Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Do We Really Have Unlimited Money in Our Treasury?

If we do have unlimited money in our Treasury, why do we even bother keeping track of our National Debt which is now fast approaching $27 Trillion?...

Remember that’s 27 Thousand Billion Dollars

That's about $215,000 and Growing Every Second for Every Taxpayer in the Good Ole USofA

These Numbers Are Always Wrong Because As Soon As You Type The Number It Has Jumped to Higher Number

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I will not contend that I have read all of the Coronavirus Stimulus Bills (or that I understand all of what I did read) but I cringe when I read such language as, “as well as whatever funds are necessary”.

Can any government survive if it has to open the Money Spigot every time some member of our 9% Approval Rated (& falling) Congress says, “You have to spend the money I am demanding because it is necessary and necessary is specified in the Coronavirus Stimulus Bills!”

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Sunday, July 26, 2020

I Am Proposing That We Change Anything and Everything That Is Named After Any Historical Figure That Owned Slaves and or Supported Slavery During Their Lifetime...Or am I?

This is going to be a Herculean Task of Epic Proportions and is going to keep us busy for many decades to come.

We will have to start Changing Anything and Everything somewhere so I recommend we start with our First President, George Washington.

Here is a list of Cities, Towns, Villages, Educational Institutions, Forts, Houses, Mountains, Parks, Ports, Neighborhoods, Bridges, Roads and (that ole standby) Other Things that are named after our First President...

Cities/ Towns/ Villages:

·         Fort Washington, California

·         Fort Washington, Maryland

·         Fort Washington, Pennsylvania

·         George, Washington, a city in Grant County

·         Georgetown, Kentucky

·         Georgetown, Massachusetts

·         Little Washington, Virginia

·         Mount Washington, Massachusetts

·         Port Washington, New York

·         Port Washington, Wisconsin, city

·         Port Washington (town), Wisconsin

·         Washington, Connecticut

·         Washington, D.C., the U.S. capital

·         Washington, Georgia

·         Washington, Illinois

·         Washington, Indiana

·         Washington, Iowa

·         Washington, Massachusetts

·         Washington Township, Gratiot County, Michigan

·         Washington Township, Macomb County, Michigan

·         Washington Township, Sanilac County, Michigan

·         Washington, Missouri

·         Washington, New Hampshire

·         Washington, New Jersey

·         Washington, North Carolina

·         Washington, Pennsylvania

·         Washington, Virginia

·         Washington Court House, Ohio

·         Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania

·         Washington Terrace, Utah

·         Washingtonville, New York

·         Washingtonville, Pennsylvania 


Educational Institutions:

·         Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington

·         Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington

·         Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky

·         The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

·         University Of Washington in Seattle, Washington

·         Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania

·         Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia

·         Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland

·         Washington Medical College, defunct medical institution in Baltimore

·         Washington State University in Pullman, Washington

·         Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri

·         Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington


Forts:

·         Fort Washington, a fortified position near the north end of Manhattan Island

·         Fort Washington, a frontier outpost at Cincinnati

·         Fort Washington, a still-extant earthworks fortification in Cambridge

·         Fort Washington, Maryland


Houses:

·         Washington Place, Honolulu


Mountains:

·         Mount Washington (Nevada) (11,658 ft.)

·         Mount Washington (6,288 ft.), highest point of New Hampshire

·         Mount Washington (Oregon) (7,794 ft.)

·         Mount Washington (Cascades) (4,400+ ft.)

·         Mount Washington (Olympics) (6,260 ft.)


Parks:

·         Washington Crossing Historic Park in Pennsylvania

·         Washington Crossing State Park in New Jersey

·         Washington Park, Florida

·         Washington Park, Illinois

·         Washington Park, North Carolina

·         Washington Square Park, New York City

·         Washington Square Park, Philadelphia

·         Washington Square (Salt Lake City, Utah)


Ports

·         Port Washington, New York

·         Port Washington, Ohio

·         Port Washington, Wisconsin


Neighborhoods:

·         Washington Heights, Chicago

·         Washington Heights, Manhattan

·         Mount Washington, Pittsburgh

·         Washington's Landing, Pittsburgh

·         Washington Terrace, St. Louis


Bridges and Roads:

·         George Washington Bridge, crossing the Hudson River between New Jersey to New York

·         George Washington Memorial Parkway in Washington, D.C., maintained by the U.S. National Park Service

·         Washington Bridge, across the Harlem River in New York City

·         Washington Bridge (Providence) in Providence, Rhode Island

·         Washington Crossing Bridge (Pittsburgh), in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

·         Washington Circle in the District of Columbia

·         Washington Avenue (disambiguation), several streets


Others:

·         Washington (U.S. state)

·         Washington Island (Wisconsin)

·         Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas

·         Washington Monument


When you consider all the other Historical Figures That Owned Slaves and/or Supported Slavery During Their Lifetimes, removing them from everywhere they are is going to take a long time.

This I know for certain...

For many years now Tattoo Artists have been fast moving up the list of the Wealthiest People in the Good Ole USofA. I expect the Sign Painters will overtake and pass the Tattoo Artists before the Tattoo Artists notice the Sign Painters have started moving up the Got A Whole Bunch of Money Ladder.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella


Thursday, July 23, 2020

I Have a Well Developed and Finely Tuned Ability to Make Things Up but Even I Am Taken Aback (Whatever That Means) At the Silliness of This Foolishness

Below is the bulk of an article I found on the Internet which was titled...

White People to Stop Voicing Minority Characters in ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Family Guy’

(I decided to bold the Confusion Words. I thought about bolding every word in the entire article but my computer was going to run out of bolded words capacity.)

Considering the way our world is being torn asunder these days this is not surprising...

A white voice actor who played a minority character in “Family Guy” said he’s leaving the role after 20 years.

Also, the Simpsons producers said in the future no white actors would be allowed to voice nonwhite characters.

A white voice actor, Mike Henry, who voiced Cleveland Brown, a black character, in “Family Guy,” said earlier he wouldn’t do so any longer.

“It’s been an honor to play Cleveland on ‘Family Guy’ for 20 years. I love this character, but persons of color should play characters of color. Therefore, I will be stepping down from the role,” he said in a social media statement.

Kristen Bell, who voiced Molly, a mixed race character on the animated series “Central Park,” said on social media, “This is a time to acknowledge our acts of complicity. Here is one of mine. Playing the character of Molly on ‘Central Park’ shows a lack of awareness of my pervasive privilege. Casting a mixed race character with a white actress undermines the specificity of the mixed race and black American experience,” she wrote.

Jenny Slate said she initially thought it was okay to voice Missy, a mixed race character, on “Big Mouth.”

“I reasoned with myself that it was permissible for me to play Missy because her mom is Jewish and White—as am I,” Slate wrote on social media. “But Missy is also black, and black characters on an animated show should be played by black actors. I acknowledge how my original reasoning was flawed, that it existed as an example of white privilege and unjust allowances made within a system of social white supremacy, and that in me playing Missy, I was engaging in an act of erasure of black people.”

This is Fella, "Erasure?"

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Does it seem like we are slipping down the Slippery Slope towards George Orwell’s 1984 more and more every day?

In the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Thinkpol (Thought Police) are responsible for the detection and elimination of thoughtcrime, and for the social control of the populations of Oceania, by way of audio-visual surveillance and offender profiling. Such psychological monitoring allows the Thought Police to detect, arrest, and kill thought criminals, citizens whose independence (intellectual, mental, and moral) challenges the political orthodoxy of Ingsoc (English Socialism) and thus the legitimate government authority of the Party. In the detection of thoughtcrime—and to overcome the physical impossibility of simultaneously policing every citizen of Oceania—the Thinkpol spy upon the populace through ubiquitous two-way telescreens, and so can monitor any person's body language, reflexive speech, and facial expressions.