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Seeking an Answer

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If I may digress. This post reminds me of a song, “A Lover’s Question,” sung by Clyde McPhatter. I certainly am not a country/western music fan, but this one is pretty good. It’s got a good tune, some thoughtful words, and yes, even the backup group is good. It’s the kind of song that just might haunt you all day. You might even find yourself singing it without realizing it. More than that, you might find yourself identifying with it. If you can, you might look it up and play it, it is well worth your while, even if you don’t like country music.

I came to the above title from name of the song in a somewhat roundabout way. Originally, I started with “A Customer’s Question.” Didn’t feel that was apropos. I mean, we are speaking business, not love relationships. I was still somewhat tempted. It is kind of a catchy title. Nonetheless, I decided to use something not quite as good, but more accurate.

Now, getting down to the question and the reason for it. I would really like to know why big corporations like to (figuratively) shoot themselves in the foot. They make decisions they know are going to affect their bottom line and they do it without much true consideration. Consider Budweiser. Those that have read my post very long know that I don’t approve of alcohol at all. But this, this is really dumb. They have lost, what 7 billion dollars just to make a commercial that is friendly to homosexuals and unfriendly to their customers. And now, they can’t even issue an apology. The best they can do is march their Clydesdales out and hope for the best. I am sure that their stockholders have had a few things to say about that. They have likely said that they are desperately seeking an answer to why they did such a dumb thing. (Why did they do that?)

At one time, I had Xfinity cable and internet. I likely still would. However, one day, they started calling my home and suggesting we need a box for converting digital TV to analog. Don’t know if it was intentional, but they left both the wife and me with the impression that there would be no charge for it. We said no. We have but two TVs and they were both hooked up to cable. After the sixth call, one that I took, I agreed to let them send it. However, just to make sure there were no misunderstandings, I said that the first time they bill me for it, I’d pack it all up and take to the local store. They did, and I did.

They shot themselves in the foot. Why did they do that? It wasn’t so much the amount. I suspect that I could have returned the little box and had the cost removed. It’s the idea. They were dishonest. I told them what I’d do, and I did. My guess is that they didn’t care. At that time, they likely had enough customers, losing one or two wouldn’t hurt. I don’t know. Maybe they did have too many customers and they decided to prune a few.

I went to AT&T for cable and internet. Oddly they don’t love their customers either. I lost service so I called them up. Because I could not give them a 4-digit pin number, they refused to fix it. Fine. No problem I told them. I asked for an address to send the equipment and disconnected that day. Why did they do that? I guess they simply did not want to keep the over 2 hundred a month I was sending them. It must have been well decided on their end because I talked to two managers on the phone. Naturally, no face-to-face conversations here. No such thing these days.

It happens in local businesses too. I no longer go to McDonald’s, Wendy’s or Walmart. They have proved to me that they all have too many customers. So, Walmart has lost around two to three hundred a week. Sometimes more. They’ll never miss it. If they were to read this post, they’d not care. It would seem that they don’t like their customers. They just put up with them so as to make their billions off of us. I now go to Kroger. Maybe I spend a little more, but the service is far better and friendlier. Why did Walmart do that?

I could likely write thousands of words on this subject. I would suspect that there are many more who could. Those guys up in those board rooms just don’t seem to get it. They really do need customers. When they lose them they will lose their income. They just don’t seem to get it.

Being woke might impress one group of people. Going broke. Well. That could be a problem.

He Who Counts the Votes

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We here in the USA vote using a secret ballot. That is to say, after we vote, no one knows who we voted for. While this is true individually, it is not true in groups. We turn our votes in by precinct. And while no one can tell who I voted for, they can know who the precinct voted for.

It is mostly by necessity. I mean, while we want our votes to be kept private, we want then to be counted. When counting by precincts, we can verify that there are exactly so many people who voted in my precinct and for whom. If they are not accounted for by precinct, it would make it very easy to have unfair elections.

To be sure, it has been said, he who counts the votes wins the election. To prevent this from coming true, every vote is counted at a local level. The totals are counted by total ballots and by totals for each candidate. The total votes counted should agree with the total number of voters. The total votes for each candidate should agree with the total number of votes.

If this method is followed carefully, then fraud ought to be easy to see. I mean, if there are a hundred votes, fifty for each candidate, then there out not be a hundred and five votes in the precinct. On the other hand, there out not be 98 votes.

There are three hitches. First, folks voting outside their precinct. It happens frequently. Although illegal, it generally does not create too much of a problem. The numbers simply aren’t significant. Moreover, as long as the person votes only once in one precinct, the spirit of the law prevails, at least in general part of the election. It can throw off local elections so we ought not do it.

The problem does become significantly worse when many people do it in multiple precincts, which allows them to vote multiple times. Not only illegal by the letter of the law, but very much illegal by the spirit of the law. If something like this happens in mass, it can throw off local, state, and national elections. It is difficult to catch as there are few effective ways to catch it.

It is why we use registration. It is why we should be more careful with our registrations. First, it should be required to register two months in advance of voting. It permits, if they will, cross checking between precincts, counties and states. If someone is registered in two or more places, their vote should not be allowed in any of them until the registration problem is corrected.

The second problem is the simple illegal vote. This is when a person or persons perform the voting for others. This can be people who are no longer living, people who simply have no concept of what is going on, frequently in nursing homes, and people who simply chose not to vote. There is significant evidence that this was happening in 2020 in real numbers.

Again, the answer is registration. More important, we need to clean the registry regularly, probably every ten years. We should look for people who are old and possibly deceased. We should check their residence. If they are not living at the home of record, they should not be permitted to vote. If a person moves, they should still be able to vote, but only if they provide a valid change of address and make sure they are removed from the former registry. This is especially true of people moving into nursing homes.

The third problem is what I call remote voting. This method is full of fraud. The simple way to fight it is to make sure the voter has a real reason to vote absentee. The ballot, before it is sent in should be notarized and the notary needs to know he can go to prison for falsely notarizing, especially in bulk.

Finally, to avoid fraud, all voting for a given state should be in person and on one day. It should start at the same time and end on the same time throughout the state, even if the state is in multiple time zones including absentee votes. Moreover, if I had my way, no results should be reported until all states are done voting. It would keep the results from the eastern states from coloring the results in the west.

Finally, more important, Let’s make sure we don’t follow the above saying. Just because someone counts the votes, he should not be able to alter the outcome. Most important, all those who are taking part in the election, no matter how small, no matter how great, must be required to follow the law. And the law should have teeth to back it up. In at least three cases in the 2020 election, officials did not follow the law and they did not spend a day in prison. Actually, they didn’t even get their hand slapped. At least one proudly announced it.

If we don’t make the officials follow the law, how can we expect people to respect the results.

A Victory and a Loss

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The Supreme Court just handed down a victory for Old Joe, which was also a loss for our nation and our national security. No matter how you spell it, it’s horrible news. It means keeping the southern border wide open. I feel for the ranchers who will continue to have to put up with that.

That, of course, means welcoming the illegal aliens, permitting the drugs and most of all, the cartels get to throw a big celebration party this evening. Old Joe might or might not be in league with them. However, if he were, would he do anything differently.

BUILD THE WALL

Son of a Joe

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Isn’t it nice to have a father named Joe? When we have a father named Joe, who just happens to be the Occupier of the Oval Office, we can do just about anything we want. When we don’t want to pay income tax, no problem. We just don’t report them. Sometimes, we have to admit it, but we never need to spend a day in jail.

Any time we want, we can lie on federal documents. No problemo. We just admit to it. Someone slaps our hand and says don’t do that no more and, behold; the problemo disappears into the outer limits.

And by the way, we can take all the drugs, legal or not and no one will ever arrest me. No one will mention it in the media… well not much anyway. Makes no difference anyway. No one will complain about it.

The really neat thing about it, should I do something else wrong, all I have to do is to mention that I have this really bad drug problem. Now that’s what I call using my problems to solve problems.

Now for all you all; the rest of you. You’ll never have it so easy. Especially, if you have a big R after your name. Especially if your father’s name is Trump. Especially if you worked for or have a friend named Trump. For those…. You all just have to get used to putting up with (here goes, the intended pun) TRUMPED UP charges for anything and everything.

Two Lives

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Two young men. Maybe two young women. One has been killed by a bullet; the other by a drug sold by a drug dealer. Which one is more dead? Which death causes more grief. Which brother or sister will be missed the more.

Many call selling drugs a non-violent crime. I ask, what’s the difference between the bullet and the pill?

I get it. Guns are terrifying. While I was not one that ran through the rice paddies of S. Vietnam, I did carry an M16 with me everywhere I went for nearly a year. I did have to wear a flak jacket and helmet. I carried four magazines with twenty rounds each ready to use. I was aware that a bullet could have come out of the dark and end my life at just almost any time with no warning whatsoever. I did know some who took bullets while serving.

However, drugs, today cause far more death and sorrow daily in this country than all the guns. Truth be known, much of the death caused by guns is also caused by drug abuse. Those dealers must protect their territories.

Yet, Old Joe just never talks about drug abuse or the folks who sell the poison. Maybe it would be because he’d have to admit failure on the border, which by the way, is intentional. However, let just one person kill or harm another by gun, and immediately, he is in front of a camera and mic explaining how we must rid our country of those evil guns. Not a word about incarcerating those who use them.

A Little-Known Fact

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The phone company notified me that they will be giving money to the LGBTQ+ youth bunch. Moreover, they are encouraging me to do the same. Obviously, they don’t know me.

I am under contract restrictions so I will stay with the same company for a while, then no more. They didn’t see fit to ask me. They simply did it. I would suspect it is part of the new encouragement by Old Joe to get corporations to be friendly to social, environmental, and governmental ideas instead of just making money. I am sure the phone company is thinking they will come out ahead because of the better way they will be treated by Old Joe’s administration. However, their thinking is very short sighted and likely pretty dumb. You see; I suspect I am not the only one who does not believe in giving money to such things. I suspect that I will not be the only one jumping to another provider.

You see, they might be making Joe happy, but some of us don’t like things such as what the dems are pushing these days and calling sex ed. Moreover, Joe will not be around much longer. Even should he be re-elected, the man is getting old. As the Bible says, it is appointed to man once to die. (Hebrews 9:27) I certainly suspect his time is right around the corner. As it is said, he is living on borrowed time. And may I remind those from the phone outfit, they need to think of their mortality too. The same Bible passage also says that after that, the judgment.

Well, I’m sure the phone company will never miss those of us who leave because they decided to mix politics with business. Seems to me, the one guy said best. Republicans do buy tennis shoes too. I suppose that some phone company officials think republicans don’t use cell phones.

There Is a Difference

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If I may….

There is a difference between Former President Trump and Joe Biden

Since before his election, the House, the media, the Clintons, and the Justice Department have been trying to hang some crime on Trump, some of which are not even crimes.  Collusion is not a crime.  For well over seven years, they have all given it their best shot.  While they have gotten indictments and two impeachments, they have not one conviction, not even in the media.  Moreover, it has been determined that many of the accusations were groundless, even illegal.  Technically, they should have never seen the light of day. Technically, those who brought them should serve time for their crimes.

On the other hand, Hunter Biden now stands guilty of three crimes.  He admitted to them after about two, maybe two and half years of investigation.  The media, the Justice Department and Congress have done all they can to keep it from happening.  It is an indicator.  First, the man is guilty.  Second, he is likely far more guilty of far more than he is admitting to.  After all, deals are usually made by the defense to avoid greater punishment.  Third, I wonder just how much power does the man have over his father.  After all, he does know where the bodies are buried.  He could be saying, “If I go to prison, so will you.”

Forth, and likely the worst of it all.  Just, how much was Joe personally involved in protecting his son?  What has he done to keep his son’s name out of the media, out of courts and him out of prison?

Finally, just how much collusion was he involved with in with Hunter’s dirty dealings.

As a simple aside, where did he gain his fortune on a senator’s pay?

Trump acquired his fortune in private life.  Biden acquired his as a public servant.  You figure it out.  There is a difference.

Incidentally, they never acquired any real proof of Trump colluding with anyone, though there was one particular congressman that claimed he did have some. Do you suppose the congressman lied, maybe a little. Maybe a lot. Maybe frequently. I am sure he would have presented the proof if he had it. Yet, after the investigation was done, he remains silent. He has presented not one element of proof. How quickly some forget.

As an afterthought, many states have gotten wise with driving under the influence laws. People no longer get breaks because they were driving drunk. They pay the same penalties as if they were driving sober as well as penalties for DUI. Hunter Biden claims he was under the influence. Should not make any difference in court. He chose to take the drugs and he chose to commit the crimes. He should not get any breaks. It is ridiculous to get a break for doing something illegal because he was doing something illegal, like drug abuse. With his plea, he is not even getting punished for his drug abuse, though he admitted to it.

Considering a Risky Decision

Posted in AARP, Abuse of Power, Auto Quality Control, Being woke, Biden, Cancel Culture, Climate Change, Crazy Nuts, Going Green, Lawyers and Representation, News Anchors, Safety by

Got my car insurance bill a few days ago. I looked at it and filed the mental note to pay it before it elapses. Then, i considered it again.

Generally, I drive one place each day, maybe two. Don’t really need to but I do. Then, I considered; do I really need a car. I mean we really pay an awfully lot for the convenience of wheels.

The other day, drove into Firestone, spent the whole day there and drove out over a grand lighter. Mind, I’m not complaining about Firestone. They did very well for a reasonable price. The thing is that I need at least 1500 more to fix axles, air conditioning and who knows how many more problems lurking out of sight.

It’s just getting awfully expensive to keep up a car when I now drive about 10, maybe 15 miles a day.

Oh yes. Let’s not forget the price of fuel. Thanks to Joe, we all feel a bit lighter as we drive away from the gas pumps. Let me clarify that. Financially lighter. I must admit the fuel is heavier, but not much.

Indeed, maybe, I should take the hint from OLD Joe and start bicycling everywhere I go. I figure I might save 2 or 3 thousand a year. Considering we are living totally on Social Security, that is a lot. Fact is – that’s a bunch for most all of us. To be sure, it’s even more for those who have far more than me. After all, they must buy their Lincolns, Cadillacs, and or, their BMWs. They pay more for their vehicles, more for their insurance and, likely more for their maintenance.

Going to a bicycle as my transport is not a decision taken lightly. I mean, bicycles are more dangerous. We don’t normally wear helmets in cars, not yet anyway. However, we and our children are firmly cautioned against going to the local convenience store without something to protect our noggin.

Therefore, I must assume that it would be quite dangerous to abandon my 4 wheels for 2.

So. Before I decide, I’m sure you realize, I have very much to consider. Money is not everything. Safety is a factor as well. Someone in one of those big cars just might hit me. I’m afraid the helmet would provide little protection.

It is not Just Trump

Posted in Abuse of Power, Being woke, Biden, Christian values, Communist Takover, Controllers, Crime, Fear, FOC, Hillary Clinton, January 6, law enforcement, Lawyers and Representation, Lt. Gen. Flynn, New Cars, News media, Obama, Our Legal Systems, Pelosi, Planned Parenthood, Plutocrat, President Trump, Socialists, Unions by

Some would have us believe that we need to put former President Trump in prison should he be convicted. I say it has long lasting effects, which we should be extremely careful.

First, the NY, NY trial is in a very democratic area. It amounts to a kangaroo court. It is why they want to try him there. It is why they want to try him in Washington DC. It determines the outcome before the end regardless of the evidence. So much for a trial of our peers.

Secondly, it’s not just Trump on trial but the entire Republican party. If he is convicted and sent to prison, it sends a signal to all republicans. I might explain what the message is but I don’t think it would serve any purpose. We all know what that message would be.

It would turn the US into a one party country and a third world country. No one would dare run against the dems as they would know that there was a good possibility of being tossed into prison. It would spell the end of the Republican party and the republic of the United States.

But, it is so much more than that. Just as friends of Bill managed to avoid prison, friends of Trump would be in fear of going to prison. Already, many of his associates have been convicted, though they did nothing wrong.

It’s time to put a stop to it right now. Indeed, it is time to put the real criminals in prison. You and I know that won’t happen. Even if Trump gets back in office, the crime families have gained too much power.

Now, one thing Trump, or any new republican president should do on day one, is to require the resignation of all top leadership: every person on the top floor of the FBI building, every officer in the military with more than one star, and all appointed positions in the justice department. He also needs to do a good cleaning of all the intelligence agencies, especially the CIA. I’m sure it will leave much of DC without leadership, but that will be far better than what they have now. More important, it will send a signal to all those agencies that no one is unreplaceable. It would also send a signal to the dems that they will have to start all over again in their efforts to take over the world.

Which is Worst?

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Which one is worst? Is it the one who offers the bribe in hopes of getting his way, regardless of what is right?

Is it the one who receives the bribe, knowing that he is going to treat a person or person wrong as a result?

Maybe the worst of all is the one who stands by and observes the bribe and says nothing. Maybe he says nothing out of fear. Perhaps he keeps quiet and benefits from the bribe. I don’t know. There might be dozens of reasons for blinding himself to that which he knows to be wrong.

When I was a young man, still in high school, I was taught about the third world countries where bribery was a way of life. The officer, expected and received the little payment to turn his head. The government official knew he would receive the bribe to allow the immigrant into the country. The teacher explained that, of course those things did not go in this country.

Now, 50 or 60 years later…

As I surveyed the recent history, I came to the conclusion that it is what happens in countries that turn their backs on God. You might ask if I consider it a judgement. To be sure, it would be a righteous judgement. But it is entirely unnecessary. It is simply a natural result. When people turn their backs on God, they do things that result in calamity.

They might call it lobbying, or donations for campaigning. It all has the same result. In but a short while, unless we allow God back in our lives, back in our schools and back in our government, the US will be a used to be. We will join the ranks of third world countries. People will be going south over the Mexican border, not north. No one will want to live in a land that is ruled by the few, the rich, the powerful.

And, invariably, the few, the rich and the powerful will not let go of their hold on this nation.

So. What is your thought? Are you one who bribes? Are you one who accepts the bribes. Or are you one who simply looks away when you see a bribe. Hopefully, you are none of those. Yet, millions of people stood by and watched Biden offer a billion-dollar bribe and still voted for him. Millions stood by and watched what the dems did to our voting system. And still they voted for them.

It looks like they approved of the bribes to me. So don’t be surprised when they count the US as a third world country. Don’t be surprised when money by the wheelbarrow will not buy a loaf of bread.

Don’t be surprised when God turns his back on us as this nation has turned its back on Him.

In the past, the US was an example of a Godly nation. Nowadays. Not so much.