Piccolo jerks the chain of a Navy SEAL.

That I met at the city compost help yourself pile last spring.

He saw a dogtag on my keychan and asked me what service I was in and I told him I was in the Army and my career was in the Merchant marine. He replied he had served in the Navy. When I asked him what he did in the Navy he replied that before he had gone through OCS he had been a SEAL.

I laughed. "How did you make out at the bar with those credentials? That sounds like a pretty good chick magnet."

"Yeah, he admitted with a semi-embarrassed grin. "When you throw the SEAL credential down the women line up. I'm happily married and wanted to stay that way so I kept my mouth shut when I had a beer with my teammates. It's a real trump card with the ladies."

I was feeling mischiveous. I gave him a smug look.

"When the SEALs start playing the SEAL card all you have to do to cut them down to size is tell them you're an astronaut," I said. "Only astronaut recruited from the Merchant Marine!"

He laughed like hell. "That would probably do it if you could pull it off."

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One of the things I see is that a lot of leftists are outright immature.

One of the most entertaining (and unpresidential) things Trump does is trolls. He's a master.

I once told someone that I voted for Trump strictly for the entertainment value. At first they were appalled but after they thought about it they admitted that he's a Master Troll.

Someone told me that the best part of Trump's rolling is the indignant overreaction of the Democrats when Trump throws something out at them. They always seem to take the bait.

When Hakeem Jeffries got the sombrero stuck in his head by Trump he carried on like a little kid in a schoolyard that had been teased by his classmates. The whining and carrying on was very entertaining.

When Trump called Tim Walz (who belongs in jail) a retard the wailing, moaning and gnashing of teeth was epic. Again, he carried on like a teased schoolboy during recess. He sniveled his constituents were driving past his house shouting 'Retard!' (Unless he is outside I don't think he hears a whole lot of what's going on in the street.)

The right seems to handle schoolyard insults a lot better. 

When Hillary Clinton called Trump voters 'deplorables' they embraced it to the point that it may have very well cost her the election. Even today you occasionally hear a Trump supporter referring to themselves as being a 'deplorable'.

When the left hit JD Vance with the wolfman meme Vance took it in stride and threw it right back at them. He used the meme to design his Halloween costume. Hilarity ensued.

The immaturity of a lot of  the left has been quite a source of entertainment.

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The reflecting pool has been filled.

I can hardly wait to hear the screeching over this one.

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Seattle is not alone.

Exxon just left NJ, Smith and Wesson has left MA, and Morton Salt has left IL. This is just a very, very small sampling of what's happening.

Seattle ain't the Lone Ranger. It's happening all over.

Businesses are on the move looking for more business friendly places to operate out of. They are sick and tired of being treated like a cash cow by state and local governments.

When a business leaves it takes jobs and wealth with them and leaves behind unemloyment, empty factories and office buildings which so become abandoned eyesores. Nearby by businesses generally take a hit also.

It creates a downward spiral.

OTOH the new business location the company moves to gains jobs. The local businesses generally report an increase in business and the new location gains wealth.

That's what happens when you treat a business like a cash cow instead of a valuable asset.

Incidentally corporations don't really pay taxes. Consumers do. The corporations simply add the cost of taxes onto the price of the goods/services they sell to the public and the customer pays..

It would be interesting to find out what a $40K vehicle would cost before the tax man arrived and took his share.

One other BIG thing is that government should be a LOT more careful and responsible with our tax money. Some Muslim country in Africa does NOT need TV programming extolling the virtues of gay rights. If it doesn't directly effect Americans positively then the money should not be spent. Not to mention that any misappropriation of government money should land someone in jail for a lengthy sentence.

Update. The Berlin chip and pretzel factory just shut its doors. Wonder where it will go.

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Protip for buying a new car.

The truck I have was paid for in cash after I got a final price. I pulled out a bag full of Franklins, counted them out and went on my merry way.

When I whipped out cash they were somewhat upset and I won't do that again. Instead I will finance the truck and go through all of the paperwork and hoople that goes with it, making sure there is no penalty for early repayment.

You can get a better deal often because the finance company kicks back a small piece of the action to the dealership. That makes the dealership happy.

When the first payment is due you simply pay off the whole damned loan and get the hell out from under it.

Expect an angry/upset/dissappointed call from the dealer shortly after.

You can tell him innocently that you just came into money and cleaned up all your debts. If you have talent you can make up a good story about winning big in Vegas or having inheriting a sum of money from your favorite uncle or whatever suits your fancy.

"My great uncle lived in Chicago and worked for Al Capone and my mother was his favorite niece. On St. Valentine's Day 1929 he was one of the guys that ..."

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So tell me. What part of Lesbia are you from?

I read a pretty good rant the other day from a lesbian woman stationg that the vast majority of LGBT people just want to be left alone in peace.

She said she hates the groomers and the people trying to encourage young kids to TG and the rest of the crap that goes along with it. I'm 100% sure she's not alone.

Years ago I posted a 'Go in peace' post to the gay community and I still hold with it. In return I asked that they go about their lives without fanfare and bull$hit. 

The problem seems to lie with so-called LGB(TQRSTUV) 'leadership'. They are the people responsible for the ballyhoo. 

Who appointed these people as spokespeople for the community? 

It's time for the individuals  of the community to tell the self-appointed leadership to go piss up a rope. 

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As for the title, over the years I have had a couple of women tell me that they are a lesbian.

I generally keep a straight face and ask they "What part of Lesbia are you from? Did you immigtate here legally?"

They generally express amusement once they figure out that there's no slight intended although much to my amusement I got a long winded explaination from one woman which I ended with "Than you're an American of Leasbian hetitage. I'm Irish."

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Mark Kelly ...someone else's take which is better than mine.

Jean F. Burleson

Dan Galligher

You are incorrect…

Kelly’s, mine, and every other retired regular (not Guard or Reserve) military officer’s freedom of speech has restrictions that civilians do not have, for the purpose of ensuring good order and discipline in the military.

Kelly’s comments were clearly intended to interfere with the military chain of command and negatively impacting good order and discipline by encouraging insubordination and refusal to obey the orders of the chain of command. As such, at a minimum, he violated Article 94 (Mutiny and Sedition) and Article 133 (Conduct Unbecoming) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice ((UCMJ) and, in addition, in concert with others (not subject to the UCMJ), Article 82 (Conspiracy).

Kelly should be recalled to active duty and court-martialed or, at a minimum, administratively reduced in rank/grade IAW Title 10, U.S. Code.

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Little guys.

When I can I like to do business with little guys that do side jobs for a number of reasons.

First they generally do a pretty good job because they know they are only as good as their last side job.

Second they don't have the overhead that established companies have and can afford to work for less than shop rate and still make more than they are getting paid at their regular job.

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Curiosity overwhelms me with Seattle.

People have built little blockades to reduce drive-bys over illegal activities. Katie wants them removed.

It won't be long before the locals start to organize neighborhood watches and start arming themselves to protect their homes and lives.

What's she going to do when that happens?

Double down. She will assign the police to go after the neighborhood watch types because she can't have the people taking care of themselves.

I guess she's going to have to have the police chase the neighborhood watches away. Of course that's not really much of an option because she seems to have defunded a lot of it and my guess is the police won't pay much attention to her.

If she had let the police do their job it would not have gotten to this stage.

The best thing she could do for Seattle is to find a loaded pistol and some privacy and do the right thing.

I wonder if Seattle is going to have a backlash and get some decent no nonsense leadership. Probably not. They'll just go looking for someone to blame and keep going downhill.

Eventually it will descend into anarchy and chaos and empty buildings as anyone with any sense just ups and leaves.

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