Paraphrases of the Bard

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A Rose is a rose, is a rose, no matter what name you give it.

Evil, is evil, is evil, no matter what you call it.

Illegal is illegal, is illegal, however you word it.

No matter what you call an alien, he/she is an alien. The instant he/she passes over the border illegally, then he/she is an illegal alien. As the bard put it, it is the same under any other name. The fact of the matter is, when you call them any anything else, you are just covering it up with a euphemism.

The instant one or more of those illegal aliens commits a terrorists attack, it is Old Joe and Kamala’s fault. Somehow, I don’t expect either of them to own up to it. That truth will be directly proportional to how bad the act is and the number killed. It is the pattern they set in Afghanistan.

So in summery, a terrorists attack by an illegal alien will be a terrorists attack, even when the news tries to color it as a demonstration. The bard says so. So there.

Form Follows Function

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I didn’t look it up so I am relying on my poor memory. Seems to me it was said by Frank Lloyd Wright. His point was that the design should be that the function should be most important and the appearance would take care of itself. Seems a good idea to me.

So, a few days ago, I saw a guy getting in his big, huge pickup, which by the way looked very nice. I noticed the emblem on the side of the truck, something to the effect of certified for offroad. I complemented him on his truck and I duly noted the the offroad certification. He smile and said, “Yup.” I asked him if it was ever offroad. He said, “Nope. No, no.” Somehow I don’t think it will ever be either.

Building Buildings

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You can color me impressed as I watched a number of buildings built up in Memphis close to where I worked. The process seemed so simple and it went so fast. Not only that, the buildings looked as if they were very strong. I would guess many architects/engineers will not be nearly as impressed as I was but, still, I do like to write about what impresses me.

First they built up a layer of dirt and packed it level. I would imagine they made it very level, but given the method, I can’t imagine it would be that critical. They built forms and set the steel reinforcement. They started pouring concrete and in approximately 5 days from the start, they had a foundation. They spent less than one of those days pouring the concrete.

Then, what confused me, they started laying concrete slabs on top of the foundation. Each slab, of course was steel reinforced. They were basically rectangular but not completely. Once the concrete cured enough, they brought out a couple of cranes and hooked them up to the slabs, one at a time. About twenty minutes at a time, the slabs were lifted up to become walls, very strong ones.

Because of the way they made the forms, the “cutouts” for windows and doors were already there. The builders simply installed the frames; then installed the doors and windows.

In the matter weeks, they built 5 high strength buildings where there was nothing but a field before. In a matter of a couple of months they were moving people into offices in the buildings.

Now, I am not an engineer. I am not an architect. However, I thought that idea was pretty slick. In just a little time, with a little labor and tons of concrete, they built some very strong buildings.

The question that comes to mind, if they can use this method for buildings and make money at it, why can’t they use the same methods for apartments. They say we have a shortage of housing. My guess is that we have a shortage of the desire to resolve that problem. If I had the financial backing, I’d try it. Moreover, when I got done, we would have very secure apartments. It is very difficult to break through concrete.

It sounds like a good method for building in hurricane and tornado areas. 5 or 6 inch concrete walls can hold up to some strong winds. Moreover, they stand up to flooding well too.

The Secret to Decreasing Food Costs

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Decrease the costs of the food from wholesalers and market operations, mostly utilities. Decrease the thievery, which is the unseen cost of retailing.

To decrease the cost of wholesale products, decrease the cost of transportation and packaging. That again means decreasing the cost of Diesel fuel and electricity. Also, being as Diesel is the main way electricity is generated, then decreasing the cost of Diesel would decrease the cost of generating electricity. As a side note, if you want electric cars, they don’t work without electricity. There will not be nearly enough electricity without the Diesel.

To be sure, the main source of vegetables is the farms. Indeed, I know of no other place. Guess what? Farms use electricity. Guess what, they use tons of Diesel fuel to run the tractors. They also use petroleum products for fertilizer and pest control, tons of it.

The simplest way of decreasing the cost of food… DRILL BABY DRILL. Trump proved it works and dems try to ignore that proof. While Trump was president, the price of food, and most other products, remained steady. It is only when Old Joe stopped the drilling prices for food, and most other products went up.

As a side note, regulations and laws increases legal costs at every level in the food chain. That benefits the lawyers. Those that help to produce the food and those that buy it, not so much.

Kamala’s Doing Well in the Polls

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It is easy to understand why. It’s not because of what she is but what she’s not.

She’s not a man. She’s not White and most of all, she’s not Biden. Well, there is one more thing. She has the total backing of the press. You can look high and low to find some mainstream reporter saying anything but good about her. And, I refuse to admit any human is that good. It is as if it’s all a big conspiracy.

It’s Coming Up On a Year

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Soon it will be one year since the attack on Israel. More important, there are untold people who have died, mainly because Old Joe decided to finance Iran, one of the major financers of the attacks on Israel. As I said when he did it, one of the basic rules of winning a war, don’t finance the enemy. It’s kind of a dumb thing. Well, it is a really dumb thing to do, that is, unless it was his goal to aid the enemy, which would not surprise me at all.

My Father Was a Carpenter

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Have you ever met someone that sets his mind on building something and then builds it. That was my father. He could and did build houses from the ground up with little or no help. This includes, electric, plumbing and all. However, he was not limited to working with wood. About the only thing he didn’t do was weld. I suspect, if he had a mind to, he would have done that too.

Regardless, I have seen him set out to build with wood or steel and with success. He was a man that had to be building, long after he retired. He had two heart attacks and still no one could keep him from building. Indeed, he was building when he had his last heart attack at 70.

I so wished I had been by his side more and leaned from him. When it comes to electronics, I am right at home. Not so much when it comes to replacing facets. I spent two days replacing a facet in the bathroom. I think I am personally responsible for the need to repave the road that leads to Goodman Road. I am sure I wore it out going back and forth to the hardware store. I tried to add a fridge with an Ice maker to the kitchen and I about turned the kitchen into a lake. At least, with the facet, it worked afterword. I had to call for a plumber to help with the lake in the kitchen.

Some folks know how to do things. Other folks don’t. Old Joe was an example of one of those who knew how to do what he wanted to do and he did. Unfortunately, what he wanted to do left the US and indeed the rest of the world in really bad shape. It was as he wanted. It was as he planned. He fouled things up, not because of incompetence, but because of his determination.

To be sure, everything he did benefited the dems and was a disaster for the world. In his mind and in the minds of the dems, he was a great success. And because of that, the world will spend the next twenty years climbing out of the abyss he created, if we ever do. Now, let’s hope we don’t have to find out about Kamala. I would just as soon she never get the chance. Then again, she just might be one of those puppeteers pulling the strings since Old Joe took office.

I would just as soon put Trump back in there. He not only showed he can do things, but his efforts are to the benefit of the people, the country and, yes even for the world. I have an electric car, but I sure would like to see the price of gas back down below 2 dollars a gallon. I would like to see the bankruptcy of Russia, so they can’t try to take over the world. And yes, I kind of preferred the days where we had peace in the Middle East for, I don’t know, another 4 or 5 years anyway.

Why Advertise?

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Well, let’s see. Some advertisements make us laugh. Some ads irritate us, especially when they run the ad every station break. Some ads have music, others have something they call music.

In general, people and businesses pay for ads for one thing, to make money. They pay for TV shows so we have “free” TV. I assure you, they are not paying to air that copy of you favorite baseball or football team just because they like sports. Indeed, they would just as soon you stay in your seat during the commercial so you might go to their restaurant or to their bank. They want you to buy their autos or their deodorant.

They pay fortunes to have their name paraded in front of you, just knowing if they don’t they will lose you as customers and they don’t want that at all.

The hitch is that commercials don’t always have the desired affect. You can ask Bud Light about that and they’ll tell you. They experienced first hand when the advertisement assailed the customers and their sales plummeted. Then to make matters worse, they refused to face it and make any corrections. They doubled down and their sales just went down. I don’t think they have recovered yet. I suppose there are some who decided other people make pretty good beer too, and maybe charge less for it. They will never get those customers back.

Then you have MacDonald’s. You know they spend somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 billion a year for advertising. They aren’t trying to entertain you. They want you to come in and buy their food. The problem is that the 2 billion can be quickly negated by slow service and low quality food. The same goes for Wendy’s. I mean, what good are the ads if they ignore those of us that would like to by a couple of singles with fries.

Then you have Chick Fillet. I can’t remember the last time I saw one of their ads. I don’t know if they have them. However, they treat their customers right. Even when they have cars wrapped around their building, I can go in, order and have my food in less than 5 minutes, maybe seven.

I’m beginning to think good service and a good product is better advertising than a spot on the Superbowl.

Maybe some other restaurants and businesses could learn from Chick Fillet. Somehow, I suspect that will not happen in my life time.