Tag: white elephant

Cooling Off, Kansas City Style

My take is that this is an example of a stellar citizen because he was trying to stay out of the already overcrowded Emergency Department.

He was doing meth and got a little carried away. A meth overdose will cause hyperthermia, among other things. He was just hot! He wanted to cool off. What better way to cool off than to ride around at 50+ mph naked on a 4 wheeler in Kansas City in February with an ambient temperature of 50’F? With wind chill, that’s got to be about 25-26 degrees (NOAA wind chill chart). That should cool him off.

Naked man on ATV leads police on wrong-way, highway chase in Kansas City
www.kansascity.com

A naked man on an ATV was arrested Sunday after an hour-long police chase with police through the Kansas City Northland.

Your grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave

Weary

Financially raped

March/2018

If you haven’t noticed, Equifax is in the news, again.

Equifax was hacked in September, 2017. At least that is what they admitted. Hackers got names, addresses, SS #s, account numbers and passwords of about 147 million people. Most recently, they were hacked again where names, and partial drivers license numbers were lost to the hackers. Equifax defends itself by saying that only part of the drivers license and no state of origin was obtained. That’s reassuring.

Equifax is one of 3 credit monitoring bureaus (Experian, TransUnion and Equifax) in the US. If you have any kind of credit, credit card, mortgage, car loan, Penney’s, Macy’s, school loans or any type of credit, you deal with a credit monitoring agency. By law. With or without your consent. You have no say as to what is recorded about you in their data. And it is all set up to protect you (well, really the creditor).

It boils down to the fox watching the hen house.

Equifax’s lax security is responsible for providing hackers and the “dark web” with the private, secret financial information of almost every adult in the US.

Sure, about half the population lives off grid (speaking of the financial grid). Those that are too young, too feeble, or too risky to obtain credit and have to live on a cash basis. Basically 100-150 million. The other 150 million lost their financial virginity, thanks to Equifax.

And, Equifax is predicted to make millions on the deal.

Wanna know what your elected representatives are doing in Washington? See above.

Your grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave.

Weary

Why We Should Ban All Guns

February, 2018

Another school shooting convinces me that the anti-gun hysteria may have some basis.

We should ban guns so that the FBI can continue to not do their job and keep their job.

The FBI was informed and “investigated” Cruz before the shooting.

We should ban guns so that Law Enforcement can continue to not do their job and not loose their jobs.

Local law enforcement was called to Cruz’ home 39 times over 7 years before the shooting.

We should ban guns so that Deputy Sheriffs do not have to get in harms way to stop a maniac shooter.

So far, 3 deputy sheriffs did not enter the school to attempt to stop the shooting as it was happening. One has resigned over this.

We need to ban guns so that our perverted can use other methods of killing, like knives, clubs, bombs and other creative methods.

Jeffrey Yao stabbed a woman in a library multiple times in Massachusetts.

We need to ban guns so that stupid, liberal, helicopter parents can have mean, immoral, evil children without guilt.

Too many examples to list.

We need to ban guns so that violent crime will be free to escalate.

Several studies have shown that violent crime is inversely proportional to the availability of guns. That means that more guns means less violent crime.

We need to ban guns so that tyranny can prosper.

Hitler in Nazi Germany and Stalin in Soviet Russia.

Your grumpy Uncle/grumpy, weird and compulsive Brother Dave, just thinking.

Weary

Budget and Taxes

February, 2018

I was listening to NPR on the way to work today.  NPR, you may think means National Public Radio, but it doesn’t.  It means National Platform for Ridiculousness.

I listen because I want to know what the enemy is doing.

So, it was about all these liberals complaining about the excessively high budget and taxes Congress and Trump were passing.  I know, I know.  Who’d of thought liberals would complain about high taxes and a big budget, but they were.  They interviewed this “expert” about what the American people thought about such abuses.  He said something to the effect,

“When our country was beginning there was a Boston Tea Party to protest the excessive taxes coming out of Washington.”

No pause, that might have indicated that he realized that Washington (or America for that matter) didn’t exist at that time or that the beef was with the King of England.

Why do physicians get sued even when they did the right thing correctly, and idiots like this are allowed to spew stupid gibberish like this?

Your grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave.  All childish invectives used in this post are appropriate and true.

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/09/584640265/bipartisan-budget-agreement-spends-too-much-money-for-most-conservative-republic

Weary

Stoned and Stupid

January, 2018

Do you know why California legalized recreational use of marijuana?  No, stop.  Don’t answer that question.  At this point it is a rhetorical question.

Did you know that California is one of the highest state income tax states in the US.  Yeah well, they just instituted a new Gift Tax Relief Program.  Here is how it works.  For every dollar you earn, California normally takes about 13.3 cents.  But under the new Gift Tax Relief Program, if you give that dollar to the state, California will not tax that dollar. What a deal!

The 2018 California state tax rate table shows that for a single head of household earning $0, the effective tax rate is 1%.  (Yup, California is right up there with the Common Core Math Method that is driving everyone crazy with it’s stupidity.)  And the top California state tax rate is supposedly 13.3%.

Oh yeah, and something else you probably didn’t know. The spokesman for the new Gift Tax Relief Program mentioned above commented that what is good for California is good for the US, because California is the driving force for the US economy.

Now we can revisit the original question. Do you know why California legalized recreational use of marijuana? Well yes, the sanctioned sales of all that weed does generate more tax dollars, but…

To enforce this madness, California needs to keep it’s population stoned and stupid.

Just your grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave’s opinion.