Caption: I was on the telephone the other day with Old NFO. I may make a business trip into his neck of the woods (North TX) sooner than later, and we started comparing aches and pains, as old men tend to do. His are worse than mine. For most of my life, and, I expect that Old NFO is in the same boat, (No, not a boat driven by EdB…) I paid for health insurance without cashing in on the service beyond having children. It’s what you do.
As I approach the end game, I find myself needing medical attention more for this and that (nothing serious at the moment), and Big Pharma is there with the MD pill vendors to fix everything with a shot or drug. The problem comes with consequences (hopefully unintended) courtesy of Big Pharma where there are often undisclosed or minimized risks. During the Covid years (when all they did was treat Covid with injections of experimental drugs – that had profound side effects in some cases), I passed kidney stone after kidney stone. Naturally, since all they treated was COVID-19, the suggestion was that I suffer until the plague had passed. But here are bottles of Oxy10 for you to munch on until we can get to you – one day. One botched surgery (try these opiates instead) followed by another a year later with profound pain involved and a better surgeon and substantially better patient care, and I’ve been fine ever since. I ate the pain rather than the drugs, which are still in the cabinet, and didn’t end up with wicked dependency issues. But they were cool with opiate dependency. You see, LL, we have a plague; we’re all working from home, but we can diagnose you on a Zoom call. Maybe try the fentanyl patch?
My point here is not to complain about aging or pain but to suggest that one take great care when accepting treatment that may or may not be in one’s best interest (until we can get around to you in a year or so). Big Pharma doesn’t want you to die—there is no profit in that. I’m not suggesting that they do. There are different standards of care out there.
Bullet Points:
** When President Trump first entered office in 2017, he had no idea at the time that Barack Obama was spying on him and his family and had set him up in the Russia collusion scam. It was the first time in history that the current US President was spying on the incoming President and desperately attempting to ruin his administration.
In August 2022, the FBI, under the direction of Joe Biden, raided President Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago. Months later, it was reported that the Biden FBI was authorized to use deadly force during the Mar-a-Lago raid. A federal judge later revealed that Joe Biden ordered the FBI access to Mar-a-Lago. Many such as I speculate that the FBI must have been profoundly disappointed that Pres. Trump wasn’t home so they didn’t have a pretext to assassinate him. On Monday, news broke that Melania Trump would skip the traditional meeting at the White House with Jill Biden after Biden raided her home at Mar-a-Lago. (more at Gateway Pundit)
** On the Border – Tom Homan knows his job well, and AOC could not hold his jockstrap. ICE and USBP can fulfill their missions and honor their oaths and obligations. HONOR FIRST. Deport every violent criminal, every charged felon, and every previous deport. FINISH the wall and man it. Passive solutions will not thwart active problems.
** When WSF feeds his dog.
** Thinning out DC swamp. Move their agencies out of DC. Political appointees will be fired. Other incentives to leave the government, most likely in planning, are no doubt unpleasant.
** Oil field maintenance with EdB…where’s Ed?
** Government Departments will be relocated under the Trump Administration. The EPA, Department of the Interior, Department of Agriculture, etc. will all be moved out of Washington DC. There is no need for those agencies to be located inside the Beltway. Other parts of America could use the employment. Housing and Urban Development could go to Mississippi or Alabama. Health and Human Services could go to Texas. One way to drain the Swamp is to remove the Swamp. Why does the Department of Transportation have to be in DC? I think West Virginia could use the jobs. The Department of Labor could go to Iowa or Ohio. It’s difficult to move the Pentagon…
** Reflecting on Trump 45. President Trump was very underrated, and permanent Washington DC hated him. Our shameful retreat from Afghanistan under the Biden regime wouldn’t have happened if the election had not been stolen. The U.S. has provided about $2.6 billion in foreign aid to Afghanistan since August 2021. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided more than $1.5 billion. Why is that?
** Some people say that the first year of marriage is the toughest. I say that the last one is.
** We certainly dodged a bullet in the last election.
** Should Trump’s team slip exploding pagers into the remaining Democrats’ pockets and then call them all with the good news that it’s only around 70 days until inauguration day? I think Kamala said it best: I’m saying that we should have that conversation.
** A heartwarming song to say it’s been real – to the Hollywood elite who plan to leave the US.
What use is the US Department of Education?
One of the greatest quotes I’ve heard recently—I think it was Elon—is, “A system’s purpose is its results.”
Has Education in America improved since its inception? I don’t think anyone could make that argument, and the numbers empirically say NO in a big way. What has increased, if not the quality of American public education? The DOE budget, of course! When established in 1979, it was 14 billion. Today, it is 90 billion; the average salary is 112K—not too bad for an organization that is utterly failing in its mission.
Its “mission” is not Education—it is employing low-talent people in pointless sinecures. A system’s purpose is its results. More here from CNN.
Signs Matter
Where is the MSM?
I’m still waiting for the man-hating MSM shrews who scissored themselves into ecstasy celebrating Hillary and then Kamala’s vaunted status as the “First Female” presidential nominees to start lavishing praise on Wiles for being the first female White House Chief of Staff.
They never gushed about Condi Rice being the first black female National Security Advisor and Secretary of State or Kellyanne Conway for being the first successful female Presidential Campaign manager, so I’m not holding my breath. It’s almost like the MSM sisterhood pushers are a bunch of colossal hypocrites or something!
81 Million Votes
COVID-19 opened the door wide for fraud. No one can honestly believe Joe was more popular than Obama. The numbers say it all. What’s the statute on election fraud? Who will be the AG? I hear Sessions is available. He comes fully recused.
That’s ok, Pres. Trump 47 will be far more effective after the four-year ordeal and triumph than he would have been as Trump 46. The donkeys did us a favor unintentionally.
I think Kamala’s 68 million number is suspicious, but it doesn’t matter. Even if they padded four or five million votes, Trump’s win was too big to rig.
Empathy in Rats
NY Times Editorial Board
The NY Times Editorial Board put out a 10-minute video last week titled “The Worst Version of a Trump Administration,” and it’s as wildly and irrationally apocalyptic as any of the crying leftist mental-patient TikTok videos.
Each genius recorded his or her doomsday predictions, which are presented sequentially. And each one is more unhinged than the last. One white lady with a schoolmarm vibe warns that Trump will send troops into “neighborhoods like my own to round up undocumented immigrants… and set up a network of camps.”
One of them solemnly fears his promise “to become a dictator on day 1.” Another one says, with a straight face, that Trump might bomb Mexico.
Something called “M. Gessen” – birth name “Masha,” but a non-binary “they/them” who is either a very homely woman or a very frail and still homely man – says Trump will essentially destroy our institutions. (On second glance, it/they appears to have a beard, but it’s the thinnest, wispiest beard imaginable, and seems to whisper, “See what taking male hormones can do?” So your guess is as good and gross as mine.)
Again, these are not the kind of rando-s you might expect to see on a “womyn’s TikTok forum” or the lost and wandering souls milling around outside a methadone clinic. They are the editorial board of the Gray Lady.
Identify the Feature Film
A
B
If you can’t get it right off, I’ll give you a hint – based on actual people and events.
C
D
Identify the Aircraft
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Yes, it’s easy. But it’s a cool photo, so I included it.
2
Again, very easy, but I like the picture. So there you go.
3
4
800 built
Nickname: “Flying Porcupine” – the first flying boat equipped with powered turrets.
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Identify the Feature Film:
A. The War of the Worlds (1953)
B. El Cid
C. Dances with Wolves
D. The Rocketeer
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk
2. North American F-86 Sabre
3. Lockheed Saturn
4. Short Sunderland
I hope that the Saturn gave you a run for the money. Correct on all counts.
It did. You are very good at having at least one ID that causes my pattern recognition software to hiccup. :)
For a change I knew all the movies but have been at a Returned Services League social event with a couple of clubs visiting ours. So easily beaten.
Mostly “harmless” grandparents and parents whose life experiences include from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Plus a few people who are still in. Mostly senior NCO’s. One lady just retired after 35 years in the RAAF.
As I still work occasionally at heights while doing commercial work I always say no to opiates.
35 Years is a significant term of service. It’s the continued valiant and dedicated service of people like her that makes everything work.
Institutional Memory.
There is also generational memory in service to the nation (pick your nation). The tradition of service is handed down from parents and grandparents, and the value of selflessness in service can’t be overstated. The concept of the Minutemen on Lexington Green burns deep in the patriot’s heart.
My wife got shingles 24 months ago.
The doctor at the University of Michigan clinic who is her primary physician (huh) didn’t move fast enough.
She, like many others, suffers from Post Herpetic Neuralgia. Damaged nerve pain.
And it is very painful. She is very stoic about it. But it is debilitating.
We saw a UM neuro doc who wants to do spinal injections of cortisones.
Which would call for multiple return visits.
She said no.
I asked “Can’t you trace the nerve root and snip it?”. No.That wouldn’t work.
Well, I found a surgeon in Nebraska who has great success doing just that.
But insurance doesn’t cover it!
So we’ll be paying about $12k out of pocket.
I don’t even see a damn doctor. To hell with most of them.
Bought and paid for by and servants of Big Medicine.
What am I paying insurance for?
You are paying insurance for (a) nothing or (b) to help fund Obama’s 4th term, also nothing, for now…….
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Why, yes, I did take my cynical pill this morning. How could you tell?
Big Pharma even has cynical pills!!!!
Sorry to hear Ed, the garbage peddled to us unsuspecting folks over time has kept me from taking much of anything, save for the tried and true, because I am wary of a “pill will fix it” baloney. I haven’t needed a primary doctor ever (now that I said that…boom)…have always used the mantra “you are your doctor first”…especially now with all manner of detrimental med’s being peddled by Big Pharma (the Not-A-Vax and new infant/children vax protocols reaching somewhere around 50 or so when we got about 6).
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Like the so-called Food Pyramid, something I thought was the stupidist thing ever, right up there with DST, Big Pharma, the NHwhatevertheheck, FDA, EPA, NEA…etc, are all scams We The People pay for to our own detriment.
I used Gabapentin during the worst of the post-Shingles pain, and just suck it up. Somedays the right side of my face feels like the annual spider migration in New Mexico is happening under my skin, I have weird tics, lots of pain, but, well, I survived.
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When I finally dragged my arse to the doctor (upon threat by wife,) I went wearing sunglasses and a hat. Took it off in the room and the nurse said, “That’s the worst case of shingles I’ve ever seen.” Doc walks in, reels back and says, “That’s the worst case of shingles I’ve ever seen.”
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I thought it was just a bad reaction to poison ivy. Like so many other times.
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Funny, the vaccines cost, even with insurance, like $180 a shot and it takes 2-3 shots to be supposedly effective, which for someone with my history, would not have worked (40-50% chance of success with people who had chicken pox twice.) The antibiotics that killed the secondary infection that did most of the damage cost… $5.
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But using pain killers? I cannot use any opiate/morphiate as I am violently allergic to them. So it’s Ibuprophen and Tylenol, yay…
I guess the days of being taught to ignore pain are slowly slipping away with each blast of overpressure experienced throughout the years. I can remember my recruiter twenty years ago giving me a t-shirt that had “Pain is Weakness Leaving the Body” written on the back of it. Funny it didn’t mention the pain of a GSW once the adrenaline wore off, or the pain in your knees and back from jumping or humping with a 160-lb pack full of water, comm batteries, and ammo. When the cards have dealt you with enough pain that it becomes a quality of life issue and surgery is your last resort, just make sure you’ve got a surgeon who will get the job done right the first time. The pill train can be a rollercoaster ride from hell. Don’t get me wrong the morphine or Oxy feels good in the short term during post op but you ultimately have to decide if you want to have a new generation of woke doctors hooking you on the latest and greatest pharmaceutical? Or condition your mind and body to STA lethal and accept that there is going to be physical pain that you will have to become conditioned to without the latest pharmacology. “Embrace the SucK”
“I guess the days of being taught to ignore pain are slowly slipping away”. Hell, we are being conditioned to order from Amazon or Walmart delivery rather than go to the store!
Delivery (a click and you’re gratified) is the new opiate of the masses. Just put it on your credit card. Pay it off (at 30% interest) at your leisure.
Don’t’ forget 10% to the “Big Guy” L.L.
Delivery means I don’t have to deal with people and the disaster the ferals leave the store in, nor have to deal with a limited selection of product, or wait for an item to be shipped in to that store after I’ve paid for it and then have to go back to the damn store to pick it up.
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Hell, if Sears was still in the mail-order business and had switched to the on-line business, they’d still be in business. Because shopping from home is so very nice when one has a handicap or a sick spouse. I can shop when I want to, visit ‘stores’ that I don’t have to waste gas or tires or away-time on.
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I still go and buy my groceries in person. Same with lumber and other things that you really need to get your mitts and eyes on before buying.
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But… when I bought my current vehicle, I was able to sit at home and browse lots of local dealers for available models, then go and look at the info brochures on the models, before selecting the dealer and the van to look at. Dealers in my area that made it hard for me to look at vehicles on-line or didn’t have their inventory on-line, well, there’s a reason I went to Santa Fe Ford in High Springs rather than any of the dealers in Gainesville. Drive up, look, measure, test drive, say “I’ll be back, serioiusly, here’s a check.” Drive home, yank everything out of the soon-to-not-be-mine-anymore-van, drive back up, got the keys, they handled the tag transfer while I changed the insurance (USAA) on the phone right then.
If they had ‘bring it to my door and let me look at it’ I’d have done that.
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On-line and deliver-to-door are pretty much here to stay, unless the economy crashes seriously.
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Now, restaurant food? Even if I’m getting takeout I’ll go pick that stuff up. Don’t like food delivery drivers in my area. Too many smell like weed or worse.
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“The Rat”- How do they know the “free” rat isn’t a Democrat and simply figuring out a way to free the captured rat using a tidbit as incentive to let the guard down only so the “free” rat can eat the now freed rat as Democrats are wont to do when given even a little power and control?
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Speaking of rats, it is so enjoyable to [finally] watch the Marxist’s getting a slice of their own insanity back in their collective faces going bonkers over an election, like somehow life will end as we know it. Wait!…actually “their brand” of a demented amateur hour power over We The People will end…so yeah, good for Trump. –
Heard on Stigall this morning Sly Stallone from Philly praising PE-DJT and equating him to the General George Washington of our time. That’s what ‘screw you’ money buys, the ability to tell the establishment – that you helped garner revenues with great and fun movies – to suck an egg and go pound sand (being polite as this [mostly] a family blog).
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Dem Beepers- Just tell the bums in DC it’s the new super-secret insider trading beeper wih a market “bang” when things go right.
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Costner’s Dances, like Redford’s Horse Whisperer…is still a good popcorn grade flick…the feel of it and era are what gets me.
66 days till the inauguration.
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I wonder how many of the “people leaving because Trump won” for that video were guests on Epstein’s island?
The intersection of the Venn Diagram between ‘People Leaving Because Trump’ and ‘Epstein Island Guests’ and ‘P. Diddy Partiers’ is most likely huge, lots of overlap.
I am counting on Trump to send in ICE and troops into neighborhoods to round up illegal aliens…
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Those local SWAT boys aren’t doing much, falling out of Op’s practice…this will help them stay sharp.
Graywork.
LL
I sympathize with you stone issues. My son started a company for people with kidney stone issues named Stone Relief. Its all natural capsules. You may want to give it a look.
I read you every day!!
Gary
Potassium citrate (in large doses) fixed the problem. Now it took two years for me to find an MD who said, “Take this.”
Longer term… hydrangea root herb daily is preventative … potassium citrate great to get rid of the ones already in you.
A number of years ago I asked my orthopedic doctor about artificial knees as a possible replacement for my bad knee. He said that my bad knee was still better than the artificial ones. Imagine giving up money to tell a patient to avoid the surgery. This was back in my Nebraska days. Nowadays I don’t even have a primary care physician. On another note, the small company I was getting natural joint relief supplements from was bought out by one of the BIG companies, who proceeded to change the formula to use cheaper ingredients…which rendered it useless.
Yes (see HogsbreathSS above). I, along with HogsbreathSS, suffer from pain from pushing my body too hard and too long at times. It causes me to re-evaluate myself and the years ahead (however many or few are left to me) and work. I’ve mentioned on the blog that I have had some recent job opportunities. I’m gratified that people remember me and want me, but there is also the matter of the clock, and you can’t outrun that. Rather than take the flash and the money, which would undoubtedly break my health, I opted for work but at a slower pace where I have more control over the throttle.
Does this mean part two of “Broken Toys” will be on the reading list before years end?
X2…
I’m out of LL reading materials… withdraw symptoms…
Yep, we’re paying for all the ‘fun’ we had over the years… But the bright side is we’re not hooked on opiates, because we’re ‘used’ to pain and just deal with it.
I do wonder where those 11 million votes went…curiouser and curiouser….
I hope that you’re not implying that Pedo Joe, conqueror of Corn Pop and Pop Corn, is not the most popular president in US history! He showed us all that you don’t need to campaign. Just remain in your bunker and let the virus elves work their magic.
Old+NFO this may be a dumb question but do you still fly? And I don’t mean with Quaaludes. hahaha! Which I’ve been told were better than any of the painkillers or benzodiazepines put out today.
1. re “first year of marriage” vs. “the last one”
Yeah! but somehow I don’t think this is what you’re referring to:
one of my friends is watching his wife die; she was diagnosed in Feb and isn’t expected to see Christmas.
they were married 6/65
2. old people/hard candy: a lot of em suck on hard candies ’cause they don’t have any teeth
and one of the earliest neurological disorders as a sign of aging, along with the loss of ablilty to have just the right word right at your fingertips, is the increasing inablilty to appreciate fine wines and to distinguish the exquisitely small amounts of spices/herbs a good chef uses in preparing a dish
3. old people/smell: yes! two/more problems there: anosmia (which includes a loss of “taste”) you”ll find as you age, most people lose their sense of smell and no longer are able to smell themselves or others; they also begin to eat foods more heavily laced with spices their taste buds can still recognize, the alliums, as an example.
the elderly begin to slowly lose control of various orifices (not just their mouths); they don’t necessarily notice the dampness/odor and Depends prevents the stains, but not the odor.
a lot of the elderly become severely depressed and just don’t care (to shower/bathe) any more
4. Big Pharma/Big Medicine
(“good”) docs have been trained to “do the best for their patients” which can be interpreted in a number of ways, but the majority see this as extending the life of the patient, which, arguably, may not be the best course of action for the patient. This includes writing a script for whatever may help: ergo, close ties with Big Pharma, it’s what they’re taught in school, right or wrong.
medications may not show the same side effects for each patient, may be far from immediate, and some have been known to affect the following generation, but the prescribing physician cannot know this.
how long should a medication be tested before it’s released to the market? have/should we become so dependent on government agencies to tell us what’s good for us or should we allow allow drugs on the market with a warning label like we use for sushi/sashimi;
did you wear your seatbelt when driving to work this morning: has anyone done a full analysis of how seatbelts/bags have affected injuries/deaths due to driving accidents over the past ten years (I grew up in the generation that bounced around in the truck bed)
Did anyone (I refer to the well-educated woke we found on TV) compare the diameter of the COVID virus to the diameter of the smallest mask pore before recommending masks; BTW: it’s 1:400; consider a throwing pingpong ball ino a basketball hoop)?
end of rant
50/50 with seatbelts, especially considering all manner of glovebox/console kept devices to cut the webbing (like you could find it while sinking in a pond or hanging upside down with a smack to the head). I never wear my seatbelt while on a ranch/dirt/gravel/2-track type road (ie. doing 25mph or less)…and most times the window is all the way down….just n case exit is necessary.
Don’t end the rant yet. You’re just getting started!
it’s your site and I do beg your pardon; usually I’m not this long-winded (BS), but the elderly sometimes do have a problem with the sphincters of their oral orifices.
Rat Empathy: So it’s looking like further research suggests that rats have in-group preference. What a shocker!
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https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/07/13/rats-prefer-to-help-their-own-kind-humans-may-be-similarly-wired/
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Some quotes from the article:
A decade after scientists discovered that lab rats will rescue a fellow rat in distress, but not a rat they consider an outsider, new UC Berkeley research pinpoints the brain regions that drive rats to prioritize their nearest and dearest in times of crisis. It also suggests humans may share the same neural bias.
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With nativism and conflicts between religious, ethnic and racial groups on the rise globally, the results suggest that social integration, rather than segregation, may boost cooperation among humans. ‘Priming a common group membership may be a more powerful driver for inducing pro-social motivation than increasing empathy,’ said study lead author Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal, an assistant professor of psychobiology at Tel-Aviv University in Israel.
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“Surprisingly, we found that the [neural] network associated with empathy is activated when you see a distressed peer, whether they are in the ingroup or not,” [UC Berkley prof and senior author] Kaufer said. “In contrast, the network associated with reward signaling was active only for ingroup members and correlated with helping behavior.”
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So this is very interesting but not surprising (to me at least). Basically you feel bad for people in a bad situation. But you feel good about helping (good feels being tied to motivation) only if it’s “one of yours.” Not surprising, but good to have some insight into the actual physical/psychological mechanism. Then the researchers politicize their findings with the following: “Overall, the findings suggest that empathy alone doesn’t predict helping behavior, and that’s really a crucial point,” she said. “So, if you want to motivate people to help others who are suffering, it may be that you have to increase their feeling of belonging and group membership, and work toward a common identity.” [italics mine]
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Sounds good. You first. Don’t insist that WE love sub-Saharan Africans dearer than our own brothers, unless you do the same with the unwanted in your own borders. Same goes for the Chinese. Stop putting the Uyghurs into concentration camps and doing the slo-mo genocide thing. (But then again, the Chinese have never been good at the hypocrisy of Universal Chumhood for Thee, Ethnostate for Me. Chinese may be bastards, but at least they’re honest about their ethnosuperiority complex.)
I find it amusing “scientists” (grant monies?) decided to study rats and mice to see what humans would/might do or how rat behavior lines up with human behaviors.
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Maybe it’s just me.
“** We certainly dodged a bullet in the last election.”
I was thinking a couple days ago that Trump wasn’t the only one who dodged that bullet.
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i think the whole govt. should be moved to east central nebraska, for tactical reasons at least. lose about half of it along the way to the dorm style lodging and barndomium style capitol/white house. no lobbyists allowed, no bars, no media, nothing. they can have a chow hall staffed on rotation by the armed services. just bare bones, get the job done and go home to face the music. don’t need term limits, nobody will want to serve more than one term. two weeks in the summer, two in the winter. all laws sunset in ten years unless renewed individually by two thirds majority. no insider trading or jobs with contractors for ten years. there, done, fixed it. you’re welcome.
It didn’t take you long to fix all of our problems riverrider. It would be in the cicada belt. Work to make sure that they’ve emerged before Congress goes into session so they can hear the music.
“the whole govt. should be moved to east central nebraska”
No. Nebraska can be a fine state – why ruin it? Keep (most) of the DC rats on the east coast. If they need to move, put it back to Filly or NYC. Keep them concentrated. When the SHTF, it’ll only take one bomb. The mid/upper-Atlantic coast (DC-Boston) is already ruined – why mess up the rest of the country anymore than the Calis have done already?
Send the House to one state, the Senate to another, the USSC to a third, and leave the president in the White House. No need to have them concentrated in one area, or…all your eggs in one basket. Bonus feature – add Instapundit’s “Revolving Door Tax” on congresscritters turned lobbyists.
well i figure keep all the snakes in one pit where we can keep an eye on them. and nebraska just because it needs to be undeveloped, middle of nowhere. lock them in, no lobbyists etc., leave the swamp behind. and i always thought the govt should be central to the whole country, and not so close to the coast. they would only have a couple weeks to do their dirty work so they need to be close. make dc a historical park, or a wastewater treatment plant, whatever.
** When WSF feeds his dog.
He doesn’t growl. Instead he has mastered the “guilt” stare. Very effectively.
Ah, he uses the old Jedi mind trick. Impressive.
“What has increased, if not the quality of American public education?”
Jobs!
Perhaps check my numbers but as I recall, when I was in high school (late60s), the ratio of administrators to students was less than 1. Last I recall hearing – sometime in the last 10 years – the ratio was something like 20:1
roger that. my alma mater still graduates less than a hundred illiterate kids a year. we had a principal and his secretary. now they have two asst.principals with staff, a grants writer, asst gw, deputy gw, gw secretary, gw administrator, etc etc. the principal threw a fit when she didn’t get her requested raise from 100k to 150k salary. the school took bids to repair the roof. ten million bucks. decided to build a new school instead. bid, 30 mil. taxes going up. for a hundred illiterate kids. glad i don’t live there any more….
After all the medical issues I had last year, I greatly sympathize with you. I was very fortunate that I received first class medical care, far better than I received in SoCal, with the exception of one Doctor I had, who either retired, or was forced out. Seems he spent too much time Doctoring his patients, and wasn’t meeting his quota. The staff that handled my pain management was excellent, and I only took the meds if the pain was really, really bad, like with the busted hip.
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“Passive solutions will not thwart active problems”. I wouldn’t even call their “solutions” as passive. They completely ignored it, and in fact encouraged it.
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NO foreign “aid” to ANY foreign country! PERIOD! Not as long as we have homeless Veterans. And while President Trump is at it, clean up the VA!
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The Hollyweirdos will never leave. They have it too good here.
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Looks like The Rocketeer swiped Commando Cody’s rocket pack….
Not the same Commander Cody :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL_nbWN8OCI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Cody_and_His_Lost_Planet_Airmen
This is a tremendous if free wheeling post.
Are you somehow suggesting our beloved FBI is corrupt to its core and should be taken down?
Stripped down to the studs LSP.