Not he most original thought I’ve presented, but it bears a reminder just how moronic the purveyors of politics, also called staffers or hacks, really are.    Following Jailbird Hillary’s recent bout with dehydration/ exhaustion/loss of balance, her staffers finally settled on a mild case of pneumonia that brought the Jailbird nearly to her knees following the 9/11 memorial service in NYC a few weeks ago.   Funny how someone with pneumonia feels free to mingle with children and the elderly on the campaign trail.   The following week, her proglibocrat staffers thought it cute to serenade her every public appearance with the sound of James Brown’s 1969 hit, I Feel Good.   Odd choice since the Godfather of Soul died of pneumonia in 1996.               WHAT THE HECK !

Taking a break from the high octane world of politics, I turn today to the world of sports, specifically college football.   Today, as you may or may not know, is the opening weekend for football at bucolic campuses across the fruited plain.  But I prefer to honor this annual event as National Drubbing Day.  This is the day finely-honed athletes from Towson U., Florida A&M, Utah Tech, and Southwestern Maine State get to fly first class, and stay at first rate hotels in Gainesville, Austin, Columbus, South Bend and Athens.   Their purpose, to serve as opening day football fodder for the major collegiate football factories of our time.   Scores such as 73-3 and 65-2 are not uncommon.   It’s an ugly but necessary part of the business of college athletics.

I wish that I could sit in the back corner of the locker room just before kickoff to hear the coach’s pre-game pep talk.   It might go something like this :  “Guys, we’ve had a great and productive few weeks of pre-season practice, and I think we’re as ready and healthy as we can be going into our season.  With some good bounces and few injuries, we might even have what it takes to compete for our conference title, and take home the golden turkey bowl back to our trophy cabinet.   But not today, guys.  Today you are here for a higher purpose.  Our goals, in exchange for the $850,000 our hosts are paying our humble school, are to keep them below 70 points, keep the clock moving, and get the hell  out of here with as few broken bones as possible.  Let’s skip the showers by the way, after the game.  As you are being pummeled into the turf by the elite athletes on our opponents’ squad today, just remember how grateful our school’s soccer, volleyball, softball and crew players are that you were able to bring home the big payday to fund their sports.  For as you know, while our football stadium is always full with paid fans,  no paid supporters venture near the events of those other sports.   Oops, I forgot, the scholarship cheerleaders also owe you a debt of gratitude for the physical mauling you will endure today.  So guys, just suck it up, take it like a man, and run to the team busses as soon as the final whistle sounds.                                                            WHAT THE HECK !

Colin Kaepernick is the young wealthy (6 years – $128 million)  quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers who last week prior to a preseason game decided to sit down during the playing of the National Anthem, saying, ” I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.”    Hmmmmm.   Guess he overlooked the fact that his bi-racial parents were unwilling to raise him, giving him up for adoption to a supportive white family.  Oops, and did I mention that he received a free college education in exchange for playing football ?

Well, Colin certainly does have first amendment rights, but aren’t there more constructive ways for an individual in the public eye to express opinions, or better yet, do something about the injustice he lazily comments on while he sits on his fanny ?   In Bill O’Reilly’s lingo, Colin clearly comes down as a pinhead and not a patriot.           WHAT THE HECK !

“George Bush doesn’t care about black people” was Kayne West’s unfiltered utterance following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.    Hmmmm, with our current emperor on uninterrupted vacation on Martha’s Vineyard while stormwaters envelop large swaths of land in south central Louisiana, just who really cares about whom.     And why doesn’t the press care ?                 WHAT THE HECK !

The ABC Network (All ‘Bout Clinton) fell over themselves today in adoration of the mass media’s anointed one.  Following Hillary’s shameless piggybacking onto this week’s USA Olympic successes, suggesting at a Detroit rally on Thursday, “if Team USA was as fearful as Trump, Michael Phelps and Simone Biles would be cowering in the locker room “,  ABC’s World News Tonight could not resist the temptation to pile on, touting Hillary’s “Olympic strategy” while displaying a “going for gold” visual behind the anchor.   Thank goodness for Fox News, where at least an attempt is made (not always successful) to remain even-handed in coverage.                                WHAT THE HECK !

This past week, with absolutely nothing for their newshounds to do during the long hot Summer months, the Associated Press decided to unleash the powerful forces of the American media on dental floss.    Yes I said dental floss !    Contending that twenty five years of medical study have shown no correlation between regular flossing and declines in decay, gum disease and plaque removal, these bold crusaders for the American public again stand up to protect us from ourselves.    I say to these energetic American patriots, “GO FLOSS YOUR TEETH TONIGHT AND NOTICE ALL THE GROSS PIECES OF LEFTOVER AND UNCHEWED FOOD THAT ARE DISLODGED “.     WHAT THE HECK   !  

When I was a kid, there were three video news outlets, and they all spouted pretty much the same old stuff, each packaged a bit differently and delivered by well-respected and overpaid talking heads.    There may have been an agenda, but I was probably too young and ignorant to notice.    But today, all we have is one-sided touts and totally blatant political agendas.  Fox comes the closest to “fair and balanced”, but I’m not so naïve to ignore that network’s tilt rightward.

Today at the gym I was given a startling one hour eye-opening reminder of the powerful forces aligned behind the ruling Proglibocrat movement that is destroying America.    I forced myself to watch 60 solid minutes of MSNBC, hoping to get a glimpse of the day’s leading news stories.  What I saw was a 60 minute, uninterrupted infomercial for Hillary Clinton and her evil Proglibocrat legislator consorts.   With nary a break, headlines scrolled across the bottom of the screen, highlighting in bold letters the “stories” the yet-to-shave male commentator/salesmen were touting.    Examples included things like “GOP Lawmakers Backing off Trump Bandwagon”, and “Trump Holds Maine Rally Amidst Campaign Turmoil”, and “Allegations Swirl Around Melania”, and “Hillary’s Work with Children Feted at PA event”, and “Clinton Offers Massacre Tribute and Sympathy’, and “Will Trump Fall on Campaign Sword”.

Now I do not wish to tout the Republican candidate here (or maybe ever), but my goodness, what’s happened to the press ?  If an innocent person just picked up information from CNN or MSNBC or the HuffingPuffing Post (on-line) or New York Times (print), what a lopsided and contorted view of the world of politics they would be indoctrinated to.    WHAT THE HECK !

During last week’s Democratic National Convention, two images stood out for me.  Bill Clinton’s speech underscored his image of his wife as a “change-maker”.   This was preceded by the gooey hug with President Obama the night before, where she clung to the status quo like flies on peanut butter.   You cannot have it both ways, embracing how wonderful the country is today under Proglibocrat leadership while touting yourself as the agent of change within a progressive agenda.   You cannot embrace Bernie Sander’s version of change and progress while raking in dollars from investment banks and hedge funds.  You cannot tout a highly flawed public service record while degrading your opponent’s lack of experience.  And please please do not shove another version of shovel-ready government -created infrastructure jobs on the American public, while at the same time pummeling your opponent’s business record.  For all his own flaws, your opponent has generated thousands of private sector jobs.   Just who are you, Hillary ?  WHAT THE HECK !

Just heard (fill in your own adjective) Hillary drone on about the minimum wage in a pre-primary speech in California.  To the glee of all the uneducated attendees, many of whom will lose their jobs under her proposed $15 an hour “living wage”, this political football just keeps getting passed up and down the field

On May 24, 1937, the FDR Congress enacted the Fair Labor Standards Act, which among other workplace regulations, mandated a 25 cent an hour minimum wage.   It has been used as a political wedge among the American people ever since.   Creatively, the Proglibocrats now claim that the minimum wage should be a “living wage”, one that could support a family of four.   Even a seriously deluded Franklin Roosevelt would scoff at such a suggestion.  Yet every election season, the two parties argue the same old argument  —  higher minimum wage versus loss of jobs.   You have be a village idiot not to notice the automation inroads being made in advance of the leftist view by large minimum wage employers like McDonalds and WalMart.  They see the writing on the wall.   Of course there is job loss when the minimum wage is hiked dramatically.

Frankly, I’m bored hearing about it.   Could the politicos please enact my simple solution.  Give the minimum wage of today a dollar bump, because it hasn’t been raised for a few years, then index the wage to some measure of inflation.   Thus, the minimum wage will forever buy a fixed amount of goods, and we won’t have to hear the politicians pontificate about the obvious any more.                               WHAT THE HECK !

Well, it’s time to break out and again watch my niece’s favorite movie, Idiocracy, the story of a world broken down by lack of education, dependence on government, lack of common sense. Today, the well-regarded Rasmussen poll found that 71% of Proglibocrats would still favor a Hillary run for POTUS even if she were indicted for any of a number of acts (emails, Benghazi, Clinton Foundation).    WHAT THE HECK !