Random Thoughts

Redux

Joe Biden’s appearance changed rather oddly during his tenure as President. At one time his height appeared to change dramatically.

If body doubles were used during the Biden Presidency the American people deserve to know about it. Because it speaks to an unelected cabal actually in charge of our nation.

At this point I am more convinced it did happen, than didn’t.

Time to come clean.

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Master’s Week. As much as I love golf, as much as I appreciate the players themselves working harder than they do all year to win a tournament, I hate Augusta for what it stands for, which is exclusion.

How and why the blue tee dickhead fanboys just fawn over this tournament in particular, when they would never be allowed in, never be allowed to play a round there, wouldn’t even be able to get a job washing dishes there, that just amazes me.

One would think if a bunch of stuffed shirt assholes excludes you as second rate, you’d rail against those people. Instead the blue tee dickheads hope, wish, and pray that perhaps they could one day play just a single round there. And worship the grounds, the tournament, and the people that run it. “Oh look, they kept the price of a pimento cheese sandwich at a dollar, how wonderful”.

“Those people” wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire. They despise the masses. They think themselves elite. Elite of elite. Beyond your unworthy status.

Sure it is nice they have so damn much money they make an immaculate sanctuary for the game. A course in perfect shape.

But in my own world I don’t normally fawn over those that despise me and exclude me.

I just don’t get the adoration. Are blue tee dickheads so damn delusional they actually think that one day they might get the chance to play, just once?

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Waded into the Irish imbroglio this past week on “X”, expressing that Britain needs to get out of Ireland, and I have no idea what the replies were saying, but they were not kind. I don’t understand British slurs.

This I do know.

Irish as a sovereign Island nation has no control over six Northern Counties. And yes, it is sectarian, and divided by religion. As those under British rule loyal to “the King” adopted the Anglican Church and official religion of Great Britain, and those who are Catholic Irish and owe no allegiance to Great Britain are separatists.

So I’ll repeat what I said on “X”, give Ireland back to the Irish, don’t make them have to take it away. To paraphrase Paul McCartney.

The only thing the Brits understand truly is violence.

Allow the island to unify, get out. And if the Brits have a problem with that, use whatever force is necessary to make it so. To any and all extent. Even if it takes another “Mountbatten”.

If you are Orange living in the Northern six Communities, you aren’t Irish, you are British, subject to your king. Orange isn’t Irish. Irish is Irish, by dint of adherence to the Kings religion you aren’t Irish. Catholic is authentically Irish. Agnostic can be authentically Irish, as long as you have no allegiance to the British King.

Michael Collins didn’t sell the Irish on half-a-loaf, he sold them on half-a-baby. There is no such thing as a half-a-baby. A truce that gives away six counties is a false capitulation. Creating a literal red headed step-child is no solution.

It’s 2026. Ireland deserves to be unified. Now.

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If you are raising traditional children in this day and age, and by that I mean, school, college, go to work in corporate America, work hard, move up the ladder, you are failing your children. The world has changed.

Self-actuation is the future.

You will either earn your keep, or become a low cog in the wheels of commerce.

All actions will be measured. Measured against profit of some nameless, faceless entity. The results in human happiness and compensation will not be pretty.

Create your own, thrive on what you can accomplish.

More than ever we are returning to an eat what you kill world.

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Just had a business trip to the panhandle. There is no good way to get to the panhandle from South Florida. Flying is changing planes, takes over half-a-day.

So I drove, made sense as then I could make a few cold calls.

Wow, this is one damn big state. You can drive nine hours and never leave the state, not even close. I knew this already, friends are always visiting some Florida destination and then acting as if they are “just down the street”. Twice people went to Vero Beach and called me to meet them for lunch. Vero is 85 miles from here at least.

I asked both if we were back home in our Native Baltimore, and I was in Fredericksburg, Virginia, would they meet me for lunch? When both said “Hell, no” I had to explain some Florida geography to them about how far West Palm is from Vero Beach.

At this age a panhandle business trip is exhausting. Eight hours to the call. Eight hours back. Calls in the middle. You have to make it a three-day or things get tough on a bad back.

If Ireland should be unified with Britain giving back those six counties, Florida should give the panhandle back to Georgia, and Alabama. Same people and attitudes.

I can’t imagine leaving Key West heading for Pensacola. The time change alone makes you insane. That has to be something like a fourteen hour drive. And you never leave the same state.

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Israel is bombing out entire neighborhoods in Lebanon. Lebanon. A sovereign nation unto itself. With intent to just seize the land for occupation.

We aren’t supposed to be paying attention. Just as we aren’t supposed to see what is going on in the West Bank. Atrocities in every direction.

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Family argument broke out last week.

In a grandchild’s class they held a raffle. In kindergarten. One child won. The others felt left-out. Some tears were shed.

My far right son, much to my own chagrin, claimed that this wasn’t right, that at this tender age they don’t understand the concept of one wins, the rest lose. That there should have been prizes for all at that age. I should note it wasn’t in his child’s class this took place, it was the classroom of a daughter’s children.

The daughter observed a “Karen” mom who was upset her child didn’t win, and that the child was crying over not getting a prize. That “Karen” mom railed against running such an event in a kindergarten class. The daughter’s position was, hey, that mom didn’t say a thing when her kid got an award earlier in the month, and yet no other child got an award that day. She was fine with that, as long as it was her kid getting the award. So daughter felt the raffle was fine, life has winners and losers. Son felt that it wasn’t right, at that tender age they can’t grasp the concept of winning and losing, they should have run a raffle where everyone got something.

I jumped in, of course, as the “Patriarch” and rendered the final and correct decision. Saying that it is a cruel, cruel, ugly world out there, and the quicker the child learns that life isn’t fair, that not everyone gets a prize, the better. I strongly believe that kids need to learn early that sure, mommy loves you, but out there, the world doesn’t. Get over yourself.

And wouldn’t you know the very next weekend was Easter, and the big club breakfast and egg hunt. And one grandchild got “the golden egg” in the field, and one did not, resulting in sad face for one, very happy face the other. Only one “golden egg” per age range. Life has winners and losers.

I believe that vindicated me entirely. My son had no control over both his daughters coming up with “golden eggs”. And had to deal with one happy, and one sad face.

Sad face happens when you think everyone deserves a big prize. I told the no “golden egg” child she needed to be happy for her sister. Not sad for herself.

Life is a big shit sandwich. Some get Texas Toast that masks the taste. Some get “thin sliced” wheat, and can’t taste the wheat at all. Ain’t that life. Learn it. Early.

Earlier you learn that you aren’t “special” the better. Even at a kindergarten level, and even at the “ages 1-3” egg hunt range.

Of course I was correct. I am the “Patriarch” of this clan. It is my job to lead these 8 grandchildren into the future and steel them for life ahead.

I am not going to tell them all what they want to hear, I’m going to tell them what they need to hear. Big difference.

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For the record I love family text squabbles. When the four children go at it over some issue, I revel in watching the dialogue, the disputes, and the commentary.

And then declaring myself “Patriarch”, and having “the last word”.

I would make an excellent Emperor. Right up until the point of the knife the Senate sticks into me. Et Tu Brute?

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Have there been any studies on these massive data centers and whatever they might radiate out into the community in terms of any negatives?

Living next door to power wires can’t be good for humans, and these things are massive power stations. I hear about them being approved, I hear that for some reason they need to be built, but I’ve heard nothing about “impact studies”.

And why do they need to be built, so we can lose all aspects of privacy?

What are we doing?

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As a kid in Baltimore we’d go downtown to shop in the big department stores of that era, and there was no graffiti on the walls, no graffiti scrawled down on the walls of the train tunnel system, the city was pristine. As the city grew less white, graffiti began to appear. As La Raza insisted on bringing in more and more hispanics the graffiti exploded, covering every square inch of town.

Hispanics and spray paint appear to be a marriage made in Heaven.

And now a drive through that town is just a tagging nightmare, with graffiti and tagging galore.

As a white kid, and now an old, white man, I’ve never understood why a people would want to desecrate their neighborhood in that manner. Covering every wall with scrawl. It just adds to a sense of lawlessness, lack of civility, lack of respect for property, and makes a neighborhood appear to be in chaos, out-of-control.

Make no mistake, whites didn’t do that. That is a black and hispanic thing, this “tagging”, and “graffiti”.

Frankly, I’m against murals. Even the city approved, paid artist murals. They just make a city looked junky, unkempt, out-of-order.

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At this point Americans just want caramelized, sugary versions of what used to be normal food. They want a “smash-burger” where you beat the ground beef down and the fat caramelizes into a crunchy sweetness crust. They want breakfast of pancakes with whipped cream, sweet, sweet maple syrup, and even “sprinkles”. They want a coffee filled with caramel, chocolate, and whipped cream. They want fruit whipped up into a “smoothie” with added sugar for taste, and whipped cream on top.

Caramelized bullshit, that is what America is eating, and wonder why they all need Ozempic to lose weight.

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We just sent men around the moon and America yawned.

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After this Trump betrayal, which didn’t just begin with him becoming a warmonger, it began when he ignored the results of DOGE, and tried to beguile us all with worthless Epstein binders under the portico, I am so glad Elon purchased Twitter.

I can’t imagine the level of lies and bullshit absent the current iteration of Twitter.

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Chicago’s “feeling stronger everyday” is an example of brass driving a great song. Taking the brass out of rock destroyed it. Need more brass these days. And a little cowbell wouldn’t hurt either.

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I read that alcohol consumption is way down, wineries are closing in Napa, or at least consolidating, and that a reduction in alcohol sales is responsible for so many restaurants closing as they contribute a higher percentage to profit than food.

Friends say it is the legalization of pot contributing to the decrease in alcohol sales.

I couldn’t hazard a guess. I know that if you drive route 1 in Palm Beach County there are always cops waiting in the weeds. A journey from West Palm to Jupiter you could pass five cops just sitting in the turn lanes.

Limits me to 2 drinks at dinner, I’ll say. No way I want to be stopped and asked to take the test.

Why aren’t you drinking more? Have you all really switched to getting high, are the costs rising prohibitively, what?

Had a discussion the other night with a good friend and neighbor who commented that half the recent dinner bill was alcohol. So clearly expense is up.

Is it cost, is it a change in habit, is it cop vigilance? What?

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We’ve somehow gone from “regime change”, to threats of “ending civilization”, and “bombing back to the Stone Age”.

And yet some people still support this idiot.

The lies are so easy to see, and come so fast and furious, it is as if we are all being punked.

If you were for “just remove those bad mullahs, and Iran will be so much better”, to hearing about bombing back to the Stone Age, and aren’t just gobsmacked by this turn of events, you must be brain dead.

Removing the mullahs was never enough for Israel. They want all of the Middle East to turn into Gaza, just rubble. Bloodthirsty is a compliment to these goblins.

This is why you can’t be half-measure in politics today. You say, “hey, live and let live, let’s support the trans movement, they don’t hurt anyone”. To having to agree there are more than two genders or being ostracized from polite society.

The same is true for war in Iran. Once you give in, and agree the mullahs should be gone, we see threats of eliminating their entire civilization.

All you half-measure people, wake the fuck up. Can’t you see what is in front of your face?

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Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran. If you aren’t starting to understand the problem that needs to be wiped from this earth, you really aren’t paying attention.

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There are some the media needs to showcase far less, not more. Alan Dershowitz comes to mind first. He was on Pedo island. And the story keeps changing. I didn’t get a massage. Alright I did, but she was an older woman. Come on, man.

Stop interviewing this man, stop giving him a platform. He is implicated in the scandal. Don’t lend that foul creature gravitas by featuring him on a broadcast.

That Dildo selling Rabbi comes in a close second. And if we never see John Bolton interviewed on national television again it will be too soon.

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There goes Trump’s bragging rights over gas prices.

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Wait, what? Gavin Newsom’s wife ran over her sister with a golf cart, and killed her?

And this, on top of letting Harvey Weinstein lay on top of her to get ahead in Hollywood?

I don’t want that woman anywhere near the White House.

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Seriously, is someone speeding up time? How is it past Easter already this year?

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Just saw a video of Carrie Underwood singing “Different Drum” in honor of Linda Ronstadt on Youtube at some awards show. As talented as she is, her performance just made me appreciate Linda’s version on Youtube, which appeared effortless.

If you are of a certain age bracket and can remember the song when it was released, you understand.

And then, when you realize that Michael Nesmith of “The Monkeys” wrote it, that just adds to blow your mind completely. Then add in his mom invented “white out”, more insanity. Though people today, they have no idea what “white out” even is.

And “white out” was revolutionary. Saved hours of typing time.

White out, a Monkey, “different drum”, and Linda Ronstadt. Come on, man, if that doesn’t make a string of talent that marries strangely. What a time to be alive. These are the thoughts that occupy my idiot mind. Such quirks and details.

Underwood is a singular talent. But go on Youtube, view Ronstadt’s version of the song. Her rendition of that song, and “long, long, time” are just phenomenal. A generational talent.

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