Pet Peeves

 

I think we all have pet peeves and yet I don’t see pictures of them on FaceBook like cats or dogs. My first peeve is about polls. No, not about fence polls, stripper dancing polls or people who live in Poland.  I am talking about public opinion polls. 

I don’t pay much attention to polls. I know how I would like this election to turn out, but I don’t know what is really going to happen.  What I am very tired of is the media constantly showing the latest polls and then comparing them to 2016 when Clinton ran against Trump.  I guess it would sorta make sense if Clinton were running against Trump now, but she is not.  Not only is Clinton not there, but Trump is not the same unknown quantity. Four years ago, many people thought that Trump was the character that he played on The Apprentice. 

 Here it is four years later and we know for a fact from the things he has done and said that he is an incompetent, ignorant, homophobic,  misogynistic, racist asshole.  A person may disagree with Joe Biden's ideology, but he has spent most of his life in public service without a single scandal.  Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton are two completely different candidates running in two different elections so how can you compare the numbers?  

Another peeve is constantly hearing a conservative say the word liberal with a sneer.  Yes, I consider myself a liberal and yet I don’t say the word conservative with a sneer.  So, I thought we should compare the two words.  

Here is the definition of liberal as Webster puts it:

Open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values and concerned with broadening a person’s general knowledge and experience, rather than with technical or professional training.

Synonyms of liberals. Progressive, forward-looking, free-thinking, tolerant, unbigoted, unbiased, indulgent.

As to the definition of conservative Webster says:

Holding on to traditional attitudes and values. Cautious about change or innovation.

Synonyms of conservatives.  Old-fashioned, unchanging, hidebound, timid, unadventurous.

  In my opinion, if the first man had been a conservative, we wouldn’t have fire or the wheel or anything else and we would still be living in caves.  To sum it up, on being liberal, I believe The Isley Brothers said it best with “It’s your thing, do what you want to do.”

 

Another pet peeve is about NASCAR.  I’m a big fan and have watched and followed racing most of my life.  My peeve is that NASCAR has a really crappy website.  They will have a big headline that a person would think is a big story and when you click on it, it’s a few pictures. No story, nothing but a picture with no headline…..nothing.  It seems like if they have the people who can build a car to go 200 miles per hour they could build a website that had some decent information.

 

Here is another podcast I would like to recommend.  These folks were nice enough to feature an aircheck of me from my old radio daze. It is near the end at the 32 minute mark on episode 22.

http://www.whathappenedtoradio.com/

 

Stay tuned for future adventures.

More Bubbles From My Soapbox

 

Evidently the NFL’s motto is “We will play until somebody dies.” Seems to me like that is carrying the Sudden Death thing a little too far.  When a spokesman for the league was asked about the dangers of Covid19, he said, “Hell, we have guys playing that have brain damage, what’s a little flu between friends?”  Instead of playing the national anthem before the games I understand they are going to start playing “Macho Man.”

President Dumbass proved how little he thinks of the Secret Service members who protect him from harm by making them take him on a joy ride around the hospital so he could wave to his cult members. He could have at least called The Proud Boys to give him a lift, providing any of them are old enough to have a driver’s license.

Mark (Sycophant) Meadows,  Trumpypoo’s Chief of Dumb Stuff, is actually blaming the Secret Service for giving the virus to President Dumbass.  Let me remind you one more time where the Republicans find assholes like Mark.

 

When asked yesterday if the number of Republican Senators now testing positive for Covid19 would stop the confirmation of Amy (Handmaiden) Barrett,  Arkansas Senator Tom (My brain is made of) Cotton said they would just wheel the infected Senators in to the chamber to vote. It is pretty obvious that Traitor Tom’s I.Q. test came back negative. With Senators like this bonehead it is quite easy to see why Arkansas is ranked #49^th in health care and #42 in Education.

 

Trumpypoo’s De-Pressing Secretary Kayleigh (Unveracious) McEnamy has tested positive for Covid19.  She said she was just following orders to keep positive while her cult-leader was away. 

Chris (Pillsbury Dough Boy) Christy has also tested positive. Chris said he didn't want the President to think he was a negative influence. 

 

President Dumbass has tweeted that he is leaving the hospital this afternoon.  I’m pretty sure they have him so jacked-up on steroids that he thinks he is Superman. In his tweet he said, “Don’t be afraid of Covid19."  Well yeah, if you can go to Walter Reed Hospital via helicopter,  get experimental drugs, a team of doctors at your beck and call and all at no cost, I guess so.  

However, his doctors have yet to mention the pre-existing condition he came in with:  Being an asshole.

His Covidness made it sound like he had just spent a few days at a health spa.   I wonder what the families of the 208,000 that have died think about that stupid statement.

I have not heard a word from First Lady Melanoma.  I understand she is hunkered down in the White House studying her prenup.

 

Another pod cast I want to recommend is www.mikeonmic.  It is hosted by Mike Wade, a good friend and one of the most talented people I ever had the privilege to work with. He talks about a variety of subjects that are always entertaining and intriguing. And his episodes are short and worth a listen.

 

 

 

 

Stay tuned for future adventures.