Just Sayin

  I was perusing YouTube, and came across the MLB 1979 All Star Game. I watched this game on TV, 14 at the time. This is my favorite, and the best All Start Game I have watched. So,Isat and watched it in its entirety, commercials included. Some of those commercials I had forgotten. The Chrysler Corporation commercials, the Polaroid commercials, with James Garner, and Mariette Hartley, and Indy Car racer Kevin Cogan with the SX-70 Camera. The Bell Telephone commercials, and all the catchy slogans.   Bell with their “the system is the solution.” Coke a Cola, and the catchy; “Have a Coke and Smile,” and “Coke is addsLife” memories. Some of my favorite players, played in this game. Fred Lynn hit a two run homer off of Steve Carlton, on a too high fastball with two out in the first inning. Nolan Ryan blew fastballs past everyone, including Garvey that was called a ball, and a walk that turned out to be the first run of the game. Tom Sever talking to Joe Garagiola about the Spli...

  Today Major League Baseball, or MLB, moved the All Star game from Atlanta Georgia. The reason thet gave, was that the Georgia Legislature passed stricter voter laws in the wake of the contested 2020 election. The new laws were intended to solve problems, either real, or perceived that were evident. Several Civil Rights Activists, and Organizations’ have contended that the new laws unfairly target minority voters disproportionately. Are the new laws really racist, unfair, and discriminatory? We as a sovereign nation have a right to set our own boundaries; when it comes to who votes, where they vote, and how the voting is administered. This administration is; the state, counties, local governments, and municipalities, authority. The new laws are not all that restrictive or discriminatory. Requiring someone to produce identification in order to vote, is no more discriminatory or racist than requiring identification to cash a check. In American society, identification must be pro...

I am, at times a hard, harsh, unforgiving, individual. In other words a hard case. Having been this way for some 48 of my 56 years, I have learned a thing or two about being that way. I learned if I were going to fight, no matter if the cause was right or wrong, then I had to accept the consequences whatever they were, no exceptions. To not whine about the consequences, because no one cares, and I brought it on myself. I learned that I would have to pay a cost in interpersonal relationships, meaning that some would not like, or tolerate my attitude. I did not care, and I was the way I had to be. I have always been responsible for the consequences of my words and actions, without exception. The fault was, is, and always will be mine. I hold people, especially politicians, to that same standard. The people who entered the Capitol illegally, during that January insurrection, and attempted coup, now have to face the consequences, of their words and actions. Losing jobs, being arrested, bei...

  A postmortem on the Trump trade policy. Donald Trump was touted as an economic genius. After all he has a degree from the most respected school of higher learning of economics in the U.S. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, or Wharton for short. He has had a career in business, and high finance, with some gains, and some losses, both spectacular, and dismal. So when he was elected, we were lead to believe that with this experience and knowledge, and his quote exceptional negotiating skills, that our economy, and trade would boom to 4% or even 5% growth, during his administration. Well, let us look at the numbers, to see if any of that bears out.   To begin with we were promised a 4% or5% GDP growth. The GDP was 2.9% when Trump took office, and Unemployment was 4.8%, the unemployment rate in Feb 2020 was 3.5%. Down 1.3%. While the drop is good, it is not spectacular, nor is it near historical. Growth rate for the last quarter before Covid, was 3.5%, and fo...

F or the record, what Sen. Cruz, and Sen Hawley did was called dissent, dissent is lawful in our country. So, not seating any Senators who participated, censure, or expulsion is inappropriate, and wrong. Cruz and his colleague’s voiced their dissent in the proper manner. Those at the Capitol on Wed, did not voice their dissent in the proper manner, at least not in a civilized society. Those at the Capitol will get their hands slapped, and Cruz et al; will get a hammered in a court of law, and public opinion, and that is the travesty, as it should be the other way around. The rule of law is the proper way to voice dissent, not sedition and insurrection. I, in no way agree with the way Cruz went about it. What I do agree with is that there is a problem. So what we need to do is solve the problem NOW, not near another, or after another election. There is going to have to be compromise, and that compromise is going to have to be hammered out in the coming months, weeks, and years. We mus...