Category: Scarred Brain murmurings

I think I figured out an effective spam filter to keep the foreign spambots at bay. I have no idea what the word is; I’d assume it’s some common word, but including it seems to have done the trick.

Maybe it’s because I’m not as opposed to him as I am Ofc. Harris, but I did actually watch all of the Rogan interview with Trump.

Don’t Know

I know I’ve gotten some incredibly negative responses whenever I’ve even broached Rogan, but I did watch through it. All three hours or whatever it was.

Just a ton of time talking about things I don’t at all about.

The bits about replacing the individual income tax with tariffs is interesting to say the least.

What will happen with the “payroll taxes?” Many, many, many, many politicians roll out things about “the rich not paying their fair share,” there are already many people who pay no income tax. NYT actually had a decent take on it here.

I’m wondering if eliminating voters’ confusion about what’s actually income taxes, and what’s contributions to the old-age programs might clear some things up.

Am I confident about that?

Not in the least. The “rich” will forever not be paying “their fair share.”

So, yeah, I put myself through all of that, and still haven’t made up my mind. That should tell anyone reading how much I dislike President Trump. No, I’m not going to call him “Former President.” It’s a title you keep. Jimmy Carter is still President Carter.

Bucco Bruce is back today, so I’m going to go watch football.

Well, that’s when the writing begins.

But there’s been so much else I’ve been preparing for to get ready for the end of the year.

Watching On Patrol Live last night, there were two spots in a row for Christmas ads. It’s not even Halloween! Am I ready for trying to figure out something to do with my wife since I can’t have a Lexus with a bow on its roof in the snow?

That’s supposed to start after Veteran’s Day.

Seriously.

Halloween seems to kind of passe these days. I remember seeing things the past few years about trying to actually move the date because, you know, safety. Trick-or-treating should be at from 4:30-6:00 the last Friday in October.

Let’s erase the religious significance from it. You know who else tried to excise parts of history that didn’t really fit? The FP had a thing the other morning about abortion being a health care right, and forcing Catholic hospitals to perform them.

Thinking more about it, after my initial you-can-leave attitude, it occurred ot me that, no, they wouldn’t. They’d stay to help take care of people because they’ve got a purpose higher than whatever some politician sets.

But that’s as bad as Kavanagh being a member of the Knights of Columbus.

What can you do?

Senate? Yep. House, not that it matters in a district that’s been blue since the Northern Aggressors left in 1877? Yep. President? I still haven’t decided.

The WTF interview with Dan Crenshaw was about the best endorsement of Trump I’ve heard. (Interesting tidbit there, too, about RON PAUL(pbuh)’s strategy in the House that let him get things for his district, while still being able to vote against the larger bill…)

The interview with Reason kind of pushed me his direction, but then I saw some third party debate that reminded me of the things I really don’t like about him.

I guess the Trump interview with Rogan is up on YouTube, which might be better than dealing with Spotify, but I’m skeptical whether it’s worth three hours to still be undecided at the end.

I need more coffee, and this is meandering.

Still would like some more topic suggestions for next month.

It’s a Wednesday night, and I’m trying to figure out what I’d like to write about in November.

I should be figuring out what to do with lining up various medical appointments. Or fixing this NetBSD host. Or…

I did try to watch another interview with Trump, and failed to get through it.

I was very interested in this today. All sorts of interesting implications regarding law. The treaties, including Trump’s NAFTA replacement, all rely on Mexico having an independent judiciary. The changes being made right now really call that into question. Do the treaties still apply if the other country isn’t keeping up its end of the bargain?

It also speaks to treaties with the former USSR. Do they matter?

I’ve come to think, lately, that there needs to be more temporality to basically every single law/treaty/regulation.

Hmm.

Because I’m close to the edge.

Of the weekend.

So many more things happened this week that I’m just letting slide by.

In the WTF Substack group, saw a link to this.

There’s interesting parallels with what’s happened recently in the LP.

In fact, there’s even some of the same participants.

Reason’s hit before “the takeover” is still very accurate.

Still keep having Johnny Sunshine by Liz Phair floating through my scarred brain.

You left me nothing

Oh well.

Less busy week ahead, I think. We’ll see. Maybe I’ll have some time to write.

I do need to corral some topics for November.

I’m bothered this morning by people for whom love for Officer Harris has become the new faith.

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That’s almost as bad as the people praying outside abortion clinics.

Ofc. Harris will fix it all

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Excuse my skepticism.

But there is a pang of sympathy to Rex Kramer in the video, there.

I don’t want your promo for the Party of the Klan. Really. You’ve done nothing to convince me.

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Other stuff….

Different frustrations with work. I don’t even know what to say at this point.

I kind of would like to go see this. I don’t know if I can juggle the schedule enough to make it happen. Kind of a significant event the day before. Lots of stuff with work around that time. Then PCP appointment the next week.

I’m still doing too much — my sore hamstrings are an invisible testimony to that.

I had started writing a response to the interview with VP Harris, and SMA Tim Walz.

_{(Yeah, he was a pinned on CSM, but retired as an MSG, so I’m actually retroactively inflating his achievements more…)}

While I was underwhelmed, I was trying to be indifferent about it. Whatever. I’m not going to vote for her, and my opinion of President Trump gets lower pretty much every time he speaks. There also won’t be a Libertarian on the ballot in Virginia, so I’m not sure if there’ll be anything worth writing in. Glenn Youngkin, maybe?

The folks on The Fifth Column were actually harsher towards the performance than I was.

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I admit that I had it on in the background while I was working, but I don’t think it allayed my concerns any more. I went from oh-hell-no to no, and I’m back to oh-no.

Looking at the Senate polls, though, there is some points of reassurance. I think it probably ends up being pretty much tied again. Could be a surprise here and there; Larry Hogan could win in MDDR, and maybe the filibuster stays.

And a few more years of running on continuing resolutions because there’s no way to fix the broken mess that is the Federal Budget.

But what I was trying to do with what I’d started assembling was to write down little bits piece-by-piece, then write to those after having some time to reflect.

But i wanted to consume. Maybe i shouldn’t have done that, and waited to consume anything else until I’d spit out what I was trying to put together.

I suppose that that sort of approach might work better for things that are more settled. With something as fleeting as an election, maybe it’s impossible.

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So, what else?

I think we finished up Hard Knocks last night. I actually do kinda like the staff that Eberflus has assembled in Chicago. I was really happy when he came in that they got back on the 4-3. Less enthused about the dink-a-lot “West Coast” offense, but it’s better than the stuff that’d been there the before.

But, on Hard Knocks, one of the interesting parts of the show was seeing who’d make the cut week-to-week.

“Bring Your Playbook” will lose all meaning.

We also started in on the Steve McNair thing on Netflix.

I was tired, so we stopped after the first episode, but it sounds like they’re going to get into some conspiracy stuff later on. Guess we’ll find out. But it seems to come down to advice an elderly, reserved southern gentleman once provided; “don’t go to sleep with someone crazier than you.”

To reword in a style closer to what my friends would say, “don’t stick your d— in the crazy.”

Staying with the NFL, my reaction to the stuff in Brazil with the Twi^H^H^HX ban is that the NFL should pull the Iggles-Peckers game scheduled for Sao Paulo.

*Searches the F’n Web*

Good.

The league can reimburse the teams for whatever costs might stem from it. Want to be a part of the free world, you have to allow things you don’t like.

That was the reaction I had almost immediately after reading the news.

That’s enough for now.

I’d started writing a long thing on my impressions of Officer Harris’s DNC performance.

I had a good headline written about Ofc. Harris’s speech, “Fears Allayed.” There was a marked departure from some of the stupid things that have been done leading up to her aborted candidacy in 2020, and things done by the Biden Administration.

Does that mean I’d ever vote for her? Hell to the NO.

She is, and will always be, a Cop Who Wants To Be President. That she backed down from some of the authoritarian impulses seen during the first two years of the Biden Administration don’t change what she and many members of her party did.

I understand that I’m supposed to be feeling JOY, but I don’t.

Even more so when I think about her choice of a running mate.

Some call it Authoritarianism, in Minnesota, they call it disease control.

The stuff with his National Guard service is also concerning. Do I think it’s really “stolen valor” that he portrayed himself as a CSM when he never finished the course, and retired as an MSG? No.

The 1995 DUI/DWI arrest really, really, really bothers me.

If he’d been on active duty, he would have faced very harsh penalties under the UCMJ. That he skated as a Guardsman is incredible.

So, too, is his continue employment with a school district.

I can remember my mother working for Fairfax County Public Schools and being nervous about having a glass of wine with dinner because of their policies regarding staff consumption. That would have been in about 1990?

Microsoft’s inline punctuation check is annoying.

Scads of speeches laying out standard Democrat talking points, but, largely her speech was made to erase the memory of what she, and her party, did since Obama left.

The things I’d wanted to write about also got derailed by some of the stuff from the Libertarians, and the RFK Jr. “drop-out.”

I listened to the SoHo Forum debate with Art Laffer and Chase Oliver. I could pick out a few things from each where I disagree, but the chances of me voting for Trump are about as close to zero as they’ve ever been, and Oliver probably won’t be on the ballot.

Even if he was there, I’d have trouble filling in the circle next to his name.

So march it on. I’m ready for the fall.