Kamala still ain’t done nothing but talk. Wait a minute. That’s a double negative. Oh, well. You know what I mean.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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?

My wife likes it warm. On the way out the other day, we walked by the 8000 BTU A/C and she felt the warm exhaust outside hitting her. She stood next to it and said how nice and warm it is. At first, I tried to ignore it. Then a thought occurred to me.

The problem with my thought is that the control panel is on the inside. If I turned the thing around so it exhausted inside, it would provide a lot of heat indoors, but I would have to go outside every time I wanted to change a setting.

Well, as I said, it is a thought. Maybe if they built A/Cs with separate control panels.

I understand the Starbuck’s has a new CEO who lives in Newport Beach, CA. Actually, that part is pretty good. Newport Beach is a wonderful place to live. I would like to live there myself. However, Starbuck’s headquarters and the CEO’s office is in Seattle.

I’m not a brilliant mathematician, but that’s a long commute. As near as I can tell, it takes him over 2.5 hours and that doesn’t include the time to and from the air fields. Well, at least he can sleep during the flight time.

I can’t help thinking I could propel my little Nissan Ariya a long time on the energy that plane burns in just one flight.

Well, it’s okay. I really don’t care.

What I want to know, who’s picking up that tab. That fuel is just part of the cost of flying that plane for 2.5 hours. Just one round trip… I don’t even want to think about it. It is a temptation to break the Tenth Commandment.

Forget his exact words, but he used, but he said he would never say something bad about…. He already did when he lied about his service.

When I went into the Marines, thousands were going to Canada to avoid service. When he refused to go to war, he put himself right in that group.

I was in the Marines 9 years. One of those years was in Vietnam. Admittedly, I was not in the jungle or rice patties. But I was, by definition in a war zone and I wore two ribbons because of it. I spent the time in the heat and I carried a rifle and live ammunition locked and loaded. I worked and lived in areas that had real bunkers and I spent a lot of time in them. I was on a guard post with rifle and grenades and I got wet in the rain and I walked in mud up past my ankles. I got eaten by mosquitoes and this man refused combat duty after spending 24 years supposedly at the ready to fight. Others went. He didn’t, even though, as a sergeant major, he would not have likely had much of a threat. With his rank, he would not have suffered the discomfort of his troops. Being in artillery, he would have been far removed from direct danger.

Walz has made all the military look bad. He let down the national guard. …and he disgraced his unit, especially considering his rank. If he were a private or even a corporal, that would be bad enough. However, he was holding the highest enlisted rank in the national guard.

More than that, he disgraced himself, which I hope will follow him for the rest of his life. Indeed, it should have disqualified him for any job in the military, let alone, to be in a position where he might command the military.