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Comprehensive, especially in conjuntion with immigration laws

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Every time I hear the word it makes me want to really pull at my hair. They know they will never manage to get a dozen little things by us individully. So they wrap them up into something too long to read and too complex to understand.

Then the dems and rinos stand for a photo op and say, “We are going to fix it all with this wonderful COMPREHESIVE immigration law.”

Naturally, what they don’t say is that it virtually destroys what immigration law there is.

If the bill passes, the dems will be thrilled. The corporate headquarters will be thrilled. The immigrants who come flying in, perhaps litterally, will be extatic.

The rest of us citizenry, not so much.

Every time I hear that word, comprehensive, my antenna go up and I brace myself. Hopefully I will be able to alert others to…a whole lot of others.

Daily writing prompt
If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?
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Milk

Posted in A Little About me, Alcoholism by

I Don’t drink spirits. I generally avoid those that do.

I prefer a large cold glass of milk. Most restaurants don’t serve milk like that. When I do drink, I generally order 2, sometimes 3. Those that do generally overcharge for it, serve it warm or in very small cups. I’m also diabetic so I have to watch my calorie intake. Therefore, I generally settle for a diet soda.

If I do order milk, the server gives me this strange look and I am that they will chech in the deep far reaches of the celler to see if they have any. You see milk is not a high profit item like alcoholic or soft drinks. So I generally do my milk drinking at home, where no one will see me.

To make matters worse, there are some dumb agencies trying to take diet soft drinks away from me. They tell me it will give me cancer.

Fine! Just try to convice me a martini is great for my health, which is the assumption behind this prompt.

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What is your favorite drink?
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HOW MANY?

Posted in Christian values, FOC, gun control, law enforcement by

1 death in KC, MO. Several injured. Bad. Horrible.

Now-w-w, let’s see. 397 homicides in Memphis yr 2023, 100 more than yr 2022. Another record like this year.

I feel very bad for the one killed in KC, MO. However, you will pardon me if I’m neither shocked nor surprised. It seems every time there is a large gathering, someone dies. Moreover, it is getting difficult to feel bad for the deaths when they occur at a rate of over one a day.

Maybe, it is a good time to do someting besides talk about it, and I do mean something besides gun control. Believe it or not, people are killed by other things. Murders took place long before guns.

A good thing to remember, murders usually begin inside the mind of the culprit, freqently hours or days in advance.

Choices

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  1. When Germany attacked England, it was their choice. It was a horrible country they were left with, but when one nation chooses to attack a superior foe, they really need to expect it.
  2. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, they never expected such a retaliation. Many Japanese still have hard feelings over those bombs, yet they would not have hesitated to use them on us. Their designs were to rule over us. At war’s end, we had won the right to rule over them totally. We didn’t.
  3. When the Palistanians made the choice to attack Israelis, They knew they would be the subject of a massive retaliation. Yet, the instant of the counterattact, they took the stature of the victim.

The Palistinians are suffering much. Yet, they have the ability to stop the war almost instantly. If they put down their weapons, the shooting will stop.

To be sure the civilian suffer, as did the Jewish civilians at the attack by the Palistinians. However, the palistines cause the death of civilians by using them as shields.

Yet they continue to fight without hope or cause. For their cause, they will lose all including their land, perhaps even their lives.

As a side note, there were scirmishes as Trump took office. When he left, there were no wars or even scirmishes. The Middle East was a pretty peaceful place, or have you forgotten?

Business or Lives

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In Tennessee, there is an argument about a new law. Some want to make it illegal to sell cold beer in stores to cut down on DUIs. Those selling beer say it will cut down on businuss.

So, I guess the question becomes, which is more important, business or lives?

I’m not even weighing into this one. Those that know me know what I think about alcohol. This time, it is neither here nor there. It does seem like a good law but I don’t know if it would be effective.

Certainly, I doubt it will slow sales. If it does reduce sales, just maybe it would be a good to make the driver wait until he gets home, either that, or if he’s desperate for the immediate brew, make him drink it warm. He might even get used to it.

Then again, there might be a technical solution. Put timers on the 6 packs to keep them from opening the beer. It makes me wonder if bear drinkers just might find a way to bypass it.

A Quick Word About Radar

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As near as I can tell, the beginning of WWII was the also the beginning of the importance of radar. While still in its infancy, it allowed the Royal Air Force to meet the German bombers enroute and drstroy many before they reached England.

What bothered the Germans is that, one day, they were destoyed, the next they were fully operational.

From the beginning, and even now, radar is easily destroyed and easily repaired. I am sure it does cost some to repair a radar system, but far more to destroy.

Many think thay Gemany made a mistake trying tp destroy the radar instead of the air fields. Taking out aircraft on the ground would have had longer lasting affect.

And now Biden errors likewise. I we are spending more to destroy those radar sites than their cost to replace them. It is not very effective.

The only real logical time to take out radar sites is when it will be immediately followed by air strikes on real targets, this do that they will not br able to use their radar for their defense.

National Recognition

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Memphis has been been noticed nationally for crime and for driving. The reporters came to town and said things I’ve been saying about the crime in Memphis. They said things about Memphis drivers I knew for for decades.

Yet, I suspect not many will pay attention to me, or the reporters. So, busineses will continue to shut down. People will continue to move away, mostly the law abiding ones. Generally, those who would have stores and such will pull up stakes and leave.

If things continue, FedEx will close their hub. The ball teams will find other places to play where it’s safer. Then, invariably, even the leaders, the dems who originated all the grief will draw up their anchors and find somewhere else to ruin, as they did with Memphis.

To What Purpose?

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I get it. I really do. Newspapers, radio and TV all fail without ads. Some magazines have already failed because they could not attract enough advertising.

In the past decade or so, newspapers have started having problems. This even includes the New York Times. Most of us listen to radio, watch TV and or rely on social media.

Due to a lack of choice, I listen to WREC radio in Memphis for news. I am not all that pleased with the way things are going, but it is about all I have. TV news here is horribly biased. Newspapers have no real news and I no longer have cable.

I grit my teeth and put up with that ads on WREC, though I frequently turn the volume down for some of them. They were irritating to begin with but the repitition has become most annoying.

They keep advertising a 67 song and a couple of Jefferson Airplanes songs. Here lately, I have been wondering what they are advertising. Just what is it that they want me to buy. How many times do they think they have to repeat the exact same thing before they will convince me to buy what they are selling.

I know they do need the advertising money. I just wonder, for what purpose if I haven’t a clue what they are advertising.

Don’t think it much matters. Don’t think I’ll be buying much of it anyway. Right now, I am surviving well without it. I don’t think I’ll miss it much, especially if I know not what they are advertising.