Is there anything worse than getting up at 5:00 AM and discovering the newspaper isn't here yet? OK, there's a lot worse. Still, as one of my friends like to repeat, "Just sayin'......"
So, with a few minutes on my hands......
I got a big kick out of hearing some guy during the Tiger game yesterday say of some college game later in the evening, "a historic football game!" Now I don't know who was playing, but "historic?" That was worth a chuckle.
I read the comment from Gus, that Trump is saying what most people in this country believe. I'm not sure of that. First, I'm not sure Trump believes what he says. How can he when he keeps changing his mind? But more to the point, I think it's more a matter of people, many if not most, just plain being sick and tired, frustrated, angry, whatever other such term, with the Establishment, with the way things have gone. They are dissatisfied with where we are and blame the Establishment, both political parties. I do think Gus is right on the Bernie Sanders' thing. Who doesn't want freebies?
Speaking of Sanders, or at least his followers, how can any of them stoop to voting for Clinton after discovering that she and the Democrat Establishment "bullied," undercutting Sanders and his campaign? That is, they rigged the system. So, one might say, "Why are you surprised?" Well, I'm not, either that this happens in politics or that the Clintons are involved. But if voters are supporting Sanders (or Trump for that matter), isn't that why, the fixing of the system? How, then, can a full-fledged member of that system, one who used it to nefariously undercut her opponent, from her own party, get support from that opponent or his followers? When Sanders went to show support for Clinton, if that didn't convince people he was a doddering old fool, nothing will.
BTW, this guy who wanted to pay for all the freebies by taxing "the wealthy," how much money does he make as a US Senator? Right, that's about 3 or 4 times what we make here.
I was somewhat startled to read an op-ed by a self-professed Democrat that, "...neither party has a monopoly on wisdom." He's certainly right there, but for him, a Democrat at that, to admit such a thing is a surprise. I thought those arrogant elitists, from both parties, considered themselves smarter than the rest of us, knowing what's best for us better than we do. Well, maybe the guy is an expatriate. The arrogant elitists can't have us discovering "...neither party has a monopoly on wisdom."
And, sadly, another police officer, this time in Detroit, was shot and killed. A carjack last week was stopped and shot the officer, who died a couple days later from his wound(s). Gee, do you think the Detroit Lions (or any other NFL team or even single player!) will take knees during the National Anthem to protest murdering thugs in this country? No, I don't expect it either.
And has Don Trump gone liberal--again? His child care program sounds like something straight out of the DNC. Clinton also has a plan, a specific one, despite Trump's claims (When can we start calling them "lies?") that she doesn't "and never will." Both candidates' plans will cost billions of dollars a year. Clinton will try to pay for hers with a tax increase--what else? She's a Democrat. And we know how those usually work out. Trump, whose child care program costs are even higher than Clinton's!, said he'll pay for it by getting rid of waste and fraud. And, we know how that usually works out, too. Spend. Spend. Spend. That's all they ever want to do. To cite, yet again, Nobelist Milton Friedman, "It's easy to spend other people's money."
Sunday, September 18, 2016
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I will go find your paper person and wake him/her up. Give me a second....
Historic football game. Who were the Lord Jeffs playing?
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