Stupidest Caption, I Think, I Have Read In A Long Time

So, Chuck Norris is gone from this earth, hopefully to wind up in a much beter place. I admit, I was never a huge fan of his but I did enjoy his  Walker Texas Ranger show and some of his movies. What I liked best about him was his love for our country and the fact he supported our great nation respectfully. 

I hope he will rest in eternal peace and that his family will take solace in how much folks admired him. 

 I just read an article, 

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/chuck-norris-death-inspires-tributes-sylvester-stallone-jean-claude-van-damme-lead-hollywood-reactions, on Fox News about tributes from other celebrities and politicians. In that article, there wasvat least one photo of him and Bruce Lee. I was quite surprised to see its printed caption: "Bruce Lee remembered Chuck Norris after his passing on Friday." Even when the media outlet is Fox News, it seems the so called journaliats who write the pieces, cannot havecenpugh respect to getvsomething like that correct. They truly are, in my opinion, disrespectful, moronic, mindless twits when it comes to reporting facts. If you are unfamiliar with who was Ruce Lee, he was a marshal arts expert and a friendly contemporary rival of Chuck Norris. The kkey word in that last sentence is the word "was", that because Bruce Lee passed away at the age of 32 in 1973. Yet someone decided to write this caption: "Bruce Lee remembered Chuck Norris after his passing on Friday."  The truth is Bruce Lee did not remember anything after Mr. Norris passed away on Friday. Maybe his soul remembered but as I see it, it most certainly qas nt Bruce Lee remembering any thing! A little respect from journalists would certainly be nice instead of rediculous balderdash.

 

RIP to them both.

 

All the best,

Glenn B 

I Have Been Having A Hankering...

 ...a frozen or fresh duck for quite some time now, in fact for months - since Christmas week. The only place I have seen any has been Walmart. They offer frozen ones containing 12% added water. As I said though, I have been desiring a roast duck; I am not looking for duck soup.

 

 In the wee hours of the still dark morning on which I write this,  Idecided to search for one online, and figured I would look first at the sites of local supermarkets. So, I checked Albertson's. The Albertson's near me is, like all others in my opinion, an overpriced less than well stocked yuppy haven. After all, it is in the pimple on the backside of Arkansas wherein I reside and you would be hard pressed to find anything much        better here as far as supermarkets go. Kind of makes me miss NY for its shopping. I checked anyway. 

 

I was amazed to discover they sell or at least advertise what must be the Gozilla of poultry when it comes to quackers. Here is what it says on their website about the ducks they offer for sale, and I quote it here to educate you as to what they claim is available: "This pack features a premium quality whole duck, ranging from 4 to 8.25 s. each, up to a a total weight of 36 pounds." 

 

 Now, I note, they say this pack, that seemingly indicating it could be more than one duck but then again it says the pack contains "...a premium quality whole duck..." which seems to clearly indicate they are talking about a single packaged duck. Now look at the weight range, they show it as: "... ranging from 4 to 8.25 lbs each, up to a total weight of 36 lbs." Did I say it must be the Godzilla of ducks. I think I did. Either it is that or, I guess, is encased in a huge chunk of ice, enough to make Walmart's duck with 12% of added water look like a great deal.

 

As it turns out, I have digressed from my duck hunt by waddling down the slope to the marshy edge of the shallow waters, then hopping into the cool wetness and swimming across the pond to Blogger Island to write this post. Now, I need to change course and head to over to Aldi Island to search there. My guess though is: I may have to order a frozen flat billed defeathered quacker from an online poultry monger. The hunt continues.

 

All the best,

Glenn B

 

 

Kristi Noem

 I have never had much negativev to say about president Trump except maybe that I think he should speak along the lines of being more presidential instead of him using speech more resembling the trash talk I believe is a characteristic of Dan Bongino when he crtisizes those he opposes. one other thing, and it goes hand in hand with what I justbsaid, is I think President Trump sometimes reacts, to his disdatisfaction with people, more like a Democrat (aka: a spoiled rotten child) than like a well mannered conservative man.

 Today though things are different. I am absolutely befuddled as to why he has reportedly ousted Kristi Noem from DHS and moved her to another probably less critical position. I worked my entire career in federal law enforcement, always within agencies the main duties of which were the protection of the borders of the USA and mostly 

 enforcement of  Immigration and Custom's laws. My career spanned just over 32 years. In all that time, I never saw a Department head more competent, or even equal, to Kristi Noem - in any department within the US government. She was competent in as much as she knew the law more than well enough to do the job, was extremely well spoken, stayed cool under pressure, was absolutely firm in her resolve to keep our borders secure while also keeping all of our nation secure internally as well, was and remains a true patriot and was extremely loyal to President Trump but also, and much more importantly than loyalty to the president, she was loyal to the United States of America. Butvshe pissed off Trump recently in testimony to Congress over something if true that was probably at most an embarassment to the president andvas is too often the case, in my opinion, he had an overly emotional reaction on an interpersonal and out she went. For Trump to have done to her what Democrats have been trying to do to her (and in essence to him) by ousting her is a shameful disgrace in my estimation. I think, it highlights one of his true weaknesses, his vengeful over reacting to what I believe he wrongly takes as as disloyalty. 

 

I strongly believe, he should be apologizing to her and begging her to return to her position as number 1 at DHS. His replacement has little to no experience to qualify him for the position from ehat I have read about him but honestly I need to do morev research on that. Instead of disposing of her as if her outstanding level of competence and loyalty could easily be bested or even matched, he and the country would have been betterboff, in my opunion, had hevshown her half as much loyalty as she gave to him. Instead of firing her, he should have awarded her with the highest of acolades and the greatest of honors. Presudent Trump's knee jerk reaction is something I would have expected of president Biden had he found someone in his administration who was even half as competent as was Kristi Noem when it came to the protection of our borders, the protection of our legal resident aliens, enforcement of our laws and her loyalty to the president and as I said above more importantly her loyalty to the USA.

 

 All the best,

Glenn B