The Older I Get The More I Don't Understand People-

 So, I had to go to orange this morning. Just had to go. Didn't want to, but I had to for odds and ends. 

I ran into more unhappy people working than I have in a long time. Other than the lady at the Dry Cleaners, everyone working I dealt with was just surly. Just did not appreciate they had a job. I am sure the people out of a job would love to trade places with them. 

The happiest person as I said, was the person of South Asia roots. Thrilled to get my business. All the " White" folks I dealt with were just pissed off. Pissed off so badly they were smart-asses. 

I was a smart-ass back. 

Now, when I taught school, I was a smart-ass, and will freely admit it, but teaching high school seniors, you had to be a smart-ass to survive. Just the nature of the job........That said, I was nice as hell when I spoke to your parents. It's called " Playing Politics" and I can "Play it" with the best of them. 

I know your job sucks. Every job does. Hell, I loved my job and there were times it sucked to high-heaven. 

Second-

I make it no secret I carry a gun. 

As I I have said, "I am too old to take an ass whipping, thus, I conceal carry." 

And I understand you can now "Open Carry" if you have a CHL. 

But, I won't. You'll be the first one targeted with an open carry weapon. 

But it seems everyone I see open carry isn't wearing a mask. 

How in the hell does that make any damn sense? 

You are afraid of an outlaw, but not afraid of a virus? I am thinking most of you who carry that way think it is a hoax. 

Keep thinking that way when you're on a ventilator at St. E.  

It means to most of us, you only care about yourself.

Wearing a fucking mask for the rest of us.

How? Why? I Gots Questions-

 I know that this commercial has been on TV, well, since the first of the year, but the last couple of days, I have seen it more than I have in total.

It is that hearing-aide ad in which the couple are standing/sitting at the breakfast bar that separates the kitchen from the living room. 

In the ad are the girl, her husband. ( They are not boyfriend/girlfriend as someone has said in one review. They are married.  Both are wearing wedding rings.) And also in the scene are the girl's Mother and Father. 

You have seen the ad by now, the girl asks her husband if he " Brought the condoms." And the boy can't understand what she is asking, and she repeats it until her dad wearing the advertiser's hearing-aides tell the boy, " She's asking if you brought the condoms Charlie."  To the embarrassment of the girl, the boy replies " Yeah, I brought them." 

I know there have been what people reviewing and commenting on " Why are married folks using condoms? When other forms of birth control are available?" Well, look, some folks can't use other birth control, health, whatever, and in truth, sometimes they are cheaper than other devices or pills. 

My concern is, why are you asking that question with your parents in the same room? 

I don't think I've had relations next door to either set of parents in my life, too much of a risk of " Sex noises."  Thus the end of the end of the commercial in which when the couple retires to the bedroom, the Father removes the hearing-aides from his ears. ( Heck, haven't had 'relations' in my parents or in-law's house, ever. Call me a prude if you want...)

You know your parents know you are having sex. You're married. But throwing it in their face, especially the Father's whose job psychologically is often to protect his little girl, I don't know. While I laughed at the commercial, I had more philosophical questions about ad than answers....

Charlie Brown a Member of the KKK?

 So, no one is happy. 

No one.

We're just looking for stuff to bitch about.

In Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving Special, which was first shown on CBS back in 1973. ( By the way, the Thanksgiving Special was not part of my childhood. It premiered when I was a Junior in High School. Oh I remember it, but it is not as "classic" as the Christmas Special. I barely remember watching it in high school and I think I have seen the Thanksgiving Special one other time before I saw it the other night on PBS.)

The unhappiness comes from Franklin, the Black kid, sitting at the Thanksgiving table, by himself, across from everyone else. 

Heck, Franklin had the best seat in the house. He can speak to everyone, plus, he has plenty of room. It would be the seat I would want. 

And if you notice, Charlie Brown is sitting by himself in the station wagon going to grandma's,( A station wagon, who has one now? Perhaps we might come closest with Deb's Subaru Outback? But it's more of a crossover.) and Peppermint Patty, Charlie Brown's love interest sits with Franklin. ( Don't tell me Peppermint Patty is a lesbian. She's bit of a tomboy sure, but in high school she'd crawl into the backseat down a lonely parking spot with Charlie Brown in a heartbeat....and you know plenty of tomboys who would crawl in a backseat with a boy they like in a heartbeat...I figure Charlie Brown winds up married to Patty and 20 years later and 4 kids he asks, " What the hell happened?")

But all upset about Franklin? Come on, we're just looking for shit to bitch about.

A " Do Over???"

 So, there has been some talk in the last couple of hours about a " Do-Over" for the Presidential Election. 

This has been suggested, demanded, whatever by actor Randy Quaid. ( Quaid was Cousin Eddie in National Lampoon's Vacation movies, starring Chevy Chase.)

The " Do-Over" was suggested in a tweet by Quaid,  in a rambling makes no sense for the most part video on Quaid's account.

Quaid of course was arrested for paying for a hotel stay with a fraudulent credit card and when asked to pay the $81,000 he owned he "went on the lam." 

He was later arrested for staying in a house he once owned  and to avoid the arrest, fleeing to Canada when warrants for his arrest were put out for he and his wife.

Quaid was fired from his last job for hitting and slapping other members of the play he was doing because he didn't like what they were doing. 

Then, in a move I really question " What are you thinking?" The President of the U.S. re-tweets Quaid's tweets on the Re-vote. 

Sorry, but the last person I would quote is Randy Quaid. 

There's not going to be a " Do-Over" no "Re-vote." 

That is not how a democracy works.....You don't like the results of this election, you try and change the results your way in the next election. 

If you somehow win in a "Re-Vote" how do you keep the other side from calling a second " Re-Vote." It can cause a vicious cycle. 

Sorry, there has been not been massive "cheating." If there had been, proof would have been shown by now. There hasn't been. There is no conspiracy concerning the election. Just saying " You think there was" doesn't mean there was. You have to show some sort of evidence. Even Rush Limbaugh has said, " There are no bombshells proving there is cheating." 

These complaints that the cities voted for Biden and " that isn't fair" sounds downright racist. You want Black people to vote Republican? Actively recruit in Black communities.  Heck, Latino, Asian communities. I know some of you will deny this, but deep down you hate/ are afraid of Blacks, Mexicans, Chinese, and you think America needs to be a White Christian( Protestant, non-Catholic) nation. Well, it isn't. And Whites are quickly becoming the minority. ( In Texas, for every Anglo baby born, 7 Latino babies are born)

Pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and try again in 2( Congressional)-4( Presidential) years. The country will survive. I know you don't think it will, but we've had worse happen. Much worse.

 

Again, This Blog is for One Reader-

 And if you are female, it isn't for you.

First, let me say, if you call me, please don't call at 5AM. I've been up since 4AM....Yes, I am up, but not one else in the house is. 

I get some strange calls. Really strange, and while I try and help you, well, sometimes, stuff if just out of "My League." 

Had a call a couple of weeks ago from someone no longer in this area, and not involved in social media who asked me to perform their wedding. Sort of kids of people I know. 

The guy in his 20s, was all gung-ho to marry this girl he's been dating until she confessed her " Body Count." 

It seems it is close to 100. Not only boys, but also girls. And she confessed she had been with some females since they were " exclusively dating." She didn't see girls as " cheating."

He claims his body count is countable on one hand. Including the present girl. 

I do not know. I am of another generation. I can count my " Body Count" on one finger, and can my wife. And as I have said, as goofy as we were when we first got married, well, it often lead to us breaking down in laughter. As the late Paul Hornung said, you got to " Practice, Practice, Practice" 

I had no answer for the boy other than you need to find someone else. You're going to have heartbreak down the line, no matter how much you love this girl. 

It wasn't what he wanted to hear. He wanted to Zoom, Skype, whatever and me do "Pastoral Counseling" with them. ( Yes, I've taken the course)...I really do not think I can help and offered to find serious counselor. He didn't want it. This is a disaster waiting to happen...And I told him so.

-And here is the part for the " One Reader" and I assume they will read it. 

Your wife loves you. 

She'll do anything for you. 

She is " Lonely."

You need to get off that damn internet looking at nekkid people doing whatever. 

She is will to do that nasty ass stuff they are doing online. Apparently, she's offered, but you'd rather watch some girl who doesn't know you are alive do it. 

When you were in high school you would have killed to have a girl that would have sex with you just for asking. Well, you got one, and you are not taking advantage of it. 

What the "Cornbread Fuck" is wrong with you?

Texas, It's Time to Ignore the Baptists, Pentecostals, All those Other Denominations that Fall into This Category.

In January of 2021, the Texas State Legislature will meet in it's 140 day biennial session. 

Already, there are a number of members of the Texas House, the Texas Senate who have introduced Bills to legalize marijuana in this state. 

It is time. 

Legalize it and tax it. 

Due to the Covid 19 situation, the state is going to be short funds for the coming session. Legalizing pot and taxing it will add $1.1 billion dollars to the states coffers. And this is the year to do it. 

I know some of you religious people's head will explode at the idea of people being able to smoke pot legally. You got to keep telling people other than yourself what to do. 

Sorry, but I remember the start of the so called " War on Drugs" by Nixon. That was 50 years ago. The war is lost. 

If you're not going to legalize it outright, make medical marijuana legal. The writer of this blog would go to his doctor the first day of medical legalization and get a prescription. 

For 63 years of my life I heard Baptist ministers preach again "the drink" but in those sermons they conveniently ignored Jesus' first miracle. The water into wine, and the fact that even Paul drank wine " For his stomach's sake." 

Tired of pick and chose theology. Preach on Micah 3 every quarter to get that tithe up. Never mind we're under a "New Covenant" and  say bacon, shrimp, catfish, wearing mixed linens, living in the house with your wife during her cycle is "Now" okay....Pick and Chose Theology.... ( Need to write on what Micah 3 really says)

It is time Texas. It is time....

Stop it, Just Stop it Now! Who You Think We Are? The Rockefellers?

 I was seriously pondering yesterday watching the ballgame which of America's business will not make it through the holidays. 

I keep thinking Sears is done every month. Heck, I can't remember the last time I've gone into a Sears. 

I know JC Penny has had a buyer in the last few months with money, but I wonder if even that will be enough?

Then I see that truck maker, GMC has brought back this advertisement for the holiday. 

A man buys his wife and he, his and her vehicles. Of course he thinking she would want the SUV, instead she "hugs" the pick-up he bought for himself. 

Seriously, who amongst us can afford to buy 2 vehicles at once?  Taking on 2 notes at once, and I am sure there are wealthy people who can, but most really rich folks I know drive beat to crap old vehicles. It is how they got rich. ( I am like Delmar in O'Brother Where Art Thou? " You ain't no kind a man, if you ain't got land."  Look how many really rich people are in real estate-)

Then again, I would not dare buy my wife a car....Wrong type, wrong accessories, wrong color, and to be honest she likes to wheel and deal. 

Would I like a new car for Christmas? In truth, not really. If we go anyplace far away we go in Deb's Subaru. Or if I am driving Grandma, her 4Runner. I looked and I have not put 1000 miles on my Honda in 5 months.( AKA " The Toaster") I keep thinking if I keep it long enough it'll become a "classic." I've not left Orange County but 2 times in that time period in my vehicle, both times to a wedding in Buna. 

Then again, if one of you bought me one of those new Ford Broncos or new Land Rover Defender, I'd kiss you "flat on the mouth" ( Always got this thing about boxy vehicles.)

I don't know, I just can't get all excited about the holidays this year.....