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Okay I’m really over this!

California retailers are responding to the insanity of legal thieving ($900).

Stealing is okay according to the morons in California’s legislature, as long as you don’t steal too much. (They should heed their own advice!)

California retailers are locking the damn doors, even though they’re open. So someone like me. You know, a decent law abiding person for whom stealing is the furthest thing from their mind, can’t just shop.

No, I have to ask permission to walk into some stores. I have to be buzzed in, or I have to be escorted while I’m in the store.

People don’t understand that when I’m shopping I’m moving. I’m not lingering over something unless it catches my eye. My mode of shopping annoys retailers who’ve had to open locked doors and give the super secret hand shake.

I’ll zip through a store in 5 minutes or less, if I don’t see something I like, I’m gone!

If we’ve gotten to the point that lawlessness is the rule, not the exception, we’ve got serious problems. Problems that might only be solved by gunfire.

Unfortunately if retailers are resorting to these tactics in my area (60 miles away from Los Angeles, 500 miles from Oakland and San Francisco, 100 miles north of San Diego), then in California at least, crime has apparently become the norm.

I remember being told in school that one major difference between America and Russia was that, in Russia there were lots of criminals and high crime. In America we had law and order, we could safely walk the streets.

40 some odd years later and i find myself asking is that still true?

I found myself enjoying that the Russians had found four of the assholes who shot up a music hall within 2 days. They didn’t give a shit about those pieces of filth. The Russians went ‘old school ‘to get information out of the criminals. One dude had his private parts wired up to some electrical device. Another had an eyeball fall out, (oops), a Third had an ear removed, the fourth was beat senseless and appeared for his arraignment unconscious.

Apparently, these criminals started singing like birds. So the Russians knew who to hunt down next.

The Russian people walk the streets of Moscow tonight safe. They get onto and off of subway trains that are clean. They walk through stations that are brightly lit, clean and beautiful.

We used to be the same.

If you’ve ever been to San Francisco, you may have seen BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Stations. There was a time 30 years or so ago when me going to the Bay Area meant riding BART. I loved it. The stations were all clean, the trains were clean, it was safe and I think many, if not all of the stations were unique works of art. it was a pleasure to use the system, and I looked forward to my visits.

San Francisco was a beautiful jewel of a city. It was safe. It was a walking town, and if you got tired there were always the Streetcars, MUNI busses, or BART. On a sunny day, walking the streets of the city was a joy. The color and vibrancy, the oddball businesses tucked into old buildings made every block a new discovery.

I wanted to live in San Francisco. I wanted to get rid of my car, use mass transit, live in a quirky old building, work in the city, and watch the sun set over the bay every night. Of every place I’d been, San Francisco was the first and only city I’ve ever fallen in love with.

The last time I was there was about 10 years ago. I felt unsafe from the moment I walked into the BART station from the airport. At every station, there were people who were obviously ill. Either from drug addiction or psychological impairment, they appeared to be homeless, living in the stations. It was necessary to run a gauntlet of mentally ill or “high” people just to get to a train.

The trains formerly, sparkling clean and comfortable, were filthy as were the stations. When the train I was riding entered the tunnel going under San Francisco Bay, I hoped that at least the tunnel maintenance had been done properly. That had never been a concern for me before.

That was the last time I was in San Francisco. Now in the post COVID era I have no desire to go back since it’s gotten so much worse. It’s heart breaking what has happened to what was a model of efficient transportation, and a spectacularly beautiful city itself.

Permissiveness, has destroyed or is destroying California. It has been eroding all aspects of the state for a very long time.

I’d really like to see police allowed to do whatever it takes to put a stop to crime. If that means nightsticks liberally applied, or saving the taxpayers money by putting down criminals with a bullet I’m good with it.

I suppose I’m saying, I no longer see criminals as humans. They rip through stores like locusts and I’m all for them being exterminated like locusts.

Probably a little harsh… I’m just really tired of accommodating criminal behavior.

Update: 3/29/2024

Well, I’m going to be looking for a new barber. The owner of the shop has decided that they need to charge 1/2 upfront for an appointment.

This was slightly annoying when I booked my every 4 week appointment. Then I thought about it.

My Barber said the upfront charge was because of excessive cancellations, without the individuals having the courtesy to call.

Okay, but… I’ve never missed an appointment, and the 1 time in a year that I needed to reschedule. I called to reschedule 2.5 weeks ahead of the appointment. In contrast, due to health issues my barber has rescheduled on me 2 or 3 times.

I really like my barber, but I really don’t like being punished for the “crimes” of other people. I understand that the shop has a problem with the appearance of preferential treatment so they have to treat everyone equally.

I on the other hand, can express my displeasure with this new policy by not making appointments in the future. This will likely mean I will take my trade elsewhere. Being able to walk in for a haircut isn’t something that works because as the only barber shop in town they’re pretty busy.

OR maybe they were busy. I honestly wonder what this new policy is going to do to the business.

I can say, they’re pricy. I’ve stuck with them for two reasons. 1) I like my barber. 2) I like to support local businesses.

I’ll not be making another appointment. Especially since perhaps Sports Clips will work out better for me. I can combine a less expensive hair cut with shopping for groceries, and puppy supplies.

This is just another example of how the breakdown of civil behavior, courtesy and professionalism, negatively affects us all.

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Good Golly, It’s almost April!

I’m losing time. It’s time for me to bite the bullet and get a massage. I don’t want to spend the money but having my lower back in spasm every other day is just not cutting it.

It’s not new damage it’s just spasms to the point of inflexibility. It’s also been taking the wind out of my sails when it comes to doing anything. I swear sometimes lifting a coffee cup is painful.

The last couple massage folks were nice, but I failed to make a connection with them. I’m not sure if that was because of them or me. Meaning I never let my guard down with them. The other issue is that I have to drive to LA or to Palm Springs and then drive back. Either option is a pain in the ass due to traffic and the general stupidity associated with traffic.

I’m going to have to do something soon. I’m tried of being in pain.

Speaking of pain…

I believe that I’ve finally collected up all the necessary tax documentation for the accountant. I’m not looking forward to dealing with the tax crap. I know it’s gotta be done, lest the unbridled raw power of the State and Federal governments be unleashed upon me.

I hate like hell, the thought that I’m going to have to write these fuckers a check. Why, when I’m unemployed, forced into retirement, and living on only what’s in the bank + SS should I give these morons what little I have so they can spend it like drunken sailors in Singapore?

One of those questions you’re never supposed to ask is, “What exactly do I get for my tax dollar?”

I’ve never been alone in asking that question. Regardless of the party in power, the people have always believed taxes were too high and the politicians have always found ways to spend beyond the available budget, then raise taxes to fund shitty pork filled bills.

Usually, the government, (State or Federal,) has failed spectacularly at performing their basic tasks. In the midst of failure, the politicians are asking for more money to fund non-essential tasks which they also fail at doing.

I’ve always believed that if a legislative body (State or Federal,) couldn’t pass a balanced budget, the entirety of the body should be flushed. I believe that would light a fire under their asses to do their damn job… If they wanted to keep their job.

There is no accountability, and no recourse. The feds talk about impeachment of this idiot or that idiot, they censure each other, they badmouth each other, but at the end of the day the same idiots are still sitting in their fancy offices, collecting their obscene paychecks, and doing nothing but growing fatter like a tick that’s found a sweet spot on a dog.

Yet, we all keep writing the checks. Or they keep deducting from our paychecks and we have no way to stop them. I’ve been feeling like we re-entered the, “Taxation without Representation,” phase for a long damn time.

Sure, we have elected representatives, but when they get to the state or federal capital they don’t represent the people that elected them anymore.

Instead, they represent themselves, and are willing to sell their grandmothers to a Chinese sweat shop for $5, and their sisters to a whore house on the Barbary coast for $2.

Hmm. maybe the whole tax thing and my back hurting have been why I feel so damn hopeless these days. I thought it was the endless bullshit over the upcoming presidential election.

That’s one of those things that I wish would just shut the hell up. Drop the damn bombs, kill us all, just fucking STOP. Biden, Trump, Al Sharpton, or the idiot brother of your second cousin who’s also your uncle.

I don’t fucking care who’s President anymore.

Absolutely NOTHING will change.

Hmm, I felt exactly the same at the end of the Obama Administration.

Disillusioned and hopeless, wondering if there was another country I could to move to, where I could enjoy a functioning government that wasn’t always in a state of chaos and scandal.

That may be a pipe dream.

Russia? At least there you know the rules.

I have to admit that I like their style when it comes to dealing with criminals, as exhibited by their handling of the terrorists that shot up the concert hall killing 140 people.

Cutting off ears, electrodes on testicles, beating the fuck out of a prisoner to the point his eye “falls” out of its socket?

Yeah!

If we had some of that kind of law enforcement here, I have to wonder if we’d have less crime, less corruption, maintained roads, and a generally peaceful society.

Hell I’d probably be more willing to pay my taxes too. At least then I’d be able to see what my “protection money” buys.

I wonder if we’d have problems at the border if we were known for fucking up lawbreakers?

As we hurdle on towards banana republic status, I suspect these questions will never be answered.

Just to be clear, over at least the past 24 years our government has been degrading. I don’t believe this degradation is party specific, it’s about lowering the bar, turning a blind eye toward crime, corruption, a “not my job” attitude on the part of elected officials, and government departments filled with unelected bureaucrats.

I wonder if Russia would allow an old fart like myself the opportunity to have a small house in the countryside with my dog for my last years.

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There are Plenty of windows.

Plenty of windows.By that I mean if the Democrat machine wants to jump, it can.

Of course it doesn’t matter really, The Democrat machine is not that different from the Republican machine. 

To support this theory, I present Nikki Haley.

Really can you point out much difference between her on the Republican Side and Biden on the Democrat side? I sure can’t.

I think the real difference is between progressive leftists versus conservative right wingers. It doesn’t matter what party they think they belong to.

I noted with some amusement, that San Francisco voted in a lot of local measures that basically spank the left wing progressives. That’s interesting because most of San Francisco is left wing and progressive. But, and this is something the right wing should take note of, the crime is driving out businesses, and inconveniencing the progressives.

Now the progressives in San Francisco have to order everything through Amazon. Then their packages are stolen as soon as they’re delivered.

The progressives decide to go to a store to buy what they need. To do that, they have to step over the homeless person sleeping in front of their doorway, go to locate their car hoping it still has windows and tires, then drive across the bay to a place where the damn CVS or Grocery store is open. Once they get there, they’re fighting the crowd of other progressives who’ve had to do the same thing. 

The lesson is, a progressive will be a progressive until they’re inconvenienced. Then “Magically” they’re less interested in being a liberal progressive and more interested in conservatism and law & order. 

I’m not sure, but I suspect that people are fed up with the insanity progressive liberals have wrought across the nation. The pendulum swing between liberal and conservative usually swings pretty slowly. In recent years the swing has accelerated and this election, I suspect the pendulum is swinging to the right with rocket assist.

The Democrats should be shitting themselves about now. Because I don’t think it’s just the election. I will not be surprised at all, if the American people demand of their representatives, trials of the leftists who’ve brought us to this point.

I know I’d like to see quite a few representatives, tried for corruption and possibly treason.

I don’t use the word treason lightly. If you get found guilty of that… You’re dead. Then again, I’m old school. I’ve heard a lot of progressive liberals in D.C. screaming from the top of their lungs conservatives have committed treason. Then when asked what the penalty for treason is, they’re at a loss. If told the penalty is death you can see them get all squeamish. 

When I say I want trials for treason. I mean it. At this point I’d be totally fine with a gallows between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln memorial. If that gallows is doing a swift business, so be it.

Looking at the primary yesterday, when Trump wins in Colorado, where just weeks ago he was banned from the ballot. Says something. It’s a message that all politicians regardless of stripe should heed. 

The American People are sick of their shit!

AOC being harassed by pro-Palestinian protesters at a theater, warmed my evil little heart. They wanted to FORCE her to say something she didn’t want to say. Were it not an election year she probably would have parroted whatever they wanted, but she has figured out that folks are fucking tired of the “protests de jour”. She’s also figured out that a lot of folks have zero patience for Palestine, Hamas, or in many cases the edicts of Islam. (Hey Islamic asshole, you want Sharia? Go the fuck to a muslim country!)

AOC may see the handwriting on the wall. She’s being heckled in her own district, she’s come down more often than not, seeming pretty anti American, and perhaps her district will find someone else to take her place. In the mean time, she’s holding on for dear life.

I can say that at this point protests have no meaning. They’re a constant fact of life, someone is always blocking streets, waving flags, screaming in bullhorns, and I think, most of us normal folks have mentally filtered whatever they’re protesting about, to “Oh, Another Protest… Whatever.“

I wonder if the Poop Map application so popular in San Francisco, could be modified to show Protests. At this point they’re one and the same (shit). I’ll have to look on the App Store.

Son of a Gun! There are three applications in the App Store. Who Knew?

I’ve said before that I don’t want Trump again. It’s nothing personal, it’s just that the chaos Democrats will create around him will reduce his efficacy. We’ve already seen this show. What I do want is a conservative businessman as President. I’d also like for him to have a record that the liberal and conservative media can’t assail. 

I think it’s well past time for the President, The Vice President, Their Cabinet, and The Judiciary to take a long hard look at The House and Senate with an eye toward putting a stop to the corruption and wasteful spending. That is predicated on having a President that is honest and believes in putting the American People First. So I’m not going to be holding my breath.

I may be wrong, but I think we could put a stop to the bloodshed in Ukraine simply by telling Putin, Ukraine is not going to be a part of NATO. Then asking Putin to pull back, stand down, and let the healing begin. If Ukraine or a portion of it chooses to join Russia via fair elections then so be it.

As far as Hamas and Gaza. Well fuck ‘em. While our leadership is focused on Ukraine, and not looking. I’m for, “Whatever happens in Gaza stays in Gaza”. 

Generally speaking I think most everyone in my age group is sick to death of the constant bullshit from Islamic assholes. Israel can do whatever the fuck they want to do to protect themselves. Carpet bomb the fucking terrorist vermin, for all I care.

If that hypothetical Businessman for President were to cut off all foreign aid pending an accounting review I might even be good with that. I’ve never understood why the hell we feed and clothe people who hate us. It makes no damn sense to me, and never has. Feed our friends and allies, and the rest… whatever.

Funny as I typed that, I was thinking, “how progressive,” because feeding people, even our enemies is quintessentially a Christian Value. Me saying let our enemies starve isn’t very Christian. Progressives like to slam that our country was founded on Christian values, so obviously I’m espousing a progressive view. 

Except that I’m not. The progressives would have a shit fit if we stopped feeding our enemies. Then I wonder why?

Could it be that the progressives and the conservatives get something out of spending billions of tax dollars to feed people that would strap on a bomb and blow themselves up in a shopping mall? 

Might it be that there’s skimming and kickbacks somehow from those billions of tax dollars?

I’m sure the rest of this year is going to be a shitshow. Every election year is a shitshow but this one may be the shittiest on record. If the Democrats are backed into a corner, they, like any rabid animal will come out swinging. 

Expect more law fare, illegal arrests, unconstitutional rulings and edicts, and for conservative voices to get ground up in the gristmill of media and establishment lies.

If you’re interested in what that looks like a great object lesson is Bradon Straka and #Walkaway. I linked the 17 minute speech he did a CPAC because it’s really interesting. It also is pretty damming of the Republican Party and the Democrat party. 

It’s worth a listen.