The Rise of the Losers

Rachel Levine

These days it's great to be a man in America, and especially if you're a loser. Turns out that male losers can morph into winners in our society. Taking it from the top, our current president Joe Biden graduated 76th in a class of 85 students in law school. Not only that, but he lied about it for years, saying while campaigning for the Senate that he finished in the top half of his class. What a total loser! But no more; now he's a winner, with his own private airplane, tons of money and lots of personal bodyguards! 

Lia Thomas

Average or even below average men who are losers at a particular sport can just pop some pills and declare themselves women, then compete with the ladies and beat them all because of their innate greater strength. Presto chango, suddenly they are winners! This just happened to swimmer Lia Thomas, a man pretending to be a woman at the University of Pennsylvania who became the first "transgender" athlete to win an NCAA Division 1 title in the Women's 500-yard Freestyle event last night. (She/he/it formerly swam on the men's team but was a loser.)

Perhaps the best loser to winner story is that of U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, who has just been honored by USA TODAY as one of America's "Women of the Year." This is quite something since Rachel is a man, as you can plainly see in the photograph at the the top of this post. Yes, we call them transgenders, and I don't know the details of what's inside his/her underwear, but I will say that the "transition" is a lot less convincing than my last Halloween costume when I went as a cat.

Wicked Witches Abound

People suck. That's all there is to it. You can't say they don't. Yesterday Vladimir Putin had his armies deliberately bomb a building where children were taking shelter in Ukraine. The building had the word "Children" scrawled all over the outside of it. Still, the Russians dropped their bombs. Vladimir Putin is a person, like you and me, and he did that.

Certainly most average people do not rise to Putin's level of evil, but many ordinary folks come damn close. Years ago my sister-in-law, who I had been showering with expensive gifts for her and her three kids for at least 20 years each Christmas and birthday, presented me with a little $1.49 book called "The Book of Insults" for Christmas. That did it for me; I was done with her and I have not missed her for a minute. In fact, my life has vastly improved from the day I stopped having her be a part of it.

Then there are strangers who say terrible things to you online, even though they know nothing about you and your personal struggles. One of those is a woman named Sharon Larimore of Amarillo, Texas. I don't know her but today she commented on a negative movie review I had posted online, "Trash blog."

I'm guessing Sharon did not agree with my review. She must have liked that movie. That's the only thing I can think of, since we don't know each other. She has no idea that I wake up each morning battling pain  that has been with me since October and which still defies diagnosis. (An upcoming MRI might reveal the answer.) For all Sharon knows I have terminal cancer or MLS or any number of horrible things going on. I may have recently lost a child to a drug overdose. Maybe my husband was recently killed in a car accident, or I lost my beloved Corgi to liver disease and had to put him down the day before I wrote that movie review. Sharon doesn't know! Yet she chose to write something so nasty and for no reason. Why? What's the payoff from insulting strangers? Does it feel good?

No wonder wars keep happening. People are inherently jealous, mean and power-hungry. Does Sharon feel better after writing that my movie review is "trash"? How could that possibly help her in any way. Anyway, thanks a lot Sharon Larimore of Amarillo, Texas for starting this brand new day off on a very sour note for me. I wish I could drop a house on you.

Diversity Is Overrated

Fun in the sun in The Villages.

Several weeks ago the New York Times Magazine featured a story about The Villages, America's largest retirement community. I only glanced at it since I had little interest in the subject, having seen a documentary about it not long ago. This week's Review section of the Times carried letters from readers pertaining to that story. I read those with great interest, as I am always wondering who reads that paper. (Not me, I only do the Sunday crossword puzzle.)

I was not surprised to learn that the readers of that slanted liberal rag are (mostly) a bunch of parroting, small-minded boobs. The overriding comment about the article, and complaint about the Villages, was that it is comprised of mostly white Christians. Located in Florida, the land of the retiree, readers were outraged that so many people would choose to live in a place lacking diversity.

What's that? Old folks looking to spend their remaining years pleasantly in a peaceful community without any crime? No looting? No gay protests, police brutality, carjackings, rapes, stabbings or break-ins? No violent drug trafficking or drive-by shootings? Just beautiful days spent playing golf and taking dance lessons and exercising and enjoying sunlight cruises? Having drinks on the hot-tub deck with like-minded friends? How dare they? Obviously they are all worthless pieces of crap, at least according to the authors of the printed letters. 

I lived in Washington, D.C. for 30 years and experienced diversity up to my eyeballs. Sure, there were interesting people, exciting theater, great restaurants and a vibrant night life. But I walked my dog around the block every night carrying a baseball bat. (Me, not the dog.) We had a security system in our home. I locked my door when I rolled the trash bins down the driveway to the street. I had two cars stolen, several friends murdered, a couple raped, was mugged, robbed and barely slept at night. 

Now I live in Maine with its shameful "lack of diversity" and I've slept like a baby for more than a dozen years. To all those aging baby boomers living it up in The Villages, I say "Rock on!"

Look Who's Teaching Our Kids!

At a NY elementary school, the teacher wore a mask (??) while students did not.

The photo above is truly chilling. While New York City permitted all students to unmask themselves last week, some teachers opted to stay masked. The woman above did so-- or did she? Does she not understand, after two years of mask-wearing, that it must cover both the NOSE and the MOUTH to be most effective, or ineffective according to some people?

God knows what other bad information this teacher has imparted. Two and two is six? George Washington discovered Utah? All Republicans are evil? Or is she simply discussing their gender preferences? I'm guessing her pronouns are he/his.

 

Even West Point Isn't West Point Anymore

What's left to believe in these days? Very little. Underscoring this sad truth is the unhappy overdose party of six West Point cadets on spring break in Florida who ingested cocaine laced with fentanyl a few days ago. Obviously none of them were thinking of the Cadet Creed:

"As a future officer, I am committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country. I am an aspiring member of the Army profession, dedicated to serve and earn the trust of the American People. It is my duty to maintain the honor of the Corps."

While they all survived, albeit with two in critical condition on ventilators, the damage is done. If this is what West Pointers  are up to (who knew they even went on Spring Break?), we can expect little more from the poor schlumps who barely graduate from high school or manage to get their degrees from  mediocre, non-creed schools like the University of Delaware.*

Basically, as China and Russia canoodle and discuss how to rule the world, we in America are on our own. I say order prepper food, which I did first thing this morning. With a 25-year shelf life, I'm betting my son will appreciate it sometime in his life, perhaps after I'm long gone. It's the least a mother can do.

*Joe Biden's alma mater.

Dummy Democrats

It's hard to know just how dumb the Dems are, but there are clues. Realizing that their current slogan "Build Back Better" is not working for them since Biden has not built anything back or made anything better or in fact built anything at all, at recent meeting of party bigwigs desperate to save their sinking ship Nancy Pelosi suggested  the slogan "Democrats Deliver." But wait -- the whole problem with the first one is that they haven't delivered anything!

Apparently Nancy likes pithy slogans that do well as bumper stickers. Here are a few suggestions she might consider:

GRAMPA KNOWS BEST

Hot Sauce for All!

We're Not Trump😃

Don't Worry: Kamala's Going Away

We'll Protect You!

BETTER VOTE REPUBLICAN

Don't Say Nose Picker

A group of kindergartners enjoying story time.

The bill currently being discussed in Florida regarding the teaching of sexual orientation in public schools has absolutely nothing to do with banning the word "gay." Yet frenzied Democrats -- is there any other kind? -- are plotzing over it, and have nicknamed it the "Don''t Say Gay" bill. This is ridiculous --  not quite but almost as ridiculous as Joe Biden choosing Kamala Harris to be Vice President. (Nothing could top that.) 

Along with some other things unrelated to this topic, the seven-page Florida bill states: "Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate." 

Come on, people -- do we really need kindergartners to be talking about their sexual orientation? Have you ever met a child that young who A, gives a shit about it or B, even knows what it is? Instead teachers should be explaining to these youngsters that it is inappropriate to pick one's nose and then eat the contents found therein. Now that's a bipartisan bill we can all support, although Democrats would likely complain that it's unfair to nose pickers who are in a protected class all by themselves, or at least should be.

Kamala Harris Still Stupid

“So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that’s wrong, and it goes against everything that we stand for.” 

My post yesterday claimed that Kamala Harris is an idiot. Naturally there was pushback from other idiots who thought I was wrong to point that out. One of her supporters offered the original thought, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

I'm sticking to my story and present as evidence her statement (shown above in boldface) explaining  the Ukraine war to the listeners of a popular radio broadcast, when asked by the host to do so.

I rest my case.

Idiotic Women of Color

"Giggles" Harris

Obviously being black or brown or tan or beige or whatever color you are that makes you a "woman of color" does not preclude you being a moron. Two clear examples are Kamala Harris, a.k.a. Vice President Giggles, and Joy Reid, a.k.a. Angry Racist on TV.

Harris is in Poland, God knows why -- maybe just to get her the hell out of Washington for a few days -- and with a horrific war raging in Ukraine and many people dying, she still does her classic giggle in front of cameras during a press conference with the Polish president. Oh God she is such a loser, and a black woman too! Who knew -- I thought they all walked on water.

Then there's Joy Reid (at right), the worst thing to ever happen to TV and the black race, saying that the coverage of the Ukraine war was over the top because the Ukrainians are white and it would far be less if they were black. Someone should stop her before she undoes all the progress of the entire civil rights movement. 

Both women prove that even if you are a "woman of color," you can still be an idiot. Let's hope the next Supreme Court Justice isn't one of those.

Lock Up the Doofuses

How low can we go in debasing Man's Best Friend?

While Western propaganda may be exaggerating things, Russia certainly seems to be a bad place where freedoms are greatly hampered, if not altogether banished, under the evil Putin. The latest reports are that any Russian citizen who openly calls the current Ukraine conflagration a "war" could (and likely will) be imprisoned for 15 years. That's rough, considering it is a war and one is punished for speaking truth.

Here in America things are much better. You usually only go to jail for committing heinous crimes or lying under oath, although errors are made and stories abound of people who have served long prison sentences before being found innocent of all charges. But perhaps we are too lenient in this country. I can think of several crimes against humanity that are completely permissible that should instead send the perpetrators to prison for a while until they come to their senses. The most egregious of these follow:

Anyone referring to a growing fetus (which will eventually become a new human being) a "baby bump" and posting naked pictures of said bump online. No wonder so many women have abortions with such ease; after all, it's just smoothing out a bump.

Fat celebrities posting nude and/or topless photos of themselves on Instagram and Twitter, claiming to be proud of their self-described "curvy" bodies. Curvy is one thing; fat is fat and it ain't pretty.

Pet owners who take their dogs everywhere, transporting them in baskets, backpacks or even full-flown baby strollers. The pathetic pooches show up in restaurants, on airplanes, in hotels and of course stuck inside parked cars, sometimes for hours, their frenzied barks from inside their prisons -- frigid in winter and stifling hot in summer -- filling the air.

Married or otherwise allegedly loving couples sitting across from one another in restaurants, scrolling through their cell phones for the entire meal, even after the food has arrived. Shame on them!

Life could be a dream, at least in this country, if only there weren't so many doofuses at large.

World Obesity Day, No Kidding!

My mind is blown, but I will try to carry on. Today's issue of USA Today carries a full page ad, half of which is shown above, asking editors around the world to stop using the word "obese." The writers of this ad (all likely ginormous themselves) claim that obesity is a chronic disease and not the fault of the fatty, I mean whale, I mean obese person. They can't help it! It's a chronic illness!

Well I'd like to know -- is it contagious? Because if it is I will wear a mask forever, or do anything necessary not to catch it. And if it is a disease, how come some people get it after they lived for many years as a thin person? Like Dan Akroyd and Chevy Chase and Kathleen Turner and Hillary Clinton and Jack Nicholson and especially Elizabeth Taylor, now dead but once thin and then really fat. Is it brought on by age or by too many potato chips, French fries, ice cream sundaes and stuff like that? Do those "living with obesity" suddenly develop an overwhelming craving to eat crap?

And by the way, I would like to ask everyone, especially editors of all newspapers and magazines, to stop using the word "old" as it is demeaning and no fault of the targeted person or persons. They are simply "living with additional years." It's not their fault!

Really, let's eliminate age bias as there are many, many people "living with advanced years" despite all their attempts to stay young. I am sick of being defined by my birth year. At least fat people, I mean those living with obesity, can alter their miserable condition by laying off the garbage foods. Being old is irreversible and thus deserves our sympathy -- not to mention respect -- much more.

Oh yeah, Happy World Obesity Day! Go out and celebrate.