Earworm

This one slides into my subconscious about oh, probably three or four times a month.

Maybe one of the best rock waltzes ever written.

And its sequel is just as wonderful… wait, is that German?  Some impossible harmonies, and all sung, not synthesized (because they didn’t have the tech back then).

Burning Down The Climate Change Thicket

Here are some very constructive ideas about how to unlock and/or break the raft of stupid eco-fascist laws and regulations.  I especially like this one:

Obama joined Paris Climate Agreement by executive action. Trump exited by the same method. And Biden rejoined, again by executive action, right on January 20, 2021.

Trump could follow the previous method and just quit again. But my preferred suggestion would be to submit the Agreement to the Senate as a treaty. There is zero chance that the Senate would ratify. That would kill this thing much more securely than the other method.

And this would be the time to submit it, while the Stupid Party controls the Senate.

I know, the Paris Climate whatever is pretty much a paper tiger and waste of time.  Don’t care about it?  Then try this one:

“Regulations” are different from mere Executive Orders and actions, in that in order to be adopted they have gone through some complex and time-consuming processes prescribed by the Administrative Procedure Act. The processes are designed to give these “regulations” some purported legitimacy and heft, to make them hard to undo, and to distract the gullible public from the fact that they have not gone through the only process that counts under the Constitution for valid legislative action, namely passage by both houses of Congress and signature by the President. The result of all the procedural rigamarole is that — if you buy the legitimacy of enactment of massive substantive regulations by administrative agencies in the first place — then the processes to eliminate the regulations are the same complex and time-consuming mess that it previously took to adopt them.

Do the Trump people really need to go through the same labyrinth to rescind these Rules? Here’s an approach I would take: First, announce that the legal opinion of the administration is that the Rules are invalid under Supreme Court precedent (i.e., the “major questions doctrine” of West Virginia v. EPA), and therefore they will not be enforced. Next, announce that permitting on power plant and other fossil fuel projects will take place as if these Rules did not exist. Finally, switch sides in the litigation, and join the red states and other plaintiffs seeking to have the Rules invalidated.

Here’s what I really, really like about this initiative:  it would also nullify, ipso facto, all the horrible regulations foisted on us by other Gummint agencies — such as the fucking ATF, for starters, and [add your favorite agency’s name here].

So when you follow the link above to see all the other Good Ideas, don’t just look at those suggestions as part of the destruction of the “climate change” myth, good as they are;  apply those principles to all areas of our life that the bureaucracy have (un-Constitutionally and illegally) affected over the years.

Roll on January 2025.

Too Old To Rock ‘N Roll

Here’s what Elon and Vivek are doing:

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by X owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, is looking for what they described as “small-government revolutionaries” ready to work on what they described as “unglamorous cost-cutting.”

You know what?  If I was five or seven years younger, I’d apply.  Having worked in both big corporations and small startups, I know exactly how to squeeze efficiency into a process and cut unnecessary processes as well as anyone.

But alas, I turn 70 next week, and while the spirit may be sorta-willing to do this, the flesh just doesn’t have the strength to swing an axe anymore.

Damn it.

Then again, I’d have to move to D.C., and… nah, it ain’t worth it.

Two Things

1 — The entire Left has come to the decision that “The future of the United States is MAGA now”.

No shit, fuckwits.  Lest we forget, the acronym stands for:  Make America Great Again.  I know you assholes tried to turn it into an epithet or insult, but you failed — as a recent election may have showed you.  Most citizens want America to be great again;  why do you not?

2 — Still to the Left:  yeah, it was during an election campaign and rhetoric tends to heat up when that’s happening.  But the election is over and sanity has returned — or should have, anyway.

But just an FYI:  the “garbage” schtick is well past its sell-by date;  so if any of you assholes refer to me by that epithet from this point, I’m going to punch you right in the fucking face.

I hope I’ve made myself clear.

Nominations

As FuturePOTUS Trump is announcing his various Cabinet picks, I think you can judge how well they’re going to do in their new jobs by the level of hysteria that the Left has greeted their nominations, one by one.

By “well”, of course, I mean the degree to which they are going to root out and eliminate the DEI and Commie assholes from their fiefdoms.  Here are a few, as I write this:

Matt Gaetz: Attorney-General
Pete Hegseth:  SecDefense
Marco Rubio:  SecState
Tulsi Gabbard:  DNI
Kristi Noem:  DHS
Elise Stefanik:  UN Ambassador
Mike Huckabee:  Ambassador to Israel
Lee Zeldin:  EPA
Mike Waltz:  NSA  (note the spelling, it’s not that Walz)
Jim Ratcliff:  CIA
Tom Homan:  Border Czar
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy:  DOGE (Gummint Efficiency, a non-government post)

There are a couple of names in there that made me wrinkle my brow somewhat, but I think they should work out okay.

And I know that this shouldn’t be a factor, but all the ladies thus far nominated are total hotties.  Noem, Gabbard and Stefanik?  Do a search on their pics — no wait, let me do it for you:

What would make me chortle like a well-fed baby would be if Trump doesn’t announce a replacement head for the Dept. of Education, “as I’m abolishing the entire department on Day One”.  (Ditto a couple others, come to think of it.)

I don’t know for a fact, but I would imagine that there are an awful lot of resumes being refreshed and printed out in Washington D.C. round about now.  And that’s a good thing.