I'll Bet They're Good Swimmers.

So let us take a little break from the Election, okay?  Whether you were gratified beyond all explanation, happy that your Country has a chance now to regain its former status, pleased that we're all going forward toward a Bright, New, and Exciting Future,...

...or not.

Either way, I thought I'd give you something else to think about for the next couple of days.  Until I decide to puke forth another missive, that is.  So here goes...

I've noticed, Fellow Patriots, that we do not have a paucity of actors and actresses. 

In fact, we're told there are 32,345 of them.  Already famous, or not. quite. yet.  That's what SAG-AFTRA, their Union, to which they all pay dues, tells us.  

And 98% of them are serving you dinner at the local Ihop.

The other 2% are the ones who you see at the Oscars.  According to the IRS, these few are able to actually earn a living acting.  Memorizing the lines written by somebody else, and then spewing them out on cue.    

And some of those "2%" earn a grand living, indeed.  Tens of millions per movie.  You'd think if they're so very fond of Left-wing causes, they should be required to pool their earnings and throw a few crumbs to the others, right?

Did you know that the average home in Brentwood or Beverly Hills sits on about five acres.  More like a compound, right?  You'd think they'd gladly welcome a few dozen of their beloved "migrants" to pitch tents in their back yards.  With laundry and kitchen privileges thrown in. 

Anyway, these young folk come straight out of their high schools in Bumphuque, Ohio, where they starred in their high school plays.  They got the "big head" and decided they possessed that special quality which would make them a star.  So they came to Hollywood on the Greyhound bus to become the very next (______).  Singer, dancer, actor/actress.  Fill in the blank.

That's great.  To each his/her/its own.  But I've made an observation recently that might help to shape a young ladies life.  And feel free to pass it along if you agree.  Here is is: Don't come west unless you have gigonda bazooms.  Tasty melons.  Enormous jalonies.  Bloated breasts.  Or as one wag said in the vernacular, 

                       Big t*ts.

Have you noticed that AT&T did everything they could to hide Lili Vayntraub's enormous ti*s?  You know, the cute gal who serves as their spokesweenie?  And for as long as possible she was always filmed behind a desk.  But then they burst forth (pun intended) on the scene in one of her minor movie parts!  She's been blessed (or cursed?) with enormous breasts.  Which more or less guarantees she'll be put toward the front of the pack when casting time comes around.  And chosen for a tasty acting job ahead of all the others who have normal bazooms. 

(BTW, I have long thought we should identify women as "Breasted Americans."  They have such trouble on the Left these days trying to define what constitutes an actual "woman," doncha' know.  Maybe we should just change the name altogether.  Call them "Breasted Americans" and that should help to define them.  In this day and age, with so many men "identifying" as women, which is all that's necessary, we need to be sure and not hurt anybody's feelings, doncha' know...) 

Or has that "DEI" and "Equity" religion gone out of business? 

Now then, there are a legion of doctors who will gladly fit young ladies out with enormous boobs (the ones who will cut them off of confused pre-teens are right down the hallway).  A few thousand bucks and, VOILA!  They've got big breasts, too!  But I've discovered that those who bring those big t*ts with them to Hollywood tend to get the big jobs first.  Remember Norma Jean?  She came to Plasticville with Big Ti*s at the ripe old age of 17.  Within a week she was renamed Marilyn Monroe and was cast in her first movie.  

And I've noticed that those without the big hooters have to earn a few paychecks before they can whip out the plastic to pay for that plastic, right?  But if you show up with the goods, you're available from day one, right?  Look at what it did for Lili?  She's from Ukraine, fergodssake! 

And I've noticed also that young starlets to-be tend to take their clothes off and show their jalonies on the way up.  That helps them to get those cushy (but drafty!) jobs.  And that aging stars, those past their prime, the Sharon Stones, tend to take their clothes off and show their gigantic (sagging) Bazooms when they're on the way down.  Pun intended.  To help them pick up some meager jobs when their star has lost its lustre.  Just a fact of nature.  And of life.  

So, as a student of breasts (although an a*s and leg man, myself), I can tell you a fine face and some real talent is one thing.  A fine face, some talent and really big headlights with the high-beams on is quite another.  Right boys?  And girls?  And wannabe girls without the boobs?  So let's raise our glasses high and give a toast to Fine Funbags!  

And another thing.  I'll bet they're really good swimmers...

Having No Royalty of Our Own...

You know how those (not so) Jolly Olde Kings of England treated their court jesters?  Yeah, that's how we ought to treat our "celebrities."

Most don't know it but our movie industry started in New Jersey.  In the late 1800's.  Shortly after Edison invented Kinescope.  It was called "Fred Ott's Sneeze," believe it or not.  Then, following a string of silent cowboy movies, the bizz moved out West because of NJ's weather.  Never one of its good qualities.  If it has any good qualities.  I'm still looking.  But hey, if you know of one, dm me.

Anyway, "Hollywood" back then just sagebrush and sand and train tracks.  No people.  But it was enough to get it started.  And provided the seeds for a robust, now $35.3 Billion Dollar a Year Industry.

Oh yeah, as I stated up there in the title, we Americans don't have royalty.  And it seems that along with a deep-seated love of gold, we have a deep-seated need to be governed.  As one political wag once said, "Americans need to get what they voted for, good and hard!"  The Brits, from where we fled, have kings and queens and princes.  Why can't we have them and a Representative Republic, too, some may wonder?

Even the Brit's discards, Mzzz. Meghan and Harry, can't seem to find a way to fit in.  Even after being given $200 Million Dollars of Netflix' subscribers' money.  They think they're something special.  And some in America agree with them, just because they're sorta' kinda' royal.  Hmmmm.

And then we had the Election.  

The one where Mzzz. Harris brought in about 500 of our richest and most dolled-up "stars."  Starting with Oprah.  Who's worth $3 Billion Dollars.  And yet charged Mzzz. Harris $One Million Dollars to interview her (!).  And the JLo's, and the Beyonce's, and the Legends, and the Cardi B's, whatever that is.  They come down from on high to lecture us.  To teach us po' folks how we should vote.  And then return to their $30 Million Dollar mansions, driving their $3 Million Dollar Bugattis.    

I don't know about you, but that pis*es me off!  And it should have pis*ed off all those folks at Harris' concerts.  I personally think they attended those star-studded rallies to see the stars. 

We knew that.  She didn't know that.

And now we learn that Mzzz. Harris' Team said they were going to blow the $167,000,000 they had on hand this past October 16th.  They were going to "...spend it down to zero."  Well, it seems they blew past zero to the tune of another $20,000,000.  And how they're reaching out to those same "celebrities" to help retire the debt.  Stating, apparently, that it was to be used for "recounts."  

No "celebrities" to be found, as of this writing...

However, in a terrific troll, The Donald offered to throw them a bone and help pay off their debt, as his campaign has a bunch of money left.

And NOW we learn that Mzzz. Harris was paying for all those "celebrity" concerts.  Although many of the "celebrities" opted to donate their services, Mzzz. Harris still had to pony up for their crews and transportation and stage set-ups.  Running up to several $Hundred Thousand each.  Her Team decided that paying "celebrities" to put on concerts was the way to reach those as-yet unconvinced.  They proved wrong.  And it cost Mzzz. Harris campaign more than $50,000,000 of her donors' $Cash.  What fools.

Harris Team believed, and many on the Left believe, that we commoners look up to these "celebrities."  That we want to emulate them.  Hence, all the "influencers."  They think the more we know about them, where they live, and shop, and what they drive, the more we'll be slavishly smitten with them.  It didn't work.

So I think it's time we gather together as a Nation and start treating these condescending "celebrities" like they've been treating us.  Instead of us being subservient to them, I suggest it's time they become subservient to us!  Let's start treating them like Henry the Eighth treated his court jesters.  

For instance, they argued for Open Borders and Unlimited Immigration.  They own 5-acre compounds.  I think we could pack at least 50 illegals in each of their back yards.  They have pools back there, and BBQ's, and hot and cold running water, which is all these poor "migrants" need to keep body and soul together while they wait for deportation.  

This is Cher's opportunity to show us all how bleeding her heart really is.  She should step up and offer these services!  And if she doesn't, perhaps we should declare her back yard, and the back yards of all her tony friends, to be Public Domain.  And then pack them full of the illegals they so dearly love.

And how about T. Swift?  She owns like 15 houses.  She endorsed Harris last Summer.  She obviously embraces Harris' Open Border policy.  Just imagine how many illegals she could put up?  I'd say hundreds!  Maybe even thousands!

Think about it:  We're the folks who pay the inflated ticket prices at the theaters!  The folks who make it possible for them to live in their protective "bubbles."  It's time they came down from the mountain and rejoin us "normal" folks. 

In fact, I suggest we put together Teams to visit them in their walled-off compounds and make sure they're paying those Brown and Black people they employ enough, also.  And check their Green Cards to make sure they're legal.  And if they're not, we imprison a few JLo's, just to make the point.  Not for long, just a few months.

Now, I don't mind if these folks continue to make $20 Mil a picture.  Or $30 Mil!  But if they stop making us laugh, or cry, or whatever they're supposed to be good at, then we'll treat them like Hank the 8th treated his jesters.  Off with their heads!

Errr, maybe we just "cancel" them.

"The Last Full Measure."

More than 1,400,000 of your fellow Americans have died in the service to their Country.  Our Country.

On November 11, 1918, President Woodtrow Wilson inaugurated Veterans Day.  To consecrate and honor and provide eternal remembrance for those who fought and died in the service to this, the Greatest Country on Earth. 

Although you may not know it, Americans have fought in 12 major, and more than 100 minor wars since we declared our independence.  Starting with our first, the Revolutionary War.  Here is a list of the ones costing us the most lives:

     -  Civil War     620,975

     -  WW2          405,399

     -  WW1          116,516

     -  Vietnam*      58,218

     -  Korean*        36,516

In fact, our Country's soldiers and sailors and airmen have been dispatched to foreign wars for 222 of its 241 year history.  Without their wishes or stated goals or desires.  It's what their Country wanted.  And they answered.  And many of them died.

Just think of all the songs that weren't written.  All the plays that weren't staged.  All the inventions that weren't dreamed up.  All the medicines that weren't devised, and all the new benefits to mankind that weren't conceived.  In fighting and dying, these brave men and women were erased from the gene pool.  Leaving their moms and dads and brothers and sisters alone.  But richer because their son or daughter contributed to the safety and security of America.

15.4% of our poeple were directly engaged in the Second World War.  11.5% served in the Vietnam Conflict.  And then we decided that an all-volunteer military was the better idea.  And those soldiers and sailors and airmen protecting America today are older, and smarter, and better educated, and better trained, and more likely to make the military their career.  Yet only 0.78% of Americans are now keeping America safe.

And just so you know, more than 11,000 of our men and women have died in armed conflict just since 9/11.

There are 1,700,000 Veterans of military service in America today.  Please try and find one or two and shake their hands.  And thank them for sacrificing their time and effort and energy, and for risking their lives, for our benefit.  

This is Veterans Day.  Please try and remain worthy.

*    Both Vietnam and Korea were "Police Actions."  They apparently didn't rise in importance to the level of "wars."  Yet they were imporant enough to cost us the lives of nearly 100,000 of our families and friends and neighbors.

The End of an Error.

The Election is over.  The TV commercials have stopped.  And while I'm at it, those infernal Humana ads stop today as well.  Causing the volume on your TV set to go up by 20db.  Early Christmas presents, both.

Oh yeah, the Democrats invested $2,146,000,000 (that's with a "B") toward getting Harris elected.  I'm glad they're not my investment adviser.  The Dems had $146 Million on hand as of October 16th.  Yet, they blew through that $Two Billion and the $146 Million and still wound up owning another $20,000,000.  They're trying to raise enough donations from their Hollywood pals to retire that debt.  You know, the ones who endorsed her.  Good luck.  I think the celebrities have left the building...

Trump raised and spent $336,000,000 (with an "M") in the same period.  Which means Democrats had Seven Times More Money than Trump, and yet still Lost in a Wipeout!  The candidate, maybe?  And the policies?  Or lack thereof?

I think this Election also spells the end of celebrity endorsements.  At least it should.  If Taylor Swift, the Richest Celebrity on Earth, cannot sway an election with her endorsement, who can? *  It appears nobody.  It appears the Democrats may have just learned that.  Or maybe not.  We'll see if JLo or Beyonce or The Boss or Whomever is trotted out to cover the inequities of their next candidate.  

(BTW, I'm betting against their having learned their lesson.  I'm pretty sure they think they just needed that one more actor or singer or dancer to provide a ringing endorsment and everything would have worked as planned...)

The only thing that would have made Tuesday better for me is if Donald J. Trump had "identified" as a woman and run for POTUS as a woman.  So that the miscreants on MSNBC and CNN wouldn't have been able to say that the only reason he won was because of words like "misogynist" and "racist." 

Just think if The Donald had put on a tutu, as the Supreme Troll to all Democrats everywhere, those Upper East Side NYC Liberals and Malibu "Progressives" wouldn't have been able to play the gender identity card.  It would simply have come down to policies.  And capability.  And experience.  

I learned by 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday that Trump looked likely to eke out a victory.  A major surprise after being told it would take until Thursday or Friday to get the news.  And then by 11:00 we knew it was all over.  Trump had kicked their arses.  He'd taken Wisconsin, and then Pennsylvania.  Leaving Harris no pathway to victory.  Trump declared that victory.  Harris went to bed, leaving her supporters at the "victory party" with instructions to see themselves out.  Nice.

Tuesday was a day which will live in infamy.  Because the Democrat candidate and her "Corporate Media" handmaidens were convinced they'd emerge victorious.  And be one step closer to transforming America into the Socialist Paradise they've long desired.  Where they're the Big Dogs and you're the plebes.  The Worker Bees.  They snap their fingers, you hop to it.    

Yet, Big Orange whupped their arses.  Bigly!  He's won more than 300 Electoral College votes, and more than a 5% point advantage in the Popular Vote.  Winning that popular vote for the first time in more than a generation.  Those on the Left now know why he did rallies in NY, and NM, and VA.  He did so to run up the popular vote.  So that his victory would be seen as a mandate when he takes charge on 1/20/25.

If you'd been reading this humble blog, you'd know this upheaval was getting ready to heave.  That Trump had struck a nerve with those who'd been run over by Big Gubmint.  Those who'd been rude screwed, tripple-tatooed, rammed by the rusty rod of reality and f**ked by the fickle finger of fate.  Hispanics, Blacks, Asians, the young, the really old, women, the poor, Whites and the rich.  All of them joined the Trump Team.  

Plus add in the autoworkers and members of three other unions, contributing more than 250,000 of Trump's votes.  Unheard of. 

O'Biden should not have run in 2020.  He was feeble even then.  Recognizably so.  And in fact, he'd guaranteed his backers that he'd only be a one-term Prez.  He would just be the "bridge" to the next leader.  Yet, due to ego, I'm sure, he did.  And he messed up America terribly.  Their "Inflation Reduction Act" caused rampant inflation.  And that inflation robbed us of 20% of our savings, inflated overall costs 24%, drove up the cost of housing by 40%, car insurance by 50%, home insurance by 34%, energy by 29%, and transportation by 30%.  He did that.  

They did that.  

And once that fateful debate showed O'Biden to be non compos mentis, the Democrats pulled a coup on his a*s.  Showed him the door, they did.  The man who'd earned more than 14,000,000 primary votes.  Handing the campaign to a woman who'd never earned a single primary vote.  In any state.  A woman who dropped out of the Presidential campaign the day before the 2020 Iowa Caucuses.  She would not have been the V.P. candidate with O'Biden except for famously Black NC Congressman Clyborn.  O'Biden was fading.  Clyborn offered his help, but only if O'Biden would select "a Black woman" as his V.P.  And the only Black woman acceptable to him was Kamala Harris.  And the rest, as they say, is history.

I've told my friends and family that had this Election gone the other way, it could have spelled doom for the American Dream.  12 of the past 16 years have been under the management of the Democrats.  As Obama said following his election in 2008, "America is the greatest Country on Earth.  Join with me now as we begin to change it!"  

This Election stopped that change.  It sent the Obamas and the Clooneys and the Harrises and, finally, the Bidens to the showers.  Permanently.  You may never see any of them again.  Thankfully.  In the eternal battle between the "Makers" and the "Takers," the "Makers" won this round.  And if the Republicans do what they promised to do, they may well start a Dynasty.  Of small, responsive Government, reduced spending, a strong military, restored basic freedoms, a vibrant energy policy and a secure Border.  And if they do, the Democrat Party will shrink into nonexistence.  

Thank God we won't have to find out if I was right.  Now we can simply try and hold Trump to his promise:  "To Make America Great Again!"

*  Oh yeah, Swift's endorsement didn't stop me from being a Kansas City Chief's fan, either.  Even though she and Kelce are cohabiting.  He will leave someday, and take her with him.  But the Chiefs will still be here, and still be my Team.

It Was 16 Years Ago...

I woke up that morning really bummed.  And I mean REALLY bummed!

It was the day after the 2016 General Election.  Barack Hussein Obama had won the Presidency.  He'd soundly defeated Mitt Romney, perhaps the worst candidate for POTUS in a generation.

Until Kamala Harris, that is.

And since I'd been following the career of Mr. Obama long before his Presidential run, I knew that his being elected would cause a tremor within the firearms industry.  And the shooting sports in general.  

That's because Mr. Obama was caught on tape at a fundraiser in 2007 saying, 

"I definitely am for gun control.  I'd ban them all if I could!  I'd confiscate all of them if I could!  Just give me the power to try."  

He'd been a Community Organizer if you'll recall.  Signing up poor folks all around Chicago as new voters for the Democrat Party.  And when the door opened just an inch, he slithered on through...

Remember Jeri Ryan?  She was Droid No. 9 on "Startrek: New Generation?"  It was being filmed in Chicago, so it was convenient for her and her Illinois State Senator husband and family. 

But then they had a nasty divorce.  So nasty it had to be sealed.  The judge in the case said nobody would ever get to peak inside that divorce file again.  Exceppppt, when B. Hussein Obama found out about it, he got it unsealed.  Being a Democrat lawyer in a Democrat state, I guess it was easy for him.  He spread their dirt all over Chicago.  Hubby was forced to resign from the Senate.  Obama walked right in.  

Please welcome State Senator Barack Obama!

Oh but wait!  That wasn't enought.  153 days later he announced for POTUS.  Romney became famous for having a dog on the roof of his car.  The "Corporate Media," the marketing arm of the Democrat National Committee, made sure of that.  And a few short months later he was President-Elect Obama!

The morning after the Election I watched him conduct his first press conference on an airport tarmac.  He ended it with, "Ladies and gentlemen, America's the greatest Country on Earth.  Join with me now as we begin to change it!"  There were dozens of journalists in the gaggle.  Not a single one of them asked what he meant by that jarring comment.  But he went on to do just that.  And we are all witnesses...

So like I said, I was bummed.  So bummed I put a call into my good friend Geoff West.  He had helmed the most popular blog on the West Coast for years.  It's called, "A Bubbliing Cauldron."  He somehow figured out how to bring both the Right and the Left together in a sort of digital Townhall without offending either.  Not an easy task in what was becoming a "Purple" county.  Either then, or now.  (NOTE:  He still pens an offering occasionally.  Put the address in your notes.)  

So I told Geoff how depressed the results of the Election had made me.  And along with comforting me, he offered a suggestion:  Why not start a blog of your own, he asked?  I thought about if for days.  A way to state your opinion, he said, even if there's nobody around to hear it.  A way to offer a thought to those who may or may not have thought it.  A way to stand on a digital soapbox on a digital Town Square and maybe provide an idea or two to the masses? 

I figured, what the Hell?  What's to lose?  I had a following of sorts in the Costa Mesa/Newport Beach area.  Those who'd read my frequent offerings to the Daily Pilot newspaper.  So I jumped in feet first.  By the end of the week I'd launched 

"Chuckmeisterunleashed.blogspot.com"  

The title is a result of the nickname I earned from winning the 1968 European Billiards Championship.  The Germans coined the "Chuckmeister," so it stuck.  And that Daily Pilot newspaper I mentioned earlier fired me.  I was a columnist for that 100-plus year-old daily, their only Conservative columnist at the time, and they dumped me.  After I asked a simple question in my column:  "Do you think all those kids and those teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary might have lived, if one or more of them had been armed?"  It triggered the gun-averse editors of the Pilot so much they showed me the door.  

Oh yeah, the Daily Pilot is owned by the Lost Angeles Times, the most Liberal newspaper in the Western World.  

So being the "Chuckmeister," and being then "Unleashed" from my position, I launched my little blog.  Hoping to attract only those who might wish to consider another point of view.  Because I've got a lot of other views at which to point.  And I've been publishing my opinions there ever since.  

And as to this Election upcoming, I can only hope.  I think we're finally down to the "Makers vs. the Takers."  It's whether those who have made it and are making it, can withstand a full-scale assualt by the Left who wish to now take it from them.  If they win, we're no longer the Country as created and as envisioned.  It won't impact me so much, as I'm through contributing as a citizen.  Except for this humble posting, of course.

But to give the keys to someone who's never so much as run a lemonade stand, is rolling the dice.  When we don't have to take a risk at all.  But giving a vote to the unproductive is like asking two wolves and a sheep what to have for lunch.  I pray for our future.

So thank you Geoff, for your friendship and assistance throughout the ride, and thanks also to those who've put up with my sometimes sophomoric antics.  I'll try and do better in the future...

P.S.  I've posted regularly since then.  A total of 1,566 postings over that 16 year period.  I cannot predict how long I'll keep it up (sophomoric joke, there), but I promise to do so as long as I'm able...     

To Be Ignored...

There are 139,700 illegal aliens inhabiting California.  That's according to Homeland (In)Security.

That's one-third of our illegal "migrant" population Nationwide.  But our Mediterraean weather is a big draw for illegals, just as was is for us.  And so they come.  All day and all night.  Welcomed en masse by our BoyGuv Newsom.  Paid for with our Taxes.  They're everywhere.  And somebody needs to do something about it.  

Maybe the upcoming Election will have some effect.  We in the minority here certainly hope so.  I personally doubt it.

But a population never spoken about but that should be uppermost in our minds are our Veterans.  Those who've worn the uniform and carried the guns and fought and risked death to defend us Americans.  Unlike 99.53% of our population.  They are special people and we're treating them like dirt...

We have 1,700,000 Veterans in our Country.  So states the Department of Veterans Affairs.  And we have 39,500 Veterans on the streets of California.  Laying in back alleys and seeking shelter under underpasses.  And I, who study the news daily, have heard not a single word out of Sacramento or Washington or from the Candidates about helping out our Vets.  Giving them a hand up, not just a hand out.  We're giving illegals from 158 countries, so far, food, shelter, housing, legal assistance, medical care, and transportation to anywhere they desire.  By plane, train or bus.  How nice are we?  

But none of those things are being offered to our homeless Vets.  Shameful.

As a synopsis, and as a Veteran, I believe that the "unkindest cut of all," to paraphrase Shakespeare, is to be ignored.  To be treated as if they don't exist.  They just walk right past a Vet on their way to hug an illegal.  Perhaps because they don't think they'll get the vote of our Vets, and just might get the votes of illegals.  Today, tomorrow, or someday.  

They have so alienated their own base of voters with unfulfilled promises, they're having to import new ones from other countries.  All while ignoring Americans in need.  Is that the new Democrat Party?  Or is it the Democrat Party it's always been?

If this influences your vote come Tuesday, great.  But whether it does or not, call your Congressman.  Call your Senator.  Tell them to do something, anything, for those we've ignored.  Thankyou.

"Garbage"

You might be interested in learning just how much each of our two major political parties has raised in campaign donations during this Election Cycle.

So far, as of October 16th, the Democrat Party has raised $997,000,000 in political donations.  To elect Mzzz. Kamala Harris as President.

The Republican Party, however, came in a distant second.  It raised $338,000,000 during the same period to put The Donald back in the White House.  

So the Democrats have been given $One Billion Dollars to play with.  An all-time record.  Clearly, there are a bunch of techy and Hollywood $Billionaires who know they're not good enough to live that life.  So they purge their guilt by offloading oodles of $Cash to the bleeding hearts, so as to possibly get a dispensation.  Not from the Pope.  Or from Heaven.  But from there neighbors in the Bubble.  And the Democrats are the recipients of that largesse right now.  They should enjoy it while it lasts.   

And the Democrats have $118,000,000 in cash left on hand.  The Republicans, $38,000,000.  The Democrats have nowhere left to spend after blowing $cash like a drunken sailor.  They've bought out every single available TV ad spot in every single Battleground State.  They've already hired every influencer in the bizz to go out and toot their horn.  They've kissed the as*es of every Silicon Valley $Billionaire to censor Trump on Social Media platforms and give them cheap advertising.  They've so blanketed the networks with massive advertising their target voters are getting pis*ed!  

Pluuuus, they've trotted out every Left-wing Liberal to their rallies, presuming Kamala's star power isn't enough to bring out the crowds.  They even promised that Beyonce would perform in Houston, while all she did was show up and endorse.  And today J-Lo is putting on a show for Harris in Arizona.  That should bring out a crowd.  

To see J-Lo.  

And the Republicans, you'll note, are spending very little on advertising.  They don't have to.  They have The Donald.  He's the celebrity!  Notice he's captured the airwaves with his stunts and won't let go.  First he visits bodegas and fire houses and police stations in New York.  Then he shows up at the Al Smith Dinner when Harris sent along a cringy video.  And then he sat down for 3 hours with Joe Rogan without a sip of water or a pee break.  Harris couldn't make time.  Then he serves fries at MickeyD's.  And now he's riding shotgun in a garbage truck, trolling the Hell out of the "Mumbler-in-Chief," who once again uttered one of his patented verbal stumbles.  Upstaging Kamala's big speech on the Elipse.  Capturing the narrative for the second day.  While the White House tries to lie it out of the news.  

And all of that cost Nothing!  Squat!  Zip!  Nada!  Zero!  But yet he's got the microphone and won't let go!  He's owning the narrative every day!  

And Kamala?  She's yelling loudly and stamping her Jimmy Choos!  I'm afraid she's lost all her "joy."  

Trump's enjoying himself.  He was born to it.  He's the P. T. Barnum of our age.  A flawed knight to take to battle in our name.  He's worked morning 'til night for 59 days in a row.  If we didn't have him at this unreal time in our lives, we'd have to invent him.  

Kamala's hating every minute of it.  She believed those around her who told her she could do it.  That it didn't matter she's unqualified to run the Largest Business on Earth.  They could cover all that up with "Joy!"  Until she discovered she'd brought a knife to a gunfight.  She'll get spanked, and he'll gloat.  And I think she knows it.  All she wants to do is go back to her cushy life, with her Jewish lawyer husband carrying the load for awhile.  Not caring a whit about HAMASS or the Border or Abortion or how she grew up in a Middle Class Family.  

With her being a sad footnote to history...

The "Peter Principle."

Those of a certain age will remember a best selling 1969 book by Professor Laurence J. Peter, entitled, 

                   "The "Peter Principle."

In brief, it's a management concept that suggests that employees in a hierarchical organization will continue to be promoted, based upon performance in a previous postion, to their own level of incompetence.

We've all known somebody who was a rip-roaring _____, (fill in the blank).  But once promoted to the next level, proved to be a lousy _____.  Or a terrible ______.  Or an especially awful _______.  

And they usually languish in that position for the rest of their careers, stultifying the goals and objectives of those under them, until the day they get their gold watch.  A drain on organizational resources, and a source of inner rot.  Bad blood, rumors and hate.  Employees leave without leaving a reason why they left.  So no corrective measures are taken.  With lawsuits perhaps the next step.  

Especially today, when everyone has a cross to bear, and a chip on their shoulders.  And looking forward to suing the pants off somebody, just because they're pis*ed.  And 1,331,290  lawyers willing to take their cases.  They've discovered their education in basic life is lacking, posing a serious potential drain on the organization.  Poor performance, resulting in  depression.  It's like stomping on the brakes.  

I can give you a glimpse into my own life.  I was a terrific salesman, and was promoted to sales manager as a result.  But just because one can sell, does not mean one can manage the training and activities of those sales persons underneath them.  Many cannot.  And the organization will spend a lot of time and money correcting the problem.  

As it turned out, I could both sell and manage the activities of salesmen, so all worked out well.  Bullet dodged.  And I don't think I ever reached my own personal level of incompetence.  Because I've yet to be elected President of These Here United States.  Nomsayin?

Do you know anyone who has risen to their own level of incompetence?  Anyone who might have been promoted organizationally because of their class?  Or their race?  Or their status?  Or whom they know?  Someone who just happened to be at the right place at the right time, so a promotion occurred?  Anyone you've noticed that appears to unbiased eyes like they're in way over their head?  Can you think of anyone who just might have been escorted through law school, let's say, and eased through their jobs, let's say?  Which they may have gotten because of someone they knew?  Maybe someone they had a relationship with?  And then welcomed via the ballot box in friendly territory into one powerful position after another?  And continues to seek ever more power, seemingly unaware that they've already exceeded their own quite pedestrian limitations?  By a wide margin?  And a whole lot of people are witnessing it?

Remember what Clint said: "A man's got to know his own limitations."  

Or a woman...  

 

They "Parachuted In."

Throughout America's history, it seems that just the right person or persons will "parachute in" at just the right moment.  They arrived just when we needed them most, and changed the course of history...   

(BTW, Remember, America is consecrated in the Name of God.  So I think God had/has a lot do with providing us those "right persons," but that's just me.)

There's been a whole bunch of such heroes parachute in at just the right moment over our Country's history.  Those who could have turned their backs on us, but chose instead to try and help.  There were too many to mention.  There were 55 such heroes who stepped up and signed the Declaration of Independence, for example.  And 8 of them were hung by the British.  So stepping up often carried with it extreme personal danger.  And for them and their assistance to the Great Country I love, I offer my sincere thanks.  

But I will mention today two who've had the greatest impact on you and me of late.  Two who decided to put it all on the line, their personal freedom, their wealth and their time, and maybe even their lives, to help you and me.  Here are two who come to mind...

It wasn't so very long ago that we, you and me, the Taxpayers, were coughing up $76,000,000 (that's will an "M") for every ride our astronauts took to and from the International Space Station.  For years. 

And that check for $76 Million was written to one Vladamir Putin.  The Emperor of Russia.  And our enemy.  Because our Space Shuttle program was timed out, and we'd not bothered to replace it.  

Hey NASA, plan for the future much?   

In fact, we'd discontinued our own rocket program, leaving it to other countries to sell us a ride.  Like a very expensive Uber.  So buying a seat for every single one of our astronauts for years and years, was getting old.  And very, very expensive.  And frankly embarrassing.  So expensive that NASA was looking around for a solution.  So adhering to the old marketing adage, "Find a hole, and fill it!," a guy who would become a very famous entrepreneur stepped up to create a solution.

Elon Musk parachuted in!

Musk came from an abusive household.  His dad beat him regularly.  His mom was an alcoholic.  Musk left his home country of South Africa at the age of 17 with one suitcase and $500 American and caught a flight to the USA.  He gravitated to those with his near-equal in intellect and soon out popped PayPal (I know, I'm a pretty good synopsizer).  Which made him a multi-$millionaire.  Then Solar City.  Another few hundred $Million.  And then Tesla.  A few $Dozen Billion more.  And then The Boring Company.  Another few $Billion (there's a giant tunnel he dug all the way under city of Las Vegas).  And Neuralink.  To help paraplegics walk.  And then...Ta Da!  SpaceX!  In which he owns the controlling interest.  

Oh yeah, "Starlink" is another of Musk's creations.  If you're on top of Mount Everest or deep in the Amazon Jungle today, you can now call home because of the 6,000 Starlink satellites Musk put into place.  At SpaceX' sole expense.  And it's right now enabling the police and fire and first responders to communicate with each other following recent hurricanes.  

Millions are without cell or phone service in Western North Carolina and Central Florida.  But with Starlink, they're talking.  And saving lives.  Without any help from, or involvement with, our feckless Gubmint.  FEMA not involved.  Chose not to be.  And oh yeah, Musk provided the Starlink equipment for free.  That's pretty remarkable stuff...  

He even figured out how to make booster rockets fly back to their home base and land, ever so gently.  Almost ready for the next mission.  500,000 pounds of Falcon Super Heavy Booster Rocket "caught" by the spindly arms of the 400' tall tower from which it had just launched!  You might have seen it!  It was stupendous!  Reducing individual flight costs now from $600,000,000 to $60,000,000.  

And the duration between flights using that booster from months to weeks.

Musk's SpaceX is now responsible for more than 80% of all the world's rocket launches.  Even the one to rescue the astronauts left stranded by Boeing.  Musk's SpaceX received $1.6 Billion dollars in funding from NASA to develop its Falcon 9 rocket system.  Boeing got $4.6 Billion Dollars in funding to be SpaceX' "back-up," just in case Musk couldn't produce.  To call upon in case Musk's company fails.  And Musk is now doing the backing up!

Very quietly Boeing has abandoned its rocket program, taking a write off today of $250,000,000.  And at a cost you and me of some $Four Billion Six Hundred Million Dollars.

And lastly, Musk paid $44 Billion Dollars for Twitter.  Which was worth somewhere between $10 and $15 Billion at the time.  He paid the premium, in his words, "To preserve our Freedom of Speech."  And he has.    

It turns out one man can have a positive impact on our society.  On our individual lives.  And Elon Musk is one of those men...

                  /////  +++  \\\\\

America had been on a glideslope to socialism since Woodrow Wilson was elected President.  More than 100 years ago.  And every single Democrat President since has further aided that effort.  Continually eroding our individual freedoms while enriching and empowering the "Permanent Government" in Washington, D.C.

(210,000 Gubmint employees live within the "Beltway" around D.C., BTW.  And they're going to be there long after the next President and his Team leaves.) 

There's been little the occasional Republican president has been able to do to stop it (Republicans have had the White House only 4 out of the past 16 years...just so you know whom to blame.). 

But I doubt our Founding Fathers could have imagined that we'd elect an aging reprobate, under investigation for graft and corruption, who trips going UP the stairs, and could barely read a TelePrompTer.  And mumbled when he did.  

Or a Vice President schooled in the very worst aspects of uber Left-Wing San Francisco, scorched-Earth, soak the rich politics.  And then chosen - in a coup - to replace the guy who got 14,000,000 votes, without her ever having received a single one.  Not in the Primaries, not ever.

A woman who is anti-police, anti-business, anti-gun, anti-Border Patrol, anti-gas and oil, and anti-Israel.  And because the Democrat Party couldn't hide their mumbling President until past this coming Election like they did in 2020, they were forced to annoint her as their chosen, "cough, cough," leader.   

And then a builder $Billionaire named Donald J. Trump parachuted in.  To try and "Make America Great Again."    

Donald J. Trump came down that golden escalator back in 2015 having turned his back on the Democrat Party.  A Party he'd backed with his votes and his money for more than 40 years.  He was a two-time recipient of the NAACP's Man of the Year Award, BTW.  An 8-time recipient of the "Builder of the Year Award."  A 3-time recipient of "Man of the Year Award" from Bnai Brith, NYC's largest Jewish organization.  Those are Black and Jewish organizations, BTW, which should counter some of those "racism" accustions.  Oh yeah, he used to have a Black girlfriend and his daughter's married to a Jew...

A man who'd changed the skyline of New York all by himself.  A man who owns a winery, and started an airline, and owned a major-league football team, and currently owns a suite of famous golf courses around the world.  And 5-Star hotels on six continents.  A man who flits around on his own private $100 Million Dollar airplane.  This man decided he didn't like the glideslope America was on.  So he risked his fortune and his legacy and what little time he had left on you and I.  The American People.  And we voted him in.  Can you remember that day?

On Inauguration Day, 2017, Donald J. Trump gave his acceptance speech.  There were no Democrats in the audience.  They'd all gone to a bar or something, literally turning their backs on the incoming President's first day in office.  And the New York Times called for his impechment on that very same day.  Just because.  "Why wait,?" they said...  

Trump has been impeached by the Democrats 3 times.  Unsuccessfully.   He's been slandered and libeled on a daily basis for 9 years.  N.Y. State's loudmouth racist Laeticia James ran for Attorney General on the promise she'd arrest and jail him.  For whatever.  Just because.] she didn't like him.  And she did.  

He's been charged with four felonies, but only after having declared himself for President.  He's been convicted of two bogus crimes, and one paperwork mistake his lawyer made that's cost him more than $550,000,000.  So far.  The single largest civil fines ever leveled against a single person in our Country's history.  

And the Supreme Court just said as much.  And will likely overturn both the fines and the convictions...    

The "Lawfare" against him was designed to bankrup him, or jail him, or both.  To hamstring him while trying to run his campaign.  It's only served to make him more popular with the American people.  They've seen what's happened and they know he's being crucified.  He's been the victim of 3 attempted assasinations, including an ongoing threat on his life from Iran.  A State Sponsor of Terrorism.  Word has it his fortune has been more than halved by his efforts on our behalf.  He's lost $Billions since he became our Standard Bearer.  He's additionally been forced to spend more than $50,000,000 on legal fees!  $Fifty Million Dollars!  His whole family has been the subject of an ongoing effort by our "Corporate Media" to have him - and them - eliminated.  

With extreme prejudice.

It seems that if the Democrats can't convince you they're right, they'll just go ahead and try and kill you.

Whether you like Trump or not; whether you buy Trump's brand of politics or not;  whether you think Trump's a bloated gasbag blustering orange philandering misogynistic racist money-grubbing fool, or not; whether you want Trump to be your next President or not, you must admit he's the only man in America risking everything he's got to try and stop us from becoming Canada.  Or England.  Or maybe France.  Or maybe Venezuela...

You can vote come November 5th for the candidate of your choice.  But maybe you might consider who's invested the most to try and win that vote.  You could vote for Harris, whose thin resume and minimal accomplishments are oft repeated.  I won't do so again here.  

All I can say is if she wins I may have to have my eardrums removed.

Or you could vote for a guy who built the skyline of New York City, helped to turn the Supreme Court Conservative; helped return the vote over abortion to our states, where it belongs; passed the single biggest tax break for individual families in American history; has managed to suffer through an entire year of Lawfare by O'Biden's Justice Department, which no other human could have withstood; has been fined more than any other American in history; works for us for free; and is forced to vanquish our "Corporate Media" and our "Social Media" to become victorious, for us.  

Like him or not, he's sort of our appointed soldier, our
"Sir Galahad," our "Rooster Cogburn," fighting our battles no matter the personal cost or risk.  

And Elon's voting for him, too!

These two men parachuted in, just in time, in my estimation, to try and put our Ship of State back on the Right Track.  When no one else either could, or would.  And now it's up to you.  Good luck.  We'll know what kind of an "America" we have on the morning of November 6th... 

A "Strategic Truce."

Liberals and "Progressives" and socialists and Marxists and fascists and communists are apparently dead-set on killing their unborn children.

We know that because abortion comes in #3 in the polls after the economy and the border as the major topics on our citizens' minds.

Some of us believe that every state should offer as-needed abortion services.  As was guaranteed by "Roe."  Whether the states' majority voters agree with that decision or not.  

And some of know that Planned Parenthood has killed more than 60 million pre-borns so far, and that our Government gives it more than $400 million a year.  That's what some people are concerned about, and will bring those concerns into the upcoming Election.

The Democrats (Liberals/"Progressives") want to be able to abort their fetuses up to and including the third grade.  Republicans (Conservatives) would prefer to never abort a pre-born baby, except for the life of the mother.  "Roe v. Wade" which established the abortion "rules," was struck down by the Supreme Court recently.  Because it was faultily created.  The most Liberal Supremes dug into the Constitution 50 years ago until they found the issue of "privacy."  Which was imputed.  Meaning it did not exist.  And upon which they based "Roe v. Wade."  

It was flawed, and everybody knew it.  But succeeding Courts were too scared to upend it.  And then along came Trump.  He was able to seat 3 Conservative judges, who overturned "Roe."  Finally.  Thus returning the issue to the various states.  Which is where it was before "Roe," and where it legally belongs now.  

Whether you like it or not.

If your state is Liberal, like California or New York, or Illinois, then you can abort-away.  Nobody's stopping you.  And about half the states fall into that category.

If your state is Conservative, then likely it will have voted for restrictions on the taking of a pre-born life.  And if you happen to be a Liberal living in one of these Conservative states, you can either, a) move to another state (Vote with your feet!); or b), you can take our BoyGuv up on his offer to spend our Taxpayers' hard-earned money against our will and fly you out for an all-expense paid abortion.  And most likely some excursions and entertainment thrown in.  

Or the fat guv from Illinois, who's spent $400 Million of his own Hyatt hotel fortune to buy that office, is all for abortion anytime.  No 3rd grade limitations for this guy.  They'll offer you a free abortion, and a plane ticket to get there, and even throw in a bit of tourism.  Lincoln's home, maybe?  

So I'd say the very best plan is to simply declare a "Strategic Truce."  Sort of like that line separating North from South Korea.  Simply let those who wish to kill their kids, kill their kids.  Conservatives will continue to value human life while Liberals will use PP like birth control.    

It will only take one or two generations before they abort themselves into unimportance.  Irrelevance.  Superfluousness!  And then we won't have to continue having this Godfersaken' conversation for another Election cycle... 

The More They Know Her...

...it could be the less they like her.

I believe this is one of those situations where they tried to "hide her in the basement," like they did with her boss, "Mumbles" O'Biden.  To keep her hidden, at least verbally, until after the Election.  So that they could prevent those ubiquitous "word salads" for which she's become so (in)famous from tumbling from her unprepared mouth.  

To think, a lawyer who can't talk on her feet!  Politics was all that was left for her, I guess.

Harris' handlers want this Election to be over.  Quickly!  Before Harris exposes herself to be a soulless, talentless, witless, humorless, San Francisco socialist, masquerading as a moderate Democrat.  

A woman who graduated in the bottom half of her law class.  From a law school ranked #80 of America's 127 law schools, to make it even worse.  No wonder it took three tries for her to pass the Bar!  A woman who's never owned a business, nor hired anyone on her own dollar, nor signed a check on its face.  Put simply, she's never had a private sector job.  

Except that summer job at MickeyD's, which she either had or didn't have.

This is a woman who crawled her way to the top under the then-married "tutelage" of SFO's Mayor Willie Brown.  For years.  A shoo-in because of her ability to be "Brown" when being an "Indian" brought in California money and votes, and "Black," for her less well informed electorate.  

She actually believes that oil and gas will end the Earth and kill us all in a fiery Hell.  Thus, fracking is out.  Except it's "in" until the Election is over.  

And that prisons are bad so we should close them down and let everybody out.  Remember, she was a major contributor toward helping rioters make bail in Minnesota back in 2022.   The ones who Gov. Timmy Walz didn't stop burning down Minneapolis for more than 3 days.  

And that guns should be confiscated.  "Mumbles" made her  "Firearms Czar" just a month ago.  Adding to all her other "czar-ships."  

And that Prop. 47, the stupid law that permitted unfettered shoplifting in California back in 2014, was just great!  In fact... 

...she authored and sponsored the Bill while serving as CA's Attorney General!  

(BTW, Prop. 36, which would undo the worst aspects of Prop. 47 outlined above, is on the ballot this November 5th.  It would give Kamala the symbolic Middle Finger she deserves by cleaning up the mess she left us.  And it's leading in the polls by a wide margin.  Think about that major rebuff as you prepare to vote...) 

And now, after having ignored them for years, and realizing she's losing Black votes in the polls, she's openly pandering to Black men.  Offering unconstitutional giveaways like free, no-recourse loans to start marijuana dispensaries (Black only, how humiliating!), and $25,000 no-recourse loans to start a business (Black only, how infuriating!).  Completely unconstitutional.  

Do you even hear yourself?

She, Kamala Harris, doesn't have the verbal chops to actually conduct a press conference (none in the past 93 days, and counting).  And the People are beginning to notice.  Even her "friendly" interview on CBS turned into a train wreck.  They had to edit her answers to make her look semi-intelligent.  And then got caught with their hand in the cookie jar.  And yet they still won't release the actual transcript of the interview.  

CBS is no longer the Network of Edward R. Murrow.  It's now nothing but a newsmagazine like TMZ.  

And we just learned that her NBC "Town Hall" in Michigan a couple of days ago was being conducted using "pre-determined" questions.  Meaning they managed to say "The quiet part out loud."  Harris had the questions before they were asked!  And NBC has now lowered itself to CBS' level.  As in, the basement.  We've long suspected that our "Corporate Media" is nothing but an extension of the Democrat National Committee.  And now they're proving it.  Don't ever believe a word CBS or NBC has to say.  On any topic.  

So when she'd delivered the same campaign speech, with the same exact words, at the same tempo and at the same decibles, for the dozen-th time in six states, the People began to notice she's a phony.  She's memorized a stump speech written for her by her Hollywood pals, who know she cannot be permitted out alone at night.

Speaking of which, do you ever wonder why these Hollywood folks openly express their political views, perhaps not knowing that by doing so they're pi*sing off half of America?  If you ever suspected that our "stars" may be dumber than a stump, they're now proving it, as we speak. 

I don't think they're even talking to us.  I think they're talking to each other. 

So once her team had begun to notice Trump was coming up in the polls and that Harris' initial campaign boost, and its "joy," had begun to wear thin, they started putting her on podcasts.  Like, "Call Her Daddy," fergoddsake!  And friendly night time TV (all but "Gutfeld" is friendly night time TV!).  Left-leaning outfits that would play along by agreeing not to challenge her weak abilities (and by extension, her weak mind, we can surmise).  

And then all of a sudden us prognosticaters began to notice something that's only happened a few times in past presidential campaigns.  

"The more they know her, the less they like her."

     -  It happened with Walter Mondale (D-MI) in 1984.  He had a mental breakdown on the air.  What a Wuss!  Reagan won 49 states! 

     -  It happened with John (Lurch) Kirby (D-MA) in 2004 ("I actually voted for the bill before I voted against it!").  Born on third base, thought he'd hit a triple.    

     -  It happened with Jimmuh Carter (D-GA) in 1981.  He did to our economy what O'Biden/Harris just did to ours.  And Reagan mopped the Electoral College floor with him.

     -  It happened with smarmy Mitt Romney and his famous dog on the roof (R-UT) in 2008.  I think we're all happy he lost.

     -  It happened with Gov. Dukakis (D-MA) in 1984, when he drove that dumb tank to a hugh electoral loss.  Looking for all the world like Howdy Doody.  

It happened with Hillary, too.  "A basket of deplorables!"   People didn't like her.  And still don't.

And it even happened with Trump in 2020 (R-FL).  Wouldn't you like to have some "mean Tweets" right about now?). 

And now it's happening again.  Harris' shrill, nasal voice, coupled with her maniacal laugh, would be one thing, if she were only smart.  And also well versed on the subject matter, which it seems she refuses to study.  And able to spar on her feet.  I think they knew right away after they'd pulled a coup on O'Biden that they'd jumped from the frying pan and into the electoral fire.  They discovered it doesn't matter what color she is, the People are beginning to notice, she's in waaaay over her head.

And there's one more thing (you're noticing that I write like I talk?  Sorry, I know no other way): 

Recent polling shows that 71% of the American People "...think we're headed in the wrong direction."  That's two-out-of-three.  They're trying to tell us something...

I don't do predictions.  I just provide data.  Data from which you can draw your own conclusions.  I know I've drawn mine.  So now I'll pop a pop-top, grab a bag of Fritos, turn on the Telly and wait for the all-out, full-blown Revolution.  The one that will occur if Trump wins, or the one that will occur if Trump loses...  

Boucoup $Bucks...

I love football.

Have my entire life.  As a matter of fact, I occupied seat 54-03 at Super Bowl III.  The Kansas City Chiefs destroyed the Minnesota Vikings 26 to 10.  Lenny Dawson completed 16 in a row for a then NFL record.  Oh yeah, my seat, on the 54 yard line, cost me a whopping $55.00.

But I was a' wonderin' today whether we're fans of our favorite football teams, or of the players that play for them.  Or the town.  Like, it's hard to be a Rams fan and then move to Jacksonville, and not root for the Jaguars.  

Nomsayin?

Yes, fellow Patriots, I was a fan of the Chiefs during the decades between winning spells.  Still rooted for them.  Because they're from K.C.  And I was born in K.C.  So there.

But wait!  The Chiefs were formed in Dallas, Texas.  By the Hunt Brothers.  They also owned almost all the silver in America at one time.  But Dallas must have pis*ed them off 'cause they moved the Team to Kansas City.  And changed its name from the Dallas Texans to the K.C. Chiefs.  

That left a vacancy in Dallas, which the NFL quickly filled with the Football Cowboys.  In exchange for boucoup $bucks from Jerry Jones.  And the rest is history.  

But some of our teams' history isn't quite so simple.  Remember the Raiders?  They were put together in Oakland, California more than 50 years ago.  Its owner, Al Davis, moved the Team to Lost Angeles before it was "Lost."  Because it agreed to give him boucoup $bucks.  And then, Oakland wooed him back with more boucoup $bucks.  And then, Lost Angeles wooed him back with even more boucoup $bucks.  They should have bought a chunk of U-Haul, fergodssake!  They now play in Las Vegas, because they not only built them a new stadium, they gave the Davis family many more boucoup $Bucks.

(BTW, you can insert "Boucoup $Bucks" as the grease that oils up the skids in movements between towns from now on.  We'll call it "BB.")

Remember those Rams?  Oh yeah, Georgia Frontiere, a really good, ummm, dancer, married the Rams' owner.  And then some say she drowned the old dufus in the surf.  And then she moved the Team to St. Louis, giving L.A. the finger as she left.  For, well, $76 Million of those BB's.

How about the Baltimore Ravens?  Art Modell, the owner of the Cleveland Browns, decided that he didn't like the weather in Cleveland anymore.  So he loaded up the entire Team, under cover of darkness, and moved it to Baltimore.  Why?  Because Baltimore gave it many BB's.  Hey Cleveland!  Screw you!

Houston Oilers?  Owners moved the Team to Nashville, Tennessee as the Titans.  And then Houston got an expansion team from the NFL, now named the "Texans," and lots of BB's to salve their wounds...

The Arizona Cardinals?  Do you recall when it used to be the St. Louis Cardinals?  For more than 50 years?  The owner of the Cards took some of that BB and moved to  Phoenix.  Leaving an opening for L.A. to move to St. Louis.  St. Louis got screwed, which is how they got the Rams.  

Are you getting dizzy yet?

If you're getting the inference here that towns don't own teams,* but that money-grubbing owners do, you're picking up what I'm laying down...

Remember the San Diego Chargers?  Yeah, well their owner tried to float a new stadium bond issue.  The townies in S.D. voted "No."  So in a fit of pique, and in exchange for a bunch of BB's, he moved the Team to L.A.  Leaving San Diego without a team for the first time in decades.  

Oh yeah, the Portsmouth, OH Spartans moved to Detroit and became the Lions way back when.

The New England Patriots moved to Foxborough from Boston.

The Baltimore Colts moved to Indianapolis, opening up a spot for the Browns to move to Baltimore.  Really.

There are others, but I'm taking pity on you.  So just remember, when you're cheering for the "Pumpkin Center Fuschias," you're really cheering for the player.  The one who passed to the other player, and that other player who caught it.  

And remember, each of those players is a $Millionaire.  That's starting wage.  They have to suffer for awhile to prove they're star quality.  They they start to rake in the BB's.  And each of those players has an agent, who takes a cut.  And a publicist, who's job it is to make his player famous.  And the guy who takes care of his houses, and his cars. And his lawyer, who gets him out of paternity suits.  And his wife.  And his girlfriend.  

So each of these folks acts as a team of, by, and for the player.  Who moves from team to team over his professional career.  And takes his entourage with him.  Including his wife and girlfriends.  If he's really good he'll make $50 or $100 million over his career, and struggle to keep any of it once he retires.  

Remember I said we cheer for the guy who threw the pass and the guy who caught it?  Enjoy the moment, because the odds are, neither of them will be a member of the "Fuschias" next year...

Sorry if I burst any bubbles.  Just watch football as the spectacle it is.  It's 1,800 professional athletes sacrificing their bodies for 32 teams, in exchange for oodles of BB's.  And for team owners who are raking in BB's.  While shown on TV networks, earning major-league BB's.  

Oh yeah, the Kansas City Chiefs at 6 - 0, is our only undefeated team...

*    With exception of the Green Bay Packers, which is owned by more than 400,000 individual share holders.  Besides a good chunk of Green Bay's 250,000 residents, its share holders are also spread all over Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota.

The MinWage...

Did you ever ask yourself why the Gubmint is involved in setting, and enforcing, the Minimum Wage?  

Inserting its Heavy Hand between the worker and his employer?  Acting as deal-maker for every individual hiring decision.  Who appointed them to do that?

The MinWage is very simply the Gubmint deciding it has authority over every aspect of our puny little lives.  

Including where, and for whom, and at what wage.  Forcing  employers to do as it says.  First about this, and later about everything.  Let's take a hard look at it to help fuel our hatred:

The Minimum Wage was established as a part of FDR's 16 year assault on American's individual freedoms.  All excused because he was ostensibly attempting to help America out of its Great Depression.  First came the "National Industrial Recovery Act" of 1938.  A part of FDR's "New Deal."  And later the "Fair Labor Standards Act" of that same year.  They set the Minimum Wage at $0.25.  That was the Gubmint playing winners and losers, trying to punish the so-called "robber barons," who were exploiting the poor.  These laws were designed to help "establish a floor on wages to help folks out of poverty."  You can do a lot of damage with the very best of intentions...

As if its the Gubmint's place to micromange such things.  But as you can see, it's been doing it anyway for more than 85 years.

California established a MinWage back in 1916, if you're interested.  It established that MinWage at $0.16 an hour.

But the question I'm asking today is why Gubmint assumes it has both the authority, and the reason, to insert itself between a ready employer (buyer), and a ready employee (seller).  Isn't it a deal, a contract, struck between them, and them only?  

How is it that they each have a "silent partner" who presumes to set the price, the terms, and the conditions, under which the employer can employ, and the potential employee can accept that employment, before they can go to work?

It's very simple:  The Gubmint thinks the lowly worker is stupid.  Too stupid to find a job without being screwed.  So he needs the Gubmint to hold his hand.   

And that the Gubmint believes the employer is a rapacious slaver.  And I don't like it!

I should add about here that I owned and operated my own business, in the State of California, for nearly 40 years.  Being able to do that in California should get me sainted, but that's for another posting.  What you need to know is that for every dollar spent in wages, there's another $0.43 spent in Unemployment and Workers Compensation Insurance.  Which the State mandates.  And With 500,000 fast-food workers having just been given, GIVEN a 25% bump in pay, by the GUBMINT of California, to try and win votes.  Without regard for the damage it would do.  This should make you gasp at the Legislative overreach.  Whether you're a Liberal or a Conservative.  

And if it doesn't, you're a part of the problem...  

People of Color...

The racial problem in America was pretty much solved until one B. Hussein Obama was immaculated.

You may recall his words to a group of journos a few days later.  He said, "America's the greatest Country on Earth.  Join with me now as we begin to change it."

Funny, not a single member of our vaunted "Press" asked him what he meant by that...

Among his first actions as our new POTUS was to host a "Beer Summit" between a White cop and a Black college professor.  Obama caused a racial upset around the incident and then tried to put a Bandaid on it.  He inserted himself into a misunderstanding, which he branded racism.  When it wasn't.  Remember, Fellow Patriots, Obama was a Community Organizer in Chicago before he wangled his way into a Senatorship.  And then President 157 days later.  Look this all up if you've somehow lost faith in my ability to research.

Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife Lady Bird forced the "Great Sociaty Program" into existence back in the '60's.  And it was designed to salve all the wounds left by racial strife.  And we've dedicated more than $6 Trillion Dollars toward that effort since.  And it worked.  The problem was resolved.  And then Obama burst upon the scene.  To our mutual disadvantage.

And so now we have the term, "People of Color."  It's always used to try and segment Black people as "Black people," not just plain old 'Murican "people."  We're all Americans.  Citizens.  With an ownership interest in the welfare of our Country.  If you get wounded, I should bleed.  If I need help I should be able to count on you.  As neighbors in a Great Land.

It used to be that way.  It was when I was growing up.  It's been lost.  Or taken away from us.  We should seek to get it back.  At all costs...

I found it to be that way in the Army.  There were no Blacks or Whites or Browns or Yellows or Reds in the Army.  There were just guys who could save your life.  Just like there's no athiests in foxholes, there's no room for racism in the military.  You try it and you'll get your face rearranged.  By your fellow soldiers.  And then busted in rank by your superiors.  

So I come home to what, this?  Policial action committees doing their best to resegregate our society?  Doing everything they can to divide us up into racial groups?  And a President dedicated to "Community Organizing" America?  Like Harris' promise to help Black men open marijauna dispensaries?  Only Black men?  And promising to give them $25,000 "forgivable" loans to start businesses?  Only Black men?  

I don't stand for it.  I won't stand for it. 

Among the things that make this old reprobate pi*sed to the "nth" degree, if you haven't figured it out, is hearing some race-baiting blowhard mouth the words, 

               "People of Color."

This is a phrase used by Black minorities to demand equality be regained when none has been usurped.  To try and force Black people into thinking like tribal members and not individual citizens.  It's nothing but inverse racism.  It's attempted to have Blacks circle the wagons and vote as a bloc.  Forget your pocketbooks!  "They" hate you, whoever "they" may be, so vote for us!  And then the Election will be over and they'll forget you exist.

I don't hear Brown minorities demanding that we give favors to "People of Color."  Nor do Yellow people.  And nobody gives a dayummm what Red people think.  Or Pacific Islanders.  Because they don't vote as a group, and there's not so many of them.  But there are millions of Blacks,* and they're ripe for the picking.

The aforementioned Yellows and Reds and Browns have colors.  And I, The Chuckmeister, have a Color as well.  I am a sort of Medium Tan.  I get a little Browner in the Summer, a little Tanner in the Winter.  But I am Colored.  Just like the Black folks.  So I'd like them all, especially Black folks, 

  TO STOP TALKING ABOUT COLOR!

In fact, I'd like all references to the Color of individual Americans to be stopped.  Excised.  Eliminated.  Disused.  Avoided like the plague.  It should not be used in print, on the airwaves, or in the "Corporate Media."  Only when a criminal suspect is involved should the race of the perp be used.  And only then as a descriptive.  We should otherwise be forced to guess the race of a person, if we're even interested.  Because it's otherwise not important.  

Barry Obama's a racist.  He was caught talking down to his "brothers" recently, demanding that they vote "Black."  Because so many of them have awakened to reality.  They're starting to think for themselves.  The polls show it.  

And so are the Jews.  A reliable Democrat voting bloc for generations.  Now, after witnessing O'Biden/Harris mistreat Israel, trying even to micromanage their fight for existence, they're starting to figure out that they've been played for suckers.  Only pursued at Election time.  They've been getting squat for their votes and they know it.  An alarming percentage of them are thinking maybe it's time to try a different flavor. 

I've been told that if a Republican candidate for President gets anything more than 20% of the Black vote, he wins.  Recent polling has Trump at 29%.  

Have a nice day...

*    Quick note.  There are 42,000,000 Black peope in America.  Had Margaret Sanger, R.N., not created Planned Parenthood in the early 1900's, to eradicate the Black race, as was her stated intent, there would be 61,003,000 more Black people in America.  Abortion is a political weapon.  And it's still be used to kill Black preborns and divide Americans.