I tend to keep mental notes of potential blog items, holding on to them until I get enough relevant items that flow well enough together to put them down here. However, sometimes I either don't get enough, or they don't flow at all. Then my brain gets a little too full and those mental notes become The Stuff That Falls Out for this rare (for me) Saturday post.
With that being said, I hope Amy Robach from ABC is watching her back.
California- a state where you can’t have a straw
with your beverage and a grocer can’t give you a plastic bag, but they’ll sell
you a thicker and less-biodegradable one for 10 cents.
Trump gets bashed by the left for talking about bad
behavior in an era of #MeToo, but Clinton can use his power of the office to
engage in actual bad behavior and nobody blinks an eye.
I read today that the majority of the company owners
featured on Mike Rowe’s “Dirty Jobs,” the ones covered in filth, are
multi-millionaires. And today’s college
kids need a cell phone signal to learn how to change a tire.
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College kids go to school to get smart, meanwhile doing stupid stuff like borrowing 200K to get a degree for a job that doesn’t exist.
This was ‘so well’ said:
“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, ‘social justice.’ “ Thomas Sowell
“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, ‘social justice.’ “ Thomas Sowell
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I think Nikki Haley is going make an outstanding President. 2024 is my hope. And she wouldn’t be nearly as vulnerable to attack as others in the GOP.
Why do the police and Border Patrol get harangued for
enforcing certain laws, but not the lawmakers for passing those laws?
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There was a little anger from the left this week about the potential Supreme Court ruling on Trump's repeal of DACA, and how if ruled unconstitutional, some illegal immigrants brought here as children who are now adults, could be deported. Hey Congress, this is in your wheelhouse. How about you get off your @$$es and make a law. The President doesn't write laws, (DACA is an Executive Order), you do.
Speaking of which, what the heck is Congress doing for us anyway? Remember that immigration not a crisis crisis? Well, it's still happening down at the southern border. Besides DACA, the NAFTA replacement has been awaiting a vote for the entire year, but they won't bring anything to a vote that could be bipartisan, helpful to Trump, or positive for the economy.
I read that Applebees is declaring bankruptcy. They mistakenly offered free alcohol to vets on Veterans’ day!
So it looks like the Houston Astros cheated, not only this year, but during their World Series Championship year in 2017. NASCAR has always had it. Cycling and Track & Field have dealt with doping, as has Baseball with PEDs. However, I don't think anyone wants our National Pastime tainted with cameras stealing signs. I expect this is going to be a big deal.
I gotta admit, I'm a little perturbed at the new "Mustang Inspired" electric SUV Ford is soon to release- the Mach E. I think it damages the legacy of a great and iconic car. It's a marketing grab for sure, taking one of their best selling vehicles, borrowing some design features for what is really a completely new car. Why not make a sport version of the Ford Edge or Escape and electrify that? Or, make an electric Mustang. That car has always been a two door coupe, but now it's...just wrong. Venezuela went from the third richest country in the hemisphere to a failed state in about 10 years. This included private gun ownership becoming illegal and the government firing on its citizens. And despite this real world evidence of how socialism never works, the top 2 Dem candidates are socialists.
Is it just me, or are there traffic scofflaws than there used to be? I see red-light runners far more often than I remember in the past. Every morning I see drivers ignoring the metered on-ramps and right on red turn restrictions during rush hour. I don't want to sound like chicken little, but the fabric of society seems to be breaking down a little, when some people don't have a respect for the law. Then again, we've seen this happening in DC for years and years.
But before Christmas, there's pie! Thanksgiving is nearly upon us. And after that I have a follow up appointment with my Primary Care Doc. Last March she gave me a few things to work on. I'm going to have to tell her that I've been so busy this year I didn't have time to lose weight. I don't mind getting older, but my body is taking it badly. Ok, I've made enough room for more mental notes in the future. Enjoy your pie. P.S. Just kidding about Applebees |
Nice stream of conciousness, Tuna. Concur completely with traffic law thought. If you wont take care of the little things, how can you take care of the big?
ReplyDeleteSomewhat incoherent conciousness, but thanks nevertheless. No time, but I could probably write these posts more often with the random musings I get, but it would look like I''m off my meds or something.
DeleteThere was a time in my country that someone using obscene language in a public place would get a verbal warning from a police officer. A second ‘strike’ would result in arrest and a £25 fine. Not deemed worthy anymore and so the slide down the slippery slope commenced. People care about their quality of life and it’s always the small stuff that degrades it.
ReplyDeleteGood point- just a general lack of respect all around, for others, for decency, for cops, for the law, etc.
DeleteAll solid hits Tuna this Saturday. Chevy and Ford seem to be going all in on electrics while dropping cars, big and small and keeping the trucks/SUVs going. Wonder how that will work out once gas prices rise again? Where I live Mother Nature does her best to limit the range of an electric vehicle for four to five months, nor will I go into what happens to rechargeable batteries over time. Watch what happens to Nissan in the future. Now where's that pie?
ReplyDeleteAnd a lot of our electricity comes from coal, which is less clean than oil.
DeleteIt's partly/mostly in response to having to meet California's mileage, emmissions and electric vehicle quota laws. Yaknow, the ones the Donald is trying to bust, because building all cars to California's twisted ideas of what's possible is killing innovation and killing companies.
DeleteAnd there's also that whole shutting down current lines in union states and making new lines in non-union states.
But mostly it's all about kowtowing to the idjits and freaks in Sacramento.
That is half the problem with the virtue signaling going on here in California. They think they are doing good but they never look at the secondary and tertiary in packs. They think all energy comes from wind and solar and it doesn't. And the plastic bag and straw ban didn't think about people purchasing liquor bags that people still throw away so it's actually worse for the environment.
DeleteDictating into my phone causes secondary impacts and not be in packs that I wrote.
DeleteGood grief.... That ejection tale is goose bump inducing. I can't even imagine...
ReplyDeleteLots of good points in the brain dump. Things I see over here in STx as well...
It didn't say how it happened of course, but I think the pilot G-LOC'd or something. For him not to respond and put the aircraft into extremis is very strange (and sad) indeed.
DeleteAgreed, a solid hit. Heading for the fence. The one on politics confused me, after all, like we are a democracy,? The same way the others were socialist? Every socialist try has been derailed before implementation. The people, Dr, commoners, never got a choice. The leaders made off with it before the people even saw light in the tunnel.
ReplyDeleteNot that I want them to, but the Dems could have half a chance if they were a little more moderate. Their extreme leftist positions are scaring away moderates and liberals, pushing them to hold their nose and vote GOP.
DeleteModerates and independents was what I meant.
DeleteThe electric car is the dumbest idea. Yes, doesn't use gasoline, directly. People think the electricity to charge those is made from unicorn farts, not coal, not nuclear, not oil.
ReplyDeleteNo. Thank. You.
Nice post Tuna!
I love all the photos of electric vehicles charging from a fossil-fuel generator.
DeleteNuclear is the way to go. But we run into the idjits in California again...
As has been said elsewhere, Thomas Sowell is a national treasure. A prolific writer who has covered almost every, topic under the social sciences sun, every one of his publications is, imho, a gem of logic, impeccably thorough research and documentation. If unfamiliar with his works I strongly recommend one of his early works Knowledge and Decisions which touches on almost every subject he later fleshed out in entire volumes. I also recommend his work The Vision of the Anointed which examines the historical & philosophical underpinnings of both PC Culture and the "Administrative/Bureaucratic" leftist State.
ReplyDeleteI can't agree more.
DeleteWow, stream of consciousness ranting. Works. Works well.
ReplyDeleteIs it my imagination or has your (California) state gone even crazier in the last year? And Peter over at Bayou Renaissance Man (not Bayeaux Renaissance, that happened in the 11th and 12th century, in Normandy) now tells us that the Diego and other SoCal cities are wanting to up property taxes in order to pay for homeless encampments. What is going on?
Love the SLUF with all the camels. I know a guy who, if he had been a pilot, would have been able to claim a large number of Asian elephants.
As to the Dem Party, its management team or ruling class seems to have drunk some toxic brew and gone off the deep end. My fairy god-daughter (a non-related female who sees Mrs. Andrew and me as kinda semi-parents) who has always voted socialist/democrat is waffling about what's going on in the Dem party. Hopefully she'll see the light before she hits 40, though her husband (a CivWar buff who doesn't like guns at all, weird, very weird) is a lost cause, I believe...
Good post. Good rant.
Did you see where they up-engined CH-47 Chinooks? They've now got about the same power as regular CH-53s, but not the 100 million dollar CH-53Ks. Would be interesting to see a Chinook pulling a mine-sled.
I think our MH-53s are actually more powerful than the CHs. Those Chinook airframes are pretty old too though. If we abandon our LCS-based mine countermeasures, maybe we will have the Osprey tow.
DeleteI always thought DACA was an Obama EO, too, until this latest bit came around. Turns out that it originated as a 2012 policy memo from Napolitano at DHS. ...not even a Presidential EO!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/s1-exercising-prosecutorial-discretion-individuals-who-came-to-us-as-children.pdf
Thank you for clarifying, but the point remains, it is not law.
DeleteReally good post, Tuna!
ReplyDeleteI think I should start writing down some of my own personal "Stuff That Falls Out" for future reference.....
Guest posts are welcome!
DeleteUm, the last time I was driving in San Diego I completely romeo foxtrotted one of those metered on-ramp thingies. So yeah, that was me.
ReplyDeleteThis might seem odd and it probably is, but I think the answer to making better all of humanity's solvable problems can be found in the pages of any issue of Approach.
I think you're putting a little too much stock in dumb lieutenants writing up what they did wrong to get their CO off their back, but maybe so!
DeleteGreat to see someone still cares about minesweeping. A H-53 pulling the Mark 105 sled worked well clearing Haiphong after we mined the area. I don't think we have the assets to do that mission today with help towed gear, MSO, MSC, MSB or anything else. The LCS (spit, patooie) mine warfare module is a fantasy long overdue, over budget and overweight, so we basically got nothing.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I don't care if we cannot sweep the approaches to Haiphong again, but I care a lot that we cannot sweep San Diego or the Chesapeake Bay.
John Blackshoe
It's my raison d'être. I'm trying to deal with little crappy ship and its mission package to try and change course. Unfortunately those mine countermeasure ships and aircraft are very long in the tooth.
DeleteNikki for President yes. She's way too smart to do that though.
ReplyDeleteSpent some time wth HM 14 during INTENSE LOOK 84. Worthless in name, in fact, in deed.
I wish the stuff that falls out wouldn't scatter so much when it hits the floor.
ReplyDeleteI pretty much have a running commentary about scofflaws when I am driving.
The community where I live now breeds them.
They get irate when someone actually obeys the traffic codes.
Sarge, I've been thinking about the traffic scofflaws as well. On my way home from work, I must pass through a couple of school zones. One is 15 mph, one 20, but it doesn't matter--I've seen numerous drivers going through the zones at whatever speed they like. Some don't even attempt to slow down. As one might expect, at such times there's not a cop to be seen.
ReplyDeleteUndoubtedly they're busy blocking the Interstate highways so that Black Lies Matter protesters can parade down the center of the road (this actually happened down in Trashville awhile back. Funnily enough, they & the Antifa fascists don't try their antics up here in the country).
--Tennessee Budd
Yup, folks in the country won't tolerate such nonsense.
DeleteMy Word, that was a well written essay!
ReplyDelete"I read today that the majority of the company owners featured on Mike Rowe’s “Dirty Jobs,” the ones covered in filth, are multi-millionaires." It is a little-known fact that the vehicle most commonly owned by millionaires is the Ford F-150 for this very reason.
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