It would seem that Trump’s financial watchdogs are causing some discomfort among the rank and file of those drawing government checks while working from home.

Well, perhaps I need to be careful how I use the term “work.” It would seem that maybe there is a significant number that, while supposedly working at home for taxpayers, they are busy working elsewhere, doing who knows what.

Working two jobs at once is not new. I even know people who worked three jobs. Nothing wrong with that. Even admirable. However, working for someone else while on the federal clock is wrong, and hopefully is illegal. In the vernacular, it’s not cool.

And so it is that Elon and his crew appear to be making it uncomfortable for those working nine-to-five for Uncle Sam while also working for someone else during the same time.

After considering it for a while, it does make me wonder. I might have been able to make some money if I served as a security guard and custodian for, let’s say, the same.school. It sounds good, but I don’t think I could get away with it.

Why should we let the federal employees get away with this? I mean, as a custodian and security guard, at least I’d have to be there, though in a dual role. I couldn’t wear two hats simultaneously, but I could juggle them both with the dexterity of a circus performer.

“(Same title as Petula Clark’s hit. By the way, I still like to listen to the old song. The woman could sing.)”

If I have heard the question asked once, I have heard it a hundred times. “Why can’t we get people to come to our wonderful downtown area?”

Well, I’ll answer for myself, and I’d guess it will be something of a representation.

1. It’s too hard to get there. I’m talking over an hour of frustrating traffic.
2. I can never find a place to park. If I do, it costs a fiver to plant my vehicle for a few hours. Oh, and by the way, I still walk another mile, maybe more. Then of course I must return to my car while already exhausted.
3. It’s dangerous, you know. It’s dangerous getting there, while there, and dangerous coming back. I am starting to feel more concerned about my safety in Memphis than when I was in Da Nang. Who wants to bring a family or date into an environment like that?
4. Then there is the big reason. Nothing there worth the effort.

Having said this, obviously, my opinion does not represent everyone. I don’t know if it is courage or lack of common sense. I mean I’m hardly the only one who prefers staying clear of the area.

Most folks know it but some don’t. If Pres. Trump had not issued the order that men can’t participate in women’s sports, women’s sports would have faded to gone.

Then too, it might have gone on as nothing but men playing dress-up, and not very convincingly at that. They simply lack the necessary equipment for the task.

I was having a slight nightmare. It wasn’t scary, just frustrating. I was back at work, repairing something electronic. I was starting to zero in on a loose wire.

The frustrating part was that my supervisors kept coming in and asking questions, causing me a loss of focus. Worse, they turned off the high-intensity lights. So, again I had to leave my position to turn the two lights back on.

In my nightmarish world, I never fixed the wire. Just as well, maybe. The truth is that I didn’t have a clue what I was working on.

As I stirred from my slumber, the realization hit me like a ton of bricks – it’s like living in a communist utopia, but without the gulag and bread lines.

For those few unaware, it’s a filmmaker’s term for where the image on film or video gradually goes dark. In my case, my reference is the TV stations, seemingly.

I have been sitting here watching one news clip after the next on my 10-inch Fire. The screen is much smaller than my fifty-inch TV. Yet, I am able to see eyelashes and irises clearly. I think I’ll give up TV and watch news on the Fire. I’ll skip the sports and weather and concentrate on real news. The side benefit is fewer ads, and they are less abrasive.

I would love to liberate the TV from its captivity, but alas, my better half still finds joy in its flickering glow. Tossing it to the curb would only lead to marital discord, and that’s a battle I’m not quite ready to wage.

Well, I’d hold off until after the big game – wouldn’t want to miss those commercials, now would we?

Or anywhere?

If you don’t, it’s too late. It’s already been done under the so-called leadership of Old Joe. We can’t do anything about it. We will not get any of the money back.

It was a clever ruse, a wolf in sheep’s clothing, where the funds ostensibly meant to alleviate hunger were diverted to more nefarious ends. A veritable shell game, where the starving were left to fend for themselves while the perpetrators lined their pockets.

However, it does make me wonder. How many tumbleweeds attended? Did it make a profit? My suspicion is that it played to a house so empty, the crickets had to pay admission. Those folks down there have work to do – like farming.

Fauci used American money to finance the production of a new virus. He vehemently denied claims that it was unnatural and that he was at fault.

He and his friends facilitated the spread throughout the world while attempting stemming the spread in China.

Millions died directly from the virus, while still many more died indirectly by killing those already weak from other illnesses. It all resulted in an organized panic, which resulted in failed businesses and restrictions of public and government restrictions.

If that’s not murder, if that isn’t mass murder, just what do you call it?

Oh yes. And let’s not forget the financial damage he did, all completely intentionally. This while collecting a handsome retirement. Hitler’s friends were tried and convicted. Just how is it that Fauci and his friends are escaping justice?

The Democrats are always complaining that the Republicans are throwing grandma off the cliff, while they expose grandma and grandpa to the virus they helped to create and spread.

They are continually saying that Trump is Hitler, which they know to be false. This while they are killing people at a rate that would have made Hitler envious.

If that’s not murder….

Everyone is talking tariff wars. Even as they say it’s all beginning, poof. It’s over. I mean, even some of the Republican were saying how the cost of oil was going up and we would be on another path to inflation.

The “never Trumpers” have been very busy painting a picture of doom and gloom. However, the question remains: Where are the tariff wars? Where are the increases in costs? I see none. Do you see any? Does anyone see the dire predictions that were foretold? Did anyone witness the huge wave in the cost of living, or even so much as a ripple?

The Bible tells us not to believe false profits. It sounds like a good idea to me, even on the human level. It looks to me like a certain senior senator is not only a false profit but he is also all wet.

It just is… I wonder if they’ll even have decency to be embarrassed. I would guess not, though I have been surprised before.

The thing is, it takes a person of courage and integrity to admit to an error like that. I guess now we find out who has the honesty, integrity and courage.