The Last Bag of Randomness of 2023

  • I had hopes that 2020 was going to be a better year for me than 2019. After it wasn’t, I had hopes for 2021. Then the same for 2022 and 2023. Come on, 2024, please don’t fail me.
  • To my surprise, I’ve had a setback with my infected incision. I’ll know more next week, but it appears I’m going to have to go back in for some minor surgery. If you recall, this is all from my back surgery that happened in August.
  • It’s hard not to root for Joe Flacco, especially if you hear how grateful he is when he speaks about this second chance.
  • It’s gonna get a bit political.
  • I agree with what Jody Dean had to say about Nikki Haley. She might not be a racist, but she most assuredly is a coward. And as Matthew Dowd said, this is what happens when you aren’t authentic and try to appease the white supremacists. Haley was governor of South Carolina, she calls it home. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union, and was one of the founding member states of the Confederacy, and stated at the time of secession that slavery was the reason.

https://twitter.com/crizteeneeta/status/1740482076980494714

  • I have no idea if she really said this or not, but I saw it on Twitter and it made me laugh.
    • Sarah Palin: “Nikki Haley was the victim of a democratic operative. I too was a victim when asked what books or newspapers I read.”
  • I also found this on Twitter, which I felt applies to our country and the Civil War.
    • Faulkner wrote “the past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

      So true.

      One generation from the touch of slavery in America. How casually we ignore the ripples from that atrocity as they move through time, space and most importantly, policy and law.

  • Maine’s top election official has removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 primary ballot based on the 14th Amendment’s “insurrectionist ban.” Well, let’s look at that 14th Amendment. But right quick, you know Conservative secretaries of state are going to do the same with Biden.
    • “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.” — U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIV, § 3.
      • Trump supporters will say he wasn’t found guilty of engaging in an insurrection. That’s true, you don’t need to be found guilty to violate the Amendment. But, I’d like to hear more discourse about the part I underlined. Is he guilty of giving aid or comfort to any insurrectionists?
      • I’d also like to hear more about this argument: The peaceful transfer of power is written into the constitution, the cornerstone of our democracy in action. Trump refused to concede. Is that a disqualifying act against the Constitution after taking the oath of office in 2017?
  • A theologian or Bible scholar our governor is not. But then again, he’s not much of a governor either.
  • And to be fair, I’m not an expert on law or a theologian or Bible scholar. Biden isn’t a theologian or Bible scholar either, but he makes a far better point.

  • Okay, that’s it for the political talk. I’ve pissed off enough of you already.
  • An eighth-year senior?

https://twitter.com/big_business_/status/1740552180908871970

  • Thousand Oaks didn’t have an asthma field, that was Valley Ranch.

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