On defense of farmers

ALLOW me to hold forth on something….actually, this is my BLOG so I will damned well do as I please.

Hopefully you have all heard of Mike Bloombergs arrogant comment that he could teach anyone to farm.  You know the one…”It doesn’t take smarts, you dig a hole, plant the seed, cover it with dirt, water it, and up comes the corn.”  The ignorance and arrogance in that comment are both monumental.

I live in farm country, have for years, and I know farmers, I am related to farmers, and I am NOT a farmer because…..quite frankly, I ain’t that smart.  Listen, if you are anything above a subsistence farmer, you have to know a lot, I mean A LOT, about the following.

A.   Banking and economics.

B.   Agriculture and horticulture.

C.  Weather.

D.  Soil.

E.  Mechanics (mechanical).

There is no bank in the world that is going to loan a farmer the money he needs to operate unless the farmer can reasonably assure the banker that he can repay that loan……and we are talking about HUGE loans.  I saw, in a local paper, a combine that sold at auction, used, for $350,000.00 dollars.  That is ONE farm machine…..that doesn’t include your basic tractor, trucks, the cost of renting or buying your own elevators…..that is ONE vehicle.  No  frigging, uneducated dirt farmer is getting a loan from a bank for that sort of money unless he can lay out a plan showing that he can pay it back…..that farmer has to understand banking, bankers and economics.

Which leads me to agriculture and economics.  I have family members that own significant amounts of land, and they are older and do no farm it; they lease it to local farmers.  Some of the details of the lease require the farmer to rotate crops, leave fields fallow as needed, and replace the nutrients of the land following each harvest.  In order to do this, the farmer, if he wants to continue his lease, must no the horticultural and agricultural approach to the land.  I am not REAL smart, but I know I could not pull that off.

On the issue of weather…..the only certain thing about the Midwest is that you are going to have some.  When to plant and when to harvest is dependent on temperature and, where I am at, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri, the rain…..and it rains a lot here.  And I am not talking about listening to the dude on channel 2 at 0600….I am talking about KNOWING weather, weather patterns, etc.

Soil?  To me soil is sand or dirt….okay, I am from the south, so clay as well.  I have no clue what soil is suitable for anything, what is appropriate for planting anything…but if you are a farmer, you have to know what is suitable for what crop and what nutrients should be added for maximum yield.

On the mechanics and the mechanical…who do you think does user level maintenance on that $350K harvester?  You got it…..the farmer.

And the same thing goes for dairy, cattle and pig farmers….hell, fish farmers……far more goes into farming than digging a whole and dropping seeds in it.

Bloombergs’ comments are typical of the coastal elite.  This nation, or farmers feed a significant part of humanity.  What they do is hard….they work day and night, seven days a week…….and the disdain Bloomberg has shown them is not worthy of the farmers of this nation, and Bloomberg is not worthy of their vote.

SHOCK!!! This is my shocked face!

In a nation that had an honest press, this story right here, would be front page news in every print outlet. However, this is a nation that does NOT have an honest press.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alan-dershowitz-obama-george-soros

I have $10 that says that MSNBC, CNN, NEWSWEEK.COM, VOX, SLATE, WAPO, NYT…….all of them will cover the part where over 1000 former prosecutors called for AG Barrs resignation.  They will blow past the fact that Barr himself has said that he has information that Obama asked his AG to look into someone as a personal favor to Soros……those platforms I mentioned above will not even mention it.

Let me clue you in to something….they are “former” prosecutors, for a reason.

This entire story is an homage to the corruption and double standard of the left.  For members of congress to demand Barr’s impeachment or being Trumps’ wingman after Holder specifically said he was Obamas’ wingman, is ludicrous.   Holder did exactly what Obama wanted, which wasn’t that hard, since they were both racist, divisive, vengeful fucks.  And even Stevie Wonder could see that Lynch gave Hillary a pass at Obamas’ behest.  Do you think the American left and their media allies think we have memories so short to not remember shit like this?  Better yet, is the American left and their fellow travelers, so arrogant as to think that the rules they apply to Americans should not also be applied to them.

I am not surprised that Obama asked the DOJ to look into a Soros enemy….I frankly would have been surprised had he not.  Obama was mafia style crooked, and the myth that the left promotes that we had eight years of scandal free governance under Obama is more bullshit than myth.  I could wake from a dead drunk and count five Obama scandals off of the top of my head (Benghazi, cash to Iran, Obamacare-yes, that was only a lie, it was a scandal-Hillary’s emails, Weaponizing the IRS against conservative groups, the sale of US uranium to Russia, blah, blah, blah).  I guess that, if we rely on the dishonest media to define “scandal” then a scandal is only what it so deems.

But I AM surprised that, in their arrogance, the left thinks that nobody would find out.  And I get it…..the media will fly top cover, but I don’t think that the left realizes that there are still some honest Americans left that will seek the truth.

Yesterday I heard former FBI director Andrew McCabe expressing his view that the administration investigated him to determine his role in the coup attempt against President Trump and the American people, because the latter wanted to prevent him from being called as a witness.  That lying prick (and I am paraphrasing the Mueller report), is lucky he was not indicted, it had nothing to do with him being called as a witness. Such arrogance.

Most of us assumed, all along that the trail of corruption, that the left itself exposed by pursuing impeachment, would lead to Obama. 

And I think now, we know.

Who's next? They will stop at nothing

Well, I guess that, if we Americans thought that the Presidents acquittal on trumped up charges, would end the democrats efforts to destroy the President and the nation…….we were wrong.

Now, Blumenthal, Warren, Nadler and Schiff, Schumer, Feinstein and Harris are all calling for AG Barrs’ head on a plate for his over riding of the sentencing recommendation of the prosecutors of Roger Stone.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-demand-barrs-resignation-amid-stone-sentence-storm

Now, I am not even sure what Roger Stone was guilty of, if he was guilty of anything. I do know that one charge was “lying to congress”  A charge that I look at and think “Hmmmmm…….so congress can lie to us (and I point you to anything Schiff said during the impeachment witch hunt), but we cannot return the favor”….of the people, for the people my ass.   Anyhow, I am not sure what he was found guilty of.

But the left is sending a clear message to the Americans; if you work for this President, the left will do everything possible to destroy you.  In this case the senate wants Barrs’ resignation because he misused his authority (he did not), and because he is a puppet of the President (he is not…..the left merely cannot accept that an American would actually perform his or her Constitutional duty…..that is called “projection”.

But, regardless of what Stone did or didn’t do, let’s look at this thru the eyes of an educated, linear thinking American.

1.    The four prosecutors that quit also worked to destroy Michael Flynn, whom even thee FBI did not think had committed a crime.  They worked to put Paul Mantafort in jail for tax evasion and now they came after Roger Stone, recommending nine years in the pen.  To give you an idea of the severity of that sentence; the average time served for a murder is 10 years, for a rapist it is 3-5 years.  Hillary served no time for lying to congress, nor did Robert Mueller, Christopher Wray, Peter Strzork, that lady at the IRS (can’t remember her name), or Eric Holder.  As I have always said; if not for the double standard the left would have no standard at all.

2.   

     Among those calling for Barrs’ head on a Pike; Kamala Harris, who flatbacked her way to the top; this is documented fact, I did not make this up.  Elizabeth Warren; railing against the machine and the system that allowed her to get a leg up by falsely and knowingly claiming to be of native American ancestry.  Richard Blumenthal, who falsely claimed to be a Vietnam veteran, and had to backtrack and say that he had been a Vietnam “era” veteran.  Diane Feinstein, who had a Chinese spy as her driver for years.  Adam Schiff, leader of the witch hunt, who promised for almost three years, that he had absolute  proof of Trumps’ committing high crimes and misdemeanors, and who read a transcript of a phone call between our President and Ukraines’ President, which was created completely out of his addled Brain.  Jerry Nadler, ditto.  Chuck Schumer, who repeatedly, TO THIS DAY, calls every action by the President “a criminal act”.

These are the low life, bottom dwelling, tax payer supported, losers, that want to destroy Bill Barr, for doing his job.  For three years thy have not done shit that was not aimed at destroying Trump and his people.

And……and this is mere supposition, I think I know why.  I think that, with the almost foreseeable outcome of the impeachment trial, the left is now fully exposed.  The only way for the left to avoid having their own crimes exposed, is to continually keep the pressure on America, hope Trump loses in 2020, that they keep the house and gain the senate.  I don’t think that they have much of a chance of any of those…..but that is what I think is at stake for the left.  In order to save themselves……they will destroy the republic.

And calling for the dismissal of AG Barr won’t be the last of it……all of Trumps’ cabinet and advisors are in the cross hairs, of people that in no way should be throwing stones.

Second iteration.....Popeyes' sucks

A few days ago I wrote a piece on an experience I had at our local Popeyes…..Janet had me pull it down because she said I could not threaten to throat punch people on social media if I ever wanted to remain employed.

Got it, and she is correct.

I was third in line at the drive thru….THIRD…..it took 30 minutes to get to the window. I paid with my debit card and as the worker was handing my receipt she announced that they actually didn’t have what I ordered from their menu.

She asked if I would accept something else.

I looked at her and said “You just took my order and charged me for something that you KNEW you didn’t have?  No, you guys suck; take the charge off of my card.”  And UNBELIEVABLY she said “You do not want your food?”

“Hell yeah I want my food, but you just told me you do not have it.  Take the charge off.”

And I am not kidding….it took every employee, including the manager to get the charge off of the card. And nobody, including the manager, seemed the slightest bit concerned over their shitty service.

Years ago….I had a horrible, vengeful temper, and I would have GONE OFF on the entire establishment…..my ass would have been a viral YOUTUBE video about 15 minutes after I entered the place……but that has been  a few years, and I just let it ride.

And when I got home, I looked on the website so that I could file a complaint, ad guess what you cannot do on their website?  You got it.

So….this local Popeyes' gets to see me in person this week.

They suck.