Saturday, March 1, 2025

 

YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING

 

In a maudlin moment, I watched a video of three women reacting to the Righteous Brothers singing You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling, a song released in 1964.

OMG.  Watch the girl on the left, when her expression changes as she gets into the lyrics.  The link is at the end of the next paragraph.  The other two, caught up in the rhythm, continue to smile and sway to the music.  Obviously, they are reacting to the vibe.  The girl in red, however, changes her reaction halfway through the song.  Something in the lyrics appears to have hit home.  Just watch her and see, in comparison to her two friends.  

Pay attention to the change in her demeanor.  Her sway ends.  Her eyes close.  Her smile disappears. It’s like she’s retreating into some dark and private corner of her mind.  Were the Righteous Brothers speaking directly to her?  Was she one of those who felt love slipping away with no way to stop it?  We’re not told.  But go back and watch what happens when it appears the lyrics hit home and the joy of listening is replaced by something else.  It’s as if the lyrics laid bare some deep scar on her heart.  Watch and see:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRfDIGeZtFM

I’m just guessing, of course, but the change in her demeanor is obvious.  Her expression changes at this point in the song:

“Baby, baby, I get down on my knees for you,

if you would only love me, like you used to do.

We had a love, a love, a love you don’t find every day,

So don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t let it slip away”

ignore the repetition of words.  Obviously the songwriter hit a brick wall and kept repeating the same word to keep the cadence going.  The message is what I'm focused on.  The young lady in red tried to get back into the rhythm of the tune, but she couldn't do it.  I looks to me that the song evoked a brief but painful recollection, some dark memory that was cut into her soul, and then the sound of her own quiet voice saying “This shouldn't have been how things ended.”

For her sake I hope I’ve misread her reaction.  But I know a kindred spirit when I see one.

Anyway, I don’t know that young lady and never will.  But it might be a conversation worth having.  We all take secrets to the grave.  They remain written on our hearts ‘til the day we die, like demons who occupy our inner sanctum until we finally learn how to exorcise them.  Often someone comes along and steals our heart, helping to banish the demons.  Otherwise God is needed, which may be just another way of saying the same thing.  God comes to us in many forms, though sometimes only through prayer.

BTW, and on an unrelated note, is the girl in white a Diana Ross wannabe?  Didn’t afros go out of style in the 1980s, same as mullets?  Asking for a friend.

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

 

"Will Someone Please Shoot the Messenger"

…or so they hope

 

Start here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4HmMm30QY8

If you sow the wind, you will reap the whirlwind.

I hope you believe in a God and Creator of this universe, or “Ultimate Reality” if that’s your preferred pronoun.  If not, that’s okay.  Names don’t really matter.  Just pay your nickel and make your choice, then live accordingly, as we all must do.  Live your best life.  Make the world better for you having been in it, even if you start late.  The dregs will come out in the wash.  History has a “rinse” cycle.

At this moment, a whirlwind named Donald J. Trump and his new wingman, Elon Musk, are swirling across the political landscape, and with devastating effect.  Their devious adversaries have made every effort to mute Trump, beginning in 2016 and culminating in two 2024 assassination attempts.  Failing that, they have now turned against Elon Musk, deciding to give him the same treatment they gave Trump, hoping to discredit him and drive a wedge between him and his boss. The playbook hasn’t changed.  It’s a divide and conquer strategy, same as they used against Trump and his other allies for the past eight years.

They will fail yet again.  Failing is what they do best in the Trump era.  Even now, in desperation, they are showing themselves as buffoons, crass ideologues and stupid politicians, three circles of intellectually-challenged cretins who would make for an interesting Venn diagram.  Maybe Kamala can draw one up for us. 

Meme experts, have at it! 

And goodbye Politico.  Sorry you can’t make payroll this week, now that your secret government funding has been cut off.  NPR and PBS, you’re next.  To the CIA, all I can say is, Take the “L” and take a seat.  Find some other way to check up on your ex-girlfriend.  You, too, FBI.  And stay off those porn websites.  Do you really think your prurient interests are national security issues?  Naturally, they classify their research as “Top Secret” to evade public scrutiny.  It has worked up ‘til now, right?  Hence, their fear of Trump and Musk.  No, I don’t think those organizations are corrupt from top to bottom.  I worry most about the head of the snake.  That’s where the fangs come out.

Panic makes people do strange things, especially Washington politicians and those who depend on them for their annual funding.  The last thing they want is for you to know how the financing game is played and how they have colluded to deceive you since Obama first was elected to office.  USAID, it turns out, has been one of the main benefactors in an international kick-back scheme.  Why all the fear of USAID being audited by Musk and his crew?  The IRS does this to all of us each year.  Is there something you don’t want us to know?  Why are you the exception to the rule?

Well, here’s three obvious reasons they prefer to keep you in the dark.  First, they don’t want you to know how they spend your money.  Second, if they don’t have access to your money, they lose power, and maybe even their jobs.  And third, they don’t want you to realize that your tax dollars are paying for their grift.  Don’t be fooled.  They’re not spending their money.  They’re spending your money.  Those facts alone would put most of us in jail.  But not them.  Naturally, if you’re in the camp of Al Sharpton, Abrahim Kindi or Stacy Abrams, everything Trump does is inspired directly by Satan, otherwise referred to as Trump’s alter ego.  That point of view makes money for them.  Otherwise, those three folks and their acolytes are national embarrassments and grifters at best.  I could name so many others.  To cite the Straw Man in The Wizard of OZ, if they only had a brain.  Did I mention Ocasio-Cortez?  And Chuck Schumer?  I could go on.

It's no wonder that Democrats are in a panic.  As Musk turns on the light, we notice how many roaches are scurrying across the floor, collecting millions of dollars annually – like bread crumbs – from their political allies and bureaucratic overseers, such as USAID, then racing back toward darkness when the light comes on.  You weren’t supposed to know these details, or how they suppressed free speech on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google.  USAID, NGOs, CISA and supportive government agencies were their workaround, only you weren’t supposed to know about them.  They fear such disclosures and the repercussions that might follow.  

Why?  Because they fear you, whom they didn’t consider a threat until now.  

They fear you might apply to them the same remedies they applied to their political adversaries who represent you, and would apply to you if they could.  

Interesting, isn’t it, that they want to move the goalposts when it’s your turn to kick the winning field goal?  

I’m enjoying the schadenfreude over their newfound panic.  They didn’t figure that a bright light of condemnation would soon hover over them.  You can thank Trump later.  BTW, did you notice I just mixed three metaphors in a single paragraph.  And here’s another.  Trump has released the whirlwind of justice upon them and their evil ways.  Now I’m guilty of four mixed metaphors.  I’ll stop there, despite knowing I’m on a roll.

Bright days appear to be ahead.  I don’t think Democrats can come up with enough cloud cover to hide the sunlight.  I once was a Democrat myself, until they gave up on Thomas Jefferson and the Constitution, which I thought they cared about.  Foolish me.  Enjoy their loss of power.  They earned it.

 

 

Friday, August 23, 2024

 

IN A LEAGUE OF HIS OWN

 

Had Republicans and Democrats not screwed things up so badly over the past forty years, Donald J. Trump likely never would have been elected as President.  But they did screw things up, as they normally do.  Then Trump got elected.  His rise to prominence wasn’t the first time.  Reagan got elected in 1980 and had a promising future, B Grade actor that he was before he ascended the throne.  Then he took center stage and was majestic.  He had a policy plan.  And he implemented it with success.  There was hope.  As pointy-head James Carville wisely said in 1992, “It’s the economy, stupid.”  Ross Perot brought the same message that year, and as a businessman, but his effort was futile.  GWH Bush and his “thousand points of light” screwed things up all over again and ushered in the Bill Clinton era.  Then came Trump in 2016 and again in 2020.  He is cut from a different cloth.  The guy is one of a kind. 

Oh, sorry.  I left out George W and Obama, two losers.  My bad.  I should’ve paid more attention, if only for the historical record.  George W ran on his Texas governor creds.  Obama ran on his mystery rise to the top and his prima donna narcissism.  You think that wasn't planned?  Both strategies worked.  George W and Obama both were bankrupt.  They proved to be turds in the punch bowl.  Don't take my word for it.  Just take a whiff.

Hence, Trump, who faced headwinds every day.  Then Joe Biden, the joke of the century.  More votes than Trump or even Obama in 2012?  Seriously?  Short of election fraud, he never would have been in the picture.  You know it and I know it, so let's not pretend.  Our betters simply didn't want Trump.  That's how charades are played every four years.  Outside of landslide voting and statewide election improvements, we've seen the last of the good old days.  You can thank electronic voting machines and ballot boxes for that.  If you still insist on them, you'll get more of the same.  Cf. Einstein's definition of stupidity.

Trump alone stands out as a man for the people.  Few would have thought as much in the beginning.  In fact, few ever would have paid attention to him if his predecessors hadn’t messed things up so badly.  But they did.  Not just badly, but BADLY!  It’s what they do best. 

No one ever spends your money as carefully as you do.  Why?  Because you have to balance your checkbook and they don’t.  Politicians get to spend your money without ever balancing anything.  All they do is screw things up, then they want you to re-elect them so they can fix the very problems they create.  Fat chance, and they know it.  So it’s gargle, rinse, repeat, assuming their campaign mouthwash will clean out the bad taste in your mouth every two, four or six years.  Think of the economy.  And inflation.  And our open borders, to name a few.  Congress doesn't fix anything.  Their focus is on re-election, plain and simple.  And they assume you are dumber than them, which you are not, yet they know you will pull the lever for them nonetheless.  That's how the game is played.

When was the last time prices actually went down?  Think of the price of meat, or eggs, or bacon.  Biden lowered the inflation rate to 3% this year, as of July?  So now, after an 14% increase over the past two years, it’s only going up 3% more?  That means your paycheck is now worth 17%, unless you got a raise.  Then realize they didn’t include the price of gas or energy in the basket of goods when those increases were calculated.  Let that sink in.  Your brain will get exhausted.  It’s by design.  You will feel it when it’s time to buy groceries or pay the bills, but they hope you don’t notice.  After all, they’re making a fortune as politicians.  It’s good to be the king!!!

Think of politicians as used car salesmen, because that’s what they are.  Their job is to polish up S**t to look like Shinola.  Don’t expect better, unless you’re talking about Trump, the non-politician politician.  He doesn’t care about money or power or their Shinola products.  He’s not interested in those things.  He already has all he needs, and more.  This talk about him being a dictator is pure political pablum.  Like I said, they think you are stupid.  Trump wants to make a difference, and he knows he has only four more years to set the template.  Let’s do it.  Let’s set it in stone.

That’s why they hate Trump so much and do everything in their power to destroy him.  They think you’re too dumb to notice the problems they’ve created.  Plus, they are getting rich.  They hope you don’t notice their wealth either, especially because you are paying for it all.  They are the ones who get to spend your money in order to get re-elected.  You think they don’t know this?

Trump shines a light on all the cockroaches on the floor.  The media tries to clean the room before you turn on the TV.  They, soon, will run out of brooms and be out of business, liars that they are.  In the meantime, their talking heads will be paid well, thanks to Big Pharma and other TV sponsors, which explains why liars lie.

If you’re a cheater, the last thing you want is for someone to come along and turn on the lights, making obvious what you have been doing for such a long time.  The devil never wants anyone to think he actually might be evil.  It takes someone as clever as them – but a reformer – to expose the truth.  Trump wants to drain the swamp.  A growing nation of voters cheer him on.  They, too, are tired of the Washington Two-Step.  And they know that Trump has the talent to do it.  So do his political enemies.  If Trump succeeds, there goes the future of our professional politicians, our used-car salesmen, as well as those behind the scenes who actually pull the strings.  Hence, they will do everything in their power to stop him.  As David Plouffe tweeted back in 2016,   

"It is not enough to simply beat Trump. He must be destroyed thoroughly. His kind must not rise again."

Yes, Plouffe is talking about you and me, so pay attention.  He and his ilk are not our friends.  Plouffe drew the battle line, not us. 

This crescendo will build right up to election day in November.  Be prepared for the barrage.  You are the target, and it’s coming.  In fact, it’s been coming for a while.  J6ers, anyone?  Or True the Vote?  Or Planned Parenthood protestors?  Or moms and dads at city council meetings?  The FBI and other government agencies have been sicced onto all of them. 

Long story short, the Tories and Whigs are at it again.  The Whigs were the revolutionaries, and they won in 1783 under the leadership of George Washington and men like Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox.  Gird your loins.  We find ourselves on that same terrain 220 years later.  Let’s pray that all ends peacefully.  Voting matters.  So does election integrity.  It’s up to each state to get their affairs in order.

As Chuck Shumer said years ago, the deep state has six ways from Sunday to stop Trump.  Shumer just didn't understand Trump's acumen.  God only knows what the deep state holds over Shumer's head, wimp that he is.  It must be some juicy info.  The media is in the bag, too.  They’ve already used five of those six ways to no avail.  They've yet to find anything to hold over Trump's head.  He's a magician when it comes to dodging bullets.

The next two months will be filled with drama.  As for the deep state, you won’t see them in action.  They always work in the background.  They are powerful, as Harry Truman quickly realized and regretted after he created the organization in the late 1940s.  They can, however, be defunded.  These folks have long since not been our friends.  

The upper echelon of three-letter agencies have learned to follow the political winds. That's how they get appointed in the first place.  They've learned to jockey around to stay in power.  It's good work if you can hold on to it.  You've got to go along to get along.  Those beneath them simply want to keep their jobs, their days off and their benefits.  Whether it's the DOJ, the FBI or any other three-letter agency, they have been set up to serve politicians, who finance them, but the three-letter agencies hold the inside information on the politicians.  See how that works?  The deep state has their hands on the levers of power.  They can release to the media whatever info they want.  They have all the dirt.  Or the FBI or DOJ can do it for them.  It's wicked business.  They can even destroy you with lies, knowing the MSM will cover their backs.  After all, they control them as well.

It doesn't matter whether you are Dem or Rep.  Those who hold the cards control the game.

Let's not pretend any longer.  We know how the game is played.

Monday, August 12, 2024

 

KAMALA THE GRATE?

Folks, if you haven't lost your mind yet, please hang on to it.  Grip it tightly.  And don't let it slip away.  Why?  Because some people out there seriously believe you shouldn't have a brain.  The media and Team Kamala are pumping her up as the second coming of Christ, even with her grating laugh, which discharges uncontrollably even at the most serious moments.  I'll give her two more weeks, maybe three, then the lustre will fade.  The MSM is on its way out.  Kamala, too.  Her created new shine soon will fade.  She came from two good parents, both intelligent academics, then she dragged her inherited legacy into the sewer.  The odor persists.

Here's a test:

  • Do you believe that 2+2 = 4?
  • Do you believe that babies should have their dirty diapers changed?
  • If work starts at 8 a.m. tomorrow, do you think you should be there at 8 a.m.?
  • Do toilets, sinks, trash cans, refrigerators and ovens serve a useful and hygienic purpose?
  • Should fish ever be cooked before eating?
  • Do you prefer a dozen eggs at $2.88 rather than $10.99?
  • Would you like your mortgage rate lowered?
  • Should your underwear ever be cleaned?
  • Should a leaky roof be fixed?
  • Are borders helpful?
  • Is love better than hate?
  • How about justice over injustice?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above, you clearly have a functioning brain.  

If I need to convince you that "Yes, you probably have a functioning brain," and you give me that far-away smile while I'm talking, you may be an exception to the rule.  Society may accept you, though likely we'll need to keep an eye on you, at our expense.  Just don't take it for granted.  The gene pool tends to be particular.

If you answered "No," go back to your regular programming on CNN or MSNBC after the commercial, then find another blog site, and trip on over to the MSM, because your brain cells aren't connecting.  You may think I don't know anything, but at least no one will accuse you of thinking.

Take this video, for example, which is offered by "Heels Up Harris" for some people's brainless consumption.  She's the first politician I know who only needed suntan lotion on the bottom of her feet. Willie Brown, anyone?  Copy, paste and open this X link, which may explain how her brain works: 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1819507136591745476

After watching, ask how supporters can get through the gates at one of her speeches if they can't prove "they are who they are."  These are her words.  Listen carefully to what she says.  If you can't verify your identity, her security personnel won't let you in, and you can't learn why you should vote for her.  Yet she wants your vote.  Try to square that circle.  If her thinking makes sense to you, please drop your brain in the trash can at the entry gate, since it's not needed.

First Joe Biden.  Now Kamala.  You can't fix either end of that spectrum.  Oy, veh.

People with brains don't live in pretend-land.  Reality works much better.

If you think Trump is Hitler, there's a special trash can for you. 

Kamala since long ago is a sewer rat.  Showering doesn't help.  I can smell her from here.  The odor exudes, like eating garlic before a big date, mixed with a rat-like scent.  The smell seeps from all available pores.  Think of that the next time you look at her.  Otherwise, you'd better have ID if you want to see her.  Please go.  She needs your vote.  Trash cans will be available.







Tuesday, October 31, 2023

 

Things I Hate Reading, Watching and Listening To, Though I Still Read, Watch and Listen, If Only To Take One For The Team:

Politicians talking

President Biden talking.

Kens and Karens who are one minute away from being arrested for being histrionic.

Drama Kings and Queens who think they can talk themselves out of a traffic violation, only to make it much worse for themselves before the cuffs go on.

People who talk about how beautiful their pug bulldogs are.

Idiots who title their YouTube Videos “Things No One Has Ever Known,” not realizing the irony in the title.

Listening to the naïve and deadly virtue signaling of “Queers for Palestine.”

Anything to do with “Just Stop Oil” protestors.

The WEF.

The WHO.

BLM.

Antifa.

DEI Advocates.

CRT race-peddlars.

The LGBTQ fad-du-jour, courtesy of Tic-Tok.

The virtue of open borders.

Corporate Media.

Lawfare manipulation of the legal system.

George Soros.

I should stop here, lest I bore you with a longer list of social malignancies.  What you see above is what happens when cancer begins to metastasize.  It spreads…and spreads…and spreads, and doesn’t slow down.  But these social maladies spread only as long as we allow it. 

And who is “we?”  “We” are the folks who can put an end to it.  It’s long past time we do.  I’m not good at doing stupid.  Nor do I think most folks are.  Let’s give the MOHS treatment to these invasive evils before they send us to an early grave.

Sunday, October 30, 2022

IDIOTS LEAVING TWITTER?




To which I can only say, "How soon?"

Or to quote a televangelist, "Begone, dumba*ss."

I'll check tomorrow.  My guess is you'll still be here.  Idiots will never leave Twitter.  It's the Dunning-Kruger phenomenon.

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Heads Up For You Cooking Connoisseurs


It's time for some grocery shopping and cooking advice.  How do I know?  Easy. Because I've decided it is.  See how easy that works?  Anyway, onward.

Whenever you see a tomahawk steak at the butcher's shop, walk on by.  Been there, done that.  It ain't worth paying an additional $40 for the thrill of a big bone and a little extra meat.  Here's what one looks like: 

Hmm.  Looks like a regular ribeye without the long bone.  Who would be stupid enough to buy that, other than me?  Don't answer.  Just buy a couple of regular-priced ribeyes and get on with your day.  It will save you money and taste the same.

Veal is ridiculously priced.  I'm having a veal chop tonight, just to clean out my fridge.  Save yourself some money and skip it, unless you still have a veal chop in your freezer.  Otherwise, if the urge arises, buy a hamburger and call it even. 

I prefer filet mignon cooked sous vide, finished in a piping hot skillet for a minute on each side with goat cheese and balsamic glaze on top.  Tasty. 

If you're on a keto diet, like I am, buy the garlic flavored mashed cauliflower and add cheese or sour cream after microwaving.  It cuts the bland flavor.  Otherwise, cauliflower tastes like s**t.  Alternatively, skip cauliflower altogether.  I only eat it for the fiber.  It's one of God's worst vegetables, a nose ahead of broccoli and brussel sprouts.  I can forgive God for that, but I don't know why.

Let me know if you want more culinary advice.  Naturally, I'll offer it whether you ask or not.  

Stay tuned for more of this or whatever else is on my mind.

Monday, February 28, 2022

 RACISM, 2022


If you thought another event couldn't fit into the racist narrative, you would be wrong.  

Pigs in slop aren't driven away easily.  One NYTimes writer now has the Russia-Ukraine conflict in her sights and, yes, it's (sigh) another sign of pandemic RACISM!!!  How else to describe white Russians conflicting with white Ukranians other than further proof of racism?

You think I'm joking, but I'm not.

The founder of the 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, aka Ida Bae Wells, has this to say, and she "really, really" means it: 


Every journalist covering Ukraine should really, really look internally. This is why I say we should stop pretending we have objectivity and in instead acknowledge our biases so that we can report against them. Many of us see the racialized analysis and language.
S.
@saratu
I'm going to start a thread of these incidents of insidious racism in the media coverage of the Ukrainian crisis, because I've just been seeing so damn many. twitter.com/MissChisomo/st
And honestly, these admissions of shock that this is happening in a European country are ahistorical and also serve to justify the lack of sympathy for other invasions, other occupations and other refugee crisis involving peoples not considered white.


I wish I was making this up, but I'm not.

Her's is not a mental illness...or an ideology.  It's just a way to make money, plain and simple.  Narratives help.  I promise you, she goes home and lives as normally as you and I.  Then she wakes up and goes to work.  Her type understands how the system works.  And she feeds off of  it.  You pimp the narrative and take the paycheck.  Ida Bae is turning a trick.  Otherwise, how does one make sense of her nonsense?

She's just another example of "you can't fix stupid."