Farewell Robbie Coltrane

 Robbie's Hagrid was a big part of the Harry Potter movies.  I will miss Robbie.

Environmental, Social, and Governance. (ESG)

 Environmental, Social, and Governance. (ESG)

 The acronym stands for a company management plan to do nice things for the environment, social something or other, and governance, a scheme were company management abandons traditional company goals, and aims for environmental and social goals.

 The American corporation has been fantastically successful over many years.  Corporations produce goods and services, at very good prices and in vast quantities.  Earnings are solid, and are shared between share holders and workers.  Most Americans work for corporations and get their health insurance from the corporation that employs them.  American corporations are an important part of American economy and well being. 

   We should not mess things up with ill considered changes that might throw us out of work and cancel our health care.

 Right now successful corporate managers concentrate on improving the corporate production (automobiles, aircraft, tools, house wares and other stuff) (producing services such as communication (cell phone, TV, newspaper, more economically) or providing transportation (railroads and airlines) more economically.  

 Do we want corporate management to stop this beneficial activity and start tending the environment, the social feelings of just about anybody, and setting up governance that locks the corporation into activities that do not improve the company bottom line?   And instead of divvying up corporate profits between share holders and worker, ESG would grab off a good chunk of corporate revenue to support the Green Nude Eel and deny the money to workers and stock holders. 

 I think we should stick with the corporate governance that has paid us such solid dividends over many years.  Work on getting costs down and quality up. 

Goobledegook for a verdict in Parkland School shooter case

The TV is reading the verdict in the case of Nicolas Cruze, the Parkland School shooter. It is all legal goobledegook. Never is the word "guilty" used. They must have had a lawyer write the lengthy complicated verdict (it took the judge 10 minutes to read the whole thing).

Could this be the problem with the American justice system? That they cannot call an atrocious murderer guilty?

Sports fans versus voters

 I am a casual sports fan.  Living in one of the “Boston States” I root for the Patriots (fall) and the Red Sox (spring and summer).  Should either team make the Super Bowl or the World Series I will watch the games.  There is no way that I will ever root for the New York Yankees. 

   We also have a lot of voters who vote the same way.  They will vote for their party no matter what.  And they would never vote for that other party, no matter what.   

   For sports fans, it doesn’t matter much.  Rooting for one team or the other doesn’t affect anything important.

For voters, this attitude is destructive of our democracy.  We vote in crooks and dimwits, and fail to vote for decent intelligent public spirited candidates. 

   To be a patriotic voter you have to do a little homework, such as who is running and what have they done in the past that is honorable, or dishonorable.  You want to vote for the good guys and vote against the bad guys.  In this day and age of the Internet the home work is easy to do.   Google will tell you who is running, nationally and for state office, and give you the candidate’s history and voting record. 

   There is a crucial midterm election coming up in about three weeks.  The current Democrat administration is a bunch of weak and elderly men and is driving America into the ground.  We need to vote them out.  Vote in some decent people who might be able to pull the country up before all that is left is a smoking crater. 

Meet and Greet for Don Bolduc, Republican candidate for US Senate.

 I went last night.  Decent turnout, the drive way was mostly parked up, call it 50 cars.  Large fine house, full of voters.  Bolduc spoke, without notes, for an hour.  He used real English that made sense, unlike the pabulum speak we hear from so many in the DC swamp.  He definitely will make a better Senator for us in New Hampshire than Maggie Hassan, the Democrat incumbent, who has done little to nothing over the last 6 years, except for just once she voted AGAINT the Keystone XL pipeline.  Which is destructive for New Hampshire.  We all have to heat our houses all winter.  Keystone XL would bring economical crude oil from a friendly neighboring country (Canada) down to US refineries, where it would be refined into gasoline and heating oil. 

  I will vote for Bolduc,  I made a contribution to his campaign last night. 

Things Democrats have brought us

1. $5 a gallon gasoline.  It has dropped off a bit from $5 but not enough to matter much.
2. Attempts to renew the “assault weapons” ban.  Since there are no real differences between “assault weapons” and deer rifles, this law will ban all rifles.  Which is perfectly OK with the gun control freaks.
3. 9.5 % inflation.  Your dollars are worth 9.5% less in buying power than a year ago.  Democrats do this by printing a lot of money.
4. The Afghanistan debacle.  We pulled out of Afghanistan turning the country over to the Taliban and leaving billions of dollars worth of good American weapons to Islamic terrorists.  And we left a lot of our own people behind. We had Afghani’s clinging to USAF transports and falling to their deaths when the plane took off.
5. Lack of baby formula in store.  For that matter a lot of empty shelves for all sorts of common products like bacon.
6. Kamala Harris for vice president.  If anything happens to Biden, impeachment, heart attack, Covid 19, falling off bicycles, falling down the boarding stairs from Air Force 1, you name it, Kamala becomes president.  By all accounts she is worse than Biden.
7. Opening up the US-Mexican border to anybody who shows up.  Resulting in  floods of fentanyl, Covid 19 cases, and illegal immigrants.
8. Turning the presidency over to Who Runs Biden’s America (WRBA).  They write the executive orders and the speeches on the teleprompter.  Biden signs what is put before him and reads out loud what ever is on the teleprompter.  We have no idea who WRBA is but who ever they are they are running America right into the ground. 
9. Biden pushed a big spending bill thru Congress (The build back badder bill) and will sign it when the Congress approves it.  It will make inflation even worse. 
10. Biden is putting the Armed Forces onto a lefty greenie path, including Critical Race Theory training for the troops and mixed sex bathrooms and mixed sex locker rooms.  There was a scene of this in the movie Starship Troopers.  They are discharging 60,000 regular and National Guard troops who lack Covid 19 vaccination.  The armed services are reporting recruiting shortfalls of as much as 45%. 

 

 

       All real Americans need to vote a straight Republican ticket in the mid term federal elections coming up this November.  Only that will save America from total ruin.

 

Putin and nukes.

Putin has threatened to use nukes on Ukraine.  We do not approve.  The way to prevent Putin from nuking Ukraine is to tell him “If you nuke Ukraine, or anywhere else, we will nuke you back, harder.”  Trouble is, if Biden were to say this who would believe him?  Not I, probably not Putin.  That’s the trouble with electing a weak president.  It weakens the entire country.

We have mid term elections coming up in three-four weeks.  Everybody should get out and vote.  And vote a straight Republican ticket, to prevent more Democrats from serving anywhere.