Scribblings on Trump

Today is the day after The Donald was elected President of the United States. I voted for him. I am from a flyover state. (If only the meddling class would fly over with their meddling, also.)

I don't care for Hillary. I didn't vote for her. I thought she would win. She didn't. (Wasn't 8 years of her husband enough?)

I don't think that Trump is a savior of anything. I think he won because the "deplorables" are tired of the meddling class. I really don't want Trump to do anything, except to continue to irritate the media and the elite. (Elites, please do move to Canada. I might send a postcard.) Their apoplexy over Trump winning has been revealing.

If the moguls of Silicon Valley and the amoral Hollywood types wish to secede (#Calexit), please let me know where I can send my donation to assist their efforts.

I believe in peaceful relations with all. I think they will make good neighbors and I might want to visit Disneyland and the beach with my grandkids, in the future.

You see, there is just no reason for my community to be bound politically with California. We have opposing world views. Opposing means not compatible. So let's just stop pretending that the social engineering (cheer led by Hollyweird) coming out of Washington is not an existential threat to me and my family.

I want the United States of my grandparents with no FED, IRS, FBI, CIA, DOD, DOE, DOEd, NSA, USDA, DOJ, DHS, DEA, NRO, EPA, and all the rest. Does that make me a hater, that I want the limited government allegedly bequeathed to us by the founding fathers? No!

Cafe Racer

This blog is serious and fun.  I have been quite serious lately, but now it is time for some fun.

My son and I have been working on a cafe racer he is building from a Honda CM450E.

Here are some photos of the project during some of the rebuild.

 

My only regret is that we didn't take enough pictures along the way.

 

Gun Control and Minimum Wage

Is it just me or is there someone else who thinks that the Obama's (or Hillary's or Pelosi's or Sander's - [yes, they are all democrats] but my comment applies to any party) blathering about gun control and minimum wage is just hypocrisy.

POTUS commands a nuclear arsenal and exports billions of dollars worth of weapons every year that have overthrown countries and destabilized wide swaths of the earth, not to mention untold deaths and millions of refugees. Yet, his highness lectures the American public about gun violence?! Obama, how about you disarm first?

Some of us are against all violence, whether committed by individuals OR governments.

Next, we hear of the constant inability of folks earning minimum wage to be able to raise a family. (I don't doubt this.) Thus, the meddling class concludes, someone should pay those workers more money. The "they" are business owners who should pay more under threat of violence from government. No mention of the hideously regressive social security taxes already paid by the business owners and minimum wage employees, who will never receive a dime from the already bankrupt SS administration.

So, when the politicians cry crocodile tears for the working underclass, just remember that they want someone else to pay for their charity while collecting billions from those same underclass employees to keep their best voters happy (seniors).

Washing the Superball

"Washing the Superball" is a phrase that means you are chasing a red herring (or a wild goose), but it has specific application to scientific or engineering endeavors. In other words, someone is pursuing a cause for a particular phenomenon, but are completely wrong about it. Be patient and I will give you a full rexplanation.

I just coined the phrase and here I record it for posterity.

This is the genesis of the term: When I was 8 years old, I had a florescent bouncy ball - a superball - as we called them. If you threw it at the ground as hard as you could, it seemed like it would rebound 100 feet in the air. And it glowed in the dark.

I shared an upstairs room with my brother, while my two sisters shared the other room at the end of the hall. In the middle of the hall there was a bathroom.  When the superball stopped glowing at night, we would take it to the bathroom and wash it. Viola! it would glow again. But as anyone but a child knows, it wasn't the washing that made it glow again, it was the light in the bathroom.

Thus, "washing the superball" means to do something that you think is causing a specific result, but you really are completely wrong about the reason.

An Honest Environmentalist

If you study the leanings of greenies, you will soon come to discover that they are fundamentally anti-human.  However, most of them are tools and can't see to the end of the road they are on. That is, they can't see the the logical consequences of the values they espouse.

 Except for this guy: (He is still a tool, but at least an honest one.)

His name is Travis N. Rieder and teaches at the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins. (such a mouthful - Berman, bioethics...)

from wattsupwiththat.com

Climate philosopher Travis Rieder has been touring the country, trying to persuade university students not to have kids – and promoting ideas for restricting childbirth, including tax penalties against people who decide to have a child.

This guy has taken the Malthusian, "green" values to the end of the road. They only thing left is for him to advocate for euthanasia. (I'm not holding my breath. We may yet see that from this tool.)

Greens value everything above human life; owls, polar bears, snail darters, weeds, bony-tailed chubs, coral reefs, mosquitoes, etc. This guy is just directly stumping for the ultimate goal of greenies, fewer people on earth.

So, in that respect, he is honest (and a tool.) I can add him to my list: Nehor, Korihor, Al Gore, Travis Rieder, ... (I know, it doesn't rhyme anymore.)

Americans have become so PC that we can't judge between diametrically opposed philosophies and call them what they are. The values that Mr. Rieder advocates are anti-human and anti-Christ.

Worshiping the earth is mutually exclusive to worshiping Christ and his command to multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it.

Choose you this day whom ye will serve...

Random Thoughts Bouncing Around in My Head

What did Sandra Day O’Conner say to herself when she heard that Darth Vader Ginsberg was going to be on the Supremes? “Always the first, but no longer the worst!” Ditto for Sotomayor and Kagan.

Can any living Hollywood actor play the role of a dedicated and conscientious believer in the literal resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God? I haven’t seen the remake of Ben Hur, so I will let you know if anyone can equal Charlton Heston

The Beatles’ song, Yesterday, is able to induce clinical depression in less than 30 seconds. Have any pharmaceutical companies considered using it in their trials of anti-depressants? If a patient can listen to more than 1 minute of the song and still be smiling, then they would know that the anti-depressant was actually working.

SCOTUS – Supreme Court of the United States, Aren’t they a piece of work? In Roe v. Wade they said that a woman can abort her fetus in the name of privacy, but apparently all 7 billion of us on this planet have no right of privacy when it comes to the hyper vapid NSA. Does that cause cognitive dissonance in you?

Simple Janet

As head of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen deserves to be lambasted. As a human being we should treat her nicely, but I'm thinking she missed her calling in life. 

Instead of being head of the FED, she should have been head of the Centers for Disease Control. Her policies at the FED have put the economy into a complete recession, essentially world-wide. Good for her banker friends, bad for the other 7 billion of us.

What she needs to be doing is cancer research. Her policies could put cancer into complete recession (remission). She simply missed her calling in life. She doesn't know what she's doing as the head of the FED, but she could use those same policies that are so effective in putting our economy into remission at any Cancer Research Unit. She's just missed her calling, that's all!