The New Green Deal.

You gotta be shitting me!

Assholes from states that take finished products from the state of Texas because their states are ‘too pretty to contaminate with oil wells or refineries’ are deciding we need to get away from fossil fuels, meat, agriculture, nuclear energy and electricity produced with fossil fuels.

They do want the wind energy that is produced in Texas. I assume they dontwant the wind mills either. BTW, Texas prouces 22% of the wind energy produced today.

The GND is so preposterous, it just makes you shake your head!

Idiots!

Humph!

No, I’m not talking about being skeptical of the Mueller Report. What it is that i’m skeptical about is:

• That you can read
• That you took the time to read 400 pages
• That you could even think after the 100th page.

So, having established that, let me tell you about an episode in my life:

So, I was quietly minding my business when an acquaintance of mine, with whom i was having a drink, says: “You know, you really shouldn’t say nice things about Donald Trump”.

“You mean President Trump?” Just for the record, I hadn’t said anything about the President at that time. I try not to do that around folks I don’t know.

“Shouldn’t be!”

“Okay, I’ll buy, why?”

“He stole the election, colluding with the Russians!”

By this time, he’s practically screaming, turning red in the face and squeezing his naokjin so hard I figuered that it would be nothing but scraps of material when he reeleased it.

People are beginning to turn to look at us, the waiters are slowly moving away from our immediate vacinity.

I then stupidly took the bait and made the wrong observation: “I’m pretty sure that the Mueller Report said he didn’t collude with the Russians,”

“Did you read the fucking report!!!!”

Waiters move even further away.

“No I didn’t. Did you?”

“Of course, I read the entire document, except for the redactions. the whold report was redacted. it didn’t make any sense, since there were so many redactions. How could you possibly read it? Another case of those motherfuckers in Washington hiding the truth from the American people!”

I was impressed! He talked for about 5 minutes and didn’t take a breath.

Now let me tell you about my acquaintance. He doesn’t have the patience to read the appitizer section of a menu, much less 400 pages of the most arcane prose you could read. (Yes, i did, in fact, read part of the Report.)

It seems that the report is a bit like a Rorschach Test. You see is what’s in your head, not what’s on the paper pages.

I asked, then, about some specific things about the report (from the small part I had read.)

Didn’t really know a lot about the report, it seems. But then, I would have been shocked if he had. Still continued to talk to fast and loud, now beginning to jester

Remember, if you’re going to talk about a published document, read the damned thing!

Alright,

i’m on my way to the office this morning and decided to stop and get a couple of donuts. I know, I really didn’t need the donuts, but they are so good in the morning, and ‘need’ is a very overused word. Anyway, I wanted a couple of donuts

Being Friday, a lot of folks were lined up to satiate their ‘need’ for donuts for themselves and for the office. The drive through line, being particularly long gave me a chance to do some editing on my incoming calls and messages.

Five minutes, or so, later (seemed much longer while waiting in a long line of vehicles waiting to purchase something that was likely to kill you in the long run).

Finally reaching the window I reached into my pocket for money to pay for the 2 donuts (It really was 2 donuts). I had stopped by the bank and only had 20’s since I had squandered all of my pocket money over the weekend.

I handed the gentleman the twenty. He looked at it like I had just picked it up from a communal toilet andthen told me that they couldn’t accept that large of a bill.

Hmmm.

I had always kidded that someone might take cash “with the proper identification”, but that was tongue in cheek. I never really expected to be told that cash wouldn’t work for my purchase.

Who knew?

He did offer to take a credit card or Bitcoin for the $2.45.

I’ve obviously lived too long! Way too long.

You know, the Christmas season is purported to be the greatest time of the year.

Santa Claus, the joys of friendship, good food, good comraderie and best of all, having the joys of giving to others.

As we watch the charitable activities, toys for children, cooking for those in the greatest need, it looks like a Rockwell painting.

But then you drive!

People think during this time of year, it’s perfectly okay to turn right from the left center lane, run red lights by minutes, not seconds and do their best to cut off every other driver on the road. Just to get to the mall, dinner, or some party.

I haven’t looked up the statistics, but I would bet that traffic wrecks, fatalities, and just damned stupid driving accelerates during the season.

Folks, leave earlier, plan on being late, be kind to your fellow drivers and take a goddamned Vallium and enjoy the season!

aj

I just wanted to take a minute to thank Broward County Florida for displacing Duvall County, Texas and Cook County, Illinois as the most crooked or dysfunctional counties in the United States as far as voting is concerned.

Up until this week, Duvall and Cook stood in the annals of crooked voting counties in the history of the Republic. Always finding enough votes to ensure not only Lyndon Johnson but also John Kennedy’s elections, these counties pale in the presence of Broward County.

Not knowing how many folks voted, what type of ballots are outstanding and how many still need to be counted is a great tribute to ineptness as the least and croockedness at the worst.

Counties devastated by hurricanes and other disasters reporting on time, Miami and the rest of the county still have failed to meet voting information requirements.

Must not know how many votes they need.

You go, Broward County! Cook and Duvall Counties thank you.

– A. J.

I was on the way to the office this morning and for some reason noticed the use of car horns in today’s world.

The original need for horns is still pretty vague to me, except to get someone’s attention as i drove by in my ‘horseless carriage’. Still think you could have just yelled at the person so they could see how cool you were in your new vehicle.

i found out early, that sitting in front of your date’s house and using the horn to call them out wasn’t very smart. That continued to married life.

i really can’t think of a time that i needed my horn, except for some aggressive action. The dumb-ass in front of you doing their Facebook, sending emails, reading emails and then accelerating just in time for me to miss the light!

I’ve noted over the years that there are two kinds of honks; the little ‘toot – toot’ to get someone’s attention and the ‘HOOOOOOOONK!!!!!!!!’, which is significantly more of an aggressive act.

You know it when you hear it.

While I’m not an expert on the matter, my observation of the issue suggests to me that a great deal of road-rage incidents might be solved by taking the horns out of cars.

Seventy-five years ago, The United States was drawn into WW2 with a wanton attack of the Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, on Oahu Island, Hawaii.

The entry of the United States in the war ensured the eventual decisive victory of the Allies over the Axis powers during the war.

May we long remember and pay homage to the more than, 2300 soldiers and sailors killed at the attack and the more than 480,000 casualties during the resulting war.

These heroes kept America safe.

Irony – “a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.”

On this date 154 years ago, in a battle of the Civil War, the Union forces held off an attack by the Confederate forces to secure parts of Missouri and Arkansas for the United States, in the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. This battle, along with other notables, ensured the United States would stay whole.

This culminated with the defeat of the Confederacy, keeping the Confederate States in the United States.

The irony to me, is that as California and other states talk secession, maybe all the original Confederate states simply stay put, bide their time and watch their coastal brothers leave the Union.

Ultimately, wouldn’t that be the same as if they had won the Civil war and left? All that without firing a single shot!

A good friend of mine called me this morning to whine about U of H losing another head coach, this time to the University of Texas. Let’s see, that makes Baylor, Texas A & M and now UT.

Now my friend, William Bradleigh McKinney, better known as Billy Mac, not to be confused with the “detective down in Texas”, and I have known each other for a good many years.

We both went to UT years ago, both playing some sports while we were there. When we graduated, I went over the pond to Oxford for what Billy Mac laughingly calls the “Roads Scholarship”.

He did graduate work at the University of Houston, so has some identification with both schools. Actually, he has mixed feelings about both of them when they play each other.

Well, he called up bellyaching about losing the current UH head coach to Texas. Said there wasn’t anything money couldn’t buy. While I guess he’s right, I hope he helps UT do better.

I do kinda feel a little bad that UH has lost three of its last coaches to bigger (and wealthier) schools.

Well, here’s the electoral college vote for the United States as of today.

Which of the states do you think would like to have a popular vote for the Presidency?

Right, the blue ones; the ones that lost via Electoral College.

The Electoral College was put in place by the Constitution of the United States on September 17, 1787. It was then amended by the 12th Amendment, which basically ensured that the President and Vice President were from the same party.

The original purpose was to ensure that the less populous states were not run over by the more populous (i.e. New York, California, etc.)

It has served us well, giving an ear to all the people, not just the coastal states, which today trend to the liberal side of the chart.