builder Indians some 1,000 years ago. Or maybe twice that, we cannot be sure. And that's because it's made from sun-fired mud bricks, which don't lend themselves to carbon dating so very well. But what we do know is that these "indigenous peoples," had to throw that in, were trading fools! They got rich trading up and down the Missississisiisisiipi River with dozens of other native tribes. Clearly, we have not given due consideration to the abilities and intellect of those who preceded us...
Hardly a day goes by without another significant archaeological find being uncovered by one of my archaeological brethren. Thankfully. And I, your Loyal Scribe, The Chuckmeister, will be reading all about it so I can keep you up to date.
No thanks necessary. It's why God put me here...
* LIDAR. Light Detection and Ranging.
NOTE: This update provided at the express request of my nephew Lucas.
But they sure have a lot of questions about them. And, having studied this stuff for decades, I have a lot of the answers they seek. I identify as an expert on Ancient Egypt. In fact, I identify as someone with multiple PhD's on the subject. And a few other subjects, as well. If a White woman in Washington State can identify as Black, so much so they make her Prez of the local branch of the NAACP, I can surely identify as a glasses-wearing, cane-needing, snappy-dressing Indiana Jones.
And so, having so announced my identifications up front, for God and everybody to see, let us now proceed...
I was gobsmacked to learn the true extent of "pyramidism," if that's a word, and if it isn't I just created it, in our oft-confusing world. It seems that those who preceded us started building gigantic masonry monoliths some 12,000 years ago, and kept doing it at flank speed across at least six of our continents, and perhaps all seven over several millennia. More on that later...
I'd guess you might be surprised to learn there are lots and lots of pyramids outside of Egypt. In fact, most are. During the pyramid building era, which appears to have been in full swing from about 7,000 - 2,000 years ago BCE, it's estimated no less than 15,000 pyramids were built around the world! And most of them bear a strong resemblance to each other, without any possibility they could have possibly "colluded" in their design and creation with each other.
I'm assuming "collusion" started happening later (heh, heh. Couldn't help myself).
For example, there are a confirmed 98 pyramids in Egypt, far more than the usually assumed 3 or 4. They were built on both sides of the Nile for more than 400 miles of its length, over a period of more than 2,500 years. And since the sands there have a nasty tendency to cover up almost everything given enough time, and considering the amazing advances in "LIDAR"* technology, we can't be sure more won't be discovered in the future.
We've discovered more than 300 pyramids in China. And 20 in Bosnia. And 35 in Italy. And more in Spain and France and Croatia and Slovenia and Russia and Greece and all over Europe. It's stunning to think all this was going on when we previously wrote them off as nothing more than pre-Bronze-Age cave-dwellers.
Try this on for size: We believe there are more than 10,000 full-blown, gigantic, big-time, Egyptian-style, really tall stone pyramids in Central America! Major recent discoveries point to enormous cities in Colombia and Peru and Guatemala and the area long-since reclaimed by the jungles. One major city has just been discovered there, which may be home to the largest pyramid in the world! It is six football fields long and three fields wide! Think of that: 1,800 x 900 feet! It was thought to have served a population of more than 1,000,000 more than 500 years before Columbus set foot on some insignificant atoll in the Caribbean.
And as I mentioned earlier, there have been many pyramidal-looking somethings discovered by Google satellite in Antarctica recently. They look suspiciously like pyramids. They may not be, but they may. And expeditions are already being planned for next season to go explore them.
But perhaps the single most astounding pyramid anywhere is the one located in Cahokia, Illinois. Yes, Illinois. If you'd like to find the single largest pyramid on Earth, as least to date, this one's it; more than half a mile long and a quarter mile wide! And over 300 feet tall!
It was built by the Cahokia Mound Builder Indians some 1,000 years ago. Or maybe twice that, we cannot be sure. And that's because it's made from sun-fired mud bricks, which don't lend themselves to carbon dating so very well. But what we do know is that these "indigenous peoples," had to throw that in, were trading fools! They got rich trading up and down the Missississisiisisiipi River with dozens of other native tribes. Clearly, we have not given due consideration to the abilities and intellect of those who preceded us...
Hardly a day goes by without another significant archaeological find being uncovered by one of my archaeological brethren. Thankfully. And I, your Loyal Scribe, The Chuckmeister, will be reading all about it so I can keep you up to date.
No thanks necessary. It's why God put me here...
* LIDAR. Light Detection and Ranging.
NOTE: This update provided at the express request of my nephew Lucas.
Thursday, October 11, 2018
FBI Background Checks...
Since FBI Background Checks have been in the news (ahem) lately, to include what they are, and what they aren't, I thought I'd weigh in on the subject a bit. I'll admit it was quite a few years ago, but once upon a time I had a Top Secret Crypto Security Clearance.
That was, BTW, the absolute highest, tippy-top Clearance one could receive, except for "Special Access Handling," the rating Ms. Clinton violated repeatedly with her little server fiasco. The rating that lists all our foreign spies and agents. That one...
The One that was Soooooo Super Special that I didn't even know it existed until Hillary's little private-server-in-the-bathroom fiasco.
Yesiree, folks! Your friend and mine, me, The Chuckmeister, was invited to join a Special Band of Brothers back then to gird our loins and sally forth into the abyss to Help Stamp Out Communism! And we did a pretty fair job. Sort of.
And don't give me that old "Military Intelligence" gag again.
But prior to being permitted to partake in this incredible opportunity, I was put through an exhaustive FBI Background Check. Exhaustive! Some of my old buds back home in Chillville might recall having received a visit from a couple of those "Men in Black" types, and being peppered with questions about yours truly.
Anyway, those questions were comprehensive. And they haven't changed. They ask respondents about your friends. And then to those people they ask for your enemies. And so on. They ask if you had an alcohol problem. Or a drug problem. Or gambling (ahem!) or women (ahem!) problem. Anything that might compromise you to an enemy. Anything!
I subsequently learned they interview at least 40, and as many as 100 people for each background check! The more "sketchy" info about you they receive, the wider their follow-up grows. And they document each interview, one after another. But they DO NOT draw any conclusions from the information thus gathered. Rather, they present the data in a proscribed format and then provide a summary for the Agency that requested the check.
Most recently, that "Agency" was the Senate Judicial Confirmation Committee, the bunch that ordered up the "Supplemental Background Checks" on then-Judge Kavanaugh. That made a total of 7 separate FBI checks the Judge had undergone by that time. And all of this unfolding while every Democrat in the D.C. zip code was calling on, neigh pleading with good female citizens everywhere to drop a dime on the Young Kavanaugh to save the Republic while there was still time!
So if there's anyone else out there in InternetLand who still wonders about Kavanaugh's guilt or innocence, lemme' tell you I'd consider it impossible to undergo Seven such checks over a period of 26 years for far more sensitive positions than I ever occupied (sorry, Fan Club!), and not have had any whiff of trouble pop up. Not a whiff. Nothing. Nada, zip, zilch.
And that was like catnip to the Democrats on the Committee. With no drugs or booze or wife beating or insanity to focus on, they went straight to the High School Yearbook. And to oh-so sober, straight-faced questions such as, "What's the real, nefarious meaning of "Boofing?" "What about the "Devil's Triangle?"
Are you kidding me? Does anyone out there besides me think it would be a good idea for the Democrats to start electing grown-ups for a change?
That was, BTW, the absolute highest, tippy-top Clearance one could receive, except for "Special Access Handling," the rating Ms. Clinton violated repeatedly with her little server fiasco. The rating that lists all our foreign spies and agents. That one...
The One that was Soooooo Super Special that I didn't even know it existed until Hillary's little private-server-in-the-bathroom fiasco.
Yesiree, folks! Your friend and mine, me, The Chuckmeister, was invited to join a Special Band of Brothers back then to gird our loins and sally forth into the abyss to Help Stamp Out Communism! And we did a pretty fair job. Sort of.
And don't give me that old "Military Intelligence" gag again.
But prior to being permitted to partake in this incredible opportunity, I was put through an exhaustive FBI Background Check. Exhaustive! Some of my old buds back home in Chillville might recall having received a visit from a couple of those "Men in Black" types, and being peppered with questions about yours truly.
Anyway, those questions were comprehensive. And they haven't changed. They ask respondents about your friends. And then to those people they ask for your enemies. And so on. They ask if you had an alcohol problem. Or a drug problem. Or gambling (ahem!) or women (ahem!) problem. Anything that might compromise you to an enemy. Anything!
I subsequently learned they interview at least 40, and as many as 100 people for each background check! The more "sketchy" info about you they receive, the wider their follow-up grows. And they document each interview, one after another. But they DO NOT draw any conclusions from the information thus gathered. Rather, they present the data in a proscribed format and then provide a summary for the Agency that requested the check.
Most recently, that "Agency" was the Senate Judicial Confirmation Committee, the bunch that ordered up the "Supplemental Background Checks" on then-Judge Kavanaugh. That made a total of 7 separate FBI checks the Judge had undergone by that time. And all of this unfolding while every Democrat in the D.C. zip code was calling on, neigh pleading with good female citizens everywhere to drop a dime on the Young Kavanaugh to save the Republic while there was still time!
So if there's anyone else out there in InternetLand who still wonders about Kavanaugh's guilt or innocence, lemme' tell you I'd consider it impossible to undergo Seven such checks over a period of 26 years for far more sensitive positions than I ever occupied (sorry, Fan Club!), and not have had any whiff of trouble pop up. Not a whiff. Nothing. Nada, zip, zilch.
And that was like catnip to the Democrats on the Committee. With no drugs or booze or wife beating or insanity to focus on, they went straight to the High School Yearbook. And to oh-so sober, straight-faced questions such as, "What's the real, nefarious meaning of "Boofing?" "What about the "Devil's Triangle?"
Are you kidding me? Does anyone out there besides me think it would be a good idea for the Democrats to start electing grown-ups for a change?
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
I Wonder...
I wonder what would have happened if Trump had nominated a Woman for Justice of the SCOTUS instead of Kavanaugh?
No, not just an actual "Woman," woman, a Black Conservative Woman! What would the Leftoids have done? Could the Democrat Judicial Confirmation Committee Members have blasphemed a fully-qualified Black Woman who just happened to be a Conservative? How about a Black Conservative Woman who was Pro-Choice?
Wait! That's just beyond comprehension! Can you imagine the meltdown if Trump had "Trumped" them by nominating their Anti-Christ? A Black Conservative Republican, Pro-Choice Woman? A Woman they would have believed should have never left the Reservation?
No wait! How about we add a little sweetener. Let's make her gay! Yeah, that's it! How about a Black. Conservative. Republican. Pro-Choice. Gay. Woman? What would the Democrats have done to thwart that nomination in their never-ending quest to regain lost power? Especially power they believe to their very core was stolen from them by (fill in the blanks: Russia, the FBI, space aliens, etc.). What questions could they - would they - have possibly asked? Would they have dared question her entries into her High School Yearbook? How about if she had ever slammed a beer in college? Hmmmmm........
I'm guessing they would have all self-immolated. Yeah, like The Wicked Witch of the West. Instant firebomb! Poof! Gone! In a cloud of smoke! Too bad. I wish it had unfolded that way. It would have been sooooooooo much fun to watch!
No, not just an actual "Woman," woman, a Black Conservative Woman! What would the Leftoids have done? Could the Democrat Judicial Confirmation Committee Members have blasphemed a fully-qualified Black Woman who just happened to be a Conservative? How about a Black Conservative Woman who was Pro-Choice?
Wait! That's just beyond comprehension! Can you imagine the meltdown if Trump had "Trumped" them by nominating their Anti-Christ? A Black Conservative Republican, Pro-Choice Woman? A Woman they would have believed should have never left the Reservation?
No wait! How about we add a little sweetener. Let's make her gay! Yeah, that's it! How about a Black. Conservative. Republican. Pro-Choice. Gay. Woman? What would the Democrats have done to thwart that nomination in their never-ending quest to regain lost power? Especially power they believe to their very core was stolen from them by (fill in the blanks: Russia, the FBI, space aliens, etc.). What questions could they - would they - have possibly asked? Would they have dared question her entries into her High School Yearbook? How about if she had ever slammed a beer in college? Hmmmmm........
I'm guessing they would have all self-immolated. Yeah, like The Wicked Witch of the West. Instant firebomb! Poof! Gone! In a cloud of smoke! Too bad. I wish it had unfolded that way. It would have been sooooooooo much fun to watch!
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
We Blew it, America!
America had such a perfect opportunity to make "right" all the "Me Too" pain and torment that has plagued our wonderful Country since Harvey Weinstein got caught with his hand in Cookie's "jar."
Yes friends, all we had to do was "convict" Brett M. Kavanaugh of "sexual impropriety" or "being hand-sy," or even a "youthful indiscretion," or something, and deny him - and Republicans - of that oh-so coveted seat on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Which was the whole idea, of course. They'd already given up on impeaching his knowledge, or his skills, or his abilities (he was arguably the very most qualified candidate in the entire Country), so they had to try and impeach his character.
And they're soooo afraid that a time might come when they could no longer legislate using Liberal judges "tweaking" the laws to suit their needs. Having lost nearly 1,000 state-wide elected seats during Obama's reign, passing laws through state legislatures has been nearly impossible for them up to now. Losing the Top Court for a generation or two was their worst nightmare, and that's for dang sure...
And they could have "convicted" Kavanaugh by simply permitting the Rule of Law to be ignored. Completely. Entirely. For the very first time ever. Simple, right? No more assumption of innocence until guilt is proven. Just go ahead and let Kavanaugh take the rap and thereby expunge the sins of all men, and mainly White Men, everywhere for every woman who was ever abused, groped, assaulted or raped. Or even whistled at or ogled.
He could have simply "taken one for the team." That's what the Democrats wanted. Really...
Now, everyone knows that HE didn't do the abusing and raping and assaulting. But HE should have been made to take the blame. I mean, after all, it was just a JOB INTERVIEW! That's what everyone on the Leftoids' side kept telling us. No need to grant a man the consideration of being innocent until proven guilty in a JOB INTERVIEW! No, no, no! Not necessary! JOB INTERVIEW!!!!!! Blah, blah, blah!
Equine Excrement! This was a carefully orchestrated hit job of the most devilish proportions! And I believe they expected that Republican Senators and other hanger-on politicians would tell The Donald to bail on this nominee, post haste once the initial accusation was made! That's what other spineless Republicans have done in the past when faced with allegations such as this, and the Leftoids knew that. And fully expected, I believe, they would this time as well.
But Trump didn't. And Kavanaugh didn't. And neither did McConnell or Graham or or any of his Happy Band of Warriors. Amazing.
They pulled out all the stops. They, organizations under the control of uber-Leftist billionaire George Soros and his ilk, gathered together their paid drones and unleashed them. They ADMITTED that these protesters were paid to do their dirty work. PAID! Professionally-made signs. Organizers with bull horns making their charges "repeat after me" marching orders so they'd know which Senators to harass inside the Halls of Congress! Oh yeah, and run out of restaurants and airports and theaters.
This may have happened before, but it was likely before the age of 24-hour news. And thus we're not aware of it. But we watched this whole thing unfold. We know what they did. And we know what they're telling us they're prepared to do: Impeach Brett Kavanaugh! After having stirred up the hapless weenies on the Left to a frothy frenzy, they're now reaping the fundraising rewards therefrom. Total hypocrites. How sad. How predictable...
They fully intend to retake the House of Representatives come November, and they just might. And Jerry Nadler (D-NY) would become the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. And he's already stated he intends to launch such an investigation against Kavanaugh once he's got that gavel in his hot, sweaty, meaty hands.
Please God, let that happen! I don't think these bozos have any idea of the feces storm they will have unleashed. Being from that part of the Country where pollsters don't call for opinions, and they wouldn't give them anyway, I can tell you the Very Same Wave that elected The Donald will likely sweep the Dumbass Dems into the Dustbin of History...
(No matter what happens, it'll be fun to watch, won't it?)
Yes friends, all we had to do was "convict" Brett M. Kavanaugh of "sexual impropriety" or "being hand-sy," or even a "youthful indiscretion," or something, and deny him - and Republicans - of that oh-so coveted seat on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Which was the whole idea, of course. They'd already given up on impeaching his knowledge, or his skills, or his abilities (he was arguably the very most qualified candidate in the entire Country), so they had to try and impeach his character.
And they're soooo afraid that a time might come when they could no longer legislate using Liberal judges "tweaking" the laws to suit their needs. Having lost nearly 1,000 state-wide elected seats during Obama's reign, passing laws through state legislatures has been nearly impossible for them up to now. Losing the Top Court for a generation or two was their worst nightmare, and that's for dang sure...
And they could have "convicted" Kavanaugh by simply permitting the Rule of Law to be ignored. Completely. Entirely. For the very first time ever. Simple, right? No more assumption of innocence until guilt is proven. Just go ahead and let Kavanaugh take the rap and thereby expunge the sins of all men, and mainly White Men, everywhere for every woman who was ever abused, groped, assaulted or raped. Or even whistled at or ogled.
He could have simply "taken one for the team." That's what the Democrats wanted. Really...
Now, everyone knows that HE didn't do the abusing and raping and assaulting. But HE should have been made to take the blame. I mean, after all, it was just a JOB INTERVIEW! That's what everyone on the Leftoids' side kept telling us. No need to grant a man the consideration of being innocent until proven guilty in a JOB INTERVIEW! No, no, no! Not necessary! JOB INTERVIEW!!!!!! Blah, blah, blah!
Equine Excrement! This was a carefully orchestrated hit job of the most devilish proportions! And I believe they expected that Republican Senators and other hanger-on politicians would tell The Donald to bail on this nominee, post haste once the initial accusation was made! That's what other spineless Republicans have done in the past when faced with allegations such as this, and the Leftoids knew that. And fully expected, I believe, they would this time as well.
But Trump didn't. And Kavanaugh didn't. And neither did McConnell or Graham or or any of his Happy Band of Warriors. Amazing.
They pulled out all the stops. They, organizations under the control of uber-Leftist billionaire George Soros and his ilk, gathered together their paid drones and unleashed them. They ADMITTED that these protesters were paid to do their dirty work. PAID! Professionally-made signs. Organizers with bull horns making their charges "repeat after me" marching orders so they'd know which Senators to harass inside the Halls of Congress! Oh yeah, and run out of restaurants and airports and theaters.
This may have happened before, but it was likely before the age of 24-hour news. And thus we're not aware of it. But we watched this whole thing unfold. We know what they did. And we know what they're telling us they're prepared to do: Impeach Brett Kavanaugh! After having stirred up the hapless weenies on the Left to a frothy frenzy, they're now reaping the fundraising rewards therefrom. Total hypocrites. How sad. How predictable...
They fully intend to retake the House of Representatives come November, and they just might. And Jerry Nadler (D-NY) would become the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. And he's already stated he intends to launch such an investigation against Kavanaugh once he's got that gavel in his hot, sweaty, meaty hands.
Please God, let that happen! I don't think these bozos have any idea of the feces storm they will have unleashed. Being from that part of the Country where pollsters don't call for opinions, and they wouldn't give them anyway, I can tell you the Very Same Wave that elected The Donald will likely sweep the Dumbass Dems into the Dustbin of History...
(No matter what happens, it'll be fun to watch, won't it?)
Saturday, October 6, 2018
Lady Di...
Well, kiddies, we've passed "cloture" on Kavanaugh. Barely.
Cloture means the Senate has secured enough votes from its members to cause the clock to start ticking on a 30-hour period before a final vote can be taken. That vote should occur sometime this afternoon, Saturday, to find out whether we have a new Supreme Court Associate Justice, or we have the beginnings of a New Civil War.
But while we await that rather monumental moment, and the Civil War to possibly start, lemme' take a trip with you back in time a bit so you can get as up to date on this little issue as am I.
In case any of you "normal" people out there in "normal"-land are wondering why Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) sat on the "Ford" letter for nearly seven weeks while the Kavanaugh hearings were underway, here's a little bit of info for your edification.
Feinstein has been the Senior Senator from California since The Flood. No, not quite, but nearly. She's decided she doesn't need any of that retirement thing and is therefore running for reelection. For the 15th or 20th time.
And although she's been a loyal standard-bearer for the Democrat Party for-everrrrr, she's being attacked now from the Far Left. One uber-Progressive bozo named Kevin de Leon is her opponent come November, and he's received the Big Endorsements - and the BigBucks - from everybody and his brother. She's being hung out to dry because she's too conservative! He's currently running ahead of her, so she obviously needed to swing for the fences. And boy Howdy, did she ever!
BTW, this de Leon guy is a piece of work, even for Taxifornia. Being 100% Mexican, he didn't feel his name, Kevin Leon, was sufficiently important-sounding for high political office. So he added a "de" to sound more Spanish. Yeah, like from Spain Spanish. You see why everybody but the super-rich and the dirt poor are leaving?
And so, friends and neighbors, she's fighting no-teeth and nails-on-a-blackboard to keep her job. So much so that she's proven herself willing to not only destroy one Judge Brett Kavanaugh's life, but the obviously challenged Ms. Ford's, too.
So, the Bottom Line, as they say, is this: Without concerning myself with whether or not Kavanaugh was a drunken, teen-age Rape Gang Lord, this whole mess could have been completely - and confidentially - investigated during the six-plus weeks Lady Di sat on the letter. And Ford could have remained anonymous, as she had requested. And Kavanaugh could have been exonerated without his family and his career being willfully, intentionally destroyed by Leftist goons.
And without legions of mindless drones patrolling the Halls of Congress, yelling and screaming and spitting and cursing at every Republican they could find. Not nice, folks...
But Feinstein is running BEHIND! She's currently 12 points downstream from de Leon, and needed to pull out all the stops. Whether or not she made the conscious decision to drop this letter bomb after the confirmation proceedings had ended, as a way to become relevant once again, or it was performed for - or at - her direction, she made it all about...HER...
But that wouldn't have done now, would it? Kavanaugh, and by extension, Trump, must be DESTROYED! He, and anyone else who might follow, are hereby warned that you don't want to get between a Democrat and power. Especially power they've lost, they believe unfairly, and desperately want back.
So that's where we are, children. If you like and approve the tactics Lady Di and her fellow Democrats have employed in this confirmation process, please vote for them come November.
And if you don't, well, you figure it out. But I'd like to offer up a little bit of prognostication for the glee of my loyal readers. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, this day, November 6th, 2018, it shall be forever and hereafter referred to as the First Day of the New Civil War..
Cloture means the Senate has secured enough votes from its members to cause the clock to start ticking on a 30-hour period before a final vote can be taken. That vote should occur sometime this afternoon, Saturday, to find out whether we have a new Supreme Court Associate Justice, or we have the beginnings of a New Civil War.
But while we await that rather monumental moment, and the Civil War to possibly start, lemme' take a trip with you back in time a bit so you can get as up to date on this little issue as am I.
In case any of you "normal" people out there in "normal"-land are wondering why Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) sat on the "Ford" letter for nearly seven weeks while the Kavanaugh hearings were underway, here's a little bit of info for your edification.
Feinstein has been the Senior Senator from California since The Flood. No, not quite, but nearly. She's decided she doesn't need any of that retirement thing and is therefore running for reelection. For the 15th or 20th time.
And although she's been a loyal standard-bearer for the Democrat Party for-everrrrr, she's being attacked now from the Far Left. One uber-Progressive bozo named Kevin de Leon is her opponent come November, and he's received the Big Endorsements - and the BigBucks - from everybody and his brother. She's being hung out to dry because she's too conservative! He's currently running ahead of her, so she obviously needed to swing for the fences. And boy Howdy, did she ever!
BTW, this de Leon guy is a piece of work, even for Taxifornia. Being 100% Mexican, he didn't feel his name, Kevin Leon, was sufficiently important-sounding for high political office. So he added a "de" to sound more Spanish. Yeah, like from Spain Spanish. You see why everybody but the super-rich and the dirt poor are leaving?
And so, friends and neighbors, she's fighting no-teeth and nails-on-a-blackboard to keep her job. So much so that she's proven herself willing to not only destroy one Judge Brett Kavanaugh's life, but the obviously challenged Ms. Ford's, too.
So, the Bottom Line, as they say, is this: Without concerning myself with whether or not Kavanaugh was a drunken, teen-age Rape Gang Lord, this whole mess could have been completely - and confidentially - investigated during the six-plus weeks Lady Di sat on the letter. And Ford could have remained anonymous, as she had requested. And Kavanaugh could have been exonerated without his family and his career being willfully, intentionally destroyed by Leftist goons.
And without legions of mindless drones patrolling the Halls of Congress, yelling and screaming and spitting and cursing at every Republican they could find. Not nice, folks...
But Feinstein is running BEHIND! She's currently 12 points downstream from de Leon, and needed to pull out all the stops. Whether or not she made the conscious decision to drop this letter bomb after the confirmation proceedings had ended, as a way to become relevant once again, or it was performed for - or at - her direction, she made it all about...HER...
But that wouldn't have done now, would it? Kavanaugh, and by extension, Trump, must be DESTROYED! He, and anyone else who might follow, are hereby warned that you don't want to get between a Democrat and power. Especially power they've lost, they believe unfairly, and desperately want back.
So that's where we are, children. If you like and approve the tactics Lady Di and her fellow Democrats have employed in this confirmation process, please vote for them come November.
And if you don't, well, you figure it out. But I'd like to offer up a little bit of prognostication for the glee of my loyal readers. If Kavanaugh is confirmed, this day, November 6th, 2018, it shall be forever and hereafter referred to as the First Day of the New Civil War..
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Wanna' Know How?
(Presuming a little bit of non-Kavanaugh news and opinion might appreciated about now, I offer up this little jewel for your Wednesday Morning reading pleasure...)
Wanna' know how our Federal Gummint could save more than $180 Billion Dollars a Year?
Well, children, here's how:
First, deep-six the Department of Education. Why, I ask rhetorically, do we need 4,000 highly-paid (average salary: $120,000/year), unionized Federal employees to help us poor plebes to educate our young? And why must they be unionized? Do they think they need protection from us, their employers? The American people? Are they afraid we'll mistreat them?
We have, for starters, local school boards to oversee the actions of each of the thousands and thousands of our schools across the Fruited Plain.
And then we have District School Boards to oversee the various groups of schools, usually numbering in the dozens each. These Boards dictate the curriculum to each of the schools they oversee.*
And then there are County School Boards. These Boards oversee the activities of the various School Districts within their various counties.
Continuing, we have State School Boards in every state, usually named something like the "State Department of Education." They oversee their county Boards.
So, my friends, and you ARE my friends, why could we POSSIBLY need 4,000 bureaucrats as far as 3,000 miles away from the classroom, five levels removed from little Debbie and Johnny and how they learn, telling us how to educate our children? The short answer is, WE DON'T!
And, for sweeteners, our Department of Education costs us a nice, round $68,000,000,000 a year, as of the most recent 2016 information. BTW, that's $Billion with a "B." Apparently you can't get more recent information from our Gummint about now much of our money they actually spend. But one thing's for sure: them's a whole of lot of Greenbacks!
Nowwwwww then, how about the Department of Energy? Good ol' Jimmuh Carter, the ex-President of these here United States, peanut farmer and Sunday School teacher, caused life to be breathed into this beast during the Energy Crisis of 1973 he created. Its stated purpose as an Agency was to reduce and ultimately eliminate our reliance on foreign oil. It didn't work.
Oh yeah, and the Dept. of Energy employs 13,206 more of those nice $120,000 a year folks, and burns up $115,000,000,000 a year! And, BTW, doesn't produce a single therm of energy!
So, kiddies, we could save nearly $200 Billion Dollars a Year and put 17,000 otherwise unemployable people out to pasture in one swell foop by just erasing these two unnecessary and duplicative Departments.
And if their union bitches about their termination with extreme prejudice, then I'd say maybe give them a choice: give 'em a little training and put them down on our Southern Border to help stem the flow of illegal aliens.
Like the idea? Call or write your Congressweenie. Today!
* 13 years of my having volunteered for a District School Board ought to add a bit of value to this opinion...
Wanna' know how our Federal Gummint could save more than $180 Billion Dollars a Year?
Well, children, here's how:
First, deep-six the Department of Education. Why, I ask rhetorically, do we need 4,000 highly-paid (average salary: $120,000/year), unionized Federal employees to help us poor plebes to educate our young? And why must they be unionized? Do they think they need protection from us, their employers? The American people? Are they afraid we'll mistreat them?
We have, for starters, local school boards to oversee the actions of each of the thousands and thousands of our schools across the Fruited Plain.
And then we have District School Boards to oversee the various groups of schools, usually numbering in the dozens each. These Boards dictate the curriculum to each of the schools they oversee.*
And then there are County School Boards. These Boards oversee the activities of the various School Districts within their various counties.
Continuing, we have State School Boards in every state, usually named something like the "State Department of Education." They oversee their county Boards.
So, my friends, and you ARE my friends, why could we POSSIBLY need 4,000 bureaucrats as far as 3,000 miles away from the classroom, five levels removed from little Debbie and Johnny and how they learn, telling us how to educate our children? The short answer is, WE DON'T!
And, for sweeteners, our Department of Education costs us a nice, round $68,000,000,000 a year, as of the most recent 2016 information. BTW, that's $Billion with a "B." Apparently you can't get more recent information from our Gummint about now much of our money they actually spend. But one thing's for sure: them's a whole of lot of Greenbacks!
Nowwwwww then, how about the Department of Energy? Good ol' Jimmuh Carter, the ex-President of these here United States, peanut farmer and Sunday School teacher, caused life to be breathed into this beast during the Energy Crisis of 1973 he created. Its stated purpose as an Agency was to reduce and ultimately eliminate our reliance on foreign oil. It didn't work.
Oh yeah, and the Dept. of Energy employs 13,206 more of those nice $120,000 a year folks, and burns up $115,000,000,000 a year! And, BTW, doesn't produce a single therm of energy!
So, kiddies, we could save nearly $200 Billion Dollars a Year and put 17,000 otherwise unemployable people out to pasture in one swell foop by just erasing these two unnecessary and duplicative Departments.
And if their union bitches about their termination with extreme prejudice, then I'd say maybe give them a choice: give 'em a little training and put them down on our Southern Border to help stem the flow of illegal aliens.
Like the idea? Call or write your Congressweenie. Today!
* 13 years of my having volunteered for a District School Board ought to add a bit of value to this opinion...
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Is it just me, or....
...would Judge Brett Kavanaugh have been better off if he'd taken little Crissy Ford for a nice long ride on a short pier that fateful night in 1981, or '82, or whenever, assuming it was at night, but we don't know for sure, it could have been in the daytime, but hey, who knows?
And then, being falling-down drunk, as he's accused of being every hour of every day now, in fact, they say, he's probably a full-blown alcoholic if the truth were really known, he'd driven off the dock and into the ocean and she'd drowned.
End of story...
No attempted assault, no attempted rape, no attempted murder. All felonies. All could have resulted in his failing to acceded to the SCOTUS, as well as him likely being impeached from the 1st District Court of Appeals, his current chair for the past 12 years, with distinction, and then sent to the Gray Bar Hotel for life. Nothing. She'd be dead just like Mary Jo Kopekne was dead, dead, dead. And then, later on down the line, he could run for President and be feted as the "Lion of the Senate."
I guess that where you stand...depends upon where you sit...
And then, being falling-down drunk, as he's accused of being every hour of every day now, in fact, they say, he's probably a full-blown alcoholic if the truth were really known, he'd driven off the dock and into the ocean and she'd drowned.
End of story...
No attempted assault, no attempted rape, no attempted murder. All felonies. All could have resulted in his failing to acceded to the SCOTUS, as well as him likely being impeached from the 1st District Court of Appeals, his current chair for the past 12 years, with distinction, and then sent to the Gray Bar Hotel for life. Nothing. She'd be dead just like Mary Jo Kopekne was dead, dead, dead. And then, later on down the line, he could run for President and be feted as the "Lion of the Senate."
I guess that where you stand...depends upon where you sit...
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