Category Archives: Respect

I-880 Closed

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Is it because of a wayward ship as the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Nope. By the way, Old Joe promised to do all possible to open that one. Haven’t heard anything from Old Joe about I-880.

When I heard about the closing of I-880, I sat and considered just why Old Joe doesn’t want to help his compadre, the gov of California.

Then I figured it out after some additional info. You see, it wasn’t a massive accident that closed The Golden Gate Bridge but a bunch of pro Palestinian demonstrators. It is not only okay for that, but something to be encouraged.

On the other hand, if they were a bunch of pro Trump demonstrators, the bridge would be clear in 5 minutes.

By the way, Trump demonstrators would not do such a thing. It is illegal. It is against the law. Besides, it is inconsiderate. The demonstrators don’t care. Old Joe doesn’t care. The dems don’t care.

Medicare Hunting Season

Posted in A Little About me, Advertising, Crazy Nuts, Growing Old, Over Advertising, Phones & Cell Phones, Respect, TV Advertisements by

Every year around this time, it becomes Medicare hunting season. The TV and radio stations must love it. Every 4th or 5th advertisement is someone trying to get me to call them, in hopes that I will choose their part C Medicare. Given the price of TV and radio time, the broadcasters must be making a fortune and a half.

They used to call me at least every other day. Actually, that is a good way to anger me. It is a very poor way to try to sell me anything on my phone. I don’t pay for TV ads; I do pay for my phone. You want to use my phone for ads, start paying my phone bill.

At any rate, apparently, I figured what to say to stop them from their phone persistence. After I said hello, the young woman started into her spill. I rudely interrupted, “I am 73. What makes you think you know more about Medicare than I do?”

She immediately hung up and it has been at least a year. Not so much as one call since.

NOW. If I could just figure out something as effective on TV. I am open to suggestions. I am getting tired of that Martha woman with the big glasses acting as if she’s the expert. To me, she’s just a high paid actor, and I wonder if even the glasses are a prop.

Arrival of a King

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It is a common thing to have a celebratory greeting of a visiting head of state. If the leader from a friendly major country visits, we would, so to speak, roll out the red carpet. Generally, we would have a big band and, many from the press would be there. Certainly, there would be many dignitaries, maybe the president, himself.

As the visiting dignitary left the plane, people would greet him and shake his hand. There might be a military representation who would provide a ceremonial salute.

It happens frequently. On the other hand, when a president visits other countries, it is not without much pomp and circumstance. We have grown to expect it.

Yet, a little over 2000 years ago, a king arrived and hardly anyone noticed it. There were but an uncertain number of shepherds who left their sheep to greet the greatest king ever. They, and they alone spent a short time to visit Him and and His parents.

As a side note, the wisemen did not arrive with their gifts for likely a year or more later. The only dignitaries who met the king on arrival were a few unnamed shepherds.

However, we today, and will into the foreseeable future, celebrate His arrival worldwide, moreso than ever any head-of-state. Indeed, some even celebrate His arrival while denying Him. Nations celebrate His arrival who worship idols.

That…that is recognition that no one has or ever will receive. People sing of Him him and know Him not. They exchange gifts in His name while knowing not why.

One day, likely soon, Jesus will return. This time, it will not be just a small group of shepherds who will see Him. Indeed, He will be seen by all and recognized by all. I have no authority to say as much, but I suspect that that will include the blind.

I say this as an encouragement. If you don’t know the one we celebrate at Christmas, I suggest you take the time to genuinely find out who He is. It is a poor idea to ignore one who is so great.

Smiles

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Went to Burger King today. First time in a week we went anywhere to eat, being as I had been sick. They had a big poster up for Halloween and I complemented the person I saw there on it. It surprised me. She got a great big smile and said thank you.

Did not know it meant so much. Maybe she was the one that picked it out. And by the way, it was a very nice poster.

Nonetheless, it did bring to mind something. Isn’t it nice to bring such a big smile with such a little gesture?

It never added one penny to the woman’s salary, but I guess, it still made her feel better. And you know what? It made me feel better too. Wish it was so easy to make make everyone feel a little better. Maybe it is, when we know the right thing to say or do.

The Deceit is in How You Ask the Question

Posted in Biden, Border wall, Bribes, Christian values, Controllers, Gathering false infomortion, Immigration, Politcal Opinion, Reporters, Respect by

This evening I happened to land on Scriptts News Channel where they were declaring some things true and some things false. They presented the question and in an objective way they declared whether the the answer was true or false.

One question I found particularly interesting was, and I must quote this loosely as I did not have paper and pen at the time, Is the 3.2% COLA adjustment historically low this year?

I suspect the question should have been and likely was, was the COLA adjustment really reflective of the cost of living. Most of us could care less about past COLA adjustments. What we are concerned with is does the 3.2% really reflect the increase in the cost of living?

Naturally those representing Scriptts said that the COLA is relatively high compared with the last +- 14 years, which is true. However, they completely sidestepped the answer to the the real question.

And, by the way, I can answer that question. It was low this year and it was low last year. Both years combined is about ten percent, a little more. However, I cannot buy as many groceries with $200 that I use to pay $100 for. I take my car in for a repair that used to cost $600 and it cost $1100 or $1200. I had a battery replaced on my car and it cost $250. It was not that long ago they cost $30. Going out to eat costs more too, but, percentage wise, not as much as the groceries. And, oh yes. Let us not forget gas. If I weren’t retired, I don’t know if I could afford to get back and forth to work. (or I’d have to bicycle)

Every place you turn, the prices have doubled or nearly in the last two yours. And the COLA has gone up but 10%. Just try to tell me that Old Joe has us poor folks at heart. That is a bad joke. A joke because it is not true. Bad because it affects those that can afford it the least.

I can put up with the decrease in my spending power. However, I cannot and will not tolerate them insulting my intelligence. It is but one more reason I call them dems and it is but one more reason I call him Old Joe. And, if this keeps up, I will use all lower case letters when writing of him. If a leader will not respect those he leads, then he does not deserve our respect either, no matter his position.

My afterthought. The inflation caused by the dems and Old Joe has not only driven up the cost of living in the US, but globally. The price spent on oil went up globally, not just here. Hence, it went up in the poorer countries where they hurt even more than in the US. The only ones he helped were Iran and Putin. Well, I am sure he helped his own finances and his family’s.

Establishing the Lies

Posted in Being woke, Biden, Christian values, Communist Takover, Controllers, Deceit, Pelosi, Plutocrat, President Trump, Respect, Social Media, Truth by

It never fails to amaze me as to how quickly can become embedded while it seems to take forever to establish the truth. Even now people speak of January first as a riot and insurrection. They neither nor say anything to establish it. It is now just assumed to be true. And, of course, they pin the whole thing on President Trump, though he did all he could to avoid it.

I’m not going to go back through all the facts. If people want to believe the lie, there is nothing anyone will be able to say or do that will alter it. However, let’s remember four indisputable facts. One, the only one shot was a women who was lying in a defenseless position by a high ranking policeman. It is the one most obvious case of police mistreatment, and no one wants to say a thing about it.

Two, the truth is that the police seemed to be welcoming everyone in, even to the point of providing a welcoming wave of the arm. I know. I saw the video. As the people entered, other than a few people, they remained orderly doing no more than looking around. No one had weapons, period. No one attacked any of the police.

Three, at his speech, President Trump encouraged the crowd to be peaceful. There were complaints that he did noting to stop it after he found out about it. What was he supposed to do. He had absolutely no communication with the crowd. He was denied access to all social media so he could not even send out a message via them.

Four, President Trump made two attempts to activate the national guard. Both times he was turned down. Pelosi had charge of security in the building. Trump could not override her authority. When she said “no” to the help from the national guard, it meant no. Had she permitted the national guard, she would not have had January 6 as a political club with which to hit the Republicans with.

To make matters worse, there are still folks they are holding in jail that never entered the building. So much for a quick fair trail. Even if they did go to trial, they would have been tried with juries that would be all democrat. DC is 95 percent dems. The defendants could try for a change of venue, but good luck on that.

I am a little curious when some of these cases make it up to The Supreme Court. I would suspect many will be overturned quickly. The problem is that some of these folks are going to lose years out of their life and that cannot be returned.

Even more angering, what really, really bothers me, there are many rinos that are quickly falling in line and are ready to concede to one of the greatest deceits in American history.

Memphis Drivers and Politics

Posted in Elections, Fear, Gambling, law enforcement, Memphis Drivers, Respect, Uncategorized by

If anyone moving into the Desoto County area were to ask me for advice, I’d tell them to watch out for Memphis drivers. You can tell them for the blue auto plates. They are apt to change lanes without warning. If they decide to, they will bypass you in the right lane and jump in front of you, even if there is no room. I am beginning to think it is a sport with them.
Another one of there tricks is to turn in front of you from a parking lot and then decide to do 10-15 miles under the speed limit. Then, of course, when you try to go around them, they go up to 5 to 10 miles over the limit.
The thing that brought this to mind tonight is that one of them just almost customized my almost new car. I was crossing the I-55 bridge going west. One of them came off the offramp and crossed three lanes. Oh he was signalling. It appeared he considered it gave him the right-of-way. I had to really hit the brakes in a hurry to keep from hitting him. Then, of all things, he decided to take his time.
That I-55 and 302 interchange has become somewhat dangerous. I would guess, most likely that guy was headed south to Tunica to give away some money. Makes me ever more happy that we shot down the gambling back a few decades. Invariably, it would have drawn a few more of the likes of this guy.
I mean, I don’t mind those from Memphis coming down here and spending there money. I just wish they would leave their driving habits north of the state line. We don’t need drivng like that anywhere, certainly not here!
There is but one more thing I need to say regarding this. Unfourtunately, many of those Memphis drivers are moving down here south of the state line. I guess, even they don’t like it so much up thre. I mean, it is good in a way. It does drive the value of my little house up. The problem is that they bring their driving habits with them and their politics. They are ruining things for those of us who have moved here to get away from the likes of them.
I mean, we don’t need the democrats ruining things down here the way they ruined things up there. We really don’t need the idea of boys going into girls restrooms or competing in girl’s sports. If they want to live in that kind of environment, they need to turn right back around and go back where they came from, where they will fit right in, where they can play bumper cars like the rest of them.

I’m adding this as an afterthought. I sure wished that before a Memphis driver could get a Mississippi license, they would be required to take a course on safe driving and pass a test to prove they learned it. Maybe it would decrease the movement south, but it would definitely make the roads safer.

Also, I’m beginning to think we need a requirement for forward view cameras on all cars. One of the reasons people change lanes unsafely is because they know if they are rear-ended, the other driver will be assumed to be the one at fault. Cameras would change that. Also, the retrofit cameras are not that expensive. It would save a lot of money in the courts. I mean, who is going to try to convince a jury that they didn’t run the red light when it is on video.

Possible Solution for Robocalls or Telemarketers

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  1. Check caller ID. If not recognized, don’t answer.
  2. When phone stops ringing, call back. If busy, it is likely robocaller or telemarketer attempting there next call. If they answer, if it is a business they will likely answer with 1. A recording 2. A business reply identifying their business 3. Some poor college kid might reply with no idea what to do. They generally are not trained to receive calls. Your choice as to what to do, most probably tell them to stop calling. Alternatively, you can simply hang up.
  3. Of course it could be Mom on a borrowed phone wanting some help. Apologize and tell her you’re on the way.
  4. If it is a telemarketer, refuse to do any business with them. It is the ultimate solution. If telemarketing doesn’t work, they will stop doing it. My guess is the phone companies will be the losers. They know when these guys set these things up & they know they are going to make a bundle on it. As. Long as the phone companies permit it, it will not stop, especially from foreign shores.

Unbelievable News Story of the Day

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Just heard an update to a shooting that occurred a couple days ago in Memphis (Whitehaven area). According to the news story, a customer “pistol whipped” a Popeye’s employee and the employee responded by shooting the customer.

Here is the unbelievable part. According to the report, it all started over condiments. Tell me that makes sense. Is this the way two people should treat each other? Are condiments in such shortage that we need to attack employees over them?

They didn’t give any details beyond that but let me use a little imagination. It doesn’t take much. I have seen customers helping themselves to packets of ketchup by the handful. I suspect over half of it went home to enhance the customer’s pantry. That does not take a stretch of imagination.

Regardless, the employee is the representative of the owner. As such, he is the authority. If he says don’t do that then don’t do it. You don’t get to assault him or her. Not only is it wrong, it is against the law. But in this case, it is also stupid.

As an aside, as a former employee of a restaurant, I am somewhat knowledgeable about them. In general, the restaurant profit margins are some of the smallest. Moreover, those ketchup packages are expensive. When one customer walks away with an abundance, the restaurant must raise their prices. Hence the rest of us pay for the thievery. Incidentally, robbery, no matter how petty, is still wrong.

It has become a fact of recent society to take whats possible and if an employee stands in the way…. As I have said many times, it’s time to teach respect in our homes and schools. This means respect for humanity, for law enforcement and, yes for those that work hard to provide our meals for us. It’s time we stop taking their hard work for granted.

I don’t know how bad the assault by the customer was, but it is possible that lethal force was justified, especially if there is any evidence that the assault would continue. I am not totally saying he or she was right in retaliation. However, to some degree, I do understand it.

But really? Over a handful or two, maybe three? What has our society come to? What matter of hate must fill the hearts of people that they consider the life of another so little?

One more small point. If the customer disliked the restaurant so much, he should have just left. Far better for everyone.

News @ Ten

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The program went off and the 10 o’clock news came on. The first report was about two people being shot. I slapped the arm of my chair and explained, “Every day!”

I guess the city of Memphis does have days where people aren’t shot but it seems they are rare. I might be wrong but it doesn’t seem it was that way a few decades ago. Then again, maybe I just wasn’t aware of it.

I really don’t know. That just might be normal for a city the size of Memphis. Regardless, I believe it to be far too frequent.

So, what do I suggest?

  1. Pray. Some will argue it won’t help but it certainly is more effective than praying for the victims after the fact.
  2. Make sure those committing the crimes are imprisoned. I’m not saying just killers. Thieves, drug distributors etc too. I would suspect murder is not the first crime of those criminals.
  3. Build the families. I suspect most criminals do not come from good homes.
  4. Parents, teach your children about God, about right and wrong and about the special importance of human rights, and to have a proper respect for others.
  5. Teach your children proper respect for guns.
  6. School teachers, teach that killing and stealing is wrong. They too should stress the importance of common respect.
  7. All of us need to be reminded from time to time to respect the law and those who inforce it. Without the law, without those who inforce it, we would lose far more than 2 a day.

1 year practicing the above, and there would be a noticeable positive difference. Then again, that’s not what the dems want. They like blaming guns for what people do and the love pointing out the differences between the haves and have nots as a reason to steal. I’m still trying to figure out their logic on the advantages of drug abuse.

The fact is, only the dems benefit from crime. Those two that were shot today didn’t benefit from crime, regardless of party affiliation.