Stuff...

So I was just thinking about all the stuff we have now that we didn't have Way Back When.  As in, several decades ago.  The stuff I grew up not having.  

And the stuff we no longer have so much of that I sorely miss...

I can say that clicking on a picture and having the product arrive in hours is a blessing sometimes.  As opposed to Sears or Wards, which took a couple of weeks.  But it makes you much more careful about what you order.  Or should.  To prevent "binge ordering."  Or "I just got dumped" ordering.  Hard to return that stuff sometimes.

And I can tell you that a visit to the Woolworth store for lunch was a blessing.  A chicken salad sandwich for 15 cents.  And fountain cherry Cokes for a dime.  They had 20 stools to choose from.  No waiting.  Except Woolworth has been out of bizz for two decades.

Sorry to see it go.

And I can say that having 500 TV channels to choose from should let everyone find something they want to watch.  Except maybe the quality and talent that used to be offered on channels 2, 4 and 7 has now been spread thinly across those other 497 channels.

Very thinly.

It seems having 500 channels lets them hire all the unemployed actors in Hollywood.  Who were working as waiters waiting for That Call from their agent.  Which is nice for them.  But since dammm few of them have any talent to speak of, it isn't so nice for us.  Think Meghan Markle among them.  And BTW, big t*ts is not the same as talent.    

Are they a half-mile tall and an inch wide?  Or a half-mile wide and an inch tall?

So I can tell you having a cell phone is a wonderful improvement over my yout ("What's a yout?").  When we had to find a phone hanging on a wall and then ring up the operator.  On a party line.  With eight other homes happily listening in.

And then there were phone booths.  When we needed to make a call we looked for a phone booth.  They were everywhere.  Especially at hotels and convenience stores and under street lights. 

And then there were pagers!  What a great day that was!  Before pagers we'd have to just find a phone booth and call in, just to find out if we were needed (my sainted wife and I ran an emergency medical service!).  Then we got beepers and "Voila!."  Leave me alone unless I'm needed.  Then a page comes in and I'm Johnnie on the Spot!

And then, joy of joys, car phones in the '80's!  Hard-wired in, permanently installed, whip antennas and all.  Those who were first with car phones, like me, felt like we were special.  Really something.  We would invite people to sit in our cars and make phone calls.  At $2.00 a minute.  It was that big of a deal...

That was 40 years ago.  Imagine what $2.00 a minute equates to now...

Some of us even had CB (Citizens Band) radios installed to keep in touch about then.  Sort of like an audio Facebook.  "Breaker, Breaker, One Nine!  County mountie at the next overpass!"  We made fast friends among the long-haul trucker community.

So when actual "carry 'em around" cell phones became available it was magic!  The first ones were called "bricks," because they were the size of bricks.  But we had a phone.  A personal phone!  One of those remarkable, life-changing events that improved our lives.  Or should have.  Except in many cases, it didn't.  

And doesn't.

So now everyone walks down the street with their faces glued to their phones.  Like zombies.  They fall into manoles.  They trip off curbs.  They look like fools.  

So no, we didn't have that wonderful convenience back then.  And another thing we didn't have was transgenders.  We had women, and we had men.  And we were taught in school that these were the two choices.  The ONLY two choices.  It was preordained.  X's and Y's, etc.  Either, Or.  Ying or Yang.  

Except if you live in the once-Golden State.  Here, there are 57 genders.  That's what they told us.  Officially.  Right from up there in Sacrascrewyou's Dept. of Health.  The same guy who's now our Secretary of Health and Human Services.  About which he knows absolutely nothing.  So no explanations were provided.  Just swallow it and go on.  

No pun intended.  

And that, coupled with the never-ending negative effects of the Summer of Love, has so corrupted this place that those born-and-raised here will believe anything.

So here came the Transgenders.  Those dressing as the opposite sex.  Both men and women can, and do, do it.  But 87% of all Transgeders are men.  Far outside the realm of probability.  Making the reasonable among us to doubt their honesty.  And sanity. 

According to the U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey 1.7% of our population identifies as Transgender, whether they are or not.  That's about 3,000,000 adults.  That also means 97.3% of the population identifies as "cisgender."  Meaning, normal, I think, as it's another made-up word.  And another 1.52% identify as neither male, female nor transgender.  I guess that where the "Furries" come in... 

Think about that:  2,500,000 million of our citizens have no idea which sex they sport!  Don't know which bathroom to go to.  Don't know who to try and pick up at the bar come Friday night.  Or perhaps it enables them to pick up anyone at the bar on Friday night!   

I cannot think of a single girls sport that has not been co-opted by men pretending to be women.  And they win nearly every contest.  Not just in track or basketball or volleyball or archery or boxing or swimming or wrestling, I just read a story about a guy who took up fencing a month ago and just beat up on a female Olympic Gold Medalist.  With the Liberals who permit this abberration politely applauding.  Working hard not to see the obvious.  Painfully avoiding the fact that the Emperor has no clothes.  And they've underwritten it.  

No, we didn't have too many of those folks back when I was coming up.  As in, none.  But now?  

About 5,000,000 of our neighbors, give or take, "identify" as something besides the reality of their birth.    

And since our society has been thus co-opted, we manage it for the fringes.  The "LGBTQABC123+++'s."  Not the majority, as it was and should be now, but the tiny minorities among us.   

I can tell you for dayummm sure that we had a whole lot fewer cell phones when I was coming up.  As in, somewhere near none.  And a whole lot fewer transgenders when I was coming up.  As in, absolutely none!  And all of a sudden we've got millions and millions of both!  And I could personally do without either!

Was it in the water?  Flourides, perhaps?  Or maybe the stuff we poke into our beef causes that causes Transgenderism?  Or TV psychologists spewing "Spare the rod, spoil the child?" Or maybe civil rights lawyers, suing big corporations because they don't want female secretaries with mustaches?  Or perhaps it was the constant bombardment of TikTok videos, letting you know how to ride this abberration to the Top Floor?  And win lawsuits for $Millions in the process?

Or win the next 100 yard dash, when they cannot beat the men.  Or the next 4x50 relay when they cannot beat men.  Or the next volleyball tourney.  Or the next wrestling match.  When they cannot beat men.  When will we decide to protect our daughters by enshrining Title IX and sending male pretenders back home to mama?

But we have them now.  And just like cell phones, I don't think they have improved our lives all that much.  What do you think?

Protestantism is "Sect-sy."

German priest, astronomer, lecturer, writer, historian and all-around trouble maker Fr. Martin Luther did us all the favor of publishing his famous "Concordat at Worms."  

That's German for the list of 95 demands he made by nailing them to the gigonda wooden door of the Cathedral at Worms, Germany.  

Pronounced "Vorms."  Heavy on the "Vo."

Anyway, Luther opened up Christianity to Christians.  Previous to which there was one choice: the Catholic Church.  And they would burn you at the stake if you happened to mumble something about the Earth not being the center of the universe.

Luther was constrained by the limited teaching the Church was doing by failing to make the Bible available to the common man.  The "Flock."  They kept it to themselves, even delivering sermons in Latin.  Which almost none of their flock spoke, read or wrote.  But they had to attend mass or be branded a heretic!  So Luther blew it all wide open.  

Basically making Christianity available to just about anyone's interpretation.  Leaving us with...

More than 3,500 denominations.    

All the way from those who kiss snakes while high on mushrooms, and speak in tongues, to the most Conservative Baptist congregations who are afraid to whisper during services.  Or be seen buying a bottle of bourbon, lest they be seen.  The horror!  And anything in between.  Know the difference between the Methodists and the Baptists?  The Baptists have communion once a month.  Methodists offer it weekly.  That's just about it.  Really.

Most of those in between, the mild to the wild, are reflections of the charisma of the preacher.  And how he or she (or it) interprets the Bible.  Most of the really big Christian churches are led by famous preachers.  Who develop congregations of 25,000 or even more.  Like Greg Laurie.  Or Mark Driscoll.  Or Joel Osteen.

Who have private jets and live in mountaintop mansions.  

Right now there are 32,187 Protestant churches.  Of varying denominations.  Whether Lutheran, or Methodist, or Baptist, or Latter Day Saints, or even 7th Day Adventists, they are all Christian churches.  Because they purportedly worship Jesus Christ.  Sort of a necessity if you're a Christian church.

And there are also 3,119 Catholic Churches.  Whether small, community based, or large cathetrals, there's a Catholic church nearby for everyone.  And some of them are really Conservative, still offering sermons in Latin, or super Liberal, with a house band and video feed to the masses. 

Oh yeah, and there are 348 mosques, if you're of that flavor.  And most aren't in Arkansas or Colorado.  They are clustered in the Big Blue cities, where their adherents chose to locate.

You may be unfamiliar with the story of King Henry the Eighth.  He married a young babe named Anne Boleyn, hoping she would produce a male heir for him by the following year.  It was a political thing.  She didn't.  Despite him doing his part, often, she didn't do her part and give him a male heir.  She even had the temerity to push out a girl!  For shame!

So the King asked the Pope for approval to annul their marriage so he could get about the task of porculating some other babe.  The Pope said the King and Queen should go to counseling instead.  The King was so pis*ed he started the Church of England.  His own little Church! Which was exactly like the Catholic church, except you can dispose of ex-wives/husbands without difficulty.  You have a "Get Out of Jail Free" card to give marriage a try.  And if it doesn't work out, no harm, no foul!  You get a Formal Dispensation!  And Hank could even be his own pope! 

You see what I mean about the differing denominations? 

Oh yeah, Hank had his undivorceable babe beheaded right outside the Tower of London.  For all to see.  Just a bit over a year after their grand wedding.  Conducted in the very same spot as the beheading.  Hank had a real flair for public relations, didn't he?   

It was dangerous being a Queen back then...

But I still find it interesting that until October 31, 1435, there was but one choice.  Catholicism.  In Latin.  After Martin Luther nailed up his list of demands, we now have an almost infinite supply of Christian churches.  

If you're in the market, I'd stop by a Christian church a day until you find one you like.

And if you can't find one that suits you, you can always start your own! 

  

Some Worrisome Statistics...

There are currently 89,768 prisoners in California State jail cells.  

That's down from 129,778 at the beginning of the Chinese Wuhan Killer Bat-Blamed Coronavirus Pandemic.

And there are additionally more than 51,200 prisoners in California county jail cells.  Also down from 87,655 at the beggining of the Pandemic.

The Indians (Woo Woo, not Red Dot) don't publish their jail cell occupancy figures.  Sovereign Nation, and all that...

In other words, Democrats who control this once-Golden State have paroled or otherwise released more than 75,000 lawbreakers, Felons all, in just the past 2 years.

Actually, BoyGuv ("Hairgod") Newsom had previously paroled or otherwise released another 17,000 felons since his office had been bought for him (San Fran Pelosi is his Aunt, J. Paul Getty was his Godfather).

And since we now know that the average number of arrests before hard-time incarceration is 37, we also now know that there are some 75,000 hardened felons patrolling our neighborhoods.  Maybe hoping to make it 38?

There are 1,998,675 jail cells in America.  That includes all the township, city, county, Indian Nation and Federal jail cells.  But there are currently more than 4,590,000 felons out on bail.

And you might be interested in knowing that some 250,000 of them have decided to just blow off their court dates.  Warrants have been issued.  7,784 of them are accused murderers.  8,543 of them are accused of domestic violence.  6,998 of them are accused carjackers or armed robbers.  3,459 of them were arrested for DUI.  A not-so-nice bunch, wandering our streets, looking for some more trouble.  And bail bondsmen biting their nails...

And trust me, it's almost impossible to obtain the above data.  Just Google "How many out on bail?" and you won't get an answer.  You have to spend a couple of hours, like I did, and ask creatively the same question, around the edges, twenty times in order to find out.  

To find out they don't have enough cells in which to put us! 

And they cannot build more because the AOC's of the world won't let them.  The Liberals don't believe in incarceration, and are doing everything they can to release all the rest of them!  Remember, I mentioned above that BoyGuv has released so many prisoners they had to lay off a bunch of guards!  And their union started making waves about their jobs going away.  

So criminals do a crime and get caught.  Against the odds, BTW.  They then get booked, and released on "O.R."  That means "Own Recognizance."  As in, "No Cash Bail."  Over, and over, and over, and over.  Until someone somewhere says, hey!  This guy's a criminal, he just "___," or "____," or "_____."  Fill in the blanks.  From robbery to rape to burglary to carjacking to murder.

When you don't punish bad behavior, you get more bad behavior!  

I'd say it's time we do something about it!  A vote to change it on November 5th would be a good start... 

Being President is Like a Day at the Beach!

I didn't used to think I was qualified to be President.  Now then, I'm qualified to do a lot, like shooting pool, or shooting firearms, or shooting the sh*t.  But not POTUS.  No way, hose "A." *  

But then I read that this is the 402nd day our President of these here United States has been on vacation.

That turns out to be a full 44% of the entire time he's been POTUS.  Think about that.  We pay this dude $400,000 a year, plus all he can steal, the least he could do is pretend!

I didn't know there was a job anywhere in 'Murica that gives one 40% time off.  Paid vacay!  Full medical and benefits.  Replete with a 50-man protection group.  Who can sometimes protect people.  Not bad duty, huh?  

I used to think being POTUS was a tough job.  So tough that it would take a really special guy or gal to do it.  Managing the Federal Gubmint, plus the Swamp, plus international commerce and relations, plus keeping Peace on Earth.  

Except our current President hasn't done any of that.  In fact, we're told Mr. O'Biden doesn't make it to the Resolute Desk before 10:00 a.m., and takes no appointments after 4:00.  Being old, and all that.

And neither has his Vice President.  Who apparently has been appointed the "czar" of several projects, including the Border, but has failed to show up for any of them.  But is now deeply engaged in spreading  "JOY" throughout America, while she runs for POTUS.  

Spreading it thin like a load of manure.  

This is after having been appointed "Co-POTUS."  Thus easing out the guy who got the 14,000,000 votes in the primaries, while she got, ummm, how do I say this?

NONE!

And if a guy/gal can get that job done in 40 hours a week, I guess they deserve a couple of weeks off.  If they're real good at their job, maybe a month.  But not a year.  Almost half his Term.  And that's as of now.  There's still a few weeks left in his term for him to take off.   

Except he's given up on being Prez.  He's given it over to Harris, his Co-POTUS.  She's running things now.  While campaigning to replace Joe.  From dumb to dumber.  Which should put a shiver down your back.  

Does mine...

And being Prez requires one to be on duty 24/7.  Nuclear football, and all that.  But then again I guess you could do all that from the Beach at Rohoboth, Delaware.  Where Good Ol' Joe's been for the last several weeks. After taking a week off from the rigors of quitting his reelection campaign.  And then 4 more weeks to recuperate.  At either of his two beachfront mansions.  $20,000,000 worth of mansions.  Which he somehow managed to afford on a civil servant's salary.  

Quitting a campaign can be tiring, doncha' know...

In fact, O'Biden has just decided to do what one-third of the rest of all Federal workers are doing; staying at home instead of going to the office.  The aftermath of that dreaded Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus Pandemic.  He's finally discovered that just staying at the beach at one of his two mansions is actually cheaper for us Taxpayers.  We don't have to pay to transport his aged butt back and forth.  That Secret Service protection costs a lot, doncha' know?  When they actually do it.

Which is running at about 50% these days...

In fact, Secretary Rowe, our new-ish USSS leader, was clear to say in Friday's press conference, that there aren't enough trained Secret Service folks to go around.  And yet, he said they'll always do the job exactly as required.

Two mutually-exclusive statements. 

Just remember, we were told the untrained detail for Trump's Butler, PA rally were only required to watch a 3-hour Zoom video.  That's how we got the short babe who couldn't quite figure out how to re-holster her Glock.

So look, I'm applying for the job of President of These Here Ewwweuuunited States.  I can do the job in even fewer days than Uncle Joe.  I might not even show up, like Kamala's done for nearly 4 years.  And not passing any new legislation would be great for our Taxpayers!  Remember, legislation costs us money.  Shutting down D.C. to all new laws and regulations and rules and proclamations would save us all a bundle!  

Elect Me and Save Money!  I'll Do Absolutely Nothing!  And since I don't go anywhere, it will only take 2 or 3 aged Secret Service folks to protect me.  In fact, since I'm never more than an arm's length from something with "Magnum" in its name, and am looking forward to the chance to ventilate a perp, I don't really need any of those high-priced agents.  Just let me take out my frustrations on anyone dumb enough to try and cause me harm and I'll work for free...

*    Those familiar with the drive north up California's Interstate 5 will recall the town of "Hosinga."  It's a little wide spot in the road in the middle of our Central Valley.  Unless you needed gas you'd drive right by, wondering to yourself the etiology of the name "Hosinga."  Well, I have the answer.  Way back when the railroads were the only means of going north or south through California stopped at either "Hosing-A," or "Hosing-B."  That described the place where the steam engines had to stop to load up with water.  That was a century ago.  Once train technology improved and I-5 was built, "Hosing-B" was dismantled and the dash and capital "A" was dropped from "Hosinga."  Where else can you obtain such arcane bits of wisdom?  

"The Sky is Falling!

It seems that we humans are never satisfied.  When things are bad, we bitch.  And when things are good...

                       ...we bitch.

Remember the old story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf?"  He screamed and shouted that a wolf was ready to attack.  The citizenry got all worked up, mounted a posse and went hunting for that mythical wolf.  Never found him, BTW.  

And how about "Chicken Little?"  That fowl critter ran around all over the place screaming, "The sky is falling!  The sky is falling!"  He got the villagers agitated and worried.  He sounded a lot like Albert Gore, the guy who won an Oscar back in the '80's for trying to hippppmotizzzz us all with his little movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," into thinking "Global Cooling" would kill us all.  

Gore, who sports the very largest light bill in all of Nashville, what with his 20,000 sq. ft. house and all, believed that carbon emissions had something to do with sea levels.  And that Miami would be frozen solid by...get this...the year 2000!  

Time Magazine sported a front page back then proclaiming, "A New Ice Age!"  

Really!  Google it!

So Albert went home and hid under his bed because he was so wrong.  And such a dick.  But now, 25 years later, he's back.  With a new twist on the same old story.  Except now, it's "Global Warming!"  Or "Climate Chaos."  Or now, "Climate Change."  Because it polled best.  

BTW, the climate, that's the weather the day after tomorrow, has always changed.  And it always will.  So what's the problem? 

Imagine that.  The "weather" is what's happening outside today.  Right now.  The "climate" is what will possibly, quite likely, maybe, could be - happening tomorrow, and the next day, and next week.  The "climate" tends to change, now don't it?  

Has Chicken Little come to town?

And Miami will now be under water by 2030.  Or maybe 2050.  Whichever polls the best.  We have to drive electric cars!  They say we must do so, and by no later than 2035!  Or so has demanded our own BoyGuv ("Hairgod") Newsom.  He just woke up one morning, drank a glass of his own vineyard's wine, which his Godfather J. Paul Getty bought for him, and issued an edict.  A PROCLAMATION!  Not 2034, not 2036.  But 2035 on the dot!  He stated that the 15% of the U.S. population that "live" in Taxifornia hate oil (he says) and wants to drive growed-up, high-priced golf carts (he says).  

Exceppppppppt, only those who live in places with short commutes and ready charging access bought these overpriced buggies.  Some 16.7% of all new cars sold here in CA last year were Teslas.  Proving once again that you can fool some of the people damn near all of the time.  

And another 2.4% bought EV's from other manufacturers.  And even so, last September EV sales dropped off the deep end.  More than 30%.  People just stopped buying them.  And I believe it's because everyone who wanted one.....had bought one.  

Cue the "Cuisinart Effect" music.

And some of us, mainly the young and impressionable, are now throwing paint on old Dutch Master portraits and chaining themselves together to shut down interstate highways.  For that will SURELY get commuters and art lovers on their side, right?  I'm guessing the folks who live on the Upper East Side are already on their side.  They cannot continue to live and breathe and reproduce until or unless we stop drilling for oil and gas.  Entirely.  Completely.*

Even though our entire economy, in fact, the World's economy, is based upon oil and gas.  But let's not try and confuse them with facts.  It never works.  Because they need a reason to believe,

            "The Sky is Falling!"

*    I've got an idea.  Since they get their news only from TikTok, how about we run an ad campaign designed to convince them we've stopped drilling?  Completely?  Just up and stopped, and went entirely to windmills.  It wouldn't be true, but almost none of the stuff on TikTok is true!  Like the fact K. Harris has been reinvented as a "moderate."  Just run some ads and maybe then they'd go on home, open up a bon bon, drink a latte, and think about the next thing they need to hate...

Safety? You Want Safety?

You might be surprised to learn that fully 8.3% of our citizenry across the fruited plain holds a Concealed Carry (CCL) License (FBI, March, 2024).

That means each of them are likely fully trained, experienced and licensed by their respective states or counties to carry a firearm on their person, concealed from our view.  From the view of Bad Guys, especially. 

Making anyone near them safer.  Much safer.  And the Bad Guys at risk.  With extreme prejudice...

They realize that we live in a dangerous society and "Never Leaving Home Without Protection" is a really good idea.   

And you might also be surprised to learn that if we were to somehow manage to subtract California, Oregon and Washington from our National Map, the percentage of licensed Concealed Carriers would go up to 11.9%!  And removing New York would up it to 13.1%!  Just imagine how much it would jump if we removed the rest of the Big Blue States?*

(Eliminating the 50 Biggest and Bluest Cities from the statistics would lower America's National Crime Rankings by 84%!)

And you might also be surprised to learn that 13.7% of Florida's 22,000,000 citizens now have CCL's.  Available for the asking.  Every fifth citizen is packing in Florida.  Causing trouble anywhere around those folks with a pistol in their pocket is Bad Business.  Maybe that's why Florida's crime rates have plummeted! 

Heard about anybody trying to carjack anyone in Florida lately? 

Why the desparity?  Because CA, OR and WA, and so many other Big Blue States, have done a spectacular job of disarming their citizenry.  They've made it harder to qualify to own a firearm, harder to buy one, more expensive to buy one,** harder to buy ammunition, harder to store it legally, harder to transport it legally, illegal to carry it openly, or on their persons, and almost impossible (depending upon the County) to gain approval to carry it concealed.

Whew!  Plus our BoyGuv ("Hairgod") Newsom has authored 122 Executive Orders chipping away at the 2nd Amendment.  So far.  One would have to surmise that Taxifornia's Guvner and Legislature really hate guns!  And wants to disarm its populace macht schnell!***

(Thank God Riverside County's Sheriff Chad Bianco knows how to read, informing him that we citizens  should always have the Right "...to keep and bear arms."  As the Constitution guarantees.  And as reaffirmed by the Supreme Court.)

All while they're steadily releasing hardened felons from their prisons.  Taxifornia has released more than 92,000 convicted criminal felons while "Hairgod" has been in power.  He's even turning San Quentin into a boys' club.  A summer camp for repeat offenders!  Really!  

Nothing for our homeless Veterans, mind you, because they probably vote the wrong way, but lots of goodies for illegal immigrants.  Ain't BoyGuv nice?  With our money?

27 of our States now offer their citizens the Right to carry a firearm concealed.  Only those States which either fear their citizens, or believe them to be too dangerous or too stupid to be afforded Constitutional Rights, deny them the safety firearms could afford.  

Our Gubmint's first responsibility is to protect us citizens.  Does this seem like our leaders are doing their jobs?  Maybe it's time for a change?

Imagine how much safer you'd be if every third person was armed.  Or every other citizen.  Or maybe everyone, just like it was in Old West Dodge City.  Where everyone was nice and polite.  If you happened to bump into some dusty cowpoke while bellying up to the bar at the Long Branch Saloon, you'd say, "Please excuse me, sir!"  Because that guy was packing heat.  Just like everyone else...   

Unlike Chicago, for instance, where 45 poor folks were shot last weekend.  Do you see how being disarmed can lead to lead poisoning?

Imagine how much different a prospective carjacking would go if you had a nice, light .38 Special in your wasteband or purse?  Or a 9 mil, your choice?  But there are unfortunately wolves in this world, and the rest are sheep.  But we can decide whether to be a wolf or a sheep.  And taking every reasonable step to secure your safety and the safety of your family and friends should be an easy choice.  3,500,000 Americans are now buying firearms every single month.  How do you choose?  

Just remember, an armed society is a polite society.   

*         There are no official estimates of the percentage of Concealed Carriers if all the Big Blue State were somehow removed from our National Map.  My own personal estimate has it north of 20%...

**       Taxifornia's Democrat Supermajority Legislature just doubled the sales tax on firearms and ammunition.  From 11%, one of the highest in the Nation, to 22%.  It's unconstitutional, of course, as is most everything else they do.  But why do it?  Because they say it will raise $160,000,000.  That they'll have to play with.  For dinners at the French Laundry and such.  Ain't America grand?  

***     Pardon my German, but we're  heading down the very same path Hitler did in 1936 when he disarmed his citizens.  Which Harris says she wants to do.  Except 110,000,000 of our citizens still own more than 525,000,000 firearms.  And I doubt they'll give them up without a fight.  I know I won't...

The "Highest and Best Use."

The cause of death of the Drive-In Movie Theater in America can be blamed upon a Real Estate term of art called, 

      "The Highest and Best Use."

Those in the R. E. bizz will recognize that term instantly.  But for those unfamiliar, an almost inviolable rule has it that a piece of property, a farm, or gas station, or a house, will always rise to its most profitable usage.

Like cream rises to the top of a pale of milk.

For example, you wouldn't see a carnival on a hillside in Malibu.  Or, you wouldn't for very long, that is.  Because some enterprizing soul would snap that land up and build a house.  Or a store.  Or a mall.  Or something that returned more income against the overall investment than would that theoretical carnival. 

That's called ROI.  "Return on Investment."

And it's for that reason that we no longer have Drive-In-movies.  They've all been bought up and turned into Targets.  Or Sam's Clubs.  Or Costcos.  Or strip malls.  Or hospitals.  Anything that will generate more $Dollars per square foot than a yuuuuuge Drive-In movie theater.  Which can cover acres.  Usually situated at the edge of town.  But as the town creeps toward the Drive-Ins through growth, the theater owners cash out and the people who loved them are left out of the equation.   

  And dammm, what we're missing!  

For those unlucky enough to have never experieced Drive-Ins, they had little hills between the rows.  So you could drive between them and then park your car uphill!  Cool!  Easier to look through the windshield, especially if you had your seat back and your girl on your lap.  

So she could see the screen better, doncha' know...

And then there's that cool, 16-pound speaker on a wire you hung on your car door.  Which delivered perhaps the very worst audio experience since the dawn of man.  No one stole those speakers, BTW, because nobody would want them.

In fact, the memory of your convertible top down and the cool summer evening air wafting through your hair, smelling of freshly-cut grass and new mown hay.  And hot popcorn, of course, from the ever-present snack bar.  The memory brings a smile to my grizzled countenance.  If you had a million dollars there's no better place you could have been.  

BTW, we were all excited when bucket seats became all the rage.  Real sporty, and all.  We were dumb.  A "bench" seat is sooooo much better when you have Little Suzie by your side.  Because with buckets, you had to put a pillow on the hard console.  So little Suzie would be comfy sitting beside you.  Except now little Suzie was sitting a foot higher.   

There was always a drive-in nearby during all the years I was growing up.  And I went the Drive-In every chance I got.  I remember that Thursday was "Buck Nite."  Everyone you could pack in your car for a single dollar.  A "Buck."  Just think about that.  You could get 8 in the car, and if you and your friends were so inclined, another 3 or 4 in the trunk (trunks were yuuuge back then!).  

One of our buddies saw that sign one night and asked, "Who's this actor Buck Nite?  Never heard of him."  Yeah, we were that kind of people...

I watched the premiere of "Dirty Dancing" at a Drive-In.  I saw "War of the Worlds" at a Drive-In.  I saw "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" at a Drive-In.  And although they usually showed second-run, or "B" movies, it really didn't matter.  We were at a Drive-In movie...

There were some among us, I must admit, that were not there for the movie.  You could tell which ones they were because the windows were all rolled up.  And steamed up.  And you couldn't see inside.  I always wondered why they did that...

I recall swapping my '62 Chevy 409 one night with a buddy for his '48 Nash Ambassador, 4-door sedan.  Whose seats folded down into a queen-sized bed.  I always knew I shoulda' bought that car.

Oh yeah, and for those with kids there were swings and slides to play on while their parents were canoodling.  Everybody wins on D.I. Movie night!

I've wondered also just what percentage of our 50 and 60 year-olds were conceived at a Drive-In movie.  I'll bet it was a lot...

"Markle-Free" News

Put simply, I could use some Markle-free news.

And some JLo-free, and Ben-free, and every other celebrity who infests my computer.  

That's because I watch the news a lot.  I admit to that, given there's not a whole of other stuff available for an older guy to do.  An older, "mobility challenged" guy, as Queen Elizabeth II used to say.  And since I can't run and jump anymore, and can't afford to go out of my house and actually purchase anything, watching the world unfold via my 70" bigscreen TV from 8' away is a pretty good second choice. 

And what I'd like to know, from you, my Fellow Patriots, is if you know of a news channel that focuses on, you know, the news.  Like it used to be.  And still should be.

I mean I'm looking for an Internet news channel that does not post a "Breaking News" every time Jennifer Lopez takes a dump.  Or her used-to-be, then-was, and now used-to-be-again husband Ben drives anywhere near that other Jennifer in his life.  That he was, and then wasn't, and maybe now is, his girlfriend.  Or future wife.  Or steady squeeze.  Or psychiatrist.  Or confidant.  I don't know, and I don't care.  That whole "Bennifer" thing made me want to puke.  It also took up about 20% of the entire new feed.

Please, a news channel without Bennifer!

And then there's that whole Harry and Markle thing.  She hunted him down like a lion hunts a wounded gazelle.  She saw him as a black widow sees a fly.  And she brought him down.  Using her no doubt terrific feminine wiles.  He's a big dummie, who leads with the wrong "head."  She's a predator.  And everybody but him knows he's the most pus*y whipped dude on Earth. 

She made him try and bring down the Royal Family because she wasn't as glorified as Kate, and he wasn't going to be King.  He was the "Spare," after William.  Just in case Will dropped dead.  Or maybe needed a kidney.  So why not just bolt from all the selfless duties accruing to the Royal Family and open up shop in Montecito, she was thinking?  In a cozy little $11,000,000, 9,000 ft. mansion.  And then try and make bank off her "title."  Which King Charles could take away in a heartbeat.  

And should.

So where can I find a news channel without these losers?  They are whiny, whimpering ex-nobody's who play themselves as the victims.  To a citizenry who are going into bankruptcy trying to feed themselves.  And we know different.  Markle will dump Harry the instant he's no longer a Michelin 3-Star meal ticket.  And then write a book about how she was terribly mistreated by the Royal Family because she's "Black."  She'd be gone the instant he ever lost that title.  Which his daddy will never do.  If for no other reason than it would unfairly punish his grandchildren.  So we'll have a "B-List" TV sort-of-Star in exile, and a long-suffering near-King, always complaining about the way it should have been.  Had his zygote been hatched first.  Or had she caught Will before Kate did.

It's tough to be almost great...  

And it's also tough trying to learn what's happening in the world when these turkeys keep clotting up your TV set.  DM me if you know where I can get the news without getting a dose of Markle or Ben...  

How Much Would You Have to Hate a City?

A State?  Or even a Nation?

My friend Geoff just passed along a video from an activist in San Francisco.  He recorded Fisherman's Wharf and the area Surrounding it as it exists today.  A painful 20 minutes or so showing us all what happens when we let the inmates run the asylum.  Because our Constitutionally-appointed "MainStreamMedia" won't do it.  I was frankly astounded.  And sickened.  And angered...

I used to "live" in San Francisco.  Back when living there meant you had arrived.  The pinnacle!  You'd studied, and worked, and sweated, and performed.  And now you'd arrived!  You'd "Moved On Up!"  Great views, great food, great (wierd) people, semi-great weather.  Why would anyone want to destroy this jewel?  

Actually, my company moved me to the Los Angeles area way back when, but I discovered being based out of SFO was more convenient to my travel schedule.  Which was the world.  So I got a tiny apartment above Compagnola's, right off the Wharf.  I'd fly up Sunday evenings sometimes, better preparing me to embark on my sales trips the next day.  To NYC, or STL, or SEA, or CHI, or DAL, or DEN, or PHL.  Or Canada.  Or Mexico.  I did that "flying out" more than 100 times while I was flying for a living (2,000,000 air miles over 7 years of plane-a-day!).  Before I could settle down and stop living in airport lounges.

The City by the Bay.  The most beautiful city in all of America.  And the one most cosmopolitan.  Our Toronto.  Our Venice.  Our Paris.  Just a smallish little city of 400,000 or so.  Nestled up next to the Ocean.  Ringed by low hills.  A grown-up fishing village, which tourists chose to adopt.  And Liberals chose to remain (Summer of Love, and all that).  Warm and friendly by day, cool and foggy by night.  Clam chowder and sourdough bread.  Crab and swordfish and cioppino.  Fog blanketing everything.  Seals by the hundreds.  Alcatraz.  Kooky panhandlers.  Sidewalk jugglers.  The smell of fish.  Nothing else like it.  

(In fact, I used to sing in a band during my college days.  Not very well, but the drunks didn't care.  Anything to get by.  And my signature sign-off song was "I left my heart..."  Tony  Bennett's swan song.  I must have sung that song 500 times.  Several V.O. and Gingers made my voice sound tolerable.) 

The best restaurants in America were in San Francisco.  Except maybe for New Orleans.  But that's for a later discussion.  I love Szechuan cooking, and SFO is where to find it.  It will remove a layer of skin from your tongue, and that's just the first bite.  There were a dozen such restaurants there, all in a row.  And I haunted them all.  

That was then, this is now...

The video Geoff sent me showed that nearly every single restaurant and business surrounding Fisherman's Wharf is now closed!  

Alioto's is closed, a restaurant that first opened in 1915.  Scoma's is now closed.  Perhaps my favorite restaurant in all the world.  Boudin's famous sourdough bread place is closed.  It's been there more than 100 years.  All of the restaurants surrounding Fisherman's Wharf are now closed.  Boarded up.  As if preparing for a hurricane.  Including Companola's, with 112 years of history.  Imagine that:  Two World Wars couldn't kill it.  The Great Depression couldn't kill it.  But BoyGuv ("Hairgod") Newsom killed it.  And the socialist mayors and governors before him helped kill it.  And the highest Minimum Wage and operating costs in the Nation, killed it.    

We used to run America for the benefit of the majority.  While also lending a hand to those less advantaged.  Now?  We now run our Country for the 5% who are aggrieved, and for the illegal aliens pouring in, while ignoring the needs or the will of that majority.  Not even for its Veterans.  To whom we owe not only a debt of gratitude, we owe them our Freedom... 

30% of America's homeless are basing themselves in Taxifornia.  Our great Mediterrean weather brings them in droves.  And more than 40% of those 30% are sleeping on the Streets of San Francisco.  And pissing.  And shit*ing.  Living in squalor.  Shooting up cheap drugs, and then zoning out for hours.  Or dying.  Clotting up the sidewalk.  The smell of urine, and feces, and rotten food, and body odor, and stale fish permeates the atmosphere.  

Their "Poop Patrol" wanders around picking up feces from the sidewalk.  They patrol in their Teslas looking for piles of crap.  The human kind.  And there were 78,000 such instances in 2022, the most recent statistics available.  Imagine:  78,000 piles of sh*t.  That job starts you out at $79,000 a year.  Which isn't enough to live there, so many of them are living in their cars.

Oh yeah, a high school diploma is not required.

And crime.  We simply must talk a bit about crime.  SFO is now crime central.  The Westfield Mall I spoke of earlier is now closed.  Along with all the other stores it served to anchor.  Including a 37 screen multiplex.  And the 43 stores who bailed on their leases.

Muggings are routine.  Stores no longer report shoplifting.  The City suffers more than 60 broken car windows a day.  When your car window's broken there and you call 911, they no longer send out a cruiser.  Because they likely don't have one to send.  They just pay for your window from a Taxpayers' fund they've created.  More than 180 car windows broken on a record day there recently.  

This is where Kamala Harris crawled her way up the food chain...

And swarms of thieves ransacking high-end stores.  The ones that remain, that is.  Emptying a "Coach" store in less than 90 seconds recently.  $890,000 worth of product.  Which is then sold on the Internet.  And nobody seems to care.  Catch them, you ask?  You can "legally" steal up to $949.00 a day, per store, without fearing a felony.  If they happen to have a cop around, and he decides to nab you (big "if"), it's a $50.00 fine.  And if you don't show up for court?  No mechanism to go out and pick you up.  Just fuggetttaboutit!  

17 of the City's 34 drug stores have closed.  Rite Aid has gone bankrupt.  Walgreens' is close behind.  CVS has everything not yet stolen locked up behind Plexiglas.  They can no longer afford to stay open.   

But wait!  What if you get caught trying to rob some poor old Veteran and a cop cannot avoid arresting you?  Well, Kamala's "NO CASH" bail will put you back on the street before the cop has finished up your booking sheet.  Which is why cops are avoiding arrests.  And why cops are fleeing the City.  Might as well just sit back and watch the akshun, right?  Safer that way.  And you don't get paid extra for doing your job "with conviction."  In a City that thinks cops are the enemy.  

San Francisco is a failed city.  Musk just noticed everyone he's moving "X" from the City.  He already removed Tesla, and TeslaX, and SpaceX from the once-Golden State.  He moved them to Texas, of course.  And more than 100 other Fortune 1,000 companies have bailed as well.  Many of them headquartered in SFO.    

Walking the streets there will get you killed.  Knifed, shot, bludgeoned.  Being robbed is an everyday occurrence.  You step over druggies.  And feces.  And needles.  You must walk in the streets in order to get to your school, or the hospitals, or even City Hall.  A SF 49'er rookie was just shot over his Rolex.  In broad daylight!  Thankfully he lived, but the kid who shot him didn't care.  BTW, the prosecuters there don't believe the attempted murderer intended to murder him.  Just shoot him.  Which is okay, I guess.  Which downgrades the charge to the unintended aggravated misapplication of a pointy object.  So he'll likely be out on bail by the time you read this.

How much would you have to hate a City, or a State, in order to bring down such a disaster upon it?  And it's not like it happened overnight.  It's been happening for more than a decade.  Slowly, inexoriably.  And how much would you have to hate America in order to infect it with CA?  

Kamala Harris was elected Attorney General of Taxifornia.  And she was in charge when Prop. 42, the law that permitted open shoplifting and "no cash" bail, was passed.  She sponsored all the "Green New Deal" legislation.  She was the deciding vote on it.  If Kamala Harris is elected, San Francisco values will permeate the White House.

And America will be history...

Not Jealous, But in Awe...

Somehow I was okay with simply looking down my aquiline nose at Elon Musk and his manifold accomplishments.

Harummmph!  Who cares?

So he managed to build, and sell, a bunch of electric cars.  Like, 2,000,000 of them.  And start a company that bores giant holes through the ground.  All the way under Las Vegas.  And shoots rockets into space.  Hundreds of them.

I mean, other people have shot rockets into space, right?  Goddard.  And NASA.  And Boeing.  But dayummm!  I became a fan the day I saw his boosters fire up their reentry rockets to slow their descent, and land on a ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

The booster rockets.  Those things that NASA used to let fall into the sea.  They help make a rocket launch cost $60,000,000, at current levels.  Recapturing, refurbishing and reusing the boosters lowers the cost of rocket launches by more than 75%! 

And landing on a "Drone Ship."  With nobody on it.  Unmanned.  Say wha...?

Musk is famous for a number of things.  Being a high-functioning autistic, for one.  I'd say VERY high-functioning, wouldn't you?

He's famous in my book for having also proven the American Dream.  He's reputed to arrived here from his native South Africa with $500, a suitcase, and the desire to succeed.  He parlayed the $Millions he got from the sale of PayPal into SolarCity.  Which the Gubmint helped him sell.  He then single-handedly invented the Plug-in-Electric car market with the Tesla.  Which the Gubmint helped him sell.  And it's now worth more than all the other American car manufacturers, together!  

And he's famous for having fathered 11 children, so far.  And I'll bet he's going for more.  One of them is even named "X."  He just found another girlfriend, with the strange name of Adakirikiri, so more babies are no doubt on the way.

And he's famous for not owning a house.  He just sleeps on his friends' couches.  Or under a table in his HQ conference room.  He says the time and attention it would take to design and build a mansion, is better put to use landing Americans on Mars.   

But we know he possesses a personal net worth of more than $255,000,000,000 (with a "B") $Dollars.  And Tesla is supposed to grant him a payday real soon of another $57,000,000,000.  A bonus.  For doing a good job, I'm guessing.  I read somewhere that he'll be a $Trillionaire by 2030.  

I am not jealous.  But I am in awe...

"It Was At That Moment That I Knew..."

I remember the day like it was three hours ago.

I'd lived my life up until that day apolitically.  No special preference for one party over the other, except to say my leanings were always Conservative.  As someone from the Upper Midwest most often tends to be...

I was like most folks in their 20's or 30's.  Those who had yet to start making the $Big Bucks, so they had yet to be raped in the paycheck.  I was too busy trying to make my mark in business to spend too much time on politics back then.  My wife and I had just started a bidness and I had no time for atmospherics.  I kept my head down and charged ahead.

I moved to California when it was still Bright Red, I should say.  So I didn't have too much worry about how they were managing my State.  Gubmental intrusion was low, and so were the taxes.  So I left it to the Professionals to run my Golden State.

While I, The Chuckmeister, luxuriated in its riches.  Its manifold blessings, which I'll attribute to God until somebody can prove me different.  You could snow ski in the morning, and water ski in the afternoon.  Kids in hot rods were cruising the streets and people hadn't yet decided to pay $9.00 for a cup of coffee.  That infernal Internet had yet to be invented so folks spent their time talking to each other.  Nobody was coming for the 2nd Amendment, Freedom of Speech had broken out, and we were all left to create our own image of success.  

Two terms of Reagan, two terms of Wilson, what's not to like?  And then I watched the Tonight Show with Johnnie Carson one night.  Late 1993 or '94, I think it was.  He had Julia Roberts on as a guest.  It was right after "Pretty Woman" so she was riding high.  She volunteered during the interview that she was a Bright Blue Democrat.  And that; 

"We could find Republicans in the dictionary by looking between "Reptile" and "Reprehensible.'"  

I was stunned!  To think that a celebrity, someone who earns her bloated living at the whim of the public, would volunteer an opinion designed to insult half the population, outraged me.  And astonished me!  To think she'd be so stupid, so unaware of the reality just outside that artificial "bubble" in which she lives, to stick her Jimmy Choos down her pampered throat.  

As I was flying on bidness a lot back then, and had no time for hobbies, I chose to write down the names of every actor and celebrity who openly and publicly shot off their mouths in public and showed their disdain, their hatred, for all things Republican.  And Conservative.  When my list grew to 300, I gave up...  

It became obvious to me: Hollywood is filled to the brim with Liberal Democrats.  Or socialists.  Or Marxists.  Or communists, whatever.  I don't even think they know.  In fact, I think they try and Out-Lib each other in order to insure those cocktail party invites keep coming.  It may even be that those leaning Conservative try and hide it so as to fit in.  We've all suspected that so-called "artists" tend to be a bit Leftoid, right brain and all that, but I didn't think they'd admit it!  Even be proud of it!

And it's gotten worse ever since.  Not a day passes without one of the many loudmouth Hollywood types lighting a fire under their own image.  Their own reputation.  Saying stuff to impress each other that's heard across the Fruited Plain!  And them being so  unaware.  To think!  There are movie theaters in Grand Island, Nebraska, and Little Rock, Arkansas, and Fort Worth, Texas!  

Did you see Speilberg and Clooney helping to "select" our new POTUS?  I wonder if they know that the reason their business is crashing and burning is because they've ceased being actors and artists and started being politicians?  And that they've alienated the movie-going public in the process?  

We, the movie-going and entertainment-consuming Public, don't need to be taught, or lectured, or browbeaten, or looked down upon.  We spend our money to be entertained.  If they won't give it to us, the way we want it, we'll get it somewhere else.

And we are.

As much as I disagree with Tom Cruise from a lifestyle standpoint, I recall a statement he made one morning on the "Today Show."  When asked his position on a political issue he said, "I'm an actor.  I keep my opinion to myself.  That way I don't turn off half the population."  No wonder he's been so successful.

Other Hollywierdos should take Tom's advice.  But they don't.  And they won't.  Because they're talking only to each other, not us.  

As we go into the Election Season, just make note of all the uber-Libs who promise to move out of the Country if Big Orange is reelected.  Cher and Babs have already weighed in, and so has Rosie O'.  There will be more. 

I hope this time they'll keep their promise... 

You Have to be Taught...

It's my belief that you have to be taught to be Patriotic.

And you have to be taught to honor your elders.  And to obey the law.  And to treat others as you wish to be treated.  And to love God and avoid sin wherever it raises temptations.  And to be a good citizen, a good parent, and a Freedom-Loving Patriot.

You don't come down the chute knowing these things.  

I was raised at a time and in a part of our Country where that was all a given.  Nobody locked their doors.  Everybody was armed.  Attending church was the thing to do.  

I became a Cub Scout at the age of 8.  

That's the earliest you can join.  Two years later I became a Tenderfoot, which is preparatory to becoming a Boy Scout.  I joined Scouting at the age of 12.  And loved it.

Scouting teaches you the "Golden Rule."  Sharing is absolute.  Country and God before self.  It teaches you to Be Prepared.  And to love America.  I learned to hunt, and fish, and to build a campfire without matches.  I became self-sufficient.  I learned to take care of myself, and others should the situation warrant.

And later, when I was in the Army, it did.  Many times.  

But most of all, it taught me that I was among the Earth's lucky 5%.  Those fortunate enough to have been born and live in the United States of America.  A Country most believe to have been graced by God.  

Whether others choose to believe it or not...

After soaring through the Scouting ranks I was awarded the Eagle Badge.  Fewer than 5% of Scouts attain that rank.  Plus, I was awarded the God and Country Award and two Oak Leaf Clusters.  

I then became an Explorer Scout, Scouting's elder statesmen.  And the teachers of those just coming up.  I became an Assistant Scoutmaster and served as one for two more years.  In that role it was my job to pass along to the "Tenderfeet" all the lore I'd inculcated.  All the things necessary to help turn a young boy into a young man...  

I loved Scouting, at least the way it was.  I gather it's focus has changed, and so has America's.  And that's tragic, because the fabric of our society has been rent.

Look around you.  Is this what we want for our Country?  We hire people to clean our houses, while dirtying up our environment.  A trip to Lost Angeles is like a trip to the garbage dump.

The scourge of an Open Society like ours is we can choose to teach our kids what it takes to be a law-abiding, Patriotic American, or not.  And lately, it appears...NOT!

Those we put in authority can choose to remove the Pledge of Allegiance from our classrooms.  The ACLU can sue us and force the removal of that age-old affirmation.  They can also remove our National Flag from our classrooms.  Under the belief that it might "offend" somebody or other.  And also requiring our teachers to teach all the reasons why our kids should be Patriotic.  Starting with our One Million Lives Lost in the pursuit of continued Freedom.  A delight shared by No Other Country.  

Like I said, those "We" put in authority.  And "We" can take that authority back if it's being used inappropriately.  And I believe that it is.

BTW, I've lived in what used to be the Golden State for almost 50 years.  And I've yet to see an advertisement for the Boy Scouts.  I don't even see kids walking around with Scout uniforms.  What once was a given, it appears is now not even an option.  

How sad...

Yes, today's society can choose to pass along the reasons why our children should be Patriotic.  Or not.  And if it's "not," then America no longer exists...

Our War Against Tyranny!

Would you like to eliminate the $20.00 Minimum Wage and Fight Back against Taxifornia's involvement in raising Fast Food prices?  

It's simple:  Stop eating fast food for a month.

For those of you lucky enough to live someplace else besides the Peoples Republic of Taxifornia, here's an update on our latest foolishness.  The one where our dufus BoyGuv Newsom raised the MinWage for fast food workers to $20.00 an hour.  From $15.00 an hour.  But only for brands with 60 or more stores.  

Which basically wrings all of the profit out of owning one of these franchises.  And BoyGuv could care less.

Did you know that there are 1,222 MickeyD's in Taxifornia?  Yep, Fellow Patriots, CA features a total of 9% of all of MickeyD's total restaurants.  And it's total income.  So the owners of these McD's franchises are being held hostage by a socialist governor.  Who believes he can do anything without a consequence.

He's wrong

The ignorant elitist bozo who pretends to run this unmanageable State tried to buy the votes of 500,000 MinWage fast food workers (yes, that's how many there are in Taxifornia) by mandating, LEGISLATING, a $20.00 an hour Minimum Wage.

That's 3 x the National average!  It stands at $7.25 right now.  Except in Taxifornia.  Where BoyGuv Newsom tripled it.  To try and win the votes of one-half million workers.  

He didn't expect to get the votes of those who owned those MickeyD's, and Wendy's, and Subways, and Burger Kings, BTW.  He already knows they're not going to vote for him.  But he expects to get the votes of those half million fast food workers.

Who probably have a degree from Haaaavid.  Or Yale.  Or maybe Princeton.  And they're now saying, "Would you like fries with that?"  And they're now bitching because they aren't making enough money flipping burgers or delivering other peoples' food to pay off their student loans.  And the "Cackler-in-Chief" is hoping to also buy their votes by transferring their promised loan payback onto our taxpayers.  

How quaint.

Just so you know, the average McD's owner must invest a minimum of $1.2 and as much as $2.4 Million to open one of their franchises.  And their franchise fee is $45,000, BTW.  And they must show they have $750,000 in liquid capital before they can qualify.  And their average earnings, after tax, is only $186,000.  Invest $2,000,000 and earn $186k.  That's only 0.9% Return on Investment, BTW.  That ain't much!  

You can get a better return from your local bank.  Which is about 1% right now.  

The owners of these restaurants have already begun their response.  They're cutting hours of operation.  They're cutting employee hours.  They're investing in automation, such as kiosks and auto-pay windows.  They're shutting down dining rooms.  They're implementing AI.  And they're raising menu prices an average of 10%.  On top of several other increases over the past couple of years.  Making fast food unaffordable for those who used it most.

$18.99 for a Happy Meal?  Ummm, no.

Imagine what would happen if nobody bought a burger from one of these places for an entire month?  Imagine the fiscal hit the various cities would take?  And to BoyGuv without their tax revenue?  Imagine the earthquake that would happen to all their food and beverage suppliers?  Do you think maybe these businesses would be marching on Sacrascrewyou?  How about those 500,000 now unemployed workers?  On BoyGuv's mansion's front doorstep, maybe?

And the very worst part of this is that Taxifornia represents 15% of our once-Great Country.  So there will be pressure from the SEIU (Service Employees International Union) to make this terrible error go Nationwide.  Because this infernal Union will then be able to charge dues from the now higher paid employees.  

That's all they care about.  

And just so you know how we got here, the SEIU invested more than $60 Million Dollars of their members' dues over a 10 year period to try and force McDonalds to void their franchise agreements.  Since they've got BoyGuv in their back pocket, they've succeeded.

So now it's up to us, the customers.  Fight back!  Refuse to do business with any of these places until the prices come down.  And if they don't, let's try making a sack lunch.  Again.  We used to do it.  We can do it again.  This of it as our War Against Tyranny!  Try cooking at home for a few months and see how they like it?  You'll see how quickly they back off from these insane policies...

And if they don't, there'll be a lot of uneaten hamburgers, and you'll be $Dollars ahead...

The "Black Semites"

You've likely noticed that the brashest, most blustery and loudest bully usually winds up running the show.  

That's why Caesar was able to take over Rome.  And Hitler was able to take over Germany.  And pro-p(small "p")alestinians were able to take over our college campuses.  And our city streets.  And apparently a number of our dumbest 20-somethings.  

A small contingent of very loud, very entitled terrorists trying to burn down city hall.  It's been happening since the beginning of time in poorly-run republics, like ours, enabling bullies to take over.  And in all the poorly-run states which kowtow to loud, obnoxious bullies.  

So now they're disrupting polite society on our campuses once again.  Which brings me to suggest:    

You know how the Iranians have that "Green Brigade" thing to do their heavy-duty killing, right?  Not just shooting people on the street for failing to wear a hijab, but the targeted stuff.  The assassinations and bombings and poisonings and rocketing villages and such.    

Those are truly scary guys.

They wear green berets and scarves and sport black uniforms with masks to hide their faces.  They look particularly evil, what with their AK-47's and cartridge belts and machetes.  You'd probably poop your pants if a squad of these killers came for you.

The Jews, who I've written are complicit to a degree in their own misery because they make such terrific victims, need to start fighting back.  They need to finally accept that a medical doctor degree or a law degree or a PhD doesn't insulate them from racial or religious politics.  They need to put together a "green brigade" of their own.  Right now!  And I suggest they call it...

            The "Black Semites!"

So we get a bunch of Gen-Z-aged Jews to volunteer for this thankless, but existential job.  The job of defending a population, a race, really, and a religion.  Made up of folks who've done nothing to earn it.  Other than make such good victims.  

Maybe we can find some MMA fighters who just happen to also be Jews.  Maybe we can get those guys to lead our patrols.  Tough sumbitches with a little judo and karate training and such.  Maybe we import some IDF soldiers, battle-hardened and ready to lead our band of opinion-changers.  And then turn them loose to go forth and start taking back our colleges and Big Cities.

Nomsayin'?

So imagine 500 or 1,000 or so of 20- and 30-somethings all dressed in black, with black berets.  Hence the name.  And each of them in flackjackets, with bear spray, and hammers.  And batons.  And numchuks.  And knives.  And face masks.  With mirrored sunglasses.  Worn even at night.  Especially at night.  

                    Every Night.

Oh yeah, the sunglassses will pay homage to our fear(ful) ex-leader, Joe O'Biden (who's running the Country, again?).  A guy who has apparently retired.  I've just computed that he's been on vacation a total of 383 days, so far.  Just a bit over 41% of his total term.  Now all he's doing is sucking up campaign cash.  So if I've got it right, the lady who took three tries to pass the bar, and never had a real job, and never signed a check on its face, and never ran so much as a 7/11, is now Running the Country.  

While also campaigning.  Really?   

But back to the proposal.  Picture teams like this of 20 or 30 patroling the streets of Lost Angeles and New Yawk and ChicaGO looking for Bad Guys.  Those identified as "Bad" because they're doing bad things.  Like beating up Jews for no other reason than the fact that they're Jewish.  Maybe paying special attention to areas around the synagogues.  And the Diamond District.  And anywhere Jews choose to congregate.  Like on the campus of Columbia University.    

And when they find  Bad Guys they scoop they up and deliver them to the police.  Who will then deliver them to the District Attorney.  Who will then turn them loose at the Speed of Light.  Because the D.A. in L.A. was bought and paid for by George Soros.  Who's a Jew but apparently hates Jews.  Another oxymoron we normal folks are left to unravel.  

Oh yeah, he's the guy financing all the HAM ASS and anti-Israel protests on our Ivy League college campuses.  He also hates America and wants to help secure its downfall.  And so does his son Alex, who's running all his anti-American organizations.  And we sit back and let them do it.  

That's the scourge of an Open Society.

(NOTE TO SELF:  Idea for a screenplay.  George Soros lives in an enormous compound on the South Shore of Long Island.  You take a right at Exit 54 on the Long Island Expressway, drive a few miles South and you'll run right into it.  I know.  I've done it.  I'm thinking we have a rogue Conservative hero pilot who hates socialist pricks, swipes an A-10 Close Support Attack Aircraft, load it down with incendiary rockets, then do a low-level attack run on George's place.  Singing Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" as he unleashes a barrage...) 

And those Bad Guys the D.A. releases?  The cops will just arrest them again.  And again.  And again.  Perhaps with a little facial rearrangement thrown in each time.  And our "Black Semites" could serve as a sort of posse.  Helping our put-upon, underfunded, undermanned police maintain Public Order.  Or at least that's the way we'd "sell" it.    

And if they encounter resistance?  Resistance will be met with equal force.  Backed by 500 willing participants.  Or maybe 1,000.  In every Big Blue City...

Get it?

That's why you need more than a sprinkling of cowering Jewish students in universities filled with a sea of White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants with rich daddies.  Who are guilt-laden because of their "privilege."  And a few busloads of out-of-town Muslims thrown in.  Beating the crap our the Jewish students.  And the occasional Black and Chinese and Transgender wierdos thrown in for color.  All orchestrated by Iranian terrorists. 

And we're permitting that to occur.   

We need the Jews to stand up and protect themselves like Italians would.  Or the Irish.  Or the Germans.  Any of whom would swing back if attacked.  And I'd say fighting back would likely END the constant effort to erradicate them from our landscape.

They should punch those bullies in the face.  Over and over and over.  Until they stop being a boil on the butt of humanity.  And a few thousand "Black Semites" spread among the Biggest and Bluest Cities might just bring that about...*  

There.  Another problem solved.  Any more questions?