Home Cooking

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I learned the phrase when my oldest son was in Little League. It is when the home team provides the biased umpire. To be sure, to really admit it, there were not as many cases of home cooking as I thought.

For sure, we did get some bad calls. On the other hand I am sure most of the umps were trying to be objective. Were there biased umps? Sure. On the other hand, there were umps that maybe called it the other way, to make sure they weren’t being biased.

It’s hard to find an umpire that isn’t biased. I guess even in the majors there might be one or two calls that go the wrong way. On the other hand, their calls are watched carefully and if a bias, either way shows up, someone has a few words with the one making the calls. Moreover, there is a professional pride involved.

I was never a professional umpire, but I was an unbiased one. I went to Syracuse for ten weeks for a school. In the afternoon, I often went for walks through a nearby park. I started watching Little League games on the way. Next thing I knew I was called in as the unbiased umpire. You see, being from Desoto County, I had no bias, at least theoretically, in the games.

I must not have done too badly. They kept asking me back. Either way, no one ever accused me of home cooking.

It is a problem in our society. Getting unbiased people to call strikes and balls. All too often those who sit on the bench in judgement are biased. Even those who try to be unbiased are. Worse yet, many are biased and are open about it.

What it means is that we have a serious problem in our society. When the judge and jury is biased and calls a person guilty when no law was even broken, it puts the general population in fear of false judgement. It might even encourage people to break the law. It encourages people to look the other way as the government officials openly break the law.

However, it’s not just the court system. Recently, the director of the FBI admitted a very biased activity in saying he knew the laptop belonged to Old Joe’s son. But why did he cover it up. There can only be one reason, to let Old Joe win the election. This is home cooking at its worst. This is the highest office in the FBI interfering with the election and openly admitting to it, without any fear. And then, of course, they all insisted there was no fraud. Worse, if someone suggested fraud, they immediately hushed them up. They made threats. They immediately made fun of them. They tried to put their businesses out of business.

Then too, there was more home cooking, by the press. You can ignore it. You can try to deny it but it was not only obvious, but in some cases, they even admitted it. This, when they say that the job of the media is to call balls and strikes. Yet they call nothing but strikes when the republicans are up and they call nothing balls when the dems are at bat.

Are we destined to become a third rate society because we have an obvious Pravda making all the calls?

Wouldn’t it be nice to have someone honestly and unbiased calling the balls and strikes at least half as well as the professional major league baseball umps. Sorry. Not going to happen in our lifetime. And the consequences will likely be far worse than any of us can imagine.

Actually, at this time, I would settle for what we called home cooking when my son was playing baseball. Better than what we have in the no-justice system. Better than what we have in the court system. Far better than what we have in the new media. Even more, it was less obvious back then.

Waste Not, Want Not

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Certainly not a new thought. I mean, who was it that said, a penny saved is a penny earned? While true enough, a penny was worth a lot more back then. At that time, a person could live comfortably on a dollar a day.

None the less, let me get back to my point. Likely 4 or 5 decades ago, supermarkets used to donate their food that was out of date but still good to kitchens. There was little chance of it spoiling. The food was likely prepared and served in two days, three at the most.

It really worked well. It actually cost money to have trash trucks haul off good food. The kitchens provided good food for really hungry folks, even Christian oriented outfits.

Then suddenly, it stopped, as they say, instantly. But why? Who was complaining? Who in the world would have an objection to such a good arrangements

Well, as usual, let’s look at the lawyers. They are always looking for a way to spoil things when they can profit on it. Of course the judges must take part of the blame.

A man got sick from the food. A lawyer found out about it and the next thing the store owner knew, he was about bankrupt for doing good. Word got around instantly and no one had to be warned twice.

So, you want to know why the stores don’t give food to charities, that’s it. I am sure it was far more involved. I am sure the trial took a while. I am sure that there were efforts to get the judgement overturned. But in the end, it doesn’t matter, even if the grocer was not at fault.

So, the lawyer made his wages. The person who got the food poisoning got his share of the cash and now the folks who were going to the kitchens go hungry. Who is it that likes that outcome?

Just now, I was watching CBS news. Guess what one of the stories was about. Grocers in San Francisco giving food to charities, as if it’s new thought.

Now that makes me wonder. Just how many lawyers are keeping an eye out, as the wolf waiting for the chance to strike. They might even help things along by feeding a willing accomplice a piece of spoiled meat.

I don’t like the idea. I don’t like wasted food. However, I have no say in the matter. No one asked me to pass a law. If I tried, no one would help me. You see the laws are made by the lawyers and for the lawyers.

For those unaware, the story of the good Samaritan was told as the result of the question, “Who is my neighbor?” Do I need to tell you? It was asked by a lawyer… apparently looking for a loophole in the law, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” I suspect there was a neighbor or two he did not like.

Unfortunately, we do need lawyers. Just not so many. Moreover, maybe we need a few laws to keep them in control.

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.