My Strangest Rant For This Month, and Question
Went into town to the grocery store to pick up a few items. One item was a 6-pack of beer. I know the ladies who work the registers there. All really nice people. We usually get caught up with each other when I come through (gotta love a smaller town). This time the lady asked to see my ID for the beer. I had left it in the truck. I said, "Look at me. I'm near 60." One of the other ladies said they have to ask now due to some ordinance and that if they don't it's a $2000 fine....and stores have been getting fined. Then it hit me. Why do local governments do something so farcical? I said, "That's like fining me $2000 if I don't put my shoes on in the preferred order." I understand that some local ordinances require that everybody get carded for booze even if they're clearly approaching 100 years old. What say you? Is this from the ole, "If we pass enough laws everybody eventually becomes a criminal."? I can't think of any other reason.
To add to my experience...There was an old man in line behind me. He looked terribly feeble - like Joe. When he spoke to me about our conversation the slobber just poured out of his mouth. When I walked out of the store with my daughter (and my beer) the thought hit me, "We're f&%ked." So often I feel like I'm the only guy in the room asking the obvious questions. 85% of people just blindly do as they're told...like they've given up, or have just shut down the critical part of their brain to save energy. What can be done to incentivize thinking anymore?...
To add to my experience...There was an old man in line behind me. He looked terribly feeble - like Joe. When he spoke to me about our conversation the slobber just poured out of his mouth. When I walked out of the store with my daughter (and my beer) the thought hit me, "We're f&%ked." So often I feel like I'm the only guy in the room asking the obvious questions. 85% of people just blindly do as they're told...like they've given up, or have just shut down the critical part of their brain to save energy. What can be done to incentivize thinking anymore?...
you can get drafted at 18
you can buy a gun at 18
buy alcohol at 18, nope
double standards are 100% unconstitutional
I could drink at 18, but only by a 6 months, then 19, then 21, grandfathered each time. I thought it was discrimination back then (even though I drank less in all of high school and college than in 3 months now). Older people said: "You'll think differently when you are older." Well, I'm a phucking lot older now, and I still think the same. When you are an adult, you are an adult. That is it.
Next, they will release a virus and tell us we must take a vaccinee, oh wait I’m too late…
It's way too much government, way too many sheeple, not enough men.
If we win this next election, we must do some serious house cleaning and right our ship quick; it's unfortunate but I can’t see the cheating on ’20 to just rollover in ’24. Something will happen so they stay in power.
Don't be a serf.
I'd guess the idea is to expand the harassment routines, like liquor and gun purchases, until the people just shut up and accept it without argument. It's like politics, the left is so confused they just keep voting more conforming politicians in. Just be pleased that you didn't have to wait 10 normal business days to come back and pick up your beer. Now while I'm hyped up, what about our free government controlled internet, what about your spam and ad free email accounts? I'd sure glad I don't even own a cellphone. I just bought a dozen, "I'm voting for the convicted Felon" hats, and from China (TEMU). If the government is so afraid of China (that's what they tell us) , why do they allow them commercial internet space here in the USA? Just shut them off, and arrest Hunter. They allow Hunter to do big business with China, so why shouldn't I be able to do small business with them? It's all pure harassment, to get us all to conform to their ultimate goal of extreme rule. I'm just sorry it took me this long to figure it all out. My kids will soon have to work it all out to their personal content. Hunter is now mononymous, just like Oprah, Groucho, Cher, Beyonce, Prince, Madonna, Liberace. etc. What is that all about? It's time the human part of population in the USA start telling their government, "No". There really are fewer freaks than the media try's to tell us. Todays military makes me sad, well actually mad, and again it's the leaders that have destroyed it. Enough of my rant.
People say I don't look 77 but anyone with eyes can tell I'm over the hill.
Walgreens used to always ask my age. They don't anymore because they stopped selling Carlo Rossi Sangria. I'm picky about that.
Winn Dixie used to do that. They went bye-bye and Piggly Wiggly moved into the building. The Pig does not care. I bought my sangria there until the Pig began to sell other Carlo Rossi sangrias but not the original,
Well, I'm picky about that too.
Publix and an independent operation called Hill's Grocery still sells the original Carlo Rossi and they only check ID's of people who look way younger than me. Well, duh! How about that?
Publix will even let me leave with a whole jug of Carlo Rossi completely unbagged. Me dino am NOT picky about that. Paper bags get in my way and is a stupid for an antiquated blue law as far as I am concerned.
Crops are for growing.
They just did that to appear impartial.
My wife used to get carded all the time, long after they stopped doing it to me. Now, the age difference isn't as noticible as when I was in college and she was in junior high (yes, things were different in the '70's, but, hey, I married her, after she started college) but she has for years since looked a lot younger than her real age, so she got carded well into her late '40's.
Having a wife who looks good helps a lot, considering that getting married is like getting a lifetime subscription to Playboy, except that what shows up in the mailbox every month is...the April 1986 issue.
Or maybe, unlike me, you just have kept yourself well and look young. I've never met you so maybe the girl at the counter thought you were hot looking.
Or, sadly, maybe it's just bureaucrats run amuck.
Read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy sometime and find out what (disturbingly) happened to the Golgafrinchans.
a dirty telephone can be a dangerous thing
1984, here we come!
I tell them they made my day.
At 66 I still have all my brown hair.
My sister is 70, still not a grey hair on her head.
and to buy a gun, you need an ID
Drunk driving and drunk in public (bars serving intoxicated patrons).
These things generally occur after businesses supply liquor to individuals who probably shouldn't have access to it.
you can vote at 18
you can get drafted at 18
you can buy a gun at 18
buy alcohol at 18, nope
When I was in the Marines, I could drink myself stupid (which I often did), at 18+, as long as it was on base. I don't know what the rules are, now.
And, if it were up to me, only landowners would be able to vote, regardless of their age.
you can buy
AR-15
Garand
M-1A
Mini-14
so i guess i do not understand you point on this
In some states, semiauto rifles, such as the AR series, have a 21 year old minimum age requirement.
This is the insanity to which I was referring.
banned by traitors to the US Constitution
and i am pointing out the double standards in "our" laws that are clearly unconstitutional
I have to say that lately, people don't exist for me when I am out and about. I don't look at them, and certainly don't talk to them. I would prefer ordering food by kiosk or on my phone to avoid contact with the vapid people that take orders.
If you want to hit the state where it hurts think like a rational information warrior.
The best thing we can do is to (collectively, although I hate that word) dismantle the government 'public' school system.
I consider myself a victim of public schools, and swore i would not inflict that PS BS on my kids.
I'm fairly broke from it, but my kids went to private school. My daughter just got a Masters degree in Engineering in June and, instead of blindly going to get a job, just started her first LLC company.
The way out of it is: don't fall into the trap of believing their BS and playing their game, to lose. This was the message of Atlas Shrugged.
My father-n-law went to one of those schools; it was his job to go in early and start the fire so the room would be warm when school started. He had an excellent English teacher, who taught him as well as by wife and myself decades later. By that time, our school had lights and air conditioning.
Here's a story for you. I served my time in the Army and came home just over 5 years. My dad asked me to pick him up a 6 pack. I stopped at the gas station that my family owned. My aunt was at the register and she carded me and then refused to sell to me as my ID must be fake as I couldn't be old enough. I was 23 at the time. I had to make her call my grandfather, her dad to confirm that I was old enough to buy beer. She still didn't believe me but she did what her dad told her to do.
you can get drafted at 18
you can buy a gun at 18
buy alcohol at 18, nope
and now, you can vote if you are an il-legal alien
let me know when they start checking IDs for voting
The intent of the new gun laws is to reduce the number of guns that criminals have. That will never happen. In fact, and I am guilty of responding to the new laws, I have added to my collection over the majority of my adult life instead of reducing it. We now have, in WA, rules on handgrips, pistol grips, even flash suppressors and silencers (they don't even know the difference), barrel shrouds, magazines (clips as they call them), and more. We can no longer buy, sell, manufacture, import, so many "guns" based on our representatives fears In fact I have a whole bunch that I can't do anything with, not even give them away. This is an imposition on my freedom to engage in a business. Suppressors now require a fee and approval from the ATF, yet they sent me to be a batter commander of an 8-inch self-propelled firing battery in Vietnam. We had to use ear plus to suppress the noise shock or blow out our ear drums. I don't like to hunt with ear plugs, it's just not right.
Sorry for the long dissertations, but I'm in a mood today. It's like drinking out of a spittoon, once you start it's difficult to stop.