Telling it like it is, or it should be, or like it's going to be, or the way I wish it would be, or the way my girlfriend who just yelled at me told me it is
What a crazy time…. ICE raids and protests. What I noticed is that almost all people that are at these protests are white liberals maybe with some conservative centrists that don’t like what they define as a “police state” when you have armed ICE Agents in masks just putting their gardeners and landscapers and cheap as fuck roofers and contractor help in vans and SUV’s for unknown reasons. In all fairness, some of them are Hispanic, that were definitely born here and don’t have immediate family that are at “risk” and didn’t really see too many African American folks, mainly because they are sticking with the motto “my name is Bennit and I ain’t in it”. Maybe that’s a smart move but white folks are definitely not loving any infringement or what they see as government overreach. White folks are hard core.
To make sense of this, I’ll put this in a way that people might be able to understand. The illegal entry to the U.S. is a misdemeanor, with a small fine and the possibility of 3 months in jail, which usually never happens, what usually happens is that they are deported right away with the word Hi-Tech imprinted on their ass from the bottom of the combat boot that was there a second ago. The entry of illegal immigrants has actually made money for the country if looking at it with a macro lens. Driving without a license carries a heftier fine with the possibility of 6 months in jail. People driving without a license creates harm because it raises insurance premiums on folks that do things the right way and it takes money away from the states and federal government because they are not paying the required fees.
Are they now going to stop every person driving to make sure they have a license? No.. they are going to wait until they commit another infraction, like running a red light and catch them and then add the extra charge of driving without a license because it is just a hassle and huge waste of time to stop everyone to make sure they have a license even though they create more harm then people being here illegally.
Don’t you think that would be a better approach for illegal immigrants? There’s a reason why there are so many illegal immigrants still here, its because 99% of them don’t do anything wrong.
Well, what do you know…. spending all your money on one guy doesn’t make you the best team in baseball. I’m going to tell you right now that I knew that was going to happen after it happened. Soto is a talent but I would have rather had 5 really good pitchers with that money unless they won the world series than I would have said it was my plan to get Soto all along. But that’s baseball or any situation where 20/20 is hindsight…. I know its the other way around but it makes sense that way too. If the Mets had made it to the World Series, than Stearns is a genius but if you don’t than Stearns made a bad call, but he wasn’t the only one. Soto should have been used as a DH more often, pitching went sideways really fast, injuries seem to look for the Mets, egos are big in that dugout with all that money, they need to try harder and earn that cash, especially on defense and maybe the biggest thing of all is that you need energy in that dugout. Jose Iglesias was a good player but he was also full of energy and he was contagious with that energy. Alvarez has that energy but he isn’t a veteran like Iglesias. I almost guarantee that Iglesias is the piece of the puzzle that made the Mets great, I’m guessing. I’m not in that locker room but on the field and at bats, that guy was pure emotion on the sleeve. He got people going, or it seemed that way and I noticed that you didn’t have that there this season except for Alvarez. You really need that. You need a never say quit guy, we can do it even though you are 5 runs down in the ninth guy, the I can’t believe we lost even though you were down 10 runs in the last inning guy…. I think that might be what the NY Mets are missing most. A spark.
Here’s a clue for you… retain Alonso, get some pitching and get that crazy energy fucker even if he is bi-polar. You really need a “never say die” guy.
You know what’s funny, is the irony of the name of the Documentary. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard on CNN that Trump is no King and that there are no Kings in America and that this country has no Kings.
So what do they name their Documentary on the son of JFK, the revered and venerated late President that was murdered by some sociopath, the “American Prince”.
You can’t make this stuff up.
And yes, I watch CNN… they actually have some very neutral coverage.
As everyone knows, Israel and Iran aren’t exactly Domino partners and they have cancelled all there mahjong events. The Middle East has become one of intense focus and scrutiny and any decision being made can have severe consequences. The game went from Old Maid to Crazy Eights to War. All of this because of one person’s belief that the other person should not exist. The hatred by these two parties are going to create a situation that can have long lasting affects on every aspect of everyone’s life. This is a stupid war made by stupid people that are old and act like children. The impact by these narcissists can be severe.
Some moron believes that their religion tells them that they must hate someone because they are of another religion…. you have to follow this…. a religion that says you have to hate someone…. that isn’t a real religion or maybe the person that is interpreting that religion is a stupid old man that just wants to hate someone. Iran’s Supreme Leader stating that all Zionists must be wiped off the face of the earth or something to that effect. “Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad frequently used inflammatory language, stating in 2005 that Israel must be “erased from the page of time” or “wiped off the map”. This statement has been widely interpreted as a call for the physical destruction of Israel” and “Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has also made statements critical of Israel, calling it a “cancerous tumor that must be uprooted”. He has clarified that his call for Israel’s destruction does not equate to the annihilation of all Jews, but rather the demise of the state of Israel“. To be fair, the other side has made similar remarks but to be absolutely fair, Iran made them first.
Given those previous statements and if Iran would get nuclear grade weapons, even though Iran has stated that their purpose is not to use nuclear weapons on Israel, do you think they are being straight forward? Do you think they would sneak a dirty bomb to one of their proxies like Hezbollah or the Houthis? What would a nuclear war look like in the Middle East? Iran or Israel bombs the other and then the retaliation by the other side….. Given that most of the oil comes from the Middle East, that would severely hinder any and all gas run products, Elon Musk and Tesla would become de facto world dictator as their cars would take over (just kidding), the nuclear fallout would make a lot of that area unlivable. The nuclear fallout would affect so many countries it would paralyze the world. It would affect the prices and wages of every living person and thing. These are just some of the small things that I can think of. All because of hatred by some old morons that should be put away in a home and not be in charge of anything. It’s your old grandpa that keeps yelling get off of my lawn that is in charge over there.
These old folks are pure hatred and if they teach us anything they teach us that pure hatred solves nothing and creates way more problems. They have no reason to hate one another, they just do. Some of these old folks are a hoot…. Whatever the U.S. decides to do, it has no good choices. It has been put in a spot that you can’t win. That’s hatred for you….
Hatred…. pure hatred has severe consequences…. you hear that immigration hawks….. learn from these dumb dumbs…. stop the pure hatred.
Thank God that ICE was around, I heard that baby was a felon that murdered a cow for the milk.
The one thing that I can’t understand is that your main competitor in manufacturing is whooping you because it has cheap labor and not only is it cheap but they are good, effective workers. That makes them a double threat. That make good products at a cheap price. The only thing this country has to combat them is immigrants, who believe it or not are good cheap labor. They are not only good, they are excellent labor that works for cheap, giving this country a chance to combat the Chinese. While this immigrant labor will not be able to work highly technical jobs, they work the demanding mundane jobs that Americans will not do no matter how much you pay them. So why get rid of them, not the criminals, the criminals will end up costing more than they are worth but the ones that you didn’t know were here. The ones that work the farms, the kitchens, the hotel cleaners, the construction workers, the house cleaners.
Your thought is that you are going to get people that are on government assistance to do the jobs that these people were doing. These hard demanding jobs that while not highly technical in the sense they are not coding computers, they are physically demanding and take skill and patience while hardly paying anything. Well, you are dead wrong and its the worst economic move a country can do. This country was built on slave labor and you are not going to get an U.S. citizen to work that hard for that cheap and you are not going to get these companies to pay that much for shitty labor…. so what’s going to happen is, they are going to move their job overseas, thus defeating your intention of bringing manufacturing to America in the first place.
Now, I’m not the smartest person in the world, hell, I’m not even the smartest person in the room and I’m by myself but I know that getting rid of the cheapest hardest working labor force in America is the most idiotic move any one person can do, so why do it? Pure hatred. This guy, Stephen Miller, reminds me of what can happen when God isn’t paying attention and Hitler is reincarnated and for some reason sets his gaze on Hispanics. Well, the old saying of be careful what you wish for because you might get it might be the most appropriate sentiment. The over the top raids and that the FBI somehow now have become Immigration officers as well and surround a restaurant to go after the busboy is absolutely ridiculous. But one day, you will get what you want and then we can all laugh and laugh at how the economy has collapsed because people can’t afford to keep their businesses open creating a deficit in tax collection and forcing the rich to pay way more, to wit, they will set up residence in France.
Change in society requires an erosion technique not a tornado technique. This means that change you want should be subtle and over time not abrupt and expect people to just go along with what you want. You are out of touch with real society and it will back fire in a big way.
In the end, the Chinese plan of stealing all your proprietary secrets to all your hi tech stuff and then stop manufacturing your stuff all together and force you to buy their stuff or go without will work because Americans are dumb and addicted to youtube and Tiktok and can’t think beyond a four word phrase “Show me the money”.
Pictured in uniform is Jose Mendoza Lopez and pictured with the sign is Harvey Milk. Recently, there has been some discussion on the removal of Harvey Milk’s name being removed from a Navy Replenishment Oiler. For those who don’t know, that’s a Navy ship, whose main mission is to re-supply other ships or military bases with needed items. While not exactly a “battle ship”, it still serves an important role in keeping the Navy running smoothly. The political left is outraged and stating that you don’t have anything better than to do than renaming a ship, while some have said that the only reason that they are doing it is because Harvey Milk was gay and it’s a clear sign of homophobia. The right is saying that it is an honor to have a Military frigate named after you and it should go to the most deserving and should be something with a warrior mentality that makes you proud to serve on it.
So who is right? Should thought be put into naming Military bases and freighters and equipment or should any old name be used? How about the USS Dahmer, that would terrify our opposition. Nothing stokes fear into the enemy more than a cannibal. How about the USS Liberace? If we can’t kill them we will show tune them to death. We can even bedazzle the boat with little gems and rhinestones. The truth is that the ship should have been named something else in the first place.
Harvey Milk’s claim to fame is that he broke some kind of barrier by becoming the first openly gay person to serve in an elected office, in San Francisco…. California. Milk did serve in the military but did not serve in combat but was in the military during the Korean War. Milk was discharged on an “other than honorable” service category from the military, most likely due to his homosexuality but it’s not clear what happened. Milk was also said to have pursued a sexual relationship with a 16 year old boy while he was in his 30’s but was never charged. Some accounts place the child at 17 while others state that they didn’t do anything sexual until the person was 18. It’s really not clear what happened but in all honesty, do you think that the Democrats made the right call naming a ship after this guy?
The other guy pictured above is Jose M Lopez. He was a Medal of Honor recipient who was credited for single handedly saving his whole company. His accommodation, who was written by his commander and told by eye witnesses, reads as such: “On his own initiative, he carried his heavy machine gun from Company K’s right flank to its left in order to protect that flank, which was in danger of being overrun by advancing enemy infantry supported by tanks. Occupying a shallow hole offering no protection above his waist, he cut down a group of 10 Germans. Ignoring enemy fire from an advancing tank, he held his position and cut down 25 more enemy infantry attempting to turn his flank. Glancing to his right, he saw a large number of infantry swarming in from the front. Although dazed and shaken from the enemy artillery fire that had crashed into the ground only a few yards away, he realized that his position would soon be outflanked. Again, alone, he carried his machine gun to a position to the right rear of the sector; enemy tanks and infantry were forcing a withdrawal. Blown backward by the concussion of enemy fire, he immediately reset his gun and continued his fire. Single-handedly, he held off the German horde until he was satisfied that his company had effected its retirement. Again, he loaded his gun on his back, and in a hail of small arms fire, he ran to a point where a few of his comrades were attempting to set up another defense against the onrushing enemy. He fired from this position until his ammunition was exhausted. Still carrying his gun, he fell back with his small group to Krinkelt. Sgt. López’s gallantry and intrepidity, on seemingly suicidal missions in which he killed at least 100 of the enemy were almost solely responsible for allowing Company K to avoid being enveloped, to withdraw successfully and to give other forces coming up in support time to build a line which repelled the enemy drive.”
Given the bravery of Msgt. Lopez and the accusations of Mr. Milk, why is it that the Demos are so up in arms about the renaming of the ship, even though it probably won’t be named after Msgt. Lopez? The Demos had a decision to make and they decided to name a ship after a pedophile just because he was gay and for no other reason. If Milk had been gay and saved his company, it would be a different story, but he was gay and pursued a minor. If Milk had not been gay, the Demos wouldn’t even care who he was. Do you see why people are losing faith in the Democrats? They put zero thought into their decisions that they make and then complain when someone tries to correct them with some kind of unhinged political correctness and warped sense of right and wrong. It’s incredibly stupid that we even have to discuss this. Msgt. Lopez, who put his life on the line and saved countless lives with his bravery has no military items named after him but the guy that got elected by other gay people somehow deserves to be immortalized.
My advice to the democrats, stop crying over spilled Milk.
Except for the Lopez vs Barboza fight… which was good…No Benn vs Eubanks fireworks special, the only thing fatal here was the money I spent on this that I could have spent on something else…. anything else… like Tariffs, that would have been more entertaining. Congrats to Lopez, Haney and Romero. Don’t fight in New York anymore, it’s has bad juju…. (not being anti-semitic)
I definitely will not waste another dime on a Haney fight, Garcia is teetering on the brink of me not spending any cash on any of his fights and I sure as heck will not pay for a Garcia vs Haney fight. I’m better off making a campfire with that money, at least that will produce some heat.
Alright, it’s going to be three great pick ’em fights. Any fighter can win. They are all very talented. This blog is to address some dumb stuff that is being said because I can’t believe it needs to be said. Bill Haney is stating that Garcia looks smaller and less fit then last time. That Garcia looks smaller and slimmer. I can’t believe this needs to be said but if you look smaller and weigh more, that means that your muscles are denser or you are more fit. If you look big but weigh less, that means you have less muscle. Muscle weighs more than fat, so if you look tiny and weigh the same as a person that looks like a body builder, that means you are one strong son of a bitch. You understand that? By Bill Haney stating that Garcia looks smaller this time and looked bigger last time but weighed less last time and weighs more this time, it means that Garcia was probably not on PED’s. Does that make sense? PED’s make you weigh more because they thicken your muscle. So looking bigger but weighing less probably means that Garcia was injured and had too much cortisol in his system and most likely didn’t do the cryo (ice) baths or used the cryo machine to let his muscles heal probably and was full of cortisol, (did I already say that?), which makes you look bloated but doesn’t weigh as much as muscle and actually makes you tire faster and makes you weaker. So, with all of Bill Haney’s accusations, he is only saying that a weaker version of Garcia beat his son. You don’t believe me, you can ask any Exercise Physiologist or Kinesiologist if what I just said is true and they will tell you that it is. Mr. Haney is making a case that Garcia was not on PED’s that night but was injured.
As for the fights, If Romero lands flush, it’s good night Garcia but Garcia knows that. If Garcia lands flush, it’s good night Rolly, but Rolly knows that. The only thing we should hope for is that neither care and they are here to put on a show for the fans. 50-50 fight in my opinion.
For Haney vs. Ramirez, I think Ramirez has the power edge but I think that Haney has the slickness edge. In Ramirez’ loss against Taylor, it would have been a draw if he hadn’t gotten careless and hit the canvas. That’s saying something about Jose’s recuperative ability. Haney doesn’t have the same kind of recuperative ability, if he gets hurt, he stays hurt for a couple of rounds but he is a real slick fighter that probably won’t put himself in that position. Everyone says this will be the snoozer of the three, I don’t know. If Ramirez had a good camp and forces Haney to come to him, this might be a barn burner. Haney can’t afford to lose three in a (almost) row (Some people say he lost to Loma, he lost to Garcia, even though it was reversed and if he loses now, it will be 3). He will have to prove his bona fides if he wants to headline ever again. Haney is teetering on becoming irrelevant, so he needs to come out hard. If he wins but wins boring or lackluster, he might not even get the Garcia rematch. He needs to be the person everyone is talking about at the end of the night, in a good way not in a “maybe he doesn’t have a chin” way. For Ramirez, compadre, put your faith in God and your corner. Make Haney come to you. If you take a half step back and to your right or left, all of that slickness of Haney’s goes away. Use the stick often and you will put Haney in a position where he has to play catch up, then make it a dog fight. That guarantees you a win and maybe a KO.
Lopez vs Barboza…. In all honesty this fight will either be the best fight of the year or the fight I go to the store to buy chips. Barboza has looked…. both elite level and amateurish. Against Catterall and Ramirez, he looked like a superstar. Against McComb, I got a hematoma. I fell asleep and hit my head on the coffee table. I looked like Hasim Rahman when he fought Oleg Maskeav. You have to be a boxing fan to know what I’m talking about. First, let me say that Ramirez was his most difficult fight, even though he made it look easy. The scores were closer in the Catterall fight but that’s because he was fighting in England on DAZN and everyone was pushing a Catterall versus Lopez fight, which would have seen Lopez knock Catterall out in 8 rounds. Barboza won that running away. Against Lopez, Barboza has to be something more than special, he has to be a top ten performer. Lopez is probably the best fighter in this line up. If anyone was born with boxing gloves on, it was this kid. He is a generational talent, so beating him makes you that. The only knock on Lopez is outside influences. They mess with this kid and make it hard on him. If the fight is fair, no outside influence, even though I like Barboza as a person, Lopez wins it. Barboza can prove me wrong but the one thing that Lopez has over everyone is his Boxing IQ and awareness mixed with some God like speed. It’s an almost insurmountable advantage but he does have a loss on his record, so it can be done. But I know it was because they were messing with him, not to take away from Kambosos’ effort. He was extremely on point that night. George would have beaten almost anyone that night. I give this fight to the Hispanic guy… he’ll be the winner unless Bill Haney jumps in there and whoops both of them, but then Oscar is going to break out that left hook…. this is already getting crazy.
Good luck to all of the fighters and thanks for agreeing to these fights. Boxing is back again thanks to you. Here’s hoping that I don’t have any hematomas. You guys have to make it more exciting that Benn v Eubanks. It will be hard to do that but you need to try.
You want to resolve the manufacturing problem? Pass a law that says if you are a company making a certain amount of money in America, you must have at least 5 to 10 percent of your product made in America or go sell somewhere else, product gets banned. Given that we buy more products than the next three top countries put together, you won’t have enough people to fill the manufacturing jobs that will be at your doors. Problem solved. You don’t only go after the countries that have real cheap labor but also the companies that are greedy and profit off of that cheap labor.
mannysblog.com 