Monthly Archives: May 2017

Culture, Government

A Stupid Question

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Everyone here in the United States knows there is a continuing debate on admitting refugees into the country. One of President Trump’s campaign promises was to perform “extreme vetting” before allowing entry into our country. As expected, the liberal “rule from the bench” courts struck down his first attempts to determine just who is coming into this country.

The communist/socialists of the Feel-The Bern movement believe that we should take in any and all immigrants. The United Nations is critical of the United States and the United Kingdom for not taking in more refugees.  Hillybob campaigned on bringing in more refugees.

All right, here’s my stupid question. Why is it that the US and the UK are expected to “do their part” in handling a refugee crisis?

As of 2016 there are 13,210 Syrian refugees in the US.  The UK at the end of 2016 had let in  4,414 refugees.

By the size of their economies, China and Japan, both members of the United Nations, are right behind the US.  Why doesn’t the UN demand that China and Japan take in refugees?  Don’t forget China is one of the five PERMANENT members of the UN.

At the end of 2015 there was a TOTAL of NINE refugees from Syria living in China. That was a HUGE rise from the ONE refugee in 2014. Good job China!

Japan as of 2015 let in SIX Syrian refugees.  Yet another great job!  Why so few refugees in Japan?  Prime Minister Abe explained that “Japan needs to look after its own”.

Culture

Breakfast of Champions, NOT!

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Every Saturday my running group does a morning long run and then we all go out and have breakfast together. One morning I saw on the menu of a restaurant that we went to, an item listed as a popular dish, Avocado Toast. It was fairly expensive and the dish was to my surprise, just mashed and sliced avocado on a piece of toast. No seasonings, just avocado and toast. Well my running “friends” gave me smack for several breakfasts after that by asking if I wanted to order Avocado Toast again. As they say, “with friends like that…”

This cuisine happens to be very popular with the Millennial generation.  I’ve come to find out that this Avocado Toast thing is popular around the world with Millennials. It’s so popular in Australia that a millionaire wrote and op-ed piece that Millennials won’t be able to afford to buy a house if they waste their money on expensive coffee and, you guessed it, Avocado Toast. The author of the article was pointing out that the prices of avocados has spiked because it has become a “fashionable” food to eat, increasing the demand for the fruit.

Millennials can spend their money however they want, as far as I’m concerned. BUT…

The Millennial generation is a group that entrenched in the pseudo-science of global warming and they seem to protest anything that smells of environmental attack, such as mining coal, or creating a more business friendly environment, or pretty much any idea put forth by President Trump.

Now here’s where the IRONY is in all of this.

Avocados are primarily grown in Mexico. Now that the Millennial foodies have chosen avocados as their fashion food statement, Mexican growers have been DEFORESTING the land to plant, guess what, Avocado trees. One tree for another tree, how bad can that be?

Well it turns out that the best forest land to grow avocados in Mexico is the breeding ground of the Monarch Butterfly. The Monarch Butterfly will travel in some cases over 2000 miles to get to the breeding grounds!  So much of the forest where the Monarch Butterfly migrates to each year to reproduce, has been turned into avocado groves that scientists believe that the species may become extinct.

Good job Millennials! Your foodie fashion may WIPE OUT a SPECIES!  Show of hands Millennials, HOW MANY OF YOU CARE?

For my part, I now ask where the avocados that I buy were grown.  I buy California grown Avocados.  One good thing out of the PRK!

Culture, Government

The PRK Wants To Become Numero Uno

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The People’s Republik of Kalifornia leader, Senate President Pro-Tem Kevin de Leon, introduced legislation, SB-100, that would phase out fossil fuel generation of electricity in the state.  Almost half of all electricity in the state  is generated using natural gas.

Kev, buddy, the PRK has the sixth highest electricity rates in the nation. I see you want us to be number one! Let me translate in the Lingua Franca of the PRK since you have bragged that relatives of yours are illegal immigrants. Somos los NUMERO UNO!

The state would need to generate power with new solar and wind systems.  Um, maybe i’m a bit of a dunce, but the wind doesn’t always blow and there is this pesky event called night where solar doesn’t work all that well.  Kev says that we can use hydroelectric power to make up the gaps.  Well according to the Kalifornia Energy Commission website, hydro power only accounts for 6 percent of energy generation in the state.  SIX is a not equal to ONE HUNDRED last time I took math.  Hmmm, maybe we need to create more of those environmentally friendly dams.  Oh wait, we have droughts in the state and the tree huggers want to get rid of the existing dams.

Wind power, there’s a great idea.  Let’s see wind power kills untold thousands of birds every year.  President Obama gave wind producers a 30 year exemption to kill 4200 of our endangered national bird, the Bald Eagle EACH YEAR, as well as other protected and endangered species because there is no way to prevent bird strike kills by windmills.  Hey, Progre-sissies, a show of hands, how many of you know of this exemption?  It’s a felony to kill bald eagles and it has been since 1940.  The exemption was part of Prez O’s great green energy initiative.  Anyone want to guess what the progre-sissy reaction would be if President Trump suggested killing an endangered species to create green energy to “make America great again”?

What will ultimately happen is that the PRK will end up with the highest electricity rates in the nation as our buddy Kev wants  and we will buy electricity from other states connected to the grid to fill in the gaps.  If the bill becomes law, The PRK won’t be burning fossil fuels within the state borders, but we’ll end up buying electricity generated by fossil fuels from other states.  The out of state burning will include natural gas as well as coal.

Even though Kev’s plan accomplished near zero, we can feel green and righteous while paying higher electricity bills.

Oh and as a reminder to our most intellectual and oh so caring politicians, electricity is REQUIRED by both rich and poor, therefore this proposed policy is REGRESSIVE as higher electrical rates will punish the lower income earners the MOST.