People Refuse to Think

by | Jul 26, 2021 | Life, Religion and God, Science

I spend a fair amount of time wondering how people could possibly be so dumb, that they often act counter to their own best interests or believe things which are totally absurd and defy logic. In addition, huge numbers of people believe anything which jives with their view of the world, even if there’s no foundation for that belief. Facts, documentation, evidence, and/or the truth will not change their opinions.

Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, mastered the technique of weaving lies around a small element of truth. Goebbels understood that if you repeat a lie enough times, instead of doing independent research, many people will believe it. That is so true in America today, especially on FOX.
Here are some absurd conspiracy theories and/or anti-science statements which are believed by millions who live in our country.

  • Almost 20% of Americans believe the sun rotates around the earth
  • The moon landing never happened, it was filmed in a Hollywood studio.
  • 911 was a plot constructed by the U.S. government for whatever reason.
  • The 20 children and 6 teachers murdered at Sandy Hook never happened. It is a story made up by liberals who want to take away your guns.
  • The 17 students and staff members killed @ Parkland High School never happened. It was made up by liberals who want to take away your guns.
  • The planet earth was repeatedly visited by aliens, but our government is keeping it a secret.
  • Over 2 million Americans believe the earth is flat.
  • Over 51% of Americans believe there is something up in the sky which they call god.
  • Over 40% of Americans believe god created the planet earth.
  • Millions of Americans believe in an afterlife located in heaven or hell. Of course they cannot tell us where to find either one.

I could probably write a lengthy book on ignorance, but here are what I believe is an array of stunning examples, illustrating sheer stupidity.

Crime Related:

  • Divorce: A man and woman were in the process of getting divorced, so they were negotiating a buyout settlement on the part of the husband, who was allegedly worth around $500 million. He eventually made a final offer to his soon to be ex-wife, whereby he agreed to give her $25 MILLION. You guessed it. Instead of suffering while trying to live on a meager budget of only $25 million, she hired a friend to murder her husband. Both the wife and her friend are in prison for the remainder of their lives. They no longer have to worry about trying to somehow make it in life on a tiny, $25 million budget.
  • A woman who married a fireman in Ohio, hired someone to kill her husband because she wanted his pension all to herself. She didn’t know the husband never updated the pension benefits documents, so upon his death, 100% of his death benefits would go to his first wife. It really doesn’t matter because the woman who hired the hitman, is in prison for the rest of her life.
  • Divorce: In rural Georgia, in the heart of the Bible Belt, a couple was on the verge of getting a divorce. However, the church, which dominated life in their small town, frowned upon divorce. Therefore, the wife, who didn’t want to be humiliated in their local church, elected to murder her husband. You know where she is now.
  • Life Insurance Policies: Very often, when someone murders their spouse, they purchased a significant life insurance policy before the murder. It’s hard to believe, but those morons think the homicide detectives will never notice the purchase of a million dollar life insurance policy just prior to the crime.
  • In Michigan, three family members were arrested and charged with murder after they killed a security guard who told them they must wear a face mask in the store.
  • In Georgia, a man killed a cashier who told him he had to wear a face mask in the store.
  • In both examples above, the killers face the possibility of spending the rest of their lives in prison because of how they reacted to nothing more than a store health & safety rule. You are going to spend the remainder of your life in prison just because an employee asked you to wear a mask. You could have easily walked out of the store.
  • Fired: How many times have you seen a tragic case on the news where somebody was fired and returned to the job site where he killed many, or all his co-workers? Getting fired is clearly a traumatic experience, but I don’t believe murdering your co-workers will help improve the situation.

GOD:

  • In the 21st Century, almost 8 billion people live on our planet. Millions of Americans believe in a Supreme Being they call god. Incredibly, they believe there’s a god who somehow simultaneously monitors every human being on the planet. Really? There’s a god monitoring almost 8 billion people simultaneously? Yes, people actually believe that supreme being is listening to them while they’re praying.
  • How are you communicating with this so called god? How can this so called god monitor 8 billion people at the same time? Why can’t people realize this totally defies logic?
  • As for praying to their god, people also incredibly believe you have to participate in a bizarre ritual in order to communicate with god. That includes bowing your head, getting on your knees, and/or putting your hands together. Why can’t people realize how absurd that is?
  • Athletes thank god after they score a touchdown or hit a home run. With all the things going on in the world, they believe something called god is watching their game, rooting for them, and controlling the game in their favor? I would be LOL if this wasn’t such a serious issue.
  • Of course, believers cannot tell you where god lives or anything else about their supreme being. We do know that after 60 years of astronauts and satellites circulating the earth non-stop, nobody ever came across god. Maybe he’s hiding in the home of the devil?
  • In America, every day of the week, someone’s daughter or sister is kidnapped by a psychopath. After that happens, what do most of them do? That’s right, they have a prayer vigil where they pray to God for her safe return. Where was their God when she was kidnapped and subsequently assaulted and mutilated by the psychopath?
  • Jews: During the holocaust, over 6 million Jews were slaughtered by Hitler and the Nazis. Jewish people still believe in their god, who did absolutely nothing to stop the despicable killing of millions.
  • Catholics: After thousands of children were sexually assaulted by priests, their followers still refuse to walk away from the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church. Where was their god when thousands of children were and still are sexually assaulted by people who are allegedly representing the God they worship?
  • Mormons: One of their prophets lives in prison because he was convicted of sexual assault on children. Warren Jeffs is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous denomination. In 2011, he was convicted of two felony counts of sexual assault on children, for which he is currently serving a life sentence, plus twenty years. In 2006, Jeffs was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List for his flight from the charges that he had arranged illegal marriages between his adult male followers and underage girls in Utah. Incredibly, Jeffs is a man of god, who still controls large numbers of believers. What are they thinking?
  • Americans who believe in a god, give him (notice the word him) credit for everything good which happens on the planet, but never hold god accountable for anything negative. They always have a convenient scapegoat ready, such as the devil or man. I thought god had more power than the devil and/or men.

COVID-19: Until recently, whenever we had a national crisis, Americans always united to fight as one. That changed with Trump and his cult members. Although there are pockets of vaccine resistance in all groups, it is a dominating issue in Trump World. A large number of his cult members turned the battle against the pandemic into a political fight.  Many of Trump’s cult members:

  • Refused to participate in the basic safety protocol of wearing masks. This is an effective protocol where there is almost universal agreement among scientists.
  • A large percentage of Trump supporters are anti-science and refuse to get the vaccine. They are so dumb they believe vaccine conspiracy theories such as
  • the federal government is using the vaccine to plant a microchip
  • then the federal government will take away your bible and guns
  • the vaccine will make you magnetic
  • the vaccine will turn you into a homosexual
  • they don’t believe Trump’s endorsement of the vaccine was real

For most of the pandemic, 2 of the 3 leading states with Covid-19 [per one hundred thousand residents] were North and South Dakota. There have been numerous reports from those states, plus states like Alabama and Arkansas, where covid-19 victims claimed their doctor was lying when he/she gave them the diagnosis. They called it FAKE NEWS or said their problem was caused by something else, but the doctors want to blame Covid-19. When people refuse to believe the diagnosis of their doctors, we are in big trouble.

Trump’s Republican Party: Please note, I’m distinguishing between real Republicans versus those who are cult members, totally dedicated to Comrade Trump, Vladimir’s number one flunky.

  • As of July 2021, the majority of Republicans believe Trump won the election. They believe this despite the fact that zero evidence has been produced.
  • In addition, Trump’s attorney, Sydney Powell, said in a court of law, that election fraud allegations are a big LIE.
  • Even though Trump supporters believe Democrats are fumbling, bumbling, incompetent buffoons, they still believe the Dems somehow became strikingly efficient on election day, and managed to steal and change millions of ballots from Trump to Biden in Republican controlled states and kept it a national secret.
  • Maybe the Dems accomplished that nifty trick using a special blue laser beam, emanating from an alien spaceship who prefer Democrats?
  • By the way, on those very same ballots, using the same election system, many Republicans running for office did extremely well.
  • If the Democrats were controlling the ballots, how did that happen?
  • I’m sure every Trump supporter, who assaulted the U.S. Capitol, believed he won the election.
  • Millions of Republicans are convinced the FBI orchestrated the attack on the Capitol and they used BLM and Antifa members, posing as Trump supporters. Can anyone really be this dumb?
  • Countless millions of Trump supporters believe he was exonerated by the Mueller Report. They completely ignore Robert Mueller’s own words when he said that never happened. Remember what Joseph Goebbels said about repeating a LIE enough times?
  • In December of 2016, a man from North Carolina, got into his pickup truck and drove approximately 4 hours to a DC pizza parlor. The guy believed Hillary was running a child pornography ring the in the basement of that pizza parlor. He brought an AR-15 and planned on rescuing the sexually abused children from the basement. He became irate when the employees told him there was no basement, and then fired an unknown number of shots. Thankfully, no one was hurt, and he went to prison for several years.
  • Believe me when I say there are millions of Americans who believe this kind of garbage. Another insane example is Democrats are pedophiles who eat their young.
  • A large number of Republicans believe the Democrats have a plan to take away their guns, when in fact, they can’t even pass a law requiring universal background checks.
  • Doing away with the second amendment would require an amendment passed by both the House and Senate with a two thirds majority vote. After that, it would have to be ratified by three fourths of the states. The odds of that happening are virtually zero!
  • But that doesn’t stop morons from believing the Democrats will implement a plan to take away their guns

Eating Healthy Is Overrated

by | Jun 12, 2021 | Health, Life

Let me make several points very clear before we get into the heart of this article. I am not saying eating healthy is a bad thing, because it’s obvious that everyone should do such. But for many people, such as myself, that’s never going to happen. I want people to know there are other factors, which in my opinion, are every bit as important as one’s diet, possibly more important. Don’t beat yourself up if you have poor eating habits, try to make up for it in other ways.

Next, this article is not based on science, it’s nothing more than my personal opinion. So please don’t refer me to scientific data proving a certain type of diet is better or healthier for you. That’s a given, nobody’s disagreeing with that premise. From my perspective, lifestyle choices are every bit as important as what you eat. I’m talking about regular exercise, which everyone in the field of medical science agrees pays huge dividends. Did you know that most surveys reveal approximately only one out of four Americans participates in a regular exercise program? That’s hard to believe.

But there’s a lot more than exercise, such as avoiding alcohol, cigarettes, and prescription drugs. Yes I said prescription drugs. Americans are like junkies, strung out on array of prescription drugs. All one has to do is listen to those never-ending drug commercials on TV when they get to the disclaimer. This drug can cause strokes, tumors, heart attacks, and on rare occasions, even death. Why would anyone voluntarily choose to take a prescription drug with so many negative possibilities? Yes, I realize that for people with certain health conditions, they must take some prescription drugs. However, I am talking about the millions of Americans who see a drug commercial and ask or demand that their doctor orders a prescription for the drug they saw on TV. Why do you think drug companies spend millions of dollars on this type of advertising? If you watch those commercials, the message is very clear. Take this drug and your life will become better in so many ways.

Before I leave this subject, allow me to summarize an article I read a few years go. It was written by physician who talked about the perils of prescription drugs. He described the following scenario for many of his patients. He said I prescribe prescription A for one of my patients. About 3 months later, I have to prescribe prescription B to treat the side effects of prescription A. Fast forward another 3 months, and then I have to prescribe prescription C for her, which counters the side effects of taking the combination of prescriptions A & B. He said it’s a never-ending cycle, which I’m sure which enriches America’s drug companies, but it probably creates more health issues than it resolves.

We all know that breathing in cigarette smoke is extremely harmful, but let’s talk briefly about alcohol, something most Americans regularly consume. Multiple studies revealed the kind of damage alcohol does to your body and possibly your brain. The type of alcohol (beer, wine, whiskey) is irrelevant. All forms are harmful when regularly consuming alcohol. By the way, I don’t believe the claims that a certain level of alcohol consumption is actually good for you.

Let’s move on to the subject of one’s diet. As for me, I’m the role model for everything doctors tell you to avoid. My lifetime diet primarily consists of burgers, fries, steaks, chicken, Italian food, ice cream, chocolate chip cookies, and cake. Hmmmmmm, I’m getting hungry just thinking about the above. I know, you’re probably thinking I’m 50 pounds overweight, can barely buckle up my belt, and I’m burdened with an array of medical issues. You would be wrong. I’m about 5 to 6 pounds overweight, which isn’t too bad for a guy my age. But here’s the good news. With exception of allergy medicine, I do NOT take any prescription drugs!

I never smoked, I never drank any form of alcohol, and I’ve been physically fit my entire life. I try to make it to the gym every morning. Five days a week, I do cardio, and twice a week, even though I hate it, I do circuit weights. No, I’m not training for the Olympics, I do just enough to maintain a decent level of fitness. When my father was my age, he could barely walk up a flight of stairs, while I take them two at a time. I have yet to meet a woman who can outlast me on the dance floor. I’m LOL. I can still go to a dance club and dance the night away. If disco would somehow make a comeback, I would be so happy.

Every year I go for my annual physical. Last year, my blood pressure was almost the same as it was 25 years ago. My cholesterol is slightly elevated, and my triglycerides are way too high. That’s the price I pay for eating so many cookies and lots of ice cream and cake. Yesterday I went to the Cheesecake Factory and couldn’t decide between Chocolate Oriole or Hershey’s chocolate cheesecake. But have no fear, I knew whatever I chose would be delicious. I just had to work a little harder in the gym this morning.

I know several people who eat a very healthy diet, but they still suffer form an array of health issues. It could be genetics, or maybe it’s a combination of a lack of exercise, too much alcohol, and/or a reliance upon prescription drugs. From my perspective, the good eaters I referred to are proof that a healthy diet isn’t enough. I’m sure everyone will probably think my next comment is nothing more than wishful thinking, and you’re probably right. Eating healthy is a good thing, but it may be overrated. Despite what so many scientists tell us, I think one can make up for a poor diet with an array of lifestyle choices which I described above. I want to believe those lifestyle choices may be more important than a healthy diet, but who am I to counter what the world of science tells us.

The Democrats HR1 Bill is Another Idiotic Bill from a Party Which Often Demonstrates Stupidity

by | Jun 7, 2021 | Life, Politics

America is in big trouble. We need two strong political parties which act as a counterbalance to the other. That would hopefully result in common sense compromises to solve problems and/or resolve issues. This is what the majority of Americans want from their representatives in Washington, DC. At this point in time, the Republican Party has numerous bigots, racists, people who are anti-science, and those who have no interest in facts or the truth. To compound matters, they are a Trump CULT, worshipping an egomaniac, a pathological liar, a criminal, and an imbecile. They will do everything Trump wants, even if it is suicidal for the party.

On the other side of the ledger are the Democrats, who mean well, but can’t think their way out of a paper bag. They come up with one dumb policy after another. They are the party which came up with the idiotic slogan to “Defund the Police”. Are you serious? They also impeached Trump over one phone call, while never utilizing the 10 accusations of Trump Obstructing Justice, provided by the Mueller Report. How stupid can one party be?

The other problem with the Democrats is their inability to come up with focused legislation, which deals directly with a specific issue. Unfortunately, they try to change the world with every bill they craft. A good example is the infrastructure bill, which America needs badly. Instead of concentrating solely on roads, bridges, rail, and the Internet, they threw in the “kitchen sink”. Guess what? They did it again with HR1, the bill they crafted to counter the Republican Party’s attempt to thwart democracy by imposing numerous voter restrictions.  The Republicans enacted a series of laws which did serious damage to voter rights. But the biggest threat to our democracy are their laws which give a state legislature the ability to overturn the results of an election. Every American should be terrified of that dangerous component of the Republican Party’s pathetic attempt to stay in power and thwart our democracy.

Back to the idiots in the Democratic Party. Instead of crafting a bill, with a laser like focus on the most important issue, they once again tried to change everything which is wrong in the world with their HR1 bill. They should instead focus primarily on blocking the ability of a state legislature to overturn an election.  Thank you Joe Manchin for voting against it.

Here are some of the idiotic components of the Democratic bill.

  • H.R 1 would prevent election officials from maintaining accurate voter lists and make it harder for them to determine if voters are registered in multiple jurisdictions. This increases the likelihood that voter rolls are outdated, inaccurate, or contain ineligible voters.
  • The bill would dramatically expand automatic voter registration.  People who never give their consent could be added to voter rolls. H.R. 1 goes so far as designating colleges as automatic voter registration agencies. Are they crazy?
  • The bill would prohibit some commonsense voter ID rules and allow convicted felons to vote.
  • It enables same day registration during early voting and on election day.
  • Provisional ballots cast outside a voter’s precinct must be counted. What are they thinking?

In sum, what the Democrats are doing with this proposed bill, is trying to take the voting process and verification protocols away from the states, thereby giving it to the federal government. I understand why they want to do that, but it’s a mistake. Even if it passes, which is unlikely, I’m confident the Supreme Court would vote it down. They should instead concentrate on a very focused bill, which doesn’t allow state legislatures to overturn an election, or in any way, prohibit citizens from registering and voting. They need to incorporate some commonsense oversight which most people will agree with, as well as the Supreme Court.

Minor Events/Comments/Issues Which Irritate Me

by | May 15, 2021 | Life

Everyone has quirks and/or things which bother them, and possibly no one else. Here are some examples of issues, comments, or actions which get on my nerves.

  • You are standing online at the grocery store checkout and the lady in front of you is paying for her groceries with a paper check. Yes, in the 21st century, she’s using a paper check. But it gets worse. She waits until all of her groceries are rung up by the cashier. Then she opens her pocketbook and starts searching for her checkbook. And of course, she can’t find her driver’s license.
  • When you leave for work 15 minutes early, every traffic light is green and there’s hardly any traffic. But when you leave for work 15 minutes late, every traffic light is red, there’s a school bus in front of you, and/or a motor vehicle accident.
  • You’re working at home and the phone doesn’t ring for several hours. When does it ring? It rings as soon as you step into the shower.
  • People who drive 15 to 25 mph slower than the speed limit in the fast lane.
  • Dangerous people who ride your bumper on the highway. Tailgating will probably save them all of 2 seconds, but they still do it, endangering themselves and you. In my opinion, the majority of accidents on our highways are a result of tailgating.
  • What about those non-stop drug commercials on TV where they show people living a fabulous lifestyle, but only if they use the advertised drug. Do you listen to the caveats in those drug commercials? Use of this drug may result in strokes, heart attacks, and occasionally death. Are you going to use a drug with those potential side effects?
  • Adults on TV talking about a list of reasons, while counting them, using their fingers, as if they are still in the second grade.
  • Why do web designers, or others who create forms, place the area code portion of a phone number in parentheses?
  • Why do web designers make the log in button prominent, but hide the logout button behind an icon?
  • I hate it when someone is talking about something positive happening in their lives, then they say or actually KNOCK on WOOD. What? Do they really believe knocking on wood will continue their good fortune?
  • After talking with somebody for several minutes, they preface their next statement with, “To Be Perfectly Honest With You”. It makes me wonder if much of what they said up to that point in time was dishonest.
  • He was shot in Broad Daylight. Is that different from NARROW daylight?
  • She gave birth to a baby boy.  Thanks for clarifying, or else I would have thought it was an adult boy.
  • It was a gruesome murder. Really? Are there happy, friendly murders? They are all gruesome.
  • NBA players who repeatedly foul jump shooters, especially behind the 3-point line. They probably block one shot for every two hundred fouls they commit. Why don’t coaches take them out of the game for repeatedly committing those dumb fouls?
  • The never-ending commercials in an NFL game. The game itself is only 60 minutes, but it usually takes 3 hours plus to finish it because they have so many commercials.
  • NFL coaches or players who waste a valuable timeout over a possible 5-yard delay of game penalty in the third quarter, or early in the fourth quarter. Don’t you realize that timeout is much more valuable than a 5-yard delay of game penalty?
  • NCAA college basketball, where they stop the game after the first whistle at the 16, 12, 8, and 4 minute mark of the half, for a series of never ending commercials. It ruins the game.
  • What is your reaction when someone says, I saw it with my own eyes. Your own eyes? Really?
  • Instead of saying “First of All” or “Second of All”, why don’t you simply say, first or second?
  • It’s absolutely free, as opposed to just free?
  • I’m writing with an ink pen. Is there another kind of pen?
  • The rear taillight is malfunctioning. Thanks for letting us know the taillight is located in the rear of the vehicle.
  • Things which happen very often by accident, but you couldn’t duplicate it, no matter how hard you try. For example, I recently dropped a quarter on the kitchen floor. What happened? The quarter somehow rolled on it’s edge, right between the very narrow opening between the stove and refrigerator.
  • I waked onto a room with my gym bag on my shoulder and was stopped in my tracks. Why? Because the shoulder strap somehow became wrapped around the doorknob. I repeatedly tried to do that on purpose and never succeeded.
  • Here’s something a little different, which hopefully happens to everyone. You climb the stairs for a purpose, but when you reach the top step, you completely forgot why you came up the stairs.