Again Men, What Did I Tell You?....I Was Accused of being Gay......And Got Mad at Buna Schools....

 The University of Michigan's Head Football Coach was fired yesterday, for cause, for having an affair with his Executive Assistant.....

Rumor is, he got her pregnant. 

The story was even on the Economic Times.  The Times of India. 

IT is undefeated. 

Lost a job paying $6 million a year, under a contract that would have paid him $30 million over the lifetime of the agreement.  

 Lost his damn mind......Over a blonde....And I saw a picture of his wife. A really cute blonde. 

I'm not a blonde "guy" always have like nerdy girls with dark hair, blue eyes, and glasses. The nerdier the better, and did I marry a nerd. Thinks math is " fun." Best thing ever happened to me.

And then, Michigan's Coach gets detained by local police for an alleged threat against his wife. 

Fired,arrested, and probably losing his wife in one day....... 

Men, you got a wife, a girlfriend......Mess with them. It's why they are with your sorry-ass.

- Yesterday, I posted the remark that an ex-student's husband was a handsome lad. 

I even performed their wedding. When I met him, I said to myself, "Man, she landed a good-looking guy." ( And she is a sweetheart cutie...a character and y'all know I like characters, lot of fun to be around, as most of you know, I too am a character.) 

I had a former student, now ex-friend on Facebook question my sexuality. 

They said.... 

Called another man "handsome"  Got a cat. ( As I've said, never had a cat before, he's sweet, He is literally MY cat, but still a cat.) Got a thing for clothes. And I do have LGBT friends. And have had them since college. Ate lunch at Kampus Korner at LU every day my sophomore with a literal couple. To them, it adds up that I am gay....( In the 1970s, Kampus Korner had a chicken fried steak sandwich that was the best I've ever eaten. They also had lamb kebabs. And I do like lamb. My Scottish-English-Ulster heritage coming out. This is a guy who had lamb's liver and chips(fries) when he was in Northern Scotland a couple of times. )

Nope.  

Hate to disappoint you, but as my late great-grandmother would say, " He likes the wimmens." 

Look, I grew up fairly religious, never mind I got into trouble when I was in school, but never was one of a cool guys around girls. I was lucky to find a girl to date. No fooling, the first year I was married, I would look over at my still asleep wife and say to myself, " Man, I'm actually getting to sleep with a girl." 

Sorry, I disappoint you, but I like girls, and yes, I have have gay/lesbian friends. They're probably smarter, cooler, and funnier than you.  

- Finally, while Buna only lost 4 students in the latest Buna High School census for the UIL, at least once a week I hear from a parent(s) that want to get their children, mostly younger ones, out of Buna Schools. And as I have said previously, these are Buna people. 

They are parents, being very quiet, very stealth,  about the move. 

There are HS parents who want to move their kids, but can't for a reason I will discuss in a future blog. 

And yesterday an event occurred that I will also discuss in a future publication. Just made me mad. 

It reminded me, that a school district once again is a "government entity." It will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat. 

I know people get all upset because I get negative about the school district, but I hear shit I cannot talk about for fear of that person involved receiving retribution. And I know most of you have a blind spot for whatever reason for the school. 

And I know most of you didn't go through a situation like Magnolia ISD did when I was there....

>A tax rollback election. ( Not saying nuthin' here Buna)

>To stop the rollback, the district threatened to drop all extra curricular activities. .  

> In 3 years there, I had 4 building principals.

> The district had 3 different Supt. of Schools.

> In the middle of my third year, every building principal resigned. Most left education  

> The entire student body walked out in protest over the threat of no extra curricular activities.  They all were expelled for 5 days. I went to work and had no kids in my class. It was covered by KHOU, KTRH, KTRK Radio-TV stations. 

> We had a student hang himself in the bathroom. The district blamed a para-professional( scapegoat) for a nonsensical reason and let her go. She sued and won.   

> An HVAC contractor fell through the roof in my room on top of a student. I was sued. And the district threw me under the bus. Luckily, the HVAC company insurance covered.  ( I left the district in May. And went to divinity school-)

After seminary, I needed a job and got on at Dayton, and while it was better, you watched your back. And I loved Dayton. And there were some nutty times there..... My drive just killed me. Beaumont to Dayton is over 65 miles, one way. We tried to get a home in Nome and in those days, it couldn't be done. But, it is still just a job. 

Yes, there are good teachers in the Buna District. Yes, they care about their kids. 

Hell, even though I was at times rough on y'all, I cared about the Buna kids, hell, I still do. 

But, it is a job. They will let you go for whatever reason. 

And the district doesn't understand, we are private citizens now. I'll explain in a future publication.  

Cynical? Yes, but the world is often an evil place.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I Stand Corrected

 I made a mistake this morning and the business I wrote on is NOT in Buna, but rather Newton County.....

I knew I shouldn't have blogged this morning..... 

And Buna Comes into the 21st Century....

 I was minding my business this morning before prayers. Listening to Ben Maton, The Salisbury Organist play Advent Hymns before prayers this morning. ( Sometimes you got to get your mind right, get in tune with the spirit....)

And Ben got me lost looking at flats for sale in Herefordshire. That's all we need to do, move to the West Midlands.  

 I decided to check my phone before I get too far along and see if there is anyone I need to include in morning prayers, and there was, and it was concerning....

Then, I had been sent a post originally on the Buna Chamber of Commerce site. 

It seems Buna has a new drive-through beer/liquor store. 

Yes, drive-through. 

It has not been that long that Buna was a dry......And I remember writing about it on this publication. 

I've got to go through Jasper County in the coming weeks for business. I may need to loop through and see if they have anything different, and if not, I am not above drinking a Mexican beer or two.... 

I don't know these people from Adam, they are not an advertiser on The Govteach Part Deaux, but if you like a "dram" every now and again, you might want to give them your support.  

Supporting small businesses like this is how we have "nice things."  

( I will catch hell from at least 1-2 readers for talking about drinking and praying......I'm sorry, what was Jesus's  first miracle?)  

Okay, Here is the Deal......And Then, This Happened....Shocked Even Me....

 I'm writing this with an orange cat in my lap.....68 years of being a dog person( Herding dogs, Border Collies and Heelers, dogs that will outsmart you if you let them.) and I got a cat////I've lost it....I'm ashamed of myself....

I thought I'd let you know what is going on. 

Going to be fairly busy the next few weeks, days, through the holidays, however you want to describe it. 

I know I owe several of you return phone calls. It seems like I am actually busy when people call and I need to return their phone call, and when I think of it it is generally about 3-4am and I doubt you want me calling you then.  

Generally during this time, readership....Well, it drops off. People have parties, shopping, cooking, family to visit, football to watch, whatever.....So, I am going to limit the amount of blogs during this time period. I know it is doctor visit the next few weeks for me. Including one tomorrow morning.  ( Now something massive will happen, and I'll be doing 3 blogs a day.....You never know.....)  

Was asked if I still pray and if I'll pray for them at 4am.......Of course, just let me know. I still have a list. 

(Side note- Just saw a geophysicist talk about us possibly seeing the Northern Lights again on either Dec. 8th or 9th....  )

And here is what the blog is really about. 

I received a message from Blogger, the platform I write my blogs on saying that I am right at my 15th year of blogging. 

In truth, I always thought I would have been done with this about 6 months in. As I make no bones about, I get bored rather easily.and I am always looking at some sort of stimulus to engage my brain.  ( And I have a cat in my lap, am writing this, and have headphones on blasting G.F. Handel's " The Messiah." It is Christmas after-all. And I like to pretend I am " High Church" .....Pretend....) 

We realize and understand the blog often upsets people. I know people think it is too negative. I know people get upset when I tell things that leadership intends to keep quiet about.  

And I am not going to lie, it is often tough to do so.  

While I am not probably going to sit around a fire and drink whisky with most of you,( I don't know, you get a good bottle 12+ years old of Scotch or Irish, I may need to help you "taste test it.") I don't want people to do like they did to pod-caster Tim Poole and shoot up my home.  And some folks, well, they " Just ain't right." 

Thank you for reading. Seriously. I have regular readers and well, I pretty much write for you.  

I'll be posting sporadically over the next few weeks. I'll be mostly here in Orange County. I know sometime I have to go to Houston for a gathering. ( Not sure if Reid and April, AKA Yu Zhou are coming home. Her grandmother is very, very ill and she may be going back to the "Old Country" to see her while she can, and she needs to do so, and of course, Reid needs to go with her.) 

Again, let me reiterate, thank you for reading and always, if you have any information, I will take a hard look at it, and most of the time, write on it. Sometimes, I may not write on it until a later date. There's a reason behind why....Please understand my methods. 

As always, all information sent is anonymous.  For the blog to work, it must work that way. 

 

 

 

 

Well, I May Never Go Here Again......

 Listened to the Grateful Dead early and made a radical switch while writing this blog to Robert Earl Keen Jr. ( Man, I love " I'm Comin' Home.")

 No, not the Buna ISD......And I know, I am giving them a rest, partly, I get bored easily, and in spite of huge numbers of people reading, and people bitchin' about me( That actually helps readership, thank you for bitchin'.) unless, something big happens at the district, might not write on it for couple of more weeks. 

And no, not the economy. And I had people bitchin' at me about it to my messages on Facebook. Sorry, I took at class,well, right at 50 years ago as an undergrad 337 Economic History ( I almost switched my major from history to economics because of it.) and it comes back to haunt me from time to time. I even found my old text and did some economic equations and scared me so much I went and watched the World Cup draw to take my mind off what I came up with....Man, England got Croatia in their group. Hard team to beat. And my Scotland team......They got Brazil in their group. Not good. And finally as my underdog team, New Zealand they get Belgium and Egypt who has a quality winger who plays for Liverpool. 

Yes, Kerry D. Thomas follows soccer( football) pretty closely, especially the English Premiere and Scottish Premiere Leagues.  

We decided to have some fun yesterday and  write on what people are now " In to." Leave it to the British press to go there. You've got to remember back in the day, the old " Sun" newspaper prided itself of have a topless girl on Page 3 of the newspaper. It's often the "Wild West" in the media over there. 

Then, I had someone write about yesterday's blog on licking armpits.....Apparently I messed up, put it in their mind and they had to lick their significant other's pits. 

I taught both of them.... And I damn near threw up when I read the message. 

Yeah, people you know.....And in keeping with the tradition of the blog, I can't tell you.  ( And apparently, the SO is mad at me....)

Here is the bad part. Who read the blog else and tried it last night? And they'll never tell?

So, lesson learned. I got to be careful what I tell you people.  

 

Again, You May Want to Enjoy the Holidays

 Man, I was looking at the employment numbers....

1.1 million have lost their jobs in 2025. In America alone. ( I know in places like Germany, companies like Volkswagen have laid off 10s of thousands of people.)

This includes small businesses laying-off 120,000.  

If you are wanting lumber and have extra dough, you may want to buy now. Lumber demand is at an all time low. Prices and futures are way down. 

Sawmills are either slowing production, stopping extra shifts, or they are shuttering all together for now. 

Nationwide, new car sales are down 10-14%. 

Used car sales down 20-25%.

People are keeping their old beater and not getting new vehicles.  

The number of people looking for new or used cars on Google is way down.  

I was reading that many companies plan to lay-off people within the next month. Merry Christmas. ( Anytime a business talks about being a "family" do not believe them. I know in the school business they always are saying this is like a family.....Yeah, like I want to see these people at Christmas. Then again, except for immediate family, about 75% of my family I do not see for Christmas, I see my in-laws for the holidays more than family, but there, I am forced to go.....) 

Richard Cantillion , a French-Irish economist in the 1700s described the economy we are having today.. ( He was born in County Kerry, Ireland, if you ever have a chance to go to Ireland, screw Dublin, go to Cork, go to the Southwest and drive to the Northwest.  You can thank me later.)

The Cantillion Effect describes a what he calls a "K" shaped economy. 

The top 10-15% of the people are doing well, ie. the rich, they are selling, buying homes, cars etc., while 85-90% of the rest of the people are struggling.  The wages of the average person just is not keeping up with inflation. That 85-90% is falling farther down the line. 

Most Americans can't afford houses. Even with a 20% down, the interest payments alone people can't afford. ( This area always a little different. Recessions effect us late and are slow to leave after everyone else has recovered. Plus, the demand here is not like Austin or Houston or Seattle, etc.)

The working class, the 85-90% is falling down the line while the Asset Class is doing much better, stocks, invests are up and we will talk about why in another blog. 

The people with rental properties, the stock paying dividends, other business investments paying are the class able to make purchases right now.  

Also, look out for Gresham's Law coming into effect.....

We discussed it in economics. advisor to kings and queens of England in the 1500s when money had silver removed and the monarchy wondered why people were hoarding the old coins while spending the new one, Gresham described it as ....."Bad money drives out good"

This is what is happening to both metals and crypto.( Yes, crypto is down, but I've seen it down before, much worse than now....Hang on, don't panic....) people are hoarding the metals and the crypto. and real estate and are spending the American Dollar, the British Pound, the Euro....etc......The dollar, euro, pound are all fiat money. 

Fiat money has worth only because we say it is worth something of value.  And fiat's value is less and less with each passing day. 

So, where we going here Kerry, Kerry Don, Mr. Thomas, Govteach? 

From where I am sitting 2026 looks rough. The economics math, ain't mathing. And getting worse by the day. 

And this looks worldwide. Europe is in sad shape. The UK is bad off. China is having economic troubles.

As I wrote earlier, you may want to  enjoy this Christmas a little more than normal. I don't know what Christmas 2026 is going to look like. 

 

 

 

 

Y'all Nasty.....

 To quote the late comedian Bernie Mac.....

" Y'all some nasty-ass sumofabitches....." 

As many of you know, I read a little of everything, including at least 5 British newspapers online in the morning. Got to see what kind of lunacy the Brits are up to.... 

One of the main stories comes from one of the English tabloid papers, the Metro.  

The internet can track anything now, including what people's sexual fetishes are.  

Of course people are into feet, peeing on each other( peeing on people, again, y'all just nasty). 

It seems that maschalagnia is the latest, and number one fetish people are looking up on the internet and trying out on their partners....

What the cornbread feck is maschalagnia?

Licking, someone's arm pits.......And if it has B.O., the better. The "saltier, the better..."

Y'all just nasty.  

I'll pass......I got stuck in the middle on a United Airlines Boeing 767 between a group from Calcutta traveling from Munich, Germany to Newark just outside NYC a few years ago......I couldn't smell or even breathe for 2 weeks afterwards....

No, India isn't on Kerry and St. Debbie's travel plans in the future. 

Then again, neither was  The People's Republic of China, and we quite enjoyed China. 

We've seen recently Backpacker Ben and Bankrupt and Bald's Youtube videos from India...... 

We ain't going....

( I'd originally planned to write either one of two blogs, one of Buna ISD,  Don't get all hopped up, I am still working on it, it's not working out like I planned. Or one on economics, it may not come to fruition either..... Quick view into the blog process, sometimes blogs pretty much write themselves, others, well a lot of work goes into them.... )   

But arm pits? 

Nasty....Just nasty....