Every day mice die because they fail to ask themself why the cheese is free.
Author: Rob Jones
Rob Jones is one of the many who have two lives, one on the web, one in the real world. In the real world he's a Real Estate Broker in the Dallas Ft Worth Texas metro area. He works with the local courts as a Receiver, sells new and existing homes, and being a horseman, likes finding horse properties when asked.
In earlier days he served on city Planning and Zoning Commissions, once in Southlake, once in Keller. It was a learning experience, not unlike bootcamp or putting one's hand on a hot stove.
On the web he recently went from an 8 year stint as a volunteer editor for "a well known internet directory" into a paid role recruiting and working with editors for another "well known internet directory". Neither directory, of course, is willing to admit it... a sign of taste on their part.
HELPFUL TIP: For all the city dwellers coming to Weatherford for the first time to protest a Civil War Memorial, here’s a bit of local lore that will make you the envy of your friends
MIRACLE PLANT: If you drive around the town a bit you’ll likely see the native plant below. This wondrous piece of country flora can be crunched into a ball, and makes an amazing body scrub!
Amazing local herb rumored to have invigorating powers!
There are even rumors rubbing it on your genitals produces a highly invigorating response that’s bound to make your partner REALLY notice. In fact, it has many potential uses; country toilet paper, tobacco substitute, herbal tea ingredient. Be imaginative.
Generous locals won’t mind at all if you take some. Bring a bag. Feel free to pick as much as you want. Be sure to share with your buddies.
Welcome ANTIFA and BLM! Have a memorable visit. :-)
I’ve seen a lot of suggestions. Most as silly as the politically correct demand to change the name. I mean, Washington Monuments? The same guys insisting on a name change are currently tearing monuments down. Might send the wrong signal.
Washington Warriors? Naah. Same problem already under critique.
The Washington Jeffersons? Sounds like a guy that’ll later change his name to Trayvonne X Muhammad. Same with the Washington Lincolns and the Washington Roosevelts.
Maybe go with something more apt for the situation. The Washington Jellyfish? What better name to celebrate failure to stand your ground than a mascot with no spine? Plus the helmet would look really cool.
Or if you wanted to still be a “Skins fan” while going with one that shows what kind of person caves to social pressure… maybe The Washington Foreskins.
Granted, I’m not sure how good the logo will look on a helmet.
FOR THE RECORD … the fact George Floyd died as he did makes me ill. His hands were handcuffed behind his back. He was absolutely defenseless, face down. He TOLD them he could not breathe. He pleaded. He called to his mom.
That’s a man who is dying, and dying horribly. It shouldn’t be done to anyone. EVER.
Given the opportunity, I’d personally pull the switch on the guy that killed him. You don’t murder a man for passing a bad twenty. Period. That’s not why you had a badge.
The three officers with him will, and should, spend the rest of their days regretting that they didn’t stop it. If they had it to do over, NOW, they probably would… but this is not a situation where you get do-overs. They failed as police, and as human beings.
Why, I don’t know, but they let the jerk slowly and painfully kill a man absolutely without cause. In broad daylight. On camera.
I can’t say what they were thinking, but that will forever be the 8 minute stretch that will define their entire life. For whatever reason, when they needed to stand for something, they chose to stand by.
This was a horrible, unjust, EVIL killing. Those who did it are now under arrest, and all involved MUST be brought to justice. [I hear the guy is a suicide risk now that he’s in jail. I can’t for the life of me find a downside to that.]
I do not however see any nexus whatsoever with being angry that this was done and the act of burning police cars, stealing TVs, throwing bricks at others, destroying people’s businesses, or attacking total strangers.
Enough of this riot garbage. It isn’t helping. There’s near universal agreement this was a crime. Time to let the legal system do their job.
There are 29.9 million people in Texas. Reports say approximately 1000 are dead of Covid-19. That’s 1 in 29,900.
Odds I’ll be hit by LIGHTNING in my lifetime?
1 in 3000. Roughly 10 times higher. So when IS government going to do something to mitigate this Lightning Pandemic?
No, I’m NOT belittling the value of the lives lost. I’m putting it in perspective, because, let’s face it, people die of something every day. Does getting in your car mean you don’t care about the 3000+ people who die on Texas highways every year?
What? You still drive? You selfish bastard. It isn’t just about YOUR safety. By driving you could kill my grandmother. Or is that your plan? Hmmm?
No matter how hard the news spins this thing, we are not seeing people with oxcarts collecting bodies from house to house. Instead, we are seeing the equivalent of a bad flu season.
The US… as depicted by our news media.
Even then most of it is centered in the Northeast states, so expecting Texans to hide out because the death roll in far away high-rises is bad is statistically heretical.
Take what precautions you think necessary, but no matter what you do, the only people safe from death are those who already died.
Remember this winter when Jackson Kernion, a UC Berkeley instructor, said in a Twitter rant that those who live in rural America are “bad people who made bad decisions” and they deserve to be uncomfortable?
Shown: Just a part of the rant. Psst. Friends don’t let friends tweet drunk.
As Covid-19 ravages the population of some major metropolitan centers while comparatively ignoring us “bad decision” hicks in the sticks… Wonder how his self-important classist worldview is holding up?
It’s almost like God said… “Whoah, not so fast, boyo.”
Don’t worry, junior. I don’t REALLY think God personally visited a plague on the world just to make you look like a dick.
After all, you seem to have accomplished that rather neatly without any need of divine assistance. :-)
Anyone who thinks government regulation IMPROVES things hasn’t bought a gas can lately.
I mean, heck, I grew up in a world where the nastiest statement about someone’s capability for a task was “He couldn’t pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.”
And yet, through the magic of government regulation, in order to pour a liquid out of a plastic jug they’ve come up with a gas can configuration that actually requires detailed instructions with five illustrations.
A massive improvement from “Remove top and pour.” Thanks, government!
Pretty sure the new “safety” spouts are a fitting metaphor for government regulation in general. Even IF their intentions are good, they’re at best ineffective if not counterproductive.
They say a camel is a horse designed by a committee. Safety spouts are the same. In the process of saving you from yourself, they only make you less safe while simultaneously decreasing effective use.
On the bright side, when you get pissed and decide to burn it, it’s already full of gas.
Unless you can point to the line where the Constitution says “unless we get really really scared”… ALL edicts which violate the Bill of Rights, even “for our own safety”, are ILLEGAL.
I understand you may think it best for me, and more pointedly, best for YOU.
Watch my lips: I DON’T CARE what you think.
I especially do not care for you thinking your opinion should be enforced by city, county, state or federal authorities. They might have the ability to enforce it, but they lack the authority.
That’s a very important distinction. There’s a word for enforcing unconstitutional edicts simply on the basis that you have control of the police or military.
If you have a compromised system, or even just a preternatural fear of contracting an illness… self-quarantine as long as you want. No one will stop you, but you don’t get to imprison OTHERS because of YOUR fear.
The idea that the Bill of Rights can be ignored “for our own good” is being field tested.
So far a lot of folks seem to be fine with what amounts to house arrest of the nation in order to “protect us” from a largely survivable strain of flu virus.
It’s embarrassing the public is so easily manipulated while officials who get paid with our tax dollars regardless of performance direct “emergency” funds to entities like National Endowment for Humanities ($75 mil) and The Kennedy Center ($25 mil).
Seriously. The Kennedy Center isn’t making surgical masks. Let’s pay attention.
These sheep were probably told they are being quarantined for their own good, too. Mutton, anyone?
QUICK Q&A ON THE TOPIC
NOTE: Sadly, I am not making these questions up. They’re taken from real conversations.
“OMG! This is NOT ‘a largely survivable strain of flu virus!'”
Actually, yes. That’s EXACTLY what this is… just the next in a long line of influenza. We see a new one every few years. We lost between 60-80 THOUSAND about two flu seasons ago and nobody batted an eye, much less shut down the country.
“But people are DYING! Are you that selfish? Do you WANT people to die?!”
Well, yes… but only the ones stupid enough to post ridiculous statements like that. People are going to die by the tens of thousands from one virus strain or another EVERY YEAR.
“But it isn’t SAFE yet. If we just wait a little longer….”
The only time you are totally safe from dying is after you actually die. In the meantime, we KNOW thousands die in traffic accidents every month, but we still drive to work. Buckle your seatbelt and quit acting like a child.
“But Huffington Post says we have had more Covid-19 deaths than Italy!”
They’re right. We also have 5½ times the population of Italy. It helps to remember to watch for statistics that are true but totally misleading. It’s called “critical thinking.”
“Well that’s SO FAR… But the government projections say…”
Ummm, yeah. Government projections. At the end of March they projected 2.2 MILLION US deaths. Suddenly they went to 100-220 THOUSAND US deaths… then days later they went to “about 60 THOUSAND US deaths.
Sixty thousand goes into 2.2 million almost 36 times. That’s not “flattening the curve”… that’s the government slowly dropping the numbers toward reality after they pissed on your boot and assured you it was just raining.
New York Times… A few weeks ago.
BOTTOM LINE: It’s important we engage in critical thinking. Politicians are using this “crisis” for totally unrelated reasons. Their deep concern for your health is at best a long way below achieving their own political agendas. Frankly I’d say it’s entirely mythical.
Rob Jones for President 