Old Joe’s Wrong Again

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Joe’s last words in his speech, “The power is in your hands.”

The problem is that it’s not. The power is in the hands of the Washington elite. That is not democracy, not even close.

Now when we go to the poles in November, or whenever you decide to vote, you get a choice between the candidate chosen for you or by the the people of the Republican party.

I understand why they changed the nominee, really I do. They started realizing that he was going gown in flames, figuratively. Still. If you’ll excuse the grammar, it just ain’t kosher. Moreover, it completely removed the power from the people. Even an internet vote would have been better, but then they might have selected someone the elite didn’t like. They might have chosen someone who would refuse to be their puppet. Finally, it might have revealed just how little popularity the woman has.

The Ultimate DEI (Diversity Equity and Inclusion)

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When old Joe chose Kamala for his running mate, he said that he would chose a woman and he said she would be black. Okay, I don’t remember the exact words, but I heard the man say it on TV. I can’t think of a better reference than that. I know it happened because I did see it and so did millions of others.

That effectively makes Kamala THE greatest of example of DEI on this planet. It might be deniable had he not made the promise. Because he gave his word, that makes it Affirmative Action. She was not chosen because of her abilities but because she was black…out of Old Joe’s own mouth.

Spoiled

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Since I retired, I look at it this way. My job now is to spoil my wife. I guess I have to some degree but, not in a way I expected.

Every now and then, I need to drive the Chevy HHR or it will go bad just sitting there. So, today, I went out and it started right up and I put my wife in it. It was not long before I had to step on it a little. My wife looked over and me and she asked what that noise was.

Okay. It’s not much, but she has gotten spoiled. She has gotten used to the quiet of the Ariya and she had forgotten the noise of the engine in the Chevy.

Actually, I must admit. I’m spoiled too. When I turn the radio off, it kinda gets spooky how quiet it can get.

Incidentally, we went down to Hernando to the Steak Escape. For a reasonable price, that place does spoil us. Besides that, they have good food and reasonably fast. It just has one problem. It’s in Hernando. I knew I should have bought a house a little farther south.

A Gross Waste of Money

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The dems had a primary, same as the Republicans. Old Joe won. Kamala never got one vote. Appears to me as if it was a big waste of money.

Maybe, if we were smart we would take this as a lesson. It is not beyond the possibility that others might withdraw or die. it would seem to me a wise thing to make plans accordingly. Perhaps an alternate could be added to the ballot. If someone becomes disabled or withdraws in the future, the alternate could become the candidate. Maybe not perfect. Better than what we have.

There are many smarter than me. Maybe you could make your own suggestions. Whichever, we need to put it into law so as the folks in Washington can’t continue to chose who runs.

What If the dems Had a Full Convention

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Just heard something that really should be passed along on the Travis and Sexton Show. Don’t know which one said it. He said it so casually, it almost went right by me. The quote is not exact. Hope I will be forgiven.

It would have been much better if Biden had stepped aside much sooner. That way, they could have had a normal convention. Biden would not have been in the contest. Mostly, Kamala would have come in dead last.

No Story

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Just easier to say, “Ben”. Used to go by Benny, but I didn’t think it really suited me. There was one guy in junior high school who called me Benji. That was a long time before the movie of the little dog.

It really matters little to me. I had a cousin who went by Frankie. Didn’t know for a long time, he had the same name as me, “Benjamin Franklin Rhodes. I thought that one over for a while. Maybe I should have used “Frank Rhodes” for my pen name. Maybe then I would have sold a million or two. Lately, it would have another advantage. I would not get confused by that hopeless liberal who was in Obama’s cabinet.

You can tell me what you think about it. Should I change my pen name to Frank Rhodes?

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The A, B, Cs of Truth

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A prints the lie. B and C repeat the lie, citing A as the source. Almost a week later, A is forced to retract the lie. They actually do print the retraction, maybe an apology. Guess what, according to B and C, they are standing by what the printed. After all, they were just quoting A, which makes what they printed the truth. And so it is that the lie stands and the truth never gets out.

It’s the way gossip works and it’s the way gossipers spread the lie as truth. It’s sort of the way the dems work and it’s sort of the way the mouth piece for the dems work, you know, that wonderful great paper in NY, NY.

It’s All About the Qualifications, You Know

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Well as you likely know by now, we no longer have a Director of the Secret Service Hopefully, the replacement will actually understand the concept of responsibility. I would think it would be one of her qualifications. You notice I used the pronoun her. Why would I expect the appointment of a man?

The thing is, Old Joe’s idea of qualifications and mine are miles apart. I mean, being able to do the job should be right up there at the top. However, with Joe, his idea of top three qualifications are simple: Black, female and democrat.

You might have noticed that I chose to use the word female instead of woman. The dems have this really big problem these days determining just what a woman is. For that matter, they are having a really tough time determining what the word “qualified” means. Perhaps they should have a look in the dictionary before making the replacement. Just maybe they should look at the words of Martin Luther King. I mean, did he not suggest that we ought not consider race when hiring someone.

Then again, when he gave his speech, womanhood was still not a major qualification for a job. Incidentally, since then, many other qualifications have made their way known, not the least of which, homosexuality. I mean, otherwise, the mayor of a small city who knew nothing of transportation would have never been selected to be Secretary of Transportation. (Qualified or not, you notice all the problems we have been having in transportation) Maybe Old Joe should have thought again. Perhaps he should have selected a woman for transportation. Maybe she could have dealt better with the congestion in Los Angeles Harbor. Maybe she could have done better handling the crash of that train. Maybe, just maybe, we would not be having so many problems with our planes. (you notice any wheels falling off lately?)

Maybe Old Joe should select the former mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot. She’s a woman, (I think) , democrat, and Black. She’s also got the new qualification being as she has a wife, not a husband. In addition, she has experience. Ask the folks of Chicago. She quite skillfully destroyed that city.

I do find a little irony in it all, though. I guess, because Kamala is female, she can chose men. As near as I can tell, she hasn’t seriously looked at any women as running mate. I guess that is how it works, right? Men must select females. Only females can select men. Incidentally, I have noticed that some of those men she was looking at are White. I’m not sure, but I think I am finally figuring it all out.

Still, if I am going to chose someone for a position, my primary concerns would be, is he honest and can he or she do the job. It does make the selection process a little more difficult, but I think I like the results better.

By the way, during the interview, my first question would be, “What is your definition of responsible?” That in itself might tell me a lot. It seems that our schools don’t like to teach the word or meaning to our kids anymore. AND, that is something of an indictment against our education system, the one that mostly the dems run.

Value of Life, Lack of Punishment and Drugs

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Channel 3 here in Memphis is performing a study…about guns and shootings. I guess they are getting tired of doing reports on daily shootings, many resulting in deaths.

As with most, they do seem to want to put the blame on the gun. They are ignoring the obvious. I think they want to. I don’t need to do a study. In essence, I already have. It was not my plan but I have eyes in my head and I have ears. I have noticed at least three things that have contributed greatly to the shootings.

First, the most obvious. No teaches the important things nowadays. As a result, the youth have little respect for life. After all, they learn in school that the only difference between a person and the ape is a few genes. Human life is never taught as being any different than any other animal. We are only different because of the chance, for a simple coincidence. Therefore, why give human life any special consideration?

Second, they have nothing to lose. Mostly, they won’t be caught. If they are caught, they likely won’t pay much of price, even if convicted.

Finally, drugs. If those news experts want to do a study, let them do a study. When we look at the stats, we know how many deaths by shooting. We know how many use and sell illicit drugs. I have yet to see a study of the relationship between the two. How many robberies were spawned from efforts to get the money to buy drugs? How many robberies were by people robbing to get the money to buy drugs? How many robberies and break ins were by people seeking drugs? We don’t know. No one has done any studies.

How many killings are by drug dealers for who knows what. We don’t know. We track murders. We track drug crimes. No one studies how many murders are because of drugs. We don’t know. The stats, to the best of my knowledge, are not kept. My best guess is half. I have had conversations with many in law enforcement and they all agree, every one I asked.

However, no one keeps the formal stats. You can’t just look it up. The only people aware are those of us who keep our eyes open and our ears alert. Those that help enforce the law see it, but no one asks them. Those that make the laws seem to want to divert their eyes from the drugs.

Take note 58,220 soldiers died in Vietnam in almost 20 years. In one year, we are currently losing over 100,000 lives to overdoses in the US. That is almost twice our soldiers lost in Vietnam. The loss by guns is minuscule by comparison. The gun problem might could be partially resolved in years. The drug problem can be cut to half by doing one thing, no more illegal immigration. We know that, because when Trump cut the illegal immigration, a side affect was that deaths by drugs dropped to about 30 to 40 thousand. Trump’s border policy likely save 60 thousand x 3 years =180 thousand lives, mostly from our youth. If Trump had been reelected, we would have saved an additional 200 thousand, at least. Likely more. How many have we lost to shootings? Look it up. It’s not close.

And yet, the media is addressing the “gun problem.”

Then again. As that hero of the socialists put it, It’s nothing but statistics. It kind of works out that way. Anything past a thousand lives are numbers, statistics to be printed and soon forgotten.

Who Would Have Thunk?

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The simple idea. Make two coins. One with Biden on the front and Trump on the back. The other coin with Trump on the front on the front and Biden on the back.

Trump ain’t runnin no more. I wonder if they will redo the coin or continue with the old ones. Well, I guess they could sell both, the old ones and the new ones. Some might actually want the old ones.