WHAT THE HECK !

Today, our fearless leader unleashed an attack on American grocery stores, blaming them for “ripping people off”, and stating that “inflation is coming down, it’s now lower in America than any other major economy in the world.  The cost of eggs, milk, chicken, gas and so many essential items have come down.   But for all we’ve done to bring prices down, there are still too many corporations in America (grocers) ripping people off, price gouging, junk fees, greedflation.”

First of all, supermarkets in the U.S. operate on razor thin profit margins.   It’s hard to gouge off such a low base. Secondly, the cost of absolutely no product or service has come down this year.  In typical government speak, merely the rate of inflation has subsided.  It makes a world of difference to the consumer between prices coming down 3% versus prices now rising at a lesser rate than last year.  And finally, and most importantly, inflation is cumulative.   Yes, the current 3-4% annual  inflation rate is less than the rate of gain when measured a year ago, but Biden wants us to forget that this year’s 3-4% increses are on top of last year’s 8-10% rise in prices.  Indeed since this gang took over in Washington,  prices as measured by the CPI have risen nearly 25%on a represenative sampling of goods.

Biden and the elite in DC think that we are stupid, and maybe we as a nation are.  Just look who we put in charge !   WHAT THE HECK !

I’m quite ashamed of myself, having jumped for joy on Sunday as the Swedish womens’ soccer team sent our girls home early in penalty kicks.  It is the very first (and I hope last) time I have cheered for an opponent of an athlete representing our nation.   If the attitude of our womens’ national team over the past 8 years is truly representative of our country, then our country is in trouble.

Compare the two photos above.  They were taken at the USWNT’s first World Cup match against Vietnam 10 days ago.   Who are the grumpy girls, not willing to celebrate the flag they represent by singing our National Anthem, nor even crack a smile during its playing ?    And who are the girls dressed in red who have very little to celebrate at home in their oppressive, communist nation ?

How does this get fixed ?  First, hire an American coach who treasures the truly blessed nation in which he/she lives.  Secondly, make it clear that the soccer field, on an international TV stage, is not the place for social activism.  If you cannot at least smile and mouth the words, boot their butts off the team.   American soccer authorities have for too long allowed the leadership of a few activist womens’ stars to bully younger players into behavior that shames the nation.   People around the world see this !

Sometime, google a young lady named Jaelene Hinkle, whose budding soccer career was upended in 2019 for not conforming to the team leadership’s social activism.   That is not the American way.                                                WHAT THE HECK !

After the November, 2022 elections, I officially rejected the        commonwealth as my place of origin.   I cannot identify with any state whose residents have lost half their brains and  have elected John Fetterman to represent them in any capacity.   Possibly my       golden retriever can achieve public office in Pennsylvania in 2024.

Taking the idiocy another step, Proglibocrat Governor Josh Shapiro yesterday announced that he would end state funding for several dozen crisis pregnancy centers in the commonwealth.  Funding for these pro-life centers had been part of Pennsylvania budgets for many years.     The decision, supported of course by Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocacy groups, cited faith and womens’ health concerns in their opposition to state funding.  Hmmm, doesn’t pro-choice mean giving women all the choices available to them ?            WHAT THE HECK !

Let me get this straight.   An ex-President of the United States will be arrested next week for committing the heinous crime of paying a $130,000 settlement to  a porn star who alleged that the ex-President had sex with her 17 years ago, coupled with a federal allegation that the funds paid illegally originated from 2016 campaign funds.    His wife apparently has forgiven him. 

For the next piece of the puzzle, let’s go back to 1996, when another ex-President was sexually satisfied repeatedly in the White House by a 22 year old intern/subordinate.   This ex-President’s wife apparently also forgave him, but there were no further legal or societal charges or penalties.

Fast forward to present times, and the current President’s family allegedly has leveraged the President’s positions over the years to rake in millions of dollars from several foreign adversarial government entities, suggesting the possibility of serious national conflict of interest.  Again, if the allegations carry any substance, the wife apparently has forgiven “the big guy”, and no one is being charged or arrested or even seriously investigated.                                               WHAT THE HECK !

Bernedoodle, labradoodle, yorkipoo, sheepadoodle, schnoodle, aussienoodle, maltipoo, shi-poo, and the list goes on and on and on. The dog world needs to cease mating poodles with any beast with four legs.  I’m told that this is  all done  in the name of escaping the seasonal sheeding of the hair of many breeds.    Yet now one cannot walk the streets of America without running into some kinky haired version of a revered dog breed.  It just has to stop !   Yesterday I stumbled across what was described as a Bassedoodle, which made me almost lose my breakfast.   The owner was so proud of this intentional mutation of what probably was a beautiful, stately bassett hound mom or dad.   Stop the madness.   WHAT THE HECK !

The National Football League needs to end the matter of actually tackling players to end a play.  Too many people are getting hurt, and we cannot have that every Sunday on national television. This past weekend, two faulty  “roughing the passer” penalties were called during NFL games . Both significantly impacted the outcome of the  two games. The Atlanta Falcons’ Grady Jarrett drew the ire of an official when he flipped “no-touch” Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the ground following his tackle.   And portly DL Chris Jones of the Kansas City Chiefs actually had the audacity to land on Raiders’ QB Derek Carr with his full weight, again drawing a red flag from an official for unnecessary roughness.
Football is a dangerous sport, even more so at the professional level. That violence and rough stuff is part of the reason tens of millions of Americans watch the NFL   No one wants injuries, but we sure want to see some collisions.   If the NFL starts treating its players, particularly QBs, like Peter Pan, I for one would rather watch some youth flag football on local fields.      WHAT THE HECK !

I really dislike the term “the good old days”, as it implies the thinking of a person solely living in the past and not pursuing new adventures. Having stated my disdain upfront, in the good old days, political candidates encompassed a wide spectrum of thought and belief , whether Republican or Democrat.  Although we voters generally knew from which side of the political spectrum a candidate leaned, we could count on his/her intellectual honesty and character to guide their behavior (and votes) when in office.   Votes on congressional and Senate bills more often than not reflected some degree of party independence.  Rarely did we see straight party line votes.

But quoth the raven, nevermore !  Partisanship today runs at a fever pitch, and seldom do we see a House or Senate member stray too far from the party line, out of fear of losing coveted committee positions, or heaven forbid, a party-led primary challenge during his/her next election cycle.

I raise this chronological distinction as the result of a question I have for my Pennsylvania friends.   What possible reason, even for a Proglibocrat,  would you have to send John Fetterman to the U.S. Senate ?   Here’s a man who lived in Mommy’s house until age 49, has never had a real job, was given his house for a $1 payment to a sibling.   Oh, let’s not forget that, sadly, he suffered a stroke in May that has severely hindered  his cognitive abilities.   How silly of me to ask the question, because the answer is quite simple; the actual candidates do not matter any more.  My golden retriever could win in Pennsylvania if running as a Proglibocrat,  because his supporters know that he will vote 100% in a way he is told by the party leadership.   So why do candidates  waste time and resources debating, giving speeches, raising money, producing TV ads ?   Beats me !     The people running don’t matter    WHAT THE HECK !

It is difficult to wade through the assorted court and agency challenges to President Biden’s executive order to rescind somewhere between $600 billion and $1 trillion of student debt owed by households with annual incomes not in excess  of $250,000.    Each borrower can have up to $20,000 of student debt cancelled.   And if you’re lucky enough to be an employee of federal,state,tribal (?) or local governments, you could be eligible to have all your debt forgiven.

Beyond the obvious pandering for youthful votes in next month’s elections, I have three bones to pick with this blatantly bad allocation of taxpayer funds.    First, is it wise to add another trillion dollars to our national debt which now exceeds $31 trillion ?  Why not say the Proglibocrats , we’ll be dead before these IOUs come back to haunt our kids.   Secondly, under the guise that these poor borrowers were somehow misled or cajoled into borrowing big bucks to pay for their degrees in 18th century Asian pottery or in systemic racism, for which there are no obvious avenues for employment that might support repayment of that debt (sorry for the long sentence), why then are we as a society continuing to make these stupid loans.  The best analogy would be to forgive a bunch of mortgage debt while continuing to lend to people with no jobs.

Lastly, and most importantly, I was blessed with the economic ability to squirm through higher education while incurring zero debt, and stay gainfully employed for many years.  Many in our society are not so fortunate, either for economic reasons or because academically, they could not cut it.    This very large group works very diligently to find careers that support their families without dependence on the largesse of the federal government.   And therein lies the rub. These folks, who the politicains like to call the middle class, or the working class, are being forced to pay, through their tax dollars, for the stupidity of students and their parents who insisted on that B.S. from Southeastern Birdsboro Tech University.   Another group, including my lovely bride, has  faithfully paid off, or is in the process of faithfully paying off the student debt they incurred in past years.  They are also pretty ticked off, and  with good reason.     Robin Hood has returned in the form of Joe Biden, but he misread the book’s intentions.    WHAT THE HECK !

Under the Proglibocrats’ new pork spending bill, laughingly named the Inflation Reduction Act, we will be hiring 80,000 new IRS agents to track down the citizenry.   When I compare that to the total number of border agents at our southern border (20,000), it makes me want to scream, or cry, or laugh !      WHAT THE HECK !