The View From 30,000 Feet...

You have a lot of time on your hands when you get old(er).

Enough time to really consider all those nagging questions that pop up every now and again.  Stuff you always wanted to know the answer to if you just had time.  Well I now have time.  And here a but a few of them.*

     -  There are 220,000,000 automobiles on our Country's roads.  And about 12,000,000 added to the National Fleet every year.  And they are careening around like pin balls in a machine, all day and all night.  5,000 pound missiles cruising at 70 mph, often separated by nothing more than a thin line painted down the middle of the highway.  

And the drivers of those missiles are often raging at some sleight or other.  Pis*ed off at another dipsh*t in his missile, maybe.  Or drunk.  Or high as a kite.  Or any number of other possible reasons.  Just got fired?  Didn't get laid last night?  And yes, they do run into one another on occasion.  But what astounds me is how relatively seldom that occurs!  

If the risks were really calculated, we would all walk to work.  

     -  Did you ever wonder why Joe O'Bidens skin is stretched tighter than a drum?  And orange?  And why, I wonder, does he never blink?  Are we sure he's not an avatar?  

     -  Have you noticed that it takes an act of Congress to go to prison these days?  The average number of arrests before prison is 37.  You can break the law 36 times without fear of a trip to the Big House.  I find that astounding.  It always paid to be a criminal, until you got caught.  But getting caught is now no longer a deterrant.  It's become a status symbol!  We are friggin' nuts!     

     -  I texted a Brit buddy of mine a couple of days back.  I told him it seems 'Murica is now becoming more and more like his Jolly Old Homeland.  I mentioned that one of our two major political parties just coronated its new candidate.  Kicked out the old guy who got 14 million votes in their primaries, but was languishing in the polls.  And then, all in a day, poof!  They have a new candidate!

This was conjured up in some dark room somewhere, managed by whomever is really running the show.  They picked a woman who never got a single vote in any nominating process, ever, yet is now their Co-President.  A woman who never started a business.  Or hired anyone with her own money.  Or signed a check on its face.  Sort of their "line of succession."  Just like Louis the XIV-th gave way to Louis the XV-th.  

They never did that before, I told my buddy.  They used to hide their dictatorial tendencies.  They were always there, hidden, just below the surface, as with any Left-wing organization.  But no longer.  Like a lion's claws are hidden...until they're needed.  It's all right out in there in public, for all to see.

That, I told my friend, is the definition of brazen.      

     -  I just watched the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympic Games.  The one where they openly mocked the Christian faith by recreating the Last Supper using drag queens.  Giving the finger to 1.6 Billion Christians.  I wonder if they'd do that to Muslims?  I don't know about you, but I'm less inclined to watch the rest of the Olympics.  

     -  And another thing.  Four years ago Uber was fighting it out with the cab companies to pick up rides at the airport.  And then all of a sudden the Chinese unleashed their Killer Wuhan Virus Pandemic upon the world.  And killed millions of people, including more than 200,000 Americans.  And forced our citizens indoors and locked down.  So they had to order food brought in.  Then VOILA!  Uber magically transforms into "UberEats" and stops picking up people at the airport.  And starts picking up orders from Pizza Hut.  Except a 12" pizza from any of the big chains will now cost you $30.00.  That's because they have 4 levels of charges.  All packed on to make sure everyone in the loop "gets their beaks wet."  And God help you if you piss off the delivery jerk or he just might pi*s in you Diet Coke.

     -  And as I'm on my way out the digital door, here's a question:  If a medium can see spirits, imagine what a large could do?

*   Trust me, I have more.  You just wait...