The mindless vote... All others don't. This tells me 50 to 60% of Americans are sane (the ones who don't vote) and the rest (that do vote) support greed and corruption because that's all you got to vote for. Now if you'll excuse me I have to stab a cow that's bloated between it's ribs as cows can't burp. The only way to save it's life is to stab it between it's ribs to relieve the bloating (stinks like hell) but must be done to save the cows life. Maybe it's time to do that with our government... before it dies.
Posts by War Hoop
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7 Kamala is probably going to be Biden’s running mate unless they pick Michelle...he steps down she’s now president Harris....first black female and the end of civilization...she’s as nutty as Bernie...
Personally... I think someone's been eating to much bean soup with statements like that big dog.
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I had an eye opening conversation last evening with my 17 year old granddaughter graduating from High School this spring. Never talked politics with her before so I was surprised when she asked me why I was voting for Trump. I just hit the high spots - economy, immigration, military; etc. ending with “it will be your first time to vote - who you voting for”. She said “Bernie if they don’t cheat him out of the nomination”. My first thought was I gotta have a DNA test run cause she can’t have my blood in her veins - then poured myself a double of fine Kentucky bourbon calmly asking “why”. She sounded like a Bernie commercial - free school, free healthcare, climate change which was fine until she said “Paw Paw you are part of the problem - I know about you. You put profits over everything. You helped big corporations to run over the middle class making them and yourself millions of dollars”. Downing my double and trying to keep from going up like a bottle rocket I tried to remember that age when you didn’t know shit and thought you were gonna save the world and remained calm. Then it hit me to just see how committed she was. I said “you know your right I was very ambitious and I am guilty of all the things you said. I paused for a minute letting that sink in as a look of satisfaction came across her face. I’ve seen the light and Thank You so this is what we are gonna do. You start college this fall so you need to call Bernie and tell him where you want your tuition check sent to - I’m keeping that evil money because I don’t want to stain your character. Furthermore since you feel so strongly I’m going to my office right now and rewrite my will to leave everything I was going to leave you to the climate change cause. How do you like your warm and fuzzy Paw Paw now?? Got up and went in my office shuffling papers with no intention of changing my will or not paying her tuition. Bought 10 minutes later a light knock on the door “can I talk to you very softly”. I sat quietly until she spoke with a tear in her eye (I almost caved) she said “your gonna derail my whole life“. “Well Bernie wants to derail mine so let’s all crash together.” Very quickly I figured out it wasn’t her fault - thru teachers, social media and fake news she was basically living in the twilight zone. I explained capitalism was and is the vehicle that made me successful and it would do the same for her if she worked hard. Long story short after about an hour long conversation I believe we have a brand new Trump supporter. At the end she warmed my heart - she said “momma was right - she said I was gonna lose this conversation cause you always bring a gun to a knife fight”. “It has served me well all those years of being an evil profiteer.” Again old and treacherous crushes youth and exuberance - good times
That was funny... but me thinks the joke may be on you. If she pretends to support what you support just so she can stay in your will then..... did you accomplish something or did she?
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I think I'm getting ready to vote for Joe. Dumbass insurance guy that advertises on this forum and allstate are trying to get me to make an insurance payment on a vehicle I don't even own anymore. These corporations are getting way out of hand, maybe Joe can do something about that. I even showed them my real insurance policy and their going DUH. Maybe on the phone they pushed 1 for chinese... Buttt holes.
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Display Morehttps://www.wired.com/story/goodyear-recharge-tire-concept/
Okay... this seems like a bald guy joke. Rubber minoxidil. There, I said it.
Jokes aside, this Goodyear technology extrudes new rubber compounds that harden in air, replenishing the tread as you drive. The idea is to make a tire that can last 100-300K - essentially for the life of the car. Goodyear folks claim they could even customize tread compounds for milage, performance, even a special type for electric cars.
The only question for this developing tech, could it keep up with tire shredders like rabtech ?
We'll all be flying around in spaceships before they get that one off the ground.
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Well, Little Mike Bloomberg and Jeb Bush have worked together to help restore my faith in the American electorate.
They spent over a billion dollars between them and neither one got anywhere close to the Oval Office. 😄
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I promised myself years ago, every time I saw this I would re-post, I didn’t write it but it’s awesome and worth the share! Happens about twice a year. Rings true EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.... Here goes!!!
Most people won't take the time to read this all the way to the end. I hope that you will. 17 INCHES" - you will not regret reading this
An excellent article to read from beginning to end.
Twenty years ago, in Nashville, Tennessee, during the first week of January, 1996, more than 4,000 baseball coaches descended upon the Opryland Hotel for the 52nd annual ABCA's convention.
While I waited in line to register with the hotel staff, I heard other more veteran coaches rumbling about the lineup of speakers scheduled to present during the weekend. One name kept resurfacing, always with the same sentiment — “John Scolinos is here? Oh, man, worth every penny of my airfare.”
Who is John Scolinos, I wondered. No matter; I was just happy to be there.
In 1996, Coach Scolinos was 78 years old and five years retired from a college coaching career that began in 1948. He shuffled to the stage to an impressive standing ovation, wearing dark polyester pants, a light blue shirt, and a string around his neck from which home plate hung — a full-sized, stark-white home plate.
Seriously, I wondered, who is this guy?
After speaking for twenty-five minutes, not once mentioning the prop hanging around his neck, Coach Scolinos appeared to notice the snickering among some of the coaches. Even those who knew Coach Scolinos had to wonder exactly where he was going with this, or if he had simply forgotten about home plate since he’d gotten on stage. Then, finally …
“You’re probably all wondering why I’m wearing home plate around my neck,” he said, his voice growing irascible. I laughed along with the others, acknowledging the possibility. “I may be old, but I’m not crazy. The reason I stand before you today is to share with you baseball people what I’ve learned in my life, what I’ve learned about home plate in my 78 years.”
Several hands went up when Scolinos asked how many Little League coaches were in the room. “Do you know how wide home plate is in Little League?”
After a pause, someone offered, “Seventeen inches?”, more of a question than answer.
“That’s right,” he said. “How about in Babe Ruth’s day? Any Babe Ruth coaches in the house?” Another long pause.
“Seventeen inches?” a guess from another reluctant coach.
“That’s right,” said Scolinos. “Now, how many high school coaches do we have in the room?” Hundreds of hands shot up, as the pattern began to appear. “How wide is home plate in high school baseball?”
“Seventeen inches,” they said, sounding more confident.
“You’re right!” Scolinos barked. “And you college coaches, how wide is home plate in college?”
“Seventeen inches!” we said, in unison.
“Any Minor League coaches here? How wide is home plate in pro ball?”............“Seventeen inches!”
“RIGHT! And in the Major Leagues, how wide home plate is in the Major Leagues?
“Seventeen inches!”
“SEV-EN-TEEN INCHES!” he confirmed, his voice bellowing off the walls. “And what do they do with a Big League pitcher who can’t throw the ball over seventeen inches?” Pause. “They send him to Pocatello !” he hollered, drawing raucous laughter. “What they don’t do is this: they don’t say, ‘Ah, that’s okay, Jimmy. If you can’t hit a seventeen-inch target? We’ll make it eighteen inches or nineteen inches. We’ll make it twenty inches so you have a better chance of hitting it. If you can’t hit that, let us know so we can make it wider still, say twenty-five inches.'”
Pause. “Coaches… what do we do when your best player shows up late to practice? or when our team rules forbid facial hair and a guy shows up unshaven? What if he gets caught drinking? Do we hold him accountable? Or do we change the rules to fit him? Do we widen home plate? "
The chuckles gradually faded as four thousand coaches grew quiet, the fog lifting as the old coach’s message began to unfold. He turned the plate toward himself and, using a Sharpie, began to draw something. When he turned it toward the crowd, point up, a house was revealed, complete with a freshly drawn door and two windows. “This is the problem in our homes today. With our marriages, with the way we parent our kids. With our discipline.
We don’t teach accountability to our kids, and there is no consequence for failing to meet standards. We just widen the plate!”
Pause. Then, to the point at the top of the house he added a small American flag. “This is the problem in our schools today. The quality of our education is going downhill fast and teachers have been stripped of the tools they need to be successful, and to educate and discipline our young people. We are allowing others to widen home plate! Where is that getting us?”
Silence. He replaced the flag with a Cross. “And this is the problem in the Church, where powerful people in positions of authority have taken advantage of young children, only to have such an atrocity swept under the rug for years. Our church leaders are widening home plate for themselves! And we allow it.”
“And the same is true with our government. Our so-called representatives make rules for us that don’t apply to themselves. They take bribes from lobbyists and foreign countries. They no longer serve us. And we allow them to widen home plate! We see our country falling into a dark abyss while we just watch.”
I was amazed. At a baseball convention where I expected to learn something about curve balls and bunting and how to run better practices, I had learned something far more valuable.
From an old man with home plate strung around his neck, I had learned something about life, about myself, about my own weaknesses and about my responsibilities as a leader. I had to hold myself and others accountable to that which I knew to be right, lest our families, our faith, and our society continue down an undesirable path.
“If I am lucky,” Coach Scolinos concluded, “you will remember one thing from this old coach today. It is this: "If we fail to hold ourselves to a higher standard, a standard of what we know to be right; if we fail to hold our spouses and our children to the same standards, if we are unwilling or unable to provide a consequence when they do not meet the standard; and if our schools & churches & our government fail to hold themselves accountable to those they serve, there is but one thing to look forward to …”
With that, he held home plate in front of his chest, turned it around, and revealed its dark black backside, “…We have dark days ahead!.”
Note: Coach Scolinos died in 2009 at the age of 91, but not before touching the lives of hundreds of players and coaches, including mine. Meeting him at my first ABCA convention kept me returning year after year, looking for similar wisdom and inspiration from other coaches. He is the best clinic speaker the ABCA has ever known because he was so much more than a baseball coach. His message was clear: “Coaches, keep your players—no matter how good they are—your own children, your churches, your government, and most of all, keep yourself at seventeen inches."
And this my friends is what our country has become and what is wrong with it today, and now go out there and fix it!
"Don't widen the plate."
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I vote for more corruption, we need more corruption. We can't hold this planet together without more corruption. Now get out there and vote for more corruption. Either party will do if that's what you want.
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Display Moreunfortunately no matter what side you are on politically I dont think we are getting great options - - I know there are people that would say that any of the options would be better than Trump - I suspect WOLF feels this way, but if it were not for that attitude would anyone really pick any of these people as their true choice for the person they think is GREAT?
I like the economy under the Trump administration - I think businesses and investors feel that he is predictable and as such they are willing to invest. Like it or not I always felt that under Obama businesses and investors never felt they could count on him to not suddenly changing the rules to appease some special interest and as such they were unwilling to take chances which held the economy back. - its not a matter of right or left - businesses and investors like predictability and stability which is why this virus thing is spooking people - it is not predictable
I also like where the Trump administration stands on immigration - being in a family of immigrants and married to a naturalized citizen I have seen the work and desire it takes to really want to come here and be an American and I am also painfully aware of the stain and damage done to the system by those wanting to "cut the line" and take advantage of our system without doing the work - If my wife were to petition for one of her sisters or brothers to come here legally the wait right now for siblings is 20 plus years - and this huge wait is the direct result of the strain and load put on the system by people who think they don't need to do it the right and legal way. - - I am all for immigration and I understand wanting a better life with more opportunity, but if you can't be bothered with the effort and respect for our laws to come here legally then you should not be welcome here - period!
So having said these things that I like about Trump I still dont think he is the BEST this country has for the job - right now he is the best option we have been given, but he is not the best of the best
The choices the Democrats are giving us shouldn't even be an option - and if it were not for Trump hate that makes some people willing to accept any other option even most hard core democrats would be saying "WTF! - is this the best my party has?"
our two party system has devolved into a joke - we do not even get a chance to get the best and the brightest because they are way too smart to lower themselves into the pit full of crap that our political system has become
our two party system has devolved into a joke - we do not even get a chance to get the best and the brightest because they are way too smart to lower themselves into the pit full of crap that our political system has become...
That purty much says it all.
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Yes I'm sure they have nothing to offer.... unless she gets the nomination. The rest all suck big time.
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They sure don't have anything to offer anybody.
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No I wasn't a DI. I was in the 2nd/17th Cav unit with the 101st. UH-1H Huey crew chief .
OH-58A crew chief here. Neither of my units exist anymore.
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Boy! Call wolf and Bill good ol boys and they wake up the whole neighborhood.
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If you ever make it down to coonass land I’ll take you back in the swamp and introduce you to some ole boys that make cavemen look enlightened but are the best bunch of guys you would would ever want to meet. Not a political bone in their body and you would get along with em great - but don’t go by yourself
they tend to be kinda clan oriented!!Sounds like Texas hill country people...
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That is usually the case, HOWEVER, my Dad was a hillbilly and my Mom was a coonass. I learned early that there are certain hollers in KY and swamps in LA you do not go in without an introduction - once introduced you will be treated better than family!!
Damn! You and Wolf are good ol boys... No wonder you get along so well.
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Obama surely boosted gun and ammo stocks. The guy at the Sporting goods store told me that the Remington Rep. said that Remington was running three shifts, pumping out ammo 24/7 Seven days a week during that period.
I would have "liked" your post, but I'm not a fan of negative blanket statements that include ALL members of any group("rednecks" in this case). Most groups and sub-groups are mostly great people, with exception for hate groups and terrorist organizations(which are hate groups...so).
Well maybe their not rednecks but when they do things like that I tend to think they are rather spineless.
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Will that be Bernie's fault or the fault of the self fulfilling prophecy people that made ammo and guns scarce when Obama was elected?
I still remember a guy standing in front of me complaining that, "I have to get here the day the store gets ammo or it will be gone. Obama is making it so nobody can get ammo". His friend happily agreed. They each had about ten 50 round boxes of .22, .45, 9mm, 5.56/2.23, 7.62/308. They continued talking about how they hit several stores a day, a couple times a week. I just nodded, while thinking to myself, "Do the math moron, you and others like you are fulfilling your own prophecy. But yeah, it is Obama's fault(sarcasm), because if he wasn't President you idiots wouldn't be hoarding".
Obama was the best friend and salesman of every gun manufacturing company in America when it came to sales simply because all the rednecks ran scared and bought everything up which drove up prices. Buttholes couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper sack but they know how to run scared.
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Got my new bottle opener today.
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I agree, when a politician diverts tax money intended for the benefits of the very people who pay those taxes I need a better explanation than "it's the right thing to do".
How can anyone expect any country (not just Mexico} to correct the very issues which are causing people to flee those countries if the U.S. simply continues to give up its resources. It will never change bad situations in forign countries and will only continue to hurt our country for generations. I believe President Trump raised the option of efforts to establish settlements within countries in need and providing aid at that location. The U.N. could step up and monitor.
Sounds good to me and a very important issue could be solved as it wouldn't leverage the idea of political gain.
The U>N. is way to busy living high on the hog in NYC.
