When HAMAS kills all the hostages and civilians, then what are they going to use for bargaining? The just who are they going to hide behind. I suppose each other.
Monthly Archives: September 2024
Still Waiting
Kamala still ain’t done nothing but talk. Wait a minute. That’s a double negative. Oh, well. You know what I mean.
Crazy Over Unions
The problem with unions is that the leaders are not thinking of the union members. They are thinking of the union members. Trump brought the union members at least twice as many jobs as the unions did. He brought back steel, aluminum and autos. He would not have been able to if the unions didn’t first drive those jobs out of the country. Remember the rust belts. Remember the ghost town called Detroit. Remember the disappearing coal mines. Remember the oil pipe line Obama refused to have built.
Or is it all so quickly forgotten. Or is it just preferred to be ignored.
The Problem With Idealism
It would seem that everyone and his cousin is demanding peace. I say it is Idealistic. They say it takes two to tangle. However, it only takes one to wage war. Moreover, if one side puts their weapons aside, it won’t take long for the other side to win.
And so it is, Hamas is crying for a cease fire. It is because they are losing badly. What the Palestinians don’t say is that, the instant they put their weapons down, they will start making ready for the next surprise attack, in which they will kill, maim and rape as soon as the are again ready.
The idealistic people think they have the option of stopping the war. What they are really doing is encouraging the Palestinians of Gaza. If they had kept their mouths shut and stood aside, the war would be over and we’d have gotten many of the hostages back. However, they send in food, medicine and hope to the HAMAS. That is not the way to win a war. When you try to fight that way, it cost more lives for both sides. The way to bring it to an end is to have a quick and decisive win. No one wins a war like this. They just go on and on and people keep dying. However, it is the type of war the power hungry win. They would like to go in there and wrestle power from the current prime minister, no matter who he or she might be. It is their method. It is how they work. It is how they succeed.
Lawyers Just Love to Ruin Things
Something on the news triggered an old memory. I think I was in the forth grade. That officially makes it old. One day they notified us that there would be teachers after school. They would check out sports equipment and games, checkers, chess, etc.
It was really neat. Many times we played softball. We spent a lot of time playing chess. The big thing, we never said that there was nothing to do. It was great. It was great for the kids, for the community and it was good for the teachers. They got paid for the overtime and I’d guess they could use it. Oh, by the way, it helped the parents who worked too. They had supervision for the kids until five.
Then, one day it stopped, as fast as it started. It seems someone got hurt and the parents sued the school. I didn’t know everything about it. Being a forth grader, I wouldn’t have understood it if I did. However, I do know that they fenced in the school and we were not allowed on the playground after hours.
Looking back over it, I can only speculate. Maybe the kid did get hurt. Maybe he just sprang his ankle. Even if he did break a bone, most kids do break a bone or two by the time they reach high school. I did. Most of my friends got hurt and had to have medical attention. Better that it be somewhere where there is adult supervision.
Well, regardless, that law suit shut down the whole thing. My guess is that whoever sued, sued for a million and settled for a hundred thousand. Better than going to court. Even when you win these days you lose. Lots of legal costs. Expensive lawyers. Frequently, the insurance company says, take the settlement or they won’t pay. So, even when you’re in the right, you end up paying through the nose.
At any rate, the lawyer won. He ruined things, made his couple of few grand, and us kids, we had no recourse but to complain that there was nothing to do.
Do you suppose the lawyers that make laws, would make a few that would protect the schools with after hour programs. Nope. That’s not going to happen! Those lawyers make the laws for the lawyers, not for us, the folks. If they came up with laws like that, it would eat into their legal fees.
5.3 Miles/KwHour
My Nissan EV loves the nice weather. I dove back home after eating dinner today and my car reported 5.3 miles/KwHour. It is good when it reports over 3. It’s cool when It’s not so hot. That is to say, I don’t have to charge my car as frequently.
Well, I also maintained a speed of less than 40. I was on side streets. Still, it does make me think about ways of decreasing the cost of keeping my cabin cool with the air conditioner. Then, maybe I would start seeing 5s instead of 3s when I finish a trip.
Maybe I could use those little air conditioners they advertise on TV, or maybe three or four of them.
It Only Took 4 Years!
Well, I might be off a year or so. Nonetheless, for countless weeks, we heard defund the police. Slowly, those voices have been fading, but not countered. Tonight, I heard on Fox TV News that there was an decrease in crime on Beal Street this weekend. Oddly, many of those that they interviewed said it was due to the increase in police.
That is what I call hard headed. That is what I call stupidity. However, finally, those folks in Memphis just might have started figuring things out. You increase policing, you put the bad guys in prison and you stop letting the criminals out without bail, you just might see a decrease in crime.
Could have told them that a long time ago.
Well, actually, I did. However, no one was listing to me.
Who You Lift Up
Kamala says that a sign of a good leader is who you lift up. I can’t say I agree with her but let’s go by her saying for a while. She lifts up the Palestinians who want to throw the Israelites into the Mediterranean. She likes to lift the Iranians who would like to destroy us. She likes to lift those who like to tear babies into pieces. She likes to lift those who want to control what you do and what you say. She likes to lift those who want to open the border.
On the other hand, look at those who President Trump lifts up. As I think it over, it sounds more like an ad for Trump than one for her. I mean, Trump really did help the minorities far more than any dem in decades. He did establish worldwide peace until Old Joe stepped in with his mighty pen and ruined it all. He did cut taxes and lower gas prices which helped the little guy more than the rich. I could go on, but I’d guess you got the picture.
The point is that Kamala is wrong. The good leader does that which is right, even in the face of adversity, which is what Trump did. It is not what Old Joe did and it is not what Kamala would do. The fact is, I still haven’t heard much of what she would or would not do. All she has talked about is generalities about herself and Trump. And that was horribly inaccurate.
Three Things I’d Never Advertise
- Alcohol. While it is legal, it has caused more grief in this world than all the tobacco. Yet, today, alcohol is heavily advertised while no one can advertise tobacco. I could never live with myself if I tried to encourage anyone to drink what amounts to a slow acting poison. Some will say we tried prohibition and it didn’t work. That is true. However, do we need to go from one extreme to the other? Do we need to really have to allow people to make it look glamours. We can’t stop the use of it but we can stop the advertising of it, especially on TV where children are watching.
- Gambling. There was a time that gambling was virtually outlawed. Now, governments, corporations and even some churches encourage it. Do we really want to encourage people to gamble when there we already far too many people who have real gambling problems. Moreover, when the states and corporation openly advertise a thing, it gives that thing an an element of legitimacy. Is that really a good thing.
- Medicines or drugs. We have no reason to advertise even the legal drugs. If we have a real need for a prescribed drug, then the doctors can prescribe them without advertising them. We do not need to advertise drugs to those who do not need them.
When alcoholism is the number one drug problem in this country, why is it that we want to advertise it? When families are disintegrated by the parents losing the paycheck at the casino, do we need the glitter displayed in front of the habitual gambler every day. It does make me wonder how anyone can make their living ruining the lives of others. I have heard all the so-called reasons for it and, to me, they just don’t wash. I mean if I were to advertise any drug and it caused the loss of one person’s life, how could I live with it? How can anyone live with it?
It Just Goes Beyond a Person’s Comprehension.
Sometimes people do things I simply cannot understand. I would suspect not too many could give me a logical explanation. Desoto County is pretty solid republican. Matter of fact, Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee are all pretty solid red, for those unaware.
Admittedly, Memphis is just about as blue as it gets in this part of the country. However, the other day, I was really surprised to hear a few political ads for Kamala and a few more today. That sort of lends reason to the thought that Kamal ain’t so bright. No matter how much the ads benefit her in Memphis, she’s not going to win Arkansas, Tennessee or Mississippi
Nonetheless, let’s not tell her. Let’s keep that part quiet. If she wants to throw her money into the tristate area, let her go right ahead. We can use the money. Besides, every dollar she spends here will not do her any good elsewhere. So, let’s just keep it to ourselves and let her think all the money is very well spent. We’ll let her have all those grand illusions.
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