Slow news day, eh?

This popped into my mind too.

You know the news is slow

When "stow it Flo" is back in the news. Plus, Jimmah Cartuh is dayed. The broken record hits keep on comin'. The Democrats want to charge Trump with 'insurrection'.

Private Eyes

Did you ever have a song that just popped up in your head? Well, this one just did. But why? Ah, that's a question to be answered. So I thought about it, and it makes a certain amount of sense. I had a dream last night, and it didn't make sense. I dropped it for the entire morning, and this song pops up, and it is the answer.

Joseph interpreted dreams for Pharoah. Daniel interpreted dreams for Nebuchanezzar. Can you interpret a dream? Normally, I cannot. Perhaps it has to be interpreted the same way it came. Through the subconcious. Some might say it is God talking to ya. Others would say that it is merely the sum total of your experiences being juggled around and this is what your brain will come up with. But I don't know.

What I do know is that everybody is being watched these days. Private eyes are everywhere watching your every move. Just like the song says. The song is about something personal. But it can be universal too.

Private eyes really are watching you. That's what I got out of it. What someone else would say would be different. Maybe they'll just say it's being paranoid. But even paranoids have real enemies. ha, ha

 

Nikki Haley v Ramaswamy

12/28/24:

Perhaps this needs explaining, perhaps not. I grew up in an era of strong anti-communism. Consequently, I tend to be hostile towards it. I suppose it is part of being the product of the times. These days, it seems fashionable to churn out perfect little commies. All I'm saying is that the pendulum has swung a bit too far on one side. The commies have succeeded in driving the country over the brink into full-blown communism. But that's my opinion.

When a member of the more conservative party starts talking commie-speak, I think it is time to be at least a bit concerned. When Kamala Harris is saying things like we should all end up in the same place, that sounds like equality of outcome. Equality of outcome is just another way of saying communism. Communism destroys all merit. For if everyone ends up in the same place, then what is the use of trying? When Little Jebbie Bush wants to be a commie when he grows up, that is worrisome. When Nikki Haley says there's nothing wrong with our culture, when our culture has people taking a dump on the sidewalks, I think we've got a problem in the culture.

Putting your head in the sand isn't going to do anything about the problems building up around us.

12/27/24:

In my opinion, America has lost something in its culture once it embraced communism, which is the fanatical desire for failure as some sort of badge of honor.  Ramaswamy doesn't say that, but I wish he would.

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if…

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) December 26, 2024

Haley wants to normalize failure, and therefore is nothing but a commie useful idiot.  I note in the article linked to that "conservatives" were taking the side of the commies and are promoting failure now, just like the commies.   They aren't conservatives, they are neo-luddites.  The promotion of immigration is the easy way.  It will be a lot harder to fix what's wrong inside the culture.  These "conservatives" are part of the problem, not the solution.  The solution is far more difficult.  How do you change a culture that is on the fast track to oblivion?

Might could?

I've lived in Texas my whole life, and I have never heard that expression.

The comparison is not apt

12/26/24:

 

Heh. Sure are a lot of folks who don't want you see things that might get you to thinking too much. That Pottersville scene must have hit too close to home.

 

12/25/24:

 

The GOP is definitely not the George Bailey party. For that matter, neither are the Democrats. Now Trump is trying to play the George Bailey role. They'll point out that he's a billionaire. That doesn't matter. Caesar played the George Bailey role in ancient Rome. FDR played the role and gave America the New Deal. Trump's just the latest incarnation of the same story. A patrician taking the part of the plebians is nothing new.

 

The GOP has fought Trump as much as the Democrats have. But their hostility has been more subtle, as they at least have to pretend to be on the side of the ordinary American. The Democrats have gone elitist for a long time now. They've long abandoned the party of the common folk. Even Ronald Reagan could see that, and this was 40 years ago. It has been a long road from the party that drove the "money changers out of the temple" line that FDR gave on his inaugural. The Democrats ARE the money changers now. The GOP has always been their junior partner. Ask Paul Krugman on that one.

 

Therefore, the GOP is definitely not the party of George Bailey. Neither of them are. It's funny that this comparison is made. I note how the rhetoric today more closely matches the tone of the Pottersville nightmare that George Bailey had before he realized that he wanted his old life back. We now live in "Pottersville", not in Bedford Falls. There are plenty of Potters, but only one George Bailey.

 

We need somebody to oppose them just like Bedford Falls needed the Building and Loan for no other reason than not to have to crawl back to the Potters of this world. Know what I mean, Vern?

 

Don't piss in the wind and tell me it's raining

 

There was a tweet of Joe Manchin, in which he says that the Democrat party is now "toxic". All of it is toxic, including the GOP. Why has this happened? Incidentally, I won't include the interview here, because he started talking in the manner of the Marxist dialectic, which I reject. He ought to be looking at THAT. If you accept their premises, then why would you expect any other result besides the one we are witnessing?

 

The Marxist dialectic has got to go. Otherwise, you are just pissing in the wind.