On Hiatus

With all the stories going on the last couple of weeks for comment I need a rest so I'm taking a much needed vacation.

Tomorrow I'll drive to Cincinnati to spend time with my kids kids for Grandparents Day. After that it's off to Olathe, Kansas to see more grandkiddies. After that down to Miami, Oklahoma for a fishing trip in that great state along with Arkansas. My guide is my best friend. He told me if I don't bring a large cooler I'll regret it. I'm 100% certain he's not talking beer but monster fish.

Enjoy your week. Today was a good one for page reads. We'll hover around 900. Not too shabby for, as Joe Biden would say, "an old white guy with privilege".

Collusion Indeed!

There Really Is A Cabbage Patch Kid

knuckledtaggin.com

Medical Mess-Ups

Yes, we've heard stories about doctors burying their mistakes. My uneducated guess is they occur more often than we know. When I had my hip replacement seven weeks ago, right before receiving anesthesia, the nurse game me a magic marker and had me make an X on the hip to be fixed. I then, with the same pen, initialed the X.

There were two stories in the news this week, both from Gt. Britain, a country with single payer health care that should give us pause.

In the first a women was operated on for a double mastectomy. Her mother and sister died of breast cancer. Tests indicated that she, too, should go through the same procedure. Too bad for her. After the surgery it was found that she did not have breast cancer.

In another case a man had a circumcision. The problem is the guy went in for bladder surgery.
Please understand this is not the biggest mistake ever. After much consideration he converted to Judaism. I lied about the last part.

Sincere Best Wishes

On The Positive Side They're 48% Better Off Than Millennials

Bloomberg) -- The bad news is that almost half of Americans approaching retirement have nothing saved in a 401(k) or other individual account. The good news is that the new estimate, from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, is slightly better than a few years earlier.

Of those 55 and older, 48 percent had nothing put away in a 401(k)-style defined contribution plan or an individual retirement account, according to a GAO estimate for 2016 that was released Tuesday. That’s an improvement from the 52 percent without retirement money in 2013.

Yahoo

Sucks To Be This Woman---Maybe

A 75-year-old woman who was adopted by a black couple when she was a young child waited 70 years before discovering that her biological parents were white.

Verda Byrd of Converse, Texas says that she lived her life under the assumption that she was an African-American. 

The woman formerly known as Jeanette Beagle was born in September 1942 into a family of 10 children, according to KENS-TV.

When her father, Earl Beagle, walked out on the family in 1943 and her mother, Daisy, was severely injured after falling in a trolley accident, the children were removed from the home.

She was adopted by Ray and Edwinna Wagner, a financially secure black family in Newton, Kansas

Jeanette was then adopted by Ray and Edwinna Wagner, a financially secure black family in Newton, Kansas, and she grew up as their only child.

The couple then changed the girl’s name to Verda Ann Wagner.

UK Daily Mail

Bad Way To Start Her Day

Biden Really, Really, Really Wants To Be President

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden condemned “a white man’s culture” as he lashed out at violence against women and, more specifically, lamented his role in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings that undermined Anita Hill’s credibility nearly three decades ago.

What a dork. I can hardly wait for the scandalous reports to come out about the under the table money he and his son took from the Ukraine and China. It's in the billions. The story is coming soon.

I Love This Guy

I don't know his name but he's an entire menagerie of liberals rolled into one and would surely poop on them: Avenatti, Schumer, Nancy, Hillary, Schiff, Swalewell, who am I forgetting. OMG! Maxine Waters.

Why Jussie Smollett Got Off Scott Free

Left-wing billionaire mega-donor George Soros donated $408,000 in 2016 to a super PAC that supported Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, whose office prosecuted — and dropped — the Jussie Smollett case.

Breitbart News

When Dad Wants To Play Video Games Undisturbed

knuckledraggin.com

USA Today And Women

According to an article in USA Today on this sunny Ohio day more and more women in this country, 56%, do not want to have children because of climate change.

Hey, it's their prerogative. My only wish is the chicks are coyote ugly. It's a win-win all the way around as long as the drunk guys stay out of the bars.

The Dumbest Words Ever Spoken

“Look — let’s look at where the disinformation and mistakes and lying have come from. It hasn’t come from the press; it’s come from the President of the United States and those around him. I think we’ve done — the media, the press — has done one of the great reporting jobs in history, especially of covering a presidency by the most news organizations.” Carl Berstein of Watergate fame.
Diogenes Middle Finger

Saudi Arabia Doesn't Mess Around

The desert kingdom has already reportedly 43 people in the first three months of this year – the most recent being a Syrian man who was put to death on March 13 for smuggling amphetamine pills.

The record for the number of executions carried out by Saudi Arabia was 158, according to human rights advocates Amnesty International.

Of those executed this year, 21 were reportedly for drugs offences.

But other crimes which carry the death penalty include adultery, renouncing Islam, treason, espionage, burglary as well as murder, terrorism, rape or espionage.

Beheading remains the most common form of execution and the sentence traditionally carried out in a public square on a Friday after prayers.

Thoughts For The Day

180 Texans held off Santa Anna and his 4,000 Mexican soldiers for 13 days because of a wall.

Since 1972 the government has built over 3,000 miles of "sound walls" along our highways to protect citizens from unnecessary noise at a cost of 6 billion dollars.

We can't take nail clippers on a plane yet it's okay to allow 2,000 illegals cross the border every day.

The Problem With Legalized Marijuana

I have a relative, living in Colorado no less, who told me five years ago that smoking a joint was relatively harmless. She said it was no different than drinking a bottle of beer. Did I mention she's a hard core liberal. Anyway, I was so incredulous I didn't except to immediately know what to say. Then I remembered an article I'd read. It said, 'marijuana in 2014 is 1200 times more powerful than it was in the 1960's.

I guess additives had something to do with it. You know, let's make it more addictive.

I came across an article from Business Insider this morning. Interesting, isn't it?

The latest study was published on Monday by a team of clinicians in Colorado, where marijuana was legalized medically in 2009 and recreationally in 2014. In their study, which appeared in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, the physicians described more than 2,500 cannabis-related ER visits to a large public hospital in the state from 2012 to 2016.

Our Future Leaders

They Walk Among Us

Authorities say a 19-year-old Enterprise employee dosed his coworkers with LSD.

The man reportedly told police he did it because they had "negative energy."

Police were called to the branch in Arnold, MO, after workers reportedly started feeling dizzy and shaky. The man was arrested Monday.

"I can't believe it, it's ridiculous. I just can't understand why anyone would think about something like that," said David Brading, an Arnold resident.

The coworker admitted to putting the drug in the water bottles of two coworkers and in a third worker’s coffee cup.

What's Killing America's Young Whites

The nation’s opioid crisis is killing young white American men more than any other demographic group, new research from the federal government reveals.

The latest report from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) finds that young white men in the United States are dying at the fastest rate from fentanyl, the deadly opioid where one pound can kill more than 220,000 people.

Breitbart

Question Of The Day

We now know there was no Trump collusion with Russia. Does anyone not think this administration would have achieved even more if the Democrats and been for this country instead of their own self-interests.

The Lifetime TV Station

Have you ever read the Lifetime television channel was established to empower women; to give them the respect they deserve.

Why is it their movies show women being abused and murdered? Just askin'.

The Move By Muslims To Take Over Our Nation

 

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times - Sunday, March 24, 2019

Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota Democrat dogged by allegations of anti-Semitism, told Muslims in a speech Saturday to “raise hell” and “make people uncomfortable” in defense of their rights.

As hundreds of pro-Israel protesters rallied outside, Ms. Omar said U.S. Muslims should confront discrimination in her keynote speech at a fundraiser hosted by the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Greater Los Angeles in Woodland Hills, California.

“So, to me, I say raise hell. Make people uncomfortable,” Ms. Omar said as the crowd cheered. “Because here’s the truth, here’s the truth: Far too long we have lived with the discomfort of being a second-class citizen and frankly I’m tired of it, and every single Muslim in this country should be tired of it.”

For Coffee Drinkers Only

Beto's Weird

Former Texas Democratic Rep. and presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke pranked his wife, Amy, once by putting baby poop in a bowl and telling her that it was avocado.

After Beto was defeated by Ted Cruz for the senate bid in Texas the first thing he did was to go to New Mexico(don't ask me why NM) and ate dirt.

These aren't joke stories.

A Wee Bit About Democrats Favorite Heroine

The ghost of Margaret Sanger casts a century-long shadow.  Because of her enormous influence in promoting and implementing her humanist, anti-religious, pro–birth control, and eugenic philosophy throughout the United States and around the world, one biographer called her the "Father of Modern Society."  From the beginning of Sanger's birth control crusade, she specifically targeted immigrants and ethnic and religious minorities, especially blacks, Hispanics, and what she once described as "the Catholic race."  Sanger referred to these inferior races as "human weeds" and a "menace to civilization" to be segregated and sterilized.

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/the_rolling_genocide_of_americas_blacks.html#ixzz5j6CnKOVw

Kids Being Kids

I Should've Been A Dog Barber

Don't you detest it when parents talk about their children all the time; how bright they are, how talented, how athletic----------blah, blah, blah?. It's the same for dogs.

I've written about our new rescue pooch a couple of times but today I had my eyes opened. I made a bad decision when I went into coaching and teaching, a real bad decision. I should have been a dog barber.

Our Charlie is four years old and a rescue doggie. You'll hate it when I say this but he's absolutely adorable; knows a lot of tricks and doesn't pee or poop on the carpet. He sleeps in an enclosed cage at night but if we let him he'd stay in our bed.

Charlie barks only when strangers come to the door and then he stops. It's nice to know he watches out for us. The little guy is an Affinpincher by breed. He looks like Toto from the Wizard of Oz.

We've had Chaz for five weeks and when we got him the Queen took him to Pet Smart for a much needed haircut. The price? It was only $63 dollars BUT they did trim his nails and he came home with a neckerchief, blue and white in color reading 'Handsome Hunk'. What a bargain.

Today, Charlie had another beauty appointment. I made certain he received a summer cut. I go to the barber five times a year, tops, for the price of $25 including tip. The way things are going now the king of our house will cost me, oh my gosh, it's to high to compute. What? Would it be $700?

But wait, he does get the cool neckerchief, right?

I paid the bill and his groomer looked at me. I recognized that look. It's called, 'Where's my tip'. I'm a sucker for a pretty girl.

Before I left Pet Smart I has handed a brochure. It told me there was going to be a Play Date for Pooches. Normally, it costs $10 but since I'm such a good customer Charley gets to come for free.

If life was like a dogs we'd all be happy

There Are Things About Candidates We Don't Need To Know

Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper confirmed Wednesday night during his CNN town hall event that he took his mother to watch an X-rated pornographic movie when he was younger and that the two stayed for the entire movie. 

Will Obama Take The Credit

So much for the Jayvee team:

ISIS caliphate conquered, as final stronghold of empire is
liberated, Fox News has learned

The M Word From Jeff Foxworthy

1. If you grow and refine heroin

for a living, but morally object to

the use of liquor,

You may be a Muslim.

2. If you own a $3,000 machine gun

and a $5,000 rocket launcher, but

can't afford shoes, 

You may be a Muslim.

3. If you have more wives than

teeth,

You may be a Muslim.

4. If you wipe your butt with your

bare hand, but consider bacon to be

unclean,

You may be a Muslim.

5. If you think vests come in two

styles, Bullet-proof and suicide,

You may be a Muslim.

6. If you can't think of anyone

that you haven't declared jihad

against,

You may be a Muslim.

7. If you consider television

dangerous, but routinely carry

explosives in your clothing,

You may be a Muslim.

8. If you were amazed to discover

that cell phones have uses, other

than setting off roadside bombs,

You may be a Muslim.

9. If you have nothing against

women and think every man should own at

least four, then

You, too, may be a Muslim

Must Be California

Today's Wish

Let's smile and be happy and strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Another Al Gore Lie Exposed

Susan Crockford’s book, “The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened,” argues that, in contrast to the dire predictions made by experts over a decade ago, polar bears are thriving. In fact, she argues polar populations has quadrupled since the 1960s from roughly 10,000 to 40,000.

If you didn't know Crockford is a world renowned Canadian zoologist.

What Stressed Me Out When I Was The Age Of Millennials(see blog below)

Here are some of the things that stressed me out when I was the age of a millennial:

1. Getting drafted and sent to Vietnam.

2. Unending war.

3. Assassinations and riots.

4. Graduating college.

5. Finding a job.

6. Keeping a job.

7. Paying off loans.

8. Making marriage work (I married at 24).

9. Starting a family.

10. The energy crisis -- odd and even numbered gas days.
Dan Cirucci

60% Of Millennials Are Stressed Out

According to a recent survey (and this is no joke) here are the top 20 most stressful scenarios reported by millennials:

1. Losing wallet/credit card
2. Arguing with partner
3. Commute/traffic delays
4. Losing phone
5. Arriving late to work
6. Slow WiFi
7. Phone battery dying
8. Forgetting passwords
9. Credit card fraud
10. Forgetting phone charger
11. Losing/misplacing keys
12. Paying bills
13. Job interviews
14. Phone screen breaking
15. Credit card bills
16. Check engine light coming on
17. School loan payments
18. Job security
19. Choosing what to wear
20. Washing dishes
Dan Cirucci

The World Will End In Ten Years

The United Nations announced the world would come to an end in ten years if something wasn't done about climate change.

Er wait------------The United Nations made this announcement in 1989. Oh, why worry about a lousy 30 years because as Beto and AOC told us we now have only 12 years to survive. Look out 2031. We'll all dead so why worry about it.

Add One More Oddball As A Dem Candidate For Prez

New York entrepreneur Andrew 'Ying' Yang has announced his candidacy for the highest office in the land. It goes without saying he's pro-abortion and wants a guaranteed income for all. In other words he's a Democrat.

The Yangster also jumped aboard the weird train. He thinks people should forget about circumcision for their newborn. That won't get him many Jewish votes. Yang also stated that within the next ten years white Americans will start shooting Asians in their churches.

Yang, without saying so, insinuated he would ask Charlie Chan to be his vice-President.

Question Of The Day

Except by proclamations made by dufus hipsters(apology to Kramer) which scientists* tell us we have only 12 years to live if nothing is done about climate change?

*Al Gore is not a scientist

Rule # 835: When You Know The Wife Runs The Home

Her Majesty is flying to Phoenix tomorrow to sit the grandchildren while their parents are off doing their thing. My first and only question when she makes a flight is, what time does the flight leave Columbus? I don't know why I ask since it's always the same. "The plane leaves at 6 am", she'll say. I hate when this happens.

When I hear this it's like a punch to the gut. Frequent fliers know that the earlier the flight the less expensive it is. 6 AM is the earliest flight available.

My options are limited. We leave the house at 4:30 AM. My clothes will be laid out so I can jump out of bed, brush my teeth and start the car by 4:30. It only takes a half hour to get to Columbus International and I know I'll be home by 5:30 then back in the sack.

The problem with this scenario is intermittent sleep will give me the nauseous gut wrenching feeling all day. Plus, I'll have to be up by 8 am to let Charlie do his outdoor dump. If not then I'll be scrubbing carpets.

Okay, as a husband I've done my duty but let's put the proverbial shoe on the other foot. Let's say it is me who has the 6 am flight. The conversation goes this way, "Honey, why don't you make it easy on yourself and get a motel(double the price) next to the airport."

She might be little but she has the power of a hydrogen bomb.

Money Can't Buy Love And World Series Rings

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Star center fielder Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels are finalizing the largest contract in professional sports history, a new 12-year deal worth more than $430 million that will smash previous records and could keep the greatest player of his generation with the Angels for the remainder of his career, sources familiar with the deal told ESPN on Tuesday.

The 27-year-old Trout, who has won two American League MVP awards and finished second four times, will receive an average of nearly $36 million a year, topping Zack Greinke's previous record average of $34.4 million with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

ESPN

The World Today

All jihad is local, but all "Islamophobia" is global. So, if a Muslim of Afghan origin shoots up a gay nightclub in Florida and kills 49 people, that´s just one crazed loner and no broader lessons can be discerned from his act. On the other hand, if a white guy shoots up two mosques in New Zealand and kills 50 people, that indicts us all, and we need to impose worldwide restraints on free speech to make sure it doesn´t happen again. Mark Steyn

A Mini Story About Guns

My orthopedist had scheduled a post surgery meeting with me for this morning. As I left his office the radio was tuned to 610 am in Columbus. Glenn Beck was on. I'm not a big fan of his because sometimes he goes off the deep end and I was too lazy to reach over and change channels.

Regardless, he brought up a story from the Washington Post that piqued my interest. Please understand that WaPo is one of the most left leaning papers in our nation. It's no wonder conservatives tag it the Washington Compost.

The Post ran a story today that went against their normal ones and it dealt with guns. It, the Post, did a piece on gun violence in Venezuela. You must understand that beginning in 2012 gun ownership was completely forbidden except for the police and armed forces. For those private citizens who broke the law they were guaranteed a minimum 20 year jail sentence.

The number of gun deaths in this now God forsaken nation as of 2015 was 122 per 100,000 people. Okay, let's make a comparison. Hey, why not use the United States as one? Surely, our gun deaths would put Venezuela and probably the world to shame.

Not so. In the year of 2015 we had 4.9 gun murders per 100,000 people. Did I mention this story was in the Washington Post? I thought so.

When the Democrats start bloviating about guns and murders you might throw this in their dopey faces.

Question Of The Day

How can a nation with a $22 trillion dollar national debt give away billions in foreign aid?

About The National Debt

$15 trillion. If you needed a single number to represent Washington’s decades of dysfunction before President Donald J. Trump was elected, that’s a good place to start.  In the 20 years from 1997 to 2017—President Trump’s first in office—America’s national debt nearly quadrupled from just over $5 trillion to more than $20 trillion. Those skyrocketing deficits accompanied a Federal Government that was increasingly unaccountable to its citizens, putting favored interests ahead of U.S. taxpayers. In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama called the $4 trillion in debt accumulated under President George W. Bush “unpatriotic.” Once in the White House, President Obama himself then swelled the national debt by nearly $9 trillion. After losing the presidency in 2016, Democrats once again ramped up their tough talk on the deficit, this time as a means of attacking President Trump and Congressional Republicans.  Dan Cirucci

It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time

The So-Called Religion Of Peace

The recent death toll of Christians in Nigeria has reached 120 with this week’s slaughter of more than 50 by Fulani Muslim militants in the Kaduna state of Nigeria, the Christian Post reported.
Breitbart Africa

"Damn That Hot Mic"

March 26, 2012 Reuters

SEOUL (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was caught on camera on Monday(via a hot mic) assuring outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he will have “more flexibility” to deal with contentious issues like missile defense after the U.S. presidential election.