The Party of Karl Marx

Thank God, Lovely decided to have a conversation with me at the very end of my favorite program. Like always I turn off the TV to give her my full attention. Ten minutes later she left to speak to her grandson in her native tongue. Our conversations are very short because her English is limited. I looked at my watch to decide if there was enough time left before retiring to turn the TV back on. Oh no, I am missing Queens Kamalas address to her subjects. I turned it back on to listen to the last five minutes. Luckily I saw her face turn into something a man hates to see, a woman who is angry and mad. She spoke about foreign leaders and how she would deal with them. My, my how I shivered with fright. I just can’t seem to envision her standing face to face with Putin in a face to face showdown. Every time I picture this scene it winds up with Putin ignoring her and angrily turning and walking away. It is as though she is not even there.

I will give the democrats credit for one thing, they are relentlessly banging away on Trump as hard as they can. The joy they propose to spread in the world disappears when Trump becomes the subject. I see it as another example of hypocrisy in action. The only joy democrats can experience is watching republican millionaires being taxed into poverty. Democrat millionaires are permitted in their perverted society of equal outcomes for all. The envision republicans and conservatives as the new slaves which they control on a chain-leash around the neck.

On the subject of the vice presidential candidate I have a few questions. I’m okay with his quiting the army when it came time to deploy to war, but I am not okay with him telling the people to squeal on their neighbors for not wearing masks during the pandemic. What kind of grammar schoolyard policy is that? I’m also not good with the lack of action he took during demonstrations in his state that wound up burning cars, buildings and hurting people. Supposedly, he was giving the wrong side a chance to be equal. I am also not okay with him giving kids the right to change their genders. What was he thinking when he had tampon dispensers installed in the school mens rooms? Were they supposed to use them to plug up their asses? How could he think that when these kids already have their heads planted up there. I am not ready to accept a man as the next in line when I believe he will fail to press the nuclear button when he sees an a-bomb headed for the white house because it is not the joyous thing to do. I do believe he would insist that world leaders joined to discuss world peace join hands and sing kombayah before deliberating.

I see this country drinking the cool aid and giving the first woman presidential candidate a bye just because it is time to have a woman president. The people of this country are not principled enough to compare Queen Kamala to Golda Meier, Margaret Thatcher, or Catherine the Great, and to see that she is a lightweight at best. She will win for the same reason Obama won, she is half-black, light skinned, raised by a single mom, has an Ivy League degree, uses language with words that are undiscernable to the common people and avoids the ghetto dialect. It will be another example of affirmative action in practice.

The fact that she is a progressive who practices and believes in the Marxist philosophy that all men are the same as their neighbors, and the means is justified by the end will not make a penny’s worth of difference in deciding how to vote.

They Speak With a Forked Tongue

This week, I have been watching the DNC after I watched my favorite programs. Thankfully I missed Clinton’s speech last night but I did hear a few others. What amazes me is how faiithfully and how genuinely these people rattle off untruths. I read many news articles and listen to a few programs that often pick apart Democrat speeches or articles and fact check them. So, I recogize the untruths as they are spoken.

One hypocrisy is about abortion. They want the right ot abort (kill) unborn and sometimes even the born because they think it is their right. In order to increase the population to keep the economy rolling they allow millions of new people into the country without any qualms about the cost of doing so on my rights. As a tax payer they are diverting tax dollars away from things that are important to me. These two facts are at odds with each other. They want total control over thier own childbearing rights but they insist on allowing others to come into the country without any concern about my rights and use my tax money to support the people who replace their aborted babies.

Tax the billionaires.(Tax the Rich). Okay, there are reportedly about 1000 billionaires in the country at this time. Take every penny of what they have and you will get a trillion dollars in tax. At the same time they spend 5 trillion dollars more than we currently take in. It will take a whole lot of very rich peoplle to satisfy the spending appetite of the democrats.

How about circular arguments. Food prices are rising (because of inflation) so let’s spank the big food companies by putting ceilings on what they can charge. Many big companies will go out of business, forcing the others to make even less because they are forced to supply us with the food that out-of-business suppliers can’t. Two things happen: 1. More people need government help and they print more money to give them money for food. 2. More companies go out of business, and eventually cause shortages to occur. Short supply drives up the price.

I lived through the inflationary period that Jimmy Carter was responsible for. Nixon took over and had a field day trying to fix things. He fixed prices, he froze wages, he lost his mind. My employer tried helping us out by increasing wages so we could keep up with inflation. The wage freeze happened. My employer gave everyone of his employees a promotion which increased our wages. (A loop hole in the wage freeze allowed wage increases with promotions.) The only fix for inflation is to stop printing money. Government has two ways to pay the bills: 1. Raise money by looting your pocket with taxes, 2. Order the Federal Reserve to print dollars to cover the bills. The problem with printing money is that the value of things doesn’t change. A loaf of bread that costs a dollar(trust me there was a time when that was a pricey loaf of bread) is the result of its components. Flour, yeast, milk, salt, and other componenets can all increase in price by fractions. The value of a dollar reduces to 95 cents. But the components didn’t change. In order to make up that difference the baker has to charge $1.05 for the same loaf of bread. When everything goes up this way we eventually wind up out of money a lot quicker than before.

What caused the government to print money? They felt sorry for us having to stay away from work during COVID so they decided to cheer us up with a check, but they didn’t have to money in the bank. They printed dollars to give us money. The effect was that the value of the dollar dropped and we had less money in our pockets to pay for things.

Democrats lie in speeches. Last night I heard them say multiple times that Trump was the author of Project 25. What the heck is Project 25? I had to look it up. It is a list of several things we have to do to turn the country conservative. Quite frankly if they adopt every one of the recommendations it will take at least twenty-five years to make it happen. Project 25 is the product of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank to which I happen to belong. Many prominent people were involved in the development but Trump and I were in no way involved. If he wins, I hope he adopts the plan in its entirety. That is why the democrats are pooh-poohing the plan every chance they get. They know that, if adopted, the country would wind up kicking democrats off ballots. They continue to talk about it because it is a threat to their existence and if they repeatedly tell us it is bad too many will know only what they heard, even though it is wrong, and believe it because they heard it on TV.

This is no longer the politics of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas who debated each other often. This is all out war between two halves of the country trying to keep thier ideas intact.

Lawyers are trained to win cases, and there are way too many lawyers working in politics today.

Pray Hard

It is over. I sent the manuscript to a publisher. Now, I can forget about it. If they accept it and send me money, I will accept it graciously. If they don’t, I will bask in the glory of having completed another goal. As I write this, I wonder which goal I will dive into next.

I think, I will start by turning off Grammarly. It seems, my knowledge of English Grammar is quite different than that of Grammarly. I like my version better. It sounds more like me talking. In the writing arena, I’ll try some short stories. The prospect of living long enough to pound out a regular book-sized story doesn’t appeal to me anymore.

Certainly, I will write for this BLOG more regularly. Most times it will sound like Joe Biden drifting off into a mindless stupor while his mouth is still moving and sound continues to flow.

Speaking of Joe Biden. I made the sad mistake of watching his entire speech at the convention. Was it really him who was speaking? He sounded exactly like when he gave us the State of the Union speech earlier in the year. Was it a robot programmed to move his lips like Joe? Or, was it a Disney holograph of him giving the SU speech? Either way, I can proudly brag that I watched Joe Biden give the last political speech of his long career.

One state I never traveled in was Delaware, and after witnessing Joe’s career I will stay away from all people who might have been dumb enough to vote for this guy so many times. How did he manage to last as long as he did? A better question would be how in the hell did he become president?

I do not look forward to seeing Kamala Harris become president because the few policies she is promoting sound like what we went through in the seventies/eighties when Nixon was trying to fix the inflation that Carter brought upon us. I agree that it is time that a woman become president, but please Lord not Kamala. She will become the new model for dumb blond jokes. Since what she proposes isn’t meant to be funny, it will hurt all of us. Just let her go back to the land of the crazies and give her a puppy or kitten to play with, but please Lord, don’t give her the keys to the atomic bombs.

When a Yard Needs A New Look

A couple of days ago, I took a break from writing and sat on the patio, enjoying the shade and the birds and just thinking. I stared at a tree at the far end of the space, and my mind kept telling the gardener in me that several branches extended too far over the roof of the house. I thought to myself I’m going to have to trim four branches off that tree. Two of them are scraping the shingles on the roof, another one is headed for the roof and will touch by next year, and the fourth makes the tree look out of balance. The following morning I awoke and sat at the kitchen table having breakfast. Lovely got up came out of her bedroom and said Oh my God! What happened. She looked out at the patio and it looked a little like a mini tornado had come through during the night. Three of the four branches I thought needed to be cut, were on the ground. The falling branches raised all kinds of hell with Lovely’s potted flowers which were scattered throughout the yard. All I could think of was that I missed going to church the Sunday before and the Lord sent me a warning. I went to church this Sunday.

After seeing the tree with all those branches missing, I decided it isn’t worth keeping. I’m hiring an arborist to cut it down. It is time the yard got a new look.

PSA-240819-Wisdom in a Can

Wisdom of a glass of beer

“Sometimes, when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed.  Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I did not drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, it is better to drink this beer &   let dreams come true, than be selfish &   worry about my liver.”

Babe Ruth  

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“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”    

Paul Horning  

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“24 hours in a day and 24 beers in a case.     Coincidence?  I think not!”    

H. L. Mencken     

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“When we drink, we get drunk When we get drunk, we fall asleep.        

When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. 

So, let’s all get drunk and go to heaven.”  George Bernard Shaw  

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“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”    

Benjamin Franklin     

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“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer.  

Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention,  

But the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”    

Dave Barry     

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“Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B.C.”    

W. C. Fields  

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“Remember ‘I’ before ‘E,’ except in Budweiser.”   

Professor Irwin Corey     

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“To some it is a six-pack. To me, it is a Support Group.  Salvation in a can.”    

Leo Durocher     

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One night at   Cheers,   a TV Sitcom,  Cliff Clavin  said to his buddy, Norm Peterson: “Well, ya see, Normy, it’s like this .. A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo.  And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first.  This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.

In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells.  Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells.  But, naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first.  In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.  That’s why you always feel smarter after a few beers!”