Was This Not Illegal?

There was a time when we put people in jail for making their own Liquor. Now we can go Online and buy nifty machines to make what we used to could not make.

George's Barley & Hops Brewing Channel

George's guide to Stills for beginners, designed to help those interested in understanding the basic concepts of Stills.

Double-chamber design

This design allows to keep the flavor like the pot still and achieve the effect of double distillation in a single run. The small but powerful condenser allows running speed up to 2 quarts/hour - makes your stripping run a breeze. Very compact design, all stainless steel - easy to clean unlike copper stills. Every still kit is complete and ready to run.

https://www.speakeasydistillers.com/

Is this a great Country or What!

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

I Have Turned Into A Scaredy-Cat

I was never this way. I am now afraid and I used to be brave or at least I was oblivious to the dangers around me.

String Trimmer Edger Tool

Battery & Charger

The 2 pictures above are what have made me so timid...

Ø I was so pleased with myself.

Ø I bought a Rechargeable Battery Powered String Trimmer Edger.

Ø This is the first big tool I have owned that is Rechargeable Battery Powered.

Ø I was turned into a Scaredy Cat because of the Operator's Manual that came with my String Trimmer Edger. The scary stuff started when I started to read the Operator's Manual's Important Safety Instructions.

There were 50 Bullet Point Warnings that warned me about:

Ø Serious Personal Injuries.

Ø Eye Injury Possibilities (I was told to flush with water for 10 minutes if I got some yucky stuff in my eye).

Ø I was warned to Dress Properly -- “Use of rubber gloves and substantial footwear is recommended when working outdoors. Wear heavy, long pants, long sleeves, boots and gloves. Do not wear loose fitting clothing or jewelry they can be caught in moving parts. Secure long hair above shoulder level to prevent entanglement in moving parts.”...
>I imagined my behind neighbor looking down and seeing me doing my edging and saying to his wife, “Come over here, Hazel, Herman Munster is edging Fella’s back yard”.

Ø Electric Shock.

Ø Loss of Balance.

Ø The word “Dangerous” was used a lot...
>So was the word “Hazard”
>Fire was mentioned often
>I shivered when I saw “Toxic” jump out at me
>Explosion really got my attention
>Last but not least even the word “Death” made several appearances

Ø I was warned to have my wife at the ready to call for Immediate Medical Attention.

Ø The last Important Safety Instruction warned me that I am responsible for my fellow man...“Save these instructions. Refer to them frequently and use them to instruct others who may use this power tool. If you loan someone this power tool, loan them these instructions also.”

Ø I imagined being brought to trial after someone who borrowed my String Trimmer Edger was injured while using it...
>I could hear the opposition attorney making his case about how terrible a person I was, “Your honor, I know that the point has been made by my opposing attorney that Careless Fella did tell my Severely Injured Client to be very careful when using his String Trimmer Edger but it is unconscionable on Fella’s part that he did not tell my Severely Injured Client to be very very careful when using his Very Very Dangerous String Trimmer Edger. I think it is obvious that Careless Fella was grossly negligent when he left off the second “Very”!

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There are only a total of 9 pages in my Operator Manual Booklet. Four of the pages contain 19 Warning Boxes, 1 Caution Box and 2 Notice Boxes.

Ø 18 of the 19 Warning Boxes warned of Serious Injury.

Ø 1 of the 19 Warning Boxes warned about Hazards.

Ø The Caution Box told me to watch out for Pinching.

Ø Even the 2 Notice Boxes filled me Trepidation as I read them.

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I was fortunate that it rained the first 2 days I had my new tool because I was afraid to touch it. I just left it on the floor in our Living Room and I walked around it carefully hoping it would not see me going by.

By the time the rain stopped I had gotten up enough courage to pick it up and take it into my back yard and do some trimming and I am relieved to tell you I Did Not Die.

However, I can feel the tension building up inside of me because I know what I have trimmed is growing as I peck this Blog Posting and I will one day have to go back out there.

Next time I buy something it will be Toothpicks because the Owners Manual that comes with them has only 35 Safety Instructions and 12 Warning Boxes.    

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: I forgot to mention there is additional documentation for the Battery and another for the Charger. Yes they are also full of Important Safety Instructions, Dire Warnings, Notices, Cautions, Safety Rules and Threats.

You Don’t Have To Know Everything

If the Wall Street Journal offers you this opportunity, Want to Stay informed? Subscribe to Our Notifications and Stay In The Know About Everything. Fella says you should say, No! I Want To Know Nothing! 

The Wall Street Journal is not the only one that wants to fill up your entire day. It is the example that just jumped in front of me and prompted me to warn you to be careful about what you sign up for.

They mean well...Or do they? I was just clicking around on my computer and all of a sudden I was looking at the WSJ’s Newsletters & Alerts Offerings. If I had said OK to every one of them I would have covered my days up with more information than I could handle for a long time to come until I figured out how to get out from under their Information Avalanche. You can bet your sweet bippy it would not be easy figure out how to get out. 

Be Afraid...Be Very Afraid

Here is an list of what the WSJ offered to me. Don’t be afraid of me like I have warned you to be afraid of them. Just skim through the list and remember, Don’t Subscribe To Anything especially when you are given the opportunity to Subscribe to Everything and then you can get back to reading about Football and the Midterm Elections.

Here is the list. Remember To Skim!...

The 10-Point.

A personal, guided tour to the best scoops and stories every day in The Wall Street Journal.

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Catch up on the headlines, understand the news and make better decisions, free in your inbox every day.

Markets

A pre-markets primer packed with news, trends and ideas. Plus, up-to-the-minute market data.

The Future of Everything

A look at how innovation and technology are transforming the way we live, work and play.

Capital Journal

Scoops, analysis and insights driving Washington from the WSJ's D.C. bureau.

Real Time Economics

The latest economic news, analysis and data curated weekdays by WSJ's Jeffrey Sparshott.

The Intelligent Investor

Jason Zweig writes about investment strategy and how to think about money.

WSJ Crypto

Smart and accessible crypto market analysis for investors.

Heard on the Street

Agenda-setting analysis and commentary on the biggest corporate and market stories.

Wealth Adviser

A daily summary of news and insights for financial pros.

WSJ Climate & Energy

A weekly must-read of news, analysis and exclusive data focused on the intersection of business, money and climate.

Technology

A weekly digest of tech reviews, headlines, columns and your questions answered by WSJ's Personal Tech gurus.

Tech Things With Joanna Stern

Everything is now a tech thing. Columnist Joanna Stern is your guide, giving analysis and answering your questions about our always-connected world.

Family + Tech

Columnist Julie Jargon, a mother of three, helps families find answers and address concerns about the ways technology is impacting their lives.

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A weekly look at our most colorful, thought-provoking and original feature stories on the business of life.

WSJ. Magazine

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Get ahead and stay informed about careers, business, management and leadership.

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From aspirational residences to major commercial deals.

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As you may remember I refer to my blogging as Mind Wandering. Let your Mind Wander with me for a few moments more. If the WSJ’s List of Distractions and Interruptions had been around in years past, great things would not have happened because the make-it-happen people back then would have been too busy to make the things happen. They would have been Notified and Interrupted and Distracted and Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered but they would Not Have Been Productive.

Ø Iron Lungs would be all over the Fruited Plain because Dr. Jonas Salk would never have come up with his Salk Polio Vaccine... 

Fella Question of the Day: The Salk Polio Vaccine prevented you from getting Polio. The Vaccine did not cure Polio in people who already had Polio. Did you ever wonder what happened to all those thousands of people already in Iron Lungs? Did they really spend the rest of their lives in those things? I guess they did. Here is an amazing story of one that did...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/texas-man-lives-70-years-in-an-iron-lung-i-never-gave-up-180979008/

Ø We would all be tangled up in the strings between 2 spinach cans as we tried to communicate with each other because Alexander Graham Bell would not have been able to concentrate on inventing the Telephone. 

Ø We would all be sitting around our dimly lit family rooms trying to read books made out of paper because Steve Jobs had been too distracted to invent his Smartphone  and Thomas Edison would have been too flabbergasted to invent his Light Bulb .

At this point I am tempted to launch into an extended apology for the length of this Blog Posting but I am certain you have had enough of me so I’ll simply say, Please Forgive Me!

Oh yea, don’t forget to not sign up for nunin (Yea, I know that’s a misspelled double negative).

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Yea, It’s COVID’s Fault...Everything Is COVID’s Fault

Recently I went into a Doctor’s Office on and found that COVID is gone but still it's there.

No one was wearing a mask. When I looked at the Free Coffee Machine I could almost hear a meeting back in the panic stricken COVID Days attended by all the doctors and the lady who was responsible for making sure the incoming patients would always find Free Coffee when they came into the Waiting Room to wait...

"OK, Guys, we gotta cut expenses. I propose we stop spending money on Free Coffee in the waiting room and blame it on COVID."

The vote was unanimous and the Coffee Lady, who had been on her knees begging for this vote outcome actually let out a yelp and did a back flip from her knees to a standing position. (I don’t think I have ever heard of this kind of back flip even on the Wide World of Sports.)

Picture Taken 10/31/22

Another sign that the Pandemic Is Done is the fact that the Sanitizer Dispensing Machines are still all over the Doctor’s Office but they are Out Of Juice.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Happiest Places

 

The Football “Hero” has just been named the Most Valuable Player in the Super Bowl and he has just been asked where he is going to go to enjoy himself being himself. Is there any doubt what his answer is going to be? If you have watched the prior Super Bowl and the prior and the prior you know what his answer is going to be...

“I’m Going To Disneyland!”

He gave that answer because he was paid a lot of money to give that answer and because everyone knows Disneyland is the Happiest Place on Earth...Or is it?

Fella is here to tell you there are other Happy Places where you can be Happier than Disneyland...

Ø Happy Commercial People...No matter how dire their circumstance or the diseases they are suffering through the people in TV Commercials are portrayed as Happy People. If they are not happy at the start of the Commercial they are certainly happy at the end of the commercial after they have been shot with, swallowed or fondled the sponsor’s product.  

Ø Exercise Bikes...Riding one of those Torture Machines cannot be a happy place to be but all these sweaty people are always shown as Smiling Happy People being happy while they are trying to keep their hearts from attacking them.

Ø The Balcony above the New York Stock Exchange...At the Closing Bell this overlook is always populated with Delirious Happy People clapping as fast as they can clap. The trading day they are celebrating may have been the worst day in the history of the Exchange and dirt poor investors are bouncing off of taxi cabs all over New York City but it makes no never mind to the Happy Balcony People because they are having a great time.

This guy below may be happy but knowing he is out there in the world is frightening to Fella. As long as he has that thing wrapped around his neck he is happy but you can be certain Fella will pull over and let him drive past me every time I see him in my rear view mirror wearing his Happy Head Gear...

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Admit it, you don't understand Diddly-Squat, do you?

 

I just received an update to LifeLock’s License & Service Agreement...

Ø Should I read it all? ... Yes I should.

Ø Will I read it all? ... No I won’t.

Ø If I read it all, how much would I understand? ... Not much!

I won’t I read it all because it is 11,407 Words cram packed with Confusion, Legalese and a Bunch of Words That I Bet Were Made Up Only for Use in this Agreement.

Here is a 148 word snippet. Imagine how confused you would be if you were Silly enough to try and read all 11,407 words...

Injunctive and Declaratory Relief. Except as provided in Section 2(b) above, the arbitrator shall determine all issues of liability on the merits of any claim asserted by you or NortonLifeLock and may award declaratory or injunctive relief only in favor of the individual party seeking relief and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by that party's individual claim. To the extent that you or NortonLifeLock prevail on a claim and seek public injunctive relief (that is, injunctive relief that has the primary purpose and effect of prohibiting unlawful acts that threaten future injury to the public), the entitlement to and extent of such relief must be litigated in a civil court of competent jurisdiction and not in arbitration. The parties agree that litigation of any issues of public injunctive relief shall be stayed pending the outcome of the merits of any individual claims in arbitration.

This is not really an attack on LifeLock. I’m glad I have their coverage. I just pray that Lifelock and all these other companies where we have sworn that we have read their Policy Agreements but we have not read their Policy Agreements will be honest with us if the time ever comes where we need them to explain what those words mean. 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Since You Are My Friend and You Trust Me, I Know You Will Loan Me $1,000...Or are you?...Or do you?...Or will you?

I am reading a book about Captains of American Industry and I thought y’all might find this Blog Posting interesting.

After years of effort and thousands of experiments, Thomas Edison achieved an incandescent lamp that had burned 45 hours and he said to the world, “World, the practical incandescent lamp has been born”.

After that he just sat back and watched the money come rolling in.

The prior sentence is absolutely not true. Before Edison had an incandescent lamp that was viable and marketable to consumers he had to invent the Electrical Industry:

Ø He had to build a central power station.

Ø He had to design and manufacture his own dynamos to economically convert steam power into electrical energy.

Ø He had to come up with a way to insure an even flow of current.

Ø He had to connect a 14-mile network of underground wiring.

Ø He had to insulate the wiring against damaging moisture and the accidental discharge of electrical charges.

Ø He had to install safety devices against fire.

Ø He had to design commercially efficient motors to use electricity in daylight hours for elevators, printing presses, laths, fans and the like.

Ø He had to invent and manufacturer a plethora of switches, sockets, fuses, distributing boxes and lamp holders.

Ø He had to design and install meters to measure individual consumption of power.

For all of this he had to put up most of the money himself and fight against the Gas Company Lobby at every turn as they used their political influence to stop him.

I’m wondering if you had been his next-door neighbor and he had come to you asking for a loan of $1,000 would you have loaned him the money or would you have turned him away telling him to go out and get a real job.

I would have loaned him the money...Or would I have?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Amazon Ought To Be Running the Country

We are on a well deserved vacation. Don’t ask me why this vacation is Well Deserved since I have been retired since 1998. It Just Is!

The day before I left home I received the message below from the people who charged me an exorbitant amount of money to rent the past-its-prime vacation rental unit I am sitting in as I peck out this Blog Posting.

It looked a lot better in the 42 pictures it showed me online.

The message said...

To enhance your vacation experience Acme Properties of Hilton Head (I changed its name to keep them from suing me) has equipped your vacation rental with me, a Table Top Computerized Voice Assistant. In addition to being able to assist you with booking your complimentary activities, it has incredible discounts and recommendations to the best local restaurants and attractions, as well as access to answers about your vacation rental. Just remember, it will only work within this particular home (So don’t bother stealing it...I added this parentheses.) 

You can ask me questions like,
"Alexa, what are my free activities?" or "Alexa, what is the Wi-Fi password?" or "Alexa, where is the best pizza place?"

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Here are some things to think about...

Ø Think about how many people who own an Amazon Alexa Dot will have their knowledge of the capabilities of Alexa Expanded and go on to tell all their friends and neighbors to buy one!

Ø Think about how many people who don’t have an Amazon Alexa Dot will be exposed to the wonders of an Amazon Alexa Dot and go home and buy an Amazon Alexa Dot and go on to tell all their friends and neighbors to buy one also!

Ø Think about how many Vacation Rental Units there are in the Good Ole USofA who will now feel required to equip all their Vacation Rental Units with an Amazon Alexa Dot to stay competitive!

What I am trying to say is the people who run Amazon are Smart and they know how to make money!

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By comparison think about what is going on every single day in our 9% Approval Rated Congress...

Ø Think about how every day our elected civil servants are elbowing each other out of the way in order to get into Happy Hour first.

Ø Think about how every day they are sitting in meetings where their sole reason for attendance is to deceive us as about what they are doing to us...Tax Increase changed to Revenue Enhancement, Tax Reduction changed to Lost Revenue or Pork Barrel Spending change to Earmarks (What the Heck Is That?).

Ø Think about how they only show up in their respective chambers to make their carefully worded (written by someone else) statements and do their best to not pay attention (ear plugs) to the carefully worded (written by someone else) statements delivered by opposition party members and they all leave as soon as their own carefully worded statements (written by someone else) have been delivered. (Opposition party members present are using ear plugs too. Let's be honest, everyone in the chamber is using ear plugs, including the person taking the word for word minutes of the proceedings for the Congressional Record).

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As I pecked out this Blog Posting I became more and more convinced that Amazon could do a better job of running the country than our Congress is doing running the country. I got so pumped up about this ides that I called up Mr. Amazon and pitched him my idea directly.

At first, he was not convinced but when I told him, “Think about the profit there is in selling Ear Plugs to the Members of Congress!” he said, “I’ll do it!”

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

 

The Internet just told me about all the Big Ships (both US Navy Ships and Merchant Marine Ships) our Government has in "mothballs" and that got me to thinking. When I get to thinking oftentimes a Blog Posting comes out of me.

Wikipedia...

“The United States Navy maintains a number of its ships as part of a reserve fleet, often called the "Mothball Fleet". While the details of the maintenance activity have changed several times, the basics are constant: keep the ships afloat and sufficiently working as to be reactivated quickly in an emergency.

In some cases (for instance, at the outset of the Korean War), many ships were successfully reactivated at a considerable savings in time and money. The usual fate of ships in the reserve fleet, though, is to become too old and obsolete to be of any use, at which point they are sold for scrapping or are scuttled in weapons tests.

Merchant ships held in reserve are managed as part of the separate National Defense Reserve Fleet within MARAD (US Maritime Administration).”

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It is Fella’s Opinion that Our Rulers ought to take the bull by the horns and put these ships to more productive use than just floating and waiting for another war. They should pass a law that will release all of these ships from mothballs and put them to good use here and now...

Ø Turn them into floating cities.

Ø Fill them up with all the green people who are growing more and more unhappy with the Good Ole USofA every passing day.

Ø This way, no matter how high the seas get, they will never even get the bottom of their feet wet because they will be above it all.

Ø They will also have the added bonus of fair weather all the time because, if the weather starts to look like it’s going to become unfair, they can just sail away to where the weather is more fair.

I can hear you thinking that we need these ships for the emergencies of the future. On that point I think that Congress ought to take Bold Action now to prevent the need for Bold Action in the future. Congress should send a Tweet to all the Mean Governments on Earth telling them in the future we will no longer accept their Meanness and telling them To Be Nice.

That ought to do it.

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This Blog Posting idea came to me unsolicited from Bionic Bob. He may not remember that he sent it to me because he sent it a long time ago. I filed it away that long time ago and I stumbled across it a short time ago (yesterday).

Because of this Blog Posting Bionic Bob is now as famous as I am famous but that ain’t much, but come to think of it, he is now more famous than all of my other Dear Readers who did not send me any Silly Ideas.

So, if you want to become a little bit famous, send me a Silly Idea and maybe a few people will know who you are someday.

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I also have heard that there are a lot of Cruise Ships that are having a hard time finding Cruising People to sit in them. I think our 9% Approval Rated Silly Congress ought to include these empty Cruise Ships in Bob’s Silly Idea.

However, I would not get your hopes up about getting assigned to one of these Floating Palaces. Remember Congress passes the laws in the Good Ole USofA. I would be shocked if the Cruise Ships were not packed to the gills with Members of Congress and people who “help” Members of Congress all become millionaires while in office who were not millionaires before they were in office.

Did you just ask yourself, “How is it that they all become millionaires?” Let me say this about that, it’s because of something called, Congressional Arithmetic...

Using a Member of the House of Representatives as an easy to understand example...

Ø Net worth when elected = $256,589.

Ø Been in the House 6 years.

Ø Salary each year $174,000.

Ø $174,000 X 6 years = $1,044,000.

Ø If they add their Net Worth when elected ($256,589) to the above 6 Years of the Congressman’s Salary ($1,044,000), Congressional Arithmetic says the Congressman’s New Net Worth is $4,276,793.

More simply stated: $256,589 + $1,044,000 = $4,276,793.

I hope this helps you understand.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Let’s Talk About What’s Inside My Head

Actually the above Subject should be, Let’s Talk About What’s Wrong About What’s Inside the Head Of That Really Smart Guy On My TV.

Maybe it’s my problem but I think it is amazing how confused and uninformed people can be. I am an exception to this problem because my head is full of it (useless information). 

I was watching one of my favorite Smart People on TV and he shocked me about a couple of pieces of Miscellaneous Trivia that he should have known because everyone must know this stuff...Or must they?

Here is what my highly respected smart news show guy did not know. I deliberately will not tell you who he is because you might tell him and he might sue me for letting the word out about how stupid he is. (Never forget there are far more lawyers in the Good Ole USofA than in any other country on Earth and Most of Them Got Only One A Grade in Law School and that course was, "First File Suit & Then Figure Out If You Have A Basis For Filing Suit".)...

• He started talking about a great TV Series from the early days of In-Home Television called Dragnet.
• He said the main character was Joe Webb and, of course, you and I know (or do you?) that the main character was not Joe Webb but was Joe Friday and he was played by Jack Webb.
• He went on the praise the show to high heaven and make a comparison to our world of today by saying Joe Webb worked for the then highly respected Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and, of course, you and I know (or do you?) that Joe Friday worked for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) back in the time when the LAPD was highly respected.

So what’s the point of all of this?...

• First I wanted give you a taste of those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear when the CIA and the FBI could be trusted to always do the right thing and, if they didn’t, The Lone Ranger and Joe Friday were there to slap them around.
• Second I wanted to expose you to one of the classic comedy sketches from those Thrilling Days of Early TV.

Don’t sue me. Exposing yourself is a crime but exposing you to a funny skit is not...Or is it not?

Click here: https://youtu.be/jgYbogp1Ha0

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Third Posting...It's Silly Season Again

What do I mean about “Silly Season”? It’s the Presidential/Mid-Term Election Cycles, of course...

Exit Polling

Yea, I understand how they do it but what I don't understand is how they get to where they get to once they are done doing it.

I could understand... 

Ø 55% say they voted for this guy.

Ø 45% say they voted for that guy.

It is the specific, exacting and minute detail that I don't understand... 

Ø 42% of the white voters, who went to two years of college, before going on to be left-handed carpenters, voted for this guy.

Ø 63% of fallen-away Catholics, who have been married three times, where the first and third marriages were to the same person, voted for that guy.

Ø 54% of those who voted in the 1992 election, but did not vote in the 1996, nor the 2000 election, but returned to the voting booth in the 2004 and, now, voted in this 2008 election, voted for this guy.

Oh well, so much for Secret Balloting.

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My Fondest Wish

There is no way to fully unite a country as large as the United States but my fondest wish would be that all of us refuse to answer any questions from any political pollster about anything political. Think of the positive results that would come out of an I-Ain't-Gonna-Tell-You-Anything America...

It would drive the politicians absolutely nuts. 

Ø It would prevent politicians from tweaking their latest campaign pitch to address how the public reacted to their prior campaign pitch.

Ø They would be forced to tell us what they really plan to do when elected, instead of telling us what the polls told them they should tell us to get our vote.

Ø They would be forced to think out their own positions and hope for the best.

Ø It would put every polling company out of business.

Ø And finally, since their employees say they are only interested in what's best for America (yea, right), they would then be free to join the Peace Corps (if such a thing still exists). 

It would drive the politicians absolutely nuts.

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One Final Tirade

The silliest one is polls done by a Democrat or a Republican Pollster. Isn’t it strange how the "results" always come out favoring their party's positions? I guess I could be made to believe that the poll did come out in favor of their party's positions but, you will never get me to believe, that any poll that did not favor their party's positions was just not published at all. It's sort of like them saying, "We are going to keep polling the American People until the American People get it right."

Would I kid u?

Smartfella